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

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FAC
Hi, I've just nominated Sonic Adventure for FAC; see here. Would you mind commenting? JOE BRO  64  20:15, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I've started work on it. Always glad to help out whenever I can.   Red Phoenix  talk  00:21, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Like a phoenix
Hey! Welcome back! czar 11:13, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you. It's good to be back.  Glad to see you're still around and keeping this project moving forward.   Red Phoenix  talk  15:23, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

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

Our top scorers in round 1 were:


 * 🇺🇸 Aoba47 led the field with a featured article, 8 good articles and 42 GARs, giving a total of 666 points.
 * 🇩🇪 FrB.TG, a WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points, gained from a featured article and masses of bonus points.
 * 🇮🇳 Ssven2, another WikiCup newcomer, was in third place with 403 points, garnered from a featured article, a featured list, a good article and twelve GARs.
 * 🇺🇸 Ceranthor, 🇮🇳 Numerounovedant, Carbrera, 🇳🇱 Farang Rak Tham and 🇷🇴 Cartoon network freak all had over 200 points, but like all the other contestants, now have to start again from scratch. A good achievement was the 193 GARs performed by WikiCup contestants, comparing very favourably with the 54 GAs they achieved.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) and Vanamonde (talk) 15:27, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 May newsletter
The second round of the 2018 WikiCup has now finished. Most contestants who advanced to the next round scored upwards of 100 points, but two with just 10 points managed to scrape through into round 3. Our top scorers in the last round were:


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with three featured articles
 * Iazyges, with nine good articles and lots of bonus points
 * 🇮🇳 Yashthepunisher, a first time contestant, with two featured lists
 * SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with seventeen good topic articles
 * 🇺🇸 Usernameunique, a first time contestant, with fourteen DYKs
 * Muboshgu, a seasoned competitor, with three ITNs and
 * Courcelles, another first time contestant, with twenty-seven GARs

So far contestants have achieved twelve featured articles between them and a splendid 124 good articles. Commendably, 326 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2018 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met; most of the GARs are fine, but a few have been a bit skimpy.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews 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) 06:10, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Sega Technical Institute
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Sega Technical Institute you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Indrian -- Indrian (talk) 18:40, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Question regarding commenting on a review
Hey, if I'd like to make a comment on one of the issues you touched about in your review of Night of the Living Dead what is the correct way of doing that?--Gonnym (talk) 16:26, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I'd just do a bullet underneath my comment. If you have a question about a specific comment I'd be glad to respond that way, comment by comment ;).  Red Phoenix  talk  16:29, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Sega Technical Institute
The article Sega Technical Institute you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Sega Technical Institute for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Indrian -- Indrian (talk) 19:20, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of United Game Artists
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article United Game Artists you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Indrian -- Indrian (talk) 23:01, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Comix Zone
If you ever want to collaborate on Comix Zone, let me know! JOE BRO  64  22:21, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I'll be sure to do that if I want to work on it; I did uncover some useful info about it while working on Sega Technical Institute. Right now I'm trying to get it and United Game Artists through GAN, but I will get back with you on Comix Zone.  It's a game I've played and unfortunately am terrible at :(.  Red Phoenix  talk  14:02, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Sega Technical Institute
The article Sega Technical Institute you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Sega Technical Institute 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) 14:41, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Sega Technical Institute
Hello! Your submission of Sega Technical Institute 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! Phil roc  (c) 23:17, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of United Game Artists
The article United Game Artists you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:United Game Artists for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Indrian -- Indrian (talk) 16:20, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Sega Technical Institute
Hello! Your submission of Sega Technical Institute 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) 23:00, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Incomplete DYK nomination
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Your GA nomination of Tectoy
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Tectoy you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Indrian -- Indrian (talk) 22:20, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of United Game Artists
The article United Game Artists you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:United Game Artists 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) 17:21, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Something you might find interesting
http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?33506-Hideki-Sato-on-the-Sega-Saturn-(incredible-new-interview TarkusAB talk 12:31, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
 * That seems pretty amazing. I'd love to be able to go through it all eventually, though I admittedly can't read a word of Japanese.   Red Phoenix  talk  13:29, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 July newsletter
The third round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:


 * Courcelles, a first time contestant, with 1756 points, a tally built largely on 27 GAs related to the Olympics
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three GAs on natural history and astronomy topics
 * SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with a variety of submissions related to transport in the state of Washington

Contestants managed 7 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 120 good articles, 1 good topic, 124 DYK entries, 15 ITN entries, and 132 good article reviews. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 458 GA reviews, in comparison to 244 good articles submitted for review and promoted. 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. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process; several submissions, particularly in abstruse or technical areas, have needed additional work to make them completely verifiable.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews 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), Cwmhiraeth (talk), Vanamonde (talk) 04:55, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tectoy
The article Tectoy you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Tectoy for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Indrian -- Indrian (talk) 16:20, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Sonic Team
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Sonic Team you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Indrian -- Indrian (talk) 00:40, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tectoy
The article Tectoy you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Tectoy 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) 15:01, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

Segata Sanshiro
Hello. I've noticed your recent edits regarding Segata Sanshiro. I created its critical reception section so I guess it needs a copyedit since I'm not a native English speaker. Good luck with the article. Hope it becomes a GA too considering how unique is that guy. Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 00:33, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I'm sure I can get it to GA status with a bit of effort.  Red Phoenix  talk  00:36, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Segata Sanshiro
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Segata Sanshiro you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of TarkusAB -- TarkusAB (talk) 14:21, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Segata Sanshiro
The article Segata Sanshiro you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Segata Sanshiro for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of TarkusAB -- TarkusAB (talk) 13:20, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Segata Sanshiro
The article Segata Sanshiro you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Segata Sanshiro 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 TarkusAB -- TarkusAB (talk) 21:03, 11 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Congrats! Nice to see the article as GA.Tintor2 (talk) 21:10, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Sonic Team
The article Sonic Team you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Sonic Team for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Indrian -- Indrian (talk) 16:00, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Sonic Heroes FAC
Yo Red, I just nominated Sonic Heroes for FAC (see here) and wanted to know if you wouldn't mind leaving some comments. I'll review something in return if you'd like. JOE BRO  64  19:27, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
 * As that's definitely my favorite Sonic game of the 3D era, I'd be glad to pitch in a review. Please allow me a few days; I've had a busy week of work.  Right now, aside from Indrian working on a review of Sonic Team, I don't have anything for review at the moment, so no worries on reciprocity at the moment ;).  Red Phoenix  talk  00:05, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

BLPPROD
Hi there, wanted to drop you a line about WP:BLPPROD as I just removed the tag from the William McGreevey entry and thought some more explanation was warranted. BLPPROD is a really odd process because (among other reasons) it departs enormously from WP's usual standards of sourcing--it accepts literally any source that supports a claim in the entry, no matter how unreliable or how it's formatted. So for instance, if I had a blog about ornithology and then made an "Innisfree987" mainspace entry that said, "Innisfree987 is really into birds" and put the blog as an external link...that would be enough to make the entry ineligible for BLPPROD. (It would of course qualify for regular PROD, AfD and probably A7 if not other CSD criteria as well.) So merely listing primary sources, as the McGreevey entry does, is enough to make it ineligible for BLPPROD even tho clearly that would never be enough to sustain an entry in mainspace. BLPPROD just a weird process that possibly should be abolished because it constantly causes eminently reasonable confusion... In the meantime, just wanted to send this FYI explaining my de-prodding. CC'ing who I see had joined the PROD. If anyone has suggestions on improving this situation, they are most welcome at WT:BLPPROD! Innisfree987 (talk) 17:11, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm in transit on a much needed holiday; I'll go along with whatever is decided. Bearian (talk) 17:55, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Enjoy! (I won't ping you even to say so, lest it detract!) Innisfree987 (talk) 18:00, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm not offended or bothered by your action, Innisfree987, as I understand why you removed the tag, but I can't help but feel that we're just wasting a second week of time to end up at the same result here. Respectfully, I would not call those sources myself; more like his portfolio, and it was and still is my opinion it's a BLP with no sources - I do not see a list of his selected works with links so you can read them as "sources", whether or not policy suggests they are. Given it also served the full 7 days of PROD I'm surprised it wasn't just deleted.  *sigh* and I really don't think an A7 would be accepted given I think it at least makes a credible claim of significance, and using a straight-up PROD tag would have ended this by now, but because it was a BLP I felt the extra attention warning was warranted.  Surely it would have been challenged if anyone thought it was a mistake?  That being said, thank you for the heads up.  I will be re-tagging with PROD and watching for another week.   Red Phoenix  talk  19:41, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Deletion of Richard J. Marks article; possible solution and userfy
Hello! I hope this will reach you, regarding the deletion of the page for the article Richard J. Marks, in which it was suggested by two editors that userfy would be recommended. Therefore, I read the notes again carefully, and through my reading of it, may have a solution. Marks is IS notable as a film Producer. He is listed clearly in the credits as a Producer, in at least three publicly released short films/TV about key renewable energy and/or China convenings with interesting contexts: 1. Producer: LinkTV https://archive.org/details/linktv_earth20081114 (Time Code 25:30) 2. Producer: The State of Renewable Energy Finance” -- https://player.vimeo.com/video/133473382 (Time Code 7:41) 3. Producer: "WIREC: Washington International Renewable Energy Conference" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxu1YDNI7k4 (Time Code: 8:00). I would like to propose moving the article back into user space, with Marks listed, more simply, as a Producer of environmentally-oriented films, using those links above. That would solve the problem of the lack of print articles about him at this point in time. It would give others a chance to benefit from his contributions. The opening may be rewritten: "Marks is the Producer of film narratives that provide environmental solutions and leadership voices, in the United States and China. Thanks so much. Lettucecup (talk) 21:23, 24 August 2018 (UTC)Lettucecup

