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File:Peru Kit 2.png listed for discussion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Peru Kit 2.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. Kelly hi! 10:46, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Peruvian general election

Hello. I have noticed that the article Peruvian general election, 2016 was nominated at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates, to appear in the "In the news" section of the main page, but at the moment it is rejected because of its poor quality. Perhaps if the article is improved in time it may be promoted. I will try to help a bit, but as a Peruvian you must be more familiar than me about this election and the related information, and your help would be far more valuable. Have in mind that the time to do this is a bit limited, in just some days it will be yesterday's news and won't be considered for the In The News section. Cambalachero (talk) 12:37, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

June 2016 Guild of Copy Editors Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2016 News

Hello everyone, welcome to the June 2016 GOCE newsletter. It's been a few months since we sent one out; we hope y'all haven't forgotten about the Guild! Your coordinators have been busy behind the scenes as usual, though real life has a habit of reducing our personal wiki-time. The May backlog reduction drive, the usual coordinating tasks and preparations for the June election are keeping us on our toes!

May drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's record-setting backlog reduction drive. Of the 29 people who signed up, 16 copyedited at least one article, 197 copyedits were recorded on the drive page, and the copyedit backlog fell below 1,500 for the first time! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

June Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz will occur from 12 June through 18 June; the themes will be video games and Asian geography.

Coordinator elections: It's election time again; how quickly they seem to roll around! Nominations for the next tranche of Guild coordinators, who will serve a six-month term that begins at 00:01 UTC on 1 July and ends at 23:59 UTC on 31 December, opens at 00:01 UTC on 1 June and closes at 23:59 UTC on 15 June. Voting takes place between 00:01 UTC on 16 June and 23:59 UTC on 30 June. If you'd like to assist behind the scenes, please consider stepping forward; self-nominations are welcomed and encouraged. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible; remember it's your Guild, and it doesn't run itself!

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Baffle gab1978.

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Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 News

Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 News

Hello everyone, and welcome to the July 2016 GOCE newsletter.

June Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 12 through 18 June; the themes were video games and Asian geography. Of the 18 editors who signed up, 11 removed 47 articles from the backlog. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part.

Coordinator elections: The second tranche of Guild coordinators for 2016, who will serve a six-month term until 23:59 UTC on 31 December, have been elected. Jonesey95 remains as your drama-free Lead Coordinator, and Corinne and Tdslk are your new assistant coordinators. For her long service to the Guild, Miniapolis has been enrolled in the GOCE Hall of Fame. Thanks to everyone who voted in the election; our next scheduled one occurs in December 2016. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible; self-nominations are welcome and encouraged.

July Drive: Our month-long July Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive is now underway. Our aim is to remove articles tagged for copy-edit in April, May and June 2015, and to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from June 2016. The drive ends at 23:59 on 31 July 2016 (UTC).

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdlsk.

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Attack

Isn't it interesting that, when you call someone on his nonsense, it's an attack because he is a registered editor, with a NAME and all. But when you're not, then it isn't an attack to have your, fully reasonable, edit reverted multiple times. Note also that the editor I supposedly attacked elected to remove the entire conversation rather than answer it. Because acting like a spoiled child not getting its way is a reasonable act, and such a very good sign. So, to reiterate: The word 'eponymous', meaning: "of, relating to, or being the person or thing for whom or which something is named" is a completely reasonable, and neutral, word to describe the restaurant Trader Vic's, owned by 'Trader' Vic Bergeron. The word was used in the article in question (Mai Tai, until it was, erroneously, removed. I replaced it, and no less than two editors decided, with no logical reason, that this was 'promoting' the restaurant and/or person. I argued that this was so much nonsense, and that if one cannot use that word, then any connection between Donald Trump and Trump Tower, or Henry Ford and Ford Motor Company had best be removed too. They were entirely unwilling to see any other point of view than theirs. So, where from here? After all, commenting on content and not editors are all well and good until the editors in question will not see reason, are not willing to see any point other than their own, and threaten to have you blocked. 31.208.103.192 (talk) 10:23, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

