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DYK for Richard Pink

Casliber (talk · contribs) 16:53, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history coordinator election

Greetings from WikiProject Military history! As a member of the project, you are invited to take part in our annual project coordinator election, which will determine our coordinators for the next twelve months. If you wish to cast a vote, please do so on the election page by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September! Kirill [talk] 17:58, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014

Hi, if you haven't already, you should consider signing up for WikiCup 2014. Cheers, --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 02:08, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

@Sp33dyphil: Thank you! I've added myself to the list, and look forward to it starting! — Sasuke Sarutobi (talk) 12:12, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Heh, remember don't take it too seriously. Just a bit of fun. Cheers, --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 12:23, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Ripmax Edit

Hi, I didn't realise, thank you for your message. I thought it best for us to edit it ourselves as there was very little information, sorry if I broke the rules it wasn't intentional. The main thing I wanted to do was to add our websites/social media as links and correct that Amerang is not part of the modelzone group. Modelzone was part of the Amerang group and a part we didn't buy. --Ripmax (talk) 14:50, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi, @Ripmax, thank you for getting back to me! And not to worry; as I said, it's all about accurate information here. I'm afraid that Wikipedia generally doesn't have links to social media, just the company's homepage.
The main problem with the article was that a lot of the wording promoted the company in a way that is not impartial enough; so for instance, wording that would be fine in marketing copy such as "one of the UK's leading" may be considered biased in Wikipedia (see this section on words that may introduce bias for some other examples). As for the citation about Amerang; around the time that Modelzone went into administration and Amerang was bought by Ripmax, media cited that Amerang was part of the Modelzone Group (such as here), and it was from them that Amerang was bought. I can see now that the way that it is worded is not especially clear, so I will work on including it back into the article along with some of the other information you presented.
In the meantime, I would suggest changing your account name to something not connected with Ripmax and declaring your connection to Ripmax on your userpage. And please, do have a look at some other articles on Wikipedia to see if there is anything else you want to help with - we always can do with new editors! — Sasuke Sarutobi (talk) 17:32, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
@Sasuke Sarutobi, Thank you very much for your help, people like you are the reason Wikipedia is such a great resource. --Ripmax (talk) 17:04, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

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Khazar's retirement

Greetings, Sasuke Sarutobi. As you have probably heard, your mentor, Khazar2, has had to retire from Wikipedia. Like everyone in the GA community, I'm sad to see him gone. I am also an experienced GA reviewer; If you would like further assistance with Talk:Random Access Memories/GA1 or any other review, feel free to ask, and I'd be willing to assist. All the best, – Quadell (talk) 16:06, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for letting me know; I wasn't aware of it before you mentioned, but it is a real shock and sad to see. And thank you very much for your offer of assistance. To be perfectly honest, I have recently started a new job, so am not sure how much time I can continue to dedicate to the project (which I think is part of the reason that the GA on Random Access Memories dragged on for so long), but I shall try and continue what involvement I can. I'll be looking over things properly on the weekend and getting things straightened out. — Sasuke Sarutobi (talk) 11:14, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
I understand. The only open issue is that the GAN at Talk:Random Access Memories/GA1 is still open. Did you want to close it as passing, or close it as failing, or leave it open and work at it some more, or what? – Quadell (talk) 15:05, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
The last few issues should now be resolved and ready to close as passing, but I don't suppose I could trouble you for a second opinion? — Sasuke Sarutobi (talk) 23:24, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
No problem, I read it over and gave my opinion at the GAN. – Quadell (talk) 23:56, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
Good Article Recruitment Barnstar
I'm sorry you didn't receive this earlier, but it is quite clear that you understand the GA criteria have performed several successful reviews. I'm happy to graduate you from the GA recruitment program. Thanks for all you do for Wikipedia, – Quadell (talk) 17:58, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

FAC comment?

Hi. Would you be interested in voicing your support (or oppose/comment) at the FAC page for the article Of Human Feelings? If not, feel free to ignore this message. Dan56 (talk) 18:12, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Teamwork Barnstar
Congratulations on your excellent review of Random Access Memories! Did you know that this article gets over 1,275,000 pageviews per year? That means the nominator is eligible for a Wikipedia:Million Award! Thanks for doing your part to make sure Wikipedia's most-viewed articles are of the highest quality. – Quadell (talk) 22:36, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
Thank you, and thank you very much for your support after Khazar's retirement! — Sasuke Sarutobi (talk) 20:27, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

"Bronski Beat" "Age of Consent"

Try here. Sportfan5000 (talk) 02:20, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Fantastic, thank you very much! I never would have thought of checking Google Scholar. — Sasuke Sarutobi (talk) 09:06, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2014 WikiCup!