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) 18:31, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Sonic Team
The article Sonic Team you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Sonic Team 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) 16:41, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Talkback
Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 13:53, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Sega Technical Institute
Hello Red Phoenix. As you have been unable to respond to requests for reply in this nomination, I have now marked it for closure. If you wish to continue the nomination, please respond as soon as possible, before the nomination is closed. Thank you and happy editing. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 12:23, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Please see new note on your DYK nomination. Yoninah (talk) 19:01, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Sega Technical Institute
Alex Shih (talk) 00:02, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Sonic Heroes FAC (again)
Hope I'm not bothering you, but just wanted to ask if you're still planning on checking this out? I think it's beginning to approach the end of its cycle JOE BRO  64  20:16, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

20th Century
Where's the lie? 209.6.136.140 (talk) 00:35, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
 * WP:DNFTT. Red Phoenix  talk  00:39, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks
I thought Canadians were well liked. Apparently, I was wrong. Thanks for the reverting help, backlog at AIV again. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 04:21, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
 * You're quite welcome. If it's any help, I like Canadians; I met quite a few when I lived in North Dakota for a time.   Red Phoenix  talk  04:24, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I bet we all like Tim Hortons, it's a problem. Anyyywaaayyyss they're blocked! I watchlisted the pages because I suspect they'll return but thanks! HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 04:33, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I have the same suspicion, but I suppose we have 31 hours of peace for now, at least.  Red Phoenix  talk  04:35, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Sega
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Sega you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Indrian -- Indrian (talk) 22:20, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

User talk:HorseyNugget
That was not something for which you should leave a gentle warning. Drmies (talk) 04:21, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
 * If Huggle allowed, I would have left a firmer one. I'll note that I'm still figuring out all of its functions, and that I've only recently become familiar that WP:REVDEL is a thing.   Red Phoenix  <sup style="color: #FFA500">talk  04:49, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of History of Sega
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article History of Sega you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Indrian -- Indrian (talk) 00:21, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

