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WikiCup 2019 March newsletter
And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2. With 56 contestants qualifying, each group in Round 2 contains seven contestants, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for Round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining contestants.
Our top scorers in Round 1 were:
L293D, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with ten good articles on submarines for a total of 357 points.
Adam Cuerden, a WikiCup veteran, came next with 274 points, mostly from eight featured pictures, restorations of artwork.
MPJ-DK, a wrestling enthusiast, was in third place with 263 points, garnered from a featured list, five good articles, two DYKs and four GARs.- Usernameunique came next at 243, with a featured article and a good article, both on ancient helmets.
Squeamish Ossifrage was in joint fifth place with 224 points, mostly garnered from bringing the 1937 Fox vault fire to featured article status.
Ed! was also on 224, with an amazing number of good article reviews (56 actually).
These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews on 143 good articles, one hundred more than the number of good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Well done all!
Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. 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).
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An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:Helen Keller circa 1920 - restored.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Armbrust The Homunculus 03:09, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
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"False impression of a trend between illegal immigration and crime"
BBC: Migrants may be responsible for most of a recent rise in violent crime in Germany, research commissioned by the government suggests. The study used data from Lower Saxony, a state where more than 90% of the rise was attributed to young male migrants.
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If you are going to state someone's views are problematic at AN/I, atleast make sure your facts are straight. --Pudeo (talk) 20:04, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
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- I don't intend to start discussing immigration and crime in Germany ... because nobody's talking about Germany. None of that thread is about Germany. It's about the US. That's the area of EMG's edits that have been problematic; that's what nearly all (if not all) of the diffs/articles linked are about. That's what the list article that led to this discussion is about. So it's true I didn't feel it necessary to specify in every instance. That you have managed to find a separate country for which migrants may have something to do with a crime increase (a claim which even that article hedges on, but that's a different can of worms) doesn't really seem relevant to anything anyone is saying. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 20:23, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
- For posterity, this concerns this thread.
- Dive in the rabbit-hole and see how many parallels there are: Immigration and crime in Germany. Worth noting that many editors active there are also active in the US topic.--Pudeo (talk) 20:41, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: February 2019
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Your GA nomination of The Marriage (video game)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article The Marriage (video game) 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 DasallmächtigeJ -- DasallmächtigeJ (talk) 15:01, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
- @DasallmächtigeJ: Great! Thanks very much. Looking forward to your review. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 15:03, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of The Marriage (video game)
The article The Marriage (video game) you nominated as a good article has passed 
; see Talk:The Marriage (video game) 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 DasallmächtigeJ -- DasallmächtigeJ (talk) 18:02, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
- Great! Thanks, DasallmächtigeJ! — Rhododendrites talk \\ 19:35, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:RuPaul's Drag Race
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DYK for Gabriela Rodríguez
On 16 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gabriela Rodríguez, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Roma producer Gabriela Rodríguez is the first Latin American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gabriela Rodríguez. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Gabriela Rodríguez), 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.
— Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
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Please comment on Talk:List of 2017 albums
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Women in Red April Events
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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Notability (academics)
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Answers in Genesis
Hello. I have recently made another proposal which takes into account your concerns. Would you mind leaving your thoughts on AiG's talk page?OlJa 20:36, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
DYK for The Marriage (video game)
On 30 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Marriage (video game), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that The Marriage is a video game that tries to convey meaning through its mechanics rather than through audio or visuals? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Marriage (video game). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, The Marriage (video game)), 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.
— Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
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Barnstar for Rhododendrites
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| Thanks for trying to be cooperative and respectful in a very heated situation where nearly everyone else has let emotions take over :) OlJa 19:58, 31 March 2019 (UTC) |
@Rhododendrites: feel free to migrate this barnstar to your talk page, or delete it altogether if you don't want it there.
- @Oldstone James: Gladly. I really appreciate that. Thanks. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 22:35, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion
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This Month in GLAM: March 2019
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Your GA nomination of The J's with Jamie
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Please comment on Talk:Voodoo Doughnut
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Please comment on Talk:List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
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Your GA nomination of Kitty O'Brien Joyner
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Your GA nomination of Kitty O'Brien Joyner
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WikiCup 2019 Reminder
Hi. I'm DannyS712 (talk), and I just wanted to remind you that you are a current participant in round 2 of this year's WikiCup! There are only a few days until the second round ends – if you haven't made you first submission for this round yet, there is still time to start; if you have already started, keep up the good work. See your submissions page: here. Good luck!
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An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:Comme des Garcons at the Met (62473).jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Armbrust The Homunculus 09:53, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Simplified ruleset
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