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WikiCup 2016 March newsletter (update)

Along with getting the year wrong in the newsletter that went out earlier this week, we did not mention (as the bot did not report) that New South Wales Cas Liber (submissions) claimed the first Featured Article Persoonia terminalis of the 2016 Wikicup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email).--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:06, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

GOCE February blitz

The Modest Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to Wilhelmina Will for copy edits totaling over 2,000 words during the GOCE February 2016 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 19:44, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
Like all your previous barnstars (so many of them! ), this one is just as richly deserved. Very well done, Mimi!
With kindest regards;
Patrick. ツ Pdebee. 19:59, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
Thank you both, very much! Herein dwells the greatest dictionary ever composed! (talk) 07:56, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

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Preliminary note there for you. Thanks for accepting the review! North America 04:14, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Achieved 20K edits today... ;-))

Dear Mimi,
I hope you are keeping well, happy and joyful?
I feel in a celebratory mood today, after achieving 20K edits a few hours ago. Yep; I'm now a Tutnum of the Encyclopedia!...
It's obviously chicken feed to a superstar-achiever like you, but you're the one Wikifriend with whom I wanted to share the news, and it really feels like a truly great pleasure...
It'll only take me a handful of decades to reach the heady heights of your achievements, Mimi—as I am definitely not in your league!—but it feels great to work here, where someone like me can write this message to a much-admired friend like you.
So, thank you for being my friend, dear Mimi!
All very best wishes to you as you stream ahead of most of us, in your amazing style; and please keep well and happy.
With kindest regards;
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Ping?

Just wondering if you are going to be looking at this article? ? Montanabw 03:37, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Yes, yes, when the current project is done. Herein dwells the greatest dictionary ever composed! (talk) 03:53, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

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Depressariidae

Ouch! That are a lot of articles! :) That will keep me busy for at least a month.. Just checking: hope you will take a long break from creating moth stubs to let me catch up? Ruigeroeland (talk) 08:36, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Soon as I've finished Odites; there's not that many more to go. :) Herein dwells the greatest dictionary ever composed! (talk) 08:37, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
All done! :) Herein dwells the greatest dictionary ever composed! (talk) 08:58, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi Wilhelmina, just FYI: I didn't have much time to edit Misplaced Pages the last couple of days, and will not be able to do much work until Tuesday, but will pick up the pace from then. I will let you know when I finished the last batch you created..! Cheers and happy easter! Ruigeroeland (talk) 14:59, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks for reviewing, I have responded to your comments there. North America 01:57, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

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Online status?

How did you get your online status – on your homepage – to work and turn green, automatically, when you log in? Battle | Page | Infidel 09:03, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Actually, it isn't a matter of whether I'm logged in or not. There's a special status page in which I either write "Online" to signify that I'm here, or "Offline" to signify that I'm not. As it happens, I haven't touched that thing in years now. Herein dwells the greatest dictionary ever composed! (talk) 09:08, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
Cool, thanks! Battle | Page | Infidel ┌┬╫┴┼╤╪╬╜ 10:36, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
No problem! Happy Easter! Herein dwells the greatest dictionary ever composed! (talk) 10:37, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Happy Easter to you too!... ;-D

Dear Mimi,
Thank you for thinking about me today, and for sending me these delicious Polish eggs!
In that case, here are some beautiful ones from Norway, for you to admire...
Hope you are keeping well?
With kind regards;
Patrick. ツ Pdebee. 23:21, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

I am, indeed! Thank you very much, Patrick! Herein dwells the greatest dictionary ever composed! (talk) 06:24, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

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Hello: Thanks very much for the Easter eggs! Much appreciated.Twofingered Typist (talk) 12:41, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

2016 GA Cup-Round 2

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Wednesday saw the end of Round 1. Sainsf took out Round 1 with an amazing score of 765. In second place, MPJ-DK earned an astounding 742 points, and in third place, FunkMonk received 610 points.

In Round 1, 206 reviews were completed, more than any other year! At the beginning of March, there were 595 outstanding nominations in the GAN queue; by the end of Round 1, there were 490. We continue to make a difference at GAN and throughout Misplaced Pages, something we should all be proud of. Thanks to all our competitors for helping to make the GA Cup a continued success, and for your part in helping other editors improve articles. We hope to see all remaining users fighting it out in Round 2 so we can lower the backlog as much as possible.

