Hello Dunkleosteus77. I should have introduced myself yesterday, but was still finding my way around Wikipedia editing. Thankyou for fixing those link issues. I am unsure as to your comment "that is not what Wikipedia is for" and I have no wish to enter into a changing each other's edits 'game', but I need to clarify that I was asked by the Society for Marine Mammalogy Education Committee, along with a team of marine mammal researchers to update and maintain species pages. That is not to say that your previous work is unappreciated, but the edits I have made follow the format requested by the SMM Education Committee and were published only after review by an expert on the species (in this case, Dr Robin Baird from Cascadia Research). I would hope that you can see the amount of work that has gone into making sure the info is current, accurate and reflects the important literature published on MHWs, not just by myself, but also Dr Baird and the Education Commitee. Best wishes, VickihamiltonVickihamilton (talk) 07:26, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
Cool page!
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Thank you!Dunkleosteus77 (talk) 01:07, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you for quality articles about whales, baleen whales, porpoises (to name a few), for inviting to peer reviews and reviewing GAs, for redirects and the cat-life on your user page, infobox and all, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
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Truly well-deserved, congrats for the TFA! Sainsf (talk · contribs) 06:24, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
A year ago, you were recipient no. 1401 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:45, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for today's Steller's sea cow! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:33, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for today's Paleocene, about "the 10 million year period after the dinosaurs went extinct"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:41, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
... four years now --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:07, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for making Wikipedia a better encyclopedia! BrightRoundCircle (talk) 14:35, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
Brilliant work on this article. You should be very proud! Josh Milburn (talk) 22:36, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
For all the work on animals; here's another one!
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Thanks for creating Ursus rossicus, Dunkleosteus77!
Wikipedia editor Animalparty just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:
make sure taxon articles have a valid ((taxobox)) (I've already added one to Ursus rossicus). A quick and easy shortcut is to copy and paste a related taxobox, just changing the specifics. Cheers,
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There are many more than just 8 species of whales. Look at Toothed_whale for the 33 species in that half of Cetacea and Balaenidae, Rorqual, Pygmy_right_whale, and Gray_whale for the rest of the species of whales. I don't think we need a big chart on whale listing all of these. I've reverted your start of this chart. If you really insist, then I strongly suggest you get the chart worked up first in your sandbox first. - UtherSRG (talk) 00:59, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
If you weren't aware that there are two species of minke whale (something that has been recognized for over 15 years) then why are you editing that article? GammaCepheus001 (talk) 02:10, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
I think you've done an excellent job with the addition of the species tables to the article. They look great and really add to the content of the page. Happy Editing! Winner 42 Talk to me! 01:05, 18 April 2015 (UTC) Thank you! Dunkleosteus77 (talk) 02:10, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
Re [1]: citations are usually not repeated in the lead per WP:LEADCITE. Cheers! jonkerz ♠talk 00:35, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
Wow. That's an hour of my life I'll be needing back... Dunkleosteus77 (push to talk) 00:37, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
I based my comment on GA criteria; copy/pasted the GA criteria onto the page and made some comments on each one. I meant to delete the criteria list and just keep the comment, but I was in a rush and hit save, meaning to delete the criteria list later (which I did just now). Dunkleosteus77 (push to talk) 00:57, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
If you're interested in reviewing another animal article, you should take a look at Peer Review Whale. Dunkleosteus77 (push to talk) 02:57, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
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Look, it's the reviewer's job to decide if a comment is resolved. The nominator's job is to resolve each item to the best of their ability; the reviewer then decides if indeed the right action has been taken, or whether something more needs to be done. I have—repeatedly—reminded you of this but you're still at it. The article is not going to make it to GA if you keep modifying the taxobox, for example. May I suggest you now apologize, and state here that you accept the process. Thanks.
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Hello again, I've formatted a lot of refs in the article and fixed a few things. When I noted that the species list was redundant with both the List of cetaceans and the Cetaceans template (at the bottom of the article), I decided that the lists really had to go - sorry about this, but after looking at them every which way, it seems clear they simply aren't needed (and this isn't Cetacea, either) - I suspect the closeness of Whale to that article has caused quite a bit of the difficulty really. Similarly, I've removed some paragraphs about dolphins which may be relevant in Cetacea but don't belong here - at least, if dolphins are whales, then Whale = Cetacea and we need to merge the two articles, which I doubt is what anyone wants.
All that is left is a little bit of history and culture; the history of whaling can be derived from the Whaling and History of whaling articles, while a brief account of whales in art should not be too difficult. You might look at Werness 2006, van der Grijp 2009, Wallace 2004, Kaalund 1983, for example. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:24, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
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I have been tracking down edits by User:GammaCepheus001 (who is now banned, and is probably a sockpuppet of User:Jonas Poole who has been banned for a long time) and I notice he left some here. I have been undoing them as they are more than likely to be disruptive, but There were some on the Bryde's whale and Omura's whale pages which I would be pleased if you s could review for me as you will know more about the subject than I do. If I have undone content which is actually worth keeping, please feel free to undo what I have done there. Regards, Xyl 54 (talk) 01:06, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
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Hey, Dunky. As I said before, European whaling in the South Pacific didn't begin until 1789. American whaleships didn't reach the South Pacific until the early 1790s and British whaleships didn't reach Australia until the early 1790s as well. Read Dakin's Whalemen Adventurers and Colwell's Whaling Around Australia. SplashyHumpback (talk) 01:27, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
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I will be changed the college image to add a beaked whale and a porpoise so you should change the image map. LittleJerry (talk) 15:08, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
Hey, Dunky. This section talks about JJ the gray whale, which was kept at SeaWorld in 1997-98, but your citation is from 1991. The citation is probably about GiGi, the first baleen whale to be successfully kept in captivity in the 1970s. It appears you (or whoever added it) confused the two. SplashyHumpback (talk) 01:53, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Dunkleosteus77, I notice you archived the talk page [2] for Dolphin, but I don't see where that is. cygnis insignis 20:36, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I see that you implied on the Whale FAC that citing sources will be a problem for you, so did you need any assistance with that? I'll be glad to help. Burklemore1 (talk) 15:02, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
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I am referring to the changes on Whale and River dolphin. I am sure you were just trying to achieve consistency, but who's to say consistency should be achieved by changing everything one way or the other? Well, the way the issue has been resolved on Wikipedia is to stick to the first version of each article (unless it has strong ties to a nation, but I don't think that's the case for either of the articles in question). Since both articles were originally written using American English, and your edits changed a substantial portion into British English, I do not think it was fair to impose respect of that with "Use British English" templates: in fact, my research showed the opposite (meaning, American) templates should be used.
