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Books & Bytes, Issue 31
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Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup!
Hello and Happy New Year!

Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup, the competition begins today. If you have already joined, your submission page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and we will set up your submissions page. One important rule to remember is that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2019, and which you have nominated this year, is eligible for points in the competition, the judges will be checking! Any questions should be directed to one of the judges, or left on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup. 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 make it to round 2. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are, , and. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:14, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Edward Stanley (cricketer)
Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 32
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Your GA nomination of 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final
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Your GA nomination of 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final
The article 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final 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:2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Matt294069 -- Matt294069 (talk) 22:41, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

TFL notification
Hi, Harrias. I'm just posting to let you know that List of tied Twenty20 Internationals – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for April 22. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008  ( Talk ) 01:48, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Portal:IndyCar:Did you know listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Portal:IndyCar:Did you know. Since you had some involvement with the Portal:IndyCar:Did you know redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Legacypac (talk) 01:03, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final
The article 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final 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:2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Matt294069 -- Matt294069 (talk) 03:01, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final
The article 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Final for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Matt294069 -- Matt294069 (talk) 00:41, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

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.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber (1210), our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three DYKs. He also made good use of the bonus points available, more than doubling his score by choosing appropriate articles to work on.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 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.
 * Zwerg Nase (461), a seasoned competitor, with a FA, a GA and an ITN item.

So far contestants have achieved nine featured articles between them and a splendid 80 good articles. Commendably, 227 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2019 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. The judges are pleased with the thorough GARs that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

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) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:46, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

ArbCom 2019 special circular
   

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Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)
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Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

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Books & Bytes, Issue 33
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Issue 33, March – April 2019 
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Proposed deletion of File:Kit left arm goldblackonwhiteshoulders.png


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Women in Red World Contest
Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

WikiCup 2018 November newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is, who over the course of the competition has amassed 147 GAs, 111 GARs, 9 DYKs, 4 FLs and 1 ITN. Our finalists were as follows:



All those who reached the final win awards, and awards will also be going to the following participants:


 * wins the FA prize, for three featured articles in round 2.
 * wins the GA prize, for 92 good articles in round 3.
 * wins the FL prize, for five featured lists overall.
 * wins the topic prize, for 30 articles in good topics overall.
 * wins the DYK prize, for 24 did you know articles in round 3.
 * wins the ITN prize, for 17 in the news articles overall.
 * wins the GAR prize, for 43 good article reviews in round 1.

Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

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.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2019 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. ,, and.

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.

Our top scorers in Round 1 were:


 * 🇺🇸 L293D, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with ten good articles on submarines for a total of 357 points.
 * Pirate_Flag_of_Henry_Every.svg, a WikiCup veteran, came next with 274 points, mostly from eight featured pictures, restorations of artwork.
 * 🇩🇰 MPJ-DK, a wrestling enthusiast, was in third place with 263 points, garnered from a featured list, five good articles, two DYKs and four GARs.
 * 🇺🇸 Usernameunique came next at 243, with a featured article and a good article, both on ancient helmets.
 * Flag of the United States Library of Congress 2.svg Squeamish Ossifrage was in joint fifth place with 224 points, mostly garnered from bringing the 1937 Fox vault fire to featured article status.
 * 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!

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 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).

Your GA nomination of Edward Stanley (cricketer)
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Your GA nomination of Edward Stanley (cricketer)
The article Edward Stanley (cricketer) 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:Edward Stanley (cricketer) for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sportsfan77777 -- Sportsfan77777 (talk) 09:21, 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.