There's plenty of noticeboards available (WP:AN/I, WP:NPOV/N, WP:RS/N) to take your case without there being a need to resort to insults. You can even open a WP:RFC (request for comment) or ask for a WP:3O (third opinion).
In this message you again insult the editor by associating him with "a spoiled child". Please stop.
Certain users do get away with insulting other editors and break many of the established rules. However, that is not a justification for those actions. We need more people (and administrators) to stand against the bullies that make their way into Wikipedia rather than join their ranks.
Have a good day.--MarshalN20 Talk

Falkland

Hi Marshal. I saw your message on my talk page, but it wasn't clear what you were wanting. I also saw that you removed an improvement to the etymology of Falkland for no reason. Perhaps you might help me out and tell me why you regard academic research on a Fife place-name to be unreliable or otherwise explain why you performed this edit. Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 17:24, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Here is more information on the source: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_219418_en.pdf
Simon Taylor's Place-Names of Fife is a source of the most reliable kind, a peer-reviewed work written by the leading expert on Scottish place-names after decades of work. It is up-to-date in terms of methodology and research. Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 17:36, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
Marshal, you don't seem to understand the purpose of WP:BRD. It is a guide to the editing process, it is not a reason itself for blank reverting fellow editors improving an article. You need to specify some reason for your edit otherwise no editor has any reason to accept your reversions. Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 18:37, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

WP: BRD

Dear Marshal, please revisit this page WP:BRD. You cited it as a pretext for edit-warring, but if you had actually read it and followed it you wouldn't have created these issues. Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 21:39, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Credit where credit's due, this is exactly the type of edit WP:BRD calls for. Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 22:05, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

File:Austria Emperorflag.png listed for discussion

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Guild of Copy Editors September 2016 News

Guild of Copy Editors September 2016 News

Hello everyone, and welcome to the September 2016 GOCE newsletter.

>>> Sign up for the September Drive, already in progress! <<<

July Drive: The July drive was a roaring success. We set out to remove April, May, and June 2015 from our backlog (our 149 oldest articles), and by 23 July, we were done with those months. We added July 2015 (66 articles) and copy-edited 37 of those. We also handled all of the remaining Requests from June 2016. Well done! Overall, we recorded copy edits to 240 articles by 20 editors, reducing our total backlog to 13 months and 1,656 articles, the second-lowest month-end total ever.

August Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 21 through 27 August; the theme was sports-related articles in honor of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Of the eight editors who signed up, five editors removed 11 articles from the backlog. A quiet blitz – everyone must be on vacation. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdlsk.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:36, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Let's do this.

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Belgium national football team/archive2

Kareldorado (talk) 19:13, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Invite to the African Destubathon

Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! So it would be a good chance to win something for improving stubs on African sportspeople, including footballers, athletes, Olympians and Paralympians etc, particularly female ones, but also male. Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing a few expanded articles on African Paralympians, Olympians and committees etc, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:13, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Bicycle Kick

Hello:

The copy edit that you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Bicycle kick has been completed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

I did archive most of the article's URLs where allowed. As to your request: "I need help checking if the sources in the bibliography are still relevant (in use) at the article." This is not something that any copy editor would be able to do since the reference material isn't at hand. Surely if a previous editor removed some cited text they would also remove the reference? If I have misunderstood you please leave me a note on my talk page.

Kind regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 14:38, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

Latin American 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Latin America/The 10,000 Challenge ‎ has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Argentina etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Latin American content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 350 articles in just six days. If you would like to see this happening for Latin America, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Latin America, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thankyou.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:22, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup 2016 November newsletter: Final results

The final round of the 2016 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2016 WikiCup top three finalists:

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:

  • Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a three-way tie with themselves for two FAs in each of R2, R3, and R5).
  • Good Article – MPJ-DK had 14 GAs promoted in R3.
  • Featured List – England Calvin999 (submissions) produced 2 FLs in R2
  • Featured Pictures – Adam Cuerden restored 18 images to FP status in R4.
  • Featured Portal – Yakutsk SSTflyer (submissions) produced the only FPO of the Cup in R2.
  • Featured Topic – Connecticut Cyclonebiskit (submissions) and Calvin were each responsible for one FT in R3 and R2, respectively.
  • Good Topic – MPJ-DK created a GT with 9 GAs in R5.
  • Did You Know – MPJ-DK put 53 DYKs on the main page in R4.
  • In The News – India Dharmadhyaksha (submissions) and New York City Muboshgu (submissions), each with 5 ITN, both in R4.
  • Good Article Review – MPJ-DK completed 61 GARs in R2.

