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WikiCup 2012 is off to a flying start. At the time of writing, we have 112 contestants; comparable to last year, but slightly fewer than 2010. Signups will remain open for another week, after which time they will be closed for this year. Our currrent far-away leader is Grapple X ( submissions), due mostly to his work on a slew of good articles about The X-Files; there remain many such articles waiting to be reviewed at good article candidates. Second place is currently held by Ruby2010 ( submissions), whose points come mostly from good articles about television episodes, although good article reviews, did you knows and an article about a baroness round out the score. In third place is Jivesh boodhun ( submissions), who has scored 200 points for his work on a single featured article, as well as points for work on others, mostly in the area of pop music. In all, nine users have 100 or more points. However, at the other end of the scale, there are still dozens of participants who are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly!

The 64 highest scoring participants will advance to round 2 in a month's time. There, they will be split into eight random groups of eight. The score needed to reach the next round is not at all clear; last year, 8 points guaranteed a place. The year before, 20.

A few participants and their work warrant a mention for achieving "firsts" in this competition.

• 12george1 ( submissions) was the first to score, with his good article review of Illinois v. McArthur.
• 12george1 ( submissions) was also the first to score points for an article, thanks to his work on Hurricane Debby (1982)- now a good article. Tropical storms have featured heavily in the Cup, and good articles currently have a relatively fast turnaround time for reviews.
• Sp33dyphil ( submissions) was the first to score points for a did you know, with Russian submarine K-114 Tula. Military history is another subject which has seen a lot of Cup activity.
• Sp33dyphil ( submissions) is also the first person to successfully claim bonus points. Terminator 2: Judgment Day is now a good article, and was eligible for bonus points because the subject was covered on more than 20 other Wikipedias at the start of the competition. It is fantastic to see bonus points being claimed so early!
• Speciate ( submissions) was the first to score points for an In the News entry, with Paedophryne amauensis. The lead image from the article was also used on the main page for a time, and it's certainly eye-catching!
• Jivesh boodhun ( submissions) was the first to score points for a featured article, and is, at the moment, the only competitor to claim for one. The article, "Halo" (Beyoncé Knowles song), was also worth double points because of its wide coverage. While this is an article that Jivesh and others have worked on for some time, it is undeniable that he has put considerable work into it this year, pushing it over the edge.

We are yet to see any featured lists, featured topics or good topics, but this is unsurprising; firstly, the nomination processes with each of these can take some time, and, secondly, it can take a considerable amount of time to work content to this level. In a similar vein, we have seen only one featured article. The requirement that content must have been worked on this year to be eligible means that we did not expect to see these at the start of the competition. No points have been claimed for featured portals or pictures, but these are not content types which are often claimed; the former has never made a big impact on the WikiCup, while the latter has not done so since 2009's competition.

A quick rules clarification before the regular notices: If you are concerned that another user is claiming points inappropriately, please contact a judge to take a look at the article. Competitors policing one another can create a bad atmosphere, and may lead to inconsistencies and mistakes. Rest assured that we, the judges, are making an effort to check submissions, but it is possible that we will miss something. On a loosely related note: 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 00:06, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

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Round 1 is already over! The 64 highest scorers have progressed to round 2. Our highest scorer was Grapple X ( submissions), again thanks mostly to a swathe of good articles on The X-Files. In second place was Tigerboy1966 ( submissions), thanks an impressive list of did you knows about racehorses. Both scored over 400 points. Following behind with over 300 points were Ruby2010 ( submissions), Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), Miyagawa ( submissions) and Casliber ( submissions). February also saw the competition's first featured list: List of colleges and universities in North Dakota, from Ruby2010 ( submissions). At the other end of the scale, 11 points was enough to secure a place in this round, and some contestants with 10 points made it into the round on a tiebreaker. This is higher than the 8 points that were needed last year, but lower than the 20 points required the year before. The number of points required to progress to round 3 will be significantly higher.

The remaining contestants have been split into 8 pools of 8, named A through H. Round two will finish in two months time on 28 April, when the two highest scorers in each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers, will progress to round 3. The pools were entirely random, so while some pools may end up being more competitive than others, this is by chance rather than design.

The judges would like to point out two quick rules reminders. First, any content promoted during the interim period (that is, on or after 27 February) is eligible for points in round 2. Second, any content worked on significantly this year is eligible for points if promoted in this round. On a related note, 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 would 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 ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 23:58, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

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We are over half way through the second round of this year's WikiCup and things are going well! Grapple X ( submissions), of Pool B, is our highest overall scorer thanks to his prolific writings on television and film. In second place is Pool H's Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), thanks primarily to work on biological articles, especially in marine biology and herpetology. Third place goes to Pool E's Casliber ( submissions), who also writes primarily on biology (including ornithology and botany) and has already submitted two featured articles this round. Of the 63 contestants remaining, 15 (just under a quarter) have over 100 points this round. However, 25 are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly. 32 contestants, the top two from each pool and the 16 next-highest scorers, will advance to round 3.

Congratulations to Matthewedwards ( submissions), whose impressive File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg became the competition's first featured picture. Also, congratulations to 12george1 ( submissions), who claimed good topic points, our first contestant this year to do so, for his work on Wikipedia:Featured topics/1982 Atlantic hurricane season. This leaves featured topics and featured portals as the only sources of points not yet utilised. However, as recent statistics from Miyagawa ( submissions) show, no source has yet been utilised this competition to the same extent it has been previously!

It has been observed that the backlogs at good article candidates are building up again. While the points for good article reviews will be remaining constant, any help that can be offered keeping the backlog down would be appreciated. On a related note, 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. 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 ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 23:18, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

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Round 2 of this year's WikiCup is over, and so we are down to our final 32, in what could be called our quarter-finals. The two highest scorers from each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers overall, have entered round 3, while 30 participants have been eliminated. Pool B's Grapple X ( submissions) remains our top scorer with over 700 points; he continues to gain high numbers of points for his good articles on The X-Files, but also Millennium and other subjects. He has also gained points for a good topic, a featured list, multiple good article reviews and several did you knows. Pool E's Casliber ( submissions) was second, thanks primarily to his biology articles, with Pool H's Muboshgu ( submissions) coming in third, with an impressive 46 did you knows, mostly on the subject of baseball. Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both scored over 600 points. Pools E and H proved our most successful, with each seeing 5 members qualify for round 3, while Pools C and D were the least, with each seeing only 3 reach round 3. However, it was Pool G which saw the lowest scoring, with a little under 400 points combined; Pool H, the highest scoring group, saw over triple that score.

65 points was the lowest qualifying score for round 3; significantly higher than the 11 required to enter round 2, and also higher than the 41 required to reach round 3 last year. However, in 2010, 100 points were needed to secure a place in round 3. 16 will progress to round 4. In round 3, 150 points was the 16th highest score, though, statistically, people tend to up their game a little in later rounds. Last year, 76 points secured a place, while in 2010, a massive 250 points were needed. Guessing how many points will be required is not easy. We still have not seen any featured portals or topics this year, but, on the subject of less common content types, a small correction needs to be made to the previous newsletter: File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg, our first featured picture, was the work of both Matthewedwards ( submissions) and Grandiose ( submissions), the latter of whom has also gone on to score with File:Map of the Battle of Guam, 1944.svg. Bonus points also continue to roll in; this round, Ealdgyth ( submissions) earned triple points for her good articles on William the Conqueror and the Middle Ages, Casliber and Cwmhiraeth both earned triple points for their work on Western Jackdaw, now a good article, Dana Boomer ( submissions) earned triple points for her work on lettuce and work by Stone ( submissions) to ready antimony for good article status earned him triple points. Jarry1250 ( submissions) managed to expand Vitus Bering far enough for a did you know, which was also worth triple points. All of these highly important topics featured on 50 or more Wikipedias at the start of the year.

An article on the WikiCup in the Wikimedia Blog, " Improving Wikipedia with friendly competition", was posted at the end of April. This may be of interest to those who are signed up to this newsletter, as well as serving as another way to draw attention to our project. Also, we would again like to thank Jarry1250 ( submissions) and Stone ( submissions), for continued help behind the scenes. As ever, 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. 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 ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 23:11, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

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We're halfway through round 3 (or the quarter finals, if you prefer) and things are running smoothly. We're seeing very high scoring; as of the time of writing, the top 16 all have over 90 points. This has already proved to be more competative than this time last year- in 2011, 76 points secured a place, while in 2010, a massive 250 was the lowest qualifying score. People have also upped their game slightly from last round, which is to be expected as we approach the end of the competition. Leading Pool A is Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), whose points have mostly come from a large number of did you knows on marine biology. Pool B's leader, Grapple X ( submissions), is for the first time not our highest scorer at the time of newsletter publication, but his good articles on The X-Files and Millenium keep him in second place overall. Miyagawa ( submissions) leads Pool C, our quietest pool, with content in a variety of areas on a variety of topics. Pool D is led by Casliber ( submissions), our current overall leader. Nearly half of Casliber's points come from his triple-scored Western Jackdaw, which is now a featured article.

This round has seen an unusually high number of featured lists, with nearly one in five remaining participants claiming one, and one user, Muboshgu ( submissions), claiming two. Miyagawa's featured list, 1936 Summer Olympics medal table, was even awarded double points. By comparison, good article reviews seem to be playing a smaller part, and featured topics portals remain two content-types still unutilised in this competition. Other than that, there isn't much to say! Things are coming along smoothly. As ever, 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. 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 23:32, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Apologies for the lateness of this letter; our usual bot wasn't working. We are now entering round 4, our semi-finals, and have our final 16. A score of 243 was required to reach this round; significantly more than 2011's 76 points, and only a little behind 2010's 250 points. By comparison, last year, 150 points in round 4 secured a place in the final; in 2010, 430 were needed. Commiserations to Pool A's igordebraga ( submissions), who scored 242 points, missing out on a place in the round by a whisker. However, congratulations to Pool B's Grapple X ( submissions), whose television articles have brought him another round victory. Pool A's Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) came second overall, with an impressive list of biological did you knows, good articles and featured articles. Third overall was Pool D's Muboshgu ( submissions), with a long list of contibutions, mostly relating to baseball. Of course, with the points resetting every round, the playing field has been levelled. The most successful Pool was Pool D, which saw seven into the final round. Pool B saw four, C saw three and Pool A saw only the two round leaders.

A quick note about other competitions taking place on Wikipedia which may be of interest. There are 13 days remaining in the June-July GAN backlog elimination drive, but it is not too late to take part. August will also see the return of The Core Contest- a one month long competition first run in 2007. While the WikiCup awards points for audited content on any subject, The Core Contest about is raw article improvement, focussing heavily on the most important articles on Wikipedia. As ever, 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. 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 10:56, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

We're approaching the beginning of 2012's final round. Pool A sees Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) as the leader, with 300 points being awarded for the featured article Bivalvia, and Pool B sees Grapple X ( submissions) in the lead, with 10 good articles, and over 35 articles eligible for good topic points. Pool A sees Muboshgu ( submissions) in second place with a number of articles relating to baseball, while Pool B's Ruby2010 ( submissions) follows Grapple X, with a variety of contributions including the high-scoring, high-importance featured article on the 2010 film Pride & Prejudice. Ruby2010, like Grapple X, also claimed a number of good topic points; despite this, not a single point has been claimed for featured topics in the contest so far. The same is true for featured portals.

