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December 2013

Your GA nomination of 1804 Snow hurricane

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Your GA nomination of 1804 Snow hurricane

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Welcome to the 2014 WikiCup!

Hello Cloudchased, and welcome to the 2014 WikiCup! Your submission page can be found here. The competition will begin at midnight tonight (UTC). There have been a few small changes from last year; the rules can be read in full at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring, and the page also includes a summary of changes. One important rule to remember is that only content on which you have completed significant work, and nominated, in 2014 is eligible for points in the competition- the judges will be checking! As ever, this year's competition includes some younger editors. If you are a younger editor, you are certainly welcome, but we have written an advice page at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Advice for younger editors for you. Please do take a look. Any questions should be directed to one of the judges, or left on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will make it to round 2. Good luck! J Milburn (talk · contribs), The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 17:32, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

January 2014

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Your GA nomination of 1846 Havana hurricane

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Official "Filli Vanilli" Press Release

"When a member of the singing group, the Ponytones, has to drop out of an important performance, Fluttershy takes drastic measures to ensure that the show goes on." There is no mention in the Hub Network's press release stating that Fluttershy joins the Ponytones after one of the members dropping out. - Asaraullo05

Namu

It looks like Namu is going to be one of those systems in which we dont properly know the death toll but to help with this i set up the following sandbox last year to try and get a better figure together based on relaible sources.Jason Rees (talk) 17:11, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

February 2014

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)

Re: 1846 Havana hurricane/GA1

Let me know towards the end of the round if you still haven't got a reviewer for this and I'll take a look at it so you don't lose the points for this round. Miyagawa (talk) 19:27, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of 1846 Havana hurricane

The article 1846 Havana hurricane you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:1846 Havana hurricane for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of TropicalAnalystwx13 -- TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk) 00:52, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Cyclone Winifred

Hello! Your submission of Cyclone Winifred at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know!  Ohc ^¡digame! 03:37, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

@Ohconfucius: maybe you could poke Hurricanehink about this as well. Cloudchased (talk) 03:41, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

I thought you might be the one because it more relates to your review than his article. Regards, -- Ohc ^¡digame! 03:42, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

@Ohconfucius: Care to clarify? I'm slightly confused. I'm pretty sure I'm not Hurricanehink, so I didn't review the article...? Cloudchased (talk) 03:43, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Que j'suis bête. -- Ohc ^¡digame! 04:06, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Cyclone Winifred

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Your GA nomination of Cyclone Winifred

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Cyclone Winifred you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Secret -- Secret (talk) 02:32, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Mediterranean tropical cyclone

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A barnstar for you!

	The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
	Thank you for helping to clean up the mess from the mass move vandal earlier today AgneCheese/Wine 19:06, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mediterranean tropical cyclone

The article Mediterranean tropical cyclone you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Mediterranean tropical cyclone for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Hurricanehink -- Hurricanehink (talk) 20:42, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Mediterranean tropical cyclone

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March 2014

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.
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• 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.

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Your GA nomination of Cyclone Winifred

The article Cyclone Winifred you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Cyclone Winifred for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Secret -- Secret (talk) 22:11, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 1806 Great Coastal hurricane

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 1806 Great Coastal hurricane you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Hurricanehink -- Hurricanehink (talk) 04:31, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 1806 Great Coastal hurricane

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Your GA nomination of 1815 North Carolina hurricane

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DYK for 1804 Antigua–Charleston hurricane

The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Nice article. Would you please add the missing ships to the List of shipwrecks in 1804 with the appropriate references. Losses there referenced to British newspapers may be copied across into the hurricane article. Mjroots (talk) 17:16, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

@Mjroots: Ah, sorry for the delay on this; I'll try to get this done tonight when I come back. Cloudchased (talk) 19:07, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of 1815 North Carolina hurricane

The article 1815 North Carolina hurricane you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:1815 North Carolina hurricane for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Secret -- Secret (talk) 01:51, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for 1806 Great Coastal hurricane

Another good hook. Cheers. Victuallers (talk) 09:52, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for 1815 North Carolina hurricane

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 16:52, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Reverting My Citation Needed

