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Welcome to the 2021 WikiCup!

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. We thank Vanamonde93 and Godot13, who have retired as judges, and we thank them for their past dedication. The judges for the WikiCup this year are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:10, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Harry Norwitch

Hello. I just read your page on Harry Norwitch, Philadelphia City Councilman and my grandfather. Great info. Especially his given name, which I found out only within the last eight years or so. After anyone in my family who might have known that was long gone. I was born the year he won office, so I was unaware of the early years, but I remember well the later years and his votes and his relationship with Tate, the Union, Dillworth (and Rizzo, actually) and much of the information you have included. Our family dinners were lively, argumentative, informative and thoroughly exciting to a young girl and later a young woman. I have many personal stories related to him and our family, much of which is, of course, anecdotal and not wiki-worthy. But, my uncle, Bernard, did become Senator Joseph S. Clark's Administrative Assistant, working out of the Senator's DC office. Don't know if that's something you would want to add, or that you knew and found it not of interest or illuminating. I will add that he was a loving grandfather, with a very calm way of considering things even when family and friends were jousting verbally with red faces and loud voices. He was strong in his beliefs but he didn't get agitated, at least in my presence. He was not a vindictive man, nor did he take things personally. Like many immigrants, he was not educated in the formal sense, but had to be, from an early age, the "man" of the family (being the eldest son with a widowed mother arriving in the US) which made him practical and empathetic at the same time. Thanks so much for this, and your other writing. Barbara Horwitz Esmark 67.245.206.32 (talk) 21:56, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! I enjoyed learning about your grandfather as I wrote the article, and I'm glad you liked the result. --Coemgenus (talk) 18:17, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

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FAC mentoring request

Hi Coemgenus, I saw your name listed on Wikipedia:Mentoring for FAC and wanted to reach out because of your experience with historical biographies. I want to bring William Lyon Mackenzie to FAC in late April but only if the article is ready. I think the biggest problem is the "Political philosophy and views" section. Are you still mentoring, and if so can I have some thoughts on the article? I'd really appreciate it. Z1720 (talk) 15:25, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Z1720, I'm not as active on here as I used to be, but I'll be glad to take a look this week and see what I can do. --Coemgenus (talk) 22:23, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, I really appreciate that. There is no rush. Z1720 (talk) 22:26, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

I haven’t forgotten this, hoping to get to it in the next few days. —Coemgenus (talk) 04:42, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2021 March newsletter

Round 1 of the competition has finished; it was a high-scoring round with 21 contestants scoring more than 100 points. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 55 contestants qualifying. You will need to finish among the top thirty-two contestants in Round 2 if you are to qualify for Round 3. Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

• Epicgenius led the field with a featured article, nine good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 945 points.
• Bloom6132 was close behind with 896 points, largely gained from 71 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
• ImaginesTigers, who has been editing Wikipedia for less than a year, was in third place with 711 points, much helped by bringing League of Legends to featured article status, exemplifying how bonus points can boost a contestant's score.
• Amakuru came next with 708 points, Kigali being another featured article that scored maximum bonus points.
• Ktin, new to the WikiCup, was in fifth place with 523 points, garnered from 15 DYKs and 34 "In the news" items.
• The Rambling Man scored 511 points, many from featured article candidate reviews and from football related DYKs.
• Gog the Mild, last year's runner-up, came next with 498 points, from a featured article and numerous featured article candidate reviews.
• Hog Farm, at 452, scored for a featured article, four good articles and a number of reviews.
• Le Panini, another newcomer to the WikiCup, scored 438 for a featured article and three good articles.
• Lee Vilenski, last year's champion, scored 332 points, from a featured article and various other sport-related topics.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. In Round 1, contestants achieved eight featured articles, three featured lists and one featured picture, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. They completed 97 good article reviews, nearly double the 52 good articles they claimed. Contestants also claimed for 135 featured article and featured list candidate reviews. There is no longer a requirement to mention your WikiCup participation when undertaking these reviews.