Currently, the eighth-place competitor (and so the lowest scorer who would reach the final round right now) has scored 332, more than double the 150 needed to reach the final round last year. In 2010, however, 430 was the lowest qualifying score. In this competition, we have generally seen scores closer to those in 2010 than those in 2011. Let's see what kind of benchmark we can set for future competitions! As ever, 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. 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 22:24, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

The final is upon us! We are down to our final 8. A massive 573 was our lowest qualifying score; this is higher than the 150 points needed last year and the 430 needed in 2010. Even in 2009, when points were acquired for mainspace edit count in addition to audited content, 417 points secured a place. That leaves this year's WikiCup, by one measure at least, our most competitive ever. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:

1. Grapple X ( submissions) once again finishes the round in first place, leading Pool B. Grapple X writes articles about television, and especially The X-Files and Millenium, with good articles making up the bulk of the score.
2. Miyagawa ( submissions) led Pool A this round. Fourth-place finalist last year, Miyagawa writes on a variety of topics, and has reached the final primarily off the back of his massive number of did you knows.
3. Ruby2010 ( submissions) was second in Pool B. Ruby2010 writes primarily on television and film, and scores primarily from good articles.
4. Casliber ( submissions) finished third in Pool B. Casliber is something of a WikiCup veteran, having finished sixth in 2011 and fourth in 2010. Casliber writes on the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy. Over half of Casliber's points this round were bonus points from the high-importance articles he has worked on.
5. Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) came second in Pool A. Also writing on biology, especially marine biology, Cwmhiraeth received 390 points for one featured article ( Bivalvia) and one good article ( pelican), topping up with a large number of did you knows.
6. Muboshgu ( submissions) was third in Pool A. Muboshgu writes primarily on baseball, and this round saw Muboshgu's first featured article, Derek Jeter, promoted on its fourth attempt at FAC.
7. Dana Boomer ( submissions) was fourth in Pool A. She writes on a variety of topics, including horses, but this round also saw the high-importance lettuce reach featured article status.
8. Sasata ( submissions) is another WikiCup veteran, having been a finalist in 2009 and 2010. He writes mostly on mycology.

However, we must also say goodbye to the eight who did not make the final, having fallen at the last hurdle: GreatOrangePumpkin ( submissions), Ealdgyth ( submissions), Calvin999 ( submissions), Piotrus ( submissions), Toa Nidhiki05 ( submissions), 12george1 ( submissions), The Bushranger ( submissions) and 1111tomica ( submissions). We hope to see you all next year.

On the subject of next year, a discussion has been opened here. Come and have your say about the competition, and how you'd like it to run in the future. This brainstorming will go on for some time before more focused discussions/polls are opened. As ever, 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. 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 00:14, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

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We're over half way through the final, and so it is less than a month until we know for certain our 2012 WikiCup champion. Grapple X ( submissions) currently leads, followed by Sasata ( submissions), Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) and Casliber ( submissions). However, we have no one resembling a breakaway leader, and so the competition is a long way from over. Next month's newsletter will feature a list of our winners (who are not necessarily only the finalists) and keep your eyes open for an article on the WikiCup in a future edition of The Signpost. The leaders are already on a par with last year's winners, but a long way from the huge scores seen in 2010. That said, a repeat of the competition from 2010 seems unlikely.

It is good to see that three-quarters of our finalists have already scored bonus points this round. This shows that, contrary to criticism that the WikiCup has received in the past, the competition does not merely incentivise the writing of trivial articles; instead, our top competitors are still spending their time contributing to high-importance articles, and bringing them to a high standard. This does a great service to the encyclopedia and its readers. Thank you, and good work!

The planning for next year's WikiCup is ongoing. Some straw polls have been opened concerning the scoring, and you can now sign up for next year's competition. As ever, 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. 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) J Milburn ( talk) 19:54, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

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The 2012 WikiCup has come to a close; congratulations to Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), our 2012 champion! Cwmhiraeth joins our exclusive club of previous winners: Dreamafter (2007), jj137 (2008), Durova (2009), Sturmvogel 66 (2010) and Hurricanehink (2011). Our final standings were as follows:

1. Cwmhiraeth ( submissions)
2. Sasata ( submissions)
3. Grapple X ( submissions)
4. Casliber ( submissions)
5. Muboshgu ( submissions)
6. Miyagawa ( submissions)
7. Ruby2010 ( submissions)
8. Dana Boomer ( 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.

• The featured article award goes to Grapple X ( submissions), for four featured articles in the final round.
• The good article award also goes to Grapple X ( submissions), for 19 good articles in the second round.
• The list award goes to Muboshgu ( submissions), for three featured lists in the final round.
• The topic award goes to Grapple X ( submissions), for three good topics (with around 40 articles) in round 4.
• The did you know award goes to Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), for well over 100 DYKs in the final round.
• The news award goes to ThaddeusB ( submissions), for 10 in the news items in round 3.
• The picture award goes to Grandiose ( submissions), for two featured pictures in round 2.
• The reviewer award goes to both Ruby2010 ( submissions) (14 reviews in round 1) and Grandiose ( submissions) (14 reviews in round 3).
• Finally, for achieving an incredible bonus point total in the final round, and for bringing the top-importance article frog to featured status, a biostar has been awarded to Cwmhiraeth ( submissions).

Awards will be handed out in the coming days; please bear with us! This year's competition also saw fantastic contributions in all rounds, from newer Wikipedians contributing their first good or featured articles, right up to highly experienced Wikipedians chasing high scores and contributing to topics outside of their usual comfort zones. It would be impossible to name all of the participants who have achieved things to be proud of, but well done to all of you, and thanks! Wikipedia has certainly benefited from the work of this year's WikiCup participants.

Next year's WikiCup will begin in January. Currently, discussions and polls are open, and all contributions are welcome. You can also sign up for next year's competition. There will be no further newsletters this year, although brief notes may be sent out in December to remind everyone about the upcoming competition. It's been a pleasure to work with you all, and we hope to see you all in January! J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 00:27, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

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Hi and thanks for your edit on the above. Unfortunately I have had to revert as the list is not intended to be an exhaustive one and maybe more useful in a list article should one be created in the future. A hidden comment was given asking for no bit-part actors to be added for that reason alone. If you disagree please take to the Skyfall talk page before resubmission. Hope that's OK. -- Cassianto ^Talk 17:56, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Have the decency to acknowledge me rather than simply revert on Skyfall. I specifically asked for you to make representations on the talk page rather than re-add. It has now been reverted back to my version. Please do not add this again until it has been discussed on the talk page, as your approach last time was not very civil. -- Cassianto ^Talk 15:05, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

One revert is hardly problematic. What's more telling is your tone here. Grsz 11 15:12, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

I just don't like being ignored. I came here to soften the blow that being reverted has by offering an explanation as to why I did so. You, ignore me here and ignore my rational and go ahead and revert anyway. Maybe you should think of your role in WP:BRD as adopting this method could have diverted all of this negative atmosphere. -- Cassianto ^Talk 15:36, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

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I deleted this article for you as it did qualify as a U1. I didn't see any significant work by others and I see no evidence that you want it deleted in bad faith. But can I just ask, why?--v/r - T P

Hehe, I knew there was something fishy. I've fixed it all.--v/r - T P 20:19, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

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Hey, I saw you tagged your talk archives for deletion. U1 explicitly excludes user talk pages (so I'm assuming talk subpages too?) but if the same history is archived at another talk page I could delete them as G6, uncontroversial cleanup. What do you recommend? Peace, delldot ∇. 03:19, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

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Signups are now closed; we have our final 127 contestants for this year's competition. 64 contestants will make it to the next round at the end of February, but we're already seeing strong scoring compared to previous years. Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions) currently leads, with 358 points. At this stage in 2012, the leader ( Grapple X ( submissions)) had 342 points, while in 2011, the leader had 228 points. We also have a large number of scorers when compared with this stage in previous years. 12george1 ( submissions) was the first competitor to score this year, as he was last year, with a detailed good article review. Some other firsts:

• 12george1 ( submissions) was also the first to score for an article, with the good article Hurricane Gordon (2000). Again, this is a repeat of last year!
• Buggie111 ( submissions) was the first to score for a did you know, with Marquis Flowers.
• Spencer ( submissions) was the first to score for an in the news, with 2013 Houphouët-Boigny stampede.
• Status ( submissions) was the first to score for a featured list, with list of Billboard Social 50 number-one artists.
• Adam Cuerden ( submissions) was the first to score for a featured picture, with File:Thure de Thulstrup - L. Prang and Co. - Battle of Gettysburg - Restoration by Adam Cuerden.jpg.

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• Ed! ( submissions) was the first to score bonus points, with Portland-class cruiser, a good article.
• Hawkeye7 ( submissions) has the highest overall bonus points, as well as the highest scoring article, thanks to his work on Enrico Fermi, now a good article. The biography of such a significant figure to the history of science warrants nearly five times the normal score.
• HueSatLum ( submissions) claimed bonus points for René Vautier and Nicolas de Fer, articles that did not exist on the English Wikipedia at the start of the year; a first for the WikiCup. The articles were eligible for bonus points because of fact they were both covered on a number of other Wikipedias.

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Round 1 is now over. The top 64 scorers have progressed to round 2, where they have been randomly split into eight pools of eight. At the end of April, the top two from each pool, as well as the 16 highest scorers from those remaining, will progress to round 3. Commiserations to those eliminated; if you're interested in still being involved in the WikiCup, able and willing reviewers will always be needed, and if you're interested in getting involved with other collaborative projects, take a look at the WikiWomen's Month discussed below.

Round 1 saw 21 competitors with over 100 points, which is fantastic; that suggests that this year's competition is going to be highly competative. Our lower scores indicate this, too: A score of 19 was required to reach round 2, which was significantly higher than the 11 points required in 2012 and 8 points required in 2011. The score needed to reach round 3 will be higher, and may depend on pool groupings. In 2011, 41 points secured a round 3 place, while in 2012, 65 was needed. Our top three scorers in round 1 were:

1. Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions), primarily for an array of warship GAs.
2. Miyagawa ( submissions), primarily for an array of did you knows and good articles, some of which were awarded bonus points.
3. Casliber ( submissions), due in no small part to Canis Minor, a featured article awarded a total of 340 points. A joint submission with Keilana ( submissions), this is the highest scoring single article yet submitted in this year's competition.

Other contributors of note include:

• Sven Manguard ( submissions), whose Portal:Massachusetts is the first featured portal this year. The featured portal process is one of the less well-known featured processes, and featured portals have traditionally had little impact on WikiCup scores.
• Sasata ( submissions), whose Mycena aurantiomarginata was the first featured article this year.
• Muboshgu ( submissions) and Wizardman ( submissions), who both claimed points for articles in the Major League Baseball tie-breakers topic, the first topic points in the competition.
• Toa Nidhiki05 ( submissions), who claimed for the first full good topic with the Casting Crowns studio albums topic.

Featured topics have still played no part in this year's competition, but once again, a curious contribution has been offered by The C of E ( submissions): did you know that there is a Shit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...

March sees the WikiWomen's History Month, a series of collaborative efforts to aid the women's history WikiProject to coincide with Women's History Month and International Women's Day. A number of WikiCup participants have already started to take part. The project has a to-do list of articles needing work on the topic of women's history. Those interested in helping out with the project can find articles in need of attention there, or, alternatively, add articles to the list. Those interested in collaborating on articles on women's history are also welcome to use the WikiCup talk page to find others willing to lend a helping hand. Another collaboration currently running is an an effort from WikiCup participants to coordinate a number of Easter-themed did you know articles. Contributions are welcome!

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We are halfway through round two. Pool A sees the strongest competition, with five out of eight of its competitors scoring over 100, and Pool H is lagging, with half of its competitors yet to score. WikiCup veterans lead overall; Pool A's Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions) (2010's winner) leads overall, with poolmate Miyagawa ( submissions) (a finalist in 2011 and 2012) not far behind. Pool F's Casliber ( submissions) (a finalist in 2010, 2011 and 2012) is in third. The top two scorers in each pool, as well as the next highest 16 scorers overall, will progress to round three at the end of April.

