User talk:Captain Assassin!/Archive 6

WikiCup 2012 March newsletter
We are over half way through the second round of this year's WikiCup and things are going well! , of Pool B, is our highest overall scorer thanks to his prolific writings on television and film. In second place is Pool H's, thanks primarily to work on biological articles, especially in marine biology and herpetology. Third place goes to Pool E's, who also writes primarily on biology (including ornithology and botany) and has already submitted two featured articles this round. Of the 63 contestants remaining, 15 (just under a quarter) have over 100 points this round. However, 25 are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly. 32 contestants, the top two from each pool and the 16 next-highest scorers, will advance to round 3.

Congratulations to, whose impressive File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg became the competition's first featured picture. Also, congratulations to, who claimed good topic points, our first contestant this year to do so, for his work on Featured topics/1982 Atlantic hurricane season. This leaves featured topics and featured portals as the only sources of points not yet utilised. However, as recent statistics from show, no source has yet been utilised this competition to the same extent it has been previously!

It has been observed that the backlogs at good article candidates are building up again. While the points for good article reviews will be remaining constant, any help that can be offered keeping the backlog down would be appreciated. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. As ever, 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk &bull; email) and The ed17 (talk &bull; email) 23:11, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

A big NPT update
Hey! Big update on what the developers have been working on, and what is coming up:

coding
 * Fixes for the "moved pages do not show up in Special:NewPages" and "pages created from redirects do not show up in Special:NewPages" bugs have been completed and signed off on. Unfortunately we won't be able to integrate them into the existing version, but they will be worked into the Page Triage interface.
 * Coding has been completed on three elements; the API for displaying metadata about the article in the "list view", the ability to keep the "patrol" button visible if you edit an article before patrolling it, and the automatic removal of deleted pages from the queue. All three are awaiting testing but otherwise complete.

All other elements are either undergoing research, or about to have development started. I appreciate this sounds like we've not got through much work, and truthfully we're a bit disappointed with it as well; we thought we'd be going at a faster pace :(. Unfortunately there seems to be some 24-72 hour bug sweeping the San Francisco office at the moment, and at one time or another we've had several devs out of it. It's kind of messed with workflow.

Stuff to look at

We've got a pair of new mockups to comment on that deal with the filtering mechanism; this is a slightly updated mockup of the list view, and this is what the filtering tab is going to look like. All thoughts, comments and suggestions welcome on the NPT talkpage :). I'd also like to thank the people who came to our last two office hours sessions; the logs will be shortly available here.

I've also just heard that the first functional prototype for enwiki will be deployed mid-April! Really, really stoked to see this happening :). We're finding out if we can stick something up a bit sooner on prototype.wiki or something.

I appreciate there may be questions or suggestions where I've said "I'll find out and get back to you" and then, uh. not ;p. I sincerely apologise for that: things have been a bit hectic at this end over the last few weeks. But if you've got anything I've missed, drop me a line and I'll deal with it! Further questions or issues to the usual address. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 17:03, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Pakistan/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2012
Please see Wikipedia talk:Notice board for Pakistan-related topics and WikiProject Pakistan/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2012. Participation appriciated. Drop a note to other interested active editors you know. You'll probably win it lol. -- lTopGunl (talk) 11:43, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Pahari Ground for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Pahari Ground is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Pahari Ground until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. S M S  Talk 15:59, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Faisal Movers


A tag has been placed on Faisal Movers requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organization or company, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Samar ( Talk  .  Contributions ) 16:29, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Shazia Khushk
I came across an old article of yours. It still doesn't have a reference. Could you add one?

Egads, has it been almost 18 months since you been around? It's gone by fast. Bgwhite (talk) 05:47, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Ops! thanks for inform, I am doing this.--  Assassin'S Creed   T -  E  -  C  -  G  - 11:52, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

Bhawana
Dear User:Assassin's Creed, hello. With ref to my comments on the talk page of the above article, I have had a look at some of your other work too, and I must say that it is indeed truly laudable and impressive. However-and again, I hope you shant take this as personal criticism but as part of our joint effort/s to improve Wikipedia and especially the WP Pakistan -- I have the feeling that many of these suffer in quality because of a lack of basic English language skills, especially in style and structural terms, and I feel that with a little effort and with some further adequate refernces added, these could really be improved no end. Thus, if it's ok with you, I shall take the liberty of editing some of these from time to time (as often as work allows) and also refereing to you, for any clarifications and help, especially w r to refs/citations, whilst doing so. I hope that youd be agreeable to such a scheme, please? I look forward to hearing from you, and extend my best wishes and regards. Yours truly, Khani100 (talk) 11:17, 14 April 2012 (UTC)Khani100


