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Veraladeramanera (talk) 20:01, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Index of chess articles/Bottom importance

A tag has been placed on Index of chess articles/Bottom importance requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Lasker-Capa 1914 psych

Hi, SyG. Do you remember in our discussion about Lasker's "psychological" approach you mentioned how L's choice of the Lopez Exchange Var presented Capa with a dilemma? I finally found a ref for that, a different chapter of the book I cited for Schlechter 1910 - doh! It's:

Pachman, L. (1987). "St Petersburg 1914: Drawing Variation - The Way to Victory". Decisive Games in Chess History. Courier Dover. pp. 64–68. ISBN 0486253236. Retrieved 2009-06-04.

So that point is now included! --Philcha (talk) 08:06, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

That's a good catch, thanks a lot ! SyG (talk) 06:51, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Bottom Importance

Hi. Yes, have asked for expert input yesterday User_talk:WOSlinker#Template_fun. I do know of the issue and used a sandbox version Template:Chess-WikiProject/sandbox but without success yet. SunCreator (talk) 17:23, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Now  Fixed thanks to User talk:MSGJ. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 18:06, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Well spotted with the two scale link issues. Partial fix now added. SunCreator (talk) 18:47, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

If you want the bottom numbers listed in the assessment box, I think you have to switch to User:Erwin85Bot as done here(note each box cell is linked-useful!), otherwise I think it will come in User:WP_1.0_bot/Second_generation, which in due course will do the same thing. SunCreator (talk) 19:43, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

You are perfectly right, it seems WP_1.0_bot is not able to handle the Bottom category by itself (as it is a non-standard class...). I have started to work on the switch to Erwin85Bot, but it is much complex and I will have to create about a hundred new categories. Ultimately I plan to ask to the members of the WikiProject which format they want. SyG (talk) 20:03, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

If your going to create all the categories(you have done most already) a bot is not required to create the Assessment Box. Using PAGESINCATEGORY you can return the numbers immediately. SunCreator (talk) 22:31, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

In fact even new categories are not required. SunCreator (talk) 23:51, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Chess articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Bottom	Total
Quality
	FA	0	3	0	1	0	4
	A	0	0	1	1	0	2
	GA	12	4	6	16	6	44
	B	12	27	38	44	7	128
	C	23	96	114	252	14	503
	Start	0	77	530	1810	58	2502
	Stub	0	19	219	3760	28	4061
	List	2	2	17	71	4	98
	Total	49	228	935	6038	121	7371

Here you go, real time figures(as real time as the category updates anyway!). Note: Any category you create like Category:B-Class_chess_articles_of_Mid-importance can be made clickable. In the above B-Class Mid-importance cell is clickable. Category correctly has 30 articles at present, 29 with 'Mid-importance' and one(Swindle_(chess)) with lowercase 'mid-importance'. It's a common issue of mixed case that can easily confuse. SunCreator (talk) 00:12, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Case Issue

I notice you encountered the case issue 'articles of Low-importance' 'articles of low-importance' etc. I think it's possible to resolve the case issue with #if coding rather then editing each article occurrence from lower case to upper case. There is a first letter case detection (lcfirst and ucfirst) available. Implementing ParserFunctions is beyond my ability at the moment however. SunCreator (talk) 09:42, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

That is a very interesting possibility. But that would work for the table, and not for the individual categories, right ? I mean, the table would show the correct number of articles, but the category would not have it ? SyG (talk) 10:35, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

The table already works to handle both lower and upper case, as it simply adds 'Low-importance' and 'low-importance' together, so 1114 from Category:Stub-Class_chess_articles_of_Low-importance plus 209 Category:Stub-Class_chess_articles_of_low-importance which totals 1323. What I believe is possible is a change to Template:Chess-WikiProject so that 'low' goes to category 'Low', 'mid goes to 'Mid' etc then the assessment intersection click through will also correctly show all articles. SunCreator (talk) 11:07, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

That would solve everything. Any idea who could help us on how to do that ? SyG (talk) 11:09, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

I suspect many people used to using the ParserFunctions could do it. I'd like to learn do it myself http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Parser_function and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lcfirst:#Formatting a good start but I got to log out soon, off to a chess congress for the weekend. :) SunCreator (talk) 11:24, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

A chess congress, how wonderful ! I hope all these cat things will be fixed by the time you come back :-) SyG (talk) 11:26, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

See you've been changing the case on lots of articles. Done a few myself. Still 200+ low stubs to go. SunCreator (talk) 22:43, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your help ! I think they all have the correct case now. There are still discrepancies though, but I am not able to find where they come from. For example if you sum the articles in the "Low-importance" column you get 1+3+13+45+737+1320+26=2145 while the category Category:Low-importance chess articles shows a bit more. SyG (talk) 10:33, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:FAQ/Categories#Why_might_a_category_list_not_be_up_to_date.3F SunCreator (talk) 08:36, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