Hello Sasuke Sarutobi, and welcome to the 2014 WikiCup! Your submission page can be found here. The competition will begin at midnight tonight (UTC). There have been a few small changes from last year; the rules can be read in full at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring, and the page also includes a summary of changes. One important rule to remember is that only content on which you have completed significant work, and nominated, in 2014 is eligible for points in the competition- the judges will be checking! As ever, this year's competition includes some younger editors. If you are a younger editor, you are certainly welcome, but we have written an advice page at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Advice for younger editors for you. Please do take a look. Any questions should be directed to one of the judges, or left on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will make it to round 2. Good luck! J Milburn (talk · contribs), The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 17:32, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Multi-spectral camouflage

I've boldly gone and put the Camouflage template in the article, with the Marder image, and I've prototyped the table in a form that might be more useful in the article itself (there seems no reason to do this offline really). Most of the rows are currently blank - maybe you can fill some of them. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:23, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for that! I'll have a look into the military applications regarding other wavelengths. — Sasuke Sarutobi (talk) 13:42, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

GA Review

Hello Sasuke Sarutobi! I've seen you've started reviewing Ian McKellen for GA criteria, the nominator has also nominated Jennifer Lopez for GA, in which I'd reviewed, however some editors think the person who nominated the article has done nothing towards the article. Just a little heads up! Enjoy the WikiCup! ///EuroCarGT 02:41, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up! I had noticed that the nominator hadn't appeared in recent edits at least, but didn't know about the contributors tool until I saw it in use on your GA review of Jennifer Lopez. He has been working in response to the review I've posted, so he does appear to be fairly aware of the expectation that a nominator should work in response to articles (although I do feel that the expectation on the nominator to have contributed significantly to the article could perhaps do with more clarification - I made the same mistake on my first nomination, but had time to go back and start copy-editing and bringing the article up to the criteria). I've also messaged MarnetteD, who is the highest contributor to Ian McKellen to get a contributor's input, as well as Jezhotwells, the last GA reviewer to the article. — Sasuke Sarutobi (talk) 12:26, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
I've also made the mistake too, now I've learned! I'd closed the GA review on the article I was reviewing because the 2 major contributors though it shouldn't been nominated by an editor who've contributed nothing. Anyways thanks for the feedback! ///EuroCarGT 21:56, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Hello. just a heads up that I was looking over the Ian McKellen GAN page. I'd love be involved if I can, but I'm new here and not sure the best way to be helpful. I left some comments, if useful. Thanks for tackling the review; I think it's a great candidate. --Morphovariant (talk) 21:51, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

I saw, thank you! I've already looked at the article and started amending it based on your comments, but feel free to make any changes already discussed. I'll be coming back to it later today, so I'll add my comments in response then. — Sasuke Sarutobi (talk) 09:24, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 January newsletter

The 2014 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with, at time of writing, 138 participants. The is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2010. If you are yet to join the competition, don't worry- the judges have agreed to keep the signups open for a few more days. By a wide margin, our current leader is newcomer Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions), whose set of 14 featured pictures, the first FPs of the competition, was worth 490 points. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

Featured articles, featured lists, featured topics and featured portals are yet to play a part in the competition. The judges have removed a number of submissions which were deemed ineligible. Typically, we aim to see work on a project, followed by a nomination, followed by promotion, this year. We apologise for any disappointment caused by our strict enforcement this year; we're aiming to keep the competition as fair as possible.

Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may be interested to take part in The Core Contest; unlike the WikiCup, The Core Contest is not about audited content, but, like the WikiCup, it is about article improvement; specifically, The Core Contest is about contribution to some of Wikipedia's most important article. Of course, any work done for The Core Contest, if it leads to a DYK, GA or FA, can earn WikiCup points.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 19:54, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Ways to improve Energy Networks Association (United Kingdom)

Hi, I'm Wieno. Sasuke Sarutobi, thanks for creating Energy Networks Association (United Kingdom)!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. It seems like this article meets notability guidelines but it really ought to have some reliable secondary sources.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. Wieno (talk) 07:15, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 February newsletter

And so ends the most competitive first round we have ever seen, with 38 points required to qualify for round 2. Last year, 19 points secured a place; before that, 11 (2012) or 8 (2011) were enough. This is both a blessing and a curse. While it shows the vigourous good health of the competition, it also means that we have already lost many worthy competitors. Our top three scorers were:

  1. Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer whose high-quality scans of rare banknotes represent an unusual, interesting and valuable contribution to Wikipedia. Most of Godot's points this round have come from a large set of pictures used in Treasury Note (1890–91).
  2. Oh, better far to live and die / Under the brave black flag I fly... Adam Cuerden (submissions), a WikiCup veteran and a finalist last year, Adam is also a featured picture specialist, focusing on the restoration of historical images. This month's promotions have included a carefully restored set of artist William Russell Flint's work.
  3. United States WikiRedactor (submissions), another WikiCup newcomer. WikiRedactor has claimed points for good article reviews and good articles relating to pop music, many of which were awarded bonus points. Articles include Sky Ferreira, Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus and "Wrecking Ball" (Miley Cyrus song).

