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This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2016)
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This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2016)
 Several of the commonly known molecules.
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Hello, We are Falsefactscorrected, we have noticed a lot of users impose their racist views and racially motivated changes to stories and facts changing them for their own political or racist agenda. We aim to correct this racially or biased changes to facts by correcting the false facts with correct accurate facts made by evidence and credible sources and not "users" who promote their racist or biased views by altering facts to support their biased opinions. We hope you join our effort and become part of the solution, and not the problem!
Our references come most commonly from law enforcement or news agencies, we are always happy to give you contact information for our sources and information we share, you need only ask. Our information in the recent posting was given to us by multiple news agencies as well as the authorities involved. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Falsefactscorrected (talk • contribs) 07:47, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
- Hey, can we go a little easy on this one if they learn to color inside the lines? Reminds me a lot of my younger self. -- Kendrick7talk 08:36, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
- I find their activism intriguing. As long as they wouldn't change article content purely based on their views, or synthesized material, I guess we should give them a chance. -- ChamithN (talk) 12:43, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
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Please help me write a article
Hi I m not a good writer nor an expert in writing. I don't have so much of writing skills too. I have wrote my first article of a person biography from my region. He has been doing a lot for the region and trying to promote our culture as it has been negckeglested by other part of our country. Since he did his best to let people know about our culture. A person like him Robert Naorem need to be known by other poeple. There are lots of fans of him from my state . And I wanted to support him by just writing a small article to let the access of his work and profile to his fans . There are also reliable source and he does not do any promotion of his own tahts the best part I like about him. Please do help me to write a art vile about him. Rk1985 (talk) 20:24, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
- There are couple of things you should know before writing a biography. Most importantly, the subject should at least meet the WP:GNG criteria to have an article. Secondly, I wouldn't recommend you creating an article about him as you personally know him. Finally, when you create article you shouldn't create it merely for his fans, but for all Wikipedia readers in general. Basically, this means that you should maintain a neutral tone, and avoid weasel terms. -- ChamithN (talk) 04:30, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2016)
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WikiCup 2015 March newsletter
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That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. Forty-seven competitors move into this round (a bit shy of the expected 64), and we are roughly broken into eight groups of six. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups.
Twenty-two Good Articles were submitted, including three by 
Cyclonebiskit (submissions), and two each by 
MPJ-DK (submissions), 
Hurricanehink (submissions), 
12george1 (submissions), and 
Cas Liber (submissions). Twenty-one Featured Pictures were claimed, including 17 by 
Adam Cuerden (submissions) (the Round 1 high scorer). Thirty-one contestants saw their DYKs appear on the main page, with a commanding lead (28) by 
Cwmhiraeth (submissions). Twenty-nine participants conducted GA reviews with 
J Milburn (submissions) completing nine.
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2016 GA Cup-Round 1
 Greetings, all. The 3rd Annual GA Cup has officially begun, and you can start reviewing your articles/reassessments now! However, sign-ups will not close til March 15th if anybody (who wishes to sign up) has not signed up yet. We currently have 1 group of 33 contestants in Round 1, and we will have 16 Wikipedians left in Round 2. Please be sure to review this information and the FAQ if you haven't already, If you have any questions, please ask us here where all of the judges (including our newest one, Zwerg Nase!) will be answering any questions you may have. You can also feel free to ask us on our talk pages/send an email to us (information is here). Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant still competing, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.
