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Overlinking

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Please please please, don't do this again. That's not wikifying, that's overlinking. Not to speak of many of the links should simply never exist. It takes hours to fix such pages. Thanks, and best regards. --Muhandes (talk) 21:14, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

US National Archives collaboration

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 United States National Archives WikiProject
Would you like to help improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the National Archives and its incredible collection? This summer, the National Archives—which houses some of America's most important historical documents—is hosting me as its Wikipedian in Residence, and I have created WP:NARA to launch these efforts.

There are all sorts of tasks available for any type of editor, whether you're a writer, organizer, gnome, coder, or image guru. The National Archives is making its resources available to Wikipedia, so help us forge this important relationship! Please sign up and introduce yourself. Dominic·t 15:22, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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The Signpost: 27 June 2011

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WikiProject Wikify Discussion Invitation

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Sumsum2010·T·C 23:23, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2011 June newsletter

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We are half way through 2011, and entering the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; the semi-finals are upon us! Points scored in the interim (29/30 June) may be counted towards next round, but please do not update your submissions' pages until the next round has begun. 16 contestants remain, and all have shown dedication to the project to reach this far. Our round leader was Scotland Casliber (submissions) who, among other things, successfully passed three articles through featured article candidates and claimed an impressive 29 articles at Did You Know, scoring 555 points. Casliber led pool D. Pool A was led by Ohio Wizardman (submissions), claiming points for a featured article, a featured list and seven good article reviews, while pool C was led by Norway Eisfbnore (submissions), who claimed for two good articles, ten articles at Did You Know and four good article reviews. They scored 154 and 118 respectively. Pool B was by far our most competitive pool; six of the eight competitors made it through to round 4, with all of them scoring over 100 points. The pool was led by Zanzibar Hurricanehink (submissions), who claimed for, among other things, three featured articles and five good articles. In addition to the four pool leaders, 12 others (the four second places, and the 8 next highest overall) make up our final 16. The lowest scorer who reached round 4 scored 76 points; a significant increase on the 41 needed to reach round 3. Eight of our semi-finalists scored at least twice as much as this.

No points were awarded this round for featured pictures, good topics or In the News, and no points have been awarded in the whole competition for featured topics, featured portals or featured sounds. Instead, the highest percentage of points has come from good articles. Featured articles, despite their high point cost, are low in number, and so, overall, share a comparable number of points with Did You Know, which are high in number but low in cost. A comparatively small but still considerable number of points come from featured lists and good article reviews, rounding out this round's overall scores.

We would again like to thank United Kingdom Jarry1250 (submissions) and Bavaria Stone (submissions) for invaluable background work, as well as all of those helping to provide reviews for the articles listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please do keep using it, and please do help 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.

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, for those interested, though it appears that neither are completely accurate at this time. 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:43, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for such thoughtful edits to Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility

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Hello, Wilhelmina Will. You have new messages at Geofferybard's talk page.
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GOCE check

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Hi

I just checked one of your articles from the July GOCE drive.

In case you are not aware, there should not be a comma after the dates:

  • In 2011, there was this. - incorrect
  • In 2001 there was this. - correct

The details are here for your perusal, in particular the right hand column :¬) Chaosdruid (talk) 04:51, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Tulāsana for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Tulāsana is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tulāsana until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article.

Factual addendum to above template notification: The AfD discussion concerns a total of 58 asana articles. MarB4 •ɯɒɹ• 14:11, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Award

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The Empty Set Barnstar
For emptying many monthly clean up categories. Rich Farmbrough, 11:42, 4 July 2011 (UTC).[reply]
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Oh, thank you very much! It just seems funny to me that the "Unreviewed pages" categories are so simple to clean out, yet when I started cleaning them back in March, the full categories stemmed back to early 2009! I'm glad to say that, in terms of months, they're almost done! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 22:06, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Wikify Drive Awards!

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The WikiProject Wikify Badge  
This Wikify Barnstar is given to Wilhelmina Will for being in second place on the leaderboard in the June 2011 Wikification drive. Again, thanks for participating. Sumsum2010·T·C 22:33, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]


The Wikilink Barnstar
This Wikilink Barnstar is given to Wilhelmina Will for wikifying 331 articles in the June 2011 Wikification drive. Again, thanks for participating. Sumsum2010·T·C 22:33, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, very much!!! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 22:33, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for helping my entry!

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--Shoppingatlas 01:13, 5 July 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shoppingatlas (talk • contribs)

You're welcome! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 02:45, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 4 July 2011

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Suggestion for WikiProject United States to support WikiProject American Old West

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It was recently suggested that WikiProject American Old West might be inactive or semiactive and it might be beneficial to include it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. I have started a discussion on the projects talk page soliciting the opinions of the members of the project if this project would be interested in being supported by WikiProject United States. Please feel free to comment on your opinions about this suggestion. --Kumioko (talk) 19:41, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Implicit contract theory

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I removed your template on the Implicit contract theory article. It doesn't look like this article had any bare links. Did I miss something?--Bkwillwm (talk) 00:29, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Non-free rationale for File:World Environment Day Awards.jpg

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The Signpost: 11 July 2011

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The Signpost: 18 July 2011

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GOCE drive newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors July 2011 backlog elimination drive update
GOCE July 2011 backlog elimination drive progress graphs

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors July 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here is your mid-drive newsletter.

