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MAUD Committee scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for May 30, 2021. Please check that the article needs no amendments. A coordinator will draft a blurb - based on your draft if the TFA came via TFA requests, or for Featured Articles promoted recently from an existing blurb on the FAC talk page. Feel free to comment on this. We suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:25, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Thank you today for MAUD Committee, about the committee, "which performed a feasibility study of the claims in the Frisch-Peierls memorandum that an atomic bomb was practical. It led to the establishment of the British, American and Russian development projects."! - DYK that I share the page with the lead DYK], "useless but meaningful"? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:08, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-20

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• There is a new toolbar in the Reply tool. It works in the wikitext source mode. You can enable it in your preferences. [1] [2] [3]
• Wikimedia mailing lists are being moved to Mailman 3. This is a newer version. For the character encoding to work it will change from UTF-8 to utf8mb3. [4][5]
• An earlier issue of Tech News said that the citoid API would handle dates with a month but no days in a new way. This has been reverted for now. There needs to be more discussion of how it affects different wikis first. [6]

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13:48, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXXI, May 2021

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Nick- D and Hawkeye7 look at intelligence gathering, doctrine and strategy

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Standarse

It's a shame standarse isn't a word [8] because it seems like it could come in right handy all over the project. EEng 03:56, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-21

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• The Wikimedia movement has been using IRC on a network called Freenode. There have been changes around who is in control of the network. The Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts have decided to move to the new Libera Chat network instead. This is not a formal decision for the movement to move all channels but most Wikimedia IRC channels will probably leave Freenode. There is a migration guide and ongoing Wikimedia discussions about this.

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17:05, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Galileo project

The article Galileo project you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Galileo project for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Therapyisgood -- Therapyisgood (talk) 19:21, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-22

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• There was an issue on the Vector skin with the text size of categories and notices under the page title. It was fixed last Monday. [9]

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17:04, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Battle of La Haye-du-Puits

Thanks, and you're on. Although this could be a bit of a slow burner. I am currently trying to wrap up two unrelated articles. (Third English Civil War and Battle of Halidon Hill.) Once I have put them to bed I'll open a draft page and outline some ideas. How does that sound? Gog the Mild (talk) 10:24, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

What sources do we have apart from Blumenson? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:32, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

Hard copies of:

• The Battle of the Hedgerows: Bradley's First Army in Normandy, June–July 1944 by Leo Daugherty
• To the Last Man by Randolph Bradham, which is trite.
• Battle for St-Lo by Peter Yates
• St Lo 1944: The Battle of the Hedgerows by Stephen Zaloga
• The Germans in Normandy by Richard Hargreaves which is not bad.

Plus several more general works which may be handy for background, weapons, opposing forces, prelude, aftermath etc.

I haven't started searched for on line or official sources yet, so that is just what I have to hand. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:19, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

And Nafziger's German Infantry OoB and other bits and pieces. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:21, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

And 82nd Airborne: Normandy 1944 by Stephen Smith and Simon Forty.

I'll stop now. You get the idea. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:36, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

I have created a page for the outline here - User:Gog the Mild/Battle of La Haye-du-Puits. Feel free to add, delete, change comment and make notes. Probably best to use the talk page there going forward. It will be a few days before I can give it a lot of attention and start filling in, at least in outline, some of the blanks; not that there is any rush. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:20, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

