User talk:Icem4k/Archive 1

Nomination of Macky 2 for deletion
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Result

 * The result was keep . by User:Northamerica1000  00:08, 1 March 2015

(UTC) Chabota Kanguya 19:16, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

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Nomination of Mampi for deletion
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Result
The result was Withdrawn by nominator; no other arguments for deletion. (non-admin closure)  Gongshow   talk  00:52, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Reply to your message on my talk page
What is appropriate on user pages is explained at WP:User pages. Your present user page is fine, as it is about you as a Wikipedian and your activities here, but the deleted one was not like that, it was about your organization and was arranged to look like an encyclopedia article, and that was why the decision at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Icem4k was to delete it. Wikipedia is not a place like Facebook and other social-networking sites for people to write about themselves or their own affairs - see WP:Autobiography and WP:Conflict of interest. It is a project to build an encyclopedia, which is quite different.

I see you have been having some problems. Don't worry, everyone takes some time to learn how to contribute, but one thing that is very important is not to copy anything into Wikipedia. Copyright violations could cause serious legal problems for us. Read WP:Copy-paste for more about this, and WP:Your first article for general advice. Here are some other pages that you might find helpful:
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WikiCup 2015 May newsletter
The second round one has all wrapped up, and round three has now begun! Congratulations to the 34 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our second round. Leading the way overall was in Group B with a total of 777 points for a variety of contributions including Good Articles on Corona Borealis and Microscopium - both of which received the maximum bonus. Special credit must be given to a number of high importance articles improved during the second round.
 * was one of several users who worked on improving Ulysses S. Grant. Remember, you do not need to work on an article on your own - as long as each person has completed significant work on the article during 2015, multiple competitors can claim the same article.
 * took Dragonfly to Good Article for a 3x bonus - and if that wasn't enough, they also took Damselfly there as well for a 2x bonus.
 * worked up Alexander Hamilton to Good Article for the maximum bonus. Hamilton was one of the founding fathers of the United States and is a level 4 vital article.

The points varied across groups, with the lowest score required to gain automatic qualification was 68 in Group A - meanwhile the second place score in Group H was 404, which would have been high enough to win all but one of the other Groups! As well as the top two of each group automatically going through to the third round, a minimum score of 55 was required for a wildcard competitor to go through. We had a three-way tie at 55 points and all three have qualified for the next round, in the spirit of fairness. The third round ends on June 28, with the top two in each group progressing automatically while the remaining 16 highest scorers across all four groups go through as wildcards. Good luck to all competitors for the third round! , and  17:05, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 September newsletter
The finals for the 2015 Wikicup has now begun! Congrats to the 8 contestants who have survived to the finals, and well done and thanks to everyone who took part in rounds 3 and 4.

In round 3, we had a three-way tie for qualification among the wildcard contestants, so we had 34 competitors. The leader was by far in Group B, who earned 1496 points. Although 913 of these points were bonus points, he submitted 15 articles in the DYK category. Second place overall was at 864 points, who although submitted just 2 FAs for 400 points, earned double that amount for those articles in bonus points. Everyone who moved forward to Round 4 earned at least 100 points.

The scores required to move onto the semifinals were impressive; the lowest scorer to move onto the finals was 407, making this year's Wikicup as competitive as it's always been. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:


 * , who is competing in his sixth consecutive Wikicup final, again finished the round in first place, with an impressive 1666 points in Pool B. Casliber writes about the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy.  A large bulk of his points this round were bonus points.
 * , second place both in Pool B and overall, earned the bulk of his points with FPs, mostly depicting currency.
 * , first in Pool A, came in third. His specialty is natural science articles; in Round 4, he mostly submitted articles about insects and botany.  Five out of the six of the GAs he submitted were level-4 vital articles.
 * , second in Pool A, took fourth overall. He tends to focus on articles about cricket and military history, specifically the 1640s First English Civil War.
 * , from Pool A, was our highest-scoring wildcard. West Virginia tends to focus on articles about the history of (what for it!) the U.S. state of West Virginia.
 * , from Pool A, likes to work on articles about British geography and places. Most of his points this round were earned from two impressive accomplishments: a GT about Scheduled monuments in Somerset and a FT about English Heritage properties in Somerset.
 * , from Pool B, came in seventh overall. RO earned the majority of her points from GARs and PRs, many of which were earned in the final hours of the round.
 * , also from Pool B, who was competing with RO for the final two spots in the final hours, takes the race for most GARs and PRs—48.

