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WikiCup 2013 October newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our champion, for the second year running, is Cwmhiraeth (submissions). Our final nine were as follows:

1. Cwmhiraeth (submissions)
2. Hawkeye7 (submissions)
3. Sasata (submissions)
4. Sturmvogel_66 (submissions)
5. Casliber (submissions)
6. Adam Cuerden (submissions)
7. Miyagawa (submissions)
8. Piotrus (submissions)
9. Ealdgyth (submissions)

All those who reached the final win prizes, and prizes will also be going to the following participants:

• Casliber (submissions) wins the FA prize, for four featured articles in round 4, worth 400 points.
• Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) wins the GA prize, for 20 good articles in round 3, worth 600 points.
• Another Believer (submissions) wins the FL prize, for four featured lists in round 2, worth 180 points.
• Adam Cuerden (submissions) wins the FP prize, for 23 featured pictures in round 5, worth 805 point.
• Sven Manguard (submissions) wins the FPo prize, for 2 featured portals in round 3, worth 70 points.
• Hawkeye7 (submissions) wins the topic prize, for a 23-article featured topic in round 5, worth 230 points.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 79 did you know articles in round 5, worth 570 points.
• ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 23 in the news articles in round 4, worth 270 points.
• Ed! (submissions) wins the GAR prize, for 24 good article reviews in round 1, worth 96 points.
• The judges are awarding the Oddball Barnstar to The C of E (submissions), for some curious contributions in earlier rounds.
• Finally, the judges are awarding Cwmhiraeth (submissions) the Geography Barnstar for her work on sea, now a featured article. This top-importance article was the highest-scoring this year; when it was promoted to FA status, Cwmhiraeth could claim 720 points.

Prizes will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition. While it has been an excellent year, errors have opened up the judges' eyes to the need for a third judge, and it is with pleasure that we announce that experienced WikiCup participant Miyagawa will be acting as a judge from now on. We hope you will all join us in welcoming him to the team.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. Brainstorming and discussion remains open for how next year's competition will work, and straw polls will be opened by the judges soon. Those interested in friendly competition may also like to keep an eye on the stub contest, being organised by Casliber. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! 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) 00:42, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

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FAC

I might review your Wolverines FAC later - though I'd appreciate if in return you give some input on a FAC of mine that's currently without responses. Thanks. igordebraga ≠ 15:12, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

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DYK for Zak Irvin

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DYK for Derrick Walton

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Sandi Jackson image

Hi Tony, I archived my Talk Page and don't know that you saw my response. The images are:

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Clearly photoshopped (check out her hair), hence my removal.  davidiad { t } 23:42, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for The Marshall Mathers LP 2

Orlady (talk) 01:05, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Berzerk (song)

Orlady (talk) 01:06, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for House of Cards (season 2)

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DYK for 2013–14 Harvard Crimson men's basketball team

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Do you do hook promotions?

Hi, I had a DYK approved a few days ago, but the hook has yet to be promoted (with other stuff promoted in the meantime, at T:TDYK, see Katherine Ritvo. Not sure who is promoting hooks these days, but looks like a labor shortage over at DYK generally, so I'm pinging a few people about this. Thanks! (Also, Tigerboy1966 did a 5x expansion on Mucho Macho Man , which I also nominated for DYK for him, and it needs a review, should you need a fairly easy qpq) Montanabw^(talk) 21:07, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Orel Hershiser's scoreless inning streak

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FA congratulations

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Your assistance requested at Portal:Chicago

Hello there. Espresso Addict and I are going through all of the currently featured portals and looking to see which ones meet the current standards, which ones need some improvement, and which ones need serious improvements or need to be delisted.

Portal:Chicago is still in decent shape, but there is one issue that I would like to address with it, which is the large variation in size between the entries in the selected article section. Most of the entries are between 4 and 6 lines on my screen (1600x900 resolution), however some are as short as two lines, while some are as long as a dozen lines. When some selected articles are four or six times as large as others, it creates a huge variance in how much space that section takes up on the portal itself.

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Please let me know your thoughts, Sven Manguard Wha? 21:51, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Kinky Boots (musical) going forward

Good work finding more information for the article. We are slowly but surely getting there. I have addressed more of the PR comments and marked those "done" or "fixed", but some of them are still left for you. Can you indicate on the PR page which ones you consider done, so that we can easily see which ones are still outstanding? Based on the PR comments, I did some more moving content around, and, by George, I think I've got it organized in a sensible order now. Plus, based on the rather extensive discussions about this point, I have created a separate article for Kinky Boots (Broadway cast album), moved the remaining cast album info to a lower section called "Recordings" and put a cross-reference there to the article for the album. Plus I've updated my own bulleted list of comments to show what I regard as still outstanding there. I should say that some of my comments are "aspirational", such as those about things like images and musical analysis, so I don't think that all of them would have to be fully addressed to get to GA. However, I do feel strongly that most of them should be fully addressed for GA, and we can continue to discuss any disagreements that you have with any of them at the article's talk page. -- Ssilvers (talk) 04:41, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

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Great work! LittleMountain5 07:13, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Cliff Alexander

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Altes Stadthaus, Berlin

Hi Tony,

I remember you're super-great at places/architecture and GA/FA, so I wonder if you could please help out with Altes Stadthaus, Berlin - the editors are hoping to move it towards becoming a GA, and it needs a bit of polish. Cheers, 88.104.4.74 (talk) 23:31, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

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Zak Irvin

What's up with the revert? I thought we were trying these to see how they work? You created Jabari Parker, who was already on this infobox. They look better IMO. Rikster2 (talk) 21:06, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Don't worry about it. I figured that you weren't the type to just revert without saying something and having the discussion. I know we don't always agree, but I think there is at least a level of respect between us (at least on my end). Take care and keep those great pictures coming! If you get a chance to get any shots of the Iowa players that have articles or of Aaron Craft those would be really helpful for the project! Rikster2 (talk) 21:20, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Could use a good Richard Pitino pic. I went to the UVA-VCU game a couple weeks back and got pictures for Shaka Smart, Treveon Graham and Joe Harris. Rikster2 (talk) 22:55, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Erin M

Shouldn't this be under Actress? Hell In A Bucket (talk) 15:43, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for George Campbell (American football)

The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Category:African-American basketball players

Most of the articles in this category do not have a reliable source stating that the person is African-American. The category exists based on common sense.Hoops gza (talk) 21:43, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

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Re Freedom from Want (painting)

Hi Tony – hope you had a nice T-day. Thanks for working on this.

What I wanted to ask – would you be interested in including something about the essay that accompanied it, by Carlos Bulosan? There’s some coverage in Google books – quite a bit here [1], some here [2], some here [3], [4], [5], etc. If I weren't feeling some writer's block I'd just go ahead and do it myself - hoping that you are not. Regards, Novickas (talk) 18:07, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

That's great, thanks! Good luck with the GA. Novickas (talk) 16:51, 30 November 2013 (UTC)