Today has seen a number of Easter-themed did you knows from WikiCup participants, and March has seen collaboration from contestants with WikiWomen's History Month. It's great to see the WikiCup being used as a locus of collaboration; if you know of any collaborative efforts going on, or want to start anything up, please feel free to use the WikiCup talk page to help find interested editors. As well as fostering collaboration, we're also seeing the Cup encouraging the improvement of high-importance articles through the bonus point system. Highlights from the last month include GAs on physicist Niels Bohr ( Hawkeye7 ( submissions)), on the European hare ( Cwmhiraeth ( submissions)), on the constellation Circinus ( Keilana ( submissions) and Casliber ( submissions)) and on the Third Epistle of John ( Cerebellum ( submissions)). All of these subjects were covered on at least 50 Wikipedias at the beginning of the year and, subsequently, each contribution was awarded at least three times as many points as normal.

Wikipedians who enjoy friendly competition may be interested in participating in April's wikification drive. While wikifying an article is typically not considered "significant work" such that it can be claimed for WikiCup points, such gnomish work is often invaluable in keeping articles in shape, and is typically very helpful for new writers who may not be familiar with formatting norms.

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The pre-78 Kinston teams are not the same franchise that is now the Carolina Mudcats. What sources are giving you the impression that they are? Kinston eagle ( talk) 02:42, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

I actually wasn't sure, and couldn't find a source either way. Thanks for letting me know. It is hard to determine exactly, because the Carolina League media guide uses cities as a reference, therefore the Mudcats are considered a whole different team from the Indians. Grsz 11 02:55, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

The 56-57 Eagles were the continuation of the Burlington franchise. They, in turn moved to Wilson. The 62-74 Kinston teams were a separate franchise owned by the city. Ray Kuhlman started a new franchise in the city in 78. That franchise has been continuous from owner to owner down to the current incarnation of the Carolina Mudcats who play in Zebulon. It is all explained on the Kinston Indians page with many sources. I have many sources on the history of the league including books, programs, and media guides. When I have time, I will try to help with the other franchises as well. Kinston eagle ( talk) 03:16, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

It's also confusing that most previous teams link to current teams that aren't associated with the old teams. Grsz 11 13:53, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

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579		Croatian language ( talk)						Expand
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989		Aftermath of World War II ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
165		Southern Democrats ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
24		Clinical peer review ( talk)						Merge
6,864		Penis ( talk)						Merge
243		Kachchatheevu ( talk)						Merge
5		2001 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Wikify
6		Eugene Crum ( talk)						Wikify
3		2007 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Wikify
1		1990-91 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team ( talk)						Orphan
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14		Digital Isolator ( talk)						Orphan
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35		2013 National Invitation Tournament ( talk)						Stub
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61		American Collegiate Hockey Association ( talk)						Add sources
141		Toff ( talk)						Add sources
20		Guzman College of Science and Technology ( talk)						Add sources
833		Six Flags Great Adventure ( talk)						Add sources
11,162		2013 ICC Champions Trophy ( talk)						Add sources
629		Michael McElhatton ( talk)						Cleanup
3		1978 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
3		1977 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
7		1989 Pittsburgh Panthers football team ( talk)						Expand
22		345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment ( talk)						Expand
3		United States House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs ( talk)						Expand
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105		College rivalry ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
12		James Williams (lineman) ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
25		Clinical peer review ( talk)						Merge
96		Kachchatheevu ( talk)						Merge
3		Mandian, Pakistan ( talk)						Merge
21		Eugene Crum ( talk)						Wikify
12		Parran Hall ( talk)						Wikify
84		Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania ( talk)						Wikify
2		1990-91 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team ( talk)						Orphan
0		2007 Anaheim Classic ( talk)						Orphan
1		2006 Sky Radio Tennis Masters ( talk)						Orphan
3		Církev bratrská ( talk)						Stub
4		National Weather Service Binghamton, New York ( talk)						Stub
11		Jay Leach (hockey coach) ( talk)						Stub
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61		American Collegiate Hockey Association ( talk)						Add sources
141		Toff ( talk)						Add sources
20		Guzman College of Science and Technology ( talk)						Add sources
833		Six Flags Great Adventure ( talk)						Add sources
11,162		2013 ICC Champions Trophy ( talk)						Add sources
629		Michael McElhatton ( talk)						Cleanup
3		1978 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
3		1977 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
7		1989 Pittsburgh Panthers football team ( talk)						Expand
22		345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment ( talk)						Expand
3		United States House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs ( talk)						Expand
221		Fender Twin ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
105		College rivalry ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
12		James Williams (lineman) ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
25		Clinical peer review ( talk)						Merge
96		Kachchatheevu ( talk)						Merge
3		Mandian, Pakistan ( talk)						Merge
21		Eugene Crum ( talk)						Wikify
12		Parran Hall ( talk)						Wikify
84		Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania ( talk)						Wikify
2		1990-91 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team ( talk)						Orphan
0		2007 Anaheim Classic ( talk)						Orphan
1		2006 Sky Radio Tennis Masters ( talk)						Orphan
3		Církev bratrská ( talk)						Stub
4		National Weather Service Binghamton, New York ( talk)						Stub
11		Jay Leach (hockey coach) ( talk)						Stub
6		Frederick Leathers, 1st Viscount Leathers ( talk)						Stub
6		Bob Woods (ice hockey) ( talk)						Stub
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61		American Collegiate Hockey Association ( talk)						Add sources
141		Toff ( talk)						Add sources
20		Guzman College of Science and Technology ( talk)						Add sources
833		Six Flags Great Adventure ( talk)						Add sources
11,162		2013 ICC Champions Trophy ( talk)						Add sources
629		Michael McElhatton ( talk)						Cleanup
3		1978 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
3		1977 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
7		1989 Pittsburgh Panthers football team ( talk)						Expand
22		345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment ( talk)						Expand
3		United States House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs ( talk)						Expand
221		Fender Twin ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
105		College rivalry ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
12		James Williams (lineman) ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
25		Clinical peer review ( talk)						Merge
96		Kachchatheevu ( talk)						Merge
3		Mandian, Pakistan ( talk)						Merge
21		Eugene Crum ( talk)						Wikify
12		Parran Hall ( talk)						Wikify
84		Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania ( talk)						Wikify
2		1990-91 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team ( talk)						Orphan
0		2007 Anaheim Classic ( talk)						Orphan
1		2006 Sky Radio Tennis Masters ( talk)						Orphan
3		Církev bratrská ( talk)						Stub
4		National Weather Service Binghamton, New York ( talk)						Stub
11		Jay Leach (hockey coach) ( talk)						Stub
6		Frederick Leathers, 1st Viscount Leathers ( talk)						Stub
6		Bob Woods (ice hockey) ( talk)						Stub
3		Chuck Hamilton ( talk)						Stub

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We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.

Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note. Figureskatingfan ( submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition: Ealdgyth ( submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article Battle of Hastings. Good articles James Chadwick and Stanislaw Ulam netted Hawkeye7 ( submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to Piotrus ( submissions) for each of Władysław Sikorski and Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example, Casliber ( submissions) and Sasata ( submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on Boletus luridus.

A rules reminder: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on the 29/30 June, which may be claimed in this round. 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. We are currently seeing concern about the amount of time people have to wait for reviews, especially at GAC- if you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 09:56, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

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Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information.

Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
5		1969 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Add sources
61		American Collegiate Hockey Association ( talk)						Add sources
141		Toff ( talk)						Add sources
20		Guzman College of Science and Technology ( talk)						Add sources
833		Six Flags Great Adventure ( talk)						Add sources
11,162		2013 ICC Champions Trophy ( talk)						Add sources
629		Michael McElhatton ( talk)						Cleanup
3		1978 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
3		1977 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
7		1989 Pittsburgh Panthers football team ( talk)						Expand
22		345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment ( talk)						Expand
3		United States House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs ( talk)						Expand
221		Fender Twin ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
105		College rivalry ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
12		James Williams (lineman) ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
25		Clinical peer review ( talk)						Merge
96		Kachchatheevu ( talk)						Merge
3		Mandian, Pakistan ( talk)						Merge
21		Eugene Crum ( talk)						Wikify
12		Parran Hall ( talk)						Wikify
84		Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania ( talk)						Wikify
2		1990-91 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team ( talk)						Orphan
0		2007 Anaheim Classic ( talk)						Orphan
1		2006 Sky Radio Tennis Masters ( talk)						Orphan
3		Církev bratrská ( talk)						Stub
4		National Weather Service Binghamton, New York ( talk)						Stub
11		Jay Leach (hockey coach) ( talk)						Stub
6		Frederick Leathers, 1st Viscount Leathers ( talk)						Stub
6		Bob Woods (ice hockey) ( talk)						Stub
3		Chuck Hamilton ( talk)						Stub

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The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

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Images

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We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.

Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note. Figureskatingfan ( submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition: Ealdgyth ( submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article Battle of Hastings. Good articles James Chadwick and Stanislaw Ulam netted Hawkeye7 ( submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to Piotrus ( submissions) for each of Władysław Sikorski and Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example, Casliber ( submissions) and Sasata ( submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on Boletus luridus.

A rules reminder: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on the 29/30 June, which may be claimed in this round. 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. We are currently seeing concern about the amount of time people have to wait for reviews, especially at GAC- if you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 09:56, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

	WikiProject Amusement Parks Newsletter Quarter 3, 2013	463	124	5.13	50	30%	» Full edition
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23:06, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

We are currently running a study on the effects of adding additional information to SuggestBot's suggestions. Participation in the study is voluntary. Should you wish to not participate in the study, or have questions or concerns, you can find contact information on the SuggestBot study page.

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Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information.

Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
5		1969 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Add sources
61		American Collegiate Hockey Association ( talk)						Add sources
141		Toff ( talk)						Add sources
20		Guzman College of Science and Technology ( talk)						Add sources
833		Six Flags Great Adventure ( talk)						Add sources
11,162		2013 ICC Champions Trophy ( talk)						Add sources
629		Michael McElhatton ( talk)						Cleanup
3		1978 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
3		1977 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
7		1989 Pittsburgh Panthers football team ( talk)						Expand
22		345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment ( talk)						Expand
3		United States House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs ( talk)						Expand
221		Fender Twin ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
105		College rivalry ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
12		James Williams (lineman) ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
25		Clinical peer review ( talk)						Merge
96		Kachchatheevu ( talk)						Merge
3		Mandian, Pakistan ( talk)						Merge
21		Eugene Crum ( talk)						Wikify
12		Parran Hall ( talk)						Wikify
84		Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania ( talk)						Wikify
2		1990-91 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team ( talk)						Orphan
0		2007 Anaheim Classic ( talk)						Orphan
1		2006 Sky Radio Tennis Masters ( talk)						Orphan
3		Církev bratrská ( talk)						Stub
4		National Weather Service Binghamton, New York ( talk)						Stub
11		Jay Leach (hockey coach) ( talk)						Stub
6		Frederick Leathers, 1st Viscount Leathers ( talk)						Stub
6		Bob Woods (ice hockey) ( talk)						Stub
3		Chuck Hamilton ( talk)						Stub

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We have changed the number of suggested articles and which categories they are selected from. The number of stubs has been greatly reduced, the number of articles needing sources doubled, and two new categories added (orphans and unencyclopaedic articles). We have also modified the layout of the suggestions and added sortable columns with various types of information about each article. The first two columns are:

Views/Day

Daily average number of views an article's had over the past 14 days.

