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Yesterday's Enterprise

I totally forgot I had done anything on this episode; it passed GA years ago, but to my eyes looks like it only really needs a solid push to finish off the reception and release section and it's good to go for FAC, if you're interested in helping. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs(talk) 19:12, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

No problem. I'll go through the extra couple of TNG sources I have here as well in case there's anything more I can add (although it's clear that the Making of book is the best available source for this, and you've used that already). Miyagawa (talk) 20:37, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
One thing that jumps to mind that will have happened after the GA is that Star Trek Online has a sequel level to "Yesterday's Enterprise". The Enterprise-C travels back in time to the wrong time period and ends up changing history so that the Tholians are the dominate force in the quadrant. The player then has to assist Yar in taking the ship back and send it back to the right period. Crosby returned to voice the character, which had some coverage at the time so there should be sources out there. Miyagawa (talk) 20:41, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
@David Fuchs: Just looking at the article now. Any objection if I overhaul the citation format to switch it to Harv? Miyagawa (talk) 09:16, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
If you want that's fine. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs(talk) 13:47, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
I just noticed something odd. The source I use for ratings [1] gives a different Nielsen rating than what is already in the article. Miyagawa (talk) 18:31, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
We could include both, I suppose. They're both reporting on the Nielsen ratings so unless there's an actual bonified source we can pull from it's two different sources of pretty much equal worthiness disagreeing. Anything else remaining to add from any sources you've found? Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs(talk) 17:34, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Help with Captains' Logs Supplemental: The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages

Hello. I was wondering if you owned a physical copy of Captains' Logs Supplemental: The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages. I am currently working on making an article for Janeway Lambda one in my sandbox here. It is still in the very early phases, but I was really fascinated by this storyline and wanted to try writing an article about it. I would like to quote some materials about the episode "Persistence of Vision" and Taylor's comments about the holonovel, but I cannot access the book without buying a physical copy as an electronic copy is not available anywhere unfortunately.

If you do own it, I was wondering if you could provide me with the page numbers for the following sections so I could properly format the references: 1) the part which discusses how "Persistence of Vision" was rejected from being an episode in the first season, and 2) the negative reaction to the holonovel and Taylor's comments about a resolution and its removal from the show. I apologize for the inconvenience. I hope you are having a wonderful day. Aoba47 (talk) 16:08, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

@Aoba47: Unfortunately I don't have a copy, I've only got the original Captains' Logs. I would offer A Vision of the Future, but I see you've already used that. Miyagawa (talk) 16:11, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
No worries. I think I will buy it as I would be interested in reading it for research for this article and my own personal enjoyment. Thank you for your quick response :-) Aoba47 (talk) 16:14, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
Cool. I've only put off buying it because I have a nasty habit of buying books (Star Trek: Action! is a good example) and then not getting around to using them for years. You might also want to take a look at Delta Quadrant - [2], which is unofficial guide to the first few years of Voyager. I thought I made a break through with an old archive.org version of the Star Trek Continuum website a couple of days ago, but all I managed to track down was an index list to articles on production information for mid to late Voyager - buy annoyingly the individual articles themselves weren't archived. Miyagawa (talk) 16:21, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for the suggestion! I will definitely look into it as well. I have the same habit, so I know exactly how you feel lol. Once I get either book, feel free to ask me page numbers or information if you need anything for future expansions. Archives are an amazing resource, but they can be extremely annoying, so I know that feeling all too well unfortunately >< lol. Aoba47 (talk) 16:34, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

Development of Spock

Hi, I noticed you had made substantial edits to the Development section of Spock. I wanted to notify you that there is a separate Development of Spock article that would benefit from your knowledge :). Pyrusca (talk) 15:10, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

@Pyrusca: I also wrote that one! :) I was trying to abbreviate the Development of Spock article into the Development section within the Spock article to make it a proper spin-out. There was several things in the old version of the Development section that I'd found to be really inaccurate during the creation of the specific article. Miyagawa (talk) 15:11, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
Ah HAHA. I guess I should have checked the "Page information". I love Spock. :/ Excellent writing. Pyrusca (talk) 15:15, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

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About Game of Thrones: Season 6 Episodes

