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DYK for Maillezais Cathedral

Alex Shih^Talk 02:02, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Proposal

I knew what I was commenting on, but let me be a bit more clear: I think DYK is a good reward for creating new content for the encyclopedia. GA just seems arbitrary. Taylor Trescott - ^{my talk} + _{my edits} 02:57, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Art in Paris

The DYK project (nominate) 12:18, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Recruitment Centre

I just wanted to remind you that dead refs are OK in Good articles as long as they are cited properly. I sometimes forget aswell but the nominator usually reminds me. :P --Dom497 (talk) 12:25, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks - my concern here was more about lack of verifiability but I shall bear it in mind.--Gilderien Chat|List of good deeds 04:52, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

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DYK for Diego García de Moguer

Alex Shih^Talk 12:03, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Please comment on Georgia (country) to Georgia move suggestion

Please comment here. Thanks. georgianJORJADZE 00:11, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

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2012 pga tour q school graduates

I dont get why you changed my post on the 2012 pga tour q school graduating class results in 2013. If you would have bothered to have read my stuff everything was factual and verifiable.

It was constructive and factual so get your facts right glidden. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.27.131.215 (talk) 01:36, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

It was not supported by any references, and had a distinctly negative tone. Negative comment on living persons must be sourced per WP:BLP.--Gilderien Chat|List of good deeds 01:40, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 08:25, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mount Elbert

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Interview request: Your interactions with new editors

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WikiCup 2013 August newsletter

This year's final is upon us. Our final eight, in order of last round's score, are:

1. Hawkeye7 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer who has contributed on topics of military history and physics, including a number of high-importance topics. Good articles have made up the bulk of his points, but he has also scored a great deal of bonus points. He has the second highest score overall so far, with more than 3000 points accumulated.
2. Casliber (submissions), another WikiCup veteran who reached the finals in 2012, 2011 and 2010. He writes on a variety of topics including botany, mycology and astronomy, and has claimed the highest or joint highest number of featured articles every round so far this year. He has the third highest score overall, with just under 3000 points accumulated.
3. Cwmhiraeth (submissions), 2012 WikiCup champion, who writes mostly on marine biology. She has also contributed to high-importance topics, seeing huge numbers of bonus points for high-importance featured and good articles. Previous rounds have seen her scoring the most bonus points, with scoring spread across did you knows, good articles and featured articles.
4. Sasata (submissions), a WikiCup veteran who finished in second place in 2012, and competed as early as 2009. He writes articles on biology, especially mycology, and has scored highly for a number of collaborations at featured article candidates.
5. Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), the winner of the 2010 competition. His contributions mostly concern Naval history, and he has scored a very large number of points for good articles and good article reviews in every round. He is the highest scorer overall this year, with over 3500 points in total.
6. Ealdgyth (submissions), who is competing in the WikiCup for the second time, though this will be her first time in the final. A regular at FAC, she is mostly interested in British medieval history, and has scored very highly for some top-importance featured articles on the topic.
7. Miyagawa (submissions), a finalist in 2012 and 2011. He writes on a broad variety of topics, with many of this year's points coming from good articles about Star Trek. Good articles make up the bulk of his points, and he had the most good articles back in round 2; he was also the highest scorer for DYK in rounds 1 and 2.
8. Adam Cuerden (submissions) has previously been involved with the WikiCup, but hasn't participated for a number of years. He scores mostly from restoration work leading to featured picture credits, but has also done some article writing and reviewing.

We say goodbye to eight great participants who did not qualify for the final: Piotrus (submissions), Figureskatingfan (submissions), ThaddeusB (submissions), Dana boomer (submissions), Status (submissions), Ed! (submissions), 12george1 (submissions), Calvin999 (submissions). Having made it to this stage is still an excellent achievement, and you can leave with your heads held high. We hope to see you all again next year. Signups are now open for the 2014 WikiCup, which will begin on 1 January. All Wikipedians, whatever their interest or level of experience, are warmly invited to participate in next year's competition.

This last month has seen some incredible contributions; for instance, Cwmhiraeth's Starfish and Ealdgyth's Battle of Hastings—two highly important, highly viewed pages—made it to featured article status. It would be all too easy to focus solely on these stunning achievements at the expense of those participants working in lower-scoring areas, when in fact all WikiCup participants are doing excellent work. A mention of everything done is impossible, but here are a few: Last round saw the completion of several good topics (on the 1958, 1959 and 1962 Atlantic hurricane seasons) to which 12george1 had contributed. Calvin999 saw "S&M" (song), on which he has been working for several years, through to featured article status on its tenth try. Figureskatingfan continued towards her goal of a broad featured/good topic on Maya Angelou, with two featured and four good articles. ThaddeusB contributed significantly to over 20 articles which appeared on the main page's "in the news" section. Adam Cuerden continued to restore a large number of historical images, resulting in over a dozen FP credits this round alone. The WikiCup is not just about top-importance featured articles, and the work of all of these users is worthy of commendation.