Quality

Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

Content

Is more content needed?

Headings

Does this article have an appropriate section structure?

Images

Is the number of illustrative images about right?

Links

Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?

Sources

For its length, is there an appropriate number of citations to sources in this article?

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If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 03:58, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.

Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note. Figureskatingfan ( submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition: Ealdgyth ( submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article Battle of Hastings. Good articles James Chadwick and Stanislaw Ulam netted Hawkeye7 ( submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to Piotrus ( submissions) for each of Władysław Sikorski and Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example, Casliber ( submissions) and Sasata ( submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on Boletus luridus.

A rules reminder: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on the 29/30 June, which may be claimed in this round. 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. We are currently seeing concern about the amount of time people have to wait for reviews, especially at GAC- if you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 09:56, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

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23:06, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

We are currently running a study on the effects of adding additional information to SuggestBot's suggestions. Participation in the study is voluntary. Should you wish to not participate in the study, or have questions or concerns, you can find contact information on the SuggestBot study page.

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Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information.

Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
5		1969 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Add sources
61		American Collegiate Hockey Association ( talk)						Add sources
141		Toff ( talk)						Add sources
20		Guzman College of Science and Technology ( talk)						Add sources
833		Six Flags Great Adventure ( talk)						Add sources
11,162		2013 ICC Champions Trophy ( talk)						Add sources
629		Michael McElhatton ( talk)						Cleanup
3		1978 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
3		1977 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
7		1989 Pittsburgh Panthers football team ( talk)						Expand
22		345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment ( talk)						Expand
3		United States House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs ( talk)						Expand
221		Fender Twin ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
105		College rivalry ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
12		James Williams (lineman) ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
25		Clinical peer review ( talk)						Merge
96		Kachchatheevu ( talk)						Merge
3		Mandian, Pakistan ( talk)						Merge
21		Eugene Crum ( talk)						Wikify
12		Parran Hall ( talk)						Wikify
84		Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania ( talk)						Wikify
2		1990-91 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team ( talk)						Orphan
0		2007 Anaheim Classic ( talk)						Orphan
1		2006 Sky Radio Tennis Masters ( talk)						Orphan
3		Církev bratrská ( talk)						Stub
4		National Weather Service Binghamton, New York ( talk)						Stub
11		Jay Leach (hockey coach) ( talk)						Stub
6		Frederick Leathers, 1st Viscount Leathers ( talk)						Stub
6		Bob Woods (ice hockey) ( talk)						Stub
3		Chuck Hamilton ( talk)						Stub

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We have changed the number of suggested articles and which categories they are selected from. The number of stubs has been greatly reduced, the number of articles needing sources doubled, and two new categories added (orphans and unencyclopaedic articles). We have also modified the layout of the suggestions and added sortable columns with various types of information about each article. The first two columns are:

Views/Day

Daily average number of views an article's had over the past 14 days.

Quality

Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

Content

Is more content needed?

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Does this article have an appropriate section structure?

Images

Is the number of illustrative images about right?

Links

Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?

Sources

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If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 03:58, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.

Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note. Figureskatingfan ( submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition: Ealdgyth ( submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article Battle of Hastings. Good articles James Chadwick and Stanislaw Ulam netted Hawkeye7 ( submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to Piotrus ( submissions) for each of Władysław Sikorski and Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example, Casliber ( submissions) and Sasata ( submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on Boletus luridus.

A rules reminder: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on the 29/30 June, which may be claimed in this round. 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. We are currently seeing concern about the amount of time people have to wait for reviews, especially at GAC- if you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 09:56, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

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23:06, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

We are currently running a study on the effects of adding additional information to SuggestBot's suggestions. Participation in the study is voluntary. Should you wish to not participate in the study, or have questions or concerns, you can find contact information on the SuggestBot study page.

IMPORTANT CHANGES: We have modified the selection of articles SuggestBot suggests and altered the design to incorporate more information about the articles, as described in this explanation.

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information.

Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
5		1969 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Add sources
61		American Collegiate Hockey Association ( talk)						Add sources
141		Toff ( talk)						Add sources
20		Guzman College of Science and Technology ( talk)						Add sources
833		Six Flags Great Adventure ( talk)						Add sources
11,162		2013 ICC Champions Trophy ( talk)						Add sources
629		Michael McElhatton ( talk)						Cleanup
3		1978 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
3		1977 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
7		1989 Pittsburgh Panthers football team ( talk)						Expand
22		345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment ( talk)						Expand
3		United States House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs ( talk)						Expand
221		Fender Twin ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
105		College rivalry ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
12		James Williams (lineman) ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
25		Clinical peer review ( talk)						Merge
96		Kachchatheevu ( talk)						Merge
3		Mandian, Pakistan ( talk)						Merge
21		Eugene Crum ( talk)						Wikify
12		Parran Hall ( talk)						Wikify
84		Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania ( talk)						Wikify
2		1990-91 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team ( talk)						Orphan
0		2007 Anaheim Classic ( talk)						Orphan
1		2006 Sky Radio Tennis Masters ( talk)						Orphan
3		Církev bratrská ( talk)						Stub
4		National Weather Service Binghamton, New York ( talk)						Stub
11		Jay Leach (hockey coach) ( talk)						Stub
6		Frederick Leathers, 1st Viscount Leathers ( talk)						Stub
6		Bob Woods (ice hockey) ( talk)						Stub
3		Chuck Hamilton ( talk)						Stub

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We have changed the number of suggested articles and which categories they are selected from. The number of stubs has been greatly reduced, the number of articles needing sources doubled, and two new categories added (orphans and unencyclopaedic articles). We have also modified the layout of the suggestions and added sortable columns with various types of information about each article. The first two columns are:

Views/Day

Daily average number of views an article's had over the past 14 days.

Quality

Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

Content

Is more content needed?

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Does this article have an appropriate section structure?

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Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?

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SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom ( talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot ( talk) 03:58, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.

Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note. Figureskatingfan ( submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition: Ealdgyth ( submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article Battle of Hastings. Good articles James Chadwick and Stanislaw Ulam netted Hawkeye7 ( submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to Piotrus ( submissions) for each of Władysław Sikorski and Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example, Casliber ( submissions) and Sasata ( submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on Boletus luridus.

A rules reminder: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on the 29/30 June, which may be claimed in this round. 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. We are currently seeing concern about the amount of time people have to wait for reviews, especially at GAC- if you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 09:56, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

	WikiProject Amusement Parks Newsletter Quarter 3, 2013	463	124	5.13	50	30%	» Full edition
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23:06, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

We are currently running a study on the effects of adding additional information to SuggestBot's suggestions. Participation in the study is voluntary. Should you wish to not participate in the study, or have questions or concerns, you can find contact information on the SuggestBot study page.

IMPORTANT CHANGES: We have modified the selection of articles SuggestBot suggests and altered the design to incorporate more information about the articles, as described in this explanation.

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information.

Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
5		1969 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Add sources
61		American Collegiate Hockey Association ( talk)						Add sources
141		Toff ( talk)						Add sources
20		Guzman College of Science and Technology ( talk)						Add sources
833		Six Flags Great Adventure ( talk)						Add sources
11,162		2013 ICC Champions Trophy ( talk)						Add sources
629		Michael McElhatton ( talk)						Cleanup
3		1978 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
3		1977 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
7		1989 Pittsburgh Panthers football team ( talk)						Expand
22		345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment ( talk)						Expand
3		United States House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs ( talk)						Expand
221		Fender Twin ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
105		College rivalry ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
12		James Williams (lineman) ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
25		Clinical peer review ( talk)						Merge
96		Kachchatheevu ( talk)						Merge
3		Mandian, Pakistan ( talk)						Merge
21		Eugene Crum ( talk)						Wikify
12		Parran Hall ( talk)						Wikify
84		Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania ( talk)						Wikify
2		1990-91 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team ( talk)						Orphan
0		2007 Anaheim Classic ( talk)						Orphan
1		2006 Sky Radio Tennis Masters ( talk)						Orphan
3		Církev bratrská ( talk)						Stub
4		National Weather Service Binghamton, New York ( talk)						Stub
11		Jay Leach (hockey coach) ( talk)						Stub
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Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note. Figureskatingfan ( submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition: Ealdgyth ( submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article Battle of Hastings. Good articles James Chadwick and Stanislaw Ulam netted Hawkeye7 ( submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to Piotrus ( submissions) for each of Władysław Sikorski and Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example, Casliber ( submissions) and Sasata ( submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on Boletus luridus.

A rules reminder: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on the 29/30 June, which may be claimed in this round. 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. We are currently seeing concern about the amount of time people have to wait for reviews, especially at GAC- if you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 09:56, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

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28		WHTM-TV ( talk)						Add sources
3		1969 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Add sources
169		Elgin, Illinois ( talk)						Add sources
216		Stockholm Arlanda Airport ( talk)						Add sources
6		Charles Humphreys ( talk)						Add sources
20		Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association ( talk)						Add sources
161		Let's roll ( talk)						Cleanup
3,358		Catfish: The TV Show ( talk)						Cleanup
1		1978 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
629		2013 IRS scandal ( talk)						Expand
267		Women in the Victorian era ( talk)						Expand
5		1989 Pittsburgh Panthers football team ( talk)						Expand
2,499		The Script ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
13		James Williams (lineman) ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
8,432		PRISM (surveillance program) ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
26		Wild Cat (Hersheypark) ( talk)						Merge
3		Mandian, Pakistan ( talk)						Merge
37		Tailored Access Operations ( talk)						Merge
2		2001 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Wikify
1		2007 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Wikify
1		1977 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Wikify
3		Eugene Crum ( talk)						Orphan
0		1990-91 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team ( talk)						Orphan
6		Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) ( talk)						Orphan
28		2013 National Invitation Tournament ( talk)						Stub
6		2003 Maryland Terrapins football team ( talk)						Stub
4,789		Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time ( talk)						Stub
3		Církev bratrská ( talk)						Stub
2		Chuck Hamilton ( talk)						Stub
3		Maine Nordiques ( talk)						Stub

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5		1969 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Add sources
61		American Collegiate Hockey Association ( talk)						Add sources
141		Toff ( talk)						Add sources
20		Guzman College of Science and Technology ( talk)						Add sources
833		Six Flags Great Adventure ( talk)						Add sources
11,162		2013 ICC Champions Trophy ( talk)						Add sources
629		Michael McElhatton ( talk)						Cleanup
3		1978 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
3		1977 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
7		1989 Pittsburgh Panthers football team ( talk)						Expand
22		345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment ( talk)						Expand
3		United States House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs ( talk)						Expand
221		Fender Twin ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
105		College rivalry ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
12		James Williams (lineman) ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
25		Clinical peer review ( talk)						Merge
96		Kachchatheevu ( talk)						Merge
3		Mandian, Pakistan ( talk)						Merge
21		Eugene Crum ( talk)						Wikify
12		Parran Hall ( talk)						Wikify
84		Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania ( talk)						Wikify
2		1990-91 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team ( talk)						Orphan
0		2007 Anaheim Classic ( talk)						Orphan
1		2006 Sky Radio Tennis Masters ( talk)						Orphan
3		Církev bratrská ( talk)						Stub
4		National Weather Service Binghamton, New York ( talk)						Stub
11		Jay Leach (hockey coach) ( talk)						Stub
6		Frederick Leathers, 1st Viscount Leathers ( talk)						Stub
6		Bob Woods (ice hockey) ( talk)						Stub
3		Chuck Hamilton ( talk)						Stub

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We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.

Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note. Figureskatingfan ( submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition: Ealdgyth ( submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article Battle of Hastings. Good articles James Chadwick and Stanislaw Ulam netted Hawkeye7 ( submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to Piotrus ( submissions) for each of Władysław Sikorski and Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example, Casliber ( submissions) and Sasata ( submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on Boletus luridus.

A rules reminder: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on the 29/30 June, which may be claimed in this round. 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. We are currently seeing concern about the amount of time people have to wait for reviews, especially at GAC- if you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 09:56, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

	WikiProject Amusement Parks Newsletter Quarter 3, 2013	463	124	5.13	50	30%	» Full edition
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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
28		WHTM-TV ( talk)						Add sources
3		1969 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Add sources
169		Elgin, Illinois ( talk)						Add sources
216		Stockholm Arlanda Airport ( talk)						Add sources
6		Charles Humphreys ( talk)						Add sources
20		Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association ( talk)						Add sources
161		Let's roll ( talk)						Cleanup
3,358		Catfish: The TV Show ( talk)						Cleanup
1		1978 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
629		2013 IRS scandal ( talk)						Expand
267		Women in the Victorian era ( talk)						Expand
5		1989 Pittsburgh Panthers football team ( talk)						Expand
2,499		The Script ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
13		James Williams (lineman) ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
8,432		PRISM (surveillance program) ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
26		Wild Cat (Hersheypark) ( talk)						Merge
3		Mandian, Pakistan ( talk)						Merge
37		Tailored Access Operations ( talk)						Merge
2		2001 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Wikify
1		2007 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Wikify
1		1977 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Wikify
3		Eugene Crum ( talk)						Orphan
0		1990-91 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team ( talk)						Orphan
6		Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) ( talk)						Orphan
28		2013 National Invitation Tournament ( talk)						Stub
6		2003 Maryland Terrapins football team ( talk)						Stub
4,789		Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time ( talk)						Stub
3		Církev bratrská ( talk)						Stub
2		Chuck Hamilton ( talk)						Stub
3		Maine Nordiques ( talk)						Stub

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We're halfway through this year's penultimate round, and the competition is moving along well. Pool A's Sasata ( submissions) currently leads overall, while Pool B's Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions) is second. Both leaders are WikiCup veterans, and both have already scored over 600 points this month. If the round were to end today, Miyagawa ( submissions), with 274 points, would be the lowest-scoring participant to make it through. This indicates that participants will need a score comparable to last year's (573, the highest ever) to qualify for the final. The high scores this year are a testament both to the quality of participants and to the increased focus on significant content (eligible for bonus points) in this year's competition. So far this round, both Sasata and Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) have made up over half of their score through bonus points, with, for example, high importance FA koala earning Sasata a total of 440 points (from a multiplier of 4.4) and high-importance GA sea earning Cwmhiraeth a total of 216 points (from a multiplier of 7.2). Other articles on important topics submitted this round include a featured article on the Norman conquest of England by Ealdgyth ( submissions), and good articles on Nobel laureate in literature Henryk Sienkiewicz, Nobel laureate in physics Hans Bethe, and the noted Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū. These articles are by Piotrus ( submissions), Hawkeye7 ( submissions) and Sturmvogel_66 respectively.

Other than that, there is not much to report! 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 reduce 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 23:21, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
5		1969 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Add sources
61		American Collegiate Hockey Association ( talk)						Add sources
141		Toff ( talk)						Add sources
20		Guzman College of Science and Technology ( talk)						Add sources
833		Six Flags Great Adventure ( talk)						Add sources
11,162		2013 ICC Champions Trophy ( talk)						Add sources
629		Michael McElhatton ( talk)						Cleanup
3		1978 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
3		1977 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
7		1989 Pittsburgh Panthers football team ( talk)						Expand
22		345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment ( talk)						Expand
3		United States House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs ( talk)						Expand
221		Fender Twin ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
105		College rivalry ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
12		James Williams (lineman) ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
25		Clinical peer review ( talk)						Merge
96		Kachchatheevu ( talk)						Merge
3		Mandian, Pakistan ( talk)						Merge
21		Eugene Crum ( talk)						Wikify
12		Parran Hall ( talk)						Wikify
84		Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania ( talk)						Wikify
2		1990-91 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team ( talk)						Orphan
0		2007 Anaheim Classic ( talk)						Orphan
1		2006 Sky Radio Tennis Masters ( talk)						Orphan
3		Církev bratrská ( talk)						Stub
4		National Weather Service Binghamton, New York ( talk)						Stub
11		Jay Leach (hockey coach) ( talk)						Stub
6		Frederick Leathers, 1st Viscount Leathers ( talk)						Stub
6		Bob Woods (ice hockey) ( talk)						Stub
3		Chuck Hamilton ( talk)						Stub

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We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.

Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note. Figureskatingfan ( submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition: Ealdgyth ( submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article Battle of Hastings. Good articles James Chadwick and Stanislaw Ulam netted Hawkeye7 ( submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to Piotrus ( submissions) for each of Władysław Sikorski and Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example, Casliber ( submissions) and Sasata ( submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on Boletus luridus.

A rules reminder: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on the 29/30 June, which may be claimed in this round. 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. We are currently seeing concern about the amount of time people have to wait for reviews, especially at GAC- if you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 09:56, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

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28		WHTM-TV ( talk)						Add sources
3		1969 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Add sources
169		Elgin, Illinois ( talk)						Add sources
216		Stockholm Arlanda Airport ( talk)						Add sources
6		Charles Humphreys ( talk)						Add sources
20		Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association ( talk)						Add sources
161		Let's roll ( talk)						Cleanup
3,358		Catfish: The TV Show ( talk)						Cleanup
1		1978 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
629		2013 IRS scandal ( talk)						Expand
267		Women in the Victorian era ( talk)						Expand
5		1989 Pittsburgh Panthers football team ( talk)						Expand
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13		James Williams (lineman) ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
8,432		PRISM (surveillance program) ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
26		Wild Cat (Hersheypark) ( talk)						Merge
3		Mandian, Pakistan ( talk)						Merge
37		Tailored Access Operations ( talk)						Merge
2		2001 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Wikify
1		2007 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Wikify
1		1977 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Wikify
3		Eugene Crum ( talk)						Orphan
0		1990-91 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team ( talk)						Orphan
6		Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) ( talk)						Orphan
28		2013 National Invitation Tournament ( talk)						Stub
6		2003 Maryland Terrapins football team ( talk)						Stub
4,789		Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time ( talk)						Stub
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We're halfway through this year's penultimate round, and the competition is moving along well. Pool A's Sasata ( submissions) currently leads overall, while Pool B's Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions) is second. Both leaders are WikiCup veterans, and both have already scored over 600 points this month. If the round were to end today, Miyagawa ( submissions), with 274 points, would be the lowest-scoring participant to make it through. This indicates that participants will need a score comparable to last year's (573, the highest ever) to qualify for the final. The high scores this year are a testament both to the quality of participants and to the increased focus on significant content (eligible for bonus points) in this year's competition. So far this round, both Sasata and Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) have made up over half of their score through bonus points, with, for example, high importance FA koala earning Sasata a total of 440 points (from a multiplier of 4.4) and high-importance GA sea earning Cwmhiraeth a total of 216 points (from a multiplier of 7.2). Other articles on important topics submitted this round include a featured article on the Norman conquest of England by Ealdgyth ( submissions), and good articles on Nobel laureate in literature Henryk Sienkiewicz, Nobel laureate in physics Hans Bethe, and the noted Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū. These articles are by Piotrus ( submissions), Hawkeye7 ( submissions) and Sturmvogel_66 respectively.

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Hey. As the first editor to request checkuser on Trasel, you might be interested in this SPI. Prolog ( talk) 08:00, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

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5		1969 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Add sources
61		American Collegiate Hockey Association ( talk)						Add sources
141		Toff ( talk)						Add sources
20		Guzman College of Science and Technology ( talk)						Add sources
833		Six Flags Great Adventure ( talk)						Add sources
11,162		2013 ICC Champions Trophy ( talk)						Add sources
629		Michael McElhatton ( talk)						Cleanup
3		1978 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
3		1977 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
7		1989 Pittsburgh Panthers football team ( talk)						Expand
22		345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment ( talk)						Expand
3		United States House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs ( talk)						Expand
221		Fender Twin ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
105		College rivalry ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
12		James Williams (lineman) ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
25		Clinical peer review ( talk)						Merge
96		Kachchatheevu ( talk)						Merge
3		Mandian, Pakistan ( talk)						Merge
21		Eugene Crum ( talk)						Wikify
12		Parran Hall ( talk)						Wikify
84		Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania ( talk)						Wikify
2		1990-91 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team ( talk)						Orphan
0		2007 Anaheim Classic ( talk)						Orphan
1		2006 Sky Radio Tennis Masters ( talk)						Orphan
3		Církev bratrská ( talk)						Stub
4		National Weather Service Binghamton, New York ( talk)						Stub
11		Jay Leach (hockey coach) ( talk)						Stub
6		Frederick Leathers, 1st Viscount Leathers ( talk)						Stub
6		Bob Woods (ice hockey) ( talk)						Stub
3		Chuck Hamilton ( talk)						Stub

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We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.

Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note. Figureskatingfan ( submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition: Ealdgyth ( submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article Battle of Hastings. Good articles James Chadwick and Stanislaw Ulam netted Hawkeye7 ( submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to Piotrus ( submissions) for each of Władysław Sikorski and Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example, Casliber ( submissions) and Sasata ( submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on Boletus luridus.

A rules reminder: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on the 29/30 June, which may be claimed in this round. 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. We are currently seeing concern about the amount of time people have to wait for reviews, especially at GAC- if you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 09:56, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

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28		WHTM-TV ( talk)						Add sources
3		1969 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Add sources
169		Elgin, Illinois ( talk)						Add sources
216		Stockholm Arlanda Airport ( talk)						Add sources
6		Charles Humphreys ( talk)						Add sources
20		Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association ( talk)						Add sources
161		Let's roll ( talk)						Cleanup
3,358		Catfish: The TV Show ( talk)						Cleanup
1		1978 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
629		2013 IRS scandal ( talk)						Expand
267		Women in the Victorian era ( talk)						Expand
5		1989 Pittsburgh Panthers football team ( talk)						Expand
2,499		The Script ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
13		James Williams (lineman) ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
8,432		PRISM (surveillance program) ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
26		Wild Cat (Hersheypark) ( talk)						Merge
3		Mandian, Pakistan ( talk)						Merge
37		Tailored Access Operations ( talk)						Merge
2		2001 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Wikify
1		2007 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Wikify
1		1977 Eastern 8 Men's Basketball Tournament ( talk)						Wikify
3		Eugene Crum ( talk)						Orphan
0		1990-91 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team ( talk)						Orphan
6		Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) ( talk)						Orphan
28		2013 National Invitation Tournament ( talk)						Stub
6		2003 Maryland Terrapins football team ( talk)						Stub
4,789		Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time ( talk)						Stub
3		Církev bratrská ( talk)						Stub
2		Chuck Hamilton ( talk)						Stub
3		Maine Nordiques ( talk)						Stub

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We're halfway through this year's penultimate round, and the competition is moving along well. Pool A's Sasata ( submissions) currently leads overall, while Pool B's Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions) is second. Both leaders are WikiCup veterans, and both have already scored over 600 points this month. If the round were to end today, Miyagawa ( submissions), with 274 points, would be the lowest-scoring participant to make it through. This indicates that participants will need a score comparable to last year's (573, the highest ever) to qualify for the final. The high scores this year are a testament both to the quality of participants and to the increased focus on significant content (eligible for bonus points) in this year's competition. So far this round, both Sasata and Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) have made up over half of their score through bonus points, with, for example, high importance FA koala earning Sasata a total of 440 points (from a multiplier of 4.4) and high-importance GA sea earning Cwmhiraeth a total of 216 points (from a multiplier of 7.2). Other articles on important topics submitted this round include a featured article on the Norman conquest of England by Ealdgyth ( submissions), and good articles on Nobel laureate in literature Henryk Sienkiewicz, Nobel laureate in physics Hans Bethe, and the noted Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū. These articles are by Piotrus ( submissions), Hawkeye7 ( submissions) and Sturmvogel_66 respectively.