The intense competition between RO and Calvin999 will continue into the finals. They're both eligible for the Newcomers Trophy, given for the first time in the Wikicup; whoever makes the most points will win it.

Good luck to the finalists; the judges are sure that the competition will be fierce!

, and  11:48, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:B Flow in the USA.jpg
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WikiCup 2015: The results
WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.

This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is. All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program. came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science. , a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.

Our newcomer award, presented to the best-performing new competitor in the WikiCup, goes to. Everyone should be very proud of the work they accomplished. We will announce our other award winners soon.

A full list of our award winners are:


 * wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 330 featured pictures in the final round.
 * wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 160 did you knows in the final round (310 in all rounds).
 * wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for 26 featured articles in all rounds.
 * wins the prize for fourth place
 * wins a final 8 prize.
 * wins a final 8 prize.
 * wins a final 8 prize and the FL prize for 11 featured lists.
 * wins the most prizes: a final 8 prize, the GA prize for 41 good articles, and the topic prize for a 13-article good topic and an 8-article featured topic, both in round 3.
 * wins the news prize for the most news articles in round 3.

We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2016 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.

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WikiCup 2016 is just around the corner...
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WikiCup 2015 March newsletter


That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. Forty-seven competitors move into this round (a bit shy of the expected 64), and we are roughly broken into eight groups of six. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups.

Twenty-two Good Articles were submitted, including three by, and two each by , , , and. Twenty-one Featured Pictures were claimed, including 17 by (the Round 1 high scorer). Thirty-one contestants saw their DYKs appear on the main page, with a commanding lead (28) by. Twenty-nine participants conducted GA reviews with completing nine.

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WikiCup 2016 March newsletter (update)
Along with getting the year wrong in the newsletter that went out earlier this week, we did not mention (as the bot did not report) that claimed the first Featured Article Persoonia terminalis of the 2016 Wikicup. ,, and .--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:06, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank You

 * Thank you so much it means a lot to me. Icem4k (talk) 11:23, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * ✅ I have taken note and it has been corrected. Icem4k (talk) 11:24, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Ways to improve Linda High School
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I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Where are those references?!

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. Damibaru (talk) 01:58, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Working On That

 * Damibaru Thanks for the tip I will work on that. Icem4k (talk) 13:09, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * Justlettersandnumbers I would like to begin working on a new version of the article since that was my own work and research. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A03:2880:1010:6FF8:FACE:B00C:0:8000 (talk) 21:09, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Please review
I have created a temporary page because the article at B FLOW Zambia is suspected to be a copyright violation the substitute article is Talk:B_FLOW_Zambia/Temp Icem4k (talk) 13:12, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

The Result
Its a keep. User:Moonriddengirl moved page B FLOW Zambia/Temp to B FLOW Zambia without leaving a redirect. Icem4k (talk) 13:12, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * : Please note that it may have some similarities but it's my own work. Chabota Kanguya 18:53, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Result
It's a *keep* Icem4k (talk) 13:14, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

March 2015
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Will Be More Careful

 * Ok for that warning will be more care full and write my own Icem4k (talk) 13:14, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Removing AfD template
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I didn't mean to remove it

