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WikiCup 2013 June newsletter

We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.

Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note. Figureskatingfan (submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition: Ealdgyth (submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article Battle of Hastings. Good articles James Chadwick and Stanislaw Ulam netted Hawkeye7 (submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to Piotrus (submissions) for each of Władysław Sikorski and Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example, Casliber (submissions) and Sasata (submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on Boletus luridus.

A rules reminder: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on the 29/30 June, which may be claimed in this round. 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. We are currently seeing concern about the amount of time people have to wait for reviews, especially at GAC- 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) 09:49, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Amusement Park Quarter 3, 2013 Newsletter

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Arbcom instructions

Don't edit others' comments. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 21:53, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

I was instructed by the committee via the clerks mailing list to collapse it in the first place. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 22:00, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

What are you a clerk despite taking part in the discussion?

How did you receive those instructions? Kiefer.Wolfowitz 22:11, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks

Thanks for protecting Sharknado. I didn't know that there was an option for pending-change protection or else I would have requested that. SL93 (talk) 12:49, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2013 July newsletter

We're halfway through this year's penultimate round, and the competition is moving along well. Pool A's Sasata (submissions) currently leads overall, while Pool B's Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) is second. Both leaders are WikiCup veterans, and both have already scored over 600 points this month. If the round were to end today, Miyagawa (submissions), with 274 points, would be the lowest-scoring participant to make it through. This indicates that participants will need a score comparable to last year's (573, the highest ever) to qualify for the final. The high scores this year are a testament both to the quality of participants and to the increased focus on significant content (eligible for bonus points) in this year's competition. So far this round, both Sasata and Cwmhiraeth (submissions) have made up over half of their score through bonus points, with, for example, high importance FA koala earning Sasata a total of 440 points (from a multiplier of 4.4) and high-importance GA sea earning Cwmhiraeth a total of 216 points (from a multiplier of 7.2). Other articles on important topics submitted this round include a featured article on the Norman conquest of England by Ealdgyth (submissions), and good articles on Nobel laureate in literature Henryk Sienkiewicz, Nobel laureate in physics Hans Bethe, and the noted Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū. These articles are by Piotrus (submissions), Hawkeye7 (submissions) and Sturmvogel_66 respectively.

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DYK for K-232 (Kansas highway)

The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of K-232 (Kansas highway)

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ACC

Requested account creation interface account. [1] Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 10:02, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of K-232 (Kansas highway)

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The Center Line: Summer 2013

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May 18-21 outbreak

Could you actually withdraw that? The article actually isn't finished yet :) Cyclonebiskit (talk) 18:37, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

No problem. =) If thst's not done yet I can't wait to see the final product! Straight to FA? Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 19:47, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

It'll be an interesting run at FAC...this article will be a monster when it's done. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 20:07, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

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Page protection

Just wondering, was that your idea or a result of me applying for the protection? It was awful fast if it came from my request. United States Man (talk) 20:39, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

I saw the RFPP request on my watchlist. I actually (surprisingly) didn't have the article watchlisted until I protected it just now. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 20:41, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Yes, the watchlist makes sense. Thanks for the quick protection. United States Man (talk) 20:55, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Minecraft

I noticed you recently dropped Minecraft's protection to PC1. In the first 6 hours, it's been vandalized 5 times, all by new or unregistered users. Can you restore it back to semi? Thanks, Jackmcbarn (talk) 22:54, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

 Done. Could've guessed that would happen, but I decided to give it the benefit of the doubt. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 23:03, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

was silly of me to request it. the article is just too popular... although, this does make me think that perhaps it should be semi'd indefinitely. every time it's been released from semiprotection, it has needed to be re-protected quickly. -- Aunva6^{talk - contribs} 23:46, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

I wouldn't quite jump there just yet, although maybe if it still hasn't calmed down (good luck) after the end of this protection. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 23:50, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

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) 05:16, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of K-284 (Kansas highway)

