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 * The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.

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 * In February 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) changed its office actions policy to include temporary and project-specific bans. The WMF exercised this new ability for the first time on the English Wikipedia on 10 June 2019 to temporarily ban and desysop . This action has resulted in significant community discussion, a request for arbitration (permalink), and, either directly or indirectly, the resignations of numerous administrators and functionaries. The WMF Board of Trustees is aware of the situation, and discussions continue on a statement and a way forward. The Arbitration Committee has sent an open letter to the WMF Board.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:20, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Topic bans
So...you're an admin. How does this work? I understand it's early days yet, but should another admin be flagged to the growing consensus over at Project VG? Or should I start a new topic on the matter over at Administrators' noticeboard? I'm happy to propose a block/ban there myself if that's the way to go about things. Quite frankly I've been avoiding editing some articles he's involved himself with because I just don't need the stress of his complete disregard for every other editor, but I'm sure you understand. Have a nice day. Damien Linnane (talk) 09:45, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Well, for me personally, I've recused myself from Niemti/Snake issues because I blocked him like 5 times (the last indefinitely) and then some other admins unblocked him a couple years later, and I got sick of be accused of hounding him. That said, the next steps would be to start a topic at AN, yeah. The best way to go about it would be to have a relatively short statement of a) exactly what the problem is, with links/diffs to as many recent-ish discussions/edits as you can find (so that everyone can easily see the problem) and b) exactly what the solution requested is (TBAN from gender-and-video-games issues). To make it be less of a "1 editor vs. 1 editor" thing, would help to get others in that thread to sign their names on your AN statement as well. May be good to note that as Niemti, in addition to his extensive block log, he has been TBAN'd twice: from the GA process and from anything related to Anita Sarkeesian. The latter is very relevant, as it is essentially a smaller version of the TBAN looked for here. -- Pres N  09:52, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info, I appreciate it. I'll see what I can do. Out of interest can you link/show me the declaration you made when he was unblocked? I didn't bother looking into it when it happened, but I remember wondering how the hell he managed to get his block lifted in the first place when I saw him back here. Damien Linnane (talk) 10:11, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Let me know what you think of this draft. This is new territory for me, so any feedback is welcome. Should I add or omit anything? Damien Linnane (talk) 13:44, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * My statement was here:, and I think that looks good, as long as you can get some other editors to sign their names to it. -- Pres N  14:35, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Well, that got a pretty... strong, immediate reaction. I decided to un-recuse myself and comment there too. The more I thought about it, the more the argument that he just needs help to learn civility after 13 years of editing across at least 5 accounts made me really mad. -- Pres N  19:19, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your comments PresN. I was rather overwhelmed with the response as well. I guess we will just have to wait and see how it plays out. His current responses don't surprise me at all. Damien Linnane (talk) 10:15, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
 * That's where I am right now. I was initially okay with letting him be away from gaming and gender-related topics, but his behavior isn't poor because of the topics, it's poor in general. All that is going to happen is that he might move into the comic books WikiProject to spout about how ComicsGate is actually a great thing, or go and try and explain that harassment in the Magic the Gathering community is not that big a deal. Making it a topic ban just feels a lot like a recreation of this. We're just creating a garbage meteor that someone else will have to grapple with down the line when he inevitably abuses people in other parts of Wikipedia. - Bryn (talk)  (contributions) 01:32, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I also have a friend who is stressed by having to interact with him, so it's upsetting that an abusive, toxic person, a member of a harassment campaign that targeted people like her and I (which he flatout denies ever really happened), is being given more consideration than his victims. Boys will be boys, I guess. - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 01:33, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I agree. While en.wiki has a problem with harassment in general, I don't really understand why Niemti in particular keeps getting handled with kid gloves- it happens all the time for "big name" editors or people who have written tons of high-quality articles... but he's not particularly well-known or well-liked, and his content contributions go for breadth instead of depth. He's like the poster child for how en.wiki needs to step up and stop harassment on-platform, instead of allowing death driving away editors by a thousand paper cuts. -- Pres N  09:50, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 July newsletter
The third round of the 2019 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round needed to score at least 68 points, which is substantially lower than last year's 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:


 * 🇳🇫 Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with 500 points derived mainly from a featured article and two GAs on natural history topics
 * Adam Cuerden, with 480 points, a tally built on 16 featured pictures, the result of meticulous restoration work
 * SounderBruce, a finalist in the last two years, with 306 points from a variety of submissions, mostly related to sport or the State of Washington
 * 🇺🇸 Usernameunique, with 305 points derived from a featured article and two GAs on archaeology and related topics

Contestants managed 4 (5) featured articles, 4 featured lists, 18 featured pictures, 29 good articles, 50 DYK entries, 9 ITN entries, and 39 good article reviews. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them, and it is imperative to claim them in the correct round; one FA claim had to be rejected because it was incorrectly submitted (claimed in Round 3 when it qualified for Round 2), so be warned! When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:12, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Turochamp
The article Turochamp you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Turochamp 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 Indrian -- Indrian (talk) 14:01, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q2 2019
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Chocobo Hot and Cold listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Chocobo Hot and Cold. Since you had some involvement with the Chocobo Hot and Cold redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 16:56, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Minigames of Final Fantasy for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Minigames of Final Fantasy is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Minigames of Final Fantasy until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Gee Bee
I personally think it's passable at this point but wanted a second opinion. Do you think Gee Bee is good enough for GA?Blue Pumpkin Pie (talk) 18:49, 2 August 2019 (UTC)


 * I decided to pass the article. I'm sure any issues on the article are minor and easy to fix if there are any.Blue Pumpkin Pie (talk) 19:23, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I think it is passable- getting any information at all on 1970s video games is hard, and with the recent additions I think it's up to snuff. -- Pres N  20:08, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. If it isn't obvious, I'm new to reviewing GAs.Blue Pumpkin Pie (talk) 20:09, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Galaxian
Hey there. Do you think you could try diffing up sources for Galaxian, specifically reviews/media coverage from the time period? I'm heavily expanding the article in hopes of nominating it to GA someday, so any help would be appreciated. Considering the game's mass recognition and importance I assume it shouldn't be as hard as other games, but nonetheless could take a bit of searching to find. Namcokid47 (talk) 03:59, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Alright, 79 is a bit late for me, but lets see what I can find. Sticking to Cash Box for right now:
 * Cashbox November 10, 1979 - page 34 (AMOA-8) has Galaxian pictured as being shown by Namco at the AMOA show
 * No mention again until February 23, 1980, where there's something on page 43 that at the January 1979 ATE show (Amusement Trades Exhibition), there had been around 20 clone versions of Galaxian displayed- note it actually says june, but ATE was held in January, which makes much more sense as they're talking about it as if it was recent and June was months before Galaxian was ever shown
 * The march 29, 1980 issue says "[Jack Sutton of Rowe International, an arcade machine vendor] is presently awaiting the first shipment of Midway’s "Galaxian”" on page 103
 * Galaxian was announced for release by Midway in the April 5 issue, page 40, both the regular and cocktail variants. On page 42, it says "Top sellers in the video arena include Atari's "Asteroids", Midway's "Deluxe Space Invaders” and "Galaxian." Latter has met with exceptional response, Stan told us." Same page, a distributor says they now have it in stock to sell to locations. (So, April 5 is basically the release date, or just April if you want.)
 * April 15- big ad for the game on page 45 9)
 * April 26- A quote on page 39 calls Galaxian an "earthshaking hit" (in a section discussing how not everything they release is that big), and it's termed a "hit game" on page 43. . Page 42 calls it a "natural followup to Space Invaders"
 * The year-end issue on December 27 throws out on page 64 that Midway sued Universal USA for infringement over Galaxian -- Pres  N  18:22, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:24, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Progression rainbow
Template:Progression rainbow has been nominated for merging with Template:WikiProject progression rainbow. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. --Trialpears (talk) 12:16, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

