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Hello all, iMatthew here. I just wanted to let you know about "The Great Wikipedia Dramaout" which starts this Saturday. The goal of the Dramaout is to spend five days working on improving articles and abstaining from any of Wikipedia's drama. I don't think that any of you will have a problem focusing on articles for five days, because of course, any work you get done during the Dramaout will count towards your score in the WikiCup. Details are on the page; hope to see you all signing up! :) iMatthewtalk at 00:27, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
About two weeks left, now. To those of you in the back, don't give up. There is still enough time to get some more work done. To those of you in the front relaxing... don't. We've seen it happen before, where users in the back will jump ahead in the final weeks and make it though.
We'd also like to wave goodbye to Scorpion0422, and thank him for all of his hard work this round even though he knew he needed to withdraw at the end of it.
'weburiedoursecretsinthegarden, iMatthewtalk, and TheHelpfulOne
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Delivered by JCbot (talk) 16:44, 18 July 2009 (UTC).
Minor league/farm system table formats
Hi, jj37 - I've been contributing to the Major League Baseball clubs' season by season pages, adding farm system information in a simple list format. A user has developed a nice table that makes the data more readable, but unfortunately the new table format is only picking up some of the farm clubs listed (see 1969 Kansas City Royals as an example). It appears to be able to list no more than one farm team at each level and cannot handle the pre-1963, Class D, C, B, etc.
I wonder if you're aware of someone trying to develop a better table. I think the table is better than my simple list, but should not be so rigid as the current table. Also would be good to accommodate an extra column to note league titles, franchise shifts, league and team disbandings, etc.
Unfortunately I don't think I can be of much help; that template is the only one I know of for that purpose, although you could edit it and add the additional parameters in. Alternately, you could add some sort of footnotes or add something below the table to place additional info. JJ(talk) 20:21, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
The round is over in about four days from now. Sit back, watch your nominations being reviewed, and hope for the best. In these four days, you don't have much control over your score. It's what you did prior to now, that's going to pile up your points (or not). We're very, very pleased with this round's results so far, and of course hoping to see some more submitted before the round ends.
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Delivered for the WikiCup by ROBOTIC GARDEN at 15:44, 26 July 2009 (UTC). To report errors see the talk page.
RfD nomination of Whats the name of the last harry potter book
I have nominated Whats the name of the last harry potter book (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. –xenotalk 20:14, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
hehe =) G7, actually. –xenotalk 21:02, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Oops, you're right. :) JJ(talk) 21:03, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Right, last newsletter before the next round and it's a congratulations to eight of you lot. Unfortunately we say goodbye to a fair few users along the way but that is the competition. Next round, there will only be one pool which will see the lowest scoring users eliminated two months into the round. Should be good fun! Get your nominations in soon!
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Delivered for the WikiCup by ROBOTIC GARDEN at 21:43, 31 July 2009 (UTC). To report errors see the talk page.
Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 04:42, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Brooks-Baxter War
Hi,
I'm trying to get an article about Arkansas history reviewed for Good Article status and was wondering if you wouldn't mind taking a look at it.
Thanks, --The_stuart (talk) 02:30, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
Sorry about the revert of your comment there; I mistakenly pressed the "rollback" button on my watchlist that was next to your edit. Anyway, I've reverted myself. Thanks. Acalamari 00:06, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Don't worry, it's all good. :) JJ(talk) 00:47, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
In this round of the WikiCup, the bottom four contestants of the top eight will be eliminated on September 30th, while the top four will continue with the same score for an additional month. On October 31, a winner will be announced.
Top 4
Durova (370)
Ottava Rima (281)
Theleftorium (281)
Sasata (200)
Bottom 4
Candlewicke (88)
Shoemaker's Holiday (81)
Mitchazenia (73)
Juliancolton (21)
All scores are accurate as of 15:22, 16 August 2009 (UTC).
