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WikiCup 2015 September newsletter
The finals for the 2015 Wikicup has now begun! Congrats to the 8 contestants who have survived to the finals, and well done and thanks to everyone who took part in rounds 3 and 4.
In round 3, we had a three-way tie for qualification among the wildcard contestants, so we had 34 competitors. The leader was by far 
Casliber (submissions) in Group B, who earned 1496 points. Although 913 of these points were bonus points, he submitted 15 articles in the DYK category. Second place overall was 
Coemgenus (submissions) at 864 points, who although submitted just 2 FAs for 400 points, earned double that amount for those articles in bonus points. Everyone who moved forward to Round 4 earned at least 100 points.
The scores required to move onto the semifinals were impressive; the lowest scorer to move onto the finals was 407, making this year's Wikicup as competitive as it's always been. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:
Cas Liber (submissions), who is competing in his sixth consecutive Wikicup final, again finished the round in first place, with an impressive 1666 points in Pool B. Casliber writes about the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy. A large bulk of his points this round were bonus points.
Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points), second place both in Pool B and overall, earned the bulk of his points with FPs, mostly depicting currency.
Cwmhiraeth (submissions), first in Pool A, came in third. His specialty is natural science articles; in Round 4, he mostly submitted articles about insects and botany. Five out of the six of the GAs he submitted were level-4 vital articles.
Harrias (submissions), second in Pool A, took fourth overall. He tends to focus on articles about cricket and military history, specifically the 1640s First English Civil War.
West Virginian (submissions), from Pool A, was our highest-scoring wildcard. West Virginia tends to focus on articles about the history of (what for it!) the U.S. state of West Virginia.- Rodw (submissions), from Pool A, likes to work on articles about British geography and places. Most of his points this round were earned from two impressive accomplishments: a GT about Scheduled monuments in Somerset and a FT about English Heritage properties in Somerset.
Rationalobserver (submissions), from Pool B, came in seventh overall. RO earned the majority of her points from GARs and PRs, many of which were earned in the final hours of the round.
Calvin999 (submissions), also from Pool B, who was competing with RO for the final two spots in the final hours, takes the race for most GARs and PRs—48.
The intense competition between RO and Calvin999 will continue into the finals. They're both eligible for the Newcomers Trophy, given for the first time in the Wikicup; whoever makes the most points will win it.
Good luck to the finalists; the judges are sure that the competition will be fierce!
Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 11:48, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
Aftermath Chicago
In regards to your weak delete due to RS. The magazines cited are or were all major magazines related to Heavy Metal. The band's inclusion in these magazines can be verified. In addition the release of music on record labels qualifies their inclusion. Gary Sharpe Yoing is considered a major source on heavy metal and the sub genres. Aftermath is included in his book cite and reference is posted.Zoident (talk) 13:58, 2 September 2015 (UTC)Zoident
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Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
Your feedback is requested
Hi Tony,
Since you are an active member at WP:CHICAGO, do you mind taking a look at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Metra stations/archive1 and giving some feedback if you can? Unfortunately, this FLC has been relatively slow in general and feedback would be appreciated, as my activity will be declining generally as summer ends and I'd rather get this over with while I have time. Thanks. Sportsguy17 (T • C) 18:03, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
Project that might be of interest to you
Hello T. I know that you have done good work with navboxes over the years. Last night I noticed Template:Padma Shri Awards being added to the articles for the people who have received this honor. Unfortunately the navbox does not have the name of those people in it. This means they can be removed from the articles. Also, IMO the links by decade are not very helpful to readers since a person might have to search through several of them to find the relevant article. Would you be interested in bringing this template into line with other award navboxes? Maybe splitting them by decade? Now as I look at these Padma Shri#Awards by decade there are a lot of names to include so it may be a bigger project than you want to take on - or you might not be interested in it at all. I thought I would ask just in case you would be. Thanks for your work here at WikiP and cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 19:09, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
- MarnetteD, The template should not be on biographies in its current form. Template:Kennedy Center Honorees 2000s is an example of the proper format. However, given the prominence of redlinks I am not interested in reformatting the templates in this manner. Someone like RobSinden might even want to get it deleted as he has done with many of my marginal template contributions.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 03:33, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for the reply T. I knew there was some work involved. i appreciate your looking into this. MarnetteD|Talk 04:20, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
Tony -- You may remember that last year I created a list of Michigan football deletion candidates and nominated several at AfD. I've added a couple more today, including Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Martavious Odoms (which you created in 2009 when Odoms was a freshman with seemingly great potential that never materialized) and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brendan Gibbons. I simply wanted to make sure you were aware and invite you to contribute to the discussion if you wish to do so. Cbl62 (talk) 15:26, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
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Hello, I nominated Tyrone Garland for featured article candidacy a few weeks back, and so far it is looking good. However, it has been a bit inactive as of late. As a veteran in this field, you are encouraged to participate in the review. Feel free to leave any comments you have and "support" it if you think everything is fine. TempleM (talk) 18:04, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Tony - you might want to check in here: [1]...Modernist (talk) 22:52, 28 September 2015 (UTC)