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WikiCup 2018 May newsletter

The second round of the 2018 WikiCup has now finished. Most contestants who advanced to the next round scored upwards of 100 points, but two with just 10 points managed to scrape through into round 3. Our top scorers in the last round were:

  •   Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with three featured articles
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  •   Muboshgu, a seasoned competitor, with three ITNs and
  •   Courcelles, another first time contestant, with twenty-seven GARs

So far contestants have achieved twelve featured articles between them and a splendid 124 good articles. Commendably, 326 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2018 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met; most of the GARs are fine, but a few have been a bit skimpy.

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Have you even read the source?

I added my own wording to Indo-Aryan migration. Some wording might be similar because I can't make up my own interpretation, but I didn't copy it verbatrim. As for "outdated" translation of the verse, the verse is still translated so. This 2014 translation translates it in the similar manner (https://books.google.com/books?id=5-i0AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA484).

Your claims are bad faith. I don't have any problem if your issues are genuine. But don't make up false claims and accusations. I am not going to be cowed down by any threats. If you have real issues, then I wouldn't have minded you undoing me. But your reasons are not genuine.

If you do have real issues then we can discuss. I suggest you first read the source. Then explain how there is a violation. I can change the wording in case there is. Besides I had made the edit just once. But if you have no real issues, I suggest you don't censor others. MonsterHunter32 (talk) 04:54, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Here's your text:

Irfan Habib and Vijay Kumar Thakur state that the distinctions presented in the Rig Veda between the Dasyus and the Aryans who spoke Indo-Iranian dialects, suggest that they hadn't moved in from the cooler highlands and higher altitudes much earlier, thus still preserving a distinction in their complexion from the older inhabitants of the tropical plains. They consider a verse from Rig Veda's Mandala VI (47.20-21) as evidently evoking a time of such migration

Here's the relevant excerpt from the source:

All this strongly suggests that the Aryans, as speakers of Indo-Iranian dialects, had not much earlier moved in from cooler highlands or higher latitudes so as still to preserve a sense of distinction between their complexionand that of the older inhabitants of the tropical plains. The following verse from Rig- veda's Mandala VI (47.20-21) evidently evokes a time of such migration

That's clear copyright violation. And, like I said, the translation is outdated too. See, for example, this book from 1958 that use the same translation.[9] There is no modern reliable source that use this outdated translation. You should better know how much scholarships have changed in these many decades regarding these translations, that's why we can't use an outdated translation as it will contradict nearly whole article. MBlaze Lightning talk 12:35, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
Oh, and for your own sake, watch your tone and lay off the censorship accusations, or you will find yourself at WP:ANI. You've been warned before.[10]
MBlaze Lightning talk 12:40, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

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Another Kkm010 sock?

Is Special:Contributions/Genevieve99 another sock of Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kkm010? Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 06:29, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Yes, it's definitely him. MBlaze Lightning talk 14:22, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Email reply

Hi, I'm afraid that I'm not familiar with that editor's conduct. I'd suggest that you start a report at WP:SPI setting out the evidence. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 11:41, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

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Yoni

Please leave edit summaries. I'm tempted to block the IP, but I can't block them in good faith when you're doing the same thing, and you've reverted them four times already. Razer2115, that goes for you too. Neither of you left explanations/edit summaries, neither of you tried to talk the IP editor--y'all didn't even template them for edit warring or whatever. Now that I look at the rest of their edits I see that there is plenty of reason for me to block them, but if you two had been more diligent and didn't take the easy way out I wouldn't have to be wasting my time here or investigating the other edits the IP editor made. Drmies (talk) 17:30, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

@Drmies: I said in my first edit summary that I was reverting a sock of a blocked user.[11] Perhaps you overlooked it? MBlaze Lightning talk 17:48, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
Yes, but look at that history--that's 20 edits down the page. I see it now, but that's not easy. Please make these things easy for us. And who? Can you link an SPI? All of that helps. In the meantime I placed a range block. Drmies (talk) 17:52, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
Drmies, he just switched to a new IP address, 110.225.211.128 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). Can you block it as well? MBlaze Lightning talk 18:00, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2018)

 
The entrance of Kerobokan Prison
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Stalking IP

Hi MBlaze Lightning, who is this IP which seems to be following a set of editors around? Do we have anything about them? Thanks. Adamgerber80 (talk) 17:37, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

It's this guy. MBlaze Lightning talk 17:39, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
Okay. I get their POV pushing direction. What triggered this vicious stalking? Recent block of their sock? Adamgerber80 (talk) 17:44, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
MBlaze reverted him on an article just like you did, and this sock went crazy after realizing that its impossible for him to get his POV accepted here. Capitals00 (talk) 17:48, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
Okay. I have dealt with a different vicious stalking IP (Taiwan articles related) back in the day and MBlaze Lightning was briefly part of it. We might have to consider creating a page like this User:Mfb/Taiwanese articles if it persists for a few more days. The page helped in creating a central place where, all IPs being used, could be logged (since it is not feasible to create a SPI for every IP) and a good reference point for admins to block the IP off. Adamgerber80 (talk) 17:55, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
Sounds good to me. MBlaze Lightning talk 07:41, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Gomutra