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MfD nomination of Portal:IndyCar
Portal:IndyCar, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:IndyCar and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Portal:IndyCar during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:41, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes Issue 34, May – June 2019
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Your GA nomination of Edward Stanley (cricketer)
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removal of links
Hi Harrias,

I tried to add link to the following page yesterday which had been removed earlier in the week, the page is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thos_Hunt

it`s the first time I have tried to do this so apologies if it wasn`t uploded in the correct way. The links are to the players match scorecards showing notable performances throughout his career. they is nothing more to it than that, I felt we wanted to give more detail on Thos Hunt`s cricket career the website link are directed to an archive at his old cricket Club Middlesex County Cricket Club which hold all the scorecards.

would it be possible to add them back in?

many thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cricket middlesex (talk • contribs) 08:01, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

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Sunil Jadhav
Ahoy there - that's strange. The article for Sunil Jadhav you PROD-ed for deletion used to refer to the cricketer for Maharashtra - until it was changed on March 15 to refer to a bodybuilder. If I may revert it back to the former article then the links for the original article will be there. If you still think the page is under question in spite of containing a link to CA, then a cricketer who only played ~10 years ago should be easier to find references for. Bobo. 10:53, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
 * No, that's fine: what we have on the cricketer is good for me as things stand. My bad for not checking the article history properly. Harrias  talk 10:58, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Cool beans. You know that what has happened in recent times has left me slightly emotionally deflated. I make no excuses for my frustration, other than I hope it's clear that I try and do things for good. Bobo. 11:00, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Completely understandable. I have nothing against you at all; it is very obvious that you want the best for the encyclopedia. Equally obviously, we have slightly different interpretations of what is best for the encyclopedia, but that's life; we're all different. Harrias  talk 11:10, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I wonder if it will be easier to find more information about Jadhav than we have, given as he played a lot more recently than the other cricketers who are known by initial only.
 * I hope you don't mind me speaking off-topic, and to you personally, with no ill will intended. What frustrates me is that there are people around who will know the answers to questions such as "What is D. Gamit's given name", such as the people he played alongside. This is why the records of cricketers who are only known by initials frustrate me - because there are people around who will know the answer. Bobo. 11:17, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I honestly have a lot of sympathy. The biggest problem with Wikipedia is that we rely on other sources. This is obviously designed to prevent the spread of false information; but it does mean that if other sources don't think something is important enough to write about, then neither can we. Wikipedia can't lead notability, it can only follow other sources. One day, someone might decide to write a book with biographies about every Gujarati cricketer, and we would have a whole page in a published book about Mr Gamit, and we could demonstrate notability easily. I would honestly love that to be the case. But until someone takes it upon themselves to do so, we can't do much. Harrias  talk 11:30, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Such is the nature of today's "alternative facts" society. There must be someone out there, of sufficiently high profile, who knows and can verify the answer. Le sigh. Bobo. 11:32, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Formosa Clouded Leopard
Taiwan is not just a so-called “island with protected areas,” it is a technologically superior industrialized developed country armed with biological, chemical and nuclear weapons that is also the world’s most technologically advanced computer microchip maker and has the most technologically advanced healthcare system in the world. The Taiwanese also built the most advanced hypersonic cruise missiles and stealth warships in the world, additionally they also built the Taipei 101 skyscraper which is the former “Tallest Building in the World” and still the most energy efficient and most technologically advanced building in the world even after the construction of the Burj Dubai skyscraper.

Please read:

1.) Taiwan accidentally fires hypersonic nuclear missile towards China 2.) Taiwan extending the range of their Hsiungfeng III hypersonic nuclear missiles, the world’s fastest, to reach China 3.) Taiwan accidentally fires hypersonic nuclear missile at fishing vessel as tensions with their enemy China rises 4.) Taiwan is the world’s most technologically advanced computer microchip maker 5.) Taiwan beats Intel to become the world’s most technologically advanced computer microchip maker 6.) Taiwan surpasses Intel to become the world’s most technologically advanced computer microchip maker 7.) Taiwan has the world’s best healthcare system 8.) Taiwan has the most technologically advanced healthcare system in the world 9.) Taiwan and it’s world’s best healthcare system 10.) CNET, exploring the Taipei 101 building, the former tallest building in the world and most technologically advanced building in the world 11.) Taiwan’s Taipei 101 skyscraper, the most technologically advanced building in the world and former tallest building in the world 12.) Taiwan building new state of the art biohazard facilities to build more chemical weapons and biological weapons for their national defense 13.) Taiwan building technologically superior stealth fighter jets 14.) Popular Science, Taiwan’s navy launches technologically superior stealth warship 15.) Taiwan building an additional fleet of 60 advanced stealth technology warships armed to the teeth with technologically superior, Taiwanese made, hypersonic missiles 16.) Taiwan’s next batch of stealth warships will have serious mine laying capabilities 17.) South China Morning Post, Taiwan begins mass production of the most technologically advanced stealth technology warship in the world 18.) Taiwan is building new aircraft carriers 19.) Taiwan preparing to build new aircraft carriers to scare off China
 * I have responded on your talk page. Harrias  talk 17:39, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Actually a good solution would be to just change wording of “island of Taiwan” to just “Taiwan” and “protected areas” to “National parks of Taiwan” using the included links to the appropriate articles — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1011:B00F:525A:98CA:896C:875C:13E3 (talk) 17:49, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Suzy Dietrich
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Proposed deletion of List of cricketers who have taken five-wicket hauls on Women Test debut


