User talk:Tomcat7/2012/September

WikiCup 2012 August newsletter

The final is upon us! We are down to our final 8. A massive 573 was our lowest qualifying score; this is higher than the 150 points needed last year and the 430 needed in 2010. Even in 2009, when points were acquired for mainspace edit count in addition to audited content, 417 points secured a place. That leaves this year's WikiCup, by one measure at least, our most competitive ever. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:

1. Grapple X (submissions) once again finishes the round in first place, leading Pool B. Grapple X writes articles about television, and especially The X-Files and Millenium, with good articles making up the bulk of the score.
2. Miyagawa (submissions) led Pool A this round. Fourth-place finalist last year, Miyagawa writes on a variety of topics, and has reached the final primarily off the back of his massive number of did you knows.
3. Ruby2010 (submissions) was second in Pool B. Ruby2010 writes primarily on television and film, and scores primarily from good articles.
4. Casliber (submissions) finished third in Pool B. Casliber is something of a WikiCup veteran, having finished sixth in 2011 and fourth in 2010. Casliber writes on the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy. Over half of Casliber's points this round were bonus points from the high-importance articles he has worked on.
5. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) came second in Pool A. Also writing on biology, especially marine biology, Cwmhiraeth received 390 points for one featured article (Bivalvia) and one good article (pelican), topping up with a large number of did you knows.
6. Muboshgu (submissions) was third in Pool A. Muboshgu writes primarily on baseball, and this round saw Muboshgu's first featured article, Derek Jeter, promoted on its fourth attempt at FAC.
7. Dana Boomer (submissions) was fourth in Pool A. She writes on a variety of topics, including horses, but this round also saw the high-importance lettuce reach featured article status.
8. Sasata (submissions) is another WikiCup veteran, having been a finalist in 2009 and 2010. He writes mostly on mycology.

However, we must also say goodbye to the eight who did not make the final, having fallen at the last hurdle: GreatOrangePumpkin (submissions), Ealdgyth (submissions), Calvin999 (submissions), Piotrus (submissions), Toa Nidhiki05 (submissions), 12george1 (submissions), The Bushranger (submissions) and 1111tomica (submissions). We hope to see you all next year.

On the subject of next year, a discussion has been opened here. Come and have your say about the competition, and how you'd like it to run in the future. This brainstorming will go on for some time before more focused discussions/polls are opened. As ever, 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) 00:14, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

GA review

Hello GreatOrangePumpkin! First of all thank you very much for reviewing the article Francis Marrash. I'm not sure I understood what you meant about "equality among peoples". I think Moreh was referring to "equality" between the Ottoman Turks and all the other peoples (Syrians, Azeris, Armenians, etc.) that were under their yoke in the Middle East, hence the use of "peoples" [was the "s" the problem?]. What do you think? I changed the previous sentence in the paragraph, does it make the transition more clear? Thank you so much for your help! Bryan P. C. C. (talk) 12:36, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

I referred to the odd punctuation: "[16]—Suheil Bushrui and Joe Jenkins have stated that "Marrash's originality of thought shines through in his poetico-philosophical notion of [universal] love".[17][18]. Regards.--Kürbis (✔) 12:47, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Oh! haha you're right, it does look strange, will change that. Thank you again! Bryan P. C. C. (talk) 13:47, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Talk:Ganting Grand Mosque/GA1

Hi Pumpkin, I've replied at the nomination. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:27, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Kafka

Responded to you on Kafka's talk page.PumpkinSky talk 14:22, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/30–30 club/archive1

Hi GoP. At the FLC linked in the header, you supported twice. This isn't great since us directors are at risk of double-counting your support, and throwing off consensus readings. If it's not too much trouble, would you mind removing the second support? Thanks. Giants2008 (Talk) 18:03, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Gibpedia

'Gibraltarpedia in an international and multi-cultural collaboration' Welcome - Russian would be great and we hardly ever get stuff in German ... We would like to invite you to contribute to the GibraltarpediA project, the world's first WIkipedia City. The project needs writers, photographers, translators and others to help build the first wiki city which bridges Europe and Africa. We are going to transform Gibraltar and the surrounding areas in Morocco and Spain into areas rich with encyclopedic content immediately accessible using QR codes and NFC on plaques for visitors and local people. There are prizes to reward contributors in the Gibraltarpedia Multilingual challenge for the best editors, photographs and cartographers... whoever you are. More at Gibraltarpedia.org

'Gibraltarpedia in an international and muli-cultural collaboration'

This is a very good idea. At the moment I am busy with other projects, but hoping that I can participate in this project anytime soon. Regards.--Kürbis (✔) 08:15, 4 September 2012 (UTC)