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WikiProject Good Articles's 2014-15 GA Cup - Round 2 Greetings, GA Cup competitors! Wednesday saw the end of Round 1. Jaguar took out Round 1 with an amazing score of 238. In a tight race for second, Peacemaker67 and Ritchie333 finished second and third with 152 and 141 points, respectively. Two users have scored the maximum five bonus points for article length (60,000 characters+). Anotherclown reviewed Spanish conquest of Yucatán (77,350 characters) and MrWooHoo reviewed Communist Party of China (76,740 characters). The longest review was by Bilorv who reviewed Caldas da Rainha. The review was approximately 22,400 characters which earned s/he two bonus points (20, 000 - 29, 999 characters). In Round 1, 117 reviews were completed, making the first round of the GA Cup a success! A total of 86 articles were removed from the backlog during the month of October! We hope to see all remaining users fighting it out in Round 2 so we can lower the backlog as much as possible. To qualify for the second round, one completed review was needed, which 28 users accomplished. Participants have been randomly put into 7 pools of 4; the top 2 in each pool will move onto Round 3. There will also be one wildcard. This means that the participant who comes in 15th place (all pools combined) will also move on. Round 2 will start on November 1 at 0:00:01 UTC and end on November 29 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Round 2 and the pools can be found here Also, remember that a major rule change will go into affect starting on November 1, which marks the beginning of Round Two. Round 1 displayed a weakness in the rules, which we are correcting with this new rule. We believe that this change will make the competition more inherently fair. The new rule is: Your review must provide feedback/suggestions for improvement, and then you must wait until the nominator has responded and all issues/suggestions have been resolved before you can pass the article. Failure to follow this rule will result in disqualification. The judges will strictly enforce this new rule. Good luck and remember to have fun! Cheers from NickGibson3900, Dom497, TheQ Editor and Figureskatingfan. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant still competing, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.

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Please comment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(sports)#Bullpen_catchers Alex (talk) 21:56, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Josh Wells

Might want to delete Josh wells too.--Yankees10 23:22, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

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Assessment request for Monmouth Collage article

Hi Wizardman, Can you assess Monmouth College article? Dozen of edits done to this article to align it with the standards. Substantial enhancements performed recently including writing, structure, photos, and over 60 new citations have been added. I am looking to upgrade from class B to class C. -Rami.shareef (talk) 21:04, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup award

Awarded to Wizardman for participating in the 2014 WikiCup. J Milburn (talk · contribs), The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 21:26, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014: The results

The 2014 WikiCup champion is Godot13 (submissions), who flew the flag of the Smithsonian Institution. This was Godot13's first WikiCup competition and, over the 10 months of the competition, he has produced (among other contributions) two featured lists and an incredible 292 featured pictures, including architectural photographs and scans of historical documents. Cwmhiraeth (submissions), 2012 and 2013 WikiCup champion, came in second, having written a large number of biology-related articles. Casliber (submissions), WikiCup finalist every year since 2010, finished in third.

A full list of our prize-winners follows:

• Godot13 (submissions) wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 181 featured pictures in the final round.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 65 did you knows in the final round.
• Casliber (submissions) wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for four featured articles in the final round.
• Czar (submissions) wins the prize for fourth place
• Sturmvogel 66 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• Bloom6132 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• 12george1 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• ChrisGualtieri (submissions) wins the GA prize for 27 good articles in round 2 and the review prize for 28 good article reviews in round 1.
• Caponer (submissions) wins the FL prize for three featured lists in round 2.
• Sven Manguard (submissions) wins the FPo prize his work on featured portals.
• Figureskatingfan (submissions) wins the topic prize for a nine-article featured topic in round 3.
• ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the news prize for 28 in the news articles in round 3.

Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have participated this year. We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! 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) 22:51, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

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Congratulations

It gives me great pleasure to confirm that you have won fourth prize in the Wikimedia UK Stubs contest. Please can you contact me (fabian.tompsett(at)wikimedia.org.uk) to sort out getting the prize to you. Fabian Tompsett (WMUK) (talk) 11:34, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Help with Tucker Eskew biography

