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Latest comment: 13 years ago by The ed17 in topic WikiCup 2011 June newsletter


The Signpost: 6 June 2011

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The Signpost: 13 June 2011

You've got a nerve

I take offence at your comment on main-page talk. Tony (talk) 10:35, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 20 June 2011

Open proxy blocks

Re this unblock decline: Claims like that should be referred to WP:OPP for technical checking, as I will be doing. Daniel Case (talk) 14:20, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Never mind ... for a registered account, I generally check their history and if they've been editing for a while and if they have a clean record, I give them IPBE, as I just did. Daniel Case (talk) 14:23, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Help

I am a descendant of Louis XVii and I would like to edit the page Louis XVII. I have done so earlier maybe 10 years but I find that every time I look at it again all my remarks or changes are gone and someone has ebntered their own ideas and opinions. I AM BIASED, no doubt about that. For 200 years my family has battled tha French Government, the branches de Bourbon-Parma and the Orleans family and of course hundreds of republicans. How can I get a fair trial? For instance: The page starts with known as Louis-Charles (twice) He was known as Charles,his older brother was Louis-Joseph and known as Louis. This is most important as later many claimants called themselves as Louis and my great-great grandfather called himself Charles. Also on page 1 it states died 8 June 1795 Paris. Well I have a copy of a death certificate that says he died August 10, 1845. Now the first certificate was signed by Gomin, who did not know the dead boy as required by law. The sister could have signed but she was never allowed to see the dead body. My certificate was signed by a son and a lawyer as required by law. Etc Etc How can I get these things corrected? Charles de Bourbon My name is that of the family until someone proves I am not and in 200 years nobody has done that. Edmond321 (talk) 16:50, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 June 2011

Proposed deletion of Didier Tsonga

 

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Nomination of Didier Tsonga for deletion

 

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WikiCup 2011 June newsletter

 

We are half way through 2011, and entering the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; the semi-finals are upon us! Points scored in the interim (29/30 June) may be counted towards next round, but please do not update your submissions' pages until the next round has begun. 16 contestants remain, and all have shown dedication to the project to reach this far. Our round leader was   Casliber (submissions) who, among other things, successfully passed three articles through featured article candidates and claimed an impressive 29 articles at Did You Know, scoring 555 points. Casliber led pool D. Pool A was led by   Wizardman (submissions), claiming points for a featured article, a featured list and seven good article reviews, while pool C was led by   Eisfbnore (submissions), who claimed for two good articles, ten articles at Did You Know and four good article reviews. They scored 154 and 118 respectively. Pool B was by far our most competitive pool; six of the eight competitors made it through to round 4, with all of them scoring over 100 points. The pool was led by   Hurricanehink (submissions), who claimed for, among other things, three featured articles and five good articles. In addition to the four pool leaders, 12 others (the four second places, and the 8 next highest overall) make up our final 16. The lowest scorer who reached round 4 scored 76 points; a significant increase on the 41 needed to reach round 3. Eight of our semi-finalists scored at least twice as much as this.

No points were awarded this round for featured pictures, good topics or In the News, and no points have been awarded in the whole competition for featured topics, featured portals or featured sounds. Instead, the highest percentage of points has come from good articles. Featured articles, despite their high point cost, are low in number, and so, overall, share a comparable number of points with Did You Know, which are high in number but low in cost. A comparatively small but still considerable number of points come from featured lists and good article reviews, rounding out this round's overall scores.

We would again like to thank   Jarry1250 (submissions) and   Stone (submissions) for invaluable background work, as well as all of those helping to provide reviews for the articles listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please do keep using it, and please do help by providing reviews for the articles listed there. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews generally at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup.

Two final notes: Firstly, please remember to state your participation in the WikiCup when nominating articles at FAC. Finally, some WikiCup-related statistics can be seen here and here, for those interested, though it appears that neither are completely accurate at this time. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:31, 30 June 2011 (UTC)