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WikiCup 2010 October newsletter
The 2010 WikiCup is over! It has been a long journey, but what has been achieved is impressive: combined, participants have produced over seventy featured articles, over five hundred good articles, over fifty featured lists, over one thousand one hundred "did you know" entries, in addition to various other pieces of recognised content. A full list (which has yet to be updated to reflect the scores in the final round) can be found here. Perhaps more importantly, we have our winner! The 2010 WikiCup champion is, with an unbelievable 4220 points in the final round. Second place goes to, with 2260, and third to , with 560. Congratulations to our other four finalists –, , and. Also, congratulations to, who withdrew from the competition with an impressive 2685 points earlier in this round.

Prizes will also be going to those who claimed the most points for different types of content in a single round. It was decided that the prizes would be awarded for those with the highest in a round, rather than overall, so that the finalists did not have an unfair advantage. Winning the featured article prize is, for five featured articles in round 4. Winning the good article prize is, for eighty-one good articles in round 5. Winning the featured list prize is, for six featured lists in round 1. Winning the picture and sound award is, for four featured pictures in round 3. Winning the topic award is, for forty-seven articles in various good topics in round 5. Winning the "did you know" award is, for over one hundred did you knows is round 5. Finally, winning the in the news award is, for nineteen articles in the news in round three.

The WikiCup has faced criticism in the last month – hopefully, we will take something positive from it and create a better contest for next year. Like Wikipedia itself, the Cup is a work in progress, and ideas for how it should work are more than welcome on the WikiCup talk page and on the scoring talk page. Also, people are more than welcome to sign up for next year's competition on the signup page. Well done and thank you to everyone involved – the Cup has been a pleasure to run, and we, as judges, have been proud to be a part of it. We hope that next year, however the Cup is working, and whoever is running it, it will be back, stronger and more popular than ever. Until then, goodbye and happy editing! 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, Fox and The ed17 03:07, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

It's raining thanks spam!

 * Please pardon the intrusion. This tin of thanks spam is offered to everyone who commented or !voted (Support, Oppose or Neutral) on my recent RfA. I appreciate the fact that you care enough about the encyclopedia and its community to participate in this forum.
 * There are a host of processes that further need community support, including content review (WP:GAN, WP:PR, WP:FAC, and WP:FAR). You can also consider becoming a Wikipedia Ambassador. If you have the requisite experience and knowledge, consider running for admin yourself!
 * If you have any further comments, input or questions, please do feel free to drop a line to me on my talk page. I am open to all discussion. Thanks &bull; Ling.Nut (talk) 02:26, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Flaggedrevs verification
I verify that I am the same user here. — MC10 ( T • C • GB •L)  00:36, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

USS_Gonzalez_(DDG-66) edit
Good afternoon,

The last edit to the USS Gonzalez page was to update the aircraft carried and current leadership as well as remove dead and obsolete links. The edit was previously made by me under an anonymous IP in August and incorrectly reverted in a future edit.

Please E-mail me at pao@ddg66.navy.mil if you have further questions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Paoddg66.navy.mil (talk • contribs) 15:22, 6 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Your edit removed the references tag ( . But minding that, here are my two cents:
 * Use an edit summary. Do you see that box below the editing window that says "Edit summary"? Add an edit summary there for all edits.
 * Cite your sources, especially for article edits that change original content. Basically, put  right after the period of the sentence you wish to cite or after the last reference after the period.
 * If you need any more help, just reply. Cheers, —mc10 ( u &#124; t &#124; c ) 16:59, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LVI, October 2010
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Archive list problem with
I am having troubles with my archive box (located at User talk:MC10/Archive). Although I have set my archivelist to User talk:MC10/Archive list, my list of archives refuses to show up without being manually set by 1=. Is there any way to fix this, and what am I doing wrong? Thanks. Cheers, —mc10 ( u &#124; t &#124; c ) 01:43, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I see a long list.

