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I had a quick look, and there seem to be quite a few like that. I assume that for some reason the deletion history isn't being kept for these very new articles following deletion using this filter, but I have no idea why. I recently deleted a 5000+ edit article, and found myself at cross purposes with another admin until I realised that he was saying that as an ordinary admin I shouldn't have been able to do so. I don't know what happened there either, although that's another history-related glitch. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 17:23, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
You kindly commented on my successful FAC nomination at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/La Coupole/archive1 back in September. I've now nominated the second of the three articles in this series, at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Blockhaus d'Éperlecques/archive1. I'd be grateful for any comments you could provide in the review. Prioryman ( talk) 23:53, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hi mate, as I've just mentioned to Hawkeye, was away in the Blue Mountains sans internet the whole weekend and just noticed the Wilfred Arthur ACR was closed before I got a chance to thank you for the review -- I expect to do a bit more work on the article in the not-to-distant future, and will probably reword the matriculation bit, with some additional info, when I do so. Cheers, Ian Rose ( talk) 10:53, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, 3 years ago we had posted an article regarding our hotel and you deleted it as an "advertisement" article. We just want to add information about the hotel (location, history, etc) - not ad text. Can we do it? Thanks for your time, Athenshotel
Thank you for your reply. The hotel's name and the article title is. I'm not aware of what the deleted article included but now we want to add general information.
Thank you for your reply. We had updated the information just a few minutes before reading your reply - please be so kind to review it. Thanks once more for your time. - Athenshotel ( push to talk)
OK, I see... I just want to inform you that we did not try to use advertising fluff - we used an international press article. Thanks once again for your review. I have removed the hotel's name from this page.
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This discussion is a spillover from WT:U. I'll throw out all the arguments I know in support of our policy. WP:GROUPNAME says: "The following types of usernames are not permitted because they are considered promotional: Usernames that unambiguously consist of a name of a company, group, institution or product (e.g. AlexTownWidgets, MyWidgetsUSA.com, TrammelMuseumofArt). ...". WP:ISU says: "... usernames that imply the likelihood of shared use are not permitted. This means that: Usernames that are simply names of companies or groups are not permitted ...". However, the policy also says that users can be blocked only if they are editing "inappropriately". Note the contradiction: blocking is the only way to "not permit" an account ... but, like most admins who work with usernames, I think the contradiction has served us reasonably well, since before {{ uw-softestblock}} (which I created less than a month ago), the blocking templates all implied that the user was blocked because they were discovered doing something awful, which is bitey if they had no way of knowing (before we tell them) that what they were doing was wrong. It's my contention that {{ uw-softestblock}} resolves the contradiction ... and anyway, promoting your business by pretending to represent your business both with your username and by linking to your business or creating a new page devoted to your business is clearly "inappropriate".
It wouldn't be an overstatement to say that, collectively, our experience with these kinds of edits is "vast", and we've found that:
There seems to be a mixture of problems we want to address here. One problem is promotional editing. Personally I don't see anything especially harmful in someone uploading a photo of a dolphin and mentioning the name and organization of the person who took it (it may be felt that the picture makes a positive contribution to the article, in which case the extraneous source information can simply be removed from the caption, with a polite explanation that we don't usually put such information in articles). But if this is to be considered incorrigibly promotional behavior that warrants the account being blocked, then let it be stated clearly that this is the reason - and that if the user wants to help build Wikipedia, then the thing they have to change is their behavior, not their username. The second problem (or perhaps non-problem) is organization usernames. Discussions with various people on this topic leave me convinced that these are not a problem at all - they are a good way of disclosing a potential conflict of interest in line with our guidelines. If for some (fairly trifling) reasons we prefer usernames that sound more like an individual, we can ask people to change their username to something like "dave at dolphin safari"; there's no need to block their account, and certainly not straight away before giving them a chance to change their name. A third problem is perhaps spoof usernames, where someone appears to impersonate some person or organization that they do not in fact represent - I agree that this may be a reason to (temporarily) block the account while credentials are checked, but I think only if there seems to be a high risk of harm (as in the case of a famous person's name being used) or actual indication of the likelihood of spoofing. All in all I think we should not be conflating these separate problems into one, as the softestblock and most of the related templates seem to do. Victor Yus ( talk) 11:45, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
Just so you know, you forgot to leave a block notification at User:Urdudailynews. I also speedied a spam category they added, if you get this before someone's deleted it.
