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Ciao, Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino. Volevo farvi sapere che sto proponendo un articolo che hai iniziato, Diego Casalis, per l'eliminazione perché è una biografia di una persona vivente che manca di riferimento — Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.206.146.46 (talk) 13:34, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

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April 2015 Wikification drive.

Greetings! Just spreading a message to the members of WikiProject Wikify that the April drive has been started. Come on, sign up! :) One hand on the mouse, one hand on the keyboard... and the feet can do the rest! Hee-hee! (talk) 03:48, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

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Today's articles for improvement

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All the best! "Carry me down, carry me down; carry me down into the wiki!" (talk) 23:20, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2015)

The wheel is one of the most famous and useful inventions in the history of technology Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: History of technology Previous selections: Garbage picking • Antagonist Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:14, 6 April 2015 (UTC) •

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Please participate There's a voting going on here. It needs to close, but consensus is not certain. We need more participation. The issues can't remain without a resolution. Please, check it out. Closure of the discussion has started. (refresh) Please, hurry. nafSadh did say 14:10, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

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A new reference tool

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This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2015)

A saxophone is an example of an aerophone. Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Aerophone Previous selections: History of technology • Garbage picking Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 01:25, 13 April 2015 (UTC) •

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hello this is Dfrr i know that you like Cartoon Network. well i will tell you something about me i am a adult lot older then you but not 40 years old and i like old Tv shows 50's 60's 70's 80's and sometimes 90's now here are a list of tv shows you may have never heard of but i am sure you will like and want to edit.

• Happy Days (1974-1984) (a spin-off of LAS this is where the phrase jump the shark came from in 1977 it takes place in the 50's)
• Love, American Style (1969-1974) (spun-off Happy Days)
• Full House (1987-1995) ( a show about a man named Danny Tanner played by Bob Saget whos wife Pam dies in a car crash)
• Family Matters (1989-1998) (spun off from Perfect Strangers about a Black Family called the Winslows next door friend Steve Urkel becomes thier break-out character in 1989 it has been called the Black Happy days)
• Perfect Strangers (1986-1993) (spun-off Family Matters the show is about two cousins named Balki and Larry)
• Step By Step (1991-1998) (a show about two people who get married and become large heads of a blended family. Cody Lambert is the break-out character it has been called the 90s Brady Bunch)
• All in the Family (1971-1979) (the most watched show of the 70s aside from Happy Days it is about Archie Bunker who hates black people and anything non-white AITF spun-off Maude and The Jeffersons and was retooted into Archie Bunker's Place)
• Maude (1972-1978) (the first spin-off from AITF the show is about Maude Findlay played by Bea Arthur who supports Womens libs and is the cousin of Edith Baines-Bunker (Archies wife)Maude hates Archie Bunker. Maude spun-off Good Times).
• Good Times (1974-1979) a spin-of of Maude about Maude's Maid Florida Evans She now lives in chicago with her husband James (Henry in Maude) Evans and her three kids Thelma Michael and J.J. the shows break-out character. it is the
• The Jeffersons (1975-1985) (the 2th spin-off from AITF it is about Geroge and Louis Jefferson a couple who became rich after George's Dry cleaning Stores maude him rich. so they moved from Archie Buncker's street 704 Houser (they lived next door to each other) to a delxue apartment in the sky.

i will list other shows laterDfrr (talk) 22:26, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

@Dfrr: I liked that. But I need more info about them, cause every show ended before my birth. No worry I'll make contribution to them. I like CN shows.--Pratyya ^(Hello!) 14:23, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank You There is also a show calledDfrr (talk) 01:03, 18 April 2015 (UTC) (Talk to me:-)

April 2015 GOCE newsletter

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A satellite image demonstrating the Geography of Niger Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Geography of Niger Previous selections: Aerophone • History of technology Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:08, 20 April 2015 (UTC) •

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This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2015)

Hydroelectric dams use hydropower to generate electricity Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Hydropower Previous selections: Geography of Niger • Aerophone Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:08, 27 April 2015 (UTC) •

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C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) is a long-period comet discovered on 17 August 2014 by Terry Lovejoy; and is one of several Featured Pictures worked up by The Herald (submissions) during the second round.

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This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2015)

The food industry is a complex, global collective of diverse businesses that supply much of the food and food energy consumed by the world population. Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Food industry Previous selections: Home appliance • Hydropower Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:05, 11 May 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Some codes!

