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WikiCup 2013 April newsletter

We are a week into Round 3, but it is off to a flying start, with 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 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 Casliber (submissions) and second place 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.

The next issue of The Signpost is due to include a brief update on the current WikiCup, comparing it to previous years' competitions. This may be of interest to current WikiCup followers, and may help bring some more new faces into the community. We would also like to note that this round includes an extra competitor to the 32 advertised, who has been added to a random pool. This extra inclusion seems to have been the fairest way to deal with a small mistake made before the beginning of this round, but should not affect the competition in a large way. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please feel free to contact one of the judges.

A rules clarification: 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 29/30 April, 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. 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) 15:50, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Colin Smith (ice hockey)

Hello Dolovis, I took the liberty to add a few sections to your above article, which I hope is relevant to the work you did. I'd really appreciate your feedback on this.

Regards (MrNiceGuy1113 (talk) 10:11, 16 May 2013 (UTC))

Thank you for your efforts in expanding this article. Keep up the great work! Dolovis (talk) 16:58, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Christiaan Minella

Hello, Dolovis. I wanted to let you know that I’m proposing an article that you started, Christiaan Minella, for deletion because I don't think it meets our criteria for inclusion. If you don't want the article deleted:

1. edit the page
2. remove the text that looks like this: {{proposed deletion/dated...}}
3. save the page

Also, be sure to explain why you think the article should be kept in your edit summary or on the article's talk page. If you don't do so, it may be deleted later anyway.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. GregJackP Boomer! 19:58, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Your request for undeletion

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Speedy deletion nomination of Seattle Totems (NHL)

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice that Seattle Totems (NHL), a page that you created, has been tagged for deletion. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which articles can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may be soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

• It appears to be a test page. (See section G2 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do, and take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia.
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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Taroaldo ✉ 03:39, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

June 2013

Welcome to Wikipedia. A page you recently created, Seattle Totems (NHL), may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for new pages, so it will be removed shortly (if it hasn't been already). Please use the sandbox for any tests, and consider using the Article Wizard. For more information about creating articles, you may want to read Your first article. You may also want to read our introduction page to learn more about contributing. Thank you. As you should know, Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. Taroaldo ✉ 03:43, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Disambiguation pages

Hello, Dolovis. Under our guidelines for disambiguation pages, a plain title like Brian Lee should never redirect to the same title with "(disambiguation)" intended. Instead, if there is no WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, you should request that the disambiguation page be moved to the plain title. Before this is done, however, all the existing Wikipedia articles that contain links to "Brian Lee" will need to be fixed. Thanks. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 10:17, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

WP:FAITH

I noticed that you claim my AFD's are disruptive simply because I didn't use PROD first. PROD is not an introductor step to AFD and not required to be used prior to an AFD. In particular, PROD wouldn't apply to many of them. Please learn the process before you start making accusations of bad faith. UnrepentantTaco (talk) 18:52, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

No, I claimed that your AfD's were disruptive because they were drive-by and baseless. Most of the AfD's you recently initiated are of notable subjects; many of them obviously so, as would have been quickly apparent if you had made any effort at all to determine their notability prior to listing them for AfD. Had you chosen to first use a PROD, you would have avoided the merit-less AfD's (and perhaps you might have learned something about Notability in the process). Dolovis (talk) 19:06, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. I have cited UnrepentantTaco's inappropriate post here in a discussion of his problematic editing; you may wish to comment there. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 03:29, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the notice. I hope you do not mind that I took the liberty to add a link to this discussion (as it appeared you had intended to do) in your ANI comments. Cheers! Dolovis (talk) 03:49, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of 2014–15 SHL season

A tag has been placed on 2014–15 SHL season, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

nothing is known about this season (yet), and Wikipedia is not a Crystalball

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, you can place a request here. HeyMid (contribs) 17:00, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

An award for you!

	The Jimbo Wales Happiness Award
	Doesn't his smile melt your heart? Glossenglocke (talk) 20:45, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

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. 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: 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 Hawkeye7 (submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to 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, Casliber (submissions) and 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) 09:57, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Your request for undeletion

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that a response has been made at Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion regarding a submission you made. The thread is Seattle Totems (NHL). JohnCD (talk) 10:03, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Userfied - the page has been restored to the userspace at User:Dolovis/Seattle Totems (NHL).

Any editor who has an interest in working on the article about the Seattle's new NHL team is encourage to edit [[[User:Dolovis/Seattle Totems (NHL)|this article]] in preparation for it to be moved to article space after the official announcement is made. That the Phoenix Coyotes are moving to Seattle is the NHL's worst kept secret. The league is just waiting for the Stanley Cup to finish before officially announcing the move on June 27th. Dolovis (talk) 13:46, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

This [1] is why we don't rush to make changes in a speculative manner. Wikipedia is a quasi-serious project, not a supermarket tabloid. So much for "the NHL's worst kept secret". June 27th has come and gone and now Glendale Council has approved a new lease agreement. This should clear the way for the NHL to sell the Coyotes to RSE. Taroaldo ✉ 06:31, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 January newsletter

The 2014 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with, at time of writing, 138 participants. The is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2010. If you are yet to join the competition, don't worry- the judges have agreed to keep the signups open for a few more days. By a wide margin, our current leader is newcomer Godot13 (submissions), whose set of 14 featured pictures, the first FPs of the competition, was worth 490 points. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

• 12george1 (submissions) and TropicalAnalystwx13 (submissions) were the first people to score, for the good article Tropical Storm Bret (1981) and its good article review respectively. 12george1 was also the first person to score in 2012 and 2013.
• Sven Manguard (submissions) scored the first ITN points for 2014 North American polar vortex.
• WonderBoy1998 (submissions) scored points for an early good topic, finishing off Wikipedia:Featured topics/She Wolf.
• TheAustinMan (submissions) scored the first bonus points of the competition, for his work on Typhoon Vera.
• Igordebraga (submissions) has scored the highest number of bonus points for a single article, for the high-importance Jurassic Park (film).