Is there an acceptable way for a non-admin to notify a user of a block that an admin's already executed? Because this is the third or fourth time I've seen an admin forget. (No judgment intended... this is coming from the guy who accidentally misused rollback on Jimbo's page yesterday, so I'm feeling very understanding.) — Francophonie&Androphilie ( Je vous invite à me parler) 04:15, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Dank, I closed the deletion discussion for the Advertiise article; AfD is the wrong venue to discuss an article that's already been deleted. I've indicated in the closing result that any objections to the article's deletion should be raised at deletion review, which seems to be the next logical venue. Cheers. Dylanfromthenorth ( talk) 08:57, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know what you had done. I have given my thoughts on the matter there. JamesBWatson ( talk) 16:59, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, my Cardsave Community article keeps being deleted and I'm not sure why. I don't see a place where I can cite the article's significance (which is the reason for deletion?). It's part of WorldPay, which has a Wikipedia article, and also part of Cardsave, also has a Wikipedia article. I don't know why ours keeps being deleted and theirs doesn't? Cardsave Comms is the part of WorldPay that works with charities and when they Google us, they want info about the company and who it's owned by etc. Thank you Missh wood ( talk) 16:40, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dank! I've been working lately on the article Zduhać, a GA since 2010. I would appreciate your opinion on whether it could meet the FA criteria. I know it should be copy-edited, but apart from that, my concern is whether its contents is encyclopedic enough for an FA. As dictated by the sources on the subject available to me, the article is mostly descriptive. Are the descriptions and illustrative examples too detailed for an FA? On some points, though, there are analyses and interpretations. Are they enough to balance the descriptive part? It's an obscure subject, and outside of WP:MILHIST, but it involves battles in an unusual way. I hope you'll find time and read it :) Vladimir ( talk) 17:32, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Since you gave comments on articles that are currently listed at WP:PR, I was wondering if you could give some helpful comments to Wikipedia:Peer review/Cher/archive1? Thanks, Lordelliott ( talk) 21:01, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
What were the "couple of ways" the meaning was changed here? -- MarchOrDie ( talk) 17:39, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, I've replied to your comments at the FAC page, so please check back there. Thanks. Jsayre64 (talk) 05:51, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
Hello Dank! I've made a request for a bit more input from the reviewers on the "Reassessment" section at the article's ACR page. I'd be grateful if you could respond. Cheers, Constantine ✍ 10:45, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for your work. As to the several names of the settlements, I am still working on it. Borsoka ( talk) 04:49, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Would you mind taking a look at the above article? The only thing holding it up from promotion are a few prose issues; I've done another pass but there might be a few issues left. -- Rs chen 7754 22:02, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
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Since you're an admin helping me with Fort Dobbs, I figured I would pose the following situation to you:
As you know, I've been doing a lot of work on a handful of articles that relate to the Anglo-Cherokee War article substantially. In the process of creating the Dobbs article, I made a few edits to the pre-existing (and somewhat poorly cited) Anglo-Cherokee article. Whilst doing that, I encountered the following website: [1]. On this site, someone named Gilles C. H. Nullens of Belgium purports to have written a series of books on everything from Native Americans to the Masons. In his book on the native americans, he has what appears to be near-verbatim copies of Wikipedia articles, noticeably the following: Anglo-Cherokee War -- Nullens link 1; Battle of Blue Licks -- Nullens link 2; Battle of Oriskany -- Nullens link 3.