Hello. I just wanted to ask you if you have time could you look at(review) some of the episode from Game of Thrones (season 6) that are up for a Good Article nomination, they have been up for a nomination for a while now. The last two episodes. (Battle of the Bastards and The Winds of Winter (Game of Thrones)) are pretty much perfectly written and should be no problem to get to GA right away. -- AffeL (talk) 14:11, 19 August 2016

No worries, I've just put the review up for BotB (not many problems at all) and I've just grabbed TWoW, which I'll get to either today or tomorrow. Miyagawa (talk) 14:40, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello. I wonder if you have time. If you could look at the Battle of the Bastards article again. I am trying to get it to a "Featured Article". I have nominated it and I would appreciate it if you do a review or something, I don't know how it(FA) works. (Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Battle of the Bastards/archive1) -- AffeL (talk) 18:17, 22 August 2016
I think you'd be better off nominating it at WP:Peer Review first. That way you can get the majority of comments out of the way before the FA nomination. Miyagawa (talk) 16:22, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
Thanks. I did just that. Another thing man, sorry to bother you again.. but the I have nominated the Game of Thrones article for GA. I have worked hard to get this to a Good Article statues, and I have a feeling that the article is just gonna sit there for a while until some one finally reviews it. I know that it's a big article to review. You don't need to do it if you don't have the time. But If you can, you don't need to review right away.. No rush. My goal is that one day it will be a "Featured Article" -- AffeL (talk) 19:32, 22 August 2016

Don't Forget

When you began editing "City on the Edge of Forever" it was evident that you had not even bothered to watch the episode and based all your edits from what you read in books. That is apparent. And that information was wrong and needed correcting. I advise you to at least watch episodes if you want to edit information about them. Dickie birdie (talk) 19:41, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

Why are you taking a discussion from the talk page of an article to my talk page? Please continue any discussion there. Miyagawa (talk) 21:12, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

1974 FA Charity Shield

Hi, Miyagawa. Thank you for undertaking this GA review. I'm generally available and please don't hesitate to ask me if and when any questions arise. All the best. BoJó | talk UTC 10:36, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

No problem. Already had a read through, and I don't think there's anything major that needs to change. It'll all be nit picks and formatting, I'm sure. Miyagawa (talk) 10:48, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
Sounds good. As you'll appreciate, it was a very controversial match at the time. Don't worry if you need to fail it: I won't fling my shirt off and sulk  . All the best. BoJó | talk UTC 12:52, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Hello again, Miyagawa, and thank you very much for the review and all your help. I'm pleased that it has passed and your good advice will certainly be useful when I develop another article. The one I'm thinking of is 1974 FA Cup Final which is only a stub. Thank you again and all the very best. BoJó | talk UTC 10:37, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

I just received the DYK invitation and I think that just has to be the guy in Harrow who tried to take out summonses against Bremner and Keegan. I'll enter that and see how it goes. All the best. BoJó | talk UTC 10:48, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
That'd be where I'd go with that. You might want to sign up for an account at Wikipedia:BNA to get access to the British Newspaper Archive. Then you'll have a host of stuff (including the match reports) to use for expansion on finals etc. Miyagawa (talk) 10:55, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

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Hey, I was wondering if www.trektoday.com is considered a reliable source or not? I believe that it is not reliable, but I just wanted to double-check as I found some information about the guest actress for the holonovel article. Thank you for your help as always! Aoba47 (talk) 04:57, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

@Aoba47: I would say that it is actually reliable. It's the news hub for TrekNation, which in itself has a long link with the official Star Trek website and is affiliated with UGO Networks. Until recently, it was one of only four fan websites linked to from the official site, alongside TrekMovie.com, TrekWeb.com and actually I forget the fourth off the top of my head. But going back even further, around 2004-7ish, TrekToday/Nation stories were actually promoted on the official website. I've certainly used them as sources for GA's, and I've got a review from TrekNation in one FA and the ratings for DS9 in another. So I'd say go for it. Miyagawa (talk) 10:49, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
Awesome! I will definitely use an article from the website then, as it is very helpful to the page. Thank you for your response. Aoba47 (talk) 15:40, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

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Bruce Mars

Confused by your reverting me putting all the references under references... Red Rose 13 (talk) 20:48, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