TFL notification – September 2019
Hi, PresN. I'm just posting to let you know that Nebula Award for Best Short Story – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for September 2. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008  ( Talk ) 23:17, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

If you have time some feedback please
I am thinking of nominating List of cyclists with a cycling-related death for FLC sometime this fall. I've never nominated a List for FL before so if you could take a quick look to see if there's anything obvious that jumps out as being WRONG it would be very helpful. Just for a reference, this is what the List looked like when I first happened upon it back in July 2010. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 21:36, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
 * points from a quick skim:
 * "and since 1994 a number of professionals have been killed in accidents with motorized vehicles while training on public roads." - given that presumably this happened before 1994 as well, this reads strangely
 * The "Cyclists who died due to a race" / "Professionals who died during training and other cycling related deaths" section titles are overly verbose, and duplicate the table headers
 * The name field is sorting by first name, not last name- consider the sortname template
 * The 85% text size thing is a bit odd; especially since for me usually the thing that's stretching the rows is the image, not too much text in the notes field
 * You use "&" a lot in the notes, which should be written out
 * Notes field is inconsistent on using full sentences, and whether or not fragments get a period at the end
 * You're going to need to justify why the first section gets a table but the "not in a race" deaths don't
 * Some of your notes seem to be trying to imply a source; you'd be better off just putting a reference in them (there's a couple ways, but easiest is to switch to using the efn template, and then you can just stick a ref tag in the note
 * Some of your citations are wonky and I'd recommend looking through them all- e.g. "Møller, Pages 467-468", which should be "Møller, pp, 467–468" to start with but also needs the full book or whatever listed because you don't have a sources section for that to be referring to. Also e.g. "Der deutsche Radfahrer, 23. März 1937", which has the same issue plus a non-standard (and non-English) date format. -- Pres N  03:06, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, appreciate your comments. Have already corrected some of the issues, will work my way through the others as I can. Cheers, Shearonink (talk) 03:33, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Question re: the sorting by last names...does that mean all the 120+ names in the table will have to be converted from their present plain state into "sortable by last name"? For instance
 * Will the plain name within its table cell of Pierre Froget have to be converted to Pierre Froget (and so on...)?
 * Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 07:12, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, it would- 120 is a lot, but it should be fairly quick if you just run down the list adding " " to the front, and then the pipe, and then the closing. -- Pres N  14:31, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Ah thanks - just wanted to make sure. I didn't used to be a coder of any stripe, so these types of things are not intuitive for me and I have to ask lots of questions to make sure I understand.
 * Wanted to mention the actual different sections and the titles of the sections have been discussed on the talk page - here, here, and here - these latest versions are the best we could come up with at the time. I'll try to think of some better ideas and propose them on the talkpage.
 * About the sort-name code...there are several names linked to their associated En.WP articles plus two names linked to German WP articles (Louis Mettling & Ernst Feja). If I run into issues getting the sort-coding to stick I will be coming back here and asking about how to do that.
 * Thanks again, Shearonink (talk) 15:38, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I figured out the coding for the names without articles (and with!) but I am going to need an example of what to do for names that are linked to other Wikipedias - I'd like to take care of the coding myself, that's the only way I'll learn so if you know the right way to do the sortname thing for Louis Mettling ( Louis Mettling ) & Ernst Feja ( Ernst Feja ) that would be a big help. Thx, Shearonink (talk) 17:34, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
 * The way sortname works in the backend is table cell wikitext that looks kind of like:
 * I personally prefer this way as it makes it clear that's what is going on underneath the hood, but it does add some duplication. In the case of foreign wikis, you might do something like the following, taking the above as inspiration, to work around not-great support in the template:
 * ill for documentation of the template invoked there. --Izno (talk) 02:57, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, so, where you have, change it to   (or  , per Izno's suggestion. -- Pres  N  04:47, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Yay! Worked like a charm - thanks everybody. Shearonink (talk) 14:42, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Ok, now I have another sortname question...
 * the entry now reads | scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Camille Danguillaume||
 * How do I use the sortname on this entry and maintain the nowrap for the name in the visible table?
 * Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 14:56, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Easiest way: Help:Table: "To keep an entire column from wrapping, use style="white-space: nowrap;" in a non-header cell on the longest/widest cell to affect the entire column." Looks like it also works to just make the nowrap template be on the outside of the sortname template: Camille Danguillaume -- Pres N  15:12, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Finished all the 120+ sortnames. Thanks for all your help everyone - cheers! Shearonink (talk) 16:45, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Easiest way: Help:Table: "To keep an entire column from wrapping, use style="white-space: nowrap;" in a non-header cell on the longest/widest cell to affect the entire column." Looks like it also works to just make the nowrap template be on the outside of the sortname template: Camille Danguillaume -- Pres N  15:12, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Finished all the 120+ sortnames. Thanks for all your help everyone - cheers! Shearonink (talk) 16:45, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