Hi there Wizardman, some time back you reviewed a new draft that I put forward for the Gary Loveman biographical article, and seeing how helpful you were then, I was wondering if you have time to look at another bio for me? On behalf of his firm, Vianovo, I've been working on some updates for the article of political consultant Tucker Eskew. The article has become a bit of a mess and there's some new details that can be added, so I'm looking for help reviewing my suggestions for the article and making the edits if they look good. If you have a moment, would you mind taking a look at the suggestions here? If you're busy elsewhere, I completely understand: do you know any other active editors who might be helpful? So far I've not been able to find an editor via WikiProject Biography or its politics work group. Thanks in advance! 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 14:50, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Hi again, just following up here to say I somehow missed that an editor had replied to me on Talk:Tucker Eskew, however while they'd reviewed the edits and agreed they were fine to add, they seem to be suggesting I make them myself. Since I follow the "bright line" rule, and don't make direct edits myself, would you mind making the addition if they're not able to? Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 20:24, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Hi Wizardman, I've posted a new note to the Tucker Eskew Talk page with more improvements for the article. If you have time, I'd appreciate it if you'd take a look. Thanks in advance! 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 20:38, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Hi again! Just a quick ping here to see if you'd be able to take a look at this, as I've not heard from any other editors. Thanks! 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 20:58, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Hi Wizardman, just checking in here to see if you had a chance to look at the drafted changes I'm proposing for Tucker's page and if you had any questions. Thanks again, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 14:23, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

I actually completely forgot :( I'll take a look either tonight or tomorrow night. Wizardman 23:32, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of William Coddington

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article William Coddington 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 SNUGGUMS -- SNUGGUMS (talk) 06:21, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Hi! Since I did most of the recent development on this article, I will be happy to address the comments and concerns of the GA reviewer. Thanks for nominating the article. Sarnold17 (talk) 12:03, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Copyright checks when performing AfC reviews

Hello Wizardman. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular.

The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.

If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)

If you do find a copyright violation, please do not decline the draft on that basis. Copyright violations need to be dealt with immediately as they may harm those whose content is being used and expose Wikipedia to potential legal liability. If the draft is substantially a copyvio, and there's no non-infringing version to revert to, please mark the page for speedy deletion right away using {{db-g12|url=URL of source}}. If there is an assertion of permission, please replace the draft article's content with {{subst:copyvio|url=URL of source}}.

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TFAR notification

I've nominated an article you helped bring to WP:FA for WP:TFAR consideration, discussion at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/George B. McClellan. — Cirt (talk) 20:12, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Talk:Watermelon/GA1

Wizardman, this review has been abandoned and is probably a candidate for deletion, but the reviewer did make one comment when opening it on October 7 (penultimate edit; the most recent edit was three days later on another GA review that was later closed as abandoned). Even if the review page isn't deleted, the nomination clearly needs to be put back in the pool so another reviewer can pick it up. Thanks. And thanks for the comment about Zanimum on said user's talk page. It's no more than I was thinking, but I didn't feel I could go that far when I wrote my original comment in that thread, so I ended up toning it down. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:37, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

Autopatroller

Hi dear Wizardman, can you please grant me the autopatroller right on this wiki? i have also autopatroller right on meta (check) and i thinks this right will be useful for me here.Best Regards --Grind24talk ??Contribs 13:29, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

Breanna Stewart's rating

I would like to thank Wizardman for providing the rating as I requested, and Elizium23 for defending this IP editor. I am going on with the nomination. 84.127.115.190 (talk) 21:29, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

Template:Wikiproject NRHP

Kindly restore this redirect immediately. If you don't, a deletion review will be filed, and among its reasoning will be the firm reminder that wheel warring typically results in sanctions. Nyttend (talk) 23:46, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

It gets used. What would be your explanation for wheel warring to delete something that's not hurting anything? Nyttend (talk) 05:15, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Yuta Watanabe GA Review Request

Hello,

I would really appreciate it if you took some time to review the Yuta Watanabe page. Its DYK nomination reached the front page, so I don't think there is very much to change here. I personally feel like it has been waiting quite a while since I nominated the article for GA status.

Temple of the Mousy (talk) 02:36, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of William Coddington

The article William Coddington you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:William Coddington for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of SNUGGUMS -- SNUGGUMS (talk) 06:03, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

James Bell

If I address the issues, could you pass as GA instead of me nominating and having to wait nine months again? ~EDDY ^{(talk/contribs)}~ 20:34, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Big Ten

Hi there, I am interested in helping resurrect the Big Ten Conference WikiProject to be similar to similar successful projects for the ACC and Big XII. I am curious what you could tell me about the deletion you made to WikiProject Big Ten and if you think it would be a decent idea to try to rejuvenate the B1G's WikiProject. Thank you!! -- Bnosnhoj (talk) 04:50, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

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GA Cup - Round 3

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The Greek film requests

Hi! I was contacted by the IP editor who posted the requests that you removed.

I think he was confused because the IMDB posts confirm the films existed. I think what you wanted was more than that: reliable sources that show that the film is notable. Anyway I started one of them: The Zero Years.

