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WikiCup 2020 November newsletter
The 2020 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round going down to the wire. Our new Champion is, the runner-up last year, who was closely followed by. In the final round, Lee achieved 4 FAs and 30 GAs, mostly on cue sport topics, while Gog achieved 3 FAs and 15 GAs, mostly on important battles and wars, which earned him a high number of bonus points. was in third place with 4 FAs and 8 GAs on football topics, with close behind with 19 GAs and 16 DYK's, his interest being the buildings of New York.

The other finalists were, , and. The final round was very productive, and besides 15 FAs, contestants achieved 75 FAC reviews, 88 GAs and 108 GAN reviews. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!

All those who reached the final will receive awards and 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.


 * wins the featured article prize, for a total of 14 FAs during the course of the competition.
 * win the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in round 4.
 * wins the featured picture prize, for 3 FPs in round 3 and 5 overall.
 * wins the featured article reviewer prize, for 23 FAC reviews in round 5.
 * wins the good article prize, for 45 GAs in round 2 and 113 overall.
 * wins the topic prize, for 33 articles in good topics in round 2.
 * wins the good article reviewer prize, for 100 good article reviews in round 2.
 * wins the DYK prize, for 22 Did you know articles in round 4 and 94 overall.
 * wins the ITN prize, for 63 In the news articles in round 4 and 136 overall.

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 2021 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 MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:38, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

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Welcome to the 2021 WikiCup!
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. 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 move on to round 2. We thank Vanamonde93 and Godot13, who have retired as judges, and we thank them for their past dedication. The judges for the WikiCup this year are and. Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:11, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Procxin for deletion
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Your draft article, Draft:Kai'sa


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Your draft article, Draft:Kappa (emote)


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Your draft article, Draft:Gameplay of League of Legends


