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WikiCup 2014 June newsletter
After an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's, whose contributions included featured articles Russian battleship Poltava (1894) and Russian battleship Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six out of eight making it to the next round.

The round saw this year's first featured portal, with taking Portal:Literature to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to and the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. This means that all content types have been claimed this year. Other contributions of note this round include a featured topic on Maya Angelou's autobiographies from, a good article on the noted Czech footballer Tomáš Rosický from and a now-featured video game screenshot, freely released due to the efforts of.

The judges would like to remind participants to update submission pages promptly. This means that content can be checked, and allows those following the competition (including those participating) to keep track of scores effectively. This round has seen discussion about various aspects of the WikiCup's rules and procedures. Those interested in the competition can be assured that formal discussions about how next year's competition will work will be opened shortly, and all are welcome to voice their views then. 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 Wikipedia: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. and 18:48, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Skin Deep (Once Upon a Time)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Skin Deep (Once Upon a Time) 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 Gabriel Yuji -- Gabriel Yuji (talk) 02:21, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Skin Deep (Once Upon a Time)
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Your GA nomination of House of the Rising Sun (Lost)
The article House of the Rising Sun (Lost) 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:House of the Rising Sun (Lost) for things which need to be addressed. 23W 03:19, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of House of the Rising Sun (Lost)
The article House of the Rising Sun (Lost) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:House of the Rising Sun (Lost) 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. 23W 03:11, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Skin Deep (Once Upon a Time)
The article Skin Deep (Once Upon a Time) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Skin Deep (Once Upon a Time) 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 Gabriel Yuji -- Gabriel Yuji (talk) 04:02, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

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FAC closures
Hi Ruby, tks again for your sterling efforts closing promoted/archived FACs in the absence of a bot. One thing, just has to go at the very top of the review page, above the header with the article name... :-) Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 16:40, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see I was misinterpreting the closing instructions there. My apologies! Will be sure that the header gets placed in its proper position in the future. Thanks for the note! I do rather enjoy doing them (I've had limited editing time lately, so it feels like I'm at least helping with something by doing a needed task that takes a set amount of time to perform). Regards,  Ruby  2010/  2013  17:10, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

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DYK for House of the Rising Sun (Lost)
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Your GA nomination of Hearts and Minds (Lost)
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Your GA nomination of Hearts and Minds (Lost)
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Your GA nomination of Harriet Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Harriet Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville 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 Seattle -- Seattle (talk) 23:21, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
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Your GA nomination of My Lord John
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article My Lord John 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 Seattle -- Seattle (talk) 23:40, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Good articles Future GAN Backlog Drive
Hello everyone! Hope you've all been having a great summer!

TheQ Editor recently proposed the idea of having another Backlog Drive in either September/October or November/December of this year. For those of you who have participated in the past two drives you know I was the one who organized them, however, come September, this will be my most important year in school so I will not be able to coordinate this drive (if it happens). TheQ Editor has volunteered to be a coordinator for the drive. If any of you would like to co-coordinator, please notify TheQ Editor on his talk page.

If you would be interested in participating in a Backlog Drive sometime before the end of this year, please notify TheQ Editor. Also, make sure to specify what month(s) work best for you.

At the time this message was sent out, the backlog was at 520 nominations. Since May, the backlog has been steadily increasing and we are currently near an all time high. Even though the backlog will not disappear over one drive, this drive can lead to several others which will (hopefully) lead to the day where there is no longer a backlog.

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GA Cup
Hello everyone! We hope you have all been having a great summer!

As we all know, the recent GAN Backlog Drives have not had any big impact on the backlog. Because of that, me (Dom497), Figureskatingfan, and TheQ Editor have worked on an idea that could possibly finally put a dent into the massive backlog. Now, I will admit, the idea isn't entirely ours as we have took the general idea of the WikiCup and brought it over to WikiProject Good Articles. But anyways, here's what we have in mind:

For all of you that do not know what the WikiCup is, it is an annual competition between several editors to see who can get the most Good Articles, Featured Article's, Did You Know's, etc. Based of this, we propose to you the GA Cup. This competition will only focus on reviewing Good articles.

