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WikiCup 2010 June newsletter

We're half way through 2010, and the end of the WikiCup is in sight! Round 3 is over, and we're down to our final 16. Our pool winners were Ian Rose (submissions) (A), Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) (B, and the round's overall leader), ThinkBlue (submissions) (C) Casliber (submissions) and TonyTheTiger (submissions) (D, joint), but, with the scores reset, everything is to play for in our last pooled round. The pools will be up before midnight tonight, and have been selected randomly by J Milburn. This will be the toughest round yet, and so, as ever, anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.

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FLRC

I have nominated List of 1936 Winter Olympics medal winners for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.

Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor

Hi, you commented on Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor/archive1, could you return to it to support or oppose? I don't like to bother people into !voting, but the list has been at FLC for a month and a half. Thanks!

Talkback

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Elizabeth II Good Article

I am reviewing Elizabeth II as a good article (). You can view the discussion at Talk:Elizabeth II/GA3.

Rcsprinter (Reviewer) (Talk) 21:00 31 January 2011

Welcome to the 2011 WikiCup!

Hello, happy new year and welcome to the 2011 WikiCup! Your submissions' page can be found here and instructions of how to update the page can be found here and on the submissions' page itself. From the submissions' page, a bot will update the main scoresheet. Our rules have been very slightly updated from last year; the full rules can be found here. Please remember that you can only receive points for content on which you have done significant work in 2011; nominations of work from last year and "drive-by" nominations will not be awarded points. Signups are going to remain open through January, so if you know of anyone who would like to take part, please direct them to Wikipedia:WikiCup/2011 signups. The judges can be contacted on the WikiCup talk page, on their respective talk pages, or by email. Other than that, we will be in contact at the end of every month with the newsletter. If you want to stop or start receiving newsletters, please remove your name from or add your name tothis list. Good luck! J Milburn and The ed17 12:58, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup flag

Hey, some people were concerned about the flag you are using in the WikiCup, and it doesn't actually meet the current rules anyway (which were designed to prevent any kind of controversy). I've changed it to the regular Japanese flag for now, but I am happy to change it to any other flag which meets the current rules. J Milburn (talk) 18:16, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

I've switched it to a modern Afghan flag, as the rules did specify that they have to be contemporary flags. J Milburn (talk) 12:36, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:FTC-icon

Template:FTC-icon has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Mhiji 23:01, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

FLC revisit request

Hello! Thank you for your comments at my nomination of List of current sovereign monarchs. I believe most of the issues you presented have been resolved. Could you please revisit your comment on the page, and let me know if there is anything else to consider before the administrators make their decision? Thanks again, Nightw 03:57, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject triple crown

Hi, I noticed that you have an application for a Special edition WikiProject triple crown. Please list all of the articles that each editor has contributed for. Follow the example here. Provide evidence for each as per the regular triple crown. Thanks. –SMasters (talk) 14:30, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi, are you still interested in pursuing this? If not, I will remove it. If you are, I will be happy to create the award for you. Please let me know. I will remove it in the next few days if I don't hear anything. Cheers. – SMasters (talk) 03:06, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Dacian script

Thanks for the neutral opinion. I've been working to set up the WikiProject Dacia to organize better the articles about Dacia and improve their quality. We need help expanding and reviewing many articles, and we also need more images. Maybe you find it interesting and wish to join. Thanks and best regards! --Codrin.B (talk) 22:35, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Roman Dacia

This user helped promote Roman Dacia to good article status.

Well done. What I read about Roman Dacia was substantially in the article. It would be worth the time and effort to put in the page numbers on the cites - but that's not really a GA issue, so that doesn't hold up the pass. SilkTork *^YES! 17:08, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for the hard work on the article and for bringing it to good article status! --Codrin.B (talk) 22:24, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Request

Hey. would you mind putting Wikipedia:Featured topics/Star Wars episodes at FTRC? Since I close noms I try not to open as well if I can help it.Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 05:11, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Fluorine peer review

Hey there, would you mind helping with fluorine by peer reviewing it? I guess, that may be of a little interest for you since you're signed to WikiProject Elements. Although a review from would be very helpful, don't worry if you can't make one; but, if possible, please do so. --R8R Gtrs (talk) 15:14, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of current sovereign monarchs/archive1

Hi Nergaal. I have restarted the above FLC because the consensus was unclear. Can you revisit it to ensure that all of your comments have been addressed, and if possible, declare whether you support, oppose, or are neutral towards the list's promotion to FL status? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 22:53, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Contact

Hi Nergaal, please mail me via Wikipedia email system. I have an info for you. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 21:15, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Premiers of the Soviet Union/archive2

Hi Nergaal. You commented at the above FLC on its first go-round, which failed due to lack of consensus. If possible, can you take a quick look at the list again and ensure that your concerns have been resolved? Thanks for all that you have done for the FL process. Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 23:41, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

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I hope to hear from you soon.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 01:16, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Foundation of Moldavia GAR

Hello. Foundation of Moldavia has received a Good Article Review. It is proposed the article be failed due to the poor readability of its prose throughout the article. It also has significant (fixable) problems with the copyright status of its images. Please visit the review page to join the discussion. - DustFormsWords (talk) 03:05, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Elements Triple Crown

Your Majesty, I am pleased to award this special edition platinum triple crown toWikiProject Elements and its hardworking volunteers. – SMasters (talk) 10:00, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for all your hard work. May you wear the crowns well, and may the platinum crown motivate you to contribute more outstanding articles. –SMasters (talk) 10:00, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 January newsletter

We are half way through round one of the WikiCup. Signups are now closed, and we have 129 listed competitors, 64 of whom will make it to round two. Congratulations to The Bushranger (submissions), who, at the time of writing, has a comfortable lead with 228 points, followed by Hurricanehink (submissions), with 144 points. Four others have over 100 points. Congratulations also go to Yellow Evan (submissions), who scored the first points in the competition, claiming for Talk:Hurricane King/GA1, Miyagawa (submissions), who scored the first non-review points in the competition, claiming for Dognapping, and Jarry1250 (submissions) who was the first in the competition to use our new "multiplier" mechanic (explanation), claiming for Grigory Potemkin, a subject covered on numerous Wikipedias. Thanks must also go to Jarry1250 for dealing with all bot work- without you, the competition wouldn't be happening!

