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10:51:41, 2 January 2015 review of submission by Azierer

Azierer (talk · contribs)
- User:Azierer/sandbox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Dear Reviewer, I'm not sure why my submission was rejected ? There are many less notable and less important person on Wikipedia. like e.g. Hannes Ametsreiter Mr. Rudi Jagersbacher is notable : this is documented by the two major awards he received by the Austrian State for his contribution of the commerce and industry as well as youth training and charity. And not only the State of Austria award Mr. Jagersbacher also the Forbes Magazine just recently awarded him and already for two time he has been the best hotelier in he Middle East: http://www.hoteliermiddleeast.com/21486-rudi-jagersbacher-tops-hotelier-power-50-again/ He is founder member of the strong and important Hilton in the Community foundation: https://www.hilton-foundation.org.uk/ With 40 years in business he has made the careers of many industry people and he just reached the milestone of 100 hotels in his region... ( nearly double the size under his guidance) and so on.

So I really don't why this entry has been rejected. To verity my knowledge I'm working in the hotel / tourism business since 1979 - I studied at Cornell University and since 2001 I do have my own agency working for clients like Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group. and we have e.g. launched Net Jets from Warren Buffett in the German speaking market, we have conducted many PR events with and for Arnold Schwarzenegger.... Let me know which further information you would need or what I need to change in the entry to get it uploaded.

Greetings from Munich, Germany Annette Zierer

Azierer (talk) 10:51, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi and thanks for the message. The article's tone should be one expected in an encyclopaedia, see WP:TONE. The article should be objective, and accordingly it is a good idea to read WP: WORDS, then make any changes as you feel appropriate, before re-submitting. Thanks, C 679 15:52, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

14:03:00, 2 January 2015 review of submission by Sjaak65

Sjaak65 (talk · contribs)
- Draft:DieDra (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hi,

Thank you for reviewing my submission. I must say that this is becoming quite discouraging. I already went through the notability issue with the previous reviewer. We agreed that the notability guidelines were met. This concerns a blues artist, so just like jazz and classical musicians it is rather unrealistic to expect charted singles or major music awards. I used as references three nationally published magazines in three different countries and an encyclopedic book on the subject that makes mention of this artist.

The following criteria from the notability guidelines are met:

1. Has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, published works appearing in sources that are reliable, not self-published, and are independent from the musician or ensemble itself. (I listed 4)

4. Has received non-trivial coverage in independent reliable sources of an international concert tour, or a national concert tour in at least one sovereign country. (DieDra did two European tours earlier this year, which was covered in Dutch and Belgian blues magazines. It doesn't make much sense however to refer to these on an English wiki page, since they are in Dutch and French respectively).

7. Has become one of the most prominent representatives of a notable style or the most prominent of the local scene of a city. (DieDra represented Alabama in the International Blues Challenge three years in a row. She made the finals twice).

9. Has won or placed in a major music competition. (As a finalist in the International Blues Challenge she ended with the 9 best out of 255 international competitors. There is no 2nd or 3rd place in this competition, so one could say that the 8 losing finalists placed. The IBC is the first most prominent music competition for blues music.)

According to the notability guidelines, a musician may be notable if at least one of the criteria is met. I say she meets 4.

The request of the last reviewer was to match the references with the stated facts and resubmit (see comments). This I did and I really don't know what more I can do.

I ask you kindly to reconsider your declination.

Regards,

Sjaak.

Sjaak65 (talk) 14:03, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your message. I disagree though. If the previous reviewer believes the notability guidelines are met, you are free to ask him to take another look. I feel the best criteria to get this through is #4: coverage in non-English language sources is permissible per WP:NONENG, so see what you can add. Thanks, C 679 15:47, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thank you for reviewing my submission (32 Service Battalion). I do not believe that it is advertising in that it represents a military unit. In fact it would be the same ashttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Service_Battalion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Service_Battalion 32 Service Battalion in Toronto has a very unique history and it will have a lot more data added comparable to 1 Service Battalion.

John

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Canadian soccer players

Thanks for the clarification. When it comes to the latest one, Marco Bustos, he has appeared for his professional team in a cup match. I think he is notable because two other players, Marco Carducci and Kianz Froese, also made their debuts with Bustos in that same cup match and both have wiki articles on them. Froese has since made a first team appearance in league play, but his article was made when he only had that one cup match to his name.