Hope you understand, LjL (talk) 17:59, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, I will finally clean up all of the refs on the article tonight. In the meantime, another Myrmecia ant species has been nominated for GA (Myrmecia inquilina), so feel free to check that out if you're in the mood for reviewing. Cheers, Burklemore1 (talk) 10:54, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I saw the requirements for DIY passing, and it says that the claimed tidbit must be present and cited with an inline citation in the article, but I don't see the word "turn" anywhere. Unless it uses different wording (but it should probably use the verbatim wording used in the did-you-know question), it ought to get added... --LjL (talk) 13:17, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
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Excellent job on this, keep it up!♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:57, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
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I reverted your edits at Odd-toed ungulate because it is not how you put an image in a taxobox. It's supposed to be |image=image.jpg and not putting in some unnecessary image map voodoo in.--Mr Fink (talk) 02:17, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, Dunkleosteus. I noticed that you did substantial work on this list when it was at FAR and am interested in selecting it for a Main Page appearance in the near-future. The only concern I have is a shortage of references in the last two paragraphs of the new lead section, for passages that are not cited in the body of the article. I wouldn't want to see a bunch of cite tags being added to the lead on the article's big day. If you have some spare time, would you mind beefing up the referencing in the lead, so that my concerns over scheduling the list at TFL are eased? Thanks for any help you can provide. Giants2008 (Talk) 19:11, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, can I ask why you removed the paragraph about the Prishibinsk tiger, in the article Caspian tiger? That was sure a huge tiger, compared to the one which had the greatest skull length amongst Caspian tigers. Leo1pard (talk) 17:51, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, just checked progress and see that all but Evolution, Adaptations, Protection, and Military sections are now complete. None require much work to get to GA. Hope all's well with you, if you need to hold for any reason just let me know. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:27, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
...for the edits I made to the article on porpoises. I so loathe words like "baby" when referring to newborn animals, and the milk squirting thing seemed absurd to me until I found a source! Seems it is true after all. I see you are the individual responsible for getting Whale to good article status— good show! KDS4444 (talk) 16:26, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hi there, I'm now through with my additions to your sea cow article! Please feel free to revert if needed. I would suggest requesting a good copy edit, and renominating it. --Jens Lallensack (talk) 10:05, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
Hello, Dunkleosteus77. This is a courtesy notice that the copy edit you requested for Steller's Sea Cow at the Guild of Copy Editors requests page is now complete. All feedback welcome! El cid, el campeador (talk) 17:42, 7 June 2017 (UTC) |
Hi Dunkleosteus77, Just under a year ago, you kindly completed a very detailed GA review of an article I had just written, social immunity. Sadly near the end of the review I dissapeared from enwiki due to various off-wiki events, and I completely forgot about the article in the intervening period. However I now have, again due to off-wiki events, a considerable amount of free time for the next few months. Hence I've fixed the remaining suggestions you had made for social immunity (it was just a few cite/grammar issues e.g. dashes). If you do want to complete the review that would be great; equally if you'd prefer not too that's fine and please know that your efforts were not wasted!
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Hello. I feel like the reproductive system subsection should include information on sex organs. In marsupials, male have a forked penis and females have three vaginas. LittleJerry (talk) 02:21, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
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Thank you very much for picking up the common loon for a review! I noticed that you just put Sirenia up for a review, so would you mind if I picked it up (not so familiar with the topic, but could give it a go)? Adityavagarwal (talk) 06:01, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
I look forward to working with you. Thanks for taking this on. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 00:56, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello, would you be interested in joining me and Chiswick Chap on Bat as a possible FAC. I feel we could use another higher (monophyletic) mammal taxa. We're not in any hurry at this point. LittleJerry (talk) 18:28, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
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Why are you persisting on this? It is preposterous, citable as MOS or not. It just adds wildly annoying and distracting clutter to a page. This is neither a common sense nor, crucially, a user-friendly approach. Yours, Wikiuser100 (talk) 16:47, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
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Thank you for "a species of mink that went extinct in the 1800s, and everything about its behavior and biology comes from skull fragments and stuff fur traders said"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:44, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
I was randomly reading through it and I saw you said you were busy. Figured I could attempt some quick ref fixes… :X – Rhinopias (talk) 22:07, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
Hi, just to say I'm disappointed to see you starting a hare running during a GAN that we are conducting together. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:14, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
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Hey Dunkleosteus77. I moved "Museo storia naturale di Pisa" (which contained at least one mistake) to Natural History Museum of Pisa... but the official website names the museum as "Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa". Do you agree with that name? seems to be official regarding the English language... Kintaro (talk) 22:20, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
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What was THAT??? Never ever do that again!2001:A61:370B:2E01:B514:F2DE:9FAC:EF30 (talk) 09:33, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
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Kudos for getting it through. Cheers, · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 18:57, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
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I'm going to need your help at the FAC page, since Chap is out for Christmas. LittleJerry (talk) 16:41, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
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I will clear up some time to help and check over your article. Thanks for asking.
I think what we should do is put a list of Cretaceous polar dinosaurs and ones from the late Jurassic. All dinosaurs in that list should be 145 mya at the oldest and the youngest 66/65 mya for the list. This is stated in the article that the polar forests formed 145 mya and lasted into the end of the Maastrichtian.
Think this is good?
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D'you think the guy's bats (talking only encourages him) or has any sort of rational point? His argument doesn't make a lot of sense to me: happy to oppose, if it'd help. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:57, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
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Thank you for the article! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:02, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
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Example of your usage of the word. [3]
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It's not so much that the automatic taxobox system is complicated but that it looks complicated, especially if one's already used to manual taxoboxes. The sheer amount of documentation might be a bit off-putting as well, even if much of it pertains either to the back-end of the system or to highly specific, complex circumstances that one's not very likely to run into frequently. Since you expressed difficulty learning from that documentation (again, understandable), if you'd like, I could help you learn how to use it. Even if you end up never adding any automatic taxoboxes/speciesboxes it to articles yourself, it's good to know how it works when something needs updating or when someone adds a mangled automatic taxobox somewhere. Alternatively, feel free to ask me if you ever need a hand with one (but I'm prone to random longer absences, so it might be a good idea to check if I'm active first). If you're not interested in either, that's fine too, of course. AddWittyNameHere 19:22, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
I was going to say it's no big deal, and just start a discussion on this edit as being misguided. There have been many, many RM discussions in which discussion is intermixed with the Survey section (whether marked as that or not. However, the Discussion section never contains !votes so far as I have seen. When the discussion becomes complex, it's quite common to start a separate section without refactorinng the existing discussion, as I did. I appreciate the logic of what you've done, but AFAIK it's unprecedented and will only serve to make the closer's job more difficult. It's not just this RM that is affected. Others will see !votes in the Discussion section. If you disagree with the established practice, discuss this, and perhaps we can change it.