Reverting to not neutral text
The information on the Young Living page is not neutral. My edits are being rejected as not neutral, but the original text is not neutral and also repetitive. Young Living is in the Health and Wellness industry, please make the industry reflect that. Why is that sharing specific information about what the company does is not neutral? When I am researching companies, I would liek to know what they do, not just the lawsuits they have been involved in. To only include every negative aspect of the company is very biased and not helpful.
 * Except that you are removing sourced content. This can also violate WP:NPOV as bias the other direction to whitewash negative criticism.  If you are certain this is undue criticism of the company, then what you need to do is discuss it on the article's talk page.  It's one thing if it's not reliably sourced and just overall plain negative, but it's another to remove sourced content without consensus.   Red Phoenix  <sup style="color: #FFA500">talk  03:03, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Konami Edit
I do beg to differ, Firewall not being banned is highly controversial and is highly criticized, so it stands to reason that it should be in the “Critisizm and controversy” section as it’s literally one of the most controversial cards ever printed in the game SatanicWren (talk) 02:41, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Welcome to Wikipedia. I wanted to let you know that the reason for the revert is because Wikipedia is not a publisher of original research; see WP:OR for more information.  Facts to be added should be substantiated through a reliable source, cited through an inline citation.  A great guide to Wikipedia and getting started is at WP:HOW, and friendly users such as myself and others are always willing to lend a helping hand whenever we can.  If it is something that is the case and you feel should be added to the article, that's more than fine, but you will need to find a reliable source that says so first, then attribute that fact to the source through a citation.  If you have any questions, feel free to let me know and I will be glad to help out.  Thank you,  Red Phoenix  <sup style="color: #FFA500">talk  12:04, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

The Death of Superman
Hi Red, I was wondering if you would be interested in reviewing at my current FAC? It's fine if you can't or don't want to. <small style="color:red">JOE BRO  64  01:43, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I'll try and make it to it soon. I work in retail, so this is my busy season, ergo why I haven't been on so much lately, but I'll make my best effort to check it out.   Red Phoenix  <sup style="color: #FFA500">talk  12:35, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Sonic CD
Believe it or not, I actually tried to correct this a few months ago, but was reverted... because it apparently was stated in the source. <small style="color:red">JOE BRO  64  01:45, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
 * The source uses the term "Sonic Team" but makes it clear it's not the same Sonic Team. It's ridiculous, and quite frankly, if it becomes an issue I'll start a thread on the talk page to establish a consensus.  I think all the work placed into Sonic Team makes this pretty clear by now how much the term "Sonic Team" has been thrown around without it actually being "Sonic Team" and that sources need to be filtered to determine accuracy at this point.   Red Phoenix  <sup style="color: #FFA500">talk  12:13, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Sega HQ pictures
See the images I uploaded here. Four pictures are the new building and one is the sign in front of the old Ota office. It was really difficult to get a good shot of the building. And again, it's not a Sega exclusive building. It's a large complex shared by several companies. Sega just happens to be one of the larger companies there so they have their sign up front. There may have been a sign on the opposite side for another company, I can't remember. Oh and also here's the building's website, you can see some concept images of the building (it ended up looking just as they designed it). TarkusAB talk 14:19, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Those are some amazing pictures. I understand your concern about getting a good shot, but it's still some very neat stuff to see.  I may yet be able to use one or two of them in articles.  Even if I don't, however, I want to thank you for showing these to me.   Red Phoenix  <sup style="color: #FFA500">talk  15:23, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

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Out Run
In one of the Untold History of Japanese Game Developer books, there is some development history behind Out Run about how Yu Suzuki and I think Ishii went on a road trip in Europe. I have the books and can send you scans if you want.

Loving the Sega work going on here, collaborating on topics like this makes editing more fun. I was gonna take a break from Wikipedia to study more Japanese, but I think I'm content with my level and want to collaborate more here. I'm going to pick up some more Sega articles soon. TarkusAB talk 16:22, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

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Talk:Sega/GA1 and Talk:History of Sega/GA1
Red Phoenix, I was wondering what you would like to do with these two. We could request a 2nd opinion, changing the status so that it makes it more likely that another reviewer will stop by. (The note field may attract someone, but the 2nd opinion is more likely to have an effect.) We could also just put one or both of them back into the pool of unreviewed nominations with no loss of seniority.

I also noticed that Indrian just opened another review of one of your nominations. If there isn't progress in the time proposed, I'm willing to arrange to have the (at that point, presumably unused) review page deleted and put the nomination back into the pool of articles needing review—indeed, we could do that with History of Sega since there is no review on that page.

