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WikiCup 2010 October newsletter

The 2010 WikiCup is over! It has been a long journey, but what has been achieved is impressive: combined, participants have produced over seventy featured articles, over five hundred good articles, over fifty featured lists, over one thousand one hundred "did you know" entries, in addition to various other pieces of recognised content. A full list (which has yet to be updated to reflect the scores in the final round) can be found here. Perhaps more importantly, we have our winner! The 2010 WikiCup champion is Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), with an unbelievable 4220 points in the final round. Second place goes to TonyTheTiger (submissions), with 2260, and third to Casliber (submissions), with 560. Congratulations to our other four finalists – White Shadows (submissions), William S. Saturn (submissions), Staxringold (submissions) and ThinkBlue (submissions). Also, congratulations to Sasata (submissions), who withdrew from the competition with an impressive 2685 points earlier in this round.

Prizes will also be going to those who claimed the most points for different types of content in a single round. It was decided that the prizes would be awarded for those with the highest in a round, rather than overall, so that the finalists did not have an unfair advantage. Winning the featured article prize is Casliber (submissions), for five featured articles in round 4. Winning the good article prize is Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), for eighty-one good articles in round 5. Winning the featured list prize is Staxringold (submissions), for six featured lists in round 1. Winning the picture and sound award is Jujutacular (submissions), for four featured pictures in round 3. Winning the topic award is Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), for forty-seven articles in various good topics in round 5. Winning the "did you know" award is TonyTheTiger (submissions), for over one hundred did you knows is round 5. Finally, winning the in the news award is Candlewicke (submissions), for nineteen articles in the news in round three.

The WikiCup has faced criticism in the last month – hopefully, we will take something positive from it and create a better contest for next year. Like Wikipedia itself, the Cup is a work in progress, and ideas for how it should work are more than welcome on the WikiCup talk page and on the scoring talk page. Also, people are more than welcome to sign up for next year's competition on the signup page. Well done and thank you to everyone involved – the Cup has been a pleasure to run, and we, as judges, have been proud to be a part of it. We hope that next year, however the Cup is working, and whoever is running it, it will be back, stronger and more popular than ever. Until then, goodbye and happy editing! 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, Fox and The ed17 03:07, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

It's raining thanks spam!

• Please pardon the intrusion. This tin of thanks spam is offered to everyone who commented or !voted (Support, Oppose or Neutral) on my recent RfA. I appreciate the fact that you care enough about the encyclopedia and its community to participate in this forum.
• There are a host of processes that further need community support, including content review (WP:GAN, WP:PR, WP:FAC, and WP:FAR). You can also consider becoming a Wikipedia Ambassador. If you have the requisite experience and knowledge, consider running for admin yourself!
• If you have any further comments, input or questions, please do feel free to drop a line to me on my talk page. I am open to all discussion. Thanks • Ling.Nut (talk) 02:26, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Flaggedrevs verification

I verify that I am the same user here. —MC10 (T•C•GB•L) 00:36, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

USS_Gonzalez_(DDG-66) edit

Good afternoon,

The last edit to the USS Gonzalez page was to update the aircraft carried and current leadership as well as remove dead and obsolete links. The edit was previously made by me under an anonymous IP in August and incorrectly reverted in a future edit.

Please E-mail me at pao@ddg66.navy.mil if you have further questions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Paoddg66.navy.mil (talk • contribs) 15:22, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Your edit removed the references tag (<references />), so I reverted it. In the future, please use reliable sources when making major changes to an article. Thanks. —MC10 (T•C•GB•L) 05:15, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

RfA

Hi MC10, would you be alright if I nominate you for RfA? I think that since your last RfA that you have taken into account the opinions and considerations of others. Regards, —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 8:16pm • 09:16, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

