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Thank you edit

Thank you for your notes at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-02-19/Featured content about Portal:Star Trek and Portal:Freedom of speech, most appreciated, — Cirt (talk) 01:16, 22 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

You're most welcome, — Cirt (talk) 09:27, 22 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

FYI edit

To continue getting deliveries of the Signpost you'll need to move your page into a talk namespace (User talk: would be most appropriate). Best, - Jarry1250 [Vacation needed] 14:48, 22 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

  • @Jarry1250: My Signpost delivery page is a user talk page. I think you need a vacation! --Pine 07:24, 23 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

POTD notification edit

 
POTD

Hi Pine,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:ESO Centaurus A LABOCA.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 17, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-03-17. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:58, 27 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

WikiCup 2014 February newsletter edit

And so ends the most competitive first round we have ever seen, with 38 points required to qualify for round 2. Last year, 19 points secured a place; before that, 11 (2012) or 8 (2011) were enough. This is both a blessing and a curse. While it shows the vigourous good health of the competition, it also means that we have already lost many worthy competitors. Our top three scorers were:

  1.   Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer whose high-quality scans of rare banknotes represent an unusual, interesting and valuable contribution to Wikipedia. Most of Godot's points this round have come from a large set of pictures used in Treasury Note (1890–91).
  2.   Adam Cuerden (submissions), a WikiCup veteran and a finalist last year, Adam is also a featured picture specialist, focusing on the restoration of historical images. This month's promotions have included a carefully restored set of artist William Russell Flint's work.
  3.   WikiRedactor (submissions), another WikiCup newcomer. WikiRedactor has claimed points for good article reviews and good articles relating to pop music, many of which were awarded bonus points. Articles include Sky Ferreira, Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus and "Wrecking Ball" (Miley Cyrus song).

Other competitors of note include:

After such a competitive first round, expect the second round to also be fiercely fought. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2, but please do not update your submission page until March (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

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Books & Bytes, Issue 4 edit

Books and Bytes

Volume 1, Issue 4, February 2014

 

News for February from your Wikipedia Library.

Donations drive: news on TWL's partnership efforts with publishers

Open Access: Feature from Ocaasi on the intersection of the library and the open access movement

American Library Association Midwinter Conference: TWL attended this year in Philadelphia

Royal Society Opens Access To Journals: The UK's venerable Royal Society will give the public (and Wikipedians) full access to two of their journal titles for two days on March 4th and 5th

Going Global: TWL starts work on pilot projects in other language Wikipedias

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Signpost discussion report edit

Hi. I haven't seen one of these lately so I thought I'd try to write one for the upcoming edition: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-03-05/Discussion report. Your thoughts? Also pinging The ed17. - tucoxn\talk 02:12, 4 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

@Tucoxn: thank you. There haven't been DRs because FC was seriously backlogged and we were short on people to work on it so I was working on those reports instead. You can be the lead writer for DR if you and The ed17 want. --Pine 05:14, 4 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for the offer. I would rather write this section less often than every week. I don't know if that would help. - tucoxn\talk 05:54, 4 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
That's fine, Tucoxn—we'll take all the help we can get. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 15:25, 4 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

FP candidates of Wells Cathedral edit

Thanks for your note. I had given up on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Wells Cathedral east end and didn't know you could renominate. I do have Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Wells Cathedral in the reflecting pool in the grounds of the Bishops Palace currently under consideration.— Rod talk 07:59, 5 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

POTD notification edit

 
POTD

Hi Pine,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:John Jay (Gilbert Stuart portrait).jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 24, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-03-24. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:06, 7 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

Scotch pine edit

The pic "Looking up at the branches of a Pinus sylvestris tree" on your user page is a very fine photo. You could nominate it as an FP, since it appears at Scots pine (Scotch pine is the U.S. version of the name, in my experience). Sca (talk) 15:21, 7 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

@Sca: Thanks Sca. I have nominated it for FP before but it failed Criterion 7. I have added an English caption but the technical quality of the photo is not great. A photo of the same subject with better technical quality would be a good FPC. --Pine 07:34, 8 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

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Arbitration request motion passed edit

An Arbitration Clarification request motion passed. You contributed to the discussion (or are on the committee or a clerk)

The motion reads as follows:

  • By way of clarification, the formal warning issued by Kevin Gorman was out of process and therefore has no effect. The provisions of WP:BLPBAN will be reviewed by the Arbitration Committee and where necessary updated.

