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DYK for Edith of Wilton
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Old Friends ... New Friends article
Hello! It's been a while since we worked on the Old Friends ... New Friends article, but it's finally published. I'll keep working on the article. I'm sorry about the delay; I've been working on my procrastination recently, so hopefully this kind of delay won't happen again. Thanks again for all of your help, I really appreciate it. FunnyMath (talk) 01:28, 18 April 2023 (UTC)


 * @FunnyMath, not a problem; we're all volunteers, so we do what we can when we're able. For example, if you had asked me earlier, I might not have been able to assist, since I've been busy IRL and working on other WP articles and projects. I'm able to help out now, though, so let me know what I can do. I had the draft on my watchlist, so I'll go and look at what you've done and put the article on my watchlist to keep an eye out for it. Congrats on the publish! ;) Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 15:49, 18 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you for offering to continue to help with the article and putting it on your watchlist. I really appreciate it. FunnyMath (talk) 22:04, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

gather together in my name
hello, Christine! i just wanted to let you know that, since this article was promoted to featured article status, the article has become inconsistent with its capitalization of "black". the tfa blurb currently has it uncapitalized, presumably because that instance in the article lead is uncapitalized. if you decide to restore the style that was used at the time of the article's promotion, i think it would be appropriate to change the blurb to reflect that. note that mos:racecaps, which was added in recent years, suggests that "black" and "white" should either be both capitalized or both uncapitalized, so if "black" ends up being capitalized in the blurb, i assume that "white" should be too.by the way, i "feel" in the blurb with "felt" because the other verbs discussing the book's critical reception ("received", "acclaimed", and "recognized") all used past tense. however, i then struggled with whether "makes" should be similarly conjugated, i.e., whether the blurb should read "felt makes" or "felt made". i ended up leaving "makes" alone, but please feel free to replace it with "made" if you think it is more appropriate, or revert to the earlier use of "feel" if you disagree with my replacement. dying (talk) 09:40, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
 * thanks for the note. As the main editor of this and most other Angelou articles, I set the precendent that the word "Black" in these articles would be capitalized, as explained here. I did a quick check and found that there was only one error, so I fixed it. Re: the tenses: according to MOS:BLPTENSE, we can use the present tense for statements made by reviewers and in academic writing, and we use the past tense for news and marketing materials. When I was informed that this article was going to be on the main page, I checked to make sure the plural uses were consistent, so no please don't change anything more. Thanks for your interest in this article; I'm very proud that it's going to be TFA on Juneteenth. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 17:47, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
 * oh, interesting! admittedly, i had not considered mos:blptense since i didn't think the article was a blp (although the book itself may be a bdp); i had been relying on mos:tense, which states to "write articles in the present tense", and to "use past tense only for past events".  i had assumed the use of "received", "acclaimed", and "recognized" indicated that the book's critical reception was considered to be in the past, and only tried to make the blurb more consistent by changing "feel" to "felt".  i am not as familiar with mos:blptense, so if you think that it is overriding in this case, please feel free to change "felt" back to "feel".  thanks, Christine!  dying (talk) 20:24, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
 * @Dying, not a problem. Well no this article isn't a BLP, but it does contain biographical info since it's an autobiography. You'll notice that for those sections, I used the past tense. For literary discussions of the book, I used BLPTENSE. That's also what my main professor in grad school taught me. It gets really confusing when you have to mix tenses (i.e., "Critic Hilton Als believes that the title of Gather Together may relect its theme of how one Black woman was able to survive in the wider context of post-war America while also speaking for all Black women, and how they survived in a white-dominated society."). I think that I was successful in getting it right here. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 22:15, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you today for the article, introduced (around 10 years go): "I am nominating this for featured article because, as part of my on-going quest to improve Maya Angelou articles."! - DYK it's Jörg Widmann's 50th birthday? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:00, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Landrada
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Hi
hi how are you? Jena  (talk) 14:52, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm good, busy. But Jena, you'd think after all these years of being on Wikipedia, that you'd know how to start a new topic on a talk page. I'm kinda obsessive over these kinds of things and like my talk page to be clean and tidy, so I went ahead and did it for you, anyway. Hope you're doing good, too. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 16:20, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm good! and sorry I thought I did Jena   (talk) 16:23, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