Other competitors of note include:

After such a competitive first round, expect the second round to also be fiercely fought. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2, but please do not update your submission page until March (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 00:01, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Rakim

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Your GA nomination of Rakim

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WikiCup 2014 March newsletter

A quick update as we are half way through round two of this year's competition. WikiCup newcomer Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) (Pool E) leads, having produced a massive set of featured pictures for Silver certificate (United States), an article also brought to featured list status. Former finalist Oh, better far to live and die / Under the brave black flag I fly... Adam Cuerden (submissions) (Pool G) is in second, which he owes mostly to his work with historical images, including a number of images from Urania's Mirror, an article also brought to good status. 2010 champion (Pool C) is third overall, thanks to contributions relating to naval history, including the newly featured Japanese battleship Nagato. Rhodesia Cliftonian (submissions), who currently leads Pool A and is sixth overall, takes the title for the highest scoring individual article of the competition so far, with the top importance featured article Ian Smith.

With 26 people having already scored over 100 points, it is likely that well over 100 points will be needed to secure a place in round 3. Recent years have required 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) and 100 (2010). Remember that only 64 will progress to round 3 at the end of April. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page; if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 22:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Feedback on a new beta feature called Hovercards

Hi SasukeSarutobi, We are collecting feedback for a new beta feature called 'Hovercards' - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards. Beta features can be turned on using the tab in the top right. It would be great if you could turn the feature on and give us your feedback on the discussion page. Thanks Vibhabamba (talk) 10:11, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 April newsletter

Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain. Pool G's Oh, better far to live and die / Under the brave black flag I fly... Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Round 2's highest scorer, with a large number of featured picture credits. In March/April, he restored star charts from Urania's Mirror, lithographs of various warships (such as SMS Gefion) and assorted other historical media. Second overall was Pool E's Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions), whose featured list Silver certificate (United States) contains dozens of scans of banknotes recently promoted to featured picture status. Third was Pool G's United States ChrisGualtieri (submissions) who has produced a large number of good articles, many, including Falkner Island, on Connecticut-related topics. Other successful participants included Rhodesia Cliftonian (submissions), who saw three articles (including the top-importance Ian Smith) through featured article candidacies, and Washington, D.C. Caponer (submissions), who saw three lists (including the beautifully-illustrated list of plantations in West Virginia) through featured list candidacies. High-importance good articles promoted this round include narwhal from Canada Reid,iain james (submissions), tiger from Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) and The Lion King from Minas Gerais Igordebraga (submissions). We also saw our first featured topic points of the competition, awarded to Nepal Czar (submissions) and Indiana Red Phoenix (submissions) for their work on the Sega Genesis topic. No points have been claimed so far for good topics or featured portals.

192 was our lowest qualifying score, again showing that this WikiCup is the most competitive ever. In previous years, 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) or 100 (2010) secured a place in Round 3. Pool H was the strongest performer, with all but one of its members advancing, while only the two highest scorers in Pools G and F advanced. At the end of June, 16 users will advance into the semi-finals. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 17:57, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Western Power Distribution logo.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Western Power Distribution logo.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Cloudbound (talk) 20:40, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

No objection; this version of the logo has been superseded by File:Western Power Distribution.png following the expansion of the company's licensed areas. — Sasuke Sarutobi (talk) 23:02, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 June newsletter

After an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, Scotland Casliber (submissions) finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's , whose contributions included featured articles Russian battleship Poltava (1894) and Russian battleship Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six out of eight making it to the next round.

The round saw this year's first featured portal, with Republic of Rose Island Sven Manguard (submissions) taking Portal:Literature to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to Florida 12george1 (submissions) and the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. This means that all content types have been claimed this year. Other contributions of note this round include a featured topic on Maya Angelou's autobiographies from Idaho Figureskatingfan (submissions), a good article on the noted Czech footballer Tomáš Rosický from Bartošovice v Orlických horách Cloudz679 (submissions) and a now-featured video game screenshot, freely released due to the efforts of Republic of Rose Island Sven Manguard (submissions).