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Empire of Brazil

Nergaal, I added a small sentence to the main text of the article that explains what territory from present-day Brazil was missing during the Imperial era in Empire of Brazil#Foreign relations. Here is the piece of text I added. I believe this is what you were looking for.

Thank you very much for taking your time to review the article. Kind regards, --Lecen (talk) 14:15, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

I added an extra note into the lead to explain the difference in territory between the Empire of Brazil and present-day Brazil. --Lecen (talk) 17:23, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Elizabeth II

I have conducted a GA review of Elizabeth II. Unfortunately, I determined that it did not meet the good article criteria, and it was not listed. I found serious issues that made it clear that the article could not be considered stable. As I said in my review, if the article was stable, I would pass it. While I don't like to see an article fail its fifth GA nomination, I feel that once the current issues are resolved, it will have a substantially better chance of being listed. Sixth time's the charm (hopefully). Regards, Swarm ^X 15:50, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

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Review

Please see this--Brunswick Dude (talk) 23:31, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

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ITN: Watson (artificial intelligence software)

-- tariqabjotu 23:50, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Polonium RSC.jpg

A tag has been placed on File:Polonium RSC.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a non-free file with a clearly invalid licensing tag; or it otherwise fails some part of the non-free content criteria. If you can find a valid tag that expresses why the file can be used under the fair use guidelines, please replace the current tag with that tag. If no such tag exists, please add the {{non-free fair use in|article name that the file is used in}} tag, along with a brief explanation of why this constitutes fair use of the file. If the file has been deleted, you can re-upload it, but please ensure you place the correct tag on it.

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Actinium RSC.jpg

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please help torsion field article

The article have no reliable sources as pseudoscientific concept. Shipov`s Torsion field research was not disbanded and will never be (it becomed private) due to the 1991 eastern "revolutions" the Soviet Union itself dissolved (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comunism)! The ultimate truth is that torsion technology is the best and used by NASA(US), Cern LHC (top European Scientifical Experiments),Russian Research Institute of Space Systems, in one word everyone uses Akimov and Shipov`s work, the only technology provided with unlimited funds from KGB (Russia)! Torsion field devices are sold all around the world. In 2010 Chairman of the State Duma and Chairman of the Supreme Council of United Russia, Mr. Boris Gryzlov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Gryzlov) gave an online interview (http://www.gazeta.ru/interview/nm/s3337459.shtml) «??????.Ru» “Gazeta.ru”,, where he commented the activities of "RANS" - the Russian Commission on Pseudoscience”. Chairman of the State Duma and Chairman of the Supreme Council of United Russia Party Boris Gryzlov denounced the activities of Commission on Pseudoscience of Russian Academy of Science (lead by ) as obnoxious (‘mrakobesy” Rus.) that work against development of Russia and her advances. He further named the commission’s scientific eloquence as “pearls” (an ironic substitute for an “obscene language” used by Commission to intimidate their opponents), which fell down below the intellectual level of top class experts in science.

He got over 6,000 complaints about the Commission’s activities

His Statement:

"The commission does not represent any of the legal departments of the Academy. The commission represents just the interests of few academicians, who stuck together as a group. Judging by the “pearls” of their “eloquences”, I may conclude that they do not perform at a level of the highest class professionals."

Gryzlov stated about his intention to detach “the commission from the Academy” the false group of scientists (the imaginary commission who asks for money from any new invention)! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.233.93.182 (talk) 15:18, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Elephant

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Serengeti Elefantenbulle.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Jujutacular talk 23:51, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

rutherfordium

Good work! We will have a good topic soon. A featured topic some time later. --Stone (talk) 12:27, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 February newsletter

So begins round two of the WikiCup! We now have eight pools, each with eight random contestants. This round will continue until the end of April, when the top two of each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers of those remaining, will make it to round three. Congratulations to The Bushranger (submissions) (first, with 487 points) and Hurricanehink (submissions) (second, with 459), who stormed the first round. Casliber (submissions) finished third with 223. Twelve others finished with over 100 points- well done to all of you! The final standings in round one can be seen here. A mere 8 points were required to reach round two; competition will no doubt be much more fierce this round, so be ready for a challenge! A special thanks goes, again, to Jarry1250 (submissions) for dealing with all bot work. This year's bot, as well as running smoothly, is doing some very helpful things that last year's did not. Also, thanks to Stone (submissions) for some helpful behind-the-scenes updating and number crunching.

Some news for those who are interested- March will see a GAN backlog elimination drive, which you are still free to join. Organised by WikiProject Good articles, the drive aims to minimise the GAN backlog and offers prizes to those who help out. Of course, you may well be able to claim WikiCup points for the articles you review as part of the drive. Also ongoing is the Great Backlog Drive, looking to work on clearing all of the backlogs on Wikipedia; again, incentives are offered, and the spirit of friendly competition is alive, while helping the encyclopedia is the ultimate aim. Though unrelated to the WikiCup, these may well be of interest to some of you.

