User talk:Pi/Archive14

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

WikiCup 2020 March newsletter[edit]

And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 57 contestants qualifying. We have abolished the groups this year, so to qualify for Round 3 you will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two contestants.

Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

  • New York (state) Epicgenius, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with a featured article, five good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 895 points.
  • England Gog the Mild came next with 464 points, from a featured article, two good articles and a number of reviews, the main theme being naval warfare.
  • United States Raymie was in third place with 419 points, garnered from one good article and an impressive 34 DYKs on radio and TV stations in the United States.
  • Somerset Harrias came next at 414, with a featured article and three good articles, an English civil war battle specialist.
  • Pirate flag CaptainEek was in fifth place with 405 points, mostly garnered from bringing Cactus wren to featured article status.
  • The top ten contestants at the end of Round 1 all scored over 200 points; they also included United States L293D, Venezuela Kingsif, Antarctica Enwebb, England Lee Vilenski and Nepal CAPTAIN MEDUSA. Seven of the top ten contestants in Round 1 are new to the WikiCup.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. In Round 1 there were four featured articles, one featured list and two featured pictures, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. Between them, contestants completed 127 good article reviews, nearly a hundred more than the 43 good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Contestants also claimed for 40 featured article / featured list reviews, and most even remembered to mention their WikiCup participation in their reviews (a requirement).

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. 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. 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 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. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:47, 1 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 1 March 2020[edit]

WikiCup newsletter correction[edit]

There was an error in the WikiCup 2020 March newsletter; United States L293D should not have been included in the list of top ten scorers in Round 1 (they led the list last year), instead, United States Dunkleosteus77 should have been included, having garnered 334 points from five good articles on animals, living or extinct, and various reviews. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:30, 2 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 29 March 2020[edit]

The Signpost: 26 April 2020[edit]

WikiCup 2020 May newsletter[edit]

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)[reply]

The Signpost: 31 May 2020[edit]

Revert[edit]

Sorry for reverting that article is being slammed and I accidentally reverted your edit. Glen 16:28, 3 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@User:Glen No worries, I know what's going on. Once this is over we can find the last good version to revert to Pi (Talk to me!) 16:31, 3 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I am not doing vandalism[edit]

Hi, I am not doing vandalism. The category I created on "Indian militrary brats" is based on an existing article List_of_military_brats#Indian_military_brats. Don't delete this category. 2405:201:6401:87AE:790B:426E:3577:2343 (talk) 21:59, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you![edit]

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Good job on Call Me by Your Name (film)! EditQwerty (talk) 08:19, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 28 June 2020[edit]

WikiCup 2020 July newsletter[edit]

The third round of the 2020 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it into the fourth round each had at least 353 points (compared to 68 in 2019). It was a highly competitive round, and a number of contestants were eliminated who would have moved on in earlier years. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

  • New York (state) Epicgenius, with one featured article, 28 good articles and 17 DYKs, amassing 1836 points
  • Botswana The Rambling Man , with 1672 points gained from four featured articles and seventeen good articles, plus reviews of a large number of FACs and GAs
  • England Gog the Mild, a first time contestant, with 1540 points, a tally built largely on 4 featured articles and related bonus points.

Between them, contestants managed 14 featured articles, 9 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 152 good articles, 136 DYK entries, 55 ITN entries, 65 featured article candidate reviews and 221 good article reviews. Additionally, Denmark MPJ-DK added 3 items to featured topics and 44 to good topics. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 710 good article reviews, in comparison to 387 good articles submitted for review and promoted. These large numbers are probably linked to a GAN backlog drive in April and May, and the changed patterns of editing during the COVID-19 pandemic. 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. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere 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), Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:34, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding to the Submission of Draft:H.R. Economics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:H.R._Economics)[edit]

Dear Pi,

I need assistant on submission of draft H.R. Economics - Draft:H.R._Economics.

Iychapur (talk) 14:01, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link notification for August 2[edit]

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited 2019–20 Leicester City F.C. season, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Luke Thomas.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:47, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 2 August 2020[edit]

Request on 19:14:46, 11 August 2020 for assistance on AfC submission by 27oakley[edit]


Hi Pi -

Thank you very much for taking the time to add further commentary. Very helpful. I'll do a little research, try and add some more material and re-submit the page in due course.

Kind regards,

Nick (27oakley). 27oakley (talk) 19:14, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure![edit]

Hi Pi! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.

