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Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2024 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close on 31 January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), and Frostly (talk · contribs · email). 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) 00:21, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there and hope the New Year starts well for you.

I've just opened a peer review request for George Town, Penang here: Wikipedia:Peer review/George Town, Penang/archive3, having substantially rewritten the article & improved sourcing with the aim of elevating it to FA. I found your name on the volunteers list & wondering if you're keen to help in its review? Many thanks! hundenvonPG (talk) 01:53, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I believe I have signed up to help with things in

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Apologies. I hadn't noticed it. hundenvonPG (talk) 04:16, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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On 3 January 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Eustace Tilley, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 2017, Eustace Tilley (pictured) missed his annual turn on the cover of The New Yorker because of Donald Trump? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Eustace Tilley. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Eustace Tilley), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

Z1720 (talk) 00:02, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht

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Same location pictured as 2019. - Thanks for this great article and many more! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:10, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On the Main page: the person who made the pictured festival possible --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:51, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

story · music · places

Today a friend's birthday, with related music and new vacation pics --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:52, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your work on Eustace Tilley! That was a fun read. Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 16:49, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article Elle Leonard you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Elle Leonard for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of The Blue Rider -- The Blue Rider (talk) 18:02, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On 10 January 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Harald Hasselbach, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Harald Hasselbach, the only Dutch Super Bowl champion, lived in four continents in his youth? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Harald Hasselbach. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Harald Hasselbach), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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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Hey Tony, I posted about your Wikipedia work on Twitter/X and a lot of people are saying nice things such as "wiki editors are truly one of the few things keeping my faith in humanity alive atm" and "Genuinely inspiring. Dude has it figured out. What a wonderful way to live". Thought you might want to know! Thanks for all you do here. Annierau (talk) 02:39, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The appreciation is really cool. Sometimes, I run into some depressing obstacles in the wiki beauracracy. I do a lot of work and don't always get a positive spin with my efforts. This is a pleasant reminder that people use wikipedia and have fun learning about it. There are a lot of cool characters on WP. That has like 13k likes and 1k retweets. You have now surpassed

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So glad you appreciate it! I've always found it unfortunate that Wikipedia editors rarely get feedback from the typical readers — people who generally have very nice things to say (unlike the vocal minority of people that fine a way to complain about, well, everything)! I know that people don't edit Wikipedia for fame or glory, but a little bit of encouragement goes a long way :-) Annierau (talk) 00:07, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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When you added the details many years ago, did you have a copy of the NRHP nomination form? I can't seem to find one online. APK hi :-) (talk) 10:30, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oop, found it here. Sorry to bug you. APK hi :-) (talk) 10:38, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Did you intend to add this to Level 4? I tried to move it myself to Level 5, but I don't have extended confermed rights. --Makkool (talk) 18:29, 1 February 2024 (UTC),[reply]

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The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.

Our current leader is newcomer Generalissima (submissions), who has one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), with one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
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• voorts (submissions) and Elli (submissions), both with one FA and one DYK each.

As a reminder, competitors may submit work for the first round until 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February, and the second round starts 1 March. Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round; currently, competitors need at least 15 points to progress. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on

Some weird errors, and I don't have time to check what happened, but paradiplomacy discussion was deleted and millenium goals is duplicated... _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 00:53, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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A barnstar for you!

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		You deserve this for converting all four subpages to chronological order by yourself. I imagine it was not easy. QuicoleJR (talk) 02:06, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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On 18 February 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Campbell's Soup Cans, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Campbell Soup considered suing Andy Warhol for his Campbell's Soup Cans theme, but then promoted it? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Campbell's Soup Cans. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Campbell's Soup Cans), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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) 00:04, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi TonyTheTiger, thanks for participating in the WikiCup. Unfortunately, Template:Did you know nominations/Campbell's Soup Cans is not eligible for DYK points because it was nominated to DYK as a newly promoted GA. I know this can be disappointing, but Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring#Did you know? states that only newly created or expanded DYKs are eligible for DYK points. The rules specifically exclude DYK submissions from receiving points if their appearance on DYK is solely because the article was a newly promoted GA. Epicgenius (talk) 16:21, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Not a judge, but you could still get points for the GAs themselves if they are within the eligible timeframe. QuicoleJR (talk) 20:33, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.

The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:

• Generalissima (submissions), who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
• Vami_IV (submissions), who has 790 points from two FAs on Felix M. Warburg House and Doom (2016 video game), two GAs, one DYK, and 11 reviews
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who has 580 points from one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews
• Sammi Brie (submissions), who has 420 points mostly from nine GAs and seven DYKs on television and radio stations
• MaranoFan (submissions), who has 351 points from one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and three DYKs
• Skyshifter (submissions), who has 345 points from one FA on OneShot, one DYK and two reviews

In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to Vami_IV (submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.

