WikiCup 2012 is off to a flying start. At the time of writing, we have 112 contestants; comparable to last year, but slightly fewer than 2010. Signups will remain open for another week, after which time they will be closed for this year. Our currrent far-away leader is Grapple X (submissions), due mostly to his work on a slew of good articles about The X-Files; there remain many such articles waiting to be reviewed at good article candidates. Second place is currently held by Ruby2010 (submissions), whose points come mostly from good articles about television episodes, although good article reviews, did you knows and an article about a baroness round out the score. In third place is Jivesh boodhun (submissions), who has scored 200 points for his work on a single featured article, as well as points for work on others, mostly in the area of pop music. In all, nine users have 100 or more points. However, at the other end of the scale, there are still dozens of participants who are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly!
The 64 highest scoring participants will advance to round 2 in a month's time. There, they will be split into eight random groups of eight. The score needed to reach the next round is not at all clear; last year, 8 points guaranteed a place. The year before, 20.
A few participants and their work warrant a mention for achieving "firsts" in this competition.
We are yet to see any featured lists, featured topics or good topics, but this is unsurprising; firstly, the nomination processes with each of these can take some time, and, secondly, it can take a considerable amount of time to work content to this level. In a similar vein, we have seen only one featured article. The requirement that content must have been worked on this year to be eligible means that we did not expect to see these at the start of the competition. No points have been claimed for featured portals or pictures, but these are not content types which are often claimed; the former has never made a big impact on the WikiCup, while the latter has not done so since 2009's competition.
A quick rules clarification before the regular notices: If you are concerned that another user is claiming points inappropriately, please contact a judge to take a look at the article. Competitors policing one another can create a bad atmosphere, and may lead to inconsistencies and mistakes. Rest assured that we, the judges, are making an effort to check submissions, but it is possible that we will miss something. On a loosely related note: If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 00:12, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
You'd see that I'm trying to IMPROVE the UFC 146 page- why are you banning ME? I'm the one trying to HELP! Like fixing that nonsense edit about cowboys stadium. Give me 15 minutes to fix the entire article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.120.56.4 (talk) 02:44, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Ok, sorry about that, just ignore that part. I assumed you were the rogue administrator. Look, it's ABSURD to delete a UFC championship fight page. There shouldn't even be a discussion.
Truth is, I'm a 19 year old firgin loser...never even held a girls hand. I just wanna lick klit and finger geespot pf a pretty blue eyed girl. I'll take anything...just ONE fingering- is that so hard? I have "girl pillows", long soft slender pillows I cuddle and kiss and pretend are pretty girls with blue eyes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.120.56.4 (talk) 02:57, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Round 1 is already over! The 64 highest scorers have progressed to round 2. Our highest scorer was Grapple X (submissions), again thanks mostly to a swathe of good articles on The X-Files. In second place was Tigerboy1966 (submissions), thanks an impressive list of did you knows about racehorses. Both scored over 400 points. Following behind with over 300 points were Ruby2010 (submissions), Cwmhiraeth (submissions), Miyagawa (submissions) and Casliber (submissions). February also saw the competition's first featured list: List of colleges and universities in North Dakota, from Ruby2010 (submissions). At the other end of the scale, 11 points was enough to secure a place in this round, and some contestants with 10 points made it into the round on a tiebreaker. This is higher than the 8 points that were needed last year, but lower than the 20 points required the year before. The number of points required to progress to round 3 will be significantly higher.
The remaining contestants have been split into 8 pools of 8, named A through H. Round two will finish in two months time on 28 April, when the two highest scorers in each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers, will progress to round 3. The pools were entirely random, so while some pools may end up being more competitive than others, this is by chance rather than design.