 * I didn't mean to remove the tag. Icem4k (talk) 13:24, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Quitting
, you don't have to quit. If you want the article on Mampi to be kept you need to find plenty of reliable sources that talk about her; since she is obviously really famous, that really should not be too difficult (though admittedly I haven't had much success with it myself). What you absolutely have to stop doing is copying text from other websites into Wikipedia. That is not allowed; it is against our policy, and also against the law. As I said above, everything you write must be in your own words. Also, just so that you know: it looks as if you may have been editing while logged out; that's usually not a great idea, as it can give the wrong impression of your intentions. If you have questions about editing and ask them here, I should see that you have done so - and will try to answer! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:30, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

I don't want to

 * thanks I don't want to I feel like am pushed in the tiny box. So would be fine if I git her story from self would be fine it's also a violation of some sort. Icem4k (talk) 13:25, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

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Fresh start

 * Justlettersandnumbers I would like to begin working on a new version of the article since that was my own work and research.Icem4k (talk) 13:28, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Your user name
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Not A Group Or Company

 * user:JohnCD please be advices that my user name ICEM4K is not a groups or organizations and had no connection to any please NOTE THAT that's me and fully personal 100% I have the full responsible of that name. Icem4k (talk) 13:18, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

I Thought

 * I thought Icem4k was an organization because the deleted version of your user page said "we founded Icem4k" and "Members of Icem4k: Chabota Kanguya CEO, Moses Kapisa General Manager, Manyando Muyendka, Louis Figo Kanguya... " As long as the username represents just you as an individual, and you are the only one who uses the account, that should be OK.
 * On talk pages (but not in articles) it helps if you sign your contributions by ending them with a group of four "tilde" characters, which the system converts into a "signature" of your username plus the time and date, like this: JohnCD (talk) 09:04, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

It's Only Person

 * JohnCD Okay please be advised that it is me and only one person that's my on-line name. Icem4k (talk) 13:20, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

OK

 * That's OK, then. JohnCD (talk) 14:01, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank You

 * (talk) I was in school then but thank you i could not reply. Icem4k (talk) 18:10, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Roberto Zambia
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My Own Work

 * Please note that it may have some similarities but it's my own work. Icem4k (talk) 18:18, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Fresh Start
Am now working on a new one having a fresh start. Icem4k (talk) 18:18, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

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OKAY

 * Taken note and will not happen again. Icem4k (talk) 18:44, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

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 * User:Peter SamFan You welcome and thank you so much. Icem4k (talk) 22:13, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Guestbook
I have a guestbook topicon in case you were interested. To get it, place {{User:Peter SamFan/Guestbook Topicon}} on your userpage. Peter Sam Fan  &#124; chat?    14:40, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank You
Thanks you very much for the offer I will consider it. Icem4k (talk) 19:18, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks it's been done I have removed the Disambiguation link. Icem4k (talk) 11:51, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

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IP Blocking

 * Yamla But affected I keep getting the message after 20minutes that i cant edit cause i have been blocked some one else on the same IP address as mine. Icem4k (talk) 11:53, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, there's really nothing I can do about that. The autoblocks have to be cleared manually. Any way you can complain to your ISP to get that abusive vandal shut down? --Yamla (talk) 13:11, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Yamla Oh okay thanks. Icem4k (talk) 13:55, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:B Flow
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WikiCup 2016 May newsletter


Round 2 is over and 35 competitors have moved on to Round 3.

Round 2 saw three FAs (two by and one by ), four Featured Lists (with three by ), and 53 Good Articles (six by  and five each by, , and ). Eleven Featured Pictures were promoted (six by and five by ). One Featured Portal, Featured Topic and Good Topic were also promoted. The DYK base point total was 1,135. scored 265 base points, while and  each scored 150 base points. Eleven ITN were promoted and 131 Good Article Reviews were conducted with completing a staggering 61 reviews. Two contestants, and, broke the 700 point mark for Round 2.

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Hi Icem4k. I've moved the above template in your userspace so you you've only got to move it back when you've collected 5 or so blue links, rather than have to create it again from scratch. Izkala (talk) 20:17, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
 * * Izkala (talk) Thank you will do just that.

