User talk:Adam Cuerden/Archive 7

Featured picture candidates/Oh Maiden Rich in Girton Lore

 * PS Would it be possible to archive something from this large talk page? Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 17:37, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
 * No. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about % of all FPs 04:53, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

OTD December 14
Hi Adam, thanks for adding 1918 United Kingdom general election to WP:Selected anniversaries/December 14. Unfortunately, that article is not in very good shape, so I was unable to use it. If you have time to add references to it sometime before the 14th, we can get it back in. Thanks. — howcheng  {chat} 21:35, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:JFeatured picture candidates/An early implementation of java on the internet listed at Redirects for discussion
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Many Thanks
Adam Cuerden, I seriously doesn't know how to express how happy I am after seeing the wholehearted support. Many many thanks Adam Cuerden for encouraging me to try the same. Obviously I will be contributing more and more.

One more picture I have added recently, if you can have a look and if there is any correction, please retouch it. It is also, one of the rarest pictures because, picture of judge in robes is very less in wiki other than the scanned ones. Please have a look. DreamSparrow  Chat  15:36, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Christmas Adam
  "And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold,  I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.  For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." Luke 2:10-11 (King James Version)  DreamSparrow   Chat  is wishing you a  Merry Christmas. This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove. Spread the cheer by adding to their talk page with a friendly message.

Leila Usher
Adam, I'm no technical expert with regard to restorations. Simply as a viewer, I'd like a little more contrast or sharpness, but maybe the image doesn't lend itself to that sort of manipulation. You're the restoration artist.



In any case, Merry Christmas & Happy New Year. - Sca (talk) 21:34, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Women's events and developments in 1919
Hi Adam. I see you replaced this with a redirect to 1919 in women's history but as far as I can see you did not incorporate any of the information in the article. I now find I can no longer access it. Have you any idea how I can retrieve it? It contains quite a lot of useful info I would have liked to include in our 2019 focus on Suffrage?--Ipigott (talk) 12:38, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
 * That was actually a page move; 1919 in women's history should be exactly the same page with the suggested standardised title from the AfD. It is possible some of the information was edited out afterwards. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about % of all FPs 14:32, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 1919 in women's history is not the problem. The article I am looking for is Women's events and developments in 1919. The article's history has disappeared. Perhaps can help to retrieve it. No rush. This can of course wait until after the Christmas break.--Ipigott (talk) 15:10, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
 * is the content different? Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:27, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
 * My apologies to both Adam and . For some reason, I was looking at 1919 rather than 1919 in women's history. I now see that everything is OK. So I'll be able to incorporate important events into our 2019 focus on Suffrage. Sorry to have bothered you both with this. My mistake. Enjoy the Christmas festivities.--Ipigott (talk) 08:02, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
 * No worries, ! Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:45, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Help, please
Adam, I wonder if I can prevail on you to work some magic, please? There's an illustration over 2 pages of The Builder, 1891, pages 890 & 891, of the side-elevation of Battersea Town Hall (aka New Parochial Offices, Battersea), in a huge PDF of The Builder, vol.61, 1891. I'm wondering if you'd be willing to use your mad skillz to snag the two images and join them together. And if you're completely in the spirit of things, there's a front-elevation of the same building on page 886 which has a distinct page-fold wrinkle bottom centre. Feel free to tun down the request - I know you're full of busy with suffragettes & such, but shy bairns get nothing, as they say. For copyright purposes, the architect died in 1908, so they're all PD. Thanks & season's greetings to you. Hope the leak didn't cause too much bother. --Tagishsimon (talk) 16:52, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't actually have a good PDF editor - thems cost money - but if you can get someone else to extract them, I'll stitch them. The image is by the architect? Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about % of all FPs 17:29, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks Adam. Yes, those are by Edward Mountford, or someone in his office. As to extracting, they're full page scans, so I think the only option is a screengrab ... I could do that, or you could? Can I show you a far more severe problem - https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1077254377864335360 - an entire window section lost in the fold. Would that be beyond repair? --Tagishsimon (talk) 17:55, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Front elevation is already on Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Parochial_Offices,_Battersea_-_Front_Elevation.png though tbh the wrinkle is unlikel to bother anyone. --Tagishsimon (talk) 17:56, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
 * You have email. --Tagishsimon (talk) 18:02, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
Happy editing into 2019 and beyond! -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 06:30, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

High Court of Andhra Pradesh
Hi Adam,

I need an urgent help to create an article High Court of Andhra Pradesh. This page was in existance and later merged with Telangana High Court. But now as per notification, President of India has assented to function a new High court at Amaravati as High Court of Andhra Pradesh from 01.01.2019. Since the existed page redirected to Telangana High Court, I am not able to start a new page with name High Court of Andhra Pradesh. Please help me to start a page. DreamSparrow  Chat  16:49, 27 December 2018 (UTC)


 * This is the article with Sanction Order. Have a look. DreamSparrow   Chat  17:01, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Is the problem that it was merged and you need to go through a process to unmerge it, or is it just that you don't know how to navigate to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=High_Court_of_Andhra_Pradesh&action=edit ? Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about % of all FPs 23:22, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CLIII, January 2019
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6.3% of FPs
That's an impressive number, Adam. Would you consider sharing the code? Best wishes, --Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:48, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Sure. I should note that I'm piggybacking off some code from my User page, but the basic idea is simple enough. It needs to transclude a page, as the code's too long otherwise; in my case, User:Adam Cuerden/FPperc which has the following code:

%

This is a fairly simple percentage calculation. is what it sounds like: the number of featured pictures, or as good of an estimate as we have. is the number of FPs I have.

Now, here you're probably going to want to do it slightly differently than I do. The code in Current FP total is

387.75 is the number of FPs in all years previous to this one - I used fractions for some collaborations - and   ...Has a series of &lt;noinclude&gt; tags that mean the only thing actually returned is the number in the phrase "These 0 restorations from the first 1 months of 2019..."

You can probably simplify this. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about % of all FPs 18:36, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks Adam, I tried to modify it, but failed! Charlesjsharp (talk) 22:01, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Well, where do you want to put your FP count? I can help from there. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about % of all FPs 23:53, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Success (well almost!) I've got the script working on my Commons home page for each category of my FPs. Strangely, it seems to work if I change the R}}*100 round 1} to R}}*1 round 1} except for the reptlies category. --Charlesjsharp (talk) 09:35, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Loc' pic
Adam, what do you think of one? It's not very sharp, I know, due to having been scanned and, I think, rescanned. (My son has the original print.) Sca (talk) 14:18, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
 * PS: Also visible here. Sca (talk) 14:23, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request for Abraham Lincoln
In the "assassination" section on the Abraham Lincoln page, I suggest that the words “According to eyewitnesses, his face was fixed in a smile when he expired” should be changed to “According to some accounts, at his last drawn breath, on the morning after the assassination, he smiled broadly and then expired”. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.146.96.169 (talk) 22:07, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Featured picture advice
Hey Adam. I am trying to improve my photographic skills and was hoping you could give me advice. For something like, what could I improve to make it FP eligible? I may have to setup my lightbox to shoot it in. The subjects are pretty small, so I could use a macro lens to take the shots with better clarity and focus (my other photos have issues there). What do you suggest?  Kees08  (Talk)   00:44, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Pictures
Thank you for your offer of help chez Rossini. All contributions gratefully received. If you have a further moment, I wonder if you can find any suitable pictures to illustrate Cavalcade which I've just given a wash-and-brush-up. I can't find a blessed thing, and the text is rather slab-like without any pictorial relief.  Tim riley  talk   16:00, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Ooh, that's a bit harder. The trouble is that modern plays don't more-or-less-default to having something out of copyright. I think the best option might be a picture of A. the theatre it was performed in, and B. Noel Coward. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about % of all FPs 17:55, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Fair enough! I'm half sorry that an image expert is stumped and half relieved that I haven't missed something obvious. Thank you anyway!  Tim riley  talk   18:13, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Okay. Here's my suggestions:
 * https://www.loc.gov/resource/ggbain.38534/ is damaged pretty irrepairably, but only on the legs, so we can probably crop something for Coward himself from it
 * Soldiers of the Queen" is from Patience, right? I can get a poster for that, no problem. You should cover the sources of the music anyway. There's a contemporary recording of Alexander's Ragtime Band on its page, I believe, and if you list the music properly, I can get a list.
 * The Relief of Mafeking is probably coverable through images, likewise Victoria's funeral, the sinking of the Titanic, and, of course, the First World War. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about % of all FPs 18:17, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I shall enjoy following those suggestions up.  Tim riley  talk   20:23, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Edinburgh
Adam, as you coming to the editathon on the first then I thought Id suggest that you gave a quick talk on images. Ewan who runs the sessions thinks this would be great. Could you have a slide or two? Oh and Jess Wade is talking on Jan 30th in Edinburgh? See WIR talk page Victuallers (talk) 15:08, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Kudos
Congrats re Hester Jeffrey. Xcllnt choice. Sca (talk) 14:35, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Your signature
Your current signature is too long (311/255 characters) and transcludes another page, which is not permitted. Please rectify these issues. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 04:48, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
 * It should fully evaluate on use now. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.3% of all FPs 06:35, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you, much better —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 01:26, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that. It was kind of a whim one day. Probably should've checked if there were guidelines about it. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.3% of all FPs 01:37, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
 * No worries { —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 01:39, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

Dinorah
Adam, can you please, PLEASE take that poster, which is lovely, out of the Meyerbeer template on the article Dinorah and put it somewhere else in the article and restore Meyerbeer's picture in the template? I tried to do it myself but I cannot figure it out. It is very important to me,call it a weird quirk, that the composers on the articles I work on the most - Meyerbeer, Handel,Offenbach - have their pictures at the top of the page and the same picture every time, it unifies their articles. I would really appreciate it.Smeat75 (talk) 00:34, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I found an earlier version you had with the poster lower down and Meyerbeer's picture at the top so I restored it. I hope you don't mind.Smeat75 (talk) 00:40, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Understood, although we really should change the image of Meyerbeer overall - there's photos of him, you know. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b531202483.r=meyerbeer?rk=386268;0 maybe? After some levels tweaks? Or https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84542968/f1.item.r=Meyerbeer.zoom ? Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.3% of all FPs 04:15, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
 * If you would like to change the template image to one of those photos,that is fine with me. I just want an image of the composer at the top of the page. I like the first of those two the best, but I am sure whatever you choose will be excellent. Thanks for all your great images.Smeat75 (talk) 13:36, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

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Feedback?
Hey there,

I've only done a couple restorations in the past, and find I second guess myself about what can/should be repaired/adjusted. Would you mind taking a quick look at one I uploaded to give your opinion?

Original: File:Hellen Keller circa 1920.jpg

New: File:Helen Keller circa 1920 - restored.jpg

Note that the latter has two versions in its upload history. I saved the one with tone adjustments separately, since I wasn't sure how I felt about it.

