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Nomination of Harpalus subtruncatus for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Harpalus subtruncatus is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harpalus subtruncatus until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. — O Fortuna semper crescis, aut decrescis 18:38, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:Beetle tasks
Template:Beetle tasks has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 04:30, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
The Signpost: 9 June 2017
- From the editors: Signpost status: On reserve power, help wanted!
- News and notes: Global Elections
- Arbitration report: Cases closed in the Pacific and with Magioladitis
- Featured content: Three months in the land of the featured
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The Signpost: 23 June 2017
- News and notes: Departments reorganized at Wikimedia Foundation, and a month without new RfAs (so far)
- In the media: Kalanick's nipples; Episode #138 of Drama on the Hill
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WikiCup 2017 July newsletter
The third round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 288 points being required to qualify for round 4. It was a hotly competitive round with all but four of the contestants exceeding the 106 points that was necessary to proceed to round 4 last year. Coemgenus and Freikorp tied on 288, and both have been allowed to proceed, so round 4 now has one pool of eight competitors and one of nine.
Round 3 saw the achievement of a 26-topic Featured topic by MPJ-DK as well as 5 featured lists and 13 featured articles. PanagiotisZois and SounderBruce achieved their first ever featured articles. Carbrera led the GA score with 10, Tachs achieved 17 DYKs and MBlaze Lightning 10 In the news items. There were 167 DYKs, 93 GARs and 82 GAs overall, this last figure being higher than the number of GAs in round 2, when twice as many people were taking part. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.
As we start round 4, we say goodbye to the fifteen or so competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).
If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, 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. 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. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 05:38, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
The Signpost: 15 July 2017
- News and notes: French chapter woes, new affiliates and more WMF team changes
- Featured content: Spectacular animals, Pine Trees screens, and more
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- Gallery: A mix of patterns
- Humour: The Infobox Game
- Traffic report: Film, television and Internet phenomena reign with some room left over for America's birthday
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- Wikicup: 2017 WikiCup round 3 wrap-up
The Signpost: 5 August 2017
- Recent research: Wikipedia can increase local tourism by +9%; predicting article quality with deep learning; recent behavior predicts quality
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WikiCup 2017 September newsletter
Round 4 of the WikiCup has ended and we move forward into the final round. In round 4, a total of 12 FAs, 3 FLs, 44 GAs, 3 FLs, 79 DYKs, 1 ITN and 42 GARs was achieved, with no FPs or FTs this time. Congratulations to Peacemaker67 on the Royal Yugoslav Navy Good Topic of 36 items, and the 12 featured articles achieved by Cas Liber (5), Vanamonde93 (3), Peacemaker67 (2), Adityavagarwal (1) and 12george1 (1). With a FA scoring 200 points, and bonus points available on top of this, FAs are likely to feature heavily in the final round. Meanwhile Yellow Evan, a typhoon specialist, was contributing 12 DYKs and 10 GAs, while Adityavagarwal and Freikorp topped the GAR list with 8 reviews each. As we enter the final round, we are down to eight contestants, and we would like to thank those of you who have been eliminated for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. The lowest score needed to reach round 5 was 305, and I think we can expect a highly competitive final round.
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. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. 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 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, and let the best man (or woman) win! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 06:26, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
Your access to AWB may be temporarily removed
Hello Thine Antique Pen! This message is to inform you that due to editing inactivity, your access to AutoWikiBrowser may be temporarily removed. If you do not resume editing within the next week, your username will be removed from the CheckPage. This is purely for routine maintenance and is not indicative of wrongdoing on your part. You may regain access at any time by simply requesting it at WP:PERM/AWB. Thank you! — MusikBot II talk 20:21, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
The Signpost: 6 September 2017
- From the editors: What happened at Wikimania?
