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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Let's All Go to the Lobby you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Voorts -- Voorts (talk) 18:01, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article Let's All Go to the Lobby you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Let's All Go to the Lobby and Talk:Let's All Go to the Lobby/GA2 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Voorts -- Voorts (talk) 18:43, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article Let's All Go to the Lobby you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Let's All Go to the Lobby for comments about the article, and Talk:Let's All Go to the Lobby/GA2 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has never appeared on the Main Page as a "Did you know" item, and has not appeared within the last year either as "Today's featured article", or as a bold link under "In the news" or in the "On this day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear at DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On this day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Voorts -- Voorts (talk) 22:41, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

—Kusma (talk) 00:03, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome, welcome, welcome Reidgreg! I'm glad that you are joining the drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

CactiStaccingCrane (talk)18:55, 1 February 2024 UTC [refresh]via JWB and Geardona (talk to me?)

—Ganesha811 (talk) 12:02, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 13,242 views (1,103.5 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of February 2024 – nice work!

GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:27, 3 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 12,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE January 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 01:17, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 4th Place
		This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copyediting 13 old articles during the GOCE January 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 01:17, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.

Our current leader is newcomer Generalissima (submissions), who has one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), with one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
• Vami_IV (submissions), with one FA on Doom (2016 video game), one GA on Boundary Fire (2017), and 11 reviews;
• MaranoFan (submissions), with one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and two DYKs;
• Skyshifter (submissions), with one FA on OneShot and one DYK;
• Sammi Brie (submissions), with five GAs and five DYKs on television and radio stations;
• voorts (submissions) and Elli (submissions), both with one FA and one DYK each.

As a reminder, competitors may submit work for the first round until 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February, and the second round starts 1 March. Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round; currently, competitors need at least 15 points to progress. 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. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, 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) 17:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 2,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE February 2024 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 21:03, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.

The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:

• Generalissima (submissions), who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
• Vami_IV (submissions), who has 790 points from two FAs on Felix M. Warburg House and Doom (2016 video game), two GAs, one DYK, and 11 reviews
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who has 580 points from one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews
• Sammi Brie (submissions), who has 420 points mostly from nine GAs and seven DYKs on television and radio stations
• MaranoFan (submissions), who has 351 points from one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and three DYKs
• Skyshifter (submissions), who has 345 points from one FA on OneShot, one DYK and two reviews

In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to Vami_IV (submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.

Remember that any content promoted after 27 February 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 Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges 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) 00:41, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		Citation Barnstar
		This award is given in recognition to Reidgreg for collecting more than 25 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's FEB24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing 14,300 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – – DreamRimmer (talk) 18:30, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:10, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, would you mind terribly trimming the bloated plot summary I've written for Flypaper (1998 film). The article is being reviewed for DYK at Template:Did you know nominations/Flypaper (1998 film), where the reviewer insists that it could be shorter even tho I explained basically that it's impossible and that WP:FILMPLOT wasn't a rigid rule. I would really appreciate it if you could help with shortening it, even if it means losing the 5x expansion criterion it may have once had as a result of the copy edit. Thanks Nineteen Ninety-Four guy (talk) 13:25, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Nineteen Ninety-Four guy: I've read through the article and will start copyediting the plot now. I may have a couple questions which I'll post below. – Reidgreg (talk) 16:35, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Nineteen Ninety-Four guy: Finished. A couple things I changed which might not be right:

• With the discussion about the parking lot and "driving around the complex", it sounded more like a motel than a hotel so I changed that.
• The term henchman implies criminal activity so I switched to a more neutral "employee".
• I wasn't sure why Jack would hit Bobby with a golf club then exchange gunfire unless he only obtained the gun by knocking it out of Bobby's hand with the golf club. So I assumed that happened and wrote it that way.

• Sorry. What happened was that Bobby Ray kept pounding the door, so Jack told Natalie to open it just to hit him with the club to keep him out. Bobby then shoots through the door and then Jack shoots back, hence the gunfire exchange. Nineteen Ninety-Four guy (talk) 04:11, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Otherwise I pretty much condensed it, put similar thoughts together, and trimmed some details that didn't seem important. – Reidgreg (talk) 18:28, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much. I never thought it was possible. Nineteen Ninety-Four guy (talk) 04:11, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sometimes it just takes a fresh pair of eyes. When I've been staring at my own writing too long, I'll sometimes get blocked and have to ask someone else to look at it. – Reidgreg (talk) 12:10, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Your submission of Ukrainian Sheriffs at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 23:24, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE March 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 07:37, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 — Amakuru (talk) 12:02, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		The Minor Barnstar
		Thank you for participating in the March 2024 GA backlog drive. Your contribution (3 points total) helped reduce the backlog by more than 250 articles! Here's a token of our appreciation. —Ganesha811 (talk) 16:22, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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:

• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 642 points, mostly from 11 GAs about radio and television;
• voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two FAs (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three GAs;
• Generalissima (submissions) with 523 points, mostly from 11 GAs about coinage and history;
• SounderBruce (submissions) with 497 points, mostly from a FA about the 2020 season of the soccer club Seattle Sounders FC and two GAs;
• Tamzin (submissions) with 410 points, mostly from a FA about the drink Capri-Sun and three GAs;
• Kusma (submissions) with 330 points, mostly from a FA about the English botanist Anna Blackburne and a GA.

