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[edit] WikiCup 2011 July newsletter
 We are half way through the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; there is less than a month to go before we have our final 8. Our pool leaders are  Adabow (submissions) (Pool A, 189 points) and  PresN (submissions) (Pool B, 165 points). The number of points required to reach the next round is not clear at this time; there are some users who still do not have any recorded points. Please remember to update your submissions' pages promptly. In addition, congratulations to PresN, who scored the first featured topic points in the competition for his work on Thatgamecompany related articles. Most points this round generally have, so far, come from good articles, with only one featured article (White-bellied Sea Eagle, from  Casliber (submissions)) and two featured lists (Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, from PresN and Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album, from  Another Believer (submissions)). Points for Did You Know and good article reviews round out the scoring. No points have been awarded for In the News, good topics or featured pictures this round, and no points for featured sounds or portals have been awarded in the entire competition. On an unrelated note, preparation will be beginning soon for next year's WikiCup- watch this space!
There is little else to be said beyond the usual. Please list anything you need reviewing on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, so others following the WikiCup can help, and please do help if you can by providing reviews for the articles listed there. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews generally at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup- points are, of course, offered for reviews at GAC. Two final notes: Firstly, please remember to state your participation in the WikiCup when nominating articles at FAC. Finally, some WikiCup-related statistics can be seen here and here. 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 and The ed17 11:26, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
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[edit] WikiCup 2011 July newsletter
The finals are upon us; we're down to the last few. One of the eight remaining contestants will be this year's WikiCup champion! 150 was the score needed to progress to the final; just under double the 76 required to reach round 4, and more than triple the 41 required to reach round 3. Our eight finalists are:
- Casliber (submissions), Pool A's winner. Casliber has the highest total score in the competition, with 1528, the bulk of which is made up of 8 featured articles. He has the highest number of total featured articles (8, 1 of which was eligible for double points) and total did you knows (72) of any finalist. Casliber writes mostly on biology, including ornithology, botany and mycology.
- PresN (submissions), Pool B's winner and the highest scorer this round. PresN is the only finalist who has scored featured topic points, and he has gathered an impressive 330, but most of his points come from his 4 featured articles, one of which scored double. PresN writes mostly on video games and the Hugo Awards.
 Hurricanehink (submissions), Pool A's runner-up. Hurricanehink's points are mostly from his 30 good articles, more than any other finalist, and he is also the only finalist to score good topic points. Hurricanehink, as his name suggests, writes mostly on meteorology. Wizardman (submissions), Pool B's runner-up. Wizardman has completed 86 good article reviews, more than any other finalist, but most of his points come from his 2 featured articles. Wizardman writes mostly on American sport, especially baseball. Miyagawa (submissions), the "fastest loser" (Pool A). Miyagawa has written 3 featured lists, one of which was awarded double points, more than any other finalist, but he was awarded points mostly for his 68 did you knows. Miyagawa writes on a variety of topics, including dogs, military history and sport. Resolute (submissions), the second "fastest loser" (Pool B). Most of Resolute's points come from his 9 good articles. He writes mostly on Canadian topics, including ice hockey. Yellow Evan (submissions), who was joint third "fastest loser" (Pool A). Most of Evan's points come from his 10 good articles, and he writes mostly on meteorology. Sp33dyphil (submissions), who was joint third "fastest loser" (Pool B). Most of Phil's points come from his 9 good articles, 4 of which (more than any other finalist) were eligible for double points. He writes mostly on aeronautics.
We say goodbye to our seven other semi-finalists, Another Believer (submissions),  Piotrus (submissions),  Grandiose (submissions),  Stone (submissions),  Eisfbnore (submissions),  Canada Hky (submissions) and  MuZemike (submissions). Everyone still in the competition at this stage has done fantastically well, and contributed greatly to Wikipedia. We're on the home straight now, and we will know our winner in two months.
In other news, preparations for next year's competition have begun with a brainstorming thread. Please, feel free to drop by and share any thoughts you have about how the competition should work next year. Sign ups are not yet open, but will be opened in due course. Watch this space. Further, there has been a discussion about the rule whereby those in the WikiCup must delcare their participation when nominating articles at featured article candidates. This has resulted in a bot being created by new featured article delegate Ucucha (talk · contribs). The bot will leave a message on FAC pages if the nominator is a participant in the WikiCup.