Featured articles, featured lists, featured topics and featured portals are yet to play a part in the competition. The judges have removed a number of submissions which were deemed ineligible. Typically, we aim to see work on a project, followed by a nomination, followed by promotion, this year. We apologise for any disappointment caused by our strict enforcement this year; we're aiming to keep the competition as fair as possible.

Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may be interested to take part in The Core Contest; unlike the WikiCup, The Core Contest is not about audited content, but, like the WikiCup, it is about article improvement; specifically, The Core Contest is about contribution to some of Wikipedia's most important article. Of course, any work done for The Core Contest, if it leads to a DYK, GA or FA, can earn WikiCup 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 help 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. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 19:54, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

The Oscar people you have added

Hey I have added some to the main article, but be sure to link them to the 86th Academy Awards page. Good luck. (Not all of them I got on but some) Thanks! Wgolf (talk) 22:56, 3 February 2014 (UTC) Also to add stuff like IMDB references go to external links and put the page (go check another persons page to see what to do-for example here is a page I made for a Oscar nominee from the 1930's: Sid Brod)

Wgolf (talk) 22:59, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. Collaboration is the best way to expand and improve articles. Cheers!

welcome, well go add the links to the Oscar page now! Have a nice night! Wgolf (talk) 03:37, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Comment request?

Hi. Would you care to weigh in at this discussion genre changes made at Led Zeppelin IV? If not, feel free to ignore this message. Dan56 (talk) 21:19, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

I don't know why you have sent me this message as I have never contributed to the article. Dolovis (talk) 21:41, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Again thanks

Yep, here are some of my pages I have made as of late if you want to ever add any of the people/films: Broadway Hostess, Mercy Island, Cullen Tate, Holiday Land, The Old Mill Pond, Sherry Shourds, Wonder of Women, The Right to Love (1930 US film, William J. Reiter, Ben Silvey (I have a couple more as well) Good luck Wgolf (talk) 22:16, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Mr Hublot

Interesting, thank you for creating this. I presume we have a consensus that Oscar-nominees are always notable, right? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:35, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

This film meets the criteria of WP:Notability (films). Dolovis (talk) 13:45, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for replying quickly. Looking forward to your next article :) --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 14:00, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

On the 2013 Oscar nominee pages you added

Might want to also add a IMDB link as well as a info box on them, they look pretty empty otherwise, good luck. Wgolf (talk) 04:15, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Like you, I am a volunteer who is busy in real life. I will continue to build, edit and improve articles when I have the time, but please remember that Wikipedia is a work in progress and that collaborative editing is what Wikipedia is all about. The Wikipedia community encourages users to update and improve upon the encyclopedia, so if you find an article which needs to be improved, go for it. Cheers! Dolovis (talk) 14:10, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Very true and thanks, I have been looking over some of the earlier nominees and found some that were mentioned as "possibly living" and found the birth/death info. One problem comes with some of the common names sometime might have the wrong IMDB link or something. Wgolf (talk) 18:40, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

February 2014

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Your recent editing history at List of Quebec Nordiques draft picks shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

To avoid being blocked, instead of reverting please consider using the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. See BRD for how this is done. You can post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. Aoidh (talk) 18:08, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Actually, I was invoking BRD to protect the article from Parkfly3 (see [2]) who was refusing to follow the BRD cycle. Dolovis (talk) 22:04, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Actually you weren't. When you reverted afterwards, you should have discussed as well, that is what WP:BRD says: "BRD is not an excuse to revert any change more than once. If your reversion is met with another bold effort, then you should consider not reverting, but discussing." Neither of you were discussing, and you both were edit-warring. "Invoking BRD" isn't an excuse when making as many reverts as the person you're accusing of edit warring; it's also not BRD when all you do is Revert with no Discussion. - Aoidh (talk) 00:32, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

New articles

• Hi Dolovis, I have found another copy-paste job of yours at Petr Ulrych, who was linked to Petr Kolmann's hockeydb page. Please slow down and make sure articles you create have the correct links. This is at least the third occasion this month. I have again already corrected the article in question. Thanks, C679 06:29, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

In the past month I have created close to 300 articles, in which you have found 3 errors. Errors and omissions are inevitable in any writing project, and for a writing project with the size and scope of Wikipedia it is even more true. The collaborative efforts of other editors will always be required to improve articles posted to Wikipedia. Cheers. Dolovis (talk) 14:06, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 February newsletter

And so ends the most competitive first round we have ever seen, with 38 points required to qualify for round 2. Last year, 19 points secured a place; before that, 11 (2012) or 8 (2011) were enough. This is both a blessing and a curse. While it shows the vigourous good health of the competition, it also means that we have already lost many worthy competitors. Our top three scorers were:

1. Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer whose high-quality scans of rare banknotes represent an unusual, interesting and valuable contribution to Wikipedia. Most of Godot's points this round have come from a large set of pictures used in Treasury Note (1890–91).
2. Adam Cuerden (submissions), a WikiCup veteran and a finalist last year, Adam is also a featured picture specialist, focusing on the restoration of historical images. This month's promotions have included a carefully restored set of artist William Russell Flint's work.
3. WikiRedactor (submissions), another WikiCup newcomer. WikiRedactor has claimed points for good article reviews and good articles relating to pop music, many of which were awarded bonus points. Articles include Sky Ferreira, Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus and "Wrecking Ball" (Miley Cyrus song).