For more info on the proposal, click here. As a FYI, the proposal page is not what the final product will look like (if you do go ahead with this idea). It will look very similar to WikiCup's page(s).

The discussion for the proposal will take place here. Please let us know if you are interested, have any concerns, things to consider, etc.

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WikiCup 2014 August newsletter
The final of the 2014 WikiCup begins in a few short minutes! Our eight finalists are listed below, along with their placement in Round 4:


 * , a WikiCup newcomer, finished top of Pool A and was the round's highest scorer. Godot is a featured picture specialist, claiming large numbers of points due to high-quality scans of historical documents, especially banknotes.
 * 1) is a WikiCup veteran, having been a finalist every year since 2010. In the semi-final, he was Pool B's highest scorer. Cas's points primarily come from articles on the natural sciences.
 * 2) was Pool A's runner-up. Czar's points come mostly from content related to independent video games, including both articles and topics.
 * 3) was Pool B's runner-up. Another featured picture specialist, many of Adam's points come from the restoration of historical media. He has been a WikiCup finalist twice before.
 * 4) won the WikiCup in 2012 and 2013, and enters this final as the first wildcard. She focuses on biology-related articles, and has worked on several high-importance articles.
 * 5) is the second wildcard. George's points come primarily from meteorology-related articles. This year and last year, George was the first person in the competition to score.
 * , the third wildcard, was the 2010 champion and a finalist last year. His writes mostly on military history, especially naval history.
 * , the fourth and final wildcard, has participated in previous WikiCups, but not reached any finals. Bloom's points are mostly thanks to did you knows, featured lists and good articles related to sport and national symbols.

We say goodbye to this year's semi-finalists. ,, , , , and  have all performed well to reach this stage of the competition, and we hope they will all be joining us again next year.

There are two upcoming competitions unrelated to the WikiCup which may be of interest to those who receive this newsletter. The Stub Contest will run through September, and revolves around expanding stub articles, especially high-importance or old stubs. In addition, a proposal has been made for a new competition, the GA Cup, which the organisers plan to run next year. This competition is based on the WikiCup and aims to reduce the good article review backlog.

There is now a thread for brainstorming on how next year's WikiCup competition should work. Please come along and share your thoughts- What works? What doesn't work? What needs changing? Signups for next year's competition will be open soon; we will be in touch. If, at this stage of the competition, you are keen to help the with the WikiCup, please do what you can to participate in review processes. Our finalists will find things much easier if the backlogs at good article candidates, featured article candidates, featured picture candidates and the rest are kept at a minimum. As ever, 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. and 22:09, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

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Thanks for the expansion on Ruth Myers (costume designer)
I have done quite a few of the Oscar nominated people and glad you expanded one! (There still are some Oscar nominated/winning costume designers with no pages though) anyway thanks again! Wgolf (talk) 03:09, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks! :) Glad to help. I found Myers from Category:British costume designers and have plans to tackle some more with expansions.  Ruby  2010/  2013  03:24, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Harriet Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville/GA1
I left you a message regarding the original GA-reviewers inactivity. Jonas Vinther (speak to me!) 13:58, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

Stub contest
A quick note to say that as of this evening you've got 30 points - and there's three days still to go, so if you've any more to add please get them in soon :-). Thanks for the contributions! Andrew Gray (talk) 22:50, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2014 September newsletter
In one month's time, we will know our WikiCup 2014 champion. Newcomer has taken a strong lead with a featured list (historical coats of arms of the U.S. states from 1876) and a raft of featured pictures. Reigning champion is in second place with a number of high-importance biology articles, including new FA Isopoda and new GA least weasel. , who is in his fifth WikiCup final, is in third, with featured articles Pictor and Epacris impressa.