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) 15:06, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling between 1 and 1,999 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE April 2024 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 03:21, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.

The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:

• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 707 points, mostly from 45 good article nomination reviews and 12 good articless about radio and television;
• Generalissima (submissions) with 600 points, mostly from 12 good articles and 12 did you know nominations about coinage and history;
• SounderBruce (submissions) with 552 points, mostly from a featured article about the 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season, three featured lists, and two good articles;
• BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 548 points, mostly from a featured article about the snooker player John Pulman, two featured lists, and one good article;
• voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two featured articles (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three good articles.

The full scores for Round 2 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76 in the news credits and at least 200 did you know credits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed during Round 3, which starts on 1 May at 00:00 (UTC). 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 Needed.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see this page. 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) 13:38, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 20,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE May 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 08:02, 3 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Dorothy Dworkin you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Grnrchst -- Grnrchst (talk) 10:22, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article Dorothy Dworkin you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Dorothy Dworkin for comments about the article, and Talk:Dorothy Dworkin/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Grnrchst -- Grnrchst (talk) 08:22, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have reviewed your did you know nomination for Dorothy Dworkin, but I have a question before approving the current hook. – Editør (talk) 16:13, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 2,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 03:28, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		Women in Green Editathon June '24
		Thank you so much for contributing to Women in Green's sixth editathon, with your successful GA nomination of Dorothy Dworkin and your review of Amat-Mamu. Excellent work! Best wishes --Grnrchst (talk) 11:37, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for participating in the June 2024 backlog drive! You scored 202 points while adding citations to articles during WikiProject Reliability's first {{citation needed}} backlog drive, earning you this citation barnstar. Thanks for helping out!

Pichpich (talk) 16:12, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

^Complex/_Rational 00:03, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 00:53, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This question did not get a response, and I wouldn't know how, but did you ever find the answer?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:44, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Vchimpanzee: No, I didn't find any answer – any processes or guidelines for establishing maintenance categories. It seemed a bit WP:CABALish to me at the time. Perhaps things have changed since then. I didn't have the time or energy to pursue it further or to poll the community about establishing a guideline. – Reidgreg (talk) 03:48, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. I wouldn't know what to do either but it looks like a good idea.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 15:55, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Regarding [1]. You stated "The release date is the commercial release date in theatres, July 2016. Special screenings like film festivals and gala premieres don't count as the release." Per WP:FILMRELEASE: "Release dates should therefore be restricted to the film's earliest release, whether it was at a film festival, a world premiere, or a public release, and the release date(s) in the country or countries that produced the film, excluding sneak previews or screenings." Considering the film was shown at the 2015 IDFA, it would be classified as a 2015 film per our guidelines. We do count film festivals as releases. See Apolonia, Apolonia (showed at 2022 IDFA, commercially in 2023), Our Daily Bread (showed at 2005, commercially in 2006/07), etc. Let me know your thoughts.

16:44, 12 August 2024 (UTC) BOVINEBOY2008 16:44, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Bovineboy2008: Yeah, I think you're right. I did read WP:FILMRELEASE before reverting, but that regards the infobox only and template documentation has remarkably little oversight. However, I've now taken a look through sources and most note it as a 2015 film, so I'll follow the sources on this. I have changed it to 2015 in the lead sentence and short description. Sorry for the disruption. – Reidgreg (talk) 17:02, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Appreciate the reply! BOVINEBOY2008 17:04, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling between 1 and 1,999 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE August 2024 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 13:25, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE September 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 05:48, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi -- just wanted to let you know that I've posted the FailedGA template on Talk:Susanne Craig; I know you're working on notes for the GA review page, and this doesn't get in the way of that. Go ahead and update the review page as you see fit -- I just wanted the bot to process the fail so the second nomination can go up without me having to babysit the bot in case it gets upset about two simultaneous nominations. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 22:11, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Mike Christie: Okay, great! Thanks for letting me know and having a cool head throughout. I think I'll actually take my time with this then, I feel like I've been responding off and on for a few hours now. I do want to get a good close in. You know, technically, if the nominator hasn't addressed the comments I'm about to post, then the new reviewer can quick fail the second nomination. Not that that's going to happen. – Reidgreg (talk) 23:18, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Your submission of Margaret Reid (politician) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! —David Eppstein (talk) 00:15, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling over 2,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE October 2024 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 22:27, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome, welcome, welcome Reidgreg! I'm glad that you are joining the November 2024 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Cielquiparle (talk) 21:00, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

Six years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:27, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Reidgreg for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE November 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 23:35, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		Women in Green Editathon October '24
		Thank you for contributing to Women in Green's 7th edit-a-thon! Your good article nomination on Margaret Reid and your review on Susanne Craig has helped contribute to a more global representation of women on the encyclopedia. --Grnrchst (talk) 16:39, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		Citation Barnstar
		This award is given in recognition to Reidgreg for collecting more than 25.0 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's NOV24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing over 8,000 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – DreamRimmer Alt (talk) 17:54, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]