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WikiCup 2016 March newsletter (update)
Along with getting the year wrong in the newsletter that went out earlier this week, we did not mention (as the bot did not report) that Cas Liber (submissions) claimed the first Featured Article Persoonia terminalis of the 2016 Wikicup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email).--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:05, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
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This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2016)
 Eugene Delacroix - Liberty Leading the People
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This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2016)
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The Signpost: 09 March 2016
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March 2016
Hello. Regarding the recent revert you made to Talk:Federal government of the United States: you may already know about them, but you might find Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace useful. After a revert, these can be placed on the user's talk page to let them know you considered their edit inappropriate, and also direct new users towards the sandbox. They can also be used to give a stern warning to a vandal when they've been previously warned. Thank you. - theWOLFchild 08:06, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Thewolfchild: I usually do issue user warnings after reverting disruptive edits; however, I didn't place a user warning on that specific IP's talk, because I felt like he is only going to keep trolling even if I did. I decided to contain myself per WP:DENY. Cheers! -- ChamithN (talk) 09:00, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
2nd Annual GA Cup - Round 4
| GA Cup competitors and observers: Happy Fall! Get ready, we're about to move into the finals of the second-ever GA Cup! Monday saw the end of Round 3. Out of the 8 contestants in the semi-finals, 5 have moved to the finals. The semi-finals were competitive. Our semi-finalists reviewed a total of 61 articles, or a grand total of 1,151 points. If you were to lump the top winners from each of the three pools together, it'd be a close horse race; they were within 35 points of each other, which can only mean that the finals will be an exciting race. Tomandjerry211, our top scorer in Round 2, again earned the most points in the semi-finals, with 288 points and 16 articles reviewed. Johanna came in second overall, with 251 points and 13 articles reviewed; Sturmvogel 66 came in third overall, with 221 points and 16 articles. Rounding out our wildcard slots are Zwerg Nase and The Rambling Man. These contestants were very strategic in how they reviewed articles. Like every other round in the history of the GA Cup, success depended upon reviewing oldest-nominated articles. For example, Johanna reviewed 5 articles that were worth the highest possible points. Congrats to all our finalists, and good luck! Stay tuned to this space for more information about the 2nd GA Cup, including overall statistics and how this competition has affected Wikipedia. We regret to inform you that Dom497, one of our original judges and co-creator of the GA Cup, has stepped down as a judge. Dom, a longtime member of WP:WikiProject Good articles, is responsible for the look of the GA Cup and has been instrumental in its upkeep. We wish him the best as he starts his university education, and are certain that he'll make an impact there as he has in Wikipedia. The finals started on October 1 at 0:00:01 UTC and will end on Ocober 29 at 23:59:59 UTC with a winner being crowned. Information about the Final can be found here. Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6 and Jaguar, and MrWooHoo. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant still competing, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.
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2015 GA Cup Wrap-Up
The second-ever GA Cup is now over! The competition officially ended Thursday. Congrats to everyone who participated, and especially to our finalists. The winner of the 2nd GA Cup is Zwerg Nase! He earned 408 points, over 100 points more than he earned in all previous rounds. He tied with our second-place winner, Sturmvogel 66 with 367 points, in number of articles reviewed (24), and they earned almost the same points for reviewing articles that were in the queue the longest (Zwerg with 322, Sturmvogel with 326). Basically, they tied in points, but what made the different for Zwerg was the advantage he had in reviewing longer articles. It seems that the rule change of earning more realistic points for longer articles made a difference. All of our contestants should be proud of the work they were able to accomplish through the GA Cup. Congrats to these worthy opponents! Our third and fourth place winners, Johanna and Tomandjerry211, also ran a close race, with 167 points and 147 points respectfully. We had one withdrawal; we found it interesting that competitors dropped out in Round 2 and 3 as well. One of the original judges and co-creator of this competition, User:Dom497 stepped down as judge during Round 3; as stated previously, we will miss his input and wish him the best. The judges were pleased with our results, even though fewer users competed this time compared to our inaugural competition. We recognize that this might be due to holding the competition during the summer months. We intend on looking more closely when we should conduct this contest, as well as other aspects of the GA Cup. We've set up a feedback page for everyone's input about how we should conduct the contest and what rule changes should be made. If you have any ideas about how we can improve things, please visit it and give us your input. Again, thanks to all and congratulations to our winners! Please stay tuned for the start of GA Cup #3. Cheers from 3family6, Figureskatingfan, Jaguar and MrWooHoo. |
This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2015)
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This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2015)
 The First Geneva Convention (1864) is one of the earliest formulations of international law.
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This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2015)
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This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2016)
 Critic by Lajos Tihanyi. Oil on canvas, c.1916.