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On 4 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Olivia Olson (basketball), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Olivia Olson won state championships as a soccer goalkeeper and a basketball guard? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Olivia Olson (basketball). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Olivia Olson (basketball)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

Z1720 (talk) 00:02, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. Since you're the director for the Chicago WikiProject, just wanted to let you know that Jamie Kalven will be TFA on March 16. Thanks so much for your help on the FAC.

Also, I have another Chicago-related article at FAC: Illinois Public Access Opinion 16-006. You can comment on the FAC here. Thanks again for all the work you do! Edge3 (talk) 05:11, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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  Oh interesting. You're still listed as a director on the wikiproject page. Has someone else taken over? Edge3 (talk) 01:52, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On 8 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Dave Jamerson, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Dave Jamerson was the first NCAA Division I men's basketball player to make 14 three-point shots in a game? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Dave Jamerson. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Dave Jamerson), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:03, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Tony. I managed to find the template containing that language you mentioned at AN and wikilinked it. Easier than waiting for the bureaucracy to get around to it. - The literary leader of the age ✉ 01:28, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Tony, I don't believe there's any current formal policy on this, so absolutely feel free to ignore this message. However, as one of the GA backlog drive coordinators, I noticed our numbers were heading backwards this week, and wondered why - and then I saw your recent nominations. You have almost 70 nominations currently active on the GAN page! I wonder if you could hold off on further nominations until the bulk of these have been reviewed, or at least until the end of the GA backlog drive on April 1st. This is just a personal request, not related to any rule or policy - but hope you will consider it. Thanks for your many GA reviews and articles over the years. —Ganesha811 (talk) 18:49, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I can't promise that, especially since it isn't up to just me. However, I certainly support another GA backlog drive pretty soon after this one, since we have made only moderate progress so far this month. —Ganesha811 (talk) 21:57, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Tony, I noticed the same thing as Ganesha did above. Speaking as a regular editor, rather than as a WikiCup judge, I have to say that, unfortunately, some of your most recent GANs have issues that may make them liable to a fail or even a quickfail. Here's a sampling of what I'm talking about:

• GA criteria
  3a (broadness) and 2b (sourcing).
• Pilot and Chapter Two - the production section is just one sentence long, and it lacks any info about background or themes (for comparison, have a look at articles like Faces (Star Trek: Voyager) or Gender Bender (The X-Files)). A reviewer might point out that the article fails GA criterion 3a.
• A Christmas Story: The Musical - the article lacks citations in several places, and it also lacks info about reception - there are just two reviews, whereas for a Broadway musical you can usually find 4-5 good reviews just about the Broadway run (and, potentially, other reviews about the runs in each of the other cities). A reviewer might point out that the article fails GA criteria 3a and 2b.
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As a WikiCup judge, I should mention that I need to wind up dozens of GAs in the queue to have date priority position so that in the rounds where I need a lot of points, I can get lots of GA points. could be considered

the GACR criteria again, then go through all of the articles you just nominated and see if any of these articles still need work to meet the GA criteria. – Epicgenius (talk) 22:30, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply

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Thanks for explaining your thought process. If you are nominating old articles for GA, however, I'd suggest looking through them carefully to make sure they don't have obvious issues (like breadth of coverage or maintenance tags). This would help weed out some of the articles with more serious issues, especially as you haven't edited some of them in years; for example, the CFPB page has undergone quite a few changes since you last modified it. – Epicgenius (talk) 23:33, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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  My main issue is that these mass nominations may be unscrupulous, as seen in the articles I mentioned above. For me, the primary problem is not the backlog number or the fact that you didn't wait until April 1 to nominate the articles. The problem is that, of the articles you nominated, some of them seem to be nowhere near GA status (the CFPB article being one of the clearest examples of this). It's better to ensure that your articles are up to GA standards the first time around, rather than nominating a slate of articles at once and seeing what sticks. – Epicgenius (talk) 13:23, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  I second this. I've skimmed through all of your nominations, and for what it's worth, I believe that 22 (a third of them) have major issues which could result in a fail or even a QF. I don't doubt that these could get to GA with a good push, but I feel that this many of this quality is too much. I suggest denominating the articles that seem further off from the GAC; it would save you and your reviewers' time! Averageuntitleduser (talk) 15:19, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Most of my GAs are sports, visual arts or Chicago related stuff, so my calibration may be off in other fields, but that number seems a little high.-

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  Perhaps, but I'd at least leave it at "major issues". I could give a quick rundown if you'd like, but I hope you understand our sentiment.

