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Hello, The Herald, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Books & Bytes – Issue 29[edit]

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Issue 29, June – July 2018

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Tech News: 2018-35[edit]

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The Signpost: 30 August 2018[edit]

WikiCup 2018 September newsletter[edit]

The fourth round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The eight users who made it to the final round had to score a minimum of 422 points to qualify, with the top score in the round being 4869 points. The leaders in round 4 were:

  • South Carolina Courcelles scored a magnificent 4869 points, with 92 good articles on Olympics-related themes. Courcelles' bonus points alone exceeded the total score of any of the other contestants!
  • Hel, Poland Kees08 was second with 1155 points, including a high-scoring featured article for Neil Armstrong, two good topics and some Olympics-related good articles.
  • Scotland Cas Liber, with 1066 points, was in third place this round, with two featured articles and a good article, all on natural history topics.
  • Other contestants who qualified for the final round were Marshall Islands Nova Crystallis, Republic of Texas Iazyges, Cascadia (independence movement) SounderBruce, Wales Kosack and United States Ceranthor.

During round four, 6 featured articles and 164 good articles were promoted by WikiCup contestants, 13 articles were included in good topics and 143 good article reviews were performed. There were also 10 "in the news" contributions on the main page and 53 "did you knows". Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck, and let the best editor win! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:31, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-36[edit]

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Tech News: 2018-37[edit]

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Tech News: 2018-39[edit]

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The Signpost: 1 October 2018[edit]

Tech News: 2018-40[edit]

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Tech News: 2018-41[edit]

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Tech News: 2018-42[edit]

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Books & Bytes, Issue 30[edit]

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Issue 30, August – Septmeber 2018

  • Library Card translation
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  • Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
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The Signpost: 28 October 2018[edit]

Tech News: 2018-44[edit]

20:08, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 November newsletter[edit]

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is South Carolina Courcelles (submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 147 GAs, 111 GARs, 9 DYKs, 4 FLs and 1 ITN. Our finalists were as follows:

  1. South Carolina Courcelles (submissions)
  2. Wales Kosack (submissions)
  3. Hel, Poland Kees08 (submissions)
  4. Cascadia (independence movement) SounderBruce (submissions)
  5. Scotland Cas Liber (submissions)
  6. Marshall Islands Nova Crystallis (submissions)
  7. Republic of Texas Iazyges (submissions)
  8. United States Ceranthor (submissions)


All those who reached the final win awards, and awards will also be going to the following participants:

Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2019 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. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email) and Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email).

Tech News: 2018-45[edit]

17:28, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

File renaming[edit]

Thank you for your help, but please also remove the re-name tag as it will remove the file listing here. Thank you, - FlightTime Phone (open channel) 18:21, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

Ohh..oops. Sorry. I totally forgot to do it. Thanks for the notification and help. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 22:25, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
No problem :) Thanx, - FlightTime Phone (open channel) 22:26, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-46[edit]

19:21, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

My Article decline[edit]

Dear Sir/Madam, I am very much thankful to you for reviewing my wiki page. This is my first attempt so hope you understand my limitations. I again edited it. I think now it may be ok. I humbly requesting you please visit my wiki page and if still it not upto mark please give me your's some valuable suggestion.

Again thank you for giving time. PRABHAKAR.S (talk) 13:12, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

@PRABHAKAR.S:Hey..Welcome to wikipedia and thanx a lot for corresponding. As I see, the article that you have submitted for creation did not meet the standard guidelines for an article for creation. Please read this page for more guidelines on creating an article. Thank you. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 14:31, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Moving advertisements into mainspace[edit]

Please don't move blatant advertisements into mainspace, as you did here. That page was one massive WP:PROMO violation, not to mention shilling content about health with no WP:MEDRS refs in sight. Please don't do that in the future. Jytdog (talk) 19:20, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for that. The reason why I accepted it was because the cites were all good to go and also since the writer have declared connection to the organization, it was not supposed to be in a neutral POV but once accepted and moved into the main space, it can be then tagged and improved further on later, as you did. It would be a shame to decline it blatantly. I do take the NPOV seriously and will keep it in mind for sure. Thanks again. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 20:49, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
The citations were not good -- three were usergenerated; there were also refs used to support content about health that failed MEDRS by miles. There was WP:PROMO and WP:OR and content with a citation behind it that could not support the source - violations of WP:V. Pages that violate policy should not be moved into mainspace. Shall we take this to the AfC discussion board? Jytdog (talk) 17:51, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
I'd say yes for AfC discussion board since there we will have more views and comments. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 19:00, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
Done Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation#Institute_for_Therapy_through_the_Arts_and_some_questions. Jytdog (talk) 19:42, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

United States involvement in the Mexican Revolution[edit]

Hello.

On the respective page, I had intended to restore the "References" section which was removed without explanation. It appears that my edit was reverted, removing the section again. I believe this may have been by mistake. Can you clarify? 174.82.113.220 (talk) 21:26, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Hey...thnx for the message. It was an unfortunate mistake. I was supposed to revert the former edit by you did it and hence I accidentally reverted it. Edit conflict I presume. Thank you. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 06:36, 14 November 2018 (UTC)