User talk:Royroydeb/Archive 16

WikiCup2016 - submission removal

Talk:Jesé/GA1 has been removed from your submission page. It is below the minimum required length, and it does not address many of the necessary GA criteria. If you have any questions, please let me know.--Godot13 (talk) 06:49, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 March newsletter

One of Adam Cuerden’s several quality restorations during round 1

That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. Forty-seven competitors move into this round (a bit shy of the expected 64), and we are roughly broken into eight groups of six. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups.

Twenty-two Good Articles were submitted, including three by Cyclonebiskit (submissions), and two each by MPJ-DK (submissions), Hurricanehink (submissions), 12george1 (submissions), and Cas Liber (submissions). Twenty-one Featured Pictures were claimed, including 17 by Adam Cuerden (submissions) (the Round 1 high scorer). Thirty-one contestants saw their DYKs appear on the main page, with a commanding lead (28) by Cwmhiraeth (submissions). Twenty-nine participants conducted GA reviews with J Milburn (submissions) completing nine.

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2016 GA Cup-Round 1

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016 GA Cup - Round 1 Greetings, all. The 3rd Annual GA Cup has officially begun, and you can start reviewing your articles/reassessments now! However, sign-ups will not close til March 15th if anybody (who wishes to sign up) has not signed up yet. We currently have 1 group of 33 contestants in Round 1, and we will have 16 Wikipedians left in Round 2. Please be sure to review this information and the FAQ if you haven't already, If you have any questions, please ask us here where all of the judges (including our newest one, Zwerg Nase!) will be answering any questions you may have. You can also feel free to ask us on our talk pages/send an email to us (information is here). Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant still competing, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.

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Your GA nomination of Assassination of Ali

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Assassination of Ali 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 FunkMonk -- FunkMonk (talk) 19:42, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Are you there? FunkMonk (talk) 13:58, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi, I can see you are active, will you continue the GA nomination? FunkMonk (talk) 13:33, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup 2016 March newsletter (update)

Along with getting the year wrong in the newsletter that went out earlier this week, we did not mention (as the bot did not report) that Cas Liber (submissions) claimed the first Featured Article Persoonia terminalis of the 2016 Wikicup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email).--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:05, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Michael Chopra

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Michael Chopra 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 MPJ-DK -- MPJ-DK (talk) 23:20, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Michael Chopra

The article Michael Chopra you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Michael Chopra for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MPJ-DK -- MPJ-DK (talk) 04:00, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Battle of Jajau

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Battle of Jajau 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 Tomandjerry211 (alt) -- Tomandjerry211 (alt) (talk) 18:02, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Michael Chopra

The article Michael Chopra you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Michael Chopra 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 MPJ-DK -- MPJ-DK (talk) 18:41, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Éder Monteiro Fernandes

Hello! Your submission of Éder Monteiro Fernandes 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) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! CeeGee 10:44, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

And again. Jolly Ω Janner 03:42, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Assassination of Ali

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 00:02, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Talk:Marquinhos/GA1

Royroydeb, when you put nominations on hold on the article's talk page, the only change you should make to the GA nominee template is to change the status parameter from "onreview" to "onhold". The changes you actually did with this nomination—removing the original timestamp and nominator and adding yourself and a new time—broke the entry on the GAN page, so it showed up as an error in the daily GAN report.

I have fixed the GA nominee template so it contains the original nomination time and nominator, so when the next report is run in about 24 hours, the error will have cleared. You may want to review the GA instructions for how to put an article on hold so you'll do it correctly next time. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 07:20, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

BD

Hi RRD, I hope you are well. Just checking regarding the GA nomination at Balfour Declaration. Are you planning to come back there? Your help has been great so far. Oncenawhile (talk) 11:38, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi RRD, just checking in - do you think you'll be able to post your comments soon? Oncenawhile (talk) 15:39, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

I RRD, thanks for your further comments. I have now addressed these at the GA review. Oncenawhile (talk) 23:31, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi RRD, I have now answered the questions in your last post. Oncenawhile (talk) 09:48, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Assassination of Ali

Hi, I'm not sure why you're not responding to the review, but I'll have to fail the article soon if I don't get a reply. FunkMonk (talk) 21:32, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Éder Monteiro Fernandes

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:12, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

