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The fourth archived talk page that I have had from August 2015-16.
Potential admin
Hi, I notice you're on Wikipedia:List of administrator hopefuls. Wikipedia would benefit from more admins. If you have been editing for more than 12 months (preferably 24+ months), and have been editing fairly consistently for the past 6 months (preferably 12+ months) with at least 100 edits a month (this tool will help) - or an explanation for any gaps, and haven't been blocked or topic banned in the past three years - or a good explanation for a recent block or ban, don't have a recent history of edit warring or arguing with other editors, feel you can explain why you wish to be an admin, can demonstrate some understanding of Wikipedia's procedures and processes, or know where to go for guidance, and are confident enough to go through a RfA, please get in touch with me. We can talk about it some more, and if all looks OK, I'll nominate you. SilkTork ✔Tea time 12:18, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
- Hi. I notice you haven't responded. No worries. I'll mark you down on my list as not interested at the moment, but if you do change your mind, please do get in touch on my talkpage or by email. No promises as I've not yet looked into your contribution history, but I do like that you are willing to put yourself forward as an admin, so I'm happy to give you support, honest opinion, and advice when you're ready. Regards SilkTork ✔Tea time 09:43, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for contacting me about possible admin. I didn't imminently reply because I had to give a think. But I am interested. Rugby Sevens are coming 22:38, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Matt, sorry for delay in getting back to you. I've just had a look at your contributions, and they are currently lower than the 100 a month criteria I am looking for as a starting point, and you have little experience in AfD. However, no worries, you can work on this. If you bring your contributions level up to a minimum of 100 edits a month for the next six months, and take part regularly in AfD discussions, we'll have a starting point for a discussion. I am recommending these pages to folks as essential and useful background reading: Wikipedia:Guide to requests for adminship, Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list, Wikipedia:Administrators, Wikipedia:Advice for RfA candidates, and User:Worm That Turned/Magic Formula. You would also find it helpful to start exploring Wikipedia:Backlog and seeing where you can help out. Having a spread of involvement across Wikipedia, not just in editing articles, is really positive - it helps you, it helps Wikipedia, and it improves your chances of becoming an admin. I note that the bulk of your article editing is in the form of stats, tables and lists. It's not a requirement that you work on prose, nor that you bring a mainly prose based article to GA standard, but these days it does help, as it indicates that you have knowledge and experience of the main aspect of Wikipedia, and this is reassuring to some members of the community. If in the next six months you can select a prose article on a topic that interests you, and work on bringing it to GA level, that would be beneficial. But if you don't manage that, it's still OK. Get in touch in six months, and I'll take a look to see how you're getting on. In the meantime if you have any queries, or need some advice on something, just get in touch. I may not always respond promptly, but I do always respond! Cheers. SilkTork ✔Tea time 14:32, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
WikiCup 2015 September newsletter
The finals for the 2015 Wikicup has now begun! Congrats to the 8 contestants who have survived to the finals, and well done and thanks to everyone who took part in rounds 3 and 4.
In round 3, we had a three-way tie for qualification among the wildcard contestants, so we had 34 competitors. The leader was by far 
Casliber (submissions) in Group B, who earned 1496 points. Although 913 of these points were bonus points, he submitted 15 articles in the DYK category. Second place overall was 
Coemgenus (submissions) at 864 points, who although submitted just 2 FAs for 400 points, earned double that amount for those articles in bonus points. Everyone who moved forward to Round 4 earned at least 100 points.
The scores required to move onto the semifinals were impressive; the lowest scorer to move onto the finals was 407, making this year's Wikicup as competitive as it's always been. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:
Cas Liber (submissions), who is competing in his sixth consecutive Wikicup final, again finished the round in first place, with an impressive 1666 points in Pool B. Casliber writes about the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy. A large bulk of his points this round were bonus points.
Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points), second place both in Pool B and overall, earned the bulk of his points with FPs, mostly depicting currency.
