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WikiCup 2014 January newsletter

The 2014 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with, at time of writing, 138 participants. The is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2010. If you are yet to join the competition, don't worry- the judges have agreed to keep the signups open for a few more days. By a wide margin, our current leader is newcomer Godot13 (submissions), whose set of 14 featured pictures, the first FPs of the competition, was worth 490 points. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

• 12george1 (submissions) and TropicalAnalystwx13 (submissions) were the first people to score, for the good article Tropical Storm Bret (1981) and its good article review respectively. 12george1 was also the first person to score in 2012 and 2013.
• Sven Manguard (submissions) scored the first ITN points for 2014 North American polar vortex.
• WonderBoy1998 (submissions) scored points for an early good topic, finishing off Wikipedia:Featured topics/She Wolf.
• TheAustinMan (submissions) scored the first bonus points of the competition, for his work on Typhoon Vera.
• Igordebraga (submissions) has scored the highest number of bonus points for a single article, for the high-importance Jurassic Park (film).

Featured articles, featured lists, featured topics and featured portals are yet to play a part in the competition. The judges have removed a number of submissions which were deemed ineligible. Typically, we aim to see work on a project, followed by a nomination, followed by promotion, this year. We apologise for any disappointment caused by our strict enforcement this year; we're aiming to keep the competition as fair as possible.

Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may be interested to take part in The Core Contest; unlike the WikiCup, The Core Contest is not about audited content, but, like the WikiCup, it is about article improvement; specifically, The Core Contest is about contribution to some of Wikipedia's most important article. Of course, any work done for The Core Contest, if it leads to a DYK, GA or FA, can earn WikiCup 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. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 19:54, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

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Thank you for your comments at WP:AN. I will try and prove the community's confidence in me by editing in a productive manner and avoid entering into conflict with other editors as in the past. You may be interested to note I have just launched the article Esteban Mestivier as I promised and I would welcome your input if you have a moment. Wee Curry Monster talk 21:53, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

I'm glad the situation was resolved in a positive manner.

That's certainly an interesting article. Sadly, my own topic ban applies to it.

I hope to work with you soon in other articles.

Best wishes.--MarshalN20 | ^Talk 03:07, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Signature

Hi Marshal, I'm sorry to bother you but I just wanted to ask if you might alter your signature slightly to replace the | character with | (open this in edit mode to see the difference)—using the | character directly causes templates to break, while | looks the same but does not. You may have noticed that in the Peru football team FAC I had to remove every instance of the | character from your signatures so I could get the collapsed comments thing to work... Anyway, if you'd make this small alteration it would be helpful in future, and I'd very much appreciate it. Thanks and all the best, —Cliftonian (talk) 16:12, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. Yes, it should now be changed.--MarshalN20 | ^Talk 16:20, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Great. Have a enjoyable rest of the weekend =) —Cliftonian (talk) 16:24, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

GOCE February blitz wrapup

Guild of Copy Editors Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/February 2014 wrap-up Participation: Out of seven people who signed up for this blitz, all copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: During the seven-day blitz, we removed 16 articles from the requests queue. Hope to see you at the March drive! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Baffle gab1978. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by

