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Pakistani Cultural Heritage - Edit Drive

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Captain America 3

done. Keegan (talk) 04:15, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Keegan. --Captain Assassin! 14:12, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: How to Train Your Dragon 3 (film)

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Speedy deletion declined: Jack Ryan (film)

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Speedy deletion declined: Popeye (2016 film)

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This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2014)

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Nomination of Looney Tunes (film) for deletion

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The Queen of the Tearling

I changed a redirect page to a stub article about a film and you reverted it. I would like to know why you reverted it. As an wikipedia editor you must have much more knowledge than I about what it appropriate. I do not understand what was wrong with my edits. Nick Beeson (talk) 15:34, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

@Nwbeeson: No no, there was nothing wrong with your edits, it's just Misplaced Pages policies about future films, please read WP:NFF. We can't create an upcoming film's article until its production / filming starts. Understand? --Captain Assassin! 15:39, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. That is what I needed to know. I did not know that policy.Nick Beeson (talk) 18:06, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

@Nwbeeson: Appreciate the efforts on the book article. We'll create the film article when filming starts. --Captain Assassin! 18:10, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

The Light Between Oceans

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Zarb-e-Azb

Hi. I remember you nominated it for DYK. But now, it has been promoted to GA, feel free to nominate it for DYK again. I bet an interesting hook, like that of the last time proposition of Mar4d would be better. Faizan 12:08, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Here's what he proposed. Faizan 12:12, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Thank you Faizan to inform me, I'm going to re-nominate the article with Mar4d's hook. And you have contributed the article very well, I appreciate your efforts on taking it to GA. --Captain Assassin! 14:50, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Ah.... I think we would not be able to get it through DYK, the message by GA bot on my talk says: "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.". I am sorry. Faizan 15:38, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Allas....apparently they wouldn't let us get it through DYK :(. No problem, looking forward to some other DYK. --Captain Assassin! 15:45, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2014)

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News One

There is a sock playing around with the News One article. They have caused "vandalism" in the past, but it appears they have made good edits that add/delete some material at the same time. They latest edits aren't vandalism, but only add/delete material. Could you take a look and make any changes. Bgwhite (talk) 17:42, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

@Bgwhite: Yeah sure, I'll take a look. In the start people actually do these type of things, I did with Bhawana in the start, I added a lot of content without even knowing what was I doing. I'll do what I can and I'll calm the user down a bit. --Captain Assassin! 17:56, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Pacific Rim (film)

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Tarantino and other stuff

Sup. If you were curious, I thanked you because I had started editing the page to do the exact same thing, and then couldn't find it as you'd fixed it before the page buffered :P If you weren't, well, you know anyway. This isn't related but I'll probably reviewing one of the articles you put up for GA over the weekend. Cool stuff. Corvoe 19:12, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

@Corvoe: Welcome! Yep, it's cool stuff and I'm glad to work with you. It's my first time GA stuff, and I'm doing it to learn what we usually need in a good level article. A friend of mine once also suggested me to get into the GA type stuff to learn something. I hope we'll go-along well, happy editing :). --Captain Assassin! 21:24, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

A cheeseburger for you!

hello brother Sulaimandaud (talk) 00:17, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

• @Sulaimandaud: Hmmm...wow, but I'm with Roza. Aren't you? How's editing going? --Captain Assassin! 00:22, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 30, 2014)

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A Barnstar for signing my guestbook!

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Firstly i signed your other page that had signatures as the title and I said something along the lines of: "Is it this one", cause there was no other signatures and in the history you had removed one. Then I found your real one and said "No its this one ok". NickGibson3900 - Talk - Sign my Guestbook 06:07, 22 July 2014 (UTC) _{P.S. Thanks for signing mine :)}

Upcoming film redirects

Hi. Can you explain why you continue to create redirects for upcoming films that have yet to enter production, despite being blocked for this activity in the last 12 months? Thanks. Lugnuts 17:58, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Lugnuts, Could you list the redirects? Bgwhite (talk) 18:18, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Sure Bgwhite, here are some from the last couple of pages/days from CA's contribution history:

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 5
6. 6
7. 7

Those are the ones going back just to 18th July. Several follow the pattern of 1) create stub 2) slight expansion of stub 3) redirect to director! Lugnuts 18:22, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Lugnuts, thank you. I see the pattern picking up speed in June. But, there a questionable creations earlier. In addition, there are movie articles created without asking me first. Per his unblock agreement, Assassin is supposed to create an article in his sandbox and ask me to movie it. He has been doing this, as evidenced by messages on my talk page, but not doing it for all films. I see this as very serious matter. An explanation is in order. Bgwhite (talk) 20:16, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

@Lugnuts: Yes, I created the redirects but only which have confirmed filming start dates, like you can see 4, 5, 6, and 7, these all have a recent start dates. I didn't create the redirects a rush form I used to create last year. While 1, 2, and 3, were only created to lead readers to their parent article like I did here. You can see, if I've created any bad redirects then I'll ask for punish myself. I only created of films whose development were moving quickly, just to lead readers to main article like everyone has rights to do it. I admitted I did wrong in the past, last year I created redirects of films which weren't supposed to be in development for even in a year or two, but now you can see 4 will begin in early August, 6 in just two days, and 7 in 10 days, and others are also moving fast.

@Bgwhite: Yes ,I created film articles without sandbox, but they were only a few, they were already redirects, so I just added confirmed sources and created them myself. I've only created a few which I can list here, if they seem to be created wrong or have any mistakes, I'll leave Misplaced Pages there. --Captain Assassin! 23:39, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

You agreed not to create articles or redirects without asking first.

Articles and redirects are not to be created until filming has started, not about to start. I got after RAP for the same thing.

Those are two hard and fast rules. DO NOT break these rules again! I'll wait for what Lugnuts thinks before commenting further. Bgwhite (talk) 06:57, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Sounds clear enough to me. Thanks Bgwhite. I'd also prefer if the redirects were deleted per WP:NFF, rather than being redirects to directors/books, etc. Lugnuts 08:22, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

I'm good to go with the rules. --Captain Assassin! 15:43, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Well, this shows you're clearly not. Care to explain? (and @Bgwhite:). Lugnuts 06:50, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

You also created other articles and redirects since 23 July without going thru me. Bgwhite (talk) 21:15, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

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Monster Hunter's Survival Guide listed at Redirects for discussion

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Sea of Trees

DYK nomination of Sea of Trees (film)

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Pakistani Cultural Heritage Edit Drive 2014

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Ford World Headquarters

I have posted a DYK self nom for Ford World Headquarters that needs a review... 842U (talk) 02:37, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! 842U (talk) 13:45, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Category:Magnolia Pictures films

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Ride Along

I don't mean to be rude, but I would strongly recommend cancelling your GA nomination of it. The prose is in need of a lot of work, especially in the plot section. If I were to review it (which I won't, because I've contributed) I would probably quick fail it, to be honest with you. I'm sorry I haven't contributed as much as I planned to—I've barely had any leisure time to watch the film—but I think you should seriously consider rescinding the nomination. Sock (pka Corvoe) _{(my stuff)} 16:09, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Alright Sock, I cancelled GA nom. Now, help me improving the article. I'm not good with the prose, so do it yourself and I'll see and learn. And one other thing, you reviewed the article Chef (film), which I created and expanded in the start, can I add it's GA credits in my contributions? --Captain Assassin! 17:29, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

I don't see why not! Go for it. Also, I will do my best to get the film watched today after work. I don't have any plans today, so I'll see if I can squeeze in some time. Thank you for not taking it personally, I'm glad I didn't offend you or anything. You've done excellent work on the content expansion of the article, don't get me wrong :) I'll leave a message here when I think it's ready. Sound good? Sock (pka Corvoe) _{(my stuff)} 17:34, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Sound's great to me, and I never mind or take personally. I'm kind of a person who laughs when someone even abuse me and you didn't even offend or abuse me. So, please try to watch the film today and get it done. I' good in expanding articles and finding content and sources, so let me know if article needs any of these. Thanks for helping me in this. --Captain Assassin! 17:44, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Pacific Rim (film)

