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Retired

This user is no longer active on Wikipedia as of December 2019 because real life is busy and I will not have the time to edit in the foreseeable future..

Fun fact about Wikipedia...Books are pretty, and gum is sticky. Peeling them off each other is pretty sticky. Sportsguy17 User:Sportsguy17 User User talk:Sportsguy17 Talk Special:EmailUser/Sportsguy17 Email User:Sportsguy17/Creations Creations User:Sportsguy17/sandbox Sandbox User:Sportsguy17/Barnstars Awards Special:Contributions/Sportsguy17 Contributions To leave me a new message on my talkpage, click here. Also feel free to sign my guestbook. 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). The Signpost: 31 October 2019 In the media: How to use or abuse Wikipedia for fun or profit Sweden, Poland, Armenia, Russia, the Vatican, and clueless English pubs. Special report: “Catch and Kill” on Wikipedia: Paid editing and the suppression of material on alleged sexual abuse "It's time for Wikipedia to grow up." In focus: The BBC looks at Chinese government editing But they aren't entirely sure they see it Interview: Carl Miller on Wikipedia Wars A discussion on info wars, government editing and our defences. 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A selection of good news and encouraging stories from the Wikiverse. * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:12, 31 October 2019 (UTC) WikiCup 2019 November newsletter The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is Adam Cuerden (submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 91 featured pictures, including 32 in the final round. Our finalists this year were: Adam Cuerden (submissions) with 964 points Lee Vilenski (submissions) with 899 points Casliber (submissions) with 817 points Kosack (submissions) with 691 points SounderBruce (submissions) with 388 points Enwebb (submissions) with 146 points Usernameunique (submissions) with 145 points HaEr48 (submissions) with 74 points All those who reached the final will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field. Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient! Casliber (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for a total of 7 FAs during the course of the competition. Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 14 GAs in round 5. Yashthepunisher (submissions) wins the featured list prize, for 4 FLs overall. Adam Cuerden (submissions) wins the featured picture prize, for 91 FPs overall. MPJ-DK (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 7 articles in good topics in round 2. Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 14 did you know articles in round 5. Muboshgu (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 7 in the news articles in round 1. Ed! (submissions) wins the reviewer prize, for 56 good article reviews in round 1. 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, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot. We have opened a scoring discussion on whether the rules and scoring need adjustment. Please have your say. 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 2020 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. 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