Jamesyboy2468

Hello, if you look in your achives, you can see that a message was sent out a few weeks ago about a participant clean-up taking place. I see that you are still active in helping out with GA related stuff, but you haven't added your name to this list. Just telling you as an FYI. :) --Dom497 (talk) 00:52, 10 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

Commented on Talk:Para-swimming classification/GA1. :) --LauraHale (talk) 20:22, 10 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

 

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 5, No. 3 — 3rd Quarter, 2012
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Project At a Glance
As of Q3 2012, the project has:

146 Featured Articles 49 Featured Lists 6 Featured Topics 3 Featured Pictures

43 A-Class Articles 577 Good Articles 11 Good Topics

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Features: "Is the Newsletter important?" and "Request for new writers and interviewers" No featured editor this issue.

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MuZemike delivered by MuZebot 15:43, 15 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

Hey there, I'm going to leave some preliminary notes on the general talk page at Talk:The Guardian, before doing the GA Review and that writeup on the GA Review page itself. — Cirt (talk) 21:25, 20 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

Sorry, had to fail it as not GA status right now, way too many uncited and unsourced problems. — Cirt (talk) 23:02, 20 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

 

This blocked user's request to have autoblock on their IP address lifted has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request.

Jamesyboy2468 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

86.173.64.176 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

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Block message:

Autoblocked because your IP address was recently used by "Lolwat43". The reason given for Lolwat43's block is: "Vandalism-only account".

• Blocking administrator: Soap (talk • blocks)

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Decline reason: Now blocked directly for socking. Kuru (talk) 15:03, 16 December 2012 (UTC)Reply

It's a little odd that you were interacting with that editor and were then caught up in the autoblock; can you explain your relation to that account? Kuru (talk) 23:45, 13 December 2012 (UTC)Reply

I'd also like an answer to that. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 04:06, 14 December 2012 (UTC)Reply

I just saw this case and I am about to start a full scale investigation on this matter very soon. I request the Reviewing admin to put this unblock request on hold until the SPI results are out. TheGeneralUser (talk) 18:29, 15 December 2012 (UTC)Reply

The WikiProject Good articles Newsletter Volume IV, No. 1 – January 2013 For past newsletters click here

In This Issue Featured editorial: Skyfall by Hahc21. Project News: A record, and issue and a future. Good Articles of the Month: See which articles were picked this year of records: 190 articles passed in December! GA Task Forces: Results from the drive Member News: Two crucial users leave the project Read this newsletter Single-page Unsubscribe Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot · 3 January 2012

This newsletter was delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 14:18, 3 January 2013 (UTC)Reply

• As a listed GA participant, you are invited to contribute to a formal Request for Comment on the question of whether Good Articles should be eligible to appear in the Did You Know? slot in future. Please see the proposal on its subpage here, or on the main DYK talk page. To add the discussion to your watchlist, click this link. Thank you in advance. Gilderien Chat|Contributions02:48, 1 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

It's that time again! Starting on March 1, there will be another GAN Backlog Drive! There will be several changes compared to previous drives:

• This drive will introduce a new component to it; a point system. In a nutshell, older nominations are worth more points than newer nominations. The top 3 participants who have the points will be awarded the Golden, Silver, or Bronze Wikipedia Puzzle Piece Trophy, respectively.
• Unlike the December 2013 Backlog Drive, earning an additional barnstar if you reached your goal has been removed.
• The allowance to have insufficient reviews has been lowered to 2 before being disqualified.
• An exception to the rule that all reviews must be completed before the deadline has been created.

Also, something that I thought I would share with all of you is that we raised $20.88 (USD) for the WMF in the December 2013 drive. It may not sound like a lot but considering that that was raised just because we reviewed articles, I would say that's pretty good! With that success, pledges can be made for the upcoming drive if you wish.

More info regarding the drive and full descriptions regarding the changes to this drive can be found on the the drive page. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a message on the drive talk page.

I look forward to your participation and hope that because of it, some day the backlog will be gone!

--Dom497

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:58, 22 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

The March 2014 GAN Backlog Drive has begun and will end on April 1, 2014! Sent by Dom497 on behalf of MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:01, 1 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

Hello everyone! Hope you've all been having a great summer!

TheQ Editor recently proposed the idea of having another Backlog Drive in either September/October or November/December of this year. For those of you who have participated in the past two drives you know I was the one who organized them, however, come September, this will be my most important year in school so I will not be able to coordinate this drive (if it happens). TheQ Editor has volunteered to be a coordinator for the drive. If any of you would like to co-coordinator, please notify TheQ Editor on his talk page.

If you would be interested in participating in a Backlog Drive sometime before the end of this year, please notify TheQ Editor. Also, make sure to specify what month(s) work best for you.

At the time this message was sent out, the backlog was at 520 nominations. Since May, the backlog has been steadily increasing and we are currently near an all time high. Even though the backlog will not disappear over one drive, this drive can lead to several others which will (hopefully) lead to the day where there is no longer a backlog.

As always, the more participants, the better, and everyone is encouraged to participate!

Sent by Dom497--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:52, 16 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

Hello everyone! We hope you have all been having a great summer!

As we all know, the recent GAN Backlog Drives have not had any big impact on the backlog. Because of that, me (Dom497), Figureskatingfan, and TheQ Editor have worked on an idea that could possibly finally put a dent into the massive backlog. Now, I will admit, the idea isn't entirely ours as we have took the general idea of the WikiCup and brought it over to WikiProject Good Articles. But anyways, here's what we have in mind:

For all of you that do not know what the WikiCup is, it is an annual competition between several editors to see who can get the most Good Articles, Featured Article's, Did You Know's, etc. Based of this, we propose to you the GA Cup. This competition will only focus on reviewing Good articles.

For more info on the proposal, click here. As a FYI, the proposal page is not what the final product will look like (if you do go ahead with this idea). It will look very similar to WikiCup's page(s).

The discussion for the proposal will take place here. Please let us know if you are interested, have any concerns, things to consider, etc.

--Dom497, Figureskatingfan, and TheQ Editor

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:29, 31 August 2014 (UTC)Reply