Thanks. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 05:31, 18 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Went ahead with it. Feedback still appreciated if you have time. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 00:08, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

images from others
Noted your work and its value for WP -- are you interested in receiving requests to work on images for other editors? _ _ _ _ 83d40m (talk) 09:11, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Within reason. I do kind of need decent quality bases to work from, though - a 400z600px image is limited in how much you can do, and an extremely damaged image you need to be passionate about to push through. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.3% of all FPs 13:56, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2019 March newsletter
And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2. With 56 contestants qualifying, each group in Round 2 contains seven contestants, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for Round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining contestants.

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 * Ed! was also on 224, with an amazing number of good article reviews (56 actually).

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews on 143 good articles, one hundred more than the number of good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Well done all!

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Request for restoration
Hi Adam, would you be willing to restore a photo of Marie Curie? It looks like one of these has already had some restoration work, but it's lost detail in the process, while another is probably a zoom of the same photo. I think that one of your restoration jobs would be great, probably on the photo that I'm putting on the left of this gallery. --Pine✉ 03:58, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Just to note, this is in my queue, I just really need a break from difficult photographs. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.4% of all FPs 08:32, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks. There is no hurry. Thanks for your good work. --Pine(✉) 05:22, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLV, March 2019
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Featured picture candidates/Minnie Maddern Fiske, 2
Thanks for your help. Yann (talk) 01:16, 27 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Was this restoration based on File:Minnie Maddern Fiske, seated, Zaida Ben-Yusuf, 1896 (crop).jpg or File:Mrs. Fiske, "Love finds the way" - Zaida Ben Yusuf. LCCN2006677585.tif? Armbrust The Homunculus 06:27, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
 * The TIFF. The other had lost its colour already, so I couldn't use it. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.5% of all FPs 06:39, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Photo restoration?
If you're need something to work on, I'd appreciate if you could consider File:Csepel NH87669.jpg. Be careful with speck removal as the radio antennas between each mast have insulator balls at each end, although they're only really visible on the closest ship. If you'd prefer not to, that's fine too.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:00, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

File:Marie-Aimée Roger-Miclos - Photograph A from the Album Reutlinger de portraits divers, vol. 21.jpg
IMO this would be better next year... for the 150th anniversary of her birthday. Armbrust The Homunculus 22:23, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLVI, April 2019
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Discussion at Featured article candidates/Crater (constellation)/archive1
You are invited to join the discussion at Featured article candidates/Crater (constellation)/archive1. There is a question about the restoration work you've done there Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:57, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

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Battersea Library
Work available, should you be inclined: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Graphic_Lab/Photography_workshop#Battersea_Library_-_visualisation --Tagishsimon (talk) 13:02, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2019 May newsletter
The second round of the 2019 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to scored 32 points to advance into round 3. Our top four scorers in round 2 all scored over 400 points and were:

Other notable performances were put in by Barkeep49 with six GAs, 🇺🇸 Ceranthor, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski, and  Canada Hky, each with seven GARs, and 🇩🇰 MPJ-DK with a seven item GT.
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 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Kosack (750), last year's runner up, with an FA, a GA, two FLs, and five DYKs.
 * Pirate_Flag_of_Henry_Every.svg (480), a WikiCup veteran, with 16 featured pictures, mostly restorations.
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May Bugle
Hi Adam, if there are any MilHist-related FPs from last month, would you have time to add here in the next day or so? Tks/cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 16:09, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I was in Disneyworld, and just got back. I'll get them into the next month. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.5% of all FPs 21:23, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
 * No prob, tks Adam. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 00:09, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLVII, May 2019
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June events with WIR
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Aletta Jacobs, FYI
When the article was approved for GA, I nominated it for DYK, but in discussing it, some editors don't want to hold it until the 18 September centennial for women's suffrage in the Netherlands. At any rate, per the discussion, when the FP passes, they will reserve the date and I'll just cancel the DYK. Again, I thank you for all of your help on these photos. Your work is so amazing! SusunW (talk) 16:07, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

TOPD


Congrats on something that went through a lot of fine-tuning. – Sca (talk) 12:39, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Sca! It was a lot of work, but worth it in the end. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.6% of all FPs 14:21, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

hi
Just found your note, 10 days late, I was away too. The meeting in Edinburgh main library is today 12-5? Victuallers (talk) 10:13, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

I need help Adam
Hello Adam! I want to nominate another picture which is featured in Arthur Rostron, the one he is with Margaret Brown, but I'm unsure as you close in the pixelation and points when you zoom. I downloaded GIMP but don't understand English so I cannot better it. Can you check it if it's suitable for FP nomination? I don't want to be annoying on that beautiful section. Kind regards. --LLcentury (talk) 16:11, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your quick response, there are two that are good but don't meet the 1500x1500 criteria :( --LLcentury (talk) 16:57, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

Yes, effectively, I've done research for the past two hours and none match the 1500x1500 criteria except the one I mentioned you. Kind regards. --LLcentury (talk) 19:10, 2 June 2019 (UTC) Hi Adam, it's me again, you see suitable the picture of Arthur Rostron and Margaret Brown? Best wishes, best luck & Kind regards. --LLcentury (talk) 23:50, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the TIFF advice Adam. None meet criteria, even in TIFF, only the one I uploaded, but only meets criteria in size not sure in pixelation. Best wishes and profusely apologise any annoying. --LLcentury (talk) 21:21, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry I've been slow on this. Just haven't had a whole lot of time, and have kind of been focusing on what I could do. I'll do my best. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.6% of all FPs 20:26, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

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British Library
I think the BL people are indebted to you for their picture here (and to me for the one here). Yet another feather in Wikipedia's cap.  Tim riley  talk   14:14, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Ha! Well now! I wonder if that would be good for getting me access. I should try sometime. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.6% of all FPs 18:15, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
 * They're much more relaxed about giving out readers' tickets than they used to be. I don't think you'd have any trouble.  Tim riley  talk   21:40, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

Kissing the War Goodbye
Can you do a restoration of File:Kissing the War Goodbye.jpg? Please and thank you! --- Coffee  and crumbs  11:29, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

POTD for 8 June
Thanks for scheduling your restoration of the Coldstream Guards for Saturday's POTD. I feel, however, that Facial hair in the British military might not be the best choice for the target article. Featured pictures/People/Military captions the image with Coldstream Guards, which I think is a more apt caption for the image; POTD appearances also tend to follow the featured picture directory in this regard. To this end, I've decided to replace the target article with Coldstream Guards, including rewriting the blurb with text adapted from there, as well as providing information pertaining to the provenance, etc. of the picture itself. See also User talk:Amakuru. If you have any concerns with my blurb, feel free to discuss them on my talk page. Once again, thank you and happy birthday! &mdash;  RAVEN PVFF  · talk · 15:31, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * That seems fair. My birthday's on the 8th, and I thought Facial hair in the military had a bit more directly immediate context for the Crimean War, and also might be a bit more fun. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.6% of all FPs 20:28, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

Redcoats
TFP congrats again re Coldstream Guards & their grandiose 'hats.' – Sca (talk) 12:44, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

Requesting your expertise...
...on another FPC submission.

I'd love to get a work by Martha Ann Honeywell featured - I'd prefer the cutout shown in the article, but I wouldn't necessarily mind one of the silhouettes. What do you think? Any of them work, or are there issues with them? -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 03:20, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I think the cutout is best. People may complain the tiny text is unreadable, and say it's not high enough resolution, a transcription may help alleviate such claims. I'd say it's at least worth a try. I don't think the silhouette currently in the article would pass, because of reproduction issues, though. By the way, while looking it up, I discovered https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/14049 - and the commentary on the embroidery school this comes from, which is probably well worth an article. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.6% of all FPs 03:48, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Yeah, there are concerns about all four of the silhouettes on Commons. Others are available - I'd just need to upload them. Still, I prefer the cutout for a number of reasons. Thanks for the advice - I'll try to get it up at FPC tomorrow.


 * Thanks for the pointer to the sampler. I know of at least one other similar embroidery school that would likely be worth writing up. I'm going to be going out of town for a few weeks beginning a week from Wednesday, so I'll put it on my to-do list to look into upon my return. There's a lot in the way of American folk culture that I think is worth pursuing, both for WiR and separate from it. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 04:22, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 Reminder
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The Bugle: Issue CLVIII, June 2019
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Valentina Tereshkova
I recall you asking somewhere for suggestions for photos to touch up. Perhaps File:RIAN archive 612748 Valentina Tereshkova.jpg would be a good candidate. I think it might not be salvageable, but it would be good for documenting the history of spaceflight if it was. Otherwise, perhaps File:RIAN archive 159271 Nikita Khrushchev, Valentina Tereshkova, Pavel Popovich and Yury Gagarin at Lenin Mausoleum.jpg. There are many images of her on Commons, you may be able to find a more encyclopedic version than I have found. If you have no time for it, no worries.  Kees08  (Talk)   07:40, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

FP again, sorry profusely
Hi Adam, I am a pain in the neck I know, but I am newbie in the section. Do my nominations for Byun Yo-han and Tensai Okamura need to be added to "needing feedback" as they are about to close? Or not? Thanks! --LLcentury (talk) 12:23, 17 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi Adam, I don't know if it happens to you, FP is an awesome place, but it's extremely frustrating when nobody gives a iota about FPcs needing feedback. They're quick to oppose, yet nobody cares to look at needed supported or opposed pictures. Sorry, nothing against you, just needed to take it out. --LLcentury (talk) 13:19, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

July events from Women in Red!
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:39, 25 June 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging

File:SMS Arcona.png into File:SMS Arcona NH 65764 - Restoration.png
Hi Adam Cuerden, I have gone ahead and HistMerged File:SMS Arcona.png into File:SMS Arcona NH 65764 - Restoration.png (before deleting the former). As a general/friendly note for the future, if you happen to upload a file under the wrong name, please request a file move (see Template:Rename media) rather than re-upload and nominating for deletion. Thanks! -- The SandDoctor Talk 04:58, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Honestly, by the time I realised there was a problem, it was too late. See, the former is the name of the file on my computer, and at some point, I managed to upload under the file name on my computer - while (as far as I can tell) the file with my desired name still existed. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.8% of all FPs 17:20, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. As I said, just a general pointer based on what I saw at the time. Happy editing - or, in this case, uploading - . -- The SandDoctor Talk 03:14, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Fannie Lou Hamer
Can I nominate Fannie Lou Hamer again? The previous discussion was pointedly disappointing. --- Coffee  and crumbs  17:17, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 July newsletter
The third round of the 2019 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round needed to score at least 68 points, which is substantially lower than last year's 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:


 * 🇳🇫 Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with 500 points derived mainly from a featured article and two GAs on natural history topics
 * Adam Cuerden, with 480 points, a tally built on 16 featured pictures, the result of meticulous restoration work
 * SounderBruce, a finalist in the last two years, with 306 points from a variety of submissions, mostly related to sport or the State of Washington
 * 🇺🇸 Usernameunique, with 305 points derived from a featured article and two GAs on archaeology and related topics