I won't oppose like I did last time MC10 but I still think that you may have trouble getting the bit now. It's only been a few months....the decision is yours to make though.--White Shadows ^{Your guess is as good as mine} 11:23, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Actually, I would not like to run for RfA right now, since it has only been a few months since my last RfA, and I am a bit busy right now. Thanks for offering, but I have to decline your nomination. —MC10 (T•C•GB•L) 16:58, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

It's your choice, if you do actually want to run feel free to drop me a line. Regards, —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 9:16am • 22:16, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

All right, I will notify you when I do run. Cheers, —MC10 (T•C•GB•L) 00:40, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Sure thing, keep up the good work. Kind regards and happy editing, —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 7:11pm • 08:11, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

My RFA

Yes I badly flunked on my first try but maybe someday. Thanks for the feedback. Back the the drawing board. –BuickCenturyDriver 04:44, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

It's fine; the first RfA is usually not the best. I've already had three so far. —MC10 (T•C•GB•L) 06:30, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for participating in my RfA

Hello MC10, and thank you for participating in my RfA, which failed with 20 support votes, 34 oppose votes, and 11 neutral votes. All the feedback was much appreciated, and the concerns that were brought up are surely not falling on deaf ears. I will strive to listen to everyone's feedback in the days, weeks, and months to come, and I hope that I will eventually be able to gain the community's trust and receive the admin tools so I can further benefit this encyclopedia. Happy editing! –Access Denied (talk)

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Trouble with archiving my talk page

Hi. I was wondering if you could help me out. I have been reading how to archive my talk page. I've looked at other user's pages and tried Wikipedia's suggestions, but still have trouble. I am trying to set up my archive box like yours: a yellow background, bullet list, search box. I would also like to keep my image in the same frame as the archive box as seen on SandyGeorgia's page. All I could see was something called "fix bunching" which didn't allow me to see how he/she did her archive box. The only way I have been able to get a yellow collapsible archive box has been to use the specific user talk archive box found here. Also, my text comes out much smaller than yours. I have tried increasing the size, but what I write doesn't look right. I created my own Sandbox; you can see my edits there. Maybe you can tell me what I'm doing wrong. I can't get the bullet points to show up, and my text is small. The word "Archive" is also not centered. Wikipedia has a lot of information, but sometimes the information gets lost. I consider myself pretty computer literate, but still new to html and coding. I wish Wikipedia would offer more sample pages for archiving, using pictures, etc. I like your page's layout; it looks very organized and not cluttered. Suggestions are much appreciated. Thank you. I will check back here for a reply. If that is a problem, please let me know. You can paste the conversation on my talk page. CreativeSoul7981 (talk) 00:33, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Alright,  Doing... —MC10 (T•C•GB•L) 04:32, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

And actually, SandyGeorgia's archive box code is here; mine is here. You may want to take a look at them if you wish to change anything. —MC10 (T•C•GB•L) 04:34, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

 Done. I have the code ready in your sandbox. (By the way, the reason why your text was leaving the screen was because you were putting it as the caption of the image, which only has a limited amount of space.) The archive box should automatically turn yellow when you put it onto your talk page; it detects whether a page is a user page or talk page and changes color based on that. —MC10 (T•C•GB•L) 05:25, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

By the way, here's a useful page about archiving pages: Help:Archiving a talk page. —MC10 (T•C•GB•L) 05:31, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

I have applied my edits to talk page. —MC10 (T•C•GB•L) 22:43, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

November 2010 backlog elimination drive update

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive! GOCE November 2010 backlog elimination drive progress graphs We have reached the midway point in our backlog elimination drive, so here is an update. Participation report — The November drive has 53 participants at this point. We had 77 participants in the September drive. In July, 95 people signed up for the drive, and in May we had 36. If you are not participating, it is not too late to join! Progress report — The drive is quite successful so far, as we have already almost reached our target of a 10% reduction in the number of articles in the backlog. We are doing very well at keeping our Requests page clear, as those articles count double for word count for this drive. Please keep in mind the possibility of removing other tags when you are finished with an article. If the article no longer needs {{cleanup}}, {{wikify}}, or other similar maintenance tags, please remove them, as this will make the tasks of other WikiProjects easier to complete. Thanks very much for participating in the Drive, and see you at the finish line! Your drive coordinators –The UtahraptorTalk to me/Contributions, S Masters (talk), and Diannaa (Talk)