- News and notes: Basselpedia; WMF Board of Trustees appointments
- Featured content: Warfighters and their tools or trees and butterflies
- Traffic report: A fortnight of conflicts
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- Recent research: Discussion summarization; Twitter bots tracking government edits; extracting trivia from Wikipedia
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- Humour: Bots
The Signpost: 25 September 2017
- News and notes: Chapter updates; ACTRIAL
- Humour: Chickenz
- Recent research: Wikipedia articles vs. concepts; Wikipedia usage in Europe
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- Gallery: Chicken mania
- Traffic report: Fights and frights
- Featured content: Flying high
The Signpost: 23 October 2017
- News and notes: Money! WMF fundraising, Wikimedia strategy, WMF new office!
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- Special report: Working with GLAMs in the UK
- Traffic report: Death, disaster, and entertainment
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WikiCup 2017 November newsletter: Final results
The final round of the 2017 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2017 WikiCup top three finalists:
- First Place -
Adityavagarwal (submissions) - Second Place -
Vanamonde (submissions) - Third Place -
Cas Liber (submissions)
In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:
- Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a two-way tie with themselves for an astonishing five FAs in R2 and R4).
- Good Article – Adityavagarwal had 14 GAs promoted in R5.
- Featured List –
Bloom6132 (submissions) and 
1989 (submissions) both produced 2 FLs in R2 - Featured Pictures –
SounderBruce (submissions) improved an image to FP status in R5, the only FP this year. - Featured Topic –
MPJ-DK (submissions) has the only FT of the Cup in R3. - Good Topic – Four different editors created a GT in R2, R3 and R4.
- Did You Know – Adityavagarwal had 22 DYKs on the main page in R5.
- In The News – MBlaze Lightning (submissions) had 14 ITN on the main page in R2.
- Good Article Review – Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (submissions) completed 31 GARs in R1.
Over the course of the 2017 WikiCup the following content was added or improved on Wikipedia: 51 Featured Articles, 292 Good Articles, 18 Featured Lists, 1 Featured Picture, 1 Featured Topics, 4 Good Topics, around 400 Did You Knows, 75 In The News, and 442 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.
Regarding the prize vouchers - @Adityavagarwal, Vanamonde93, Casliber, Bloom6132, 1989, and SounderBruce: please send Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) an email from the email address to which you would like your Amazon voucher sent. Please include your preference of global Amazon marketplace as well. We hope to have the electronic gift cards processed and sent within a week.
We will open up a discussion for comments on process and scoring in a few days. The 2018 WikiCup is just around the corner! Many thanks from all the judges. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:41, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
WikiCup 2018
So the 2017 WikiCup has come to an end. Congratulations to the winner, to the other finalists and to all those who took part. 177 contestants signed up, more than usual, but not all of them submitted entries in the first round. Were editors attracted by the cash prizes offered for the first time this year, or were these irrelevant? Do the rules and scoring need changing for the 2018 WikiCup? If you have a view on these or other matters, why not join in the WikiCup discussion about next year's contest? Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:59, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 November 2017
- News and notes: Cons, cons, cons
- Arbitration report: Administrator desysoped; How to deal with crosswiki issues; Mister Wiki case likely
- Technology report: Searching and surveying
- Interview: A featured article centurion
- WikiProject report: Recommendations for WikiProjects
- In the media: Open knowledge platform as a media institution
- Traffic report: Strange and inappropriate
- Featured content: We will remember them
- Recent research: Who wrote this? New dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text
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The Signpost: 18 December 2017
- Special report: Women in Red World Contest wrap-up
- Featured content: Featured content to finish 2017
- In the media: Stolen seagulls, public domain primates and more
- Arbitration report: Last case of 2017: Mister Wiki editors
- Gallery: Wiki loving
- Recent research: French medical articles have "high rate of veracity"
- Technology report: Your wish lists and more Wikimedia tech
- Traffic report: Notable heroes and bad guys
The Signpost: 16 January 2018
- News and notes: Communication is key
- In the media: The Paris Review, British Crown and British Media
- Featured content: History, gaming and multifarious topics
- Interview: Interview with Ser Amantio di Nicolao, the top contributor to English Wikipedia by edit count
- Technology report: Dedicated Wikidata database servers
- Arbitration report: Mister Wiki is first arbitration committee decision of 2018
- Traffic report: The best and worst of 2017
The Signpost: 5 February 2018
- Featured content: Wars, sieges, disasters and everything black possible
- Traffic report: TV, death, sports, and doodles
- Special report: Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative
- Arbitration report: New cases requested for inter-editor hostility and other collaboration issues
- In the media: Solving crime; editing out violence allegations
- Humour: You really are in Wonderland
The Signpost: 20 February 2018
- News and notes: The future is Swedish with a lack of administrators
- Recent research: Politically diverse editors write better articles; Reddit and Stack Overflow benefit from Wikipedia but don't give back
- Arbitration report: Arbitration committee prepares to examine two new cases
- Traffic report: Addicted to sports and pain
- Featured content: Entertainment, sports and history
- Technology report: Paragraph-based edit conflict screen; broken thanks
WikiCup 2018 March newsletter
And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. With 53 contestants qualifying, the groups for round 2 are slightly smaller than usual, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining users.
