User talk:Steelkamp
Welcome to the 2025 WikiCup!
[edit]Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2025 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor, we hope the WikiCup will give you a chance to improve 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.
For the 2025 WikiCup, we've implemented several changes to the scoring system. The highest-ranking contestants will now receive tournament points at the end of each round, and final rankings are decided by the number of tournament points each contestant has. If you're busy and can't sign up in January, don't worry: Signups are now open throughout the year. To make things fairer for latecomers, the lowest-scoring contestants will no longer be eliminated at the end of each round.
The first round will end on 26 February. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), Frostly (talk · contribs · email), Guerillero (talk · contribs · email) and Lee Vilenski (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) 00:14, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
Alleged CIA involvement in the Whitlam dismissal
[edit]Thanks for reverting my edit - for clarity, I was trying to show where the "coupmaster" description came from (and avoid weasel words). Do you want me to attribute that to Pilger, or just delete that description altogether? MiasmaEternal☎ 23:16, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
- Unless a better source can be found, I think that statement should be deleted altogether. I mainly think that on such a contentious topic, a better source than Green Left is needed. Steelkamp (talk) 04:32, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Yanchep railway station
[edit]Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Yanchep railway station you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. 
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie (talk) 19:04, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Yanchep railway station
[edit]The article Yanchep railway station you nominated as a good article has passed 
; see Talk:Yanchep railway station for comments about the article, and Talk:Yanchep railway station/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 Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie (talk) 07:04, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Tom Dadour
[edit]Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Tom Dadour you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Michael Aurel -- Michael Aurel (talk) 10:24, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:TransRegional
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Hello, Steelkamp. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "TransRegional".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.
If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Vanderwaalforces (talk) 11:31, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Tom Dadour
[edit]The article Tom Dadour you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Tom Dadour for comments about the article, and Talk:Tom Dadour/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 Michael Aurel -- Michael Aurel (talk) 16:21, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
The HMAS Ship
[edit]Please don't do this.
Prefixing the name by "the", as in "the HMS Ark Royal", while common, is considered bad grammar --His Majesty's Ship
TIA --Pete (talk) 09:28, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Eglinton railway station, Perth
[edit]Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Eglinton railway station, Perth you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Mertbiol -- Mertbiol (talk) 13:42, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Eglinton railway station, Perth
[edit]The article Eglinton railway station, Perth you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold 
. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Eglinton railway station, Perth and Talk:Eglinton railway station, Perth/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Mertbiol -- Mertbiol (talk) 14:03, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Eglinton railway station, Perth
[edit]The article Eglinton railway station, Perth you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Eglinton railway station, Perth for comments about the article, and Talk:Eglinton railway station, Perth/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 Mertbiol -- Mertbiol (talk) 17:21, 10 February 2025 (UTC)
TFL notification
[edit]Hi, Steelkamp. I'm just posting to let you know that List of places in Tasmania by population – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for March 17. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 21:54, 16 February 2025 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Barry Urban
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On 18 February 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Barry Urban, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 00:49, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
WikiCup 2025 March newsletter
[edit]The first round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 26 February. As a reminder, we are no longer disqualifying the lowest-scoring contestants; everyone who competed in round 1 will advance to round 2 unless they have withdrawn or been banned from Wikipedia. Instead, the contestants with the highest round-point totals now receive tournament points at the end of each round. Unlike the round points in the main WikiCup table, which are reset at the end of each round, tournament points are carried over between rounds and can only be earned if a competitor is among the top 16 round-point scorers. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far.
Round 1 was very competitive compared with previous years; two contestants scored more than 1,000 round points, and the top 16 contestants all scored more than 500 round points. The following competitors scored more than 800 round points:
Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1,168 round points, mainly from 4 featured articles and 4 good articles on old military history, in addition to an assortment of GA and FA reviews.
Generalissima (submissions) with 1,095 round points, mainly from 2 FAs, 2 featured lists, 8 GAs, and 16 Did You Know articles mainly on historical topics.
BeanieFan11 (submissions), with 866 round points from 20 GAs, 23 DYKs, and 2 In the News articles primarily about athletes.
Sammi Brie (submissions), with 846 round points from 16 GAs about radio and TV stations, 45 GA reviews, and 3 DYKs.
Hey man im josh (submissions), with 816 round points from 5 FLs about sports and Olympic topics, 46 FL reviews, 3 ITN articles, and a large number of bonus points.