Cwmhiraeth (submissions), first in Pool A, came in third. His specialty is natural science articles; in Round 4, he mostly submitted articles about insects and botany. Five out of the six of the GAs he submitted were level-4 vital articles.
Harrias (submissions), second in Pool A, took fourth overall. He tends to focus on articles about cricket and military history, specifically the 1640s First English Civil War.
West Virginian (submissions), from Pool A, was our highest-scoring wildcard. West Virginia tends to focus on articles about the history of (what for it!) the U.S. state of West Virginia.- Rodw (submissions), from Pool A, likes to work on articles about British geography and places. Most of his points this round were earned from two impressive accomplishments: a GT about Scheduled monuments in Somerset and a FT about English Heritage properties in Somerset.
Rationalobserver (submissions), from Pool B, came in seventh overall. RO earned the majority of her points from GARs and PRs, many of which were earned in the final hours of the round.
Calvin999 (submissions), also from Pool B, who was competing with RO for the final two spots in the final hours, takes the race for most GARs and PRs—48.
The intense competition between RO and Calvin999 will continue into the finals. They're both eligible for the Newcomers Trophy, given for the first time in the Wikicup; whoever makes the most points will win it.
Good luck to the finalists; the judges are sure that the competition will be fierce!
Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 11:48, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
2016 Formula One season
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WikiCup 2015: The results
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WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.
This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is 
Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points). All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program. 
Cwmhiraeth (submissions) came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science. 
Cas Liber (submissions), a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.
Our newcomer award, presented to the best-performing new competitor in the WikiCup, goes to 
Rationalobserver (submissions). Everyone should be very proud of the work they accomplished. We will announce our other award winners soon.
A full list of our award winners are:
- Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points) wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 330 featured pictures in the final round.
- Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 160 did you knows in the final round (310 in all rounds).
- Cas Liber (submissions) wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for 26 featured articles in all rounds.
- West Virginian (submissions) wins the prize for fourth place
- Calvin999 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
- Rationalobserver (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
- Harrias (submissions) wins a final 8 prize and the FL prize for 11 featured lists.
- Rodw (submissions) wins the most prizes: a final 8 prize, the GA prize for 41 good articles, and the topic prize for a 13-article good topic and an 8-article featured topic, both in round 3.
ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the news prize for the most news articles in round 3.
We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2016 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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WikiCup 2016 is just around the corner...
Hello everyone, and we would like to wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2016 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. There are some changes we'd like to announce before the competition begins.
After two years of serving as WikiCup judge, User:Miyagawa has stepped down as judge. He deserves great thanks and recognition for his dedication and hard work, and for providing necessary transition for a new group of judges in last year's Cup. Joining Christine (User:Figureskatingfan) and Jason (User:Sturmvogel 66) is Andrew (User:Godot13), a very successful WikiCup competitor and expert in Featured Pictures; he won the two previous competitions. This is a strong judging team, and we anticipate lots of enjoyment and good work coming from our 2016 competitors.
We would also like to announce one change in how this year's WikiCup will be run. In the spirit of sportsmanship, Godot13 and Cwmhiraeth have chosen to limit their participation. See here for the announcement and a complete explanation of why. They and the judges feel that it will make for a more exciting, enjoyable, and productive competition.
The discussions/polls concerning the next competition's rules will be closed soon, and rules changes will be made clear on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring and talk pages. The judges are committed to not repeating the confusion that occurred last year and to ensuring that the new rules are both fair and in the best interests of the competition, which is, first and foremost, about improving Wikipedia.
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Hi Matt, Per WP:SIGIMAGE images should never be used in signatures so you should probably remove them from the pages you've added your sig too and obviously you should remove them from your sig, Failure to do so could see you indef blocked, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 00:18, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
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Masters Champions League merge proposal
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WikiCup 2015 March newsletter
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That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. Forty-seven competitors move into this round (a bit shy of the expected 64), and we are roughly broken into eight groups of six. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups.