I looked at the revisions, and each seemed to take their current form in short-term, large-scale re-writes. Blue licks was rewritten by Kevin Myers on August 21, 2006 See differences; for Oriskany, it appears to have been set in its current form (and that copied on the Nullens site) on May 7, 2009 by user Magicpiano See differences; and as for the Anglo-Cherokee War, it appears that the article reached a crystalised version of its current state as of May 25, 2009, based on the edits of Natty4bumpo See that article.
My first thought is that this Mr. Nullens is just copying wikipedia articles and presenting them as his own, which I suppose can't be stopped. The variety of editors involved in editing these three articles alone -- especially given the involvement of Kevin Myers, whose edits I think are top-grade -- makes me certain that this is the case, rather than the idea that some cabal is attempting to copyvio the works of an unknown amateur historian from Belgium. Just thought I'd bring it up, though, in case anything can be done to rectify the situation. Thanks! Cdtew ( talk) 05:24, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
Speaking of Fort Dobbs, I now have three supports for ACN over at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Fort Dobbs (North Carolina), including yours. Is that all it needs, or does it have to remain open for a period of time before it can be closed? I'm very appreciative of all the help all of you have given me, and your tireless edits. After A-class, I decided I will try for GAN, just so I can go for a "Four" award! Cdtew ( talk) 06:02, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
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I had a quick look, and there seem to be quite a few like that. I assume that for some reason the deletion history isn't being kept for these very new articles following deletion using this filter, but I have no idea why. I recently deleted a 5000+ edit article, and found myself at cross purposes with another admin until I realised that he was saying that as an ordinary admin I shouldn't have been able to do so. I don't know what happened there either, although that's another history-related glitch. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 17:23, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
You kindly commented on my successful FAC nomination at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/La Coupole/archive1 back in September. I've now nominated the second of the three articles in this series, at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Blockhaus d'Éperlecques/archive1. I'd be grateful for any comments you could provide in the review. Prioryman ( talk) 23:53, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
Reaper Eternal ( talk) 17:41, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi mate, as I've just mentioned to Hawkeye, was away in the Blue Mountains sans internet the whole weekend and just noticed the Wilfred Arthur ACR was closed before I got a chance to thank you for the review -- I expect to do a bit more work on the article in the not-to-distant future, and will probably reword the matriculation bit, with some additional info, when I do so. Cheers, Ian Rose ( talk) 10:53, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, 3 years ago we had posted an article regarding our hotel and you deleted it as an "advertisement" article. We just want to add information about the hotel (location, history, etc) - not ad text. Can we do it? Thanks for your time, Athenshotel
Thank you for your reply. The hotel's name and the article title is. I'm not aware of what the deleted article included but now we want to add general information.
Thank you for your reply. We had updated the information just a few minutes before reading your reply - please be so kind to review it. Thanks once more for your time. - Athenshotel ( push to talk)
OK, I see... I just want to inform you that we did not try to use advertising fluff - we used an international press article. Thanks once again for your review. I have removed the hotel's name from this page.
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This discussion is a spillover from WT:U. I'll throw out all the arguments I know in support of our policy. WP:GROUPNAME says: "The following types of usernames are not permitted because they are considered promotional: Usernames that unambiguously consist of a name of a company, group, institution or product (e.g. AlexTownWidgets, MyWidgetsUSA.com, TrammelMuseumofArt). ...". WP:ISU says: "... usernames that imply the likelihood of shared use are not permitted. This means that: Usernames that are simply names of companies or groups are not permitted ...". However, the policy also says that users can be blocked only if they are editing "inappropriately". Note the contradiction: blocking is the only way to "not permit" an account ... but, like most admins who work with usernames, I think the contradiction has served us reasonably well, since before {{ uw-softestblock}} (which I created less than a month ago), the blocking templates all implied that the user was blocked because they were discovered doing something awful, which is bitey if they had no way of knowing (before we tell them) that what they were doing was wrong. It's my contention that {{ uw-softestblock}} resolves the contradiction ... and anyway, promoting your business by pretending to represent your business both with your username and by linking to your business or creating a new page devoted to your business is clearly "inappropriate".