Also, as long as it a professional league, if a player makes an appearances in them, does that makes them notable?

Yes. I have accepted the article. Thanks, C 679 23:27, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

03:41:43, 3 January 2015 review of submission by Shubhsati

Shubhsati (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Vedang Sati (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

added new references Shubhsati (talk) 03:41, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Albert Bonass GA

Hello. Thank you again for taking the time to do the review and for your helpful comments. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 09:26, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

10:02, 3 January 2015‎ review of submission by Jonpat123

Hello. Thank you for taking time to review my first ever article draft. As what you mention earlier, my draft does not meet general notability guidelines. I want to ask what part of general notability guidelines does my draft lack of? Is it "Significant coverage"? "Reliable"? "Sources"? "Independent of the subject"? "Presumed"? or all of them? I'm new to this activity so I need your guidance. Thank you.

Jonpat123 (talk)

@Jonpat123: AFC U-14 Girls Regional Championship (ASEAN), as well as other child sports tournaments in similar parts of the world, is not considered notable, due to absence of significant coverage, so of course an article on a season of it falls under the same criteria. Hope this clarifies. C 679 11:36, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright violations

I saw you that when you reviewed Draft:Team Survivor you failed to notice it was a copyright violation of various websites. To help you check for copyvios, you may wish to install Technical 13's CVDetector script, which adds a convenient sidebar link to Earwig's Copyvio Detector tool. Just add

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to your script JS page. I have tagged the draft for G12. Thanks, BethNaught (talk) 17:00, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Helen Rollason GAN

Hi, thanks for your review. Just a quick note to say I've had a look at the comments and addressed most of them. I have a small query about one point, but have left a note on the review page. Thanks once again for taking a look at this. Cheers, This is Paul (talk) 22:12, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ok, think I've done it now. This is Paul (talk) 23:24, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, that's fantastic. This is Paul (talk) 15:24, 5 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Community Shield

Sorry, I forgot to watch the GAN page. I'll go through those new issues as soon as I can. '''tAD''' (talk) 04:48, 8 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

soccer kick GA

May I ask why this has been put on hold? I have made the changes that you stated were needed. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 13:45, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Outstanding items, in particular everything I mentioned last time I added to the page, as well as a few things not done from the last run (all referencing issues). C 679 13:49, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

19 January 2015 review of submission by K8bell

Hi, Thank you for your feedback on my page on EF Standard English Test. I have resolved the two issues you pointed out:

1. I'd inverted the TOEFL/IELTS column headers, which is why the scores for both were impossible. Sorry about that. I should have proofed more carefully.

2. On the broken reference link, I see that the whitepaper which is the source changes URL regularly (with every new version of the pdf) so instead I have updated that reference link to point at the page where the whitepaper can be downloaded. That URL does not seem to change. Is that the right way to proceed? If linking directly to the whitepaper as a reference, the link will break with every update made to the paper. Not a very good way for the webmaster to manage their links, but it seems like the practice in place.

I'd love to hear from you if you think the page is ready for resubmission or not.

thanks K8bell (talk) 11:28, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

1998 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final review comments

Hello Cloudz!

I looked through your review yesterday, and while I do agree with some of your points, I still have to question it. For instance, you asked why the League Cup was linked to the 1998 final? If you take a look at the page, you will see that the final was actually played in March, which was earlier in the season (The 1997 final took place between Leicester City and Middlesbrough). Also, if you are wondering why references 64 and 90 do not contain urls, it is because they are actually UEFA documents (line-ups and match report), and it is not something you will find on the internet since UEFA does not seem to have PDF reports for Cup Winners' Cup matches. (I can send images if you are interested). As for some of the non-English references you pointed out, I did try to find them in English, but I was unsuccessful because of the lack of match coverages on English websites for those matches, particularly the Dutch source. However, I did manage to replace the Turkish link. Arbero (talk) 12:12, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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02:22:45, 8 March 2015 review of submission by 73.12.113.223

73.12.113.223 (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Brian Zero (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Thanks for taking the time to review my submission. This is my first submission to Wikipedia, and no hoax. I used an existing Wikipedia page (which was not declined) as a template. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Ott. Ott was/is a peer of Brian Zero's. They are from the same generation of punk rock in California, an underground music history that is historically relevant.

Since you are the experienced reviewer, please tell me how to edit the Brian Zero submission and I will do so.

