User talk:Pretzelles/Archive 1

Removing author link on Vivian Grey edit
Hi, I was wondering why you removed the author-link for Robert McCrum on Vivian Grey in this edit. I can understand removing the publisher info since I've now realised since I added it that that's just extraneous unneeded info and I can sorta understand removing the link to The Guardian to remove some blue text even if personally I prefer every source to have it's own wiki-link. But I'm not clear on the reasons for removing the author-link since I would have presumed you'd always want that so users can quickly see who wrote it to see if it's reputable and unbiased. If you could clear this up for me it'd be much appreciated.  Mesi dast   (talk) (contribs) 20:33, 8 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Ahh hi! It was mainly that I just didn't realise I removed the author-link, feel free to put it back in :) Pretzelles (talk) 20:39, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Ah no that's grand. I've re-added it there now :)  Mesi dast   (talk) (contribs) 22:14, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

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 * Excellent work. One suggestion would be to link to the archives.org upload of the articles cited. voorts (talk/contributions) 01:30, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

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DYK for Ni'isjoohl totem pole
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DYK for Jim Rich
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The biographical articles you write are outstanding, exemplary, and amazing. Jeffrey Beall (talk) 14:23, 4 January 2024 (UTC).
 * Queen of Hearts 21:19, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks both for the lovely comments! <3 Pretzelles (talk) 02:04, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Logan McCree
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Your GA nomination of Philipp Tanzer
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A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you so much! It's been great working with you on this, I'm sure you'll see a lot more fun stuff from me in the future! :) Pretzelles (talk) 17:39, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Logan McCree
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 * Well that's an interesting edge case... Moved the GA page and the bot counted it as a fail. (@Mike Christie) -- Tamzin  &#91;cetacean needed&#93; (they&#124;xe) 04:29, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 February newsletter
The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.

Our current leader is newcomer, who has one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:


 * , with one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
 * , with one FA on Doom (2016 video game), one GA on Boundary Fire (2017), and 11 reviews;
 * , with one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and two DYKs;
 * , with one FA on OneShot and one DYK;
 * , with five GAs and five DYKs on television and radio stations;
 * and, both with one FA and one DYK each.

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DYK for Philipp Tanzer
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WikiCup 2024 March newsletter
The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.

The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:


 * , who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
 * , who has 790 points from two FAs on Felix M. Warburg House and Doom (2016 video game), two GAs, one DYK, and 11 reviews
 * , who has 580 points from one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews
 * , who has 420 points mostly from nine GAs and seven DYKs on television and radio stations
 * , who has 351 points from one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and three DYKs
 * , who has 345 points from one FA on OneShot, one DYK and two reviews

In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to, who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.

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DYK for Colin MacKay (journalist, born 1944)
—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:03, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 April newsletter
We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.

Our current top scorers are as follows:


 * with 642 points, mostly from 11 GAs about radio and television;
 * with 530 points, mostly from two FAs (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three GAs;
 * with 523 points, mostly from 11 GAs about coinage and history;
 * with 497 points, mostly from a FA about the 2020 season of the soccer club Seattle Sounders FC and two GAs;
 * with 410 points, mostly from a FA about the drink Capri-Sun and three GAs;
 * with 330 points, mostly from a FA about the English botanist Anna Blackburne and a GA.

Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.

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WikiCup 2024 May newsletter
The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.

The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:
 * with 707 points, mostly from 45 good article nomination reviews and 12 good articless about radio and television;
 * with 600 points, mostly from 12 good articles and 12 did you know nominations about coinage and history;
 * with 552 points, mostly from a featured article about the 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season, three featured lists, and two good articles;
 * with 548 points, mostly from a featured article about the snooker player John Pulman, two featured lists, and one good article;
 * with 530 points, mostly from two featured articles (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three good articles.

The full scores for Round 2 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76 in the news credits and at least 200 did you know credits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed during Round 3, which starts on 1 May at 00:00 (UTC). 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 Needed.

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Ballot spoiling
This has a venerable history, but I wonder why you would do it in this instance? Is it about this specific RfA, RfA in general, or something else? (I ask partly because I'm sure the candidate wonders, too, and because RfA is a blend of vote and discussion, rather than a situation where the ballot response is the only opportunity to make one's opinions heard. Yngvadottir (talk) 22:01, 6 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Hey, thanks for asking! I've explained this elsewhere off-wiki, but will expand a bit here. I've looked at various RfAs in the past since joining (but not all of them) - and this is the first one I've actually commented on. In this instance, I wanted a way to acknowledge that I had read the RfA and questions/answers/some of the discussions below, but not vote in it.
 * Some parts of the discussion process in RfAs still feel to me to have a "student union politics" kind of feel - with arguing and people taking others' answers to the extreme - and I just don't have the desire to get involved with that. Although, I have seen some good chances being implemented with the discussion period before voting opens.
 * But to me, spoiling the ballot in this instance made the most sense in acknowledging that I had read the RfA but did not wish to participate. Let me know if that makes sense! Pretzelles (talk) 18:08, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

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