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WikiCup 2018 September newsletter
The fourth round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The eight users who made it to the final round had to score a minimum of 422 points to qualify, with the top score in the round being 4869 points. The leaders in round 4 were:


 * Courcelles scored a magnificent 4869 points, with 92 good articles on Olympics-related themes. Courcelles' bonus points alone exceeded the total score of any of the other contestants!
 * Kees08 was second with 1155 points, including a high-scoring featured article for Neil Armstrong, two good topics and some Olympics-related good articles.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber, with 1066 points, was in third place this round, with two featured articles and a good article, all on natural history topics.
 * Other contestants who qualified for the final round were 🇲🇭 Nova Crystallis, Iazyges,  SounderBruce,  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Kosack and 🇺🇸 Ceranthor.

During round four, 6 featured articles and 164 good articles were promoted by WikiCup contestants, 13 articles were included in good topics and 143 good article reviews were performed. There were also 10 "in the news" contributions on the main page and 53 "did you knows". Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

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. 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, and let the best editor 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, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:30, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Bishan tunnel flooding
Hello! Your submission of Bishan tunnel flooding at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! CeeGee 08:37, 6 September 2018 (UTC) CeeGee 08:37, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Please explain
please explain what i did wrong on the clash royale article. you seem to have undone it. B.N. Dehigaspage (talk) 11:53, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Oh! I'm really sorry for not reading the guide. Thanks for showing me! I will try not to do it again. B.N. Dehigaspage (talk) 12:01, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Good that you understand! 1.02 editor (C651 set 217/218) 12:55, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks again B.N.D 16:31, 15 September 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by B.N. Dehigaspage (talk • contribs)

Hello again!
Hello again. i just dropped by to ask you for help. Have you ever considered of improving clash Royale into a good article? Please help me improve it by adding more information, cause this can be made a good article, but it needs more proffesional editors. B. N .D |  TALK  12:45, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
 * To get CR article to GA will take A LOT of work and given the current state of the article and game it is unlikely... 1.02 editor (C651 set 217/218) 06:53, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Wishing you success...
...on your upcoming exams! Looking forward to possible future collaborations in the SimpleE WP. -- Deborahjay (talk) 05:33, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot! Hopefully I will be able to work on simplewiki and not get grounded... 1.02 editor (C651 set 217/218) 06:53, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:ADOPTION
ADOPTION request for socialist/ communist pages. As a new user I am interested in getting help from you. Umar shahid (talk) 21:26, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Hello! Glad to see that you want to learn the ways of writing Wikipedia. I have reviewed some of your recent edits and have seen that you are fairly adapt with writing and have a relatively healthy edit count of >200 edits. Currently your main issues are only grammar and wiki text both of which can be easily learnt. I honestly do not feel that you require adoption but if you still wish to continue I am ok with that. 1.02 editor (C651 set 217/218) 06:33, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Bishan tunnel flooding
Hello! Your submission of Bishan tunnel flooding at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 23:39, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

Results from global Wikimedia survey 2018 are published
Hello! A few months ago the Wikimedia Foundation invited you to take a survey about your experiences on Wikipedia. You signed up to receive the results. The report is now published on Meta-Wiki! We asked contributors 170 questions across many different topics like diversity, harassment, paid editing, Wikimedia events and many others.

Read the report or watch the presentation, which is available only in English. Add your thoughts and comments to the report talk page. Feel free to share the report on Wikipedia/Wikimedia or on your favorite social media. Thanks!