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Category:People of Shanghainese descent has been nominated for deletion
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Your GA nomination of Los Viagras
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Your GA nomination of Los Viagras
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Category:Hong Kong people of Lower Yangtze descent has been nominated for deletion
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Ways to improve 2021 National People's Congress
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Your GA nomination of Shanghainese people in Hong Kong
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Your GA nomination of Shanghainese people in Hong Kong
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Disruption at League of Legends
Attempting to send League of Legends, a recently promoted FA, to GAR is beyond disruptive. Your dissatisfaction with how the article has evolved is well noted, as well as the fact many of your spin out fan articles have been merged or deleted. Its time to leave this topic alone, or I'll go ahead and block you for disruption. -- ferret (talk) 20:00, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I haven't touched the article for months. In any case the article shouldn't have been promoted. It's not disruptive to request reassessment, I wish to revert your remove of the tag but I won't do so until I'm sure it's okay for me to do so.--Prisencolin (talk) 20:02, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * You had every opportunity to have involved yourself in the FAC, you were editing at the time and active. GAR is not even the proper process, this is an FA, not a GA. Certainly nothing has drastically changed in the article (or in relation to the topic) since the FAC concluded that would warrant a reassessment. That you disagree with the fact it was promoted at all is not grounds for reassessment. -- ferret (talk) 20:04, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * WP:VOLUNTARY you can't unilaterally object to my reassessment but because I wasn't involved in the assessment process to begin with.--Prisencolin (talk) 20:06, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * If you are not even going to follow proper guidelines for a FAR, I certainly can, especially with your history at this topic area. FAR requires listing the issues with the article and allowing time for them to be addressed before reassessment is opened. You've failed to do this. And the ultimate goal at FAR is to resolve the issues, not delist. -- ferret (talk) 20:12, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Featured article status is granted by community consensus, so to withdraw it you will need to show the community does not still believe it is an FA. That process can be reviewed at WP:FAR. If you wish to pursue that option, I wish you good luck. You will likely be seen as disruptive given the recency with which the topic was promoted, but you are still free to pursue that option. Izno (talk) 20:16, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I didn't plan on the timing of my recent action; I had no idea it was even FA since I don't usually visit the main page and I just happened to check the LoL article on a whim today and noticed the star.--Prisencolin (talk) 20:17, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * You Talk:League of Legends quite clearly were aware it was at FAC in February, and the top of the talk page also clearly denotes that it passed. Let's not play these games. -- ferret (talk) 20:31, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I don't even know what you're insinuating here but yes, now that I think about it I had known there was an evaluation for some kind of featured status. I will admit that I don't really understand the differences between "Featured" and "good", but that's irrelevant. It's not my intention to "snipe" anyone's hard work from being recognized if that's what you're suggesting. The timing has nothing to do with Today's featured article/April 19, 2021. --Prisencolin (talk) 20:35, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Well today's discussions appear to have veered every which direction. Can I ask that the topic be put up for GAR without risk of some kind of "ban for disruption"? I don't believe any sort of consensus is required just for nomination.--Prisencolin (talk) 01:20, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * The discussion seems to be veering in one single direction, actually. No, why would I tell you that you can put the article up for a GAR? As you've been repeatedly told, GAR is the wrong process, this is a Featured Article. WP:FAR requires several weeks of efforts to resolve the issues before the formal assessment begins. It requires far more than sticking a template on the talk page, including that you (the nominator) outline exactly what is wrong with the article and why it falls short of FA requirements. -- ferret (talk) 01:26, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Alright apologies for being unable to wade through the WP:BUREAUCRACY of Wikipedia. I will proceed at WP:FAR.--Prisencolin (talk) 01:27, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * This isn't about wading bureaucracy. You have been directly told 3-4 times today by various editors. -- ferret (talk) 01:30, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Prisencolin, no, do not proceed to FAR, or I will block you indefinitely. You are about to be, at the very very least, topic banned from that article, so you will be unable to followup on the nomination. Proceeding to FAR, in the face of overwhelming resistance at ANI, the article talk page, etc, will be considered disruptive editing after a clear warning. --Floquenbeam (talk) 01:32, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Alright what am I to do then. This is a terrible incomplete article that is about to proceed to the highest levels of recognition on this project. I can't see this happen. As far as I know topic bans don't preclude someone from discussing the related articles in other namespaces. I don't know who you are and how you're involved in this discussion but from what I've gather isn't even objecting to my nomination so you're blocking is unreasonable, and there's not even an edit war going on.--Prisencolin (talk) 01:33, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * You've been misrepresenting your position throughout this entire discussion, that you didn't know it was an FA, that the GAR had nothing to do with it's upcoming TFA, etc. The latest statement makes it pretty clear that it does. I never even brought up the TFA, before you did and talked about "sniping" recognition, which neither I nor Izno said anything about. I absolutely object to you attempting to FAR this, and a topic ban applies everywhere. Once you are topic banned from video games (or just League of Legends), you are not allowed to discuss or edit them on Wikipedia, period. -- ferret (talk) 01:39, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Well it's on you for allowing subpart content to proceed on this project. If this is the last time we speak, so be it. Good day to you.--Prisencolin (talk) 01:41, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * (e/c) You are going to have to let it go. It is now someone else's problem.  The community clearly thinks you need to be topic banned from video games; maybe they'll relent and make it just a topic ban from this one article, but I kind of doubt it. A topic ban means you can't discuss the topic in any namespace.  See WP:Topic ban.  That's why you need to listen to multiple editors frequently telling you to stop being disruptive; eventually the community's patience is exhausted, and you end up not being able to contribute to the topic area at all. We'll have to wait to see what kind of topic ban the community decides on (or whether you're banned from Wikipedia altogether, which seems to have some traction), but it's clear that at the very least you're going to have to leave this article completely alone. --Floquenbeam (talk) 01:42, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * This is the first time I've even been editing the topic of video games in months, I'm not sure why there's some kind of uproar over tbanning me at this moment. I will admit the ANI was a little bit of an overstep, but Ferret admits his ban threat was as well. Somebody needs to remove the FA on this article in my place.--Prisencolin (talk) 01:45, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Maybe someone will, maybe someone won't. But it won't be you, and it won't be at your request or direction or instigation.  To answer your now-removed question on my talk page, I'm an uninvolved admin who came across the ANI thread, saw the quickly developing consensus forming there, came to your talk page to see if there was more going on here, only to find you threatening to take the article you were about to be topic banned from to FAR, in spite of the overwhelming ongoing backlash I see at ANI. --Floquenbeam (talk) 01:48, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * About to be topic banned isn't the same as a ban. I suspect you are overstepping you admin powers to ban me if I put it up for FA.--Prisencolin (talk) 01:50, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Please don't try. Doing so would likely convince most of the editors at ANI to switch to supporting a site ban. --Floquenbeam (talk) 01:55, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Not sure if you're aware of this, but in the event that you are, I just wanted to say I'm sorry about someone that's apparently going around vandalizing your comments via IP edit, I will swear it wasn't me if you suspected such.--Prisencolin (talk) 15:39, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I hadn't noticed until I got your ping, looks like they've been reverted. FWIW, I had no suspicion you were involved.  From what I see, you're a good faith editor who has run into problems in one topic area.  I have zero reason to think you're behaving in bad faith, the way the IP editor is.  It's not really a problem, it comes with the territory, but thanks for the concern. --Floquenbeam (talk) 15:48, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Alright thanks, thanks for putting out a good word for me. I think I'm just retiring from the project permanently since it seems like large numbers of editors don't want me around anymore, even if those are the vocal minority. Thank you for the work you've done here.--Prisencolin (talk) 15:52, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * You should do whatever you think best, of course, but it seems very clear this is going to end up a topic ban from video games; it seems true a lot of people don't want you in that topic area anymore, but apparently it isn't true a large number don't want you around at all. If you have interests in other areas, you could stick to those, learn from this, and see what happens.  But yes, while I (to be frank) certainly see why a topic ban is developing consensus, I can also empathize with the sting it must giving you. --Floquenbeam (talk) 16:01, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