1+3+13+44+738+1318+26=2143 Presently showing 2143 articles and saying total is 2148. Will correct itself in time. SunCreator (talk) 08:44, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

You are right to point out the problem of up-to-date with categories, but I suspect there is another problem somewhere, maybe an occurrence of quality or of importance that is not reported correctly in the intersected categories. SyG (talk) 10:30, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

The total always semms to be five more then it's showing. Can something be hidden in the category? I looked for the basics - all template(they are NA). Have not found the mystery five yet. SunCreator (talk) 08:29, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

(Unindent) Pages that have been re-directed but the talk page still exists with a wikiprojects chess banner. Thus the recently merged Talk:Chess Victoria for one. SunCreator (talk) 14:02, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Extra categories

Are the Unknown categories Category:FA-Class chess articles of Unknown-importance, Category:A-Class chess articles of Unknown-importance and any similar, required for anything? SunCreator (talk) 09:58, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

I had created these for the Erwin85 bot, but as you were able to count the category without the help of a bot, I guess they are not needed now. I will delete them. SyG (talk) 10:24, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Yea, the existence of the categories are not required for counting, but useful for clicking the intersection. SunCreator (talk) 10:36, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Template

Wikipedia:WikiProject Chess/Assessment statistics is a template. So move to Template:WikiProject Chess/Assessment statistics? SunCreator (talk) 10:11, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Mmm, and what exactly makes this page a template ? I mean, I am not sure I really see the difference between a normal page and a template. Normally a template is passed some paramters, which is not the case for that one. SyG (talk) 10:32, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Many templates don't have parameters. Template:Chess, Template:Fide etc. Not sure what makes a template exactly, being commonly used from multiple other pages perhaps? SunCreator (talk) 10:57, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Template:Fide is a bad example, as it has parameters... But you are correct about Template:Chess, that has no parameters. On the other hands, all reviews (e.g. FA-reviews, GA-reviews, ...) are done on subpages that are then transcluded on other pages, so it is definitely unclear to me. SyG (talk) 11:01, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Unclear to me also. SunCreator (talk) 11:25, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Did you notice MSGJ moved it and called it a template! SunCreator (talk) 20:44, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, it's the beginning of fame ! SyG (talk) 11:15, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Quality chess articles

Can you explain about Category:Quality chess articles. Category shows 15 articles yet addition of FA,GA and A totals 19 articles. SunCreator (talk) 10:24, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

There are 4 FA-class articles, 1 A-class articles and 10 GA-class articles. In the metric system that makes a total 15 :-) SyG (talk) 10:34, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Your correct some categories are incorrectly labelled as FA articles. SunCreator (talk) 10:39, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

That is because I am currently implementing the "Category:Foo-class chess articles" in the "Category:Foo-class chess articles of Zut-importance". It creates a double count for the moment. SyG (talk) 10:47, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

I don't know anything about Foo-class, but go ahead lets see when it's done. SunCreator (talk) 10:58, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Discussion and poll on reviewer usergroup criteria

You may be interested in a discussion and poll I've started to decide the criteria that will be used for promoting users to the reviewer group at Wikipedia talk:Reviewers#New discussion and poll: reviewer criteria - please put your comments there. AndrewRT(Talk) 17:56, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Jeremy Troff

I would much appreciate it if you could participate in a disscusion on the Jeremy Troff talk page. Thanks! GrandMattster 20:35, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

I will happily oblige. Thanks for the notice ! SyG (talk) 18:32, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for all your contributions. I value your opinions.  :) GrandMattster 15:25, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Removal of PROD from Nikolai Georgiyevich Kopilov

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PRODding

Hi SyG. I don't see the point in prodding articles on chess players with marginal notability. They are unlikely to ever be non-controversial. I for one will always remove prods on players which assert some notability, eg International Master, state champion etc, because we do not know without further investigation whether there are enough sources out there to meet WP:N. Why not just save time and take them straight to AfD?--Pawnkingthree (talk) 19:37, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi Pawnkingthree ! I get your point. I wanted to avoid the hassle of AfD first, but you are right to hint that it is probably counterproductive. So I will favour AfD now on. SyG (talk) 17:09, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Happy to Join!