March GOCE copyedit drive

Notes from the Guild of Copy Editors The March 2014 backlog elimination drive is a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles in need of copyediting. The drive begins on March 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on March 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to copyedit all articles tagged in December 2012 and January 2013 and to complete all requests placed in January 2014. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copyedits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top five in the following categories: number of articles, number of words, number of articles over 5,000 words, number of articles tagged in December 2012 and January 2013 and the longest article. We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978 and Miniapolis To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:59, 21 February 2014 (UTC)|} Falkland demographics Hey, this is just a note because I didn't want you to think I was picking on the page. I just looked at the census results cited, and tried to word it as positively as I could.__ E L A Q U E A T E 22:30, 23 February 2014 (UTC) Disambiguation link notification for February 25 Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Falkland Islands, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Saunders Island (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject. It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 09:05, 25 February 2014 (UTC) 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: 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). 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. 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: Hahc21 (submissions), who helped take Thirty Flights of Loving through good article candidates and featured article candidates, claiming the first first featured article of the competition. Prism (submissions), who claimed the first featured list of the competition with Natalia Kills discography. Cwmhiraeth (submissions), who takes the title of the contributor awarded the highest bonus point multiplier (resulting in the highest scoring article) of the competition so far. Her high-importance salamander, now a good article, scored 108 points. 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. 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 (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 00:01, 1 March 2014 (UTC) New Article Antonina Roxa - not subject to your topic ban if you feel like copy editing? Wee Curry Monster talk 20:32, 2 March 2014 (UTC) Great! Yes, as long as it's not subject to the topic ban, I'll gladly be of help.--MarshalN20 Talk 21:14, 2 March 2014 (UTC) Orphaned non-free image File:PeruOlympics1936.png ⚠ Thanks for uploading File:PeruOlympics1936.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media). Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 14:36, 14 March 2014 (UTC) Thanks Stefan. Yes, please delete the image. There is a copyright-free version available in Wikimedia commons. Regards.--MarshalN20 Talk 15:23, 14 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 (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 22:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC) GOCE March drive wrapup Guild of Copy Editors March 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up newsletter The March 2014 drive wrap-up is now ready for review. Sign up for the April blitz! – Your project coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978 and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by Guild of Copy Editors March 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up Participation: Thanks to all who participated in the drive and helped out behind the scenes. 42 people signed up for this drive and 28 of these completed at least one article. Final results are available here. 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. Blitz!: The April blitz will run from April 13–19, with a focus on the Requests list. Sign up now! – Your drive coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978 and Miniapolis To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:57, 2 April 2014 (UTC) A barnstar for you! The Original Barnstar The Peru national football team is now up to FA status. Congratulations Marshal on your diligence and patience—four nominations but now here we are. Look at the little star in the top corner and feel proud, you've earned it. Keep up the good work buddy. =) —Cliftonian (talk) 15:45, 5 April 2014 (UTC) Thank you so much Cliftonian. It's a collaborative effort. That star in the article is an award to all those who edited the article. I'm simply glad to be part of this fantastic team. Best wishes.--MarshalN20 Talk 15:48, 5 April 2014 (UTC) Argentine History Please keep an eye on this. --Lecen (talk) 20:49, 2 April 2014 (UTC) Marshal, one advise: Carcharoth has basically suggested to disengage from that discussion. Everything that needed to be said, has already been said; there's no need to increase the drama. Let the arbitrators consider the whole request, and reply only when/if they make questions. Cambalachero (talk) 19:53, 6 April 2014 (UTC) It's not my intention to increase the drama. I'm deeply concerned about this serious bullying issue, which for practically 8 months has been circulating around Wikipedia. I feel nothing is being done about it. Why must we be the ones to take silence while others injure us? Nonetheless, I shall do as you recommend. Thank you for the suggestion.--MarshalN20 Talk 20:38, 6 April 2014 (UTC) FA congratulations Just a quick note to congratulate you on the promotion of Peru national football team to FA status recently. If you would like to see this (or any other FA) appear as "Today's featured article" soon, please nominate it at the requests page; if you'd like to see an FA on a particular date in the next year or so, please add it to the "pending" list. In the absence of a request, the article may end up being picked at any time (although with 1,321 articles in Category:Featured articles that have not appeared on the main page at present, there's no telling how long – or short! – the wait might be). If you'd got any TFA-related questions or problems, please let me know. Incidentally, you (and your talk-page stalkers) might like to know that the TFA nominations has changed. For an experimental period, nominators no longer have to worry about calculating how many "points" the article has. In addition, there is a new (and hopefully easy-to-use) nomination procedure, using a pre-filled template much like DYK. All feedback on the new system is welcome. BencherliteTalk 10:12, 7 April 2014 (UTC) Congrats from me too. ANother fantastic FA. We should do one together sometime! → Call me Hahc21 18:38, 11 April 2014 (UTC) Thank you both very much. I plan to continue improving more country/territory and football articles in the future. Hahc21, it would be an honor to work with you in any one of them. Best wishes.