The article is using a dual references system. The main citations (including the harvard citations for the books) were under the notes section. Then the actual book details were under the references section. It's pretty normal. But there's no need to repeat the web citations in both sections. Miyagawa (talk) 20:52, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

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About Game of Thrones: Season 6 Episodes Again

Hello Miyagawa. I just wanted to ask you again if you have time could you look at(review) some of the episode from Game of Thrones (season 6) that are up for a Good Article nomination, as you know they have been up for a nomination for a while now.
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Thanks in advance. AffeL (talk) 14:13, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

No worries, I'll at least get to a couple of them. It won't be until after tomorrow - afraid there's a bit of a Star Trek main page invasion planned and I need to be on top of things just in case. Miyagawa (talk) 18:48, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

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On 8 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gary Hutzel, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Gary Hutzel was nominated for more than 20 Emmy Awards, winning two for Battlestar Galactica and one each for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gary Hutzel. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Gary Hutzel), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Star Trekkin'

On 8 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Star Trekkin', which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the phrase "It's life, Jim, but not as we know it" did not originate in Star Trek, but instead in the parody song "Star Trekkin'"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Star Trekkin'. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Star Trekkin'), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Anniversary

Precious again, your The Man Trap (and the suppoting DYK) "the prime candidate for the front page spot on September 8th this year to mark the 50th anniversary"!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:49, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Development of Spock

On 8 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Development of Spock, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that during the development of Spock, both DeForest Kelley and Martin Landau were offered the role before Leonard Nimoy (pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Development of Spock. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Development of Spock), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:01, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Ronald B. Moore

On 8 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ronald B. Moore, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ronald B. Moore won five Emmy Awards for his work on the Star Trek franchise? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ronald B. Moore. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ronald B. Moore), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:01, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Family (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

On 8 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Family (Star Trek: The Next Generation), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Family" was the first episode of the franchise not to have any scene set on the bridge? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Family (Star Trek: The Next Generation). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Family (Star Trek: The Next Generation)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:01, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Sarek (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

On 8 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sarek (Star Trek: The Next Generation), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Michael Piller felt that the mention of Spock in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Sarek" opened the doors to further references to The Original Series? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sarek (Star Trek: The Next Generation). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Sarek (Star Trek: The Next Generation)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:01, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Star Trek: Starship Creator

On 8 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Star Trek: Starship Creator, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Star Trek: Starship Creator allowed players to import photographs of themselves into the game? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Star Trek: Starship Creator. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Star Trek: Starship Creator), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:01, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Lincoln Enterprises

On 8 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lincoln Enterprises, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett transported some old Star Trek footage from a film vault, it was sold as film clips by Lincoln Enterprises? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lincoln Enterprises. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Lincoln Enterprises), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:01, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Steven W. Carabatsos

On 8 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Steven W. Carabatsos, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Gene Roddenberry pranked Steven W. Carabatsos on his first day on Star Trek by inflating a weather balloon in his office? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Steven W. Carabatsos. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Steven W. Carabatsos), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:02, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Galileo (Star Trek)

On 8 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Galileo (Star Trek), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in exchange for the model kit license for Star Trek, Aluminum Model Toys built full-size props of the Galileo (pictured) shuttlecraft? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Galileo (Star Trek). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Galileo (Star Trek)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 16:01, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Actually it was 0.999999999 x the size, so you're wrong, not full size at all. Ah, the state of DYKs these days eh Fram? ;-)♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:43, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Victor Lundin

On 8 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Victor Lundin, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Victor Lundin, who portrayed the first Klingon seen in Star Trek, had auditioned for the role of Spock? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Victor Lundin. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Victor Lundin), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 16:01, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Star Trek: Enterprise

On 8 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Star Trek: Enterprise, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Scott Bakula was the only actor considered to play Jonathan Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Star Trek: Enterprise. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Star Trek: Enterprise), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 16:01, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Linda DeScenna

On 8 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Linda DeScenna, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that set designer Linda DeScenna was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction on five occasions, for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner, The Color Purple, Rain Man, and Toys? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Linda DeScenna. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Linda DeScenna), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 16:01, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for The Infinite Vulcan

