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Template:Did you know nominations/Barzillai J. Chambers

 * You can go ahead and email me the relevant page from B. J. Chambers and the Greenback Party Split to verify your DYK nomination. BTW I'm new there and just trying to figure my way around. EagerToddler39 (talk) 15:32, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
 * You have to set up emailing in your preferences. If I can get my scanner working, I'll scan it. If not, I'll take a picture with my phone. ---Coemgenus (talk) 15:46, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry. Forgot I had disabled it. Enabled now. A photo could work just as well as scanning. EagerToddler39 (talk) 16:07, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Did you get my e-mail? --Coemgenus (talk) 13:09, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Barzillai J. Chambers
The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Talk:David_Jewett_Waller,_Sr./GA2
All the issues you mentioned have been fixed if I'm not mistaken. --Jakob (talk) 20:18, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

FA congratulations
Just a quick note to congratulate you on the promotion of William Hayden English to FA status recently. If you would like to see this (or any other FA you may have helped to write) appear as "Today's featured article" soon, please nominate it at the requests page; if you'd like to see an FA on a particular date in the next year or so, please add it to the "pending" list. In the absence of a request, the article may end up being picked at any time (although with 1,329 articles in Category:Featured articles that have not appeared on the main page at present, there's no telling how long – or short! – the wait might be). If you'd got any TFA-related questions or problems, please let me know. BencherliteTalk 17:06, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Daniel Dougherty
Hello! Your submission of Daniel Dougherty at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! --Hirolovesswords (talk) 22:56, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I replied there. --Coemgenus (talk) 23:49, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

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DYK for Daniel Dougherty
The DYK project (nominate) 00:13, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

DYK for 1880 Democratic National Convention
The DYK project (nominate) 00:13, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Dock Creek
Thanks to you for your contribution Victuallers (talk) 00:02, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 January newsletter
The 2014 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with, at time of writing, 138 participants. The is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2010. If you are yet to join the competition, don't worry- the judges have agreed to keep the signups open for a few more days. By a wide margin, our current leader is newcomer, whose set of 14 featured pictures, the first FPs of the competition, was worth 490 points. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:


 * and were the first people to score, for the good article Tropical Storm Bret (1981) and its good article review respectively. 12george1 was also the first person to score in 2012 and 2013.
 * scored the first ITN points for 2014 North American polar vortex.
 * scored points for an early good topic, finishing off Featured topics/She Wolf.
 * scored the first bonus points of the competition, for his work on Typhoon Vera.
 * has scored the highest number of bonus points for a single article, for the high-importance Jurassic Park (film).

Featured articles, featured lists, featured topics and featured portals are yet to play a part in the competition. The judges have removed a number of submissions which were deemed ineligible. Typically, we aim to see work on a project, followed by a nomination, followed by promotion, this year. We apologise for any disappointment caused by our strict enforcement this year; we're aiming to keep the competition as fair as possible.

Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may be interested to take part in The Core Contest; unlike the WikiCup, The Core Contest is not about audited content, but, like the WikiCup, it is about article improvement; specifically, The Core Contest is about contribution to some of Wikipedia's most important article. Of course, any work done for The Core Contest, if it leads to a DYK, GA or FA, can earn WikiCup 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 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. 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), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 19:54, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Alexander White GAR
Coemgenus, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for taking the time to conduct a GA review of Alexander White (Virginia). I look forward to working with you throughout this process, and please let me know if you have any questions or concerns in the meantime! -- Caponer (talk) 14:14, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Coemgenus, thank you again for your thoughtful review. I've completed addressing each of your comments and suggestions, so please take a look at the article for a re-review and let me know how else I can improve and expand the article so that it is GA quality! Thanks again! -- Caponer (talk) 02:53, 19 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks! Glad I could help. --Coemgenus (talk) 01:52, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

March 2014 GAN Backlog Drive
It's that time again! Starting on March 1, there will be another GAN Backlog Drive! There will be several changes compared to previous drives:


 * This drive will introduce a new component to it; a point system. In a nutshell, older nominations are worth more points than newer nominations. The top 3 participants who have the points will be awarded the Golden, Silver, or Bronze Wikipedia Puzzle Piece Trophy, respectively.
 * Unlike the December 2013 Backlog Drive, earning an additional barnstar if you reached your goal has been removed.
 * The allowance to have insufficient reviews has been lowered to 2 before being disqualified.
 * An exception to the rule that all reviews must be completed before the deadline has been created.

