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WikiCup 2020 May newsletter

The second round of the 2020 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 75 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top ten contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 186 good articles achieved in total by contestants, and the 355 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in round 2 were:

  • New York (state) Epicgenius, with 2333 points from one featured article, forty-five good articles, fourteen DYKs and plenty of bonus points
  • England Gog the Mild, with 1784 points from three featured articles, eight good articles, a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews and lots of bonus points
  • Botswana The Rambling Man, with 1262 points from two featured articles, eight good articles and a hundred good article reviews
  • Somerset Harrias, with 1141 points from two featured articles, three featured lists, ten good articles, nine DYKs and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews
  • England Lee Vilenski with 869 points, Gondor Hog Farm with 801, Venezuela Kingsif with 719, Cascadia (independence movement) SounderBruce with 710, United States Dunkleosteus77 with 608 and Mexico MX with 515.

The rules for featured article reviews have been adjusted; reviews may cover three aspects of the article, content, images and sources, and contestants may receive points for each of these three types of review. Please also remember the requirement to mention the WikiCup when undertaking an FAR for which you intend to claim points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. 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. - MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:44, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Nasr of Granada

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Nasr of Granada you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Iazyges -- Iazyges (talk) 15:20, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Qibla

Hello:

I reviewed the copy edit another editor did on the article Qibla and I feel it is not up to GOCE/GA standards. I am now in the process of giving it another copy edit.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 21:44, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

@Twofingered Typist: thank you so much, really appreciated! HaEr48 (talk) 21:48, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Qibla

Hello:

I have now completed my copy edit of the article [[Qibla}}. I invite you to have a look at my changes to see the extent of editing work that remained to be do done on the article.

I will leave it to you to decide whether this article and its word count should be removed from your drive totals.

Twofingered Typist (talk) 15:20, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Qibla

Hello:

My copy edit of the article Qibla is now completed and I believe it meets GA standards.

In a number of places measurements of degrees less than ten are written as e.g. 5°. Since numbers less than ten are normally written in words—in this case five degrees—I'll leave it to you to decide whether you want to change these instances.

Best of luck moving forward with the article.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 15:14, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

@Twofingered Typist: Thank you so much for your excellent copyedit. Unfortunately I still make a lot of grammar errors, I look forward to one day when I don't need so many corrections. Regarding small angles, I see your point and made these changes [1], do they look good? I also have a small question: I see you corrected a lot of ordering of verbs and adverbs, e.g. "traditionally known as" to "known traditionally as", is this a constant rule or does it depend on the word and the context of the sentence? Again, thank you! HaEr48 (talk) 17:29, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
@HaEr48: You're most welcome. Your writing is excellent. We all make errors at one time or another. In many cases I am simply substituting words that I think convey the meaning better. The corrections to the angles look fine. As to the ordering of adverbs—generally they should follow the verb they are modifying, however, if it sounds better to the ear as you read it, if it precedes the verb, that's fine. The same with split infinitives. Stay safe. Twofingered Typist (talk) 20:27, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Qibla

On 8 May 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Qibla, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Muhammad and his followers in Medina originally faced Jerusalem as their direction for prayer? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Qibla. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Qibla), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Nasr of Granada

The article Nasr of Granada you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Nasr of Granada for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Iazyges -- Iazyges (talk) 17:21, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXIX, May 2020

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ITN recognition for Hossein Kazempour Ardebili ‎

On 18 May 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Hossein Kazempour Ardebili ‎, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. SpencerT•C 15:46, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

GOCE review of Nasr of Granada


Sorry we couldn't get to it before the GA Review. Good luck with the FAC! Tdslk (talk) 05:38, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

@Tdslk: Thank you so much! No problem at all about the early GA review. HaEr48 (talk) 19:29, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Autopatrolled granted

Hi HaEr48, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the autopatrolled right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. However, you should consider adding relevant wikiproject talk-page templates, stub-tags and categories to new articles that you create if you aren't already in the habit of doing so, since your articles will no longer be systematically checked by other editors (User:Evad37/rater and User:SD0001/StubSorter.js are useful scripts which can help). Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! ~Swarm~ {sting} 07:22, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Thank you...

... For all your edits to Banteng, especially for adding the head close-up. I was looking for a clear image like that but could not find one for some reason. Cheers, Sainsf (t · c) 06:35, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

@Sainsf: My pleasure, and thank you for writing such an interesting article. The image was recently uploaded, that's why you didn't find it before. I saw it while browsing the recent feed of Wiki Loves Earth in Indonesia and immediately realized it might be useful for the Banteng article. HaEr48 (talk) 14:22, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2022 May newsletter

The second round of the 2022 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 115 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top seven contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 11 featured articles and the 79 good articles achieved in total by contestants.

Our top scorers in round 2 were:

  1. New York (state) Epicgenius, with 1264 points from 2 featured article, 4 good articles and 18 DYKs. Epicgenius was a finalist last year but has now withdrawn from the contest as he pursues a new career path.
  2. Christmas Island AryKun, with 1172 points from two featured articles, one good article and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews.
  3. Kingdom of Scotland Bloom6132, with 605 points from 44 in the news items and 4 DYKs.
  4. Sammi Brie, with 573 points from 8 GAs and 21 DYKs.
  5. Ealdgyth, with 567 points from 11 GAs and 34 good and featured article reviews.
  6. United States Panini!, with 549 points from 1 FA, 4 GAs and several other sources.
  7. England Lee Vilenski, with 545 points from 1 FA, 4 GAs and a number of reviews.

The rules for featured and good article reviews require the review to be of sufficient length; brief quick fails and very short reviews will generally not be awarded points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. 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. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:39, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

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