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WikiCup 2012 February newsletter
Round 1 is already over! The 64 highest scorers have progressed to round 2. Our highest scorer was, again thanks mostly to a swathe of good articles on The X-Files. In second place was, thanks an impressive list of did you knows about racehorses. Both scored over 400 points. Following behind with over 300 points were, , and. February also saw the competition's first featured list: List of colleges and universities in North Dakota, from. At the other end of the scale, 11 points was enough to secure a place in this round, and some contestants with 10 points made it into the round on a tiebreaker. This is higher than the 8 points that were needed last year, but lower than the 20 points required the year before. The number of points required to progress to round 3 will be significantly higher.

The remaining contestants have been split into 8 pools of 8, named A through H. Round two will finish in two months time on 28 April, when the two highest scorers in each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers, will progress to round 3. The pools were entirely random, so while some pools may end up being more competitive than others, this is by chance rather than design.

The judges would like to point out two quick rules reminders. First, any content promoted during the interim period (that is, on or after 27 February) is eligible for points in round 2. Second, any content worked on significantly this year is eligible for points if promoted in this round. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, 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 would 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 (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 00:02, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Wacht am Rhein
As you'll recall, the FPC got a little bogged down. I'd like it to pass a second time, so I was wondering if you think that launching File:Wacht am Rhein map (Edit 3).svg alone is appropriate. It would depend, for example, on whether you accept my viewpoint on the arrows. If you think that edit3 is the best (or 4, I have no opinion), then I don't know whether you have to nominate or conominate, or something. I plan to tweak it (minorly) following a suggestion on my talk page. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 11:54, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi. Yes, unfortunately the FPC got a little derailed and I can't help but feel that was in the most part my fault for adding so many ALTs and confusing !voters. [[Image:Face-blush.svg|25px]] I totally accept your viewpoint on the arrows. As I later said in the nomination, I hadn't considered that having the arrows at different widths and sizes gave the impression that some attacks were larger than others when in fact they just covered a greater distance.
 * I hope that with you not having a preference doesn't mean that I somehow caused you to become disconnected with the map. My intentions were just to improve on your work by tweaking things to Wikipeida's map style. My preference is for edit 4 with the slightly opaqued topography. You're right that it improves readability, because the elevations are not the main thing going on here and we want to see the lines and arrows without too much interference, but at the same time we can still see that it took place over raised terrain.
 * I saw the bit that User:Udisblizbadjoke wsa talking about. His image looks like there's a couple of arrows missing in this one. It's probably better if you just add them to the file that's already uploaded and upload over it rather than create yet another entirely new file page, especially since it doesn't seem like it's a major change. Feel free to nominate whenever you're ready. There's no need to conominate but if you're feeling particularly generous a nod as co-creator would help me in my WP:CUP endeavour! [[Image:Face-grin.svg|25px]] Matthewedwards : Chat  03:25, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, I think I've made the necessary changes to File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg. Good to go, do you think? I certainly hope so. (Oh, and I certainly think you should get points if it passes. We'll see what they think.) Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 12:28, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Something went wrong, it looks like you uploaded the original again... Matthewedwards : Chat  13:38, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry I don't know what you mean. This was your version, and then I made two smal adjustments: here and here. Those seem to only have done what I intended. (Oh, and thanks for the tidying up of the articles also.) Thanks, Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 20:46, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * NP. I can see the differences now, but I had to clear my cache for some reason. The first and third looked the same at first. Matthewedwards : Chat  21:49, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Nominated at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Wacht am Rhein (2). Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 12:18, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

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List of First Ladies of the United States
Hi Matthew,

Great job with getting List of First Ladies of the United States up to featured list status! I have nominated the article to go up on the main page in the Today's Featured List section. Some concerns about the article have been raised here. If you are willing to help address these concerns, it would be greatly appreciated.

Neelix (talk) 21:49, 10 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Matthew,


 * I have also nominated List of Blue Peter presenters for TFL, so any help with that nomination would be appreciated as well.


