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The Signpost: 22 April 2013

GA nomination for Carolina Panthers

Hi. Just letting you know that I have passed Carolina Panthers. Congratulations on the work, and thanks for addressing the comments so promptly. - Shudde talk 11:23, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 April 2013

Back off

I'll ask/tell you nicely not to do what you did on my talk page again. You do not know what's going on and you undoing my talk page is a violation. "Hit list" is also inappropriate to assume. If I have further problems with you, I will not hesitate to report you. 99.129.112.89 (talk) 19:02, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Go ahead and save yourself the time and report me, along with the rest of the people on your hit list. You'll be laughed out of AN/I and you'll probably end up with a block, too. Toa Nidhiki05 20:03, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2013 April newsletter

We are a week into Round 3, but it is off to a flying start, with Republic of Rose Island Sven Manguard (submissions) claiming for the high-importance Portal:Sports and Portal:Geography (which are the first portals ever awarded bonus points in the WikiCup) and Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) claiming for a did you know of sea, the highest scoring individual did you know article ever submitted for the WikiCup. Round 2 saw very impressive scores at close; first place New South Wales Casliber (submissions) and second place Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) both scored over 1000 points; a feat not seen in Round 2 since 2010. This, in part, has been made possible by the change in the bonus points rules, but is also testament to the quality of the competition this year. Pool C and Pool G were most competitive, with three quarters of participants making it to Round 3, while Pool D was the least, with only the top two scorers making it through. The lowest qualifying score was 123, significantly higher than last year's 65, 2011's 41 or even 2010's 100.

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Christianity newsletter: New format, new focus

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finished, I believe Go Phightins! 19:42, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

The Good Article Barnstar
Congratulations on that rarest of Wikipedia accomplishments: bringing the core article of a WikiProject, in this case National Football League, to Good Article status. This article received a half million visitors in the last 90 days alone, more than the readership of dozens of other Good Articles combined; by the end of the year, your work will have been read by millions of people around the world. Thanks for your ambition in taking this one on--I wish we could give you dozens of barnstars for it! -- Khazar2 (talk) 01:57, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks a bunch, I really appreciate it. :) Toa Nidhiki05 02:43, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 June 2013

Impressive

I believe I reviewed and passed American football as a GA a while ago, and I just saw you brought NFL up to that status. Both are pivotal articles, and both have benefited from your tireless contribution. You are an esteemed content creator in my book, and one who does so without drama. As such, I think you would be a definite net positive as a content admin, and would be happy to nominate you if you wanted to go down that road. Either way, keep up your excellent article creation work! Sincerest regards, Go Phightins! 15:20, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

I appreciate the kind words in regards to my editing; I would be willing to go up for RfA, yes, if that is something you think I am ready for. :) Toa Nidhiki05 16:10, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
Well, I am leaving on Sunday for a week, then will be back for a week, and then will be off-wiki for two weeks. How about if we kickoff next week on Monday or so, and I will be around for at least the first five days of the RfA. Otherwise, we can push it off until August. Or, you can self-nom or find another nom who can do it whenever works for you. Sorry for my lack of online presence in the next few weeks. Go Phightins! 16:13, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
That's fine, I'm really in no hurry here. I'm fine with the next Monday plan, or really anything; my schedule is wide-open for the foreseeable future, so I have a lot of flexibility in that regard. Toa Nidhiki05 16:27, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
All right. Let's shoot for next Monday. Obviously, my nom statement will reflect primarily on your content contribs. Do you have any particular experience in admin areas that you would like to point out? Go Phightins! 16:29, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

One thing I did notice right off the bat is that you don't use edit summaries in articles all the time ... people get very cranky about that, so you will definitely want to have a good answer for a question about that. Other than that, you don't have a ton of WP-space contributions, but I didn't find anything glaring in that department. Go Phightins! 16:33, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I haven't been as good on edit summaries as I should. I've been trying to improve there, but there are still a few issues. On WP-space. I've tried to avoid wikipolitics over the last few years and focus on editing. Not to say I haven't gotten (or won't ever get) involved in issues or site-wide disputes, but I don't focus as much on site-wide issues. Toa Nidhiki05 19:21, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Christianity Newsletter (July 2013)


ICHTHUS

July 2013

From the Editor

Welcome to the July 2013 issue of Ichthus. We focus on the chronology of Jesus, as well as looking back at the project content improved over the last month.

WP:X has gained another Featured Article, Gospel of the Ebionites, by Ignocrates. The Gospel of the Ebionites is the name scholars give to an apocryphal gospel that supposedly belonged to a sect known as the Ebionites. It consists of seven short quotations discovered in a heresiology known as the Panarion, written by Epiphanius of Salamis, and its original title remains unknown. The text is a gospel harmony composed in Greek, and is believed to have been written during the middle of the 2nd century.