Hello Prattya! Can I use your banner codes (For example, The guestbook and userpage tab) for my userpage?

Very much appreciated!

Gibboboy777 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gibboboy777 (talk • contribs) 12:41, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Gibboboy777 I don't have any problem. But please say that (in some corner of your page) you've taken the idea from my page. Thanks. --Pratyya ^(Hello!) 16:25, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Hey Pratyya

What is your birthday? --182.191.189.167 (talk) 06:56, 14 May 2015 (UTC) The 182 anon of Wikipedia

And why do you need that information? ""The 182 anon of Wikipedia"" --Pratyya ^(Hello!) 14:18, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

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Left: Czech bramboráček, a bread made of potato dough, being deep fried. Right: The Royal Navy Trafalgar class attack submarine HMS Tireless (S88) sits on the surface of the North Pole, the northern polar ice cap on Earth Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Deep frying Polar ice cap Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/2015/21/3 Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/2015/21/4 Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/2015/21/5 Previous selections: Food industry • Home appliance • Hydropower Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 01:32, 18 May 2015 (UTC) •

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2015 GA Cup

WikiProject Good Articles's 2015 GA Cup Greetings, all! We would like to announce the start of the 2nd GA Cup, a competition that seeks to encourage the reviewing of Good article nominations! Our inaugural competition, which ran from October 2014 to April 2015, was such a resounding success that we'd like to do it again. Currently, there are over 500 GANs ready to be reviewed; competitors in the previous GA Cup reviewed about 570 GAs, so we can again make a huge impact in helping editors improve articles in Wikipedia and decrease the traditionally long queue at GAN. The 2nd GA Cup will begin on July 1, 2015. As last time, five rounds are currently scheduled (which will bring the competition to a close on November 28, 2015), but this may change based on participant numbers. The judges learned a lot during the 1st GA Cup which exposed weaknesses in its system. Using both the feedback from last year's participants and the weaknesses discovered, we've revised the scoring system to make it more fair. The sign-up and submissions process will remain the same. We also are introducing three new judges: 3family6, Jaguar and MrWooHoo. So in total, there will be six judges. We hope this will allow the competition to run more smoothly. Sign-ups for the upcoming competition are currently open and will close on July 15, 2015. 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, Dom497, Figureskatingfan, Jaguar and MrWooHoo, and TheQ Editor.

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A cupcake for you!

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June 2015 Wikification drive.

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GOCE June 2015 newsletter

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VisualEditor News #3—2015

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Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools, as well as fixing many bugs and changing some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

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This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2015)

An example of sport – a view of the 1906 unofficial Olympic Games Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Sport Global cuisine Caramel Arctic Candy apple Previous selections: Buggy (automobile) • Types of chocolate • Deep frying Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:14, 8 June 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2015)

People enjoying the nightlife at a nightclub in Cape Town, South Africa Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Nightlife Victoria, Seychelles History of perfume Performing arts Sin Previous selections: Sport • Buggy (automobile) • Types of chocolate Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:13, 15 June 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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Books and Bytes - Issue 12

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Jerry Mahony

Hi Pratyya. Please be mindful of what you are reverting even if it looks like vandalism. Here the IP was attempting to remove some obviously inappropriate material that was added by a previous vandal. §FreeRangeFrog^croak 17:47, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi FreeRangeFrog, thanks for showing my mistakes. Yes I made a mistake there and I'll try to be more mindful in future. --Pratyya ^(Hello!) 11:55, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

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oceania world heritage sites change

hi what change of mine did you delete exactly?

Hi there. I reverted this edit of yours. Anyway please sign with ~~~~ after your message. --Pratyya ^(Hello!) 14:56, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

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Hi, I used some codes to decorate my edit notice + my other userpages. I just thought I would let you know, kind regards --EurovisionNim (talk to me)(see my edits) 04:43, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

Hello EurovisionNim, thanks for letting me know. But I would really appreciate it, if you kindly state at some visible corner of your page that you've taken the idea/code from my page. Actually it cost me almost 30 days to design this one so I would want you to give the courtesy. Thank you. --Pratyya ^(Hello!) 12:57, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

This week's articles for improvement (week 31, 2015)