MaranoFan (submissions), with 815 round points primarily from 3 FAs and 1 GA about music, in addition to 9 article reviews.
The full scores for round 1 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 18 featured articles, 26 featured lists, 1 featured-topic article, 197 good articles, 38 good-topic articles and more than 100 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 23 In the News articles, and they have conducted nearly 550 reviews.
Remember that any content promoted after 26 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2, which begins on 1 March. 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) 14:13, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
Alan MacMasters hoax
[edit]Last year, you tried to upgrade my nomination of the Alan MacMasters hoax article to GA status. It failed, but I am trying to reassess it. I have reassessed it, and I was asking if you could go through the process again to review it and see its GA acceptable. Thank you. 🐝 B33net 🐝 23:46, 11 March 2025 (UTC)
DYK for Dan Bull (politician)
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On 22 March 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Dan Bull (politician), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Dan Bull was a keyboardist for Eskimo Joe before he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Dan Bull (politician). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Dan Bull (politician)), 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.
SL93 (talk) 12:03, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Hello, I noticed you are a user who has a number of open Good Article nominations and thought you might be interested in Good Article Review Circles. It is an initiative that helps articles get reviewed more quickly through collaborative efforts. By joining, you will review another user's article and get your own GA nomination reviewed in return. Check out the project page for more details! — GMH Melbourne (talk) 02:54, 10 April 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for the offer GMH Melbourne. I don't mind waiting for reviews though and I think my reviews to good articles ratio speaks for itself, so I'm not going to use the GAR Circles for now. Steelkamp (talk) 04:22, 10 April 2025 (UTC)
WikiCup 2025 May newsletter
[edit]The second round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 28 April at 23:59 UTC. To reiterate what we said in the previous newsletter, we are no longer disqualifying contestants based on how many points (now known as round points) they received. Instead, the contestants with the highest round-point totals now receive tournament points at the end of each round. These tournament points are carried over between rounds, and can only be earned if a competitor is among the top 16 round-point scorers at the end of each round. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far. Everyone who competed in round 2 will advance to round 3 unless they have withdrawn or been banned.
Round 2 was quite competitive. Four contestants scored more than 1,000 round points, and eight scored more than 500 points (including one who has withdrawn). The following competitors scored at least 800 points:
- BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,233 round points from 24 good articles, 28 Did you know articles, and one In the news nomination, mainly about athletes and politicians
Thebiguglyalien (submissions) with 1,127 round points, almost entirely from two high-multiplier featured articles on Black Widow (Natasha Romanova) and Grace Coolidge, in addition to two GAs and two reviews- History6042 (submissions) with 1,088 round points from four featured lists about Michelin-starred restaurants, nine good articles and a good topic mostly on Olympic-related subjects, seven ITN articles, and dozens of reviews
- Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1,085 round points from three FAs, one GA, and four DYKs on military history, as well as 18 reviews
Arconning (submissions) with 887 round points, mostly from four FLs, six GAs, and seven DYKs on Olympic topics, along with more than two dozen reviews
In addition, we would like to recognize 
Generalissima (submissions) for her efforts; she scored 801 round points but withdrew before the end of the round.
The full scores for round 2 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 13 featured articles, 20 featured lists, 4 featured-topic articles, 138 good articles, 7 good-topic articles, and more than 100 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 19 In the News articles, and they have conducted nearly 300 reviews.
Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed in Round 3. 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) 01:03, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Whiteman Park railway station
[edit]Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Whiteman Park railway station you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Alachuckthebuck -- Alachuckthebuck (talk) 21:42, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Whiteman Park railway station
[edit]The article Whiteman Park railway station you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Whiteman Park railway station for comments about the article, and Talk:Whiteman Park railway station/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 Alachuckthebuck -- Alachuckthebuck (talk) 03:01, 9 May 2025 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Alkimos railway station
[edit]Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Alkimos railway station you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Kimikel -- Kimikel (talk) 19:05, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Alkimos railway station
[edit]The article Alkimos railway station you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Alkimos railway station for comments about the article, and Talk:Alkimos railway station/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 Kimikel -- Kimikel (talk) 12:25, 11 May 2025 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Ellenbrook railway station
[edit]Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Ellenbrook railway station you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Kimikel -- Kimikel (talk) 22:41, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Ellenbrook railway station
[edit]The article Ellenbrook railway station you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ellenbrook railway station for comments about the article, and Talk:Ellenbrook railway station/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 Kimikel -- Kimikel (talk) 21:23, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
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