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When do I continue? I am off from work today and would like to continue since I don't have a lot of free time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.244.57.165 (talk) 18:30, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Ok I will try to take my time and clean these articles.108.244.57.165 (talk) 18:35, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Muboshgu, with regards to the above editor, are we now ignoring WP:BASEBALL/N? Many of the articles this IP editor has now created or swapped from redirects fail the notability guidelines found there. For instance, the editor has moved Daniel Norris from redirect, but Norris has not satisfied any of the 5 requirements found there, and in my opinion should remain on the Blue Jays minor league players page per the provision for minor leaguers with coverage from reliable sources. Trut-h-urts man (T • C) 19:40, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

I hadn't seen the Norris unmerge. I can accept Hursh and Lively, since I think they're on the borderline at worst. Norris I'm not sure of. Remember GNG supersedes BASE/N. I only have so much time to look into this right now. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:50, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

After looking into it Norris may go along with Hursh and Lively in that "borderline" category. I have fixed up the page as well. Thanks for your input. Trut-h-urts man (T • C) 20:28, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Re: Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Major League Baseball hitters who have batted in 10 runs in one game/archive1

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Pinging (in case you forgot). —Bloom6132 (talk) 01:34, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

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Hi Mu. I know it was the nom's obligation to do a wp:before search, not yours, and you may not be watching the AfD at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/85th Street (Manhattan), so I am inviting you to take another look at the related article as it stands now (reflecting only a portion still of the RS material out there, but enough I think to support a review of your !vote). BTW, most street articles are predominantly about the buildings on the street and other landmarks on the street, and people who have lived on it. Though, of course, this article now does also discuss history and the like. The articles rarely discuss the street itself in terms of "it is asphalt, black, and x miles long," though they sometimes do so in summary fashion, and not as the main thrust of the article. Best. --Epeefleche (talk) 21:45, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

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All right Muboshgu. I did it; it's not as bad as they make it out, provided you don't have any skeletons in the closet, which I don't think you do. You really oughta throw your hat in the ring. Go Phightins! 00:50, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

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Re: 10 runs batted in FLC

Hey Muboshgu! Could I trouble you to have another look at my FLC nom above? It's been opened for a month now, and has only received 3 reviews. Since you were the first one to comment, perhaps you might want to do a full review of it. Cheers! —Bloom6132 (talk) 18:34, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2014 June newsletter

After an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's Godot13 (submissions) was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, Casliber (submissions) finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's , whose contributions included featured articles Russian battleship Poltava (1894) and Russian battleship Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six out of eight making it to the next round.

The round saw this year's first featured portal, with Sven Manguard (submissions) taking Portal:Literature to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to 12george1 (submissions) and the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. This means that all content types have been claimed this year. Other contributions of note this round include a featured topic on Maya Angelou's autobiographies from Figureskatingfan (submissions), a good article on the noted Czech footballer Tomáš Rosický from Cloudz679 (submissions) and a now-featured video game screenshot, freely released due to the efforts of Sven Manguard (submissions).

The judges would like to remind participants to update submission pages promptly. This means that content can be checked, and allows those following the competition (including those participating) to keep track of scores effectively. This round has seen discussion about various aspects of the WikiCup's rules and procedures. Those interested in the competition can be assured that formal discussions about how next year's competition will work will be opened shortly, and all are welcome to voice their views then. 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 help 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. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 18:48, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Taylor Dugas

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The Signpost: 02 July 2014

• In the media: Wiki Education; medical content; PR firms
  The Los Angeles Times highlighted a recent Wiki Education Foundation (WEF) course at Pomona College in their article "Wikipedia pops up in bibliographies, and even college curricula". We interviewed Char Booth, the campus ambassador for the course, for additional details.

• Traffic report: The Cup runneth over... and over.
  With Game of Thrones over for another year, the World Cup dominated yet again. And that is pretty much that. This list isn't likely to be particularly eventful until the Cup is won.

• News and notes: Wikimedia Israel receives Roaring Lion award
  Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) has won a Roaring Lion in the category of Internet and cellular for its public outreach during the tenth anniversary of the Hebrew Wikipedia in July 2013.

• Featured content: Ship-shape
  Six articles, five lists, seventeen pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.

• WikiProject report: Indigenous Peoples of North America
  This week, the Signpost visited the Indigenous peoples of North America WikiProject.

• Technology report: In memoriam: the Toolserver (2005–14)
  In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Wikimedia Deutschland's Toolserver project was switched off, marking the end of one of the Wikimedia movement's longest running Chapter-led projects. The Toolserver, which was in fact a collection of servers, first came online in 2005, hosting hundreds of webpages and scripts ("tools") made available for use by Wikimedia readers, editors and administrators.