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2015 GA Cup - Round 2

WikiProject Good Articles's 2015 GA Cup - Round 2 Greetings, GA Cup competitors! Wednesday saw the end of Round 1. The Rambling Man, who was eliminated during the first round in our last competition, earned an impressive 513 points, reviewed twice as many articles (26) as any other competitor. It was a tight race for second for first-time competitors BenLinus1214 and Tomandjerry211, who finished second and third with 243 and 224 points, respectively. Close behind was Wugapodes, who earned 205 points. The change in our points system had an impact on scoring. It was easier to earn higher points, although the key to success didn't change from last time, which was choosing articles with older nomination dates. For example, most of the articles The Rambling Man reviewed were worth 18 points in the nomination date category, and he benefited from it. BenLinus1214 reviewed the longest article, A Simple Plan (at 26,536 characters, or 4,477 words), the 1994 film starring Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, and Bridget Fonda and directed by Sam Raimi, and earned all possible 5 points in that category. After feedback from our participants, the judges slightly changed the rule about review length this time out. Shorter reviews are now allowed, as long as reviewers give nominators an opportunity to address their feedback. Shorter reviews are subject to the judges' discretion; the judges will continue their diligence as we continue the competition. Despite having fewer contestants at the beginning of Round 1 than last time, 132 articles were reviewed, far more than the 117 articles that were reviewed in Round 1 of the inaugural GA Cup. All of us involved should be very proud of what we've accomplished thus far. The judges are certain that Round 2 will be just as successful. 16 contestants have moved onto Round 2 and have been randomly placed in 4 groups of 4, with the top 2 in each pool progressing to Round 3, as well as the top participant ("9th place") of all remaining competitors. Round 2 has already begun and will end on August 29 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Round 2 and the pools can be found here. Good luck and remember to have fun! Cheers from Dom497, Figureskatingfan, 3family6 and Jaguar, and MrWooHoo. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant still competing, 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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This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2015)

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The team attended Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City. There they participated in the Hackathon and met with individuals and groups of users. They also made several presentations about VisualEditor and the future of editing.

Following Wikimania, we announced winners for the VisualEditor 2015 Translathon. Our thanks and congratulations to users Halan-tul, Renessaince, जनक राज भट्ट (Janak Bhatta), Vahe Gharakhanyan, Warrakkk, and Eduardogobi.

For interface messages (translated at translatewiki.net), we saw the initiative affecting 42 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 56.5% before the translathon, and 78.2% after (+21.7%). In particular, Sakha improved from 12.2% to 94.2%; Brazilian Portuguese went from 50.6% to 100%; Taraškievica went from 44.9% to 85.3%; Doteli went from 1.3% to 41.2%. Also, while 1.7% of the messages were outdated across all languages before the translathon, the percentage dropped to 0.8% afterwards (-0.9%).

For documentation messages (on mediawiki.org), we saw the initiative affecting 24 languages. The average progress in translations across all languages was 26.6% before translathon, and 46.9% after (+20.3%).  There were particularly notable achievements for three languages. Armenian improved from 1% to 99%; Swedish, from 21% to 99%, and Brazilian Portuguese, from 34% to 83%. Outdated translations across all languages were reduced from 8.4% before translathon to 4.8% afterwards (-3.6%).

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Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations can be enabled on each Wikipedia. The tool uses the citoid service to convert a URL or DOI into a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. You can see an animated GIF of the quick, simple process at mediawiki.org. So far, about a dozen Wikipedias have enabled the auto-citation tool. To enable it for your wiki, follow the instructions at mediawiki.org.

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TAFI List of articles purge, part II

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This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2015)

Berries for sale at a farmers' market Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Berry Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Farmhouse • Igloo Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:27, 10 August 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Adoption class.

You are free to provide me adoption classes on Bollywood related topics. JazzStewart ^{मला चर्चा?} 05:11, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

All right @Jazz Stewart:. But before everything, I should mention you one thing. You stated that;
I want an Indian adopter who majored on contributing to Bollywood related articles. They should have the full knowledge in Bollywood and fully updated with daily dose of Bollywood as well.

Now I'm NOT an Indian but a Bangladeshi. Plus, I know about Bollywood (almost everything), but I haven't done too much work with Bollywood articles in other word Bollywood is not my major editing or contribution area.

