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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.

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Flags
Hi Lee, the flag thing seems intractable with two camps: 1) obey MOS per WP:WIAFA and 2) stick with personal preferences per WP:OWN. Not much hope there. In the meantime, I'll link you to one of the 111 featured lists which has many flags, but which is joyously MOS-compliant, and nicely so: Laureus World Sports Award for Action Sportsperson of the Year. I've done several dozen like this, and the attention to detail, to MOS, to accessibility, to readers who aren't the same as the majority, has been widely appreciated. I hope, seeing it, gives you some hope that we can get there, eventually. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:49, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
 * As a quick update - I've gotten Ohconfucius to update the flagicon script here to include flagathlete. In my eyes, this is the best version for sporting events, like used in 1962 Tour de France, and seems the most MOS accurate. I'm going to give it a test and see how it works. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski  (talk • contribs) 07:42, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

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world seniors championship is not being staged this season
so that is why it has been removed from the world seniors tour page ok 80.233.95.86 (talk) 23:40, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

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Flags again
As if it were needed, you now have four editors, three of whom are independent of the snooker project, all commenting at FAC that the flags should be changed to be MOS compliant. Contrary to that you have one user who is using  personal preference in an attempt to maintain the status quo. I would think that's sufficient now to implement a MOS-compliant change to the article as you have attempted previously, e.g. at the very least including the names of the countries on the first instance. Or even going with the athlete flag approach I think you noted. I've used flags extensively in the Laureus Sports Awards featured topic, that might be another approach. But once that's done, we can get on with the meat of the FAC. As McCandlish noted, with luck Tvx1 will have moved onto something else and we can focus on making this a page Wikipedia can be proud of. The Rambling Man (talk) 20:39, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * - I'm on it. I think the first individual rounds makes sense for this. Let me know what you think. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 21:04, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree, although the qualifiers will need them too. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:06, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I was already on that. It's quite a process to move it to flagathlete, sadly. Might be a way to do it on AWB, but I'm not that smart. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 21:12, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Cool. I'll try to get to a full review tomorrow.  Best wishes to you. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:54, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Tell you what, now the nom has been archived, shall I just work on the article itself rather than leave you a bunch of comments? Then you can renominate once you're happy? The Rambling Man (talk) 14:42, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Realistically, that would make sense. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 14:43, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I think we're nearly good to go again. I note that the previous snooker project regulars who kept fighting to retain the non-MOS-compliant version have kept quiet since you made your excellent edits to resolve the flags issue, and as far as I  can see, the rest of the article is in good condition.  The Rambling Man (talk) 21:11, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

,::: thanks for your help! I agree. I do have to sit out two weeks due to it failing, however it's promising. If it is simply that editors didn't like the flag template over flagicon, that's fine, as you can't really argue with flagathlete. We could be on the edge of a way to get a snooker FA (and thus potentially more). I have a few GAs (around 5) awaiting review, and quite a few that have already passed that could also make the jump given some love. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 06:27, 24 May 2019 (UTC)

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Lee Vilenski
I'm trying to change my article name to "Bader Azem" and i need help — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bader azem (talk • contribs) 19:37, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
 * , you can do this at Changing username specifically Special:GlobalRenameRequest. However, as you are trying to create an article on someone with that name, it is against the WP:Username policy Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 19:44, 25 May 2019 (UTC)


 * , i made a article page about myself how can i remade without someone delete it ?
 * You shouldn't. You have a conflict of interest, and aren't notable. Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 19:51, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

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