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L. Ron Hubbard

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You recently commented on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/L. Ron Hubbard/archive2 that you felt that the L. Ron Hubbard article was too long. I have reduced it by about 20% to 82 kB (13,353 words) of readable prose text. Please take a look - it would be helpful if you could say on the FAC page whether you feel that this satisfies your concerns. Helatrobus (talk) 23:50, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

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Angry Birds

Nergaal, why did you put Angry Birds up for GAN? You haven't made any major edits in the page. GamerPro64 (talk) 01:09, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Fluorine liquid.jpg

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House episode articles AfD

You have voiced your opinion at Talk:List of House episodes but not yet at the AfD. While not required it would be greatly appreciated. The AfD is located at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paternity (House). Thanks. _Xeworlebi ^(talk) 18:36, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Summer transfers

WHAT? ARE YOU SERIOUS? After all the hard work I've been doing every day for more than two months during the summer and you want to remove it? This type of transfer articles are found on Wikipedia for almost every European football league. Why only the Spanish one? And by the way... what is "notable players" for you? Kaka and Cristiano? What a lack of respect for the other La Liga and Segunda División players who don't have a limitless salary like these two... Qampunen (talk) 11:20, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

File:2011-03-12 1800 NHK Sōgō channel news program screen shot.jpg

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March 2011

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Kepler-10 nomination Kepler-4b nomination

Hi, Nergaal.

I just wanted to let you know that User:Nstock and I have addressed all of your comments on the GA Review page of Kepler-10. --Starstriker7^(Talk) 01:29, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Oh my gosh. That was a huge flop...I actually meant Kepler-4b. My mistake. --Starstriker7^(Talk) 04:01, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Uploading on the same filename

Please stop uploading images with different content than the original with the same filename. You should upload with a different filename in cases like this. --hydrox (talk) 06:54, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Confusion like this (user asks why does the filename claim date 14 March, while description claims date 16 March) is exactly what I ment above. Please be so kind and reupload with a different filename next time, and flag the old one for non-controversial deletition by simply inserting the tag {{db-f5}} . You can adapt the earlier fair-use template if you will. --hydrox (talk) 23:02, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Fukushima

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FLC review

You have reviewed Philadelphia Phillies all-time roster (E) at WP:FLC. Demands by opposers at that nomination have resulted in a merge. I am asking all commenters to return to the FLC page and re-review if time is available. I appreciate your help and apologize for the inconvenience this has caused you. — KV5 • Talk • 22:33, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

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Group(Periodic Table)

Hello Nergaal,when editing a page,go down to edit summary,and sum up what you did. Please do this,because we can't tell if you are vandalizing,or making a good edit. Thanks!DarkfireII13 (talk) 16:01, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Angry Birds GA

Hello,

I have reviewed Angry Birds against the good article criteria. Based on my assessment at Talk:Angry Birds/GA1, I have placed the review on hold to address the concerns raised in the review. The article was reviewed on March 23, 2011, so it will be reassessed seven days from now, on March 30, 2011. Feel free to let me know if you have any comments or questions about the review. Thanks, RJaguar3 | u | t 19:19, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Upper Belvedere LCD.jpg

Hi there. There was an edit added fairly late in this nomination. I'd appreciate it if you could state a preference among the various edits so that I can figure out which one to promote. Thanks. Makeemlighter (talk) 04:34, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Chernobyl radiation map 1996

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GAN on Rubidium

Hi Nergaal, have a look I think I got all the points or commented on the ones I left out! Thanks! --Stone (talk) 23:28, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! Na and K will be more challenging.--Stone (talk) 22:51, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2007 (Canada) FLRC

Could you complete the template with who you have notified of this FLRC, preferably before you transclude it? Thanks. The Rambling Man (talk) 17:14, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

File:2011-03-12_1800_NHK_Sōgō_channel_news_program_screen_shot.jpg listed for deletion

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Discussion at List of House episodes

There is a discussion underway at List of House episodes about the DVD/Blu-ray table in the article. As a recent contributor to this page your input would be welcomed in the discussion, which you may find at Talk:List of House episodes#Blu-ray nonsence inclusion. Thank you. --AussieLegend (talk) 21:50, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2011 March newsletter

We are half way through round two of the WikiCup, which will end on 28 April. Of the 64 current contestants, 32 will make it through to the next round; the two highest in each pool, and the 16 next highest scorers. At the time of writing, our current overall leader is Hurricanehink (submissions) with 231 points, who leads Pool H. Piotrus (submissions) (Pool G) also has over 200 points, while 9 others (three of whom are in Pool D) have over 100 points. Remember that certain content (specifically, articles/portals included in at least 20 Wikipedias as of 31 December 2010 or articles which are considered "vital") is worth double points if promoted to good or featured status, or if it appears on the main page in the Did You Know column. There were some articles last round which were eligible for double points, but which were not claimed for. For more details, see Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring.

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Astronomy stuffs

Hi, Nergaal.

I just wanted to drop by to let you know that I've addressed most of your comments at Kepler-11e. Also, I've been thinking about expanding into working galaxy pages. Do you have any tips as to what sections I could add on such articles? --Starstriker7^(Talk) 20:43, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Coenagrionidae

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Apis mellifera carnica

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Branchiopoda

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Could you give me a read through of 2012 phenomenon?

I need the input of someone who isn't connected with the article to let me know if the article reads well to the layperson. Do you think you could be my honorary layman? Thanks in advance. Serendi^podous 21:02, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Take all the time you need. I'm not going to take this to FAC until I'm sure it's going to pass. Serendi^podous 05:58, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

RE:Eschatological. I wish there was a better word, but there isn't really. The topic deals with both doomsday and new age ideas, and eschatological is the only word that (sorta) covers both of them. After the huge number of fights I've had over the precise wording of that line, the idea of spending days trying to come up with a suitable substitute frightens me. Since the word is linked, I think it's OK. Serendi^podous 14:13, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks a bundle for your help. Do you think you could give the article a once-over (just put "eschatological" to one side for now :) ) to see if my alterations make any more sense? There are some clarify tags I haven't been able to clear, because I didn't write them and don't have the sources. I've alerted the guy who did write them, but he appears to be on wikibreak.