Finally, the usual notices: If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 05:57, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Million Award

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		For your contributions to bring Paris (estimated annual readership: 3,134,000) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers. -- Khazar2 (talk) 03:30, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

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This editor won the Million Award for bringing Paris to Good Article status.

If I've made any error in this listing, please don't hesitate to correct it; if for any reason you don't feel you deserve it, please don't hesitate to remove it; if you know of any other editor who merits one of these awards, please don't hesitate to give it; if you yourself deserve another award from any of the three tiers, please don't hesitate to take it! -- Khazar2 (talk) 03:30, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Sorry for my slow response, but I wouldn't mind at all if you awarded those--in fact, it'd be a big help! Cheers, -- Khazar2 (talk) 13:00, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

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Set building for DYK

You should probably read Wikipedia:Did you know/Supplementary guidelines#Rules of thumb for preparing updates. While some of the information there is dated (we are currently using 6 hooks per set instead of 8), many of the recommendations would be helpful in your efforts to produce balanced and varied sets. --Allen3 ^talk 19:23, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Is this in response to my proposal or my recent prep building, and if the latter is there anything improper about the way I have built them? I am aware of the supplementaty guidelines and strive to follow the spirit in set building.--Gilderien Chat|What I've done 19:26, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

The last two sets you have built have both had multiple hooks dealing with species of fungus. Additionally, both sets have contained an additional hook dealing with a species of animal. Consistently dedicating half of your updates to species articles does not appear to follow with recommendation to use a varied set of topics. --Allen3 ^talk 19:42, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Ok, well thank you for raising your concerns. I was careful not to exceed the stated limit of 50%, but unfortunately due to the WikiCup there is a pre-ponderance of species articles, particularly of fungi - I just counted up to half way on the noms page and found 16 approved species articles, mostly by Sasata, and that was after I removed 6 in my prep sets. At the last update we had 61 approved hooks, so with at least 22 that is nearly 40% of available articles being species-orientated.--Gilderien Talk|List of good deeds 20:01, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) My view has always been that if we have an excess of something like fungi, they just need to wait longer: parceling them out one at a time takes less than a week, after all. US-based or bio hooks can get to 50% in a set, but they're the only ones given that specific permission; other than those two categories, it's rare that something should get even two slots: two UK occasionally, or two sports if there's a real glut of those (and those selected are very different from each other). I'd consider two species to be a ceiling for any set, unless we were had only half a dozen approved hooks. If 40% of available articles are species-oriented, then 60% are not. BlueMoonset (talk) 21:26, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

FYI, the surge of species articles is due primarily to the final round of Wikipedia:WikiCup starting today. DYK nominations should return to a more normal mix in a week or so and, as BlueMoonset indicates, we can work off the backlog in about another week to ten days without changing our normal processes and procedures. It is only when we have surges that are large and prolonged (e.g. athlete biographies and event articles from the 2012 Summer Olympic) that DYK has historically changed the normal mix of hooks within promoted sets. --Allen3 ^talk 22:48, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 00:06, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Good Article Medal of Merit / The DYK Medal
		Thank you for your transformative RFC that gets WP:GA some exposure on the main page through its WP:DYK portal.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 01:04, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Tip of the hat

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	A tip of the hat for your extreme perseverance in pursuing the Good Article RfC against the extreme resistance to change that occurs here from time to time. Another hat tip for your positive good nature in the face of wikilawyering and filibustering in the months leading up to this. The much unloved Wikipedia reader will be better served by this. First Light (talk) 01:16, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

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Re:Singpost

Yes, thank you very much. I am already working in my responses. Again, thank oyu very much :D Miss Bono ^[zootalk] 19:55, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

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who exactly are you ?

I am a novice at best with all this & computers in general. Explain70.192.204.79 (talk) 17:04, 17 September 2013 (UTC) what your message means & why I should pay you any regard ?

This edit was vandalism. I'm guessing you didn't make it but share an ip address, so feel free to disregard it.--Gilderien Chat|List of good deeds 17:49, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

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