Our top scorers in round 1 were:
Aoba47 led the field with a featured article, 8 good articles and 42 GARs, giving a total of 666 points.
FrB.TG , a WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points, gained from a featured article and masses of bonus points.- Ssven2, another WikiCup newcomer, was in third place with 403 points, garnered from a featured article, a featured list, a good article and twelve GARs.
- Ceranthor, Numerounovedant,
Carbrera, 
Farang Rak Tham and 
Cartoon network freak all had over 200 points, but like all the other contestants, now have to start again from scratch. A good achievement was the 193 GARs performed by WikiCup contestants, comparing very favourably with the 54 GAs they achieved.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. 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. 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. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) and Vanamonde (talk) 15:27, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
I NEED to talk to you about an edit you did and how i need help with it i have wanted to update it for years but haven't been able to figure it out
Tia ks. Zenionzeus (talk) 00:42, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
- TAP is not very active, but I am watching the talk page, so can I assist you? What edit do you want to talk about? Graeme Bartlett (talk) 02:23, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018
- News and notes: Wiki Conference roundup and new appointments.
- Arbitration report: Ironing out issues in infoboxes; not sure yet about New Jersey; and an administrator who probably wasn't uncivil to a sockpuppet.
- Traffic report: Real sports, real women and an imaginary country: what's on top for Wikipedia readers
- Featured content: Animals, Ships, and Songs
- Technology report: Timeless skin review by Force Radical.
- Special report: ACTRIAL wrap-up.
- Humour: WikiWorld Reruns
The Signpost: 26 April 2018
- From the editors: The Signpost's presses roll again
- Signpost: Future directions for The Signpost
- In the media: The rise of Wikipedia as a disinformation mop
- In focus: Admin reports board under criticism
- Special report: ACTRIAL results adopted by landslide
- Community view: It's time we look past Women in Red to counter systemic bias
- Discussion report: The future of portals
- Arbitration report: No new cases, and one motion on administrative misconduct
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Military History
- Traffic report: A quiet place to wrestle with the articles of March
- Technology report: Coming soon: Books-to-PDF, interactive maps, rollback confirmation
- Featured content: Featured content selected by the community
WikiCup 2018 May newsletter
The second round of the 2018 WikiCup has now finished. Most contestants who advanced to the next round scored upwards of 100 points, but two with just 10 points managed to scrape through into round 3. Our top scorers in the last round were:
- Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with three featured articles
Iazyges, with nine good articles and lots of bonus points- Yashthepunisher, a first time contestant, with two featured lists
SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with seventeen good topic articles- Usernameunique, a first time contestant, with fourteen DYKs
Muboshgu, a seasoned competitor, with three ITNs and
Courcelles, another first time contestant, with twenty-seven GARs
So far contestants have achieved twelve featured articles between them and a splendid 124 good articles. Commendably, 326 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2018 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met; most of the GARs are fine, but a few have been a bit skimpy.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:10, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 May 2018
- From the editor: Another issue meets the deadline
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Portals
- Discussion report: User rights, infoboxes, and more discussion on portals
- Featured content: Featured content selected by the community
- Arbitration report: Managing difficult topics
- News and notes: Lots of Wikimedia
- Traffic report: We love our superheroes
- Technology report: A trove of contributor and developer goodies
- Recent research: Why people don't contribute to Wikipedia; using Wikipedia to teach statistics, technical writing, and controversial issues
- Humour: Play with your food
- Gallery: Wine not?