I've blocked the IP editor warring over the article for block evasion. That said, I would strongly advise against reinstating content like this without first finding reliable sources. The page comes under the jurisdiction of ARBIPA, and you really don't want to be adding original research. Vanamonde (talk) 06:59, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Vanamonde93 as you can see, I was merely reverting the sock IP (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Wikiexplorer13) who has been causing massive vandalism and disruption across many articles. The content that the IP was removing seemed unsourced, but not incorrect; it didn't struck me as a violation of WP:BLP, WP:COPYVIO, etc. Anyway, D4iNa4 has added sources, so I think we can put this to bed. MBlaze Lightning talk 08:09, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
I can see that; that's why I haven't hauled you off to ANI. My point is that reverting a blocked sock isn't a license to revert anything; you still have to be careful, especially about core policies in an area covered by discretionary sanctions. I have no intentions of taking this further; this is a warning for the future, because it's a scenario likely to recur with other pages and other socks. Vanamonde (talk) 08:22, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CXLIV, May 2018

 
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A view of the Sargasso art installation at the BCE Place for Luminato arts festival in 2011
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Notice that you are now subject to an arbitration enforcement topic ban

The following topic ban now applies to you:

You are indefinitely banned from all edits and pages related to conflict between India and Pakistan, broadly construed. You are warned that any further disruption or testing of the edges of the ban will be met with either an indefinite topic ban from all topics related to India, Pakistan and Afghanistan or an indefinite block, without further warning.

You have been sanctioned per this AE discussion.

This topic ban is imposed in my capacity as an uninvolved administrator under the authority of the Arbitration Committee's decision at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/India-Pakistan#Final decision and, if applicable, the procedure described at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions. This sanction has been recorded in the log of sanctions. Please go to WP:TBAN and read the information there to see what a topic ban is. If you do not comply with the topic ban, you may be blocked for an extended period, to enforce the ban.

If you wish to appeal against the imposition of the ban, see WP:AC/DS#sanctions.appeals which explains the ways in which you may appeal. Additionally, you may ask for this sanction to be removed at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard after six months of positive contributions to Wikipedia. GoldenRing (talk) 08:17, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

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The Uzi is a weapon.
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Clarification and Amendment

See Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification_and_Amendment#Amendment_request:_India-Pakistan regarding the ARE decision that affected you. — MapSGV (talk) 20:17, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

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Henri Nestlé was a German-born Swiss confectioner and the founder of Nestlé, the world's largest food and beverage company as of 2014.
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Richard Rohr OFM (born 1943, pictured at podium) is an American Franciscan friar ordained in 1970. He is a known inspirational speaker and has published numerous recorded talks and books.
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Welcome to the June 2018 GOCE newsletter, in which you will find Guild updates since the February edition. Progress continues to be made on the copyediting backlog, which has been reduced to 7 months and reached a new all-time low. Requests continue to be handled efficiently this year, with 272 completed by the end of May (an average completion time of 10.5 days). Fewer than 10% of these waited longer than 20 days, and the longest wait time was 29 days.

Wikipedia in general, and the Guild in particular, experienced a deep loss with the death on 20 March of Corinne. Corinne (a GOCE coordinator since 1 July 2016) was a tireless aide on the requests page, and her peerless copyediting is a part of innumerable GAs and FAs. Her good cheer, courtesy and tact are very much missed.

March drive: The goal was to remove June, July and August 2017 from our backlog and all February 2018 Requests (a total of 219 articles). This drive was an outstanding success, and by the end of the month all but eight of these articles were cleared. Of the 33 editors who signed up, 19 recorded 277 copy edits (425,758 words).

April blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 15 through 21 April, focusing on Requests and the last eight articles tagged in August 2017. At the end of the week there were only 17 pending requests, with none older than 17 days. Of the nine editors who signed up, eight editors completed 22 copy edits (62,412 words).

May drive: We set out to remove September, October and November 2017 from our backlog and all April 2018 Requests (a total of 298 articles). There was great success this month with the backlog more than halved from 1,449 articles at the beginning of the month to a record low of 716 articles. Officially, of the 20 who signed up, 15 editors recorded 151 copy edits (248,813 words).

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India-Pakistan arbitration amendment request closed

The India-Pakistan arbitration amendment request filed on 23 May 2018 (the appeal of certain arbitration enforcement actions by GoldenRing) has been closed as unsuccessful. For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 02:05, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

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West Indian cricket team in England in 1991

Hi,

My change is correct - the sentence "England, by contrast with the previous disastrous tour of 1998, were a far more settled side...", and here 1998 makes no sense given that this page is about the 1991 tour. 1988 is definitely correct if you look at that page and read about what happened on the 1988 tour. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.26.115.33 (talk) 14:00, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, I see. Thanks, IP. MBlaze Lightning talk 14:13, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

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