User talk:HickoryOughtShirt?4
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Happy Adminship Anniversary!
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Your GA nomination of Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
[edit]The article Ryan Nugent-Hopkins you nominated as a good article has passed 
; see Talk:Ryan Nugent-Hopkins for comments about the article, and Talk:Ryan Nugent-Hopkins/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 MediaKyle -- MediaKyle (talk) 02:21, 22 May 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2025).
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- An RfC is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by the WMF and its affiliates.
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- A new feature called Multiblocks will be deployed on English Wikipedia on the week of June 2. See the relevant announcement on the administrators' noticeboard.
- History merges performed using the mergehistory special page are now logged at both the source and destination, rather than just the source as previously, after this RFC and the resolution of T118132.
Arbitration
- An arbitration case named Indian military history has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.
Miscellaneous
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 17 June 2025. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!
- An Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in June 2025, with over 1,600 drafts awaiting review from the past two months. In addition to AfC participants, all administrators and new page patrollers can help review using the Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!
- The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in June 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
Assistance with Roland Buck III Wikipedia Page
[edit]Greetings,
My page for actor Roland Buck III keeps getting rejected and I'm not sure why? I've compared his page to several other up and coming actors and I feel like I have satisfied the requirements especially with the amount of situations. Can you look into this for me please as I have no clue what else I am supposed to do.
Thank you and any help is greatly appreciated.
Best,
Courtney CMCarr731 (talk) 00:54, 19 June 2025 (UTC)
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In appreciation
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The Good Article Rescue Barnstar | |
| This is presented to you by the GAR process in recognition of your sterling work in helping 2008 NHL Winter Classic retain its Good Article status. Please feel free to display the GA icon on your userpage. Keep up the good work! ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 09:54, 27 June 2025 (UTC) |
WikiCup 2025 July newsletter
[edit]The third round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 28 June. This round was again competitive, with three contestants scoring more than 1,000 round points:
BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,314 round points, mostly from articles about athletes and politicians, including 20 good articles and 48 did you know articles
Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1,197 round points, mostly from military history articles, including 9 featured topic articles, two featured articles, and four good articles
Sammi Brie (submissions) with 1,055 round points, mostly from television station articles, including 27 good articles and 9 good topic articles
Everyone who competed in round 3 will advance to round 4 unless they have withdrawn. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far, while the full scores for round 3 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 4 featured articles, 16 featured lists, 1 featured picture, 9 featured-topic articles, 149 good articles, 27 good-topic articles, and more than 90 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 18 In the News articles, and they have conducted more than 200 reviews.
Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed in Round 4. 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) 14:49, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
Women in Red July 2025
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Thank you for participating in the May 2025 GAN backlog drive
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| Your noteworthy contribution (3 points total) helped reduce the backlog by more than 190 articles! Here's a token of our appreciation. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 12:32, 1 July 2025 (UTC) |
Administrators' newsletter – July 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2025).
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- Following a talk page discussion, speedy deletion criterion G13 has been amended to remove "Userspace with no content except the article wizard placeholder text."
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Miscellaneous
- The 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest will run from 1 July to 30 September. Sign up now!
- Administrator elections will take place this month. Administrator elections are an alternative to RFA that is a gentler process for candidates due to secret voting and multiple people running together. The call for candidates is July 9–15, the discussion phase is July 18–22, and the voting phase is July 23–29. Get ready to submit your candidacy, or (with their consent) to nominate a talented candidate!
Destubathon runs until the 16th of July
[edit]Hi, just a courtesy message to notify you in case you haven't seen the Wikipedia:The World Destubathon contest update in the last few days that we've decided to run the full month until the 16th of July. For those who have been too busy to contribute, we would love some help in reaching 4000 articles by Wednesday night! At present we're about 480 articles short!♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:38, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
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Inquiry About Potential Wikipedia Articles for Members of the Devlin Family
[edit]Dear writer, I hope this message finds you well.
I’m reaching out after seeing your thoughtful and well-researched Wikipedia entry on Dr. Mark J. Devlin. It’s clear that you have a deep appreciation for scientists and their contributions, and your writing helps ensure their work is recognized and accessible to the public. Thank you for doing that important work.
I’m writing on behalf of filmmaker Paul Devlin—Mark's brother—who was impressed with the page you created and wanted to ask whether you might be interested in creating additional Wikipedia entries for other members of the Devlin family, whose careers also deserve to be documented.
First, Paul’s wife, Emily Raabe, is a published author and poet based in New York. She writes biographies and children’s books, and her poetry has appeared in literary journals such as the Indiana Review. We believe her contributions to literature merit consideration for a Wikipedia entry.
Paul would also love to see pages created for his parents, Nancy Devlin and Thomas J. Devlin, both of whom had distinguished careers in science and education: Nancy Devlin was an educational psychologist who retired from the public school system in Princeton, New Jersey. Thomas J. Devlin is a retired physics professor from Rutgers University and was part of the research team that discovered the atomic particle known as the top quark.
Since your interests seem to align with honoring scientific achievement, and you kindly created Dr. Mark Devlin’s page without compensation, Paul was wondering if you might be open to helping with these entries as well. We are more than open to discuss payment as well.
Please let us know if this is something you’d be interested in, or if you have any guidance on how best to proceed.
Warm regards, Assistant to Paul Devlin, DevlinPix 136.206.9.31 (talk) 13:27, 21 July 2025 (UTC)
- Without stealing HickoryOughtShirt's thunder, I will point out that you yourself will need to formally declare a conflict of interest or, if you are employed as Mr. Devlin's assistant, a paid relationship(which would be required by the Terms of Use). 331dot (talk) 13:37, 21 July 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks 331dot, you can never steal my thunder
. IP, DevlinPix, or however you wish to be addressed, I appreciate your thoughtful words about the article I created. Through some cursory research, Dr. Thomas J. Devlin likely qualifies for a Wikipedia article, but I am unsure about the others. However, I am not comfortable (nor do I have the time) to wade through the waters of our conflict of interest procedures and policies to write about the Devlin family with you two. I will add them to my "to do" list and, if I so choose, will write an article without outside influence or comments. If you wish to write it yourself, an unbiased, experienced editor will review it through the WP:YFA process. In the meantime, I strongly advise against paying anyone to write an article about these individuals. Oftentimes, they do not follow the guidelines 331dot lists above and it is not lookeed upon favourably by our community. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 01:18, 26 July 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks 331dot, you can never steal my thunder
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