Participation

So far, 45 people have signed up for the drive, of which 30 are actively participating, a very high participation rate. If you have not signed up for the drive yet, you can sign up now. If you have questions about getting started, feel free to talk to us.

Progress report

Progress has been less than that needed to meet our target for the drive (which would reduce the backlog by about 400 articles). Remember though, if everyone copy edits one or two articles every day, we will easily meet our goal. Many thanks to those editors who have been helping out at the Requests page. Reducing the number of articles on this list has been a major success of this drive. Thanks for participating!

Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 05:05, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

July 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States

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The July 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

 
--Kumioko (talk) 14:22, 24 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 25 July 2011

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Ambassador Program: assessment drive

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Even though it's been quiet on-wiki, the Wikipedia Ambassador Program has been busy over the last few months getting ready for the next term. We're heading toward over 80 classes in the US, across all disciplines. You'll see courses start popping up here, and this time we want to match one or more Online Ambassadors to each class based on interest or expertise in the subject matter. If you see a class that you're interested, please contact the professor and/or me; the sooner the Ambassadors and professors get in communication, the better things go. Look for more in the coming weeks about next term.

In the meantime, with a little help I've identified all the articles students did significant work on in the last term. Many of the articles have never been assessed, or have ratings that are out of date from before the students improved them. Please help assess them! Pick a class, or just a few articles, and give them a rating (and add a relevant WikiProject banner if there isn't one), and then update the list of articles.

Once we have updated assessments for all these articles, we can get a better idea of how quality varied from course to course, and which approaches to running Wikipedia assignments and managing courses are most effective.

--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 17:31, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

August 2011 Wikification Drive

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WikiCup 2011 July newsletter

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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 New Zealand Adabow (submissions) (Pool A, 189 points) and Russia PresN (submissions) (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 Scotland Casliber (submissions)) and two featured lists (Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, from PresN and Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album, from Another Believer (submissions)). 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 Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 11:48, 1 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 01 August 2011

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WikiProject Wikify's August Newsletter

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Your Wikification Newsletter – Volume I, Issue IV, October 2011


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GOCE drive report

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Guild of Copy Editors July 2011 backlog elimination drive report
GOCE July 2011 backlog elimination drive progress graphs

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors July 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating! Here is your end-of-drive report.

Participation

50 people signed up for the drive, of which 39 participated. Thanks to all who copy edited articles and helped us reduce the backlogs in both the total articles and requests. We offered a bonus for copy edits from the Requests page, and have been somewhat successful in reducing that backlog, as a record 89 new requests were received in the month of July.

Progress report

During the month of July we reduced the backlog by 338 articles, or by about 8.5%. We did not reach our goal of a 10% reduction, but we came close, and did very well considering the small size of the group participating. Since our Backlog elimination drives began in May 2010, we have reduced the backlog by 4,708 articles. End-of-drive results can be found here. We will be handing out barnstars within the next week or two.

Requests page

Please remember that the GOCE Requests page is receiving a high number of requests, with the number of August requests already above three per day. Any assistance to help keep the backlog down would be greatly appreciated.

Our next drive will be in September. We hope to see you there!

Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 16:44, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

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Physician, heal thyself?

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I am pleased to see that out of 4 million Wikipedia articles you have chosen a number of the 50 articles I have created to review. This is true even though my interests would seem to be a light year away from yours. As I write mostly about neglected topics in the history of the American Southwest, I appreciate the few readers I attract. I note that you usually tag my articles with the following: “This article uses bare URLs or very simple external links in its references or external links section. Such references are threatened by link rot. Please use proper citations containing each referenced work's title, author, publisher, date, and source, so that the article remains verifiable in the future.”

I welcome competent editors and I appreciate advice concerning how my articles can be improved. Although I have nearly 50 years experience as an author and analyst I am not familiar with the intricacies of Wikipedia. For guidance to overcome my deficiencies I looked to some of the articles you have written, but, alas, all of them appear to have “bare links” threatened by “link rot.” None of them, however, were tagged. Perhaps you can explain to me the difference between the “bare links” in your articles and the “bare links” in my articles? Smallchief (talk) 14:19, 14 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]