It wouldn't be an overstatement to say that, collectively, our experience with these kinds of edits is "vast", and we've found that:
There seems to be a mixture of problems we want to address here. One problem is promotional editing. Personally I don't see anything especially harmful in someone uploading a photo of a dolphin and mentioning the name and organization of the person who took it (it may be felt that the picture makes a positive contribution to the article, in which case the extraneous source information can simply be removed from the caption, with a polite explanation that we don't usually put such information in articles). But if this is to be considered incorrigibly promotional behavior that warrants the account being blocked, then let it be stated clearly that this is the reason - and that if the user wants to help build Wikipedia, then the thing they have to change is their behavior, not their username. The second problem (or perhaps non-problem) is organization usernames. Discussions with various people on this topic leave me convinced that these are not a problem at all - they are a good way of disclosing a potential conflict of interest in line with our guidelines. If for some (fairly trifling) reasons we prefer usernames that sound more like an individual, we can ask people to change their username to something like "dave at dolphin safari"; there's no need to block their account, and certainly not straight away before giving them a chance to change their name. A third problem is perhaps spoof usernames, where someone appears to impersonate some person or organization that they do not in fact represent - I agree that this may be a reason to (temporarily) block the account while credentials are checked, but I think only if there seems to be a high risk of harm (as in the case of a famous person's name being used) or actual indication of the likelihood of spoofing. All in all I think we should not be conflating these separate problems into one, as the softestblock and most of the related templates seem to do. Victor Yus ( talk) 11:45, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
Just so you know, you forgot to leave a block notification at User:Urdudailynews. I also speedied a spam category they added, if you get this before someone's deleted it.
Is there an acceptable way for a non-admin to notify a user of a block that an admin's already executed? Because this is the third or fourth time I've seen an admin forget. (No judgment intended... this is coming from the guy who accidentally misused rollback on Jimbo's page yesterday, so I'm feeling very understanding.) — Francophonie&Androphilie ( Je vous invite à me parler) 04:15, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you! Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 20:54, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dank, I closed the deletion discussion for the Advertiise article; AfD is the wrong venue to discuss an article that's already been deleted. I've indicated in the closing result that any objections to the article's deletion should be raised at deletion review, which seems to be the next logical venue. Cheers. Dylanfromthenorth ( talk) 08:57, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know what you had done. I have given my thoughts on the matter there. JamesBWatson ( talk) 16:59, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
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I noticed your username commenting at an Arbcom discussion regarding civility. An effort is underway that would likely benifit if your views were included. I hope you will append regards at: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Civility enforcement/Questionnaire Thank you for considering this request. My76Strat ( talk) 10:01, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Hey Dank. Ready for the Big Day? I wonder if you can answer a question I asked at WT:PC2012/RfC 3 that no one noticed: if my alternate account, which I've used exclusively for testing PC, becomes autoconfirmed, can an admin undo the autoconfirmed status or would I need to open yet another account? I'd like to do some more practice runs. Rivertorch ( talk) 06:27, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, my Cardsave Community article keeps being deleted and I'm not sure why. I don't see a place where I can cite the article's significance (which is the reason for deletion?). It's part of WorldPay, which has a Wikipedia article, and also part of Cardsave, also has a Wikipedia article. I don't know why ours keeps being deleted and theirs doesn't? Cardsave Comms is the part of WorldPay that works with charities and when they Google us, they want info about the company and who it's owned by etc. Thank you Missh wood ( talk) 16:40, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dank! I've been working lately on the article Zduhać, a GA since 2010. I would appreciate your opinion on whether it could meet the FA criteria. I know it should be copy-edited, but apart from that, my concern is whether its contents is encyclopedic enough for an FA. As dictated by the sources on the subject available to me, the article is mostly descriptive. Are the descriptions and illustrative examples too detailed for an FA? On some points, though, there are analyses and interpretations. Are they enough to balance the descriptive part? It's an obscure subject, and outside of WP:MILHIST, but it involves battles in an unusual way. I hope you'll find time and read it :) Vladimir ( talk) 17:32, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Since you gave comments on articles that are currently listed at WP:PR, I was wondering if you could give some helpful comments to Wikipedia:Peer review/Cher/archive1? Thanks, Lordelliott ( talk) 21:01, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