BTW, PR suggested the alien invasion section be removed. I'm pondering it; the only reason I included it in the first place was because my own father mentioned to me in passing that he'd heard it on CNN, so it seemed like a good idea to crush the rumour before it got out of hand. It seems to have died down since last December, but "SETI 2012 spaceships" still gets 149 results for the past week. What do you think? Serendi^podous 09:14, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Bug report

[1]. Cheers. Materialscientist (talk) 22:44, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/St. Michael's Cathedral (Izhevsk)

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Thank you

Thank you for your helpful advice and your support for List of longest rivers of the United States (by main stem), which was promoted to Featured List yesterday. Finetooth (talk) 16:07, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Potential element GANs

could be samarium and protactinium. I abandoned actinium because I couldn't expand it 5x for WP:DYK. Actinide is a translation from the Russian FA article, that is I did not research its content; there were some obvious content problems and some might remain (just FYI). Materialscientist (talk) 03:22, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Kepler-11g nomination

Hey, Nergaal, just wanted to give you a heads-up that I've nominated Kepler-11g for GA. --Starstriker7^(Talk) 08:02, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/Municipalities of Lithuania/archive1

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Talk:Bohrium#On 274Bh's half-life

You recently added isotope ²⁷⁴Bh to the bohrium article, with a half-life of 1.3 min. However, the source given for it only seems to refer to a "lifetime" of 1.3 min for the single nucleus of this isotope that was produced. This would translate to an expected half-life substantially lower (1.3 min*ln(2)≈1 min) (with large error bars, of course), not making it the longest-lived isotope. I'd appreciate a comment by you on this, preferably at the thread I started. Thanks for updating the article, in any case! --Roentgenium111 (talk) 13:16, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Rings of Saturn 2

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Zirconium

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File:Berkelium metal.jpg

Hello Nergaal, could you move this file to commons. I would like to use the image for de:Berkelium. Many thanks --JWBE (talk) 08:00, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

List of Jewish Medal of Honor recipients FLRC

Hello Nergaal. Can you please provide an update as to your position with respect to this FLRC which you nominated? Thanks. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:59, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Also, while you're there, can you have a look at List of Alberta general elections because it looks like your comments have been addressed there too. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:16, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2011 April newsletter

Round 2 of the 2011 WikiCup is over, and the new round will begin on 1 May. Note that any points scored in the interim (that is, for content promoted or reviews completed on 29-30 April) can be claimed in the next round, but please do not start updating your submissions' pages until the next round has begun. Fewer than a quarter of our original contestants remain; 32 enter round 3, and, in two months' time, only 16 will progress to our penultimate round. Casliber (submissions), who led Pool F, was our round champion, with 411 points, while 7 contestants scored between 200 and 300 points. At the other end of the scale, a score of 41 was high enough to reach round 3; more than five times the score required to reach round 2, and competition will no doubt become tighter now we're approaching the later rounds. Those progressing to round 3 were spread fairly evenly across the pools; 4 progressed from each of pools A, B, E and H, while 3 progressed from both pools C and F. Pools D and G were the most successful; each had 5 contestants advancing.

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File:Einsteinium.jpg

Could you please do the rotating and cropping for this as it's clogging up the infobox? Thanks. Lanthanum-138 (talk) 10:48, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Similar to File:Protactinium.jpg? Lanthanum-138 (talk) 10:50, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank you

Just wanted to say thanks for supporting the Atlantic Coast Conference football championships featured topic. I'll do my best to make sure it's updated once the college football season starts and the next game happens. I'll work on getting the latest article in the series up to FA status so the topic continues to meet the 50 percent barrier. Have a good one! JKBrooks85 (talk) 08:13, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

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FLC comments

Hello. You made not-so-recent comments on Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Benet Academy alumni/archive1. Your further input would be much appreciated. Edge3 (talk) 05:08, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

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GTRC

Letting you know that I started a GTRC for Star Wars: Jedi Knight titles. GamerPro64 18:21, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2011 May newsletter

We're half way through round 3 of the 2011 WikiCup. There are currently 32 remaining in the competition, but only 16 will progress to our penultimate round. Casliber (submissions), of pool D, is our overall leader with nearly 200 points, while pools A, B and C are led by Racepacket (submissions), Hurricanehink (submissions) and Canada Hky (submissions) respectively. The score required to reach the next round is 35, though this will no doubt go up significantly as the round progresses. We have a good number of high scorers, but also a considerable number who are yet to score. Please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. Also, an important note concerning nominations at featured article candidates: if you are nominating content for which you intend to claim WikiCup points, please make this clear in the nomination statement so that the FAC director and his delegates are aware of the fact.

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WP Elements in the Signpost

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Addition of photo of Großhesseloher Brücke to article Munich Tramway

Hi.

Back on the 25th March you added a photograph (File:Grosshesseloher Brücke R B.jpg) to the article Munich Tramway. Unfortunately you didn't add a caption, so I'm not sure why you added it to that article, but my best understanding is that the Großhesseloher Brücke pictured is a railway bridge.

The only connection I can see to Munich's tramways is that there is a nearby tramstop (on a tram line that neither passes over nor under the bridge) named after the bridge, which doesn't seem enough to justify the use of the photograph in the article. I'm guessing that this is a case of mistaken identity. The train passing over the bridge in the photo does look rather tramlike, but is in fact a Bayerische Oberlandbahn diesel train.

