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The Signpost: 20 August 2014

Newspapers.com

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An important message about renaming users

Dear Wizardman,

I am cross-posting this message to many places to make sure everyone who is a Wikimedia Foundation project bureaucrat receives a copy. If you are a bureaucrat on more than one wiki, you will receive this message on each wiki where you are a bureaucrat.

As you may have seen, work to perform the Wikimedia cluster-wide single-user login finalisation (SUL finalisation) is taking place. This may potentially effect your work as a local bureaucrat, so please read this message carefully.

Why is this happening? As currently stated at the global rename policy, a global account is a name linked to a single user across all Wikimedia wikis, with local accounts unified into a global collection. Previously, the only way to rename a unified user was to individually rename every local account. This was an extremely difficult and time-consuming task, both for stewards and for the users who had to initiate discussions with local bureaucrats (who perform local renames to date) on every wiki with available bureaucrats. The process took a very long time, since it's difficult to coordinate crosswiki renames among the projects and bureaucrats involved in individual projects.

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Your help is greatly needed during this process and going forward in the future if, as a bureaucrat, renaming users is something that you do or have an interest in participating in. The Wikimedia Stewards have set up, and are in charge of, a new community usergroup on Meta in order to share knowledge and work together on renaming accounts globally, called Global renamers. Stewards are in the process of creating documentation to help global renamers to get used to and learn more about global accounts and tools and Meta in general as well as the application format. As transparency is a valuable thing in our movement, the Stewards would like to have at least a brief public application period. If you are an experienced renamer as a local bureaucrat, the process of becoming a part of this group could take as little as 24 hours to complete. You, as a bureaucrat, should be able to apply for the global renamer right on Meta by the requests for global permissions page on 1 September, a week from now.

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Monmouth College article assessment

I requested an assessment for Monmouth College article time ago and that never been done, would it be possible to give it a look? you can find my request here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Illinois/Assessment#Requesting_an_assessment — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rami.shareef (talk • contribs) 20:18, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Jackie Tavener

The article Jackie Tavener you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Jackie Tavener for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Seattle -- Seattle (talk) 21:03, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

New assessment request for Monmouth College article

Further to your comment on the Monmouth College C class rating on the quality scale for Wikipedia:WikiProject Illinois, I would like to request a new assessment for this article. Almost new 18 citations have been added along with new pictures to support the information provided in the article. Rami.shareef (talk) 00:48, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

GA Cup

Hello everyone! We hope you have all been having a great summer!

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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The Signpost: 27 August 2014

Michael Aquino

I have to disagree with your decision to delete based the following.

Aquino is noted as having been very significant development of Psychological Warfare, so importance exceeds the Temple Set and Church of Satan.

He himself promotes this attribute both in his recent book and interviews.

He continues to be interviewed on the very subjects he cites as being the basis a deletion request privacy reasons, his request abuse policy.

He made himself the face of Satanism in the 80s through dozens of television appearances, again making both notable and showing his request for privacy is of step his own actions.

He is also the face of both Satanic Panic and the claims of ritual abuse, well as false memory syndrome.

For a person to request deletion for privacy, and then continue to stay the public eye through his own actions is absurd. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.123.225.76 (talk) 16:23, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 August newsletter

The final of the 2014 WikiCup begins in a few short minutes! Our eight finalists are listed below, along with their placement in Round 4:

  1. Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer, finished top of Pool A and was the round's highest scorer. Godot is a featured picture specialist, claiming large numbers of points due to high-quality scans of historical documents, especially banknotes.
  2. Scotland Casliber (submissions) is a WikiCup veteran, having been a finalist every year since 2010. In the semi-final, he was Pool B's highest scorer. Cas's points primarily come from articles on the natural sciences.
  3. Nepal Czar (submissions) was Pool A's runner-up. Czar's points come mostly from content related to independent video games, including both articles and topics.
  4. Oh, better far to live and die / Under the brave black flag I fly... Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Pool B's runner-up. Another featured picture specialist, many of Adam's points come from the restoration of historical media. He has been a WikiCup finalist twice before.
  5. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) won the WikiCup in 2012 and 2013, and enters this final as the first wildcard. She focuses on biology-related articles, and has worked on several high-importance articles.
  6. Florida 12george1 (submissions) is the second wildcard. George's points come primarily from meteorology-related articles. This year and last year, George was the first person in the competition to score.
  7. Colorado Sturmvogel 66 (submissions), the third wildcard, was the 2010 champion and a finalist last year. His writes mostly on military history, especially naval history.
  8. Canada Bloom6132 (submissions), the fourth and final wildcard, has participated in previous WikiCups, but not reached any finals. Bloom's points are mostly thanks to did you knows, featured lists and good articles related to sport and national symbols.

