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The Signpost: 25 July 2011
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WikiCup 2011 July newsletter
We are half way through the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; there is less than a month to go before we have our final 8. Our pool leaders are (Pool A, 189 points) and  (Pool B, 165 points). The number of points required to reach the next round is not clear at this time; there are some users who still do not have any recorded points. Please remember to update your submissions' pages promptly. In addition, congratulations to PresN, who scored the first featured topic points in the competition for his work on Thatgamecompany related articles. Most points this round generally have, so far, come from good articles, with only one featured article (White-bellied Sea Eagle, from ) and two featured lists (Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, from PresN and Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album, from ). Points for Did You Know and good article reviews round out the scoring. No points have been awarded for In the News, good topics or featured pictures this round, and no points for featured sounds or portals have been awarded in the entire competition. On an unrelated note, preparation will be beginning soon for next year's WikiCup- watch this space!

There is little else to be said beyond the usual. Please list anything you need reviewing on WikiCup/Reviews, so others following the WikiCup can help, and please do help if you can by providing reviews for the articles listed there. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews generally at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup- points are, of course, offered for reviews at GAC. Two final notes: Firstly, please remember to state your participation in the WikiCup when nominating articles at FAC. Finally, some WikiCup-related statistics can be seen here and here. 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 11:26, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2011 July newsletter
The finals are upon us; we're down to the last few. One of the eight remaining contestants will be this year's WikiCup champion! 150 was the score needed to progress to the final; just under double the 76 required to reach round 4, and more than triple the 41 required to reach round 3. Our eight finalists are:


 * , Pool A's winner. Casliber has the highest total score in the competition, with 1528, the bulk of which is made up of 8 featured articles. He has the highest number of total featured articles (8, 1 of which was eligible for double points) and total did you knows (72) of any finalist. Casliber writes mostly on biology, including ornithology, botany and mycology.
 * , Pool B's winner and the highest scorer this round. PresN is the only finalist who has scored featured topic points, and he has gathered an impressive 330, but most of his points come from his 4 featured articles, one of which scored double. PresN writes mostly on video games and the Hugo Awards.
 * , Pool A's runner-up. Hurricanehink's points are mostly from his 30 good articles, more than any other finalist, and he is also the only finalist to score good topic points. Hurricanehink, as his name suggests, writes mostly on meteorology.
 * , Pool B's runner-up. Wizardman has completed 86 good article reviews, more than any other finalist, but most of his points come from his 2 featured articles. Wizardman writes mostly on American sport, especially baseball.
 * , the "fastest loser" (Pool A). Miyagawa has written 3 featured lists, one of which was awarded double points, more than any other finalist, but he was awarded points mostly for his 68 did you knows. Miyagawa writes on a variety of topics, including dogs, military history and sport.
 * , the second "fastest loser" (Pool B). Most of Resolute's points come from his 9 good articles. He writes mostly on Canadian topics, including ice hockey.
 * , who was joint third "fastest loser" (Pool A). Most of Evan's points come from his 10 good articles, and he writes mostly on meteorology.
 * , who was joint third "fastest loser" (Pool B). Most of Phil's points come from his 9 good articles, 4 of which (more than any other finalist) were eligible for double points. He writes mostly on aeronautics.

We say goodbye to our seven other semi-finalists,, , , , , and. Everyone still in the competition at this stage has done fantastically well, and contributed greatly to Wikipedia. We're on the home straight now, and we will know our winner in two months.

In other news, preparations for next year's competition have begun with a brainstorming thread. Please, feel free to drop by and share any thoughts you have about how the competition should work next year. Sign ups are not yet open, but will be opened in due course. Watch this space. Further, there has been a discussion about the rule whereby those in the WikiCup must delcare their participation when nominating articles at featured article candidates. This has resulted in a bot being created by new featured article delegate. The bot will leave a message on FAC pages if the nominator is a participant in the WikiCup.

A reminder of the rules: any points scored after August 29 may be claimed for the final round, and please remember to update submission pages promptly. If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:57, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

wikiproject?
I just starting editing here and I find wikiproject wimpy kid. What is a wikiproject?Gregory Heffley (talk) 15:47, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 05 September 2011
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WikiCup 2011 September newsletter
We are on this year's home straight, with less than a month to go until the winner of the 2011 WikiCup will be decided. The fight for first place is currently being contested by, and , all of whom have over 200 points. This round has already seen multiple featured articles (1991 Atlantic hurricane season from Hurricanehink and Northrop YF-23 from Sp33dyphil) and a double-scoring featured list (Miyagawa's 1948 Summer Olympics medal table). The scores will likely increase far further before the end of the round on October 31 as everyone ups their pace. There is not much more to say- thoughts about next year's competition are welcome on the WikiCup talk page or the scoring talk page, and signups will open once a few things have been sorted out.

If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 12:32, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

images of viaduct
I would like to see some schematics of how the updated viaduct will look like, visually where the entrances and exits will be after reopening. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.58.64.34 (talk) 17:28, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Officially publish
Hi ComputerGuy,

I finished a page and it's still in sandbox mode.. I was hoping you might be able to tell me how to finalize and publish the page.

