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	Please don't blank pages that have been placed on AfD; it stifles discussion. ] 09:04, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
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	== on ~~CBG~~ ==		== WikiCup 2018 November newsletter ==
	from the various page histories, but my reverting your blankings but not responding to yr msg on my talk was not intentional rudeness; i noticed the former almost immediately, but it actually took overnite before i realized you'd left me a msg.<br>
	_ _ I'm pretty sure the AfD passed its 5-plus-days quota last nite, but i'm not going to be the one to call the result: IIRC, it's two rock-solid Dels, one shaky Keep, and (with your de facto change of vote) one on each side by two newcomers whom almost any admin would discount. IMO, a noncontroversial Delete result, but still, close enuf to the 2:1 borderline that, in the context of my role in the high emotion, i want to be Caesar's wife. But i will try to facilitate someone's calling it promptly, after which it will fade from attention even more quickly than if you kept blanking it (which would get your acct blocked & ''draw'' attention to it). <br>
	_ _ (At present, both the AfD and the article rank 0 on my Google tool-bar, but it's probably not even been crawled yet. ], which underwent a big AfD fuss 11 months ago, is a 3 out of 10, but ] is by now a 0 despite all the User-contributions pages that lk to it. I think you can count on the AfD coming onto Google as a 1 or 0 and fading quickly to 0; it is lk'd (other than Special pages like contribs) only from the article and the AfD day-page, which will soon be lk'd only from some user sub-pages and other progressively more obscure pages. The article in question (i make a pt here of not lk'g to it!) will be visible only to admins who go looking for it, once deleted (which, as i've implied, seems ensured).)<br>--]•] 17:19, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

			The WikiCup is over for another year! Our '''Champion''' this year is {{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant9\|Courcelles}}, who over the course of the competition has amassed 147 GAs, 111 GARs, 9 DYKs, 4 FLs and 1 ITN. Our finalists were as follows:
	You wrote on my talk:
	:== Per your comment on Brian0918's page: ==

			#{{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant9\|Courcelles}}
	:*No worries about bringing me further grief. My posting the article in the first place was nothing more than the misguidedness of a newbie. <i>The sooner the better for it to come down</i>, in my opinion. It does not matter to me who deletes it, I have saved the text and may forward it to the people who put up christopherbgibson.com a couple months ago. (Hope that will not violate any wikipedia copyright rules protecting deleted content). --] 02:05, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
			#{{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant9\|Kosack}}
	_ _ That ''is'' comforting, and i won't do anything further to hasten resolution; it ''will'' get called sooner or later (presumably as "consensus to delete"), tho backlogs do build up.<br>
			#{{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant9\|Kees08}}
	_ _ On the other hand, i'm concerned not to set any potential bad examples, and your go ahead doesn't really ensure not being perversely cited as a precedent for some third party's bad behavior.<br>
			#{{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant9\|SounderBruce}}
	_ _ Don't be concerned about using an old revision; the only problem with using ''anything'' within an article's history of revisions is if it includes material that was neither original to the editor nor in the public domain -- and then, using it is no tort against WP, but only against the copyright holder. (The only relevance re old revisions can i think of is that when we find out about a copyvio, we may make a new revision by removing the protected material from the current revision, w/o necessarily removing from the history all the revisions that included that protected material.) (BTW, just in case you care, WP holds no copyrights on contributions to the articles; IIRC, technically the contributor retains the copyright but gives up virtually all the rights that copyright is supposed to protect. I've never read the license, but i think it's something like you give everyone in the world the right to contest, as if on your behalf, any third party's claim that ''they'' have a copyright to the material.)<br>--]•] 03:53, 13 October 2005 (UTC)<br>
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	== Canadian Fleabane ==
	** Sorry but you are too quick off the mark. Connyza canadensis is not Connyza equisiteum although they are similar and sometimes confused. Both have been called Horseweed. I was trying to draw attention to the difference. ] 07:49, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
	::*Sorry ping, but you're over my head on that. Better to sort it out on the articles talk page.] 08:01, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

