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Your GA nomination of Article

The article Article you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Article for things which need to be addressed. Ishtar456 (talk) 22:45, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

I have made some additional comments and have asked for a second opinion as I have done a lot of edits myself. Good luck, I hope this passes.--Ishtar456 (talk) 22:45, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
  • The "on hold" notice probably wasn't the right one, but they did not have one for a second opinion. It is the first time I have asked for one, so I just found out what happens is that it appears on the nomination page as if it has not yet been reviewed, but who ever picks it up will go to the discussion that we have had. Take care, --Ishtar456 (talk) 22:57, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2012 March newsletter

We are over half way through the second round of this year's WikiCup and things are going well! Conradh na Gaeilge Grapple X (submissions), of Pool B, is our highest overall scorer thanks to his prolific writings on television and film. In second place is Pool H's Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions), thanks primarily to work on biological articles, especially in marine biology and herpetology. Third place goes to Pool E's Scotland Casliber (submissions), who also writes primarily on biology (including ornithology and botany) and has already submitted two featured articles this round. Of the 63 contestants remaining, 15 (just under a quarter) have over 100 points this round. However, 25 are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly. 32 contestants, the top two from each pool and the 16 next-highest scorers, will advance to round 3.

Congratulations to Vanuatu Matthewedwards (submissions), whose impressive File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg became the competition's first featured picture. Also, congratulations to Florida 12george1 (submissions), who claimed good topic points, our first contestant this year to do so, for his work on Wikipedia:Featured topics/1982 Atlantic hurricane season. This leaves featured topics and featured portals as the only sources of points not yet utilised. However, as recent statistics from Wisconsin Miyagawa (submissions) show, no source has yet been utilised this competition to the same extent it has been previously!

It has been observed that the backlogs at good article candidates are building up again. While the points for good article reviews will be remaining constant, any help that can be offered keeping the backlog down would be appreciated. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. As ever, 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:18, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Folk Singer

Hello, I have passed the article! Sorry for the delay, and good work! Basilisk4u (talk) 07:58, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

WikiThanks

WikiThanks
WikiThanks

Thanks for your recent contributions! 66.87.0.87 (talk) 21:20, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Invitation to the April Wikification Drive

The Signpost: 02 April 2012

History

Listen what said Bobby Sanabria about who created the salsa and Afro-Cuban jazz he said Cuban created the salsa and afro-Cuban jazz do not Puertorricans first interview [1] second interview [2]64.254.111.109 (talk)

learn first before changing the things that are true64.254.111.109 (talk)

How reliable are the videos?--GoPTCN 18:35, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Bobby Sanabria is an educator, musicologist, musician born in New York brother64.254.111.109 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:40, 3 April 2012 (UTC).

Psychedelic rock GA review

Thanks for your comments so far. Just to let you know I think I have dealt with all the issues mentioned todate. So it is back over to you when you have time.--SabreBD (talk) 21:54, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi. Any idea when you will be able to get back to this, it has been a few weeks.--SabreBD (talk) 20:41, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Many thanks for a helpful review.--SabreBD (talk) 18:42, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Cambodia

What do you think of the compromise made on Cambodia? I reckon it should satisfy all parties. Best etc.
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Bits

I gave you both File Mover and Autopatrolled. I am sure that both will be useful during your content creation work. If you need anything else, please let me know. --Guerillero | My Talk 17:15, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Folk Singer

Hello, sorry for the delay in getting back to the review. It seems that another user has brought up more concerns that I missed with the article on the talk page. When they are addressed, I will pass the article. Good luck! Basilisk4u (talk) 03:16, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Here We Go Again (Ray Charles song)/archive3

You commented at both of the prior FACs and Supported the last one, so as a courtesy, I am notifying you of Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Here We Go Again (Ray Charles song)/archive3.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 12:38, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

My missing url

Good evening GreatOrangePumkin,

Thank you very much for your amazingly fast response to my citing problem earlier this evening.

I would have replied earlier, but initially had mistakenly read your posting together with your (very attractive) signature as the first part of David's reply to me. He had not left a line break. It was only on going back to it just now that I realised my misunderstanding.

