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I was bored, so I was looking at random wikiarticles. Here's your wikirank:

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Hi Newyorkadam. I work with the Learning and Evaluation team at WMF. I would like to talk to you about your experiences planning and running on-wiki writing/editing contests. Specifically, I am interested in learning more about your experiences working on the tyop contest. My goal is to learn more about the strategies that program leaders are using to plan and conduct successful writing and editing contests. We will create a toolkit to share this knowledge with program leaders across the movement. Please send me an email at if you are interested in setting up a time to speak, or if you have any questions or concerns. I hope to hear from you soon! KHarold (WMF) (talk) 01:03, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
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Adoption
I am interested in being adopted, and I found your page on the adopt-a-user list. Would you be interested in helping me learn how to navigate/use Wikipedia? I would be very grateful if you could, but there would be no harsh feelings if you are too busy. Thanks! (BluJay (talk) 12:17, 24 March 2015 (UTC))
 * Hey BluJay, I'd be happy to adopt you! Would you rather go through a formal question-and-answer layout guide where you do different activities and I validate that you did them correctly or would you just want to ask me questions whenever you have them? -Newyorkadam (talk) 13:09, 24 March 2015 (UTC)Newyorkadam
 * I think I would prefer the traditional way, so I don't miss anything. My school schedule right now is pretty crazy, but I will be able to get on here for long enough to tell you if we can't do lessons that day. Will that be okay? By the way, I think you should consider cleaning out your talk page. It takes me five minutes to scroll down to the bottom, and that's a little bit of an inconvenience.BluJay (talk) 01:24, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, I should clean out my talk page... I'll get to it soon :P Sorry for any inconvenience. The course isn't done on a "day by day" basis per se, it's more-so just do a little bit when you want to. When you're ready, you should go to User:Newyorkadam/Adoption school, which will explain what to do. Please let me know if you have any questions. -Newyorkadam (talk) 02:57, 25 March 2015 (UTC)Newyorkadam
 * Okay, Thanks!BluJay (talk) 12:33, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Okay, call me stupid, but I cannot get that User:Newyorkadam:Adoption school thing to work on my page. Is there a way for you to get that for me by editing the page? It's User:BluJay/Adoption school. Sorry. (BluJay (talk) 02:19, 26 March 2015 (UTC))

Your problem is that first, you did. Then, you did. Finally, you did  The page is titled "User:Newyorkadam/Adoption school" (caps-sensitive). The first time the A in Adoption school wasn't capitlized, the second time it wasn't capitalized and you didn't have a space, and the third time you had the first closing bracket facing the wrong way ("{" instead of "}"). It should be, ! I know it can be confusing, but you'll get the hang of it :P -Newyorkadam (talk) 04:21, 26 March 2015 (UTC)Newyorkadam
 * I'm so sorry I didn't see that sooner! I either wasn't notified, or that was one of the times that I had more than one notification and didn't get around to that and it got marked as already viewed. So sorry! I will try to get this done ASAP. BluJay (talk) 02:23, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you! I don't know how in the world I missed that! And to think that I was hung up by one reversed sign! BluJay (talk) 02:26, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Do I click/tap on the first related pages link? BluJay (talk) 12:14, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

No, go through the sections in order (first read "Five Pillars", then "Markup", and so on). Related pages are things you can do after you're done the course. -Newyorkadam (talk) 18:48, 31 March 2015 (UTC)Newyorkadam
 * Okay, thanks! (again)
 * I'm sorry, I keep asking you for help, but where do I find the aforementioned sections? BluJay (talk) 23:10, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
 * See this screenshot. And don't worry about asking for help, that's what I'm here for -Newyorkadam (talk) 00:20, 1 April 2015 (UTC)Newyorkadam
 * Hate to break it to you, but my kindle can't get to those outside links, I will check it out if I can get on the computer tomorrow. Thank you so much, I know you're really trying to help me out, and I really appreciate it. BluJay (talk) 01:19, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I got an alert that I was on the Usernames for Administrative attention page! Am I in trouble? What did I do? Am I going to be blocked? I just started on Wikipedia, and other than my first edits which were reverted, I haven't really ventured into the wikiweb since! Only talk pageant to help like! You have a lot of edits, and are respected here right? Can you look through my history and show them somehow that I didn't do anything, I really don't want to be blocked, I like Wikipedia! BluJay (talk) 01:29, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
 * You don't need to worry— the username in question is User:Bleujay, and someone said their username is too similar to yours; not the other way around. -Newyorkadam (talk) 01:32, 1 April 2015 (UTC)Newyorkadam
 * Thank goodness, I saw the heading that labeled that section, and got really worried, thank you. Sorry I overreacted. Why did they're let that other user make the account in the first place if it was too similar to mine? What if I said I didn't mind, could they keep their name, I'd hate for them to have to change it. BluJay (talk) 01:58, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
 * There's no one that "lets" someone pick a username— anyone can technically take any username that isn't already used, it's just they might be changed afterward if any problem arise. And sure, you can join the discussion and offer your 2¢. -Newyorkadam (talk) 03:15, 1 April 2015 (UTC)Newyorkadam
 * Thanks! I just remember when I was first trying to pick a name it kept telling me it was too similar to this or that. BluJay (talk) 12:23, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry, or haven't gotten around to getting on the computer yet, and in the meantime, I have no clue what to do. I've found a whole list of things I CAN'T do though! 😁 I can't...

If you ask me, that's WAY too many can'ts I would really love to find something I'm good at here. BluJay (talk) 22:43, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Add lyrics to song pages
 * Reference things because I can't get to sites other than Wikipedia on my kindle
 * Edit my userpage
 * Edit my userpage table
 * Make my own userboxes
 * Make userpages for other people or I will be falsely accused of sockpuppeting
 * Ask about why my edits were reverted without making the other person mad
 * Add pictures
 * Access/go to outside links
 * I'm sorry I have not been on Wikipedia for a while, school has been pretty busy for me, and I haven't been able to find time for this. I was wondering if there's a way to block someone from editing your talk page. keeps posting nonsense and often annoying comments on my page even though I have repeatedly told her not to. She also seems to be bothering . What can I do? BluJay (talk) 00:43, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

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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.
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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  16:39, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Emily's Entourage, Ping*
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 * Hi! I see that "Solitary" is finally being reviewed! Would you like me to help with addressing Josh's comments, or did you plan on tackling them? Thanks!  Ruby  2010/  2013  01:16, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I was planning on fixing it up tomorrow, but if you want to do it feel free! -Newyorkadam (talk) 01:56, 26 June 2015 (UTC)Newyorkadam
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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.

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 * , 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.
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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.

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This is interesting, but WP isn't the news ...  Acroterion   (talk)   04:57, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
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I really want to edit again, but you haven't answered my last e-mail, and I worry you lack time. If you do, then I might need another mentor, when I would really rather just continue under you.

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