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DYK review

DYK nomination of Pacific Rim (film)

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I reviewed this and have no major issues. Do you need to complete a QPQ? And I'd like someone else to weigh in on the Goya attribution comment that was raised. Thanks-Godot13 (talk) 19:14, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Good to go with the new hook, my error on the QPQ as this appears to be your first DYK.-Godot13 (talk) 14:41, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

No problem Godot13, thanks for the review :). --Captain Assassin! 17:33, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

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DYK for Sea of Trees (film)

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Godzilla 2

Dear colleague! As I see, 20 May 2014‎ you created by three edits the article Godzilla 2, but in the next minute you replaced the article with a redirect. Misplaced Pages has a place not only for the existing films, but for upcoming films too. So, it seems to me, that it is a good idea to restore the article (it means, to undo the last four edits on the mentioned page); why not? Gamliel Fishkin 20:43, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Yes Gamliel Fishkin, there's place for upcoming films but only which are under filming/production per WP:NFF. --Captain Assassin! 01:38, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

See links to sources in the Russian article (the article itself is in Russian, but the linked sources are in English). Gamliel Fishkin 02:55, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

@Gamliel Fishkin: That's usual, not a problem. I've seen sites of other languages here in English wiki. --Captain Assassin! 08:31, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Guardians 2

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Got it Favre1fan93. --Captain Assassin! 18:05, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Globalization (album)

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WikiProject Good articles Future GAN Backlog Drive

Hello everyone! Hope you've all been having a great summer!

TheQ Editor recently proposed the idea of having another Backlog Drive in either September/October or November/December of this year. For those of you who have participated in the past two drives you know I was the one who organized them, however, come September, this will be my most important year in school so I will not be able to coordinate this drive (if it happens). TheQ Editor has volunteered to be a coordinator for the drive. If any of you would like to co-coordinator, please notify TheQ Editor on his talk page.

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This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2014)

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DYK for Pacific Rim (film)

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DYK for Race (2015 film)

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GOCE July drive and August blitz

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inre The Transporter Legacy

Good job. Production meets WP:GNG and filming being confirmed, instruction of WP:NFF(paragraph 3) is met. I have moved your draft to article space, added some cats, and created its talk page. If someone decides to prod it under WP:TOO SOON, explain it to them or ping me. Be well. Schmidt, 23:57, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Alright, thank you MichaelQSchmidt. --Captain Assassin! 01:06, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

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GA Cup

Hello everyone! We hope you have all been having a great summer!

As we all know, the recent GAN Backlog Drives have not had any big impact on the backlog. Because of that, me (Dom497), Figureskatingfan, and TheQ Editor have worked on an idea that could possibly finally put a dent into the massive backlog. Now, I will admit, the idea isn't entirely ours as we have took the general idea of the WikiCup and brought it over to WikiProject Good Articles. But anyways, here's what we have in mind:

For all of you that do not know what the WikiCup is, it is an annual competition between several editors to see who can get the most Good Articles, Featured Article's, Did You Know's, etc. Based of this, we propose to you the GA Cup. This competition will only focus on reviewing Good articles.

For more info on the proposal, click here. As a FYI, the proposal page is not what the final product will look like (if you do go ahead with this idea). It will look very similar to WikiCup's page(s).

The discussion for the proposal will take place here. Please let us know if you are interested, have any concerns, things to consider, etc.

--Dom497, Figureskatingfan, and TheQ Editor

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WikiCup 2014 August newsletter

The final of the 2014 WikiCup begins in a few short minutes! Our eight finalists are listed below, along with their placement in Round 4:

1. Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer, finished top of Pool A and was the round's highest scorer. Godot is a featured picture specialist, claiming large numbers of points due to high-quality scans of historical documents, especially banknotes.
2. Casliber (submissions) is a WikiCup veteran, having been a finalist every year since 2010. In the semi-final, he was Pool B's highest scorer. Cas's points primarily come from articles on the natural sciences.
3. Czar (submissions) was Pool A's runner-up. Czar's points come mostly from content related to independent video games, including both articles and topics.
4. Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Pool B's runner-up. Another featured picture specialist, many of Adam's points come from the restoration of historical media. He has been a WikiCup finalist twice before.
5. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) won the WikiCup in 2012 and 2013, and enters this final as the first wildcard. She focuses on biology-related articles, and has worked on several high-importance articles.
6. 12george1 (submissions) is the second wildcard. George's points come primarily from meteorology-related articles. This year and last year, George was the first person in the competition to score.
7. Sturmvogel 66 (submissions), the third wildcard, was the 2010 champion and a finalist last year. His writes mostly on military history, especially naval history.
8. Bloom6132 (submissions), the fourth and final wildcard, has participated in previous WikiCups, but not reached any finals. Bloom's points are mostly thanks to did you knows, featured lists and good articles related to sport and national symbols.

We say goodbye to this year's semi-finalists. Matty.007 (submissions), ThaddeusB (submissions), WikiRedactor (submissions), Figureskatingfan (submissions), Yellow Evan (submissions), Prism (submissions) and Cloudz679 (submissions) have all performed well to reach this stage of the competition, and we hope they will all be joining us again next year.

There are two upcoming competitions unrelated to the WikiCup which may be of interest to those who receive this newsletter. The Stub Contest will run through September, and revolves around expanding stub articles, especially high-importance or old stubs. In addition, a proposal has been made for a new competition, the GA Cup, which the organisers plan to run next year. This competition is based on the WikiCup and aims to reduce the good article review backlog.

There is now a thread for brainstorming on how next year's WikiCup competition should work. Please come along and share your thoughts- What works? What doesn't work? What needs changing? Signups for next year's competition will be open soon; we will be in touch. If, at this stage of the competition, you are keen to help the with the WikiCup, please do what you can to participate in review processes. Our finalists will find things much easier if the backlogs at good article candidates, featured article candidates, featured picture candidates and the rest are kept at a minimum. As ever, questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:09, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2014)

A Nunivak Cup'ig man with raven maskette – in the Raven Tales the raven is the Creator god Hello, Captain Assassin!. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Raven Tales Previous selections: Solar activity • History of West Africa Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:02, 1 September 2014 (UTC) • Opt-out instructions

This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2014)

Good Article Barnstar

		The Good Article Barnstar
		Thank you for your diligence and patience in helping to improve Dallas Buyers Club. In particular, your responsiveness to my concerns regarding the breadth and depth of this article enabled the article to meet those policy requirements at WP:WIAGA and turn this article into a high quality encyclopedic resource is laudable and meritorious. Your willingness to do the work required to improve this article is commendable.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 13:14, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

• Thank you TonyTheTiger. See you in another review :). --Captain Assassin! 15:08, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of The Finest Hours (2015 film)

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Tom Hanks on screen and stage

Hi. Hope you're well. I've removed "untitled cold war thriller" per WP:CRYSTAL with no prejudice for it to be readded when a reliable source is found that indicates filming has actually started. Cowlibob (talk) 09:33, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of The Flash (2016 film)

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Your GA nomination of The Fault in Our Stars (film)

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This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2014)

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DYK for In the Room (film)

On 15 September 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article In the Room (film), which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that In the Room, currently in-production and directed by Eric Khoo, is the first ever Singaporean erotic film? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/In the Room (film). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), 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.

WikiProject Good Articles - GA Cup

WikiProject Good Articles's 2014-15 GA Cup WikiProject Good articles is holding a new competition, the GA Cup, from October 1, 2014 - March 28, 2015. The Cup will be based on reviewing Good article nominations; for each review, points will be awarded with bonuses for older nominations, longer articles and comprehensive reviews. All participants will start off in one group and the highest scoring participants will go through to the second round. At the moment six rounds are planned, but this may change based on participant numbers. Some of you may ask: what is the purpose for a competition of this type? Currently, there is a backlog of about 500 unreviewed Good article nominations, almost an all time high. It is our hope that we can decrease the backlog in a fun way, through friendly competition. Everyone is welcome to join; new and old editors! Sign-ups will be open until October 15, 2014 so sign-up now! If you have any questions, take a look at the FAQ page and/or contact one of the four judges. Cheers from NickGibson3900, Dom497, TheQ Editor and Figureskatingfan. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:04, 15 September 2014 (UTC) To receive future GA Cup newsletter, please add your name to our mailing list.