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Contests
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WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge
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 * Thanks taken note and will do as adviced. Icem4k (talk) 18:44, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

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Invite to the African Destubathon
Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most geography, wildlife and women articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing, whether it's a river in Malawi, a Nigerian footballer, or a South African civil rights activist, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. For those of you who signed up to the North African contest, that will hopefully be held in the new year. Thanks. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:11, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup 2016 November newsletter: Final results
The final round of the 2016 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2016 WikiCup top three finalists:
 * First Place -
 * Second Place -
 * Third Place -

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:
 * Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a three-way tie with themselves for two FAs in each of R2, R3, and R5).
 * Good Article – MPJ-DK had 14 GAs promoted in R3.
 * Featured List – produced 2 FLs in R2
 * Featured Pictures – Adam Cuerden restored 18 images to FP status in R4.
 * Featured Portal – produced the only FPO of the Cup in R2.
 * Featured Topic – and Calvin were each responsible for one FT in R3 and R2, respectively.
 * Good Topic – MPJ-DK created a GT with 9 GAs in R5.
 * Did You Know – MPJ-DK put 53 DYKs on the main page in R4.
 * In The News – and, each with 5 ITN, both in R4.
 * Good Article Review – MPJ-DK completed 61 GARs in R2.

Over the course of the 2016 WikiCup the following content was added to Wikipedia (only reporting on fixed value categories): 17 Featured Articles, 183 Good Articles, 8 Featured Lists, 87 Featured Pictures, 40 In The News, and 321 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:53, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

We will open up a discussion for comments on process and scoring in a few days. The 2017 WikiCup is just around the corner! Many thanks from all the judges. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. ,, and

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016-2017 GA Cup
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Joseph Chipimo
Hello! I've just finished an article of Joseph chipimo he is Zambia's internet entrepreneur enthusiast who is the founder of worklance and uchatt which are internet based startup companies in Zambia. Could you help me out keeping this article alive on wikipedia or expand it if need arises. Thank you 41.72.102.123 (talk) 11:34, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Yeah Sure You Can

 * Sure! You can do that by clicking the last of the three "Show" links at midle right on the copyvio template on the article. Please write entirely in your own words, and do not copy ANY text from the old version to the rewrite. Everything must be written by you, with words you yourself have chosen. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:47, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

RE: Sign up
The judges of the GA Cup are allowing you to stay signed-up, even though you missed the deadline, because competition is slower this year.-- 3family6 ( Talk to me  &#124;  See what I have done  ) 14:31, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Talk to me thanks. Icem4k (talk) 14:45, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup December newsletter: WikiCup 2017
On 1 January 2017, WikiCup 2017 (the 10th Annual WikiCup) will begin. This year we are trying something a little different – monetary prizes.

For the WC2017 the prizes will be as follows (amounts are based in US$ and will be awarded in the form of an online Amazon gift certificate):
 * First place – $200
 * Second & Third place – $50 each
 * Category prizes – $25 per category (which will be limited to FA, FL, FP, GA, and DYK for 2017). Winning a category prize does not require making it to the final round.

Note: Monetary prizes are a one-year experiment for 2017 and may or may not be continued in the future. In order to be eligible to receive any of the prizes above, the competing Wikipedia account must have a valid/active email address. After two years as a WikiCup judge, Figureskatingfan is stepping down. We thank her for her contributions as a WikiCup judge. We are pleased to announce that our newest judge is two-time WikiCup champion Cwmhiraeth.

The judges for the 2017 WikiCup are, , and.

Signups are open now and will remain open until 5 February 2017. You can sign up here.