And of course, a lot of the articles (especially the basketball bios) look quite alright! Either way, I respect your commitment to all of these noms and wish you good luck with the WikiCup! Averageuntitleduser (talk) 19:55, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My personal suggestion would be to take it slowly. Like you, Tony, I have a backlog of about 150 GA-ready pages, but I never have substantially more than 20 nominations at any one time, and I try to have a selection of nominations that is a representative slice of everything I do. It makes a big difference. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 01:02, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Holy hell, I didn't notice this response before. I would be willing to allow your to remove all the templates of all hidden nominations until April 1 if that would make the backlog look good. They would have to be restored with the current date priority info on April 1 though. What entitles you to make these demands? Who do you think you are, Jimbo Wales? – Teratix ₵ 16:08, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

i can see you've nominated 6 more articles for GA today, including

cites IMDb, and The Firm (2012 TV series), which you haven't edited since 2016 and which cites not only IMDb but also facebook. please slow down with the nominations, and do your due diligence in working on the articles you nominate. thanks, sawyer * he/they * talk 21:55, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply

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• Tony, it is absolutely an abuse of other editors time and energy to mass-nominate a bunch of articles – many of which are old and have existing issues – just so you can get points in a game. And saying you will refrain from nominating more, but only if Ganesha can promise you there will be another backlog drive for you to exploit in October? The level of entitlement to other peoples' time and effort you're exhibiting here is fucking staggering. An editor with your level of tenure and experience ought to know better. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 22:37, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Pinging
    nominating instructions are very clear: Ensure that the article meets Wikipedia policies and guidelines as expected of any article, including neutral point of view, verifiability, no original research, and notability. Then check the article against the good article criteria and make any improvements that you think are necessary. This should be done for every single article prior to nomination, and if it had been, many of these nominations would not have been made, or would have been delayed while the articles were improved to meet the criteria. Also, even though he's working through a list of several hundred DYKs that I have had since I last entered the CUP in 2010, just because it was once a DYK doesn't mean that he's a significant contributor to the article—as witness Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella (Beane musical), which he originally nominated at DYK but did not create and only made a dozen minor edits—and should not be nominating those articles at GAN given the recent changes to GAN rules. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:39, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply
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    i've just quickfailed Mekia Cox, which not only cites IMDb, but also a forum post from 2010. this is completely disruptive and taking up reviewers' time when we could be reviewing articles that had the absolute bare minimum amount of attention paid to them before nomination, or working on our own projects. i'm frustrated, to say the least. sawyer * he/they * talk 00:48, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Thanks for the ping @BlueMoonset. I mentioned a sampling of the issues above, and I recommended that Tony go through all of these nominations to see if they actually meet the standards. Judging by the fact that some of these nominations have just been quickfailed, I'm not confident that this has been done.

    Tony, I strongly encourage you to go back and double check all of your remaining nominations to see if they meet the GA criteria. From the looks of it, you are nominating articles that you haven't edited in years, so it's hard to determine whether you can vouch for the quality of these articles. I suggest you double check these nominations as soon as you can. Epicgenius (talk) 01:01, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I just quickfailed three sports submissions, and I think a half dozen more probably qualify in that section as well. To echo Premeditated Chaos, Tony, I'll be blunt: making dozens of spurious GA nominations at once – saddling down the system just to game the WikiCup – is a cut-and-dry case of disruptive editing (not to wildly inconsiderate to everyone else in the GA process), and continuing to engage in it will result in a block. It is absolutely disruptive to make a small number of relatively minor additions to an article and renominate it after it was quickfailed, without even coming close to addressing all of the concerns, as you did at Michael Schofield (American football). Epicgenius is right: you need to go through your nominations and withdraw everything but the ones that are actually reasonably close to good-article status, and then we can talk about whether we still need to space them out. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 03:39, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I'm stunned by Michael Schofield (American football). Two quickfails in under ten hours? -- asilvering (talk) 04:47, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• I apologize that I have not participated in this discussion in a while but I was noticing the reviews below and not noticing up here. There is certainly an active effort to remove a lot of the nominations. I can see clearly that some are weak. Mostly those outside my stated areas of editorial expertise above. However, there is also a lot of exaggerating going on regarding what is far from
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  You're an experienced editor, you know how talk pages work. It makes no sense that you wouldn't have been checking this section for responses, given that it was an active discussion about your behavior. I frankly don't believe that you somehow didn't see them.

  That aside, this response is utterly tone-deaf and fails to actually address the breadth of issues people have brought up with these nominations. If a dozen people are pointing out problems with your behavior and your nominations, it might just be that there is a problem! That you have the audacity to say things like Calm down and stop quickfailing stuff for no reason...If you fail a 20-25% of my articles that does not make me a problem editor. is just incredible to me. Not a single one of those quickfails was for no reason. And it does make you a problem editor if you nominate 70+ articles en masse solely because you want WikiCup points on a schedule that suits you. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 07:14, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  It seems Tony had had this problem of thinking WP is there for his benefit for a long time. Back in 2011, Tony was topic-banned from the featured sounds and from "uploading images about himself". The reason for the first of these TBANs was, and I quote, for:

  TonyTheTiger nominates anything that he thinks will have a remote change of passing, ignoring negative responses, fighting back his nominations are closed as unsuccessful, and generally clogging FS with items that don't deserve to be featured. Until TTT is made to understand that he cannot ignore what other people are saying, and that Featured Sounds exists for more than just to fill the trophy wall that is his userpage, I believe that he is harmful to the process.

