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Your GA nomination of Tom Sloan (footballer, born 1900)
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DYK for 2008 FA Cup Final
On 16 January 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 2008 FA Cup Final, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 2008 FA Cup Final between Cardiff City and Portsmouth holds the record for the highest attendance for a football match at the new Wembley Stadium, with 89,874? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2008 FA Cup Final. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, 2008 FA Cup Final), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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TFA
Thank you today for Wales national football team home stadium, "about the history of home venues used by the Wales national football team"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:25, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
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Review Suzanne Lenglen at FAC?
Hi Kosack! I'm going to put Suzanne Lenglen back up at FAC momentarily. As the GA reviewer, do you think you would be able to get to it at some point during February? Thanks! Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:07, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
- Hi, I'm sorry to see that it didn't get through last time, I took a peek once but noticed it was mid-review so left it for another time, but it seems that ran out. I should be able to review once the ongoing reviewer finishes up. Kosack (talk) 15:21, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
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Question?
How do I show cancelled matches in the table as this is for the next part of the series of Wales results? HawkAussie (talk) 23:18, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
FA promotion
Good work, nice article. Interesting to see the co-ords in action once again. Apparently "corner" and "setpiece" are much clearer to understand to a non-expert than aggregate score! The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 12:04, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks very much. I was sorry to see the fallout from your last FAC, it all seemed a bit bewildering in the end. Your reviews are always welcome at my nominations if you ever feel the urge in future. Kosack (talk) 12:08, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- Cheers, I appreciate it. I won't be doing FAC again while the current establishment are in place, it's self-evident that there's no level playing field (no pun intended). Happy to help you with anything you care to do though, of course (although not only are my nominations not welcome, my reviewing "style" is also considered inappropriate apparently) so I'll do what I can outside the "process". Cheers. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 12:39, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
Promotion of 1876 Scotland v Wales football match
Please protect the page
Bigg Boss (Malayalam season 3). Please see my request to protect the page. Kichu🐘 Discuss 15:58, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
Johnny
Hey Kosack, with all my spare time (!) I was wondering if you'd like some thoughts on Johnny Owen? Happy to put some comments down on the talkpage to avoid being derided at FAC, let me know what you think. Cheers. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 13:29, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- @The Rambling Man: Yes of course, that would be very helpful, thanks. Kosack (talk) 14:50, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2021 March newsletter
Round 1 of the competition has finished; it was a high-scoring round with 21 contestants scoring more than 100 points. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 55 contestants qualifying. You will need to finish among the top thirty-two contestants in Round 2 if you are to qualify for Round 3. Our top scorers in Round 1 were:
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Your GA nomination of Billy Hardy (footballer)
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Changes addressed; thanks for the review! Sanfranciscogiants17 (talk) 19:49, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Ernie Curtis
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Your GA nomination of Fred Stewart (football manager)
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Len Davies
Thames: 2 FA Cup apps, no goals. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 09:44, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Sam Irving
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Changes addressed; thanks for the review! Sanfranciscogiants17 (talk) 20:59, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Hughie Ferguson
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Your GA nomination of Len Davies
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Your GA nomination of Hughie Ferguson
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Your GA nomination of Len Davies
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Missing cite in 1926–27 Cardiff City F.C. season
The article cites "Hayes 2002" but no such source is listed in the bibliography. Can you please add? Or is it a typo in year? Also, suggest installing a script to highlight such errors in the future. All you need to do is copy and paste importScript('User:Svick/HarvErrors.js'); // Backlink: [[User:Svick/HarvErrors.js]] to your common.js page. Thanks, Renata (talk) 03:51, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
- Fixed, cheers. Kosack (talk) 07:16, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
GAN review
Hi Kosack. Just popping round for a couple of things: firstly thanks for all your reviews on my seemingly endless stream of play-off articles. The good news on that front is that I'm way over half way now to getting them all done! And it's really cool to see ChrisTheDude taking one he'd already worked on to FAC, will be interesting to see how the "Campaign for plain English" reviewers get on with it after I was being asked to include how many points a win scored and how "aggregate score" worked... Anyway, I have an odd "stand-out" GAN just added yesterday, it's Sutton United 2–1 Coventry City (1989) which is a pretty nice little article I've been working up with Amakuru. It's incredibly rude of me to ask I know, but if you get a chance, would you be able to take a look at that one? No rush at all. Cheers, and thanks again for your ongoing help, it's very much appreciated. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:21, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
- Hey TRM, no problem your work on these articles is exemplary. Always nice to see football articles pop up at FAC, hopefully the furore with the overly detailed explanations has died down now. I purposely took another run with Johnny Owen to avoid a football article for the time being, but the 87 Cup Final got through seemingly unscathed, so hopefully it was a blip. I already spotted the Sutton article and have considered it ha! I was on the fence over picking it up early with the backlog drive and all, but I'll take it now. Hopefully get a review up in the next day or so. Kosack (talk) 08:30, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
- Brilliant thanks. Yes, the 87 final passed with three supports (all football savvy reviewers!) yet the play-off final "failed to gain consensus to promote" with nine supports (including three non-savvy reviewers and, per request of the co-ord, one "non-male" reviewer!) What a joke. Anyway, I've got the 2017 FA Cup Final up at FAC right now so I guess it's a litmus test.... Thanks again for all your hard work reviewing, much appreciated. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:47, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
DYK for Billy Hardy (footballer)
On 16 March 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Billy Hardy (footballer), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that footballer Billy Hardy is Cardiff City F.C.'s record appearance holder, having played in 590 matches between 1911 and 1932? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Billy Hardy (footballer). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Billy Hardy (footballer)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
DYK for Ernie Curtis
On 27 March 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ernie Curtis, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that, during his time in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, footballer Ernie Curtis would obtain extra food by teaching his captors how to play with a ball made of paper? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ernie Curtis. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Ernie Curtis), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Amakuru (talk) 12:02, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
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DYK for Fred Stewart (football manager)
On 30 March 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Fred Stewart (football manager), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when Fred Stewart was appointed the manager of Cardiff City F.C., he paid the transfer fee of his first signing himself? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Fred Stewart (football manager). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Fred Stewart (football manager)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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DYK for Hughie Ferguson
On 31 March 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hughie Ferguson, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that, such was his popularity with the club's supporters, when footballer Hughie Ferguson was sold by Motherwell F.C., the local steel works closed to allow workers to wave him off? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hughie Ferguson. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Hughie Ferguson), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).