I would be happy to join the wikichessproject! GrandMattster 16:35, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

That's great, welcome on board ! SyG (talk) 17:38, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Belatedly accepting Half Barnstar

Hi, SyG. Over a year ago, you kindly awarded a Half Barnstar to both Philcha and me. I churlishly declined mine on the basis that we had in fact not reached a consensus on the article in question. He and I have both done quite a bit of work on it since then, and have endeavored to fairly present the various viewpoints on Howard Staunton's role in The Staunton-Morphy controversy. Reviewing the article, I think that it is now reasonably balanced, so I have decided to (very belatedly) accept your gracious award. Sorry to have been such a Cheney. Krakatoa (talk) 17:36, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Hi Krakatoa, I am delighted that Philcha and yourself were able to overcome your slight differences of viewpoint. That was kind of funny that an American and an English were battling over, well, a story about another American and another English having words :-)

Your work on this "S-M controversy" has certainly created a great article. Good job ! SyG (talk) 19:43, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I hadn't really thought of the parallel you mentioned. My assistant will have to write a book about me that makes unflattering references to Philcha, "The Triumphs and Exploits on the Internet of Krakatoa, the Wikipedia Champion". :-) Krakatoa (talk) 20:00, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

I'm disapointed that "S-M" has been ignored for over a year :-) --Philcha (talk) 20:06, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

I knew you would appreciate that one ;-) SyG (talk) 20:34, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

FIDE titles merge

At first I supported the merge of many pages to FIDE titles, including IM, FM, WGM, and WIM, but now I'm not sure. Your input is requested at Talk:FIDE titles#Merge maybe not a good idea. Quale (talk) 06:59, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations!!

Very pleased to see the Budapest Gambit achieved GA status. You've put endless hour into that article and lots of tlc. SunCreator (talk) 00:10, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Hear, hear. I had a quick look, and it looks really good. --Philcha (talk) 12:57, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Indeed. It's obviously been a real labor of love for you. The opening really should be renamed the "SyG Gambit." Krakatoa (talk) 13:49, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks guys for your heartening greetings. The article is still far from perfect, but I am happy that an article on a chess opening can become GA. Nothing can stop us ! SyG (talk) 20:33, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

George H. D. Gossip

Our (or my, anyway) favorite American-English-American-English chess-playing/writing curmudgeon, George H. D. Gossip, is having a birthday on December 6. Well, OK, he's not exactly having it, what with being dead almost a century, but you know what I mean. Should we be nominating the article for the front page? If so, do you want to handle the formalities, since you're familiar with how it's done? As always, thanks for your help. Krakatoa (talk) 19:54, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Hi Krakatoa ! Unfortunately I will be pretty busy in the next months (taking a new job) so I do not think I will have enough time to wander on Wikipedia so much. In all cases, from what I know you can only propose articles as early as one month before a given date, so wait for the 6th November ! SyG (talk) 15:46, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Second (chess)

Thanks for turning Second (chess) into a redirect and putting the content into Glossary of chess#Second. Just FYI, I am requesting a WP:SPEEDY delete of the article now.

My pleasure ! SyG (talk) 21:45, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

En Passant

In French is En Passant correct spelling? FIDE refer to it as 'En passante' twice in http://www.fide.com/component/handbook/?view=article&id=125

• C.9 In the case of an ‘en passante’ capture
• C.13 e.p. = captures ‘en passante’

Can you explain this. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 02:05, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

"en passant" is the correct one; "en passante" is just a spelling mistake. SyG (talk) 15:51, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. A little FIDE error then. SunCreator (talk) 23:09, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

you deserve one of course

		The Chess Barnstar
		For many useful contributions to chess articles.

Bubba73 ^{(Who's attacking me now?)}, 01:50, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much ! SyG (talk) 20:48, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Robert Synder.

It doesn't matter what you think about this person, it matters what the press is calling him. They call him a master chess player. For example a new article I aqm adding to his article states

"Police say Snyder used his world-renowned status as a chess teacher to gain families' trust and to assault his chess students. After his 2005 arrest and conviction in 2007, he served jail time and was released in August 2008." \

There are several other existing sources that also call him world reknowned, so maybe you yourself should refrain from [stupid] removals. Hell In A Bucket (talk) 15:00, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Fair enough, I should not have phrased it that way. Sorry if I offended you. I will make my further comments more objective and neutral. SyG (talk) 17:26, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Read Sources!

