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We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.
Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note. Figureskatingfan ( submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition: Ealdgyth ( submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article Battle of Hastings. Good articles James Chadwick and Stanislaw Ulam netted Hawkeye7 ( submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to Piotrus ( submissions) for each of Władysław Sikorski and Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example, Casliber ( submissions) and Sasata ( submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on Boletus luridus.
A rules reminder: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on the 29/30 June, which may be claimed in this round. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. We are currently seeing concern about the amount of time people have to wait for reviews, especially at GAC- if you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 09:54, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
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...sorry, I already had semi-protected. Feel free to revert, of course. Cheers and happy editing. Lectonar ( talk) 09:19, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
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We're halfway through this year's penultimate round, and the competition is moving along well. Pool A's Sasata ( submissions) currently leads overall, while Pool B's Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions) is second. Both leaders are WikiCup veterans, and both have already scored over 600 points this month. If the round were to end today, Miyagawa ( submissions), with 274 points, would be the lowest-scoring participant to make it through. This indicates that participants will need a score comparable to last year's (573, the highest ever) to qualify for the final. The high scores this year are a testament both to the quality of participants and to the increased focus on significant content (eligible for bonus points) in this year's competition. So far this round, both Sasata and Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) have made up over half of their score through bonus points, with, for example, high importance FA koala earning Sasata a total of 440 points (from a multiplier of 4.4) and high-importance GA sea earning Cwmhiraeth a total of 216 points (from a multiplier of 7.2). Other articles on important topics submitted this round include a featured article on the Norman conquest of England by Ealdgyth ( submissions), and good articles on Nobel laureate in literature Henryk Sienkiewicz, Nobel laureate in physics Hans Bethe, and the noted Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū. These articles are by Piotrus ( submissions), Hawkeye7 ( submissions) and Sturmvogel_66 respectively.
Other than that, there is not much to report! If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 23:19, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
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Please, don't semi-protect my father, Barun De's page. I opened it. I don't want some of the informations given here to be available, such as the birth and the death dates. Please, can you remove them? It's a sincere request to you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.194.242.155 ( talk) 09:34, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
Dear KrakatoaKatie, I write with a request. You have semi-protected my father, Barun De's, Wikipedia page. This is because of what is called sock puppetry. I opened that page. I don't want his birthday and death day to be displayed on this page. Please, could I request you delete at least that information from this page? There are valid reasons for that. I would be deeply grateful to you if you could kindly also remove the section mentioning his death. Bikramjit De (ID: B_de2002) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.194.249.238 ( talk) 10:46, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
Dear Katie, I am a new Wikipedian and your help would be greatly appreciated. I have tried twice to upload an article about Christos Terzides, a well known Greek writer and music manager, on en.wikipedia. Both times my article has been deleted and I would like to know what can I do to keep my articles online... The second delete was made by user Randykitty under section G11 of the criteria on speedy deletion. I am sure that my article was informative (biography) not advertising. What can I do? Would it be a problem if i try to upload again the same article? Thanks in advance for your advice on this matter. ( Vendrediv ( talk) 15:17, 19 August 2013 (UTC))
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This year's final is upon us. Our final eight, in order of last round's score, are:
We say goodbye to eight great participants who did not qualify for the final: Piotrus ( submissions), Figureskatingfan ( submissions), ThaddeusB ( submissions), Dana boomer ( submissions), Status ( submissions), Ed! ( submissions), 12george1 ( submissions), Calvin999 ( submissions). Having made it to this stage is still an excellent achievement, and you can leave with your heads held high. We hope to see you all again next year. Signups are now open for the 2014 WikiCup, which will begin on 1 January. All Wikipedians, whatever their interest or level of experience, are warmly invited to participate in next year's competition.
This last month has seen some incredible contributions; for instance, Cwmhiraeth's Starfish and Ealdgyth's Battle of Hastings—two highly important, highly viewed pages—made it to featured article status. It would be all too easy to focus solely on these stunning achievements at the expense of those participants working in lower-scoring areas, when in fact all WikiCup participants are doing excellent work. A mention of everything done is impossible, but here are a few: Last round saw the completion of several good topics (on the 1958, 1959 and 1962 Atlantic hurricane seasons) to which 12george1 had contributed. Calvin999 saw "S&M" (song), on which he has been working for several years, through to featured article status on its tenth try. Figureskatingfan continued towards her goal of a broad featured/good topic on Maya Angelou, with two featured and four good articles. ThaddeusB contributed significantly to over 20 articles which appeared on the main page's "in the news" section. Adam Cuerden continued to restore a large number of historical images, resulting in over a dozen FP credits this round alone. The WikiCup is not just about top-importance featured articles, and the work of all of these users is worthy of commendation.