I'm happy to help in any way I can; those reviews were just shy of six months and five months respectively, which is far too long. Best of luck with a new reviewer! BlueMoonset (talk) 03:55, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm all for a change of status to 2nd opinion. As for putting them back into the field and deleting the old review page, I would be fine with that for History of Sega, but the one for Sega definitely needs to stay since it does have feedback.  As for the Out Run review, Indrian insists that it's a short article he can do for a change of pace.  In fairness to him, both of the other two articles are monsters, so I'm willing to see him make it happen.   Red Phoenix  <sup style="color: #FFA500">talk  10:41, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you! (Periscope)

 * Hi, I’ll try to answer your questions. I’ve done a thorough canvassing of the sources I can get my hands on for the moment, and here’s what I know:
 * We don’t actually know much about Namco’s model at all. No reception, and barely any press, just the one media release in Cashbox and a few pictures of it floating around the Internet.  Unfortunately we can only take Namco’s word on 1965, but video game companies in general did not keep quality records that reach the Internet like they do today, a problem I’ve encountered in other video game articles I’ve written.  The Cashbox source is from 1967 and talks about it being a new game, but that could very well mean new to the English-speaking world, or for export - who knows, they weren’t terribly clear either.
 * Related to that, no one’s really sure how Sega got the idea, if they stole or licensed it from Namco or what - there is only speculation that it “may be this” or “may be that”. Rosen has said he designed it, but two issues here: he doesn’t make any mention of Namco’s version ever, and I’m inclined to believe he may have come up with the concept but he’s not the “designer” like Nakamura would have been.  I’m trying to find a translation of an interview from the book “Sega Arcade History”, but I’d say it’s more likely Sega’s designer of the game was Hisashi Suzuki (not to be confused with the one from Square Enix).  Again, though, I don’t have a source for that yet.
 * Sega’s version, not Namco’s, was on display in 1966 in the next Cashbox source. Sega’s version was also on exhibition in 1967 in France.  It was a 3-player cabinet.  The source understanding is that the single player version was made for export since the 3-player version usually had to be fitted into a space - a poster picture from the 3-player version notes the machine at over 13 feet long, so that would be very impractical to export.
 * I removed the release years from the box because we don’t have sources, at least in Namco’s case, to say for certain when it was released. Calling it a Japan-only release may also be wrong since the 1967 Cashbox article talks about Nakamura being willing to export it.  Although the sources certainly indicate how important the game was to Sega, it didn’t make sense to me to list one manufacturer and not the other in the infobox.
 * I will review my prose for ambiguity to the reader tonight and ensure these small issues are addressed. I’m also finding more mentions, including period-based, and will incorporate those as well.
 * Red Phoenix <sup style="color: #FFA500">talk  20:28, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

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The second round of the 2019 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to scored 32 points to advance into round 3. Our top four scorers in round 2 all scored over 400 points and were:

Other notable performances were put in by Barkeep49 with six GAs, 🇺🇸 Ceranthor, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski, and  Canada Hky, each with seven GARs, and 🇩🇰 MPJ-DK with a seven item GT.
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Sega development studios
Nice work on the Sega and History of Sega articles, which are now GAs. As for the development studios, the Sega development studios article and its own articles outside of Sonic Team may need to be extensively reworked for GA. Shall we join forces? Thanks, Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 02:02, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I have been thinking about that. I've looked at Sega development studios a lot and it really needs a good cleaning.  If it's done right, it could basically serve as the list at the core of a Sega development studios featured topic someday.  On studios of Sega, I did Sega Technical Institute and United Game Artists a short time ago, and they are GAs as well.  I've been looking at doing Sega AM2 or Sega AM3/Hitmaker and Sega Rosso as a project here soon.  As it stands, though, I do have some time limitations I have to overcome; I work a job with overtime every week and I have a family life at home, so what I can do is just as I have time.  I've also got a couple of other things going - Sega to FA status and getting Sega Genesis on the Main Page in August for the console's 30th anniversary of its North American release are at the top of my list.  That being said, I'm certainly down for collaborating on the subject, and I do make a point to at least check Wikipedia daily and answer talk page queries.  I would love to see the Sega studios covered with good rigor, and would be glad to collaborate to help make that happen.   Red Phoenix  <sup style="color: #FFA500">talk  02:30, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
 * That's completely understandable. In addition, I'm also looking into making Sega AM1/Overworks and Wow Entertainment a GA, as well as making the Sakura Wars series a Good Topic. I'm contacting for his thoughts on the matter. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 02:37, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I fully support the efforts, though my role will probably be less about the actual rewrite, and more about reading it over, tweaking, and maintaining it into infinity, like the Genesis/Saturn/Dreamcast articles.  Sergecross73   msg me  02:56, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Anyway, I've started to rewrite the lead at the moment. Using the List of Nintendo development teams and SIE Worldwide Studios articles (both of which could be reworked as potential FLs) as models, we should probably reformat the article with prose about its history and importing some of the information from the main Sega article. It seems reasonable enough. I've also started a relevant discussion at Talk:Sega development studios. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 06:52, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