I have removed the photograph from the article; if there is another connection I've missed please feel free to reinstate it, but could I ask you to add a caption explaining the connection. -- chris_j_wood (talk) 09:15, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

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Orphaned non-free image File:Fluorine liquid.jpg

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Hey

Hey, I notice you haven't edited in a few months. Everything ok? Feeling some Wikipedia-fatigue? J Milburn (talk) 00:16, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

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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 23:37, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 July 2011

• News and notes: Picture of the Year 2010; data challenge; brief news

• In the news: WikiLove roll-out; €25,000 in damages for being removed from Wikipedia; brief news

• WikiProject report: The Star-Spangled WikiProject

• Featured content: Two newly promoted portals

• Arbitration report: Arb resigns while mailing list leaks continue; Motion re: admin

• Technology report: June report: Virginia datacenter, parser, user profiles; WikiLove 1.0; brief news

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The Signpost: 11 July 2011

• From the editor: Stepping down

• Higher education summit: Wikipedia in Higher Education Summit recap

• News and notes: Wikipedians' surfing habits explored, Sloan Foundation renews $3M grant

• In the news: Britannica and Wikipedia compared; Putin award criticized; possible journalistic sockpuppeting

• WikiProject report: Listening to WikiProject Albums

• Featured content: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: Tree shaping case comes to a close

• Technology report: WMF works on its release strategy; secure server problems

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The Signpost: 18 July 2011

• News and notes: WMF Annual plan; Article Feedback tool; university outreach; brief news

• In the news: Fine art; surreptitious sanitation; the politics of kyriarchic marginalization; brief news

• WikiProject report: Earn $$$ free pharm4cy WORK FROM HOME replica watches ViAgRa!!!

• Featured content: Historic last launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour; Teddy Roosevelt's threat to behead official; 18th-century London sex manual

• Arbitration report: Motion passed to amend 2008 case: topic ban and reminder

• Technology report: Code Review backlog almost zero; What is: Subversion?; brief news

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The Signpost: 25 July 2011

• Wikimedian in Residence interview: Wikimedian in Residence on Open Science: an interview with Daniel Mietchen

• News and notes: Oral citations; the state of global development; a gentler Huggle; brief news

• In the news: Open access clash with copyright; rising reader satisfaction; the wiki-correlates of geopolitical instability; brief news

• Recent research: Talk page interactions; Wikipedia at the Open Knowledge Conference; Summer of Research

• WikiProject report: Musing with WikiProject Philosophy

• Featured content: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: New case opened; hyphens and dashes update; motion

• Technology report: Protocol-relative URLs; GSoC updates; bad news for SMW fans; brief news

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WikiCup 2011 July newsletter

We are half way through the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; there is less than a month to go before we have our final 8. Our pool leaders are Adabow (submissions) (Pool A, 189 points) and PresN (submissions) (Pool B, 165 points). The number of points required to reach the next round is not clear at this time; there are some users who still do not have any recorded points. Please remember to update your submissions' pages promptly. In addition, congratulations to PresN, who scored the first featured topic points in the competition for his work on Thatgamecompany related articles. Most points this round generally have, so far, come from good articles, with only one featured article (White-bellied Sea Eagle, from Casliber (submissions)) and two featured lists (Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, from PresN and Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album, from Another Believer (submissions)). Points for Did You Know and good article reviews round out the scoring. No points have been awarded for In the News, good topics or featured pictures this round, and no points for featured sounds or portals have been awarded in the entire competition. On an unrelated note, preparation will be beginning soon for next year's WikiCup- watch this space!

There is little else to be said beyond the usual. Please list anything you need reviewing on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, so others following the WikiCup can help, and please do help if you can 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- points are, of course, offered for reviews at GAC. 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. 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 11:39, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 01 August 2011

• News and notes: Wikimania; why Board of Trustees elections attract few votes; brief news

• In the news: Consensus of Wikipedia authors questioned about Shakespeare authorship; 10 biggest edit wars on Wikipedia; brief news

• Research interview: The Huggle Experiment: interview with the research team

• WikiProject report: Little Project, Big Heart — WikiProject Croatia

• Featured content: Featured pictures is back in town

• Arbitration report: Proposed decision submitted for one case

• Technology report: Developers descend on Haifa; wikitech-l discussions; brief news

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The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles - Issues

Hi there. I know you appear inactive, but you're the largest contributor to the article The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles, so I wanted to leave the message anyways. Recently, and IP mentioned that there was an upcoming FAC for the article when he put it up for copyediting. I took a look at the article, and... well what I saw was an article with a gaping hole. Please view my comment at the bottom of the talk page. I'm going to give that a chance to be fixed, but I'm quite tempted to take it to GAR for failing criteria 3a (major aspects covered).

I'm also G.W. (second most active on the article) and MuZemike (the GA reviewer).

Thank you for your time. Sven Manguard Wha? 08:10, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 08 August 2011

• Wikimania: Seventh annual Wikimedia conference concluded in Haifa, Israel

• News and notes: Wikimania a success; board letter controversial; and evidence showing bitten newbies don't stay

• In the news: Israeli news focuses on Wikimania; worldwide coverage of contributor decline and gender gap; brief news

• WikiProject report: Shooting the breeze with WikiProject Firearms

• Featured content: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: Manipulation of BLPs case opened; one case comes to a close

• Technology report: Wikimania technology roundup; brief news

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The Signpost: 15 August 2011

• Women and Wikipedia: New Research, WikiChix

• News and notes: Chapter funding and what skeptics and Latter Day Saints have in common

• In the news: Wikipedia a "sausage fest", Chicago Wikipedians ("the people you've probably plagiarized"), and other silly season stories

• WikiProject report: The Oregonians

• Featured content: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: Abortion case opened, two more still in progress

• Technology report: Forks, upload slowness and mobile redirection

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The Signpost: 22 August 2011

• News and notes: Girl Geeks edit while they dine, candidates needed for forthcoming steward elections, image referendum opens

