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Hi, Damien. I'm just posting to let you know that List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for November 19. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 21:24, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is Courcelles (submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 147 GAs, 111 GARs, 9 DYKs, 4 FLs and 1 ITN. Our finalists were as follows:

1. Courcelles (submissions)
2. Kosack (submissions)
3. Kees08 (submissions)
4. SounderBruce (submissions)
5. Cas Liber (submissions)
6. Nova Crystallis (submissions)
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8. Ceranthor (submissions)

All those who reached the final win awards, and awards will also be going to the following participants:

• Cas Liber (submissions) wins the FA prize, for three featured articles in round 2.
• Courcelles (submissions) wins the GA prize, for 92 good articles in round 3.
• Kosack (submissions) wins the FL prize, for five featured lists overall.
• Cartoon network freak (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 30 articles in good topics overall.
• Usernameunique (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 24 did you know articles in round 3.
• Zanhe (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 17 in the news articles overall.
• Aoba47 (submissions) wins the GAR prize, for 43 good article reviews in round 1.

Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

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It's Sheva, not Alomar

Unlike Wesker (who is "Wesker" and not "Albert"), it's Chris and Sheva (like the same with Claire, Ada, Rebecca, Barry, etc.). The word 'Alomar" is spoken only once or twice in the game ("Sheva" all the time - literally non-stop), designers talk about "Sheva", reviewers talk about "Sheva", and so forth, it's just Sheva for everyone and always expect maybe the oputsider 'racism/sexism researchers'. Just compare, for example: https://www.google.pl/search?biw=1920&bih=938&tbm=nws&ei=nL7mW4jAIMSTsAeHi6CwCw&q="Chris+and+Sheva" vs https://www.google.pl/search?biw=1920&bih=938&tbm=nws&ei=rL7mW6vyJM_1kwWtpZuIAg&q="redfield+and+alomar" (links are broken here so you need to copy and paste them, over 100 times more popular on Google News). --SNAAAAKE!! (talk) 11:20, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

@SNAAAAKE!!: I understand the term Sheva is used much more frequently than Alomar, but that doesn't change the fact the Alomar is her last name. As per MOS:SURNAME, that's how we format names on Wikipedia. It's exactly the same for film plots. I was told to change all the instances of 'Chris and Sheva' to 'Redfield and Alomar' before Resident Evil 5 could become a good article. I'm 100% they would have brought up the issue of last names at the FAC if they hadn't already been formatted properly. Damien Linnane (talk) 11:29, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

Someone who told you so must have been clueless. Her surname is just a trivia, practically no one uses "Alomar" and "Redfield" instead of Chris and Sheva. That's including the character's creators (which is important), and the game characters when talking to each other (and literally all the fans, but I'm not even talking about that). As I said, this article could be as well named just "Sheva (Resident Evil)" (the exact phrase which returns just 2 Google News hits, but opposed to 0 for "Alomar (Resident Evil)" because literally no one uses it, again maybe the the clueless so-called 'researchers', one of which would repeatedly write "Westker" instead of Wesker when accusing RE5 of imaginary racism becuase they have no idea about anything - and yet Sheva's article cites this complete nonsense for some reason - and btw, even this bullshit paper refers to Sheva as just "Sheva"). The article as for now is awkward and even misleading (especially since there's another RE "Redfield" - Claire, who is sometimes compred to Sheva and the others). Oh, and btw - I've created and written this article (Sheva's) in first place. SNAAAAKE!! (talk) 11:49, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

@SNAAAAKE!!: Ok, I'm going to keep replying here only and am going to un-watch your talk page as having you reply to both is extremely frustrating.

So, as I said, Sophitia isn't a good article (whereas Sheva Alomar is, and RE5 is featured) so I think using that article is a very poor comparison.

I fail to see how the racism accusations are nonsense since multiple high-quality sources comment on them. The accusations exists, therefore the article should mention them, regardless of whether you or I agree with them.

The fact that you created the article means nothing. Please read WP:OWN.

