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GOCE February blitz wrapup
Guild of Copy Editors Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/February 2014 wrap-up
Participation: Out of seven people who signed up for this blitz, all copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: During the seven-day blitz, we removed 16 articles from the requests queue. Hope to see you at the March drive! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Baffle gab1978. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by
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Hi, im GenericBobJoe, you sent my IP address a warning for vandalism, the page that I apparently vandalized said the vandalism was in 2007. I got the computer with this IP last year, and I don't think teaneck is gay. I seriously do not know why this is happening. You should TempBan me from editing for now, maybe one day, and i'll see what's wrong with this computer. If this keeps happening,or if you might know anything about this, please reply. -GenericBobJoe
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Saturday April 30: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa @ Guggenheim
Saturday April 30, 1-6pm: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa @ Guggenheim | |
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On Saturday April 30, 2016, in conjunction with a global campaign, the Guggenheim will host its fourth Wikipedia edit-a-thon — or, #guggathon — to enhance Wikipedia's coverage of modern and contemporary artists from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and to counter geocultural systemic bias on Wikipedia. The Guggenheim aims to further the goals of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, and build on the model of campaigns like the Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the Guggenheim: Women in Architecture, Wikipedia Asian Month, and Art+Feminism. New and experienced editors are welcome. The event will include a training session for participants who are new to Wikipedia and Wikipedia specialists will be on hand to provide basic instruction and editing support. Can’t join us in New York? Visit our global MENA Artists Month partnership page to coordinate international and online events as well.
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Wednesday November 15, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC @ NYU ITP | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at NYU ITP Tisch School of the Arts (4th floor) at 721 Broadway in Manhattan. We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) ~~~~~ P.S. You are also invited to Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sunday November 19! |
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Wednesday March 21, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Megs (talk) P.S. You are also invited to Art + Feminism Events in the New York Metropolitan Area continuing this month! |
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Due to the winter storm warning, the WikiWednesday Salon & Skillshare scheduled for March 21st has been cancelled. Please consider attending one of the many edit-a-thons scheduled for this week. We look forward to editing with you soon! |
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WikiCup 2018 November newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is Courcelles (submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 147 GAs, 111 GARs, 9 DYKs, 4 FLs and 1 ITN. Our finalists were as follows:
- Courcelles (submissions)
- Kosack (submissions)
- Kees08 (submissions)
- SounderBruce (submissions)
- Cas Liber (submissions)
- Nova Crystallis (submissions)
- Iazyges (submissions)
- Ceranthor (submissions)
All those who reached the final win awards, and awards will also be going to the following participants:
- Cas Liber (submissions) wins the FA prize, for three featured articles in round 2.
- Courcelles (submissions) wins the GA prize, for 92 good articles in round 3.
- Kosack (submissions) wins the FL prize, for five featured lists overall.
- Cartoon network freak (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 30 articles in good topics overall.
- Usernameunique (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 24 did you know articles in round 3.
- Zanhe (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 17 in the news articles overall.
- Aoba47 (submissions) wins the GAR prize, for 43 good article reviews in round 1.
Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!
Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition.
Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2019 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email) and Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email).
WikiCup 2019 March newsletter
And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2. With 56 contestants qualifying, each group in Round 2 contains seven contestants, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for Round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining contestants.
Our top scorers in Round 1 were:
- L293D, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with ten good articles on submarines for a total of 357 points.
- Adam Cuerden, a WikiCup veteran, came next with 274 points, mostly from eight featured pictures, restorations of artwork.
- MPJ-DK, a wrestling enthusiast, was in third place with 263 points, garnered from a featured list, five good articles, two DYKs and four GARs.
- Usernameunique came next at 243, with a featured article and a good article, both on ancient helmets.
- Squeamish Ossifrage was in joint fifth place with 224 points, mostly garnered from bringing the 1937 Fox vault fire to featured article status.
- Ed! was also on 224, with an amazing number of good article reviews (56 actually).
These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews on 143 good articles, one hundred more than the number of good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Well done all!
Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on 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. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk).