On 8 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Infinite Vulcan, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that with the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode "The Infinite Vulcan", Walter Koenig became the first Star Trek actor to write for the franchise? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Infinite Vulcan. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, The Infinite Vulcan), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 16:01, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for World Enough and Time

On 8 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article World Enough and Time, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that "World Enough and Time", an episode of the fan production Star Trek: New Voyages, was nominated for both a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award, competing against professionally made episodes? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/World Enough and Time. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, World Enough and Time), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 16:02, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Ro Laren

On 8 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ro Laren, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ro Laren was intended to be a main character in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but actress Michelle Forbes rejected the role? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ro Laren. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ro Laren), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 16:02, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

  The Invisible Barnstar
On behalf of all the GA Cup judges, we would like to congratulate you on making it past Round 1 and into Round 2 of the 2016 GA Cup! Although you didn't make the top 8 for Round 3, you reviewed articles which further contributes to the GA process and we thank you for that. We hope to see you at the next competition! MrWooHoo (TC) 20:51, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Lettonie (restaurant)

On 14 September 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lettonie (restaurant), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that dishes at the two Michelin star Lettonie included scrambled duck egg flambéed with vodka and served with Sevruga caviar? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lettonie (restaurant). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Lettonie (restaurant)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:01, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Military history WikiProject coordinator election

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Your GA nomination of Janice Rand

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GA Cup Announcement

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Your GA nomination of Janice Rand

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DYK for Restaurant Andrew Fairlie

On 1 October 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Restaurant Andrew Fairlie, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Restaurant Andrew Fairlie is known for a signature dish of lobster cold smoked over whisky casks? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Restaurant Andrew Fairlie. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Restaurant Andrew Fairlie), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 04:49, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject Food and drink Newsletter: October 2016

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Flag of Guernsey DYK

Hi Miyagawa. Would you be able to put the green tick back on Template:Did you know nominations/Flag of Guernsey after the alterations? I only ask because the holding date is fast approaching. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 09:03, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

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Nomination for merging of Template:USSR dogs

 Template:USSR dogs has been nominated for merging with Template:Russian dogs. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Cavalryman V31 (talk) 20:26, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Africa Destubathon

You'll be pleased to know that the grants have all been approved, there's $2385, about £1945 going into this. Though it's intended Amazon vouchers where contestants earn over £80 I would be happy to make the reward a British Library subscription etc. If you and anybody else really want that more than the Amazon vouchers and it's going to benefit wikipedia I can arrange that but I'll need your help on arranging it and contributing towards getting them haha!♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:12, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

Having some more input offwiki and hearing about international editors who might prefer JSTOR access than Amazon vouchers, I've tweaked the prize winning to include subscriptions to British Library, JSTOR and anything else. But enough has to be earned to cover the subscription cost or strongly go towards it in the contest to earn that of course. So here's you chance to get that wanted subscription!♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:08, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

Awesome news! Miyagawa (talk) 21:05, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Samia Yusuf Omar

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Your GA nomination of Rhodesia at the 1928 Summer Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Somalia at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Somalia at the 2008 Summer Olympics 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 Jaguar -- Jaguar (talk) 15:01, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ghana at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Ghana at the 2010 Winter Olympics 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 Jaguar -- Jaguar (talk) 15:01, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Morocco at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Morocco at the 2010 Winter Olympics 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 Jaguar -- Jaguar (talk) 15:01, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Somalia at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Somalia at the 2016 Summer Olympics 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 Jaguar -- Jaguar (talk) 15:02, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Samia Yusuf Omar

Expansion work like that you can still add the article to the main list at the bottom, but obviously won't count for the destubathon. Once it passes I'll jsut add a GA icon by it then. I'll add it for you.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:28, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, will do. Hadn't planned on expanding it but came across the story while working on the first Somalian Olympic article I did and it was just so sad that I felt it needed an expansion and tidy. Miyagawa (talk) 15:51, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Can you remember to update the articles on the main page at the bottom and update your entries with GA icons and GA count in total there? It's veyr time consuming running this, so if you could always add you own entries to the main list too and keep a record of the GAs there it's one less thing to worry about!♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:01, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Will do from now on. Miyagawa (talk) 20:22, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Somalia at the 2008 Summer Olympics