 * I am glad to see you here especially with Bhawana, I hope we'll work great together, just give me the articles to work with. Thanks for contacting.--  Assassin'S Creed   T -  E  -  C  -  G  - 13:10, 14 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi, and thanks! Thats really great. If its ok, I shall start with two (2) articles only i.e. Bhawana and Pindi Bhattian, as I have some familiarity with these areas, since my father remained posted in Sargodha and we did a lot of travelling to various places along/around the Chenab, when I was quite young! I think I might have some relevant material to consult, in my father's library, which might be useful when it comes to refs etc. Very best regards, and very welcome, its my pleasure indeed, Khani100 (talk) 13:28, 14 April 2012 (UTC)Khani100


 * Hmm great, actually I am a little busy but I'll in touch with these articles and you too. Thanks.--  Assassin'S Creed   T -  E  -  C  -  G  - 12:21, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Pakistan Tag and Assess
Hey Assassin, hope you're doing well. Just recently, we started a Pakistan Tag and Assess drive in which the aim is to tag and assess as many unassessed Pakistan-related articles on Wikipedia as possible. The whole drive runs until September 2012. See the project page for more information. There are also free barnstars on offer, depending on how many articles you assess (see the rewards section as well as the user tally section) and more barnstars for first, second and third position. If you're interested, please feel free to join and volunteer - there's still literally thousands of articles remaining. Cheers,  Mar4d  ( talk ) 02:47, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Mar4d, next time, don't inform Assassin. The way Assassin works, he will have it all done by the end of the month.  Let other people have a chance. :) Bgwhite (talk) 06:24, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Hahah so funny you are Bgwhite :-), actually I am busy in study work so I am sorry for late but I'll help when I get some free time, by the way thanks Mar4d.--  Assassin'S Creed   T -  E  -  C  -  G  - 12:25, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Haha, sure. Whenever it's convenient for you. @Bgwhite: Your point has been duly noted :)  Mar4d  ( talk ) 12:35, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
 * His point has been duly noted because he is right always, aren't you Bgwhite :-).--  Assassin'S Creed   T -  E  -  C  -  G  - 12:43, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
 * You haven't talked to my wife. She will say I'm never right.  My motto on Wikipedia is the day I don't make a mistake is the day I didn't edit.  Bgwhite (talk) 20:15, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Hahah, hilarious...:-)--  Assassin'S Creed   T -  E  -  C  -  G  - 02:28, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Re 'Bhawana'
Salams! Just for the record, as per our previous discussion, I have today started a VERY BASIC LANGUAGE EDIT of this article-- it will take time, what with work and all-- but in time, i.a., I shall then complete this stage and then move on to adding more information and relevant refs/citations and shall, at that point, please, also contact you for more advice/guidance. Once I am done with Bhawana, shall move on to 'Pindi Bhattian' etc i.a. Youre queries and feedback are always welcome, at all stages. Regs, Khani100 (talk) 19:30, 16 April 2012 (UTC)Khani100
 * Hmm, I saw that, it's good work, carry on and feel free to contact, I created Bhawana (disambiguation) to make it more better.--  Assassin'S Creed   T -  E  -  C  -  G  - 13:22, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
 * And I am also doing some edits to improve it and wikifying it.--  Assassin'S Creed   T -  E  -  C  -  G  - 16:38, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, thats great! Will certainly contact you later. Yes I ve also seen that youve 'wikified' the article and made a disambiguation page, which is great. Very best regs, Khani100 (talk) 02:49, 18 April 2012 (UTC)Khani100
 * Thanks and I've made a lot of edits to it again. Be in touch.--  Assassin'S Creed   T -  E  -  C  -  G  - 02:52, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

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Nomination of Naseem Vicky for deletion
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WikiCup 2012 April newsletter
Round 2 of this year's WikiCup is over, and so we are down to our final 32, in what could be called our quarter-finals. The two highest scorers from each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers overall, have entered round 3, while 30 participants have been eliminated. Pool B's remains our top scorer with over 700 points; he continues to gain high numbers of points for his good articles on The X-Files, but also Millennium and other subjects. He has also gained points for a good topic, a featured list, multiple good article reviews and several did you knows. Pool E's was second, thanks primarily to his biology articles, with Pool H's  coming in third, with an impressive 46 did you knows, mostly on the subject of baseball. Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both scored over 600 points. Pools E and H proved our most successful, with each seeing 5 members qualify for round 3, while Pools C and D were the least, with each seeing only 3 reach round 3. However, it was Pool G which saw the lowest scoring, with a little under 400 points combined; Pool H, the highest scoring group, saw over triple that score.