The judges would like to remind participants to update submission pages promptly. This means that content can be checked, and allows those following the competition (including those participating) to keep track of scores effectively. This round has seen discussion about various aspects of the WikiCup's rules and procedures. Those interested in the competition can be assured that formal discussions about how next year's competition will work will be opened shortly, and all are welcome to voice their views then. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 18:48, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Victoria University, Australia

Hi Sasuke, thank you for your prompt response to my query about the Victoria University (Australia) entry. I'll edit the article, taking note of the issues raised. To have the entry reviewed, with the view of having the list of issues removed, to whom, or where on the Wikipedia site, should I submit the revised entry? Thanks for your assistance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.159.2.245 (talk) 02:04, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2014 August newsletter

The final of the 2014 WikiCup begins in a few short minutes! Our eight finalists are listed below, along with their placement in Round 4:

  1. Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer, finished top of Pool A and was the round's highest scorer. Godot is a featured picture specialist, claiming large numbers of points due to high-quality scans of historical documents, especially banknotes.
  2. Scotland Casliber (submissions) is a WikiCup veteran, having been a finalist every year since 2010. In the semi-final, he was Pool B's highest scorer. Cas's points primarily come from articles on the natural sciences.
  3. Nepal Czar (submissions) was Pool A's runner-up. Czar's points come mostly from content related to independent video games, including both articles and topics.
  4. Oh, better far to live and die / Under the brave black flag I fly... Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Pool B's runner-up. Another featured picture specialist, many of Adam's points come from the restoration of historical media. He has been a WikiCup finalist twice before.
  5. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) won the WikiCup in 2012 and 2013, and enters this final as the first wildcard. She focuses on biology-related articles, and has worked on several high-importance articles.
  6. Florida 12george1 (submissions) is the second wildcard. George's points come primarily from meteorology-related articles. This year and last year, George was the first person in the competition to score.
  7. Colorado Sturmvogel 66 (submissions), the third wildcard, was the 2010 champion and a finalist last year. His writes mostly on military history, especially naval history.
  8. Canada Bloom6132 (submissions), the fourth and final wildcard, has participated in previous WikiCups, but not reached any finals. Bloom's points are mostly thanks to did you knows, featured lists and good articles related to sport and national symbols.

We say goodbye to this year's semi-finalists. Herm Matty.007 (submissions), Ohio ThaddeusB (submissions), United States WikiRedactor (submissions), Idaho Figureskatingfan (submissions), Greece Yellow Evan (submissions), Portugal Prism (submissions) and Bartošovice v Orlických horách Cloudz679 (submissions) have all performed well to reach this stage of the competition, and we hope they will all be joining us again next year.

There are two upcoming competitions unrelated to the WikiCup which may be of interest to those who receive this newsletter. The Stub Contest will run through September, and revolves around expanding stub articles, especially high-importance or old stubs. In addition, a proposal has been made for a new competition, the GA Cup, which the organisers plan to run next year. This competition is based on the WikiCup and aims to reduce the good article review backlog.

There is now a thread for brainstorming on how next year's WikiCup competition should work. Please come along and share your thoughts- What works? What doesn't work? What needs changing? Signups for next year's competition will be open soon; we will be in touch. If, at this stage of the competition, you are keen to help the with the WikiCup, please do what you can to participate in review processes. Our finalists will find things much easier if the backlogs at good article candidates, featured article candidates, featured picture candidates and the rest are kept at a minimum. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:09, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history coordinator election

Greetings from WikiProject Military history! As a member of the project, you are invited to take part in our annual project coordinator election, which will determine our coordinators for the next twelve months. If you wish to cast a vote, please do so on the election page by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 22:07, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 September newsletter

In one month's time, we will know our WikiCup 2014 champion. Newcomer Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) has taken a strong lead with a featured list (historical coats of arms of the U.S. states from 1876) and a raft of featured pictures. Reigning champion Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) is in second place with a number of high-importance biology articles, including new FA Isopoda and new GA least weasel. Scotland Casliber (submissions), who is in his fifth WikiCup final, is in third, with featured articles Pictor and Epacris impressa.

Signups for the 2015 WikiCup are open. All Wikipedians, new and experienced, are warmly invited to sign up for the competition. Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may also like to sign up for the GA Cup, a new WikiCup-inspired competition which revolves around completing good article reviews. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:11, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2014: The results

The 2014 WikiCup champion is Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions), who flew the flag of the Smithsonian Institution. This was Godot13's first WikiCup competition and, over the 10 months of the competition, he has produced (among other contributions) two featured lists and an incredible 292 featured pictures, including architectural photographs and scans of historical documents. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions), 2012 and 2013 WikiCup champion, came in second, having written a large number of biology-related articles. Scotland Casliber (submissions), WikiCup finalist every year since 2010, finished in third.