GOCE Barnstars July 2011 drive

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Working Man

The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to Wilhelmina Will for copy editing articles totalling at least 8,000 words in the Guild of Copy Editors July 2011 backlog elimination drive. Thank you for participating! -- Chaosdruid (talk) 02:28, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The Original Barnstar
Awarded to Wilhelmina Will for copy editing the most articles on the first day of the Guild of Copy Editors' July 2011 backlog elimination drive. Thank you for your efforts! – Chaosdruid (talk) 02:28, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yippee! Thank you very much! Wilhelmina Will (talk) 05:26, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 08 August 2011

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Review of Israel Stuttering Association article

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Thank you. Headhitter (talk) 09:45, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 15 August 2011

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Online Ambassadors: Time to join pods

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Hello! If you're planning to be an active Online Ambassador for the upcoming academic term, now is the time to join one or more pods. (A pod consists of the instructor, the Campus Ambassadors, and the Online Ambassadors for single class.) The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) explains the expectations for being part of a pod as an Online Ambassador. (The MOU for pods in Canada is essentially the same.) In short, the role of Online Ambassadors this term consists of:

  • Working closely with the instructor and Campus Ambassadors, providing advice and perspective as an experienced Wikipedian
  • Helping students who ask for it (or helping them to find the help they need)
  • Watching out for the class as a whole
  • Helping students to get community feedback on their work

This replaces the 1-on-1 mentoring role for Online Ambassadors that we had in previous terms; rather than being responsible for individual students (some of whom don't want or help or are unresponsive), Online Ambassadors will be there to help whichever students in their class(es) ask for help.

You can browse the upcoming courses here: United States; Canada. More are being added as new pods become active and create their course pages.

Once you've found a class that you want to work with—especially if you some interest or expertise in the topic area—you should sign the MOU listing for that class and get in touch with the instructor. We're hoping to have at least two Online Ambassadors per pod, and more for the larger classes.

If you're up for supporting any kind of class and would like me to assign you to a pod in need of more Online Ambassadors, just let me know.

--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 16:37, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

PS: There are still a lot of student articles from the last term that haven't been rated. Please rate a few and update the list!

Pod suggestion

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Hi Wilhelmina! I'm in the process of trying to find Online Ambassadors to support each of the classes for this coming term, and I want to recommend one to you: Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Geography of Crop Plants (Mary Handley). If you're up for it, please check out the Memorandum of Understanding (linked above) which sketches the expectations for Online Ambassadors this term, and then you can sign on to class and get in touch with the professor.

If there's another class you'd rather support (or if you're up for joining more than one pod), feel free! We're shooting for at least about 2 Online Ambassadors for each class.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 15:50, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Just a quick ping... that Geography of Crop Plants class is getting started soon, and they still lack an Online Ambassador. Since you sometimes edit plant articles, I thought you'd be a good fit. --Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 15:24, 19 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the notice! I'll look into it later this afternoon! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 22:43, 19 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE drive newsletter

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Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their September 2011 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy editing backlog. The drive will begin on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on September 30 at 23:59 (UTC). We will be tracking the number of 2010 articles in the backlog, as we want to copy edit as many of those as possible. Please consider copy editing an article that was tagged in 2010. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". See you at the drive! – Your drive coordinators: Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02, and SMasters.

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 17:24, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Expired reward

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Hi! I just wanted to tell you that your Wikipedia:Reward Board request has expired, but you should feel free to add it again if it has not yet been fulfilled. Thanks!--Yaksar (let's chat) 22:05, 22 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 22 August 2011

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The Signpost: 29 August 2011

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WikiCup 2011 July newsletter

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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:

  • Scotland Casliber (submissions), 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.
  • Russia PresN (submissions), 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.
  • Zanzibar Hurricanehink (submissions), 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.
  • Ohio Wizardman (submissions), 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.
  • Principality of Sealand Miyagawa (submissions), 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.
  • Canada Resolute (submissions), 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.
  • Greece Yellow Evan (submissions), 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.
  • Australia Sp33dyphil (submissions), 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, Another Believer (submissions), Poland Piotrus (submissions), United Kingdom Grandiose (submissions), Bavaria Stone (submissions), Norway Eisfbnore (submissions), Saskatchewan Canada Hky (submissions) and Wisconsin MuZemike (submissions). 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 Ucucha (talk · contribs). 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 Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 00:17, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Checks on copy edits

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Hi, Wilhelmina Will, and sorry to be the bearer of bad news. In routine checks of your copy edits for the September drive, a couple of inconsistencies have been noticed. In particular, you took credit for copy editing the entire articles Abrahamic religions and Aftermath of World War II, when all you edited in each case was one section. I am sure you will agree that changing a few words in one section of an article should not be counted the same as when an editor copy edits an entire 10,000-word article, typically spending several days in doing so. The correct count for Abrahamic religions#Islam is 248; the correct word count for Aftermath of World War II#Japan is 429.

Your copy edit to Abrahamic religions has been reverted by another editor. If you would like, you could comment on the article talk page and find out why your edit was deemed unacceptable. The edits to Aftermath of WWII are also inadequate, IMHO. Please have a look at the sentence "Okinawa became a main U.S. staging point, covering large areas of it with military bases, it remained occupied until 1972 (many years longer than Japan itself)", which still has several grammatical and punctuation errors present.

