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Feedback request: History Good Article nomination

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Feedback request: Natural sciences Good Article nomination

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Wikidata weekly summary #421

The Signpost: 28 June 2020

Wikidata weekly summary #422

Feedback request: History Good Article nomination

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WikiCup 2020 July newsletter

The third round of the 2020 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it into the fourth round each had at least 353 points (compared to 68 in 2019). It was a highly competitive round, and a number of contestants were eliminated who would have moved on in earlier years. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

  • New York (state) Epicgenius, with one featured article, 28 good articles and 17 DYKs, amassing 1836 points
  • Botswana The Rambling Man , with 1672 points gained from four featured articles and seventeen good articles, plus reviews of a large number of FACs and GAs
  • England Gog the Mild, a first time contestant, with 1540 points, a tally built largely on 4 featured articles and related bonus points.

Between them, contestants managed 14 featured articles, 9 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 152 good articles, 136 DYK entries, 55 ITN entries, 65 featured article candidate reviews and 221 good article reviews. Additionally, Denmark MPJ-DK added 3 items to featured topics and 44 to good topics. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 710 good article reviews, in comparison to 387 good articles submitted for review and promoted. These large numbers are probably linked to a GAN backlog drive in April and May, and the changed patterns of editing during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we enter the fourth round, remember that 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. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere 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. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:33, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Feedback request: Natural sciences Good Article nomination

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Wikidata weekly summary #423

File:Rd-mp-220705.png listed for discussion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Rd-mp-220705.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Hog Farm Bacon 04:55, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

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Semi-Protection request

Hi Andrew, since you protected USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6), could you look a protecting Wasp-class amphibious assault ship also? It been experiencing the same sort of IP editing as the ship article, especially changing the status of the ship in the snip table to "on fire". Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 18:45, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. - BilCat (talk) 20:21, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

@BilCat: No problem - I've given it three days as well. Hopefully by then things will have calmed down a little but if not, happy to extend. Andrew Gray (talk) 20:28, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
More IPs that think they're clever are showing up on USS Bonhomme Richard, the set index article for the ship name. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 07:54, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
Thanks - three days again! Andrew Gray (talk) 08:53, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

Edit warring/WP:OWNERSHIP

In an attempt to head off some WP:OWNERSHIP-like edit warring, would you please refer to User:Drmies's edit:

Too prescient in my initial attempt to reach out to cut this thing off before it snowballs? (And too late now to prevent it, I guess.)

they're very Unix-geeky names, whereas "ken" and "dmr" […]

The irony just burns. (I hope you're not too embarrassed when you realize what's ironic about it—but I do hope it keeps you from this kind of thing in the future.)

In any case, this incident has been reported on the administrator's noticeboard for edit warring. Let's now stop polluting this talk page. 66.90.149.252 (talk) 15:47, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

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Notice

The article Leslie Falkiner has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

NN petty noble, fails the GNG and WP:BIO. Only significant source found is his obituary, but WP:NOTMEMORIAL. Notability tagged for over a decade.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Ravenswing 09:36, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

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