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Your GA nomination of Cole Hamels
The article Cole Hamels you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Cole Hamels for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Secret -- 20:40, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

IRC
User:Secret wants you to come on. -Newyorkadam (talk) 20:46, 25 February 2014 (UTC)Newyorkadam

Or a better location. Secret account 20:48, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I think I'm there? No experience w/ IRC.  Go  Phightins  !  20:50, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Cole Hamels
The article Cole Hamels you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Cole Hamels for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Secret -- 22:12, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup/History/2014/Submissions/Go Phightins!
Threw in that new GA for you, to try and help out. Adam Cuerden (talk) 00:11, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much ! I really appreciate it.  Go  Phightins  !  02:56, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

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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)

Editor of the Week award
What a surprise! Many thanks.--Mhockey (talk) 00:06, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Cody Asche
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Cody Asche 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 Sportsguy17 -- 02:21, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Cole Hamels
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 16:01, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

IRC cloak request
Hello Go Phightins!. You recently applied for a Wikimedia IRC cloak, but it looks like you forgot to register your nickname first. Could you please log on to IRC and do:

where is a password of your choice and is your e-mail address? After you do that, please follow the instructions that are e-mailed to you to confirm your e-mail address. When you're done with that, I just need you to confirm your cloak request:

After you finish all of that, I'd be happy to get you a cloak. :-) If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my Meta talk page.  Snowolf How can I help? 00:14, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks - I am new to IRC, and am a little confused at the technical end. Done.  Go   Phightins  !  02:48, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

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Talkback
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Review GA Football in the Philippines
Hey! I'm sorry again for the delay, because I have been busy with my exams lately. But finally, I finished fixing the entire article. Can you take a look and rereview it? Thanks a lot! FairyTailRocks (talk) 01:30, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi . Just a couple more things with which to deal; noted on GA review.  Go  Phightins  !  20:12, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Done. :) FairyTailRocks (talk) 04:37, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Hey! There is this Banana username guy that is against POV in the article. I have already explained it to him but still he is not convinced from the cause and effect of popularity of basketball in the Philippines. Can you talk to him? Cheers! FairyTailRocks (talk) 13:37, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of John Mayberry, Jr.
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article John Mayberry, Jr. 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 Secret -- 21:11, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Careful....
Yo, GP! You know the drill here, of course, but just a friendly reminder that checking the edit history of pages you nominate for speedy deletion can be a good thing. As it turns out, Piqqqqj, a page you nomiated for G1, actually turned out to be J-Mo's talk page, post pagemove vandalism. I've sorted things out, so no worries, and was an easy thing to miss, to be sure; just wanted to let you know what was going on. Cheers! Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 17:21, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Hey . I did check the edit history, and it appeared to me that the editor in question had redirected J-Mo's talk page to that page, then blanked his talk, thereby getting rid of the redirect, and thus leaving Piqqqqj a piece of garbage in mainspace that needed a G1. Not being an admin, I did not have access to the history of J-Mo's talk page at the time I was looking at the situation, and figured by G1-ing it, an admin would come along and have sufficient information to sort it out. And you did :-). Thanks for the note. Best,  Go  Phightins  !  17:38, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay, fair enough. :) Although, it still might be a good idea, if you're not totally sure, to avoid a CSD template; it might've gotten a bit trickier if another admin had come along and actually deleted it in the meantime. Thanks, though! Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 17:58, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

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