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The Signpost: 09 July 2014

• Special report: Wikimania 2014—what will it cost?
  Last May, James Forrester announced to the world that London had been awarded the 2014 Wikimania conference. Functioning as the Wikimedia movement's annual conference, it is separate from the chapter-focused Wikimedia Conference. The first, located in Frankfurt, took place in 2005 and had 380 attendees. London, the tenth, is now expected to attract 1500. With Wikimania ambition, attention, and attendance rising significantly over the last nine years, how have this year's monetary costs come to be?

• Wikicup: Wikicup's third round sees money, space, battleships and more
  After an extremely close race, round three is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years—321 was required in 2013, and 243 points in 2012.

• Wikimedia in education: Exploring the United States and Canada with LiAnna Davis
  The Wikimedia Education Program currently spans 60 programs around the world; students and instructors participate at almost every level of education. The Education program Signpost series presents a snapshot of the Wikimedia Global Education Program as it exists in 2014.

• Featured content: Three cheers for featured pictures!
  Five articles, six lists, and nine pictures were promoted to 'featured' status last week on the English Wikipedia.

• News and notes: Echoes of the past haunt new conflict over tech initiative
  As with the troubled release of the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) flagship VisualEditor project, the release of the new Media Viewer has also been met with opposition from the English Wikipedia community.

• Traffic report: World Cup, Tim Howard rule the week
  Unsurprisingly, the World Cup continued to dominate the English Wikipedia's viewing statistics. In particular, the record-breaking performance of US goalkeeper Tim Howard and the tournament-ending injury to Brazil's Neymar drove large amount of views to their articles.

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DYK nomination of Kevin Cron

Hello! Your submission of Kevin Cron 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) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! czar ♔ 13:12, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 July 2014

• Special report: $10 million lawsuit against Wikipedia editors withdrawn, but plaintiff intends to refile
  On the same day the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) announced it would offer assistance to English Wikipedia editors embroiled in a legal dispute with Yank Barry, the lawsuit has been withdrawn without prejudice at the request of Barry's legal team—but this action is being described as "strategic" so that they can refile the lawsuit with a "new, more comprehensive complaint."

• Traffic report: World Cup dominates for another week
  This week it's still more and more World Cup, with five entries out of the top ten (and 14 out of the Top 25).

• Wikimedia in education: Serbia takes the stage with Filip Maljkovic
  It all started in late 2005, when we first held lectures about Wikipedia in two educational institutions (universities) ...

• Featured content: The Island with the Golden Gun
  Eight articles, three lists, and 28 pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.

• News and notes: Bot-created Wikipedia articles covered in the Wall Street Journal, push Cebuano over one million articles
  The Swedish Wikipedia's prolific Lsjbot, which has created a significant proportion of the site's 1.7 million articles and has nearly single-handedly pushed it to being the fourth-largest Wikipedia, was covered in the Wall Street Journal this week. The newspaper reported that the bot has created 2.7 million articles, which is apparently a reference to the Waray-Waray and Cebuano Wikipedias, where Lsjbot is also active, and that "on a good day", it creates 10,000 articles.

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"the problems with copy-pasting new pages and not checking your work"

What an unnecessary comment to make over such a common and easily made mistake. Seriously, this isn't the first time you've taken some sort of shot at me in the edit summary. Enough already.--Yankees10 17:15, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

I agree on rereading that comment that it's harsher than I intended, and I regret that. But I know I've posted messages on your talk page before about similar mistakes. Please try to be more careful in the future. – Muboshgu (talk) 21:14, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Michael Botticelli (politician)

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The Signpost: 23 July 2014

• Wikimedia in education: Education program gaining momentum in Israel
  "Great success" in Israel universities is leading to collaboration and editing in high schools.

• Traffic report: The World Cup hangs on, though tragedies seek to replace it
  Last week I predicted that the World Cup dominance on the report would be over—but I was wrong. The World Cup Final fell on the 13th of July, which was actually the first day of the week covered by this report, not the last day of the last report. Hence, five of the Top 10 this week are again World Cup related-topics.

• News and notes: Institutional media uploads to Commons get a bit easier
  Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) today are facing fewer barriers to uploading their content onto Wikimedia projects now that the new GLAM-Wiki Toolset Project has been launched. The tool, which is the fruit of a collaboration between Europeana and several Wikimedia chapters, relieves GLAMs from having to write their own automated scripts and gives them a standardized method of uploading large amounts of their digitized holdings.

• Forum: Did you know?—good idea, needs reform
  The English Wikipedia's did you know (DYK) section has been a feature of the site's main page since February 2004. From the beginning, the section has served as a place to highlight Wikipedia's newest articles. But over the last few years, the did you know section has gotten steadily larger and more complex, and non-notable or plagiarized articles have occasionally slipped through the reviewing process, leading numerous editors to call for reforms to the system. We asked two editors to share their views.

