WikiCup 2019 March newsletter
And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2. With 56 contestants qualifying, each group in Round 2 contains seven contestants, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for Round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining contestants.
Our top scorers in Round 1 were:
L293D, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with ten good articles on submarines for a total of 357 points.
Adam Cuerden, a WikiCup veteran, came next with 274 points, mostly from eight featured pictures, restorations of artwork.
MPJ-DK, a wrestling enthusiast, was in third place with 263 points, garnered from a featured list, five good articles, two DYKs and four GARs.
Usernameunique came next at 243, with a featured article and a good article, both on ancient helmets.
Squeamish Ossifrage was in joint fifth place with 224 points, mostly garnered from bringing the 1937 Fox vault fire to featured article status.
Ed! was also on 224, with an amazing number of good article reviews (56 actually).
These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews on 143 good articles, one hundred more than the number of good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Well done all!
Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.
If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! 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. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk).
April editathons at Women in Red
January 2020 at Women in Red
January 2020, Volume 6, Issue 1, Numbers 146, 148, 149, 150, 151, 153
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Sad emoji
In regard to this edit, how come we have "thank", but no "sad" emoji? We even have {{wink}} . Oh, well. Nice to see you editing on your own terms. Mathglot (talk) 06:58, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
- Give it time, they may add it! ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (。◕‿◕。) 06:59, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
Template:Emoji/Gallery - and I agree 100% with Mathglot's sentiments. -- Cabayi (talk) 09:34, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
Pings in refund responses
There was recently agreement at WT:REFUND that when responding to a REFUND request it is a good practice, although not required, to ping the requesting editor. I see you have recently been responding, and I want to draw this to your attention, as it is a change. It is now in the instructions, but experienced editors may not re-read that looking for changes. Reasons and discussion may be found at WT:REFUND#Pinging requestors DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 14:14, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
- @DESiegel: Thanks! I wasn't aware but I definitely think that this is a good idea! I'll make sure to do this from now on! If I forget, please let me know! ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (。◕‿◕。) 02:35, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
Draft:Aspose.BarCode additional review
Hello I have edited Aspose.BarCode article with requested requirements (i think).
What I had did I wrote on talk page
If you could find some time, could you add some advises what also need to be changed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexandr.gavriluk (talk • contribs) 02:52, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
- I think it looks good as far as neutrality goes. I'm going to post at the computing WikiProject to get some people to look at it that are more familiar with this topic area, as I realized after reviewing that some of my suggestions (like the code examples) may have been wrong. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (。◕‿◕。) 09:59, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for your work. I didn't ask anyone in Wikiproject because I started WikiProject Barcode and noone have interested in this. In this way I understand that barcodes technology isn't too popular in wiki and I have to do everything by myself. Alexandr.gavriluk (talk) 17:18, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
- @Alexandr.gavriluk: You may want to check in with the Wikidata project since this sounds like it may be something that would be of interest to them - their page image is of a barcode. You may want to also check out whether or not the barcode project could be of assistance to Wikidata as well. I'm going to ping @Thryduulf: since he is active with Wikidata (at least per the list) and may be interested in this. At the very least you may want to check out Wikidata - it's honestly pretty awesome. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (。◕‿◕。) 06:35, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
Tarick Salmaci
Hi ReaderofthePack (or the editor formerly known as Tokyogirl79). About three years ago you protected this article for about a week because of edit warring. Every so often, an IP shows up again to try and make the same unsourced changes to the article and they just popped up again today. This time, however, the IP also tried to add some images uploaded to Commons by Taricksalmaci. That account is username blocked on Wikipedia, but not Commons. This could just be a coincidence, but my guess is that it's Salmaci or someone close to him trying to edit the article again. Adding the images might actually be a good thing except one is clearly a copyvio and the other is almost certainly not "own work". I've left a message about this on the IP's user talk page, but I'm not sure they'll bother to read it. Anyway, I'm wondering if you'd mind watching this for a day or two to see if the IP comes back. PP is probably not needed at this point unless the IP really starts edit warring again; so, perhaps just another pair of eyes on the article would suffice for the time being. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:06, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