I have many sources to cite, and additional content to add, such as Brian Zero being cited in publications and interviewed. I had difficulty adding citation marks in the piece while writing it, but that's a technical question you probably don't field.

Miriam 73.12.113.223 (talk) 02:22, 8 March 2015 (UTC) 73.12.113.223 (talk) 02:22, 8 March 2015 (UTC) 73.12.113.223 (talk) 02:22, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review - "Dammit"

Hey there, thanks for the GA review on "Dammit". I implemented all of your suggestions. Saginaw-hitchhiker (talk) 21:52, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Beard Beer thanks

Thanks for expanding Rogue Beard Beer. Let's hope it gets accepted in time for a National Beer Day DYK! — Brianhe (talk) 22:15, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Patrick Woohead - Help Needed!

Hi there - I'm a complete beginner so apologies if I'm doing this wrong! Thanks for offering to help when my page wasn't published. I now understand that achievements need to be verified by secondary sources - are the following all valid? If I listed them in Footnotes, would they validate the page, enabling it to be published?

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/an-awfully-big-adventure-73699.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/3408593.stm http://www.soservices.co.uk/SpeakerDetail/506#details http://www.janklowandnesbit.co.uk/patrick-woodhead http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/21/travel/tmagazine/21T-JUNGLE.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1& http://v1.explorapoles.org/UK/Whos/PT_U-Z/Woodhead_Patrick.htm http://www.planetwildlife.com/magazine/travel-whispered.php http://www.henleycol.ac.uk/henleycollege/news/lectures.html#wood http://www.buryfreepress.co.uk/news/local/latest-news/south-pole-return-for-bury-man-1-408133 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2829794/Follow-footsteps-Bear-Grylls-Prince-William-luxury-46-000-Antarctic-safari-Patrick-Woodhead.html

Thanks again for your help.

Best wishes,

Claire

Beneaththeice (talk) 14:32, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Clown in the Dumps/GA1

Cloudz679, I just got a note on my talk page from Taylor Trescott about this review; I'd pinged Taylor's talk page a little over a week ago, asking what was up. Taylor won't be able to review the article, so I'm going to put the nomination back into the nominating pool, retaining its seniority. I'm going to try to have the review page deleted, but if that doesn't work there's another way to accomplish this. I'm sorry that this review didn't work out, and hope that someone picks it up quickly once it's available. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:53, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Attendances in Euro 2016 Qualifying

Where do you get the attendances from? ^Ol^Ja 20:26, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Oldstone James: Home broadcaster, what a finish to the game it was - [1]. C 679 21:11, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Cloudz679:Doesn't show the attendance though... ^Ol^Ja 21:23, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Oldstone James: If you do a search for 13722, you will find it. C 679 05:00, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Easter!

File:Chocolate-Easter-Bunny.jpg

All the best! "Carry me down, carry me down; carry me down into the wiki!" (talk) 01:09, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Re:GA

Hi, first of all I would like to apologize for any mess created at GA. I truly accept the fact that I write grammatically incorrect English, so I would from now on have my articles copyedited before nominating. Have a nice day ! RRD13 দেবজ্যোতি (talk) 11:26, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Belgium NFT nomination for GA

Dear Cloudz, today the time has come to nominate Belgium national football team for Good Article status. Apart from me, other users as Sygmoral, Euryalus and Pelotas also significantly contributed to it in last years. Also a bit thanks to you - you were one of the first to warn me for not making the article too large and flow-breaking (with statistics and the like).

I noticed you helped to promote 6 articles to GA yourself and reviewed 37 articles for it, from which very recently Saido Berahino. If you are willing to review the Belgium NFT article one day: be my guest! In my opinion you are more than qualified to do so, and also still allowed to do so (because you only made 2 contributions to the article itself). Other suggestions to improve the article are of course always welcome. Friendly regards, Kareldorado (talk) 13:22, 8 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Saido Berahino GAN

Thanks for the suggestions. I've carried through on them. Can't believe I didn't spot some of the clunky prose beforehand. Now it's time for the mammoth task of the referencing checks. '''tAD''' (talk) 19:01, 8 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Better late than never!