Best,

David — Preceding unsigned comment added by Delster2 (talk • contribs) 20:31, 20 October 2011 (UTC)


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ST Business
Hey CG, its Larks from ST, i forgot the numbers at the end of your username, would you mind giving me a PM, i got some things to discuss.

- Larks — Preceding unsigned comment added by J Larks225 (talk • contribs) 02:00, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

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NFL player info box
i am trying to find the player id for nfl player under stats for nfl player info box can you tell me where to look for it? — Preceding [[Special:Contributions/69.236.77.30|69.236.77.30 (talk) 18:30, 21 December 2011 (UTC)]] comment added by 69.236.77.30 (talk) 18:25, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Template:Washington Interstate Highways


A tag has been placed on Template:Washington Interstate Highways requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it must be substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes ( ).

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by visiting the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you.  Imzadi 1979  →   05:38, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Years
Hi, since your name's down on this project, I'm just writing to let you know that there's a discussion going on at the moment on how to format events – and in particular, events that go on for multiple days – on year pages. Your input would be appreciated. — Smjg (talk) 18:23, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Member assessment at the Canadian Roads Wikiproject
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What a great user page
This article has a note in the middle of it, warning people to not use wikipedia for citations, and appears highly unprofessional. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Notuncurious/Working/tmp3 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.236.210.98 (talk) 16:39, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

USRD WikiProject Newsletter, Winter 2012

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Sweet Briar College page needs editing
Sweet Briar is in Virginia. NOT North Dakota. Please will you fix this? Thank you so much, Heidi, SBC Alumnae — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.88.32.175 (talk) 15:11, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

MfD nomination of WikiProject Tamagotchi
WikiProject Tamagotchi, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Tamagotchi (2nd nomination) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of WikiProject Tamagotchi during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions)  00:07, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Taxonomy definition
I am not sure how this works, but I wanted to submit a suggestion. I was looking at the term "Taxonomy" and see the historical references and obviously all definitions there seem appropriate. BUT, taxonomy has become used in the business world where there is a need to establish common terms, structure, etc. in order for everyone to have a common understanding while the subjects are being discussed. This obviously is needed where there are efforts going into a "new" area for any particular group so higher level discussions can happen effectively with common understandings. I don't know how to provide references for this, but I work at Microsoft and the term pops it's head up periodically in situations such as I have discussed above.

Hope this helps. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.107.0.81 (talk) 01:15, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Vandalism
Hi there,

The Saving Private Ryan page has been posted on Reddit and is being vandalized actively.

Is there some to semi-protect the page?

thanks, Wingman358 (talk) 14:48, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

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Account is blue
Hi! Im a teacher who is working with some students in Wikipedia. I have one User:Laloreed22 whose Wikipedia pages show up all blue or half blue when he is logged into his account. No idea why. Can you help him out?AlejandroLinaresGarcia (talk) 20:33, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

MfD nomination of WikiProject Wimpy Kid
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USRD WikiProject Newsletter, Spring 2012

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Nomination for deletion of Template:WA U.S. Routes
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What do you think?
Hello!

The great debate is right now going on on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Concert_Tours page. I would be very grateful if you could say something about the topic on this page.

The main question is about numbering the concert tour dates and I would be very interested in your opinion. What do you think? Do you like the idea of numbering the tour dates or not? Please post your reasonable opinion on the above mentioned page.

Thank you! Lassoboy (talk) 15:07, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

USRD Summer 2012 Newsletter

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WikiProject Good articles (Participant Clean-Up)
Hello, you are receiving this message because you are currently a participant of WikiProject Good articles. Since the creation of the WikiProject, over 200 user's have joined to help review good article nominations and contribute to other sections of the WikiProject. Over the years, several of these users have stopped reviewing articles and/or have become inactive with the project but are still listed as participates. In order to improve communications with other participants and get newsletters sent out faster (newsletters will begin to be sent out monthly starting in October) all participants that are no longer active with the WikiProject will be removed from the participants list.

If you are still interested in being a participant for this WikiProject, please sign your user name here and please help review some articles so we can reduce the size of the backlog. If you are no longer interested, you do not need to sign your name anywhere and your name will be removed from the participants list after the deadline. Remember that even if you are not interested at this time, you can always re-add your name to the list whenever you want. The deadline to sign your name on the page above will be November 1, 2012. Thank-you. 13:23, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Update for: WikiProject Good articles (Participant Clean-Up)
Sorry for having to send out a second message but a user has brought to my attention that a point mentioned in the first message should be clarified. If user's don't sign on this page, they will be moved to an "Inactive Participants" list rather then be being removed from the entire WikiProject. Sorry for any confusion.--Dom497 (talk)15:13, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Portal Editing/Creation
Ok. So, I was kinda being stupid. I noticed there was no portal for Miley Cyrus. So I thought why don't I create it? How hard can it be? I thought wrong. So I tried consulting the Portal creation instructions & I tried doing what it said. But some things didn't work. I know I was doing it wrong. So I tried fixing it. & it didn't really work. I tried following the portal creation instructions but it was complicated & confusing. Now i'm stuck. So can you show me how to do it? I appreciate you doing it for me. But after you fix it, plz show me how to do it, as I would like to learn the craft of "Wikipedianing." ;) So if you will help drop me a note! BTW: You can find the portal here. Thank you so much! Lopezjaylo98 (talk) 22:19, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

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