			All those who reached the final win awards, and awards will also be going to the following participants:
	==Remember This One==
	Hawk a poozeler
	fare tha do- You wrote that Pooter Cobb ( which is slang for "cornhole" which should be a deletable user name)
	what was that all about? you obviously have 2 ids which makes one a sockpuppett.
	: **Pooter Cobb was a character in a story by ] recently deleted from wikipedia for lack of notability. I did indeed post "Hawk a poozler" and "fare thee do" I also posted "now everyone allemande" as all three were expressions of Pooter Coob (Urban Trapper). These were all posted as graffiti on Chris' site prior to it being taken down. Something of an inside joke that Mr Gibson would have found hysterically funny (may he rest in peace). Regarding the slang term: that had escaped me and I will no longer sign anything with that name. As for the sock-puppet: the user page and talk page both redirect to my userpage (which I did after abandoning the pootercobb site). I have also subsequently requested deletion of the pootercobb user and talk page. Hope this explains things for you well enough.--] 19:13, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
	*::Speaking of sock-puppets, user:219.93.174.101, who am I speaking to? --] 19:41, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
	** I can't think of where it's discussed at the moment, but if you prefer (and if can can convince someone who knows how to do it that you are indeed the owner of both usernames, probably by leaving two messages saying so, one edited with each of the two of the usernames), the edits by one can be re-attributed to the other. (However, that's entirely up to you; there's no obligation to do so.)<br>--]•] 00:33, 14 October 2005 (UTC)<br>
	* The anon IP above should consult ], in order to become aware that WP's critique of sockpuppetry focuses not on that status per se, but on the use of socks in voting. Unless i missed something, there is no reason to point this one out.<br>--]•] 00:33, 14 October 2005 (UTC)<br>
	**The above IP should also note that its address is linked to some rather less innocent incidents of vandalism than my posting "Haw-a-poozler" randomly on some non-notable site. Check out the contribution log associated with that address.] 01:01, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

			*{{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant9\|Casliber}} wins the FA prize, for three featured articles in round 2.
	== 56 Aquilae ==
			*{{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant9\|Courcelles}} wins the GA prize, for 92 good articles in round 3.
			*{{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant9\|Kosack}} wins the FL prize, for five featured lists overall.
			*{{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant9\|Cartoon network freak}} wins the topic prize, for 30 articles in good topics overall.
			*{{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant9\|Usernameunique }} wins the DYK prize, for 24 did you know articles in round 3.
			*{{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant9\|Zanhe}} wins the ITN prize, for 17 in the news articles overall.
			*{{Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Participant9\|Aoba47}} wins the GAR prize, for 43 good article reviews in round 1.

			Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!
	Thank you for reconsidering. --] ] ] ] 04:19, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

			Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition.
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	The above talkpage items are copied from my previous username Daniel Lotspeich. This username has been abandoned (in case any questions of sockpuppetry or other misdoings may come about). I'm looking to establish myself as a contributing member of the community here...

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	== Bio's ==
	Bio's are allowed on peoples Talk pages, just not in the main Misplaced Pages namespace. ] <sup><small><b>]</b></sup></small> 19:51, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
	:*Okay. My mistake.--] 19:53, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

			And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2. With 56 contestants qualifying, each group in Round 2 contains seven contestants, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for Round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining contestants.
	== I was wondering ==

			Our top scorers in Round 1 were:
	...does my signature look bad or something; I may change it back or do something with it.'''<font color=#808000>]] ] ]</font><br>'''
	-No...it looks kinda cool in a funky way. Maybe a little busy. I had read something about overly involved signatures slowing pages down, but not sure how much there is behind that.--] <sup><small><b>]</sup></small></b> 04:18, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

			*{{flagicon\|USA}} ], a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with ten good articles on submarines for a total of 357 points.
	Take this deletionist barnstar for your work on VfDs
			*] {{u\|Adam Cuerden}}, a WikiCup veteran, came next with 274 points, mostly from eight featured pictures, restorations of artwork.
			*{{flagicon\|Denmark}} ], a wrestling enthusiast, was in third place with 263 points, garnered from a featured list, five good articles, two DYKs and four GARs.
			*{{flagicon\|USA}} ] came next at 243, with a featured article and a good article, both on ancient helmets.
			*] ] was in joint fifth place with 224 points, mostly garnered from bringing the ] to featured article status.
			*{{flagicon\|Ohio}} ] was also on 224, with an amazing number of good article reviews (56 actually).