Hi, I was just checking all my DYK page views to see if any qualified for the Hall of Fame known as WP:DYKSTATS by passing 5,000 page views. Indeed, the one I wrote when you made Milan Baroš became a Good Article did: see Wikipedia:DYKSTATS/Archive 2014#March 2014 '''tAD''' (talk) 09:38, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tevin Campbell album covers

Hi, User: Cloudz679! I would like to give you an update on some things. I noticed that a long time ago you uploaded several (if not all) of Tevin Campbell's album covers to their appropriate wikipedia pages. However, I noticed that the album cover for Campbell's I'm Ready album has been deleted. As for the others, such as T.E.V.I.N., Back to the World and Tevin Campbell, I don't think they are clear or big enough. Since you are the original uploader of the photos, I would like to suggest that you upload better versions of those album covers for the sake of those who visit each album's page. Thank You! (talk) 08:38, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@EricEgo2012: That was deleted because fair use images cannot be stored at Commons. If you want better resolution images of the other covers, feel free to upload them yourself. WP:IMAGERES indicates acceptable sizes. Thanks, C 679 10:15, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2015 May newsletter

The second round one has all wrapped up, and round three has now begun! Congratulations to the 34 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our second round. Leading the way overall was Cas Liber (submissions) in Group B with a total of 777 points for a variety of contributions including Good Articles on Corona Borealis and Microscopium - both of which received the maximum bonus.

Special credit must be given to a number of high importance articles improved during the second round.

Coemgenus (submissions) was one of several users who worked on improving Ulysses S. Grant. Remember, you do not need to work on an article on your own - as long as each person has completed significant work on the article during 2015, multiple competitors can claim the same article.
Cwmhiraeth (submissions) took Dragonfly to Good Article for a 3x bonus - and if that wasn't enough, they also took Damselfly there as well for a 2x bonus.
LeftAire (submissions) worked up Alexander Hamilton to Good Article for the maximum bonus. Hamilton was one of the founding fathers of the United States and is a level 4 vital article.

The points varied across groups, with the lowest score required to gain automatic qualification was 68 in Group A - meanwhile the second place score in Group H was 404, which would have been high enough to win all but one of the other Groups! As well as the top two of each group automatically going through to the third round, a minimum score of 55 was required for a wildcard competitor to go through. We had a three-way tie at 55 points and all three have qualified for the next round, in the spirit of fairness. The third round ends on June 28, with the top two in each group progressing automatically while the remaining 16 highest scorers across all four groups go through as wildcards. Good luck to all competitors for the third round! Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) 16:51, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

GA review for Mike Heath (swimmer)

Hey, Cloudz679. Please accept my apologies for my slow response to your review comments. This GA nomination sat untouched and unreviewed for two months, and I was distracted by other Wiki-work this past week. I believe that I have now addressed all of your concerns at Talk:Mike Heath (swimmer)/GA1. How would you like to proceed? Should I simply re-list/renominate the article? Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 17:04, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, not much time at the moment. I see you have already re-nominated. I will try to get to it though. Thanks, C 679 08:22, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Cloudz. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 08:30, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Vratislav Lokvenc

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Vratislav Lokvenc you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Dirtlawyer1 -- Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 19:00, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Bohemians 1905

While I appreciate your updates to this page, I am just wondering why you removed the details of their expulsion from the league and the record in the league to that point? Surely this would be of interest to readers? I could just edit it back in but I do not want to get into that. Could there be someway that we can come to some sort of agreement when editing this page? (It is the only one I edit at this time.) Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Colthegooner (talk • contribs) 18:50, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Colthegooner: Their expulsion is mentioned in the history section, I added that to the article with a reference myself in 2011. Regarding the results of that season, they are officially void, so I don't see how including them in the statistics section is relevant. They may be worked into the text, but would somewhat unbalance the article. What do you think about that? Could you expand with further details about subsequent seasons, given your interest? Thanks, C 679 19:54, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Cloudz679: I have just another look at the page and now think that you are right. The league stats table does now look a lot better. I wanted, and had started, doing the league stats for the clubs time in the Czechoslovak leagues, what do you think? Also, they do not use the club logo that is on the page anymore, but i do not know how to change it. (The new official logo is on their Czech language page.) What did you mean about subsequent seasons? Colthegooner (talk) 20:36, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Colthegooner: I mean seasons between 2004/05 and now. I will have a go at the logo this week. League stats for the Czechoslovak era is a great idea, I started with post-1993 as it is much easier, and I haven't finished all the current professional teams yet. Of course if you have access to the older Bohemka stuff, please add it with the same layout. Thanks, C 679 21:19, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Josef Masopust