WhisperToMe (talk) 13:38, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks; all I was asking for was proper linking so that the articles could actually be created (if I don't police that the request pages go to hell quick and become a jumbled mess). Wizardman 17:39, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Fixing GA review subpages with a merge&delete

Hi Wizardman - I mentioned my desire to delete Talk:Adderall/GA1 previously on one of the GAN talkpages after you raised concerns over User:PapaJeckloy's reviews. I noticed you were proactive and deleted Talk:Adderall/GA2 due to inaction on the part of the reviewer (thank you for doing that btw ); I was wondering if you'd be willing to delete Talk:Adderall/GA1 as well. I moved the original subpage to an alternate talk subpage so that it won't be included in the article history, but the page still needs to be deleted in order to make it available for the first non-bullshit GA review of the article. This might be a bit unorthodox, but I've done a few WP:Merge and delete moves like this before - recent examples are in my move log. Seppi333 (Insert 2¢ | Maintained) 02:37, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2015 is just around the corner...

Hello everyone, and may we wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2015 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. We have a few important announcements concerning the future of the WikiCup.

• We would like to announce that Josh (J Milburn) and Ed (The ed17), who have been WikiCup judges since 2009 and 2010 respectively, are stepping down. This decision has been made for a number of reasons, but the main one is time. Both Josh and Ed have found that, over the previous year, they have been unable to devote the time necessary to the WikiCup, and it is not likely that they will be able to do this in the near future. Furthermore, new people at the helm can only help to invigorate the WikiCup and keep it dynamic. Josh and Ed will still be around, and will likely be participating in the Cup this following year as competitors, which is where both started out.
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• The discussions/polls concerning the next competition's rules will be closed soon, and rules changes will be made clear on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring and talk pages. While it may be impossible to please everyone, the judges will make every effort to ensure that the new rules are both fair and in the best interests of the competition, which is, first and foremost, about improving Wikipedia.

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Wikimedia genealogy project

Just wondering if you have any thoughts re: the idea of WMF hosting a genealogy project. If so, feel free to contribute to this discussion. And apologies if I have made this request before. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 18:19, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Restore three review pages please

1. Talk:Ones (Selena album)/GA2
2. Talk:Orelsan et Gringe sont les Casseurs Flowters/GA1
3. Talk:Wings (Bonnie Tyler album)/GA1

Can you restore those three review pages please?

Some time cleared up in my life recently and I'll be able to do those over the next few days.

Thank you,

— Cirt (talk) 13:26, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Done Wizardman 23:09, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Wizardman, it's been ten days with no action on any of these; furthermore, Cirt hasn't edited on Wikipedia since December 15. If it becomes two weeks, perhaps these should be deleted again, and Cirt asked to initiate reviews one at a time going forward. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:09, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

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Hello

Hello, thanks for User:Kitty53/Yukiko Tamaki a while back, but now I just found out I'm not supposed to have hard copies of articles in my userspace. I was not aware of this until now, so can you tell me how to request a page I created for deletion? I don't remember how to do it.Kitty53 (talk) 06:54, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Never mind. I got it.Kitty53 (talk) 03:04, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Took a day off and missed your msg; I would've deleted it no issue; in the future if you have any others just tag it for CSD as U1 - user request. Wizardman 23:31, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

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Jessica Dykstra

You've already told me that I'm a pain in your ass on this subject, and I will give you that you are probably right. What can I say? After writing her original article, I began following her career. Anyway, I got from a fairly reliable source that she will be appearing in Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue. Coupled with the fact that her appearance in Pain and Gain has been added to IMDB, I think there is little question that she is worthy of an article.

You managed to give me a copy of the original article I wrote about her. After she appeared in Pain and Gain, I wrote a second one, which was also deleted. Is there any way you could get me a copy of that?Johnny Spasm (talk) 11:00, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

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Hi! And Happy Holidays! When you thanked me for a couple of edits a few days ago, I discovered your activity with this project, which I had not realized existed. So thank you for that. This has sort of been my focus for the last six months, in respect to films and actors/actresses, so I added my name to the project. Upon looking at the project I see it as a chance to broaden my activity. Quick question: after creating an article, if it is on one of the "missing" lists, should I remove the now "blue link"? Or is there someone who has been designated for that role? Second question: on some of the lists I notice quite a few blue links, should those be verified as pointing to the correct person, and if they do, should they be removed? I did notice one blue link which actually pointed to a different person (sports figure), than the actor, so I changed the wikilink to convert it to a redlink (by adding actor after the name), I hope that was appropriate. Anyway, thanks again. Onel5969 (talk) 16:15, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