Also, something that I thought I would share with all of you is that we raised $20.88 (USD) for the WMF in the December 2013 drive. It may not sound like a lot but considering that that was raised just because we reviewed articles, I would say that's pretty good! With that success, pledges can be made for the upcoming drive if you wish.

More info regarding the drive and full descriptions regarding the changes to this drive can be found on the the drive page. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a message on the drive talk page.

I look forward to your participation and hope that because of it, some day the backlog will be gone!

--Dom497

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:58, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Thomas F. Bayard
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Thomas F. Bayard you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Seabuckthorn -- 12:20, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 1880 Democratic National Convention
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 1880 Democratic National Convention you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Seabuckthorn -- 12:21, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Barzillai J. Chambers
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Barzillai J. Chambers you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Seabuckthorn -- 12:31, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Thomas F. Bayard
The article Thomas F. Bayard you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Thomas F. Bayard for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Seabuckthorn -- 00:22, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Barzillai J. Chambers
The article Barzillai J. Chambers you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Barzillai J. Chambers for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Seabuckthorn -- 00:32, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 1880 Democratic National Convention
The article 1880 Democratic National Convention you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:1880 Democratic National Convention for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Seabuckthorn -- 00:02, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 February newsletter
And so ends the most competitive first round we have ever seen, with 38 points required to qualify for round 2. Last year, 19 points secured a place; before that, 11 (2012) or 8 (2011) were enough. This is both a blessing and a curse. While it shows the vigourous good health of the competition, it also means that we have already lost many worthy competitors. Our top three scorers were:


 * , a WikiCup newcomer whose high-quality scans of rare banknotes represent an unusual, interesting and valuable contribution to Wikipedia. Most of Godot's points this round have come from a large set of pictures used in Treasury Note (1890–91).
 * , a WikiCup veteran and a finalist last year, Adam is also a featured picture specialist, focusing on the restoration of historical images. This month's promotions have included a carefully restored set of artist William Russell Flint's work.
 * , another WikiCup newcomer. WikiRedactor has claimed points for good article reviews and good articles relating to pop music, many of which were awarded bonus points. Articles include Sky Ferreira, Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus and "Wrecking Ball" (Miley Cyrus song).

Other competitors of note include:


 * , who helped take Thirty Flights of Loving through good article candidates and featured article candidates, claiming the first first featured article of the competition.
 * , who claimed the first featured list of the competition with Natalia Kills discography.
 * , who takes the title of the contributor awarded the highest bonus point multiplier (resulting in the highest scoring article) of the competition so far. Her high-importance salamander, now a good article, scored 108 points.

After such a competitive first round, expect the second round to also be fiercely fought. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2, but please do not update your submission page until March (UTC). 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 equally.

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 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. 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), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 00:01, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

GAN March 2014 Backlog Drive
The March 2014 GAN Backlog Drive has begun and will end on April 1, 2014! Sent by Dom497 on behalf of MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:01, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Henry du Pont
I'd like to thank you for supporting the DYK project. Cheers Victuallers (talk) 00:03, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Thomas F. Bayard
I'd like to thank you for supporting the DYK project. Cheers Victuallers (talk) 00:04, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Tadeusz Kościuszko nominated for FA
This is a general notice to previous reviewers: The Tadeusz Kościuszko article has again been nominated for FA. Opinions are needed at Featured article candidates/Tadeusz Kościuszko/archive2. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 01:36, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 March newsletter
A quick update as we are half way through round two of this year's competition. WikiCup newcomer (Pool E) leads, having produced a massive set of featured pictures for Silver certificate (United States), an article also brought to featured list status. Former finalist (Pool G) is in second, which he owes mostly to his work with historical images, including a number of images from Urania's Mirror, an article also brought to good status. 2010 champion (Pool C) is third overall, thanks to contributions relating to naval history, including the newly featured Japanese battleship Nagato. , who currently leads Pool A and is sixth overall, takes the title for the highest scoring individual article of the competition so far, with the top importance featured article Ian Smith.