But the more I looked at your edits the more concerned I became. I have therefore reverted them both. The refactoring, merging the previous discussion into the RM, destroys the stringing.
Please discuss. Andrewa (talk) 00:03, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
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Should we work on the south polar region of the Cretaceous article? Also Editor number 4 is not editing for a while so we will have to ask Hemiauchenia to help us.
Good I think I will make a list of things rather thanks to camps and tuitions.15:30, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
What an unfriendly comment! Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:30, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
Yeah takes me some days but i will submit after completion
yes i will show you the draft after i am done with it on word.--Bubblesorg (talk) 17:41, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
Ok thanks i will submit the draft day after tomorrow.--Bubblesorg (talk) 17:34, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
I will kep working and i have some what.
Ok sure. I will work on it more later.
I am trying to link the genus of the false killer whale to its genus article but I am seeming to be unsuccessful could you help thanks Bubblesorg (talk) 22:14, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
Thanks. This is my second insect GA nomination. Not my professional area of expertise. Given widespread fascination with Luna moth (masks, poems, tattoos...) I was surprised how little content there was at the article. David notMD (talk) 20:54, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
Are we done with the GA review? I replied at Talk on the owl and egg predation questions. David notMD (talk) 12:41, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
In my opinion, brevity is a virtue, but not a requirement. This is not an overly wordy article. I appreciate your diligence and time put into this review process, which has gone on for more than ten days, but we clearly have different preferences for detail. I would prefer that you fail the GA nomination so that I can renominate it for a new reviewer. David notMD (talk) 09:46, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
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https://depositsmag.com/2017/12/05/australias-polar-cretaceous-mammals/
Just stuff on the mammal section.--Bubblesorg (talk) 15:26, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
is this ok "Dinosaurs from these region are known as south polar dinosaurs"--Bubblesorg (talk) 16:52, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
OK--Bubblesorg (talk) 17:02, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
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An FYI that Luna moth in in Prep stage for DYK, should move into Queue, then show up on the main page evening of the 12th (assuming I have the date count right). With picture. Curious about how many extra views that will gender over the ~750/day it gets now. David notMD (talk) 02:52, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
Hey, with your GAN in progress for Thalassocnus and the other articles you worked on, Livyatan (FA), megalodon (FA) and Acrophyseter (GA) and many more possible articles to boost, I thought it was time for an own category, as the other important Lagerstëtten of South America have too, see Category:Pisco Formation. I will work on the geology part of it in the coming weeks to get it better and focus on the paleo-environment, as I think that will be useful for the other articles. There is just still so much to do, until now I have mostly focused on re-organizing, categorizing and infilling existing formations, so a little break from my earlier work on for instance the Honda Group and Cocinetas Basin, as important other fossiliferous formations, but we will get there. Bahía Inglesa for sure needs proper coverage, as do many others in the SALMA lists. Good luck with getting it to GA, if you want me to review, I am happy to do it. One thing I would like to see is a better use of references, not these walls of unreadable text inside the paragraphs, but rather how I refer to the bibliography, also because then you can refer to the specific page, which is more professional than just quoting a full paper 20 times over. Cheers, Tisquesusa (talk) 22:39, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
Is there anything more?--Bubblesorg (talk) 01:32, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
is this formation good? Hidden Lake Formation--Bubblesorg (talk) 16:22, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
You know what you did to the Whale article right? where you replaced the taxon box with the object box. Could we do that with the tree frog article?--Bubblesorg (talk) 20:26, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
Yeah i did that and some users who no nothing about taxonomy took it down saying it is not appropriate for an animal page.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Tree_frog&action=history--Bubblesorg (talk) 19:40, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
A certain editor is beginning to get to be a pest. Would you believe that I got a smiley from CF today for deleting a random irrelevant picture which they had added to List of mammal species? Narky Blert (talk) 22:59, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I have searched for reliable sources for persistence hunting and have found nothing about non-human animals, and (especially) nothing about orcas. If you know of any such sources, I'll be happy to use them. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:04, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
where is the GA i don't see it?
I will start in just a bit i am in school--Bubblesorg (talk) 16:24, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
Hi, we think we've done everything here, unless there are any more comments? Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:52, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hi ... tomorrow I'm going to try to tie up some loose ends at WT:TFA. I want to give people some examples from previous TFA blurbs, and ask for opinions on whether any part of the given text is redundant or not. I'm usually completely rewriting these examples so that no one will feel like I'm doing any public finger-pointing, but for this example, I'm not sure how to rewrite it ... do you have any objection if I use the following text with just a few modifications from Baleen whale? "Once relentlessly hunted by commercial industries for their meat, blubber, baleen, and oil, cetaceans now have some protections under international law. [Besides hunting,] baleen whales also face threats from marine pollution and ocean acidification." (I actually have no idea how people will vote on this one ... both the original and my modified form are fine in a Featured Article, I think ... the question is whether I did the right thing in removing "Besides hunting" when I did the blurb.) - Dank (push to talk) 20:40, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
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Hi there. My edit to oceanic dolphin was not vandalism, and frankly I fail to see why you would think it was. It did three things:
If you have any reason to disagree with any of these changes that is fine and they can be discussed if necessary (although it probably isn't worth the bother given how minor they are). However, vandalism is defined as behaviour/edits which are deliberately intended to obstruct or defeat the project's purpose. Unless I have missed something, nothing that I did is even potentially disruptive (all were minor formatting changes), let alone counter to Wikipedia's purpose, and it certainly wasn't done with malicious intent. Please assume good faith and try not to accuse other editors of malicious behaviour without a strong justification.
In that spirit I am willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you either mis-clicked or misunderstood the edit. (Perhaps an edit summary would have helped.) However, some clarification would be appreciated.