Contestants managed 4 (5) featured articles, 4 featured lists, 18 featured pictures, 29 good articles, 50 DYK entries, 9 ITN entries, and 39 good article reviews. 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, and it is imperative to claim them in the correct round; one FA claim had to be rejected because it was incorrectly submitted (claimed in Round 3 when it qualified for Round 2), so be warned! When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:11, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Picture for restoration?
I just uploaded a picture from Gallica that's in pretty bad shape. It might be something you'd be interested in restoring: File:Inauguration du monument aux victimes de la Iéna.jpeg--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 14:45, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Remind me to make a guide to uploading from Gallica. There was a higher resolution file I grabbed. As for restoration, I don't think it'll ever be an FP, but I can play with contrast, restore a bit and crop it. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.8% of all FPs 15:04, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
 * That would be great if you could do so as I'm not that familiar with it. Yeah, it's in too bad a shape to be clean enough for FP, but whatever you can do to clean it up would be very nice and much appreciated as my photo restoration skills are limited to adjusting levels at best.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 15:14, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

I'm not going to claim it's amazing. It's really not, but how's that? It's probably at least not AS bad. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.8% of all FPs 20:14, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Much nicer than the original. Many thanks.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 21:06, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLIX, July 2019
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Response added
Hi Adam Cuerden, just FYI I replied to you at Talk:Main Page with an alternative to consider should that discussion not support the feature that could still link in xaosflux  Talk 15:23, 15 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Meanwhile, I took the liberty to edit your comment, which seems to have become somehow corrupted; I hope that is what you intended, and if not, please do revert with my apologies. --GRuban (talk) 20:27, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you, mobile editing is terrible. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.8% of all FPs 21:26, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
 * , there is also another interesting idea by of doing the whole set as either a montage, or as a series. The montage would be a large file of all the photos in a 3x3 format. The series would have Nadar #1 as the lead meaning their genitalia would de minimis when it first loads but you can scroll to see the others. Do you have enough time to do the whole series? ---  Coffee  and crumbs  16:18, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Um, have you seen the whole series? https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10535903f.r=hermaphrodite?rk=193134;0 or https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b105359685.r=hermaphrodite?rk=171674;4 ? I think having people touching or sticking fingers into genitalia is going to be more problematic. I can do the whole series, but I'd only advocate for about 6 being mainpagable. And, of course, that presumes Amakuru dossn't announce it's standard procedure to censor FPs on the main page - which hadn't been true since Dream of the Fishwife around 2006 - and thus encourages people to apply the supposedly standard censorship. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.8% of all FPs 01:40, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
 * It's probably not worth the work. --- Coffee  and crumbs  01:44, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I might do it since I have a friend who studies the history of intersexuality who's very interested. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.8% of all FPs 01:47, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

Editing News #1—July 2019
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Did you know?

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon to start editing.

 Edit Cards 



This is what the new Edit Cards for editing links in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here: 📲 Try Edit Cards.

Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.

Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.

Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:

Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?

If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.

Follow these instructions and share your experience:

📲 Try Edit Cards.

Recent releases
The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team has recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:


 * 1) Section editing
 * 2) * The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
 * 3) * The team studied this with an A/B test. This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were 1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
 * 4) Loading overlay
 * 5) * The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.

Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.

New and active projects
This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.


 * Edit cards: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now.  Go here to see how: 📲Try Edit Cards.
 * Mobile toolbar refresh: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
 * Mobile visual editor availability: This A/B test asks: Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor?  We are collaborating with 20 Wikipedias to answer this question.
 * Usability improvements: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use. The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.

Looking ahead

 * Wikimania: Several members of the Editing Team will be attending Wikimania in August 2019.  They will lead a session about mobile editing in the Community Growth space.  Talk to them about how editing can be improved.
 * Talk Pages: In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin improving talk pages and communication on the wikis.

Learning more
The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

PPelberg (WMF) (talk) and Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:24, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Request
Hi Adam, we are at Persian Wikipedia are big fans of your work. I was wondering if you could help to restore this cartoon from the Puck in 1902. Here is a link to the picture. Many thanks. --Gnosis (talk) 19:31, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Jeanne Laisné (soprano)
Gatoclass (talk) 00:01, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Potential FPs
Hi! I ran across this archive when looking for something else and it seems that most, if not all, of the pics are CC-BY-2.0 and thus uploadable to Commons. (I particularly like this photo for some reason.) I haven't gotten around to uploading them since I'm swamped right now and for some, couldn't figure out what categories to stick them under. You're probably swamped too, but I figured it's better to let you know about the archive anyways. All the best! -Yupik (talk) 19:57, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

August Bugle
Hi Adam, thanks as always for the FP section. I'm not sure about Sally Ride though as I don't think she was ever in the military, unlike the other astronaut subjects of the images (well not Ron McNair either but two other guys in his picture were). Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 11:50, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLX, August 2019
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The Bugle: Issue CLX, August 2019
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Advice
Adam, I wonder if I could pester you for some advice; while hunting around for images on the English Civil War, I came across these two images on Commons: File:Charles Landseer - The Eve of the Battle of Edge Hill, 1642 - Google Art Project.jpg and File:William Frederick Yeames - And when did you last see your father? - Google Art Project.jpg. The latter has quite a few black spots that need tidying, but beyond that I wondered what work you thought might be needed on either of them to gain Featured status? Harrias talk 14:42, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your input on this. Harrias  talk 15:42, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 September newsletter
The fourth round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 454 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with over 400 points being eliminated, and all but two of the finalists having achieved an FA during the round. Casliber, our 2016 winner, was the highest point-scorer, followed by Enwebb and Lee Vilenski, who are both new to the competition. In fourth place was SounderBruce, a finalist last year. But all those points are swept away as we start afresh for the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 11 featured articles. In addition, Adam Cuerden scored with 18 FPs, Lee Vilenski led the GA score with 8 GAs while Kosack performed 15 GA reviews. There were around 40 DYKs, 40 GARs and 31 GAs overall during round 4. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.

As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. 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 (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:44, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXI, September 2019
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October Events from Women in Red
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:34, 23 September 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging

You are a photos expert (to me)
And I need your advice about something. May I email you?   &#9749;  Antiqueight  chatter 12:01, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Of course! Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7% of all FPs 13:09, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks - Done. And if you dunno, but you do know who might, please ask them or give me details to ask them.  &#9749;  Antiqueight  chatter 13:57, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

B.B.
Now that you've done B.B., why don't you tackle his compatriot Henrik Ibsen, too? ;-)  Best, --Janke | Talk 09:12, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I honestly thought we had at least one good FP of him. I'll check. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7% of all FPs 22:02, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Hubertine Auclert - 2
You certainly know the tricks of your trade, Adam. Gute Arbeit! (as they say on the German cop shows I habitually watch online). – Sca (talk) 13:35, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
 * PS: In the olden days, in the darkroom, I guess they would have hand-manipulated the light from the enlarger to brighten the dark spots. That was called photo dodging. – Sca (talk) 13:42, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXII, October 2019
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Kudos
Congrats re William H. Crook TFP. Interesting copy block, too. – Sca (talk) 13:21, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages – October 2019
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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.

Help
What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!

Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team would value your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.

Talk Pages
The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.

The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.

Mobile visual editor
The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

Edit Cards



 * On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
 * There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
 * Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.

Toolbar



 * In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
 * One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
 * New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
 * Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
 * Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.

Wikimania
The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.

Looking ahead

 * Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes.  The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
 * Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
 * Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: The Editing team hopes to share results in November.  This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations.  The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:51, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

If interested
You might want to add this to your collection of to do. It is the lead image on women in United States juries. --- Coffee  and crumbs  08:47, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I like it, but I worry about the quality of the scans: The only scan to get the left-hand edge is pretty awful, and the better-ish scan is black and white and badly cropped. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.1% of all FPs 17:33, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

Elizabeth Glendower Evans
Revised my comment at WP:FPC. – Sca (talk) 13:17, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

How do you do it
RE: WiR Gorgeous images. An off topic question. Since WMF forbids the useage of images off the internet. Where does one get images like this. I see so many great images and obviously most of them were not taken by the uploader and getting an OTRS permission from the person who took the image is like looking for Hens' Teeth. For my benefit and future use how does one get images that meet WMF standards. Eileen Collins might be a NASA photo and in that case itis copyright free but the rest. Aplogies for being off topic. PS I love your work. Envious of your skills and talent. I mean totally envious. :)Oldperson (talk) 22:47, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
 * There's a number of sources. Flickr has a copyright-free and creative commons licensed search option which can help. Other good sources include: The Library of Congress Gallica (The web portal of the Bibliothèque National de France), and Te Papa (The Museum of New Zealand, whose official name is in Maori). Commons:Copyright rules by territory is a good guide to what each country's rules are, though I swear it gets a little harder to use each year. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.3% of all FPs 01:51, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks and thanks for the links. Much appreciated and seriously your work is most excellent. I really am envious.Oldperson (talk) 02:42, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
 * If you ever want help or lessons, I'll see what I can do. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.3% of all FPs 22:40, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks Adam. I will bear that in mind, but I'm pretty much a techno idiot. Do you perchance have a gallery or something like that on WM? I have no talent, but am a big fan of art and your work is art. I would love to wander through your gallery.Oldperson (talk) 22:51, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Best place is probably to start at User:Adam Cuerden Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.3% of all FPs 23:21, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks Adam. My best day ever on WP. I bookmark these pages for return visits. So many favorites. surprised to see #29, I have that image someplace in storage (hard copy), now I  have it digital.Oldperson (talk) 00:45, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations
Hi! I just wanted to say (I know it hasn't been finalised) well done for winning the WikiCup! 91 WP:FPOs is a ridiculous amount for the length of the tournament. How on earth did you do 32 in 2 months? Crazy amount of work, well done! Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 09:05, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Honestly, I don't think I'll ever manage that again. The key was a period of two weeks where I was ill and determined to win, so just got up, and worked on restoration more-or-less until I went to sleep, with food breaks. I got a bit manic over it... There's a couple days with 3 FPs, and 4 hours is about the minimumfor a restoration to take...
 * Also, I had pre-done the research. Not having to spend time finding potential restorations really helps. You'll note the key period is primarily suffragettes, mainly from the records of the National Woman's Party, and images in the Nadar article. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.3% of all FPs 18:23, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
 * It's fantastic work, and you totally deserved it. I know literally nothing about art, or picture quality, but even getting enough interest to get that many promotions in itself is crazy.

I spent two weeks off wiki on honeymoon, so I'm surprised I even made second. Where do you go from here? Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 18:51, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Just stopping by to say congrats, too, to the Restor-o-Matic-9000 (just presuming this user is a robot that does not need sleep based on the amount of output). :) Kudos, too, to you, -- a really impressive body of work from both of you. &mdash;  Rhododendrites  talk \\ 21:01, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Going to try to get up to 100 for the year. My best year before this was 81, so it seems like my best chance to get triple digits. Congrats on your marriage! Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.3% of all FPs 03:03, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 November newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is, who over the course of the competition has amassed 91 featured pictures, including 32 in the final round. Our finalists this year were:


 * 1) with 964 points
 * 2) with 899 points
 * 3) with 817 points
 * 4) with 691 points
 * 5) with 388 points
 * 6) with 146 points
 * 7) with 145 points
 * 8) with 74 points

All those who reached the final will win awards. 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. Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!