We say goodbye to this year's semi-finalists. Herm Matty.007 (submissions), Ohio ThaddeusB (submissions), United States WikiRedactor (submissions), Idaho Figureskatingfan (submissions), Greece Yellow Evan (submissions), Portugal Prism (submissions) and Bartošovice v Orlických horách Cloudz679 (submissions) have all performed well to reach this stage of the competition, and we hope they will all be joining us again next year.

There are two upcoming competitions unrelated to the WikiCup which may be of interest to those who receive this newsletter. The Stub Contest will run through September, and revolves around expanding stub articles, especially high-importance or old stubs. In addition, a proposal has been made for a new competition, the GA Cup, which the organisers plan to run next year. This competition is based on the WikiCup and aims to reduce the good article review backlog.

There is now a thread for brainstorming on how next year's WikiCup competition should work. Please come along and share your thoughts- What works? What doesn't work? What needs changing? Signups for next year's competition will be open soon; we will be in touch. If, at this stage of the competition, you are keen to help the with the WikiCup, please do what you can to participate in review processes. Our finalists will find things much easier if the backlogs at good article candidates, featured article candidates, featured picture candidates and the rest are kept at a minimum. 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:09, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

The Inside Corner : September 1, 2014

What's in the latest edition of WikiProject Baseball's newsletter:

Deletion review for Michael a aquino

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Michael a aquino. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. 198.135.124.71 (talk) 19:37, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

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REMINDER: New assessment request for Monmouth College article

Further to your comment on the Monmouth College C class rating on the quality scale for Wikipedia:WikiProject Illinois, I would like to request a new assessment for this article. Almost new 18 citations have been added along with new pictures to support the information provided in the article. Rami.shareef (talk) 14:15, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Scarborough Day School

Hi Wizardman,

I hope you're still okay with finishing the Scarborough Day School review; would you please continue? I am already indebted to you, thanks for your help thus far.

Best,--ɱ (talk) 00:50, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 September 2014

Grant Kay

I removed the Prod because I think that instead of a quiet deletion there needs to be a wider discussion. So, if you or someone else submits this to AfD, we can discuss the nature of articles like this and whether there are a lot more like this one to deal with. Wikipedia is teeming with articles about semi-notable (at best) sportspeople. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 14:40, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

Minor league players

Not sure why you keep re-directing players who seem to pass GNG.--Yankees10 23:25, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

Not seeing where most of the recent creations pass GNG. Wizardman 23:27, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
Nearly every AFD has passed in the past with the same amount of sources.--Yankees10 23:34, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
Looking at it, German probably was pushing it, but I think Urshela is an easy pass.--Yankees10 23:42, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

I would advise submitting these for AfD as redirects based on one person's opinion borders on disruptive. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 00:22, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

How the hell is that disruptive? Allowing non-notable players to be created is enough of an issue that i actually stopped tackling some time ago precisely because of this. Redirecting was a compromise we made some time ago on any borderline cases. Wizardman 00:24, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
Because taking it to AfD is the next step. If you're going to refer to a "compromise made some time ago", I need a link so I can read about that. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 00:28, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Paul Des Jardien

Sorry that it took me so long to do the review (I've been travelling abroad and had less access to the internet than I thought I would), but I've finally completed the GA review for Paul Des Jardien and placed it on hold. Canadian Paul 13:33, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Paul Des Jardien

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Talk:Blakumen/GA1

Wizardman, I was wondering if you could please take a look at this one. It appears to have been reviewed quite a while ago, but nothing at all was found to be wrong (could happen, but unusual), yet it remains unlisted. The lede seems awfully short, for all that it is a short article. If it should indeed have been listed, then by all means do the honors, or tag the reviewer to take care of them. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 23:40, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Put back in queue; since the guy also did the copyedit it's probabyl for the best that it gets another look. Wizardman 00:26, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for taking care of it. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:29, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Paul Des Jardien

The article Paul Des Jardien you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Paul Des Jardien for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Canadian Paul -- Canadian Paul (talk) 11:42, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 September 2014

WikiProject Good Articles - GA Cup

WikiProject Good articles is holding a new competition, the GA Cup, from October 1, 2014 - March 28, 2015. The Cup will be based on reviewing Good article nominations; for each review, points will be awarded with bonuses for older nominations, longer articles and comprehensive reviews. All participants will start off in one group and the highest scoring participants will go through to the second round. At the moment six rounds are planned, but this may change based on participant numbers.

