WikiCup 2012 February newsletter edit

 

Round 1 is already over! The 64 highest scorers have progressed to round 2. Our highest scorer was   Grapple X (submissions), again thanks mostly to a swathe of good articles on The X-Files. In second place was   Tigerboy1966 (submissions), thanks an impressive list of did you knows about racehorses. Both scored over 400 points. Following behind with over 300 points were   Ruby2010 (submissions),   Cwmhiraeth (submissions),   Miyagawa (submissions) and   Casliber (submissions). February also saw the competition's first featured list: List of colleges and universities in North Dakota, from   Ruby2010 (submissions). At the other end of the scale, 11 points was enough to secure a place in this round, and some contestants with 10 points made it into the round on a tiebreaker. This is higher than the 8 points that were needed last year, but lower than the 20 points required the year before. The number of points required to progress to round 3 will be significantly higher.

The remaining contestants have been split into 8 pools of 8, named A through H. Round two will finish in two months time on 28 April, when the two highest scorers in each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers, will progress to round 3. The pools were entirely random, so while some pools may end up being more competitive than others, this is by chance rather than design.

The judges would like to point out two quick rules reminders. First, any content promoted during the interim period (that is, on or after 2 February) is eligible for points in round 2. Second, any content worked on significantly this year is eligible for points if promoted in this round. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which would otherwise be caused by the Cup. 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talkemail) and [[User:The ed1

STRAT-X edit

I'm still awaiting your response to my review of STRAT-X at Template:Did you know nominations/STRAT-X. SpeakFree (talk)(contribs) 01:12, 1 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

DYK for List of Sturgeon class submarines edit

Casliber (talk · contribs) 16:22, 1 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for GA review edit

Thanks for doing the GA review of Foley Square trial. I notice your edit comment says "Review done, will ask for outside comments" ... is there anything I can do to help with that? FYI: the article is in the queue for a Peer Review here, so if there are any outstanding prose issues, the PR will probably catch them. Is there any specific GA criteria that still needs work? --Noleander (talk) 21:03, 1 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

I'd like someone to perform a quality check on my reviews in case I missed something. --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 04:56, 2 March 2012 (UTC)Reply
Okay, that sounds good. --Noleander (talk) 16:59, 2 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

DYK for Ashleigh Southern edit

Casliber (talk · contribs) 08:03, 2 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

DYK for Rowena Webster edit

Casliber (talk · contribs) 08:04, 2 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

DYK for STRAT-X edit

The DYK project (nominate) 16:03, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage engagement strategy released edit

Hey guys!

I'm dropping you a note because you filled out the New Page Patrol survey, and indicated you'd be interested in being contacted about follow-up work. This is to notify you that we've finally released both the initial documentation about the project and also the engagement strategy, which sets out how we plan to work with the community on this. Please give both a read, and leave any comments or suggestions you have on the talkpage, on my talkpage, or in my inbox - okeyes wikimedia.org.

It's awesome to finally get to start work on this! :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 02:44, 3 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Film's January–February Newsletter edit

The January 2012 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

To unsubscribe, please remove your name from the distribution list. GRAPPLE X 00:45, 4 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

PJ Harvey GA edit

Thanks! Although my role was pretty minimal... I was happy to look over such a generally well-done article on a subject I'm interested in. Cheers, Sindinero (talk) 09:4, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

GA thoughts? edit

Sorry to hear you are semi-retired ... you contributed a good deal to WP. Sorry to nag about Talk:Foley_Square_trial/GA2, but I was wondering if you could look again and see if it meets GA criteria? Alternatively, could you identify which aspect of the article leads you to request a second GA opinion? If you let me know what aspect of the article is causing you to refrain from bestowing GA status, perhaps I can be proactive and start addressing that issue now. The GA queue for the law/politics articles is rather long, and it could be awhile before another reviewer jumps in. --Noleander (talk) 20:50, 6 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

Congratulations edit

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WikiProject Wikify March Mini Drive edit

Delivered by benzband (talk) on behalf of WikiProject Wikify 18:45, March 2012 (UTC)

Page Triage newsletter edit

Hey guys!

Thanks to all of you who have commented on the New Page Triage talkpage. If you haven't had a chance yet, check it out; we're discussing some pretty interesting ideas, both from the Foundation and the community, and moving towards implementing quite a few of them :).

In addition, on Tuesday 13th March, we're holding an office hours session in #wikimedia-office on IRC at 19:00 UTC (11am Pacific time). If you can make it, please do; we'll have a lot of stuff to show you and talk about, including (hopefully) a timetable of when we're planning to do what. If you can't come, for whatever reason, let me know on my talkpage and I'm happy to send you the logs so you can get an idea of what happened :). Regards, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:38, 8 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

DYK for Bronwen Knox edit

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New Page Triage newsletter edit

Hey all!

Thanks to everyone who attended our first office hours session; the logs can be found here, if you missed it, and we should be holding a second one on Thursday, 22 March 2012 at 18:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. I hope to see you all there :).

In the meantime, I have greatly expanded the details available at Wikipedia:New Page Triage: there's a lot more info about precisely what we're planning. If you have ideas, and they aren't listed there, bring them up and I'll pass them on to the developers for consideration in the second sprint. And if you know anyone who might be interested in contributing, send them there too!

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GOCE March drive newsletter edit

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive update
 
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Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter.

Participation: We have had 58 people sign up for this drive so far, which compares favorably with our last drive, and 2 have copy-edited at least one article. If you have signed up but have not yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us!

Progress report: Our target of completing the 2010 articles has almost been reached, with only 56 remaining of the 194 we had at the start of the drive. The last ones are always the most difficult, so thank you if you are able to help copy-edit any of the remaining articles. We have reduced the total backlog by 163 articles so far.

Special thanks: Special thanks to Stfg, who has been going through the backlog and doing some preliminary vetting of the articles—removing copyright violations, doing initial clean-up, and nominating some for deletion. This work has helped make the drive a more pleasant experience for all our volunteers.

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Cleanup tag for Boeing Commercial Airplanes edit

Hi Sp33dyphil, I noticed you placed a cleanup tag in this edit on Boeing Commercial Airplanes, but you didn't provide a reason why it needed cleanup. Is there any sort of cleanup needed besides what is already stated by maintenance tags in the article? If you forgot why you put it there, that's okay, I was just curious. Thanks, Compdude123 21:22, 18 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

help triage some feedback edit

Hey guys.

I appreciate this isn't quite what you signed up for, but I figured as people who are already pretty good at evaluating whether material is useful or not useful through Special:NewPages, you might be interested :). Over the last few months we've been developing the new Article Feedback Tool, which features a free text box. it is imperative that we work out in advance what proportion of feedback is useful or not so we can adjust the design accordingly and not overwhelm you with nonsense.