 * wins the featured article prize, for a total of 7 FAs during the course of the competition.
 * wins the good article prize, for 14 GAs in round 5.
 * wins the featured list prize, for 4 FLs overall.
 * wins the featured picture prize, for 91 FPs overall.
 * wins the topic prize, for 7 articles in good topics in round 2.
 * wins the DYK prize, for 14 did you know articles in round 5.
 * wins the ITN prize, for 7 in the news articles in round 1.
 * wins the reviewer prize, for 56 good article reviews in round 1.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

We have opened a scoring discussion on whether the rules and scoring need adjustment. Please have your say. 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 2020 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 WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth 14:18, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Question

 * Featured picture candidates/Marine officer candidate Marine Corps Base Quantico 2019.jpg

Is there some standard filter that repairs jpeg artifacts? I'll admit, I didn't pay much mind to it, because you have to zoom in pretty oppressively far to see them. It looks like there are some people on YouTube that are talking about it like it's a walk in the park, but I'm not sure if I can replicate exactly what they're doing. G M G <sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk  12:30, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
 * There are... tricks for reducing their appearance. Ideally, you don't want them to appear in the first case, of course. I tend not to work with that many sources where I have to actually deal with them, though, so, oddly, perhaps, I'm not the best person to ask. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.3% of all FPs 12:38, 3 November 2019 (UTC)


 * It's hard to work with an already-too-compressed jpeg, because data has already been lost. I would typically suggest the photographer to work in raw and generate a new jpeg using that. The most delicate way I know of to remove artifacts is similar to how I'd remove chromatic aberration (those purple/green fringes you can see especially in high-contrast areas): duplicate the layer in photoshop, add some blur to the new layer, add a blacked-out layer mask, and use a low-flow/low-opacity brush to paint over the artifacts. The idea is to let the blurred version come through in the original just enough to obscure the artifacts. It requires some patience and playing with the amount of blur, brush settings, etc. Of course, in some cases it's just easier to use a clone tool or a healing tool. All of that said, I suspect MER-C's objection was more to the compression and noise, taking the artifacts as an indication of the former. FWIW. &mdash; Rhododendrites  <sup style="font-size:80%;">talk \\ 15:39, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Featured Picture Trophy
Congratulations! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:57, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXIII, November 2019
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Keitel


Remember this one? Here's a video I stumbled across of the event that I thought was interesting, although there's no narration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdWZQGCeo4o
 * – Sca (talk) 16:56, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

December events with WIR
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:42, 25 November 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Picture of the day
Greetings

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File: is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on December 19, 2019. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2019-12-19. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:48, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

Suggestion for photo restoration
Hi Adam, would you be interested in adding this to your backlog of photos to be restored? Thank you, ↠Pine   ( ✉ )  07:51, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, but as it's on the small side, I should probably save it for after this year's set of stuff's over. Trying to hit 100 for the year. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.3% of all FPs 07:19, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXIV, December 2019
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Happy Holidays
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May you have very Happy Holidays, Adam ...

and a New Year filled with peace, joy, and beautiful music.

Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 06:19, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

Cheers! ........................................................................................................................



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 * <font color="#006633">  Merry Christmas & Happy New Year


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 * 'Frohe Weihnachten und
 * 'alles gute zum neuen Jahr!


 * 'Wesołych Świąt i
 * 'Szczęśliwego nowego roku!


 * 'Linksmų Kalėdų ir
 * laimingų Naujųjų Metų!


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Sca (talk) 15:38, 26 December 2019 (UTC) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Belated holiday greetings
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Merry Christmas and happy new year.

↠Pine  ( ✉ )  16:41, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2020 WikiCup!
Happy New Year, Happy New Decade and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders and improvers are welcome to take part. 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. We are relaxing the rule that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2020 will count; now to be eligible for points in the competition, you must have completed significant work on the content at some time! Any questions on the rules or on anything else connected to the Cup should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are, , and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:43, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Request for opinions on photo edit
Hi Adam, thanks for all the work you do producing featured pictures for the encyclopedia! I've tried my hand at File:Noam Chomsky portrait 2017 retouched.png, but having never been through FPC, I'm not sure how to evaluate the quality myself. Would you be willing to give me your thoughts on what I could improve or if you're too busy, do you know anywhere I could get that kind of feedback? Best, — Wug·a·po·des​ 03:01, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Picture of the day
Happy New Year

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File: is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 23, 2020. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2020-01-23. It's almost ten years since this became a featured picture! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:06, 8 January 2020 (UTC) Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:06, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Jan Bugle
Hi Adam, Happy New Year -- did you have anything from December that you wanted to add here? Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 13:57, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXV, January 2020
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February with Women in Red
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 19:30, 28 January 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Gustave Doré Divine Comedy Engravings
Hello, im writing to request that you upload all the engravings Gustave Doré did for the Divine Comedy. I gather you have the book and I have found a few scattered engravings online of good quality but nothing like the one of Charon you uploaded. Would you be willing to upload the whole set or at least those from Inferno. Thanks FriendlyChemist (talk) 23:34, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Hygrocybe miniata
Could you close Featured picture candidates/Hygrocybe miniata? I'm the nominator, so I can't do it. Regards. Armbrust The Homunculus 03:52, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: IssueICLXVI, February 2020
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WikiCup 2020 March newsletter
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.

Our top scorers in Round 1 were:


 * Epicgenius, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with a featured article, five good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 895 points.
 * Royal standard of England (1406–1603).svg Gog the Mild came next with 464 points, from a featured article, two good articles and a number of reviews, the main theme being naval warfare.
 * 🇺🇸 Raymie was in third place with 419 points, garnered from one good article and an impressive 34 DYKs on radio and TV stations in the United States.
 * Harrias came next at 414, with a featured article and three good articles, an English civil war battle specialist.
 * Pirate Flag.svg CaptainEek was in fifth place with 405 points, mostly garnered from bringing Cactus wren to featured article status.
 * The top ten contestants at the end of Round 1 all scored over 200 points; they also included 🇺🇸 L293D, 🇻🇪 Kingsif, 🇦🇶 Enwebb, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski and 🇳🇵 CAPTAIN MEDUSA. Seven of the top ten contestants in Round 1 are new to the WikiCup.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. In Round 1 there were four featured articles, one featured list and two featured pictures, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. Between them, contestants completed 127 good article reviews, nearly a hundred more than the 43 good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Contestants also claimed for 40 featured article / featured list reviews, and most even remembered to mention their WikiCup participation in their reviews (a requirement).

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 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 WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to 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 WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:46, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup newsletter correction
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) 09:29, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXVII, March 2020
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The Bugle: Issue CLXVIII, April 2020
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Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools
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The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.



The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.


 * On 31 March 2020, the new tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias:  Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian.  If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
 * The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.  The team will test features such as:
 * an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
 * a rich-text visual editing option, and
 * other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved"  section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:45, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Marie-Aimée Roger-Miclos
Hi, I hope you are keeping well! On May 1st, your image of Marie-Aimée Roger-Miclos is to be POTD. However I think there is something wrong about the photograph, because it was apparently taken on 11 October 1902 by Jean Reutlinger, whose dates are (1891 - 1914) according to the article on his father. He apparently joined his father in the family photography business in 1910 and was killed in the First World War. He was unlikely to have taken this photograph in 1902 when he was just 11, so it seems likely that either the photographer or the date of the image is wrong. Do you have any ideas about this? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:13, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup 2020 May newsletter
The second round of the 2020 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 75 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top ten contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 186 good articles achieved in total by contestants, and the 355 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:


 * Epicgenius, with 2333 points from one featured article, forty-five good articles, fourteen DYKs and plenty of bonus points
 * Royal standard of England (1406–1603).svg Gog the Mild, with 1784 points from three featured articles, eight good articles, a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews and lots of bonus points
 * 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man, with 1262 points from two featured articles, eight good articles and a hundred good article reviews
 * Harrias, with 1141 points from two featured articles, three featured lists, ten good articles, nine DYKs and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski with 869 points, Blason Gondor.svg Hog Farm with 801, 🇻🇪 Kingsif with 719, SounderBruce with 710, 🇺🇸 Dunkleosteus77 with 608 and 🇲🇽 MX with 515.

The rules for featured article reviews have been adjusted; reviews may cover three aspects of the article, content, images and sources, and contestants may receive points for each of these three types of review. Please also remember the requirement to mention the WikiCup when undertaking an FAR for which you intend to claim points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, 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.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth. - MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:44, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXIX, May 2020
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Interesting?
Hi Adam, I came across turn-of-the century pic. of the German Social Democrat August Bebel and thought it an interesting face – perhaps you'd be interested in doing something with it? – Sca (talk) 16:56, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Ray Strachey
Congrats re today's FP – interesting face. – Sca (talk) 12:45, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Question
I was updating Swan River Press and asked the owner to upload a selection of his photos. They have been flagged as derivative. He has the rights to the photos and to the covers they are photos of. He owns the company that created them and arranged all the covers. I however suck at photos and rights and the like and I was hoping you could assist me in resolving the tag.<em style="font-family: Kristen ITC; color:red">  &#9749;  Antiqueight  chatter 16:29, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Perhaps a bit of photo help?
I know I already asked you to do the photo on Sándor Vay that I like, but could you take a look at the photo of Margaret Cuthbert and see if anything can improve it? There's the newspaper version and the ebay version, but neither of them are flawless and I have no clue how/if anything can be done. Thanks! If you are too busy, no worries, these are related to this month's pride articles, so it's hot on my radar, but not pressing. SusunW (talk) 18:57, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Don't know if I did it correctly but Vay's image is here SusunW (talk) 19:44, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXX, June 2020
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Editing news 2020 #2 – Quick updates
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This edition of the Editing newsletter includes information the Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. The central project page is on MediaWiki.org.


 * Reply tool : This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature will get new features soon.  The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing  . You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster.  Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
 * New requirements for user signatures : Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable.  Most editors will not be affected.
 * New discussion tool : The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions.   You can see the initial design on the project page.
 * Research on the use of talk pages : The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles.  We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:11, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Tips, tricks
Hi, Adam. We haven't conversed, but I regularly watch the Featured Picture noms and have seen your restorations. Recently, I've practiced using GIMP for photo manipulation (I don't have Photoshop). Would you be willing to pass along some of your techniques, tips, tricks for photo restoration? I'm familiar with GIMP's Clone and Healing brushes and its various other tools for color, luminance, transformation, etc. Your restorations seem so flawless, that I'm curious if you use some additional special techniques to get such results. Or, if it's purely a matter of painstaking clone and re-clone and re-clone (and heal) until the change is absolutely invisible. The current Offenbach photo had a great number of imperfections, many quite small, that I shudder to think of the time involved in patching all of them--do you use a method that "automates" some cleanup? The poster restorations at the top of your Talk page are also remarkable for the cleanup of the creases and book pages--do you use a technique that "fills in" missing image fragments? Thanks for any advice you might have time to offer. DonFB (talk) 07:28, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry to take a bit. I'm afraid my secret is nothing more than putting on music or podcasts, and doing it. You do get quicker with time, and you can somewhat ignore anything too much smaller than the grain level. I'd suggest starting with a lithograph, as they're a bit more forgiving, since the image is made up of random specks of colours, with the density being what gives the image. Would you like me to help you find one? Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.3% of all FPs 16:44, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Sure, thanks, I'll give it a go. DonFB (talk) 23:28, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

FP suggestion
Adam, in searching for FPs I came across the lead image in this article. If you think it's a good candidate, feel free to nominate it. Cheers. Bammesk (talk) 22:45, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!
Thank you so much! I do my best! Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.2% of all FPs 22:22, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup 2020 July newsletter
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:


 * Epicgenius, with one featured article, 28 good articles and 17 DYKs, amassing 1836 points
 * 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man, with 1672 points gained from four featured articles and seventeen good articles, plus reviews of a large number of FACs and GAs
 * Royal standard of England (1406–1603).svg Gog the Mild, a first time contestant, with 1540 points, a tally built largely on 4 featured articles and related bonus points.