I understand why you did it, but I saw someone else use the same tag in the lead as well. I've sporadically edited Wikipedia, so I'm not too familiar with everything, lol. Is their CITATION NEEDED tag more necessary than mine, and if it is, what makes it so? Eseress (talk) 01:01, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Ohhh, well I feel dumb now. Yeah that makes sense! Whoops. Well, thanks for talk and information. I appreciate the help! Eseress (talk) 01:23, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for commenting again, because I didn't remember how to mark my replies! I had to use an asterisk, haha. I literally just started editing again today. :p Eseress (talk) 01:27, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of 1804 Antigua–Charleston hurricane

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 1804 Antigua–Charleston hurricane you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Secret -- Secret (talk) 19:22, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Re

Hope your ok and that this is just a short wikibreak. :-) Jason Rees (talk) 01:17, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Same! Hope the break gets the wiki-juices flowing when you come back :) ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 01:28, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Most likely I'll be back before long. Every time I've said I've been wiki-blocked in the past, I've returned to write. ;) Cloudchased (talk) 01:45, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of 1804 Antigua–Charleston hurricane

The article 1804 Antigua–Charleston hurricane you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:1804 Antigua–Charleston hurricane for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Secret -- Secret (talk) 23:21, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

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)

April 2014

Your GA nomination of 1804 Antigua–Charleston hurricane

The article 1804 Antigua–Charleston hurricane you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:1804 Antigua–Charleston hurricane for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Secret -- Secret (talk) 03:01, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup error

Hi there- this is just a quick note to apologise for a small but important mistake in the last WikiCup newsletter; it is not 64 users who will progress to the next round, but 32. J Milburn (talk) 18:50, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

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May 2014

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.

192 was our lowest qualifying score, again showing that this WikiCup is the most competitive ever. In previous years, 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) or 100 (2010) secured a place in Round 3. Pool H was the strongest performer, with all but one of its members advancing, while only the two highest scorers in Pools G and F advanced. At the end of June, 16 users will advance into the semi-finals. 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) 17:57, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

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June 2014

Thank you for your participation

Cloudchased, I would like to take this moment and thank you for taking part in my RfA that happened a while ago. Although it didn't turn out as I had planned, I certainly appreciated all the comments and suggestions given by you and other people. I will learn from all of them and will hopefully run again someday when I'm fully ready. Thank you. TheGeneralUser (talk) 13:47, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2014 June newsletter

After an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's Godot13 (submissions) was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, Casliber (submissions) finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's , whose contributions included featured articles Russian battleship Poltava (1894) and Russian battleship Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six out of eight making it to the next round.

The round saw this year's first featured portal, with Sven Manguard (submissions) taking Portal:Literature to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to 12george1 (submissions) and the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. This means that all content types have been claimed this year. Other contributions of note this round include a featured topic on Maya Angelou's autobiographies from Figureskatingfan (submissions), a good article on the noted Czech footballer Tomáš Rosický from Cloudz679 (submissions) and a now-featured video game screenshot, freely released due to the efforts of Sven Manguard (submissions).

The judges would like to remind participants to update submission pages promptly. This means that content can be checked, and allows those following the competition (including those participating) to keep track of scores effectively. This round has seen discussion about various aspects of the WikiCup's rules and procedures. Those interested in the competition can be assured that formal discussions about how next year's competition will work will be opened shortly, and all are welcome to voice their views then. 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 · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 18:48, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Cyclone Bobby

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Hurricane Arthur

While your contribution to articles on tropical storms and hurricanes are appreciated, there are others editing this articles as well and their contributions are valued as well. If you disagree with the inclusion of the full disk image of Arthur, please discuss it on the article's talk page, if other's agree I'll gladly go along with the consensus. Until then, please stop removing it. It is appropriate for the article and provides better context than the previous image.--RadioFan (talk) 02:35, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

@RadioFan: I believe there has already been a rationale provided for its removal; the full-disk image's thumbnail in the article practically depicts Arthur only as a tiny speck. I don't see how it provides "better context" than the previous image; the original was adjacent to a relevant paragraph. Cloudchased (talk) 02:44, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

I disagree with the rationale and would like to see other editors have a chance to weigh in before this is reverted again. --RadioFan (talk) 19:26, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Cyclone Bobby

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Your GA nomination of Hurricane Cindy (1963)

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DYK for Hurricane Arthur (2014)

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