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Semi-retired

Was sad to see this. Just curious.. was there something about enwiki itself that made you tire of editing as a hobby? Or did you just feel like you've contributed enough and it's time to take on something new? If it's personal you don't have to tell me. -- œ 05:32, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

@OlEnglish – Thanks for asking! It was a mix of those reasons. I started growing tired of editing, and this coincided with my decision to dedicate and focus more of my time on my studies (this is the final academic year before I graduate). The wiki–drama I was involved in from October–December last year certainly didn't help, and it actually convinced me that walking away from all that was the right thing to do. —Bloom6132 (talk) 10:17, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Yes indeed. Sometimes just walking away is definitely the right thing to do. Good luck on your studies and I sincerely hope to see you return at some point in the future. Take care. -- œ 21:01, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015: The results

WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.

This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points). All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science. Cas Liber (submissions), a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.

Our newcomer award, presented to the best-performing new competitor in the WikiCup, goes to Rationalobserver (submissions). Everyone should be very proud of the work they accomplished. We will announce our other award winners soon.

A full list of our award winners are:

• Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points) wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 330 featured pictures in the final round.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 160 did you knows in the final round (310 in all rounds).
• Cas Liber (submissions) wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for 26 featured articles in all rounds.
• West Virginian (submissions) wins the prize for fourth place
• Calvin999 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• Rationalobserver (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• Harrias (submissions) wins a final 8 prize and the FL prize for 11 featured lists.
• Rodw (submissions) wins the most prizes: a final 8 prize, the GA prize for 41 good articles, and the topic prize for a 13-article good topic and an 8-article featured topic, both in round 3.
• ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the news prize for the most news articles in round 3.

We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2016 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.

Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · logs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · logs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · logs) 18:39, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup Award

Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup/Scoring

Your conduct is not acceptable. Accusing someone of having a "prima donna whine fest" is sexist and dismissive, while saying that there is nothing to respect in their opinion or them is positively indecent. This and especially this comment are typical of precisely the kind of battleground mentality and contribution to a toxic environment for which you narrowly avoided a block around a year ago. This is the only warning I am going to give- if you continue with that kind of behaviour, I will block you. I say this as someone who is at least partially in agreement with you; I think Calvin999's position is somewhat confused. That does not come close to justifying your comments. Josh Milburn (talk) 17:52, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

@J Milburn – just to clarify, I was not trying to be sexist. I know that Calvin's a guy, and I have in real–life described myself and any other guys with that very term if I feel that is how I (or those other guys) have been behaving. If it is considered sexist by the majority of people, then I apologize for my ignorance. —Bloom6132 (talk) 18:17, 9 November 2015 (UTC)