What were the "couple of ways" the meaning was changed here? -- MarchOrDie ( talk) 17:39, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
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Participation: Thanks to all who participated! Out of 38 people who signed up this drive, 33 copy-edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. All the barnstars have now been distributed. Progress report: We achieved our primary goal of clearing November and December 2011 from the backlog. For the first time since the drives began, the backlog consists only of articles tagged in the current year. The total backlog at the end of the month was 2690 articles, down from 8323 when we started out over two years ago. We completed all 56 requests outstanding before November 2012 as well as eight of those made in November. Copy Edit of the Month: Voting is now over for the October 2012 competition, and prizes have been issued. The November 2012 contest is closed for submissions and open for voting. The December 2012 contest is now open for submissions. Everyone is welcome to submit entries and to vote. ![]() Coodinator election: The six-month term for our fourth tranche of Guild coordinators will expire at the end of December. Nominations are open for the fifth tranche of coordinators, who will serve from 1 January to 30 June 2013. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
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Hi, I've replied to your comments at the FAC page, so please check back there. Thanks. Jsayre64 (talk) 05:51, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
Hello Dank! I've made a request for a bit more input from the reviewers on the "Reassessment" section at the article's ACR page. I'd be grateful if you could respond. Cheers, Constantine ✍ 10:45, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
December 10 is Ada Lovelace's birthday! Not only was she the world's first computer programmer, but also the world's first female open source developer! Come celebrate with Wikimedia District of Columbia at Busboys & Poets for an informal get together!
The Washington, DC event will be held on Monday, December 10, 2012 at Busboys & Poets on 5th St NW & K St NW near Mt Vernon Square. The area is easily accessible by the Red Line Chinatown stop and the Yellow Line and Green Line Mt Vernon Square stop, as well as by WMATA buses.
Kirill [talk] 14:12, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
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Please join Wikimedia DC and four other local media nonprofits—the National Press Club's Young Members Committee, 100Reporters, IRE and the Fund for Investigative Journalism—in winding down another year with a night of well-mannered frivolity.
The festivities will take place on Friday evening from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM in the Zenger Room on the 13th Floor of the National Press Club, located on 529 14th Street NW, near Metro Center. There will be meat and vegetarian appetizers as well as a cash bar with specially reduced drink prices all night long. In addition, we will be exhibiting the finalists of the Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest at the event.
Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 04:36, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
May I please nominate Hobey Baker for Today's Featured Article on January 15th? I want your opinion please.-- Lucky102 ( talk) 17:21, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your work. As to the several names of the settlements, I am still working on it. Borsoka ( talk) 04:49, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Would you mind taking a look at the above article? The only thing holding it up from promotion are a few prose issues; I've done another pass but there might be a few issues left. -- Rs chen 7754 22:02, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Dank,
Nick-D suggested that I contact you. I submitted the 2012 tour of She Has a Name article for a FAC here and I am unable to proceed with the nomination because of flow and detail problems. I believe that the article is otherwise FA quality, but the reviewers wish for me to locate an independent copyeditor to improve the flow of the prose and reduce unnecessary detail before the article is passed. I am willing to do whatever I can to get this article up to featured status, but the reviewers have specified that the copyedit needs to be done by an independent editor, which means that I cannot do this alone. Nick-D recommended you as a potential copyeditor, while stipulating that you don't normally copyedit full articles. If you are willing to copyedit this article for me or if you are able to recommend someone else to do so, I would be greatly appreciative.
