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Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Music of Australia I've replied to your comments. — Dihydrogen Monoxide (Review) 01:35, 28 December 2007 (UTC) Replied — [sd] 01:53, 29 December 2007 (UTC) Award The Saint's Star Award I give you this award for your wonderful work on improvement of portals and your friendly explainations. May God bless you and happy editing.--Thw1309 (talk) 16:17, 28 December 2007 (UTC) Replied — [sd] 01:53, 29 December 2007 (UTC) Your work on Portal:Bengal Thanks for your active interest in Portal:Bengal. I like the changes you've made so far. Please keep up the good work, and do let me know if you need any assistance. Arman (Talk) 03:39, 3 January 2008 (UTC) Thanks. Cheers, [sd] 12:36, 3 January 2008 (UTC) The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXII (December 2007) The Military history WikiProject Newsletter Issue XXII (December 2007) Project news The Intelligence task force has been created. The contest department has completed its ninth month of competition. The top scorer this month is Blnguyen, with 22 points, followed by Dreamafter, with 8 points, and Redmarkviolinist, with 6 points. Blnguyen also remains the overall leader, with 162 points in total. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries. Help with converting deprecated infoboxes is needed; any assistance is welcome! {{WPMILHIST}} now supports an explicit tag (class=DAB) for marking disambiguation pages. Articles of note New featured articles: Battle of Albuera Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081) Battle of the Gebora Constantine II of Scotland Francis Harvey Vasa (ship) Wulfhere of Mercia New A-Class articles: 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing Evacuation of East Prussia Current proposals and discussions A discussion about minimizing terminological ambiguity has begun. Awards and honors Blnguyen has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his efforts in improving the quality of articles related to Vietnamese military history, including the creation of numerous A-Class articles. Woodym555 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding work on topics related to the Victoria Cross, notably including the creation of featured articles, featured lists, and a featured topic. For their outstanding efforts as part of Tag & Assess 2007, Bedford, TomStar81, and Parsival74 have been awarded the gold, silver, and bronze Wikis, respectively. Tag & Assess 2007 Tag & Assess 2007 is now officially over, with slightly under 68,000 articles processed. The top twenty scores are as follows: 1. Bedford — 7,600 2. TomStar81 — 5,500 3. Parsival74 — 5,200 4. FayssalF — 3,500 5. Roger Davies — 3,000 6. Ouro — 2600 7. Kateshortforbob — 2250 8. Cromdog — 2,200 9. BrokenSphere — 2000 9. Jacksinterweb — 2,000 9. Maralia — 2,000 12. MBK004 — 1,340 13. JKBrooks85 — 1,250 14. Sniperz11 — 1100 15. Burzmali — 1000 15. Cplakidas — 1000 15. Gimme danger — 1000 15. Raoulduke471000 15. TicketMan — 1000 15. Welsh — 1000 15. Blnguyen — 1000 Although the drive is officially closed, existing participants can continue tagging until January 31 if they wish, with the extra tags counting towards their tally for barnstar purposes. We'd like to see what lessons can be learned from this drive, so we've set up a feedback workshop. Comments and feedback from participants and non-particpants alike are very welcome and appreciated. To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please list yourself in the appropriate section here. This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 22:16, 3 January 2008 (UTC) Hello. Hi SdPi, long time no see. Happy new year, and take care. · AndonicO Hail! 19:46, 5 January 2008 (UTC) Replied. [sd] 22:45, 5 January 2008 (UTC) You're welcome, thank you, and I've screwed T:DYK a few times, so not exactly "good" work. :P · AndonicO Hail! 00:53, 6 January 2008 (UTC) Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Journalism/archive1 I addressed all of your points, except for one. Could you respond at the review? Cirt (talk) 02:24, 7 January 2008 (UTC). Replied. — [sd] 03:06, 7 January 2008 (UTC) Portal:Television Thanks for the "plainlinks" thingy, again. I addressed all of your other remaining points from Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Television. Cheers, Cirt (talk) 06:00, 10 January 2008 (UTC). Replied. [sd] 12:20, 10 January 2008 (UTC) Signpost updated for January 2nd and 7th, 2008. 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Ralbot (talk) 09:22, 11 January 2008 (UTC) Award The Icelandic Barnstar of National Merit Your efforts in bringing Portal:Iceland to featured status just earned you this barnstar! Best regards, Húsönd 23:42, 15 January 2008 (UTC) Thanks a lot, Husond! Happy editing, [sd] 11:45, 16 January 2008 (UTC) Signpost updated for January 14th, 2008. The Wikipedia Signpost Weekly Delivery Volume 4, Issue 3 14 January 2008 About the Signpost From the editor: A new weekly feature  Special: 2007 in Review Wikimania 2009 bidding ends, jury named  Controversial non-administrator rollback process added Supposed advance draft of Jobs keynote surfaces on talk page  WikiWorld comic: "The Nocebo Effect" News and notes: Fundraiser ends, $500,000 donation, milestones  Wikipedia in the News Tutorial: Fundamentals of editing  Features and admins Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News  The Report on Lengthy Litigation Home  |  Archives  |  Newsroom  |  Tip Line  |  Single-Page View Shortcut : WP:POST You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot (talk) 08:59, 18 January 2008 (UTC) A note of thanks Just to drop you a belated thank you note for your help with Portal:Gibraltar and Portal:British Empire. It was much appreciated! Chris.B 