Content Leaders
As of this newsletter, the following is a list of participants in this round with the most:
The difference between each contestant's point total from last week, and their point total from this week are:
Rank
User
LF
TF
D
1
Durova
0
370
370
2
Ottava Rima
0
281
281
3
Theleftorium
0
281
281
4
Sasata
0
200
200
LF = Last Week's score, TF = This Week's score, D = Difference between last week and this week's scores
From the Judges
Apologies for not getting a newsletter out before this, but all of the judges happened to be away at the same time. Very impressive start of the round. Only sixteen days in, and our top four are already completely above 200 points. By the way, this is light red, not pink! :P
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Delivered by –Juliancolton | Talk at 15:45, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by SoxBot (talk) at 17:36, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
Nominations open for the Military history WikiProject coordinator election
The Military history WikiProject coordinator selection process has started; to elect the coordinators to serve for the next six months. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 (UTC) on 12 September! Many thanks, Roger Daviestalk 04:24, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
In this round of the WikiCup, the bottom four contestants of the top eight will be eliminated on September 30th, while the top four will continue with the same score for an additional month. On October 31, a winner will be announced.
Top 4
Durova (875)
Ottava Rima (650)
Theleftorium (618)
Shoemaker's Holiday (441)
Bottom 4
Sasata (426)
Candlewicke (277)
Mitchazenia (257)
Juliancolton (253)
All scores are accurate as of 18:57, 12 September 2009 (UTC).
Content Leaders
As of this newsletter, the following is a list of participants in this round with the most:
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Delivered for the WikiCup by ROBOTIC GARDEN at 19:24, 12 September 2009 (UTC). To report errors see the talk page.
WHY DID YOU DELETE THE FEU CHEERING SQUADS PAGE!?!? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.104.193.222 (talk) 18:33, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
Military history coordinator elections: voting has started!
Voting in the Military history WikiProject coordinator election has now started. The aim is to elect the coordinators to serve for the next six months from a pool of sixteen candidates. Please vote here by 23:59 (UTC) on 26 September! For the coordinators, Roger Daviestalk 22:09, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Since you're an admin and a member of the Military History WikiProject, feel free to list yourself here. Cheers, –Juliancolton | Talk 21:03, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
In this round of the WikiCup, the bottom four contestants of the top eight will be eliminated on September 30th, while the top four will continue with the same score for an additional month. On October 31, a winner will be announced.
Top 4
Theleftorium (938)
Durova (914)
Ottava Rima (910)
Sasata (849)
Bottom 4
Shoemaker's Holiday (679)
Candlewicke (370)
Mitchazenia (347)
Juliancolton (306)
All scores are accurate as of 20:05, 26 September 2009 (UTC).
Content Leaders
As of this newsletter, the following is a list of participants in this round with the most:
I can't image any way that something you nominate even as early as today will pass before Wednesday. If anything you've already nominated passes between now and Wednesday, or you still have things you haven't added to your submission pages, now is the time to do it! This half of the round ends this Wednesday (September 30) at 23:59 (UTC), and the bottom four contestants will be eliminated. The top four will keep their score from the first half, and continue competing through October 31. Good luck everyone!
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Mentor Q&A
Hey mentor,
Thanks for your most recent comments and feedback. I still can't seem to stay away from marathon edits but it is what it is I guess. During my most recent cleanup, I discovered that a company that had been out of business for nearly a year reopened by changing its name and ticker symbol. So instead of a rather mild cleanup with cleaned up archived links etc it ended up to be a more important job of adding information pertinent to the company's new business model. I am sure it has happened to you as well, but the article is pretty well written now.
I set up a sub user page for you and I to chat at user:bobinit/Mentor Q&A as you suggested. I suppose you should set up one as well, and then we can just bounce our respective Q&A's back to each other sub page. Is that what you had in mind?
I am removing our last round of questions from your talk page to keep it clean.
In this round of the WikiCup, the bottom three contestants of the top eight were eliminated on September 30th, while the top five are continuing for an additional month. On October 31, a winner will be announced.