Over the course of the 2016 WikiCup the following content was added to Wikipedia (only reporting on fixed value categories): 17 Featured Articles, 183 Good Articles, 8 Featured Lists, 87 Featured Pictures, 40 In The News, and 321 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:53, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

We will open up a discussion for comments on process and scoring in a few days. The 2017 WikiCup is just around the corner! Many thanks from all the judges. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email)

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016-2017 GA Cup

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016-2017 GA Cup

Greetings, all!

We would like to announce the start of the 4th GA Cup, a competition that seeks to encourage the reviewing of Good article nominations! Thus far, there have been three GA Cups, which were successful in reaching our goals of significantly reducing the traditionally long queue at GAN, so we're doing it again. Currently, there are over 400 nominations listed. We hope that we can again make an impact this time.

The 4th GA Cup will begin on November 1, 2016. Four rounds are currently scheduled (which will bring the competition to a close on February 28, 2017), but this may change based on participant numbers. We may take a break in December for the holidays, depending on the results of a poll of our participants taken shortly after the competition begins. The sign-up and submissions process will remain the same, as will the scoring.

Sign-ups for the upcoming competition are currently open and will close on November 14, 2016. Everyone is welcome to join; new and old editors, so sign-up now!

If you have any questions, take a look at the FAQ page and/or contact one of the judges.

Cheers from 3family6, Figureskatingfan, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. We apologize for the delay in sending out this message until after the competition has started. Thank you to Krishna Chaitanya Velaga for aiding in getting this message out.

To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.

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Secret treaty of alliance between Peru and Bolivia of 1873

Hallo MarshalN20,

would you be so kind to explain why did you revert my changes to the article Secret treaty of alliance between Peru and Bolivia of 1873? . Thanks in advance, --Keysanger (talk) 18:07, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

@Keysanger:. Even your message here reflects POV-pushing. The article's title has already been changed to its real name. You have to stop drop the stick and move on, otherwise I will report your behavior to AN/I. You may consider this your final warning.--MarshalN20 Talk 18:11, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, MarshalN20. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Secret treaty of alliance between Peru and Bolivia of 1873

You are called to participate in the discussion about the Secret treaty of alliance between Peru and Bolivia of 1873 to Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard. --Keysanger (talk) 15:00, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Causes of the War of the Pacific

Please be aware that an Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Causes of the War of the Pacific case has been brought up which concerns you. --Keysanger (talk) 14:46, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Formal mediation has been requested

The Mediation Committee has received a request for formal mediation of the dispute relating to "Causes of the War of the Pacific". As an editor concerned in this dispute, you are invited to participate in the mediation. Mediation is a voluntary process which resolves a dispute over article content by facilitation, consensus-building, and compromise among the involved editors. After reviewing the request page, the formal mediation policy, and the guide to formal mediation, please indicate in the "party agreement" section whether you agree to participate. Because requests must be responded to by the Mediation Committee within seven days, please respond to the request by 11 December 2016.

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News

Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News

Hello everyone, and welcome to the December 2016 GOCE newsletter. We had an October newsletter all set to go, but it looks like we never pushed the button to deliver it, so this one contains a few months of updates. We have been busy and successful!

>>> Sign up for the December Blitz! <<<

Coordinator elections for the first half of 2017: Nominations are open for election of Coordinators for the first half of 2017. Please visit the election page to nominate yourself or another editor, and then return after December 15 to vote. Thanks for participating!

September Drive: The September drive was fruitful. We set out to remove July through October 2015 from our backlog (an ambitious 269 articles), and by the end of the month, we had cut that pile of oldest articles to just 83. We reduced our overall backlog by 97 articles, even with new copyedit tags being added to articles every day. We also handled 75% of the remaining Requests from August 2016. Overall, 19 editors recorded copy edits to 233 articles (over 378,000 words).

October Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 16 through 22 October; the theme was Requests, since the backlog was getting a bit long. Of the 16 editors who signed up, 10 editors completed 29 requests. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part.

November Drive: The November drive was a record-breaker! We set out to remove September through December 2015 from our backlog (239 articles), and by the end of the month, we had cut that pile of old articles to just 66, eliminating the two oldest months! We reduced our overall backlog by 523 articles, to a new record low of 1,414 articles, even with new tags being added to articles every day, which means we removed copy-editing tags from over 800 articles. We also handled all of the remaining Requests from October 2016. Officially, 14 editors recorded copy edits to 200 articles (over 312,000 words), but over 600 articles, usually quick fixes and short articles, were not recorded on the drive page.

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Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdslk.

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Pending changes reviewer granted

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Request for mediation rejected

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Formal mediation has been requested

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WikiCup December newsletter: WikiCup 2017

On 1 January 2017, WikiCup 2017 (the 10th Annual WikiCup) will begin. This year we are trying something a little different – monetary prizes.

For the WC2017 the prizes will be as follows (amounts are based in US$ and will be awarded in the form of an online Amazon gift certificate):

  • First place – $200
  • Second & Third place – $50 each
  • Category prizes – $25 per category (which will be limited to FA, FL, FP, GA, and DYK for 2017). Winning a category prize does not require making it to the final round.

Note: Monetary prizes are a one-year experiment for 2017 and may or may not be continued in the future. In order to be eligible to receive any of the prizes above, the competing Wikipedia account must have a valid/active email address.

After two years as a WikiCup judge, Figureskatingfan is stepping down. We thank her for her contributions as a WikiCup judge. We are pleased to announce that our newest judge is two-time WikiCup champion Cwmhiraeth.

The judges for the 2017 WikiCup are Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email).

Signups are open now and will remain open until 5 February 2017. You can sign up here.

If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:02, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the Barnstar on Draft:David Breskin!!

Hello MarshalN20,

I wanted to thank you for adding a positive comment to my conversation with editor Robert McClenon regarding my draft new article submission for David Breskin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:David_Breskin

You might be able to tell that I am brand new to editing on Wikipedia. :-) It's been a really challenging learning curve and I'm afraid I've inadvertently taken some missteps, though not because I haven't tried to read up on all the guidelines, templates, etc.!

I've tried to fix the things that Mr. McClenon and Missvain found wrong with my draft. I hope they find it vastly improved and perhaps even approve-able!!

Anyway, your nice barnstar lifted me when I was feeling particularly defeated by this process.

Thanks.

All best!

Cahadley (talk) 23:52, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Comment by Shivani

Hi MarshalN20, My name is Shivani Raman and I am a student in a class called Poverty, Justice and Human Capabilities at Rice University. As part of this class, I am planning to make a contribution to Wikipedia by revising and adding to the article "Mineral Industry of Peru." I am reaching out to you to ask if you have any general advice in regard to adding to articles, or if you have any insight on Peru that would relate to my article topic. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. Thank you! Sraman195 (talk) 18:59, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

@Sraman195: Sorry for the very late response! I just noticed your message on my talk space. I was in Lima during this summer working at various local archives for my doctoral research, and have been quite busy ever since then. I've visited the Rice campus a few times in the past; a professor from rice was key note speaker at the conference where I won an award for my research on Peru. As for advice, I recommend that you first become familiarized with Wikipedia's pillars (if you have not done so already) to get the basics of what is expected of your participation in the project and editorial contributions. As for article content, my recommendation is the same as for any other research project you embark on: read, read, and read some more; in other words, understand the topic before working on it (in particular, learn about the available literature). Lastly, add many pictures to your work; if there is one thing that Wikipedia allows, and which other academic endeavors generally don't (due to space requirements), is the use of pictures to illustrate your work. That's all that comes to mind at the moment. Best.--MarshalN20 Talk 16:10, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
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