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.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:33, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #3


Seven years ago this week, the Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Wikipedia. Here's what happened since its introduction:


 * The 50 millionth edit using the visual editor on desktop was made this year. More than 10 million edits have been made here at the English Wikipedia.
 * More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
 * Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
 * The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has been increasing every year.
 * Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode.  You can enable it in your preferences.
 * On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor.
 * In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers, and half of their first edits, were made using the visual editor. This percentage has been increasing every year since the tool became available.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:05, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Harriet Jacobs

 * BTW, I just want to point out that in many cases such restorations with borders are replaced with cropped version of them. Like for example File:Johann Strauss II by Fritz Luckhardt.jpg isn't used on Johann Strauss II anymore, or File:Jules Massenet by Eugène Pirou.jpg was removed from Jules Massenet. Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 20:10, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Are people unaware of CSS image crop?! Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.3% of all FPs 08:00, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I have no idea. The first one was replaced by in this edit and second by  here. Armbrust The Homunculus 11:49, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Personally, I find CSS image crop much more difficult to get right than just cropping the image on commons. I suspect many more wiki editors (most of whom are not image-focused) know about CropTool than the fact that CSS image crop even exists. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  13:08, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Request for help
Hi,

Just do have a small request. I started a new article @ Draft:Sexual politics. In a way it is still vast topic still uncovered in English Wikipedia properly with vast scope to update and expand. And I am looking for help from more hands in update and expansion of the said article.

Thanks and regards

Bookku (talk) 11:01, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Photo request for Nora Lawrence Smith
Hey Adam, I just wrote a Women in Red biography for the above woman, and it has a picture I snagged from an out-of-copyright 1924 newspaper but you know how newspaper photos are from that era. I found a 1931 book which the copyright was never renewed, that is chock full of large nice photos of Georgia women. HOWEVER the photo has this bizarre purple and green pattern across it, clearly some sort of scanning artifact. I tried fiddling around with GIMP's plugins and all I accomplished was turning photos into watercolor paintings. Can you take a look at these? If you need me to do some grunt work first like download and crop and put on commons, let me know the best way to do it that saves you time.

I skimmed through the whole book, and the women we have articles for are:
 * Nora Lawrence Smith is on page 102 here
 * Mildred Seydell is on page 12 here
 * Viola Ross Napier is on page 8 here

Smith and Seydell already have not-great photos (Seydell is fair use), Napier has nothing right now.

A few others that seem notable if its efficient for you to run the same filter on, or nevermind we can revisit later:
 * Nina Cox first woman School Superintendent in Georgia; first woman ever elected to anything in Turner County, Georgia
 * Mary Rushton founded Rushton company which made dolls that are still collectible
 * Nettie Fouche first woman Superior Court clerk in Georgia
 * Carrie McDaniel first woman elected to a political office in Georgia
 * Ruth Blair first woman director of the Georgia dept of archives

Again let me know if there's anything I can do to make this less work for you, or if you can point me at some GIMP instructions on fixing stuff like this that works too. --Krelnik (talk) 13:45, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * A lot of places block their books outside of their home country as a copyright precaution, and I'm afraid I'm being hit with that here. If you can get at least one image up on Commons, I can try to advise further, but I fear being in the UK is blocking me from even seeing the images. Ideally, if you can find a copy of that book, we can look into a large scan. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.3% of all FPs 16:50, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Oh, sorry, I didn't realize you were outside the U.S. Yeah, I can upload to commons no problemo. Hathi pages download as PDF, I looked at the guts of what you get when you download and it appears its a 300dpi scan 2143 wide by 3200 high as a TIFF embedded in the PDF markup. My graphics tool can import PDFs, should I just import it at 300dpi and then upload it to Commons as a PNG or JPG? Or should I extract the raw TIFF data from the PDF and upload that directly? I want to make sure I don't accidentally transform it in a way that will make things harder for you. --Krelnik (talk) 17:23, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * ETA - gonna upload a test TIFF in just a second. --Krelnik (talk) 17:29, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * OK there's a TIFF extraction of Nora Lawrence Smith in commons here. Again, let me know what works best for you and I'll upload at least the other two that have places to go. --Krelnik (talk) 17:40, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hey just an update, I found someone local to give me some advice on fixing those photos. The one linked in commons above is fixed already, and I'm about to upload the other ones now. Cheers. --Krelnik (talk) 23:22, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXI, July 2020
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Featured picture candidates/Les Huguenots, Act II
Thank you for improving articles with your exceptional images! - A FTN is open. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:03, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
About the Massenet operas: which picture deserves more attention most? - I have article plans enough, but could squeeze in a bit more about one of his works. Sadly, the only one I saw on stage is Manon, with an exceptional soprano (in bed with her lover in boots, DYK?). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:57, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

Need some picture advice
See, the photo to your left is one of my favorites in the world so I put in a nom at WP:FPC - Featured picture candidates/DeFord Bailey, but, yeah...I now know it has some technical flaws. I was wondering if you wouldn't mind taking a look at it to see if you think it's salvageable to being put up for FPC again -. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 05:18, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Ok, well thanks anyway. I don't know how to bring this pic of Mr Bailey up to FP standards and don't know where to ask or get help on it. Maybe someday in the future... Shearonink (talk) 16:49, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXII, August 2020
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August
A first for me today: a featured list (= a featured topic in this case) on the Main page, see Main Page history/2020 August 21, an initiative by Aza24 in memory of Brian. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:24, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Rhythm Is It! - I expanded that stub on my dad's birthday because we saw the film together back then, and were impressed. As a ref said: every educator should see it. Don't miss the trailer, for a starter. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:04, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

A first POTD
Hi Adam- hope you're well. Thanks for voting for a Featured Image from my GLAM partnership. I thought you'd be a good person to ask about how to get this image to a POTD slot. I've seen the documentation but I'm wary, partly because this is my first Featured Picture on WP and partly because of COI issues since I'm paid to work on this partnership. The "first in, first out" principle sounds simple but the implementation looks really complex. For example, 1 November is free and is Classics Day, so could be relevant for a 1900s tribute to classic Imperial Japanese art. If I were to put in a blurb for the image in for November 1, would that be welcomed? Thanks in advance for any help, MartinPoulter (talk) 14:32, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
 * That should be fine. They sometimes move things - sometimes without any warning whatsoever - but it usually sticks. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.4% of all FPs 05:02, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

September Women in Red edithons
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WikiCup 2020 September newsletter
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


 * Free Hong Kong flag.svg Bloom6132, with 1478 points gained mainly from 5 featured lists, 12 DYKs and 63 in the news items;
 * 🇮🇩HaEr48 with 1318 points gained mainly from 2 featured articles, 5 good articles and 8 DYKs;
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski with 1201 points mainly gained from 2 featured articles and 10 good articles.

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.

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 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:51, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Beulah Ream Allen
It you are still looking for women's photos, this might make a good one. One of only 4 women who received the medal during the war. Just barely started working on the article, but found this while searching for sources SusunW (talk) 22:00, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue Issue CLXXIII, September 2020
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Hello - could I ask for a little help with adding a copyright image to an article - fair/free use?
Hello Adam, I'm dropping you a message as despite my best attempts to get my head around the rules for non free use of pictures I'm not clear what/how I proceed. I found you by looking at featured sports pictures - and thought you might be able to help with Roy Francis (rugby) - there is (for example) a picture here and this slightly amusing youtube video even has a small bit of footage of him as a player celebrating on the pitch, but I can't find any images of him in spots that clearly say what their copyright status is. It's all a bit confusing to me - and even if I were to copy paste the image I see onto my machine- I don't understand the process of getting it into the article without uploading it to the commons (at which point I seem to be breaking the copyright?? - and I obviously want to avoid that). If you have time - and feel like showing me how to do it that would be interesting, or if you are able to just give that article a suitable image that would also be grand. Sorry for the imposition. I'll watch this page for a while for replies - thanks in advance EdwardLane (talk) 10:22, 14 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello, Just a quick follow up - I've noticed that your talk page is quite active, so you've probably not noticed this I'll just put a ping in here to attract your attention - hope that's not too invasive, feel free to just reply saying that you're not able to help and I'll go search elsewhere for assistance :)  EdwardLane (talk) 09:31, 24 September 2020 (UTC)


 * ok assuming that's a no then, I've taken you off my watchlist EdwardLane (talk) 13:11, 19 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Aha, thanks for the feedback on my talk page that's great - and particular thanks for the link to those people who might help with fairuse stuff, much appreciated, and no worries I can see that your talk page is insanely busy EdwardLane (talk) 13:55, 19 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Sorted now - thanks EdwardLane (talk) 15:37, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Beulah Ream Allen receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom

 * I hate to break it to you, but if the date in this image is correct (1946) then the man doing the awarding can not be MacAuthor, at this point in his career MacAuthor would have worn the 5-star insignia of a General of the Armies and this man is clearly wearing the eagle of a full bird Colonel. MacAuthor's hairline and facial composition at the time are also off (reference File:Macarthur hirohito.jpg for comparison) Also, the Presidential Medal of Freedom doesn't have the four white lines depicted on the award being given, that would be the Medal of Freedom, which was replaced by the Presidential medal of freedom in 1963.

October editathons from Women in Red
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Bigotbox
Well done, that man. These need to die. Guy (help! - typo?) 22:16, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't get how they survived three nominations. I was going to try to just delete all the abortion ones next, but... uh... then I found this. What the hell? Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.5% of all FPs

Another SSM template
[User:Techie3/Traditional Marriage] more of the same Vexations (talk) 21:11, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

Advice and help
He Adam,

This has very high EV I believe. I tried to get a better click but not working. Is it possible to clean this image by removing the dust ? Of course it is noisy and will not get passed if I propose for FP. Could you please advice and help me to get it cleaned ? DreamSparrow  Chat  08:07, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

A goat for you!
Amazing work!