• Featured content: Why, they're plum identical!
  Ten articles, five lists, and 25 pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.

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MLB.com independence

Don't want to go off on a tangent at the Nakase DYK, but is there really a consensus that MLB.com is independent for GNG purposes? Personally, I wouldn't use it, as any notable person probably has enough sources even if MLB.com (or MiLB.com) didn't count. I get your point about it not being ethical to compromise your writing to please your boss, but it is a conflict anyone who doesn't work for themselves faces everyday.—Bagumba (talk) 22:30, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

Every MLB.com article ends with This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs in the fine print. We do have a general consensus that says MLB.com is good to use. They have hired numerous top notch journalists from other organizations. I don't know as much about NBA.com's writers. – Muboshgu (talk) 14:25, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Kevin Cron

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The Inside Corner : July 27, 2014

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• Project news: Latest featured content
• Around the horn: 2014 MLB All-Star game
• Showcase: Four strikeouts in one inning
• Featured image: Calvin Coolidge and Walter Johnson
• Opinion: Survey

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DYK for Natalie Nakase

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The Signpost: 30 July 2014

• Book review: Knowledge or unreality?
  In Common Knowledge: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, Dariusz Jemielniak discusses Wikipedia from the standpoint of an experienced editor and administrator who is also a university professor specializing in management and organizations. In Virtual Reality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It's True?, Charles Seife presents a more broadly themed work reminding us to question the reliability of information found throughout the Internet.

• Recent research: Shifting values in the paid content debate
  Kim Osman has performed a fascinating study on the three 2013 failed proposals to ban paid advocacy editing in the English language Wikipedia. Using a Constructivist Grounded Theory approach, Osman analyzed 573 posts from the three main votes on paid editing conducted in the community in November 2013.

• News and notes: How many more hoaxes will Wikipedia find?
  Another hoax on the English Wikipedia was uncovered this week—not by any thorough investigation, but through the self-disclosure of an anonymous change made when the editors were in their sophomore year of college. The deliberate misinformation had been in the article for over five years with plenty of individuals noticing, but not one suspected its authenticity. This leads to one obvious question: how many more are there?

• Wikimedia in education: Success in Egypt and the Arab World
  A "program of heroes" is leading the charge in Egypt.

• Traffic report: Doom and gloom vs. the power of Reddit
  We indeed moved far away from football this week, and further into much more serious issues of war and death. The Israel-Palestinian conflict continues to dominate the news, and the top 10, with Gaza Strip, Israel, and Hamas. The top 25 also includes Palestine and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Death also lies behind the popularity of James Garner, the American actor who died on July 19th, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and deaths in 2014.

• Featured content: Skeletons and Skeltons
  Two articles, four lists, and seven pictures attained featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.

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Jacob Turner

No problem with the revert of Jacob Turner. I came across it last night and someone already had him with Chicago Cubs in the infobox. That is why I enclosed it in the <!- notation. I had also updated his stats through his last appearance, August 3; I should have done that in a separate revision because you reverted that also :(. I understand why you did what you did, because once a rumor starts somebody gets hyper and makes all kinds of changes before he actually appears in a game his new team. Some of the edits prior to mine where done by an IP and a new editor (User talk:Buck1980). I'll just back and bring Turner's stats up to date. Happy editing! Bob305 (talk) 20:21, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 06 August 2014

• Technology report: A technologist's Wikimania preview
  As the start of Wikimania proper on 8 August approaches, the Signpost looks ahead to what its dozens of presentations might offer the technologically-inclined, whether attending in person or taking advantage of what promises to be a strong digital offering.

• Traffic report: Ebola
  Serious news continues to dominate the most popular articles chart on Wikipedia this week, with the Ebola virus disease far and away in the top spot. In the top 25, we see the related articles Ebola virus, which talks about biological aspects, at #18 and 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak at #19.

• Featured content: Bottoms, asses, and the fairies that love them
  Eight articles, fifteen pictures, and two topics were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.

• Wikimedia in education: Leading universities educate with Wikipedia in Mexico
  "Major growth" expected in Mexican university after a Wikipedia program is formally accepted by the school's administration.

• News and notes: "History is a human right"—first-ever transparency report released as Europe begins hiding Wikipedia in search results
  The Wikimedia Foundation has published its first transparency report, covering from July 2012 to June 2014. The move comes on the same day the organization announced that Google, in order to comply with a recent court order upholding the "right to be forgotten", has removed a number of Wikipedia articles from their European search results.

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