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Alexis Glick

Hi! You just reverted my edit, which makes sense - I'm sorry that don't really understand Wikipedia. But I put on the Talk Page my argument for why it should be changed - if you find the time, can you maybe tell me why I'm wrong? Thanks! Josh —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.36.172.179 (talk) 16:31, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Okay, first of all, you should sign talk page posts (but not article edits) with your signature, as so: ~~~~. But minding that, here are my two cents:

1. Use an edit summary. Do you see that box below the editing window that says "Edit summary"? Add an edit summary there for all edits.
2. Cite your sources, especially for article edits that change original content. Basically, put <ref>[http://www.dalton.org/common/news_detail.asp?newsid=314979 Dalton Football Triumphant at Homecoming 2006], Dalton School</ref> right after the period of the sentence you wish to cite or after the last reference after the period.

If you need any more help, just reply. Cheers, —mc10 (u|t|c) 16:59, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

First crusade

Hello, MC10. You have new messages at Adam Bishop's talk page.
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Archive list problem with {{archives}}

{{help me}} I am having troubles with my archive box (located at User talk:MC10/Archive). Although I have set my archivelist to User talk:MC10/Archive list, my list of archives refuses to show up without being manually set by 1=. Is there any way to fix this, and what am I doing wrong? Thanks. Cheers, —mc10 (u|t|c) 01:43, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

I see a long list.

   * May 2006–November 2008
   * December 2008
   * January 2009
   * February 2009
   * March 2009
   * April 2009
   * May 2009
   * June–August 2009
   * September–October 2009
   * November 2009–January 2010
   * February–May 2010
   * June 2010
   * July 2010
   * August 2010
   * September–October 2010
   * November 2010

Is this not what you want? Sven Manguard _Talk 03:14, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Yes, this is what I want. How do I make {{archives}} recognize that list? —mc10 (u|t|c) 05:30, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Actually, with some experimenting, I have fixed the template. I have tlp'd the help me template. —mc10 (u|t|c) 06:07, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for James Charles Fahey

Materialscientist (talk) 18:03, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

GOCE Drive – Final push

Greetings GOCE Backlog elimination drive participant, We are now coming up to the last few days of the drive, the last for 2010. Currently, it looks like we will achieve our target for reducing the backlog by 10%, however, we still have huge numbers for 2009. We have 55 participants in this drive. If everyone just clears 2 articles each, we will reduce the backlog by a further 110 articles. If everyone can just do 3 articles, we will hit 165. If you have yet to work on any articles and have rollover words, remember that you do need to copyedit at least a couple of articles in this drive for your previous rollover to be valid for the next drive. There are many very small articles that will take less than 5-10 minutes to copyedit. Use CatScan to find them. Let's all concentrate our firepower on the first three months of 2009 as we approach the end of this final drive for the year. Thank you once again for participating, and see you at the finish line! – SMasters (talk) 04:05, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Talkback subst

Template:Talkback subst 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. cymru lass ^{(hit me up)}⁄_{(background check)} 09:07, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you for your support at my RfA last week. I'll do everything I can to live up to your expectations and if you ever need help from a janitor please feel free to drop me a line! Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 22:33, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

No problem. —mc10 (u|t|c) 00:51, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

GOCE elections

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Elections are currently underway for our inaugural Guild coordinators. The voting period will run for 14 days: 00:01 UTC, Friday 1 December – 23:59 UTC, Tuesday 14 December. All GOCE members in good standing, as well as past participants of any of the Guild's Backlog elimination drives, are eligible to vote. There are six candidates vying for four positions. The candidate with the highest number of votes will become the Lead Coordinator, therefore, your vote really matters! Cast your vote today.