DYK for Dallas Buyers Club

On 16 September 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Dallas Buyers Club, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the film Dallas Buyers Club is about Ron Woodroof (played by Matthew McConaughey), a real-life AIDS patient who smuggled unapproved pharmaceutical drugs into Texas? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Dallas Buyers Club. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), 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.

Well done on promoting. I did the initial leg work :-)♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:51, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Thank you Dr. Blofeld, I appreciate your efforts. It was so short and missing information, so I thought "why don't I take it to GA? It'll be expanded eventually." So I did it :) --Captain Assassin! 01:26, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Ha, you should have seen it originally!! I added all I could find at the time.♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:23, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Dr. Blofeld, yep, I've seen the original, but it was so small even after a year of release, data was really out-dated. Reviewer TonyTheTiger helped me so much in its expansion. The funny thing is, in the start of review, TonyTheTiger said me indirectly to cancel the Nom because it was so small, but I said I would do it. In start I thought reviewer was so tough as he pop out this and that issue, and he'll not let me take this article to GA. But I admit it now that he really helped me a lot. And it would never be taken to GA without his efforts. --Captain Assassin! 09:23, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Mikaal Zulfiqar

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DYK for Sally Hemings

On 16 September 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sally Hemings, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that Sally Hemings was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by President Thomas Jefferson, and had a long-term relationship and six children with him? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sally Hemings. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), 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.

Nomination of Mikaal Zulfiqar for deletion

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Ramzan Sugar Mills

Can you please fill me in on the background on Ramzan Sugar Mills? I found a forum thread that suggest the current edit warring/vandalism there is politically motivated, and you seem to have made the same observation at your request for page protection, so I was wondering what it was all about. Thanks, VeryCrocker (talk) 18:19, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Well VeryCrocker, actually the background started from Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and opponent Imran Khan's fights on different issues, currently going on in the country. So now members/workers of both parties are attacking each other wherever they found a place like free-to-edit sites, like forums, Facebook and Misplaced Pages, etc. I'll suggest please protect the page for until all problems are solved and people would calm down. You would see the vandalism on every page attached to both politicians lives. --Captain Assassin! 19:03, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, that helps make sense of it. Cheers, VeryCrocker (talk) 19:10, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of Free the Nipple for deletion

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This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2014)

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Proposed deletion of Aiza Khan

The article Aiza Khan has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

The subject does not passes WP:Notability (people) as subject has had significant roles in multiple notable films, television shows, stage performances, or other productions. Cited single source does not establish notability, there should be significant coverage of the subject.

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Dear Rafhan, great work on the article Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (film), enjoyed the article and greatly appreciated. Best wishes Cyril Thomas (talk) 08:09, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

Thank you Cyrillic, yeah I did work but it needs more work which I'll do tonight or tomorrow. --Captain Assassin! 08:16, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2014)

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DYK nomination of Tomorrow (2015 film)

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October 2014 Wikification Drive

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Magic Mike XXL

I'm very confused, did you just add WP:COPYVIO to the article Magic Mike XXL? At the very, very least, shouldn't it clearly be attributed in the article, not just with a ref? Grayfell (talk) 03:00, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

@Grayfell: I thought an official short synopsis is allowed to copy-paste. That's why I mentioned it in edit-history, because I was unaware of that, thank you. --Captain Assassin! 07:38, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

DYK for The Finest Hours (2015 film)

On 30 September 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Finest Hours (2015 film), which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that The Finest Hours, currently in production, is a film based on the US Coast Guard's 1952 rescue of the crews of two oil tankers which had broken apart during a storm? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Finest Hours (2015 film). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), 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.

WikiCup 2014 September newsletter

In one month's time, we will know our WikiCup 2014 champion. Newcomer Godot13 (submissions) has taken a strong lead with a featured list (historical coats of arms of the U.S. states from 1876) and a raft of featured pictures. Reigning champion Cwmhiraeth (submissions) is in second place with a number of high-importance biology articles, including new FA Isopoda and new GA least weasel. Casliber (submissions), who is in his fifth WikiCup final, is in third, with featured articles Pictor and Epacris impressa.