 * Neelix (talk) 21:57, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

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Television episode and season articles badly needed
Based on your userbox display, I thought you might be interested in the lists at Television_episodes.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 15:17, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

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I sent you an wiki email

 * OK, I'll read it. Matthewedwards : Chat  15:51, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Doon School edits
I'm suspicious. I think, and  are the same person. The user pages are very similar and make me recall some old Indian socks I dealt with many years ago (unconnected I'm sure) that followed the same pattern of "I'm from [insert Western location here] but am currently in [insert Indian location here]". There seems to be a class project wrt the school article on WP. If some accounts are socks then this affects the FPC and a deletion discussion on the school template. It seems more likely that Rick is at school rather than a "professional photographer", though the FPC was taken with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II noted on his user page. Rick's commons account has other uploaded photos with no EXIF data but similar small-web-page-size proportions that are suspicious. They could be legit but why not upload the original size? There's an upload of a poorly scanned photo of Rajiv Gandhi at the Doon School that was really taken |taken in 1985 and is almost certainly the copyright of someone else. Some admin-level investigations required? Colin°Talk 20:46, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi, Colin. I wouldn't like to hazzard a guess as to whom these people are. I noticed that most are new accounts and that most are involved in editing the school's article, and that they've posted on each others' talk pages. If they aren't the same person, it's a safe bet to say they all know each other personally. The Rajiv Ghandi photo we have is definitely not Commons suitable, but it does seem to be an alternate version to that at The South Asian Life & Times, at least from comparing size and colouring. I'm no photographer or image manipulator though so I don't know if it's possible to get one from the other. Some investigation into the editors may be warranted, but despite being an admin, I wouldn't know where to start with that! Matthewedwards : Chat  23:50, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

File:Matthewedwards.svg
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 * What a wall of text! Nevermind all that. The image is licensed under the GFDL-1.2 only template, which has been deprecated since 2009. You might want to switch it to something like Cc-by-sa-3.0 instead. Cheers! Kaldari (talk) 23:36, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Is the license depreciated on Wikipedia only, or in general? I tried to make it as restrictive as possible because as the file description says, it's just my sandbox for my svg files. Matthewedwards : Chat  23:38, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXXII, March 2012
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Happy Birthday (2012)
'''Wishing Matthewedwards a very happy birthday on behalf of the Birthday Committee! Armbrust, B.Ed. Let's talk about my edits? 14:49, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Long/lat lines
Just a quick note: I did do the one particular line you mentioned. It doesn't quite work on long/lat lines, I don't think, because of their odd curvature, so I didn't repeat it on the others. In any case, you're welcome to make any such alterations yourself, or nudge me further on them, I don't mind. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 18:39, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Will do :) Matthewedwards : Chat  02:27, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2012 March newsletter
We are over half way through the second round of this year's WikiCup and things are going well! , of Pool B, is our highest overall scorer thanks to his prolific writings on television and film. In second place is Pool H's, thanks primarily to work on biological articles, especially in marine biology and herpetology. Third place goes to Pool E's, who also writes primarily on biology (including ornithology and botany) and has already submitted two featured articles this round. Of the 63 contestants remaining, 15 (just under a quarter) have over 100 points this round. However, 25 are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly. 32 contestants, the top two from each pool and the 16 next-highest scorers, will advance to round 3.

Congratulations to, whose impressive File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg became the competition's first featured picture. Also, congratulations to, who claimed good topic points, our first contestant this year to do so, for his work on Featured topics/1982 Atlantic hurricane season. This leaves featured topics and featured portals as the only sources of points not yet utilised. However, as recent statistics from show, no source has yet been utilised this competition to the same extent it has been previously!

It has been observed that the backlogs at good article candidates are building up again. While the points for good article reviews will be remaining constant, any help that can be offered keeping the backlog down would be appreciated. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. 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 (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:22, 31 March 2012 (UTC)