16:18, 21 January 2008 (UTC) :) No problem! Happy editing, [sd] 17:10, 21 January 2008 (UTC) Signpost updated for January 21st, 2008. The Wikipedia Signpost Weekly Delivery Volume 4, Issue 4 21 January 2008 About the Signpost Special: 2007 in Review, Part II New parser preprocessor to be introduced  Commons Picture of the Year contest in final round WikiWorld comic: "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo"  News and notes: Freely-licensed music, milestones Wikipedia in the News  Features and admins Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News  Home  |  Archives  |  Newsroom  |  Tip Line  |  Single-Page View Shortcut : WP:POST You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot (talk) 00:33, 24 January 2008 (UTC) Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #12 Number 12, January 10, 2008 The Hurricane Herald This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary, both of the activities of the WikiProject and global tropical cyclone activity. If you wish to change how you receive this newsletter, or no longer wish to receive it, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list. This edition of the newsletter, after an extended hiatus, covers December 2007 and the first ten days of January 2008. Please visit this page and bookmark any suggestions of interest to you. This will help improve monitoring of the WikiProject's articles. Storm of the month Tropical Storm Olga was a rare Atlantic December tropical cyclone. The fifteenth named storm of the season, it developed near Puerto Rico on December 11, and quickly struck the Dominican Republic. There, it brought heavy rainfall and severe damage, and caused more than 40 deaths. Casualties were also reported in Puerto Rico and Haiti. The storm greatly weakened as it crossed Hispaniola, degenerating into a remnant low pressure area in the Caribbean Sea on December 13. The remnants of Olga passed near the Yucatán Peninsula before turning northward and bringing rainfall to Florida. Other tropical cyclone activity Three named tropical cyclones occurred in the South-West Indian Ocean, the strongest of which being Moderate Tropical Storm Celina Two named tropical cyclones occurred in the Australian region, including Tropical Cyclone Helen which struck Australia Two named tropical cyclones occurred in the South Pacific ocean, including Tropical Cyclone Elisa which is currently active. Cyclone Daman was the strongest tropical cyclone worldwide during the time period, reaching a pressure of 925 hPa before impacting Fiji. Member of the month Cyclone barnstar The December member of the month is Mitchazenia. Mitchazenia has been a project member since 2006. He has created several tropical cyclone related articles, including the good article Subtropical Storm One (1982). Mitchazenia significantly contributed to 1983 Atlantic hurricane season, which is currently a featured article candidate. New and improved articles There were four new pieces of Featured content : 2003 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Danny (1997), Meteorological history of Hurricane Ivan, and List of North Carolina hurricanes (1980-present) New Good articles include: New storm articles include: Cyclone Inigo, Hurricane Ava (1973), Hurricane Marco (1996) New non-storm articles include: Effects of Hurricane Ivan in the Lesser Antilles and South America, Maximum sustained wind, List of North Carolina hurricanes (pre-1900) Main Page content Tropical Storm Allison appeared on the Main Page as Today's featured article on December 19. Entries from 2 articles: Hurricane Rick (1997) and 2006 Central Pacific cyclone appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during December and early January. Storm article statistics Grade Sep Oct Nov Dec FA 30 30 31 33 A 4 9 8 9 GA 105 106 109 112 B 80 78 82 86 Start 213 212 211 208 Stub 6 5 6 6 Total 438 440 447 454 percentage Less than B 50.0 49.3 48.5 47.1 Categories and more The project has gone under somewhat of a revamping. We have a new, more realistic goal. The members list has been dropped from 89 to 34. This newsletter is to inform users of a change in policy with categories. Previously, an Atlantic and Pacific storm article would have both Category:Atlantic hurricanes and Category:Category 3 tropical cyclones. However, the two were combined, resulting in Category:Category 3 Atlantic hurricanes. The same is done with Pacific hurricanes. Tropical storm articles are dealt with either Category:Eastern Pacific tropical storms or Category:Atlantic tropical storms. [sd] 20:13, 27 January 2008 (UTC) Thanks I'd like to thank you for your help in critquing Portal:Louisville? Would you mind giving a peer review for Portal:Kentucky? No one's commented on it yet. I took the advice you gave on Louisville to Kentucky's when you gave it, so it hopefully won't take much. I would definitely would like your comemnts on using the term "Learn more..." instead of "Read more..."--Bedford 00:10, 31 January 2008 (UTC) Signpost updated for January 28th, 2008. The Wikipedia Signpost Weekly Delivery Volume 4, Issue 5 28 January 2008 About the Signpost From the editor: New feature  Special: 2007 in Review, Part III Signpost interview: John Broughton  New parser preprocessor introduced Best of WikiWorld: "Truthiness"  News and notes: Estonian Wikipedia, Picture of the Year, milestones Wikipedia in the News  Tutorial: Reporting and dealing with vandals WikiProject Report: Molecular and Cellular Biology  Wikipedia Dispatches: Banner year for Featured articles Features and admins  Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News The Report on Lengthy Litigation  Home  |  Archives  |  Newsroom  |  Tip Line  |  Single-Page View Shortcut : WP:POST You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot (talk) 04:18, 31 January 2008 (UTC)