Thanks, Alphathon /'æɫ.fə.θɒn/ (talk) 20:39, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
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Yes, it was accidental taking out the scale diagram on the Tylosaurus page! I am sorry about this, didn`t notice it at the time at all. Please put a new one in (or get somebody to) as it was a genuine mistake on my part. Orthogonal Orthocone (talk) 14:27, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
I made this page, so far im the only one except for shellwood on this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachyacanthus you have a talent of editing cetacean pages so can you help me?--Bubblesorg (talk) 18:22, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hello. I feel like your pinniped list is better suited for a List of pinniped species article. LittleJerry (talk) 04:18, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
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Can you stop, I have tried to stop making those accounts, so can you stop pointing old ones out. I dont like that. Im trying to be a better person, just please leave it alone.--Bubblesorg (talk) 01:18, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
sure, but what can I do to regain your trust? --Bubblesorg (talk) 01:26, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
Dude, Im not even trying to do that, I actually tried to help, I even tried to be constructive here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilosaurus. Dude, just give me one more chance, i can prove to you that Im worth it, please :(, I will try as Hard as I can, but I need your help--Bubblesorg (talk) 01:37, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
Thank you :D--Bubblesorg (talk) 16:04, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
Im making a plan, this time I will be more reliable, I will be like how I was last year (not all like how I was isnce that was filled with crap), but try to make an effort. I will own up and stay strong, I apologize for my past self --Bubblesorg (talk) 01:41, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
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I appreciate your contributions at Aquatic ape hypothesis and my use of "revert" was not meant to be insulting: [5]. I think you are correct that Brenna believes this, but I think it may be giving the opinion too much of a platform to push it so explicitly as you did. I think it best to just let the uncontroversial conclusions be. jps (talk) 02:44, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
I mean... I don't know what your experience is with editing WP:FRINGE articles, but this is par for the course. We are already relying heavily on one article. Normally we would not devote more than a sentence to a single journal article. Here, the verifiably empirical result is that vernix on seals and humans contain similar chemicals. There are also opinions and speculations included in the article, but these are best attested in a larger context which we attempt to do by citing Brenna's appearance on Attenborough's program. I think it not a very good idea to add much more than this. After all, it didn't take much for us lowly Wikipedia editors to discover some glaring errors in the article content, which isn't surprising given the unevenness of Scientific Reports as a journal. Rather than throwing it away completely or running into WP:SYNTH issues, the best thing to do in the case of relatively obscure works like this is to keep reporting on it as succinct as possible. It seems to me we all agree with what is currently being said. To continue to hammer home ideas that this paper is somehow AAH evidence is a bridge too far, in my estimation. jps (talk) 16:49, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
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Can you help me out with the pectinodon page? I dont think I like it the way it is, may you help? --Bubblesorg (talk) 20:08, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
He seems to be more mature than me and talks differently, and besides why would you suspect that, he is under the wrong IP address. Not mine Also can you help--Bubblesorg (talk) 20:14, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
Ip you are making It worse, stop your edits, you make dunk think you are me (which is not true)--Bubblesorg (talk) 14:40, 14 October 2019 (UTC) Actually dunk, i told the user about this, thats why he is here--Bubblesorg (talk) 14:41, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
Not like that, I ment in another way, I talked to the guy who blocked me and I mentioned the user. Also, the guy talks more maturely --Bubblesorg (talk) 14:54, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
Never Mind, I not making much sense here. Can I drop the stick for today? --Bubblesorg (talk) 15:01, 14 October 2019 (UTC) what do you say to that? we can continue this weekend--Bubblesorg (talk) 15:06, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
why not?--Bubblesorg (talk) 16:21, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
why cant you force me? You seem to have authority in this case (oh and the discussion is being debunked me)--Bubblesorg (talk) 16:33, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
No, not at all, just asking to make a schedule. Okay, I have an idea, can we take this to the sockpupet investigations--Bubblesorg (talk) 18:21, 14 October 2019 (UTC) Also what do you mean when you say birds are not my style?--Bubblesorg (talk) 18:22, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
I don't know who to make a sockpuppet investigation. Anyways what does a bird article have to do with anything?--Bubblesorg (talk) 18:33, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
Yeah?--Bubblesorg (talk) 18:42, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
Pectinodon is not a bird, its a troodontid.--Bubblesorg (talk) 19:03, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
I did not realize my rampant edits cause you to feel bad, I hate to give you stress. You are a respectable wikipedian--Bubblesorg (talk) 19:58, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
I understand, goodbye.--Bubblesorg (talk) 20:32, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
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The Neanderthal article has its history and gate-keeper(s), so I think your large edits are welcome and are very beneficial. I hope you get it to Good article rating. Don't let disagreement on one word to stop your work. Cheers, Rowan Forest (talk) 17:22, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
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Can you please remove your comments. We forgot to close the PR and were expecting to start the FAC at the end of the year. LittleJerry (talk) 16:22, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
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On 25 December 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Christmas Island flying fox, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Christmas Island flying fox matures more slowly than nearly all other bats? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Christmas Island flying fox. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, ), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Before everything about mtDNA was removed from the section in question, it contrasted the mtDNA findings that showed D as outliers compared to N & AMH with the autosomal DNA analysis showing D closer to N, more different than AMH. That is why the autosomal sentence begins with 'However, . . .' - to highlight the difference between the two results. You have removed just the mtDNA part, but left the autosomal DNA part, and the However. Maybe you can explain to me why you think the autosomal DNA result belongs in this section, but the mtDNA one does not, because it seems pretty arbitrary to me. Likewise, now that the mtDNA bit is removed, by leaving "However, . . ." it has the appearance of contrasting the autosomal DNA result with what is said immediately before, the discovery of human artifacts, but the two have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
Finally, as much as you would like to segregate all mention of mtDNA to the DNA analysis section, it is central to the story of the discovery. This is not your typical DNA study, where we have a species and then we sequence it to get the mtDNA and figure out the phylogeny. When they got a mtDNA sequence that was different from both AMH and N represents the moment of discovery of Denisovans as a (sub)species. The phylogeny doesn't need to be in the discovery section, but to pretend that determining the mtDNA sequence was not a fundamental aspect of the discovery seems to miss the plot. Agricolae (talk) 02:47, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
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I just had to correct the entirely wrong list of species you inserted into the Drosophila saltans species group article. Care to explain the genesis of your error? Are there other articles that need checking? Abductive (reasoning) 01:33, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
Dear Dunkleosteus77, in this edit, you have added: "In 1792, German naturalist Johann Julius Walbaum scientifically described Steller's sea ape as Siren cynocephala, from the mythical sirens and Latin cyno "dog" and cephala "head".[7] You seem to suggest that Walbaum indicates that cynocephala is derived from Latin cyno and cephala. I can not find such an error in the source. Walbaum (p. 560) writes: "Siren, cynocephala, capite canino [with a head of a dog/with a canine head]". In Latin, "dog" is of course, canis (caninus = adjective of canis with canino as ablative case) and head is caput (ablative case = capite), while in Greek "dog" is κύων and "head" is κεφαλή. Could you quote the specific sentence from Walbaum that would indicate that "Latin cyno [is] "dog" and cephala "head""? Thank you in advance, with kind regards, Wimpus (talk) 11:21, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
Good evening,
I saw your comments in the peer review for the AHP, and was quite impressed with the thoroughness. A year ago, the state of global warming was such that I wouldn't have passed it at GA. We've worked hard to bring it back to FA level, but as far as I know none of the active contributors have ever had an FA article, so I'm not sure if it meets those criteria. Virtually all of the content in new since it was promoted in 2006 and I could really appreciate some critical eyes. Would you possibly have time to help out in the peer review? Thanks in advance! Femke Nijsse (talk) 20:05, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
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Do you have a reference for your statement that Discover (magazine) is not a reliable source? Geoffrey.landis (talk) 22:44, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
Hello!