Finally, the usual notices: If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 05:23, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
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Can you rangeblock 2605:E000:150E:13::/64 for his disruptive edits to The Busy World of Richard Scarry? Jackmcbarn ( talk) 13:49, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
I am sorry, but your comment on The Host article about me needing to be blocked is completely absurd. An IP with no previous edits was seizing on one or two sources calling a film a "flop" to insert that highly subjective description into the lede of articles on films as though it were a fact. The term is subjective and has negative connotations. Generally, it is not encyclopedic to call a film a "flop" in the editorial voice regardless of sourcing. Dealing with a tendentious IP insulting you over and over is not rewarding in the first place, having to deal with admins treating people like troublemakers when they are trying to maintain respect for policy and this site's encyclopedic purpose is exactly what's wrong with this place.-- The Devil's Advocate tlk. cntrb. 13:51, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi KrakatoaKatie, Thanks for semi-protecting the page Comedy Nights with Kapil a few days ago. The lock has expired now, but I request you to extend it for a few more weeks to discourage an IP vandal who keeps removing sourced information on the page giving the flimsy reason "not required" in the edit summary. You can see the edit history of the page for the pattern of removals and my reverts. The IP again removed information today seeing that there's no lock on the page.
Thank you again for your help. - Max - Talk 07:55, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
Hey, I saw that you have semi-protected the article for about 3 months. But, I didn't find any pp template on the article as well as the edit history of the page. Thanks -- L o g X 18:22, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
-- L o g X 18:32, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello. Thanks for the block and the reverts of the IP of HV. I'm here because I think it's fair to inform you that some of those outstanding edits you reverted may have been actually correct and legit contributions by the vandal. Just so you know. It's part of his M.O. to through in constructive edits on occasion in an attempt to trip me up, avoid being blocked, sneak other misinformation through, etc.
However, please don't worry about it. First of all this guy has been adding crap into articles for nearly seven years. His contributions in the year 2010 alone resulted in such an enormous volume of garbage introduced into Wikipedia it's nearly unfathomable. And likely that a small percentage, yet still large a quantity, survives and remains live today. When myself and another editor first discovered the magnitude of this person's disruption, I was finding surviving vandalism from years earlier, still standing. It is quite possible based on the sheer volume and nature of the vandalism, that this individual may be responsible for more false information currently contained in Wikipedia than any other single user. Based on this alone I would say he has long ago given up any right at all to be allowed to contribute in any way to this project, constructively or otherwise.
Secondly by reverting all his edits, including those that may very well be legit, we are in hopes possibly getting him to either a) communicate in any way to anyone or b)provide a source supporting his assertions; two things this vandal as far as we know has never ever done, not once during the seven years of disruptive editing. Not once even leaving any kind of edit summary at all!
This guy knows that I am onto him. His actions indicate to me that he knows he is being watched. He intentionally edits in such a way to keep me on my toes and have to go through extra work to stay on top of his activities, and yet it appears he wants me to find his edits. He wants me to know he is still editing so I know that I can't stop him.
All I can do know is just try to make his life difficult. If on the chance that it requires some effort or time out of his day to force a new IP address, then that is why I have him blocked on occasion. In fact, that's the only reason I do it. It's actually easier for me to deal with this clown when I don't have him blocked. Honestly as you can tell, this has turned into just a big game of cat and mouse and don't really know if I can keep doing it indefinitely.
Sorry to ramble on. I started out just explaining about the outstanding edits and it turned into something else. I can handle him for now, but if there is anything you suggest that can be done that isn't being done already, my ears are open. User:MaterialScientist has already tried hitting him with a barrage of range blocks last month and even that really didn't seam to have much of an effect, fyi.
Thanks for you time. -- RacerX11 Talk to me Stalk me 04:39, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for that IP Block, this particular one was troubling me a lot across three different articles. Sohambanerjee1998 05:03, 12 September 2013 (UTC) |
17 to 7 is indeed a consensus for removal. FTR, I am challenging your closure. Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 07:52, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
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We are down to our final 16: the 2013 semi-finals are upon us. A score of 321 was required to survive round 3, further cementing this as the most competitive WikiCup yet; round 3 was survived in 2012 with 243 points, in 2011 with 76 points and in 2010 with 250 points. The change may in part be to do with the fact that more articles are now awarded bonus points, in addition to more competitive play. Reaching the final has, in the past, required 573 points (2012, a 135% increase on the score needed to reach round 4), 150 points (2011, a 97% increase) and 417 points (2010, a 72% increase). This round has seen over a third of participants claiming points for featured articles (with seven users claiming for multiple featured articles) and most users have also gained bonus points. However, the majority of points continue to come from good articles, followed by did you know articles. In this round, every content type was utilised by at least one user, proving that the WikiCup brings together content contributors from all corners of the project.