Some of you may ask: what is the purpose for a competition of this type? Currently, there is a backlog of about 500 unreviewed Good article nominations, almost an all time high. It is our hope that we can decrease the backlog in a fun way, through friendly competition.

Everyone is welcome to join; new and old editors! Sign-ups will be open until October 15, 2014 so sign-up now!

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The Signpost: 17 September 2014

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If I review your 1990 Toledo Rockets football team article, would you re-review The Lives of a Bengal Lancer film article? Jonas Vinther (speak to me!) 16:16, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

September 2014

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Stub contest

A quick note to say that as of this evening you're in fourth place, with 390 points - and there's three days still to go, so if you've any more to add please get them in soon :-). Thanks for the contributions! Andrew Gray (talk) 20:27, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

The Inside Corner : September 28, 2014

The Signpost: 24 September 2014

Restoration of User:Trident13/Watson

Hi, the above page was deleted as a presumptive copyvio. Can you restore it (possible move it to my userspace) so i can work on it. From what I remember, it's not a full copyright (if at all) - and alot of it is a list. Thanks - Happysailor (Talk) 21:57, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 September newsletter

In one month's time, we will know our WikiCup 2014 champion. Newcomer Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) has taken a strong lead with a featured list (historical coats of arms of the U.S. states from 1876) and a raft of featured pictures. Reigning champion Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) is in second place with a number of high-importance biology articles, including new FA Isopoda and new GA least weasel. Scotland Casliber (submissions), who is in his fifth WikiCup final, is in third, with featured articles Pictor and Epacris impressa.

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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q3 2014

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DYK for Len Ford

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unretired

Hey Wizardman, do you mind reinstating the the ga review that you deleted yesterday? (Who wants to be a millionaire/ga1) I had a long night thinking about whether or not to retire, and instead decided to take short wikibreaks instead of being retired. Thanks so much! Brandon (MrWooHoo) • Talk to Brandon! 16:22, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 01 October 2014

Alt photo text

Hey, Wizardman, I wanted to give you a head's up. I partially reverted your edit to the Tim Walton article in order to restore "alt" text infobox parameter per Wikipedia:Alternative text for images. We need to be adding photo alt text to every infobox, not deleting the field for it. I hope you'll help achieve that goal with your future infobox clean-up edits. Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 12:49, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

The Iron Bridge abandoned review

May the abandoned review Talk:The Iron Bridge/GA1 be restored and archived or failed instead? I may be wrong, but I think that there was useful feedback. 84.127.80.114 (talk) 02:36, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Pat Seerey

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Your GA nomination of Pat Seerey

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Books and Bytes - Issue 8

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Books & Bytes
Issue 8, August-September2014
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)

  • TWL now a Wikimedia Foundation program, moves on from grant status
  • Four new donations, including large DeGruyter parntership, pilot with Elsevier
  • New TWL coordinators, Wikimania news, new library platform discussions, Wiki Loves Libraries update, and more
  • Spotlight: "Traveling Through History" - an editor talks about his experiences with a TWL newspaper archive, Newspapers.com

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Your GA nomination of 1990 Toledo Rockets football team

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The Baseball Barnstar
To Wizardman, for all your expanding of baseball-related stubs in the Stub Contest, in which you've come fourth. Well done, Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 04:36, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 1990 Toledo Rockets football team

The article 1990 Toledo Rockets football team 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 needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:1990 Toledo Rockets football team for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Neonblak -- Neonblak (talk) 05:21, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 08 October 2014