I've noticed that you're among the recent FA reviewers in Jan/Feb, so I wonder if it's allowed to ask this. I'm trying to make an article I've made to pass the FA nom, so is it good for you to review it if you have any spare time? Thank you. Dhio-270599 07:57, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 57 contestants qualifying. We have abolished the groups this year, so to qualify for Round 3 you will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two contestants.
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There was an error in the WikiCup 2020 March newsletter; L293D should not have been included in the list of top ten scorers in Round 1 (they led the list last year), instead, Dunkleosteus77 should have been included, having garnered 334 points from five good articles on animals, living or extinct, and various reviews. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:30, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
I listed Ooedigera as one of the "Other invertebrates" GAs, if this classification is incorrect, please change this. Hog Farm (talk) 22:34, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
Hello Dunkleosteus77! I noticed you removed my timeline from the Paleocene epoch page, and I understand why you did it. I have no ill will towards you for what you did, and I'm not mad at you for it. I just wanted to ask if I could add it back in a way that wouldn't make it look as crowded? I could swap out the current template that's in the top-right corner for the epoch timeline one (In fact, I was going to do that originally, but I wanted to wait until I added the template to all the epoch pages before I removed it). I could also shrink the timeline to make it more compact if you want. I'm trying to add these timeline templates to all epoch pages to make them look more uniform and consistent with one another. I'm only asking because I don't want to start an edit feud or something.Benniboi01 (talk) 19:35, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
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My email address is _. Again, many thanks for doing this.--SilverTiger12 (talk) 17:18, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Did you find my GA review of Talk:Steller's sea ape/GA1 to be satisfactory? I try to make all of my GA reviews as thorough as possible, but then a few months later another user comes along and complains about that review without really specifying what's going wrong, all the while introducing several spelling and grammar errors into the article. Do you think the fault is with my review, or is the other user just being cantakerous? Hog Farm (talk) 22:15, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
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On 1 May 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Neanderthal, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Neanderthals went fishing? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Neanderthal. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, ), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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The so called "Irish elk" Megaloceros giganteus, is one of the most iconic ice age mammals, so it seems suprising that it isn't even GA status. It normally averages around 400-500 views a day, which is more than double that of the Columbian mammoth. Given your obvious interest in improving prehistoric (and otherwise) animal articles to GA status and beyond and your previous cleanup of the article done a few months ago, are you interested in collaborating to get the article to GA status? Many interesting studies on the animal have come out in recent years, including those on diet, Improved extinction chronology, with insightful comments on preferred habitat and finite-element analysis of the antlers, which suggests they were used in combat. I've tried to rewrite and incorporate parts of this into the article, but the structure as a whole is pretty lacklustre, and probably needs to be rewritten. Kind regards. Hemiauchenia (talk) 15:19, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
Your name came up. If you click on the sources, you should find an amusing picture. Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 19:40, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
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How are these sources unreliable? Andrew Thaler is a real deep sea ecologist. He's source is credible http://cv.andrewdavidthaler.org/. Do you have a counter?--Bubblesorg (talk) 00:20, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I'm sorry my toe treading put you off further editing of the Irish Elk article. I have a new suggestion instead. Despite being iconic, the article for Megatherium has the same structural Issues that the Irish Elk one had, and is pretty bad IMO, given that it's getting nearly 1,000 views a day it really needs serious work, and I have no real significant interest in editing it. Megatherium would be a great feather in your already quite well feathered cap. Kind regards. Hemiauchenia (talk) 22:45, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
On 16 May 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gigantopithecus, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that most of the known Gigantopithecus fossils are of teeth because the other bones are likely to have been eaten by porcupines? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gigantopithecus. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, ), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Amakuru (talk) 12:02, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
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Dunkleosteus77, just wanted to say that I was following your FAC for the Neanderthal article and was super impressed by the work you've done on such a demanding but important article. I hope you plan to nominate it for FA again (and that the failed FAC didn't discourage you too much) since it seems to have great potential and deserves nothing less than to be featured. As a music guy myself, I loved to see the inclusion of Divje Babe Flute! Keep up the great work - Aza24 (talk) 00:53, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
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The third round of the 2020 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it into the fourth round each had at least 353 points (compared to 68 in 2019). It was a highly competitive round, and a number of contestants were eliminated who would have moved on in earlier years. Our top scorers in round 3 were:
Between them, contestants managed 14 featured articles, 9 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 152 good articles, 136 DYK entries, 55 ITN entries, 65 featured article candidate reviews and 221 good article reviews. Additionally, MPJ-DK added 3 items to featured topics and 44 to good topics. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 710 good article reviews, in comparison to 387 good articles submitted for review and promoted. These large numbers are probably linked to a GAN backlog drive in April and May, and the changed patterns of editing during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.
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For my poor-quality edit summary, which caused you to waste your time. Richard Keatinge (talk) 11:42, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
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Let me know and I'll draft something. It seems like you're working on a project about humans and relatives, I'd be interested to learn more. Enwebb (talk) 02:54, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
As far as I can tell, template ((GA)) should not be substituted. It appears that you have substituted the template ((GA)) on page Talk:Dwarf dog-faced bat. Could you please fix it? Compare for example to this edit by Jens Lallensack. It seems that proper transclusion of ((GA)) is required for Legobot to work correctly. —andrybak (talk) 13:48, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
hi, where can I learn more about Taxonomic synonyms when it comes hominins? there's a big zoology section there, but with hominins, is there no difference in approach of the use of synonyms in the field? thanks. skakEL 20:38, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you today for your share to Bat, "about yet another major group of mammals: bats. They will make a nice addition to the FA list being the only mammals capable of flight"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:51, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
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The fourth round of the competition has finished, with 865 points being required to qualify for the final round, nearly twice as many points as last year. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with 598 and 605 points being eliminated, and all but two of the contestants who reached the final round having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were
Between them, contestants achieved 14 featured articles, 14 featured lists, 2 featured pictures, 87 good articles, 90 DYK entries, 75 ITN entries, 95 featured article candidate reviews and 81 good article reviews. 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.