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Congrats on retirement
Glad to see you've graduated from Wiki editing, wish you the best in your future endeavors :D, -S. 2601:646:8400:5B90:21F4:3E04:A286:DC7 (talk) 19:03, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Will do.--Prisencolin (talk) 19:03, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

TBan
Hi Prisencolin - per community consensus at the recent ANI thread, you are indefinitely topic banned from the subject area of video games. You can appeal this in six months from today at AN. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about what this means, or what you may and may not do. You ban is logged here. Best Girth Summit  (blether)  19:05, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:People of Wu descent


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WikiCup 2021 May newsletter
The second round of the 2021 WikiCup has now finished; it was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 61 points to advance to Round 3. There were some impressive efforts in the round, with the top eight contestants all scoring more than 400 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 110 good articles achieved in total by contestants, as well as the 216 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in Round 2 were:


 * 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man, with 2963 points from three featured articles, 20 featured article reviews, 37 good articles, 73 good article reviews, as well as 22 DYKs.
 * Epicgenius, with 1718 points from one featured article, 29 good articles, 16 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
 * Bloom6132, with 990 points from 13 DYKs and 64 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
 * Bennington Flag.svg Hog Farm, with 834 points from two featured articles, five good articles, 14 featured article reviews and 15 good article reviews.
 * Standard of Oliver Cromwell (1653–1659).svg Gog the Mild, with 524 points from two featured articles and four featured article reviews.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski, with 501 points from one featured article, three good articles, six featured article reviews and 25 good article reviews.
 * Transgender Pride flag.svg Sammi Brie, with 485 points from four good articles, eight good article reviews and 27 DYKs, on US radio and television stations.
 * Flag of the United Nations.svg Ktin, with 436 points from four good articles, seven DYKs and 11 "In the news" items.

Please remember that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of Round 2 but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in Round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (except for at the end of each round, when you must claim them before the cut-off date/time). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

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Your draft article, Draft:Politics of Hangzhou


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Category:People of Sichuanese descent has been nominated for deletion
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WikiCup 2021 July newsletter
The third round of the 2021 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 294 points, and our top six scorers all had over 600 points. They were:


 * 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man, with 1825 points from 3 featured articles, 44 featured article reviews, 14 good articles, 30 good article reviews and 10 DYKs. In addition, he completed a 34-article good topic on the EFL Championship play-offs.
 * Epicgenius, a New York specialist, with 1083 points from 2 featured article reviews, 18 good articles, 30 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
 * Bloom6132, with 869 points from 11 DYKs, all with bonus points, and 54 "In the news" items, mostly covering people who had recently died.
 * Standard of Oliver Cromwell (1653–1659).svg Gog the Mild, with 817 points from 3 featured articles on historic battles in Europe, 5 featured article reviews and 3 good articles.
 * Bennington Flag.svg Hog Farm, with 659 points from 2 featured articles and 2 good articles on American Civil War battles, 18 featured article reviews, 2 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 4 DYKs.
 * ICS Zulu.svg BennyOnTheLoose, a snooker specialist and new to the Cup, with 647 points from a featured article, 2 featured article reviews, 6 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 3 DYKs.