The judges would like to point out two quick rules reminders. First, any content promoted during the interim period (that is, on or after 27 February) is eligible for points in round 2. Second, any content worked on significantly this year is eligible for points if promoted in this round. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which would otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 00:03, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I improved the display of some of the links cited in Abdulla Ahmed Nass, but there is more to do. Please see WP:Cheatsheet for a summary guide to formatting including links. – Fayenatic L (talk) 16:29, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
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Stefan2 (talk) 21:55, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey Morning, thanks for your note at my talk page. Sorry for my delay in responding. I see you've already created the artile at Mouawad, and it's been much improved from the version I declined, so good job on taking the initiative to improve the article :). If you're interested, I think you could improve the article further by improving the quality of its references (see wikipedia's policy on reliable sources: the Mouawad company website is a primary source, and is not necessarily reliable) and making the tone more encyclopedic (see neutral point of view: phrases like "he expanded on his passion of creating intricate clocks and one-of-a-kind pieces" sound more like an advertisement than an article). In any case, great job on the article and let me know if there is anything else I can do to help. Thanks again! --Cerebellum (talk) 12:38, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, You added a paragraph and didn't source it, just put that it needed a citation. When you add chunks like this, please always use a source!!!! Thanks!! --Chip123456 (talk) 15:47, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
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I have put your citation and some other information in an article that I am currently working on (and actually just moved to the mainspace) here. Since I published it, I removed the reference from the WikiProject page and created Little River Zoo as a redirect to the article. Thank you for the citation. Don Lammers (talk) 22:50, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Thank's for defending my talk page. Have a lovely weekend. :O) --bodnotbod (talk) 23:46, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Please go ahead with Vitamin A. If you've been on Wikipedia for four years, you will have no problem editing a semiprotected article. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 19:06, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hello. Regarding the recent revert you made to Heroin: you may already know about them, but you might find Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace useful. After a revert, these can be placed on the user's talk page to let them know you considered their edit inappropriate, and also direct new users towards the sandbox. They can also be used to give a stern warning to a vandal when they've been previously warned. Thank you. You already know this, but you forgot I think!! :) Chip123456 (talk) 19:41, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
I thought that at first as well; however, Huggle is really easy once you have it loaded and in front of you. The features are easy and it only takes about a dozen or so edits to get used to it. It is faster than rollback and Twinkle; however, it often gets "caught up" and does not load pages as quick as it should. Give it a try, you will be surprised. --Morning277 (talk) 20:05, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Here you go Huggle. --Morning277 (talk) 20:23, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey there, Morning277. Over the past few months I've been working on improving CVU and keep coming across the Task Force. As the most recent member to join the Task Force, do you mind if I pick your brain a little bit? Achowat (talk) 16:20, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
No it would not. I will continue to use Huggle to revert vandals. The main reason I came to the task force page was to enter my name in case there was something ever needed (such as someone needing to "pick my brain"). :) I think it would be good to have a spot for all members of the overall task force can enter their name. --Morning277 (talk) 17:46, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
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Please do whatever you feel is appropriate to this article: that's why I requested input! Thanks for the help--GrapedApe (talk) 22:24, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
I submitted File:PedramProfilePhotoCNN.jpg for CSD under G12, a possible copyright issue.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 12:42, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I just wanted to let you know that I've converted the tag on this image. I'm afraid it is likely to be deleted after a week unless the copyright issues are addressed. :/
The image permission seems to come from the subject of the photograph, not the photographer. Under the US law that governs us, copyright in a photograph is almost always owned by the photographer. For instance, from [1]:
Ownership of a “copy” of a photograph – the tangible embodiment of the “work” – is distinct from the “work” itself – the intangible intellectual property. The owner of the “work” is generally the photographer or, in certain situations, the employer of the photographer. Even if a person hires a photographer to take pictures of a wedding, for example, the photographer will own the copyright in the photographs unless the copyright in the photographs is transferred, in writing and signed by the copyright owner, to another person. The subject of the photograph generally has nothing to do with the ownership of the copyright in the photograph.
