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Your GA nomination of Mississippi Highway 465
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Mississippi Highway 465 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 Ncchild -- Ncchild (talk) 01:21, 13 June 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) 01:52, 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
--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:40, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

New Challenge for Oceania and Australia
Hi, WikiProject Oceania/The 10,000 Challenge and WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge are up and running based on The 10,000 Challenge which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. The Australia challenge would feed into the wider region one and potentially New Zealand could have a smaller challenge too. The main goal is content improvement, tackling stale old stubs and important content and improving sourcing/making more consistent but new articles are also welcome if sourced. I understand that this is a big goal for regular editors, especially being summertime where you are, but if you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Oceania and Australia like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1700 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for the region but fuelled by a series of contests to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. The Africa contest scaled worldwide would naturally provide great benefits to Oceania countries, particularly Australia and attract new editors. I would like some support from existing editors here to get the Challenges off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile and potentially bring about hundreds of improvements in a few weeks through a contest! Cheers.♦ --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:12, 24 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)

Your GA nomination of Mississippi Highway 612
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Mississippi Highway 612 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 Cameron11598 -- Cameron11598 (talk) 23:41, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mississippi Highway 612
The article Mississippi Highway 612 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Mississippi Highway 612 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 Cameron11598 -- Cameron11598 (talk) 00:02, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

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)

Your GA nomination of Ohio State Route 364
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Ohio State Route 364 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 Cameron11598 -- Cameron11598 (talk) 19:41, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ohio State Route 364
The article Ohio State Route 364 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ohio State Route 364 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 Cameron11598 -- Cameron11598 (talk) 20:41, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mississippi Highway 23
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Mississippi Highway 23 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 Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 01:01, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mississippi Highway 23
The article Mississippi Highway 23 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Mississippi Highway 23 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 Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 05:02, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mississippi Highway 531
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Mississippi Highway 531 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 Coffee -- Coffee (talk) 21:21, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mississippi Highway 531
The article Mississippi Highway 531 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Mississippi Highway 531 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. &mdash; Coffee //  have a ☕️ //  beans  // 22:30, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ohio State Route 703
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Ohio State Route 703 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 Argento Surfer -- Argento Surfer (talk) 15:21, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ohio State Route 703
The article Ohio State Route 703 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ohio State Route 703 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 Argento Surfer -- Argento Surfer (talk) 19:41, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

The Center Line: Spring 2017
  Volume 9, Issue 1 • Spring 2017 • About the Newsletter

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 * Departments

• Assessment roundup

• Portal selected articles and pictures 1=
 * Features

• Commons and Wikidata revamp

• Route logs for junction lists

• Finding friends at the DOT

• This space for rent 1=
 * State and national updates

• State updates

• In other project news...

 Archives • Newsroom • Full Issue • Shortcut: WP:USRD/NEWS
 * —delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of on 01:03, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Ohio Wikimedians User Group - Invitation
Hi CycloneIsaac,

I'm Kevin, one of the founding members of the Ohio Wikimedians User Group. Created in July 2016, we're working to be a central group of Ohio Wikimedians who organize and support offline events, promote the Wikimedia movement in Ohio, build connections throughout our state, and above all, support each other. We already have a handful of members and have worked to support multiple events, including Wiki Loves Monuments in the United States and several Art+Feminism edit-a-thons at universities throughout Ohio.

I wanted to reach out to you and invite you to join the Ohio Wikimedians User Group. Being a part of the user group will allow easy communication between active Ohio editors, notifications of upcoming events in the Ohio area, and, if you're interested, the opportunity to help organize events such as edit-a-thons or workshops. Some notes:
 * All members receive a monthly newsletter with recent happenings, upcoming events, and more. Check out our April newsletter here.
 * This Thursday at 8:30 EST, we're having our first online meeting. Check out our meeting page here for more details, an agenda, and a section to sign up if you'd like to join us. Topics will include introductions and brainstorming for future projects.