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Hey. As the first editor to request checkuser on Trasel, you might be interested in this SPI. Prolog ( talk) 08:00, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

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49		Matt Thistlethwaite ( talk)						Add sources
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19		Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series ( talk)						Cleanup
1		2009 Maui Invitational Tournament ( talk)						Cleanup
22		Green World Ecological Farm ( talk)						Cleanup
3		High school ice hockey in Wisconsin ( talk)						Expand
13		2012–13 Hershey Bears season ( talk)						Expand
25		2013–14 Philadelphia Flyers season ( talk)						Expand
380		Scott Boras ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
108		College rivalry ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
259		Walloons ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
17,881		Pacific Rim (film) ( talk)						Merge
63		Octopus (ride) ( talk)						Merge
61		Manhunt (military) ( talk)						Merge
8		Caravan Theatre of Pittsburgh ( talk)						Wikify
62		RSPCA Australia ( talk)						Wikify
7		Interdependence liberalism ( talk)						Wikify
0		2007 Anaheim Classic ( talk)						Orphan
2		Lucy's Cafe ( talk)						Orphan
0		2006 Sky Radio Tennis Masters ( talk)						Orphan
6		Hershey Lodge ( talk)						Stub
247		Shipping Wars ( talk)						Stub
79		Lucius (band) ( talk)						Stub
164		Spartacus Legends ( talk)						Stub
9		King Estate (Pittsburgh) ( talk)						Stub
15		Alex Tayo Akande ( talk)						Stub

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This year's final is upon us. Our final eight, in order of last round's score, are:

1. Hawkeye7 ( submissions), a WikiCup newcomer who has contributed on topics of military history and physics, including a number of high-importance topics. Good articles have made up the bulk of his points, but he has also scored a great deal of bonus points. He has the second highest score overall so far, with more than 3000 points accumulated.
2. Casliber ( submissions), another WikiCup veteran who reached the finals in 2012, 2011 and 2010. He writes on a variety of topics including botany, mycology and astronomy, and has claimed the highest or joint highest number of featured articles every round so far this year. He has the third highest score overall, with just under 3000 points accumulated.
3. Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), 2012 WikiCup champion, who writes mostly on marine biology. She has also contributed to high-importance topics, seeing huge numbers of bonus points for high-importance featured and good articles. Previous rounds have seen her scoring the most bonus points, with scoring spread across did you knows, good articles and featured articles.
4. Sasata ( submissions), a WikiCup veteran who finished in second place in 2012, and competed as early as 2009. He writes articles on biology, especially mycology, and has scored highly for a number of collaborations at featured article candidates.
5. Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions), the winner of the 2010 competition. His contributions mostly concern Naval history, and he has scored a very large number of points for good articles and good article reviews in every round. He is the highest scorer overall this year, with over 3500 points in total.
6. Ealdgyth ( submissions), who is competing in the WikiCup for the second time, though this will be her first time in the final. A regular at FAC, she is mostly interested in British medieval history, and has scored very highly for some top-importance featured articles on the topic.
7. Miyagawa ( submissions), a finalist in 2012 and 2011. He writes on a broad variety of topics, with many of this year's points coming from good articles about Star Trek. Good articles make up the bulk of his points, and he had the most good articles back in round 2; he was also the highest scorer for DYK in rounds 1 and 2.
8. Adam Cuerden ( submissions) has previously been involved with the WikiCup, but hasn't participated for a number of years. He scores mostly from restoration work leading to featured picture credits, but has also done some article writing and reviewing.

We say goodbye to eight great participants who did not qualify for the final: Piotrus ( submissions), Figureskatingfan ( submissions), ThaddeusB ( submissions), Dana boomer ( submissions), Status ( submissions), Ed! ( submissions), 12george1 ( submissions), Calvin999 ( submissions). Having made it to this stage is still an excellent achievement, and you can leave with your heads held high. We hope to see you all again next year. Signups are now open for the 2014 WikiCup, which will begin on 1 January. All Wikipedians, whatever their interest or level of experience, are warmly invited to participate in next year's competition.

This last month has seen some incredible contributions; for instance, Cwmhiraeth's Starfish and Ealdgyth's Battle of Hastings—two highly important, highly viewed pages—made it to featured article status. It would be all too easy to focus solely on these stunning achievements at the expense of those participants working in lower-scoring areas, when in fact all WikiCup participants are doing excellent work. A mention of everything done is impossible, but here are a few: Last round saw the completion of several good topics (on the 1958, 1959 and 1962 Atlantic hurricane seasons) to which 12george1 had contributed. Calvin999 saw "S&M" (song), on which he has been working for several years, through to featured article status on its tenth try. Figureskatingfan continued towards her goal of a broad featured/good topic on Maya Angelou, with two featured and four good articles. ThaddeusB contributed significantly to over 20 articles which appeared on the main page's "in the news" section. Adam Cuerden continued to restore a large number of historical images, resulting in over a dozen FP credits this round alone. The WikiCup is not just about top-importance featured articles, and the work of all of these users is worthy of commendation.

Finally, the usual notices: 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 reduce 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 05:27, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

NO, political orgnisations have political reasons. That does not mean run for office. And terrorist is WTA and POV. "downright insulting" is irrelevant, this is a neutral encycolopaedia, not to cater to personal whims and feeligns.( Lihaas ( talk) 03:13, 22 September 2013 (UTC)).

I mean, it's pretty obvious and can be sourced overwhelming that al-Shabaab is an violent extremist organization. You say POV and I DONT LIKE IT, which is exactly your rationale against. Grsz 11 03:14, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

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In 30 days, we will know the identity of our 2013 WikiCup champion. Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) currently leads; if that lead is held, she will become the first person to have won the WikiCup twice. Sasata ( submissions), Hawkeye7 ( submissions)—who has never participated in the competition before—and Casliber ( submissions) follow. The majority of points in this round have come from a mix of good articles and bonus points. This final round is seeing contributions to a number of highly important topics; recent submissions include Phoenix (constellation) (FA by Casliber), Ernest Lawrence (GA by Hawkeye7), Pinniped, and red fox (both GAs by Sasata).

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The WikiCup is over for another year! Our champion, for the second year running, is Cwmhiraeth ( submissions). Our final nine were as follows:

1. Cwmhiraeth ( submissions)
2. Hawkeye7 ( submissions)
3. Sasata ( submissions)
4. Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions)
5. Casliber ( submissions)
6. Adam Cuerden ( submissions)
7. Miyagawa ( submissions)
8. Piotrus ( submissions)
9. Ealdgyth ( submissions)

All those who reached the final win prizes, and prizes will also be going to the following participants:

• Casliber ( submissions) wins the FA prize, for four featured articles in round 4, worth 400 points.
• Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions) wins the GA prize, for 20 good articles in round 3, worth 600 points.
• Another Believer ( submissions) wins the FL prize, for four featured lists in round 2, worth 180 points.
• Adam Cuerden ( submissions) wins the FP prize, for 23 featured pictures in round 5, worth 805 point.
• Sven Manguard ( submissions) wins the FPo prize, for 2 featured portals in round 3, worth 70 points.
• Hawkeye7 ( submissions) wins the topic prize, for a 23-article featured topic in round 5, worth 230 points.
• Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 79 did you know articles in round 5, worth 570 points.
• ThaddeusB ( submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 23 in the news articles in round 4, worth 270 points.
• Ed! ( submissions) wins the GAR prize, for 24 good article reviews in round 1, worth 96 points.
• The judges are awarding the Oddball Barnstar to The C of E ( submissions), for some curious contributions in earlier rounds.
• Finally, the judges are awarding Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) the Geography Barnstar for her work on sea, now a featured article. This top-importance article was the highest-scoring this year; when it was promoted to FA status, Cwmhiraeth could claim 720 points.

Prizes will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

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 achieved this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition. While it has been an excellent year, errors have opened up the judges' eyes to the need for a third judge, and it is with pleasure that we announce that experienced WikiCup participant Miyagawa will be acting as a judge from now on. We hope you will all join us in welcoming him to the team.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. Brainstorming and discussion remains open for how next year's competition will work, and straw polls will be opened by the judges soon. Those interested in friendly competition may also like to keep an eye on the stub contest, being organised by Casliber. 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 00:28, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

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The 2014 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with, at time of writing, 138 participants. The is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2010. If you are yet to join the competition, don't worry- the judges have agreed to keep the signups open for a few more days. By a wide margin, our current leader is newcomer Godot13 ( submissions), whose set of 14 featured pictures, the first FPs of the competition, was worth 490 points. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

• 12george1 ( submissions) and TropicalAnalystwx13 ( submissions) were the first people to score, for the good article Tropical Storm Bret (1981) and its good article review respectively. 12george1 was also the first person to score in 2012 and 2013.
• Sven Manguard ( submissions) scored the first ITN points for 2014 North American polar vortex.
• WonderBoy1998 ( submissions) scored points for an early good topic, finishing off Wikipedia:Featured topics/She Wolf.
• TheAustinMan ( submissions) scored the first bonus points of the competition, for his work on Typhoon Vera.
• Igordebraga ( submissions) has scored the highest number of bonus points for a single article, for the high-importance Jurassic Park (film).

Featured articles, featured lists, featured topics and featured portals are yet to play a part in the competition. The judges have removed a number of submissions which were deemed ineligible. Typically, we aim to see work on a project, followed by a nomination, followed by promotion, this year. We apologise for any disappointment caused by our strict enforcement this year; we're aiming to keep the competition as fair as possible.

Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may be interested to take part in The Core Contest; unlike the WikiCup, The Core Contest is not about audited content, but, like the WikiCup, it is about article improvement; specifically, The Core Contest is about contribution to some of Wikipedia's most important article. Of course, any work done for The Core Contest, if it leads to a DYK, GA or FA, can earn WikiCup points.

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375		Lynchburg, Virginia ( talk)						Cleanup
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16		Brentsville District High School ( talk)						Expand
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32		History of the Miami Marlins ( talk)						Wikify
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And so ends the most competitive first round we have ever seen, with 38 points required to qualify for round 2. Last year, 19 points secured a place; before that, 11 (2012) or 8 (2011) were enough. This is both a blessing and a curse. While it shows the vigourous good health of the competition, it also means that we have already lost many worthy competitors. Our top three scorers were:

1. Godot13 ( submissions), a WikiCup newcomer whose high-quality scans of rare banknotes represent an unusual, interesting and valuable contribution to Wikipedia. Most of Godot's points this round have come from a large set of pictures used in Treasury Note (1890–91).
2. Adam Cuerden ( submissions), a WikiCup veteran and a finalist last year, Adam is also a featured picture specialist, focusing on the restoration of historical images. This month's promotions have included a carefully restored set of artist William Russell Flint's work.
3. WikiRedactor ( submissions), another WikiCup newcomer. WikiRedactor has claimed points for good article reviews and good articles relating to pop music, many of which were awarded bonus points. Articles include Sky Ferreira, Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus and "Wrecking Ball" (Miley Cyrus song).