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Not sure why you removed my Barnstar for you on your talk page. It was fun working together on the article. Let's go make the article a featured article now?. Akrasia25 (talk) 23:52, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
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The 2020 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round going down to the wire. Our new Champion is Lee Vilenski (submissions), the runner-up last year, who was closely followed by Gog the Mild (submissions). In the final round, Lee achieved 4 FAs and 30 GAs, mostly on cue sport topics, while Gog achieved 3 FAs and 15 GAs, mostly on important battles and wars, which earned him a high number of bonus points. The Rambling Man (submissions) was in third place with 4 FAs and 8 GAs on football topics, with Epicgenius (submissions) close behind with 19 GAs and 16 DYK's, his interest being the buildings of New York.
The other finalists were Hog Farm (submissions), HaEr48 (submissions), Harrias (submissions) and Bloom6132 (submissions). The final round was very productive, and besides 15 FAs, contestants achieved 75 FAC reviews, 88 GAs and 108 GAN reviews. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!
All those who reached the final will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field.
Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2021 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. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:37, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
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Wow, that sure is a lot of barnstars! I love you! Last ditch effort (talk) 23:44, 22 November 2020 (UTC) |
I was trying to find that "Homo sapiens cro-magnonensis" but couldn't. Also they seem to have had thicker skulls than modern man, at least based on what I read. I know the talk pages are about improving the article, not stating your opinions. Booger-mike (talk) 20:03, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
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You might want to consider just removing the feminism section as, unlike the rest of the article, is not based in hard science and right now is just troll bait. I'd move it (and the "in popular culture", btw) off to another article if I were you. Your call. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 16:03, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
I know you've struggled to find free restorations of prehistoric primates, but I just noticed an image[8] from this[9] paper on Commons, and it's supposedly freely licenced. It has a lot of restorations by Mauricio Anton of prehistoric primates and hominids, as well as other mammals from Africa, so might be useful to get all the images on Commons. And happy new year! FunkMonk (talk) 03:33, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
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That you weren't annoyed by my review of Australopithecus deyiremeda before I pick up any more of your GANs? -- Ealdgyth (talk) 15:03, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Australopithecus africanus 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. Vaticidalprophet (talk) 03:17, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
The article Australopithecus africanus you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Australopithecus africanus for issues which need to be addressed. Vaticidalprophet (talk) 06:55, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi Dunkleosteus77: Tautavel Man has passed its GA nomination. Nice job! Thanks for being patient with my lengthy process. MeegsC (talk) 10:01, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
Round 1 of the competition has finished; it was a high-scoring round with 21 contestants scoring more than 100 points. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 55 contestants qualifying. You will need to finish among the top thirty-two contestants in Round 2 if you are to qualify for Round 3. Our top scorers in Round 1 were:
These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. In Round 1, contestants achieved eight featured articles, three featured lists and one featured picture, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. They completed 97 good article reviews, nearly double the 52 good articles they claimed. Contestants also claimed for 135 featured article and featured list candidate reviews. There is no longer a requirement to mention your WikiCup participation when undertaking these reviews.
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Whenever you have the time, could you add some information on the migration routes of blue whales? Thanks. LittleJerry (talk) 23:56, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
You really need to use edit reasons, especially when reverting. The changes I made made the sentence clearer, they did not make it worse. Don’t revert without explaining why you need to do so.
Hey Dunkleosteus77. I have been working on the human article off and on for a couple of months now. I would like to get it to GA standard and feel it is pretty close now. You did the last review a little while age and I used your comments in many of my edits. Am about to go away for a week and when I come back fresh do a final read through. Thought I would see if you were interested in having a look over it while I was gone and maybe giving some advice or making any changes. If you want to wait to take on the review instead that would be great or are too busy I understand. Thanks Aircorn (talk) 18:54, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
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Please note that the introduction to the cladogram you changed explicitly says "groups that use common (traditional) names are shown on the right". So it's wrong to remove one of these "common (traditional) names". It has nothing to do with humans being in the clades Homininae and Hominini along with gorillas and chimpanzees, which the cladogram clearly shows. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:18, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
The second round of the 2021 WikiCup has now finished; it was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 61 points to advance to Round 3. There were some impressive efforts in the round, with the top eight contestants all scoring more than 400 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 110 good articles achieved in total by contestants, as well as the 216 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.
Our top scorers in Round 2 were:
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The article contains some uncited sentences, particularly "Courtship and reproduction", "Range and habitat" and "Feeding and predators". Would you be able to fix them? Thanks. LittleJerry (talk) 01:23, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
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Is there a particular reason why you've changed the main image of the Solo Man article to a sketch of a possible full skull? I'm not exactly for or against the change, but I am curious since most other fossil hominin pages simply have photos of casts or fossils. Paragon Deku (talk) 03:03, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
Hey. Since you are an experienced GA writer and reviewer, I would much appreciate your advice : I GA nominated Mugger crocodile on 7 May. Already on next day, someone showed interest to review, and I amended text according to their comments on 8+9 May. The reviewer replied only after 2 days to discuss changes in lede, which I amended on same day. But they are silent since then although I pinged them y'day. So the process is stuck since 11 May. How long should I wait for the reviewer to get back ? Or is there any chance that someone else takes over the review? -- BhagyaMani (talk) 08:29, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
I have just started the copy edit you requested at the GOCE of the article Solo Man. I have a quick question. The articles lede includes three dates in two formats: 117 to 108 thousand years ago and 125,000 years ago. This pattern continues throughout the sections of the article I have edited. Is this standard for scientific writing? I would have thought there should be one consistent format; there seems to be no rhyme or reason why they are written as they are now. Please let me know so I can make the appropriate changes.
Twofingered Typist (talk) 20:35, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
Hello:
The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Solo Man has been completed.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. I think the article's prose is fine, by the way.
Best of luck with the FA when you get to it.
Regards,
Twofingered Typist (talk) 12:18, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you today for Ambulocetus, "about an amphibious whale from Pakistan about 50 million years ago which swam like an otter and behaved like a crocodile. It's one of the best known and iconic ancient whales."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:43, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
... and today for Solo Man, introduced: "This article is about the last known population of Homo erectus, part of my massive overhaul of prehistoric humans and allies. The only other great ape FA is orangutan. There aren't any recent comprehensive books focusing just on Solo Man (there are a lot which briefly mention it) but the primary description of the anatomy is a lengthy monograph from 1951 (I've omitted the detailed discussions on individual bones for brevity), and there are a few literature reviews which I've relied upon especially in Research history."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:23, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
... and today for Livyatan, "about a really big whale from the Miocene"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:18, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi Dunkleosteus77, I was wondering what you used to add the GA templates to Talk:Dmanisi hominins and Talk:Gordodon. For some reason the Review links aren't working, and legobot isn't adding oldid links. CMD (talk) 07:31, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
This is to let you know that the Ambulocetus article has been scheduled as today's featured article for July 3, 2021. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/July 3, 2021, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1000 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so.