A full list of our prize-winners follows:

Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have participated this year. We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:52, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

GA review of Robin Raphel article

@Sasuke Sarutobi: Thank you for your comments. I am pleased to see that the review will continue. If there is anything I can do to support, please let me know. I think the recent events, while troubling for the subject of the article, should be wrapped into the article during the course of the review to insure completeness. While the required edits of course impact one of the Good Article criteria (stability), the other side of that coin is that events don't know when a reviewer is going to start or finish a GA nomination. Imagine if the information was that she had won a Nobel Prize or something. Same criteria violated but for positive news would make the process by which we bring articles to GA status somewhat confused. So I am happy with your decision to proceed. Many thanks, --Mansoor Ijaz (talk) 09:16, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply, @Mansoor Ijaz:, and thank you for your patience. After discussion with another reviewer, it seems that I was taking too strict an interpretation of the stability criterion - essentially, it's not about frequent change, but more to do with things like edit warring between primary contributors. I've posted some further notes on the re-opened GA review page, and will be making a fresh review, but hopefully my existing comments will prove helpful in the meantime. — Sasuke Sarutobi (talk) 09:40, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Humour me

Hi SSsan.

First & foremost, bravo re your recent new article.

Secondly, in User:Sasuke_Sarutobi#Languages (on an otherwise splendid page), you have "articles (likely in my". Now, I understand that the use of 'likely' there is fine in US English, but to a BR EN-speaker I'm afraid it grates. We'd always prefix likely (as an adverb) with 'most' or 'very' - otherwise we'd replace 'likely' with 'probably'.

Now, as the latter, I think, grates on neither side of the pond, would you consider such an amendment?

Cheers, Trafford09 (talk) 10:41, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, and changed. To be honest, I needed to re-write some of that section, as I've not being giving Polish much attention of late (more German and Italian). I'm British myself, but I have a tendency to mess with flow and word dropping, especially when punctuation can facilitate, and sometimes in quite an abrupt way - especially with parentheses of various kinds - and mix and match American and British usage a fair bit (such as the infamous 'Oxford comma', and my rather arbitrary usage of hyphenation).
My over-lengthy rationalisation aside, fixed, thank you for pointing that out. — Sasuke Sarutobi (talk) 14:29, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Nominations for the Military history Wikiproject's Historian and Newcomer of the Year Awards are now open!

The Military history Wikiproject has opened nominations for the Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year. Nominations will be accepted until 13 December at 23:59 GMT, with voting to begin at 0:00 GMT 14 December. The voting will conclude on 21 December. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:41, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2015 is just around the corner...

Hello everyone, and may we wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2015 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. We have a few important announcements concerning the future of the WikiCup.

  • We would like to announce that Josh (J Milburn) and Ed (The ed17), who have been WikiCup judges since 2009 and 2010 respectively, are stepping down. This decision has been made for a number of reasons, but the main one is time. Both Josh and Ed have found that, over the previous year, they have been unable to devote the time necessary to the WikiCup, and it is not likely that they will be able to do this in the near future. Furthermore, new people at the helm can only help to invigorate the WikiCup and keep it dynamic. Josh and Ed will still be around, and will likely be participating in the Cup this following year as competitors, which is where both started out.
  • In a similar vein, we hope you will all join us in welcoming Jason (Sturmvogel 66) and Christine (Figureskatingfan), who are joining Brian (Miyagawa) to form the 2015 WikiCup judging team. Jason is a WikiCup veteran, having won in 2010 and finishing in fifth this year. Christine has participated in two WikiCups, reaching the semi-finals in both, and is responsible for the GA Cup, which she now co-runs.
  • The discussions/polls concerning the next competition's rules will be closed soon, and rules changes will be made clear on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring and talk pages. While it may be impossible to please everyone, the judges will make every effort to ensure that the new rules are both fair and in the best interests of the competition, which is, first and foremost, about improving Wikipedia.

If you have any questions or concerns, the judges can be reached on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, on their talk pages, or by email. We hope you will all join us in trying to make the 2015 WikiCup the most productive and enjoyable yet. You are receiving this message because you are listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk), The ed17 (talk), Miyagawa (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Figureskatingfan (talk) 18:54, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Voting for the Military historian and Military newcomer of the year now open!

Nominations for the military historian of the year and military newcomer of the year have now closed, and voting for the candidates has officially opened. All project members are invited to cast there votes for the Military historian and Military newcomer of the year candidates before the elections close at 23:59 December 21st. For the coordinators, TomStar81

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