This is being done through the Feedback Evaluation System (FES), a tool that lets editors run through a stream of comments, selecting their value and viability, so we know what type of design should be promoted or avoided. We're about to start a new round of evaluations, beginning with an office hours session tomorrow at 18:00 UTC. If you'd like to help preemptively kill poor feedback, come along to #wikimedia-office and we'll show you how to use the tool. If you can't make it, send me an email at okeyes wikimedia.org or drop a note on my talkpage, and I'm happy to give you a quick walkthrough in a one-on-one session :).

All the best, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:30, 20 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

Melbourne meetup edit

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The Bugle: Issue LXXII, March 2012 edit

 
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Melbourne meetup edit

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WikiCup 2012 March newsletter edit

 

We are over half way through the second round of this year's WikiCup and things are going well!   Grapple X (submissions), of Pool B, is our highest overall scorer thanks to his prolific writings on television and film. In second place is Pool H's   Cwmhiraeth (submissions), thanks primarily to work on biological articles, especially in marine biology and herpetology. Third place goes to Pool E's   Casliber (submissions), who also writes primarily on biology (including ornithology and botany) and has already submitted two featured articles this round. Of the 63 contestants remaining, 15 (just under a quarter) have over 100 points this round. However, 25 are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly. 32 contestants, the top two from each pool and the 16 next-highest scorers, will advance to round 3.

Congratulations to   Matthewedwards (submissions), whose impressive File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg became the competition's first featured picture. Also, congratulations to   12george1 (submissions), who claimed good topic points, our first contestant this year to do so, for his work on Wikipedia:Featured topics/1982 Atlantic hurricane season. This leaves featured topics and featured portals as the only sources of points not yet utilised. However, as recent statistics from   Miyagawa (submissions) show, no source has yet been utilised this competition to the same extent it has been previously!

It has been observed that the backlogs at good article candidates are building up again. While the points for good article reviews will be remaining constant, any help that can be offered keeping the backlog down would be appreciated. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talkemail) and The ed17 (talkemail) 23:28, 31 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

Invitation to the April Wikification Drive edit

A big NPT update edit

Hey! Big update on what the developers have been working on, and what is coming up:

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  • Fixes for the "moved pages do not show up in Special:NewPages" and "pages created from redirects do not show up in Special:NewPages" bugs have been completed and signed off on. Unfortunately we won't be able to integrate them into the existing version, but they will be worked into the Page Triage interface.
  • Coding has been completed on three elements; the API for displaying metadata about the article in the "list view", the ability to keep the "patrol" button visible if you edit an article before patrolling it, and the automatic removal of deleted pages from the queue. All three are awaiting testing but otherwise complete.

All other elements are either undergoing research, or about to have development started. I appreciate this sounds like we've not got through much work, and truthfully we're a bit disappointed with it as well; we thought we'd be going at a faster pace :(. Unfortunately there seems to be some 24-72 hour bug sweeping the San Francisco office at the moment, and at one time or another we've had several devs out of it. It's kind of messed with workflow.

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We've got a pair of new mockups to comment on that deal with the filtering mechanism; this is a slightly updated mockup of the list view, and this is what the filtering tab is going to look like. All thoughts, comments and suggestions welcome on the NPT talkpage :). I'd also like to thank the people who came to our last two office hours sessions; the logs will be shortly available here.

I've also just heard that the first functional prototype for enwiki will be deployed mid-April! Really, really stoked to see this happening :). We're finding out if we can stick something up a bit sooner on prototype.wiki or something.

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GOCE March drive wrap-up edit

Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 backlog elimination drive
 
 
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Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors March 2012 Backlog elimination drive! This is the most successful drive we have had for quite a while. Here is your end-of-drive wrap-up newsletter.

Participation

Of the 70 people who signed up for this drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Special acknowledgement goes out to Lfstevens, who did over 200 articles, most of them in the last third of the drive, and topped all three leaderboard categories. You're a superstar! Stfg and others have been pre-checking the articles for quality and conformance to Wikipedia guidelines; some have been nominated for deletion or had some preliminary clean-up done to help make the copy-edit process more fun and appealing. Thanks to all who helped get those nasty last few articles out of the target months.

Progress report

During this drive we were successful in eliminating our target months—October, November, and December 2010—from the queue, and have now eliminated all the 2010 articles from our list. We were able to complete 500 articles this month! End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here.

When working on the backlog, please keep in mind that there are options other than copy-editing available; some articles may be candidates for deletion, or may not be suitable for copy-editing at this time for other reasons. The {{GOCEreviewed}} tag can be placed on any article you find to be totally uneditable, and you can nominate for deletion any that you discover to be copyright violations or completely unintelligible. If you need help deciding what to do, please contact any of the coordinators.

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Reply to your message at Commons edit

Hello!

Thanks for kind words! Well, most of my uploads are work of other people. I'm not good at photo stuff really. Anyway, I'm ready for any collaboration, however most of my efforts goes into Commons and Russian section of Wikipedia. How can I help? James R. Nockson (talk) 19:19, 20 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

Let's talk here, for me it's easier. OK, so what Russian aviation articles are you working on now? I see you made a GA about Su-33. I have a FA plans for it but in a long perspective - now my priority №1 is group of articles about "Forger" - Yak-38, Yak-38U and Yak-38M. James R. Nockson (talk) 18:30, 25 April 2012 (UTC)Reply
Lucky for both of us, I have several comprehensive publications on the Su-33 and Yak-38. The trouble is whether I have to stamina and time to last an overhaul of both articles. It would be good if you could, as a Russian speaker, scour the net for as many articles, including news items, on both subjects. --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 06:51, 27 April 2012 (UTC)Reply
Well, I already have some good books about both Su-33 and Yak-38. Book about Yak-38 is "Yakovlev Yak-36, Yak-38 & Yak-41: The Soviet 'Jump Jets'" by Efim Gordon. It's in English that's good for you. About Su-33 best source is "Su-33. Korabelnaya epopeya" by Andrey Fomin. It's in Russian but gives great details on development of Su-33. Have you read them? I think this two books are more than enough for writing a great article. My FA Yak-141 is 85% based on Gordon's book. If you need I have other material about Forger (mostly in Russian however). James R. Nockson (talk) 18:31, 27 April 2012 (UTC)Reply
Ah yes, I happen to have the Yakolev book, but not the latter, as I would have trouble reading Russian. However, I do have the book Sukhoi Su-27, which is perhaps the most detailed book about the Su-27 and its derivatives. --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 01:25, 29 April 2012 (UTC)Reply
Hm, I haven't read Gordon's book about Su-27. Gonna check it out. So, what we gonna do? James R. Nockson (talk) 11:23, 29 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

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GOCE May copy edit drive edit

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The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their May 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on May 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on May 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goal for the drive will be to eliminate January, February, and March 2011 from the queue. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 5 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, and Stfg.