Round 3 saw a number of contributions of note. Figureskatingfan ( submissions) claimed the first featured topic points in this year's competition for her excellent work on topics related to Maya Angelou, the noted American author and poet. We have also continued to see high-importance articles improved as part of the competition: Ealdgyth ( submissions) was awarded a thoroughly well-earned 560 points for her featured article Middle Ages and 102 points for her good article Battle of Hastings. Good articles James Chadwick and Stanislaw Ulam netted Hawkeye7 ( submissions) 102 and 72 points respectively, while 72 points were awarded to Piotrus ( submissions) for each of Władysław Sikorski and Emilia Plater, both recently promoted to good article status. Collaborative efforts between WikiCup participants have continued, with, for example, Casliber ( submissions) and Sasata ( submissions) being awarded 180 points each for their featured article on Boletus luridus.
A rules reminder: content promoted between rounds can be claimed in the round after the break, but not the round before. The case in point is content promoted on the 29/30 June, which may be claimed in this round. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. We are currently seeing concern about the amount of time people have to wait for reviews, especially at GAC- if you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 09:54, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
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...sorry, I already had semi-protected. Feel free to revert, of course. Cheers and happy editing. Lectonar ( talk) 09:19, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
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We're halfway through this year's penultimate round, and the competition is moving along well. Pool A's Sasata ( submissions) currently leads overall, while Pool B's Sturmvogel_66 ( submissions) is second. Both leaders are WikiCup veterans, and both have already scored over 600 points this month. If the round were to end today, Miyagawa ( submissions), with 274 points, would be the lowest-scoring participant to make it through. This indicates that participants will need a score comparable to last year's (573, the highest ever) to qualify for the final. The high scores this year are a testament both to the quality of participants and to the increased focus on significant content (eligible for bonus points) in this year's competition. So far this round, both Sasata and Cwmhiraeth ( submissions) have made up over half of their score through bonus points, with, for example, high importance FA koala earning Sasata a total of 440 points (from a multiplier of 4.4) and high-importance GA sea earning Cwmhiraeth a total of 216 points (from a multiplier of 7.2). Other articles on important topics submitted this round include a featured article on the Norman conquest of England by Ealdgyth ( submissions), and good articles on Nobel laureate in literature Henryk Sienkiewicz, Nobel laureate in physics Hans Bethe, and the noted Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū. These articles are by Piotrus ( submissions), Hawkeye7 ( submissions) and Sturmvogel_66 respectively.
Other than that, there is not much to report! If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 23:19, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
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Please, don't semi-protect my father, Barun De's page. I opened it. I don't want some of the informations given here to be available, such as the birth and the death dates. Please, can you remove them? It's a sincere request to you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.194.242.155 ( talk) 09:34, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
Dear KrakatoaKatie, I write with a request. You have semi-protected my father, Barun De's, Wikipedia page. This is because of what is called sock puppetry. I opened that page. I don't want his birthday and death day to be displayed on this page. Please, could I request you delete at least that information from this page? There are valid reasons for that. I would be deeply grateful to you if you could kindly also remove the section mentioning his death. Bikramjit De (ID: B_de2002) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.194.249.238 ( talk) 10:46, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
Dear Katie, I am a new Wikipedian and your help would be greatly appreciated. I have tried twice to upload an article about Christos Terzides, a well known Greek writer and music manager, on en.wikipedia. Both times my article has been deleted and I would like to know what can I do to keep my articles online... The second delete was made by user Randykitty under section G11 of the criteria on speedy deletion. I am sure that my article was informative (biography) not advertising. What can I do? Would it be a problem if i try to upload again the same article? Thanks in advance for your advice on this matter. ( Vendrediv ( talk) 15:17, 19 August 2013 (UTC))
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This year's final is upon us. Our final eight, in order of last round's score, are:
We say goodbye to eight great participants who did not qualify for the final: Piotrus ( submissions), Figureskatingfan ( submissions), ThaddeusB ( submissions), Dana boomer ( submissions), Status ( submissions), Ed! ( submissions), 12george1 ( submissions), Calvin999 ( submissions). Having made it to this stage is still an excellent achievement, and you can leave with your heads held high. We hope to see you all again next year. Signups are now open for the 2014 WikiCup, which will begin on 1 January. All Wikipedians, whatever their interest or level of experience, are warmly invited to participate in next year's competition.