-- EGalvez (WMF) 19:25, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

DON'T DO THAT
Hey! What are you doing? 郑州路知 (talk) 02:20, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

I DON'T THINK YOU ARE ALLOWED TO REMOVE 'STATION LAYOUT'! 郑州路知 (talk) 02:25, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Please read WP:TRIVIA and WP:NOTAGUIDE. Most London station articles do not have this anyway. Not all articles currently follow the Manual of style so please bear in mind that you may encounter articles like this. Vincent LUFan (talk) (Kenton!) 10:53, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

About recent edits on Zhengzhou East railway station
Hey, I've noticed the recent edits on Zhengzhou East railway station about the station layout section. I don't think the station layout fails the WP:NOTGUIDE or WP:TRIVIA. It is NOT a guide and just shows the platform layout in a more direct way than word descriptions only. As you can see, many train station related articles on Wikipedia have such a section. Windmemories
 * hi thanks for bringing this up. From what I interpret, the amount of platforms and services in a particular station should be included, but the platform layout, wether in a graphic or word form, should not be included, as it can be considered as trivia. A discussion at Wikipedia talk:SGpedians’ notice board/2018 archive pointed out a few important facts such as that Wikipedia is not a travel guide (WP:NOTGUIDE), such information can be found on Operators websites (not sure for china), and that Wikipedia does not cater for tourists. Also, many other metros also are going to have the station layouts removed soon or have them already removed (Taipei Metro is an example) and just so happen that I was assessing that particular article when I came across the station layout. Please do share your insights on this matter I am most delighted to hear from you. 1.02 editor (C651 set 217/218) 09:14, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Similarly, the detailed timetable at Zhengzhou–Shenzhen high-speed train should not be there, for the same reasons as above. 1.02 editor (C651 set 217/218) 09:27, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for discussing. I do agree that the too detailed information such as timetables can be regarded as trivia and I'm going to replace them. From my point of view, however, I still think station layout section should be kept. It is not only for tourists as a travel guide (in China the CR and metro systems of many cities do not offer such info on their websites), but also can be good information for readers that are interested in related topics. -- Windmemories 10:39, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

I have started a discussion at WT:TWP maybe we can move this discussion there? 1.02 editor (C651 set 217/218) 11:55, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * OK, let's put that aside. By the way, I've reverted your edit on the number of platforms. I think it's common knowledge that one island platform should be counted as two platforms.-- Windmemories 01:36, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
 * thanks for the information but I think it will be unfair to call this 'common knowledge'. 1.02 editor (C651 set 217/218) 05:13, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

突然想起来为什么用中文回复你你就什么都不说了……据我所知……新加坡人的中文是很差的……能把"新加坡"打成"星加坡"，身为中国人我表示服气……就那还好意思说自己会说中文……你知道你们这叫什么吗？这叫背叛中华民族！不行不行……太丢人了……算了算了，你们这些背叛中华民族去投奔美国的竖子，不足与谋！ 郑州路知 (talk) 16:43, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

还有，郑州地铁1号线马上就要5周年了，我希望你不要再来干涉任何与中国有关的内容了 郑州路知 (talk) 16:44, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 请您照顾好您的谈吐. 别因为他不回应您就这么样”袭击”他吧. 如果他真的不会，算了吧. 不要这么样小看别人. 还有，在这里也提醒你这儿是英文维基百科. 他用英文回复也是蛮正常的. 请你不要再personally attack. 您这么做岂不是丢了中国人的脸吗？谢谢 Vincent LUFan (talk) (Kenton!) 00:59, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Guys this is EN.wiki pls type English. could you please help to translate my Chinese is bad. Thanks. 1.02 editor (C651 set 217/218) 08:01, 25 December 2018 (UTC) 你以后可以用英文谈吗？谢谢. 我没用回达你的原因是因为我现在不大用这个网站了. 谢谢你知道新加坡人的华文很差，所以以后请在这里用英文讲话. 1.02 editor (C651 set 217/218) 08:12, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Actually it was a last resort to type in Mandarin. I’ll type English next time :) unless if he persists. Vincent LUFan (talk) (Kenton!) 10:45, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 不要这样说啦，维基百科是自由编辑的，有不同意见也很正常，可以按规则就事论事来讨论，没必要进行人身攻击，更不要上升到国家和民族的层面. It's common to have dissents and we can follow the rules to deal with that. Personal attacks are no good in reaching an agreement.--Windmemories (talk) 02:59, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Well, I'm really sorry for saying that. In China, you know, there're some rules limiting us Chinese viewing foreign websites for unknown reasons.（Maybe someone knows） For example, we can't use apps like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and so on without VPN. Also, it seems that having discussion with others who are against your own idea is the best way to work out the problem. Again, I'm really sorry for what I've done. （A good news is that Zhengzhou Metro Line 5 has already begun its test run. It will be open maybe in April. ） 郑州路知 (talk) 06:38, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Well that's true. I have a few friends who lived in China told me about the app bans. But oh, I've never heard about the latter culture before lol. And wow China metro development is really speeeeeeeeeeedy. Vincent LUFan (talk) (Kenton!) 06:57, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Well,