Signups for the 2015 WikiCup are open. All Wikipedians, new and experienced, are warmly invited to sign up for the competition. Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may also like to sign up for the GA Cup, a new WikiCup-inspired competition which revolves around completing good article reviews. As ever, questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:11, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

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Nomination of Aiza Khan for deletion

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Marketing

Why do you keep creating "Marketing" sections that go against the guidelines? MOS:FILM#Marketing clearly states, in bold, "Do not merely identify and describe the content of customary marketing methods such as trailers, TV spots, radio ads, and posters." Such a section should at least have commentary as part of it. Erik (talk | contrib) 18:24, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

@Erik: I think it's the best way to put marketing and promotion details, the section would grow eventually. --Captain Assassin! 18:33, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

There cannot be such a section until reliable sources that provide useful commentary actually appear. For most films, there won't be that kind of commentary. If you really want, you can keep links about marketing on the talk page until there is commentary to include, then some of the links would be useful. Sometimes trailers have commentary, like being noticed for getting a lot of views, but releases of photos are very rarely worth noting. Erik (talk | contrib) 18:37, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

@Erik: Hmm yeah, got it. Thanks. Will you please take a look at Draft:Angry Birds (film), I think it should be moved to mainspace now, as it got all cast announced suddenly and an image, which is probably from production. What do you say about that? --Captain Assassin! 18:44, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

I just suggest thinking about the value such details add or do not add. Just about every film comes out with trailers and posters. Marketing content, we need to be sensitive about per WP:PROMO, because we can't come off sounding like we are dutifully sharing everything that is publicized. That's why we need to follow secondary sources in that regard. If a trailer comes out and it is just its release that is reported, it's not of value. If the trailer comes out and makes a unique impact, like getting a large enough number of views for a reliable source to report, then we reference that report. As for Angry Birds, animated films are tricky. I see that they just cast some actors recently, but the production process tends to be different. Some stuff is probably planned out by now, but not sure how much of the film is complete. WP:NFF does have a passage about animated films worth following. Erik (talk | contrib) 18:52, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

Understood Erik, thanks. --Captain Assassin! 18:59, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Tomorrow (2015 film)

On 4 October 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tomorrow (2015 film), which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Martin Scorsese's first British film, Tomorrow, marks the directorial debut of his long-time script supervisor, Martha Pinson? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tomorrow (2015 film). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), 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.

This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2014)

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DYK nomination of The Stanford Prison Experiment (film)

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External links

Hello, I wanted to direct you to the policy of WP:LINKFARM, which MOS:FILM#External links is based on. WP:ELNO in particular states not to add "any site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a featured article." This means that standard overview websites like ComingSoon.net and MovieWeb are not appropriate for inclusion. Links for Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic are appropriate because they can give readers access to many more reviews than what an article can contain; same with Box Office Mojo and box office data. Thanks, Erik (talk | contrib) 18:30, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Also, if you want to discuss this matter, we can start a community discussion at WT:FILM to see what the consensus is about these kinds of websites. Erik (talk | contrib) 18:31, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Yeah Erik, it's easy, I understood. Thanks. --Captain Assassin! 04:24, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter—September and October 2014

TemplateData is a separate program that organizes information about the parameters that can be used in a template. VisualEditor reads that data, and uses it to populate its simplified template dialogs.

With the new TemplateData editor, it is easier to add information about parameters, because the ones you need to use are pre-loaded.

See the help page for TemplateData for more information about adding TemplateData. The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing team has reduced technical debt, simplified some workflows for template and citation editing, made major progress on Internet Explorer support, and fixed over 125 bugs and requests. Several performance improvements were made, especially to the system around re-using references and reference lists. Weekly updates are posted on Mediawiki.org.