This last month has seen some incredible contributions; for instance, Cwmhiraeth's Starfish and Ealdgyth's Battle of Hastings—two highly important, highly viewed pages—made it to featured article status. It would be all too easy to focus solely on these stunning achievements at the expense of those participants working in lower-scoring areas, when in fact all WikiCup participants are doing excellent work. A mention of everything done is impossible, but here are a few: Last round saw the completion of several good topics (on the 1958, 1959 and 1962 Atlantic hurricane seasons) to which 12george1 had contributed. Calvin999 saw "S&M" (song), on which he has been working for several years, through to featured article status on its tenth try. Figureskatingfan continued towards her goal of a broad featured/good topic on Maya Angelou, with two featured and four good articles. ThaddeusB contributed significantly to over 20 articles which appeared on the main page's "in the news" section. Adam Cuerden continued to restore a large number of historical images, resulting in over a dozen FP credits this round alone. The WikiCup is not just about top-importance featured articles, and the work of all of these users is worthy of commendation.
Finally, the usual notices: If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn ( talk • email) and The ed17 ( talk • email) 05:23, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
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Can you rangeblock 2605:E000:150E:13::/64 for his disruptive edits to The Busy World of Richard Scarry? Jackmcbarn ( talk) 13:49, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
I am sorry, but your comment on The Host article about me needing to be blocked is completely absurd. An IP with no previous edits was seizing on one or two sources calling a film a "flop" to insert that highly subjective description into the lede of articles on films as though it were a fact. The term is subjective and has negative connotations. Generally, it is not encyclopedic to call a film a "flop" in the editorial voice regardless of sourcing. Dealing with a tendentious IP insulting you over and over is not rewarding in the first place, having to deal with admins treating people like troublemakers when they are trying to maintain respect for policy and this site's encyclopedic purpose is exactly what's wrong with this place.-- The Devil's Advocate tlk. cntrb. 13:51, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi KrakatoaKatie, Thanks for semi-protecting the page Comedy Nights with Kapil a few days ago. The lock has expired now, but I request you to extend it for a few more weeks to discourage an IP vandal who keeps removing sourced information on the page giving the flimsy reason "not required" in the edit summary. You can see the edit history of the page for the pattern of removals and my reverts. The IP again removed information today seeing that there's no lock on the page.
Thank you again for your help. - Max - Talk 07:55, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
Hey, I saw that you have semi-protected the article for about 3 months. But, I didn't find any pp template on the article as well as the edit history of the page. Thanks -- L o g X 18:22, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
-- L o g X 18:32, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello. Thanks for the block and the reverts of the IP of HV. I'm here because I think it's fair to inform you that some of those outstanding edits you reverted may have been actually correct and legit contributions by the vandal. Just so you know. It's part of his M.O. to through in constructive edits on occasion in an attempt to trip me up, avoid being blocked, sneak other misinformation through, etc.
However, please don't worry about it. First of all this guy has been adding crap into articles for nearly seven years. His contributions in the year 2010 alone resulted in such an enormous volume of garbage introduced into Wikipedia it's nearly unfathomable. And likely that a small percentage, yet still large a quantity, survives and remains live today. When myself and another editor first discovered the magnitude of this person's disruption, I was finding surviving vandalism from years earlier, still standing. It is quite possible based on the sheer volume and nature of the vandalism, that this individual may be responsible for more false information currently contained in Wikipedia than any other single user. Based on this alone I would say he has long ago given up any right at all to be allowed to contribute in any way to this project, constructively or otherwise.
Secondly by reverting all his edits, including those that may very well be legit, we are in hopes possibly getting him to either a) communicate in any way to anyone or b)provide a source supporting his assertions; two things this vandal as far as we know has never ever done, not once during the seven years of disruptive editing. Not once even leaving any kind of edit summary at all!
This guy knows that I am onto him. His actions indicate to me that he knows he is being watched. He intentionally edits in such a way to keep me on my toes and have to go through extra work to stay on top of his activities, and yet it appears he wants me to find his edits. He wants me to know he is still editing so I know that I can't stop him.
All I can do know is just try to make his life difficult. If on the chance that it requires some effort or time out of his day to force a new IP address, then that is why I have him blocked on occasion. In fact, that's the only reason I do it. It's actually easier for me to deal with this clown when I don't have him blocked. Honestly as you can tell, this has turned into just a big game of cat and mouse and don't really know if I can keep doing it indefinitely.
Sorry to ramble on. I started out just explaining about the outstanding edits and it turned into something else. I can handle him for now, but if there is anything you suggest that can be done that isn't being done already, my ears are open. User:MaterialScientist has already tried hitting him with a barrage of range blocks last month and even that really didn't seam to have much of an effect, fyi.
Thanks for you time. -- RacerX11 Talk to me Stalk me 04:39, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for that IP Block, this particular one was troubling me a lot across three different articles. Sohambanerjee1998 05:03, 12 September 2013 (UTC) |
17 to 7 is indeed a consensus for removal. FTR, I am challenging your closure. Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. GabeMc ( talk| contribs) 07:52, 12 September 2013 (UTC)