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WikiCup 2012 April newsletter edit

Round 2 of this year's WikiCup is over, and so we are down to our final 32, in what could be called our quarter-finals. The two highest scorers from each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers overall, have entered round 3, while 30 participants have been eliminated. Pool B's   Grapple X (submissions) remains our top scorer with over 700 points; he continues to gain high numbers of points for his good articles on The X-Files, but also Millennium and other subjects. He has also gained points for a good topic, a featured list, multiple good article reviews and several did you knows. Pool E's   Casliber (submissions) was second, thanks primarily to his biology articles, with Pool H's   Muboshgu (submissions) coming in third, with an impressive 46 did you knows, mostly on the subject of baseball. Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both scored over 600 points. Pools E and H proved our most successful, with each seeing 5 members qualify for round 3, while Pools C and D were the least, with each seeing only 3 reach round 3. However, it was Pool G which saw the lowest scoring, with a little under 400 points combined; Pool H, the highest scoring group, saw over triple that score.

65 points was the lowest qualifying score for round 3; significantly higher than the 11 required to enter round 2, and also higher than the 41 required to reach round 3 last year. However, in 2010, 100 points were needed to secure a place in round 3. 16 will progress to round 4. In round 3, 150 points was the 16th highest score, though, statistically, people tend to up their game a little in later rounds. Last year, 76 points secured a place, while in 2010, a massive 250 points were needed. Guessing how many points will be required is not easy. We still have not seen any featured portals or topics this year, but, on the subject of less common content types, a small correction needs to be made to the previous newsletter: File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg, our first featured picture, was the work of both   Matthewedwards (submissions) and   Grandiose (submissions), the latter of whom has also gone on to score with File:Map of the Battle of Guam, 1944.svg. Bonus points also continue to roll in; this round,   Ealdgyth (submissions) earned triple points for her good articles on William the Conqueror and the Middle Ages, Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both earned triple points for their work on Western Jackdaw, now a good article,   Dana Boomer (submissions) earned triple points for her work on lettuce and work by   Stone (submissions) to ready antimony for good article status earned him triple points.   Jarry1250 (submissions) managed to expand Vitus Bering far enough for a did you know, which was also worth triple points. All of these highly important topics featured on 50 or more Wikipedias at the start of the year.

An article on the WikiCup in the Wikimedia Blog, "Improving Wikipedia with friendly competition", was posted at the end of April. This may be of interest to those who are signed up to this newsletter, as well as serving as another way to draw attention to our project. Also, we would again like to thank   Jarry1250 (submissions) and   Stone (submissions), for continued help behind the scenes. As ever, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talkemail) and The ed17 (talkemail) 23:21, 30 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

New Pages update edit

Hey Sp33dyphil/Archive 4 :). A quick update on how things are going with the New Page Triage/New Pages Feed project. As the enwiki page notes, the project is divided into two chunks: the "list view" (essentially an updated version of Special:NewPages) and the "article view", a view you'll be presented with when you open up individual articles that contains a toolbar with lots of options to interact with the page - patrolling it, adding maintenance tags, nominating it for deletion, so on.

On the list view front, we're pretty much done! We tried deploying it to enwiki, in line with our Engagement Strategy on Wednesday, but ran into bugs and had to reschedule - the same happened on Thursday :(. We've queued a new deployment for Monday PST, and hopefully that one will go better. If it does, the software will be ready to play around with and test by the following week! :).

On the article view front, the developers are doing some fantastic work designing the toolbar, which we're calling the "curation bar"; you can see a mockup here. A stripped-down version of this should be ready to deploy fairly soon after the list view is; I'm afraid I don't have precise dates yet. When I have more info, or can unleash everyone to test the list view, I'll let you know :). As always, any questions to the talkpage for the project or mine. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:21, 5 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

Retirement edit

Hi,
Sorry to hear that you're semi-retired. I hope you're enjoying the stress-free life out there in the real world. We miss you, though; after all the good work you've done, it would be nice to have you back. ;-) bobrayner (talk) 22:12, 7 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

Viktor Chirkov and Viktor Bondarev edit

Thankyou very much for doing these two articles - we're up to date instantly, ever before Ru-wiki, it seems ! Buckshot06 (talk) 05:17, 8 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

No problems. It picked up the appointments after having looked at the news. I need some assistance with the Bondarev article, so if you can, please help out. Otherwise, no biggie. --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 07:07, 8 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

Re: Your Warning edit

I will not act as unilaterally in the future, and explained my most recent changes in part on the TP of the article in question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Covert_United_States_foreign_regime_change_actions#Sourcing_Problems--Seymour_Hersh_And_Company Cheers.TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 05:59, 12 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

New Page Triage prototype released edit

Hey Sp33dyphil! We've finally finished the NPT prototype and deployed it on enwiki. We'll be holding an office hours session on the 16th at 21:00 in #wikimedia-office to show it off, get feedback and plot future developments - hope to see you there! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 03:29, 13 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

Mount Salak crash edit

See List of aircraft by tail number. Apparently as a test aircraft it did not carry the RA- prefix. I fell into this one myself, and Aviation Herald / Aviation Safety Network did too. Mjroots (talk) 08:37, 15 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

GOCE May mid-drive newsletter edit

Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter
 

Participation: Out of 49 people signed up for this drive so far, 26 have copy-edited at least one article. It's a smaller group than last drive, but we're making good progress. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us!

Progress report: We're on track to meet our targets for the drive, largely due to the efforts of Lfstevens and the others on the leaderboard. Thanks to all. We have reduced our target group of articles—January, February, and March 2011—by over half, and it looks like we will achieve that goal. Good progress is being made on the overall backlog as well, with over 500 articles copy-edited during the drive so far. The total backlog currently sits at around 3200 articles.

Hall of Fame: GOCE coordinator Diannaa was awarded a spot in the GOCE Hall of Fame this month! She has copy-edited over 1567 articles during these drives, and surpassed the 1,000,000-word mark on May 5. On to the second million! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa and Stfg

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DYK for Viktor Bondarev edit

Shubinator (talk) 19:23, 15 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

DYK for Viktor Chirkov edit

Yngvadottir (talk) 16:03, 18 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

What do you mean? edit

When you removed this image you left the edit summary "No use". What does that mean? Moriori (talk) 03:33, 19 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

The section doesn't mention braking systems; it had two images, which was more than enough; and the parachute is not even fully inflated. If the image wasn't included in the article just for the sake of it, I don't know what is. --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 03:56, 19 May 2012 (UTC)Reply
No, the section doesn't mention braking systems, but aerodynamics, and none of the images apply to aerodynamics. If two images were more than enough, why didn't you reduce the number to one? How does the image you removed detract from the article? Why didn't you move it to another space in the article? It's not a bad image, is it? Moriori (talk) 08:24, 19 May 2012 (UTC)Reply
You're right, the current image has no connection with aerodynamics; however, I wasn't saying it was connected -- that is what you are inferring. My view simply is that the removed image had no value in relation to the section whatsoever because of the reasons above. Since you questioned the status of the image about the Thach Wave manouever, I will replace it. And no, the parachute image is not bad -- it just doesn't have any encyclopediac value. --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 13:05, 19 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

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New Page Triage/New Pages Feed edit

Hey all :). A notification that the prototype for the New Pages Feed is now live on enwiki! We had to briefly take it down after an unfortunate bug started showing up, but it's now live and we will continue developing it on-site.