Right now we have a Wikipedia Takes Columbus photo event going on, a Wiknic coming up this summer, and opportunities to attend the upcoming Ohio Private Academic Libraries Conference. If you're interested in joining us, feel free to add your name here - and feel free to reach out to me (or post on the user group's talk page) with questions or discussions. Thanks! ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 07:29, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

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)

Your GA nomination of Typhoon Wendy (1960)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Typhoon Wendy (1960) 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 Yellow Evan -- Yellow Evan (talk) 05:21, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Typhoon Wendy (1960)
The article Typhoon Wendy (1960) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Typhoon Wendy (1960) 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 Yellow Evan -- Yellow Evan (talk) 22:42, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Missouri Route 75
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Missouri Route 75 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 Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 02:00, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Missouri Route 75
The article Missouri Route 75 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:Missouri Route 75 for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 07:40, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Arkansas Highway 142
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Arkansas Highway 142 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 Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 03:01, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Missouri Route 75
The article Missouri Route 75 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Missouri Route 75 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 Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 06:41, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Arkansas Highway 142
The article Arkansas Highway 142 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Arkansas Highway 142 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 Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 07:21, 28 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 05:37, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

I-55 in Louisiana
Thanks for passing my first good article! Britinvasion64 (talk) 14:28, 9 August 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)

Your GA nomination of Mississippi Highway 53
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Mississippi Highway 53 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 Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 01:01, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mississippi Highway 53
The article Mississippi Highway 53 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:Mississippi Highway 53 for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 02:41, 31 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.

Regarding the prize vouchers - please send  an email from the email address to which you would like your Amazon voucher sent. Please include your preference of global Amazon marketplace as well. We hope to have the electronic gift cards processed and sent within a week.

We will open up a discussion for comments on process and scoring in a few days. The 2018 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 MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:41, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mississippi Highway 53
The article Mississippi Highway 53 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Mississippi Highway 53 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 Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 03:41, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018
So the 2017 WikiCup has come to an end. Congratulations to the winner, to the other finalists and to all those who took part. 177 contestants signed up, more than usual, but not all of them submitted entries in the first round. Were editors attracted by the cash prizes offered for the first time this year, or were these irrelevant? Do the rules and scoring need changing for the 2018 WikiCup? If you have a view on these or other matters, why not join in the WikiCup discussion about next year's contest? , and. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:59, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Missouri Route 164
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Missouri Route 164 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 Ed! -- Ed! (talk) 03:20, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Missouri Route 162
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Missouri Route 162 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 Ed! -- Ed! (talk) 03:40, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Missouri Route 164
The article Missouri Route 164 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:Missouri Route 164 for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ed! -- Ed! (talk) 03:40, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Missouri Route 162
The article Missouri Route 162 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:Missouri Route 162 for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ed! -- Ed! (talk) 04:00, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Missouri Route 164
The article Missouri Route 164 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Missouri Route 164 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 Ed! -- Ed! (talk) 21:02, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Missouri Route 162
The article Missouri Route 162 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Missouri Route 162 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 Ed! -- Ed! (talk) 21:02, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Missouri Route 48
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Missouri Route 48 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 Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 07:20, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Kentucky Route 1508
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Kentucky Route 1508 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 Vermont -- Vermont (talk) 01:21, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Kentucky Route 1508
The article Kentucky Route 1508 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Kentucky Route 1508 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 Vermont -- Vermont (talk) 02:01, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Ma On Shan Bypass


Hello, CycloneIsaac. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Ma On Shan Bypass".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the, , or  code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Legacypac (talk) 23:22, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Merciful failure
It pains me to say it, but you were right to fail Taconic State Parkway.

Years ago, after I had finished expanding it and writing most of the route description section, I mentioned to a friend of mine more involved in the roads projects than myself that, after an encouraging peer review, GA might not be far off. I was told that the people in the roads projects were far from satisfied with the state of the interchange table, and some people thought there was more detail than necessary in the history section. So, I decided to put those plans off.

When it was nominated I realized that a lot more work would be necessary, as you seem to have. I'm busy with other things at the moment and really didn't want to have to interrupt them and bring the TSP article back up to code (One major problem is that New York's Historic Preservation Office has migrated the NRHP applications to a newer site that does not assign them static URLs, so checking the current links against the source is no longer possible. And that NRHP application was a major source. I suppose I/we will have to go back to using the link to the slightly less well-digitized version at the NPS site).