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Here's news from ZHWP!
Acutally, it's quite old news :P Sega Saturn & Game Gear has became FA, and Sega Channel & Sega Meganet has became GA in Chinese Wikipedia, all translated from English version by me. As the translator, I truly appreciate contribution done by you and the SEGA task force members.

Now I'm working on bringing all SEGA FA/GA articles to ZHWP. There is only me doing SEGA topic (zh:WP:SEGA) in ZHWP now ( which is sad:, so the procedure may br really slow. But with the high quality average of the English articles, I'm quite positive about the future.

Have a niceday!

[SEEEEEGAAAAA Barnstar.jpg]

—— Eric Liu（Talk．Chinese userpage） 06:13, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
 * - That's absolutely amazing to hear. It's really nice to know that the articles here are slowly making their way across languages, and I hope readers in the Chinese Wikipedia enjoy your translations.  A heads-up: it's in progress, but Sega is going through an FA candidacy as we speak, and before too long you may have another huge one to translate.  Thanks for the news!   Red Phoenix  <sup style="color: #FFA500">talk  13:52, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I know. In fact, I’m here just because I hear that SEGA is going to be a FA. The FAC here is very different from ours, which is through just voting. The long and constructive comments of ENWP users are nowhere to be seen in ZHWP. Maybe that’s why ENWP’s articles quality are so freaking awesome (´▽｀) —— Eric Liu（Talk．Chinese userpage） 23:43, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

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Various sources (Vincent Bugliosi, Jeffrey Toobin) have resulted in the consensus that reliable sources state that O.J. Simpson murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman. The comments made by Bugliosi and others about the actual evidence are pertininent, and WP:NPOV requires that we present various sides of a story, if there are good sources. Bugliosi is an excellent source, and I see no problems with the others cited in these few lines. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.105.95.119 (talk) 01:32, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Hey, between you and me and the fencepost, I don't disagree with you. I've watched O.J.: Made in America.  But that's handling it completely wrong; we can say some sources say OJ murdered them, but this contradicts the court case and there's never been anything definitive that's been provided since the evidence in the case otherwise.  The way you're presenting it, though, is POV unless there is definitive proof and a universal consensus.
 * At the very least, I'd discuss it on the article's talk page first.  Red Phoenix  <sup style="color: #FFA500">talk  01:35, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

I have talked about it on OJ, Nicole, Ron and the murder trial talk pages; Lee Harvey Oswald has been named as John F. Kennedy's killer (no alleged required); I suggest the same be done to O.J. Simpson and name him as the killer of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman. Wikipedia is a mainstream encyclopedia so this article has to present the accepted version of the events according to reliable sources. Various sources (Vincent Bugliosi, Jeffrey Toobin) have resulted in the consensus that reliable sources state that O.J. Simpson murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman. If you disagree with the current status, you are welcome to bring your concerns to the article talk page. The legal contexts of "burden of proof" and "presumption of innocence" apply to someone who is being tried for a crime. Although Simpson was found not guilty in a court of law, reliable sources firmly establish his culpability. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.105.95.119 (talk) 01:40, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

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Sega
Bummer about the FA burning out. I feel that's partially my fault - I did a bit more copyediting here and there but didn't go into with a serious amount of energy. Sorry. It's an unusually good article, thanks overwhelmingly to your efforts, and I'm sure it'll make FA sooner or later. Popcornduff (talk) 02:35, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Hey, I appreciate the support you gave this article through the process. It'll be all right about the FAC - I predicted it might not get enough feedback at the start because it's a large article on a subject most people would call obscure (video games don't tend to draw non-video game reviewers well).  Not the first time I've had a FAC burn out anyway, but I'll keep working at it, and I'm sure I'll still meet my goal of having it through in time to be featured on the main page on June 3, 2020.  Again, thanks for your help in making this such a well-written article.   Red Phoenix  <sup style="color: #FFA500">talk  11:42, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