The page can be found at Special:NewPagesFeed. Please, please, please test it and tell us what you think! Note that as a prototype it will inevitably have bugs - if you find one not already mentioned at the talkpage, bring it up and I'm happy to carry it through to the devs. The same is true of any additions you can think of to the software, or any questions you might have - let me know and I'll respond.

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June Wikification Drive! edit

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Talkback edit

 
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McCartney edit

Per your edit at McCartney: look here. — GabeMc (talk) 07:27, 31 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

Also, here. — GabeMc (talk) 07:31, 31 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

That page had never been brought to my attention before. If the community had decided on the issue, I'd like to withdraw and apologize for my actions. However, I can't help but question the process by which the community came to such a conclusion. On The Beatles' official website, the band's name is simultaneously spelt as "The Beatles" and "the Beatles". Such inconsistency eliminates the website as being a reliable website upon which a decision should be based. Wikipedia:Article titles#Common_names dictates that the most common name be used, preferably "major international organizations, major English-language media outlets, quality encyclopedias, [...]" About 80% of the Google results endorsed the uncapitalised style. Therefore, I will stick with that version for now. Nevertheless, I don't understand why "The Hague" is capitalised -- maybe the word Hague is so uncommon that it compels the reader to also capitalise the definite article. Also, the band's name should be capitalised when it's wikilinked, and somebody needs to do somebody about John Lennon's article, which is full of the capitalised style, and any other similarly-worded articles. --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 08:30, 31 May 2012 (UTC)Reply
I agree, John Lennon needs attention. I plan to get to it after Paul McCartney achieves FA. — GabeMc (talk) 21:38, 31 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

WikiCup 2012 May newsletter edit

 

We're halfway through round 3 (or the quarter finals, if you prefer) and things are running smoothly. We're seeing very high scoring; as of the time of writing, the top 16 all have over 90 points. This has already proved to be more competative than this time last year- in 2011, 76 points secured a place, while in 2010, a massive 250 was the lowest qualifying score. People have also upped their game slightly from last round, which is to be expected as we approach the end of the competition. Leading Pool A is   Cwmhiraeth (submissions), whose points have mostly come from a large number of did you knows on marine biology. Pool B's leader,   Grapple X (submissions), is for the first time not our highest scorer at the time of newsletter publication, but his good articles on The X-Files and Millenium keep him in second place overall.   Miyagawa (submissions) leads Pool C, our quietest pool, with content in a variety of areas on a variety of topics. Pool D is led by   Casliber (submissions), our current overall leader. Nearly half of Casliber's points come from his triple-scored Western Jackdaw, which is now a featured article.

This round has seen an unusually high number of featured lists, with nearly one in five remaining participants claiming one, and one user,   Muboshgu (submissions), claiming two. Miyagawa's featured list, 1936 Summer Olympics medal table, was even awarded double points. By comparison, good article reviews seem to be playing a smaller part, and featured topics portals remain two content-types still unutilised in this competition. Other than that, there isn't much to say! Things are coming along smoothly. As ever, 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. 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 (talkemail) and The ed17 (talkemail) 23:45, 31 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

Talkback edit

 
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GOCE May drive wrap-up edit

Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up
 

Participation: Out of 54 people who signed up this drive, 32 copy-edited at least one article. Last drive's superstar, Lfstevens, again stood out, topping the leader board in all three categories and copy-editing over 700 articles. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: We were once again successful in our primary goal—removing the oldest three months from the backlog—while removing 1166 articles from the queue, the second-most in our history. The total backlog currently sits at around 2600 articles, down from 8323 when we started out just over two years ago.

 

Coodinator election: The six-month term for our third tranche of Guild coordinators will be expiring at the end of June. We will be accepting nominations for the fourth tranche of coordinators, who will also serve a six-month term. Nominations will open starting on June 5. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, and Stfg

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Needing Wiki contribution assistance! edit

Greetings Sp33dyphil,

I am looking for an experienced Wikipedian to contribute an article for our band Mr. Meeble. I have checked and we meet the Wikipedia "notability" guidelines for a band. We have a very basic Wikipedia article written already, but I know that someone like yourself may be able to point out our formatting errors and critical omissions. You can hear our music and see our videos here:

http://youtube.com/mrmeeble
http://soundcloud.com/meeble

Let me know if you would be willing to help!

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GOCE July 2012 Copy Edit Drive edit

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors
 

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their July 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on July 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on July 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to eliminate the articles tagged in April, May and June 2011 from the queue and to complete all requests placed before the end of June. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 6 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged in April–June 2011", and "Longest article". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa and Stfg.

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Nomination of Justin Bieber on Twitter for deletion edit

 

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Justin Bieber on Twitter is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Justin Bieber on Twitter until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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WikiCup 2012 June newsletter edit

 

Apologies for the lateness of this letter; our usual bot wasn't working. We are now entering round 4, our semi-finals, and have our final 16. A score of 243 was required to reach this round; significantly more than 2011's 76 points, and only a little behind 2010's 250 points. By comparison, last year, 150 points in round 4 secured a place in the final; in 2010, 430 were needed. Commiserations to Pool A's   igordebraga (submissions), who scored 242 points, missing out on a place in the round by a whisker. However, congratulations to Pool B's   Grapple X (submissions), whose television articles have brought him another round victory. Pool A's   Cwmhiraeth (submissions) came second overall, with an impressive list of biological did you knows, good articles and featured articles. Third overall was Pool D's   Muboshgu (submissions), with a long list of contibutions, mostly relating to baseball. Of course, with the points resetting every round, the playing field has been levelled. The most successful Pool was Pool D, which saw seven into the final round. Pool B saw four, C saw three and Pool A saw only the two round leaders.

A quick note about other competitions taking place on Wikipedia which may be of interest. There are 13 days remaining in the June-July GAN backlog elimination drive, but it is not too late to take part. August will also see the return of The Core Contest- a one month long competition first run in 2007. While the WikiCup awards points for audited content on any subject, The Core Contest about is raw article improvement, focussing heavily on the most important articles on Wikipedia. As ever, 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. 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 (talkemail) and The ed17 (talkemail) 11:10, 2 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

Reception section of film articles edit

You might want to comment at Talk:The Amazing Spider-Man (2012 film)#critical reception pov slant since it concerns an interaction you had with Williamsburgland. 91.224.154.100 (talk) 16:36, 15 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

GOCE July 2012 mid-drive newsletter edit

Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter
 

Participation: Out of 37 people signed up for this drive so far, 25 have copy-edited at least one article. It's a smaller group than last drive, but we're making good progress. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, every bit helps; if you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us!

