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WikiCup 2019 July newsletter

The third round of the 2019 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round needed to score at least 68 points, which is substantially lower than last year's 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with 500 points derived mainly from a featured article and two GAs on natural history topics
• Adam Cuerden, with 480 points, a tally built on 16 featured pictures, the result of meticulous restoration work
• SounderBruce, a finalist in the last two years, with 306 points from a variety of submissions, mostly related to sport or the State of Washington
• Usernameunique, with 305 points derived from a featured article and two GAs on archaeology and related topics

Contestants managed 4 (5) featured articles, 4 featured lists, 18 featured pictures, 29 good articles, 50 DYK entries, 9 ITN entries, and 39 good article reviews. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them, and it is imperative to claim them in the correct round; one FA claim had to be rejected because it was incorrectly submitted (claimed in Round 3 when it qualified for Round 2), so be warned! When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:12, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Almost the day

Almost the day that our article will be featured on the homepage. I want to thank you again for doing so much hard, tedious, thorough, and detailed work to elevate the article to a featured article. SecretName101 (talk) 20:52, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

• No problem, thanks for putting the images in! – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 20:58, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

BLP alert

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in living or recently deceased people, and edits relating to the subject (living or recently deceased) of such biographical articles. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

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QuackGuru (talk) 04:30, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office

Re: Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office/archive1 - Do you think it can now pass muster? Anything else that can/should be improved? I'm not sure what else needs to be done but I'd be happy to work on it some more... Shearonink (talk) 19:32, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

• There's an uncited statement about the longest-serving Mouser, but other than that I have made tweaks that have made the article to my liking. Thank you for your work on improving it! – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 19:43, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

• Did some C/E, added refs, etc. If you wouldn't mind taking a look, would welcome your feedback. Hope it'll pass muster as retaining its FL status now. Shearonink (talk) 20:44, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

• Looks good, will switch vote to keep and see what the others think. Well done! – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 20:48, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

• Oh thanks! It's one of my favorite list-articles here on WP. Appreciate your improvements as well. I would hate for it to lose its FL status. Cheers, Shearonink (talk) 23:21, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

Pluperfect

is not a word I see every day.  Dlohcierekim (talk) 23:49, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

• I had not realized that it would be something of concern. :P – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 23:59, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

Template:NYC election stub

What is the reasoning for Template:NYC election stub? It contains three WikiProject banners, which should not be used in template space - they should only be used in a talk space. Also, their use of |class=stub is invalid for a template, which should either omit that parameter, leave it blank, or (redundantly) set |class=template explicitly. Similarly, |importance=low is inapplicable for a template, which should either omit that parameter, leave it blank, or (redundantly) set |importance=na explicitly. As a result of these problems, the template is listed at Category:WikiProject banners with formatting errors. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 13:07, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

• @Redrose64:, it was meant for convenience on my part to apply all three banners at once when creating talk pages for the NYC election pages I've created. If it runs afoul of T3 feel free to CSD it. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 20:42, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

  Since my post, it seems that JPG-GR has done this which probably makes it OK to keep for as long as you are using it to make talk pages. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:33, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

• Thank you, I was unaware of the existence of such tags before then. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 00:59, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

fix userpage

Hello John, you tried to fix this userpage already, but it still has some more errors and is in Category:Pages with DISPLAYTITLE conflicts. I cannot fix it because it is only possible with account, so would you do it? Not all those DISPLAYTITLEs are possible, see Wikipedia:Page name#DISPLAYTITLE conflicts. {{lowercase title}} is enough for a lowercase title and not in defaultsort. ″Hi guys!″ is no DISPLAYTITLE and not displayed, DEFAULTSORT does not sort with lower case in front, so it makes no sense, the template lowercase does not belong there either. So it should be just this code/text on that page, and nothing else:

{{lowercase title}}
Hi guys!

Everything else does nothing but leads to errors. Would you fix it? Then it will have a text and no errors anymore, and the title will be lower case. The user is inactive and will probably let the errors there forever and might not understand the syntax. Thanks in advance and greetings. --2A02:908:D83:E460:216:CBFF:FEAD:FF9 (talk) 15:40, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

• Y Done. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 16:00, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, too. I named the wrong category, fixed it above. There were displaytitle and defaultsort errors, the Category:Pages with DISPLAYTITLE conflicts is empty now, also Category:Pages using infobox book series with unknown parameters. The user subpages can be fixed only with IP.
In Category:Pages with DEFAULTSORT conflicts are 115 100 pages left, too many for me now, and others also have a lot more pages. The DEFAULTSORT errors seem to be some, where also lots of article cats are on user subpages like here. If you want, you can find a lot of pages there. --2A02:908:D83:E460:216:CBFF:FEAD:FF9 (talk) 17:15, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

100 pages left now in the category, I fixed the articles and some others, that is enough, only user (talk) (sub)pages left now. --2A02:908:D83:E460:216:CBFF:FEAD:FF9 (talk) 15:14, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Johnuniq - offtopic