2016 GA Cup-Round 2

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016 GA Cup - Round 1 Greetings, GA Cup competitors! Wednesday saw the end of Round 1. Sainsf took out Round 1 with an amazing score of 765. In second place, MPJ-DK earned an astounding 742 points, and in third place, FunkMonk received 610 points. In Round 1, 206 reviews were completed, more than any other year! At the beginning of March, there were 595 outstanding nominations in the GAN queue; by the end of Round 1, there were 490. We continue to make a difference at GAN and throughout Wikipedia, something we should all be proud of. Thanks to all our competitors for helping to make the GA Cup a continued success, and for your part in helping other editors improve articles. We hope to see all remaining users fighting it out in Round 2 so we can lower the backlog as much as possible. To qualify for the second round, you needed to make it into the top 16 of participants. Users were placed in 4 random pools of 4. To qualify for Round 3, the top 2 in each pool will progress, and there will also be one wildcard. This means that the participant who comes in 9th place (all pools combined) will also move on. Round 2 will start on April 1 at 0:00:01 UTC and end on April 28 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Round 2 and the pools can be found here Also, remember that a major rule change will go into effect starting on April 1, which marks the beginning of Round Two. Round 1 had an issue brought up in the rules, which we are correcting with this clarification. We believe that this change will make the competition more inherently fair. The new rule is: All reviews must give the nominator (or anyone else willing to improve the article) time to address the issues at hand, even if the article would qualify for what is usually called a "quick fail" in GA terms. To avoid further confusion, we have updated the scoring page, replacing the term "quick fail" with the term "fail without granting time for improvements". We expect all reviewers to put a review on hold for seven days in cases such as these as well, in order to apply the same standards to every competitor. The judges will strictly enforce this new rule. Good luck and have fun! Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant still competing, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.

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Your GA nomination of Battle of Jajau

The article Battle of Jajau you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Battle of Jajau 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 Tomandjerry211 (alt) -- Tomandjerry211 (alt) (talk) 12:21, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Some dim sum for you!

Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. North America1000 08:56, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

DYK

I was wondering if I can choose the date on which a DYK appears on the main page. Can I?--MaranoFan (talk) 11:40, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Salam MaranoFan

First of all the nomination should follow the rules and regulations of a normal DYK. In the comment section while creating the DYK template you have to mention the date along with appropriate reason. Nomination should be done six to seven days earlier. Also the entry of the nomination should be on the day on which the article was created/expanded and not on the special occasion area. RRD13 দেবজ্যোতি (talk) 11:59, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

@Royroydeb: Well wishes from me too Is this eligible for the main page ryt now? I wanted it to appear on May 13 bbut I probably nominated it too fast lol.--MaranoFan (talk) 12:01, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

MaranoFan I think that you should have mentioned it while nominating. Also any arbitary request will be put down, unless it is a serious one (like the DYK article person's birthday). I would still suggest you to contact Wikipedia talk:Did you know. RRD13 দেবজ্যোতি (talk) 17:56, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

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Talk:Rahul Gandhi/GA1

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DYK for Rúben Fernandes

On 17 April 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rúben Fernandes, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that despite indicating willingness to renew his contract with a Portuguese club, Portuguese footballer Rúben Fernandes signed with a newly promoted Belgian one instead? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rúben Fernandes. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Rúben Fernandes), 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) 17:46, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Assassination of Ali

The article Assassination of Ali you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Assassination of Ali for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of FunkMonk -- FunkMonk (talk) 05:41, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

DYK nomination for Filipe Melo (footballer)

Hello! Your submission of Filipe Melo (footballer) 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) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know!

Royroydeb, it has been a week without any reply from you. We need to hear from you soon if you wish to continue pursuing this nomination. Thank you. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:08, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

A year ago ...

sports people
... you were recipient no. 1197 of Precious, a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:39, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Two years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:07, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

Talkback

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Your GA nomination of Rahul Gandhi

The article Rahul Gandhi you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Rahul Gandhi for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Tomandjerry211 (alt) -- Tomandjerry211 (alt) (talk) 22:41, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

João Sousa GA Review

Dear Royroydeb,

I invite you to visit Talk:João Sousa/GA2. I addressed all your comments and I would like to hear your insights on them.

Regards,

SOAD KoRn (talk) 17:10, 2 May 2016 (UTC)