Sept 25: WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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I know how to use talk pages now
Hello, I'm sorry if I didn't get your attention for talking on Wikipedia but I now how to use the talk pages on Wikipedia now. TylerKutschbach
Earth Day 2022 Edit-a-thon - April 22nd - 2PM EST
You're invited! NYC Earth Day 2022 Edit-a-thon! April 22nd! | |
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Sure We Can and the Environment of New York City Task Force invite you to join us for:
This Edit-a-Thon is part of a larger Earth Day celebration, hosted by Brooklyn based recycling and community center Sure We Can, that runs from 1PM-7PM and is open to the public! See this flyer for more information: https://www.instagram.com/p/CcGr4FyuqEa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link |
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Apr 27: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
April 27, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC | |
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Frederica von Stade
@Alansohn: Hi! Thank you for your work on Frederica von Stade. I'm a great fan of Frederica's, and I'd love to read the article about her that you found on newjerseyhills.com, but because I live in Europe, our bizarre data protection arrangements mean that I can't access that particular website from my side of the Atlantic. Could you perhaps please copy the piece that you found here? Niggle1892 (talk) 21:13, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- Niggle1892, let me see what I can help make available for you.... Alansohn (talk) 21:36, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Alansohn: Thank you for responding so helpfully. I've just been in contact with an American friend who has emailed the article to me, so please forgive me for troubling you unnecessarily. (By the way, I think that what you've contributed to Wikipedia is truly astonishing, and I wish you many more happy years of chronicling the story of the beautiful state of NJ!!) Niggle1892 (talk) 20:01, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
- Niggle1892, thanks for the kind words. We all contribute in our own way, from near and far. Alansohn (talk) 20:03, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
Edgar Smith
Alansohn - why are you deleting my edits to this page? My edits corrected various errors, clarified obscure info, and inserted information from the trial transcript and appeals orders (such as the government's theory at trial of how the murder occurred - a theory approved on direct appeal). After 30 years as a lawyer in the criminal justice system, I am now retired and am an amateur published historian. I took an interest in this case after reading both the new book about it "Scoundrel" and the 1972 book about it "Counterpoint" (containing the complete trial transcript). Because the wiki entry on the case was weak I spent hours making careful revisions to make it more concise and accurate. I am baffled as to why you would delete most of my edits. An explanation please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wmdarrow (talk • contribs)
- Wmdarrow, the edits had been inadvertently deleted and have been restored, with some minor changes. Thanks for letting me know and my apologies for any confusion i may have caused. Alansohn (talk) 14:48, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
Monique Samuels
If she was born in Atlantic City, is it necessary to note she grew up seven miles away? It seems as superfluous as saying someone was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Queens. I'm also doubtful that citing a podcast is appropriate. I could listen to the entire episode and subjectively decide her statements at 1:07, 4:59, 16:06, and 28:37 are encyclopedic and that they warrant inclusion. Next thing you know, the podcast is cited to verify 80% of the article when WP:NPOV advises against precisely that. Better not to cite it at all. KyleJoantalk 17:50, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
- KyleJoan, I was born in Place A, but only lived there for the first two days of my life, while I group up in Place B; if I were to ever have a Wikipedia article, someone could say that I was born in Place A and could find a source to back that up, but so what; it's far more relevant that I group up in Place B. Most people aren't born and raised in the same place where they were born. It appears that Samuels was born in Atlantic City because there is a hospital there and was raised in Pleasantville because that's where she lived with her family. The only source that connects her to Atlantic City is her own website, while the source where she is quoted as saying that she grew up in Pleasantville was a direct quote from her in an interview with a site run by an independent and notable third party, Andy Ockershausen.
I'm not sure why we need to mention Atlantic City, New Jersey, as there's no evidene that she ever lived there and no independent source that she was born there, other than her own website. The more relevant place in her life is Pleasantville, New Jersey, and the distance between her place of birth and where she was raised seems irrelevant. I'm not sure what your opposition is to including her hometown of Pleasantville, but would this source from the New York Post, which says that "Sheppard, 34, was pronounced dead at Atlanticare Regional Medical Center City Campus shortly after cops responded to a 911 call about the shooting. He hailed from Samuels’ hometown of Pleasantville, NJ." be better than the podcast transcript? Alansohn (talk) 19:13, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
- The words on her own platform need further verification but the words she says on a podcast do not? Huh? Verifiability isn't the issue here; NPOV is. The New York Post is unreliable per WP:RSP, so whether the information they publish is correct, their content should not be used to support any neutral statement or given weight in that manner. The place that is
far more relevant