This is sometimes a hard legal fact to explain to BLP subjects. :/ In some countries, I understand, the person hiring the photographer owns the copyright, but he seems to be based in Atlanta, so US laws apply. For him to own copyright, he will need to have received a legal transfer from the photographer or the agency that made the photo.
If CNN's photographers took this picture - and the picture was not given to them by the subject of the article - than CNN's declaration of ownership may be quite right. I'm afraid it probably is; I've looked at several other reporters on the website and see similar backgrounds: [2]; [3]; [4]. If this is the case, we don't have any choice but to get license from CNN. To retain the image, we would either need a release from CNN or we would need an explanation from the subject to explain how he is the originator and copyright holder of the image. If we can document that he was advised of the copyright ownership issue, liability would rest with him rather than with us if it turns out his assertion is wrong. If we don't have a strong and plausible explanation, liability may well rest with the OTRS agent who processes the permission, since the procedures written for OTRS inform that this is a common misunderstanding and their acceptance of the permission anyway could make them guilty of contributory infringement.
I'm really sorry about the complication. I know how happy I've been when I write for images and get them. I've been in the position of having to write the person back to explain why their license/permission doesn't work for us, and it's not a comfortable place to be. :/
If we are able to work out the permission irregularities, we'll need to fix flagged license. I see you've labeled the photograph as "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0 License", but the letter you forwarded to OTRS actually releases it into public domain. We can't use a more restrictive license than the copyright holder. :) We can't legally require attribution or free derivatives if the copyright holder does not. If we can work out the other issues, the license will need to be changed to ((Cc-zero)).
I'm not the OTRS volunteer dealing with this, as you know, but I just wanted to explain the issue more completely while pointing out the tag change. If you have any questions about the processes or procedures, please feel free to drop by my talk page. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:00, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
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Why do you keep deleting references to Delegate Bob Marshall's recent CNN interview? His comments are a matter of public record and made headlines in most of the major news outlets today - given that Marshall is a senate candidate, it seems to me that comments that make national headlines should be on his page. Moreover, my suspicion is that many people will be trying to read up on Marshall today, after seeing his interview on CNN. It is therefore important to include these comments in his profile so that wikipedia readers will know they have found the right person.
If you don't like the phrasing of the edits, please change them (I tried to use neutral language, but might not have succeeded). But please reconsider before deleting something that is a matter of public record.
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.126.182.174 (talk) 19:06, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for responding - I could see why a vandalism program might pick this up. I thought you deleted it twice, but that might have been my mistake as I am not super good with technology.
On Right-wing socialism, the RfC was on the specific edit cited, not on a general question about "original research." The entire section removed was sourced to reliable sources, and the issue was whether the removal of over 95% of the article was proper. Cheers. Collect (talk) 01:23, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for reverting the personal attack on my talk page. My internet was being slow so I couldn't get to it. :) -- Luke (Talk) 16:02, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
I did not put 2 and 2 together but that does make sense. Get your last laughs in before school is out. Also, thanks for the barnstar. Not deserving of such, but thank you nonetheless. --Morning277 (talk) 19:27, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
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Yes I want to leave the Wiki. I want my account to be blocked on all Wikis.