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November 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive Conclusion

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive! We have reached the end of our fourth backlog elimination drive. Thanks to all who participated. Stats GOCE November 2010 backlog elimination drive graphs 58 people signed up for this drive. Of these, 48 people participated in the drive. Although we did not eliminate the months we planned to (January, February, and March 2009; and August, September, and October 2010), we did reduce the backlog by 627 articles (11.2%), which was over our goal of 10%. 49 awards will go out to 33 of 48 participants. Check out the complete list of barnstar winners here. Barnstars If you copy edited at least 4,000 words, you qualify for a barnstar. If you participated in the September 2010 backlog elimination drive, you may have earned roll-over words (more details can be found here). These roll-over words count as credit towards earning barnstars, except for leaderboard awards. We will be delivering these barnstars within the next couple of weeks. Our next drive is scheduled for January 2011. In the meantime, please consider helping out at the Wikification drive or any of the other places where help with backlogs is needed. Thank you for participating in the last 2010 backlog elimination drive! We look forward to seeing you in January! Your drive coordinators –The UtahraptorTalk to me/Contributions, S Masters (talk), and Diannaa (Talk)

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The Bugle: Issue LVII, November 2010

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Caleblbyers

HI, just letting you know that I have changed your CSD to G3. It is quite clearly a blatant hoax. Not that it matters much - it will be deleted anyway, but I will put vandalism warnings on the creator's tp. --Kudpung (talk) 19:00, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

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Wikipedia Ambassador Program

Hi! Thanks for signing the Online Ambassador interest list. We're gearing up for the next term right now, and the Wikipedia Ambassador Program will be supporting considerably more courses, with considerably more student activity... possibly upwards of 500 students who will need mentors.

If you're still interested, I encourage you to take a look at the Online Ambassador guidelines; the "mentorship process" describes roughly what will be expected of mentors in the coming term. If that's something you want to do, please apply!

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I hope to hear from you soon.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 20:19, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Christmas mottos

The motto idea for those between 25th December and mid January needs consensus dtermined badly on which version should be used for which day or even whether the whole idea should be scrapped or postponed. Please help by discussion and determining consensus at WT:Motto of the day/Nominations#Christmas series and Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/Specials. The deadline is Friday at 9pm UTC. Simply south (talk) and their tree 23:39, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Thanks, SMasters. —mc10 (t/c) 04:22, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

GOCE Year-end Report

Season's Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors We have reached the end of the year, and what a year it has been! The Guild of Copy Editors was full of activity, and we achieved numerous important milestones in 2010. Read all about these in the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report. Highlights Membership grows to 503 editors 2,589 articles removed through four Backlog elimination drives Our encounter with Jimbo Wales Guild home pages reorganized and redesigned Report on our inaugural elections Guild Plans for 2011 New barnstars introduced Requests page improved Sign up for the January 2011 Backlog elimination drive! Get your copy of the Guild's 2010 Year-End Report here On behalf of the Guild, we take this opportunity to wish you Season's Greetings and Happy New Year. See you in 2011! – Your Coordinators: S Masters (lead), Diannaa, The Utahraptor, and Tea with toast.

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WikiCup 2011

Hello. You are being contacted because you have previously shown interest in the WikiCup but have not yet signed up for the 2011 WikiCup, which starts at midnight. It is not too late to sign up! The competition will remain open until at least January 31, and so it is not too late to enter. If you are interested, simply follow the instructions to add your username to the signup page, and a judge will contact you as soon as possible with an explanation of how to participate. The WikiCup is a friendly competition open to all Wikipedians, old and new, experienced and inexperienced, providing a fun and rewarding way to contribute quality content to Wikipedia. If you do not want to receive any further messages about the WikiCup, or you want to start receiving messages about the WikiCup, you may add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on the WikiCup talk page or contact the judges directly. J Milburn and The ed17 06:49, 31 December 2010 (UTC)