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Somerset coalfield
Thanks for your review comments. I've fixed the deadlinks reused some references & added some new ones. Hopefully your queries have been addressed but if there is anything else you think is needed please add them to the review page & I'll do my best to address them.&mdash; Rod talk 19:48, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks.&mdash; Rod talk 21:43, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!
Thank you very much, and I appreciate the work you have done to review it.-- Gilderien Chat&#124;List of good deeds 20:52, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Fossil Creek
I nominated Fossil Creek, also expanded by User:Finetooth, for Good article status. If you are interested in reviewing other geography articles, feel free! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 20:13, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Oh ok good I'll see what I can do.-- Gilderien Chat&#124;List of good deeds 20:15, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you again for taking the time and trouble to review. Your suggestions were most helpful. Finetooth (talk) 21:09, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
 * If you would ever like me to do a peer review of any of your other work, just let me know. Finetooth (talk) 17:20, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Hmm ok thank you very much. Would you be ok with reviewing Paris when I think I have got it up to GA standard? Feel free to decline if you think it is too much, it is much longer than Fossil Creek. -- Gilderien Chat&#124;List of good deeds 17:25, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Oh, wow! You aren't kidding. You must be a brave and adventurous editor. The article is huge, and improving it to GA is apt to be difficult. In 2008, I helped get Musée du Louvre to GA quality. The Louvre article appears to have had hundreds (possibly thousands) of edits since then. (I no longer watch it.) I would be glad to help with advice about the Paris article when the time comes. Just let me know. Finetooth (talk) 18:09, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

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Re:Zennor Head
Yeah; work, nomination and promotion all need to be this year. I appreciate that it can be slow to get going in the first round. J Milburn (talk) 15:49, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * As an aside, this is actually a really interesting topic; I'll keep my eyes open for more of yours at GAC. J Milburn (talk) 11:16, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Talkback
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Paris article
Thanks for your contribution on the Paris article, it required some cleaning... Cordially, En-bateau (talk) 20:16, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Ah, ok thank you I should have spotted that when I went through all the references for dead links.-- Gilderien Chat&#124;List of good deeds 22:08, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Martin's Cave
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WikiProject Christianity Newsletter - January 2013
 Membership report The parent Christianity WikiProject currently has 354 active members. We would like to welcome our newest members, Alliereborn, Iselilja, Peterkp, and Sosthenes12. Thank you all for your interest in this effort. We would be able to achieve nothing here without the input of all of you. If any members, new or not, wish any assistance, they should feel free to leave a message at the Christianity noticeboard or with me or other individual editors to request it.

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Church of the month This image of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Tallinn, Estonia by User:Poco a poco was recently promoted to Featured Image. Thank you and congratulations for the great image!

Contest of the month No particular contest this month. I am however getting rather close to getting together a more or less complete set of articles relating to different areas of Christianity which can be found in recent reference sources on the broad topic of Christianity, and about various subtopics, which I hope to have finished in the next few weeks. I wonder what the rest of you might think of, maybe, making the contests of future months be basically directed at filling in the gaps of our existing coverage of topics, like those topics given significant coverage in specialized reference works which we don't yet have content on, and giving the thanks, and rewards, whatever they might be, to those who create and develop such content. I am starting a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Christianity noticeboard, and would very much welcome any input from interested parties in how to set it up, determine winners including how many winners, etc.

By John Carter

Featured content and GA report Since the last report, the image in the "Church of the Month" section of this newsletter was promoted to Featured Image status.

Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes, BWV 40 by Gerda Arendt and others, Teuruarii IV by Lemurbaby, KAVEBEAR and others, and Peace on Earth (Casting Crowns album) by Toa Nidhiki05 and others, were all promoted to GA status.

