User talk:HickoryOughtShirt?4/Archives/2024/January

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Welcome to the 2024 WikiCup!

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2024 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close on 31 January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), and Frostly (talk · contribs · 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. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:21, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Happy New Year, HickoryOughtShirt?4!

Happy New Year!

HickoryOughtShirt?4,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Abishe (talk) 14:56, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

Abishe (talk) 14:56, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

Administrator changes

Clovermoss

Dennis Brown

CheckUser changes

Maxim

Oversighter changes

Maxim

Arbitration

Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.

Miscellaneous

The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:54, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 January 2024

From the editor: NINETEEN MORE YEARS! NINETEEN MORE YEARS!

Special report: Public Domain Day 2024

Technology report: Wikipedia: A Multigenerational Pursuit

News and notes: In other news ... see ya in court!

In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate

In the media: What is plagiarism? Oklahoma Disneyland? Reaching a human being at Wikipedia?

WikiProject report: WikiProjects Israel and Palestine

Obituary: Anthony Bradbury

Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2023

Crossword: everybody gangsta till the style sheets start cascading

Comix: Conflict resolution

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Minor updates to BLPs

Hi User:HickoryOughtShirt?4, Happy New Year! I posted suggested edits to a few BLPs. Would you be open to reviewing and publishing the content if you think it's Wikipedia-compliant? Here is the suggested edits: Thanks in advance for any input. -- Chefmikesf (talk) 19:54, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Chefmikesf, inputted with very minor edits. Happy New Years! HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 15:10, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks HickoryOughtShirt?4! I have a few other suggestions on other BLPs, I'll reach out when I finish the sourcing. Best--Chefmikesf (talk) 23:39, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Awesome! HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 02:44, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi @HickoryOughtShirt?4, I finished up the BLP suggestions for A. Eugene Washington in a drop-down on the talk page. Let me know what you think!--Chefmikesf (talk) 01:34, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Joel Eriksson Ek

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Joel Eriksson Ek you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of GhostRiver -- GhostRiver (talk) 14:44, 26 January 2024 (UTC)