Luiz Gohara

Why are you deleting the re-direct without a discussion? What the hell has Gareth Morgan done to get a re-direct that Gohera hasn't?--Yankees10 03:55, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Am I not going to get a response?--Yankees10 17:04, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
FYI the re-direct was made 2 years ago when he was on the WBC roster but dropped out before the it started. I never would have added him otherwise. You had no right to abuse your admin powers and just delete a re-direct without any discussion just because you disagree with its inclusion.--Yankees10 22:49, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

A re-direct you can delete without any argument is Michael Brady (baseball).--Yankees10 00:27, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

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GA Cup -Round 1 Newsletter

WikiProject Good Articles's 2014-15 GA Cup - Round 1

As we move into the middle of Round 1, we wanted to report some of the lessons we've learned thus far, as well as announce a major rule change going into Round 2, which begins November 1. Remember, sign-ups for this year's Cup ends on September 15.

Thus far, we're very happy with the results of the competition. One of our major goals, reducing the long backlog at GAN, is well on the way to being accomplished, mostly due to the enthusiastic efforts of Jonas Vinther, who has earned over 250 points. Over 80 reviews have been made thus far. Thank you all for your efforts and for your part in making the GA Cup a success.

However, this is the inaugural year of the GA Cup, so there have been some unforeseen circumstances that have come up. One has been a glaring inadequacy with the rules, which the judges feel makes the competition unfair. As a result, there will be a major change in the rules, starting at the beginning of Round 2:

  • Your review must provide feedback/suggestions for improvement, and then you must wait until the nominator has responded and all issues/suggestions have been resolved before you can pass the article. Failure to follow this rule will result in disqualification.

What this means is that you must provide some feedback to the article's nominator, and must wait for him or her to respond before passing the article. If the nominator has not responded in the standard 7 days, you can fail the article. We're instituting this rule change to prevent the possibility of competitors passing articles for the sake of passing articles (or failing them) and to gain more points. We believe that the change will make it more fair to all competitors in the GA Cup.

Also, in case you haven't noticed, we increased the "guarantee" for Round 2 to 25 participants. The exact number will be decided in the near future.

We thank your for your participation, and for your flexibility and understanding as we learn what works and what doesn't work in this competition.

Cheers from NickGibson3900, Dom497, TheQ Editor and Figureskatingfan.

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GA Cup Newsletter Correction

Hi everyone,

It was brought to the attention of the judges that there was an error in the newsletter sent out earlier today.

Sign-ups for the GA Cup will close on October 15, 2014, not September 15, 2014 (as mentioned in the newsletter).

Sorry for any confusion.

Cheers from NickGibson3900, Dom497, TheQ Editor and Figureskatingfan.

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GA Cup - Round 1 Newsletter #2

WikiProject Good Articles's 2014-15 GA Cup - Round 1

Hello GA Cup competitors!

The judges have learned a great deal in this first part of the competition, and we appreciate your patience with us as we've figured out what works and what doesn't work. As we reported in our last newsletter, an inadequacy in the scoring system has been illuminated in the past 15 days, which has resulted in a major change in the rules. It has also resulted in one withdrawal.

To ensure fairness, we've decided to further increase the number of participants moving onto Round 2. Everyone who has reviewed at least one article will automatically be moved forward, and will be placed in pools. You have until October 29 to take advantage of this opportunity. It is our hope that this will make up for the unforeseen glitch in our scoring system.

Best of wishes to all of you as you continue to help improve articles and make Wikipedia a better place.

Cheers from NickGibson3900, Dom497, TheQ Editor and Figureskatingfan.

To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.

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Your GA nomination of 1990 Toledo Rockets football team

The article 1990 Toledo Rockets football team you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:1990 Toledo Rockets football team for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Neonblak -- Neonblak (talk) 19:03, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

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Rick Ferrell photo

Hey there, my GA nomination of Rick Ferrell is nearly finished, but the last issue remaining is the photo used in the infobox. I need to know whether or not the copyright has expired on the card set used. The 1941 St. Louis Browns team set. I ask you because you uploaded it. Does the copyright of the card set transfer to the Orioles? Its a great photo, would like to keep it around.Neonblak talk - 03:28, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 October 2014

WP:NRHP project banner

Is there a reason you're going through and changing hundreds of project banners for WP:NRHP to bypass redirects? I mean the redirects are valid redirects, so you're not really changing anything. I'm not opposed to the edits, per se, but I do think they're unnecessary. Was there some discussion of this?--Dudemanfellabra (talk) 16:22, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

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