Other competitors of note include:

• Hahc21 (submissions), who helped take Thirty Flights of Loving through good article candidates and featured article candidates, claiming the first first featured article of the competition.
• Prism (submissions), who claimed the first featured list of the competition with Natalia Kills discography.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions), who takes the title of the contributor awarded the highest bonus point multiplier (resulting in the highest scoring article) of the competition so far. Her high-importance salamander, now a good article, scored 108 points.

After such a competitive first round, expect the second round to also be fiercely fought. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2, but please do not update your submission page until March (UTC). 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 equally.

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 help 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. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 00:01, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Sean Doherty (biathlete)

Doherty is currently competing in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. - is he?! I thought, the OG are over... - if you write such texts, you must bring them to an actual point right after all is over. Such articles help nobody. Btw - Doherty is a successfull junior sportsperson - why there's nothing about it in the article? An no - don't ask why I don't do it. You have start the article - so you have responsibility for the article. And my english is not good enough to write articles here. But I can see how bad this "article" is. It says really nothing what's important. Sources are more than enough in the Web [3], [4], [5], [6]. Btw - it was absolutely not clear, that Doherty would compete. So such articles talking in a bad manor about the future. Marcus Cyron (talk) 15:27, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Like you I volunteer my time to contribute to the Wikipedia project. To improve the quality of articles that are short or lacking in detail, Wikipedia's community takes part in collaboration to expand and improve articles. So be BOLD and have fun. Cheers! Dolovis (talk) 15:56, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Well I got tons more Oscar pages up for nominees

Yep got nearly every sound editor nomination's page up, along with other cats (You can try to find my pages sometime if you want to see). But I got nearly all the sound editors done, which took a while. Wgolf (talk) 04:28, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Bryce Van Brabant

Please remember that blogs are not reliable sources. Don't use them as your token source when creating a sub-stub, especially when there are reliable sources available. Resolute 22:30, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Please remember that you have been warned many times that your comments are not welcome on my talk page. Please respect my wishes, and keep off this page. Dolovis (talk) 00:02, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

I am well aware of your request, but as far as I am concerned, the quality and integrity of this encyclopedia takes precedence over your feelings. Take the extra two minutes to find those multiple, non-trivial, independent, reliable sources, and I wouldn't be here. Resolute 00:10, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Just stay off my page. Dolovis (talk) 00:27, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Kaapo Kahkonen

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WikiCup 2014 March newsletter

A quick update as we are half way through round two of this year's competition. WikiCup newcomer Godot13 (submissions) (Pool E) leads, having produced a massive set of featured pictures for Silver certificate (United States), an article also brought to featured list status. Former finalist Adam Cuerden (submissions) (Pool G) is in second, which he owes mostly to his work with historical images, including a number of images from Urania's Mirror, an article also brought to good status. 2010 champion (Pool C) is third overall, thanks to contributions relating to naval history, including the newly featured Japanese battleship Nagato. Cliftonian (submissions), who currently leads Pool A and is sixth overall, takes the title for the highest scoring individual article of the competition so far, with the top importance featured article Ian Smith.

With 26 people having already scored over 100 points, it is likely that well over 100 points will be needed to secure a place in round 3. Recent years have required 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) and 100 (2010). Remember that only 64 will progress to round 3 at the end of April. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page; if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. 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 help 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. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 22:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Spencer Martin

My goodness, that was one of the most impressive hatchet jobs I've seen in awhile. What on Earth are you trying to do? --Falcadore (talk) 14:57, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

I split the article about the racing car driving away from the pre-existing article about the hockey player of the same name so that the edit histories for both will be properly saved. When creating new articles, it is best to start a new article, rather than editing over an existing article. Cheers. Dolovis (talk) 15:08, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Except on redirects where it is considered normal to write over the previous redirect. Either way I have now actually split the edit history. And since only the racing driver is an article it is clearly the primary topic at this point and since WP:TWODABS indicates you don't create a disambiguation page for only two articles its moot even if they both were articles. -DJSasso (talk) 16:10, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Nice job. If I had your admin powers, I would have cleaned it up the same as you. Dolovis (talk) 16:22, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

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April 2014

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Robert Aaron

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Awards and honors

As far as the extra boxes go, I've been asked to remove them when not in use. Talk to User:Gloss if that's incorrect. With respect to the spelling of 'honor' I've been told at various times to use and not use 'u' regardless of where the person originated from. I won't change any more in the future but when I create a category in the future I'll do so sans vowel. If someone wants to change it later I won't worry about it. PensRule11385 (talk) 03:15, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 April newsletter

Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain. Pool G's Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Round 2's highest scorer, with a large number of featured picture credits. In March/April, he restored star charts from Urania's Mirror, lithographs of various warships (such as SMS Gefion) and assorted other historical media. Second overall was Pool E's Godot13 (submissions), whose featured list Silver certificate (United States) contains dozens of scans of banknotes recently promoted to featured picture status. Third was Pool G's ChrisGualtieri (submissions) who has produced a large number of good articles, many, including Falkner Island, on Connecticut-related topics. Other successful participants included Cliftonian (submissions), who saw three articles (including the top-importance Ian Smith) through featured article candidacies, and Caponer (submissions), who saw three lists (including the beautifully-illustrated list of plantations in West Virginia) through featured list candidacies. High-importance good articles promoted this round include narwhal from Reid,iain james (submissions), tiger from Cwmhiraeth (submissions) and The Lion King from Igordebraga (submissions). We also saw our first featured topic points of the competition, awarded to Czar (submissions) and Red Phoenix (submissions) for their work on the Sega Genesis topic. No points have been claimed so far for good topics or featured portals.