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Hi, I was wondering if you could help produce a few articles towards this in April? The idea is that people can use the Amazon vouchers to buy books for their future projects. I'm sure the getting articles to GA is compatible with the WikiCup too!♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:54, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

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Reversion

Hi Wilhelmina Will: A recent edit you performed here has been reverted. You may want to check it out. North America 22:51, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

Ha! Good one! :) Herein dwells the greatest dictionary ever composed! (talk) 06:30, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for you recent GA reviews. Much appreciated. Cheers, North America 14:11, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Help with Nick Brandt's page

Hi Wilhelmina Will,'m not doing much editing these days on wiki just don't have the time and would like to know if you could help out Mr Brandt on replacing an old photo with a new one. This is his email address nick@nickbrandt.com, please let me know. Thisandthem (talk) 08:35, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

March 2016 Guild of Copy Editors Drive Barnstar

The Minor Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to Wilhelmina Will for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE March 2016 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:40, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
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Guild of Copy Editors April 2016 Newsletter

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Thanks for reviewing! I have responded to your queries there. North America 10:12, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

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Depressariidae part 2

Hi Wilhelmina, as you might have noticed, I dont have the amount of time to edit Misplaced Pages I used to have. Seems this situation will last for the time being. I will still be editing articles, but a lot less than I was able to in the past. Hence: I will not be able to process the enormous amounts of stubs you are able to create. Hope you dont mind spending time on other stuff as well..! I would still appreciate it if you add new stubs for moths, but a lot less than in the past.. I am still working through your last batch. Still quite some to do, but I'll get there..! Will let you know when I am ready for the next batch.. Oh: and there are three genera you already covered, but were missing species: Pisinidea, Hypercallia and Anchinia. If you have the time, could you make stubs for the missing species of these genera? I will expand them with the rest of the species on my to-do list. Cheers! P.S.: nice work on the catfish articles! Ruigeroeland (talk) 14:06, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Sure thing! And thank you! :) Herein dwells the greatest dictionary ever composed! (talk) 03:17, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Four Seasons Mall

Updated DYK queryOn 20 April 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Four Seasons Mall, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that city officials in Plymouth, Minnesota, opposed the idea of a 240,000-square-foot (22,000 m) Walmart Supercenter replacing the Four Seasons Mall? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Four Seasons Mall. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, 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.

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Thank you! Herein dwells the greatest dictionary ever composed! (talk) 08:20, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

GA review

It would be very nice if you could see if my response to your question about Talk:HMS Denbigh Castle (K696)/GA1 is satisfactory within the next day as I'm competing in the Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Wales/Awaken the Dragon contest and it ends in just over 25 hours.

Of course! I was out, otherwise I'd have gotten to it sooner. Herein dwells the greatest dictionary ever composed! (talk) 21:49, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
Many thanks for your prompt response.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 22:06, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

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Depressariidae part 3

FYI: Cleared my back-log! I have some other stuff on my to-do list (new Zookeys articles to convert to wiki-articles), but other than that: I am ready for a new batch of articles. Ruigeroeland (talk) 15:03, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

GA Cup-Round 3 Clarification

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May 2016 drive award

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Request

Hi Wilhelmina,

I have just written my first article for wiki and would appreciate some feedback from someone experienced, before I get it live!

Would you be able to have a look at it for me? https://en.wikipedia.org/Draft:Arden_University

Best wishes,

Jane — Preceding unsigned comment added by Janeyboo10 (talk • contribs) 07:40, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

@Janeyboo10: Greetings! Off the top, the article looks promising, but I'd recommend two things, first:
  • Out of all of its references, a large portion seem to be primary sources, affiliated with the topic. While primary sources are necessary to an extent, for insider information on the topic, Misplaced Pages prefers for there to be a larger proportion of third-party sources; non-related publications giving some amount of detailed mention of the topic. I recommend looking at this page for more insight.
  • The article's tone sounds slightly promotional, particularly in the last two sections. Remember that an encyclopedia is always expected to take an objective approach to any subject it covers. A look at this and that should provide better insight than I can.
Hope that helps! Herein dwells the greatest dictionary ever composed! (talk) 09:51, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 News

Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 News

Hello everyone, and welcome to the July 2016 GOCE newsletter.

June Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 12 through 18 June; the themes were video games and Asian geography. Of the 18 editors who signed up, 11 removed 47 articles from the backlog. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part.

Coordinator elections: The second tranche of Guild coordinators for 2016, who will serve a six-month term until 23:59 UTC on 31 December, have been elected. Jonesey95 remains as your drama-free Lead Coordinator, and Corinne and Tdslk are your new assistant coordinators. For her long service to the Guild, Miniapolis has been enrolled in the GOCE Hall of Fame. Thanks to everyone who voted in the election; our next scheduled one occurs in December 2016. All Misplaced Pages editors in good standing are eligible; self-nominations are welcome and encouraged.

July Drive: Our month-long July Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive is now underway. Our aim is to remove articles tagged for copy-edit in April, May and June 2015, and to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from June 2016. The drive ends at 23:59 on 31 July 2016 (UTC).

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2016 GA Cup-Wrap Up

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Hello to our truly awesome GA Cup competitors!

Thursday, June 30 saw the end of the 2016 GA Cup. It was a huge success. In the final, our five competitors reviewed an astonishing 207 articles, the most in any GA Cup final thus far. We continue to reach our goals and make a substantial impact in how quickly articles are reviewed for GA status. On March 1, the start of this competition, the article longest in the queue had languished there since June 26, 2015 ; in the July 1, 2016 list, the average wait length is just four months . It's clear that we continue to make a difference at GAN and throughout Misplaced Pages, something we should all be proud of. Thanks to all our competitors for their enthusiasm, and for helping to make the GA Cup a continued success. Remember that most articles can't even be considered for FA status unless it's been passed to GA first, so our efforts have created hundreds of potentials FAs. That is, as they say, a big deal.

The final this time represented a real horse race between our 1st and 2nd place winners. First-time competitor (who had won all previous rounds) Sainsf earned an impressive 1456 points with 91 articles reviewed during the final. Close behind, in second place was Carbrera, also a first-time competitor, reviewed the most articles (94). Their enthusiasm was a treat to witness. Congrats to you both!

The competition went relatively smoothly, with very little drama this time. We had to clarify one rule: in order for the points to count, you must mark your reviews as completed; it's not up to the judges to ensure that all reviews are completed by the end of a round. We were strict about adhering to this clarification, especially at the end of the final. We intend on stressing it in the stated rules for our next competition, which will be announced soon, so watch out for it. We also intend on applying for a grant through Wikimedia to include gift certificates for our winners, to further incentivize the GA Cup.

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Happy 4th of July! / Your table of ribbons.

Dear Mimi,
I hope you are keeping well? Assuming you live in the USA (and not in Canada): Happy 4th of July!... 240 years already!
(One of your personal userboxes says: "... comes from Canada", not "... lives in Canada".)

While I am passing through here, please forgive me for pointing out the following:

  • when I display your user page on my desktop screen, the text portion occupies the whole width of the screen, but then your table of ribbons does not show completely, as some of them are hidden beyond the right hand side edge of the screen;
  • when I display your user page on my iPad, I can see the whole table of ribbons, but the text portion of your page is now reduced to about 50% of the screen surface, and therefore also minimized, which makes it almost impossible to read.

Since it is quite possible that other visitors will have the same experience, I took the liberty of copying your table of ribbons into one of my sandboxes, and simply re-coded where the columns begin and end, so that the table now always fits within the page boundaries. I also prepared three options for you.
Of course, it is very likely that you prefer the current layout, in which case I can only apologize most grovellingly, and hope I can be forgiven. But if you sometimes thought you might want to change it but never found the time (), then it would only be a matter of you picking up the new code from my sandbox. Come to think of it, this would enable me to create a new userbox, proclaiming most proudly: "This user's sandbox was visited by Wilhelmina Will!"
Please keep well and joyful;
With kind regards;
Patrick. ツ Pdebee. 10:16, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

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Talk:2008 Yemen cyclone/GA1

Wilhelmina Will, you opened this GA review page back on May 30, and have not returned to it. Do you plan to conduct the review soon? If not, I'm happy to put it back into the nomination pool so another reviewer can select it for review. Please let me know. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:46, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

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DYK for HMS Revenge (1892)

Updated DYK queryOn 17 July 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article HMS Revenge (1892), which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that in 1915, the HMS Revenge, the ninth ship of the Royal Navy with that name, became the first ship to be fitted operationally with anti-torpedo bulges? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/HMS Revenge (1892). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, 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.