Other competitors of note include:

• Hahc21 ( submissions), who helped take Thirty Flights of Loving through good article candidates and featured article candidates, claiming the first first featured article of the competition.
• Prism ( submissions), who claimed the first featured list of the competition with Natalia Kills discography.
• Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), who takes the title of the contributor awarded the highest bonus point multiplier (resulting in the highest scoring article) of the competition so far. Her high-importance salamander, now a good article, scored 108 points.

After such a competitive first round, expect the second round to also be fiercely fought. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2, but please do not update your submission page until March (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email), The ed17 ( talk • email) and Miyagawa ( talk • email) 00:01, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

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195		Two Worlds II ( talk)						Cleanup
11		L. C. Bird High School ( talk)						Cleanup
28		West Potomac High School ( talk)						Cleanup
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7		Warren County High School (Virginia) ( talk)						Expand
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31		Chuck Versus the Suburbs ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
139		Religiosity ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
40		Pittsburgh Pirates minor league players ( talk)						Merge
901		Southeastern Conference ( talk)						Merge
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70		Washington-Lee High School ( talk)						Wikify
7		Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia ( talk)						Wikify
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2		Assaf Azo ( talk)						Orphan
1		Alexander Hamilton Historical Society ( talk)						Orphan
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24		Alles wieder offen ( talk)						Stub
4		Amelia County High School ( talk)						Stub
1		Natan Bernot ( talk)						Stub
379		The Girl's Guide to Depravity ( talk)						Stub
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A quick update as we are half way through round two of this year's competition. WikiCup newcomer Godot13 ( submissions) (Pool E) leads, having produced a massive set of featured pictures for Silver certificate (United States), an article also brought to featured list status. Former finalist Adam Cuerden ( submissions) (Pool G) is in second, which he owes mostly to his work with historical images, including a number of images from Urania's Mirror, an article also brought to good status. 2010 champion (Pool C) is third overall, thanks to contributions relating to naval history, including the newly featured Japanese battleship Nagato. Cliftonian ( submissions), who currently leads Pool A and is sixth overall, takes the title for the highest scoring individual article of the competition so far, with the top importance featured article Ian Smith.

With 26 people having already scored over 100 points, it is likely that well over 100 points will be needed to secure a place in round 3. Recent years have required 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) and 100 (2010). Remember that only 64 will progress to round 3 at the end of April. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page; if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email), The ed17 ( talk • email) and Miyagawa ( talk • email) 22:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

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		Al-Shabaab (militant group) ( talk)						Cleanup
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		Denny Crum ( talk)						Cleanup
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		History of the New York Mets ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
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		Jason Miller (fighter) ( talk)						Wikify
		Call Federal Credit Union ( talk)						Orphan
		Alsancak Hocazade Mosque ( talk)						Orphan
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Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain. Pool G's Adam Cuerden ( submissions) was Round 2's highest scorer, with a large number of featured picture credits. In March/April, he restored star charts from Urania's Mirror, lithographs of various warships (such as SMS Gefion) and assorted other historical media. Second overall was Pool E's Godot13 ( submissions), whose featured list Silver certificate (United States) contains dozens of scans of banknotes recently promoted to featured picture status. Third was Pool G's ChrisGualtieri ( submissions) who has produced a large number of good articles, many, including Falkner Island, on Connecticut-related topics. Other successful participants included Cliftonian ( submissions), who saw three articles (including the top-importance Ian Smith) through featured article candidacies, and Caponer ( submissions), who saw three lists (including the beautifully-illustrated list of plantations in West Virginia) through featured list candidacies. High-importance good articles promoted this round include narwhal from Reid,iain james ( submissions), tiger from Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) and The Lion King from Igordebraga ( submissions). We also saw our first featured topic points of the competition, awarded to Czar ( submissions) and Red Phoenix ( submissions) for their work on the Sega Genesis topic. No points have been claimed so far for good topics or featured portals.

192 was our lowest qualifying score, again showing that this WikiCup is the most competitive ever. In previous years, 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) or 100 (2010) secured a place in Round 3. Pool H was the strongest performer, with all but one of its members advancing, while only the two highest scorers in Pools G and F advanced. At the end of June, 16 users will advance into the semi-finals. 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email), The ed17 ( talk • email) and Miyagawa ( talk • email) 17:57, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

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11		Dominion High School ( talk)						Cleanup
218		Scott Boras ( talk)						Cleanup
20		Index of Virginia-related articles ( talk)						Expand
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147		IFC (U.S. TV network) ( talk)						Expand
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137		Conservative liberalism ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
467		Designated hitter ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
79		Murdoc ( talk)						Merge
23		Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam ( talk)						Merge
1		Cronulla Sutherland Sharks Representatives ( talk)						Merge
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132		Crime Investigation Department (India) ( talk)						Wikify
43		History of the Houston Astros ( talk)						Wikify
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738		Remedy (TV series) ( talk)						Stub
45		John Bedford Lloyd ( talk)						Stub
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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 Godot13 ( submissions) was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, Casliber ( submissions) 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 Sven Manguard ( submissions) taking Portal:Literature to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to 12george1 ( submissions) 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 Figureskatingfan ( submissions), a good article on the noted Czech footballer Tomáš Rosický from Cloudz679 ( submissions) and a now-featured video game screenshot, freely released due to the efforts of Sven Manguard ( submissions).

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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk · contribs) The ed17 ( talk · contribs) and Miyagawa ( talk · contribs) 18:48, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

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:

1. Godot13 ( submissions), 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.
2. Casliber ( submissions) 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.
3. Czar ( submissions) was Pool A's runner-up. Czar's points come mostly from content related to independent video games, including both articles and topics.
4. Adam Cuerden ( submissions) 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.
5. Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) 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.
6. 12george1 ( submissions) 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.
7. Sturmvogel 66 ( submissions), the third wildcard, was the 2010 champion and a finalist last year. His writes mostly on military history, especially naval history.
8. Bloom6132 ( submissions), 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. Matty.007 ( submissions), ThaddeusB ( submissions), WikiRedactor ( submissions), Figureskatingfan ( submissions), Yellow Evan ( submissions), Prism ( submissions) and Cloudz679 ( submissions) 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk · contribs) The ed17 ( talk · contribs) and Miyagawa ( talk · contribs) 22:09, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

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1,951		Jumanji ( talk)						Add sources
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128		Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania ( talk)						Cleanup
89		Mets–Yankees rivalry ( talk)						Cleanup
11		Jamestown High School (Virginia) ( talk)						Cleanup
137		Fairfax County Public Schools ( talk)						Expand
19		Media in Edmonton ( talk)						Expand
3		Virginia Legislative Black Caucus ( talk)						Expand
11		South County High School (Fairfax County, Virginia) ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
732		Nolan Ryan ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
19		Green Run High School ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
51		Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia ( talk)						Merge
9		National Hockey League all-time results ( talk)						Merge
114		Grading (engineering) ( talk)						Merge
85		Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania ( talk)						Wikify
36		Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) ( talk)						Wikify
25		Chris Hecker ( talk)						Wikify
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1		Athirampatty ( talk)						Orphan
0		Aaron ben Moses Teomim ( talk)						Orphan
15		TV3 (Estonia) ( talk)						Stub
3		Sanford Greyhounds ( talk)						Stub
5		Paul Evans (basketball) ( talk)						Stub
7		Henri Nannen ( talk)						Stub
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In one month's time, we will know our WikiCup 2014 champion. Newcomer Godot13 ( submissions) 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 Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) is in second place with a number of high-importance biology articles, including new FA Isopoda and new GA least weasel. Casliber ( submissions), 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk · contribs) The ed17 ( talk · contribs) and Miyagawa ( talk · contribs) 22:11, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

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29		History of the Miami Marlins ( talk)						Cleanup
344		Lynchburg, Virginia ( talk)						Cleanup
11		Logan High School (Utah) ( talk)						Cleanup
37		Chantilly High School ( talk)						Expand
17		James River High School (Chesterfield County, Virginia) ( talk)						Expand
282		History of Virginia ( talk)						Expand
158		College rivalry ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
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982		Islamic terrorism ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
23		All-time NHL team performance list ( talk)						Merge
8		The Great Riviera Bank Robbery ( talk)						Merge
2		Masters M50 shot put world record progression ( talk)						Merge
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65		Jason Marquis ( talk)						Wikify
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The 2014 WikiCup champion is Godot13 ( submissions), 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. Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), 2012 and 2013 WikiCup champion, came in second, having written a large number of biology-related articles. Casliber ( submissions), WikiCup finalist every year since 2010, finished in third.

A full list of our prize-winners follows:

• Godot13 ( submissions) wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 181 featured pictures in the final round.
• Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 65 did you knows in the final round.
• Casliber ( submissions) wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for four featured articles in the final round.
• Czar ( submissions) wins the prize for fourth place
• Sturmvogel 66 ( submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• Bloom6132 ( submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• 12george1 ( submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• ChrisGualtieri ( submissions) wins the GA prize for 27 good articles in round 2 and the review prize for 28 good article reviews in round 1.
• Caponer ( submissions) wins the FL prize for three featured lists in round 2.
• Sven Manguard ( submissions) wins the FPo prize his work on featured portals.
• Figureskatingfan ( submissions) wins the topic prize for a nine-article featured topic in round 3.
• ThaddeusB ( submissions) 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk · contribs) The ed17 ( talk · contribs) and Miyagawa ( talk · contribs) 22:52, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

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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 Wikipedia: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.

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Round one of the 2015 WikiCup has begun! So far we've had around 80 signups, which close on February 5. If you have not already signed up and want to do so, then you can add your name here. There have been changes to to several of the points scores for various categories, and the addition of Peer Reviews for the first time. These will work in the same manner as Good Article Reviews, and all of the changes are summarised here.

Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round, and one of the new changes this year is that all scores must be claimed within two weeks of an article's promotion or appearance, so don't forget to add them to your submissions pages! If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, 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. Good luck! Figureskatingfan ( talk · contribs), Miyagawa ( talk · contribs) and Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs)
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That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. 64 competitors made it into this round, and are now broken into eight groups of eight. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups. Round 1 saw some interesting work on some very important articles, with the round leader Freikorp ( submissions) owing most of his 622 points scored to a Featured Article on the 2001 film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within which qualified for a times-two multiplier. This is a higher score than in previous years, as Godot13 ( submissions) had 500 points in 2014 at the end of round 1, and our very own judge, Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions) led round 1 with 601 points in 2013.

In addition to Freikorp's work, some other important articles and pictures were improved during round one, here's a snapshot of a few of them:

• Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) took Bumblebee, a level-4 vital article, to Good Article;
• AHeneen ( submissions) worked-up the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 article, also to Good Article status;
• Rodw ( submissions) developed an extremely timely article to Good Article, taking Magna Carta there some 800 years after it was first sealed;
• And last but not least, Godot13 ( submissions) ( FP bonus points) worked up a number of Featured Pictures during round 1, including the 1948 one Deutsche Mark (pictured right), receiving the maximum bonus due to the number of Wikis that the related article appears in.

You may also wish to know that The Core Contest is running through the month of March. Head there for further details - they even have actual prizes!

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That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. 64 competitors made it into this round, and are now broken into eight groups of eight. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups. Round 1 saw some interesting work on some very important articles, with the round leader Freikorp ( submissions) owing most of his 622 points scored to a Featured Article on the 2001 film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within which qualified for a times-two multiplier. This is a higher score than in previous years, as Godot13 ( submissions) had 500 points in 2014 at the end of round 1, and our very own judge, Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions) led round 1 with 601 points in 2013.