- From the archives: The Signpost scoops The Signpost
The Signpost: 24 May 2018
- From the editor: Another issue meets the deadline
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Portals
- Discussion report: User rights, infoboxes, and more discussion on portals
- Featured content: Featured content selected by the community
- Arbitration report: Managing difficult topics
- News and notes: Lots of Wikimedia
- Traffic report: We love our superheroes
- Technology report: A trove of contributor and developer goodies
- Recent research: Why people don't contribute to Wikipedia; using Wikipedia to teach statistics, technical writing, and controversial issues
- Humour: Play with your food
- Gallery: Wine not?
- From the archives: The Signpost scoops The Signpost
The Signpost: 29 June 2018
- Special report: NPR and AfC – The Marshall Plan: an engagement and a marriage?
- Op-ed: What do admins do?
- News and notes: Money, milestones, and Wikimania
- In the media: Much wikilove from the Mayor of London, less from Paekākāriki or a certain candidate for U.S. Congress
- Discussion report: Deletion, page moves, and an update to the main page
- Featured content: New promotions
- Arbitration report: WWII, UK politics, and a user deCrat'ed
- Traffic report: Endgame
- Technology report: Improvements piled on more improvements
- Gallery: Wiki Loves Africa
- Recent research: How censorship can backfire and conversations can go awry
- Humour: Television plot lines
- Wikipedia essays: This month's pick by The Signpost editors
- From the archives: Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing
WikiCup 2018 July newsletter
The third round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:
- Courcelles, a first time contestant, with 1756 points, a tally built largely on 27 GAs related to the Olympics
- Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three GAs on natural history and astronomy topics
- SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with a variety of submissions related to transport in the state of Washington
Contestants managed 7 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 120 good articles, 1 good topic, 124 DYK entries, 15 ITN entries, and 132 good article reviews. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 458 GA reviews, in comparison to 244 good articles submitted for review and promoted. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process; several submissions, particularly in abstruse or technical areas, have needed additional work to make them completely verifiable.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk), Vanamonde (talk) 04:55, 2 July 2018 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 July 2018
- From the editor: If only if
- Opinion: Wrestling with Wikipedia reality
- Discussion report: Wikipedias take action against EU copyright proposal, plus new user right proposals
- Featured content: Wikipedia's best content in images and prose
- Arbitration report: Status quo processes retained in two disputes
- Traffic report: Soccer, football, call it what you like – that and summer movies leave room for little else
- Technology report: New bots, new prefs
- Recent research: Different Wikipedias use different images; editing contests more successful than edit-a-thons
- Humour: It's all the same
- Essay: Wikipedia does not need you
The Signpost: 30 August 2018
- From the editor: Today's young adults don't know a world without Wikipedia
- News and notes: Flying high; low practice from Wikipedia 'cleansing' agency; where do our donations go? RfA sees a new trend
- In the media: Quicksilver AI writes articles
- Discussion report: Drafting an interface administrator policy
- Featured content: Featured content selected by the community
- Special report: Wikimania 2018
- Traffic report: Aretha dies – getting just 2,000 short of 5 million hits
- Technology report: Technical enhancements and a request to prioritize upcoming work
- Recent research: Wehrmacht on Wikipedia, neural networks writing biographies
- Humour: Signpost editor censors herself
- From the archives: Playing with Wikipedia words
WikiCup 2018 September newsletter
The fourth round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The eight users who made it to the final round had to score a minimum of 422 points to qualify, with the top score in the round being 4869 points. The leaders in round 4 were:
- Courcelles scored a magnificent 4869 points, with 92 good articles on Olympics-related themes. Courcelles' bonus points alone exceeded the total score of any of the other contestants!