-- 00:25, Wednesday, August 12, 2020 (UTC)

Thanks[edit]

Thanks for fixing those headers on the Hollingsworth article. I must have looked at them three times, wondering why on earth they were so big! Sometimes it is the simplest thing.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 01:33, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

DYK promotion[edit]

Thank you for promoting 2 of "my" hooks to prep 4, but it's perhaps too much of a good thing. Can you move one to 2 preps later? It's the opera singer and the Rheinsberg story. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:58, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Gerda Arendt Sorry, that was an oversight on my part, I've moved one of your articles back to the approved nominations page as there's not a free prep area at the moment. Thank you for pointing it out Pi (Talk to me!) 21:17, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Request on 04:28:46, 14 August 2020 for assistance on AfC submission by Charbel Saad[edit]


Yo are continuously rejecting my article for copyrighting while I really am not.I am taking ideas from many articles then rephrasing them and adding missing information and pictures that aren't found on the internet. The person I'm, writing this article about is my grandfather who played a key role in Lebanese history when he was chief of the Second Bureau.You are also telling me that I don't have many citations while,in fact, I posted around 6 references because there is such a small amount of articles related to him on the internet. So with all due respect, please just let my article go on wikipedia where his memory will become immortal.

CharbelS (talk) 04:28, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Request on 09:28:08, 14 August 2020 for assistance on AfC submission by Lokesh 1589[edit]


Hi It's not only funding but funding by Xiaomi(Which is a notable thing in a startup industry)

To give you context about WorkIndia 1. WorkIndia is one of the largest blue-collar job portals in India

2. WorkIndia's android app has been downloaded by more than 18M people in India. Playstore link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.workindia.nileshdungarwal.workindiaandroid&hl=en_IN

3. https://www.workindia.in/

4. I referred to one of that Wikipedia's published article which exactly same (Only Funding Info - funded by google)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunzo

5. Need your help: What is the minimum info I should add so that my first article should get published?

Lokesh 1589 (talk) 09:28, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of List of current members of the Kenyan National Assembly[edit]

Hello! Your submission of List of current members of the Kenyan National Assembly at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 22:52, 27 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, the reviewer responded to you almost 2 weeks ago. Are you returning to this nomination? Yoninah (talk) 22:52, 27 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Pi, I've left a few more comments. The most significant issue is the 2013 source url appears to have been overwritten at some point. Good work on the reference formatting, CMD (talk) 10:53, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 30 August 2020[edit]

WikiCup 2020 September newsletter[edit]

The fourth round of the competition has finished, with 865 points being required to qualify for the final round, nearly twice as many points as last year. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with 598 and 605 points being eliminated, and all but two of the contestants who reached the final round having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

  • Free Hong Kong Bloom6132, with 1478 points gained mainly from 5 featured lists, 12 DYKs and 63 in the news items;
  • IndonesiaHaEr48 with 1318 points gained mainly from 2 featured articles, 5 good articles and 8 DYKs;
  • England Lee Vilenski with 1201 points mainly gained from 2 featured articles and 10 good articles.

Between them, contestants achieved 14 featured articles, 14 featured lists, 2 featured pictures, 87 good articles, 90 DYK entries, 75 ITN entries, 95 featured article candidate reviews and 81 good article reviews. Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! 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. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:52, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Gordon Tredgold[edit]

Hi. I suggest you to take a look at Gordon Tredgold. You declined it at the AfC process. It looks like the article has somehow managed to bypass a proper AfC evaluation. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 18:49, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please help with usability testing[edit]

Hello! The mw:Anti-Harassment Tools team is running a usability test to find out how and where IP addresses are used when patrolling wikis, particularly when patrolling RecentChanges. This could include New Pages or RecentChanges patrol. We want to see your patrolling process and get your views on some prototypes. Getting your perspective would be really helpful to us at this stage of the process. If you’d like to help, and have 30 minutes to spare, please fill out this Google form with your details: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfjYyRNGMkO4_TdNOgG4qmK9cp9YOKzM4GFO5pTd_bEcu23YQ/viewform


For the purpose of the tests we’ll be using Google Forms for recruitment, and UserTesting.com to conduct the actual tests. Please review the privacy statement and release form in https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ijmwrIoNO0W1p_zfFU1LBf3_6mFF53kUUFy1L_DCUKc (Google docs link)

Thank you,

NKohli (WMF) (talk) and PSaxena (WMF) (talk) 03:45, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of List of current members of the Kenyan National Assembly[edit]