- I think I've fixed many of the issues you pointed out.
 * "and since 1994 a number of professionals have been killed in accidents with motorized vehicles while training on public roads." - given that presumably this happened before 1994 as well, this reads strangely. Edited this section, adjusted the wording
 * The "Cyclists who died due to a race" / "Professionals who died during training and other cycling related deaths" section titles are overly verbose, and duplicate the table headers. Adjusted this wording
 * The name field is sorting by first name, not last name- consider the sortname template. Yeah. This is SO fixed.
 * The 85% text size thing is a bit odd; especially since for me usually the thing that's stretching the rows is the image, not too much text in the notes field. Bumped up to 95%
 * You use "&" a lot in the notes, which should be written out. I think I've fixed most of these.
 * Notes field is inconsistent on using full sentences, and whether or not fragments get a period at the end. -->> Still working on this.
 * You're going to need to justify why the first section gets a table but the "not in a race" deaths don't. -->> I've been thinking about this.
 * I thought I had answered this concern that the reviewers are having but apparently not. I'm being told that both sections must/should be the same. Maybe I'll just blow apart the Table and convert the entire List to bulleted lists in text form. Shearonink (talk) 14:42, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Some of your notes seem to be trying to imply a source; you'd be better off just putting a reference in them (there's a couple ways, but easiest is to switch to using the efn template, and then you can just stick a ref tag in the note. -->> Still working on this.
 * ALL of the Notes are now sourced. Shearonink (talk) 14:42, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Some of your citations are wonky and I'd recommend looking through them all- e.g. "Møller, Pages 467-468", which should be "Møller, pp, 467–468" to start with but also needs the full book or whatever listed because you don't have a sources section for that to be referring to. Also e.g. "Der deutsche Radfahrer, 23. März 1937", which has the same issue plus a non-standard (and non-English) date format. -- -->> Still working on this.
 * Now all fixed as much as I can. Shearonink (talk) 18:49, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