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Signpost Featured Content edit

Pine, you're removing jokes from the APRIL FOOLS issue. Don't make the captions more direct - the whole thing needs to be silly. Adam Cuerden (talk) 06:06, 30 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

  • Adam Cuerden I'm ok with silly for this issue, but at least the caption should reference that the picture is an FP. Can you make a reference to impressionism and the artist or the article? --Pine 06:10, 30 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
    • Is that really necessary? We don't even label all side images as FPs normal weeks, only articles and lists. Adam Cuerden (talk) 06:19, 30 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
      • Adam Cuerden I think linking the word "art" to the article would be good. --Pine 06:24, 30 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
        • Good idea! Adam Cuerden (talk) 11:23, 30 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
          • Adam Cuerden I like what you're doing with the article. I took a similar approach to the FAs where I could find opportunities. --Pine 07:58, 31 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
            • Thanks! Just need to get the image descriptions done. That's going to be difficult. I have one more story idea, but it's not very good. Adam Cuerden (talk) 10:56, 31 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

WikiCup 2014 March newsletter edit

A quick update as we are half way through round two of this year's competition. WikiCup newcomer   Godot13 (submissions) (Pool E) leads, having produced a massive set of featured pictures for Silver certificate (United States), an article also brought to featured list status. Former finalist   Adam Cuerden (submissions) (Pool G) is in second, which he owes mostly to his work with historical images, including a number of images from Urania's Mirror, an article also brought to good status. 2010 champion (Pool C) is third overall, thanks to contributions relating to naval history, including the newly featured Japanese battleship Nagato.   Cliftonian (submissions), who currently leads Pool A and is sixth overall, takes the title for the highest scoring individual article of the competition so far, with the top importance featured article Ian Smith.

With 26 people having already scored over 100 points, it is likely that well over 100 points will be needed to secure a place in round 3. Recent years have required 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) and 100 (2010). Remember that only 64 will progress to round 3 at the end of April. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page; if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. 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 help keep down 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 (talkemail), The ed17 (talkemail) and Miyagawa (talkemail) 22:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

GOCE March drive wrapup edit

Guild of Copy Editors March 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up newsletter
 

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Progress report: Articles tagged during the target months of December 2012 and January 2013 were reduced from 177 to 33, and the overall backlog was reduced by 13 articles. The total backlog was 2,902 articles at the end of March. On the Requests page during March, 26 copy edit requests were completed, all requests from January 2014 were completed, and the length of the queue was reduced by 11 articles.

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Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted
Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Jupiter diagram.svg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 06:03, 3 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

April 1 edit

Reverted you. I presume you're not familiar with Baby Got Back (a.k.a. I Like Big Butts) by Sir Mixalot. You basically removed the entire point of the caption, by turning a direct parody of a well-known song into... um... I don't think there was actually a joke after that, honestly. Still, if you missed it, others will - I've linked to the song. Adam Cuerden (talk) 10:30, 3 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

Adam Cuerden OK, this isn't going in the direction of being less likely to offend readers, so I took you up on the suggestion to make a better joke. I wrote a caption similar to how I summarized some of the FAs with selective use of facts. Let me know what you think. --Pine 18:55, 3 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
I like the description - and have grabbed it - but I don't see what on earth's offensive about parodying one of the most enduringly popular songs of the early 90s. I just don't see how it could offend anyone, or, at least, anyone that wouldn't be offended by the picture on its own. Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:25, 3 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
If you can explain how it's offensive, I'd be willing to compromise, but, I just can't see a problem... Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:27, 3 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
Adam Cuerden the article Baby Got Back notes that at "the time of its original release, the song caused controversy with its outspoken and blatantly sexual lyrics about women" although the song was popular anyway. I think the Signpost should stay away from any unnecessary references to that song, and I think the alternative captions I proposed are in the spirit of April Fool's without being offensive. --Pine 07:33, 5 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
That time was nearly 25 years ago. Society moved on. Adam Cuerden (talk) 01:39, 6 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
I'm going to ask for a third opinion. Risker can you tell us what you think? Thanks, --Pine 06:49, 6 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