that's all right. Last year, there were too many cities planning metro constructions,so the State Council of People's Republic of China put on a limit about reporting constructions.(In China, we should report to the council before starting constructing.) Also there's a saying describes Shanghai is that'It's almost empty under Shanghai'(for too many metro stations and tunnles). However, Shanghai is still continuing its metro contructions. 郑州路知 (talk) 09:04, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Bishan tunnel flooding
Alex Shih (talk) 00:02, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

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



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


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

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

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2019 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. ,, and.

Wiki Adoption Enquiry
Hey there! I'm interested in a wiki adoption. What do you generally do though for the adoption thing? Btw I'm a trains fanatic too XD Vincent LUFan (talk) (Kenton!) 10:54, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi, wiki adoptions are generally for new users to learn the ropes of Wikipedia, and I see from your userpage that you have been contributing here for almost 5 years. If you do require help maybe the teahouse would be a better place. Thanks 1.02 editor (C651 set 217/218) 07:49, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Actually I was doing on and off editing throughout the almost 5 years xD but alright i’ll consider the teahouse. Do you edit Singapore train articles? Vincent LUFan (talk) (Kenton!) 10:18, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
 * yeah most of my edits come from articles related to trains in Singapore but I have been editing many other articles too. Nowadays I mostly just do watchlist patrolling since I have no motivation to create content. 1.02 editor (C651 set 217/218) 12:44, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I see. For me I have kind of a struggle for Malaysian train articles since resources are quite limited. So far I've edited mainly the SBK line article but stopped quite a while too. I went on (and actually started off with) to London train station articles. They are really interesting :) My level of fanatism: remembering all stations on Singapore MRT huehue Vincent LUFan (talk) (Kenton!) 12:47, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

Requesting formal adoption and education
Greetings, I'm Redactyll, and I'd like to be adopted formally by you. I am very new to the project, with only around two thousand edits. I also have only been here for two months. Since I only have around two thousand edits, and only about two months of experience, I'd like to get a formal adoption so that I may become further immersed in the ways of Wikipedia. I'm currently a rollbacker, pending changes reviewer, and tool developer, as well as a XCON user. However, one thing to keep in mind before adopting me are that I am extremely inexperienced with Wikipedia. If you're willing to adopt a complete "newbie" then I'm the person for you. I wish to learn about Wikipedia on a deeper level, and to gain formal training and learning experience. If you would like to help teach another adoptee the ropes, then I'd appreciate it if you could adopt and teach me. Best regards, Redactyll Letsa taco 'bou it, son! 22:42, 25 December 2018 (UTC) at 22:42, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup!
Hello and Happy New Year!

Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup, the competition begins today. If you have already joined, your submission page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and we will set up your submissions page. One important rule to remember is that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2019, and which you have nominated this year, is eligible for points in the competition, the judges will be checking! Any questions should be directed to one of the judges, or left on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will make it to round 2. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are, , and. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:14, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Thessaloniki Metro
Hello, I'm done with editing the text of the article, it's just the animated gif of the expansion of the network that needs correcting and it will be done tomorrow, as I'm travelling today. --Michail (blah) 11:21, 10 January 2019 (UTC) Ok, please do note that there are additional concerns that I have raised on the nomination page which needs to be addressed. Thanks 1.02 editor (C651 set 217/218) 13:30, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 Reminder
Hi. I'm DannyS712 (talk), and I just wanted to remind you that you have signed up to compete in this year's WikiCup! There are about 2 weeks left before the first round ends – if you haven't yet made your first submission, there is still time to start; if you have already started, keep up the good work. See your submissions page: here. Good luck!

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