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Sullivan moves

I have reverted your move of Danny Sullivan to Danny Sullivan (racing driver), as it was done without discussion, and a recent Requested Move for that very action was met with unanimous opposition. If you believe things have changed since then, you're welcome to open a new RM, although a strong case will be needed as to why an Indianpolis 500 winner isn't the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 20:44, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

You are quite right. I failed to check the talk page before making the BOLD move. Dolovis (talk) 20:57, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

Disambiguation pages

Hello, Dolovis. When you moved Mark Morris to a new title and redirected old title to a disambiguation page, you may not have been aware of WP:FIXDABLINKS, which says:

A code of honor for creating disambiguation pages is to fix all resulting mis-directed links.

Before moving an article to a qualified name (in order to create a disambiguation page at the base name, to move an existing disambiguation page to that name, or to redirect that name to a disambiguation page), click on What links here to find all of the incoming links. Repair all of those incoming links to use the new article name.

It would be a great help if you would check the other Wikipedia articles that contain links to "Mark Morris" and fix them to take readers to the correct article. Thanks. R'n'B (call me Russ) 10:49, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

•  Done. I agree with the "code of honor", so long as such actions do not violate the arbitration ruling concerning fait accompli actions. While I am confident that their is no primary topic for this title, out of respect for the opinions of other editors, I believe it is prudent, after making such a BOLD move, to not make it unduely difficult for another editor to reverse the move by rushing to convert all incoming wikilinks. Pursuant to WP:BRD, this allows other editors the opportunity to easily contest the move. The incoming links have now been repaired, and I appreciate your continuing work to help improve Wikipedia. Dolovis (talk) 16:14, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

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Soraya

Please take a look at Soraya Post, Paula Bieler and Kristina Winberg.--BabbaQ (talk) 20:39, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Why? Dolovis (talk) 20:42, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Starting date for transactions

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Archive57#Clarification --Parkfly3 (talk) 23:07, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

There is no consensus on the issue of where off-season NHL transactions should be listed (i.e. the previous season or the up-coming season); but common-sense dictates that a player being signed in the off-season is being signed in anticipation of the upcoming season, as that player will offer no help to the past season's squad. Dolovis (talk) 13:20, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

There actually is a consensus, did you read that section or other discussions linked from it? All trades and transactions that happen prior to draft day go on the 2013-14 season. While obviously the players are intended to be used in the following year, the teams season doesn't actually end when they are knocked out of the playoffs. It continues until the last action of the league takes place for that year. Some actually argue that it doesn't end until the player contracts expire on July 5th. This comes up every year and every year its reconfirmed that we use the draft day as the day when we start putting transactions on the new season page. -DJSasso (talk) 13:26, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

I have read the above link, and it confirms that there is no consensus on this issue. The transactions need to be listed somewhere, and common sense tells me that off-season transactions are made in preparation for the upcoming season. It is of no help to the project for you to go around deleting verifiable transactions from one article if you have no intention of adding them to the article where you think they should be listed. Dolovis (talk) 13:40, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Every single person except one IP said that the anything prior to the end of the Finals should be on the previous season. How you don't think that is a consensus is confusing but not surprising. Secondly I will be adding them to the previous season articles. There is no time limit on how fast I add them as you are fond of telling people. If you think I am adding them back too slowly you are welcome to help and speed up the progress. -DJSasso (talk) 14:39, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Actually, it is you who always invokes WP:NOTIMELIMIT when you want to do nothing to fix a problem.[7]; and contrary to your bold assertion, previous discussions do not demonstrate a consensus. The very fact that this issue keeps coming up demonstrates that there is no consensus on the issue. Dolovis (talk) 15:19, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia page on me

Hi just curious why you're editing the page on me. I updated the information filling in the past ten years and then you erased it, why?

Jay McGee — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tinjay77 (talk • contribs) 00:07, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for attempting to update the information in this article about yourself, however, the information you added appears to be original research. Even if you're sure something is true, it must be verifiable before you can add it to the article. Such information will be removed unless you are able to reference the information you added using a reliable source. Also be aware that editing an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. Please read and follow the policy of Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons before attempting any more edits. These are the rules we must follow, and thank you again for trying to improve Wikipedia. Dolovis (talk) 14:09, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

WHA players

I think that I have have now finally completed the arduous task of ensuring that Wikipedia holds an article for each of the 808 hockey players who saw action during the WHA's seven-year run. I have been working towards this goal for over four years (on April 19, 2010 I created an article for Ray Delorenzi who played with the Vancouver Blazers/Calgary Cowboys; and on June 1, 2014, I created an article for the final player, being Jim Cole who played briefly with the old Winnipeg Jets). Along the way I have learned much about about Wikipedia, and have improved my knowledge of the history of professional hockey. Thank you to Parkfly3 who, through his work in completing and correcting the “list of players” articles for the individual WHA teams, made the task of identifying the missing players a bit easier, and to Scott Surgent whose book "The Complete World Hockey Association" has been an invaluable reference. Although I believe that each WHA player now has an article, I will continue to look through the historical records for any additional players who may yet have been over-looked. Dolovis (talk) 19:12, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your hard work and dedication in completing the task. Articles on those players were a long-time coming and likely still wouldn't exist had you not taken the initiative to create them. --Hockeyben ^{(talk - contribs)} 15:32, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