With 26 people having already scored over 100 points, it is likely that well over 100 points will be needed to secure a place in round 3. Recent years have required 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) and 100 (2010). Remember that only 64 will progress to round 3 at the end of April. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page; if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. 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 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. 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), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 22:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup error
Hi there- this is just a quick note to apologise for a small but important mistake in the last WikiCup newsletter; it is not 64 users who will progress to the next round, but 32. J Milburn (talk) 18:48, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Talkback
Replied to your comments.  Go  Phightins  !  19:13, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Related to Chester Arthur article
I changed the photo because the one I've found is from the time he was president, so I saw fit better. And I added "November" and "January" in the period he was chief collector of the port of NY based on some information I gathered that you can find on Wikipedia as well. The rest of the article is completely fine. Hope you'll follow the changes I want to make. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marcelo Armando (talk • contribs) 17:15, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

FAC needing attention
Since you have commented at Featured article candidates/Jim Thome/archive2, I thought you might have an interest in baseball and be willing to comment at Featured article candidates/Orel Hershiser's scoreless innings streak/archive1.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 23:20, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

U.S. Grant
Greetings Coemgenus: As I'm sure you know from your edits on U.S. Grant's page, he served at Fort Humboldt, Eureka, California. He is therefore listed as a Notable person on the Eureka, California page. Recently, there have been a series of anonymous edits by someone claiming that since he spent "so little time" there that he's not notable and the edit summaries from this anonymous changer are getting crankier and crankier. I've seen you edit on U.S. Grant, it's unlikely that the anonymous editor doesn't. Can you take a look at the Eureka edit summaries and see if perhaps you can help me with whoever this is with a big POV and a crancky edit summary habit? I WHOIS'd him and he's from Missouri, so it's not surprising that he doesn't realize Grant is a huge "famous resident" of Eureka, complete with museum displays and articles in the Humboldt Historian. The guidelines say that someone can be born in a town and count as notable, I don't see that including Grant in Eureka is a problem. What do you think? Ellin Beltz (talk) 07:45, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Honestly, I think it's kind of a stretch to include him. I wouldn't delete it myself, but I wouldn't have added him to the list, either.  I don't know who the anonymous editor from Missouri is.  We've had plenty of POV-pushing on Ulysses S. Grant, but not from anons, and not from anyone who identifies himself as a Missourian. --Coemgenus (talk) 13:23, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, as a local historian, it's not that much of a stretch to include him due to his interactions with other locals in the earliest days of the settlement of Eureka. Additionally Grant had some kind of fugue state or meltdown at Fort Humboldt. He resigned his commission over whatever it was, went back east and the rest - as they say - is history.  Despite the fact that many of his contemporaries in Eureka would have nothing to do with him even after he was elected U.S. President, Fort Humboldt held "U.S. Grant Days" for nearly 50 years!  The episodes are described in local history books here and he is considered a notable resident by local historians, besides "Grant Street" and "Grant School".  In general, imho, these notables lists are a problem of interpretation, but if someone is in the history books as being at a particular location in history, I think he/she deserves inclusion on the list if the person has their own Wikpedia article.  Ellin Beltz (talk) 19:18, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 April newsletter
Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain. Pool G's was Round 2's highest scorer, with a large number of featured picture credits. In March/April, he restored star charts from Urania's Mirror, lithographs of various warships (such as SMS Gefion) and assorted other historical media. Second overall was Pool E's, whose featured list Silver certificate (United States) contains dozens of scans of banknotes recently promoted to featured picture status. Third was Pool G's who has produced a large number of good articles, many, including Falkner Island, on Connecticut-related topics. Other successful participants included, who saw three articles (including the top-importance Ian Smith) through featured article candidacies, and , who saw three lists (including the beautifully-illustrated list of plantations in West Virginia) through featured list candidacies. High-importance good articles promoted this round include narwhal from, tiger from and The Lion King from. We also saw our first featured topic points of the competition, awarded to and  for their work on the Sega Genesis topic. No points have been claimed so far for good topics or featured portals.