St Mihangel's Church, Llanfihangel yn Nhowyn was promoted to Good Article status, as was two other welsh churches, St Enghenedl's Church, Llanynghenedl, and St Peter's Church, Llanbedrgoch.

The main page also featured several DYK hooks for articles in our project, namely Bob Fu, List of places of worship in Tandridge (district), Catholic Press, Garendon Abbey, St. John's Episcopal Church (Jersey City, New Jersey), Pargev Martirosyan, Praskvica Monastery, Heather Preceptory, St. Augustin, Coburg, Longleat Priory, St Mihangel's Church, Llanfihangel yn Nhowyn, St Enghenedl's Church, Llanynghenedl, Christianization of Moravia, Christianization of Bohemia, Repton Abbey, St Peter's Church, Llanbedrgoch, Medingen Abbey, Elmhurst Christian Reformed Church, St. James on-the-Lines, and Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch.

Church of the month

St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery is part of Saint Sophia's Cathedral, Kiev in Ukraine. It is a functioning monastery that dates back to the Middle Ages.

Membership report
The parent Christianity WikiProject currently has 367 active members. We would like to welcome our newest members, Newchildrenofthealmighty, Evenssteven, Kerna96, and FutureTrillionaire. If any members, new or not, wish any assistance, they should feel free to leave a message at the Christianity noticeboard or with me or other individual editors to request it.


Focus on...

THE
HISTORICAL JESUS

When did Jesus live? When did he die? How do we know? We do, in fact, have excellent information about the time intervals for the life and death of Jesus. As in other people who lived and died in the first century, this gives an approximate date range, but still, give or take 3-4 years and we have pretty good estimates confirmed by a number of really diverse sources, ranging from inscriptions in Delphi to Roman and Jewish sources. The Chronology of Jesus article discusses how a wide variety of Christian, Jewish and Roman sources are used to establish the time-frame for the life and death of Jesus.

And all of his data fits together. For instance, the chronology of Paul had been discussed based on the Book of Acts long ago, then the Delphi Inscription is found in the 20th century in the Temple of Apollo. And guess what.. it confirms it and totally dates his trial in Corinth, which helps reaffirm the date of the crucifixion of Jesus. The same date range is independently estimated from the writings of Josephus on the Baptist's death. And it fits Isaac Newton's astronomical models for the crucifixion date as well as the independent lunar calculations of Humphreys. As that article shows, all these dates just fit together.

From the bookshelf

Chronos, kairos, Christos: nativity and chronological studies edited by J. Vardaman, E. M. Yamauchi 1989 ISBN 0-931464-50-1

This two volume book (with a very apt title) is gem-filled with scholarly research. Paul Maier's article in the first volume is a classic study on the chronology of Jesus and provides a useful summary of a number of issues.

Did you know...

Hemis monastery

Calendar
This month (July) contains the feast days of Mary Magdalene, and James, son of Zebedee.


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WikiCup 2013 June newsletter

We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.

Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note. Idaho Figureskatingfan (submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition: Wyoming Ealdgyth (submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article Battle of Hastings. Good articles James Chadwick and Stanislaw Ulam netted Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to Poland Piotrus (submissions) for each of Władysław Sikorski and Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example, New South Wales Casliber (submissions) and Canada Sasata (submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on Boletus luridus.

A rules reminder: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on the 29/30 June, which may be claimed in this round. 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. We are currently seeing concern about the amount of time people have to wait for reviews, especially at GAC- if you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce 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. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 09:54, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Amusement Park Quarter 3, 2013 Newsletter

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Websites

I have started the discussion, so lets talk if you want.HotHat (talk) 07:54, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

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Done

I went ahead and got it done with Music review sources, if you would like to edit go ahead and be my guest.HotHat (talk) 07:45, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

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Suggestions

I have got another started New Publications.HotHat (talk) 04:04, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Policy development

You are more than welcome to comment on Ground rules.HotHat (talk) 07:26, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

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You might want to take a look at this...

This page - User:Tony1/How to improve your writing - was one of the best series of pages I read and helped me greatly to improve my writing. It is well worth reading and studying. You'll be amazed at how much you can rejig your writing. Cheers, Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 06:11, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

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August 2013 WikiProject Christianity Newsletter


ICHTHUS

August 2013

From the Editor

Welcome to the August 2013 issue of the WikiProject Christianity newsletter. We focus on the historical Jesus and reflect on the last month.

The project has another featured picture, The ruins of Holyrood Chapel, a digitisation of an oil-on-canvas painting. Our top-importance article, Jesus, has been nominated for Featured Article status, the discussion can be seen here; Knights of Colombus has also been nominated as a FAC.