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Hope you and your partner are enjoying the holiday season, Dan! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:03, 25 December 2012 (UTC) |
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Since you're an admin helping me with Fort Dobbs, I figured I would pose the following situation to you:
As you know, I've been doing a lot of work on a handful of articles that relate to the Anglo-Cherokee War article substantially. In the process of creating the Dobbs article, I made a few edits to the pre-existing (and somewhat poorly cited) Anglo-Cherokee article. Whilst doing that, I encountered the following website: [1]. On this site, someone named Gilles C. H. Nullens of Belgium purports to have written a series of books on everything from Native Americans to the Masons. In his book on the native americans, he has what appears to be near-verbatim copies of Wikipedia articles, noticeably the following: Anglo-Cherokee War -- Nullens link 1; Battle of Blue Licks -- Nullens link 2; Battle of Oriskany -- Nullens link 3.
I looked at the revisions, and each seemed to take their current form in short-term, large-scale re-writes. Blue licks was rewritten by Kevin Myers on August 21, 2006 See differences; for Oriskany, it appears to have been set in its current form (and that copied on the Nullens site) on May 7, 2009 by user Magicpiano See differences; and as for the Anglo-Cherokee War, it appears that the article reached a crystalised version of its current state as of May 25, 2009, based on the edits of Natty4bumpo See that article.
My first thought is that this Mr. Nullens is just copying wikipedia articles and presenting them as his own, which I suppose can't be stopped. The variety of editors involved in editing these three articles alone -- especially given the involvement of Kevin Myers, whose edits I think are top-grade -- makes me certain that this is the case, rather than the idea that some cabal is attempting to copyvio the works of an unknown amateur historian from Belgium. Just thought I'd bring it up, though, in case anything can be done to rectify the situation. Thanks! Cdtew ( talk) 05:24, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
Speaking of Fort Dobbs, I now have three supports for ACN over at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Fort Dobbs (North Carolina), including yours. Is that all it needs, or does it have to remain open for a period of time before it can be closed? I'm very appreciative of all the help all of you have given me, and your tireless edits. After A-class, I decided I will try for GAN, just so I can go for a "Four" award! Cdtew ( talk) 06:02, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
was David Thomsen. You asked who the gentleman sitting next to me at our meetup was. I recognized him from the fundraiser page. You were only a couple of letters off.
It sounds like I could be in Southeast Asia coinciding with Wikimania in Hong Kong. Do you think you would be there for our next meetup? Marcus Qwertyus ( talk) 19:48, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
Hello Dank, and welcome to the 2013 WikiCup! Your submissions' page is here. The competition begins at midnight UTC. The first round will last until the end of February, at which point the top 64 scorers will advance to the second round. We will be in touch at the end of every month, and signups are going to remain open until the end of January; if you know of anyone else who may like to take part, please let them know! A few reminders: *The rules can be found here. There have been a few changes from last year, which are listed on that page. *Anything you submit must have been nominated and promoted in 2013, and you need to have completed significant work upon it in 2013. (The articles you review at good article reviews does not need to have been nominated in 2013, but you do need to have started the review in 2013.) We will be checking. *If you feel that another competitor is breaking the rules or abusing the competition in some way, please let a judge know. Please do not remove entries from the submissions' pages of others yourself. *Don't worry about calculating precisely how many points everything is worth. The bot will do that. The bot may occasionally get something wrong- let a judge know, or post on the WikiCup talk page if that happens. *Please try to be prompt in updating submissions' pages so that they can be double-checked. Overall, however, don't worry, and have fun. It doesn't matter if you make the odd mistake; these things happen. Questions can be asked on the WikiCup talk page. Good luck! J Milburn and The ed17 18:13, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
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