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Moore tornado

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:May 20, 2013 Moore, Oklahoma tornado.JPG, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Armbrust The Homunculus 09:55, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of K-284 (Kansas highway)

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Your GA nomination of K-360 (Kansas highway)

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Your GA nomination of K-360 (Kansas highway)

The article K-360 (Kansas highway) 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 7 days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:K-360 (Kansas highway) for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by GA bot, on behalf of TCN7JM -- TCN7JM (talk) 19:36, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Tornado damage (2)

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Protection

Hi Ks0stm, could you weigh in here? Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection#Current_requests_for_unprotection. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 03:47, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Replied. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 03:25, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Ebionites 3 arbitration case opened

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William Blake Editathon at KSU

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WikiCup 2013 September newsletter

In 30 days, we will know the identity of our 2013 WikiCup champion. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) currently leads; if that lead is held, she will become the first person to have won the WikiCup twice. Sasata (submissions), Hawkeye7 (submissions)—who has never participated in the competition before—and Casliber (submissions) follow. The majority of points in this round have come from a mix of good articles and bonus points. This final round is seeing contributions to a number of highly important topics; recent submissions include Phoenix (constellation) (FA by Casliber), Ernest Lawrence (GA by Hawkeye7), Pinniped, and red fox (both GAs by Sasata).

The did you know (DYK) eligibility criteria have recently changed, meaning that newly passed good articles are accepted as "new" for did you know purposes. However, in the interests of not changing the WikiCup rules mid-competition, please note that only articles eligible for DYK under the old system (that is, newly created articles or 5x expansions) will be eligible for points in this year's WikiCup. We do, however, have time to discuss how this new system will work for next year's competition; a discussion will be opened in due course. On that note, thoughts are welcome on changes you'd like to see for next year. What worked? What didn't work? What would you like to see more of? What would you like to see less of? All Wikipedians, new or old, are also warmly invited to sign up for the 2014 WikiCup.

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) 22:40, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Two enthusiastic admins both protecting Ethics

Hi Ks0stm. I didn't change your Pending Changes setting on Ethics on purpose — I think we must have been fiddling with the protection panel simultaneously, see the timestamps. My semi is apparently what's currently in force. Please change it if you like, any way you like. Bishonen | talk 20:37, 2 October 2013 (UTC).

I'll just stick the pending changes back on there for the one month in addition to your short semi-protection. Should work fine that way. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 20:38, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

I-470 photos

See commons:Category:Kansas Turnpike. I don't have a whole lot I-470 related, but there's at least a few photos (including the terminus). One of those and something from free I-470 would probably be good for balance, if you can scrounge one up. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 17:36, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

I'm sure I can get a picture of the free section next time I'm in Topeka (when I'm there I frequently travel between Wanamaker and I-70), but at this point that won't be until December. I'll have a look through the category and see if any of the pictures of the turnpike portion are suitable and I'll also consider trying to get a photo of the turnpike portion when I'm next in Topeka. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 19:52, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

Manning sanctions in Sexology?

Hi, Ks0stm,
I was looking at the Sexology case and found sanctions for Editors involved in the Manning case to be listed here Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Sexology#Sanctions. While both topics can involve gender, none of the parties are the same and so I don't see what the connection is. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:20, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi Liz...sorry for the lateness of the reply; I've been away this weekend. The reason users involved in the Manning dispute can be listed under the Sexology case is Sexology case remedy 4.1, which authorizes standard discretionary sanctions in part for all articles related to transgender issues; this includes the Manning article and related articles. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 19:47, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for satisfying my curiosity, Ks0stm. I think I have to read up on discretionary sanctions to educate myself. I though the ARBCOM remedies could only be applied to involved parties but I see that is an incorrect understanding. Thanks again! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:27, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

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Suppress diff

Hey, hope you don't mind me reaching directly out to you, but I'm going to say this diff really needs to be suppressed. Thanks for the help! — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:28, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