Hi John M Wolfson, just letting you know the section you noted was moved, then closed - as it is also open at Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_adminship#Usernames_in_watchlist_notices. Feel free to comment there if you are interested. Best regards, — xaosflux ^Talk 14:35, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

• Thank you, will go there. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 17:22, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

Wholesale, and sloppy, deletions

I've just reviewed a handful of articles where you deleted 90% of the content with vague references to WP essays or one word "cruft" edit summaries. Much of this material was referenced, or provided useful information to users. Knock it off. You aren't helping. If you want to cleanup articles, find references to historical information where they are lacking. Re-write bad writing. Bad writing on notable subjects is better than no writing. SchmuckyTheCat (talk) 09:39, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

• Thank you for reviewing my contributions. I'd be happy to discuss any specifics on the appropriate talk page or to modify cleanup as necessary. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 18:42, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

Just to add a comment to this, the article that you have blanked and redirected saying "probably better in the broader topic" amounts to unilateral deletion. The correct procedure in these cases is merge or if there is nothing to merge, then sending them to AfD. As someone who spends most of my WP time on the old cleanup pages, I thank you for your attention to these unloved pages, but please be aware of WP:BATHWATER, and in fact maybe the whole page that it comes from. Jdcooper (talk) 23:19, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

• Thank you for your input, I will consider it for future reference. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 23:26, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

Merger discussion for List of First Ladies of the United States and their Causes

Please create the merger discussion as per WP:MERGEPROP or remove the template it has been over 12 hours since you added the template and it should have been done at once. Thank you. --Dom from Paris (talk) 17:14, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

• Done. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 18:15, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the barnstar ... the new edits at "HomePage" are indeed beautiful! Graham87 04:58, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

User:John M Wolfson/sandbox

@John M Wolfson: I noticed your sandbox and was wondering if this file might be helpful for the infobox. :-) Lotje (talk) 15:54, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

• Thank you, I will add it! (Also, for future reference, you don't need to ping someone on their user talk page, it will automatically notify the user when you place the message.) – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 15:57, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

Commons

User:Spinningspark/Why I don't upload to Commons SpinningSpark 09:18, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

• Fair enough, thanks! – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 16:55, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

George Galbraith

Just a comment. I search the Danish sources and he was admitted to the Danish Hockey Hall of Fame in 2017. He did play for 24 years in their highest league.Patapsco913 (talk) 18:18, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

• While I don't think that makes him pass NHOCKEY, I'll have to mull over whether it clears him over the GNG. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 18:22, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

Delete AfD closures

Hi John! Thanks for helping out at AfD. Just as a heads up, only administrators can close as “delete” even if the result is obvious. We also try to let them run the full 168 hours and not before then, which is why I reverted on Murder of Senicha Lessman. Sorry for using rollback instead of using a revert too. It was a misclick :/ TonyBallioni (talk) 05:37, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

• Hey Tony, no problem! I'll keep that in mind in the future. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 05:44, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Lauren Sisler

Hi, I saw you made notes on my Lauren Sisler page. I did remove some words to try not to sound like a resume and remove a reference though unsure if it was the correct one or not. Please let me know if I did or not. Thanks. Dwightforrm (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:54, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Hey Dwight, thanks for reaching out to me. I see you have made several improvements, and I appreciate them; it's certainly a step in the right direction. Here are a couple of thoughts I've had:

• A national award-winning reporter (emphasis mine) is too weasely and promotional on its own. How about start the lead paragraph with something like Lauren Sisler is a reporter for ... and then note which particular awards she has won later in the lead paragraph.
• The "Career" section still emphasizes her awards; those are great, but what other more mundane stuff did she do? What prominent stories did she cover, etc.?
• The "Personal Life" section has similar issues. While it's great that she has held those titles, what has she done with them?

Hope this helps! – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 00:09, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kaaneen - A Secret Search

Would you consider reverting your NAC at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kaaneen - A Secret Search? Per WP:NOQUORUM, AfD discussions with no arguments for keep should actually be closed as WP:SOFTDELETE rather than no consensus. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 07:08, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

• Done. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 12:47, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

• Thanks. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 04:57, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

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Central Australia (territory)

Hi John M Wolfson,

Thanks for starting the article. I myself have an early draft which I started last year and had not moved forwarded because I needed access to some sources only available in hardcopy. I suggest that you look at the following link - Dividing the Territory, 1926–31. As you will see, the creation of the two territories is part of a larger plan.

I have some more content that I will add at a later time. Lunch time is just finished where I located, so I gotta go.

Regards

Cowdy001 (talk) 04:44, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

• That looks wonderful, thanks for sharing! I'll see if I can try to find some book sources as well. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 04:46, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

hoax

hey, I was suspicious of that IP tagging articles with QD but it appears these are hoaxes based on the history. Don't know if that changes anything but wanted to let you know since I added a new tag. :) Praxidicae (talk) 13:51, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

• Thanks for letting me know. I still feel justified in my CSD removal since neither of the criteria given by the IP were valid, but perhaps he/she simply didn't know of G3. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 13:53, 14 August 2019 (UTC)