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The Bugle: Issue XCIX, June 2014
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WikiCup 2014 June newsletter
After an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's, whose contributions included featured articles Russian battleship Poltava (1894) and Russian battleship Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six out of eight making it to the next round.

The round saw this year's first featured portal, with taking Portal:Literature to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to and the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. This means that all content types have been claimed this year. Other contributions of note this round include a featured topic on Maya Angelou's autobiographies from, a good article on the noted Czech footballer Tomáš Rosický from and a now-featured video game screenshot, freely released due to the efforts of.

The judges would like to remind participants to update submission pages promptly. This means that content can be checked, and allows those following the competition (including those participating) to keep track of scores effectively. This round has seen discussion about various aspects of the WikiCup's rules and procedures. Those interested in the competition can be assured that formal discussions about how next year's competition will work will be opened shortly, and all are welcome to voice their views then. 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 help keep down 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 WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. and 18:48, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Recent edits on this page
Keeping track: Listing these here in case further review is needed later (so I don't have to dig through the page history to find them). Carcharoth (talk) 00:17, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
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Articles for deletion/List of chess-related deaths
See what you think....Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 16:20, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the link, Cas. I looked, but it didn't strike me as something I could really say anything sensible on, though some of those incidents are relatively well known. Carcharoth (talk) 22:46, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue C, July 2014
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Laffan's Plain
Might be one for you. A fairly nondescript area of Aldershot was renamed after Robert Michael Laffan, my latest DNB find. Some time later, it was famous enough to have commons:Category:Laffan's Plain full of early RFC stuff: it made a murky transition from a place where military exercises went on, to a significant aerodrome that became Farnborough. I think around 1910. Samuel Franklin Cody comes into the story. Laffan himself seems to have been forgotten, not so surprisingly. Charles Matthews (talk) 20:49, 29 July 2014 (UTC)