I am removing both of these articles from your tally and from the leader board. If you decide to re-do these articles, please re-add them to your tally, but only take credit for the sections that you actually copy edit. Sorry. --Dianna (talk) 15:44, 4 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 05 September 2011

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September 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States

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The September 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

 
--Kumioko (talk) 02:53, 7 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to help assess Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods

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Hi. I am inviting members of some WikiProjects to take part in evaluating their projects in order to help the Wikimedia Foundation better understand such projects from the inside, to encourage reflection on best practices, and to compile a list of best practices as recommended by a number of projects. I am contacting you because you are listed as an active member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods. Having witnessed that project's work in the past in my volunteer capacity, I'd very much like to include it. I hope that you will have time and interest in participating. As much or as little as you would like to supply would be gratefully received. The assessment questions are posted at Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods/Self-assessment. I will myself steer clear of the page until after any discussion seems to have become dormant, at which point I will ask questions to make sure that I am developing a good overview of opinions. Thanks. --Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 13:03, 7 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

August Wikification Drive barnstars

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The WikiProject Wikify Badge  
This Wikification badge is given to Wilhelmina Will for their second-place appearance on the leaderboard in the August 2011 Wikification drive. Congratulations! Nolelover Talk·Contribs 15:29, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]


The Wikilink Barnstar
This Wikilink Barnstar is also given to Wilhelmina Will for completing 100 articles in the August 2011 Wikification drive. Thanks, and keep up the great work! Nolelover Talk·Contribs 15:29, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 22:49, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for review

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Thank you so much for reviewing Berry L. Cannon and removing the "new article" template. That article is very important to me (I've been aware since childhood of Cannon as a forgotten hero), and I was disappointed that no one had reviewed it yet. Thanks again! Gildir (talk) 16:49, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You're most welcome! I'm always happy to be of service! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 23:54, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
And thanks again for reviewing John Day (carpenter)! :) Gildir (talk) 19:23, 16 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
No problem! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 01:36, 17 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
And again, for Robert Sténuit! :-) :-) Gildir (talk) 14:50, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
And ditto for Timothy J. Broderick and Steve Chappell... Gildir (talk) 20:49, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
And Christopher E. Gerty... Gildir (talk) 19:06, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 12 September 2011

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The Signpost: 19 September 2011

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GOCE drive newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors September 2011 backlog elimination drive update
GOCE September 2011 backlog elimination drive progress graphs

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors September 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter.

Participation

We have had 55 people sign up for this drive so far, and 31 have participated. If you have signed up but have not yet copy edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! It's not too late to join the drive if you have not already done so. Another great way to help out is to watch-list the Coordinators talk page and participate in the ongoing development of the Guild.

Progress report

So far, we have reduced the backlog by 75 articles, or about 19% of our goal. We have also cleared January 2010 off of the queue and are close to clearing off February and March. If each participant were to copy edit two articles from February and March 2010, they would be completely eliminated from the queue.

Rollover words

Several concerns have been brought up this drive about the usage of rollover words. Rollover words only count if they're from the previous drive. For example, if you received 1,000 rollover words in March and didn't participate in May, your rollover words return to zero. This is to encourage participation in multiple consecutive drives.

Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 05:33, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Lucy Ward (musician)

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Thank you very much for reviewing. Best wishes. Headhitter (talk) 07:33, 23 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 22:29, 25 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Henry John Hatch

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Thank you for removing the 'New un-reviewed Article' article banner. Peter Maggs 23:20, 24 September 2011 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peter Maggs (talk • contribs)

You're welcome! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 22:30, 25 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Liège International (1905)

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The you for "new page revieiwing" this article. I had thought it was going to be tagged forever Icarusgeek (talk) 07:33, 25 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome; under my intentions none of the currently tagged articles will have much longer to wait! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 22:31, 25 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 26 September 2011

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Update on courses and ambassador needs

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Hello, Ambassadors!

I wanted to give you one last update on where we are this term, before my role as Online Facilitator wraps up at the end of this week. Already, there are over 800 students in U.S. classes who have signed up on course pages this term. About 40 classes are active, and we're expecting that many more again once all the classes are up and running.

On a personal note, it's been a huge honor to work with so many great Wikipedians over the last 15 months. Thanks so much to everyone who jumped in and decided to give the ambassador concept a try, and double thanks those of you who were involved early on. Your ideas and insights and enthusiasm have been the foundation of the program, and they will be the keys the future of the program.

Courses looking for Online Ambassadors

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Still waiting to get involved with a class this term, or ready to take on more? We have seven classes that are already active and need OA support, and eleven more that have course pages started but don't have active students yet. Please consider joining one or more of these pods!