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Congratulations on reaching #65!... ;-))

Dear Wilhelmina Will;
I noticed that you recently reached #65 (out of 48,485,657) in the list of Wikipedians by number of edits.
I therefore wanted to celebrate this milestone, as a reflection of your extraordinary commitment to our encyclopedia, with a fitting award. Obviously, it was almost impossible () to find one commensurate with your amazing contributions, but I eventually selected the Disco Ball of Knowledge which fits you perfectly because, according to its creator HighwayCello, it ...
"certifies that editors are among the finest contributors in the world of Misplaced Pages, and help it to never stop turning."

And since you'd never been granted this one before, I hope you will delight in adding it to your most impressive collection of awards, with my warmest congratulations for all your achievements here!
Please keep well and joyful, dear Mimi.
With kindest regards, as ever.
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Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 Drive Barnstars

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July Drive: The July drive was a roaring success. We set out to remove April, May, and June 2015 from our backlog (our 149 oldest articles), and by 23 July, we were done with those months. We added July 2015 (66 articles) and copy-edited 37 of those. We also handled all of the remaining Requests from June 2016. Well done! Overall, we recorded copy edits to 240 articles by 20 editors, reducing our total backlog to 13 months and 1,656 articles, the second-lowest month-end total ever.

August Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 21 through 27 August; the theme was sports-related articles in honor of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Of the eight editors who signed up, five editors removed 11 articles from the backlog. A quiet blitz – everyone must be on vacation. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part.

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A barnstar for you!

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On behalf of all the GA Cup judges, thank you for participating in the 2016 GA Cup! Although you didn't end up making the top 16 for round 2, you decided to sign up therefore contributing and we thank you for that. We hope to see you at the next competition! MrWooHoo (T • C) 20:46, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
Thank you! Herein dwells the greatest dictionary ever composed! (talk) 04:03, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

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GA Cup Announcement

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016-2017 GA Cup

Greetings, all!

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

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

Sign-ups for the upcoming competition are currently open and will close on October 31, 2016. Everyone is welcome to join; new and old editors, so sign-up now!

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Stub?

Hello. How is York Rafael a stub? Should be a start if something. // Psemmler (talk) 00:25, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

@Psemmler: My bad; that label's the instinctive go-to. Thanks for fixing it. If Misplaced Pages had two swans for every project discussion... (insert here) (talk) 00:29, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
Okay, no worries:) // Psemmler (talk) 01:29, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

Two unnoticed posts... ツ

Dear Mimi,
I hope you are keeping well? All is well here, on the west coast of Wales. Although you warned us all—on you user page—about the possibility of this happening, I wonder whether you ever noticed my two posts above, on July 4 and July 28?
Chances are, you were either absorbed elsewhere, as per usual, or (worse fate of all) I am no longer to be counted among your esteemed friends and been banished into oblivion! (sob...)
Ever hopeful this one will be seen, though...
With kind regards;
Patrick. ツ Pdebee. 09:26, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

Dear me, I must apologize, Patrick! That was during a bit of an in-drawn time, when the focus was mostly on task-scoring on and offline, the latter particularly so. I'm sorry if I caused you concern, but I hope you'll be pleased to see in a moment that I finally derived signature inspiration from that picture you presented me with a while back! If Misplaced Pages had two swans for every project discussion... (insert here) (talk) 10:15, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
Dear Mimi,
Phew! What a relief... I hope that the new code for your ribbons gallery will prove of some use (see details in message on July 4. Good luck with it. Yes, I did notice your new signature, and it had me wondering, indeed!....
Thank you for replying, and please keep well and happy.
With kind regards, as ever;
Patrick. ツ Pdebee. 10:32, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
P.S. How about:
If Misplaced Pages had two swans for every project discussion... Mimi could be transported on their wings to the Heavens!
With kind regards;
Patrick. ツ Pdebee. 20:44, 23 October 2016 (UTC)