Just in one source I can validate what you removed. please READ them next time...."As a teen, Snyder won the California State High School Chess Championship and had the highest score on the U.S. Correspondence Olympic Chess Team. He won two international tournaments and became a chess master in 1973, ranking in the top onefourth of 1 percent of all rated chess players in the country. " This is source number 4. Dear lord how much more clear can that be? Hell In A Bucket (talk) 18:58, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

I'm a bit concerned over your lack of response in a clear lapse in judgement. I'm not sure if you are doing this to other articles as well and removing properly sourced material is not the thing around here. Would you at least be willing to indicate you no longer dispute Snyders, world and nationally renowned status as a chess master? Hell In A Bucket (talk) 17:49, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

I am not going on Wikipedia very often, hence my lack of a quick response. I do intend to dispute Snyders, as he is not a world-renowned chess master at all. Of course, I intend to dispute that based on sources and proofs, not on strange arguments like "clear lapse in judgement". SyG (talk) 10:43, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

The funny part is you aren't proving any of this with sources, hence the issue you aren't even reading the ones that are there. This was a lapse in your judgment and I insist you read the sources. If you can find sources that don't call him a master chess player I'd be more inclined to see you po. As every article calls him a master I'd be interested to see your "proof". Hell In A Bucket (talk) 16:04, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Irrevelant article in WPTR

Hi, You had labelled the article The Turk within the Project Turkey (WPTR) in 2008. Well, as far as I can see, The Turk has nothing to do with Turkey or Turkish people save for the name resemblance. It is just a playing machine and I think it must not be included in WPTR. Can you please consider excluding WPTR label. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 14:20, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Hello, I am not the one who labelled that article with that banner, so I have no problem with you removing it if you wish to do so. SyG (talk) 11:01, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Traite des amateurs

Dear SyG,

I noticed you deleted my addition concerning the fact that some of the ideas of Steinitz, in embryonic form, were formulated in the Traité des Amateurs by some contemporaries of Philidor in 1775. I am referring to the concept that at the beginning of the game the forces stand in equilibrium; correct play on both sides maintains this equilibrium and leads to a drawn game, therefore a player can win only as a consequence of an error made by the opponent. From this prospective, there is no such a thing as a winning move and even the most skilled master can do nothing against these natural laws of the game. You can find this, for instance, in the introduction of chapter 4 of the "Traite des amateurs", but also in other points of the book. I added it because it is not very known and quite surprising. Philidor, for instance, had a different opinion since he tought that with correct play white should win.

You deleted my addition on the basis that was not referenced. That is perferctly fine, of course, I am not here to criticize your opinion. I just want to understand how to make a better contribution. Thus, just for my understanding, I tought my contribution was referenced since I quoted the reference to the Traite des amateurs with the link to google books where you can directly read what I was talking about. Did you read it? Is that not enough as a reference? What do you think should be a better way to referenciate it? Iinitially I wanted to quote directly the introductive section of Chapter IV, which is one point of the Traite where this is explained

"The combinations being endless, it is clear that the winning or losing of the game, between players equal in point of skill, must depend on the first bad, or what amounts to the same thing, the first lost move on either side; we cannot, therefore, avoid protesting against the erroneous doctrine laid down by Philidor and others, that he who has the first move, ought to win the game in consequence of that advantage. We proceed to prove, from the very games adduced by Phihdor in support of his position, these three important points. Firstly, that the move alone can never be considered a sufficient advantage to insure success : Secondly, that he who has not the move, will very soon acquire it, or neutralize its effects; and, Lastly, that supposing each move to be the best that could possibly be played, the game ought to be drawn."

which is interesting considering that it was written one century before Steinitz. But then I tought it was too much since this is the article about Steinitz not about the Traite. Moreover, there was the link to the Traite page where everything is explained. What do you think?

Sersunzo (talk) 04:12, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Dear Sersunzo,

Firstly, thanks for your interest in that matter. What is lacking reference is the fact that "some of the ideas of Steinitz, in embryonic form, were formulated in the Traité des Amateurs". I may be misunderstanding, but it seems to me that what you are doing is reading the stuff on Steinitz, then reading the stuff in the Traité des Amateurs, then comparing both and concluding a statement. That is original research. The only way to include such a statement would be to find a reliable source that says: "some of the ideas of Steinitz, in embryonic form, were formulated in the Traité des Amateurs". I hope this helps ! SyG (talk) 11:07, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi,

I see, I never approached the matter from this prospect and indeed it makes sense. Thanks for the discussion.