The Downlink – June 2021

	The Downlink	The WikiProject Spaceflight Newsletter
		1 May 2021 — 31 May 2021

Volume 1 — Issue 8
Spaceflight Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Open tasks • Popular pages • The Downlink
In the News! The Crew of SpaceX Crew-1 had a successful splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on 2nd May at 06:56:33 UTC. After they launched in November 2020 and had spent 167 days in space. A LongMarch 5B rocket had an uncontrolled re-entery into the atmosphere on 4th May. With any debris being reported to have landed in the Indian Ocean. One of Rocket Labs Electron rockets expierienced a launch malfunction 2:30 into launch causing the mission to result in failure. Images have been released after the landing of Zhurong rover on Mars on 14th May. Featured Content The Apollo 7 article was featured as Today's featured article on May 16, 2021. The Lisa Nowak article was promoted to Featured Article status on May 6, 2021. After being nominated by Neopeius & Hawkeye7. The image: "Buzz Aldrin.jpg" was promoted to Featured Media status on May 16, 2021. After being nominated by TheFreeWorld.
Article of the month. Katherine Johnson Creola Katherine Johnson was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. The space agency noted her "historical role as one of the first African-American women to work as a NASA scientist".	Image of the month. Astronaut Clayton Anderson wis shown as a water bubble floats in the middeck of space shuttle Discovery during the STS-131 mission.
Members New Members: NightWolf1223 (Joined on the 13th May) LemonSlushie (Joined on the 13th May) Dulliman (Joined on the 22nd May) The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Joined on the 29th May) Number of active members: 116. Total number of members: 329. May Launches All times stated here are in UTC. Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L25 (4th at 19:01:07) Success Long March 2C – Yaogan 30-08 (6th at 18:11) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L27 (9th at 06:42) Success Electron – "Running Out of Toes" (15th at 11:11) Failure Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L26 (15th at 22:56) Success Atlas 5 – SBIRS-GEO 5 (18th at 17:37) Success Long March 4B – Haiyang 2D (19th at 04:03) Success Falcon 9 – Starlink V1.0-L28 (26th at 18:59) Success Soyuz-2.1b – OneWeb 7 (28th at 17:38:39) Success Long March 7 – Tianzhou 2 (29th at 12:55:29) Success June Launches Launch dates can change. See a current list: here. Long March 3B/E – Fengyun 4B Falcon 9 – CRS-22 Falcon 9 – SXM 8 Minotaur 1 – NROL-111 Falcon 9 – GPS 3 SV05 Atlas 5 – STP 3 Soyuz-2.1a – Progress MS-17 Long March 2F – Shenzhou 12 GSLV Mk.II – GISAT 1 Falcon 9 – Transporter 2	Article Statistics This data reflects values from the 31 May 2021. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 19 4 7 37 FL 4 4 8 FM 98 98 GA 11 22 35 54 122 B 2 48 38 49 137 C 55 159 536 497 1 10 1,258 Start 37 158 1,112 2,238 372 3,917 Stub 7 245 2,190 231 2,673 List 14 130 79 211 1 435 Category 1,034 1,034 Disambig 48 48 File 202 202 Portal 55 55 Project 57 57 Redirect 1 1,133 1 1,135 Template 501 501 Other 1 38 39 Assessed 126 543 2,053 5,252 3,173 615 11,762 Unassessed 1 71 72 Total 126 543 2,053 5,252 3,174 686 11,834 Monthly Changes Since April, 45 pages have been added to Spaceflight. 1 article reached FA-Class and 1 image reached FM-Class. There is 1 more GA class article, with 2 more B-class, 8 more C-class, 1 less start-class and 5 new stub-class articles.
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Your GA nomination of Galileo (spacecraft)

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Your GA nomination of Galileo (spacecraft)

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Congratulations from the Military History Project

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Your GA nomination of British logistics in the Siegfried Line campaign

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Tech News: 2021-23

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 June. It will be on all wikis from 10 June (calendar).

Future changes

• The Wikimedia movement uses Phabricator for technical tasks. This is where we collect technical suggestions, bugs and what developers are working on. The company behind Phabricator will stop working on it. This will not change anything for the Wikimedia movement now. It could lead to changes in the future. [10][11][12]
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• The CSRF token parameters in the action API were changed in 2014. The old parameters from before 2014 will stop working soon. This can affect bots, gadgets and user scripts that still use the old parameters. [14][15]

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20:01, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Allied logistics in the Southern France campaign GA review

I Have, after three months and many distractions, completed my review of your nomination of Allied logistics in the Southern France campaign for GA status. Congratulations, I have deemed it to not only meet the standards necessary for inclusion for GA, but believe that it exceeds them to a degree such that you should consider nominating the article for Featured status. Thank you for your patience with a new editor who is still learning the ropes and if you have any advice, I would greatly appreciate it. ~ Pbritti (talk) 17:38, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Allied logistics in the Southern France campaign

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Promotion of Shuttle-Centaur

Congratulations, Hawkeye7! The article you nominated, Shuttle-Centaur, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

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This Month in GLAM: May 2021