Active courses that really need Online Ambassadors:

Courses that may be active soon that need Online Ambassadors:

--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 23:16, 27 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kurt Yaeger

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The removing of the "new article" template is much appreciated. Thank you for the review --Lameattack (talk) 06:54, 1 October 2011 (UTC).[reply]

You're very welcome! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 03:48, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2011 September newsletter

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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 Principality of Sealand Miyagawa (submissions), Zanzibar Hurricanehink (submissions) and Australia Sp33dyphil (submissions), 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 Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 12:57, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Wikify's October Newsletter

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Your Wikification Newsletter – Volume I, Issue IV, October 2011


To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of WikiProject Wikify at 16:14, 3 October 2011 (UTC).[reply]

The Signpost: 3 October 2011

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GOCE drive newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors September 2011 backlog elimination drive report
GOCE September 2011 Backlog elimination drive progress graphs

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors September 2011 Backlog elimination drive! We would like to thank all who participated in this drive. Here is the end-of-drive report.

Participation

There were 58 editors who signed-up for this drive, of which 42 participated. This is a slight increase from the July 2011 drive participation, where 39 out of 50 people that signed up participated. Thank you to everyone!

Progress report

During the drive, we reduced the backlog by 146 articles, or by about 4%. Overall we did well, especially considering the exceptionally large number of articles that were tagged during September. Thus far we have reduced the copy edit backlog by 4854 articles, or by about 58%. If we keep up our current rate of copy editing, the backlog should be reduced by 65–70% by the end of this year. End-of-drive results and barnstar information can be found here. Barnstars will be handed out this week.

Once again, thank you for participating in the Guild's September 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Our next drive will be in November, and we hope to see you there!

Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 04:20, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

September 2011 barnstars

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The Original Barnstar
Awarded to Wilhelmina Will for copyediting the most articles (13) during the first day of the Guild of Copy Editors' September 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Well done! – Dianna (talk)
The Cleanup Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to Wilhelmina Will for copyediting articles totalling over 12,000 words during the Guild of Copy Editors' September 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Your efforts are appreciated. Dianna (talk)
Thank you! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 03:01, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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The Special Barnstar
For wikifying 100 articles in just 10 days in the October 2011 Special Drive. Regards, :) ♛♚★Vaibhav Jain★♚♛ Talk Email 17:40, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Aw, thanks! (blushing) That really brightens the day! Wilhelmina Will (talk) 01:20, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 10 October 2011

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Wikimedia Stories Project

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Hi,

My name is Victor Grigas, and I'm a storyteller for the Wikimedia foundation. We're telling stories of Wikipedia users, editors, programmers and staff to paint a picture of who uses Wikipedia - for the 2011 fundraiser. If you are interested in participating, we can schedule a time to chat face-to-face, on the phone or over Skype. My email address is vgrigas@wikimedia.org .

Thank you for your time!

Victor

A kitten for you!

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This kitten appreciates all your fine contributions - and so do I! Thanks for everything you've done here at Wikipedia, Wilhelmina!

Pinkstrawberry02™ talk 01:16, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note to user getting this message: Please respond on Pinkstrawberry02's talk page. If for some reason you cannot, please leave them a {{talkback}} and reply on your own talk page. Thanks for your understanding.

Re: Thank you

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You're very welcome. Yes, I love the fact you can give adorable kittens in WikiLove. :) Again, we're so glad you're here! Pinkstrawberry02™ talk 01:22, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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The Original Barnstar
For your efforts at Wikipedia:Contribution Team/Backlogs/Participants and progress. Cloudbound (talk) 21:12, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you so much! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 22:06, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 17 October 2011

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Himmatwala (1983 film)

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Hi! I see that you removed the "new unreviewed article" tag from this page. But i dont see any new tags added by you or any changes done. Does this page needs no further improvements?! If not, the tag should remain so that at least some other editor can improve the article. -Animeshkulkarni (talk) 20:04, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thats better now. -Animeshkulkarni (talk) 11:40, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Again the same! Now with Mukul Dev. If you do not wanna make any contributions to the article, at least dont remove the tag. Let others do it. & if you have no suggestions, just go ahead & give it a Featured Article status. -Animeshkulkarni (talk) 05:47, 2 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Govt College of Technology, Coimbatore

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It's interesting, but rather sad, to see that you and 3 other editors (as well as a bot) edited this stub without realising it should have been redirected to the long-established article at Government College of Technology, Coimbatore! 85.211.13.188 (talk) 13:47, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sad? It was the only version of the article I'd ever heard of. Thank you for the notification, though. Wilhelmina Will (talk) 17:42, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Uer:Thesteve/K-1 World Grand Prix 2008 in Hawaii

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A tag has been placed on Uer:Thesteve/K-1 World Grand Prix 2008 in Hawaii, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect to an article talk page, file description page, file talk page, MediaWiki page, MediaWiki talk page, category talk page, portal talk page, template talk page, help talk, user page, user talk or special page from the main/article space.