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 a good article candidate, a featured process, or something else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:25, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for William Lyon Mackenzie

Thanks for your help with the William Lyon Mackenzie article in February, specifically for commenting at the first PR. I have nominated the article for featured article status and I hope you will comment on the nomination here. Thanks again for your help preparing this article. Z1720 (talk) 17:09, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

WikiCup 2021 May newsletter

The second round of the 2021 WikiCup has now finished; it was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 61 points to advance to Round 3. There were some impressive efforts in the round, with the top eight contestants all scoring more than 400 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 110 good articles achieved in total by contestants, as well as the 216 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in Round 2 were:

• The Rambling Man, with 2963 points from three featured articles, 20 featured article reviews, 37 good articles, 73 good article reviews, as well as 22 DYKs.
• Epicgenius, with 1718 points from one featured article, 29 good articles, 16 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
• Bloom6132, with 990 points from 13 DYKs and 64 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
• Hog Farm, with 834 points from two featured articles, five good articles, 14 featured article reviews and 15 good article reviews.
• Gog the Mild, with 524 points from two featured articles and four featured article reviews.
• Lee Vilenski, with 501 points from one featured article, three good articles, six featured article reviews and 25 good article reviews.
• Sammi Brie, with 485 points from four good articles, eight good article reviews and 27 DYKs, on US radio and television stations.
• Ktin, with 436 points from four good articles, seven DYKs and 11 "In the news" items.

Please remember that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of Round 2 but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in Round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (except for at the end of each round, when you must claim them before the cut-off date/time). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

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GAN Backlog Drive - July 2021

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WikiCup 2021 July newsletter

The third round of the 2021 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 294 points, and our top six scorers all had over 600 points. They were:

• The Rambling Man, with 1825 points from 3 featured articles, 44 featured article reviews, 14 good articles, 30 good article reviews and 10 DYKs. In addition, he completed a 34-article good topic on the EFL Championship play-offs.
• Epicgenius, a New York specialist, with 1083 points from 2 featured article reviews, 18 good articles, 30 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
• Bloom6132, with 869 points from 11 DYKs, all with bonus points, and 54 "In the news" items, mostly covering people who had recently died.
• Gog the Mild, with 817 points from 3 featured articles on historic battles in Europe, 5 featured article reviews and 3 good articles.
• Hog Farm, with 659 points from 2 featured articles and 2 good articles on American Civil War battles, 18 featured article reviews, 2 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 4 DYKs.
• BennyOnTheLoose, a snooker specialist and new to the Cup, with 647 points from a featured article, 2 featured article reviews, 6 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 3 DYKs.

In round three, contestants achieved 19 featured articles, 7 featured lists, 106 featured article reviews, 72 good articles, 1 good topic, 62 good article reviews, 165 DYKs and 96 ITN items. We enter the fourth round with scores reset to zero; any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (one contestant in round 3 lost out because of this). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Judges: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:29, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

FA mentoring

Hey, Coemgenus! I've been trying to figure out how FA works, and to do that have been trying to get Marjorie Paxson through the process. Would you have interest/time to help me? It's fine if you don't, there just aren't many people on the mentoring list who mention biography as an interest. :) —valereee (talk) 17:09, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

FAC mentor

Hello. The article Tala tank was recently promoted to GA. I want to try for FA now. Would you like to be my mentor?  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  17:53, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Saha, I hate to say no, but I'm pretty inactive on here lately and doubt I'll have the time to help you. Sorry, and good luck with the article. --Coemgenus (talk) 19:51, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

okay. thanks. can you recommend me, whom shall I request to? I mention in the FAC talkpage, but didn't get any reply.  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  19:58, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Raymond Pace Alexander

