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The Surreal Barnstar |
For being the very first user ever to give me, through my own template, a smile back (using the talkback parameter), thanks! Eduemoni ↑talk↓ 17:10, 29 March 2013 (UTC) |
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The Christianity Barnstar | |
This award is given with the greatest gratitude to Gilderien, for his display of charity and character in preparing the April 2013 Christianity WikiProject newsletter. John Carter ( talk) 22:15, 29 March 2013 (UTC) |
Thank you very much.-- Gilderien Chat| List of good deeds 00:00, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi there! I thought you might be interested in WikiProject Wikify's April Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive. We'll be trying to reduce the backlog size by over 500 articles and we need your help! Hard-working participants in the drive will receive awards for their contributions. If you have a spare moment, please join and wikify an article or tell your friends. Thanks!
-- Message delivered by EdwardsBot ( talk) 22:05, 31 March 2013 (UTC) on behalf of WikiProject Wikify.
We are halfway through round two. Pool A sees the strongest competition, with five out of eight of its competitors scoring over 100, and Pool H is lagging, with half of its competitors yet to score. WikiCup veterans lead overall; Pool A's
Sturmvogel_66 (
submissions) (2010's winner) leads overall, with poolmate
Miyagawa (
submissions) (a finalist in 2011 and 2012) not far behind. Pool F's
Casliber (
submissions) (a finalist in 2010, 2011 and 2012) is in third. The top two scorers in each pool, as well as the next highest 16 scorers overall, will progress to round three at the end of April.
Today has seen a number of Easter-themed did you knows from WikiCup participants, and March has seen collaboration from contestants with
WikiWomen's History Month. It's great to see the WikiCup being used as a locus of collaboration; if you know of any collaborative efforts going on, or want to start anything up, please feel free to use the WikiCup talk page to help find interested editors. As well as fostering collaboration, we're also seeing the Cup encouraging the improvement of high-importance articles through the bonus point system. Highlights from the last month include GAs on physicist
Niels Bohr (
Hawkeye7 (
submissions)), on the
European hare (
Cwmhiraeth (
submissions)), on the constellation
Circinus (
Keilana (
submissions) and
Casliber (
submissions)) and on the
Third Epistle of John (
Cerebellum (
submissions)). All of these subjects were covered on at least 50 Wikipedias at the beginning of the year and, subsequently, each contribution was awarded at least three times as many points as normal.
Wikipedians who enjoy friendly competition may be interested in participating in April's wikification drive. While wikifying an article is typically not considered "significant work" such that it can be claimed for WikiCup points, such gnomish work is often invaluable in keeping articles in shape, and is typically very helpful for new writers who may not be familiar with formatting norms.
A quick reminder: now, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. 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. 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 • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) J Milburn ( talk) 22:45, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
![]() | On 1 April 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Brown Willy, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Aetherius Society believes that their sacred 1,375-foot (419 m) Brown Willy is full of holy energy? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Brown Willy. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 08:04, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
![]() | On 7 April 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Minotaur-class cruiser (1906), which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that the Minotaur-class cruisers of 1906 have been described by naval historian R. A. Burt as "cruiser editions of the Lord Nelson-class battleship"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Minotaur-class cruiser (1906). You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Casliber ( talk · contribs) 08:55, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
I actually never got any e-mail from you; you're sure you sent it to the right address? Wizardman 16:46, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of
Long Churn Cave 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) underneath
your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know!
Soman (
talk)
17:53, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
I removed the newsletter from my User talk page after I read it because it took up a lot of space, and Project Christianity is not one of main interests. Thanks for including me. I'm OK with receiving it again, but I'll probably remove it again after reading it. My personal preference would be to be sent a link to a newsletter on a separate page, but I know that plenty of others appreciate having these things delivered to their user talk pages. -- Orlady ( talk) 19:36, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
May I ask why you did this? I undid Kormin's edit for a valid reason, and provided that reason in my edit summary as well as a further explanation on Kormin's talk page. You reverted that without any explanation, and also violated the rollback policy in the process. Chamal T• C 13:26, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I removed content without reliable sources. You added material without any reliable secondary sources at all. Please see WP:RS. Please discuss at the article talk page. Thanks. KatieBoundary ( talk) 13:28, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an
edit war. Users are expected to
collaborate with others, to avoid editing
disruptively, and to
try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.
Please be particularly aware, Wikipedia's policy on edit warring states:
If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's
talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents
consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an
appropriate noticeboard or seek
dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary
page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be
blocked from editing. --— Preceding
unsigned comment added by
KatieBoundary (
talk •
contribs)
I made one revert. That is not edit-warring. Please read WP:EW as well as WP:BRD. Further, it is not a "phony company website", but the official website and as such under WP:RS, which you keep quoting at me, can be used for uncontroversial information - for example the floor area; no-one is ever going to measure that independently, they will just use the museum's literature and it is uncontroversial.-- Gilderien Chat| List of good deeds 13:48, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
Incidentally, I did not mean to accuse you of involvement, just of the consequences of not following WP:RS. It appears from your edit history that you do much good work, so apologies. They wanted attention, and it appears they are now getting it, along with our Wikipedia editor scrutiny abilities that they might not have wanted. :) KatieBoundary ( talk) 16:55, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
Re "I have not added any content to this article beyond minor copy-edits" - You added a huge amount of content in violation of WP:RS. KatieBoundary ( talk) 20:08, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
From WP:V, "In Wikipedia, verifiability means that people reading and editing the encyclopedia can check that the information comes from a reliable source." I removed content that violated this fundamental policy. You reverted my removal. You thereby violated WP:V. KatieBoundary ( talk) 21:23, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
♥ Solarra ♥ ♪ Talk ♪ ߷ ♀ Contribs ♀ 15:38, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for leaving a friendly message at the page of my student, User talk:HaeYoon. I am sure they appreciate your concern! -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:03, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
I wonder why you include a biased view of a not well-known researcher in the metaheuristic page and you also exclude some mentions of metaheurisitics — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hoodaan ( talk • contribs) 15:06, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
Never mind. It is no big deal. Hoodaan ( talk) 10:45, 12 April 2013 (UTC)