Josef Masopust is nominated to appear on recent deaths on the main page, but the article is somewhat under-referenced. Do you have any references which could help with making it up to standard, as a fitting tribute to the greatest Czech footballer ever? '''tAD''' (talk) 18:18, 29 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@The Almightey Drill: I have added a couple of refs, it is far from perfect as I am limited on Wiki-time right now, but hopefully it is useful. Thanks, C 679 20:03, 29 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

More than appreciated, thank you '''tAD''' (talk) 20:10, 29 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Talk:Vratislav Lokvenc/GA1

Just a reminder that the reviewer has responded with further edits; the nomination is doing well and there doesn't seem to be a great deal left for you to do, but you will need to address these issues soon. I hope you return to editing before too long has passed. Best of luck finishing the outstanding issues! BlueMoonset (talk) 21:35, 25 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Vratislav Lokvenc

The article Vratislav Lokvenc you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Vratislav Lokvenc for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Dirtlawyer1 -- Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:21, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, your nominated article has been promoted to Good Article. If you intend to submit a "Did you know?" regarding the article for publication on Wikipedia's main page, please note that you have seven days from today to do so per the DYK instructions at WP:DYK. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:38, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Dirtlawyer1: Thank you for your review. The article has already featured at DYK, but it is all the better for your words. Thank you, C 679 15:43, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Mitropa Cup

Do you have time to edit the rest of seasons of Mitropa Cup.I have seen you created the rest of the seasons. Thank you !Alexiulian25 (talk) 10:16, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Alexiulian25: I only created three seasons of the tournament. It takes quite a long time and there is basically no prose to add. Which season(s) are you interested in particularly? I may be able to do a couple. Thanks, C 679 09:09, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Cloudz679: I know it takes time, I also create seasons in competitions, but I work 3-4 seasons per week and is good, slow progress but enough to be done in time. You can start with the : 1936 Mitropa Cup, 1937 Mitropa Cup, 1938 Mitropa Cup, 1939 Mitropa Cup. Thanks. Alexiulian25 (talk) 10:14, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Cloudz679: And I know you can not find so much prose, but 2-3 lines is enough for the begining, what is important is the games and results. You also can add the runner-ups on the main table and a separete table with the number of winners by team. Thank you.Alexiulian25 (talk) 10:20, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Alexiulian25: I would suggest, if you have the time, to be bold and create them yourself! As far as your proposed additions to the main Mitropa Cup page, you are free to add the material yourself, provided you include a reliable source. Good luck, C 679 19:45, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Cloudz679: I am editing other pages : Cupa Romaniei, there is so many seasons missing ... to much work... I can t do everything by myself, I need a football supporter like you to help me, at least one season per week and is still good. Just help me a bit. Thanks.Alexiulian25 (talk) 19:52, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Vladimír Remek

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WikiCup 2015 September newsletter

The finals for the 2015 Wikicup has now begun! Congrats to the 8 contestants who have survived to the finals, and well done and thanks to everyone who took part in rounds 3 and 4.

In round 3, we had a three-way tie for qualification among the wildcard contestants, so we had 34 competitors. The leader was by far Casliber (submissions) in Group B, who earned 1496 points. Although 913 of these points were bonus points, he submitted 15 articles in the DYK category. Second place overall was Coemgenus (submissions) at 864 points, who although submitted just 2 FAs for 400 points, earned double that amount for those articles in bonus points. Everyone who moved forward to Round 4 earned at least 100 points.

The scores required to move onto the semifinals were impressive; the lowest scorer to move onto the finals was 407, making this year's Wikicup as competitive as it's always been. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:

Cas Liber (submissions), who is competing in his sixth consecutive Wikicup final, again finished the round in first place, with an impressive 1666 points in Pool B. Casliber writes about the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy. A large bulk of his points this round were bonus points.
Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points), second place both in Pool B and overall, earned the bulk of his points with FPs, mostly depicting currency.
Cwmhiraeth (submissions), first in Pool A, came in third. His specialty is natural science articles; in Round 4, he mostly submitted articles about insects and botany. Five out of the six of the GAs he submitted were level-4 vital articles.
Harrias (submissions), second in Pool A, took fourth overall. He tends to focus on articles about cricket and military history, specifically the 1640s First English Civil War.
West Virginian (submissions), from Pool A, was our highest-scoring wildcard. West Virginia tends to focus on articles about the history of (what for it!) the U.S. state of West Virginia.
Rodw (submissions), from Pool A, likes to work on articles about British geography and places. Most of his points this round were earned from two impressive accomplishments: a GT about Scheduled monuments in Somerset and a FT about English Heritage properties in Somerset.
Rationalobserver (submissions), from Pool B, came in seventh overall. RO earned the majority of her points from GARs and PRs, many of which were earned in the final hours of the round.
Calvin999 (submissions), also from Pool B, who was competing with RO for the final two spots in the final hours, takes the race for most GARs and PRs—48.