If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:02, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

4th GA Cup - Round 2
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4th GA Cup - Round 3
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March 2017 WikiCup newsletter
And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. It would have been 5 points, but when a late entrant was permitted to join the contest in February, a promise was made that his inclusion would not result in the exclusion of any other competitor. To achieve this, the six entrants that had the lowest positive score of 4 points have been added to the 64 people who otherwise would have qualified. As a result, some of the groups have nine contestants rather than eight. Our top four scorers in round 1 were:


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber, last year's winner, led the field with two featured articles on birds and a total score of 674.
 * 🇪🇺 Iry-Hor, a WikiCup newcomer, came next with a featured article, a good article and a tally of 282 bonus points for a score of 517. All these points came from the article Nyuserre Ini, an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh,
 * 🇯🇵 1989, another WikiCup newcomer, was in joint third place at 240. 1989 has claimed points for two featured lists and one good article relating to anime and comedy series, all of which were awarded bonus points.
 * Peacemaker67 shared third place with five good articles and thirteen good article reviews, mostly on naval vessels. He is also new to the competition.

The largest number of DYKs have been submitted by Vivvt and The C of E, who each claimed for seven, and MBlaze Lightning achieved eight articles at ITN. Carbrera and Peacemaker67 each claimed for five GAs and Krishna Chaitanya Velaga was well out in front for GARs, having reviewed 32. No featured pictures, featured topics or good topics yet, but we have achieved three featured articles and a splendid total of fifty good articles.

So, on to the second round. 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 equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or anything 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. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:52, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

4th GA Cup - The Final
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May 2017 WikiCup newsletter
The second round of the competition has now closed, with just under 100 points being required to qualify for round 3. YellowEvan just scraped into the next round with 98 points but we have to say goodbye to the thirty or so competitors who didn't achieve this threshold; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Our top scorers in round 2 were:


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber, led the field with five featured articles, four on birds and one on astronomy, and a total score of 2049, half of which came from bonus points.
 * 🇯🇵 1989 was in second place with 826 points, 466 of which were bonus points. 1989 has claimed points mostly relating to anime and Japanese-related articles.
 * Peacemaker67 took third place with two FAs, one GA and seven GARs, mostly on naval vessels or military personnel, scoring 543 points.
 * Other contestants who scored over 400 points were Freikorp, Carbrera, and Czar. Of course all these points are now wiped out and the 32 remaining contestants start again from zero in round 3.

Vivvt submitted the largest number of DYKs (30), and MBlaze Lightning achieved 13 articles at ITN. Carbrera claimed for 11 GAs and Argento Surfer performed the most GARs, having reviewed 11. So far we have achieved 38 featured articles and a splendid 132 good articles. Commendably, 279 GARs have been achieved so far, more than double the number of GAs.

So, on to 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 10 days of "earning" them. 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 nominations, 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. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:16, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Jason J Mulikita


A tag has been placed on Jason J Mulikita, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the. Domdeparis (talk) 15:35, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Not My First article

 * Domdeparis (talk) I have taken note oh and mind you this is not my first article. Icem4k (talk) 05:56, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Reflist - deprecated number of columns
Hello Icem4k, using fix numbers of columns in reference lists is deprecated - please see Template:reflist (the "old" parameter doesn't adapt column display to differing display sizes). I have reverted your changes in a few artist articles. Best regards. GermanJoe (talk) 06:27, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Response

 * GermanJoe (talk)I have noted and I have gone through the Template:reflist. Won't happen again. Icem4k (talk) 17:20, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

WikiCup 2017 July newsletter
The third round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 288 points being required to qualify for round 4. It was a hotly competitive round with all but four of the contestants exceeding the 106 points that was necessary to proceed to round 4 last year. Coemgenus and Freikorp tied on 288, and both have been allowed to proceed, so round 4 now has one pool of eight competitors and one of nine.