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Hi there, I would like to create a factual page for wikipedia about the music producer Romeo Miller. I think I read that you had deleted a previous page about the producer in the past. The instructions said that if I would like to create a page that I should inform you first. I am just leaving a message to inform you that I am creating a page and I will make sure that it is cited with sources. If you see the page and see that I may need to add anything, please do let me know as I am new to creating pages! Thank you MsRhiney-James (talk) 00:55, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

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WikiProject Good Articles's 2014-15 GA Cup - Round 4 Happy New Year! We hope that all of our GA Cup competitors had an enjoyable and safe holiday season. Monday saw the end of Round 3. Eight contestants moved forward to Round 4—the top two contestants from each of Round 3's three pools and the top two participants of all remaining users. It was an exciting competition, especially towards the end. Round 3's highest scorer was Jaguar, Round 2's wildcard, with an impressive 305 points, the highest score in the GA Cup thus far. Pool B was the closest race; J_Milburn and Cwmhiraeth switched places a few times in the final hours of the competition, although J Milburn edged out Cwmhiraeth by just 9 points. Pool A was, by far, the most competitive; four out of five moved onto Round 4, and its competitors earned a cumulative 935 points and reviewed 59 articles. Ritchie333, who came in second overall with 255 points, reviewed the most articles (17). Peacemaker67 and Wizardman earned the two wildcard slots, with 184 and 154 points, respectively. Congrats to all! 114 articles were reviewed this round, as compared to 110 in Round 2 and 117 in Round 1. The key to success in Round 3, like in Round 2, was reviewing articles with the longest nomination dates; everyone who moved forward reviewed articles from the pink nomination box (20 points) or reviewed articles that had languished in the queue for over 5 months (18 points). Many of these articles had languished because their nominators had left Wikipedia and had little chance of passing to GA, so our competitors provided a great service by helping remove them from the queue. Also as in Round 2, The Boat Race articles proved to be popular review choices, with 10% of all the articles reviewed in December. We appreciate the competitors' continued enthusiasm, even during the busy holiday season. At least one competitor even reviewed articles while preparing for a holiday meal! For Round 4, participants have been randomly put in 2 pools of 4 contestants each. The top two in each pool will progress to the finals, as well as the top participant (5th place) of all remaining users. The semi-finals will start on January 1 at 0:00:01 UTC and end on January 29 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Round 4 and the pools can be found here. We received some excellent feedback about how to improve the GA Cup in the future, including the definition of "quickfails" and the use of pools, which we'll seriously consider as we move forward. As a result of this feedback and the experience we've gained, there will be some changes to the rules come next years GA Cup. Good luck to all our semi-finalists! It is the judges' hope that every competitor in the GA Cup continue to have fun and be enthusiastic about reviewing and passing articles to GA! Cheers from Dom497, TheQ Editor and Figureskatingfan. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant still competing, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.

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History of the New York Yankees

Hi Wizardman. Thank you for deciding to take on the GAN review of this article, which is not a small job. I just wanted to let you know that I saw your first batch of comments and am going to address them tomorrow, when I have some free time. Again, thanks, and I'll be on the lookout for your continuing comments. Giants2008 (Talk) 02:20, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

I am disappointed with the speed in which you would delete content which I have added to Lawrence Weiskrantz without contacting me first. Mostly I am disappointed in myself for contributing to a controversy, and then I feel disappointed that sometimes on Wikipedia it is more pleasant to restrain oneself than to participate in dispute resolution. I feel like you have used your admin tools to circumvent conversation and pass judgement without consensus. I was probably wrong in what I did, even though I cannot clearly see how, but I feel like your exercise of hierarchy and rank during a conversation is against Wikimedia community values. When escalating issues to the top very early in a conversation allows disagreements to be settled without an exchange of ideas I doubt that the community is better for it. Thanks for passing judgment as an admin. It must always be hard to make necessary decisions at a time when someone must do this. Thank you for serving as an admin and bureaucrat. I regret that you felt forced to escalate this dispute resolution process to the highest level of authority and that you were powerless to allow the conversation to resolve in lower channels. Thanks also for serving as arb in years past, if I have never thanked you before. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:04, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Was that the correct section which you meant to delete on Weiskrantz

Yesterday you had responded to the following Copyvio request by deleting 2 of the 3 sections in the Bluerasberry version of the article:

"My concern is with Lawrence Weiskrantz.... is it acceptable to copy and paste so much material that basically now makes up the bulk of the article? I think not but the edit was re-established by a third party because they are now using quotes and a link to the copyrighted page. I am concerned about this... pls See Lawrence Weiskrantz - Violation Suspected 80.2% for the text involved (WP:Fairuse and WP:PD)."