Just waiting on some additional info from a collaborator with access to early 20th Century German-language references (hoping for some photos of some of the early cyclists, plus some specific referencing. If there's anything else that screams WRONG in the present version, please let me know. Thanks again, really appreciate all the help. Shearonink (talk) 21:51, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
 * If you could take another look at the List, I'd appreciate it. I've been working on improving it since I last posted here. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 22:13, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay; I think it's basically ready to nominate. I'm sure reviewers will find issues, but that always happens. The only major thing I see is that the list does not seem to explain why it lists cycling-related deaths from 1994, but not in between... is it just a lack of sources? -- Pres N  01:29, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Oh yes. They are indeed being very able to find issues lol. Shearonink (talk) 14:42, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Haha, yeah, but on a more positive note, you're getting a lot of feedback right off the bat, and since you're fixing issues quickly it's flowing smoothly. A lot of nominations sit there for a week or two, then get hit with a giant review, then the nominator takes a while to get to it so it just stalls out, as no one wants to do their own big review while another one is outstanding. -- Pres N  14:50, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the words of encouragement. So. I should be happy that folks showed up. Ok - will keep that in mind going forward...yeah. HAPPY it is. Shearonink (talk) 17:19, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't see at this point how to proceed with my FLC so am taking a break for a while. Thanks for all your help. Shearonink (talk) 20:32, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks so for your comments.
 * As to the lapse of noted deaths between 1928 & 1994...I honestly don't know because none of the people who have worked on the List have found any names for such deaths. Maybe there are as yet-unknown cyclists' deaths mentioned in newspapers and cycling publications and the information hasn't been dug up yet, or maybe no one could afford bicycles or it could be that there were fewer cars on the roads during the Great Depression?....I don't know. It's just what the sources are telling me at the moment. I might make a note about the 66-year death-drought though... Shearonink (talk) 02:58, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for all your help in the early stages of my WP:FLC for List of cyclists with a cycling-related death. Giants2008 closed the nomination as unsuccessful (I do wish I had gotten a notice about that before the fact...). So far as I can tell the only remaining roadblock was the differing styles for the two sections - the deaths during a race being in a massive table and the cycling-associated deaths being in a plain list. 2 of the reviewers weren't too keen on that, 2 of us were fine with it... I knew it was a long-shot but I am still proud of my work on this List. Thanks again, Shearonink (talk) 01:50, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 September newsletter
The fourth round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 454 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with over 400 points being eliminated, and all but two of the finalists having achieved an FA during the round. Casliber, our 2016 winner, was the highest point-scorer, followed by Enwebb and Lee Vilenski, who are both new to the competition. In fourth place was SounderBruce, a finalist last year. But all those points are swept away as we start afresh for the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 11 featured articles. In addition, Adam Cuerden scored with 18 FPs, Lee Vilenski led the GA score with 8 GAs while Kosack performed 15 GA reviews. There were around 40 DYKs, 40 GARs and 31 GAs overall during round 4. 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 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. 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 14 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 Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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. 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) 18:44, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

FLC
Hi! I am currently having a nomination for FL running and it seems it is getting some general support. I wonder, can I nominate a new one already? I know I should not nominate the new one unless the consensus for the previous one is already strong so I though I'd just ask for your opinion :) Thanks! --Tone 14:40, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think you're good to nominated a second. -- Pres N  21:33, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello again, same question :) This nomination is getting some good support, may I initiate a new one? Thanks :) --Tone 20:29, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, though I recommend pinging Aoba to get their formal support. -- Pres N  06:21, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019). Administrator changes
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Shmuplations
yo it's a situational source now, confetti - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 19:40, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
 * congratulations! That'll make things easier! -- Pres N  19:53, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

FLs
Hi PresN, I understand you are the aficionado for featured lists. I'd like to work on some, but don't really know where to start. Would something like 2019 in cue sports be suitable (obviously when the year is out)? I understand the need to source all victories and such, but I can't find any "year in X" articles that have been promoted before. Any ideas? Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 08:26, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Its definitely doable, I think that no one's tried before. For that list in specific, the first question is "what is the inclusion criteria?"- it appears that you're going with "major competition results in Pool/Billiards/Snooker", which seems robust as long as what competitions are included is clearly defined. This should be explicit in the lead, though- for lists, the lead does not need to summarize the body list/tables (though it can), but it should provide all of the context needed to understand the list, including what sports/tournaments are included. Second question then is "what format should you use?" - right now you have a bunch of bulleted lists, which are certainly easy to make but can get hard to read- there's a lot going on in a small space. Something like