--MarshalN20 Talk 19:00, 11 April 2014 (UTC) Falkland Islands Was Wee Curry Monster looking over your shoulder when you began the copyedit? This was only mildly irksome, but this (immediately following) is getting annoying. I'll ask them on their talk page if they want to take over the copyedit. All the best, Miniapolis 22:37, 11 April 2014 (UTC) Arbitration amendment request declined The arbitration amendment request (Argentine History (Lecen)) involving you has been declined by the Arbitration Committee The comments made by arbitrators may be helpful in proceeding further. For the Arbitration Committee,--S Philbrick(Talk) 21:21, 14 April 2014 (UTC) April blitz wrap-up and May copyediting drive invitation Guild of Copy Editors April 2014 Blitz wrap-up Participation: Out of 17 people who signed up for this blitz, eight copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: During the seven-day blitz, we removed 28 articles from the requests queue. Hope to see you at the May drive! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Baffle gab1978. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:18, 22 April 2014 (UTC) WikiCup 2014 April newsletter 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 (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 17:57, 4 May 2014 (UTC) SPI Refresh my memory, was there an SPI case launched for KS & Chelios? WCMemail 22:48, 5 May 2014 (UTC) @Wee Curry Monster: I think you commented on the similarities, but didn't take the next step because the case was diverted by me getting blocked from editing by Sandstein.--MarshalN20 Talk 00:02, 6 May 2014 (UTC) Disambiguation link notification for May 9 Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Chile–Peru football rivalry, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page International football (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject. It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 08:53, 9 May 2014 (UTC) Scuttling of the Peruvian fleet in El Callao You might be interested in this article I created: Scuttling of the Peruvian fleet in El Callao. Unfortunately I don't have any sources. Do you know any online free-access sources? Greetings – Sietecolores (talk) 00:04, 15 May 2014 (UTC) @Sietecolores: You're doing a wonderful job in improving the articles. I have a myriad sources available to help out, but I am temporarily prohibited from editing Latin American military history articles prior to 1980. I recommend you give a try at GoogleBooks or GoogleScholar. Also, contacting User:Dentren for help would be a great option. Check my Wikimedia Commons page (see [1]) for images on the topic (same username). I look forward to working with you in the future. Best wishes.--MarshalN20 Talk 01:15, 15 May 2014 (UTC) Heads Up [2] Bringing this to your attention, seems to be some really petty BS going on. WCMemail 15:47, 1 June 2014 (UTC) MarshalN20, have care. You are allowed to edit the Falkland Islands article, but not the Falkland Islands as a general topic (so, History of the Falkland Islands or Falkland War, to name a pair of examples, are still off-limits). The deletion discussion of a history-related image (which is not being used in the article that you can edit) may be considered off-limits as well. I suggest that you follow the discussion and the outcome if you want, but do not take part in it. WCM has already explained the background of that nomination, and hopefully other users and the closing admin will take that into account. Cambalachero (talk) 16:19, 1 June 2014 (UTC) Sorry mate, I forgot, Cambalachero is quite right. WCMemail 19:16, 1 June 2014 (UTC) Thank you both for the messages. I'm glad everything turned out good. Regards.--MarshalN20 Talk 21:42, 1 June 2014 (UTC) Falkland Islands Count me in, been trying to get there for years! WCMemail 20:12, 3 June 2014 (UTC) GOCE June 2014 newsletter Guild of Copy Editors May 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up Participation: Thanks to all who participated! Out of 51 people who signed up this drive, 33 copy edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: We reduced our article backlog from 2,987 articles to 2,236 articles in May, the lowest backlog total since we began keeping records in 2009! Since at least 300 new articles were tagged during May, that means we copy edited over 1,000 articles in a single month. Amazing work, everyone! Blitz: The June blitz will run from June 15–21. This blitz's theme is Politics. Sign up here. Election: You can nominate yourself or others for the role of Coordinator for the second half of 2014 here. Nominations will be accepted until June 14. Voting will begin on June 15 and will conclude on June 28. Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:27, 5 June 2014 (UTC) Picture Find Wow, that was a great find, it shows one of the stone corrals that are a unique feature of Camp in the Falklands. Well done mate. WCMemail 22:07, 15 June 2014 (UTC) Thank you WCM. I noticed a larger image was recently uploaded in Commons, and this one looked neat. I had no idea that it showed a stone corral or that it was a unique image for Camp.--MarshalN20 Talk 00:52, 16 June 2014 (UTC) Speedy deletion nomination of Día de la Canción Criolla If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article. You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles. A tag has been placed on Día de la Canción Criolla requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organized event (tour, function, meeting, party, etc.), but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, you can place a request here. Epeefleche (talk) 01:23, 18 June 2014 (UTC)