Kees08 was second with 1155 points, including a high-scoring featured article for Neil Armstrong, two good topics and some Olympics-related good articles.- Cas Liber, with 1066 points, was in third place this round, with two featured articles and a good article, all on natural history topics.
- Other contestants who qualified for the final round were
Nova Crystallis, Iazyges, SounderBruce, 
Kosack and Ceranthor.
During round four, 6 featured articles and 164 good articles were promoted by WikiCup contestants, 13 articles were included in good topics and 143 good article reviews were performed. There were also 10 "in the news" contributions on the main page and 53 "did you knows". Congratulations to 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. 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. Good luck, and let the best editor win! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:31, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
Speedy deletion contested: Ruturaj Sanjay Patil
Hello Thine Antique Pen, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Ruturaj Sanjay Patil, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: the subject appears to have a mass following among the youths. It may be notable. I'll draftify it first. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. —AE (talk • contributions) 12:47, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
- @Abelmoschus Esculentus: I decided that "[Patil] has a mass following among the youths of Kolhapur City" wasn't a credible claim of significance (and seemed fairly promotional too). Only considering credibility - a person with just over 300 Twitter followers didn't exactly have the "mass following" I expected, and a quick search showed nothing to indicate that this "mass following" indeed exists, so I decided the claim was not credible and tagged it. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 13:11, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
- Ok. The article was created again. Maybe I request to salt the article and let the user whirl in Draft:Ruturaj Sanjay Patil. —AE (talk • contributions) 13:18, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
- I would wait to see if the article is recreated again. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 14:55, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
- Ok. The article was created again. Maybe I request to salt the article and let the user whirl in Draft:Ruturaj Sanjay Patil. —AE (talk • contributions) 13:18, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
copyright violator
Hi. I just spotted and reverted a series of edits of the article Antheraea assamensis involving text cut and pasted from a website on moths; checking that user's recent activity, they did the same thing in the Calpinae article, which you reverted and flagged for revdel. I have not checked all of this user's recent edits, but it looks a bit like they may be engaging in widespread plagiarism, and deleting warnings from their talk page. Is there a preferred course of action if it proves to be a series of similar incidents? Dyanega (talk) 23:03, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
- Hi Dyanega, thanks for keeping a tab on them and catching Automeris too. I don't really see a clear, straightforward course of action to dealing with problems like this at present, although WP:CV#Addressing contributors suggests either taking it to ANI or asking an administrator for their opinion - I prefer to go for the latter option. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 23:19, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Co Westerik
On 12 September 2018, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Co Westerik, 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. Stephen 00:12, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
Articles for Creation Reviewing
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Hello, Thine Antique Pen.
I've seen you editing recently and you seem like an experienced Wikipedia editor. |
- I had been thinking about it and will try to take a proper look later today. Thanks! Thine Antique Pen (talk) 12:55, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
List of DC cricketers
Hi. I wanted to improve the List of Deccan Chargers cricketers and nominate it again for FL. I changed the intro and replaced with a single edit which you can see now. Please check that and let me know on what you think. You can just undo that single edit if you feel there's too many mistakes. I also think that there needs to be some changes in the stats table which I want to follow the List of Sunrisers Hyderabad cricketers list which I recently got it nomimnated for FL. Please let me know on what you feel. Thanks in advance. Sagavaj (talk) 20:05, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
- I don't know if you remembered but you tried to nominate it back in 2012. And hence, I placed it here and thought it's only correct to let you know first before doing any major changes. Thanks in advance. Sagavaj (talk) 20:06, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
- I'll take a look at this soon. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 20:23, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
- I think it'd be a good idea to get the article copyedited by someone at WP:GOCE. I've listed my thoughts below, but I don't claim to be any good at copyediting!