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2016 GA Cup-Round 2
| Greetings, GA Cup competitors! Wednesday saw the end of Round 1. Sainsf took out Round 1 with an amazing score of 765. In second place, MPJ-DK earned an astounding 742 points, and in third place, FunkMonk received 610 points. In Round 1, 206 reviews were completed, more than any other year! At the beginning of March, there were 595 outstanding nominations in the GAN queue; by the end of Round 1, there were 490. We continue to make a difference at GAN and throughout Wikipedia, something we should all be proud of. Thanks to all our competitors for helping to make the GA Cup a continued success, and for your part in helping other editors improve articles. We hope to see all remaining users fighting it out in Round 2 so we can lower the backlog as much as possible. To qualify for the second round, you needed to make it into the top 16 of participants. Users were placed in 4 random pools of 4. To qualify for Round 3, the top 2 in each pool will progress, and there will also be one wildcard. This means that the participant who comes in 9th place (all pools combined) will also move on. Round 2 will start on April 1 at 0:00:01 UTC and end on April 28 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Round 2 and the pools can be found here Also, remember that a major rule change will go into effect starting on April 1, which marks the beginning of Round Two. Round 1 had an issue brought up in the rules, which we are correcting with this clarification. We believe that this change will make the competition more inherently fair. The new rule is: All reviews must give the nominator (or anyone else willing to improve the article) time to address the issues at hand, even if the article would qualify for what is usually called a "quick fail" in GA terms. To avoid further confusion, we have updated the scoring page, replacing the term "quick fail" with the term "fail without granting time for improvements". We expect all reviewers to put a review on hold for seven days in cases such as these as well, in order to apply the same standards to every competitor. The judges will strictly enforce this new rule. Good luck and have fun! Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant still competing, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.
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GA Cup-Round 3 Clarification
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This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2016)
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WikiCup 2016 May newsletter
Round 2 is over and 35 competitors have moved on to Round 3.
Round 2 saw three FAs (two by Cas Liber (submissions) and one by 
Montanabw (submissions)), four Featured Lists (with three by 
Calvin999 (submissions)), and 53 Good Articles (six by Worm That Turned (submissions) and five each by Hurricanehink (submissions), Cwmhiraeth (submissions), and MPJ-DK (submissions)). Eleven Featured Pictures were promoted (six by Adam Cuerden (submissions) and five by 
Godot13 (submissions)). One Featured Portal, Featured Topic and Good Topic were also promoted. The DYK base point total was 1,135. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) scored 265 base points, while 
The C of E (submissions) and MPJ-DK (submissions) each scored 150 base points. Eleven ITN were promoted and 131 Good Article Reviews were conducted with MPJ-DK (submissions) completing a staggering 61 reviews. Two contestants, Cwmhiraeth (submissions) and Cas Liber (submissions), broke the 700 point mark for Round 2.
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FYI on crosses
Hi, remember this? FYI, I have made an edit filter request at Wikipedia:Edit filter/Requested#Crosses for deceased people. Meanwhile I have reported another IP instance of this editor: see User talk:119.95.158.50. Blocked now. Cheers - DVdm (talk) 10:03, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
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Regarding the Windows 10 Page
I did not see your own revision until after I had finished submitting my final one with the formatting tweaks, and I apologize for my... um, not entirely what the best word is. Mistake? Carelessness/hubris? Impatience? The exact terminology isn't important, but I do hope that somebody can reword my edit to sound a little less speculative.
Thanks for taking the time to read this! Lycanphoenix (talk) 14:13, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Lycanphoenix: I was, in fact, typing on your talk page while I got your message. So, I'll post it here instead: I just wanted to let you know that the "Anniversary Update" is already mentioned under Windows 10#"Redstone"; however, "Ubuntu on Windows" is not. You might want to add details regarding upcoming Bash shell update to that specific section instead. -- ChamithN (talk) 14:21, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
- @ChamithN: I'll see what I can do. Still a little new to editing the actual Wikipedia as opposed to smaller Wikia communities.
On a personal note, I can't wait to see what people can do with Ubuntu-on-Windows... Like installing Wine on top of actual Windows to enable sudo* backwards-compatibility with 16-bit Windows 3.1 / Windows 95 executables. That'd be something.