United Hockey League

To put it bluntly, what are you playing at? The "low-level" assertion would be valid if it was supported by one source; it's supported by all seven, which are six more sources than support the equally subjective assertion that Wayne Gretzky is the greatest hockey player of all time. Ravenswing 21:23, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

What I am up to is, as a neutral third party, trying to help two editors (yourself and an IP) who are involved in an edit war over the use of their preferred POV and subjective adjective (“low-level” vs. “mid-level” league). What I did, using a verifiable source,[8] is introduced the factual and neutral adjective “minor” league which should have settled the issue, but you still have continued to edit war by again re-adding the your preferred “low-level” POV adjective; once again antagonizing the IP to continue edit warring over this subjective adjective. Further, I am not able to verify your sources that you claim support your preferred descriptor because they are either hard copy articles which I do not have access to, or dead links. In any event, I remind you that the NPOV should be the preferred path for any Wikipedia article.Dolovis (talk) 14:58, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

The easiest way to solve the edit war is for anon IPs -- as they should anywhere on Wikipedia -- to not remove statements supported by numerous inline citations. We are under no onus to cater to every anon IP with an axe to grind, nor need to redefine "NPOV" as meaning that any fact which someone contests must therefore be weasel-worded. As far as the sources go, I just pulled up each and every one of those dead links in about 15 seconds apiece from the Wayback Machine. Why weren't you able to do the same?

So let's see some of the other links there, shall we? Here's the Toronto Star article which supports the assertion [9] -- that took me about 45 seconds. Ravenswing 19:21, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Why didn't you do it earlier? BTW, editing from a neutral point of view is Wikipedia policy, and using the factual term "minor league" is not "weasel-worded". Dolovis (talk) 19:29, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

I recommend you read WP:NPOV more carefully. It does not hold that subjective assertions cannot appear in articles; it holds that one must list "fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without bias, all of the significant views that have been published by reliable sources on a topic," and that "the neutral point of view does not mean exclusion of certain points of view, but including all verifiable points of view which have sufficient due weight." In this particular case, show me some reliable sources that the UHL was regarded as a mid-level or high-level minor league ... something that, to borrow my example from above, I believe far less likely than coming up with many reliable sources rejecting the premise that Wayne Gretzky was the greatest player of all time, something we know is a matter of no little controversy, but is not reflected in his article.

As far as why I didn't refresh the dead links earlier? Come now, we've been over that many a time. Answering a question with a question is something of a stock in trade of yours. For a change, how about answering the original question first ... or at all? Ravenswing 21:43, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

I have to laugh at the thought of you brewing over the last 26-hours trying to formulate a come-back to my last comment. Your continuation of this discussion is both funny and ridiculous. I do not understand why you are creating so much drama about such a non-event. Please continue your edit war to push your preferred POV over whether the United Hockey League was a “mid” or “low” level minor league. It matters not a wit. And since you have again brought it up, I stand by my remark that you should have refreshed the dead links earlier since it was you who was claiming to rely upon such sources to support your POV. And for the record I fail to find your twice repeated argument that the controversy (really?) about whether of not Wayne Gretzky is the “greatest player ever” has any relevance to this issue. Good day. Dolovis (talk) 22:26, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Hrm. I wonder if it's uncivil to point and laugh. Probably it is, so I shan't. Ravenswing 22:50, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Good one. Ha Ha. Dolovis (talk) 01:58, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

WHA players

I think that I have have now finally completed the arduous task of ensuring that Wikipedia holds an article for each of the 808 hockey players who saw action during the WHA's seven-year run. I have been working towards this goal for over four years (on April 19, 2010 I created an article for Ray Delorenzi who played with the Vancouver Blazers/Calgary Cowboys; and on June 1, 2014, I created an article for the final player, being Jim Cole who played briefly with the old Winnipeg Jets). Along the way I have learned much about about Wikipedia, and have improved my knowledge of the history of professional hockey. Thank you to Parkfly3 who, through his work in completing and correcting the “list of players” articles for the individual WHA teams, made the task of identifying the missing players a bit easier, and to Scott Surgent whose book "The Complete World Hockey Association" has been an invaluable reference. Although I believe that each WHA player now has an article, I will continue to look through the historical records for any additional players who may yet have been over-looked. Dolovis (talk) 19:12, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your hard work and dedication in completing the task. Articles on those players were a long-time coming and likely still wouldn't exist had you not taken the initiative to create them. --Hockeyben ^{(talk - contribs)} 15:32, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments. I appreciate you acknowledgment. Cheers! Dolovis (talk) 15:26, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Please slow down

I really don't need to have my watchlist flooded with utterly pointless whitespace changes. The only thing you are accomplishing here is to actively hamper any efforts at watching for and catching vandalism. If you must spend your time in this fashion, please slow the edits down to a more reasonable level. Thanks, Resolute 13:32, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

AWB is a useful tool used to identify and apply common fixes. The clean-up edits I have made are marked as minor, and there should be no need for you to concern yourself with such minor AWB clean-up edits made by an experienced editor like myself. You of course know how to set your watch list to avoid viewing my minor AWB edits (so not to hamper you very important work in catching vandalism), but in any event, I have now set my AWB to skip articles in the event that only whitespace would be changed. Cheers! Dolovis (talk) 15:22, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Just so you are aware per WP:AWB the 4th rule about using it states "Do not make insignificant or inconsequential edits. An edit that has no noticeable effect on the rendered page is generally considered an insignificant edit. If in doubt, or if other editors object to edits on the basis of this rule, seek consensus at an appropriate venue before making further edits." (emphasis mine) Examples of this are [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]. This was just the first 5 I found out of the last 9 AWB edits you made. -DJSasso (talk) 18:54, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

I just took a look at DJSasso's recent AWB edits (20 linked here with many more to be found in DJSasso's edit history) and I have to laugh at DJSasso's incredible display of hypocrisy.