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue V, May 2021 Headlines AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: A busy month at AfLIA Argentina report: Museum, Archives and Libraries on May Armenia report: Presence of Museums in Wiki Projects Australia report: Librarians unite across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand for 1Lib1Ref Brazil report: Wiki Loves Bahia: 2021 is the year of Bahia on Wikipedia in Portuguese Côte d'Ivoire report: Glam-wiki 2021 29 May in Côte d'Ivoire India report: Collaboration continues with British Library Indonesia report: #1lib1ref in Indonesia; Online talk show with Wikimedia Nederland Italy report: Conference, webinar and projects Kosovo report: National Gallery of Kosovo Collection now on Wikidata Netherlands report: Over 15,000 images available from Elsinga Collection, 1.9 million records on slavery and slave trade digitally accessible New Zealand report: A busy month in Aotearoa North Macedonia report: GLAM activities of GLAM Macedonia Serbia report: A month in the sign of edit-a-thons Spain report: Viquiprojecte:Muixeranga Sweden report: Working with UN Human Rights; Aftermath to the fiddler competition; Music manuscripts from the 18th century; Digital visions; Should museums work with Wikipedia?; Wikidata project with museums has results Switzerland report: Strengthening GLAM Partnerships Uganda report: Wikipedia for Museums in Uganda UK report: British Library, Khalili Collections USA report: Hackathon outputs, data roundtripping and Asian American heritage Special story: Wikimedia Hackathon report: Upgrading GLAM tech tools and PAWS Wikisource report: Indic Wikisource community online gathering WMF GLAM report: Grants and conferences Wiki World Heritage User Group report: May's report Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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DYK for John Coster-Mullen

On 11 June 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article John Coster-Mullen, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that John Coster-Mullen discovered that the Little Boy was actually a girl? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/John Coster-Mullen. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, John Coster-Mullen), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 12:03, 11 June 2021 (UTC)

Four Award

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Tech News: 2021-24

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• Logged-in users on the mobile web can choose to use the advanced mobile mode. They now see categories in a similar way as users on desktop do. This means that some gadgets that have just been for desktop users could work for users of the mobile site too. If your wiki has such gadgets you could decide to turn them on for the mobile site too. Some gadgets probably need to be fixed to look good on mobile. [16]
• Language links on Wikidata now works for multilingual Wikisource. [17]

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• In the future we can't show the IP of unregistered editors to everyone. This is because privacy regulations and norms have changed. There is now a rough draft of how showing the IP to those who need to see it could work.
• German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [18]
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 28 June. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [19][20]

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20:25, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

I didn't know there was a birthday committee. Been here 16 years now. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:01, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-25

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• The otrs-member group name is now vrt-permissions. This could affect abuse filters. [21]

Problems

• You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [22]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 June. It will be on all wikis from 24 June (calendar).

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15:48, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

TFA

June songs

Thank you today for Discovery of nuclear fission, "about the discovery of nuclear fission in 1938. It is better known than other scientific discoveries because nuclear fission led to the development nuclear power and nuclear weapons. It is also controversial. The award of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for 1944 to Otto Hahn (but don't mention the war!) raised issues about whether the discovery was about physics or chemistry, and what indeed is meant by a scientific discovery. It has also been touted as an example of the Matilda effect. This carries over to Wikipedia as well; in the English language version, Lise Meitner gets more page views than Otto Hahn, but in the German Wikipedia the reverse is true."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:05, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

added to my talk: missing SlimVirgin, and RMF festival opening --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:25, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of British logistics in the Siegfried Line campaign

The article British logistics in the Siegfried Line campaign you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:British logistics in the Siegfried Line campaign for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Eastfarthingan -- Eastfarthingan (talk) 13:21, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

Notability thoughts

Hi Hawkeye, thoughts on the notability of William A. Pailes? Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 00:10, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

Notable. All astronauts are notable. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:11, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Freddie de Guingand

On 27 June 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Freddie de Guingand, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Major-General Freddie de Guingand was invested with his knighthood in the field by King George VI? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Freddie de Guingand. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Freddie de Guingand), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:03, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXXII, June 2021

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Nick-D on RAAF aircraft, Hawkeye7 on mission command and nuclear secrecy

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DYK for Carolyn Huntoon

On 28 June 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Carolyn Huntoon, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Carolyn Huntoon (pictured) was the first woman to serve as the director of the Johnson Space Center? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Carolyn Huntoon. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Carolyn Huntoon), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Carolyn Huntoon

I'm going to AGF and assume your unexplained rollback of my edit was a mis-click and not mis-use of tools? GiantSnowman 10:21, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