Images on skater pages
"And no you can't just add images; all images on WP need to be free before you can upload them to WP and to Commons." - from a recent response to me. What can be considered "free"? Just as an example, on Yuna Kim's page, there are photos from korea(dot)net and  Mike Pence's twitter. Can newspaper photos be considered free? Editor120918756 (talk) 07:47, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
 * User:Editor120918756, see Image use policy for explanation about WP's image use policy. Both the images you mention are in the public domain because they're both government-owned images. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 05:31, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks! So I guess if I find figure skater photos on government websites, they can be used on skater pages. Editor120918756 (talk) 10:08, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
 * @Editor120918756, yes that's correct. I would suggest that you upload them to Commons, though, and make sure the documentation at the original site states that the image is in the public domain. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 16:30, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Axel & Petrosian
Sory if my english terrible. Points for discussion talk page: 1) About the rooles. I the only roole: to make material consistent. What allowed to one person the same is allowed to another, it mean neutlality. If Axel jump Axel and wee cheer him up as the 1-st, there is a precedent to apply it to Petrosian's case. Both them cannot go to the ISU competitions. If Axel's photo is welocome at the history, Petrosian is in the same situation. 2) If to discuss quads. ISU-controlled events do not show woman quads for a year or more, am I correct? As of Russia, I have seen lots of them during the same time. If so, majority of woman-FS-strongest girls is beyond the ISU, in Russia. Minority should not dictate rools to the majotity and to the strongest. It is not ZOO of flags. It does not matter how many flags there are in the ISU - there are no sports activity, no results in case of woman-single FS. PavelSI (talk) 19:38, 14 September 2023 (UTC)

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Impact of Yuna Kim and Media image and impact of Yuna Kim
Hello! I found those two articles while working on Wikidata for figure skating articles without Wikidata entries/without statements in their Wikidata entries. And right now I don't really understand why those shouldn't be merged into only one article? --Harmonia Amanda (talk) 00:20, 15 December 2023 (UTC)


 * @Harmonia Amanda, hello to you. These two articles are new and were created in order to shorten the length of the main bio, Yuna Kim. To be honest, it never occurred to any of us in the Figure Skating WikiProject to combine the two new ones, probably because they're very different articles. Impact of Yuna Kim is about Kim's general influence of figure skating and sports, while Media image and impact of Yuna Kim is about her other careers, both before and after her retirement from skating. I suppose they could be combined, but I'd personally be against it. I'll bring up your suggestion at the talk page of the project, though, and see what others think. Thanks, Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 17:09, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your answer! The clarification there was not apparent to me while reading quickly the articles. Maybe they can be merged into one with sections "in sports" and "others", or maybe the titles could be made clearer? (maybe by renaming one to "impact on *figure skating*"?). Frankly I came here via Wikidata, as stated in my first message, trying to understand the scope and aims of each articles to add basic data points.
 * I can usually rely on categories, at least, but here both just said "Figure skating in South Korea" (while you are saying that one of them is not really centred around figure skating?). Maybe something like Category:Cultural impact by person would be appropriate? I don't want to make any changes to the articles without understanding what the scopes of both are supposed to be.
 * A search on this Wikipedia about "impact of [someone]" basically shows me no results at all (some redirects, but no specific article). There are some about "cultural impact of [someone]" but they are quite different. So I can't rely on other pages to deduce what the usual scope of such articles would be, since they appear to be fairly isolated in their structuring.
 * English is not my native language, even though I'm decent in it, and I don't really contribute to the English Wikipedia. I am very aware that even though I contribute on figure skating elsewhere, I do not know the work you do here, and I don't want to break things. If you think a merge is a bad idea, then I trust you. My main goal is really just to understand what each article is about, to be able to do the Wikidata items properly so it can be linked in the general database, and found, and used, by people not speaking English.
 * This can probably be achieved by means other than merging, clarifying the first sentences of both articles to explain the scope, having both articles clearly link to each other (maybe a top link with something like "this article is about Yuna's impact of figure skating, for her impact on other things see this article"), and having more categories.
 * By the way, since there are now three articles (at least) about her, maybe one solution would be to create a category for her on the English Wikipedia? I don't know the criteria for categories in your WP.
 * I don't want to make these changes myself as an outsider, particularly one who still don't exactly understand the scope the enwp:Figure skating project assigned these two articles. I just want to integrate properly these two articles in the bigger Wikimedia world :) --Harmonia Amanda (talk) 20:31, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
 * @Harmonia Amanda, I've followed the standards set at other figure skating bios; for example Yuzuru_Hanyu. I don't disagree with you regarding your suggestions for categories, so I'll bring it up for discussion at WikiProject Figure Skating. I do agree that a new category should be formed for Kim, now that she has three articles about her. I will do that shortly, too. At any rate, thanks for your suggestions. I'm curious, where do you write about figure skating? In another part of Wikipedia? Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 21:00, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