Hello! Your submission of List of current members of the Kenyan National Assembly at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 20:05, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red[edit]

Hi there, Pi! Given your recent interest in covering Kenyan women in politics, I was wondering in you would like to become a member of Women in Red where we are trying to increase the proportion of articles about women. If so, just click on "Join WikiProject" in the box at the top of our project's main page. I think your membership could be an inspiration to others, especially in our efforts to provide better coverage of the achievements of women in Africa.--Ipigott (talk) 08:14, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I've signed up for that. I'm going to be creating articles on more Kenyan members of parliament, and I'm going to make a list of senators. Pi (Talk to me!) 00:12, 13 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Great to have you on board. If you have not already done so, you might find it useful to read our Ten Simple Rules. Please let me know if you run into any difficulties or need assistance. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 09:07, 13 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Innocent Obiri has been accepted[edit]

Innocent Obiri, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as Stub-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. It is commonplace for new articles to start out as stubs and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider leaving us some feedback.

Thanks again, and happy editing!

Akhiljaxxn (talk) 07:36, 14 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for List of members of the National Assembly of Kenya, 2017–present[edit]

On 15 September 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article List of members of the National Assembly of Kenya, 2017–present, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the current Kenyan National Assembly is made up of 290 constituency elected members including Samuel Arama, 47 county woman representatives including Gladys Boss Shollei and Sabina Wanjiru Chege, and 12 appointed members including Dennitah Ghati? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, List of members of the National Assembly of Kenya, 2017–present), 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) 12:02, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Samuel Arama[edit]

On 15 September 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Samuel Arama, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the current Kenyan National Assembly is made up of 290 constituency elected members including Samuel Arama, 47 county woman representatives including Gladys Boss Shollei and Sabina Wanjiru Chege, and 12 appointed members including Dennitah Ghati? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Samuel Arama), 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) 12:02, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Dennitah Ghati[edit]

On 15 September 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Dennitah Ghati, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the current Kenyan National Assembly is made up of 290 constituency elected members including Samuel Arama, 47 county woman representatives including Gladys Boss Shollei and Sabina Wanjiru Chege, and 12 appointed members including Dennitah Ghati? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Dennitah Ghati), 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) 12:02, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Gladys Boss Shollei[edit]

On 15 September 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gladys Boss Shollei, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the current Kenyan National Assembly is made up of 290 constituency elected members including Samuel Arama, 47 county woman representatives including Gladys Boss Shollei and Sabina Wanjiru Chege, and 12 appointed members including Dennitah Ghati? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Gladys Boss Shollei), 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) 12:02, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Sabina Wanjiru Chege[edit]

On 15 September 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sabina Wanjiru Chege, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the current Kenyan National Assembly is made up of 290 constituency elected members including Samuel Arama, 47 county woman representatives including Gladys Boss Shollei and Sabina Wanjiru Chege, and 12 appointed members including Dennitah Ghati? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Sabina Wanjiru Chege), 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) 12:03, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for County woman representative[edit]

On 15 September 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article County woman representative, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the current Kenyan National Assembly is made up of 290 constituency elected members including Samuel Arama, 47 county woman representatives including Gladys Boss Shollei and Sabina Wanjiru Chege, and 12 appointed members including Dennitah Ghati? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, County woman representative), 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) 12:03, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Teahouse Host[edit]

Teahouse logo
Dear Pi,

Thank you for volunteering as a Host at the Teahouse. Wikipedia is a community of people working together to make knowledge free. You are an important part of that effort! By joining as a Host, and by following our expectations, you are helping new users to get started here at Wikipedia, and aiding more experienced users who just have a question about how something works. We appreciate your willingness to help!

Here are some links you may find helpful as a Host:

Editors who have signed up as hosts, but who have not contributed at the Teahouse for six months or so may be removed from the list of hosts.

Cheers, User:Nick Moyes (talk) 23:00, 25 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]


A barnstar for you![edit]

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For your recent contributions. Also, I like your username "Pi", very special and unique. ^_^ AngusMEOW (chatterpaw trail) 19:49, 16 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you Pi (Talk to me!) 20:07, 16 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

October editathons from Women in Red[edit]

Women in Red | October 2020, Volume 6, Issue 10, Numbers 150, 173, 178, 179


Online events:


Join the conversation: Women in Red talkpage

Stay in touch: Join WikiProject Women in Red | Opt-out of notifications

Social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter


--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 15:11, 21 September 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]