With kind regards, Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk) 23:17, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 April 2012

Demons

Hello, Tomcat7/2012. Greetings from the Photography workshop. A reply has been made to your request. You may view the reply here.
If you are satisfied, please copy/paste the following code and add it to your request: {{resolved|1=~~~~}}


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PawełMM (talk) 21:53, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Otis Redding

Hello, I just wanted to introduce myself and let you know I am glad to be reviewing the article Otis Redding 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. Ishtar456 (talk) 23:18, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

  • I made some comments already after first read.
Hello, just commenting to tell you I have provided a second opinion on this nomination.--The Devil's Advocate (talk) 16:23, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Otis Redding

hi there, a second opinion has been given on the article. Please follow the suggestions on the template and let me know when they have been done and I will complete the review. Please let me know within seven days. The hold will be until 5/18. Take Care, --Ishtar456 (talk) 19:51, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

An award for you

A Barnstar!
Golden Wiki Award
You are among the top 5% of most active Wikipedians this past month! 66.87.7.204 (talk) 00:38, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Pain in My Heart GA

I just reviewed the article you nominated for GA. When the stuff I said has been addressed, I'll pass the article. Good luck! What a pro (talk, contribs) thinks that ohhhh, ohhh, woaaah-oh-oh-ohhhhh. 14:02, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 April 2012

Re: Barnstar

Thanks for the barnstar :) Much appreciated. - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 13:16, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

On adding Category:Russian monarchists to various biographies

GOP, if you're going to infer that certain individuals were "clearly monarchist[s]" [3], please be so kind as to provide a source. Since WP:BURDEN says that the burden of evidence is on whoever adds or restores material, the burden of providing actual sources would be yours. A source that is a paper copy of Wikipedia articles, for instance a source of this type found by Google-mining for "[name]" and "monarchist", like this [4], is not a satisfactory source. Your own opinions on the matter without published sources back them would fall into the category of original research. Zloyvolsheb (talk) 20:38, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Personally I don't see how that adds anything being a category anyway, so there's that too. It should probably be in a (sourced) list. ♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫ (talk) 21:39, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Again, if you have found a reliable source, good job. Now it's your job to add it into the text of the article. Then you re-add the category. Zloyvolsheb (talk) 21:45, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Sorry but no, this is ridiculous. Common sense always trumps bureucracy. It is completely incorrect to remove a category just because you think that there should be a source in the article indicating that this is true. What you did is incorrect, since it was correct that they were monarchists. GoPTCN 21:51, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
All categories need to be sourced. WP:CAT Span (talk) 22:02, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Uhm, no. There are many articles which do not cite the categories, as if someone add content to an article, which supports the category, and it does not fit anywhere or it is off-topic, there is no need to cite a category. This is why we have search engines. Regards.--GoPTCN 09:37, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

P.S.: As the first step in dispute resolution, I have started a discussion on this at the NOR noticeboard: Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard#Addition of unsourced Category:Russian monarchists to biographies. Zloyvolsheb (talk) 22:25, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Good for you. Now get off of my talk page and do not annoy me with your silliness. Regards.--GoPTCN 09:37, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
The editor with whom you are having a dispute has taken a good step in WP:DR. You may wish to respond to him there, even if only to make it clear how wrong that other editor might be. Otherwise an admin is likely to see an edit-war and block both of you, or worse, an uncontested complaint about repeatedly inserting poorly cited controversial information and come down harder on you than him. DMacks (talk) 16:49, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

harv errors

ok .. I'll install that script .. what info do you want in there? I was going to do manually. 2eschew surplusage (talk) 11:13, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Need to get my ref prefs set up so it's int the toolbar too. .. hang on 2eschew surplusage (talk) 11:15, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
something in my prefs. isn't set up yet - I don't have the "cite" link available in my editing toolbar ... let me know what information you want there and I'll fix it. The first ref that's showing an error is because you have a named ref cited .. but there is no ref by that name in the list. 2eschew surplusage (talk) 11:30, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
  • GOP - I have to run out for a bit, but I will check back to make sure this gets fixed for you. Leave me the information you want put into the references: 31 and 37. You don't have to format them. Then the other ones (like #2) we'll get to after we get the red "ERROR" stuff fixed. I'll check, but we may need a bibliography section that explain those paper/journals/books etc. Either leave any info here and I'll check back .. or my talk. ttyl 2eschew surplusage (talk) 11:54, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Millionth edit

Thank you My millionth live edit to any Wikimedia project was this. My millionth live edit to en.wp was this. Bear in mind that I have at least 50,000 deleted edits and over 500,000 log actions as well, so what the millionth is is a matter of interpretation. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:31, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Beatles infobox

There is a Straw Poll taking place here, and your input would be appreciated. — GabeMc (talk) 23:32, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

The Modest Barnstar
In recognition of all the work you’ve done lately! 66.87.2.10 (talk) 13:21, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia Stories Project

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DYK for These Arms of Mine (Otis Redding song)

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Otis Redding GA

Hi, The article failed GA, but I want to encourage you to use the feedback you have received to continue to improve it. I think it is getting there.--Ishtar456 (talk) 03:41, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

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