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WikiCup 2023 September newsletter[edit]

The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

  • New York (state) Epicgenius, with 2173 points topping the scores, gained mainly from a featured article, 38 good articles and 9 DYKs. He was followed by
  • Sammi Brie, with 1575 points, gained mainly from a featured article, 28 good articles and 50 good article reviews. Close behind was
  • Thebiguglyalien, with 1535 points mainly gained from a featured article, 15 good articles, 26 good article reviews and lots of bonus points.

Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

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 10 days of "earning" them and within 24 hours of the end of the final. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. 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. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

I will be standing down as a judge after the end of the contest. I think the Cup encourages productive editors to improve their contributions to Wikipedia and I hope that someone else will step up to take over the running of the Cup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), and Cwmhiraeth (talk)

Holiday Greetings[edit]

Peace is a state of balance and understanding in yourself and between others, where respect is gained by the acceptance of differences, tolerance persists, conflicts are resolved through dialog, people's rights are respected and their voices are heard, and everyone is at their highest point of serenity without social tension. Happy Holidays to you and yours. Always a pleasure to see your work. ―Buster7 

Edelman Family Foundation[edit]

Hi @Muboshgu

I am reaching out to you because of your previous participation in one of the discussions regarding the reliability and neutrality of HuffPost/Pink News/ProPublica as sources used on Wikipedia.

Currently, there is an ongoing issue with the Edelman Family Foundation section in the Joseph Edelman Wikipedia article. The section appears to be biased and lacks a balanced representation of the foundation's activities, as it primarily focuses on a single controversial donation while neglecting to mention the organization's numerous other significant contributions to various causes.

I would like to invite you to participate in the discussion on the BLP Noticeboard to address the concerns surrounding the section's neutrality and explore ways to improve its content. Llama Tierna (talk) 18:18, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New legal article[edit]

I have finished enough of Consciousness of guilt (legal) to go public with it. Further development will be appreciated. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 18:39, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like a nice start to the article. I am not a lawyer so I don't know anything about the subject. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:54, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have sent you a note about a page you started[edit]

Hello, Muboshgu. Thank you for your work on Nolan Kingham. SunDawn, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Good day! Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia by writing this article. I have marked the article as reviewed. Have a wonderful and blessed day for you and your family!

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|SunDawn}}. Please remember to sign your reply with ~~~~. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 00:58, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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ITN recognition for Bill Delahunt[edit]

On 6 April 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Bill Delahunt, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Schwede66 02:38, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A logged-in user is adding BLP violations to this page, and I see that you removed content from it added by an IP a few minutes ago. Of course, I don't know if it's the same content, but I think it might be worth it to redact what the logged-in user is adding. Thanks. JeffSpaceman (talk) 16:41, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

JeffSpaceman, it's the same content, from the same LTA, and it's been redacted. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:43, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Angus 24[edit]

This is definitely just User:Dynoblex block evading. Same type of edits to their userpages, and the same summary when adding hoaxes to deaths in 2024 ("I added (alive guy)" using sources anyone can edit). Not to mention he's now death hoaxed Mick Avory and Shi Ping (politician), which just suggests WP:!HERE even aside from puppetry. Nohomersryan (talk) 22:57, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nohomersryan, a sock? Can't say I'm surprised. I'll open an SPI since it seems its their first (noticed) sock. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:04, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for Pat Zachry[edit]

On 8 April 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Pat Zachry, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 01:53, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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transaction question[edit]

Hey... I've been having a dispute with another editor regarding transactions.. Every time a player gets dfad he adds the player who replaces them on the roster.. such as with Nabil Crismatt.. he added "was designated for assignment the following day after the promotion of Dinelson Lamet"... my issue with this is that players are DFAd before the new player gets added not after... and I don't think Lamet is important to Crismatt's article.. as he was called up for one game to provide length and was sent out cause he wouldn't be available for a few days and they needed a new arm.. it wasn't about Lamet.. I try to fix these articles so they aren't just transaction porn... but this is a common issue with this particular editor... what do you think about this issue? should I just let it be? Spanneraol (talk) 22:43, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good question. It's sort of relevant, but sort of not at the same time? I generally don't add the player in the corresponding transaction. It definitely shouldn't be in a page where the player keeps getting called up and sent down repeatedly as then it would get overloaded. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:54, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for Joseph E. Brennan[edit]

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WikiCup 2024 April newsletter[edit]

We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.

Our current top scorers are as follows:

Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please read Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:05, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for Jerry Grote[edit]

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Vice presidency of Joe Biden[edit]

Hello. I'm glad you discovered what happened. Regards, ---Steve Quinn (talk) 23:46, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I should have checked before reverting. – Muboshgu (talk) 00:41, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not a problem and not a big deal. ---Steve Quinn (talk) 01:38, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Lou Novikoff[edit]

On 14 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lou Novikoff, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Lou Novikoff asked if the ivy growing on the walls of Wrigley Field could be smoked? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lou Novikoff. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Lou Novikoff), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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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