If you can fix the redirect to point to a mainspace page, please do so and remove the speedy deletion tag. However, please do not remove the speedy deletion tag unless you are fixing the redirect. If you think the redirect should be retained as is for some reason, contest the deletion by clicking on the button that looks like this: which appears inside of the speedy deletion ({{db-...}}) tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate). Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the article's talk page directly to give your reasons. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. DASHBot (talk) 06:00, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No problem; a mal-link to a user subpage should be expected to be eliminated! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 22:39, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review !!

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Hey Wilhelmina Will. Thanks For reviewing the Dwarka Baoli article AkshaySeth20 (talk) 07:14, 23 October 2011 (UTC)AkshaySeth20[reply]

You're most welcome! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 04:56, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

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Thanks for reviewing the article SS Mataafa. I appreciate the help. :) - Lord Vargonius (talk) 13:56, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! Wilhelmina Will (talk) 02:47, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 24 October 2011

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New Page Patrol survey

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New page patrol – Survey Invitation

Hello Wilhelmina Will! The WMF is currently developing new tools to make new page patrolling much easier. Whether you  have patrolled many pages or only a few, we now need to  know about your experience. The survey takes only 6 minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist us in analyzing the results of the survey; the WMF will not use the information to identify you.

  • If this invitation  also appears on other accounts you  may  have, please complete the  survey  once only. 
  • If this has been sent to you in error and you have never patrolled new pages, please ignore it.

Please click HERE to take part.
Many thanks in advance for providing this essential feedback.

You are receiving this invitation because you  have patrolled new pages. For more information, please see NPP Survey. Global message delivery 13:54, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive newsletter

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Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their November 2011 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on November 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on November 30 at 23:59 (UTC). We will be tracking the number of 2010 articles (and specifically will be targeting the oldest three months), as we want to copy edit as many of these as possible. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 5 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02, and SMasters.

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 02:54, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Halloween template

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Do you mind telling me where you got that template? Thanks :) --Sp33dyphil © • © 05:14, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I just realised where it was <Sp33dyphil kicks himself> --Sp33dyphil © • © 05:27, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Halloween!!

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Some Toffee for you :)
Hey, thanks for the Caramel and Candy apple. You have good time and lots of fun, njoy. Happy Halloween :) aηsuмaη ༽Ϟ 05:32, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! Wilhelmina Will (talk) 06:04, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Happy Halloween!

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Trick or treat? (^____^) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:37, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

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Thanks!
Hi Wilhemina Will, thanks for the candy and caramel! Here's some nut cakes for you, hopefully enough to share some on with other wikipedians!

Happy Halloween! - Benzband (talk) 09:22, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, very much! Wilhelmina Will (talk) 05:25, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Halloween!

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 Vibhijain has given you some caramel and a candy apple! Caramel and candy-coated apples are fun Halloween treats, and promote WikiLove on Halloween. Hopefully these have made your Halloween (and the proceeding days) much sweeter. Happy Halloween!


If Trick-or-treaters come your way, add {{subst:Halloween apples}} to their talkpage with a spoooooky message!

Thank you! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 05:25, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the treat

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Halloween treat
Thanks for the Halloween treats! Here are some Halloween cupcakes for you! Whpq (talk) 13:06, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Mmmm, cupcakes! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 05:26, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Halloween!

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Thanks for the caramel apples, In apperication I give you this! Regards Mohamed Aden Ighe (talk) 16:30, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oh wow, I love trying foreign delights! Thanks! Wilhelmina Will (talk) 05:27, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reviewing Milan international

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Not for the first time, thank you for your new article review, this time Milan International (1906). And especially thanks for your associated kind comment Icarusgeek (talk) 17:22, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You're very welcome, it's a rare treat to find a stub which already displays high potential! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 05:29, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks--I love apples!

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Miniapolis has given you a Hershey Bar! Hershey bars promote WikiLove through chocolately goodness and hopefully this one has made your day better. Hershey bars are wonderfully delicious! Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a Hershey bar, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.


Spread the goodness of Hershey bars by adding {{subst:Hershey Bar}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message!

Have fun in the November GOCE drive!--Miniapolis (talk) 17:30, 31 October 2011 (UTC) [reply]

Thank you, and yes! I've got to sign up for that! See you there! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 05:30, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the candy! Ruigeroeland (talk) 08:07, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2011 October newsletter

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The 2011 WikiCup is now over, and our new champion is Zanzibar Hurricanehink (submissions), who joins the exclusive club of the previous winners: Dreamafter (2007), jj137 (2008), Durova (2009) and Sturmvogel_66 (2010). The final standings were as follows:

  1. Zanzibar Hurricanehink (submissions)
  2. Australia Sp33dyphil (submissions)
  3. Greece Yellow Evan (submissions)
  4. Principality of Sealand Miyagawa (submissions)
  5. Ohio Wizardman (submissions)
  6. Scotland Casliber (submissions)
  7. Canada Resolute (submissions)
  8. Russia PresN (submissions)

Prizes for first, second, third and fourth will be awarded, as will prizes for all those who reached the final eight. Every participant who scored in the competition will receive a ribbon of participation. In addition to the prizes based on placement, the following special prizes will be awarded based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, the prize is awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round.