Many thanks:
--Duhos (talk) 19:04, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
What led you to the conclusion that my edits (on Drakengard and Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King) were vandalistic in any way? I fixed so many things, added refs, replaced dead links with archives, searched for official sites etc. If anything, you should encourage me to continue the work I've been doing. Do you know how many hours of research I've spent on today's edits? May I revert my corrections back please? Or do you want me to go through each and every one of them with you? Punkalyptic (talk) 15:21, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi there! I think you might be interested in [danfromsquirrelhill dot wordpress dot com/2012/05/30/wikipedias-article-presidency-of-barack-obama-is-a-puff-piece-which-ignores-many-critical-issues/ this]. YAU8724 (talk) 19:33, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
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I just checked the video. What a moron. I'm a you-tuber myself. Perhaps I'll harass him a bit over there! Thanks for the heads up by the way ! "....We are all Kosh...." <-Babylon-5-> 15:43, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
Please watch my talk, as I won't leave further TB's. Thanks! Chip123456 (talk) 16:11, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
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There's no article on Ru.wiki, only this file - ru:Файл:Тула Продукт.jpg - which is in the process of being deleted. I added the Russian name to the article here. INeverCry 18:16, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
Userfied at User:Morning277/Molly Maid. JamesBWatson (talk) 20:43, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
I've created a userspace draft, as was suggested to me. I'm hoping I can learn ways to make this article more objective. Thank you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Contenteditor291 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Contenteditor291 (talk • contribs) 21:23, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
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Morning, thanks for voting on the AfD for TravelFox. I think it was a mistake for you to make comments at a personal level. I'm not edit warring. Posting something to AfD is not disruptive. All my comments have been about the rules of WP such as WP:V. Finally, I make plenty of valuable contributions to WP. Let's stick to the content of the article and leave out the personal drama. Unfortunately, your comments were just increasing the level of personal drama. I request that you strike out your Comment from the AfD page--it's got nothing to do with the article. Put it on my Talk page if you want. Logical Cowboy (talk) 16:44, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
Welcome to the Rollbacker and Reviewer Cabal, Morning277!
In case you forgot, we mainly coordinate on anything that requires a rollbacker or reviewer's attention.
Currently, we have two pages;
but we have more things coming up!
Regards, J (t) 18:46, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for joining WikiProject Cleanup, and please feel free to post entries to the list of articles for clean-up. Thanks again for joining! Northamerica1000(talk) 07:43, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Morning 277, thanks for replying over at WikiProject Law. I've just left a reply there and saw your request for me to paste the draft section to your Talk page. Here is the material I've written:
Thanks again for agreeing to review this, I'll check back here and on the article's Talk page for your feedback. Thanks! Thurmant (talk) 15:15, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
He's yours! Electriccatfish2 (talk) 16:27, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
I'll take him but have not gotten a response from him yet. It's been a couple of days since he has made an edit. --Morning277 (talk) 21:29, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Morning277,
I work for FindTheBest, a comparison website. FindTheBest was blacklisted from Wikipedia a few years ago for adding a page while the company was still very young. Now that the site has grown to 10M visitors a month, I am attempting to get FindTheBest removed from the blacklist.
I appealed to this page, but was denied by ~Amatulić: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist#FindTheBest.com
Amatrulic told me I need to find a trusted editor to make an appeal to have the FindTheBest page restored. Can you help me out? Feel free to contact me at evanthomas1(at)gmail(dot)com
Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Evanthomas1 (talk • contribs) 20:55, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
I left a comment on the blacklist page. I think it is a great website but the same type of sources can be located elsewhere which is why it has a hard chance of ever being removed from the blacklist. Sorry that I could not assist but good luck in the future. --Morning277 (talk) 14:29, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
Just thought your opinion would be welcome DBigXray 15:56, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Morning277. The 'Laura Vitale' article may need your assistance as there is a lot going on in the news about her right now and yet the article is flagged as not notible and may be deleted. I have my concerns considering that she is a very well known online food personality with clearly a large fan base. I recently made some updates to the article regarding her involvement with celeb chef Duff Goldman and their launch of the Original YouTube cooking channel HUNGRY being headed up by a former food network exec Bruce Seidel, but since I don't have an account with wikipedia, I'm pretty sure whatever I say in the dispute page won't matter... if you do a google news search for 'Laura Vitale' you will see what's going on or check out the huffington post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/25/youtube-hungry-guide-food-channel_n_1615679.html
Any help would be appreciated as I've been watching this girls show from early on in her career and I think she's made a huge impact on the world of food entertainment.. so much that corporate america/Hollywood is now catching onto her cooking videos on youtube and starting to see where the future of digital entertainment is - and bringing her on board to launch such an amazing change in technology! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.184.212.3 (talk) 16:38, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
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It wasn't vandalism, the character in the film is a woman named Gay, it was mistakenly labeled Gary. You can see it http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052181/ and http://www.allmovie.com/movie/senior-prom-v109450 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.60.228.17 (talk) 15:33, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
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I humbly agree with the side note. Thanks for keeping me in check. --Morning277 (talk) 19:21, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
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I am the author of the article "Bani Mustafa", and I would like to make some points regarding the unfair deletion process of the article.