ArbCom has prescribed an automatic block for changing date formats without consensus. This is your first and final warning. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 10:25, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Where is this ArbCom decision? That seems to fly in the face of MOS:DATETIES. You are not explaining your edits, and your talk of "blockable offence" and "automatic block" are a) nonsense and b) entirely inappropriate. Please explain yourself and justify your edits before I raise at ANI, many thanks. GiantSnowman 10:27, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

MOS:DATERET and MOS:STYLERET: The Arbitration Committee has expressed the principle that "When either of two styles are acceptable it is inappropriate for a Wikipedia editor to change from one style to another unless there is some substantial reason for the change." See ArbCom decisions in June 2005, November 2005, and 2006 If you believe an alternative style would be more appropriate for a particular article, discuss this at the article's talk page or – if it raises an issue of more general application or with the MoS itself – at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 10:33, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Ok cool - and you couldn't have said that earlier because...? And you mis-used rollback to revert me because...? GiantSnowman 10:43, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the cupcake but I'd appreciate an explanation/apology more...! GiantSnowman 16:21, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

The article had an unusually large number of page views and a unusually high level of attacks from vandals. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:44, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

...and that explains your rollback of my good faith edit how...? GiantSnowman 21:18, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

Articles about women and black people come under intense attack from vandals, and multiple edits were undone or rolled back. One of the things vandals do is change date formats. You were lucky to encounter me instead of a trigger-happy admin. I'm willing to apologise for not assuming good faith if you're willing to apologise for altering a date format. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:40, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

But I am a trigger happy admin! ;) No, I won't apologise for making a goof faith edit. GiantSnowman 09:41, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

Well, you have an explanation and an apology. And a cupcake. John 8:11. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 10:23, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

Sure, thanks. GiantSnowman 10:34, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-26

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• Wikis with the Growth features now can configure Growth features directly on their wiki. This uses the new special page Special:EditGrowthConfig. [23]
• Wikisources have a new OCR tool. If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can add .ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; } to your common.css page. [24]

Problems

• You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [25][26]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 June. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).

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• A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users. [27][28]

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16:31, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

GAN Backlog Drive - July 2021

Good article nominations | July 2021 Backlog Drive
July 2021 Backlog Drive: This Thursday, July 1, a one-month backlog drive for good article nominations will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number, length, and age, of articles reviewed. Interested in taking part? You can sign up here.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:31, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Article Review

Seeking your input on a particular article that I feel does not meet the notability requirements for podcasts. I have watched and attempted to tag this article numerous times for notability, conflict of interest, advertising, etc. Since I know the individuals who run this podcast, another editor feels I have some sort of vendetta against them. I personally feel the value of the article is weak at best for the Wiki. Would you mind taking a glance and letting me know your thoughts? I appreciate your time and guidance. Steve Lux, Jr. (talk) 12:29, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 2021 AFL Women's Grand Final

The article 2021 AFL Women's Grand Final 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:2021 AFL Women's Grand Final for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Vaticidalprophet -- Vaticidalprophet (talk) 06:02, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

WikiCup 2021 July newsletter

The third round of the 2021 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 294 points, and our top six scorers all had over 600 points. They were:

• The Rambling Man, with 1825 points from 3 featured articles, 44 featured article reviews, 14 good articles, 30 good article reviews and 10 DYKs. In addition, he completed a 34-article good topic on the EFL Championship play-offs.
• Epicgenius, a New York specialist, with 1083 points from 2 featured article reviews, 18 good articles, 30 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
• Bloom6132, with 869 points from 11 DYKs, all with bonus points, and 54 "In the news" items, mostly covering people who had recently died.
• Gog the Mild, with 817 points from 3 featured articles on historic battles in Europe, 5 featured article reviews and 3 good articles.
• Hog Farm, with 659 points from 2 featured articles and 2 good articles on American Civil War battles, 18 featured article reviews, 2 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 4 DYKs.
• BennyOnTheLoose, a snooker specialist and new to the Cup, with 647 points from a featured article, 2 featured article reviews, 6 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 3 DYKs.

In round three, contestants achieved 19 featured articles, 7 featured lists, 106 featured article reviews, 72 good articles, 1 good topic, 62 good article reviews, 165 DYKs and 96 ITN items. We enter the fourth round with scores reset to zero; any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (one contestant in round 3 lost out because of this). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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. Judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:29, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

Congratulations from the Military History Project

		Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history)
		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history) for participating in 12 reviews between April and June 2021. Peacemaker67 (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 00:36, 3 July 2021 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste {{WPMILHIST Review alerts}} to your user space