Signups for the 2015 WikiCup are open. All Wikipedians, new and experienced, are warmly invited to sign up for the competition. Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may also like to sign up for the GA Cup, a new WikiCup-inspired competition which revolves around completing good article reviews. As ever, 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. and 22:11, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Harriet Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville
The article Harriet Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Harriet Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville 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 Seattle -- Seattle (talk) 22:22, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Emma 1996 TV drama.jpg
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Your GA nomination of My Lord John
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WikiCup 2014: The results
The 2014 WikiCup champion is, who flew the flag of the Smithsonian Institution. This was Godot13's first WikiCup competition and, over the 10 months of the competition, he has produced (among other contributions) two featured lists and an incredible 292 featured pictures, including architectural photographs and scans of historical documents. , 2012 and 2013 WikiCup champion, came in second, having written a large number of biology-related articles. , WikiCup finalist every year since 2010, finished in third.

A full list of our prize-winners follows:


 * wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 181 featured pictures in the final round.
 * wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 65 did you knows in the final round.
 * wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for four featured articles in the final round.
 * wins the prize for fourth place
 * wins a final 8 prize.
 * wins a final 8 prize.
 * wins a final 8 prize.
 * wins the GA prize for 27 good articles in round 2 and the review prize for 28 good article reviews in round 1.
 * wins the FL prize for three featured lists in round 2.
 * wins the FPo prize his work on featured portals.
 * wins the topic prize for a nine-article featured topic in round 3.
 * wins the news prize for 28 in the news articles in round 3.

Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have participated this year. We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. and 22:52, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

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WP:WikiProject Editor Retention
I think you might have be interested in WER. Mainly, we have the main talk page, which is a mish mash of different discussion, and of course, we have the Editor of the Week program, which is where editors (members or not) nominate good editors for the recognition. For the EotW, we tend to focus on gnomes, article creators, and people who quietly work on improving the encyclopedia. No admins or drama lovers. It gets heated on the talk page sometimes, but I've always believed that sometimes a little heat can help people work through issues, assuming the parties are open minded and have non-political goals. Women are underrepresented at Wikipedia, although much of that may be western culture and other factors. Our goal isn't to assign blame, it is to find solutions, help new people, mediate some and honest debate about retention issues. We are 100% non-political, there is no "official" stand on any policy, no belief in a singular way to do things. We are just a group of people with the same goal: retention. And we are proud of the fact that four of the Editor of the Week recipients have ran for and obtained admin status, including Anna Frodesiac and Anne Delong. There is no central leadership, although I'm the guy that started it some time back. Everyone is equal, no one's word is law, there are no special rules, ranks or hierarchy. We have 169 members, but the traffic is typically light. We will announce important policy related activities, but we don't take a stand, we don't tell you which way is the "right" way to vote. It doesn't require a lot of time or commitment. You can list yourself as a member, or just lurk from time to time. We would love to hear your perspectives, if you are so inclined. Dennis - 2&cent; 07:24, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2015 is just around the corner...
Hello everyone, and may we wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2015 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. We have a few important announcements concerning the future of the WikiCup.


 * We would like to announce that Josh (J Milburn) and Ed (The ed17), who have been WikiCup judges since 2009 and 2010 respectively, are stepping down. This decision has been made for a number of reasons, but the main one is time. Both Josh and Ed have found that, over the previous year, they have been unable to devote the time necessary to the WikiCup, and it is not likely that they will be able to do this in the near future. Furthermore, new people at the helm can only help to invigorate the WikiCup and keep it dynamic. Josh and Ed will still be around, and will likely be participating in the Cup this following year as competitors, which is where both started out.
 * In a similar vein, we hope you will all join us in welcoming Jason (Sturmvogel 66) and Christine (Figureskatingfan), who are joining Brian (Miyagawa) to form the 2015 WikiCup judging team. Jason is a WikiCup veteran, having won in 2010 and finishing in fifth this year. Christine has participated in two WikiCups, reaching the semi-finals in both, and is responsible for the GA Cup, which she now co-runs.
 * The discussions/polls concerning the next competition's rules will be closed soon, and rules changes will be made clear on WikiCup/Scoring and talk pages. While it may be impossible to please everyone, the judges will make every effort to ensure that the new rules are both fair and in the best interests of the competition, which is, first and foremost, about improving Wikipedia.