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 * , with one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
 * , with one FA on Doom (2016 video game), one GA on Boundary Fire (2017), and 11 reviews;
 * , with one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and two DYKs;
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The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.

The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:


 * , who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
 * , who has 790 points from two FAs on Felix M. Warburg House and Doom (2016 video game), two GAs, one DYK, and 11 reviews
 * , who has 580 points from one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews
 * , who has 420 points mostly from nine GAs and seven DYKs on television and radio stations
 * , who has 351 points from one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and three DYKs
 * , who has 345 points from one FA on OneShot, one DYK and two reviews

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Conflict of interest 😢
I saw you undid my edits on Yuna Kim with concerns that I may have a conflict of interest. I think I reviewed one of your DYKs in the past, 😢. Is the COI suspicion based on an assumption that I'm linked to one/more of these newspapers?

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Korea. I wrote a custom WP:Autowikibrowser script to format Korea-related references in general. I was actually inspired to create this script because while nominating DYKs I've had several cases where people didn't recognize major South Korean newspapers, so I'm automatically linking them everywhere so people have a chance to understand what is what.

The script links more than just newspapers; it links publishers from both the South Korean and North Korean government so people can scrutinize what is coming from what. I'm not tied to any of these organizations... Just a well-meaning nerd. toobigtokale (talk) 03:30, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I probably mislabeled this in the edit summary; perhaps a better one would be overlinking, because you link every instance of the newspapers. Perhaps linking them just once would be enough? Or if it's already linked in the article? Remember, we only have to link once. My apologies for the mislabeling.


 * I get what you say about DYK reviewers not recognizing the So. Korean media sources. They just assume that since they've never heard of The Korea Times, it must not exist. It demonstrates the bias on WP against non-Western and obscure topics, and since I focus on those types of articles, too, I run into the same kind of thing a lot, too. I sympathesize, really I do, but I'm not sure that overlinking is the solution. That being said and since you explained it all, if you want to rerun the script, go ahead. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 07:30, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Titles of works in references are actually an exception to MOS:REPEATLINK, see link. toobigtokale (talk) 12:29, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Ulrike Auga's English Wikipedia page
Hi Christine, Fireflybot just warned me if I don't make any edits soon, they will delete her page. They asked me to move it to my user page, but I am lame and can't figure out how to do this. BTW here is her German page. I don't know if that can help. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrike_Auga Here's the English Draft page again. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft%3AUlrike_E._Auga&action=edit Let me know if you can make a couple of edits. She really needs some secondary English sources. Most what I see is her own work that she has put up.Janicelp (talk)janicelp Janicelp (talk) 18:11, 4 March 2024 (UTC)