Also this past month, the DYKs on the main page included St James' Church, Cardington by Peter I. Vardy, Bishop's Palace, Kraków by Poeticbent, Kippinge Church by Ipigott and Rosiestep, Trinitatis Church, also by Ipigott and Rosiestep, Steindamm Church by Olessi, St Laurence's Church, Church Stretton by Peter I. Vardy, Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Meteora, by Peter I. Vardy, Sonrise Church, by Aboutmovies, St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Albany, New York), by Daniel Case, All Saints Church, Claverley, by Peter I. Vardy, and Church of the Holy Virgin Mary of Lourdes, by  Poeticbent. Our profoundest thanks and congratulations to all those involved!

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The Tower of Babel'' by Pieter Bruegel the Elder This image was created by User:Dcoetzee. Thank you, Dcoetzee!

Spotlight The Spotlight this month turns to the the Syriac Christianity work group. The scope of this project includes the various traditions of Syriac Christianity, including the Assyrian Church of the East, Ancient Church of the East, Church of the East, Syriac Orthodox Church, Chaldean Catholic Church, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, Melkite Greek Catholic Church, Syriac Catholic Church, Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, and Saint Thomas Christians. One of these groups, the Assyrian Church of the East, is considered by scholars to have probably been, for several hundred years, the largest Christian grouping in the planet, with its numerous members in Central Asia and Eastern Asia. Numerous texts, traditions, and practices unique to these groups exist, including the Jesus Sutras and the belief of the Assyrian Church of the East that the bread they use in the preparation of their Eucharist uses the same basic yeast as that used in the bread of the Last Supper itself. Sadly, given the linguistic barriers to much of the content relative to these groups, and the comparative lack of notoriety they have in the Western world, much of this content does receive less attenion, and thus less development, than much other content. There is a large amount of extremely valuable historical material here still waiting to be adequately developed by editors with an interest in the topic, and I personally very much hope that we can draw more attention to these topics, and the content related to them.

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WikiCup 2013 January newsletter
Signups are now closed; we have our final 127 contestants for this year's competition. 64 contestants will make it to the next round at the end of February, but we're already seeing strong scoring compared to previous years. currently leads, with 358 points. At this stage in 2012, the leader had 342 points, while in 2011, the leader had 228 points. We also have a large number of scorers when compared with this stage in previous years. was the first competitor to score this year, as he was last year, with a detailed good article review. Some other firsts:
 * was also the first to score for an article, with the good article Hurricane Gordon (2000). Again, this is a repeat of last year!
 * was the first to score for a did you know, with Marquis Flowers.
 * was the first to score for an in the news, with 2013 Houphouët-Boigny stampede.
 * was the first to score for a featured list, with list of Billboard Social 50 number-one artists.
 * was the first to score for a featured picture, with File:Thure de Thulstrup - L. Prang and Co. - Battle of Gettysburg - Restoration by Adam Cuerden.jpg.

Featured articles, portals and topics, as well as good topics, are yet to feature in the competition.

This year, the bonus points system has been reworked, with bonus points on offer for old articles prepared for did you know, and "multiplier" points reworked to become more linear. For details, please see WikiCup/Scoring. There have been some teething problems as the bot has worked its way around the new system, but issues should mostly be ironed out- please report any problems to the WikiCup talk page. Here are some participants worthy of note with regards to the bonus points:


 * was the first to score bonus points, with Portland-class cruiser, a good article.
 * has the highest overall bonus points, as well as the highest scoring article, thanks to his work on Enrico Fermi, now a good article. The biography of such a significant figure to the history of science warrants nearly five times the normal score.
 * claimed bonus points for René Vautier and Nicolas de Fer, articles that did not exist on the English Wikipedia at the start of the year; a first for the WikiCup. The articles were eligible for bonus points because of fact they were both covered on a number of other Wikipedias.

Also, a quick mention of, who may well have already written the oddest article of the WikiCup this year: did you know that the Fucking mayor objected to Fucking Hell on the grounds that there was no Fucking brewery? The gauntlet has been thrown down; can anyone beat it?

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 WikiCup/Reviews. 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. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 00:51, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

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Regarding request
Hi Gilderien. I'm not too hot on checkuser yet, it's not been my priority to learn about it though I no doubt will over the next few months. Best you ask another checkuser instead. Worm TT( talk ) 08:44, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

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GA
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