There were three issues that required urgent fixes: a deployment error that meant that many buttons didn't work correctly (bugs 69856 and 69864), a problem with edit conflicts that left the editor with nowhere to go (bug 69150), and a problem in Internet Explorer 11 that caused replaced some categories with a link to the system message, MediaWiki:Badtitletext (bug 70894) when you saved. The developers apologize for the disruption, and thank the people who reported these problems quickly.

Increased support for devices and browsers

Internet Explorer 10 and 11 users now have access to VisualEditor. This means that about 5% of Wikimedia's users will now get an "Edit" tab alongside the existing "Edit source" tab. Support for Internet Explorer 9 is planned for the future.

Tablet users browsing the site's mobile mode now have the option of using a mobile-specific form of VisualEditor. More editing tools, and availability of VisualEditor on smartphones, is planned for the future. The mobile version of VisualEditor was tweaked to show the context menu for citations instead of basic references (bug 68897). A bug that broke the editor in iOS was corrected and released early (bug 68949). For mobile tablet users, three bugs related to scrolling were fixed (bug 66697, bug 68828, bug 69630). You can use VisualEditor on the mobile version of Misplaced Pages from your tablet by clicking on the cog in the top-right when editing a page and choosing which editor to use.

TemplateData editor

A tool for editing TemplateData will be deployed to more Wikipedias soon.  Other Wikipedias and some other projects may receive access next month. This tool makes it easier to add TemplateData to the template's documentation.  When the tool is enabled, it will add a button above every editing window for a template (including documentation subpages). To use it, edit the template or a subpage, and then click the "Edit template data" button at the top.  Read the help page for TemplateData. You can test the TemplateData editor in a sandbox at Mediawiki.org. Remember that TemplateData should be placed either on a documentation subpage or on the template page itself. Only one block of TemplateData will be used per template.

Other changes

Several interface messages and labels were changed to be simpler, clearer, or shorter, based on feedback from translators and editors. The formatting of dialogs was changed, and more changes to the appearance will be coming soon, when VisualEditor implements the new MediaWiki theme from Design. (A preview of the theme is available on Labs for developers.) The team also made some improvements for users of the Monobook skin that improved the size of text in toolbars and fixed selections that overlapped menus.

VisualEditor-MediaWiki now supplies the mw-redirect or mw-disambig class on links to redirects and disambiguation pages, so that user gadgets that colour in these in types of links can be created.

Templates' fields can be marked as 'required' in TemplateData. If a parameter is marked as required, then you cannot delete that field when you add a new template or edit an existing one (bug 60358). 

Language support improved by making annotations use bi-directional isolation (so they display correctly with cursoring behaviour as expected) and by fixing a bug that crashed VisualEditor when trying to edit a page with a dir attribute but no lang set (bug 69955).

Looking ahead

The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon, perhaps in late October.

The team is also working on support for adding rows and columns to tables, and early work for this may appear within the month. Please comment on the design at Mediawiki.org.

In the future, real-time collaborative editing may be possible in VisualEditor. Some early preparatory work for this was recently done.

Supporting your wiki

At Wikimania, several developers gave presentations about VisualEditor. A translation sprint focused on improving access to VisualEditor was supported by many people. Deryck Chan was the top translator. Special honors also go to संजीव कुमार (Sanjeev Kumar), Robby, Takot, Bachounda, Bjankuloski06 and Ата. A summary of the work achieved by the translation community has been posted here. Thank you all for your work.

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DYK nomination of Our Brand Is Crisis (2016 film)

Hello! Your submission of Our Brand Is Crisis (2016 film) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:03, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Need help with Tracy Stratford

I need help with the Tracy Stratford article. Is there a WikiProject for the Twilight Zone that could help us? Paul Austin (talk) 10:06, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Yes Austin, I found a project page here Misplaced Pages:WikiProject The Twilight Zone. --Captain Assassin! 15:36, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2014)

Central America is the geographic region that connects North America and South America. Hello, Captain Assassin!. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Central America Previous selections: Steak • International airport Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:04, 13 October 2014 (UTC) • Opt-out instructions

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Nomination of Ed Oxenbould for deletion

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Your GA nomination of The Fault in Our Stars (film)

The article The Fault in Our Stars (film) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:The Fault in Our Stars (film) 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. Antidiskriminator (talk) 06:50, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Majid Majidi's new film

Hi... Please can you create and page and expand it. This film's Misplaced Pages is essential. I feel so. Here are the sources.

