User talk:12george1/Archive 8

Hypertension

Thanks for looking at hypertension and your careful reading of this article, much appreciated. I have made all the changes you suggest and addressed each comment by revision. Adh (talk) 20:59, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Sophiatown GA Review

The issues you raised in your review have now been addressed. What is the next step? Roger (talk) 12:44, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Hurricane Hernan 1996

Just browsing around and I came across your review for this article so I've made the edits you suggested in Talk:Hurricane_Hernan_(1996) Nwhit (talk) 20:11, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Happy Birthday (2012)

Wishing 12george1/Archive 8 a very happy birthday on behalf of the Birthday Committee! Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 00:02, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2012 March newsletter

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 (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:10, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

The Hunger Games

Hey, I noticed you nominated The Hunger Games for GA, and I'm glad someone has finally stepped up to the plate and done that :) What do you think about Mockingjay? It received a PR last summer and I believe everything is fixed. Glimmer721 ^talk 16:27, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Talk:Hurricane Odile (1984)/GA1

I hate to bug you, but I think I've addressed your concerns for Odile 84. Are you going to pass it, or at least reply to my replies? Thanks. YE ^{Pacific Hurricane} 00:25, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Cold wave of January 1977

The DYK project (nominate) 00:04, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of The Hunger Games

The article The Hunger Games you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:The Hunger Games for comments about the article. Well done! There is a backlog of articles waiting for review, why not help out and review a nominated article yourself? Tea with toast (話) 04:22, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

GAN

Hi George! I've finally gotten around to reviewing my hard copy of Tropical Storm Fran (1984). Would it be OK with you if I implemented my copyediting suggestions? If not, I can type them all out for your perusal. It's no big deal either way, and I'll post my major copyediting suggestions and other things the same way regardless. Keilana|^{Parlez ici} 18:54, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Just type the notes here: Talk:Tropical Storm Fran (1984)/GA1.--12george1 (talk) 18:58, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

All right, will do. I'll have those up in a little bit. :) Keilana|^{Parlez ici} 19:05, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2012 April newsletter

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 (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:01, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Marco

Hi George! Thanks so much for your replies. I'll look at them later tonight, when I'm not on an iPhone. Sound good? Keilana|^{Parlez ici} 18:54, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, I will wait till later--12george1 (talk) 18:58, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2012 May newsletter

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 (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:20, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Tropical Storm Beryl (2012)

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 08:02, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Hurricane Bud (2012)

The DYK project (nominate) 00:05, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

History of Atlantic hurricane warnings

I've responded to your round of comments. Most issues were fixed. Those that weren't changed were defended. Thegreatdr (talk) 15:27, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tropical Depression Nine (2001)

The article Tropical Depression Nine (2001) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Tropical Depression Nine (2001) for things which need to be addressed. Jonayo! ^{Selena 4 ever} 12:55, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Hurricane Ethel (1960)

The article Hurricane Ethel (1960) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Hurricane Ethel (1960) for things which need to be addressed. Jonayo! ^{Selena 4 ever} 12:44, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Tropical Storm Harvey (1999)

Hi, I have reviewed Tropical Storm Harvey (1999) and placed it on hold for up to seven days with some concerns. You can see my review here: Talk:Tropical Storm Harvey (1999)/GA1. Canadian Paul 21:52, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Is there going to be any progress made on this in the near future? Canadian Paul 18:27, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Tropical Storm Debby (2012)

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:02, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

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