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WikiCup 2015 March newsletter
That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. 64 competitors made it into this round, and are now broken into eight groups of eight. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups. Round 1 saw some interesting work on some very important articles, with the round leader owing most of his 622 points scored to a Featured Article on the 2001 film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within which qualified for a times-two multiplier. This is a higher score than in previous years, as had 500 points in 2014 at the end of round 1, and our very own judge,  led round 1 with 601 points in 2013.

In addition to Freikorp's work, some other important articles and pictures were improved during round one, here's a snapshot of a few of them:
 * took Bumblebee, a level-4 vital article, to Good Article;
 * worked-up the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 article, also to Good Article status;
 * developed an extremely timely article to Good Article, taking Magna Carta there some 800 years after it was first sealed;
 * And last but not least, worked up a number of Featured Pictures during round 1, including the 1948 one Deutsche Mark (pictured right), receiving the maximum bonus due to the number of Wikis that the related article appears in.

You may also wish to know that The Core Contest is running through the month of March. Head there for further details - they even have actual prizes!

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NYT lookup
IIRC, you've got access to the NYT archives and I don't so I'd appreciate it if you could do me a small favor whenever you get a chance. I need cites for the voyage of Crown Prince Umberto to South America aboard the Italian armored cruisers San Marcos and San Giorgio in July-Sep 1924 so I can upgrade those articles. Since it's post '23 I can't access it myself, but the NYT seems to be one of the few newspapers that bother to note the voyage at all as I struck out with the Australian and UK newspaper archives.

Also, if you can recommend any sources on the Argentinian Giuseppe Garibaldi-class cruiser armored cruisers, that would be great. I need to finish off my good topic on Italian armored cruisers and I can't do it without taking the class article to GA, which, of course, means mini-histories of the foreign ships in the class as well the Italian ones which I've already researched. Thanks in advance for any help that you have time to give.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 01:06, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Do you recall what articles you saw? I can't find anything on Umberto's voyage. I'm using varying combinations of "Umberto San Marco," "Umberto San Giorgio," "Umberto Argentina," "Umberto cruiser," and "Umberto warship" and not getting anything beyond a Christian Science Monitor article of 1923 announcing that he plans to make a trip.
 * The Argentine ships are woefully undercovered, something that isn't helped by the Argentine Navy's neglect of its history (there's no official webpages for their historical ships, only their current ones). Whitney's Cruisers of World War II might be your best bet; the only other substantial source I know of, excluding Spanish-language books, is HistArMar:   . I've been able use a similar Portuguese-language site for the Brazilian ships. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 04:59, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Try Humbert or Humberto as that's English version of his name. Thanks for the pointers on the Argentine ships, I'll run them through Google and see what comes out. I've been doing that with the Italian wiki of late and it's proved reasonably competent, rather to my surprise since my experience with its Russian translations has been rather poor. I haven't looked yet, but is HistArMar RS?--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 17:41, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I'd say so. It's the website of the Histarmar Foundation, a "a Buenos Aires-based non-profit organization aimed at locating, identifying, preserving and exhibiting Argentine maritime heritage." It's website is, at least according to them, an "internationally recognized reference link." See this PDF. It's not just a random personal website, despite the frankly ancient design.
 * I've gotten many more hits with Humbert. I'll save and send them via email. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 17:58, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Many thanks. Once I finish off the last of the San Giorgio-class cruisers, I'll work on the rest of the Garibaldis.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 18:05, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I've emailed the articles. Let me know if I can help any more! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 18:10, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Today's featured article/March 21, 2015
Hi Ed, Nate and Sturm. A summary of a Featured Article you nominated at WP:FAC will appear on the Main Page soon. Does the article need more work? Is there anything I left out of the summary you'd like to see put back in? - Dank (push to talk) 03:54, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Hey Dank, I made an edit to the blurb, but otherwise the current state of the article is Sturm and Parsec's baby, so I'll defer to them. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 04:59, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

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Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia
Your recent Signpost interview with FergusM1970 leads in with a question saying, "Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia". You don't honestly believe that, do you? I hope that was just a typo (where "a co-founder" would have been most accurate). The current wording is highly offensive to anyone who knows and respects Dr. Larry Sanger, who promoted the idea of a wiki encyclopedia to Jimmy Wales, with Sanger also naming the project "Wikipedia" and issuing the first public call for participation on the project. Wales was hardly "the founder". - Hey hey moi moi (talk) 23:37, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Neither was George Washington the Father of his country, but the article on him says he was widely called that, even in his lifetime. Jonathunder (talk) 01:57, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi, just got an email from Ed who is on his phone, which makes editing annoying ... he said it was a mistake, and that he almost always refers to Jimbo as co-founder, making this a typo. I will fix it. Thanks for bringing it up.  Go  Phightins  !  02:14, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * A minor mistake, to be sure, but worth correcting. I'm still on my phone, but edits are at least going through now. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:38, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Milhist notes on User:Ling.Nut
Hey, I used to be Ling.Nut. I scrambled the password a long time ago. I'm 99.99% retired. If possible, could you remove Ling.Nut from the MilHist notice list, so things won't be put on User talk:Ling.Nut? Thanks • Serviceable†Villain 02:39, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Hey Ling, I'm glad to see that you're still around, even if only at .01%. I'm stuck editing on a phone right now while my computer is being repaired, but I will do this the next time I'm on a real browser. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:42, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AWikiProject_Military_history%2FMembers%2FActive&diff=650795789&oldid=650108309 Done]! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 18:53, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Article uprotection
Hello! I'd like to request unprotection from Yamato-class battleship, it currently has pending changes protection for the reason "trial run", which you added in March of 2013. In the last 500 edits, only 4 have been reverted through the pending changes system, which is a pretty fair number for few months of edits. Thanks! Kharkiv07 (talk) 20:05, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Done! The "trial run" referred to an attempt to stem a bundle of vandalism that came around in early 2013, shortly after I removed semi-protection from the article. It looks like that worked. Thanks! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 18:52, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