Progress report: We're almost on track to meet our targets for the drive. Great work, guys. We have reduced our target group of articles—May, June, and July 2011—by about 40%, and the overall backlog has been reduced by 264 articles so far, to around 2500 articles.

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Thanks! edit

Thanks for the GA barnstar! It was my pleasure working on the article; it's one of my favorite albums ever. Torchiest talkedits 04:21, 21 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

Thank you! edit

Hi Sp33dyphil. Just wanted to say big thanks for the Barnstar. Although I'd done good deal of work on two other recent GAs, someone else had done the actual nominations, so the Living in the Material World article's extra-special − and the Barnstar's rounds it all off very nicely! Thanks again. Best, JG66 (talk) 08:49, 25 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

DYK help edit

Can you help improve these articles in my user space:

They need a copy edit before I take them to DYK. Will happily give you credit for helping make the prose flow better. :D --LauraHale (talk) 10:32, 25 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

Thought Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes the Australian War Memorial might be of interest to you. :) --LauraHale (talk) 03:30, 26 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Wikify: July Newsletter and August Drive edit

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Thanks edit

  Hello. You have a new message at Sctechlaw's talk page. Sctechlaw (talk) 21:25, 27 July 2012 (UTC)Reply
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HighBeam edit

Hi, Phil! We tried to send you your HighBeam account code but you don't have email enabled. Can you email me something at wikiocaasi@yahoo.com and I'll respond with your code? Cheers Ocaasi t | c 23:05, 27 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

GOCE July drive wrap-up edit

Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up
 

Participation: Out of 45 people who signed up this drive, 31 have copy-edited at least one article. Lfstevens continues to carry most of the weight, having edited 360 articles and over a quarter of a million words already. Thanks to all who have participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, will be available early in August here.

Progress report: We are once again very close to achieving in our primary goal—removing the oldest three months from the backlog. Only 35 such articles remain at press time. The total backlog currently sits at under 2400 articles, down from 8323 when we started out over two years ago. We are just two articles away from completing all requests made before July 2012 (both are in progress).

Copy Edit of the Month: Starting in August, you'll be able to submit your best copy-editing work for palaver, praise, and prizes. See here for details. – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest.

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The Copyeditors barnstar edit

507649743

Thank you so much for the un-anticipated award! I've racked up nearly 700 edits on the article, and I'm currently looking to give it a thorough edit, shepherd it to GA, and head for the Bronze Star ;) Once again, thanks --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 04:51, 28 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

Well why reviewing it I could see you put a lot of work into it. ObtundTalk 13:32, 28 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

Thank you! edit

Thanks for the barnstar you gave me for Pont du Gard! Prioryman (talk) 20:12, 31 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

WikiCup 2012 July newsletter edit

 

We're approaching the beginning of 2012's final round. Pool A sees   Cwmhiraeth (submissions) as the leader, with 300 points being awarded for the featured article Bivalvia, and Pool B sees   Grapple X (submissions) in the lead, with 10 good articles, and over 35 articles eligible for good topic points. Pool A sees   Muboshgu (submissions) in second place with a number of articles relating to baseball, while Pool B's   Ruby2010 (submissions) follows Grapple X, with a variety of contributions including the high-scoring, high-importance featured article on the 2010 film Pride & Prejudice. Ruby2010, like Grapple X, also claimed a number of good topic points; despite this, not a single point has been claimed for featured topics in the contest so far. The same is true for featured portals.

Currently, the eighth-place competitor (and so the lowest scorer who would reach the final round right now) has scored 332, more than double the 150 needed to reach the final round last year. In 2010, however, 430 was the lowest qualifying score. In this competition, we have generally seen scores closer to those in 2010 than those in 2011. Let's see what kind of benchmark we can set for future competitions! As ever, 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. 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 (talkemail) and The ed17 (talkemail) 22:33, 31 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Record Production invites you to join edit

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Thank you for joining the Record Production Wikiproject. I look forward to all manner of collaboration regarding this topic and ideas you have are welcome. I am happy to officially welcome you and affirm that your username has been added as a member of the project. 76Strat String da Broke da (talk) 08:28, 2 August 2012 (UTC)Reply
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Page Triage newsletter edit

Hey all. Some quick but important updates on what we've been up to and what's coming up next :).

The curation toolbar, our Wikimedia-supported twinkle replacement. We're going to be deploying it, along with a pile of bugfixes, to wikipedia on 9 August. After a few days to check it doesn't make anything explode or die, we'll be sticking up a big notice and sending out an additional newsletter inviting people to test it out and give us feedback :). This will be followed by two office hours sessions - one on Tuesday the 14th of August at 19:00 UTC for all us Europeans, and one on Wednesday the 15th at 23:00 UTC for the East Coasters out there :). As always, these will be held in #wikimedia-office; drop me a note if you want to know how to easily get on IRC, or if you aren't able to attend but would like the logs.

I hope to see a lot of you there; it's going to be a big day for everyone involved, I think :). I'll have more notes after the deployment! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 19:53, 3 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

New Pages newsletter edit

Hey all :)

A couple of new things.

First, you'll note that all the project titles have now changed to the Page Curation prefix, rather than having the New Pages Feed prefix. This is because the overarching project name has changed to Page Curation; the feed is still known as New Pages Feed, and the Curation Toolbar is still the Curation Toolbar. Hopefully this will be the last namechange ;p.

