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Hi guys! No need to post a talkback if I left a message on your page, as I will have added it to my watchlist.

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WikiCup 2014 March newsletter

A quick update as we are half way through round two of this year's competition. WikiCup newcomer Godot13 (submissions) (Pool E) leads, having produced a massive set of featured pictures for Silver certificate (United States), an article also brought to featured list status. Former finalist Adam Cuerden (submissions) (Pool G) is in second, which he owes mostly to his work with historical images, including a number of images from Urania's Mirror, an article also brought to good status. 2010 champion (Pool C) is third overall, thanks to contributions relating to naval history, including the newly featured Japanese battleship Nagato. Cliftonian (submissions), who currently leads Pool A and is sixth overall, takes the title for the highest scoring individual article of the competition so far, with the top importance featured article Ian Smith.

With 26 people having already scored over 100 points, it is likely that well over 100 points will be needed to secure a place in round 3. Recent years have required 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) and 100 (2010). Remember that only 64 will progress to round 3 at the end of April. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page; if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. 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 help 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. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 22:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Podcast as a source

I don't wish to contradict the other editor at the Teahouse, so I felt it best to simply contact you on your talk page.

I don't know that the podcast is a reliable source for information on anything but the podcast itself or the blog itself as it is indeed a personal blog and not the official site of the company itself. The site is a free site that anyone can create a podcast and publish and the interviewer is Albe Zakes, Global VP, Media Relations at TerraCycle, Inc. It is not secondary in nature but more like a primary source, but self published content. this is them interviewing themselves. You may get a more than a little pushback using that source depending on what you are referencing. If you have any questions please feel free to ask on my talk page. Happy editing!--Mark Miller (talk) 07:02, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for taking the time to write to me at the Teahouse as well as here. I understand that the podcast is a primary source, and thus the only fact I used from it was that Jon Beyer left in 2007. I never like using flaky sources, but I couldn't find any publication or anywhere else for that matter that mentioned this. Best, Bananasoldier (talk) 07:13, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Unfortunately we cannot source facts about others from these types of sources. Per our BLP policy, WP:BLPPRIMARY: "Never use self-published sources – including but not limited to books, zines, websites, blogs, and tweets – as sources of material about a living person, unless written or published by the subject...". This violates a rather important policy.--Mark Miller (talk) 07:22, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi @Mark Miller:, I see your point now, because the fact relates to Jon Beyer and not simply the company. Would it be okay to use this: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jon-beyer/4/962/843? It shows that he did leave in 2007, and although it's a primary source, he published it himself. Thanks, Bananasoldier (talk) 07:57, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Yes. According to this it can be used for sourcing information on the subject that self published the content. While the link I am leaving is only an essay it should at least demonstrate that other editors share this opinion.--Mark Miller (talk) 08:11, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your time. I learned some new things today (@ 1:00 AM :P) Bananasoldier (talk) 08:15, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

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Section ordering at Template talk:Did you know

In regards to this edit, please stop reordering the sections associated with each date. Having the April 6 section in proper chronological order does not affect the ability for your nomination to be reviewed. It does make a variety of maintence tasks a little harder because it obfuscates how long things have been waiting on the nominations page. If you look at the current list of outstanding nominations you will see a fair number of nominations for dates before April 6 that are still waiting for a review. DYK does not reject nominations lacking a review, so please have a little patience. --Allen3 ^talk 23:36, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

Sorry about that! As you can see, I'm a newbie, so I thought that "Older nominations" meant "finished nominations". Thanks for clarifying, Bananasoldier (talk) 23:39, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

One question please, Allen3: Won't it get lost if buried among the other April 6 nominations as well as all the other dates? Thanks, Bananasoldier (talk) 23:45, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

From this edit, my guess is that a 100% completed day is deleted, right? In which case, that answers my question. Bananasoldier (talk) 23:49, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

That is correct, when all the nominations associated with a specific date are closed the corresponding section is removed from the nominations page. In addition when a nomination is closed, either by promotion to the queues or by being rejected, the nomination is automatically hidden at Template talk:Did you know via template transclusion commands. As a result, only active nominations are shown on the nominations page. --Allen3 ^talk 00:35, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! Bananasoldier (talk) 01:21, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK for TerraCycle

The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Hey, glad to see your DYK made it to the front page today! Sam Walton (talk) 16:44, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your thanks, Samwalton9! Bananasoldier (talk) 23:45, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Whoops, I meant "Thanks for your congratulations!" :P Bananasoldier (talk) 23:49, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 April newsletter

Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain. Pool G's Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Round 2's highest scorer, with a large number of featured picture credits. In March/April, he restored star charts from Urania's Mirror, lithographs of various warships (such as SMS Gefion) and assorted other historical media. Second overall was Pool E's Godot13 (submissions), whose featured list Silver certificate (United States) contains dozens of scans of banknotes recently promoted to featured picture status. Third was Pool G's ChrisGualtieri (submissions) who has produced a large number of good articles, many, including Falkner Island, on Connecticut-related topics. Other successful participants included Cliftonian (submissions), who saw three articles (including the top-importance Ian Smith) through featured article candidacies, and Caponer (submissions), who saw three lists (including the beautifully-illustrated list of plantations in West Virginia) through featured list candidacies. High-importance good articles promoted this round include narwhal from Reid,iain james (submissions), tiger from Cwmhiraeth (submissions) and The Lion King from Igordebraga (submissions). We also saw our first featured topic points of the competition, awarded to Czar (submissions) and Red Phoenix (submissions) for their work on the Sega Genesis topic. No points have been claimed so far for good topics or featured portals.

192 was our lowest qualifying score, again showing that this WikiCup is the most competitive ever. In previous years, 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) or 100 (2010) secured a place in Round 3. Pool H was the strongest performer, with all but one of its members advancing, while only the two highest scorers in Pools G and F advanced. At the end of June, 16 users will advance into the semi-finals. 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 help 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. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 17:56, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

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