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WikiCup 2014 February newsletter

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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DYK nomination of The Quality of Mercy (Shakespeare quote)

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Request

I might push Head VI towards FAC in a week or so; would appreciate if you took a look and commented on talk with any findings. Its not fully written yet, but need input at this stage. Ceoil (talk) 10:17, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Why reverted my edit?

These works are there!Victor0209 (talk) 13:49, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Jack & the Giant Killer & the Beanstalk

Hi Tony no- I don't think Jack & the Giant Killer & the Beanstalk should be separated. There are deep cultural links between them as they both stem from a common (though somewhat remote) source of British folk stories associated with the western Brittonic tradition particularly in Cornwall where Jack is(was) a stock folk ingenu from the countryside the archetypal ordinary 'Joe' - except he was called Jack (Jago). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nenniu (talkcontribs) 18:44, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

GAN March 2014 Backlog Drive

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Better source request for File:EMK eulogy of RFK.ogg

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Your GA nomination of Frank Underwood (House of Cards)

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Hi Tony, this GAC is waiting for some still-unaddressed comments, like the addition of some missing information about Frank from Season 2. Thought you'd like to know! Hope things are going well for you. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 18:08, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Frank Underwood

yup, pls check this page... http://house-of-cards.wikia.com/wiki/Frank_Underwood

thx — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zwartboek (talkcontribs) 10:43, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

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Annie Hall GA review

The GA review for Annie Hall has been going on for a very long time without much progress. I even feel that the nominator has quit. So please go ahead and fail the article as a last resort, because the other GA nominees are awaiting their reviews. Kailash29792 (talk) 06:20, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Rome & Jewel

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Review Spike Albrecht for GA

Hey! I saw you needed a reviewer for the article above. I can do that but in one condition, can you also review Global F.C. for GA? I will submit it shortly after someone will copyedit it. Cheers! FairyTailRocks (talk) 10:12, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Fred VanVleet

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DYK for Rome & Jewel

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DYK for Fred VanVleet

Thanks for the help Victuallers (talk) 00:37, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

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DYK for The Quality of Mercy (Shakespeare quote)

Thank you for the new article Victuallers (talk) 08:03, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Talk:Dental implant/GA2

Not sure if you area watching - worked my way through the first changes and those from Doc James. Thx. Ian Furst (talk) 12:28, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Hey Tony - if it's convenient for you, I was hoping to do some work on this tomorrow. If not, no worries. Thx. Ian Furst (talk) 21:59, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
No worries - it was a last minute on my part. Turned out my on-call this weekend was crazy anyway and I probably would have done little with it. Usually quieter than that. All the best. Ian Furst (talk) 12:23, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
Tony - just reviewed the new GA2 comments. Is the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 licence not appropriate for GA? I wasn't sure what you needed changed with these pictures. Ian Furst (talk) 12:48, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
Last message this morning - I found my way to WP:CAP and made changes to the first section (I see what you mean about the captions needing work). Since people may read the article thru the captions/pictures I'm going to make captions into sentences. My logic is that there will be a an article narrative if you read the captions alone. Before I change all of them, can you read Dental_implant#Medical_uses. I want to make sure the changes are in line with GA standard before going further. Ian Furst (talk) 13:14, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

finished the latest round of changes. Ian Furst (talk) 01:36, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Four Freedoms

Tony I dont mean this as a slight, but I think you should concede the FAC for now. I think you are there re content, but the prose needs work, which I can do, but right now you have several people commenting, but not suppporting. Time to regroup I think. Thats no reflection on you, but I think needs to happen. I do see the page suceeding, but you might have to wait a bit more. I am very happy that you brought the article so far, but it needs that bit of a punch yet, if you are still on. Ceoil (talk) 22:33, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Spike Albrecht

Hey! There are some issues to be fix in the article. You will found them at the nomination page. Message me if you're ready. Thanks! FairyTailRocks (talk) 03:05, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Chicagoland (TV series)

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Royce White

Yeah, not too sure. He should have signed a second 10-day contract today (March 16). RealGM reported that he will receive a second 10-day contract [1] so I reckon it will happen, maybe tomorrow?? And yeah, he was inactive tonight against the Timberwolves – that could be to do with his anxiety still where he can't fly with the team... One day, he will hopefully play in an NBA game. DaHuzyBru (talk) 05:11, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Quote from that RealGM source: "White is remaining in Sacramento working on his strength and conditioning while the Kings are on the road. White may be available for Tuesday's game against the Washington Wizards." They're you go, so he will hopefully re-sign tomorrow. DaHuzyBru (talk) 05:13, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
For sure! And then hopefully he suits up against the Wizards (and plays); the latter unlikely but still. DaHuzyBru (talk) 15:02, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

The most disappointing thing is that he played 7+ minutes against the Knicks and couldn't even record a positive stat smh. I'm not sure about whether he'll get a rest of season contract. Including White, they have 14 and looks like the Kings are planning on signing Willie Reed for the rest of the season [2] so they could still get onto that, but maybe Reed's signing means White out the door... We shall see come the 28th. DaHuzyBru (talk) 18:02, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Now seems like they won't be [3]. DaHuzyBru (talk) 16:14, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Spike Albrecht

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Hey! I already nominated Global F.C. for GA nomination, you may review it now. Thanks! FairyTailRocks (talk) 03:38, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

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DYK for Wolf Point South Tower

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Orel Hershiser's scoreless innings streak

OK, probably not until tomorrow though Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:34, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Frank Underwood (House of Cards)

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Four Freedoms

Congrats on the FA! I like your articles about works of art. Makes me want to revisit some of the Lichtenstein articles. Keep up the great work! --Another Believer (Talk) 15:35, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 March newsletter

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)

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