User talk:NEWSLETTERS MAILBOX/Archives/2020/May

April 2020 WikiProject NASCAR newsletter

The WikiProject NASCAR Newsletter Volume V · No. 1:  April 1, 2020 – April 30, 2020 Previous month's issue
Project discussion • Project resources • Project Standards (discussion) • Project Category Structure (discussion) • Project Participants (discussion) • Project Assessment (discussion) • Recent Changes • Popular Articles
WikiProject News New members: TomaHawk61 (talk · contribs) — April 17 How to Help WikiProject NASCAR Please keep up with the discussions at our main talk page. Your input is needed! Expand the articles in Category:NASCAR stubs. Help expand and update everything relating to the 2013 season. Read the project to-do list and help to complete the tasks: Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : See all here Assess : See all here Cleanup : Days of Thunder, Rusty Wallace, NASCAR Thunder 2003, Bill Weber, Bobby Hillin, Jr. Copyedit : NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt, 2010 Aaron's 499, Mark Martin Expand : Greg Erwin, Donnie Wingo, 2008 Daytona 500, 2010 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series Maintain : 2024 NASCAR Cup Series, 2024 NASCAR Xfinity Series, 2024 NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series, 2024 ARCA Menards Series East, 2024 ARCA Menards Series West, 2024 ARCA Menards Series, 2024 NASCAR Pinty's Series, 2024 NASCAR PEAK Mexico Series, 2024 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, 2024 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Photo : Richie Evans, South Boston Speedway Stubs : See all here Update : BAM Racing Verify : NASCAR rules and regulations, 2008 Dickies 500, Frank Cicci Racing, Road course ringer, Other : More	Article Statistics Table reflects values at 7:00 PM Eastern on April 26. Monthly goal: Improve all top-importance articles to start or better. It is important to pay close attention to the articles that we as a project value the most. Please remember to add reliable sources in all contributions! NASCAR articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 1 8 FL 1 1 A 1 1 GA 4 6 49 17 76 B 23 44 37 74 178 C 34 59 109 79 281 Start 50 165 658 1,124 4 2,001 Stub 15 42 271 1,015 3 1,346 List 14 38 13 65 Category 335 335 Disambig 1 81 82 File 1 129 130 Project 10 10 Redirect 315 2 317 Template 2 314 316 Other 2 2 Assessed 127 330 1,169 2,328 1,187 9 5,150 Unassessed 2 2 Total 127 330 1,169 2,328 1,187 11 5,152 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 26,714 Ω = 4.93
Article Developments New Good Articles: 2003 Carolina Dodge Dealers 400 2010 Daytona 500 2012 Bojangles' Southern 500 New articles: 2020 FireKeepers Casino 400 2020 Toyota/Save Mart 350 Brad Baker (racing driver) Randy Briggs Augie Grill Dustin Hapka Ronnie Hopkins Matt Merrell Lonnie Rush Jr. Raymond Terczak Jr. Bill Venturini Alex Yontz Ron Young (racing driver) See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR/Article alerts	Picture of the Month Casey Atwood, behind the wheel of a FitzBradshaw Racing entry, during a pit stop in the Little Trees 300 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in fall 2003.
Article of the month – Harley J. Earl Trophy, a good article The Harley J. Earl Trophy is the trophy presented to the winner of the premier – and season-opening – event of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), the Daytona 500. It is named after influential automobile designer Harley Earl, who served as the second commissioner of NASCAR. Earl has been known as the so-called "father of the Corvette" and designer of the Firebird I prototype that adorns the trophy. The trophy is kept on display at the Daytona International Speedway, while a small replica is given to each Daytona 500 winner. (Read more...)	New Images
Newsletter contributor: Willsome429 Want to help? Leave a message at the department's talk page. Unsubscribe here.

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup 2020 May newsletter

The second round of the 2020 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 75 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top ten contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 186 good articles achieved in total by contestants, and the 355 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in round 2 were:

• Epicgenius, with 2333 points from one featured article, forty-five good articles, fourteen DYKs and plenty of bonus points
• Gog the Mild, with 1784 points from three featured articles, eight good articles, a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews and lots of bonus points
• The Rambling Man, with 1262 points from two featured articles, eight good articles and a hundred good article reviews
• Harrias, with 1141 points from two featured articles, three featured lists, ten good articles, nine DYKs and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews
• Lee Vilenski with 869 points, Hog Farm with 801, Kingsif with 719, SounderBruce with 710, Dunkleosteus77 with 608 and MX with 515.

The rules for featured article reviews have been adjusted; reviews may cover three aspects of the article, content, images and sources, and contestants may receive points for each of these three types of review. Please also remember the requirement to mention the WikiCup when undertaking an FAR for which you intend to claim points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! 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.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything 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. - MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:44, 1 May 2020 (UTC)