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DYK for Christel Boom
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Thanks
I was considering applying for Template Editor rights, but wasn't sure if I had done enough complex editting yet. Spike &#39;em (talk) 08:48, 22 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).

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DYK for Sophie Luff
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DYK nomination of Battle of Sourton Down
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Template:Did you know nominations/Clarence Ervin
Harrias, the issue raised in your review of this DYK nom appears to have been addressed by the nominator. Can you please stop by and see whether your concerns have been fully dealt with, and get the nomination moving again? Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:52, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

Paintings
Oddly enough, we have a tradition that notable paintings should be presented exactly in the condition they are at present, so only errors of the camera need edited. In other words, those two images can be nominated immediately. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.9% of all FPs 14:53, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Battle of Sourton Down
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Your GA nomination of Battle of Sourton Down
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Your GA nomination of Battle of Sourton Down
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Battle of Río Bueno
I see you assesed the article Battle of Río Bueno for B-class quality status. There I see you considered that the article lacked "Coverage and accuracy". Hence I wonder what do you think is missing? Dentren |  Ta lk  09:10, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Primarily, it was the length of the lead that I felt let the article down, as it does not adequately summarise the article. Harrias  talk 09:22, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Capture of Wakefield
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DYK for Battle of Sourton Down
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Your GA nomination of Capture of Wakefield
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GAR of Bengal famine of 1943
Hello. This is spam, forgive me. I'm gonna go through various GAR/GA pages and look for people who appear active. All I'm asking for is a review, not asking for any specific outcome (i.e., not begging for a KEEP). The GAR is Good article reassessment/Bengal famine of 1943/1. If you review and Delist, that's OK, so long as it gets a meaningful review...

The article is big, detailed and has a terrible history in various Content Review forums. In fact, it has been residing in Content Review Hell for a couple years now... In return for a review (not a specific outcome) I'll do any kinda gnomish or research work you wish. Forex, I love converting inconsistent referencing into, regardless of article size. I also help with all the errors that show up as described User:Lingzhi2/reviewsourcecheck. And so on. Thank you for reading this; forgive the intrusion. Cheers ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 04:51, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Siege of Ghent
valereee (talk) 00:01, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXI, September 2019
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DYK for Battle of Bovey Heath
valereee (talk) 00:01, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Warrenton Junction Raid
I may be finished editing the Warrenton Junction Raid for GA. I would like to look over it one more time tomorrow with "fresh eyes". As always, if there is anything that still is an issue for you, do not hesitate to mention it for me to clean up. I appreciate you looking at this. TwoScars (talk) 20:07, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