On the subject of the Curation Toolbar (nice segue, Oliver!) - it's now deployed on Wikipedia. Just open up any article in the New Pages Feed and it should appear on the right. It's still a beta version - bugs are expected - and we've got a lot more work to do. But if you see something going wrong, or a feature missing, drop me a note or post on the project talkpage and I'll be happy to help :). We'll be holding two office hours sessions to discuss the tool and improvements to it; the first is at 19:00 UTC on 14 August, and the second at 23:00 on the 15th. Both will be in #wikimedia-office as always. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:01, 10 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Wikify and the future of wikification edit

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Good article edit

  Samsung Galaxy S III is now a Good Article
Congrats! The article you nominated Samsung Galaxy S III was just promoted to Good Article status! Great job to all of your hard work!
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GOCE news and September drive invitation edit

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors
 

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in its events:

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Your GA nomination of Nexus 7 edit

The article Nexus 7 you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:Nexus 7 for comments about the article. Well done! GRAPPLE X 00:05, 29 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

WikiCup 2012 August newsletter edit

 

The final is upon us! We are down to our final 8. A massive 573 was our lowest qualifying score; this is higher than the 150 points needed last year and the 430 needed in 2010. Even in 2009, when points were acquired for mainspace edit count in addition to audited content, 417 points secured a place. That leaves this year's WikiCup, by one measure at least, our most competitive ever. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:

  1.   Grapple X (submissions) once again finishes the round in first place, leading Pool B. Grapple X writes articles about television, and especially The X-Files and Millenium, with good articles making up the bulk of the score.
  2.   Miyagawa (submissions) led Pool A this round. Fourth-place finalist last year, Miyagawa writes on a variety of topics, and has reached the final primarily off the back of his massive number of did you knows.
  3.   Ruby2010 (submissions) was second in Pool B. Ruby2010 writes primarily on television and film, and scores primarily from good articles.
  4.   Casliber (submissions) finished third in Pool B. Casliber is something of a WikiCup veteran, having finished sixth in 2011 and fourth in 2010. Casliber writes on the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy. Over half of Casliber's points this round were bonus points from the high-importance articles he has worked on.
  5.   Cwmhiraeth (submissions) came second in Pool A. Also writing on biology, especially marine biology, Cwmhiraeth received 390 points for one featured article (Bivalvia) and one good article (pelican), topping up with a large number of did you knows.
  6.   Muboshgu (submissions) was third in Pool A. Muboshgu writes primarily on baseball, and this round saw Muboshgu's first featured article, Derek Jeter, promoted on its fourth attempt at FAC.
  7.   Dana Boomer (submissions) was fourth in Pool A. She writes on a variety of topics, including horses, but this round also saw the high-importance lettuce reach featured article status.
  8.   Sasata (submissions) is another WikiCup veteran, having been a finalist in 2009 and 2010. He writes mostly on mycology.

However, we must also say goodbye to the eight who did not make the final, having fallen at the last hurdle:   GreatOrangePumpkin (submissions),   Ealdgyth (submissions),   Calvin999 (submissions),   Piotrus (submissions),   Toa Nidhiki05 (submissions),   12george1 (submissions),   The Bushranger (submissions) and   1111tomica (submissions). We hope to see you all next year.

On the subject of next year, a discussion has been opened here. Come and have your say about the competition, and how you'd like it to run in the future. This brainstorming will go on for some time before more focused discussions/polls are opened. As ever, 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. 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 (talkemail) and The ed17 (talkemail) 00:24, 1 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

GOCE September activities edit

Reminders from the Guild of Copy Editors
 

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In honor of your service as a Milhist coordinator edit

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I accept the honour. Thank you. --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 05:57, 7 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

Military history coordinator election edit

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Page Curation update edit

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Nexus 7 edit

It was already moved when I read your message. Next time, please give me more time to revert. Write English in Cyrillic (talk) 11:31, 11 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

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GOCE mid-drive newsletter edit

Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter
 

  • Participation: Out of 37 people signed up for this drive so far, 19 have copy-edited at least one article, about the same as the last drive. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, every bit helps; if you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us!
  • Progress report: We're almost on track to meet our targets for the drive. Great work, guys. We have reduced our target group of articles—August, September, and October 2011—by about 44%, and the overall backlog has been reduced by 58 articles so far, to around 2600 articles. The biggest difference between this drive and the previous one is a stronger focus on large articles, so total word counts are still comparable.
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Proposed deletion of Nokia Lumia 820 edit

 

The article Nokia Lumia 820 has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-notable device. No independent refs.

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WikiProject Good articles (Participant Clean-Up) edit

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Page Curation newsletter edit

Hey Sp33dyphil. This will be, if not our final newsletter, one of the final ones :). After months of churning away at this project, our final version (apart from a few tweaks and bugfixes) is now live. Changes between this and the last release include deletion tag logging, a centralised log, and fixes to things like edit summaries.

Hopefully you like what we've done with the place; suggestions for future work on it, complaints and bugs to the usual address :). We'll be holding a couple of office hours sessions, which I hope you'll all attend. Many thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 10:55, 24 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

Korean grandmothers emulating Gangnam Style edit

Hi there! I think it's OK to add the statement about grandmothers in the Korean American community emulating Gangnam style in the article but in the right context and well-cited. I think the Impact section would serve well in this respect - serving as an excellent example of how this song has indeed impacted the Korean diaspora itself. It's as significant as the following statement about random local Thailand gangs, albeit in a different light. Castncoot (talk) 02:16, 27 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

I see. I thought that the claim was added purely because it mentioned "Gangnam Style". I'm happy to see it restored following your rationale. It's good to see you're putting some effort into this mad song and music video. --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 04:07, 27 September 2012 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, I will restore it.

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WikiCup 2012 September newsletter edit

 

We're over half way through the final, and so it is less than a month until we know for certain our 2012 WikiCup champion.   Grapple X (submissions) currently leads, followed by   Sasata (submissions),   Cwmhiraeth (submissions) and   Casliber (submissions). However, we have no one resembling a breakaway leader, and so the competition is a long way from over. Next month's newsletter will feature a list of our winners (who are not necessarily only the finalists) and keep your eyes open for an article on the WikiCup in a future edition of The Signpost. The leaders are already on a par with last year's winners, but a long way from the huge scores seen in 2010. That said, a repeat of the competition from 2010 seems unlikely.

It is good to see that three-quarters of our finalists have already scored bonus points this round. This shows that, contrary to criticism that the WikiCup has received in the past, the competition does not merely incentivise the writing of trivial articles; instead, our top competitors are still spending their time contributing to high-importance articles, and bringing them to a high standard. This does a great service to the encyclopedia and its readers. Thank you, and good work!

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Gangnam Style music video summary edit

I've shortened the description so it's a few paragraphs. This can also be incorporated into the cast of characters like: Psy raps in front of two guys playing chess (allegedly Bigbang members ... ). Psy meets the subway girl (Hyuna)... Any little details can be footnoted. AngusWOOF (talk) 04:17, 4 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

This is perfect. Cheers --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 04:30, 4 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

GOCE September 2012 drive wrap-up edit

Guild of Copy Editors September 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up
 

Participation: Out of 41 people who signed up this drive, 28 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: We achieved our primary goal of clearing July, August, September and October 2011 from the backlog. This means that, for the first time since the drives began, the backlog is less than a year. At least 677 tagged articles were copy edited, although 365 new ones were added during the month. The total backlog at the end of the month was 2341 articles, down from 8323 when we started out over two years ago. We completed all 54 requests outstanding before September 2012 as well as eight of those made in September.

Copy Edit of the Month: Voting is now over for the August 2012 competition, and prizes will be issued soon. The September 2012 contest is closed for submissions and open for voting. The October 2012 contest is now open for submissions. Everyone is welcome to submit entries and to vote.