			These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews on 143 good articles, one hundred more than the number of good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Well done all!
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	I don't know if this ] was meant to be tounge-in-cheek or not, but I think it might not be that bad an idea, actually. Would certainly help reduce vanity article creation, I'd think, and certainly cut down on lists. ] 06:35, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
	:*Not really tongue in cheek at all. I've read some of Jimi Wales stuff on the future of WP and it seems that AFD is a major problem at the moment. I love it that WP is readily accessible to everyone with an internet hookup. I love it that its open-source. Still, it seems that placing some restriction (at least a restriction that new articles need be placed by people with an actual username and not just anonymously) could seriously curtail the spam and vanity and patent nonsense that I see taking up loads of time on AFD that would be better focused on improving the solid but less than ideal articles already in place.--]<sup><small><b>]</sup></small></b> 06:45, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
	**As someone who has created about 600 articles, including about 100 in 2 days, "votes to create" is a very bad idea. It would likely be much worse than VFD is now, in terms of backlog. — <small>]] • 2005-10-15 16:46</small>
	**Point taken.--] <sup><small><b>]</sup></small></b> 16:55, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
	***I think they should simply create a set of articles on every possible subject, up front, and then let the a-nones fill them in as they see fit. Meanwhile, where is the Yale University "Boola Boola" song on that list? ] 16:59, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
	****You mean "Boola Boola" has not been written yet?!--] <sup><small><b>]</sup></small></b> 17:04, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
	*****I just now added it. Since they're going to delete the page anyway, it's no harm. However, I don't get why they would delete this trivial but ''factual'' page, while retaining and stubbornly defending the tabloid junk article about whether we went to the moon or not. ] 17:18, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

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	Hi, Gaff, nice to see you again. I'm not sure whether i bear a big responsibity for your sense of, uh, needing to try another foot; should i ask more about this? In any case, i of course welcome the change, if it helps you to feel at home. I'm hard enough to listen to that inviting you to ask for information may not amount to a friendly gesture (!), but please feel free. Looking forward to your participation,<br>
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	On AFD I spotted a comment where you mentioned reading stuff by Jimmy Wales on the future of Misplaced Pages, and in particular AFD. Where can I find this - I'd be interested to see what he has to say on the subject. Cheers! ] 12:17, 15 October 2005 (UTC) (please reply on my talk page - thanks!)
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	:*Not sure where I read that. If I stumble upon it again, I'll drop you a line.--] <sup><small><b>]</sup></small></b> 16:40, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
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	If you don't think it's true, delete it. ] 12:32, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

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	Hold the phone. Go into google and enter "kurt vonnegut" "mark twain" "resemblance" and you will get several hits, independent of, and prior to, my entry... and stated even more strongly, such as these: Should I add these citations to the article? ] 12:49, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

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	Never mind, I'll do it. ] 13:01, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
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	I moved your comments from the anon user's main page to their talk page. I assume thats where you wanted them to go. I had already test1'ed them for the vandalism, but its good to see other people watching out for Poe. :) --] 13:28, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

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	I bet your late friend had more verifiable notability than the claims that we didn't go to the moon. ] 18:04, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

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	Awesome. No wonder they say the hippo is the most dangerous animal in Africa. That guy could take a bite out of a Cape Buffalo any day. ] 18:08, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

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	Yes, yes it is. The best part, though, is that <i>your</i> style can be part of <i>our</i> style... --] ] 18:35, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2018 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is Courcelles (submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 147 GAs, 111 GARs, 9 DYKs, 4 FLs and 1 ITN. Our finalists were as follows:

