Muboshgu

WikiCup 2023 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

• Epicgenius, with 2173 points topping the scores, gained mainly from a featured article, 38 good articles and 9 DYKs. He was followed by
• Sammi Brie, with 1575 points, gained mainly from a featured article, 28 good articles and 50 good article reviews. Close behind was
• Thebiguglyalien, with 1535 points mainly gained from a featured article, 15 good articles, 26 good article reviews and lots of bonus points.

Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them and within 24 hours of the end of the final. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

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Holiday Greetings

Peace is a state of balance and understanding in yourself and between others, where respect is gained by the acceptance of differences, tolerance persists, conflicts are resolved through dialog, people's rights are respected and their voices are heard, and everyone is at their highest point of serenity without social tension. Happy Holidays to you and yours. Always a pleasure to see your work. ―Buster7 ☎

Conservative Partnership Institute

I've got higher priorities, but see [1] Surely this should include some of the above? Eg isn't it called far-right? Controversies? I don't have time or energy and really need to work on User:Doug Weller/Pinxton Castle but keep getting distracted! Not sure how much time I have left, may know better when I get my latest scan results today. Doug Weller talk 11:22, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Doug Weller, led by Mark Meadows? Notable figures include Marjorie and Boebert? If the shoe fits... Go enjoy your castle. – Muboshgu (talk) 15:31, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm out of my free NYT reads for the month: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/us/politics/trump-conservative-partnership-institute.html – Muboshgu (talk) 15:33, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

@Muboshgu I subscribe. I could email you. Doug Weller talk 15:43, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Please do! – Muboshgu (talk) 15:44, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Aside regarding your query at VPT

Since you're already working on this, you might also sort out the older contribs on the /64 Special:Contributions/2601:85:C100:2770:51F5:457E:4CD9:606B/64 which look to be the same person. Izno (talk) 22:08, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Bill McNulty

On 28 May 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Bill McNulty, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when the Oakland Athletics promoted Bill McNulty to the major leagues, they needed forest rangers to find him? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bill McNulty. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Bill McNulty), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 00:03, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Bill Walton

On 28 May 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Bill Walton, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Black Kite (talk) 12:49, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Grayson Murray

On 29 May 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Grayson Murray, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 11:56, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Wouldn’t be the first time won’t be the last

I don’t care and it wasn’t vandalism when it’s the truth whether you believe it or not. 217.180.232.52 (talk) 19:32, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

It's not vandalism, but it is disruptive. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:39, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

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Vandal

Permanently ban this piece of shit please: 2601:85:C100:2770:65BB:7459:F41F:FAA5 (talk · contribs · WHOIS). This is getting tiring every few months Yankees10 00:53, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

I can't permanently ban an IP address, but I did just block the range for a month. – Muboshgu (talk) 01:05, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks man I appreciate it.-- Yankees10 01:13, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

Jorge López (baseball)

I just wanted to let you know that Jorge Lopez was designated for assignment after he got ejected from the Mets game vs dodgers. 69.200.249.26 (talk) 01:09, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

He was ejected yesterday and DFA'd today, I know this. – Muboshgu (talk) 01:10, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Marian Robinson

On 2 June 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Marian Robinson, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. —Bagumba (talk) 19:34, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Possible typo in your user page

Hi there, I noticed while reading your user page that there is the lack of the word, "ago" after one of the (presumably) generated date strings. Specifically, after the dates of your first page creation.

"Hello. I am Muboshgu, an administrator on Wikipedia. I created my account on November 22, 2005, 18 years, 193 days ago, made my first edit and first page creation on March 17, 2007, 17 years, 77 days (ago), and became an administrator on December 29, 2017, 6 years, 156 days ago." Infectedfreckle (talk) 02:25, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Whaddyaknow, you are right. Thanks for pointing that out! – Muboshgu (talk) 15:46, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

You're welcome! Thanks for all of your work on one of my favorite websites. Infectedfreckle (talk) 02:50, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Further protect or fix?

I suppose that Manny Ramirez, Jake Westbrook, 1924 World Series, 1997 World Series, and a few other pages will soon be extended-confirmed (i.e. 30 days, 500 edits) protected. If you think that would be a good thing, I guess you could do it yourself right now or request it, since it will happen soon enough anyway. If you're not so sure, you could take a look at the recent edits and restore whatever you deem to be an improvement, going only by actual content, to which reverters have given no consideration whatsoever. By doing that, you would not only improve the articles, but also likely keep them open to edits by somewhat new users.

I really regret that it has gotten to this point. I figured that people would restore clearly good edits and take a look at others, which has sometimes happened, but a clear mistake has been restored 25 times at Mark Geragos, and flawed versions of other pages also remain in place, some with extended-confirmed protection.

Ironically, this all came about in part because things are not always carefully checked, as the circumstances surrounding the Porter and Jick letter illustrate. This caused me a lot of frustration, especially when something I tried to bring about got screwed up. It was not a point-of-view issue, but rather a mix-up between subtopics and a few other confusing statements. This isn't relevant to the aforementioned articles, even the Porter and Jick one, but understanding this, maybe you won't feel like you "should probably leave the mistakes as they are", as you said after being confronted about this earlier. 220.90.95.129 (talk) 18:47, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

This is pretty clearly Belteshazzar. Leijurv (talk) 18:50, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Yes, yes it is. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:57, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

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• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

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• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

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