The article Somalia at the 2008 Summer Olympics 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:Somalia at the 2008 Summer Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jaguar -- Jaguar (talk) 17:41, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Somalia at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Somalia at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Ghana at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article Ghana at the 2010 Winter Olympics 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:Ghana at the 2010 Winter Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jaguar -- Jaguar (talk) 18:21, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Morocco at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article Morocco at the 2010 Winter Olympics 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:Morocco at the 2010 Winter Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jaguar -- Jaguar (talk) 18:21, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ghana at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article Ghana at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:Ghana at the 2010 Winter Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jaguar -- Jaguar (talk) 18:41, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Morocco at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The article Morocco at the 2010 Winter Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:Morocco at the 2010 Winter Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jaguar -- Jaguar (talk) 18:41, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Somalia at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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Africa Destubathon

Hi, thanks for your work so far! Can you do me a favour though and always add every entry you do to the main list here as well as the entries page, regardless if yet approved or not as that's the master list of all articles being done. It's just veyr time consuming for me to be judging the articles, trying to contribute myself and chasing up what people have done and filling it out for people each time. So if you can take care of that this would be a great help, there's some part filled out ones underneath so you just need to add country, article name and then you username. Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:33, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

No worries! Miyagawa (talk) 21:38, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

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Watchlist message

Hi, can you get somebody to correct it to "almost $2400", there's a lot more than $1500 in funding on this! The max to win is $1800 odd, but multiple people will win a share in about $2380.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:03, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

I added some new bonus features for GAs on women higher importance African women bios and central core articles. The womens one are each worth 3 GAs and the central core ones worth 5 GAs a piece!♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:16, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, one further slight tweak though "Amazon vouchers/paid subscription resources" might be more accurate now ;-)♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:16, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

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Maria Mutola

Miyagawa and MWright96 I've put Maria Mutola on the x5 GA core list Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon/Prizes and bonuses. High importance for African athletics. Thought she might interest you. Collaboration will be permitted if you were both interested.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:54, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Senegal at the 1984 Winter Olympics

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Miyagawa, this community GA reassessment is still open and still hanging around, but there have been major improvements to the article in the interim. I just struck my original "delist", posted shortly after yours back in March, and replaced it with a "keep". I was wondering whether you'd be interested in taking another look at whether it meets the GA criteria. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 07:04, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

You're quite right, I don't see any issues with it now. In the current state, there wouldn't be any question about bringing it to GAR. Miyagawa (talk) 08:41, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Senegal at the 1992 Winter Olympics

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Your GA nomination of Senegal at the 1992 Winter Olympics

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There's triple GA score points on each African gold Olympic medalist promoted to GA, so those are worth three GAs each for each promoted.♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:37, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

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Would this book interest you?♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:21, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

Very interesting. Annoyingly it isn't on the UK Amazon. I'm currently mostly using a preview of the Dictionary of African Biography volume 6 which is on Google Books (hence my sometimes sporadic country submissions). Miyagawa (talk) 09:31, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
As we haven't a prize for history yet I was going to see if somebody in the US could donate it for doing the most history entries.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:49, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

Invitation from Wikipedia Asian Month 2016

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DYK for The Restaurant Marco Pierre White

On 28 October 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Restaurant Marco Pierre White, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 1995, the eponymous chef of The Restaurant Marco Pierre White became the youngest to win three Michelin stars? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Restaurant Marco Pierre White. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, The Restaurant Marco Pierre White), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter: November 2016

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Books and Bytes - Issue 19

  The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 19, September–October 2016
by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti

  • New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
  • New Library Card Platform and Conference news
  • Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links

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WikiCup 2016 November newsletter: Final results

The final round of the 2016 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2016 WikiCup top three finalists:

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:

  • Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a three-way tie with themselves for two FAs in each of R2, R3, and R5).
  • Good Article – MPJ-DK had 14 GAs promoted in R3.
  • Featured List –   Calvin999 (submissions) produced 2 FLs in R2
  • Featured Pictures – Adam Cuerden restored 18 images to FP status in R4.
  • Featured Portal –   SSTflyer (submissions) produced the only FPO of the Cup in R2.
  • Featured Topic –   Cyclonebiskit (submissions) and Calvin were each responsible for one FT in R3 and R2, respectively.
  • Good Topic – MPJ-DK created a GT with 9 GAs in R5.
  • Did You Know – MPJ-DK put 53 DYKs on the main page in R4.
  • In The News –   Dharmadhyaksha (submissions) and   Muboshgu (submissions), each with 5 ITN, both in R4.
  • Good Article Review – MPJ-DK completed 61 GARs in R2.