  What goes around comes around, eh? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 09:08, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  There's also the following, from the same discussion:

  he seems unable to understand the ways in which he disrupts and abuses of processes and other editors' time in his goal of promoting himself. Last year, he disrupted DYK in his attempt to win WikiCup, there was an issue at TFA/R, and FAC instituted a special rule to limit repeat noms because of his repeatedly using FAC as Peer review for ill-prepared articles, and bringing back ill-prepared noms the minute the previous one was archived.

  It's sad to see that such an experienced old hand can't move on from the disruptive habits that got him into trouble in the past. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 09:18, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As someone who is a neutral party (not in the wikicup this year), and who has done his share of sports nominations and reviews in the past, I 100% agree on the quick fails just from eyeballing a handful of them (Irwin, Demens, and Hudson are nowhere close to GA). You'rs focusing on how fast he can write things to send to GA rather than actually focusing on making good articles, and it's entirely against the spirit of the Wikicup, and for that matter, GAN. I've reviewed legitimately good articles from you in the past (Cato June comes to mind), so you can make proper good articles, you would just rather apparently do the minimum to get the badge/points/whatever, and that's a significant problem. Wizardman 14:52, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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While true, there are still things that can be added that would help with adding context and understanding where the player was at in their career. To use Heath Irwin as an example, did he have a draft projection? What were his contracts that he signed? Since he was a spot starter in his career, were those 29 games all in a couple seasons or was he a spot starter due to a guard's injury or ineffectiveness? Did he just play guard or did they throw him elsewhere on the line, which we know happens rather frequently with non-stars? Did any of his coaches have projections on him especially early on? It's little things like that that, to me, encapsulate the difference between a Good Article and an alright one (coincidentally enough a lot of that info is in Schofield, so maybe a qf on that one wasn't ideal). In fact, to answer my very own question above, since he started most games in 1999 then joined the Dolphins I imagine there has to be an article or two on that as to what happened there. Wizardman 15:42, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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• I'll say that I'm not quite sure I agree with some of the quickfails (Michael Schofield doesn't look that bad IMO) – but Tony, you really should be cautious about what articles you're nominating and make sure they're of very high quality, especially if they're things you haven't edited in years. Just my two cents. BeanieFan11 (talk) 15:21, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Administrative action is appropriate at this point, since this apparently won't stop otherwise. In addition to frivolous re-nominations that have continued after all of the above warnings, we have these:
  • Complained about the quickfails at Wikipedia talk:WikiCup#Open season on qfing me, saying There is an overzealous posse of editors quickfailing my articles.
  • Left a harassing message for a reviewer at User talk:Teratix#Heath Irwin review, saying I assume you are lieing to pick a fight. Is that your intention.
  • Attacked the reviewer at Talk:Michael Schofield (American football)/GA2, saying many of the fails are pure vindictive frustration by a posse of GA reviewers looking hard for stuff to quibble with and You are bending over backwards to fail this article. No one who knows football would consider this far from a GA. Maybe stay in your lane in a field you know. Of course, one of the main benefits of GA is that it allows for occasional feedback from someone not involved in the topic area.
  • Participated in the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Good articles/GAN Backlog Drives/March 2024#Reason for "backward" progress, responding to claims of not being a significant contributor with Bold-faced lie. Every one of my GAN submissions is from my own WP:DYK submissions. PLease point out an article that I don't have any edits on? because there were significant contributions, they were just from many years ago (sometimes over a decade).

There might be more, but these are the ones I found. If polite requests aren't going to work and warnings aren't going to work, then the community is going to have to find a solution that will. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 20:16, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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  you clearly did not address all of the failing concerns, though. Schofield & 1000M were both quickfailed again because the new reviewers felt you did not adequately address the concerns of the first quickfails (regardless of how unfair you believe the QF of Schofield was). sawyer * he/they * talk 20:27, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  i'll also note that @Theleekycauldron put the possibility of a block on the table last night, and after her comment, you've renominated at least three articles, one of which resulted in two quickfails in a single day. sawyer * he/they * talk 20:45, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  I stand by my quick fail of the first Schofield GAN, and wasn't aware that you had issues with it Tony. If you'd like to discuss my review please get in touch. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 22:32, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The same logic, incidentally, seems like it goes for the other Big Ten Conference season nominations you have at

WP:GAN, so I would recommend withdrawing the lot and working on them. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 23:53, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply

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