• Rare portrayal of Muhammad’s youth in upcoming Iranian film
• Iranian director to tell life of prophet
• International singer talks about AR Rahman
  Arjann (talk) 14:05, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

No offense Arjann, but why don't you create it by yourself? You seem a good editor to me. --Captain Assassin! 15:57, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of The Fault in Our Stars (film)

Hello! Your submission of The Fault in Our Stars (film) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Cambalachero (talk) 16:28, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of Kennedi Clements for deletion

The article will be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Kennedi Clements until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2014)

Inside an ice hotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden Hello, Captain Assassin!. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Ice hotel Previous selections: Central America • Steak Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:04, 20 October 2014 (UTC) • Opt-out instructions

DYK hook

You pinged my talk page. I vaguely remember being in a discussion with you somewhere, but I don't recall where. Please point me to the relevant discussion.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:58, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

• Please point me to the relevant discussion.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 05:05, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
  • @TonyTheTiger: Here is the discussion Template:Did you know nominations/St Mary's Church, Presbytery and Convent, Little Crosby. Maybe I'm wrong, but as far I know every reviewer, who reviewed my NOMs, always asked me to mention the hook in the LEAD. --Captain Assassin! 08:16, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
    • The hook is not required to be in the LEAD of the article. It often won't be. The LEAD is intended to be a broad brush summary of the article. A DYK hook could easily be about an obscure fact that is not worthy of being in the LEAD. The hook fact must be in the article and for multi-article hooks, there is some vague agreement that the hook fact(s) should be relevant to each article. I am not aware of any rule at WP:DYKSG or WP:DYK regarding including the hook in the article or the LEAD. I will have a look at the nomination that you pointed me to.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 17:05, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Singham 123‎

Could you take a look at the article. It is in horrible shape, but more importantly, has the film been released or is even filming? Bgwhite (talk) 21:18, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

No Bgwhite, I don't think it is shooting right now. The last news about film was on September 29, 2014, in some sources it was mentioned as "all set to begin shoot," but nothing like it was shooting or when it would be. It would be released in January 2015 given at some sites. It'd be better as a redirect for now. --Captain Assassin! 01:18, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. Could you redirect to wherever you think is best. Bgwhite (talk) 04:19, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Yeah sure Bgwhite, I'm redirecting to it's producer for now. --Captain Assassin! 14:55, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Our Brand Is Crisis (2016 film)

On 24 October 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Our Brand Is Crisis (2016 film), which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the upcoming film Our Brand Is Crisis, based on the documentary of the same name, is about Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada's 2002 Bolivian presidential election campaign managed by James Carville? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Our Brand Is Crisis (2016 film). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), 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.

The Last Witch Hunter (2014 film) listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect The Last Witch Hunter (2014 film). Since you had some involvement with the The Last Witch Hunter (2014 film) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Safiel (talk) 03:32, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

WP:MILLION

Yes nominate both.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 05:23, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Ricki and the Flash

On 26 October 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ricki and the Flash, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the upcoming film Ricki and the Flash will be the second in which Meryl Streep and her daughter Mamie Gummer appear together, the first being 1986's Heartburn? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ricki and the Flash. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), 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.

DYK for The Stanford Prison Experiment (film)

On 27 October 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Stanford Prison Experiment (film), which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the upcoming film The Stanford Prison Experiment is about a psychological experiment involving prisoners and prison guards, conducted by Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University in 1971? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Stanford Prison Experiment (film). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), 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.

This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2014)

Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, the world's first national park Hello, Captain Assassin!. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: National park Previous selections: Ice hotel • Central America Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:05, 27 October 2014 (UTC) • Opt-out instructions

The Million Award

	The Million Award
	I hereby award you The Million Award for your impressive quality improvement work on Dallas Buyers Club and The Fault in Our Stars (film). Congratulations, and thanks for all you do for Misplaced Pages's readers! — Cirt (talk) 00:58, 27 October 2014 (UTC)