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Hi, how's it going? Thanks again for helping me promote the article to FA, much appreciated :) I'm coming back to you because, after quite a bit of personal research, I've found a bit of extra information - mainly, the fact that Lebanon's next matches were one in '42 and two in '47, all vs. Syria, as opposed to the next game being in the 50s. I've changed the article a bit since the FA nomination, so I wondered if, when you get the time, you could re-read the article and see if anything needs fixing. Thanks, Nehme1499 01:58, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
- @Nehme1499: Hi, I'm good thanks, hope you're well. I took a quick look and the additions seem fine to me. I made one minor change regarding the use of digits and words but everything seems in order. Kosack (talk) 10:15, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
- Perfect, thanks for your help! Nehme1499 11:17, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
GA issue with Steve Cherry
Hi there. I just wanted to give you a heads up that I put Steve Cherry up for reassessment at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Steve Cherry/1. In examining your review at Talk:Steve Cherry/GA1, its clear that your assessment did not properly consider wikipedia policy at WP:Reliable Sources. Self published materials like autobiographies should not be used heavily within wikipedia articles. As a reviewer, this should have been an obvious problem to bring up in a GA review (which you did, but didn't take seriously and passed it anyway). Please do a better job in future GA reviews when evaluating the use of self published sources. This article should have never been awarded GA in its current state.4meter4 (talk) 05:57, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
- @4meter4: First of all, it would nice if you toned down your sanctimonious attitude. The book is not self-published as you claim, it is an autobiography written with an established author as a ghost writer that has been released through a perfectly reasonable publishing company, clearly not the definition of self-published on any level. There is no limit on the amount of information that can be sourced from an autobiography either, as long as any potentially controversial material is supported by other or more reliable sources. This is not the case with Cherry, there is nothing particularly controversial that is an issue and there are plenty of other sources here. As ExchetusXe also mentions on the talk page, there are at least 35 other sources in the article (they may have added more I believe recently as well). Kosack (talk) 08:43, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
- Appologies on my attitude last night. I was a bit tired and cranky. I think you raise a good point, and you might care to say so in the relevant conversations. Best.4meter4 (talk) 13:51, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
- No worries, we all have our moments and I am certainly not immune. I'm more than happy to take part in any further work to improve the article. Kosack (talk) 14:13, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
- Appologies on my attitude last night. I was a bit tired and cranky. I think you raise a good point, and you might care to say so in the relevant conversations. Best.4meter4 (talk) 13:51, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
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Hello Kosack. I was kindly requesting if you'd show me how to create a page that can be published on google once someone searches the property.
Hi Kosack. I Would Like To Create A Page For A New Official Football League Here in Kenya, More Or Likely the same to English Premier League in the Uk.Would You Please Advice Me or Give Me Guidelines On that?
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WikiCup 2021 May newsletter
The second round of the 2021 WikiCup has now finished; it was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 61 points to advance to Round 3. There were some impressive efforts in the round, with the top eight contestants all scoring more than 400 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 110 good articles achieved in total by contestants, as well as the 216 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.
Our top scorers in Round 2 were:
- The Rambling Man, with 2963 points from three featured articles, 20 featured article reviews, 37 good articles, 73 good article reviews, as well as 22 DYKs.
- Epicgenius, with 1718 points from one featured article, 29 good articles, 16 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
- Bloom6132, with 990 points from 13 DYKs and 64 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
- Hog Farm, with 834 points from two featured articles, five good articles, 14 featured article reviews and 15 good article reviews.
- Gog the Mild, with 524 points from two featured articles and four featured article reviews.
- Lee Vilenski, with 501 points from one featured article, three good articles, six featured article reviews and 25 good article reviews.