If you have any questions or concerns, the judges can be reached on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, on their talk pages, or by email. We hope you will all join us in trying to make the 2015 WikiCup the most productive and enjoyable yet. You are receiving this message because you are listed on WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk), The ed17 (talk), Miyagawa (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Figureskatingfan (talk) 18:54, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

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If you are interested...
... in another Fiona Apple collaboration, I just began working on Container (song) and it looks like it should be pretty easy to expand to GA status. Just thought I would extend an invitation since we worked on this list together and you did such great work on "Dull Tool". If you are not interested, or don't have the capacity to help at this time, no problem. :) --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 02:05, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I hadn't heard that song before you posted here! I like it and would be happy to help. I see you're doing the Wikicup this year, like me -- would you be open to continuing its expansion in January and submitting it then for GA? (Crafty me speaking) ;) I probably wouldn't have time to help with it before next month anyway, due to the holidays!  Ruby   2010/  2013  17:01, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Sure, no problem! I participate in the WikiCup every year, but more just to support the project/concept in general and never with the intention of winning. But I still submit the content I promote to GA status, etc., and usually make it 1/2 through the competition or so, which is fun. Happy holidays and I look forward to working on the article soon! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 20:23, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
 * By the way, if you are looking for another WikiCup article to finish expanding and promoting to GA status, "Dull Tool" looks like a good candidate to me! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 20:23, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Today's Featured Article: Notification
This is to inform you that  Sense and Sensibility (film), which you nominated at WP:FAC,  will appear on the Main Page  as  Today's Featured Article on 10 January 2015. The proposed main page blurb is here; you may amend if necessary. Please check for dead links and other possible faults before the appearance date. Brianboulton (talk) 10:58, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that, much better. I had to squeeze the text down to 1200 characters; was there anything I left out you'd like to see put back in? - Dank (push to talk) 19:58, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Nothing that jumps out at me but I'll be sure to add anything that comes to mind! (that character limit can be so pesky!) :) Thanks for copyediting the blurb.  Ruby  2010/  2013  22:22, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
 * My pleasure. - Dank (push to talk) 22:31, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I've checked the first five sections and subsections of the article and done a little copyediting. It looks great, but could you check AmEng vs. BrEng please? I see a lot of ises and izes. - Dank (push to talk) 02:13, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I've checked for instances of ise vs ize and corrected them (always difficult writing British articles as an American – thank you for bringing those to my attention!)  Ruby  2010/  2013  02:23, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

 Precious  again! - DYK that I have pride and prejudice on my user page? More personal here, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:02, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Congrats on the Main Page appearance! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 18:33, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * It's so good to see Sense and Sensibility on the Main Page. Huge congrats! - JuneGloom07    Talk  21:29, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks everyone! :)  Ruby  2010/  2013  21:24, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

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 * I've let JM know that the Lady Mary Hamilton under construction banner has been removed. Thanks for jumping all over that article, Ruby; that was great :) --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:43, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for The Lady's Realm
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DYK for Lady Mary Hamilton
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DYK for Frances Jocelyn
Hi Ruby! I hope all is going well with you. I'm not sure if you remember me, but I recently became active here again and just noticed all of the great work you've done since last I checked. I reviewed your DYK nomination for Frances Jocelyn, Viscountess Jocelyn, and I have one small concern regarding citations. Could you please give that a check and add the necessary citations? After that's done, either hook should be good to go.-RHM22 (talk) 23:43, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Hello again. I made a mistake in my initial review, accidentally referring to ALT2 (which was and is fine) instead of ALT1, which is the sentence which needs a direct citation as the hook. Sorry for that mistake.-RHM22 (talk) 00:02, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

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