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In all fairness, an edit description of "please give me a minute, I'm in the middle of moving sections around" was provided, which is a reason for the large edits. It'd make more sense for the warning to encourage the use of the
Sandbox, or drafts rather than a lack of explanation - which
RobinJames68 should definitely take a look at to avoid this again :P
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Yes it was just a misunderstanding from unlucky timing. Thanks for the tips about the Sandbox or drafts, I'm still very much a newbie trying to understand things here, so I'll check them out. I was using the clipboard to move a section around, is this not allowed?
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Oh, I made some improvements and thought it wasn't "written like an advertisement" any more. What sentences are still a problem?
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Thanks for the link. Could you explain how does adding an equals sign mean that an account is COI? Also, if the issue is COI, shouldn't it be a {COI} warning rather than an {Advert} warning? Sorry for all the questions, I'm still trying to understand how things work here.
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The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.
The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:
Generalissima (
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John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to Vami_IV (
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A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two
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Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters,
WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 18,943 last month to 19,208 on 28 February 2024). In the area of GAs
WP:YORKS at 219 is ahead of
WP:GM who have 90.
WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 93 while
WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 4,983 articles.
Currently we have seventy six Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
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Poland report: WikiMatejko editing action; The eighth European GLAM Wiki coordinators meet up
The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (
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An
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Miscellaneous
Editors are invited to sign up for
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vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.
Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.
Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.
Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the
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It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!
2023 Awards
Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the
Awards page and the
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Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.
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Welcome to the one hundred and ninty second
WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters,
WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 19,208 last month to 19,275 on 8 April 2024). In the area of GAs
WP:YORKS at 221 is ahead of
WP:GM who have 90.
WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 93 while
WP:GM has 65 out of a total number of 5,047 articles.
Currently we have seventy six Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The April 2024 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a
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Monitoring is essential Use the
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We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.
Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. 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
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