No problem...Revdel'd. It doesn't quite fit with the criteria for oversight in my opinion and revdel should suffice. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 18:32, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Works for me, but to what degree then would oversight be needed? I suppose what I read was not exactly a direct threat, but the context in which the subject was placed I felt was a bit aggressive. What comes to mind for me is what has happened to a few poorly judged individuals on Twitter in the past. What are your thoughts? — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:45, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

To me it qualified as RD3 and RD2, however I did not feel that it rose to the level of the oversight criteria. To me, the line would have been crossed had the edit also included defamation/libel BLP issues, but to me it fell short of that standard. As for the threat, I'm not convinced that that requires oversight, but if you feel that it does I would be happy to start a discussion on the oversight mailing list if you want. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 19:57, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

October 2013 Upper Midwest tornado

I saw your endorsement of the deletion and have considered moving the article to October 3-5, 2013 tornado outbreak, which is a plausible redirect for a merge, which seems likely at this point. What do you think? TornadoLGS (talk) 20:23, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Haha I just said as much on the talk page. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 20:24, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

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Never mind. I had gotten Beeblebrox to suppress them. Jianhui67 ^{talk★contribs} 16:54, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

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I noticed that NWS Norman was on your to-do list, so I thought I might point out that the page has been created, and can be accessed here: National Weather Service Norman, Oklahoma Dustin talk 17:02, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

For the time being, the page has been moved here, if you want to participate. I just brought it up because it was on your to-do list! Page: User:Charmlet/National Weather Service Norman, Oklahoma — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dustin V. S. (talk • contribs) 22:26, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

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Since you participated in the discussion here, I though you may be interested in this discussion. United States Man (talk) 21:36, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

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Hello! A week ago you blocked this user for 60 hours, then removed a nonsensical rant from their talk page. They have now posted the same nonsensical rant on their talk page again. Looking at their history, they have been here since January and that is all they have EVER done: posted capital-letter incoherent rants, in Spanish or Spanglish, about Queen Sardigna and Queen Mary and Jesus Denazaret. I wondered if you might consider a permanent block since the account has never been used for constructive purposes. Thanks for taking a look. --MelanieN (talk) 19:47, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Never mind! I see that they did it again, after the block expired, and got blocked again, this time for 2 weeks. If they do it again I will consider going to AN/I and asking for a permanent ban. --MelanieN (talk) 17:54, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

And they did it again, on their talk page! AN/I here we come. --MelanieN (talk) 17:56, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

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Hi friend

You might suggest a withdrawal to the candidate, I don't think the votes are there this time and it's best not to let things get hurtful. —Best, —Tim /// Carrite (talk) 16:46, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

When I asked him he said he wished for it to continue for a while longer. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 01:57, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Steve. This user's unblock request looks reasonable to me; if you're amenable, I'd be happy to lift the block. Let me know what you think, here, there or on my talk. Cheers, Yunshui 雲‍水 08:50, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Do as you see fit. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 05:16, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, will do. Yunshui 雲‍水 11:18, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

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The WikiCup is over for another year! Our champion, for the second year running, is Cwmhiraeth (submissions). Our final nine were as follows:

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Could you be so kind as to unprotect pancake? Off limits for 9 months is long enough. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.250.240.82 (talk) 00:34, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

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re: ArbCom questions

If you could still answer them, I'd appreciate it. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:12, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

I'm sorry for the long delay, but today is the first day I've had enough time to sit down and answer the questions in the last week, what with the Thanksgiving holiday and a meteorology exam. I will be answering them as soon as I get done writing this, so you can expect answers within about 45 minutes of this message. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 17:24, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

At first I feared you were held up by some horribly bizarre medical procedure... then I re-read, and found you were speaking of a meteorology quiz.  :-)   — 74.192.84.101 (talk) 08:49, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

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Kansas

Can you extend protection time of this article? --George Ho (talk) 03:13, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

I'm a bit tardy doing so, but I have now extended the protection (pc1) for another six months. If vandalism continues after that protection expires I'll put it under indefinite pending changes. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 15:33, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

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