Over the course of the 2016 WikiCup the following content was added to Wikipedia (only reporting on fixed value categories): 17 Featured Articles, 183 Good Articles, 8 Featured Lists, 87 Featured Pictures, 40 In The News, and 321 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:52, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

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WikiProject Good Articles's 2016-2017 GA Cup
 

Greetings, all!

We would like to announce the start of the 4th GA Cup, a competition that seeks to encourage the reviewing of Good article nominations! Thus far, there have been three GA Cups, which were successful in reaching our goals of significantly reducing the traditionally long queue at GAN, so we're doing it again. Currently, there are over 400 nominations listed. We hope that we can again make an impact this time.

The 4th GA Cup will begin on November 1, 2016. Four rounds are currently scheduled (which will bring the competition to a close on February 28, 2017), but this may change based on participant numbers. We may take a break in December for the holidays, depending on the results of a poll of our participants taken shortly after the competition begins. The sign-up and submissions process will remain the same, as will the scoring.

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WikiProject Good Articles's 2016-2017 GA Cup

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016-2017 GA Cup
 

Greetings, all!

We would like to announce the start of the 4th GA Cup, a competition that seeks to encourage the reviewing of Good article nominations! Thus far, there have been three GA Cups, which were successful in reaching our goals of significantly reducing the traditionally long queue at GAN, so we're doing it again. Currently, there are over 400 nominations listed. We hope that we can again make an impact this time.

The 4th GA Cup will begin on November 1, 2016. Four rounds are currently scheduled (which will bring the competition to a close on February 28, 2017), but this may change based on participant numbers. We may take a break in December for the holidays, depending on the results of a poll of our participants taken shortly after the competition begins. The sign-up and submissions process will remain the same, as will the scoring.

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If you have any questions, take a look at the FAQ page and/or contact one of the judges.

Cheers from 3family6, Figureskatingfan, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. We apologize for the delay in sending out this message until after the competition has started. Thank you to Krishna Chaitanya Velaga for aiding in getting this message out.

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Bibiro Ali Taher

Please be careful when adding information to biographical articles. I had to revert [3] this edit as it is false. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 19:56, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Well I can only add information that is in the sources. In that case, there is no question that the source is reliable, so I wouldn't double check every claim made in a reliable source. Miyagawa (talk) 20:18, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Book prize

Well done! Perhaps Dthomsen8 can arrange to send you it. If you get it before the end of the contest you could even use it!♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:30, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

What can I do, and why?--Dthomsen8 (talk) 16:44, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
Dthomsen8, Dr. B is referring to the copy of Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa that I won at Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon/Entries for special claims. Miyagawa (talk) 16:59, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
 
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GA Nomination

Status of GA nomination:

I may need a 2nd opinion in this one. See the talk page to know why. iFutbol Que tal?  01:22, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of La Tante DC10 Restaurant

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Your GA nomination of La Tante DC10 Restaurant

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Book

Did you get your book afterwards?♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:57, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

I passed on my details, but I haven't received it yet. Miyagawa (talk) 16:58, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

@Dthomsen8: Did you send it? Apologies for paying shipping but the book wasn't much itself and I think Miyagawa and the contest has been worth it!♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:03, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay. I will send it tomorrow. --Dthomsen8 (talk) 19:46, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
You might need to do a Quintruple GA scorer this weekend as Sturmvogel has done two now and looks on to win the top GA prize!♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:38, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
Sturm's got it in the bag probably. I'm just happy that my initially big GA numbers inspired someone else to come along and beat it. I've got two goals for the weekend - I've got two more countries to go before I've worked up an article for at least one each, and then I'm going to try to do as many articles as possible to ensure that the target goal is reached. Miyagawa (talk) 18:11, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
Well, there's $50 for second anyway. You've certainly done some excellent work for this, and more motivated than you were even for Dragon throughout. If the Quintruple GA mechanism meant that it made one editor tackle a few on that main core list, then it had a good purpose after all, for a while there I didn't think anybody would do one, not that any articles promoted to GA isn't good! The GA thing was just a side dish on this, at some point you could probably run a core contest for Africa using those lists, but this served its purpose well!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:08, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
@Dthomsen8: @Dr. Blofeld: I just wanted to say thanks to you both, I received the book in the post today. I'll be sure to use it as intended - to make sure that every single listing has a Wiki page wherever possible. Miyagawa (talk) 17:07, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