*Yes, that pun was intended. Lycanphoenix (talk) 14:33, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Lycanphoenix: Let me know if I can be of any help. I noticed that you were wondering about the purpose of sandbox. It's actually a page where you can experiment on before literally making the changes to the specific article. Here, this provides a succinct explanation. Sandbox is quite useful like in the case above; you said you were halfway through when I reverted your edit. Well, next time, you can use your sandbox as a precaution. Oh, by the way, I'm pretty excited about "Ubuntu-on-Windows" too. Best, -- ChamithN (talk) 14:45, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
This day's This Special Day's article for improvement (day 1, month 4, 2016)
 Skvader - Tetrao lepus pseudo-hybridus rarissimus in the wild at Örnsköldsvik The following is WikiProject This Special Day's articles for improvement's daily selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Snipe hunt • Jenny Haniver Get involved with the TSDAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Share this message with other editors Posted by: w.carter-Talk 00:11, 1 April 2016 (UTC) using New improved MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of WikiProject TSDAFI • [April Fools!] |
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A kitten for you!
You are an awesome Wikipedian!
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Mixed message?
Hi Chamith. This is sort of a mixed message, no? Don't commit sockpuppetry, and don't admit to sockpuppetry when you've committed it? 
Cyphoidbomb (talk) 01:54, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
- Yeah, well. It seemed liked he genuinely didn't know that sockpuppetry isn't permitted here. Or, probably he 'observed' it somewhere and doesn't know how to rephrase it clearly, in a way it wouldn't backfire at him. I thought I address both these issues at the same time. Ironically, I feel like I shot myself in the foot in the process.
-- ChamithN (talk) 13:14, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
- Meh, I'm not gonna harsh good editors. :) FYI, he was CU confirmed as Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nagendra NJ. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 22:29, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
Discussion at Talk:Batman#Genius intellect
Haha, I suppose it was sarcastic. I do appreciate you taking the time to help improve the Batman article. Cheers. DrRNC (talk) 02:46, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
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Google Doodle task force collaboration for 6 April 2016
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Untitled
Hi, I'm new to Wikipedia but I hope this is the right place to message you! I made some changes to the Barbara Serra page in English which you erased. The changes I made regard the marital status, as it still says she's married to Mark Austin though they divorced in 2012.Obviously it's hard to 'prove' it short of linking to the divorce papers. As i mentioned i'm new to Wiki, can you suggest what is the best way to handle it? Thank you in advance for your time & help TVPresRep (talk) 23:02, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
- Hi, I did a Google search on my own but I could find anything on this. Maybe it was never reported (though, I could find sources on her marriage). Anyhow, is there any kind of source you can provide to justify what you just said? It doesn't have to be divorce papers; any reliable magazine, journal, mainstream newspaper article would be sufficient, or even a tweet from her official account would do. -- ChamithN (talk) 04:39, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
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Editing Prefects' Info on D.S.Senanayake College Article
Hi, I am also a fellow student guide in our school,D.S.Senanayake College Prefects' Guild. I recently found out that Prefects' info has not been updated. So, I was trying to enter our current Head Prefect's name in to it and that's all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sonu365 (talk • contribs) 05:00, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Sonu365: Hey Sony365, you're welcome to add it to the article if you can provide a reliable source as a verification. We can't take everyone's word for granted — then this wouldn't be an encyclopedia. -- ChamithN (talk) 05:04, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
Google Doodle task force collaboration for 22 April 2016
Hello, ChamithN. The current collaboration of the Google Doodle task force is: Please be bold and make this a valuable reference for interested readers! Opt-out instructions Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:46, 22 April 2016 (UTC) on behalf of the task force. This task force is part of Today's articles for improvement. Opt-out instructions |
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This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2016)
Hello, ChamithN.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Debt • Delicatessen Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 25 April 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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Please comment on Talk:Order of approximation
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This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2016)
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Fame (Irene Cara song) • Debt Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 02:07, 2 May 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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Please comment on Talk:ExxonMobil climate change controversy
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:ExxonMobil climate change controversy. Legobot (talk) 04:25, 2 May 2016 (UTC)