Might be clearer (sorting would need to be cleaned up though, dates need sort or dts to force that column to sort chronologically and results shouldn't be sortable). If you have inclusion criteria and format, then the next step is sourcing, which you seem to have covered, so you just need to be sure that your sources are RSs and you can justify their use- I don't know anything about cue sports websites, but neither do most reviewers so you might get asked, and FLC does include a source review so at least one person will be thinking about their reliability. Overall though, I think you could get it to FL fairly easily- like I said in Discord, the hardest part of an FL is finding sources for everything because every single row needs a source and that adds up fast, and you're good there. -- Pres N  13:46, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for this!! I'll get to work! Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 16:12, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals
Hey, I'm trying to improve this to GA status, though it is a bit of a hurdle to do so. Do you have anything you could offer to help, or perhaps any experience working on anime GAs? - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 20:05, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
 * , Unfortunately, I've never worked in the anime space. I know has done both Final Fantasy and anime articles, so maybe they have some advice? -- Pres  N  02:27, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Music of Jet Set Radio
I was scoping around articles and was very impressed with Music of Nier. I wanted to know your opinion on Jet Set Radio. Based on your experience, do you think it's viable to create a Music of Jet Set Radio series?Blue Pumpkin Pie (talk) 04:36, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I think it's going to be difficult; you'll need development and reception sources, which will be hard to come by. Most VGM sites are RPG-focused; I found a review of JSR's soundtrack at VGMOnline and one for JSRF, but nothing at OriginalSoundVesion or RPGFan. May still be worth doing a deep dive for interviews, but it won't be easy. -- Pres  N  02:25, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Galaga to FAC
Hey there. I was thinking of getting Galaga up to FA status (seeing as how it's already a GA and I think it's rather well-written and comprehensive), and seeing as this is my first time nominating an article for FA, aside from the Bandai Namco franchise list, I wanted to get your opinion on this. Thanks. Namcokid 47  (Contribs) 16:55, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I think it's definitely worth going for; I gave it a skim and it seems solid. I do think it needs a copyedit by an uninvolved editor- the prose is certainly not bad by any means, but it could use some tightening up in wording ("a fixed shooter that is cited as the first video game to incorporate speech" -> "a fixed shooter considered the first video game to incorporate speech", "management expressed desire for him to make a game similar to Galaxian." -> "management wanted a game similar to Galaxian.", etc.). -- Pres  N  13:55, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2019
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F-1 reviews
Hey. I'm thinking about bringing F-1 (arcade game) to GA status, as I found quite a bit of development info and find this game to simply be fascinating. Since old 70's arcade games seems to be your expertise, do you think you can try finding reviews on this? Haven't had a whole lot of luck at the moment, but I could just be looking in the wrong places.... Namcokid 47  (Contribs) 03:24, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Reviews of 70s arcade games are actually super-hard to find at all, even stretching the definition... The Atari service manual is linked at, which is useful for gameplay, but I'm not seeing much else. Is there a way to link it to the 1982 Pole Position, which was also an F1 race game by Namco/Atari? Or Rally-X, 1980 Namco/Midway? Even if you can't, it's at least another sentence that Namco made those other racing games, I guess. -- Pres N  01:15, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Also, I don't have an RS source for it, but F-1 was the only game Atari localized in the 70s- they didn't pick that up again until Dig Dug in 1982. (List of Atari, Inc. games is pretty exhaustive in that respect, though not sourced well at all.) -- Pres N  01:20, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Pole Position is actually influenced by F-1 and some of Namco's other mechanical driving games (it even says this in the article itself), so I think this could be useful to add into the article. Namcokid  47  (Contribs) 01:46, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

Sky (video game)
Just noticed there is an article about a new Thatgamecompany game. Not exactly sure how much information there is about it but it needs a Peer Review and be added to the thatgamecompany topic. GamerPro64 17:04, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reminder, I do need/plan to build that up for the topic. -- Pres N  01:46, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 November newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is, who over the course of the competition has amassed 91 featured pictures, including 32 in the final round. Our finalists this year were:


 * 1) with 964 points
 * 2) with 899 points
 * 3) with 817 points
 * 4) with 691 points
 * 5) with 388 points
 * 6) with 146 points
 * 7) with 145 points
 * 8) with 74 points

All those who reached the final will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field. Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!