192 was our lowest qualifying score, again showing that this WikiCup is the most competitive ever. In previous years, 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) or 100 (2010) secured a place in Round 3. Pool H was the strongest performer, with all but one of its members advancing, while only the two highest scorers in Pools G and F advanced. At the end of June, 16 users will advance into the semi-finals. 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 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. 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), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 17:57, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Please fix !
Greetings Coemgenus:

I made some changes to Ulysses Grant which you reverted instantly, perhaps you did not read the changes? There is an incorrect date in the article as it stands now, my edit was to fix that date and provide a citation for the date change. You reverted my edit and so now the incorrect date is back in the article.

I had made the following minor changes:

on the northwest California coast in present-day Eureka. ... In lieu of a court-martial, Buchanan gave Grant an ultimatum to sign a drafted resignation letter. Grant resigned from the army on April 11, 1854;

I left a note which read "I changed July 31, 1854 to April 11, 1854 because the source says April which gives him time to get home in August, and matches the "five months" usually given as his time in Humboldt County." The date at present in the article is incorrect, and I gave a citation when I fixed it.

I am really surprised you reverted the entire edit when it consisted of two minor changes, one date fix and two citations which are very useful and not in the article.

With best wishes, Ellin Beltz (talk) 15:58, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

FA congratulations
Just a quick note to congratulate you on the promotion of Thomas F. Bayard to FA status recently. If you would like to see this (or any other FA) appear as "Today's featured article" soon, please nominate it at the requests page; if you'd like to see an FA on a particular date in the next year or so, please add it to the "pending" list. In the absence of a request, the article may end up being picked at any time (although with 1,301 articles in Category:Featured articles that have not appeared on the main page at present, there's no telling how long – or short! – the wait might be). You (and your talk-page stalkers) may also be interested to hear that there have been some changes at the TFA requests page recently. Nominators no longer need to calculate how many "points" an article has, the instructions have been simplified, and there's a new nomination system using templates based on those used for DYK suggestions. Please consider nominating another article, or commenting on an existing nomination, and leaving some feedback on your experience. If you'd got any TFA-related questions or problems, please let me know. BencherliteTalk 09:13, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Ditto for 1880 Democratic National Convention. BencherliteTalk 22:51, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

A cup of tea for you!

 * My pleasure! --Coemgenus (talk) 01:14, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

John Tyler
Is there any chance you could look over the FAC on this? Good work on the convention. I have Judah P. Benjamin coming up soon. He had a close relationship with the Bayard family, I gather that many of the letters that survive (he destroyed all of his papers he could) came from them. Didn't see any way of giving them a shoutout in the article, though.--Wehwalt (talk) 05:23, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Sure, I'd be glad to. I should be able to make a few comments tonight, at least.  I didn't know that about Judah Benjamin.  Bayard's main biographer didn't mention him, but he was probably closer to James than Thomas, I would think.  Then again, Bayard's biographer is an odd one, so who knows?  Looking forward to reading the JPB article, too. --Coemgenus (talk) 11:18, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Ulysses S. Grant FA nomination
Hello Coemgenus. I am not sure how the FA nomination process works. I have yet to find someone to be co-nominator. Do you have any suggestions on this matter? Thanks for your time. Cmguy777 (talk) 16:56, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Check out the directions at the top of WP:FAC, they should be pretty straight forward. You don't need a co-nominator, you can do it yourself. As I said, I don't have time this month, I'm swamped at work, but I'll try to answer questions you have when I can.  --Coemgenus (talk) 18:25, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks Coemgenus for the link and information. I will look into nominating the Ulysses S. Grant article for FA status. Cmguy777 (talk) 22:38, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 June newsletter
After an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's, whose contributions included featured articles Russian battleship Poltava (1894) and Russian battleship Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six out of eight making it to the next round.

The round saw this year's first featured portal, with taking Portal:Literature to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to and the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. This means that all content types have been claimed this year. Other contributions of note this round include a featured topic on Maya Angelou's autobiographies from, a good article on the noted Czech footballer Tomáš Rosický from and a now-featured video game screenshot, freely released due to the efforts of.

The judges would like to remind participants to update submission pages promptly. This means that content can be checked, and allows those following the competition (including those participating) to keep track of scores effectively. This round has seen discussion about various aspects of the WikiCup's rules and procedures. Those interested in the competition can be assured that formal discussions about how next year's competition will work will be opened shortly, and all are welcome to voice their views then. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. 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. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. and 18:48, 30 June 2014 (UTC)