 * @Janicelp happy to help. I suggest that you cut and paste the draft into your sandbox, which you can find when you click on the pop-up menu to the right of the person icon on the top of your screen. Then I'll make the edits you've requested. If you like, we can do a Zoom session, too. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 22:10, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I did, but it did not put in the citations nor her photo. Yes, let's meet. Janicelp (talk) 23:57, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @Janicelp, could you give me the URL for that sandbox? I don't see it in your contributions. I'll shoot you an email now with my available times for a meeting this week. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 05:06, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

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DYK for Paula Arai
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Reviewing DYKs
Besides familiarising yourself with actual review requirements, and that you can't approve your own alt hooks, I only found out you'd even done a review because I watch the talkpage - pinging nominators is an option, but if a review isn't passed straight away you should inform the nominator that it has done and they may need to address things by using one of the templates provided in the editing window of the review page. Kingsif (talk) 00:42, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Demise and revival of compulsory figures
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 * Such a fascinating and well written article, thank you so much. No Swan So Fine (talk) 17:19, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @No Swan So Fine, ah thanks so much for your kind words. It was fun and interesting to learn about. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 17:29, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

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We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.

Our current top scorers are as follows:


 * with 642 points, mostly from 11 GAs about radio and television;
 * with 530 points, mostly from two FAs (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three GAs;
 * with 523 points, mostly from 11 GAs about coinage and history;
 * with 497 points, mostly from a FA about the 2020 season of the soccer club Seattle Sounders FC and two GAs;
 * with 410 points, mostly from a FA about the drink Capri-Sun and three GAs;
 * with 330 points, mostly from a FA about the English botanist Anna Blackburne and a GA.

Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.

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The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.

The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:
 * with 707 points, mostly from 45 good article nomination reviews and 12 good articless about radio and television;
 * with 600 points, mostly from 12 good articles and 12 did you know nominations about coinage and history;
 * with 552 points, mostly from a featured article about the 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season, three featured lists, and two good articles;
 * with 548 points, mostly from a featured article about the snooker player John Pulman, two featured lists, and one good article;
 * with 530 points, mostly from two featured articles (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three good articles.

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Correction in Wiki FS A-class guide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Figure_Skating/Assessment/A-Class_review#Instructions

Here, in point 6, you have added a redirect to Project Military History.

Here's what I have for Yuna: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Figure_Skating/Assessment/A-class_review Editor120918756 (talk) 03:05, 9 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the catch. I expect that our first assessment will have bugs to repair, so it's appreciated. Looking forward to your review. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 16:57, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 * @Figureskatingfan I don't think I can be reviewing it because I've been working on it for a long time. Editor120918756 (talk) 07:13, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
 * @Editor120918756 ah I had forgotten about that. You should get credit if and/or when it passes to A. Anyone else interested in reviewing this bio? As we start this new thing, we may need to make personal requests for reviews, hint hint. ;) Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 18:25, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

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Using Citation Bot
I'm not sure what this bot does. I just ran it on Jin Boyang and it doesn't seem to have done anything. Could you tell me how to use it? Editor120918756 (talk) 09:38, 29 May 2024 (UTC)


 * @Editor120918756, just looked at User:Citation bot/use. You can run in a variety of ways, including on individual articles or in your Preferences. It allows you to use the automatic feature in the citation mode. Hope that helps. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 16:32, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Axel jump
You reverted my edit, whats the reason? Bemar (talk) 21:01, 2 June 2024 (UTC)