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RE:Speedy deletion of Q5 (band) edit

Hi, I'm an Italian wikipedian and I don't know very well the policies of en.wiki about band, but I read Wikipedia:Notability (music), the page respected the criteria:

I hope that the page will be restored. --Afnecors (talk) 13:32, 5 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

Merge proposal edit

Hi. You have put merge proposal for article Panduranga Hegde when the article was still underconstruction and in initial stages of development. Now I have developed the article and request you to glance through and review whether the two templates you put can be continued or not. Hope you got my point. Thank you.Rayabhari (talk) 14:15, 7 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

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Cyclone Rewa edit

Hi there, would you be able to give Cyclone Rewa a copyedit please? Thanks in advance.Jason Rees (talk) 17:24, 10 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

Sorry for the delayed response. I have other commitments and so wouldn't have any time to address your request. So as to not waste your time, perhaps you should consider asking Nikkimaria about this -- she is way better than myself at this task. Regards, --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 21:52, 13 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
Ok thanks for being honest.Jason Rees (talk) 22:05, 13 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

CSD edit

The simple answer is no, I know of no such research. The main problem is that people don't read the messages

Starting at the beginning, when you create an account, you are asked to read the username policy, but it's not just the 12-year-olds who don't read or understand this, it's the PR people for companies who sign up under the company name, post spam, and get blocked. Short of tweaking the software so you have to read the policy, I can't see a way around this, and making it more difficult would reduce registration.

When you create a new page, you are invited to read the blurb about starting your first article. It's clear again that most people don't, and unless the software is tweaked there is no obvious way around this. Making it more difficult to create from scratch (minimum number of edits) might be effective and help people to learn the rules, but there isn't a snowball in hell's chance of that happening (most vandalism comes from isps, but the foundation won't allow en-wiki to insist on registration since it's number, not quality, that matters). FWIW, I always revert unexplained changes to numbers in articles by isps, because they are always vandalism.

People simply don't grasp simple concepts. Copyright seems to mean nothing to editors from some regions, or it's my web page/I have permission cover all eventualities. Similarly it's not promotional, I'm not selling anything excuses fancruft etc. And the vandals are ever with us...

Sorry about the unhelpful rant (: Jimfbleak - talk to me? 08:59, 11 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion converted to PROD: Labor party queensland leader 2012 edit

Hello Sp33dyphil. I am just letting you know that I have converted the speedy deletion tag that you placed on Labor party queensland leader 2012 to a proposed deletion tag, because I do not believe CSD applies to the page in question - since you tagged it, it has been expanded so that A1 no longer applies. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 08:07, 14 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

Gangnam Style edit

Hi, in the frentic midst of adding paragraph after paragraph to the article, it is indeed possible that I have overlooked some parts, despite careful checking and reading everything over again. Im sorry that you have to clean up the mess I made, I do appreciate your efforts.

However, in my humble opinion, the quote by that particular K-Pop fan seems to be a valid one, not only because it was published by an established Internet magazine (that has been around for more than 10 years), but also because it represents what some K-Pop fans may think of the song, and should at least be mentioned in the article.

Her article on Spiked magazine seems quite well written (in fact, I personally think its better written than some other newspaper articles out there), Spiked magazine itself is a serious publication that covers a wide variety of topics including political and economic issues, and it also has its own editorial board, the article may just be a fan opinion but I personally think its a valid one that represents a significant portion of the fan community

In any case, due to lack of time, I wont be editing this article as much as I used to anymore. All that said, if you (or any other editors) still feel strongly against the quote, you may remove it, I will not add it back. -A1candidate (talk) 22:37, 14 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Good Articles - Participant Clean-up (Second Call) edit

 
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A kitten for you! edit

 

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Page Curation newsletter - closing up! edit

Hey all :).

We're (very shortly) closing down this development cycle for Page Curation. It's genuinely been a pleasure to talk with you all and build software that is so close to my own heart, and also so effective. The current backlog is 9 days, and I've never seen it that low before.

However! Closing up shop does not mean not making any improvements. First-off, this is your last chance to give us a poke about unresolved bugs or report new ones on the talkpage. If something's going wrong, we want to know about it :). Second, we'll hopefully be taking another pass over the software next year. If you've got ideas for features Page Curation doesn't currently have, stick them here.

Again, it's been an honour. Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 12:00, 17 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

GOCE fall newsletter edit

Fall Events from the Guild of Copy Editors
 

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in its events:

  • The October 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is currently in the submissions stage. Submit your best October copy edit there before the end of the month. Submissions end, and discussion and voting begin, on November 1 at 00:00 (UTC).
  • Voting is in progress for the September 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest. Everyone is welcome to vote, whether they have entered the contest or not.
  • NEW!! In the week from Sunday 21 October to Saturday 27 October, we are holding a Project Blitz, in which we will copy edit articles tagged with {{copyedit}} belonging to selected project(s). For the first blitz, we'll start with WikiProject Olympics and WikiProject Albums and add more Projects to the blitz as we clear them. The blitz works much like our bimonthly drives, but a bit simpler. Everyone is welcome to take part, and barnstars will be awarded.
  • November 2012 Backlog elimination drive is a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on November 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on November 30 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to copy edit all articles tagged in 2011 and to complete all requests placed before the end of October. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top five in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged in 2011", and "Longest article". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest.
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Gangnam Style charts edit

Why are you reverting the charts for Gangnam Style that I made, which were right?--Lucky102 (talk) 12:08, 29 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

Sorry, what did you do? --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 12:28, 29 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
On the Gangnam Style article, I was editing the weekly charts to make them more up to date, and you reverted them. There was nothing wrong with the charts, so why did you revert? I spent a while working on it and I wasn't even finished.--Lucky″102 (talk) 12:33, 29 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
You don't look before you leap do you? --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 12:37, 29 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
I did, I looked at the article and made the changes necessary. For example, Iceland, it was 3 on that week, but on the current week it is 6th.--Lucky102 (talk) 16:18, 29 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
Tell me what the heading of the column is. --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 20:41, 29 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
Charts and certifications, weekly charts.--Lucky102 (talk) 21:15, 29 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
"Peak position" --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 04:29, 30 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Good Articles - Participant Clean-up (Final Call) edit

 
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WikiCup 2012 October newsletter edit

 

The 2012 WikiCup has come to a close; congratulations to   Cwmhiraeth (submissions), our 2012 champion! Cwmhiraeth joins our exclusive club of previous winners: Dreamafter (2007), jj137 (2008), Durova (2009), Sturmvogel 66 (2010) and Hurricanehink (2011). Our final standings were as follows:

  1.   Cwmhiraeth (submissions)
  2.   Sasata (submissions)
  3.   Grapple X (submissions)
  4.   Casliber (submissions)
  5.   Muboshgu (submissions)
  6.   Miyagawa (submissions)
  7.   Ruby2010 (submissions)
  8.   Dana Boomer (submissions)

Prizes for first, second, third and fourth will be awarded, as will prizes for all those who reached the final eight. Every participant who scored in the competition will receive a ribbon of participation. In addition to the prizes based on placement, the following special prizes will be awarded based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, the prize is awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round.