Top 5
Sasata (1153)
Ottava Rima (1148)
Theleftorium (1025)
Durova (1010)
Eliminated 3
Candlewicke (534)
Mitchazenia (352)
Juliancolton (314)
Withdrawn
Shoemaker's Holiday (1183)
All scores are accurate as of 18:28, 11 October 2009 (UTC).
Content Leaders
As of this newsletter, the following is a list of participants in this round with the most:
Hi everyone! We're very sorry we didn't get this one out anytime sooner. We've all been pretty busy IRL. But down to business: Since the last newsletter, the first half of the round has ended. We said goodbye to Candlewicke, Juliancolton, and Mitchazenia. We'd like to thank them for all of their hard work getting this far. Shoemaker's Holiday has also withdrawn, so we'd like to thank him for his hard work too. Congratulations to Durova, Ottava Rima, Sasata, and Theleftorium for making the top 4! Good luck to you all.
You also may have seen from the WikiCup talk page that we have a new judge! J Milburn is joining our judging team effective immediately. J was assigned after Garden and Thehelpfulone announced they would be highly inactive throughout the remainder of the WikiCup. It is likely you will see J return as a judge next year as well.
Good luck again to the remaining four contestants! 20 days left in the Round, so make sure you get all your content nominated soon! You've all worked hard for this, since the beginning of January. I'm sure you're all tired by now, but you've come too far to just give up now. Congratulations Top 4!
GARDEN, iMatthewtalk, J Milburn, andTheHelpfulOne
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Why did you delete talk page? -Yyy (talk) 17:37, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
This question has not been answered yet. -Yyy (talk) 12:53, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure it says right there on the page... JJ(talk) 02:26, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
No, it does not, because the page in question is deleted. Ok, article was disputed to have insufficient notability, but talk page should have remained. -Yyy (talk) 11:40, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
Try looking again, I can assure you it's there... :) JJ(talk) 16:07, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
OK, talk page of deleted page, but information contained there might be useful when recreating article page. -Yyy (talk) 18:35, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
In this round of the WikiCup, the bottom three contestants of the top eight were eliminated on September 30th, while the top five are continued for an additional month. On October 31, a winner will be announced.
Top 4
Sasata (1332)
Durova (1259)
Ottava Rima (1242)
Theleftorium (1041)
Eliminated 3
Candlewicke (534)
Mitchazenia (352)
Juliancolton (314)
Withdrawn
Shoemaker's Holiday (1183)
All scores are accurate as of 20:45, 18 October 2009 (UTC).
Content Leaders
As of this newsletter, the following is a list of participants in this round with the most:
We have announced the intention to hire another new judge to cover for future judge absences. If you are interested please see the talk page for the WikiCup.
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Hello, I occasionally read WikiPedia articles, but as I was reading an article, I was notified that I had vandalized articles. This is a mistake, and has happened before, and I don't even know how to edit articles, nor do I have the time or the desire to do so. I request these messages be removed or corrected somehow.
Thank you.
02:04, 22 October 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.76.1.198 (talk)
In this round of the WikiCup, the bottom three contestants of the top eight were eliminated on September 30th, while the top five are continued for an additional month. On October 31, a winner will be announced.
Top 4
Durova (1546)
Sasata (1477)
Ottava Rima (1254)
Theleftorium (1092)
Eliminated 3
Candlewicke (534)
Mitchazenia (352)
Juliancolton (314)
Withdrawn
Shoemaker's Holiday (1183)
All scores are accurate as of 18:59, 25 October 2009 (UTC).
Content Leaders
As of this newsletter, the following is a list of participants in this round with the most:
It just came to me that multiple users have worked together on a bunch of content items, which means the newsletter counts are likely off. I'll try to put that all together and figure it out by the end of the round.
The end of the round, and the end of the 2009 WikiCup is this coming Saturday, October 31! To our top four: don't give up yet. Make sure that anything you have left to nominate is nominated today or tomorrow, for the slighted chance of it passing in time. The last day items will be accepted is Saturday, at 23:59 (UTC). It ain't over till the fat lady sings, of course!
GARDEN, iMatthewtalk, J Milburn, and TheHelpfulOne
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