• In the news: Journalist regrets not checking citation, PR firms issue advice on how to "survive" Wikipedia (but U.S. Congressman caught red-handed)

• WikiProject report: Images in Motion – WikiProject Animation

• Featured content: JJ Harrison on avian photography

• Arbitration report: After eleven moves, name for islands now under arbitration

• Technology report: Engineering report, sprint, and more testers needed

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The Signpost: 29 August 2011

• News and notes: Abuse filter on all Wikimedia sites; Foundation's report for July; editor survey results

• In the news: Wikipedia praised for disaster news coverage, scolded for left-wing bias; brief news

• Recent research: Article promotion by collaboration; deleted revisions; Wikipedia's use of open access; readers unimpressed by FAs; swine flu anxiety

• Opinion essay: How an attempt to answer one question turned into a quagmire

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Tennis

• Featured content: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: Four existing cases

• Technology report: The bugosphere, new mobile site and MediaWiki 1.18 close in on deployment

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WikiCup 2011 July newsletter

The finals are upon us; we're down to the last few. One of the eight remaining contestants will be this year's WikiCup champion! 150 was the score needed to progress to the final; just under double the 76 required to reach round 4, and more than triple the 41 required to reach round 3. Our eight finalists are:

• Casliber (submissions), Pool A's winner. Casliber has the highest total score in the competition, with 1528, the bulk of which is made up of 8 featured articles. He has the highest number of total featured articles (8, 1 of which was eligible for double points) and total did you knows (72) of any finalist. Casliber writes mostly on biology, including ornithology, botany and mycology.
• PresN (submissions), Pool B's winner and the highest scorer this round. PresN is the only finalist who has scored featured topic points, and he has gathered an impressive 330, but most of his points come from his 4 featured articles, one of which scored double. PresN writes mostly on video games and the Hugo Awards.
• Hurricanehink (submissions), Pool A's runner-up. Hurricanehink's points are mostly from his 30 good articles, more than any other finalist, and he is also the only finalist to score good topic points. Hurricanehink, as his name suggests, writes mostly on meteorology.
• Wizardman (submissions), Pool B's runner-up. Wizardman has completed 86 good article reviews, more than any other finalist, but most of his points come from his 2 featured articles. Wizardman writes mostly on American sport, especially baseball.
• Miyagawa (submissions), the "fastest loser" (Pool A). Miyagawa has written 3 featured lists, one of which was awarded double points, more than any other finalist, but he was awarded points mostly for his 68 did you knows. Miyagawa writes on a variety of topics, including dogs, military history and sport.
• Resolute (submissions), the second "fastest loser" (Pool B). Most of Resolute's points come from his 9 good articles. He writes mostly on Canadian topics, including ice hockey.
• Yellow Evan (submissions), who was joint third "fastest loser" (Pool A). Most of Evan's points come from his 10 good articles, and he writes mostly on meteorology.
• Sp33dyphil (submissions), who was joint third "fastest loser" (Pool B). Most of Phil's points come from his 9 good articles, 4 of which (more than any other finalist) were eligible for double points. He writes mostly on aeronautics.

We say goodbye to our seven other semi-finalists, Another Believer (submissions), Piotrus (submissions), Grandiose (submissions), Stone (submissions), Eisfbnore (submissions), Canada Hky (submissions) and MuZemike (submissions). Everyone still in the competition at this stage has done fantastically well, and contributed greatly to Wikipedia. We're on the home straight now, and we will know our winner in two months.

In other news, preparations for next year's competition have begun with a brainstorming thread. Please, feel free to drop by and share any thoughts you have about how the competition should work next year. Sign ups are not yet open, but will be opened in due course. Watch this space. Further, there has been a discussion about the rule whereby those in the WikiCup must delcare their participation when nominating articles at featured article candidates. This has resulted in a bot being created by new featured article delegate Ucucha (talk · contribs). The bot will leave a message on FAC pages if the nominator is a participant in the WikiCup.

A reminder of the rules: any points scored after August 29 may be claimed for the final round, and please remember to update submission pages promptly. If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. 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 00:09, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 05 September 2011

• News and notes: 24,000 votes later and community position on image filter still unclear; first index of editor satisfaction appears positive

• In the news: Britannica and Wikipedia like "apples and chairs"; should anyone who's anyone get an article?; and why fighting and barriers to editing may be useful after all

• WikiProject report: Riding with WikiProject London Transport

• Sister projects: Wiki Loves Monuments 2011

• Featured content: The best of the week

• Opinion essay: The copyright crisis, and why we should care

• Arbitration report: BLP case closed; Cirt-Jayen466 nearly there; AUSC reshuffle

• Technology report: Pencils down in Google Summer of Code, August analysed and integrated HTTPS support in action

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The Signpost: 12 September 2011

• News and notes: Foundation reports on research, Kenya trip, Mumbai Wikiconference; Canada, Hungary and Estonia; English Wikinews forked

• In the news: 9/11 coverage, Wikimedia hypothetically rebranded and Wikipedia golf 2.0

• WikiProject report: Politics in the Pacific: WikiProject Australian Politics

• Featured content: Wikipedians explain two new featured pictures

• Arbitration report: Ohconfucius sanctions removed, Cirt desysopped 6:5 and a call for CU/OS applications

• Technology report: What is: agile development? and new mobile site goes live

• Opinion essay: The Walrus and the Carpenter

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The Signpost: 19 September 2011

• From the editor: Changes to The Signpost

• News and notes: Ushahidi research tool announced, Citizendium five years on: success or failure?, and Wikimedia DC officially recognised

• In the news: Wikipedia: yesterday's news? Calls for women, doctors, and scholars of humanities; Wales makes Wikimedia work "look easy"