Awards will be handed out in the coming days; please bear with us! This year's competition also saw fantastic contributions in all rounds, from newer Wikipedians contributing their first good or featured articles, right up to highly experienced Wikipedians chasing high scores and contributing to topics outside of their usual comfort zones. It would be impossible to name all of the participants who have achieved things to be proud of, but well done to all of you, and thanks! Wikipedia has certainly benefited from the work of this year's WikiCup participants.

Next year's WikiCup will begin in January. Currently, discussions and polls are open, and all contributions are welcome. You can also sign up for next year's competition. There will be no further newsletters this year, although brief notes may be sent out in December to remind everyone about the upcoming competition. It's been a pleasure to work with you all, and we hope to see you all in January! J Milburn (talkemail) and The ed17 (talkemail) 00:43, 1 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

Gangnam Style again edit

Hi, this is regarding the list of records attained by the song under the "Achievements" section. Please join me at Talk:Gangnam Style to discuss about its inclusion. -A1candidate (talk) 06:38, 3 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

The GAN Newsletter (November 2012) edit

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Wiki edit

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I love wikipedia VenyaShreya (talk) 10:32, 8 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

This is not a newsletter edit

This is just a tribute.

Anyway. You're getting this note because you've participated in discussion and/or asked for updates to either the Article Feedback Tool or Page Curation. This isn't about either of those things, I'm afraid ;p. We've recently started working on yet another project: Echo, a notifications system to augment the watchlist. There's not much information at the moment, because we're still working out the scope and the concepts, but if you're interested in further updates you can sign up here.

In addition, we'll be holding an office hours session at 21:00 UTC on Wednesday, 14 November in #wikimedia-office - hope to see you all there :). I appreciate it's an annoying time for non-Europeans: if you're interested in chatting about the project but can't make it, give me a shout and I can set up another session if there's enough interest in one particular timezone or a skype call if there isn't. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 11:21, 10 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

GOCE November 2012 copy edit drive update edit

Guild of Copy Editors November 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter
 

  • Participation: Out of 31 people signed up for this drive so far, 22 have copy-edited at least one article. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, every bit helps; if you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Join us!
  • Progress report: We're on track to meet our targets for the drive. We have reduced our target group of articles—November and December 2011—by over 50%, and 34 of the the 56 requests made in September and October this year have already been fulfilled. However, the rate of tagging for copy edit has increased, and this month we are just keeping the size of the backlog stable. So, all you copy editors, please do come along and help us!
  • The September 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest was won by Baffle gab1978 for his copy edit of Expulsion of the Acadians. Runner up was Gareth Griffith-Jones for his edit of I Could Fall in Love. Congratulations to both.
  • The October 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is in the discussion and voting stage until midnight November 30 (UTC). You don't have to make a submission to vote!
  • November 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is in the submissions stage until midnight November 30 (UTC), when discussion and voting begin.
  • Seasonal oversight: We had a slight fall from grace in the title of our last newletter, which mentioned the season in the northern hemisphere and thus got it wrong for the southern. Fortunately an observant GOCE member was ready to spring into action to advise us. Thanks! In future we'll stay meteorologically neutral.
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WikiProject Wikify: November Newsletter and December Drive edit

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GOCE November drive wrap-up edit

Guild of Copy Editors November 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up
 

Participation: Thanks to all who participated! Out of 38 people who signed up this drive, 33 copy-edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. All the barnstars have now been distributed.

Progress report: We achieved our primary goal of clearing November and December 2011 from the backlog. For the first time since the drives began, the backlog consists only of articles tagged in the current year. The total backlog at the end of the month was 2690 articles, down from 8323 when we started out over two years ago. We completed all 56 requests outstanding before November 2012 as well as eight of those made in November.

Copy Edit of the Month: Voting is now over for the October 2012 competition, and prizes have been issued. The November 2012 contest is closed for submissions and open for voting. The December 2012 contest is now open for submissions. Everyone is welcome to submit entries and to vote.

 

Coodinator election: The six-month term for our fourth tranche of Guild coordinators will expire at the end of December. Nominations are open for the fifth tranche of coordinators, who will serve from 1 January to 30 June 2013. For complete information, please have a look at the election page.

– Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest.

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Season's tidings! edit

 

To you and yours, Have a Merry ______ (fill in the blank) and Happy New Year! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 01:58, 22 December 2012 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. I hope you have a happy and festive holiday season too. --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 02:43, 22 December 2012 (UTC)Reply

The WikiProject: Good Articles Newsletter (December 2012) edit

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Lockheed XF-104 edit

Hello ! I'm contributor of the French Wikipedia and I'm translating the article Lockheed XF-104. I found contradictory informations in the part 3.2 "Crashes". The article mentiones "after accumulating over 1,000 flying hours" about the second aircraft. However, in the same paragraph, it's mentioned that both aircrafts amassed a total of only 250 flight hours (diff). Since it's you who have added this, could you verify these informations. Thanks. AviaWiki (talk) 18:14, 9 December 2012 (UTC)Reply

GOCE mid-December newsletter edit

End of Year Events from the Guild of Copy Editors
 

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in its events:

  • The December 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is currently in the submissions stage. Submit your best December copy edit there before the end of the month. Submissions end, and discussion and voting begin, on January 1 at 00:00 (UTC).
  • Voting is in progress for the November 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest. Everyone is welcome to vote, whether they have entered the contest or not.
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Coodinator election: Nominations are open for candidates to serve as GOCE coordinators from 1 January to 30 June 2013. Nominations close on December 15 at 23:59 UTC, after which voting will run until the end of December. For complete information, please have a look at the election page.

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Merry Christmas edit

  Merry Christmas
May your Christmas sparkle with moments of love, laughter and goodwill,

May the year ahead be full of contentment and joy,

May the good times and treasures of the present become the golden memories of tomorrow,

Merry Christmas To U & Ur Family.

Jivesh1205 (Talk) 07:25, 24 December 2012 (UTC)Reply

You are most welcome. Why would I forget you buddy? And woahhh, I did not notice that it's been exactly a year since the promotion of SL. Wow. How are you? Jivesh1205 (Talk) 08:45, 24 December 2012 (UTC)Reply

Airbus A-330 edit

Hi there. Any plans on taking the Airbus 330 article to WP:FAC? I'm sure it meets all the criteria. Plant's Strider (talk) 23:56, 26 December 2012 (UTC)Reply

WikiCup 2013 starting soon edit

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