No prize was awarded for featured pictures, sounds or portals, as none were claimed throughout the competition. The awards will be handed out over the next few days. Congratulations to all our participants, and especially our winners; we've all had fun, and Wikipedia has benefitted massively from our content work.

Preparation for next year's WikiCup is ongoing. Interested parties are invited to sign up and participate in our straw polls. It's been a pleasure to work with you all this year, and, whoever's taking part in and running the competition in 2012, we hope to see you all in January! J Milburn and The ed17 00:53, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Francis Benedict Kennedy

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Hi, I saw you reviewed this article, but made no substantive changes. I hate to bother you, but do you have any references to prove this person is notable? See also the talk page. This article has many serious issues. Please fix the issues tagged in the article. If you need assistance, please contact me. Bearian (talk) 17:44, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 31 October 2011

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2011 WikiCup participation

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Awarded to Wilhelmina Will for participation in the 2011 WikiCup.

It was good to have you on board this time around- we hope you enjoyed the competition! In case you are interested, signups for next year are open. Thanks, J Milburn and The ed17 20:46, 2 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, thanks! I didn't realize just participating garnered an award! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 21:58, 2 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Editor reviews

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Hi Wilhelmina Will, thank you for conducting a number of editor reviews. After having looked at some of your work, I'd like to suggest that you divide your comments into different topics like what I've done here. IMHO, your comments seem a bit vague and perhaps are not as thorough as the editors would like them to be. I would appreciate it if you take my views here seriously, but not personally. Cheers --Sp33dyphil © • © 05:17, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, okay! I've never reviewed editors prior to when I saw the request (unless I forgot something), so I guess I have a few tips to learn about it. Thanks! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 06:12, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

George Butterworth (psychologist)

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Hi there. I've just cleaned up George Butterworth (psychologist), which was an article contributed by a new user using the Article Creation Wizard. However, the text submitted was copied from the source provided, which is a problem (I've just deleted the revisions that are copyright violations, and left the original editor a note). I'm also leaving notes with those who edited the article since its creation, as I want to try and work out what went wrong here. I've been told there was a big backlog at new pages patrol in September and October (may still be one for all I know), so maybe that was it. You removed the review tag added by Bearcat, which is where the problems started really as the article was obviously a copyright violation if you read the article text that was present at the time (it was written in the first person). Others should have spotted this as well, but I'm really not sure why you removed the tag added by Bearcat. Could you check if any of the other Article Creation Wizard review tags that you removed might also have been removed in error? Thanks. Carcharoth (talk) 20:39, 5 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I see you took a short wiki-break. I wouldn't normally follow up something like this, but I saw the section below this one where JohnCD pointed out something similar. Given that, and given the possibility that you might have missed some of the talk page messages before or during your wikibreak, could I ask that you acknowledge both this section and the one below it? Thanks. Carcharoth (talk) 06:06, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't realize you're supposed to check for copyright when reviewing these pages; I'll have to remember that in future. Cheers! Wilhelmina Will (talk) 06:20, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thank-you. Regarding the comment below about Facebook, you don't need to go there, you just need to pick a piece of probably-unique text from the newly created article you are reviewing and search for it in Google (or another search engine) with quote marks around it. If you get hits from other websites, that indicates you need to investigate further. You should also look out for obvious non-encyclopedic language like people writing in the first person (using "I") and things like that. Essentially, if it looks or feels wrong, then there are probably problems and if you are unsure it is OK to leave it for others to review or ask others for advice. That is better than passing something that needs attention.