• Sister projects: On the Wikinews fork

• WikiProject report: Back to school

• Featured content: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: ArbCom narrowly rejects application to open new case

• Technology report: MediaWiki 1.18 deployment begins, the alleged "injustice" of WMF engineering policy, and Wikimedians warned of imminent fix to magic word

• Popular pages: Article stats for the English Wikipedia in the last year

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The Signpost: 26 September 2011

• Opinion essay: The global mission, the image filter and the "German question"

• Recent research: Top female Wikipedians, reverted newbies, link spam, social influence on admin votes, Wikipedians' weekends, WikiSym previews

• News and notes: WMF strikes down enwiki consensus, academic journal partnerships, and eyebrows raised over minors editing porn-related content

• In the news: Sockpuppeting journalist recants, search dominance threatened, new novels replete with Wikipedia references

• WikiProject report: A project in overdrive: WikiProject Automobiles

• Featured content: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: "Broadly construed" explained, voting begins on Senkaku Islands case, invitation to comment on CU/OS candidates

• Technology report: 1.18 deployment on track, "mythical" Git migration scheduled, editor decline statistics improved

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WikiCup 2011 September newsletter

We are on this year's home straight, with less than a month to go until the winner of the 2011 WikiCup will be decided. The fight for first place is currently being contested by Miyagawa (submissions), Hurricanehink (submissions) and Sp33dyphil (submissions), all of whom have over 200 points. This round has already seen multiple featured articles (1991 Atlantic hurricane season from Hurricanehink and Northrop YF-23 from Sp33dyphil) and a double-scoring featured list (Miyagawa's 1948 Summer Olympics medal table). The scores will likely increase far further before the end of the round on October 31 as everyone ups their pace. There is not much more to say- thoughts about next year's competition are welcome on the WikiCup talk page or the scoring talk page, and signups will open once a few things have been sorted out.

If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. 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 12:47, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 3 October 2011

• News and notes: Italian Wikipedia shuts down over new privacy law; Wikimedia Sverige produce short Wikipedia films, Sue Gardner calls for empathy

• In the news: QRpedia launches to acclaim, Jimbo talks social media, Wikipedia attracts fungi, terriers and Greeks bearing gifts

• WikiProject report: Kia ora WikiProject New Zealand

• Featured content: Reviewers praise new featured topic: National treasures of Japan

• Arbitration report: Last call for comments on CheckUser and Oversight teams

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 10 October 2011

• Opinion essay: The conservatism of Wikimedians

• News and notes: Largest ever donation to WMF, final findings of editor survey released, 'Terms of use' heavily revised

• In the news: Uproar over Italian shutdown, the varying reception of BLP mischief, and Wikipedia's doctor-evangelist

• WikiProject report: The World's Oldest People

• Featured content: The weird and the disgusting

• Arbitration report: Senkaku Islands closes; administrators authorized to place articles on discretionary sanctions

• Technology report: 1.18 deployment and HTTPS switchover completed, but developer help now needed with new projects

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The Signpost: 17 October 2011

• News and notes: Arabic Wikipedia gets video intros, Smithsonian gifts images, and WikiProject Conservatism scrutinized

• In the news: Why Wikipedia survives while others haven't; Wikipedia as an emerging social model; Jimbo speaks out

• WikiProject report: History in your neighborhood: WikiProject NRHP

• Featured content: Brazil's boom-time dreams of naval power: The ed17 explains the background to a new featured topic

• Arbitration report: Case requests on ethnic strife and a WikiProject declined, Abortion case stalls but topic bans look to be lightened on amendment

• Technology report: WMDE renew investment in Toolserver, first offsite backup programme of Wikimedia begun

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The Signpost: 24 October 2011

• From the editors: A call for contributors

• Opinion essay: There is a deadline

• Interview: Contracting for the Foundation

• In the news: Are Wikipedians reluctant journalists?; Wikipedia:The Musical

• WikiProject report: Great WikiProject Logos

• Featured content: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: Abortion; request for amendment on Climate Change case

• Technology report: WMF launches coding challenge, WMDE starts hiring for major new project

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WikiCup 2011 October newsletter

The 2011 WikiCup is now over, and our new champion is Hurricanehink (submissions), who joins the exclusive club of the previous winners: Dreamafter (2007), jj137 (2008), Durova (2009) and Sturmvogel_66 (2010). The final standings were as follows:

1. Hurricanehink (submissions)
2. Sp33dyphil (submissions)
3. Yellow Evan (submissions)
4. Miyagawa (submissions)
5. Wizardman (submissions)
6. Casliber (submissions)
7. Resolute (submissions)
8. PresN (submissions)

Prizes for first, second, third and fourth will be awarded, as will prizes for all those who reached the final eight. Every participant who scored in the competition will receive a ribbon of participation. In addition to the prizes based on placement, the following special prizes will be awarded based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, the prize is awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round.

• The Featured Article Award: Casliber (submissions), for his performance in round 2. Hurricanehink (submissions) matched the score, but Casliber won the tiebreaker.
• The Good Article Award: Yellow Evan (submissions), for his performance in round 4.
• The Featured List Award: Miyagawa (submissions), for his performance in round 4. PresN (submissions) matched the score, but Miyagawa won the tiebreaker.
• The Recognised Topic Award (for good and featured topics): PresN (submissions), for his performance in round 3.
• The Did You Know Award: The Bushranger (submissions), for his performance in round 1.
• The In the News Award: Candlewicke (submissions), for his performance in round 1.
• The Reviewer Award (for good article reviews): Wizardman (submissions), for his performance in round 3.

No prize was awarded for featured pictures, sounds or portals, as none were claimed throughout the competition. The awards will be handed out over the next few days. Congratulations to all our participants, and especially our winners; we've all had fun, and Wikipedia has benefitted massively from our content work.

