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The February 2011 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive has begun!
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The Signpost: 7 February 2011
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Xiongnu
Hi, why did you reject the edits without explanation? Xiongnu was a people who established a nomadic empire that covers a lot of territories far beyond the modern region of Mongolia and Manchuria, and is likely to be connected with the Huns (if you see the latter article you will see them too). Thanks. --173.206.1.3 (talk) 23:25, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * That was a see also link, you removed that without explaining yourself, I'm well aware of the territorial boundaries of the Xiongnu, however, removing that see also link under the header was not necessary. —  Ancient Apparition •  Champagne?  • 10:29am • 23:29, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, if you check it again, I actually added a "see also" section (not removing that section) with two links in my edit, how can you remove it without an explanation? Thanks. --173.206.1.3 (talk) 23:34, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that, slight misunderstanding in regards to your edit. I added the template again as it was relevant to the article as it's about Mongolia before present-day Mongol occupation. Regards, —  Ancient Apparition •  Champagne?  • 10:59am • 23:59, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * OK, no problem. Thanks. --173.206.1.3 (talk) 00:03, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
 * By the way, you actually added two of the same template in different sections. Now I'm removing one of them. Cheers. --173.206.1.3 (talk) 00:21, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Whoops, my bad. Sorry about that. —  Ancient Apparition •  Champagne?  • 11:23am • 00:23, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Stephen Colbert
On behalf of WP:CHICAGO, I would like to note my appreciation for being one of the people that helped to raise the quality of the Stephen Colbert article.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 19:56, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks Tony :) —  Ancient Apparition •  Champagne?  • 9:09am • 22:09, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Volume LVIX, January 2011
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March 2011 GAN backlog elimination drive a week away
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Speedy nomations
I've just had to decline four of your R3 speedy nominations. Please be more careful in the future. Ucucha 00:53, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * The redirects were those contain improper capitalisation, I'm fairly certain that R3 covers that. —  Ancient Apparition •  Champagne?  • 11:55am • 00:55, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * No, it doesn't. In fact, redirects for improper capitalizations should be created in order to lead readers to the correct article. Ucucha 00:59, 26 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Drive-by tag much? Frank  &#124;  talk  00:57, 26 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Ah, my mistake I wasn't aware of WP:FNAME and having re-read CSD R3 I'll be more careful about future R3 tagging. —  Ancient Apparition •  Champagne?  • 12:00pm • 01:00, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

International polititical and religious rights union
Hi Ancient Apparition,

Apologies for overriding your speedy delete for International polititical and religious rights union. I thought the copy vio was a greater transgression. Cheers. Acabashi (talk) 02:05, 26 February 2011 (UTC)


 * That's fine, though I think you were right in overriding my CSD tag, the article was just a copy-paste from the organisation's website, the author appears to have a COI as well. Regards, —  Ancient Apparition •  Champagne?  • 1:09pm • 02:09, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 February newsletter
So begins round two of the WikiCup! We now have eight pools, each with eight random contestants. This round will continue until the end of April, when the top two of each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers of those remaining, will make it to round three. Congratulations to (first, with 487 points) and  (second, with 459), who stormed the first round. finished third with 223. Twelve others finished with over 100 points- well done to all of you! The final standings in round one can be seen here. A mere 8 points were required to reach round two; competition will no doubt be much more fierce this round, so be ready for a challenge! A special thanks goes, again, to for dealing with all bot work. This year's bot, as well as running smoothly, is doing some very helpful things that last year's did not. Also, thanks to for some helpful behind-the-scenes updating and number crunching.

Some news for those who are interested- March will see a GAN backlog elimination drive, which you are still free to join. Organised by WikiProject Good articles, the drive aims to minimise the GAN backlog and offers prizes to those who help out. Of course, you may well be able to claim WikiCup points for the articles you review as part of the drive. Also ongoing is the Great Backlog Drive, looking to work on clearing all of the backlogs on Wikipedia; again, incentives are offered, and the spirit of friendly competition is alive, while helping the encyclopedia is the ultimate aim. Though unrelated to the WikiCup, these may well be of interest to some of you.

Just a reminder of the rules; if you have done significant work on content this year and it is promoted in this round, you may claim for it. Also, anything that was promoted after the end of round one but before the beginning of round two may be claimed for in round two. Details of the rules can be found on this page. For those interested in statistics, a running total of claims can be seen here, and a very interesting table of that information (along with the highest scorers in each category) can be seen here. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on 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 WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:41, 28 February 2011 (UTC)