In addition to Freikorp's work, some other important articles and pictures were improved during round one, here's a snapshot of a few of them:

• Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) took Bumblebee, a level-4 vital article, to Good Article;
• AHeneen ( submissions) worked-up the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 article, also to Good Article status;
• Rodw ( submissions) developed an extremely timely article to Good Article, taking Magna Carta there some 800 years after it was first sealed;
• And last but not least, Godot13 ( submissions) ( FP bonus points) worked up a number of Featured Pictures during round 1, including the 1948 one Deutsche Mark (pictured right), receiving the maximum bonus due to the number of Wikis that the related article appears in.

You may also wish to know that The Core Contest is running through the month of March. Head there for further details - they even have actual prizes!

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The second round one has all wrapped up, and round three has now begun! Congratulations to the 34 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our second round. Leading the way overall was Cas Liber ( submissions) in Group B with a total of 777 points for a variety of contributions including Good Articles on Corona Borealis and Microscopium - both of which received the maximum bonus.

Special credit must be given to a number of high importance articles improved during the second round.

• Coemgenus ( submissions) was one of several users who worked on improving Ulysses S. Grant. Remember, you do not need to work on an article on your own - as long as each person has completed significant work on the article during 2015, multiple competitors can claim the same article.
• Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) took Dragonfly to Good Article for a 3x bonus - and if that wasn't enough, they also took Damselfly there as well for a 2x bonus.
• LeftAire ( submissions) worked up Alexander Hamilton to Good Article for the maximum bonus. Hamilton was one of the founding fathers of the United States and is a level 4 vital article.

The points varied across groups, with the lowest score required to gain automatic qualification was 68 in Group A - meanwhile the second place score in Group H was 404, which would have been high enough to win all but one of the other Groups! As well as the top two of each group automatically going through to the third round, a minimum score of 55 was required for a wildcard competitor to go through. We had a three-way tie at 55 points and all three have qualified for the next round, in the spirit of fairness. The third round ends on June 28, with the top two in each group progressing automatically while the remaining 16 highest scorers across all four groups go through as wildcards. Good luck to all competitors for the third round! Figureskatingfan ( talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa ( talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · email) 16:33, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Hello! I'm Jacqueline Yeung, currently a Carnegie Mellon Researcher at the Human Computer Interaction Institute. The Project Pittsburgh page referred us to you as a Pittsburgh Wikipedian. We'd would like to invite you to our HCI lab at CMU to gather and meet other fellow Pittsburgh Wikipedians. I'm so excited to meet you and learn about your experiences with Wikipedia. Please comment at Pittsburgh MeetUP 2015 . Regards JMyraYeung ( talk) 17:47, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

The finals for the 2015 Wikicup has now begun! Congrats to the 8 contestants who have survived to the finals, and well done and thanks to everyone who took part in rounds 3 and 4.

In round 3, we had a three-way tie for qualification among the wildcard contestants, so we had 34 competitors. The leader was by far Casliber ( submissions) in Group B, who earned 1496 points. Although 913 of these points were bonus points, he submitted 15 articles in the DYK category. Second place overall was Coemgenus ( submissions) at 864 points, who although submitted just 2 FAs for 400 points, earned double that amount for those articles in bonus points. Everyone who moved forward to Round 4 earned at least 100 points.

The scores required to move onto the semifinals were impressive; the lowest scorer to move onto the finals was 407, making this year's Wikicup as competitive as it's always been. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:

1. Cas Liber ( submissions), who is competing in his sixth consecutive Wikicup final, again finished the round in first place, with an impressive 1666 points in Pool B. Casliber writes about the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy. A large bulk of his points this round were bonus points.
2. Godot13 ( submissions) ( FP bonus points), second place both in Pool B and overall, earned the bulk of his points with FPs, mostly depicting currency.
3. Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), first in Pool A, came in third. His specialty is natural science articles; in Round 4, he mostly submitted articles about insects and botany. Five out of the six of the GAs he submitted were level-4 vital articles.
4. Harrias ( submissions), second in Pool A, took fourth overall. He tends to focus on articles about cricket and military history, specifically the 1640s First English Civil War.
5. West Virginian ( submissions), from Pool A, was our highest-scoring wildcard. West Virginia tends to focus on articles about the history of (what for it!) the U.S. state of West Virginia.
6. Rodw ( submissions), from Pool A, likes to work on articles about British geography and places. Most of his points this round were earned from two impressive accomplishments: a GT about Scheduled monuments in Somerset and a FT about English Heritage properties in Somerset.
7. Rationalobserver ( submissions), from Pool B, came in seventh overall. RO earned the majority of her points from GARs and PRs, many of which were earned in the final hours of the round.
8. Calvin999 ( submissions), also from Pool B, who was competing with RO for the final two spots in the final hours, takes the race for most GARs and PRs—48.

The intense competition between RO and Calvin999 will continue into the finals. They're both eligible for the Newcomers Trophy, given for the first time in the Wikicup; whoever makes the most points will win it.

Good luck to the finalists; the judges are sure that the competition will be fierce!

Figureskatingfan ( talk · contribs), Miyagawa ( talk · contribs) and Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs) 11:48, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.

This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is Godot13 ( submissions) ( FP bonus points). All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program. Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science. Cas Liber ( submissions), a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.

Our newcomer award, presented to the best-performing new competitor in the WikiCup, goes to Rationalobserver ( submissions). Everyone should be very proud of the work they accomplished. We will announce our other award winners soon.

A full list of our award winners are:

• Godot13 ( submissions) ( FP bonus points) wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 330 featured pictures in the final round.
• Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 160 did you knows in the final round (310 in all rounds).
• Cas Liber ( submissions) wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for 26 featured articles in all rounds.
• West Virginian ( submissions) wins the prize for fourth place
• Calvin999 ( submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• Rationalobserver ( submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• Harrias ( submissions) wins a final 8 prize and the FL prize for 11 featured lists.
• Rodw ( submissions) wins the most prizes: a final 8 prize, the GA prize for 41 good articles, and the topic prize for a 13-article good topic and an 8-article featured topic, both in round 3.
• ThaddeusB ( submissions) wins the news prize for the most news articles in round 3.

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 2016 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

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Hello everyone, and we would like to wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2016 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. There are some changes we'd like to announce before the competition begins.

After two years of serving as WikiCup judge, User:Miyagawa has stepped down as judge. He deserves great thanks and recognition for his dedication and hard work, and for providing necessary transition for a new group of judges in last year's Cup. Joining Christine ( User:Figureskatingfan) and Jason ( User:Sturmvogel 66) is Andrew ( User:Godot13), a very successful WikiCup competitor and expert in Featured Pictures; he won the two previous competitions. This is a strong judging team, and we anticipate lots of enjoyment and good work coming from our 2016 competitors.

We would also like to announce one change in how this year's WikiCup will be run. In the spirit of sportsmanship, Godot13 and Cwmhiraeth have chosen to limit their participation. See here for the announcement and a complete explanation of why. They and the judges feel that it will make for a more exciting, enjoyable, and productive competition.

The discussions/polls concerning the next competition's rules will be closed soon, and rules changes will be made clear on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring and talk pages. The judges are committed to not repeating the confusion that occurred last year and to ensuring that the new rules are both fair and in the best interests of the competition, which is, first and foremost, about improving Wikipedia.

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We are about to enter the second week of the 2016 WikiCup. The most recent player to sign up brings the current total to 101 contestants. Signups close on 5 February. If you’re interested, you can join this year's WikiCup here.

We are aware that in some areas the scoring bot’s numbers are a little bit off (i.e., overly generous) and are working to have that corrected as soon as possible.-- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:04, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

We are about to enter the second week of the 2016 WikiCup. The most recent player to sign up brings the current total to 101 contestants. Signups close on 5 February. If you’re interested, you can join this year's WikiCup here.

We are aware that in some areas the scoring bot’s numbers are a little bit off (i.e., overly generous) and are working to have that corrected as soon as possible.-- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:08, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

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8		Bethel High School (Virginia) ( talk)						Add sources
27		Chantilly High School ( talk)						Add sources
73		Muslim conquest of the Maghreb ( talk)						Add sources
6		I. C. Norcom High School ( talk)						Add sources
2,675		Paul Newman ( talk)						Add sources
401		Charlottesville, Virginia ( talk)						Add sources
2,315		Andy Samberg ( talk)						Cleanup
35		History of Saturday Night Live (2010–15) ( talk)						Cleanup
323		Chesterfield ( talk)						Cleanup
7		James River High School (Chesterfield County, Virginia) ( talk)						Expand
12		Warwick High School (Newport News) ( talk)						Expand
12		Index of Virginia-related articles ( talk)						Expand
2,052		Maryland ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
14		Gar-Field Senior High School ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
1,763		West Virginia ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
108		History of Saturday Night Live (2015–present) ( talk)						Merge
203		Virginia Commonwealth University ( talk)						Merge
159		Army of Northern Virginia ( talk)						Merge
17		Hampton Roads Transit ( talk)						Wikify
198		Saturday Night Live (season 39) ( talk)						Wikify
1,274		Libyan Civil War (2014–present) ( talk)						Wikify
7		Robert Alai ( talk)						Orphan
1		Amy Maria Sacker ( talk)						Orphan
1		Alan Amory ( talk)						Orphan
3		Narrows High School ( talk)						Stub
4		Broad Run (Occoquan River) ( talk)						Stub
51		Jund al-Khilafah ( talk)						Stub
1		Mingo County Schools ( talk)						Stub
2		Twin Springs High School ( talk)						Stub
3		Castlewood High School ( talk)						Stub

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That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. Forty-seven competitors move into this round (a bit shy of the expected 64), and we are roughly broken into eight groups of six. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups.

Twenty-two Good Articles were submitted, including three by Cyclonebiskit ( submissions), and two each by MPJ-DK ( submissions), Hurricanehink ( submissions), 12george1 ( submissions), and Cas Liber ( submissions). Twenty-one Featured Pictures were claimed, including 17 by Adam Cuerden ( submissions) (the Round 1 high scorer). Thirty-one contestants saw their DYKs appear on the main page, with a commanding lead (28) by Cwmhiraeth ( submissions). Twenty-nine participants conducted GA reviews with J Milburn ( submissions) completing nine.

If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Thanks to everyone for participating, and good luck to those moving into round 2. Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · email), Figureskatingfan ( talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 ( talk · contribs · email) -- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 02:39, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Along with getting the year wrong in the newsletter that went out earlier this week, we did not mention (as the bot did not report) that Cas Liber ( submissions) claimed the first Featured Article Persoonia terminalis of the 2016 Wikicup. Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · email), Figureskatingfan ( talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 ( talk · contribs · email).-- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:06, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi, Grsx11. I'm just posting to let you know that List of World Heritage Sites in Spain – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for May 27. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 ( Talk) 22:27, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Round 2 is over and 35 competitors have moved on to Round 3.

Round 2 saw three FAs (two by Cas Liber ( submissions) and one by Montanabw ( submissions)), four Featured Lists (with three by Calvin999 ( submissions)), and 53 Good Articles (six by Worm That Turned ( submissions) and five each by Hurricanehink ( submissions), Cwmhiraeth ( submissions), and MPJ-DK ( submissions)). Eleven Featured Pictures were promoted (six by Adam Cuerden ( submissions) and five by Godot13 ( submissions)). One Featured Portal, Featured Topic and Good Topic were also promoted. The DYK base point total was 1,135. Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) scored 265 base points, while The C of E ( submissions) and MPJ-DK ( submissions) each scored 150 base points. Eleven ITN were promoted and 131 Good Article Reviews were conducted with MPJ-DK ( submissions) completing a staggering 61 reviews. Two contestants, Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) and Cas Liber ( submissions), broke the 700 point mark for Round 2.

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