I finished with the Warrenton Junction Raid. When reviewing, I discovered that I had eliminated the text that backs up the last two sentences of the lead. Thus, the third paragraph under Better cavalry was added to back up those two sentences. The other alternative is to eliminate the third paragraph under Better cavalry and eliminate the following from the last paragraph of the lead: "It fought at the Battle of Gettysburg, had an important role in eliminating the Confederate Army of the Valley, and was present at General Robert E. Lee's surrender of his Army of Northern Virginia." I have no problem doing that if you prefer. I have always had a reputation for writing too much. TwoScars (talk) 20:40, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing Warrenton Junction Raid. I really do appreciate the work that reviewers put in—it is something I probably could not do well. Coming this winter: 5th Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry. Cheers! TwoScars (talk) 20:58, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1606)
Hello Harrias. I have made the indicated changes, among others, so you can review the article in case it is necessary to fix something else. Regards. --Muwatallis II (talk) 15:40, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Battle of Babylon Hill
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Battle of Babylon Hill 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 Sturmvogel 66 -- Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 22:01, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Battle of Bovey Heath
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Battle of Bovey Heath 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 CPA-5 -- CPA-5 (talk) 14:01, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Battle of Bovey Heath
The article Battle of Bovey Heath 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:Battle of Bovey Heath for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of CPA-5 -- CPA-5 (talk) 19:41, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Brett Toth
Harrias, I was wondering whether the adjustments made by Raymie based on the issues raised in your DYK review were sufficient, or if there is more work to be done. Either way, it would be great if you could post your thoughts to the nomination template. Many thanks! BlueMoonset (talk) 00:41, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Battle of Bovey Heath
The article Battle of Bovey Heath you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Battle of Bovey Heath for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of CPA-5 -- CPA-5 (talk) 10:21, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Capture of Wakefield
valereee (talk) 00:02, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 35, July – August 2019
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DYK for Battle of Babylon Hill
valereee (talk) 00:03, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Battle of Babylon Hill
The article Battle of Babylon Hill you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Battle of Babylon Hill for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sturmvogel 66 -- Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 13:41, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXII, October 2019
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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)

Izzy Westbury
Please can you stop reinserting trivial and irrelevant information to this page, which is poorly sourced and very skewed. The amended page is succinct and accurate with up-to-date information. Eelhovercraft (talk) 19:01, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXIII, November 2019
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Your GA nomination of Battle of Marshall's Elm
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Battle of Marshall's Elm 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 Gog the Mild -- Gog the Mild (talk) 20:21, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Battle of Marshall's Elm
The article Battle of Marshall's Elm you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Battle of Marshall's Elm for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Gog the Mild -- Gog the Mild (talk) 12:41, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!
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Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 14:41, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Battle of the Brig of Dee Reply
If you want to resubmit the draft, I'd be happy to reassess it. The additional referencing is all good. Let me know when you have and I'll do the review. Dan arndt (talk) 02:02, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXIV, December 2019
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Sources for FAC review
Harrias,

Thank you for taking the time to do a source review for BF43. Many of the sources are readily available online. That's true in particular for most of the books, which are viewable via Google Books and/or Amazon. However, if you need a journal article that has been used as a source, there is a 99.99% probability that I have it on my laptop. [Uh I just discovered that I had accidentally deleted one... but I got it again.] Please feel to email me with any requests. Tks for your time & trouble. [Oh I have three books on my laptop as well... two are cited several times and the other is also important... just ask.] ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 02:12, 20 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Hello Harria,

PLease forgive me for bother ing you... The FAC coords are acting like they want to close down the FAC because it has been going on for too long. They specifically mentioned the lack of a source review... I'm sort of hoping you could finish the source review. Woud that be an option? Thanks! ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 22:45, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

Sources for *other* FAC review
I'd love to take you up on your offer to look for some scholarly articles! I had three in particular in mind:


 * "When are wars decisive?"
 * "Analytic problems in the identification of wars"
 * "Kaunitz and the cost of diplomacy"

Based on the previews, I hope to find relevant material for various of the Silesian Wars series in them. If you have access, it would be a real help! Either way, thanks for offering! -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 02:29, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 * It seems you have never heard of WP:RX. You can request articles there. Good luck! ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 12:08, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I have emailed you. Harrias  talk 12:25, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay, busy time of year! Have emailed you the two PDFs, do let me know if there's any issues. Harrias  talk 11:16, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!
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DYK for Battle of Marshall's Elm
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 29 December 2019 (UTC)