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October 2013

Billiard Congress of America

Hey, I know you're not really here anymore and probably won't see this message but I was wondering if you could shed some light on whether Category:Billiard Congress of America should be kept or not. There is a discussion going on over here and I notice you created the category but were not notified it was being put up for deletion. I felt I might notify you since this might be important to you. Take care. Lazy Bastard Guy 19:42, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

It's still good to post here, since other editors do watch this talk page in order to keep an eye on maintaining contributions in his areas of interest. Van Isaac_{WS Vex}^contribs 02:59, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Not enough, evidently. I really don't edit here any more. I'm not playing some kind of WP:DIVA game, and just taking a break; I really have resigned other than I'll comment here and there if I think it necessary. I don't touch articles or policy/process/project pages at all any longer, and haven't logged in for a couple of months until now. Other people are going to have to keep an eye on this stuff. I only heard about this latest XfD via e-mail a month after the fact, and I've withdrawn enough I'm not sure I'll bother logging back into to argue any more anti-pool XfDs, even if I'm notified. It's not my "job" these days.

But the articles and categories and templates within the scope of WP:CUE really are, quite obviously, under a programmatic attack campaign of XfDs. This one was deleted on the basis of just a couple of a !votes, using faulty logic and (way more importantly for the immediate future) declaring an active intent to CfD the BCA Hall of Fame category, despite that honor being probably the single greatest North American achievement possible to any pool or billiards player. Its prestige trumps an enormous number of awards in other sports that have categories here. It's simply that cue sports are not as popular as football, hockey and baseball, so categories relating to them are being systematically killed off by people who think that notability is a popularity contest, by people who just don't like pool, snooker and billiards (there's a large camp of people who want to denigrate them as silly games instead of serious sports), people who for personal reasons are undoing as much of my work as they they can get away with, people who do little on WP but engage in obsessively destructive deletion campaigns, and people who mean well but do not know enough about the topic to know why certain articles, categories, etc., exist and should exist. I really love the assertion in that stupid CfD that BCA just couldn't ever have more than one article, when the article is already sectioned and templated in a way that clearly indicates that at least three other articles need to fork off of it, and I was actually in the slow process of writing them when I was hounded off the system by Sandstein and his cronies.

As a matter of policy, by the way, the BCAPL (pool league) section must split off, because there is no longer a legal tie between the Billiard Congress of America and the BCA Pool League (BCAPL), who cannot call themselves the Billiard Congress of America Pool League any more, only use the acronym. We're not allowed to have two unrelated topics covered by the same article. The BCAPL and USAPL (which never was BCA-related in any way) material needs to be in an article about Cue Sports International (CSI), the company that operates both of these leagues. (BCA hired CSI to operate BCA's league, and that didn't go so well, and came to an end, but due to a sneaky contract, CSI retains the right to use BCA's initials in a league, and it's a profitable one so they won't let the name go, and BCA can't really do anything about it. I've had high-level discussions with BCA and ex-BCA people about this. Sourcing an article on that would be challenging, because very little if any detail on this has been published anywhere.)

Anyway, any "successful" XfD like this which wasn't advertised at WT:CUE, WT:SNOOKER and WT:SPORTS for input from people who actually care about it and understand the topic, should be challenged at WP:DRV immediately. I refuse to volunteer my time to work on this encyclopedia unless and until some serious things change for the better here, but I still care that it be accurate, broad and well-structured, as a frequent reader and research user, former donor, and former long-term, top-400 editing contributor. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ^⊝כ^⊙þ Contrib. 12:55, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library Newsletter

Books and Bytes

Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013

by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs)

Greetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved...

New positions: Sign up to be a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, or a Volunteer Wikipedia Librarian

Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted.

New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis??

New ideas: OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges

News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY

Announcing WikiProject Open: WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions

New ways to get involved: Visiting scholar requirements; subject guides; room for library expansion and exploration

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