 * wins the featured article prize, for a total of 7 FAs during the course of the competition.
 * wins the good article prize, for 14 GAs in round 5.
 * wins the featured list prize, for 4 FLs overall.
 * wins the featured picture prize, for 91 FPs overall.
 * wins the topic prize, for 7 articles in good topics in round 2.
 * wins the DYK prize, for 14 did you know articles in round 5.
 * wins the ITN prize, for 7 in the news articles in round 1.
 * wins the reviewer prize, for 56 good article reviews in round 1.

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, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

We have opened a scoring discussion on whether the rules and scoring need adjustment. Please have your say. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2020 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. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth 14:18, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

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Lunar lander // The Sumerian Game
Hello...

One year ago (at least) a contributor translated this page to french Wikipedia into french language (project where i contribute mainly)... I was suprised... I looked for references for this newly appearing "video game genre". I found NO reference at the time... If i recall correctly, i only found Wolf mentionning "lunar Lander games" one time in one of his books. Do you really think this is a genre of video game, or a sub-genre ? It seems to me to be simulation games. Do you really have references saying "lunar lander is a video game subgenre" ? I did not foud. It looks like a wikipedian notion ? no? or i'm wrong ? imho right now, this is an original research. One other thing : For me the first game "Lunar" should have get more attention and it's own page.

I saw you wrote Marienbad, thanks for this !

Did you saw The Sumerian Game ?

Greetings from France. --Archimëa (talk) 19:36, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, greetings from America! Yes, I saw the Sumerian Game article when it was created; I summarized in at Hamurabi (video game) but have not been back to expand it yet; it's next on my list for older games, followed if I can by Strachey's Draughts, which I believe you wrote at the French WP. As to Lunar Lander, when I originally wrote that article I called it a "series", but in a discussion on the talk page we decided that was misleading- it's a set of games all based on a common idea (and on each other), but that's not a "series" the way the term is commonly used. "Genre" is closer, but may be overstating it somewhat. I don't recall offhand a source calling it explicitly a genre or subgenre, though I do recall sources referring to games of that type as "Lunar Lander games" in the same way first-person shooters were once "Doom clones" or sandbox games "GTA clones". If you have a better term for a set of games related by similar gameplay types, I'd welcome it. As to Lunar, I'd agree- it would be nice for it to have it's own article, but at the time I didn't find enough sources to do. If you do, I'd be glad to go back and break it out. -- Pres N  22:05, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
 * As to Lunar, I understand why you aggregated this and choosed this title. But, doom like, gta like, are commonly used and it's easy to find references. In the mean time, i see just right now this morning a reference about lunar lander games has popped up recently at PC gamer website (probably influenced by the wikipedian article, there is no a lot of media aggregating these "lunar games" together). That's indeed semms overstated for me... references are rare. but well, i won't fight many more for this problem...
 * Ahh... I didn't see you documented The Sumerian Game in Hamurabi, good ! i better understand it now ! Perhaps Earlyhistory of vg deserves a mention..
 * Regards. --Archimëa (talk) 11:33, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

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GAs
Hi there. Last week, The King of Fighters XI became GA. Now I'm thinking of nominating XIV as it seems to cover most the game's information. The article was copyedited once some months ago but I requested another one just in case. Any idea if there are any other issue? Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 18:53, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I skimmed it and nothing major jumped out at me, though I'm not an expert on fighting game articles. Fixed some weird copyedit issues in the plot section, and "The team received negative feedback to early trailers' visuals of the game." is really vague, and parts seemed pretty dry, but nothing I'd harp on for GA. -- Pres N  05:24, 30 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I will wait for the copyedit I requested.Tintor2 (talk) 14:45, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019). Administrator changes
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 * Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.

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Arbitration
 * Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous
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