Round 3 saw the achievement of a 26-topic Featured topic by MPJ-DK as well as 5 featured lists and 13 featured articles. PanagiotisZois and SounderBruce achieved their first ever featured articles. Carbrera led the GA score with 10, Tachs achieved 17 DYKs and MBlaze Lightning 10 In the news items. There were 167 DYKs, 93 GARs and 82 GAs overall, this last figure being higher than the number of GAs in round 2, when twice as many people were taking part. 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 4, we say goodbye to the fifteen or so competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. 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, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 05:38, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

WikiCup 2017 September newsletter
Round 4 of the WikiCup has ended and we move forward into the final round. In round 4, a total of 12 FAs, 3 FLs, 44 GAs, 3 FLs, 79 DYKs, 1 ITN and 42 GARs was achieved, with no FPs or FTs this time. Congratulations to Peacemaker67 on the Royal Yugoslav Navy Good Topic of 36 items, and the 12 featured articles achieved by Cas Liber (5), Vanamonde93 (3), Peacemaker67 (2), Adityavagarwal (1) and 12george1 (1). With a FA scoring 200 points, and bonus points available on top of this, FAs are likely to feature heavily in the final round. Meanwhile Yellow Evan, a typhoon specialist, was contributing 12 DYKs and 10 GAs, while Adityavagarwal and Freikorp topped the GAR list with 8 reviews each. As we enter the final round, we are down to eight contestants, and we would like to thank those of you who have been eliminated for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. The lowest score needed to reach round 5 was 305, and I think we can expect a highly competitive final round.

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 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck, and let the best man (or woman) win! 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 and Cwmhiraeth 06:26, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

World Cup 2018 Final
Hi there

Just to say I've moved this back to your sandbox, and restored the redirect to the main World Cup page. Given that there is nothing known about this match yet, other than its location and date, it doesn't yet merit a full article. Instead, any relevant material can go in the "Final" section of the main 2018 FIFA World Cup article. At present all the sections in the sandbox version are empty, which is not a useful thing for readers to see. Most likely the article can be created properly a few weeks before the actual game, when we will start knowing more about it. Thanks, and happy editing! &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 14:25, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Amakuru okay.. But I remember very well that the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup Final article was created on the 26 November 2016 and the match was on 2 July 2017 by then it didn't enough information but just the date and venue of where it will take place and I ask when is too soon and when is not? Chabota Kanguya (talk) 14:51, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Maybe that's a conversation you can have at WT:FOOTY, the WikiProject for football generally, they may be able to advise on when articles on finals should be created. I think as a rule of thumb though, if the only information in the article is the date and the venue, then that's not enough information for a separate article. Particularly not one that has a lot of empty sections, making it look "under construction". I would say that Confederations Cup one was created too early myself... Thanks &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 15:06, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
 * @Amakuru If that's the case it's fine will just do other things.Chabota Kanguya (talk) 15:59, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

File:Melissa Roxburgh.jpg listed for discussion
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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Cleo Ice Queen.jpg


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Speedy deletion nomination of File:LuyandoWood.jpg


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If the image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use it — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Majora (talk) 04:26, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

WikiCup 2017 November newsletter: Final results
The final round of the 2017 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2017 WikiCup top three finalists:
 * First Place -
 * Second Place -
 * Third Place -

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:
 * Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a two-way tie with themselves for an astonishing five FAs in R2 and R4).
 * Good Article – Adityavagarwal had 14 GAs promoted in R5.
 * Featured List – and  both produced 2 FLs in R2
 * Featured Pictures – improved an image to FP status in R5, the only FP this year.
 * Featured Topic – has the only FT of the Cup in R3.
 * Good Topic – Four different editors created a GT in R2, R3 and R4.
 * Did You Know – Adityavagarwal had 22 DYKs on the main page in R5.
 * In The News – had 14 ITN on the main page in R2.
 * Good Article Review – completed 31 GARs in R1.

Over the course of the 2017 WikiCup the following content was added or improved on Wikipedia: 51 Featured Articles, 292 Good Articles, 18 Featured Lists, 1 Featured Picture, 1 Featured Topics, 4 Good Topics, around 400 Did You Knows, 75 In The News, and 442 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.

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