- Will do! Let me know if you feel like it needs a pp! ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (。◕‿◕。) 07:24, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for the reply. The page has been protected by Ymblanter per WP:RPP. I hope you don't feel like I got impatient waiting for you to reply and went around you to RPP. I was happy to wait until a new SPA was created (almost certainly a SOCK) and started trying to make the same edits and re-add the same questionable images. The SPA even kept edit warring after others showed up to try and settle things down. Anyway, the DE has stopped for now, and an SPI has been started. The Commons files that were uploaded have also been tagged for review. Even so, my guess is that it will start up again once the PP has expired; if not right away, then not too long thereafter. My feeling is that the subject of the article (or perhaps someone close to him) has been trying non-stop to try and get his (their) version into the article. I've really tried to work with this person and look for anything that might be considered an RS to support the changes, but just have had no look. Previously, files were uploaded as well, but these were also deleted for copyright reason. Perhaps this person just has a lot of down time now and felt it would be a good time to once again try and get the article the way they want it to be. If they'd only use the talk page, I'd be more than happy to try and explain things and help them out. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:25, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
- Nah, no worries! I was at work so I was a bit worried that I wouldn't be able to catch them if things got busy (and they did), so I'm glad that you did! ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (。◕‿◕。) 03:48, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Teddy Dressing
When I was looking at the AFD yesterday, I found a reference to the purported children's book in this 2016 book. Now I wonder if the author found the title on Wikipedia. pburka (talk) 15:39, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
- @Pburka: That would make sense - I've seen it done for some other book related topics that turned out to be hoaxes. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (。◕‿◕。) 03:07, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
WikiProject Horror Newsletter - August 2020
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September Women in Red edithons
Women in Red | September 2020, Volume 6, Issue 9, Numbers 150, 151, 176, 177
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WikiCup 2020 September newsletter
The fourth round of the competition has finished, with 865 points being required to qualify for the final round, nearly twice as many points as last year. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with 598 and 605 points being eliminated, and all but two of the contestants who reached the final round having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were
Bloom6132, with 1478 points gained mainly from 5 featured lists, 12 DYKs and 63 in the news items;
HaEr48 with 1318 points gained mainly from 2 featured articles, 5 good articles and 8 DYKs;
Lee Vilenski with 1201 points mainly gained from 2 featured articles and 10 good articles.
Between them, contestants achieved 14 featured articles, 14 featured lists, 2 featured pictures, 87 good articles, 90 DYK entries, 75 ITN entries, 95 featured article candidate reviews and 81 good article reviews. Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:53, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the input on Lucy's Heart!
Hi, thanks for your input and the brochure! It's indeed frustrating when you want to write about niche genres. I figured this one stood a chance, but Priyanjali Singh is right: the article doesn't stand up to and also won't be able to stand up to WP:NFILM as I can't find any credible references to the film (as IMDb doesn't count). It's known in its own little circle of enthusiasts, but not a lot can be found on it online. I've commented on Priyanjali's remarks on the AfD talk page and we'll see how it goes in seven days I guess... oh well, at least it's still up on the Dutch Wikipedia :)
Oh, and thanks also for the recommendation on Izzy Lee. I'll be sure to check her work out! I wish I could recommend you go see Lucy's Heart, as it really is a sweet little film that'll make you smile, but it's not in circulation anymore unfortunately. And no home media release either I'm afraid.
Cheers, Sjokhazard. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sjokhazard (talk • contribs) 08:29, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
- @Sjokhazard: It's always a bit sad when a film isn't available online or easily through other means. I remember trying to find a copy of Fury of the Demon to watch, as the pitch sounded really fascinating. The gist is that the film is a documentary of a lost short film that can drive its viewers insane. The short film itself doesn't actually exist and is only a gimmick used to draw the viewer into what is actually a documentary on Georges Méliès. I managed to get a DVD shipped to me, as it's available from the production company with English subtitles, but it wasn't available online at that point. It is available on Tubi now, if this is something that strikes your fancy. It really is well done - the granddaughter of Méliès even joins in the fun herself. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (。◕‿◕。) 04:37, 4 September 2020 (UTC)