65 points was the lowest qualifying score for round 3; significantly higher than the 11 required to enter round 2, and also higher than the 41 required to reach round 3 last year. However, in 2010, 100 points were needed to secure a place in round 3. 16 will progress to round 4. In round 3, 150 points was the 16th highest score, though, statistically, people tend to up their game a little in later rounds. Last year, 76 points secured a place, while in 2010, a massive 250 points were needed. Guessing how many points will be required is not easy. We still have not seen any featured portals or topics this year, but, on the subject of less common content types, a small correction needs to be made to the previous newsletter: File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg, our first featured picture, was the work of both and, the latter of whom has also gone on to score with File:Map of the Battle of Guam, 1944.svg. Bonus points also continue to roll in; this round, earned triple points for her good articles on William the Conqueror and the Middle Ages, Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both earned triple points for their work on Western Jackdaw, now a good article,  earned triple points for her work on lettuce and work by  to ready antimony for good article status earned him triple points. managed to expand Vitus Bering far enough for a did you know, which was also worth triple points. All of these highly important topics featured on 50 or more Wikipedias at the start of the year.

An article on the WikiCup in the Wikimedia Blog, "Improving Wikipedia with friendly competition", was posted at the end of April. This may be of interest to those who are signed up to this newsletter, as well as serving as another way to draw attention to our project. Also, we would again like to thank and, for continued help behind the scenes. As ever, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk &bull; email) and The ed17 (talk &bull; email) 23:03, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

New Pages update
Hey :). A quick update on how things are going with the New Page Triage/New Pages Feed project. As the enwiki page notes, the project is divided into two chunks: the "list view" (essentially an updated version of Special:NewPages) and the "article view", a view you'll be presented with when you open up individual articles that contains a toolbar with lots of options to interact with the page - patrolling it, adding maintenance tags, nominating it for deletion, so on.

On the list view front, we're pretty much done! We tried deploying it to enwiki, in line with our Engagement Strategy on Wednesday, but ran into bugs and had to reschedule - the same happened on Thursday :(. We've queued a new deployment for Monday PST, and hopefully that one will go better. If it does, the software will be ready to play around with and test by the following week! :).

On the article view front, the developers are doing some fantastic work designing the toolbar, which we're calling the "curation bar"; you can see a mockup here. A stripped-down version of this should be ready to deploy fairly soon after the list view is; I'm afraid I don't have precise dates yet. When I have more info, or can unleash everyone to test the list view, I'll let you know :). As always, any questions to the talkpage for the project or mine. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:22, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage prototype released
Hey Assassin&#39;s Creed! We've finally finished the NPT prototype and deployed it on enwiki. We'll be holding an office hours session on the 16th at 21:00 in #wikimedia-office to show it off, get feedback and plot future developments - hope to see you there! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 03:30, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage/New Pages Feed
Hey all :). A notification that the prototype for the New Pages Feed is now live on enwiki! We had to briefly take it down after an unfortunate bug started showing up, but it's now live and we will continue developing it on-site.

The page can be found at Special:NewPagesFeed. Please, please, please test it and tell us what you think! Note that as a prototype it will inevitably have bugs - if you find one not already mentioned at the talkpage, bring it up and I'm happy to carry it through to the devs. The same is true of any additions you can think of to the software, or any questions you might have - let me know and I'll respond.

Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 13:13, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

June 2012 Wikification Drive
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Speedy deletion nomination of SKANS


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WikiCup 2012 May newsletter
We're halfway through round 3 (or the quarter finals, if you prefer) and things are running smoothly. We're seeing very high scoring; as of the time of writing, the top 16 all have over 90 points. This has already proved to be more competative than this time last year- in 2011, 76 points secured a place, while in 2010, a massive 250 was the lowest qualifying score. People have also upped their game slightly from last round, which is to be expected as we approach the end of the competition. Leading Pool A is, whose points have mostly come from a large number of did you knows on marine biology. Pool B's leader,, is for the first time not our highest scorer at the time of newsletter publication, but his good articles on The X-Files and Millenium keep him in second place overall. leads Pool C, our quietest pool, with content in a variety of areas on a variety of topics. Pool D is led by, our current overall leader. Nearly half of Casliber's points come from his triple-scored Western Jackdaw, which is now a featured article.

This round has seen an unusually high number of featured lists, with nearly one in five remaining participants claiming one, and one user,, claiming two. Miyagawa's featured list, 1936 Summer Olympics medal table, was even awarded double points. By comparison, good article reviews seem to be playing a smaller part, and featured topics portals remain two content-types still unutilised in this competition. Other than that, there isn't much to say! Things are coming along smoothly. As ever, 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. 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. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:22, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Needing Wiki contribution assistance!
Greetings Assassin's Creed,

I am looking for an experienced Wikipedian to contribute an article for our band Mr. Meeble. I have checked and we meet the Wikipedia "notability" guidelines for a band. We have a very basic Wikipedia article written already, but I know that someone like yourself may be able to point out our formatting errors and critical omissions. You can hear our music and see our videos here:

http://youtube.com/mrmeeble http://soundcloud.com/meeble

Let me know if you would be willing to help!

Regards, Devin mm @ meeble.com

Devbot (talk) 05:15, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

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