SO what is your comment now? --Pratyya ^(Hello!) 14:24, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

It is not an issue. I had precised an Indian editor who majored in Bollywood articles, because i believed that these editors are updated with daily buzz of Bollywood. They knew in the milk how much quantity of water is available—″When we make a choice we always choose the best right!″—I don't have any issue of you being a Bangladeshi. The thing that only concern me is that you know about Bollywood as i had joined Wikipedia to contribute to Bollywood. I really thank you for your gesture and really looking forward for some constructive lesson from you. JazzStewart ^{मला चर्चा?} 05:02, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Okay then, I'll start the lesson from tomorrow. By the way sorry for the delayed reply. I was busy yesterday. --Pratyya ^(Hello!) 13:27, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

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August 2015

Hello, I'm Pratyya Ghosh. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Peshmerga because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Pratyya ^(Hello!) 15:39, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

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Hi Pratyya Ghosh. It seems that there have been some unintended keyboard touches, but I meant to remove the second note. No source mentioned in the article supports it, and the statement is very ambiguous. (Many Kurds? WP:WEASEL) Probably someone just added his opinion there. I would be happy if you reinstated my edit (without the erroneous keyboard touches), or add some sources to the statement and clarify it.--172.56.23.204 (talk) 15:47, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Dear IP 172.56.23.204 I reverted that edit. Maybe your intention was right. But you made a mistake removing that and that looked like one vandalism. You see after your revision it was like this.
Peshmerga (Kurdish: پێشمەرگە Pêşmerge, Kurdish pronunciation [pɛʃmærˈɡæ]; literally "one who confronts death") are the military forces of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan.[1]tw The overall formal head of the peshmerga is the President of Iraqi Kurdistan. (I made the flaw bold and I took the first para).

This is why I reverted that one. --Pratyya ^(Hello!) 13:42, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2015)

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This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2015)

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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.

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1. 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.
2. Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points), second place both in Pool B and overall, earned the bulk of his points with FPs, mostly depicting currency.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
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Hi. The Counter Vandalism Unit is still very much an active project and users regularly ask for training. Please take a moment to update your trainer details at Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit/Academy/Instructors. If you are currently unable or no longer interested in being a trainer, either move your details to the list of inactive trainers or remove them entirely. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me. Thanks.--Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 02:48, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

@Kudpung:, Yes I'm a bit inactive these days because of real life issue, more over my computer is not okay. So for these reasons I'm not editing Wikipedia actively. Well do one thing. Please remove my details to inactives on behalf of me as I've no intention to train anyone now, at least not in this year. Finally thanks for mentioning it to me, I really appreciate it. --Pratyya ^(Hello!) 15:06, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2015)

Two high divers in mid-air Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: High diving Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Plain dress • Historic house Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:22, 7 September 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

WikiProject Good Articles's 2015 GA Cup - Round 3

WikiProject Good Articles's 2015 GA Cup - Round 3 Greetings, all! We hope that everyone had a nice summer. Saturday saw the end of Round 2. Things went relatively smoothly this month. The top 2 from 4 pools, plus the top participant (the wildcard, or "9th place") of all remaining competitors, moved onto Round 3. We had one withdrawal early in Round 2, so he was replaced by the next-highest scorer from Round 1. Round 2's highest scorer was Pool D's Tomandjerry211, who earned an impressive 366 points; he also reviewed the most articles (19). Close behind was Zwerg Nase, also in Pool D, at 297 points and 16 articles. The wildcard slot went to Good888. Congrats to all! Round 3 will have 9 competitors in 3 pools. The key to moving forward was reviewing articles with the longest nomination dates, as it has been in every round up to now. For example, 2 competitors only needed to review 2 articles each to win in their pools, and each article were either from the pink nomination box (20 points) or had languished in the queue for over 5 months (18 points). The GA Cup continues to be a success in many ways, even with fewer competitors this time. For some reason, the competitors in the 2015 GA Cup have reviewed fewer articles in Round 2, which has made the judges scratch their head in confusion. We've speculated many reasons for that: the summer months and vacations, our competitors are saving their strength for the final rounds, or they all live in the Pacific Northwest and the heavy wildfire smoke has affected their thinking. Whatever the reason, Round 2 competitors reviewed almost 100 articles, which is a significant impact in the task of reviewing articles for GA status. We've considered that the lower participation this competition is due to timing, so we intend to discuss the best time frame for future GA Cups. For Round 3, participants have been placed randomly in 3 pools of 3 contestants each; the top editor in each pool will progress, as well as the top 2 of all remaining users. Round 3 will start on September 1 at 0:00:01 UTC and end on September 28 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Round 3 and the pools can be found here. Good luck to the remaining contestants, and have fun! Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6 and Jaguar, and MrWooHoo. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant still competing, 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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This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2015)

Transection of a human head Hello, Pratyya Ghosh. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Head Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: High diving • Plain dress Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:11, 14 September 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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