1. The deletion proposal was made by the user JohnRak as part of the dispute reagrding the contents of the article Jerash here. The relation between the two users is quiet obvious, as the user JohnRak admitted that he works with the user Historyfeelings in the real life as shown here. This made him if not socketpuppet a hired crowd.
2. The PROD deletion proposal overpassed the Articles for Deletion (AfD) process which is against Wikipedia policy as stated here
3. The PROD deletion proposal was made by the user JohnRak whose creation was dedicated solely for the deletion of the article Bani Mustafa as shown in the history of his contributions as the first contribution for the user was the deletion proposal. Please check here
4. The PROD deletion proposal was made while I was in the process of responding to the AfD. In my response to I depended on the information which I had on hand during that time, which I admit it was not complete.
5. The article was subject to a continuous vandalism since the beginning of the dispute between me and HistoryFeelings over the article Jerash, where the vandalism was made by anonymous IP addresses.
6. I can assure that all the information, which I have included in the article were genuine and authentic. However, most of the sources provided in the article are written in Arabic and are not available on the internet. These resources are available in Jordan and can be obtained from many public libraries, however as I am away now, I have no access to these sources as they are not available online.
7. An article which was written on the website of the Jordanian news agency "Almadenahnews" confirms that, please see the English translation of this article here.
Banimustafa (talk) 09:59, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks again for your reply at WikiProject Law, I have gone ahead and posted the section. Thurmant (talk) 15:17, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
The tone isn't a blatant violation but I believe perhaps it reads like a resume with the detailed "Thornton Adjustable Positioner" section. SwisterTwister talk 23:11, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
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Dear sir, I have created Al Minhaj National School page with all authority details and i was mdifying it. Why did you delete it? Please give me the back up of that page to make a good sense. ts about my school.
Expecting reply from you. Thank you. Mihwar Mahroof — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mihwar (talk • contribs) 16:04, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
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I don't know if you've seen this, but it looks to be getting pretty toxic. Just a heads up. Dan653 (talk) 20:20, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
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I have reverted your AGF edits. Actually, Sam Malone was supposed to be a football player. Maybe IP editor did not any better. --George Ho (talk) 20:40, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
All bio entries in "Michael Martone" read like a spoof of Wikipedia as far back as April 10, 2012. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.16.158.8 (talk) 21:37, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
According to http://english.ua.edu/user/84: Martone was born and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He attended Butler University and graduated from Indiana University. He holds the MA from The Writing Seminars of The Johns Hopkins University. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.16.158.8 (talk) 21:49, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
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This was a link not to an unofficial homepage, but to a Github repository that contains the original code. But because he didn't upload it himself, the developer asked me to mark it as "unofficial".
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Sorry, my message was unclear. I am "Tekki" on Github. This repository on Github belongs to me and contains in the master branch the original SQL-Ledger code. But this code was not uploaded by DWS Systems, so they prefer that the link is marked as "unofficial". I don't know if there is a conflict of interest. Since many years I'm one of the most active people around SQL-Ledger, write in the forums and mailing lists, speak at conferences about this program and maintain the SQL-Ledger entries on different Wikipedia sites. These things cost me a lot of time, and now I feel a little bit as if I'm blamed for all this work. But it's my fault, I could have explained me more clearly from beginning. Vaslovag (talk) 08:13, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
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I hope you don't mind, but I have removed your inactive student as he hasn't been around in nearly 2 months. Dan653 (talk) 20:57, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
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