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We suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:00, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello, The common name Dragon Man is first in the article as article is named Dragon Man not the binomial name. If a consensus is decided on the talk page to change the common name of the article to the binomial then the change may occur at that time. Blockhouse321 (talk) 14:36, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
In this edit you removed "news" sources from an article, including the New York Times. This sort of behavior is not based on any Wikipedia policy or guideline and is not constructive. Please desist from such actions in the future. Abductive (reasoning) 15:12, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Dunkleosteus77! As you know, I'm currently reviewing your GA-nominated article Peking man, and I put it on hold a little while ago so you could make a few wording changes to make the article clearer. Do these suggestions seem fair to you, and do you plan to make them in the next few days before the hold ends? Otherwise, I'm happy to be more specific about the exact changes that would help the article – I think that this one is extremely close to GA quality, and I really don't want it to fail its nomination! Kokopelli7309 (talk) 12:26, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Dunkleosteus, just noticed that you reversed my reclassification of Neovison macrodon into Neogale, based on the IUCN not reclassifying it as such. However, is the IUCN the dominant authority for mammal taxonomy on Wikipedia? Unlike with birds, where Wikipedia's authority is cleanly stated to be the IOC, I can't find any dominant authorities on Wikipedia for any other group of animal. The only taxonomy I've seen many people relying on is the Mammal Species of the World, to which the ASM MammalDiversity Database is the successor, and the ASM database is the source I use for all my edits to mammal taxonomy.
In addition, Wikipedia largely does not rely on the IUCN for bird taxonomy (you will find a few articles here and there based on it, but most of these are ones that have escaped the eye of editors who stick to the Wikipedia-approved IOC taxonomy, and when they are noticed, they're usually retooled into subspecies articles based on IOC classifications), so I wouldn't see why they'd stick with the IUCN for mammal taxonomy only. Some largely-accepted pages like the classification of the fisher actually do not follow IUCN taxonomy, as the IUCN classifies it in Martes while most other sources, including Wikipedia, classify it in Pekania. So is there any evidence for Wikipedia relying on IUCN taxonomy for mammals, and would it be fine if I continued making pages/taxonomic changes based on what's in the ASM?Geekgecko (talk) 22:11, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
The third round of the 2021 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 294 points, and our top six scorers all had over 600 points. They were:
In round three, contestants achieved 19 featured articles, 7 featured lists, 106 featured article reviews, 72 good articles, 1 good topic, 62 good article reviews, 165 DYKs and 96 ITN items. We enter the fourth round with scores reset to zero; any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (one contestant in round 3 lost out because of this). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.
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Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/Yeren at the Did You Know nominations page is not complete; if you would like to continue, please link the nomination to the nominations page as described in step 3 of the nomination procedure. If you do not want to continue with the nomination, tag the nomination page with ((db-g7)), or ask a DYK admin. Thank you. DYKHousekeepingBot (talk) 02:58, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
On 19 July 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Yeren, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that hunts for the yeren, a Chinese apeman cryptid, were some of the largest involvements of peasants in scientific endeavors? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Yeren. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Yeren), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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This is a rather random question, but have you considered putting together/nominating the prehistoric hominins as a good or featured topic? The nomination page is WP:GTN. --SilverTiger12 (talk) 22:46, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
That would be/already is an amazing achievement. I'm consistently impressed by your output! Cheers, Jack (talk) 09:39, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello. I started a Talk discussion here [[10]]. I didn't get the ping right the first time, so was not sure you recieved the notification. Thus I'm notifying you here. Skllagyook (talk) 05:07, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
On 8 August 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Dragon Man (archaic human), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in June 2021, scientists described "Dragon Man", a member of a new species of archaic human that lived at least 146,000 years ago on the Northeast China Plain? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Dragon Man (archaic human). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Dragon Man (archaic human)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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The fourth round of the competition has finished with over 500 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants, The Rambling Man and Epicgenius, each scoring over 3000 points, and six contestants scoring over 1000. All but one of the finalists achieved one or more FAs during the round, the exception being Bloom6132 who demonstrated that 61 "in the news" items produces an impressive number of points. Other contestants who made it to the final are Gog the Mild, Lee Vilenski, BennyOnTheLoose, Amakuru and Hog Farm. However, all their points are now swept away and everyone starts afresh in the final round.
Round 4 saw the achievement of 18 featured articles and 157 good articles. Bilorv scored for a 25-article good topic on Black Mirror but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final round. There was enthusiasm for FARs, with 89 being performed, and there were 63 GARs and around 100 DYKs during the round. As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it to the final round; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For other contestants, 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 14 days of "earning" them.
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Hi Dunk, how far do you intend to go to improve Diprotodon? I've tried to add all of the relevant descriptive research I can, though there's not much. The extinction section is mostly irrelevant, but there's not much I can do about that either. Also there's a new paper on Irish Elk population genetics, which is probably worth incorporating into the main article, which I don't have access to. Hemiauchenia (talk) 00:06, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
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May what to do something about the "Sexual dimorphism" section. LittleJerry (talk) 20:51, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Dunkleosteus. I have developed a medical condition which leaves me currently unable to participate further in the GA review for Aeroplankton. Would you please fail the review. I hope to recover, and renominate the article, and that you might be willing to pick up the review again so it can be completed. In the meantime, thank you very much for the input you have already offered. Regards. — Epipelagic (talk) 03:35, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for your suggestions again re the images! Since I did not yet receive any question, suggestion from the 1st reviewer, I'm somewhat in limbo + kind of reviewed some passages myself that had been added by other contributors before I started working on this. I'm not in hurry, but still have 1-2 references to add + am working on a new map. Do you have time to continue the review? – BhagyaMani (talk) 18:49, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
take over the review. True is also that I miss and much appreciate critical, challenging comments + questions by an experienced reviewer like you that help to improve a page. The 1st reviewer has less than 150 edits under the belt. Is that enough experience to be conducting GA reviews ? S/he surely means well, but may need some guidance + assistance. – BhagyaMani (talk) 09:10, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
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Hi Dunkleosteus77, I recently noticed a discussion at Talk:Neanderthal that you were a part of. The guy recently replied to you and is cussing and screaming in all caps. I'm not sure if you noticed or not, since he didn't ping you correctly. I was wondering if you could take a look at this similar discussion at an unrelated page, with a better behaved but similarily stubborn editor who doesn't want to forfeit their greasy source. What do you think we should do? Thanks for your time. - Hunan201p (talk) 12:17, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
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Why did you fail my GAN? Look, I KNOW it didn't meet the good article criteria in time but it looks good enough to be a good article. Patachonica (talk) 01:50, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
Hello :) You’ve worked extensively on articles related to human evolution, would you mind taking a look at Human history#Early humans? Only 3 paragraphs! Do you notice any errors, misinterpretations, or glaring omissions? Cerebellum (talk) 11:09, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for enlightening me. I was wrong. Or, rather, I was absolutely correct from the grammatical standpoint, as in Latin terms ending in -inae are the grammatical plural of terms ending in -ina. But, of course, in taxonomy, as I now know, the former is used for a subfamily, while the latter is used for a subtribe (not a tribe, though, as the tribe is Hominini). With your permission, I will change tribe to subtribe in reference to Hominina Pasquale (talk) 03:37, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