in your view isn't compatible with MOS:BIRTHDATE, which never mentions the necessity of specifying where someone grew up. It sounds like you're saying "I'd like to add this material, and this podcast is the only source I could find" rather than "this reliable source said it, warranting inclusion". Like I said, what if I listen to that episode and include ten other claims I find important? Imagine reading a BLP that cites a podcast more times than it does actual news outlets. KyleJoantalk 02:55, 14 May 2022 (UTC)- KyleJoan, as the source is reliable, and the statements it includes come straight from her, and meet the characteristics of WP:SELFPUB at a minimum, what difference does it make that there is a lot of useful information available. Unfortunately, "what if I listen to that episode and include ten other claims I find important?" isn't a policy, it's your own opinion, and only yours. I'll reinsert the details with another source. Alansohn (talk) 02:05, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
- A podcast is reliable? I should cite Joe Rogan's in more articles then. So it was appropriate for you to cite that podcast to support one claim, but it would be inappropriate for me to cite that same podcast for other claims? Got it. KyleJoantalk 02:21, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
- KyleJoan, what a person says about themselves in a self-published source is reliable as long as it meets WP:SELFPUB. I don't know what you're talking about some things being reliable, but you may want to understand the policies on the topic. As long as the source from Bravo doesn't have too much useful information, I assume that it meets your approval? Alansohn (talk) 02:34, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
- I'm not even following what you're saying anymore. First, there was
no independent source that she was born [in Atlantic City]
, thenwhat a person says about themselves in a self-published source is reliable
. Not sure when sources that containtoo much useful information
were ever relevant in this discussion (or what that's even about). While I appreciate the tip about understanding reliable sources, I think knowing not to cite the New York Post shows I understand just fine. KyleJoantalk 03:17, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
- I'm not even following what you're saying anymore. First, there was
- KyleJoan, what a person says about themselves in a self-published source is reliable as long as it meets WP:SELFPUB. I don't know what you're talking about some things being reliable, but you may want to understand the policies on the topic. As long as the source from Bravo doesn't have too much useful information, I assume that it meets your approval? Alansohn (talk) 02:34, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
- A podcast is reliable? I should cite Joe Rogan's in more articles then. So it was appropriate for you to cite that podcast to support one claim, but it would be inappropriate for me to cite that same podcast for other claims? Got it. KyleJoantalk 02:21, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
- KyleJoan, as the source is reliable, and the statements it includes come straight from her, and meet the characteristics of WP:SELFPUB at a minimum, what difference does it make that there is a lot of useful information available. Unfortunately, "what if I listen to that episode and include ten other claims I find important?" isn't a policy, it's your own opinion, and only yours. I'll reinsert the details with another source. Alansohn (talk) 02:05, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
- The words on her own platform need further verification but the words she says on a podcast do not? Huh? Verifiability isn't the issue here; NPOV is. The New York Post is unreliable per WP:RSP, so whether the information they publish is correct, their content should not be used to support any neutral statement or given weight in that manner. The place that is
Ion Hanford Perdicaris
I disagree with removing the important significance of the ratification of the U.S Constitution vs the Ordinance of Secession. The one individual signed the U.S. Constitution while the other individual signed a document abolishing it. The statement is significant to the article because it establishes the significance of both individuals relative to Perdicaris. ‘’’The same family that added South Carlina to the Union by ratifying the U.S. Constitution took South Carolina out of the Union by Ordinance of Secession. Captain Henry McIver now resembled his Great Grandfather Captain William Dewitt.[1]‘’’Tzim78 (talk) 19:39, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
- Tzim78, I've been familiar with the Perdicaris family and I read this article with some small amount of knowledge about the story, and you did a lot of great work on this article. There are some parts that are repetitive, others that go into too much detail and some that is very hard to understand. The details about McIver are not about Perdicaris; they belong in an article about McIver and / or Dewitt. Next issue is the word "resembled". He didn't look like his great grandfather. It makes no sense.
Keep the good stuff, but trim the article down to make it more focused on Perdicaris himself. Alansohn (talk) 20:47, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
Thank YouTzim78 (talk) 21:21, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
May 22: Wiki-Picnic and Hackathon in Brooklyn
May 22, 12-5pm: Wiki-Picnic and Hackathon in Brooklyn | |
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Happy First Edit Day!
- Idoghor Melody, I never would have remembered. Thanks so much for leaving the message. Alansohn (talk) 18:54, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
Happy First Edit Day!
- CAPTAIN RAJU, thanks for the best wishes. Hard to believe that it's been that long! Alansohn (talk) 18:53, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
May 25: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.Rusf10 (talk) 02:49, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
Copyright violation in article for Monticello, New York
Thanks for noticing the plagiarism in this article. Unfortunately, the way you placed the copyvio template had the effect of blanking the whole article, when in fact only the "History" section contained plagiarism, and the other sections were OK. I have therefore changed the template to affect only the "History" section. Scythe33 (talk) 20:45, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
- Scythe33, if I did this incorrectly, thanks for making the change. I will try to make sure I do this right the next time. Alansohn (talk) 20:47, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
- ^ Andrianis, 2021, p. 15