However, the tools link in the request shows that the "problem" material appears to be the Career section of his University appointments which you decided to retain, while you deleted the other two sections. The two sections were added transitionally in order to try to advance the article from its long-term stub class status. Of these two sections, only the first section was using quotes from Magdalene College which you deleted, while the other section did not use this citation but rather used a citation from an academic book by Weiskrantz which appears to be unobjectionable in any way. My appeal is that the second section which @Bluerasberry edited with a proper citation from an unobjectionable academic book by Weiskrantz should be restored to the article. The second section was independent of the "Suspected 80.2% violation", and should be restored to the article as competently researched and cited by @Bluerasberry.

This would then allow other editors to continue to build the article towards improvement, perhaps by then adding a "Blindsight" section which was Weiskrantz's claim to fame as a leading voice in 20th century science research. If there is any further research needed for this appeal to restore the second section alone of the two sections you deleted then I can try to provide further supportive material for your review of this appeal for that part of @Bluerasberry's edit. FelixRosch (TALK) 17:24, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

The Oxford section appears to be okay, so I went overboard in deleting that, and it's now restored. I went ahead and rewrote some of the early life section as well in my own words, so that is no longer an issue either. Wizardman 19:14, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

@Wizardman; Your edit was much appreciated by those trying to improve the Page in general. Over this week-end I'll try to get around to do something for the "Blindsight" section which I mentioned above. With some effort, maybe the article will start to move forward from its start class and stub class classification. With greetings of the New Year. FelixRosch (TALK) 19:29, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

So sorry about the GA Reviews

Most apologies, major things have come up in my life, haven't had the time to get to these, sorry! — Cirt (talk) 02:34, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Deleting Draft:WebPositive

Why did you delete the Draft:WebPositive page as a duplicate? Yes the changes in the draft were forgotten to be merged over to the main page during the busy holiday period, but you could of merged the changes into the master WebPositive page instead of just deleting it. Dlpkbr (talk) 23:22, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

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Doubt

Please explain me about this edit.--Vin09 (talk) 07:29, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

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wizardman.. i know that i am just an (redacted) that wants to be admin.. But why can't you give me the chance?... EdLeo99 (talk) 02:15, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Is it just me or do I hear a lot of quacking? Chris Troutman (talk) 03:30, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Parinoush Saniee

Hi, I cleaned this up myself and am very surprised it should come up as infringing copyright. I can only think that the original creator might have lifted the two-sentence description of the content of one of the novels from the novel's blurb – the rest I had almost completely rewritten/rephrased. Can you userfy it for me minus the description of the novels? --Andreas Philopater (talk) 11:23, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

And the titles listed will be the same, but listing the same titles in an author's bibliography as on an author's publicity page is pretty inevitable, and they should be word-for-word the same. That's not an infringement of copyright. --Andreas Philopater (talk) 11:42, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Right, titles are fine, but keeping what comes after ("tells the story of an Iranian girl who...") and not changing it is clearly a copyright issue. I went ahead and created a bare-bones version to use where own words can be used moving forward, since she does appear to be notable. Wizardman 14:46, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! --Andreas Philopater (talk) 17:16, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Deletion query

Hi mate, can you explain the deletion of Merle Norman Cosmetics? Was it tagged for speedy deletion? I know it had issues (there's another discussion from a couple of weeks ago on my talk page). But I know the copyright wasn't "unambiguous" because I rewrote sections of it in my own words. If there were other sections that needed work, fine, but it wasn't even raised for discussion. St★lwart¹¹¹ 14:28, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

It still looks like an almost complete copy of the indeed page to me on the most recent revision. If you did rewrite it then it wasn't a significant enough rewrite. Perhaps I could have kept the one topic sentence, but at that point a copyvio deletion is the best option. Wizardman 14:57, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, the lede was rewritten and the rest was going to be. No idea it was a copyvio. Bit frustrating given the company's history but I don't have the time to fight for it. Clearly people are keen to see it deleted and your deletion was appropriate. Thanks for the reply. St★lwart¹¹¹ 14:06, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Crow Award!

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		Thank you for all you have done to help me with the Boat Race articles. Tonight we hit a landmark, over 50% of the race articles are now Good or Featured Articles, which is a monumental achievement considering that none of the articles even existed eight months ago. Thanks again. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:34, 3 January 2015 (UTC)