- I'm not Risker, but I am a third opinion. When a children's film like Shrek is comfortable parodying the song, I question just how prurient we must be. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:01, 6 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

I've roughed in the 9th's FC. Adam Cuerden (talk) 04:09, 7 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

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POTD notification edit

 
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Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Skylab and Earth Limb - GPN-2000-001055.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on April 27, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-04-27. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:05, 12 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

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Books & Bytes - Issue 5 edit

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Over to you. I've done all the documentation, rearranged pictures (I try to avoid very tall ones, as they break the formatting), did the descriptions for the new picture, list, and topic, and we just need some descriptions of the FAs to finish it up. It looks good at both 800px and 1400px wide - pictures go slightly too low at 1400, but that'll be fixed when the additional descriptions are added. Didn't put up a Sega image, as I'm pretty sure we just had one in a recent FC. Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:09, 21 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

Rich Farmbrough case clarified edit

The arbitration clarification request, either involving you, or in which you participated (Rich Farmbrough) has resulted in a clarification motion by the Arbitration Committee

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Arbitration committee decision regarding Amendment request: Rich Farmbrough edit

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April blitz wrap-up and May copyediting drive invitation edit

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My Wiki* name edit

Hi there - nice to meet you. Regards, Ariconte (talk) 01:18, 24 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

I suspect at least half the entries aren't there yet, but I've started it. Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:31, 24 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

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Ping edit

Skype-type. Tony (talk) 08:13, 2 May 2014 (UTC)Reply

WikiCup 2014 April newsletter edit

Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain. Pool G's   Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Round 2's highest scorer, with a large number of featured picture credits. In March/April, he restored star charts from Urania's Mirror, lithographs of various warships (such as SMS Gefion) and assorted other historical media. Second overall was Pool E's   Godot13 (submissions), whose featured list Silver certificate (United States) contains dozens of scans of banknotes recently promoted to featured picture status. Third was Pool G's   ChrisGualtieri (submissions) who has produced a large number of good articles, many, including Falkner Island, on Connecticut-related topics. Other successful participants included   Cliftonian (submissions), who saw three articles (including the top-importance Ian Smith) through featured article candidacies, and   Caponer (submissions), who saw three lists (including the beautifully-illustrated list of plantations in West Virginia) through featured list candidacies. High-importance good articles promoted this round include narwhal from   Reid,iain james (submissions), tiger from   Cwmhiraeth (submissions) and The Lion King from   Igordebraga (submissions). We also saw our first featured topic points of the competition, awarded to   Czar (submissions) and   Red Phoenix (submissions) for their work on the Sega Genesis topic. No points have been claimed so far for good topics or featured portals.

192 was our lowest qualifying score, again showing that this WikiCup is the most competitive ever. In previous years, 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) or 100 (2010) secured a place in Round 3. Pool H was the strongest performer, with all but one of its members advancing, while only the two highest scorers in Pools G and F advanced. At the end of June, 16 users will advance into the semi-finals. 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 help keep down 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 (talkemail), The ed17 (talkemail) and Miyagawa (talkemail) 17:57, 4 May 2014 (UTC)Reply

HELP! edit

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-05-07/Featured content is only half-done (the setup half) and we're to publish tomorrow... Adam Cuerden (talk) 00:41, 7 May 2014 (UTC)Reply

Thank you so much! Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:34, 9 May 2014 (UTC)Reply

POTD notification edit

 
POTD

Hi Pine,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Starburst in NGC 4449 (captured by the Hubble Space Telescope).jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 27, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-05-27. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:14, 8 May 2014 (UTC)Reply

Wil Wheaton photo discussion edit

Hi. Can you offer your opinion in the consensus subthread of this discussion? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 18:18, 9 May 2014 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for your participation and your explanation for not expressing opinion. It's been a few days now. In your opinion, is there now a consensus for a photo? Thanks again. Nightscream (talk) 01:51, 14 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
Nightscream Thanks for your ping. I have closed the discussion. --Pine 07:57, 15 May 2014 (UTC)Reply

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