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 * I have to point out that in spite of the night I spent awake, I can still think logically. You say: Haf, we can't monitor everything that is added while it is being added. Well you did monitored it, going so far as asking others what they think. You did not asked me, though. I do not experience this in any ways as a constructive answer. I don't experience anyone noticing my questions or even answering them. It is now gone and everything removed. The only thing I hear is -nothing was wrong, and we never did anything wrong. --Hafspajen (talk) 08:35, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
 * The discussion was moved to here. I think we're misunderstanding each other here. While I could have looked at it the day before and started a discussion about it, most of the content I had a problem with wasn't there at that time. By the time I noticed it, we were publishing.
 * As for your questions, I don't know how I or Drmies can answer them any better... I'm off to bed, but I'll check for any replies when I wake up. Also, like I said, we're going to try to gather the FC contributors this week for a discussion on how we can work out these kinks. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 08:41, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Ed, thank you for telling me the discussion wasn't wiped out. At least. Second - nobody did answered the question. The only thing you or someone else told me was that an unknown woman thought it was sexist, without even knowing the context. Now try to do an experiment. Try to think this: you are a person that is trying to cheer up Wikipedia. You also worked hard for it. Maybe you have a background in a relationship that involved an older woman and a younger man - and it was terrific - better than any other relationship you ever had. Try, come on, now. Go on, and still try - to understand how this relationship went down the drain because of all the sexist comments from friends, family, parents, strangers etc. Go on now, keeping all this in mind - and still try to understand - you suddenly read a similar story that was not destroyed by any stupid sexist comment but succeed - and succeed well. Feeling sentimental, you just want to say to the world: But, yes, it can work! You see, here it is the proof. People did managed it, where you failed. Also, you are writing a page that it supposed to be funny. Hey, you just want to tell people not to have prejudices.
 * Ah, but next time you are logged in somebody is telling you that all is removed and you were making a sexist comment doing this. You might even perceive it as they might tell you were sexist - easy thing to (mis)-understand under these conditions. And the rest you know. Hey, maybe you will not feel so great after this. I certainly don't. Hafspajen (talk) 09:31, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thank you so much for unblocking me! As promised, my edits on Wikipedia will be productive. Fresh Sullivan (talk) 13:47, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Edit my talkpage,can i?
Dear The ed17,i'm not sure so i prefer to ask you before to edit my talkpage,for be sure to don't do something of wrong. You have accepted my unblocking request,so i would ask you if now that my block have been removed,i can cleanup my talk page,removing the block template (not more valid,because as how said before,you have accepted my unblocking request) and also my unblocking request,that have been accepted from you,with related comments below. I will wait for an your reply. Thank you in advance for your time. Fabriziodg91 (talk) 15:22, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Revisiting the pop culture sections for the Iowa class battleships
If you like I'd be open to revisiting the idea with the community to see if they have a different opinion now then they did a few years back. Also, I'd like to visit the idea of renaming the ship articles since Parsecboy recently moved several ships from USS (Name) (classification) to USS (Name) on grounds that they didn't need dab links for a single named ship. How about it? Care to join me in a community discussion over at milhist/ships on the matter? TomStar81 (Talk) 21:19, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, in Parsec's favor, that is what WP:SHIPNAME says those articles should be under. ;-) Let's open a discussion at Milhist? The amount of traffic there is higher, and we can put a note on the ship talk page. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 22:08, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

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This week's FC
There's a Featured Article that seems ideal for you to write about in this week's FC: SMS Dresden (1907). Gamaliel ( talk ) 18:36, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Or I could ping and demand that he come up with something suitably funny for April Fool's Day. ;-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 01:27, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
 * There's gotta be a joke somewhere in this. Parsecboy (talk) 10:09, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Love it, thanks! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 21:11, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from February 2015
Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in February 2015, covering selected activities of the Wikimedia Foundation and other important events from the Wikimedia movement. About · Subscribe/unsubscribe, 19:27, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
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