In round three, contestants achieved 19 featured articles, 7 featured lists, 106 featured article reviews, 72 good articles, 1 good topic, 62 good article reviews, 165 DYKs and 96 ITN items. We enter the fourth round with scores reset to zero; 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 (one contestant in round 3 lost out because of this). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

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Concern regarding Draft:St. Joseph's College, Hong Kong
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"Singer, songwriter, and dancer" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Nomination of List of American people convicted of drug offenses for deletion
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Concern regarding Draft:Unicorn Ridge
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Orphaned non-free image File:New York State Public High School Athletic Association logo.png
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Coordinators and help needed
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WikiCup 2021 September newsletter
The fourth round of the competition has finished with over 500 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants, 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man and Epicgenius, each scoring over 3000 points, and six contestants scoring over 1000. All but one of the finalists achieved one or more FAs during the round, the exception being Bloom6132 who demonstrated that 61 "in the news" items produces an impressive number of points. Other contestants who made it to the final are Gog the Mild, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski,  BennyOnTheLoose, 🇷🇼 Amakuru and  Hog Farm. However, all their points are now swept away and everyone starts afresh in the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 18 featured articles and 157 good articles. Bilorv scored for a 25-article good topic on Black Mirror but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final round. There was enthusiasm for FARs, with 89 being performed, and there were 63 GARs and around 100 DYKs during the round. As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it to the final round; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For other contestants, 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.

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 your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:02, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:OFSAA logo.jpg
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Disputed non-free use rationale for File:CompLexity Gaming logo.png
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Orphaned non-free image File:Apex tournament series logo.png
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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:04, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Croatian esports players


A tag has been placed on Category:Croatian esports players indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 16:53, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

WikiCup 2021 November newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year and the finalists can relax! Our Champion this year is, who amassed over 5000 points in the final round, achieving 8 featured articles and almost 500 reviews. It was a very competitive round; seven of the finalists achieved over 1000 points in the round (enough to win the 2019 contest), and three scored over 3000 (enough to win the 2020 event). Our 2021 finalists and their scores were:


 * 1) with 5072 points
 * 2) with 3276 points
 * 3) with 3197 points
 * 4) with 1611 points
 * 5) with 1571 points
 * 6) with 1420 points
 * 7) with 1043 points
 * 8) with 528 points

All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.


 * wins the featured article prize, for 8 FAs in round 5.
 * wins the featured list prize, for 3 FLs in round 5.
 * wins the featured topic prize, for 13 articles in a featured topic in round 5.
 * wins the good article prize, for 63 GAs in round 4.
 * wins the good topic prize, for 86 articles in good topics in round 5.
 * wins the reviewer prize, for 68 FAC reviews and 213 GAN reviews, both in round 5.
 * wins the DYK prize, for 30 did you know articles in round 3 and 105 overall.
 * wins the ITN prize, for 71 in the news articles in round 1 and 284 overall.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

If you have views on whether the rules or scoring need adjustment for next year's contest, please comment on the WikiCup talk page. 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 2022 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. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:56, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

"Jihn" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Nomination for deletion of Template:100 Most Common Family Names in Mainland China
Template:100 Most Common Family Names in Mainland China has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. –LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄ ) 07:28, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Cross Valley League


A tag has been placed on Cross Valley League requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a club, society, or group that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the. Jasphetamine (talk) 10:44, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

I'm changing the Kignit article name
Hello i'm changing the Kignit article name to Qenet, hardly anyone writes it like that, you can also google search that, don't know why you spelled it like that. Dawit S Gondaria (talk) 06:25, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

"Template:Whatthefuck" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Thank You
Thanks for starting the page Yan (surname 顏). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ngancheekean (talk • contribs) 09:30, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2022 WikiCup!
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2022 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. 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 move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: and. Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:37, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2022 WikiCup!
Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2022 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. 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 move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: and. Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:02, 5 January 2022 (UTC)