BTW, you left the article with a "close paraphrasing" tag. Were there any sections in particular that led to this? I generally try to avoid this, but it was a long time ago and as I said above I couldn't check the text against the sources (And other sections have been added since then, by other editors). Daniel Case (talk) 02:33, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
 * The copyvio detector went off on the article when going through the GA toolbox. Yeah, I'm not sure why the nominator nominated the article to begin with. I know it's one of his goals, but it was far from being a Good Article.&mdash; CycloneIsaac ( Talk ) 02:40, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Hah! I think for once the copyvio may be on the other site's end. Johnlearn.com seems to be some site that sort of machine-reedits our articles ... I couldn't learn anything about it there. Daniel Case (talk) 02:50, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
 * CycloneIsaac, I took a look at the Earwig report on this article, and I don't see any basis for the close paraphrasing template you added to it. If you're going to be using Earwig, you need to know how to interpret its results. A number of 80% means nothing in and of itself, and should never have been cited as part of a GA review; examples of actual copying are what is needed. Just reading the johnlearn.com and smjohn.com text should have made you suspicious, because neither makes any sense: it's just phrases strung together, and both are dated late 2017, meaning that they were almost certainly strung together while copying from the Wikipedia article. (The problem here is that these sites should never have been used as sources because of their incoherence, which points to other problems in the article.) The geocaching.com site goes back to 2012, but that paragraph in the lede goes back further; in this case, a Wikipedia copy is being used as a source to cite extant text, which is a verification problem but not a close paraphrasing one. The two nytimes.com entries are simply the article quoting the newspaper, perfectly valid, and there's nothing to the next two sources. If you don't have any more evidence than Earwig, I'll be pulling the template as unwarranted. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:40, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Took down the template.&mdash; CycloneIsaac ( Talk ) 05:44, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 06:57, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Missouri Route 101
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Missouri Route 101 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 Vermont -- Vermont (talk) 11:01, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Missouri Route 101
The article Missouri Route 101 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Missouri Route 101 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 Vermont -- Vermont (talk) 23:01, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 March newsletter
And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. With 53 contestants qualifying, the groups for round 2 are slightly smaller than usual, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining users.

Our top scorers in round 1 were:


 * 🇺🇸 Aoba47 led the field with a featured article, 8 good articles and 42 GARs, giving a total of 666 points.
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 * 🇺🇸 Ceranthor, 🇮🇳 Numerounovedant, Carbrera, 🇳🇱 Farang Rak Tham and 🇷🇴 Cartoon network freak all had over 200 points, but like all the other contestants, now have to start again from scratch. A good achievement was the 193 GARs performed by WikiCup contestants, comparing very favourably with the 54 GAs they achieved.

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 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 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) and Vanamonde (talk) 15:27, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Missouri Route 48
The article Missouri Route 48 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Missouri Route 48 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 Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 19:41, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Missouri Route 48
— Maile (talk) 00:12, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thank you for helping to promote Tropical Storm Selma (2017) to good article standards! I really appreciate your help. Thank you! Cooper 19:47, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Typhoon Charlotte (1959)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Typhoon Charlotte (1959) 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 Courcelles -- Courcelles (talk) 22:41, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Typhoon Charlotte (1959)
The article Typhoon Charlotte (1959) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Typhoon Charlotte (1959) 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 Courcelles -- Courcelles (talk) 00:21, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Typhoon Hester (1952)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Typhoon Hester (1952) 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 Courcelles -- Courcelles (talk) 16:41, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Typhoon Hester (1952)
The article Typhoon Hester (1952) 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:Typhoon Hester (1952) for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Courcelles -- Courcelles (talk) 17:01, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Typhoon Hester (1952)
The article Typhoon Hester (1952) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Typhoon Hester (1952) 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 Courcelles -- Courcelles (talk) 21:41, 24 April 2018 (UTC)