Women and destub

 Hello ! I published a brand new fresh barnstar on your barnstar page :) Thank you ! Anthere (talk)

Well done! Dthomsen can hopefully sort out giving you the $200 (about $160), from that it would be easier to get your subscription, you might want $200 cash for that to go towards it. When I get the money from WMF I'll get you $175 in Amazon vouchers, about £140, or if you prefer I can use some of it to buy you some books using it to be delivered to your door for future articles, so in total you've got around £300 on this. Not bad!♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:43, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Great, thanks! Miyagawa (talk) 17:02, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

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DYK

Now that the African Destubathon and Asian Month are over, normal activities can be resumed! I haven't submitted many DYKs recently because the destubs I did for the Africa contest often would not have qualified and sometimes lacked polish, and anyway there was little time to submit the nominations and do QPQs. I enjoyed taking part in the contest.

I saw your comment on one DYK nomination template, later struck out, that you were put off building prep sets because of the excessive criticism on the DYK discussion page. I think you will find that these criticisms have largely died down. Anyway, it would be very helpful if you could build a prep set or two, because I have been doing this job largely unassisted, and cannot promote most of the oldest approved nominations because I reviewed the hooks myself or some such reason. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:53, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

Glad to hear the issues there have died off a bit. Despite quite a few of the articles I worked up on the destubathon qualifying for DYK purposes, I didn't nominate any of them because it simply wasn't worth the hassle. I'll take a look at the prep sets, as I always enjoyed putting them together before. Miyagawa (talk) 11:19, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
And yet, two sets created and a hook from each pulled on each occasion. I'll persevere - at least for the time being there isn't the attempt at public shaming or finger pointing as there has been in the past. Miyagawa (talk) 17:19, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Sorry if I misled you. Things have been quiet for several weeks until today's episode. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:14, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Morocco at the 2014 Winter Olympics

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Odd DYK edit

Hi Miyagawa, can you explain this edit? Did you mean to archive as "not promoted"? Nikkimaria (talk) 02:28, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Yep, I meant to close as not promoted - I've gone back and fixed that. Miyagawa (talk) 09:52, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Chinese frigate Yu-yuen

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Prize

Hi, did Dthomsen send you the $200 for the women bios after? Did you use it to buy yourself the wanted subscription? Email me and I'll send you the remaining in Amazon vouchers, providing you've got your subscription.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:12, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

I haven't received anything yet. I'll drop you an email now. Miyagawa (talk) 13:19, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
I'll need you to send your email address as I see wiki now hides the email address when sent from wiki.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:26, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
Ah, I didn't realise. New email coming in a mo. Miyagawa (talk) 13:27, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

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The WikiCup

I have just become a WikiCup judge, a role you used to have, I remember. Last year the WikiCup had fewer entries than previously and I asked Dr. Blofeld how one went about getting a banner advertising an editor event on each editor's page. He replied "The central notice banner has to be proposed on meta wiki I think. Ask Casliber or Miyagawa if you want the WikiCup publicized like that". So, can you give me any information on how it is done? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:51, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

@Cwmhiraeth: I've previously used the Watchlist banner notices (I did this for the Cup back in 2014 and it seemed to work quite well). It's fairly simple - request a message at MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-details. Here's the diff for when I added a request for the Africa Destubathon [4]. Miyagawa (talk) 11:20, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
Thank you. I should think a banner message for a week or two after Christmas would increase participation in the Cup. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:36, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
It was quite effective back in 2014. I'd suggest you start with a request to run it through the sign up period and see what they come back with. My only warning, is that you will get a lot of inexperienced editors, especially if you mention the money element, so this did create quite the workload in the first couple of rounds for checking. Miyagawa (talk) 12:11, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

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