 * @Bemar, these are the reasons I reverted your edit:
 * There are several typos and grammar errors.
 * The source you used isn't accessible, so there's no way to check its accuracy.
 * The source contradicts a more reliable one from the ISU, the international organization that oversees figure skating and which keeps detailed historical scores and achievements.
 * Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 22:48, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
 * 1. If you saw typos and grammatical errors, you could simply correct them rather than delete the entire edit.
 * 2. In all the results of the World and Euro Championships, a link is given to a certain Results list provided by the ISU; it is not available anywhere at all. My source is available; if you search in google the name of the newspaper “Soviet Sport”, you will find two archival repositories. For example, here are two links to the newspaper issues I indicated . There is a direct quote about Alexander Krysanov’s  triple axel in 1974. It is possible to translate them into English using Google Translator.
 * 3. ISU only provides data on its competitions. But the article may contain references to national competitions, such as with Midori Ito and the competition in Japan prefecture in 1988. Therefore, my edits did not contradict the ISU data, but only supplemented them.
 * Please return my edit, correcting grammar errors. And you do it, because you didn’t figure it out carefully, but preferred to delete my edit in a primitive way. Bemar (talk) 01:34, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @Bemar, sorry it's taken me a little while to respond, things have been a little busy here and IRL. You shouldn't expect other editors to fix your typos and grammar errors for you. You also need to make sure that you format your sources correctly and that your sources are the most reliable. Please correct your own errors. The google translation of the source you provided is terrible and almost indecipherable in English; I assume that you read Russian, so please translate it, paraphrase the information, and add it to the article. Finally, the source needs to be the most reliable; in other words, more reliable than the ISU source. It's okay to supplement information about firsts with sources about non-international competitions, again as long as they're reliable, and I'm not sure that a Soviet-era news source is. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 16:42, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
 * It is necessary to translate not only the phrase highlighted in yellow, but one sentence, from point to point. And with the help of a Google translator, it is: “A student of coach E. Levin - A. Krysanov performed his famous Axel in 3.5 revolutions.” Is clearly unambiguous and understandable. In the second source, one word was indeed scanned with the error not “polovina”, but “polozina” (in Russian it mean "half"). However, this does not mean that the information itself is distorted, it means: “A remarkable event of the evening was a jump of three and a half revolutions, which was demonstrated for the first time by Moscow Spartak player Alexander Krysanov.” The newspaper "Soviet Sport" is an official organ of the USSR State Committee for Physical Culture and Sports. those. institutions of the USSR Government. There is an article about it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovetsky_Sport (it states that newspaper was distributed in 104 countries around the world, and there is no indication that the newspaper was propaganda or provided false information). I really ask you personally ;) please help me, since English is not my native language and I don’t know it so perfectly, correct my grammatical errors, because my edits are very small. Let's make Wikipedia more reliable together? Bemar (talk) 05:04, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @Bemar, but the Google translation isn't unambiguous and understandable at all. It isn't clear from either source where it took place, for example. The Wikipedia article about the newspaper also doesn't state that it wasn't propaganda. As a state-sponsored source, it can be argued that it's a self-published source. Yes, it can also be argued that the ISU is also self-published, but it's more reliable than a Soviet newspaper. I stand by my assertion that the information about Krysanov should remain stricken. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 16:57, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Fragments of articles mentioning the triple axel has the rest part and a title, I'm sure you know this very well, but you destructively continue to find fault. From the rest part and a title it is clear that the articles describe the USSR Cup competition in the city of Chelyabinsk on January 11, 1974! In the USSR, absolutely everything was sponsored by the state, cinema, literature, sports, etc, that was the system, but this does not mean the sources are biased and unauthoritative. I really regret that I wasted time communicating with you and was once again convinced of the destructive, unfair, biased position of western countries when it comes to Russia and russians. I don't need your answers anymore. I wanted to help develop Wikipedia, but I see that it prefers lies and I won’t help anymore. Bemar (talk) 20:28, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2024 July newsletter
The third round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 June. As with Round 2, this round was competitive: each of the 16 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 256 points.

The following editors all scored more than 400 points in Round 3:


 * with 1,059 points, mostly from 1 featured article on DeLancey W. Gill, 11 good articles, 18 did you know nominations, and dozens of reviews;
 * with 673 points, mostly from 2 featured articles on Worlds (Porter Robinson album) and I'm God, 5 good articles, and 2 did you know nominations;
 * with 557 points, mostly from 1 featured article on KNXV-TV, 5 good articles, and 8 did you know nominations; and
 * with 415 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Great cuckoo-dove, with a high number of bonus points from that article.

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