Preparation for next year's WikiCup is ongoing. Interested parties are invited to sign up and participate in our straw polls. It's been a pleasure to work with you all this year, and, whoever's taking part in and running the competition in 2012, we hope to see you all in January! J Milburn and The ed17 00:46, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 October 2011

• Opinion essay: The monster under the rug

• Recent research: WikiSym; predicting editor survival; drug information found lacking; RfAs and trust; Wikipedia's search engine ranking justified

• News and notes: German Wikipedia continues image filter protest

• In the news: Citizendium on the rocks, Shankbone celebrated, and the week in vandalism

• Discussion report: Proposal to return this section from hiatus is successful

• WikiProject report: 'In touch' with WikiProject Rugby union

• Featured content: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: Abortion case stalls, request for clarification on Δ, discretionary sanctions streamlined

• Technology report: Wikipedia Zero announced; New Orleans successfully hacked

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2011 WikiCup participation

Awarded to Nergaal, who reached round 3 in the 2011 WikiCup.

It was good to have you on board this time around- we hope you enjoyed the competition! In case you are interested, signups for next year are open. Thanks, J Milburn and The ed17 20:55, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 7 November2011

• Special report: A post-mortem on the Indian Education Program pilot

• News and notes: Wikimedia Norway awarded, Halloween on the Main Page, Wikimedia UK recognised

• In the news: The Economist assays the encyclopaedia's challenges, Jimbo speaks on net future, and an inclusionist alternative emerges.

• Discussion report: Special report on the ArbCom Elections steering RfC

• WikiProject report: Booting up with WikiProject Computer Science

• Featured content: Slow week for Featured content

• Arbitration report: Δ saga returns to arbitration, while the Abortion case stalls for another week

• Technology report: Full steam ahead on Visual Editor, the avoidance of lock-breaking and 1.18b1 release

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The Signpost: 14 November 2011

• News and notes: ArbCom nominations open, participation grants finalized, survey results on perceptions on Wikipedia released

• In the news: Fundraising vs ads redux, WikiConference India nigh, a world lit up with articles

• WikiProject report: Having a Conference with WikiProject India

• Featured content: Writing featured content: Advice from Sturmvogel 66; Sports, sports, sports!

• Arbitration report: Abortion and Betacommand 3 in evidence phase, three case requests outstanding

• Technology report: Coding Challenge results; Wikimedians to wait and see if Athena really does represent "wisdom, courage and inspiration"

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Talkback

Hello, Nergaal. You have new messages at Talk:Roman Dacia.
Message added 16:36, 21 November 2011 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Hi. I think you have been involved a lot with the GA of Roman Dacia. We need help to salvage the article.Thanks. Codrin.B (talk) 16:36, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 November 2011

• News and notes: Last-minute candidates for ArbCom, the Sue Gardner European Tour hits London

• In the news: Indian wikiconference heralds expansion, fundraiser in Silicon Valley major donor coup, import of Wikipedia reconsidered

• Discussion report: Much ado about censorship

• WikiProject report: Working on a term paper with WikiProject Academic Journals

• Featured content: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: End in sight for Abortion case, nominations in 2011 elections

• Technology report: Mumbai and Brighton hacked; horizontal lists have got class

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The Signpost: 28 November 2011

• News and notes: Arb's resignation sparks lightning RfC, Fundraiser 2011 off to a strong start, GLAM in Qatar

• In the news: The closed, unfriendly world of Wikipedia, fundraiser fun and games, and chemists vs pornstars

• Recent research: Quantifying quality collaboration patterns, systemic bias, POV pushing, the impact of news events, and editors' reputation

• WikiProject report: The Signpost scoops The Bugle

• Featured content: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: Voting underway in the elections, finally a final decision on Abortion, scant movement on requests

• Technology report: Foundation appears correct to back improved smartphone support; and how a Reddit slip meant no-one could read anything for thirty minutes

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Hi Nergaal

Hi Nergaal, you missed a lot of fun in the wikicup and a nice interview in the signpost during your break. Hope to get a little work in the periodic table soon. --Stone (talk) 21:21, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

I also scaled back my work by a factor of 10, but it is still a lot of fun!--Stone (talk) 10:26, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 05 December 2011

• News and notes: Amsterdam gets the GLAM treatment, fundraising marches on, and a flourish of new admins

• In the news: A Wikistream of real time edits, a call for COI reform, and cracks in the ivory tower of knowledge

• Discussion report: Trial proposed for tool apprenticeship

• WikiProject report: This article is about WikiProject Disambiguation. For other uses...

• Featured content: This week's Signpost is for the birds!

• Arbitration report: Elections due to finish this week, little activity on Betacommand 3, Abortion case amended

• Technology report: Incremental dumps help mirrors, full screen search helps mobile visitors, and two MediaWiki releases help external sites

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The Signpost: 12 December 2011

• Opinion essay: Wikipedia in Academe – and vice versa

• News and notes: Research project banner ads run afoul of community

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Rollback on my edits

I noticed you rolled back my edits on WP:ELEM/PTQ without an edit summary. There was a discussion on WT:ELEM about changing those three entries to natural radio due to a source in astatine. I was curious as to why you assumed my change was vandalism. StringTheory¹¹ 00:16, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

I did not assume it is a vandalism, but an error. I was not aware of the discussion at the WP. Nergaal (talk) 20:19, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Sorry about that, probably should have put a link to the discussion in the edit summary. StringTheory¹¹ 01:07, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

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Nergaal, I would happily nominate those two articles for GA status but you would have to do the review because I am currently busy. Jessy _(talk) ^(contribs) • 21:27, April 2, 2011 (UTC)

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Could PH2 b Be Potentially Habitable - Or Not?

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