The intense competition between RO and Calvin999 will continue into the finals. They're both eligible for the Newcomers Trophy, given for the first time in the Wikicup; whoever makes the most points will win it.

Good luck to the finalists; the judges are sure that the competition will be fierce!

Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 11:47, 2 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Vladimír Remek

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Your GA nomination of Vladimír Remek

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FC Hradec Králové

A long time ago, you wrote that Hradec Králové won the Czechoslovak First League on their first appearance in the top flight in the 1959–60 season. The reference you added as a source for this statement was a book written in Czech. Does that book really include the aforementioned claim? — 37 ^(talk) 00:35, 3 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This was actually written by User:Bradka even longer ago. However, thank you for drawing this to my attention, as I have revisited the source which supports the text only partially. It wasn't their first-ever season in the First League, but they hadn't played there the previous season. I will change the article accordingly. Thanks, C 679 06:15, 3 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Transfermarkt essay

As the other primary editor involved in removing Transfermarkt references from Wikipedia, I'd like you input on something. I'm sure you've gotten your fair share of questions about why the site isn't reliable. I've gotten so many that I'm starting to think it might be useful to have a Wikipedia namespace page outlining the problems with the site. I've drafted a sample essay at User:Sir Sputnik/Sandbox. Let me know what you think. Is this a good idea? Does my draft need changes? Cheers. Sir Sputnik (talk) 05:53, 5 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiCup 2015: The results

WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.

This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points). All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science. Cas Liber (submissions), a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.

Our newcomer award, presented to the best-performing new competitor in the WikiCup, goes to Rationalobserver (submissions). Everyone should be very proud of the work they accomplished. We will announce our other award winners soon.

A full list of our award winners are:

Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points) wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 330 featured pictures in the final round.
Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 160 did you knows in the final round (310 in all rounds).
Cas Liber (submissions) wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for 26 featured articles in all rounds.
West Virginian (submissions) wins the prize for fourth place
Calvin999 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
Rationalobserver (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
Harrias (submissions) wins a final 8 prize and the FL prize for 11 featured lists.
Rodw (submissions) wins the most prizes: a final 8 prize, the GA prize for 41 good articles, and the topic prize for a 13-article good topic and an 8-article featured topic, both in round 3.
ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the news prize for the most news articles in round 3.

We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2016 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

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WikiCup Award

JSTOR cleanup drive

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WikiCup 2016 is just around the corner...

Hello everyone, and we would like to wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2016 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. There are some changes we'd like to announce before the competition begins.

After two years of serving as WikiCup judge, User:Miyagawa has stepped down as judge. He deserves great thanks and recognition for his dedication and hard work, and for providing necessary transition for a new group of judges in last year's Cup. Joining Christine (User:Figureskatingfan) and Jason (User:Sturmvogel 66) is Andrew (User:Godot13), a very successful WikiCup competitor and expert in Featured Pictures; he won the two previous competitions. This is a strong judging team, and we anticipate lots of enjoyment and good work coming from our 2016 competitors.

We would also like to announce one change in how this year's WikiCup will be run. In the spirit of sportsmanship, Godot13 and Cwmhiraeth have chosen to limit their participation. See here for the announcement and a complete explanation of why. They and the judges feel that it will make for a more exciting, enjoyable, and productive competition.

The discussions/polls concerning the next competition's rules will be closed soon, and rules changes will be made clear on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring and talk pages. The judges are committed to not repeating the confusion that occurred last year and to ensuring that the new rules are both fair and in the best interests of the competition, which is, first and foremost, about improving Wikipedia.

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Yosuke Sakamoto

Hi - they have parallel histories so merging them isn't ideal. Redirecting one to the other is fine. Giant Snowman 09:18, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]