[15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34]

Based on DJSasso's recent edit history, it looks like DJSasso has been actively abusing AWB to make a long series “insignificant edits” as defined by the 4th rule DJSasso quoted above. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Sheesh. Dolovis (talk) 19:38, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

I wasn't going to come back after you nominally (and with your typical condescension) acknowledged my request (and also per your request that I generally stay off your talk page), but I would point out that changing the size of an image does affect the rendered page. Needlessly changing capitalization on templates does not. But then, an experienced editor like yourself already knew that, didn't you? Resolute 23:03, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Changing the image size by 5px could change the size of an image (if only nominally), but only if there were an image in use within the infobox template. However, in the examples above there are no image files in use - so you are mistaken; changing the size of an non-existant image does not affect the rendered page. Double sheesh. Dolovis (talk) 23:56, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Actually I changed the order of categories in those edits as well, which also changes the rendered look of the page. -DJSasso (talk) 00:58, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

I have to laugh again. I thought you were opposed to wiki-lawyering. Your hypocrisy appears to have no bounds. No reasonable person would believe that changing the order of categories constitutes a significant edit. Sheesh again. Now please stay off my talk page. Dolovis (talk) 03:25, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

I do hope that all this laughter isn't causing you to get a stitch in your side. It does seem like this business could have been avoided by the use of the phrase, "Sorry, didn't realize, won't happen again." And if we cannot communicate via each other's talk pages, then where are we supposed to do it? Because as a deeply inexperienced editor, I thought that was what they were for. KDS4444^Talk 05:14, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

With an edit history dating back to 2008, I am mystified why you would identify yourself an “inexperienced editor”. However I do agree that this entire discussion could have been avoided, and would have been avoided if DJSasso didn't become involved as a third party to an already concluded discussion. Dolovis (talk) 20:21, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Actually my comment was based on my noticing your edits independently of him. His concern was for your speed of editing, mine was for the content of your editing. Two completely different things. Since this section was already opened I didn't feel the need to open a second section. KDS is right, if you wouldn't be so hostile to everyone that comes to your page then maybe people would have a lot less of an issue with your editing. -DJSasso (talk) 12:41, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Just as a note, here is a piece of vandalism that was masked by one of these unnecessary whitespace changes, and which survived for four days as a result. Resolute 16:05, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

It has been suggested that I follow the advice contained in the essay Wikipedia:Don't take the bait. It is apparent to me that continuing this exchange will serve no useful purpose, so I am now ending this discussion on my talk page, as is my right. Dolovis (talk) 18:34, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

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Re: Future considerations past

It looks like it might have been a conditional pick that was not converted. Deadman137 (talk) 20:06, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

It is curious because following the trade Jacques played 65 games for Tampa Bay's AHL affiliate, the Syracuse Crunch; so it appears there was value received with nothing given in return. Dolovis (talk) 20:20, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:BNA access question

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WikiCup 2014 June newsletter

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British Sledge Hockey Association AFD

Hi Dolovis, Apologies for the confusion,
I originally closed it but since it was relisted half hr before - I reverted .... and have now closed it again - Oh the joys of confusing everyone haha,
Regards, –Davey2010 • (talk) 18:53, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

List of ice hockey countries

The guy who did Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_ice_hockey_countries keeps putting speedy deletion tags on the page and is adding no-hockey countries while removing references I add. Can you help? 64.4.93.100 (talk) 18:59, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

I suggest you post your concern at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ice Hockey so it can receive the attention of the Project Ice Hockey community. Dolovis (talk) 20:07, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of Gene Serdena for deletion

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Why are you removing my templates?

I'm putting the BLP template on articles that need MORE sources and references. I am not doing anything wrong and I'm adhering to the notability guidelines. So what is your issue? WikiPassionate (talk) 03:00, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

You seem to be confused between the use of the tags "Unreferenced"" and "refimprove". Please follow and read the above links so you might learn to use these tags appropriately. Dolovis (talk) 03:21, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

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RE Scott Disick AFD/Prince Harry

Hey, no hard feelings. I still think you are wrong about Prince Harry's notability and insult him in comparing him to Disick in any way. There are Wikipedia articles on international royals from the last millenium (see [35]). However, I see you have bigger things to worry about at this juncture. Yours, Quis separabit? 15:42, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of 2013–14 NHL hat tricks for deletion

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Nomination of 2014–15 NHL suspensions and fines for deletion

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Nomination of 2014–15 NHL transactions for deletion

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Nomination of List of 2014–15 NHL Three Star Awards for deletion

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WikiCup 2014 August newsletter

The final of the 2014 WikiCup begins in a few short minutes! Our eight finalists are listed below, along with their placement in Round 4:

1. Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer, finished top of Pool A and was the round's highest scorer. Godot is a featured picture specialist, claiming large numbers of points due to high-quality scans of historical documents, especially banknotes.
2. Casliber (submissions) is a WikiCup veteran, having been a finalist every year since 2010. In the semi-final, he was Pool B's highest scorer. Cas's points primarily come from articles on the natural sciences.
3. Czar (submissions) was Pool A's runner-up. Czar's points come mostly from content related to independent video games, including both articles and topics.
4. Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Pool B's runner-up. Another featured picture specialist, many of Adam's points come from the restoration of historical media. He has been a WikiCup finalist twice before.
5. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) won the WikiCup in 2012 and 2013, and enters this final as the first wildcard. She focuses on biology-related articles, and has worked on several high-importance articles.
6. 12george1 (submissions) is the second wildcard. George's points come primarily from meteorology-related articles. This year and last year, George was the first person in the competition to score.
7. Sturmvogel 66 (submissions), the third wildcard, was the 2010 champion and a finalist last year. His writes mostly on military history, especially naval history.
8. Bloom6132 (submissions), the fourth and final wildcard, has participated in previous WikiCups, but not reached any finals. Bloom's points are mostly thanks to did you knows, featured lists and good articles related to sport and national symbols.