Ecgbert (bishop) and Church architecture in Scotland have both this month achieved Good Article status.

Our project had several of its articles featured in the main page DYK section, including Hinckley Priory, Little Chapel, St Peter's Church, Ropsley, Chip Ingram, St John the Evangelist's Church, Corby Glen, Great George Street Congregational Church, St Mary's Church, Walton-on-the-Hill and Bunge church.

Our thanks go to all of those who have worked to achieve these article milestones.

Church of the month

This image, of Maillezais Cathedral and created by Selbymay was this month promoted to featured picture status.

Membership report
We would like to welcome our newest members, Thechristophermorris, Psmidi and Jchthys. Thank you all for your interest in this effort. If any members, new or not, wish any assistance, they should feel free to leave a message at the Christianity noticeboard or with me or other individual editors to request it.

Focus on...

THE
HISTORICAL JESUS

What was Jesus like? What did he preach? Did he claim to be the Messiah? Did he predict an apocalypse? What can we know about him outside a religious context? The Historical Jesus article discusses what can be known about Jesus with various degrees of probability. While scholars agree on the over all flow and outline of Jesus' life (his baptism by John, debated Jewish authorities, healings, and his crucifixion by Pilate) they have built various and diverging portraits of the rest of his life. These range from minimalist portraits that accept very little of the gospel accounts to maximalists who accept most of the accounts as historical.

The portraits of Jesus have at times been unwitting reflections of the researchers themselves, and Crossan once quipped that some authors "do autobiography and call it biography". However, the study of historical Jesus has made one thing clear: there is so much to learn about Jesus that the more one looks, the more there is to discover.

From the bookshelf

Jesus of Nazareth: An Independent Historian's Account of His Life and Teaching by Maurice Casey 2010 ISBN 0-567-64517-7

In this book Maurice Casey not only draws on his special expertise in the Aramaic traditions and the Q source, but provides a comprehensive review of the various approaches to the historical Jesus.

Did you know...

Christian Demographics

Calendar
This month we celebrate the feasts of St Lawrence, St Bernard, and St Augustine.


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WikiCup 2013 July newsletter

We're halfway through this year's penultimate round, and the competition is moving along well. Pool A's Canada Sasata (submissions) currently leads overall, while Pool B's Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) is second. Both leaders are WikiCup veterans, and both have already scored over 600 points this month. If the round were to end today, London Miyagawa (submissions), with 274 points, would be the lowest-scoring participant to make it through. This indicates that participants will need a score comparable to last year's (573, the highest ever) to qualify for the final. The high scores this year are a testament both to the quality of participants and to the increased focus on significant content (eligible for bonus points) in this year's competition. So far this round, both Sasata and Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) have made up over half of their score through bonus points, with, for example, high importance FA koala earning Sasata a total of 440 points (from a multiplier of 4.4) and high-importance GA sea earning Cwmhiraeth a total of 216 points (from a multiplier of 7.2). Other articles on important topics submitted this round include a featured article on the Norman conquest of England by Wyoming Ealdgyth (submissions), and good articles on Nobel laureate in literature Henryk Sienkiewicz, Nobel laureate in physics Hans Bethe, and the noted Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū. These articles are by Poland Piotrus (submissions), Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions) and Sturmvogel_66 respectively.

Other than that, there is not much to report! 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 reduce 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. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:19, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 July 2013

The Signpost: 07 August 2013

Mad at myself

Well, if I took the apt amount of time to read these policies and guidelines on Infoboxes, Tables and Text, then I may not have included breaking marks in them because it is not kosher to users/editors with access issues. So, I am deeply and regrettably sorry for the mistakes that I have perpetuated on these people and this encyclopedia. This is mostly in reference to Jesus Freak Hideout and New Release Tuesday in critical reception sections. Both are to be utilized, but not with a break, and both ratings must be reported. May God forgive me!HotHat (talk) 20:44, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

I think we are going to have to go back to using two box sections for Jesus Freak Hideout and New Release Tuesday, and less frequently for Christian Music Zine and The Phantom Tollbooth. This is all that I can come up with because if we don't use both we are giving an WP:UNDUE precedence to one over the other, and that is clearly not allowed.HotHat (talk) 20:44, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 August 2013

Owl City

Hi Toa Nidhiki05! There's a discussion regarding Owl City on the article's talk page. I was wondering if you could possibly comment on it? Thanks! Chihciboy (talk) 03:38, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Inland

Listen here!HotHat (talk) 04:25, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 August 2013

Better source request for some of your uploads

Thanks for your uploads to Wikipedia. There is an issue with some of them, specifically:

You provided a source, but it is difficult for other users to examine the copyright status of the images because the source is incomplete. Please consider clarifying the exact source so that the copyright status may be checked more easily. It is best to specify the exact Web page where you found the images, rather than only giving the source domain or the URL of the image files themselves. Please update the image descriptions with URLs that will be more helpful to other users in determining the copyright status.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source in a complete manner. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page or me at my talk page. Thank you. Message delivered by Theo's Little Bot (opt-out) 21:06, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 August newsletter

This year's final is upon us. Our final eight, in order of last round's score, are:

  1. Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer who has contributed on topics of military history and physics, including a number of high-importance topics. Good articles have made up the bulk of his points, but he has also scored a great deal of bonus points. He has the second highest score overall so far, with more than 3000 points accumulated.
  2. New South Wales Casliber (submissions), another WikiCup veteran who reached the finals in 2012, 2011 and 2010. He writes on a variety of topics including botany, mycology and astronomy, and has claimed the highest or joint highest number of featured articles every round so far this year. He has the third highest score overall, with just under 3000 points accumulated.
  3. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions), 2012 WikiCup champion, who writes mostly on marine biology. She has also contributed to high-importance topics, seeing huge numbers of bonus points for high-importance featured and good articles. Previous rounds have seen her scoring the most bonus points, with scoring spread across did you knows, good articles and featured articles.
  4. Canada Sasata (submissions), a WikiCup veteran who finished in second place in 2012, and competed as early as 2009. He writes articles on biology, especially mycology, and has scored highly for a number of collaborations at featured article candidates.
  5. Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), the winner of the 2010 competition. His contributions mostly concern Naval history, and he has scored a very large number of points for good articles and good article reviews in every round. He is the highest scorer overall this year, with over 3500 points in total.
  6. Wyoming Ealdgyth (submissions), who is competing in the WikiCup for the second time, though this will be her first time in the final. A regular at FAC, she is mostly interested in British medieval history, and has scored very highly for some top-importance featured articles on the topic.
  7. London Miyagawa (submissions), a finalist in 2012 and 2011. He writes on a broad variety of topics, with many of this year's points coming from good articles about Star Trek. Good articles make up the bulk of his points, and he had the most good articles back in round 2; he was also the highest scorer for DYK in rounds 1 and 2.
  8. Scotland Adam Cuerden (submissions) has previously been involved with the WikiCup, but hasn't participated for a number of years. He scores mostly from restoration work leading to featured picture credits, but has also done some article writing and reviewing.

We say goodbye to eight great participants who did not qualify for the final: Poland Piotrus (submissions), Idaho Figureskatingfan (submissions), Ohio ThaddeusB (submissions), Michigan Dana boomer (submissions), Prince Edward Island Status (submissions), United States Ed! (submissions), Florida 12george1 (submissions), England Calvin999 (submissions). Having made it to this stage is still an excellent achievement, and you can leave with your heads held high. We hope to see you all again next year. Signups are now open for the 2014 WikiCup, which will begin on 1 January. All Wikipedians, whatever their interest or level of experience, are warmly invited to participate in next year's competition.

This last month has seen some incredible contributions; for instance, Cwmhiraeth's Starfish and Ealdgyth's Battle of Hastings—two highly important, highly viewed pages—made it to featured article status. It would be all too easy to focus solely on these stunning achievements at the expense of those participants working in lower-scoring areas, when in fact all WikiCup participants are doing excellent work. A mention of everything done is impossible, but here are a few: Last round saw the completion of several good topics (on the 1958, 1959 and 1962 Atlantic hurricane seasons) to which 12george1 had contributed. Calvin999 saw "S&M" (song), on which he has been working for several years, through to featured article status on its tenth try. Figureskatingfan continued towards her goal of a broad featured/good topic on Maya Angelou, with two featured and four good articles. ThaddeusB contributed significantly to over 20 articles which appeared on the main page's "in the news" section. Adam Cuerden continued to restore a large number of historical images, resulting in over a dozen FP credits this round alone. The WikiCup is not just about top-importance featured articles, and the work of all of these users is worthy of commendation.

Finally, the usual notices: 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 reduce 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. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 05:24, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Carolina Panthers

I've struck the comments that have been addressed and left a few replies. – Shudde talk 22:45, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Don't have time to go through comments for a few hours, but I think you may have made some errors when trying to address my comments? You'll know them when you see them. - Shudde talk 03:29, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Deletions

Have your say?HotHat (talk) 13:13, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 August 2013

Nice job!

Good work on bringing List of states and territories of the United States to Featured List!--MONGO 11:38, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! I had a ton of fun working on this one... I think I'm going to branch out into more lists like this, because it is pretty fun to research and discover this stuff. Toa Nidhiki05 20:03, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
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