Why am I not allowed to remove sections from your talk page? The Paramylodon GA section was brought up by me, and now you suggested that I should remove it, but then you tell me not to. Not saying that I want to continue the discussion, I just wanted to know why I am not allowed to remove my own sections from one's talk page. Magnatyrannus (talk | contribs) 02:38, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
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The article Homo longi you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Homo longi for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Etriusus -- Etriusus (talk) 00:41, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
Hey. Would you be able to review Phosphatodraco at FAC? LittleJerry (talk) 00:55, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
The article Homo longi you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Homo longi for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Etriusus -- Etriusus (talk) 03:01, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
Would you be able to review electric eel at FAC? LittleJerry (talk) 18:05, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
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Could you review South Asian river dolphin? Thanks. LittleJerry (talk) 23:52, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi, is my edit to the final paragraph under Orrorin § Fossils an adequate rewording for NPOV? I'm not a topic-area expert.... Happy editing, Middle 8 (s)talk • privacy 10:52, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
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I appreciate you taking your time to review a heavy topic like Islam. I am working right now to correct it per all your recommendations. Sodicadl (talk) 17:55, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
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So ends the first round of the 2023 WikiCup. Everyone with a positive score moved on to Round 2, with 54 contestants qualifying. The top scorers in Round 1 were:
The top sixteen contestants at the end of Round 1 had all scored over 300 points; these included LunaEatsTuna, Thebiguglyalien, Sammi Brie, Trainsandotherthings, Lee Vilenski, Juxlos, Unexpectedlydian, SounderBruce, Kosack, BennyOnTheLoose and PCN02WPS. It was a high-scoring start to the competition.
These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. The first round finished on February 26. Remember that any content promoted after that date but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.
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Hello Dunkleo! I just wanted to let you know (in case your notification box is too flooded) that I left a review of the Islam article after making some edits. You requested a second reviewer to confirm that it's ready for GA, and I think it is. I know I'm not that established of an editor, but I hope this still helps bring it to GA status. Amyipdev (talk) 17:46, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
The second round of the 2023 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to have scored 60 points to advance into round 3. Our top five scorers in round 2 all included a featured article among their submissions and each scored over 500 points. They were:
Other notable performances were put in by Sammi Brie, Thebiguglyalien, MyCatIsAChonk, PCN02WPS, and AirshipJungleman29.
So far contestants have achieved thirteen featured articles between them, one being a joint effort, and forty-nine good articles. The judges are pleased with the thorough reviews that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.
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hahaha you are smaller now. (still terrifying, don't get me wrong.) -- Troopersho (talk) 02:01, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
Hello! Hope all is well. I was wondering if you would still be able to continue the review while a new reviewer comes up. There is no rush, so just whenever you feel like it maybe? Sodicadl (talk) 01:13, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Dunkleosteus77. This is a courtesy notice that the copy edit you requested for Diprotodon at the Guild of Copy Editors requests page is now complete. All feedback welcome! Cheers, Baffle☿gab 19:59, 28 May 2023 (UTC) |
The third round of the 2023 WikiCup has come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 175 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:
Contestants achieved 11 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 47 good articles, 72 featured or good article reviews, over 100 DYKs and 40 ITN appearances. As always, any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.
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I hope that you will understand that my ((dubious)) tag was intended as constructive criticism. I've been watching the development of Early European modern humans for quite a while and consider it one of the more valuable articles on WP, well deserving of its GA status. I felt that it was being let down by the speculative material. 20th century sources were rather more inclined to assert religious or cultural significance for mysterious artefacts rather than admit that they just don't know. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 15:47, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Dunkleosteus -- Midnightblueowl has recommended as a second opinion that the Islam GAN be closed as failed, but wants to know if you're willing to close the review (as the original reviewer) or if she should. I see you're semi-active right now, but is this something you're willing to do? Vaticidalprophet 18:38, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were
Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and 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.
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I will be standing down as a judge after the end of the contest. I think the Cup encourages productive editors to improve their contributions to Wikipedia and I hope that someone else will step up to take over the running of the Cup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), and Cwmhiraeth (talk)
The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-
Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the competition, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.
The WikiCup has run every year since 2007. With the 2023 contest now concluded, I will be standing down as a judge due to real life commitments, so I hope that another editor will take over running the competition. Please get in touch if you are interested. Next year's competition will hopefully begin on 1 January 2024. You are invited to sign up to participate in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors. It only remains to congratulate our worthy winners once again and thank all participants for their involvement! (If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.) Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:51, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Dunkleosteus77, I noticed looking through the Good article lists that you have completed a clean sweep of Paranthropus articles with Paranthropus robustus, Paranthropus boisei, and Paranthropus aethiopicus. I would suggest these would make a cohesive WP:Good topic. Would you be interested in nominating it, or object if I put a nomination together (I feel there are far fewer Biology topics than there should be)? Or are there articles which should be included here that are not a GA? Best, CMD (talk) 07:00, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2024 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close on 31 January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), and Frostly (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:21, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.
Our current leader is newcomer Generalissima (submissions), who has one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:
As a reminder, competitors may submit work for the first round until 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February, and the second round starts 1 March. Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round; currently, competitors need at least 15 points to progress. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
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The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.
The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:
In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to Vami_IV (submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.
Remember that any content promoted after 27 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:40, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.
Our current top scorers are as follows:
Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.
If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please read Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:05, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.
The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:
The full scores for Round 2 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76 in the news credits and at least 200 did you know credits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles to featured topics and good topics.
Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed during Round 3, which starts on 1 May at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.
If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see this page. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:37, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
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The third round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 June. As with Round 2, this round was competitive: each of the 16 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 256 points.
The following editors all scored more than 400 points in Round 3:
The full scores for round 3 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 28 featured articles, 38 featured lists, 240 good articles, 92 in the news credits, and at least 285 did you know credits. They have conducted 279 featured article reviews, as well as 492 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 22 articles to featured topics and good topics.
Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed during Round 4, which starts on 1 July at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.
If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see this page. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:30, 29 June 2024 (UTC)