We say goodbye to this year's semi-finalists. Matty.007 (submissions), ThaddeusB (submissions), WikiRedactor (submissions), Figureskatingfan (submissions), Yellow Evan (submissions), Prism (submissions) and Cloudz679 (submissions) have all performed well to reach this stage of the competition, and we hope they will all be joining us again next year.

There are two upcoming competitions unrelated to the WikiCup which may be of interest to those who receive this newsletter. The Stub Contest will run through September, and revolves around expanding stub articles, especially high-importance or old stubs. In addition, a proposal has been made for a new competition, the GA Cup, which the organisers plan to run next year. This competition is based on the WikiCup and aims to reduce the good article review backlog.

There is now a thread for brainstorming on how next year's WikiCup competition should work. Please come along and share your thoughts- What works? What doesn't work? What needs changing? Signups for next year's competition will be open soon; we will be in touch. If, at this stage of the competition, you are keen to help the with the WikiCup, please do what you can to participate in review processes. Our finalists will find things much easier if the backlogs at good article candidates, featured article candidates, featured picture candidates and the rest are kept at a minimum. As ever, 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 · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:09, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 September newsletter

In one month's time, we will know our WikiCup 2014 champion. Newcomer Godot13 (submissions) has taken a strong lead with a featured list (historical coats of arms of the U.S. states from 1876) and a raft of featured pictures. Reigning champion Cwmhiraeth (submissions) is in second place with a number of high-importance biology articles, including new FA Isopoda and new GA least weasel. Casliber (submissions), who is in his fifth WikiCup final, is in third, with featured articles Pictor and Epacris impressa.

Signups for the 2015 WikiCup are open. All Wikipedians, new and experienced, are warmly invited to sign up for the competition. Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may also like to sign up for the GA Cup, a new WikiCup-inspired competition which revolves around completing good article reviews. As ever, 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 · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:11, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of Jordan Subban for deletion

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Nomination of Joseph LaBate for deletion

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Nomination of Paul Cabana for deletion

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WikiCup 2014: The results

The 2014 WikiCup champion is Godot13 (submissions), who flew the flag of the Smithsonian Institution. This was Godot13's first WikiCup competition and, over the 10 months of the competition, he has produced (among other contributions) two featured lists and an incredible 292 featured pictures, including architectural photographs and scans of historical documents. Cwmhiraeth (submissions), 2012 and 2013 WikiCup champion, came in second, having written a large number of biology-related articles. Casliber (submissions), WikiCup finalist every year since 2010, finished in third.

A full list of our prize-winners follows:

• Godot13 (submissions) wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 181 featured pictures in the final round.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 65 did you knows in the final round.
• Casliber (submissions) wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for four featured articles in the final round.
• Czar (submissions) wins the prize for fourth place
• Sturmvogel 66 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• Bloom6132 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• 12george1 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• ChrisGualtieri (submissions) wins the GA prize for 27 good articles in round 2 and the review prize for 28 good article reviews in round 1.
• Caponer (submissions) wins the FL prize for three featured lists in round 2.
• Sven Manguard (submissions) wins the FPo prize his work on featured portals.
• Figureskatingfan (submissions) wins the topic prize for a nine-article featured topic in round 3.
• ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the news prize for 28 in the news articles in round 3.

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 participated this year. We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. 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 · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:52, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

Harry Zolnierczyk

To whom it may concern,

I was hoping someone could help me out with Harry Zolnierczyk's Wikipedia page. There is a section about his personal life that outlines past charges he had against him. These charges were several years ago and are now outdated and irrelevant. I was hoping that the section could be removed from the page. I am admittedly someone personally close to Harry and am very disturbed that these are still listed on his Wikipedia page. Harry's past is something that he has taken care of and should not have to be haunted by this situation anymore. I don't see any disadvantage to taking down the personal life section of his page. I think it would be more than reasonable to move on from this and leave it in the past. I hope you understand. Please help me to remove the personal life section of Harry Zolnierczyk's Wikipedia page. Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hockey4000 (talk • contribs) 02:01, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 is just around the corner...

Hello everyone, and may we wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2015 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. We have a few important announcements concerning the future of the WikiCup.

• We would like to announce that Josh (J Milburn) and Ed (The ed17), who have been WikiCup judges since 2009 and 2010 respectively, are stepping down. This decision has been made for a number of reasons, but the main one is time. Both Josh and Ed have found that, over the previous year, they have been unable to devote the time necessary to the WikiCup, and it is not likely that they will be able to do this in the near future. Furthermore, new people at the helm can only help to invigorate the WikiCup and keep it dynamic. Josh and Ed will still be around, and will likely be participating in the Cup this following year as competitors, which is where both started out.
• In a similar vein, we hope you will all join us in welcoming Jason (Sturmvogel 66) and Christine (Figureskatingfan), who are joining Brian (Miyagawa) to form the 2015 WikiCup judging team. Jason is a WikiCup veteran, having won in 2010 and finishing in fifth this year. Christine has participated in two WikiCups, reaching the semi-finals in both, and is responsible for the GA Cup, which she now co-runs.
• The discussions/polls concerning the next competition's rules will be closed soon, and rules changes will be made clear on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring and talk pages. While it may be impossible to please everyone, the judges will make every effort to ensure that the new rules are both fair and in the best interests of the competition, which is, first and foremost, about improving Wikipedia.