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Gen. MacArthur
Adam, I believe you have incorrectly identified General MacArthur. See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Military_history. After the war MacArthur did not come back to the continental Unites States until 1951 when he was relieved of command by President Truman. Kablammo (talk) 01:56, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Alma Vessells John
I don't know if you are still looking for images and possibly I am persona non grata after all that drama I unintentionally dragged you into for which I profusely apologize. If you are, this one is lovely except for that paperclip mark at the top, which would be lovely to eliminate. SusunW (talk) 17:39, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Advice please
Hello Adam, I very much like your photo restorations, really first-class work, and you are very prolific. I am writing to say hello and to ask for advice about submitting work to Wikimedia Commons, general submissions and also for 'picture of the day'.EddieLeVisco (talk) 16:29, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXIV, October 2020
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Not logged in?
If this is you, you might want to fix it so it doesn't look like an anonymous IP editor. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:39, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that was me. My browser keeps dropping my cookies for some reason. Think Firefox is in a less-stable build. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 08:45, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

Edgar
Happened to notice the FP notice up the page - would you believe I have actually seen this? We had a little local company, Opera Theater of Northern Virginia, that used to do interesting work - they trotted out both this and Le villi at various points. Both in English, as I recall. They even invited Simonetta Puccini as honored guest for both. Even to my poorly-trained teenage ears I could tell it is an...odd...work, to say the least. Music's not bad, perhaps, but there are some real peculiarities of structure.

Alas. Now I'm pining for the Fra Diavolo they did. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 15:57, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm kind of tempted to do Le Villi with the small company I founded, possibly including a few numbers from Edgar to replace the ballet. These forgotten operas deserve to be seen, albeit sometimes not too often. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 21:47, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Oh, I agree completely - music is meant to be heard, not read, and it needs an airing once in a while. And congratulations on starting a company, and good luck - I've been out of the loop, apparently. What sorts of things have y'all been doing?


 * As I recall, Le villi was presented complete, including the ballet. But because it's so short they filled it out with a first act consisting of a few Puccini songs, held together by a silly but inoffensive bit of plot involving a group of singers preparing for a concert. I remember it being a pleasant enough evening's diversion, but not too much else about it. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 06:15, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
 * This year was meant to be Mozart and Salieri... But, well, you can guess how that went. It's mostly been W. S. Gilbert stuff hitherto - Ages Ago, A Sensation Novel, Eyes and No Eyes, Creatures of Impulse... We're set up to be really low budget. Rehearse in pub backrooms and such, perform in the PBH Free Fringe. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 06:28, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Nice - my mother's favorite Rimsky. :-) By the by, I seem to recall you were planning on exhuming some Louise Bertin - any luck there?


 * My choir director is also director of choirs at Georgetown University, whose library accessioned the papers of Margaret Bonds a few years ago. He was preparing to mount her Credo with his students, and invited some of us from our group to participate as well...alas, we had our first rehearsal about a week before everything shut down. No idea when we're going to get back to it...probably not until next fall, at this rate. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 18:14, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Louise Bertin's Le Loup-garou was one of the ones in prep, probably for 2021 or 22, but with COVID, who knows. We were planning on moving it to Quebec, as I think the setting works better there - the whole dangerous woods and such just seems to work better in Trapper-era Quebec than random rural part of France, y'know? Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 19:53, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
 * You'd have to ask Dinorah about that, if you'll pardon the comment. (Sorry.)


 * Incidentally, had you come across this in your research? Looks like Bertin is having some kind of a moment, at least. Anyhow, good luck on the mounting...things will come back within the next year, I have a feeling. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 20:04, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I did! I'm a little torn on it: On the one hand, it sounds like an interesting project. On the other hand, how much of Bertin's music is left by the time they were done? And there's kind of an oddness to saying "We should bring back this unfairly forgotten composer", and then modify her work until it's something completely new. I could see slipping in some songs from her other operas - Le loup garou doesn't actually have that many songs - but getting a modern composer to come in and rework everything is... well, it feels like a lack of faith in the original. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 21:03, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
 * THANK YOU. Ahem. Sorry. It's just that I feel the same way, and I get a little tired of directors who act like they know better than the composer.


 * We had a chance, a few years ago, to see Viardot's Cendrillon put on by a little local company that does stuff in church basements. My hackles went up a little when I read the description - they were doing portions of it in English, and I'm not a great fan of opera in translation. But I agreed to put aside my misgivings, on the grounds that at least the music would be original. How wrong I was...oh, how wrong I was.


 * The dialogue was in English. Fine. That was the least of the sins on display. But the piece had been padded out by music by Chopin, mostly piano pieces (mostly, it seemed, as an excuse for children from the local ballet school to mince around and make cute) but also a couple of songs. A framing device had been added - a story in which Viardot meets Chopin at a café and teases him for not writing her an opera..."maybe on the subject of Cinderella? *giggle*" Worst of all, it was done to electric piano instead of to a regular instrument.


 * I try not to be snobbish...really, I try to meet small groups in the middle somewhere. But the result was so far from anything Viardot might have recognized that I just started asking myself what the point of it all had been. Pity, because it was rather well-sung...even so I've done my best to block it out of my memory. And I don't intend to see anything else that group offers. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 21:37, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I think there can be advantage to translation - I've been working on the one for Mozart and Salieri because that work really, really depends on music and lyrics (And we have no way of broadcasting sur or subtitles). I do think, however, that the quality of most translations are so weak that they pull things down. That said, one needs to do the best production one can with the resources available, and there's definitely a limit to how much you can tweak while still calling it a specific work. Le loup-garou is one of those small-scale one acts that has a few songs and a lot of dialogue, so inserting some extra songs or instrumental pieces as incidental music is likely more justified there - but they'd need to be by Bertin, and the focus should be on the original work. Now, we have changed works in my group, but this has been things on the level of dialogue cuts and tweaks for length or obscure references (and one time tweaking the ending a bit because the play puttered out and it was too far into rehearsals to switch plays) Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 23:47, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

"The focus should be on the original work" - absolutely, and that was my chief objection to the insertions in Cendrillon; I couldn't figure out why (I mean, the piece is slight, but it's long enough for a church-basement afternoon), except to add some ballet that didn't need to be there in the first place. Same with the framing device - there was no need. Especially since it petered out by the end anyway.

I'm a little more forgiving of translation, especially with smaller groups...I do recognize its necessity sometimes, and I'd rather see a piece in translation than not at all. Same with dialogue (especially in a piece like something of Gilbert's, which was meant to be topical). But often the trouble is that it's not well done, as you say.

I think ultimately, my question would be: "what is the point"? If you can explain to me that, say, your re-imagining is meant to be a new work, which honors the original but uses it as a jumping-off point for something new and imaginative, then fine. Not my thing, not to my taste, but there are times when that can be very useful. (There's a company here in DC that does stuff like that - a performance evening based around excerpts of the Verdi Requiem, for instance. They don't pretend it's anywhere close to the original, but offer it as an alternative take.) If it's just, "eh, we wanted to do this but made these changes because reasons", that's a different matter. It usually comes off as slapdash, in my experience.

And part of it has been about letting go of my preconceived notions, as well. Which is probably the most difficult part of all. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 14:49, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Agreed. If there isn't a point to the change, don't make it. I've seen far too many modernisations of operas where they clearly have only made the plot work a bit worse: Old attitudes come from modern characters, lines about telegraph don't fit anymore, or the whole plot could be solved by picking up that cell phone you had in that one scene in that later scene. La bohème suffers from "but everyone modernises it!" syndrome especially.
 * I'm not against changes exactly, but don't change for change's sake. And especially with rarely-performed operas! A Tosca won't be hurt by the changes. A Le loup-garou gets one chance to grab an audience. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 17:37, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Even major companies are not immune to this - witness the Met's latest Cosi fan tutte, which I tried to avoid as desperately as I could. (The Coney Island setting could work, I suppose, but what I've seen of the production is too damn busy to let the music shine.) I think I've only ever seen live one updating that worked - an excellent Otello done by the summer opera theater at Catholic University. Because the updating wasn't the only point - it was done by someone who considered character relationships, and staging minutiae, and the like, and it really came off well.


 * Unfortunately, American companies seem to be succumbing to the avant-garde bug more and more. We had Faust here last year, in a jewel of a throwback production, which reminded me that a good production can sweeten a multitude of performance sins. It wasn't the worst-sung performance I've ever heard - it was just pedestrian. But I still found myself walking on air during the intermission because of what a pleasure it was to see. I miss that; I don't recall the last time I've felt like that at the opera, and it saddens me. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 19:25, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Apparently, the Met's last (I think) production of Rusalka was criticised for being too traditionally set. There's a weird tendency to insisting on ugly productions.
 * I've always said there's four ways a performance can work: Script, music, performance, and spectacle. Any weakness in one needs to be made up by the others, but ideally, they should all be present (Music being an exception in non-musical performances, of course). In my setting of Happy Arcadia, the auction song turned into a veritable cavalcade of invention, because the lyrics were relatively weak. If your sets are forcibly minimalist, up the costumes, movement and dance to keep spectacle as high as possible. But don't neglect what you don't have to. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 19:41, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I find, from my reading, that complaint against Met production of late tends to fall into two camps: a.) "too traditional", and b.) "not traditional enough". I can't think of but one or two new productions from the past ten years that seem to have been met with some kind of acclaim. Mostly David McVicar's, I think. (I've seen a few of them in the HD performances, and I think there were maybe one or two that I liked.)


 * Talking of which, incidentally - the Met had said it was going to mothball its old Meistersinger production after its last outing, but I see from the updated 2021-2022 season schedule that it's supposed to make a comeback. I just may have to take a weekend up there to see it - it's my favorite Wagner, and I have loved the production ever since I saw it on TV in college, watching late into the night with a borrowed pair of headphones. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 21:06, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

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Tchaikovsky lead image
Hi Adam, I saw that you were able to crop the lead image for Johann Strauss II's article. Would you be able to do this for Tchaikovsky's as well? Best - Aza24 (talk) 09:33, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah never mind, I figured it out. Aza24 (talk) 05:48, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

Signpost help
No problem, as I write the draft TFA blurbs for all FAs tagged as of interest to the MilHist Project as they roll off - see User:Gog the Mild/Blurbs - it is not too much work. Only two this time, we're slipping. Gog the Mild (talk) 15:14, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

November edit-a-thons from Women in Red
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 * Well, thank you very much, mysterious anonymous IP! Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 07:34, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

To cite advertisement
Hello, I find you through edit history of advertising template. I have a question. I am working on article about the actress at Draft:Yasuko Endō and there is list of content I translate from Japanese article of advertisement campaign she acted and modeled. Actress notability is already established so it is not issue of using advertisement to prove notability and I do not want to advertise products, is it OK to cite list of advertisement to advertisement itself as proof she did the jobs? Thank you kindly Giocabene (talk) 07:21, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 * That seems reasonable, but you might want to run it by WP:RSN if you want some more expert opinions. I think the only real objection that might get raised is how much detail to include, since how notable historic advertisements are is going to vary. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.7% of all FPs 07:34, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup 2020 November newsletter
The 2020 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round going down to the wire. Our new Champion is, the runner-up last year, who was closely followed by. 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. was in third place with 4 FAs and 8 GAs on football topics, with close behind with 19 GAs and 16 DYK's, his interest being the buildings of New York.