Sammi Brie, with 485 points from four good articles, eight good article reviews and 27 DYKs, on US radio and television stations.- Ktin, with 436 points from four good articles, seven DYKs and 11 "In the news" items.
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Promotion of Johnny Owen
Jack Ferguson
Hi Kosack. Great work on expanding the article for Jack Ferguson (water polo, born 1930). In the final section, it is implied that he's still alive (although I could have mis-read that!) If he is still alive, do you have anything to support that? Thanks. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 19:50, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
- @Lugnuts: Hi there, I don't think I did imply he was still alive, but point it out if I'm missing it. I'm unsure if he is or not, so tried to avoid implying so. Kosack (talk) 20:08, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
- Morning. Ignore me - it's just how I've read it! Apologies. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 07:05, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
- No worries, always good to have a second pair of eyes. Kosack (talk) 08:58, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
- Morning. Ignore me - it's just how I've read it! Apologies. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 07:05, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2021
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Your GA nomination of Jamie Arthur
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DYK for Jack Ferguson (water polo, born 1930)
On 29 May 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jack Ferguson (water polo, born 1930), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that water polo player Jack Ferguson performed in a circus throughout Britain as a child? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jack Ferguson (water polo, born 1930). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Jack Ferguson (water polo, born 1930)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Your GA nomination of Jamie Arthur
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DYK for Jamie Arthur
On 1 June 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jamie Arthur, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that, at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Jamie Arthur became the first Welsh boxer to win a gold medal for more than 40 years? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jamie Arthur. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Jamie Arthur), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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TFA
Thank you today for Johnny Owen, "about a Welsh boxer by the name of Johnny Owen. A shy youngster, he became noted for never drinking, smoking or even dating to focus on his career. He won several national and international bantamweight titles before getting his shot at the WBC world title in 1980. However, the fight ended in tragedy after he was knocked out in the 12th round and never regained consciousness, dying at the age of just 24."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:54, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
Jonny Williams
I've no idea what you mean "This is the same every season". I've merely made the article more accurate by stating "most recently played". If you want to pretend he still plays for Cardiff because he's contracted til 30June so that you can change it to what i said in three weeks time I really couldn't care if you choose to be less accurate. Wiki is not a contracts database. The club has announced he won't be play for Cardiff again and is released, he's away with Wales and he won't even be returning to Cardiff who aren't even in training in June. I've no idea why accuracy is an issue for you but i'm really not bothered either way, other than your snide comment.Pwimageglow (talk)
- We haven't had this discussion before and i really couldn't care less, it's pointless. You are wrong and simply discouraging wiki contributors who are more accurate for no reason. Waste your time picking trivial online fights if you like but please stop wasting my time.19:10, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
- No, there's no such consensus on the text within the body of an article (which clearly shows he's contracted to Cardiff until end of season 30Jun anyway). Again, if you want to pretend he 'plays' for Cardiff until 30Jun I couldn't care. Good luck amending the many hundreds of players that have 'last played for' in the text ...and more significantly the many hundreds of players that have been amended to 'plays for' their new club even though they're still contracted to their old club until 30Jun. Then you can change them all again on 01July. Ridiculous.Pwimageglow (talk) 19:36, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).
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- Consensus was reached to deprecate Wikipedia:Editor assistance.
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- Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.
Arbitration
- After a Clarification request, the Arbitration Committee modified Remedy 5 of the Antisemitism in Poland case. This means sourcing expectations are a discretionary sanction instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or the Reliable Sources Noticeboard to discuss disputed sources.
"I know you're busy" etc etc. If not, care to cast an eagle eye over the above? No charge, just cool. Cheers. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 00:41, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2021 July newsletter
The third round of the 2021 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 294 points, and our top six scorers all had over 600 points. They were:
- The Rambling Man, with 1825 points from 3 featured articles, 44 featured article reviews, 14 good articles, 30 good article reviews and 10 DYKs. In addition, he completed a 34-article good topic on the EFL Championship play-offs.
- Epicgenius, a New York specialist, with 1083 points from 2 featured article reviews, 18 good articles, 30 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
- Bloom6132, with 869 points from 11 DYKs, all with bonus points, and 54 "In the news" items, mostly covering people who had recently died.
- Gog the Mild, with 817 points from 3 featured articles on historic battles in Europe, 5 featured article reviews and 3 good articles.
- Hog Farm, with 659 points from 2 featured articles and 2 good articles on American Civil War battles, 18 featured article reviews, 2 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 4 DYKs.
BennyOnTheLoose, a snooker specialist and new to the Cup, with 647 points from a featured article, 2 featured article reviews, 6 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 3 DYKs.
In round three, contestants achieved 19 featured articles, 7 featured lists, 106 featured article reviews, 72 good articles, 1 good topic, 62 good article reviews, 165 DYKs and 96 ITN items. We enter the fourth round with scores reset to zero; any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (one contestant in round 3 lost out because of this). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.
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Your GA nomination of 1930–31 Cardiff City F.C. season
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Your GA nomination of 1930–31 Cardiff City F.C. season
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