- remove bolding of "DC", MOS:BOLDTITLE - I'd just cut that part down to "Deccan Chargers (DC)"
- Done
- "were a franchise" or "was a franchise"? I thought that when talking about the team itself, it is singular, although I once saw a source saying this was wrong
- Done. Some pages name franchise as singular while others name it as a plural. I think confusion is mainly because the name of the franchise suggests as it is plural.
- wouldn't the bid for the franchise be in rupees, rather than USD? The old lead gives a figure in rupees
- The source says that they bid in USD. And also, rupee conversion was different then.
- is it "the DC" or "DC"?
- While doing SRH cricketers page, they told me to keep as the SRH. So, I did same here too.
- "was appointed as the captain", "was appointed as the coach" seems repetitive
- Reworded
- "disastrous campaign" - by what measure was it disastrous?
- Reworded
- "sacked their coach and removed their captain" - could be condensed, given that the same thing happened to the coach and captain
- thought it might be correct considering the fact that laxman still remained in the team. Let me know if you feel that was wrong.
- I would change "in 2009 when" to "in 2009, when"
- Done
- "They reached the semi-finals again in 2010 but failed to reach past the group stages since then before the team was folded in 2012" - reword
- Reworded
- "They qualified for the Champions League Twenty20 only once in 2009 season" - reword, this makes it seem like there were multiple opportunities to qualify in 2009
- Reworded. Still has doubts.
- "the coach for the DC since 2009" - trim "since 2009" as that was already mentioned previously
- Removed
- "Gilchrist as the captain in 2011 with Kumar Sangakkara" - I'd change this to "Gilchrist with Kumar Sangakkara in 2011", given that we've already said Gilchrist is the captain
- Reworded
- "replaced by Cameron White at the end" - I thought White became captain before the end of the season
- "Gilchrist was... while Gilchrist and Rohit Sharma" - sounds like it's about to move onto a different subject but stays on the topic of runs. maybe try and link Sharma into comments about Gilchrist's 1,289 runs
- "1,000 runs in total" - would remove "in total", I doubt it would be taken to mean >1,000 in a single innings
- Removed
- "scored the most number of runs" -> "scored the most runs"
- Removed
- "unbeaten" seems unnecessary as we're already saying he's scored the most runs
- placed because he remained not out in that match
- "In bowling, Ojha was the team's leading" - this was already mentioned at the start of the paragraph
- Removed
- "consisting 27 catches" -> "consisting of 27 catches"
- added "of"
- Some columns in the table have sorting problems, e.g. when sorting by HS, Gilchrist appears near Zoysa. The column appears to sort by the first digit, so maybe you could use {{sort}} to fix that
- fixed
- That's all I've got for now. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 17:51, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
- You can check again and if you feel everything's fine, I am hoping if you could nominate it again for FL. Let's hope this gets passed this time. Sagavaj (talk) 22:54, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
- You've done the work so I think you should nominate the article. However, I'd strongly suggest a copyedit by someone over at WP:GOCE (or any experienced copyeditor - i.e. not me!) before you do so. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 18:16, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
- You can check again and if you feel everything's fine, I am hoping if you could nominate it again for FL. Let's hope this gets passed this time. Sagavaj (talk) 22:54, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
- I think it'd be a good idea to get the article copyedited by someone at WP:GOCE. I've listed my thoughts below, but I don't claim to be any good at copyediting!
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Regarding the deletion of edits made to Dr. Milner's page being copy-written materials - I was given the information by Dr. Milner himself to update his page - how do you recommend I go about making his edits? The current information is not accurate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bennejs1 (talk • contribs) 16:48, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
- Hi Bennejs1, the content you copied to H. Richard Milner, IV is copyrighted and therefore not suitable for Wikipedia. Content on Wikipedia articles should be built up from a collection of reliable sources and not copied directly; you should read through reliable sources and paraphrase them by writing an article in your own words / structure, without copying from the sources. Also, as you say that Milner asked you to update the article on his behalf, I am concerned that you may have a conflict of interest - please take a look at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest before considering making further changes to the article. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 17:25, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
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The article Raspay is not a translation of the Spanish Wikipedia one
I have taken a look to the history of the article and I realised that you have indicated that the article is a translation of the Spanish one.