If you have any questions or concerns, the judges can be reached on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, on their talk pages, or by email. We hope you will all join us in trying to make the 2015 WikiCup the most productive and enjoyable yet. You are receiving this message because you are listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk), The ed17 (talk), Miyagawa (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Figureskatingfan (talk) 18:54, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

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Indefinite block is excessive and unwarranted considering that there has been no disruptive editing. Dolovis (talk) 04:24, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

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Nomination of Matthias Asperup for deletion

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Nomination of Corbin McPherson for deletion

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Nomination of Anthony Bitetto for deletion

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Nomination of Brendan Ranford for deletion

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Nomination of Fleece jacket for deletion

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Nomination of Michigan Mr. Hockey for deletion

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Nomination of Tim Alexander (visual effects) for deletion

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Nomination of Dan Sudick for deletion

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Nomination of Gary Brozenich for deletion

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Nomination of Edson Williams for deletion

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Nomination of Roger Guyett for deletion

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Nomination of Patrick Tubach for deletion

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Nomination of Christopher Townsend for deletion

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Nomination of Eric Reynolds (visual effects) for deletion

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Nomination of David Clayton (visual effects) for deletion

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Nomination of Gloria Pasqua-Casny for deletion

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Nomination of Stephen Prouty for deletion

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Nomination of Michael Wilkinson (costume designer) for deletion

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Nomination of Philippe Le Sourd for deletion

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Nomination of Gene Serdena for deletion

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Nomination of Grant Tkachuk for deletion

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Speedy deletion nomination of Grant Tkachuk

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A tag has been placed on Grant Tkachuk, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion debate, such as at articles for deletion. Under the specified criteria, where an article has substantially identical content to that of an article deleted after debate, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

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Nomination of Jordan Samuels-Thomas for deletion

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Nomination of Jeremy Gregoire for deletion

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Nomination of Brandon Alderson for deletion

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Nomination of Austin Levi for deletion

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Nomination of Brett Pollock for deletion

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Nomination of 2015 Kelly Cup playoffs for deletion

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Nomination of Taylor Leier for deletion

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Nomination of Colin White (ice hockey, born 1997) for deletion

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Nomination of Austen Brassard for deletion

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Nomination of Eric Cornel for deletion

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Bryan Brutlag listed at Redirects for discussion

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Ivan Kaustin listed at Redirects for discussion

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David Brownschidle listed at Redirects for discussion

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Nomination of Matej Stransky for deletion

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Nomination of Luc Beausoleil for deletion

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Nomination of Austin Madaisky for deletion

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Speedy deletion nomination of Brett Olson

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A tag has been placed on Brett Olson requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Nomination of Tyler Randell for deletion

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Nomination of Brett Olson (disambiguation) for deletion

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Nomination of Craig Bonner for deletion

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Nomination of Nick Cousins for deletion

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Speedy deletion nomination of Brett Olson (disambiguation)

A tag has been placed on Brett Olson (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G6 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either

• disambiguates two or fewer extant Wikipedia pages and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic); or
• disambiguates no (zero) extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information.

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WikiCup 2015 launch newsletter

Round one of the 2015 WikiCup has begun! So far we've had around 80 signups, which close on February 5. If you have not already signed up and want to do so, then you can add your name here. There have been changes to to several of the points scores for various categories, and the addition of Peer Reviews for the first time. These will work in the same manner as Good Article Reviews, and all of the changes are summarised here.

Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round, and one of the new changes this year is that all scores must be claimed within two weeks of an article's promotion or appearance, so don't forget to add them to your submissions pages! If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs)
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Proposed deletion of Jarkko Immonen (disambiguation)

The article Jarkko Immonen (disambiguation) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Per WP:2DABS, primary page is elsewhere, with hatnote

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WikiCup 2015 March newsletter

One of several of Godot13's quality submissions during round 1

That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. 64 competitors made it into this round, and are now broken into eight groups of eight. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups. Round 1 saw some interesting work on some very important articles, with the round leader Freikorp (submissions) owing most of his 622 points scored to a Featured Article on the 2001 film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within which qualified for a times-two multiplier. This is a higher score than in previous years, as Godot13 (submissions) had 500 points in 2014 at the end of round 1, and our very own judge, Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) led round 1 with 601 points in 2013.

In addition to Freikorp's work, some other important articles and pictures were improved during round one, here's a snapshot of a few of them:

• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) took Bumblebee, a level-4 vital article, to Good Article;
• AHeneen (submissions) worked-up the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 article, also to Good Article status;
• Rodw (submissions) developed an extremely timely article to Good Article, taking Magna Carta there some 800 years after it was first sealed;
• And last but not least, Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points) worked up a number of Featured Pictures during round 1, including the 1948 one Deutsche Mark (pictured right), receiving the maximum bonus due to the number of Wikis that the related article appears in.

You may also wish to know that The Core Contest is running through the month of March. Head there for further details - they even have actual prizes!

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. 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. Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email)

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Nomination of Cody Wydo for deletion

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Proposed deletion of Fort Saskatchewan Chiefs

The article Fort Saskatchewan Chiefs has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Does not meet WP:ORG all references are directly connected to subject

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. - McMatter ^(talk)/_(contrib) 20:29, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

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