The other finalists were, , and. 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.


 * wins the featured article prize, for a total of 14 FAs during the course of the competition.
 * win the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in round 4.
 * wins the featured picture prize, for 3 FPs in round 3 and 5 overall.
 * wins the featured article reviewer prize, for 23 FAC reviews in round 5.
 * wins the good article prize, for 45 GAs in round 2 and 113 overall.
 * wins the topic prize, for 33 articles in good topics in round 2.
 * wins the good article reviewer prize, for 100 good article reviews in round 2.
 * wins the DYK prize, for 22 Did you know articles in round 4 and 94 overall.
 * wins the ITN prize, for 63 In the news articles in round 4 and 136 overall.

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 WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:37, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

The WikiCup
Hi Adam, we missed you in the WikiCup this year, with hardly any featured pictures being submitted. I was wondering whether you would like to do a photo display on the WikiCup for the next issue of the Signpost? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:28, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXV, November 2020
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Editor of the Week
User:Buster7 submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:
 * It is my pleasure to nominate Editor Adam Cuerden for doing the most amazing things to enhance the World of Wikipedia, helping to share knowledge and, thereby, increasing the enjoyment of our readers. He does image restoration. He takes old unusable images with flaws and turns them into wonderful depictions to enhance article presentation. As his User page explains: "Image restoration requires careful work and attention to detail, and a willingness to spend a few hours removing individual dust spots with the healing brush....". Adam Cares and his focus and the time he invests into his participation at WP lifts the pride of all editors. His restorations currently make up about 7.5% of all featured pictures on English Wikipedia.

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:

Thanks again for your efforts! ― Buster7  &#9742;   16:12, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Well! Thank you! That's incredibly nice. I do my best! It kind of fits into that nice niche of relaxing but valuable used of time. Anything you'd like to see restored? Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.7% of all FPs 03:40, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

Food 4 thought?
Although your series on notable women of the past has been an excellent contribution, I had a very different idea apropos today's OTD blurb on Quantas Airlines. How about resto-pix of old, perhaps unusual, airplanes? There are scads of them. See the Short Empire article for a few examples. If I recall right, you previously did many old warship photos, so maybe this topic won't seem totally alien. Maybe you could do photos of historical aviators, too. Just a thought. – Sca (talk) 17:17, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Biggest obstacle is likely to be copyright: Things before 1925 are out of copyright in the United States, and that's a little close to the period where airplanes took off. I have done a few airplanes before, though, and I'll see what I can do. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.7% of all FPs 19:58, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah. There aren't many airliners to choose from that flew before 1925. I had been thinking more 1930s. Oh well. Thanks. – Sca (talk) 22:44, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
 * There are some sources, it's just a lot of them will be US governmental ones and such, which limits selection. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.7% of all FPs 07:20, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

File:Trevor Howard Allan Warren.jpg
Hi Adam; I hope you're well. I wonder what you think of the above image? Personally, I'd love to see a load of Warren's images going through FPC, as I think we're deeply lucky to have them... Josh Milburn (talk) 19:16, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Maddalena Mariani Masi
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:03, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Thank you! look! Let me know for operas of which composers from this list you have pics from Ricordi? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:17, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

December with Women in Red
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:42, 26 November 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Img for L'ange de Nisida?
Hi Adam, I hope this note finds you well. Thinking about your remarkable work on high quality images, especially those for operas, and I would if you'll add something for L'ange de Nisida to you list. , who should feel free to comment here as well, got the article to FA status a while ago but the souvenir libretto and two images of Donizetti (which I expect will become a single image once the composer sidebar deletion discussion is over) are rather disappointing. I suspect that composer's image could be moved to the composition history to make room for a better lead image, and if you have time, perhaps a second one to replace the image in the synopsis, which I don't think adds much at the moment (does that sound reasonable Laser?). Do let me know, best - Aza24 (talk) 18:52, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
 * It's a bit hard to find an image for an opera that wasn't performed until 2018, and then as a concert. The best choice might be to use an image from La favorite, like File:Gilbert_Duprez_&_Rosine_Stoltz_in_Donizetti's_La_Favorite.jpg Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.7% of all FPs 21:02, 27 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Adam, I came to say thank you for that pic which is today's featured pic and will go on top of La Favorite. I think it would be plainly misleading for L'Ange. Did you see the title question on the talk? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:22, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Invitation to the birthday display! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:17, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Have a good new year 2021! Thank you for excellent image work! - Here is a little calendar of mine. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:18, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

File:"Follow the leader".jpg
Hi Adam, I found this high-quality image while foraging in the Commons undergrowth. After removing the watermark I added it to Ant and Tandem running. Worth nominating as a Featured Picture, perhaps? I'll leave the details to you. Regards, <b style="font:1.3em/1em Trebuchet MS;letter-spacing:-0.07em"><b style="color:#000">nagual</b><b style="color:#ABAB9D">design</b></b> 03:35, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Male Alexandrine parakeet
...And another. (Note: I've requested a rename to File:Male Alexandrine parakeet.jpg.) <b style="font:1.3em/1em Trebuchet MS;letter-spacing:-0.07em"><b style="color:#000">nagual</b><b style="color:#ABAB9D">design</b></b> 04:22, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Advice on possible FP nominations
Greetings,

I did just write fumarole mineral, which has a few high quality images. Seeing as you are one of the Featured pictures regular, I wanted to know if File:Color SEM 4.jpg and File:Tazieffite - Mutnovsky volcano, Kamchatka, Russia (Color SEM).jpg might be worth nominating (File:Color SEM 2.jpg is a FP on Commons but doesn't meet the English Wikipedia FP size criteria I reckon). Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 14:41, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
 * The easiest route to FP for them is, frankly, articles on the individual funerals minerals. They all deserve TO status, but unless the article's talking about them, I suspect there will be reluctance to have too many from one article, even if the world on that article is excellent (which it is). Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.7% of all FPs 17:33, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the advice. I'll see how that one goes before deciding on any further steps. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 17:42, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVI, December 2020
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Camille Saint-Saëns
Thank you for your work on his portrait.  Uninvited Company 02:22, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Question about which image version to choose
Hello! I just wrote the article on Marie Jakus. These three sites have different versions of the same image of her. They are all public domain (PD-US-HHS-NIH). I wanted to select the best one. You have a good eye for detail and experience with image quality, so I was curious what your opinion was. Thanks! TJMSmith (talk) 03:35, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Little advice: If you don't have to grab from a PDF, don't. It's annoying as hell to do so. is best... of what you suggest. So then I go to Bing and do a reverse image search, finding https://www.flickr.com/photos/nihgov/38455898272/in/photostream/ and hit the download arrow on the right to get it up to 1669x1129 px, the largest of the options.  Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.7% of all FPs 09:02, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick response! I should have more clearly specified, I this is for the image of Marie Jakus, not Adah Elizabeth Verder. TJMSmith (talk) 13:32, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I took your advice and uploaded a pic to Marie Jakus that I didn't have to take from a PDF, although I did crop it from the bottom of . Thanks! TJMSmith (talk) 18:46, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Buon Natale!
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May you have very Happy Holidays, Adam ...

and a safe New Year filled with peace, joy, and beautiful music.

Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 10:25, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Festive scene
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:blue; background-color:AliceBlue; border-width:1px; text-align:left; padding:8px;" class="plainlinks"> Thanks for all your work on images, thought this might amuse. Wishing you and yours merry festivities, and a happy and healthy New Year! dave souza, talk 22:03, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

A New Year With Women in Red!
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 03:01, 29 December 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Mary Church Terrell
I'm just going to put here and say that the full sized image is totally lovely, despite the scratches. SusunW (talk) 17:26, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy New Year!
-- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 22:49, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2021 WikiCup!
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. 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. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. We thank Vanamonde93 and Godot13, who have retired as judges, and we thank them for their past dedication. The judges for the WikiCup this year are and. Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:10, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Newspaper photo of Frances Gertrude McGill
Hello Adam -- I see your restoration work at Women in Red all the time, and I wondered if I could make an image improvement request. I recently brought up Frances Gertrude McGill to FA status and found a decent 1942 photo of her at work in her laboratory, but it's from a newspaper scan and has lots of small white lines running across it. Is this the type of issue that you could assist with? If not (or if you don't have time), I totally understand -- just thought I'd ask. Best, Alanna the Brave (talk) 15:41, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVII, January 2021
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Edith May/Anne Drinker
Hi Adam, Yesterday, I created the article on Edith May (poet). Warning: some awful events in that biography. I included the photo that was already used in her Wikidata item; there are other options in her WikiCommons category. Then, I also found this image. As you're the expert on the topic of images, I wonder what your opinion is on the PAFA image; and, regarding copyright, would it be okay to upload the PAFA image; and if so, using which license option? Oh, and Happy/Better New Year! Thanks. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:32, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
 * As an engraving from 1852, we can make several assumptions:
 * Engravings are a mass distribution method. They are not made as one offs, so publication may safely be presumed.
 * That's over 150 years ago, so it's almost certainly out of copyright.
 * We can go further and prove it. John Cheney (1801-1885) is an American engraver. He's safe. William Henry Furness, Jr. (1827 – 1867) is also an American, and also died well before the date where there'd be the slightest copyright worry. The Wikidata item clearly uses the same Furness artwork as a base, which the credit to W.H.Furness confirms.  As for publication,  seems extremely likely as it. 100% safe. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.8% of all FPs 17:38, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick response! I've uploaded the image to Commons. I didn't add it to the Wikipedia article as I don't know if its quality is better than the current image, which includes her signature. I'll leave that for others to decide. --Rosiestep (talk) 20:28, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Editing news 2021 #1
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–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 01:02, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

FP
Hey, hope you're fine with someone asking about the FPC! I've been thinking of nominating File:Boeing 737 view 1.jpg for an FP; it looks neat to me, and it is featured on the Altitude article, where it nicely depicts the relation between aviation and altitude in its respective section. However the article has a more-citation-needed tag; I'm not sure if that immediately disqualifies for an FP. Does it? Any help appreciated!  Gerald WL  16:58, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
 * It's somewhat hard to tell what voters will fixate on, but the citation neded tag is more likely to be a problem at the time the image is due to go on the main page than at FPC. The big issue I could see is questions as to whether it sufficiently depicts the subject, since it needs to justify itself from usage in a single article. It's worth a go, I'd say. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.8% of all FPs 03:42, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Signpost/Templates/Signpost-article-start/Portal:Featured content
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, February 2021
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, February 2021
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Checking in on The Signpost
Hi Adam,

Just a reminder that we publish on Sunday,

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mail post
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"File:W. S. Gilbert - Alice B. Woodward - The Pinafore Picture Book - Frontispiece - Original." listed at Redirects for discussion
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Proposed deletion of File:Cavalleria Rusticana - Santuzza and Turiddu outside the church.png


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WikiCup 2021 March newsletter
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:


 * Epicgenius led the field with a featured article, nine good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 945 points.
 * Bloom6132 was close behind with 896 points, largely gained from 71 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ImaginesTigers, who has been editing Wikipedia for less than a year, was in third place with 711 points, much helped by bringing League of Legends to featured article status, exemplifying how bonus points can boost a contestant's score.
 * 🇷🇼 Amakuru came next with 708 points, Kigali being another featured article that scored maximum bonus points.
 * Flag of the United Nations.svg Ktin, new to the WikiCup, was in fifth place with 523 points, garnered from 15 DYKs and 34 "In the news" items.
 * 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man scored 511 points, many from featured article candidate reviews and from football related DYKs.
 * Standard of Oliver Cromwell (1653–1659).svg Gog the Mild, last year's runner-up, came next with 498 points, from a featured article and numerous featured article candidate reviews.
 * Bennington Flag.svg Hog Farm, at 452, scored for a featured article, four good articles and a number of reviews.
 * 🇺🇸 Le Panini, another newcomer to the WikiCup, scored 438 for a featured article and three good articles.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski, last year's champion, scored 332 points, from a featured article and various other sport-related topics.