A reminder of the rules: any points scored after August 29 may be claimed for the final round, and please remember to update submission pages promptly. 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. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. 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 and The ed17 23:57, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
[edit] wikiproject?
I just starting editing here and I find wikiproject wimpy kid. What is a wikiproject?Gregory Heffley (talk) 15:47, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
[edit] The Signpost: 05 September 2011
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[edit] WikiCup 2011 September newsletter
We are on this year's home straight, with less than a month to go until the winner of the 2011 WikiCup will be decided. The fight for first place is currently being contested by Miyagawa (submissions), Hurricanehink (submissions) and Sp33dyphil (submissions), all of whom have over 200 points. This round has already seen multiple featured articles (1991 Atlantic hurricane season from Hurricanehink and Northrop YF-23 from Sp33dyphil) and a double-scoring featured list (Miyagawa's 1948 Summer Olympics medal table). The scores will likely increase far further before the end of the round on October 31 as everyone ups their pace. There is not much more to say- thoughts about next year's competition are welcome on the WikiCup talk page or the scoring talk page, and signups will open once a few things have been sorted out.
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. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. 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 and The ed17 12:32, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
[edit] images of viaduct
I would like to see some schematics of how the updated viaduct will look like, visually where the entrances and exits will be after reopening. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.58.64.34 (talk) 17:28, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Officially publish
Hi ComputerGuy,
I finished a page and it's still in sandbox mode.. I was hoping you might be able to tell me how to finalize and publish the page.
Best,
David — Preceding unsigned comment added by Delster2 (talk • contribs) 20:31, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
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[edit] ST Business
Hey CG, its Larks from ST, i forgot the numbers at the end of your username, would you mind giving me a PM, i got some things to discuss.
- Larks — Preceding unsigned comment added by J Larks225 (talk • contribs) 02:00, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
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[edit] NFL player info box
i am trying to find the player id for nfl player under stats for nfl player info box can you tell me where to look for it? — Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|69.236.77.30 (talk) 18:30, 21 December 2011 (UTC)]] comment added by 69.236.77.30 (talk) 18:25, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
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[edit] Articles for Creation Appeal
Hi, since your name's down on this project, I'm just writing to let you know that there's a discussion going on at the moment on how to format events – and in particular, events that go on for multiple days – on year pages. Your input would be appreciated. — Smjg (talk) 18:23, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Member assessment at the Canadian Roads Wikiproject
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Hello,
In order to better assess the activity at the Canadian Roads WikiProject, all members that had an Active status have been changed to Pending. If you are still interested in assisting the project, fielding inquiries by fellow editors, and participating in group discussions, please visit Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/Participants and change the {{Partial}} beside your username to {{Yes}}.
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[edit] What a great user page
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Best User Page Award |
| How did you make this user page, please help me with my user page, or else I might never get a user page!! Please help me with my user page!!! Best Regards, Computer5Genius 20:46, 24 January 2012 (UTC) |
This article has a note in the middle of it, warning people to not use wikipedia for citations, and appears highly unprofessional. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Notuncurious/Working/tmp3 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.236.210.98 (talk) 16:39, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
[edit] USRD WikiProject Newsletter, Winter 2012
- —Imzadi 1979 → 21:59, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Sweet Briar College page needs editing
Sweet Briar is in Virginia. NOT North Dakota. Please will you fix this? Thank you so much, Heidi, SBC Alumnae — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.88.32.175 (talk) 15:11, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Tamagotchi, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Tamagotchi (2nd nomination) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Tamagotchi during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions) 00:07, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Taxonomy definition
I am not sure how this works, but I wanted to submit a suggestion. I was looking at the term "Taxonomy" and see the historical references and obviously all definitions there seem appropriate. BUT, taxonomy has become used in the business world where there is a need to establish common terms, structure, etc. in order for everyone to have a common understanding while the subjects are being discussed. This obviously is needed where there are efforts going into a "new" area for any particular group so higher level discussions can happen effectively with common understandings. I don't know how to provide references for this, but I work at Microsoft and the term pops it's head up periodically in situations such as I have discussed above.
Hope this helps. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.107.0.81 (talk) 01:15, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
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