I am who has written te article and can say that it is not a translation. If I had decided to translate the article, I would have translated it entirely or almost entirely. The translation comes from the information in the references of the article. In fact, the Spanish article does not even have these references neither the section of "Geography" nor the information which is written in that section.
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- Hi Yolanda95, I'm sorry for my mistake and should've looked more thoroughly. I've tried to give an edit summary in the article history retracting this claim, and have removed the {{translated page}} template from the talk page. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 18:21, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
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Many thanks for the quick revert on 30 April my Internet was slow to notice it was already removed. My wish was to revert as 'doing homework' isn't a profession. Thanks 6Packs (talk) 15:36, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
- No worries. I'm not sure why I already had April 30 on watchlist though, no wonder it's difficult to manage... Thine Antique Pen (talk) 15:47, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
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... on Nvidia RTX, which seems to have been more than usually tricky. And nice going at Mud Men, too. Thank you! for taking this on, it's going to make a noticeable difference. If there's ever anything you're not sure about, give me a yell – then there'll be two of us not sure about it. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 00:00, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
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Vandalism
So, this wasn't "unverified" or something like that; it was just vandalism. Moreover, it came after this, this, and this, and this, and this. So if you had looked at the edit and the history more carefully, we might not have had three more vandal/BLP violating edits on Max Verstappen and one on Anne Hegerty. Drmies (talk) 23:46, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
- Sorry – I'll make sure to check their other edits in the future to save work down the line. Thanks. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 11:47, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
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List of DC cricketers
Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Deccan Chargers cricketers/archive3. FYI. Thanks. Sa Ga Vaj 08:34, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
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Speciesbox parameters clean up
Hi, we're trying to clean up the parameters used in {{Speciesbox}}, partly to prepare to move even more of the code to Lua.
A very large number of articles you created appear in Category:Speciesboxes with genus parameter without species parameter. They have wikitext like that at Abacetus desaegeri:
{{speciesbox|name=''Abacetus desaegeri''|genus=Abacetus|authority=Straneo, 1963}}
However, as per the documentation of the template, the taxon that is the target of the template is supposed to be specified either by |taxon= or by |genus=+|species=, not by a combination of |taxon= and |species= or by a combination of the page title and |species=. So correct wikitext would be either:
{{speciesbox|taxon=Abacetus desaegeri|authority=Straneo, 1963}}
as |name= isn't needed when it's the same as the target taxon, or:
{{speciesbox|genus=Abacetus|species=desaegeri|authority=Straneo, 1963}}
I see that you run bots. Could you run a bot to correct these articles? Peter coxhead (talk) 11:13, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
- Hi Peter. I’m a little pressed for time at the moment but hope to find time to sort this out over the next week - either using automation (AWB comes to mind) or by manually making the required edits. I hope this is okay. Thanks, Thine Antique Pen (public) (talk) 19:33, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
- Ok, but there are currently 3,089 in the category – not all may be ones you created – so a bot for those with the pattern noted above seems a good approach! Peter coxhead (talk) 23:14, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
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Andreas G. Orphanides
Hi -
An article I wrote, Andreas G Orphanides was flagged back in October 13 as possible copyvio. It appears that a couple of things happened - first, the article subject copied elements of the article into his own CV(!), and, second, an anonymous IP that I assume was his also edited the article without understanding copyright. It was a bit of a mess, but I believe is now fully straightened out. I left comments on the article talkpage suggesting the minor rewrites that would be needed to sort out any remaining issues on Oct 16th. Would you be willing to take a look and remove the copyvio notice if you agree that this is sorted? I contacted the original admin but in nearly 3 months have not had a response (I know you guys on copyright detail are busy). Vizjim (talk) 06:47, 8 January 2019 (UTC)