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06:53, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
After an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's Godot13 (submissions) was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, Casliber (submissions) finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's , whose contributions included featured articles Russian battleship Poltava (1894) and Russian battleship Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six out of eight making it to the next round.
The round saw this year's first featured portal, with Sven Manguard (submissions) taking Portal:Literature to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to 12george1 (submissions) and the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. This means that all content types have been claimed this year. Other contributions of note this round include a featured topic on Maya Angelou's autobiographies from Figureskatingfan (submissions), a good article on the noted Czech footballer Tomáš Rosický from Cloudz679 (submissions) and a now-featured video game screenshot, freely released due to the efforts of Sven Manguard (submissions).
The judges would like to remind participants to update submission pages promptly. This means that content can be checked, and allows those following the competition (including those participating) to keep track of scores effectively. This round has seen discussion about various aspects of the WikiCup's rules and procedures. Those interested in the competition can be assured that formal discussions about how next year's competition will work will be opened shortly, and all are welcome to voice their views then. 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. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help 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! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 18:48, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
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@Shafi5001: Are you sure you know what a barnstar is for? Grognard 123chess456 (talk) 12:44, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
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07:48, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
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After consultation with the group of authors and publishing professionals with whom I am preparing this entry on Visionary Fiction, which you rejected on 6/17, we decided it would be wise to ask for clarification about the grounds for the rejection (Neologism) and review the revisions we plan to make to adjust the article rather than merely revise and resubmit, taking our chances on having this rather lengthy article rejected on other grounds.
THE NEOLOGISM ISSUE: All participants, including writers who have been publishing VF since the ‘90s, do not see visionary fiction as a new term that this article is attempting to popularize. I offer three factual proofs as to the term’s longevity and currency: Visionary Fiction is used and explained extensively in Carl Jung’s 1929 lecture, “Psychology and Literature,” (which is still in print as a chapter in Modern Man in Search of a Soul), as is cited in the entry. Several scholarly works, including Flo Keyes’ The Literature of Hope in the Middle Ages And Today (also cited) use the term, citing Jung’s lecture as its source. As the entry states in the introduction: “In the Book Industry Study Group's BISAC (Book Industry Subject and Category) Subject Headings, Visionary Fiction is assigned a top-level Main Subject Category under FICTION: Visionary & Metaphysical with the code FIC039000.” Former Hampton Roads Press editor Bob Friedman pointed out: “the VF name is used prominently on Amazon as a fiction genre. If you look it up, there are 353 titles listed under the name.” There are more proofs, which can be added to the entry, but these three should suffice to retire the neologism issue. Do you agree?
SOURCES ISSUE: I believe the appearance that most of the sources cited come from blogs may be a rookie error on my part: inconsistent citation. I listed the “reliable sources” in the body of the entry and largely footnoted what came from blogs without also including the print sources in the References section. If you looked only at References without checking through the article, I can see some grounds for your judgment: “Yeah, most of your sources that describe ‘Visionary fiction’ are blogs.” My oversight is easily corrected. I will add sources cited in the text to References this time. Also there are several places where I can cite the original text rather than the on-line material discussing it easily enough and can add further reliable sources to enhance the bibliography. In your opinion, would these steps suffice to resolve the sources issue? Your rejection also claims re some of the sources: “The rest don't describe it at all.” I don’t understand this statement. Please explain further.
ON-LINE REFERENCES Perhaps I am misreading here, but I sense some bias against on-line citations as opposed to print publication. As much of the concentrated developmental discussion of VF has occurred in the last 15 years, most of that research and commentary has only been published on line, as happens in many fields today. I did not notice any restrictions against on-line publication as reliable sources in your guidelines, but I may have missed some directive. I still want to use some on-line material in the entry as it is most current. If I were to reduce the number of such citations, using print material when possible and consolidating so as not to repeat (using ibid.), would that pass muster?
Lively participation by authors and readers in on-line discussions on the nature and scope of visionary fiction prompted us to spend the extensive time it took to research and write this article. The visionary fiction community believes that a comprehensive summary of the subject will contribute substantially to Wikipedia’s marvelous knowledge bank. If you have other suggestions or references that will make this presentation more acceptable and speed it to completion, please let me know.
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07:41, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Already protected. :) Thanks, NawlinWiki (talk) 16:54, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
Received your reply of 19:12, 20 July 2014 (UTC). Sorry if this is not the correct way to reply. Could not find any other link that allowed me to reply directly to yours, keeping it in the thread. I will revise per your instructions and let you know directly when I have completed the work. Thank you for your attention.
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Hello. This is a courtesy note that the draft findings and principles in the Media Viewer RfC case have now been posted. The drafters of the proposed decision anticipate a final version of the PD will be posted after 11 August. You are welcome to give feedback on the workshop page. For the Committee, Lord Roem ~ (talk) 02:43, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
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07:37, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
Advising you per your note of 7/20/14 that the issue with the sources in the "Visionary Fiction" entry has been addressed and the entry resubmitted on 8/8/14. Please take another look at the article as I hope it now passes muster.
Vicsmith0123 (talk) 23:17, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
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Congratulations, 123chess456! You're receiving this barnstar because you recently crossed the 1,000 classification threshold using STiki. We thank you both for your contributions to Wikipedia at-large and your use of the tool. We hope you continue your ascent up the leaderboard and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! West.andrew.g (developer) and Pratyya (Hello!) 13:13, 9 August 2014 (UTC) |
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07:43, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
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Hello 123chess456. That recent edit to the Divine article wasn't vandalism - it was the name of the episode of the TV series in which Divine appeared. Though whether that's unnecessary detail in that article is another matter.... PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 22:22, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
Just to inform, a film need not be the sole topic when covered by sources and I found ample coverage to meet WP:NF. Care to withdraw? Schmidt, Michael Q. 01:22, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
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