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On 29 October 2023, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Richard Roundtree, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 22:33, 29 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello Oltrepier:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over 1300 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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:-

• BeanieFan11 with 2582 points
• Thebiguglyalien with 1615 points
• Epicgenius with 1518 points
• MyCatIsAChonk with 1012 points
• BennyOnTheLoose with 974 points
• AirshipJungleman29 with 673 points
• Sammi Brie with 520 points
• Unlimitedlead with 5 points

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.

• Unlimitedlead wins the featured article prize, for 7 FAs in total including 3 in round 2.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in total.
• Lee Vilenski wins the featured topic prize, for a 6-article featured topic in round 4.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured picture prize, for 6 FPs in total.
• BeanieFan11 wins the good article prize, for 75 GAs in total, including 61 in the final round.
• Epicgenius wins the good topic prize, for a 41-article good topic in the final round.
• LunaEatsTuna wins the GA reviewer prize, for 70 GA reviews in round 1.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the FA reviewer prize, for 66 FA reviews in the final round.
• Epicgenius wins the DYK prize, for 49 did you know articles in total.
• Muboshgu wins the ITN prize, for 46 in the news articles in total.

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)Reply[reply]

Kenzie Weir, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out as Stub-Class or Start-Class and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider leaving us some feedback.

Thanks again, and happy editing!

Vanderwaalforces (talk) 14:54, 9 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

		The Signpost Barnstar
		For your recent writeup, Comic-Contextualization. Welcome to the ranks of Signpost contributors! ☆ Bri (talk) 17:05, 22 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Bri Thank you very much! : ) Oltrepier (talk) 18:11, 22 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello! Voting in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 11 December 2023. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2023 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add ((NoACEMM)) to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:54, 28 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Giulia Dragoni, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Il Giorno.

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On 13 December 2023, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Andrew🐉(talk) 20:02, 13 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User talk:Immanuelle/Proposed article translations. --95.233.233.43 (talk) 10:21, 16 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Can you do it? 95.244.136.91 (talk) 17:13, 23 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello! Your submission of Giovanni Bonfanti at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! SounderBruce 05:55, 17 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello there, thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia! Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas and here's to a happy and productive 2024! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:15, 18 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Dr. Blofeld Oh, thank you so much for thinking about me!

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you, as well! : ) Oltrepier (talk) 20:32, 18 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello, Oltrepier. Thank you for your work on Nicolò Cocetta. North8000, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Good start

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with ((Re|North8000)). Please remember to sign your reply with ~~~~. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

North8000 (talk) 14:45, 19 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello @Oltrepier

Thanks for your comment on Draft:Fiona Harvey Although I am very experienced in creating new articles in general I have almost never (or maybe never I forget) created a biographical article from scratch (very occasionally I have created one by translation). So the reason I put this in as a draft was because I was not sure if she was notable. Do you think she is notable?

I looked for her date and place of birth but presumably she keeps that private. Thanks for the link to the manual of style but as it is rather long can you be more specific about what I should do? Chidgk1 (talk) 14:44, 20 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Chidgk1: Hello! Thank you for clarifying and asking!

I do think she's notable enough, but you should add more information about her career: copying most of the information you included in the lead section (and, of course, putting it in chronological order) would actually be a good place to start! Also, you should add more on her Environment Story of the Year prizes, if possible, by highlighting the specific reports/articles she worked on and won those accolades for.

About the MoS guidelines, I would suggest you to put newspaper names under italics, and be careful with consecutio temporum, as my first bits of advice. You can also find a more condensed list of tips over here!

You could also take a look at the articles of other journalists, such as Ed Yong, in order to see how you should structure the page and which types of information you should include.

I hope this will give you some more clarity... : D Oltrepier (talk) 18:45, 20 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Chidgk1 Hey, looks like I've been proved wrong, because your draft has been accepted!

This article is still a stub for now, though, so I would suggest you to follow my tips, hopefully they're helpful enough.

On a side note, Happy Holidays! : D Oltrepier (talk) 11:16, 26 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Very much appreciated with the help on this issue. jp×g🗯️ 10:34, 24 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@JPxG My pleasure! : D

I'll take advantage of this occasion to wish you and the rest of the staff a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Oltrepier (talk) 10:40, 24 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
	Thank you for your participation in the Articles for Creation's November 2023 Backlog Drive! You made a total of 54 reviews, for a total of 93 points. – robertsky (talk) 06:49, 25 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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– robertsky (talk) 06:49, 25 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Robertsky Thank you so much, I wish the same for you! : ) Oltrepier (talk) 12:57, 25 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Panos Katseris, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out as Stub-Class or Start-Class and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider leaving us some feedback.

Thanks again, and happy editing!

Robo^Cric Let's chat 17:13, 27 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello, Oltrepier. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Soumaila Diabate, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 10:06, 28 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello Oltrepier. I appreciate your willingess to help with transfer news about footballers. However, I just want to remind you that ((Current sports transaction)) is a template that should only be used for players that are involved in imminent transfers reported by the media. Simple speculation or rumors, or even seemingly confident reports from low-quality sources should not be considered in making this determination. A good example of where this template is appropriate is Hugo Lloris. You added the template on Leonardo Bonucci, Alessandro Zanoli, Juan Miranda (footballer), Edvin Kurtulus, Woobens Pacius, Gianluca Prestianni, and Almugera Kabar. Correct me if I made a mistake, but in none of these examples there was an imminent transfer widely reported in the media.
Basically, we don't want to abuse the usage of this template, because otherwise it becomes meaningless if every single player with a rumor has it on their Wikipedia page. Please take more careful consideration of news reports when adding this template. A good source (by the way) is Fabrizio Romano, if you don't know who he is. Anyways, happy editing! Paul Vaurie (talk) 20:25, 29 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Paul Vaurie Hello, sorry for my belated reply and my mistakes: I admit I should have been way more careful at double-checking those bits of speculation... Of all the transfers you've cited, only AC Milan's deal for Miranda is likely to be completed, but even in that case there are no "advanced talks" to write about (yet), so I apologize.

Of course I know about Romano, as an Italian myself, but I suspect that most of the deals he reports on are already covered by dozens of other users here... : D

I'll definitely have a more cautious approach to transfer reports in the future, and I'll try to explain my decision better whenever I'll use the template -- actually, I've just done so for my edits on the articles of Vasilije Adžić (set to join Juventus) and Isak Hien (set to sign for Atalanta).

Thank you for your advice and Happy Holidays! Oltrepier (talk) 17:40, 31 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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)Reply[reply]

On 4 January 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Carmen Valero, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. —Bagumba (talk) 15:42, 4 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

On 8 January 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Giovanni Bonfanti, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Giovanni Bonfanti scored a goal on his debut in a European competition? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Giovanni Bonfanti. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Giovanni Bonfanti), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

WaggersTALK 00:02, 8 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]