We're going to have to agree to disagree regarding the surnames for reasons we've already stated. Do you or do you not want to raise the issue at Project Video Games and accept whatever consensus is reached there? I always accept consensus; I'm not going to allow you to go against what multiple GA reviewers and FAC reviewers have advised me to do at multiple video game articles without consensus from the project. Damien Linnane (talk) 12:00, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

The reviewers were simply wrong. It happens, people being clueless about things. The surname of Sheva is even (and much) less important than, for example, the surname the horror monster Jason (nominally "Jason Voorhees", and there is actually some importance to it due to his mother, but it's just Jason, including in his FA Jason Voorhees where "Jason" goes over 400 times and "Voorhees" less than 40). Now go and revert all the standalone Alomars (and Redfields) there, in RE5, and elsewhere. SNAAAAKE!! (talk) 12:03, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

And as for this just aggressively stupid so-called paper (the one with "Westker"): [1] It's like if the previous RE games were to be accused of "racism" by their also Japanese creators for the also stereotypically (and unintentionally silly, but the awkward campyness is what people love in RE) portrayed Americans and America where the "homogeneous" Raccoon City area "stands for the whole of America" because nothing else was shown, and in fact also the Spaniards and Spain (in RE4), and how the white zombies are "mindless, aggressive and bloodthirsty" and it's also a bad stereotype. Perhaps the most bafflingly absurd part is accusing Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness of these bad "stereotypes" too, where it's now a complete parody of modern ant-racism and "anti-colonial" activism (as opposed to Condrad's actual activism from the actual colonial era). Just race-baiting complete nonsense, if this is what goes as "high-quality source" it's just sad but also quite predictable (but sad nevertheless). SNAAAAKE!! (talk) 12:27, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

Your opinions on the source are irrelevant, as are my own. Criticism has been made from several sources that meet the standards set at WP:RS, therefore coverage of the criticism should appear in the article; you can't remove things on Wikipedia just because you disagree with them.

I've raised the issue of surnames at Project Video Games so a consensus can be reached. On Wikipedia we use consensus, we don't just sit back and let you bark orders at us, so I'm not going to "go and revert" all the changes before a consensus is reached. Damien Linnane (talk) 12:38, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

See, that wasn't very difficult was it? I have learnt something new from this experience, that despite what multiple people have told me we don't actually have to adhere to MOS:SURNAME in video games. Yes you already told me that but one opinion is not consensus; if I took one opinion as more important than all others I could have stuck with what my reviewers said and just ignored you. This is why consensus is important. Hopefully you can learn something from this too. As the other reviewer pointed out, just because someone has a different opinion from you does not mean that person needs to be insulted, and that just because you think something is obvious does not mean that is the case. I'll make the appropriate changes back at Sheva Alomar since I reverted your edits, but if you want it done anywhere else you'll have to do it yourself; I'm not going around all of Wikipedia reformatting things the way you like them. Have a nice day. Damien Linnane (talk) 22:58, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

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Gary Jeshel Forrester

Damien - Thanks very much for your recent correction to the Gary Jeshel Forrester article (removing the word "successful" as an adjective before "suicide." You were/are absolutely correct, and it was a very important change. Much appreciated. Jeshel Forrester — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.8.142.180 (talk) 18:33, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

You're very welcome. Someone actually made that change to an article I had written and I realised they were right, so I went through and tried to correct it everywhere else I could find it. :) Damien Linnane (talk) 22:57, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

A Barnstar For You

		The Feather Barnstar
		The work done by you on numerous articles and promoting them to GAs and FAs is stupendous, so this barnstar that you deserve is a signature of your commendable work! Adityavagarwal (talk) 20:10, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks so much! :) Damien Linnane (talk) 07:30, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

ARIA peaks outside the top 100

Hi, I just read your recent comment on this page, and was curious to know which singles you mention peaked at #103 and #168 on the ARIA charts, as I have an interest in low/beyond the top 100 chart positions.Nqr9 (talk) 02:25, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi Nqr9. The No. 103 song was "Everything You Do" by M2M (band); No. 168 was "Do You Feel Me" by Aleesha Rome. :) Damien Linnane (talk) 04:32, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for that.Nqr9 (talk) 11:48, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: November 2018

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Precious anniversary

Precious

Four years!

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Your GA nomination of Emily Lloyd

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Your GA nomination of Michelle Leslie

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Help with FAC

• Hello again! I was wondering if you could help me with my current FAC? I understand if you do not have time or are not interested though; just wanted to ask. Have a great weekend! Aoba47 (talk) 19:38, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

• I've left some comments. Happy to help. :) Damien Linnane (talk) 13:25, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Australian triple crown

WikiProject Australia triple crown
G'day mate. 'Ere's yer triple crown. Sorry it's late, but yer get a free wombat. Enjoy.

Gog the Mild (talk) 23:09, 20 January 2019 (UTC)