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.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 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 a good article candidate, a featured process, or something else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to 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 WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:25, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Today's image
... File:Henry Mayer, The Awakening, 1915 Cornell CUL PJM 1176 01 - Restoration.jp had to be yours ;) - thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:30, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Too far gone?
Hi Adam, hope all is well. Wondering about your thoughts on this image. Could it be restored (without an absurd amount of effort), do you think? Or is the original too poor quality? Note: Not asking you to do any restoration that you don't want to, just asking for your opinion. Cheers, Eddie891 Talk Work 03:04, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Use https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.07387/ Given that Wikipedia's becoming rather hostile to restorations, though, I'm not sure I'm going to feel like doing any for quite some time. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.8% of all FPs 22:51, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXIX, March 2021
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April editathons from Women in Red
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 20:15, 22 March 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging

The 9% problem
Some unsolicited advice—no obligation to respond and you can remove it if you don't want it. We have to be our own biggest cheerleaders on Wikipedia because no-one else will. If you do 10 things perfectly and 1 thing badly then you'll only hear about the latter: it's not wrong for people to pick you up on mistakes, but it is unfair that no-one takes the time to tell you they appreciate the perfections. Now, the same thing can apply to one action seen through different perspectives. If 10 people agree with your edit and 1 person disagrees then what you see in your notifications is 1 revert. (Possibly a "thanks" as well, but when you have to spend 50 times longer dealing with the revert, it'd take 50 "thanks" to make up for it.) And Wikipedia not caring about anyone's credentials is sort of necessary for anonymity and to stop Essjays. So you can do something that's perfection and it just takes 1 of 11 people, with no prerequisite level of specialist knowledge, to cause conflict.

Sometimes you get blindsided by a wrong'un whose argument is just factually wrong, and yet somehow everyone who turns up also has none of the expert knowledge and piles onto the wrong side. I've had this happen to me in the past several times, sometimes even having to take the loss and move onto something else. I hope you can do whatever helps you relax and stay grounded—a walk in the countryside, a long hot shower, an intense workout—and Wikipedia will still be here whenever it's right for you to return, whether it's tomorrow morning or eight months. And whatever happens, nothing can ever undo the good you've done for the uncountably many readers who've (unknowingly) enjoyed your restorations over the past decade. I know most people on the planet are suffering external strains, stresses and pressures in the world of corona so be kind to yourself. — Bilorv ( talk ) 01:15, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Did you retire?
Been wondering about this. Haven't seen you in a while. GamerPro64 22:24, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXX, April 2021
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May 2021 at Women in Red
--Rosiestep (talk) 21:35, 28 April 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging

WikiCup 2021 May newsletter
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:


 * 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man, with 2963 points from three featured articles, 20 featured article reviews, 37 good articles, 73 good article reviews, as well as 22 DYKs.
 * Epicgenius, with 1718 points from one featured article, 29 good articles, 16 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
 * Bloom6132, with 990 points from 13 DYKs and 64 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
 * Bennington Flag.svg Hog Farm, with 834 points from two featured articles, five good articles, 14 featured article reviews and 15 good article reviews.
 * Standard of Oliver Cromwell (1653–1659).svg Gog the Mild, with 524 points from two featured articles and four featured article reviews.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski, with 501 points from one featured article, three good articles, six featured article reviews and 25 good article reviews.
 * Transgender Pride flag.svg Sammi Brie, with 485 points from four good articles, eight good article reviews and 27 DYKs, on US radio and television stations.
 * Flag of the United Nations.svg Ktin, with 436 points from four good articles, seven DYKs and 11 "In the news" items.

Please remember that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of Round 2 but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in Round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (except for at the end of each round, when you must claim them before the cut-off date/time). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:27, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

If you have the time
Hi Adam. I know you're a busy person, so only if you have the time, could you please restore this to look more like this but with less obvious photoshopping and less of an overexposed, white-washed look? It's a PD floor plan of Attara Kacheri. The distorted picture is a single scan of the original, and the first floor drawing that I edited into the second one was a separate picture in which the rest of the page was not very clear. Kind regards, Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI converse &#124; fings wot i hav dun 03:06, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

D'Oyly Carte Island
Hi, Adam. Someone recently added an image of a map to the article, but it does not display, or at least it does not display for me when I open the entry. Can you figure out how to make the image display? Also, I cannot find D'Oyly Carte Island on this map, can you? -- Ssilvers (talk) 14:57, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXXI, May 2021
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Ger. Wiki
Congrats, your resto is on German Wiki's main page today. – Sca (talk) 12:43, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Editing news 2021 #2
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Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

The key results were:


 * Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
 * The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

00:27, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXXII, June 2021
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GAN Backlog Drive - July 2021
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WikiCup 2021 July newsletter
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:


 * 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man, with 1825 points from 3 featured articles, 44 featured article reviews, 14 good articles, 30 good article reviews and 10 DYKs. In addition, he completed a 34-article good topic on the EFL Championship play-offs.
 * Epicgenius, a New York specialist, with 1083 points from 2 featured article reviews, 18 good articles, 30 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
 * Bloom6132, with 869 points from 11 DYKs, all with bonus points, and 54 "In the news" items, mostly covering people who had recently died.
 * Standard of Oliver Cromwell (1653–1659).svg Gog the Mild, with 817 points from 3 featured articles on historic battles in Europe, 5 featured article reviews and 3 good articles.
 * Bennington Flag.svg Hog Farm, with 659 points from 2 featured articles and 2 good articles on American Civil War battles, 18 featured article reviews, 2 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 4 DYKs.
 * ICS Zulu.svg BennyOnTheLoose, a snooker specialist and new to the Cup, with 647 points from a featured article, 2 featured article reviews, 6 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 3 DYKs.

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.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:29, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

August Editathons at Women in Red
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:23, 23 July 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:51, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXXIII, July 2021
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Bertha Lutz
Congrats on today's POTD. Good image of an interesting historical personality. – Sca (talk) 12:10, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Emma Smith DeVoe
...and on your image of Emma Smith DeVoe on 22 August.--Ipigott (talk) 10:24, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXXIV, August 2021
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Help with Restoration
Hey Adam! I recently bought a second-hand book called Mansions on Rails which includes many photographs of railway cars and important figures in the railroad business of early 20th century US. I sadly don't have access to any book scanner that would allow me to digitize the books without distorting them by laying the book flat upside down, and so I've taken to using my phone and then cropping the images before starting restoration. I was wondering if you had any method of cropping the images aside from using something like a pdf scanner-app. I tried using Adobe Illustrator and creating a path on a clipping mask but I couldn't figure out how to then distort the result so that it wasn't angled. Sadly I don't have access to Photoshop right now. For now, I've limited myself to easy to crop pictures such as the image below (I still have to restore it, but thought it would be useful to upload it before any changes so that it can already be used on mainspace). A. C. Santacruz ⁂  Talk  09:22, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Signpost featured content draft has been userfied
In case there's something that you want to retrieve from it, I userfied the Signpost "Featured content" piece that you and I worked on to User:Adam Cuerden/Featured content draft. ☆ Bri (talk) 19:46, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

WikiCup 2021 September newsletter
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.

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:01, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXXV, September 2021
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The Bugle: Issue CLXXXV, September 2021
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File:Sergei Rachmaninoff - Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39, No. 5.ogg listed for discussion
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Sergei Rachmaninoff - Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39, No. 5.ogg, has been listed at Files for discussion. Please see the to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 11:48, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXV, October 2021
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WikiCup 2021 November newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year and the finalists can relax! Our Champion this year is, who amassed over 5000 points in the final round, achieving 8 featured articles and almost 500 reviews. It was a very competitive round; seven of the finalists achieved over 1000 points in the round (enough to win the 2019 contest), and three scored over 3000 (enough to win the 2020 event). Our 2021 finalists and their scores were:


 * 1) with 5072 points
 * 2) with 3276 points
 * 3) with 3197 points
 * 4) with 1611 points
 * 5) with 1571 points
 * 6) with 1420 points
 * 7) with 1043 points
 * 8) with 528 points

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.


 * wins the featured article prize, for 8 FAs in round 5.
 * wins the featured list prize, for 3 FLs in round 5.
 * wins the featured topic prize, for 13 articles in a featured topic in round 5.
 * wins the good article prize, for 63 GAs in round 4.
 * wins the good topic prize, for 86 articles in good topics in round 5.
 * wins the reviewer prize, for 68 FAC reviews and 213 GAN reviews, both in round 5.
 * wins the DYK prize, for 30 did you know articles in round 3 and 105 overall.
 * wins the ITN prize, for 71 in the news articles in round 1 and 284 overall.

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 WikiCup, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

If you have views on whether the rules or scoring need adjustment for next year's contest, please comment on the WikiCup talk page. 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 2022 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 WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:55, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

La Esmeralda
I can tell as soon as I look at the front page that it’s one of yours, and it’s always nice to see. I’be always been jealous of your abilities to get the best from images - a talent I dearly wished I had! I hope you’re keeping well. Cheers, the editor formally known as SchroCat, editing from 2A01:4C8:481:753A:912B:C8B8:F206:CFDF (talk) 16:51, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVI, November 2021
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Survey about History on Wikipedia (If you are resident in the United States)
I am Petros Apostolopoulos, a Ph.D. candidate in Public History at North Carolina State University. My Ph.D. project examines how historical knowledge is produced on Wikipedia. You must be 18 years of age or older, reside in the United States to participate in this study. If you are interested in participating in my research study by offering your own experience of writing about history on Wikipedia, you can click on this link https://ncsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9z4wmR1cIp0qBH8. There are minimal risks involved in this research.

If you have any questions, please let me know. Petros Apostolopoulos, paposto@ncsu.edu Apolo1991 (talk) 17:55, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:SOTD/2011-05-11
Template:SOTD/2011-05-11 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Q28 (talk) 05:31, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Happy Holidays, Adam
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May you have very Happy Holidays ...

and a safe New Year filled with peace, joy, and beautiful music.

Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 11:41, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

January 2022 Women in Red
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:01, 28 December 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVII, December 2021
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GAN Backlog Drive – January 2022
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject Good articles at 21:17, 31 December 2021 (UTC).