Hope you're doing well, long time no see. This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for September 15, 2021. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 15, 2021. Congratulations on your work!—Wehwalt (talk) 21:58, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Good to hear from you, Wehwalt. I'm good, hope you are, too. Thanks for the head's up about Alexander, I'll check it over before that day. --Coemgenus (talk) 20:35, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

WikiCup 2021 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished with over 500 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants, The Rambling Man and Epicgenius, each scoring over 3000 points, and six contestants scoring over 1000. All but one of the finalists achieved one or more FAs during the round, the exception being Bloom6132 who demonstrated that 61 "in the news" items produces an impressive number of points. Other contestants who made it to the final are Gog the Mild, Lee Vilenski, BennyOnTheLoose, Amakuru and Hog Farm. However, all their points are now swept away and everyone starts afresh in the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 18 featured articles and 157 good articles. Bilorv scored for a 25-article good topic on Black Mirror but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final round. There was enthusiasm for FARs, with 89 being performed, and there were 63 GARs and around 100 DYKs during the round. As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it to the final round; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For other contestants, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:01, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Talk:Dec. No. 5946/212/2015/GA1

Hello, Coemgenus,

I'm working with a list of orphaned talk subpages and came across this page that you worked on. I'm not exactly sure what to do with it and wanted your opinion if it should be moved to another title or deleted. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:46, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

I don't remember much about it, but it looks like (based on the history at Talk:Alexandra Stan vs. Marcel Prodan) that it's the first, failed GA nomination for Alexandra Stan vs. Marcel Prodan while that page was under another name. If you have to move it, I'd say move it to Talk:Alexandra Stan vs. Marcel Prodan/GA1, but that already exists (despite the numbering, that page is the third nom for that article). So I think the best choice is to rename all three nominations as /GA1, /GA2, and /GA3, or else to move the first two to /GAa and /GAb or something like that. I don't know that anyone would miss it if it were deleted, but it would leave a hole in the promotion history of the page. --Coemgenus (talk) 12:53, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Nine years!

On Dante's 700th day of death --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:18, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Thank you today for Raymond Pace Alexander, about "a civil rights lawyer, politician, and state court judge from Pennsylvania"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:23, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks! --Coemgenus (talk) 12:32, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

Thank you!

I recently noticed the “List of Oldest Living United States _____” pages have been deleted and you seemed the only voice in dissent, for which I thank you. PeacockShah (talk) 23:59, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. Sad that I wasn’t more persuasive! I’ve been enjoying your alt-history series on Reddit, by the way. Didn’t know you were active here, too. —Coemgenus (talk) 19:09, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2021 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year and the finalists can relax! Our Champion this year is The Rambling Man (submissions), who amassed over 5000 points in the final round, achieving 8 featured articles and almost 500 reviews. It was a very competitive round; seven of the finalists achieved over 1000 points in the round (enough to win the 2019 contest), and three scored over 3000 (enough to win the 2020 event). Our 2021 finalists and their scores were:

1. The Rambling Man (submissions) with 5072 points
2. Lee Vilenski (submissions) with 3276 points
3. Amakuru (submissions) with 3197 points
4. Epicgenius (submissions) with 1611 points
5. Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1571 points
6. BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 1420 points
7. Hog Farm (submissions) with 1043 points
8. Bloom6132 (submissions) with 528 points

All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.

• The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for 8 FAs in round 5.
• Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the featured list prize, for 3 FLs in round 5.
• Gog the Mild (submissions) wins the featured topic prize, for 13 articles in a featured topic in round 5.
• Epicgenius (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 63 GAs in round 4.
• The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the good topic prize, for 86 articles in good topics in round 5.
• The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the reviewer prize, for 68 FAC reviews and 213 GAN reviews, both in round 5.
• Epicgenius (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 30 did you know articles in round 3 and 105 overall.
• Bloom6132 (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 71 in the news articles in round 1 and 284 overall.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

If you have views on whether the rules or scoring need adjustment for next year's contest, please comment on the WikiCup talk page. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2022 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:55, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

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