All those who reached the final win awards, and awards will also be going to the following participants:

Cas Liber (submissions) wins the FA prize, for three featured articles in round 2.
Courcelles (submissions) wins the GA prize, for 92 good articles in round 3.
Kosack (submissions) wins the FL prize, for five featured lists overall.
Cartoon network freak (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 30 articles in good topics overall.
Usernameunique (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 24 did you know articles in round 3.
Zanhe (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 17 in the news articles overall.
Aoba47 (submissions) wins the GAR prize, for 43 good article reviews in round 1.

Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2019 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 Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email) and Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email).

WikiCup 2019 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2. With 56 contestants qualifying, each group in Round 2 contains seven contestants, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for Round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining contestants.

Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

L293D, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with ten good articles on submarines for a total of 357 points.
Adam Cuerden, a WikiCup veteran, came next with 274 points, mostly from eight featured pictures, restorations of artwork.
MPJ-DK, a wrestling enthusiast, was in third place with 263 points, garnered from a featured list, five good articles, two DYKs and four GARs.
Usernameunique came next at 243, with a featured article and a good article, both on ancient helmets.
Squeamish Ossifrage was in joint fifth place with 224 points, mostly garnered from bringing the 1937 Fox vault fire to featured article status.
Ed! was also on 224, with an amazing number of good article reviews (56 actually).

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews on 143 good articles, one hundred more than the number of good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Well done all!

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews.

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Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report

Our 2023 Annual Report is now ready for review.

Highlights:

Introduction
Membership news, obituary and election results
Summary of Drives, Blitzes and the Requests page
Closing words

– Your Guild coordinators: Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the September newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

Election news: Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators, we welcomed Mox Eden to the coordinator team. Dhtwiki remains as Lead Coordinator, and Miniapolis and Wracking returned as assistant coordinators. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist our ombox for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here.

Blitz: 13 of the 24 editors who signed up for the June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 169,404 words comprising 41 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Drive: 38 of the 59 editors who signed up for the July 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 482,133 words comprising 293 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: 10 of the 15 editors who signed up for the August 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 71,294 words comprising 31 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Drive: Sign up here to earn barnstars in our month-long, in-progress September Backlog Elimination Drive.

Progress report: As of 05:14, 11 September 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 233 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,824 articles.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we do without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Mox Eden and Wracking.

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2024 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2024 Newsletter

Hello, and welcome to the December newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since September. If you no longer want this newsletter, you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. If you'd like to be notified of upcoming drives and blitzes, and other GOCE activities, the best method is to add our announcements box to your watchlist.

Election news: The Guild's coordinators play an important role in the WikiProject, making sure ~~nearly~~ everything runs smoothly and on time. Editors in good standing (unblocked and without sanctions) are invited to nominate themselves or another editor to be a Guild coordinator (with their permission, of course) until 23:59 on 15 December (UTC). The voting phase begins at 00:01 on 16 December and runs until 23:59 on 31 December. Questions may be asked of candidates at any stage in the process. Elected coordinators will serve a six-month term from 1 January through 30 June.

Drive: In our September Backlog Elimination Drive, 67 editors signed up, 39 completed at least one copy edit, and between them they edited 682,696 words comprising 507 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: The October Copy Editing Blitz saw 16 editors sign-up, 15 of whom completed at least one copy edit. They edited 76,776 words comprising 35 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Drive: In our November Backlog Elimination Drive, 432,320 words in 151 articles were copy edited. Of the 54 users who signed up, 33 copy edited at least one article. Barnstars awarded are posted here.

Blitz: The December Blitz will begin at 00:00 on 15 December (UTC) and will end on 21 December at 23:59. Sign up here. Barnstars awarded will be posted here.

Progress report: As of 22:12, 7 December 2024 (UTC), GOCE copy editors have completed 333 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,401 articles.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Mox Eden and Wracking.

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