Sega Genesis scheduled for TFA
This is to let you know that Sega Genesis has been scheduled as WP:TFA for 14 August 2019. Please check that the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Today's featured article/August 14, 2019. Thanks! Ealdgyth - Talk 15:22, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

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I'm opposed to Integration Tomb of Artaxerxes III with Persepolis!!!! And This is a Tomb in a historic city!!!Not have Why should Not have not a dedicated page? M.k.m2003 (talk) 02:58, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I have responded to you at the article's talk page, Talk:Tomb of Artaxerxes III (even if the article is redirected, the talk page still exists). We can continue to discuss there if you would like, so that other editors may chime in.   Red Phoenix  <sup style="color: #FFA500">talk  03:00, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Kwash
You could simply have looked at the history and restored the redirect that had been hijacked. It's usually a good idea to check history before trying to nominate anything for deletion as well-purposed pages can be hijacked into vanity or non-notable topics. Undoing or restoring is preferred. See WP:BEFORE. Cheers and thanks for notifying me so I could respond. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:29, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it created as a redirect and hijacked at least twice? I'm well familiar with WP:BEFORE, and for a page with 18 views in the last 30 days, perhaps deleting it so it wouldn't be hijacked the same way again and the redirect recreated would be the best option.   Red Phoenix  <sup style="color: #FFA500">talk  21:48, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
Sorry, never signed that one, it seems (20 October). Today, thank you and team for Sega Genesis! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:04, 14 August 2019 (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)

Your GA nomination of Daytona USA (video game)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Daytona USA (video game) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Crimsonfox -- Crimsonfox (talk) 08:40, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Daytona USA (video game)
The article Daytona USA (video game) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Daytona USA (video game) for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Crimsonfox -- Crimsonfox (talk) 15:20, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Daytona USA (video game)
The article Daytona USA (video game) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Daytona USA (video game) 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 Crimsonfox -- Crimsonfox (talk) 09:01, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019
Hello ,

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.
 * Backlog

A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.
 * Coordinator

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for  making  the occasional  mistake while  others can learn from  their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.
 * This month's refresher course

Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.
 * Deletion tags

Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.
 * Paid editing


 * Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion
 * Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
 * Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.

Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent  enhancements to  the New Pages Feed and  features in the Curation  tool, and there are still more to  come. Due to the wealth  of information  now displayed by  ORES, reviewers are strongly  encouraged to  use the system now rather than Twinkle; it  will  also  correctly  populate the logs.
 * Not English
 * A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.
 * Tools

Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.

Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.

is now patrolling certain categories of uncontroversial redirects. Curious? Check out its patrol log.

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:15, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Interstate 469
The article Interstate 469 you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Interstate 469 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kingsif -- Kingsif (talk) 22:40, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Unexplained revert
Greetings, I should welcome your reasoning for this revert, please. "Footballer", which is accurate and neutral is clearly more correct than "Football star" which contains unsourced opinion. Thank you. 2A02:C7F:4481:8300:90DC:E235:5074:54B0 (talk) 00:14, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I hit the revert button on Huggle on the preceding edit, that said "footballet", which appeared to be vandalism. Your correction to "footballer" is indeed more accurate and neutral.  With Huggle, there is a 2-second window where an intermediate edit can be entered and caught in the reversion, and that's what happened here.  Apologies for the confusion.   Red Phoenix  <sup style="color: #FFA500">talk  00:24, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, thank you for taking the trouble to pen this helpful explanation. Much appreciated. 2A02:C7F:4481:8300:90DC:E235:5074:54B0 (talk) 00:44, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:45, 20 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)

New Page Review newsletter November 2019
Hello ,

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon. There are now holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action. Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays. Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox. Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards. Admin has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers. Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources. Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13. The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights. There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion. To opt-out of future mailings, you can remove yourself here MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:33, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Getting the queue to 0
 * Coordinator
 * This month's refresher course
 * Tools
 * It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
 * It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.
 * Reviewer Feedback
 * Second set of eyes
 * Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
 * Do be sure to have our talk page  on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.
 * Arbitration Committee
 * Community Wish list