* May 2006–November 2008 * December 2008 * January 2009 * February 2009 * March 2009 * April 2009 * May 2009 * June–August 2009 * September–October 2009 * November 2009–January 2010 * February–May 2010 * June 2010 * July 2010 * August 2010 * September–October 2010 * November 2010
 * Is this not what you want? Sven Manguard  Talk  03:14, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, this is what I want. How do I make archives recognize that list? —mc10 ( u &#124; t &#124; c ) 05:30, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually, with some experimenting, I have fixed the template. I have tlp'd the help me template. —mc10 ( u &#124; t &#124; c ) 06:07, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for James Charles Fahey
Materialscientist (talk) 18:03, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

GOCE Drive – Final push
Greetings GOCE Backlog elimination drive participant, We are now coming up to the last few days of the drive, the last for 2010. Currently, it looks like we will achieve our target for reducing the backlog by 10%, however, we still have huge numbers for 2009. We have 55 participants in this drive. If everyone just clears 2 articles each, we will reduce the backlog by a further 110 articles. If everyone can just do 3 articles, we will hit 165. If you have yet to work on any articles and have rollover words, remember that you do need to copyedit at least a couple of articles in this drive for your previous rollover to be valid for the next drive. There are many very small articles that will take less than 5-10 minutes to copyedit. Use CatScan to find them. Let's all concentrate our firepower on the first three months of 2009 as we approach the end of this final drive for the year. Thank you once again for participating, and see you at the finish line! – SMasters (talk) 04:05, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Talkback subst
Template:Talkback subst has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. cymru lass (hit me up)⁄(background check) 09:07, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thank you for your support at my RfA last week. I'll do everything I can to live up to your expectations and if you ever need help from a janitor please feel free to drop me a line! PanydThe muffin is not subtle 22:33, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
 * No problem. —mc10 ( u &#124; t &#124; c ) 00:51, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

GOCE elections
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November 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive Conclusion
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The Bugle: Issue LVII, November 2010
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Caleblbyers
HI, just letting you know that I have changed your CSD to G3. It is quite clearly a blatant hoax. Not that it matters much - it will be deleted anyway, but I will put vandalism warnings on the creator's tp. --Kudpung (talk) 19:00, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

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Wikipedia Ambassador Program
Hi! Thanks for signing the Online Ambassador interest list. We're gearing up for the next term right now, and the Wikipedia Ambassador Program will be supporting considerably more courses, with considerably more student activity... possibly upwards of 500 students who will need mentors.

If you're still interested, I encourage you to take a look at the Online Ambassador guidelines; the "mentorship process" describes roughly what will be expected of mentors in the coming term. If that's something you want to do, please apply!

You can find instructions for applying at WP:ONLINE. The main things we're looking for in Online Ambassadors are friendliness, regular activity (since mentorship is a commitment that spans several months), and the ability to give detailed, substantive feedback on articles (both short new articles, and longer, more mature ones).

I hope to hear from you soon.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 20:19, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Christmas mottos
The motto idea for those between 25th December and mid January needs consensus dtermined badly on which version should be used for which day or even whether the whole idea should be scrapped or postponed. Please help by discussion and determining consensus at WT:Motto of the day/Nominations and Motto of the day/Nominations/Specials. The deadline is Friday at 9pm UTC. Simply south (talk) and their tree 23:39, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

 * Thanks, SMasters. — mc10 ( t / c ) 04:22, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

GOCE Year-end Report
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WikiCup 2011
Hello. You are being contacted because you have previously shown interest in the WikiCup but have not yet signed up for the 2011 WikiCup, which starts at midnight. It is not too late to sign up! The competition will remain open until at least January 31, and so it is not too late to enter. If you are interested, simply follow the instructions to add your username to the signup page, and a judge will contact you as soon as possible with an explanation of how to participate. The WikiCup is a friendly competition open to all Wikipedians, old and new, experienced and inexperienced, providing a fun and rewarding way to contribute quality content to Wikipedia. If you do not want to receive any further messages about the WikiCup, or you want to start receiving messages about the WikiCup, you may add or remove your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on the WikiCup talk page or contact the judges directly. J Milburn and The ed17 06:49, 31 December 2010 (UTC)