One more thing, given what I've read at Wikipedia:Contribution Team/Backlogs/Participants and progress, I see you cleared some large backlogs there. It may be that the two newly created articles people have questioned your reviews of here are the only ones, but it looks to me like you cleared thousands of pages from various 'new articles created via the Article Wizard' categories. My fear is that there are other examples of copyvio that were missed. Given that you've said above that you didn't realise that you needed to check for copyvio, could I ask that you post to the backlog project page (or somewhere) with a list of the articles you reviewed so those articles can be checked? I know this will be a real pain, but it really is needed. Carcharoth (talk) 06:34, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'll have to get to that in the next few days, but mind you, I won't be able to do it all at once. There were well over 7000 after all. Wilhelmina Will (talk) 06:50, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
It might be better then to get a bot to put the articles back in the queue for checking. Would you mind if I posted somewhere to try and arrange that? Carcharoth (talk) 06:55, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I'd rather do it myself, thanks. Wilhelmina Will (talk) 06:57, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, I've changed my mind. If you could get a bot to do it, that would be good; I just don't think I have the time to check through that many pages. I'll leave a notice at my part in the logs for the backlog drive explaining that I've asked for this to be done. Wilhelmina Will (talk) 07:21, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oh. Thanks for changing your mind. I had already posted to ANI (as you can see below), as I wasn't happy at the delay, but I'll update that post now and ask if someone can arrange for a bot to do what is needed here. Carcharoth (talk) 07:29, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
(edit conflict) You want to check 7000 newly created articles (well, some of them had been created several years ago, admittedly) all by yourself for copyright issues? I'm sorry, but I think you are taking on too much here. I don't have much more time to deal with this today, so I'm going to post to WP:ANI and ask for help there. I've now done so here (hence notifying you of that post at ANI). Carcharoth (talk) 07:27, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
(To reply above "edit conflict") Thank you. I thought I was helping the encyclopedia out by clearing that backlog; if there's anything I've done there that could jeopardize it, I want it resolved. :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 07:32, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah. I managed to update that section before anyone replied. Hopefully someone will be able to sort it. Thanks for the work on those backlogs, even if this one maybe wasn't quite the right one to tackle. It is better in some ways that people realise that work is needed on the backlogs, rather than nothing gets done. Carcharoth (talk) 07:47, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I'm glad you're able to point out a positive light in all this. That does make me feel better. :) Cheers! Wilhelmina Will (talk) 07:50, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. Please be a little more critical when reviewing new pages. NDES which you reviewed last month was written in a unencyclopedically promotional style: "one of the best engineering diploma course... The most attractive feature of this course... It provides an excellent opportunity to develop highly employable and marketable skills... Final product of special engineering apprenticeship is indeed special one; these exclusive "National Diploma" holders are unique lot." That certainly warrants an {{advert}} tag if not WP:CSD#G11. Also, the only references were the college that runs the course and the authority that oversees it - nothing independent to establish notability.

More seriously, where something is written in that sort of promotional style you should always check for a copyright violation by feeding a sentence or two into Google. In this case that produces this - the article was a straight copy from Facebook and should have been tagged WP:CSD#G12.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:53, 7 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, I'll have to remember to check for copyright in future - but I want to have as little to do with online socializing sites like Facebook as possible, so I won't be able to check in such places. Thanks for the notification, though. Wilhelmina Will (talk) 06:22, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 7 November2011

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October Wikification drive

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The WikiProject Wikify Trophy
This award is given to Wilhelmina Will for their first place appearance on the leaderboard. Congratulations! Nolelover Talk·Contribs 23:43, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]


The Gold Wikification Barnstar
This barnstar is also given to Wilhelmina Will for wikifying 148 articles. Thanks for your work - Nolelover Talk·Contribs 23:43, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 02:41, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

ANI discussion involving you

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FYI: WP:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Large backlog cleared but may need repopulating. You may like to comment; in particular, it would be useful to know when you began reviewing articles. JohnCD (talk) 14:51, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 14 November 2011

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USEP discussion

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You may be interested in a discussion about the future and the growth of the US education program along with the future of the Wikipedia Ambassador Project here. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 04:06, 18 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Blacktail triplefin

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PanydThe muffin is not subtle 16:03, 18 November 2011 (UTC) [reply]

Thank you! :) Wilhelmina Will (talk) 00:28, 19 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GOCE drive newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors November 2011 backlog elimination drive update

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors November 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Here's the mid-drive newsletter.

Participation: We have had 46 people sign up for this drive so far, and 28 have copy edited at least one article. If you have signed up but have not yet copy edited any articles, please consider doing so. Every bit helps! If you haven't joined, it's not too late. Join us!

Progress report: We are making great progress in our goal of clearing out the oldest articles (April, May, and June 2010) from the queue. There are 122 articles left in those categories, which compares very favorably with the 281 that were present at the close of the September drive. We have reduced the 2010 backlog by 184 articles so far.

Coordinator elections: The term of our second tranche of coordinators will be running out at the end of the year, and we will be accepting nominations for new coordinators early in December. The election will likely run in the last two weeks of December. Please consider helping out by nominating yourself or someone else in the Guild as one of our coordinators. The commitment is for a six-month term. Thanks.

Your drive coordinators – Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02 and SMasters

Sent on behalf of the Guild of Copy Editors using AWB on 00:08, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 November 2011

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Happy thanksgiving!

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 Breawycker (talk to me!) has given you a Turkey! Turkeys promote WikiLove and hopefully this has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a turkey, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy Thanksgiving!

Spread the goodness of turkey by adding {{Thanksgiving Turkey}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Oh wow, thanks! In Canada, we don't celebrate Thanksgiving in November; it's great to know I can share the U.S. version of the holiday through Wikipedia. Thank you! :D Wilhelmina Will (talk) 17:55, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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