Twenty-two Good Articles were submitted, including three by 
Cyclonebiskit (submissions), and two each by 
MPJ-DK (submissions), 
Hurricanehink (submissions), 
12george1 (submissions), and 
Cas Liber (submissions). Twenty-one Featured Pictures were claimed, including 17 by 
Adam Cuerden (submissions) (the Round 1 high scorer). Thirty-one contestants saw their DYKs appear on the main page, with a commanding lead (28) by Cwmhiraeth (submissions). Twenty-nine participants conducted GA reviews with 
J Milburn (submissions) completing nine.
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WikiCup 2016 March newsletter (update)
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Potential admin V.2
So since our chat, I have started to be more active but of course with me being in school, this isn't my top focus at the moment. I have been more active in the Afd front while my account has now got the pending changes reviewer status on it. In January, it was over 300 edits in just one month alone. Of course I haven't focused on just one article and trying to improve it which might hurt me but activity is up. Matt294069 is coming 00:38, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
- I'll take a look at your activity in the next week or so, and give you some feedback. SilkTork ✔Tea time 11:56, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
- I am not so active on Wikipedia at the moment so I have suspended all discussions with potential admins. When my circumstances change, and if you're still interested, we can talk again then. Sorry for the inconvenience. SilkTork ✔Tea time 09:34, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
- Fair enough. Matt294069 is coming 21:34, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
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Don College page
Hello Matt294069, I am hoping you can help me. I am making some minor changes to the Don College page but the ClueBot keeps undoing them, and it reverts back to your last edit. Specifically I would like to add the name the mascot is generally known by (Douglas the Badly Behaved Bear) and I would like to correct the location from Don to Devonport. The Don is actually on the other side of The Don River.
Proposed deletion of Rocking Soccer
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RE: Don College
Thanks for your comments MATT294069. I have a copy of the book which is quoted in the references by Shane Wolf and I will post some images form there (with attribution). I have spoken to The current and immediate past principals as well as the author of the book quoted, and gained their input, and I probably need to work on the style a bit. I would like to add sections on college life covering the social life and the student organizations and flesh out the info-box a bit more. On frustration I have is that the ClueBot will not let me correct Douglas' name. But that is minor. Thanks for your support. Squeaky1957 (talk) 03:09, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
P.S. Yes, I am a new editor and this is my first attempt at an article.
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Lakoseljac Cup
Hi there, Matt. Seen your recent edits/redirects at Tasmanian association football cup competitions.
Are you going to create stand-alone articles for Lakoseljac Cup for 2014, 2015,2016 ? I've been updating some of the other competitions running associated with the 2016 FFA Cup preliminary rounds, but have only looked at stand-alone pages for those competitions that have additional rounds after Round 7 : i.e. WA there's a Cool Ridge Cup final that's not part of the FFA Cup competition, and Victoria : Dockerty Cup there's a semi-final and then a final that's not part of the FFA Cup competition. Matilda Maniac (talk) 05:33, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
WikiCup 2016 May newsletter
Round 2 is over and 35 competitors have moved on to Round 3.
Round 2 saw three FAs (two by Cas Liber (submissions) and one by 
Montanabw (submissions)), four Featured Lists (with three by 
Calvin999 (submissions)), and 53 Good Articles (six by Worm That Turned (submissions) and five each by Hurricanehink (submissions), Cwmhiraeth (submissions), and MPJ-DK (submissions)). Eleven Featured Pictures were promoted (six by Adam Cuerden (submissions) and five by Godot13 (submissions)). One Featured Portal, Featured Topic and Good Topic were also promoted. The DYK base point total was 1,135. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) scored 265 base points, while 
The C of E (submissions) and MPJ-DK (submissions) each scored 150 base points. Eleven ITN were promoted and 131 Good Article Reviews were conducted with MPJ-DK (submissions) completing a staggering 61 reviews. Two contestants, Cwmhiraeth (submissions) and Cas Liber (submissions), broke the 700 point mark for Round 2.
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