Sersunzo (talk) 23:04, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

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Shogi

Why would you say shogi is not a version of chess? (Not that I have anything to do w the W-project.) — kwami (talk) 09:12, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

I think Shogi is an independent version, that looks like chess but is not coming from chess. In other words, shogi may be a "cousin" of chess but not a "child" of chess. Hence, I do not see why it should be included in the WikiProject Chess, whom I am a member. SyG (talk) 12:06, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2010 December 3#Valeri Lilov

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Links to a blog

Hello SyG. I have added three external links to Nadanian's blog in the "Family" section of the article (Evelina, Kiti and Vigen). Is it allowed? Regards, --MrsHudson (talk) 20:55, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

I think it should be OK. SyG (talk) 20:11, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Template:Chess diagram

You undid a change to this template (some time ago) due to not having the white dot SVG files available which was breaking uses. I have uploaded File:Chess ood45.svg and File:Chess ool45.svg to resolve this, in case you'd like to use SVGs again. Adrignola (talk) 21:42, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I guess using SVG would be a common decision by WP:CHESS. SyG (talk) 17:07, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

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New messages

What do you know about The Verbeterde List? Just because you can't play chess and didn't hear of it, doesn't mean that the Verbeterde List is already a well-established opening name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Twaburov (talk • contribs) 09:57, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

I fully agree, as you say it, it does not mean the Verbeterde List is already a well-established opening name. SyG (talk) 10:01, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

I actually meant that, the fact that you don't know something about it, does not mean that it is not already a well-established opening name. So hands off the Verbeterde List and focus on the subjects you know something about. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Twaburov (talk • contribs) 09:57, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

I think you should try to fix the objections that are being made to you, instead of bashing the other editors and vandalising their Talk page. You should not take constructive criticism as a personal attack against you, but rather as an effort to check the validity of your assessments and an effort to improve the overall quality of the articles in Wikipedia. I understand you are new to Wikipedia, so what I would suggest is for you to go on the AfD page about the article you have created, and here state your claims and explain why this article is notable and this opening is really named like that. I think you will achieve much higher goals through discussion and collaboration than through insults and sarcasm. SyG (talk) 11:50, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Dude, stop creating mess on my talk page. Twaburov — Preceding unsigned comment added by Twaburov (talk • contribs) 11:49, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Sorry if the warnings I sent you do not suit you, but your Talk page is the standard place where Wikipedians can discuss, so that I have no other place to ask you to stop changing mine. Please note that, even when you removed all I had written to your Talk page, I did not undo your removal. SyG (talk) 11:52, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Learn From The Grandmasters

I agree that Learn From The Grandmasters is not very notable, but once a WP:PROD is declined it is not supposed to be nominated again. Instead WP:AFD is appropriate. Quale (talk) 17:41, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

I get your point. I thought the PROD had been removed on a technicality ("no reason given to PROD"), so I added a reason and I re-proded. SyG (talk) 12:32, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

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"post-war"

Hi,

I just wanted to comment on your undoing of my edit of the section, Post-War era. I do agree that the year 1945 should indicate which war the section covers, but can you count on readers of this article about chess know that fact? For me, it would be safe to lend readers a hand especially considering how many people out there who are, for one reason or another, undereducated about significant historical events and dates. Retrospector87 (talk) 10:09, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Hello Retrospector, and thanks for your comment. My reasoning was that, if someone does not know what war finished in 1945, this person could also not know what "WWII" means, so the addition of this acronym was not fully helpful. SyG (talk) 16:54, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi SyG..so I understand that your appealing to the smarter elements of the readers, assigning them the responsibility of learning the social context of the "post-war" era..more than fine with me — Preceding unsigned comment added by Retrospector87 (talk • contribs) 22:22, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

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Hi!

Thank you for your work on Budapest Gambit and showing the rest of us that it is possible to write a quality article on a chess opening. Inspired by your example, I wrote Modern Benoni recently and am interested in getting it to GA status. If you ever come back to editing around here, would you mind taking a look at it? Thanks, Cobblet (talk) 04:49, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

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It's that time again! Starting on March 1, there will be another GAN Backlog Drive! There will be several changes compared to previous drives:

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• An exception to the rule that all reviews must be completed before the deadline has been created.

Also, something that I thought I would share with all of you is that we raised $20.88 (USD) for the WMF in the December 2013 drive. It may not sound like a lot but considering that that was raised just because we reviewed articles, I would say that's pretty good! With that success, pledges can be made for the upcoming drive if you wish.

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GA Cup

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As we all know, the recent GAN Backlog Drives have not had any big impact on the backlog. Because of that, me (Dom497), Figureskatingfan, and TheQ Editor have worked on an idea that could possibly finally put a dent into the massive backlog. Now, I will admit, the idea isn't entirely ours as we have took the general idea of the WikiCup and brought it over to WikiProject Good Articles. But anyways, here's what we have in mind:

For all of you that do not know what the WikiCup is, it is an annual competition between several editors to see who can get the most Good Articles, Featured Article's, Did You Know's, etc. Based of this, we propose to you the GA Cup. This competition will only focus on reviewing Good articles.

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WikiProject Good Articles - GA Cup

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