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WikiCup 2019 March newsletter
And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2. With 56 contestants qualifying, each group in Round 2 contains seven contestants, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for Round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining contestants.

Our top scorers in Round 1 were:


 * 🇺🇸 L293D, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with ten good articles on submarines for a total of 357 points.
 * Pirate_Flag_of_Henry_Every.svg, a WikiCup veteran, came next with 274 points, mostly from eight featured pictures, restorations of artwork.
 * 🇩🇰 MPJ-DK, a wrestling enthusiast, was in third place with 263 points, garnered from a featured list, five good articles, two DYKs and four GARs.
 * 🇺🇸 Usernameunique came next at 243, with a featured article and a good article, both on ancient helmets.
 * Flag of the United States Library of Congress 2.svg Squeamish Ossifrage was in joint fifth place with 224 points, mostly garnered from bringing the 1937 Fox vault fire to featured article status.
 * Ed! was also on 224, with an amazing number of good article reviews (56 actually).

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews on 143 good articles, one hundred more than the number of good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Well done all!

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"False impression of a trend between illegal immigration and crime"
BBC: Migrants may be responsible for most of a recent rise in violent crime in Germany, research commissioned by the government suggests. The study used data from Lower Saxony, a state where more than 90% of the rise was attributed to young male migrants. 

If you are going to state someone's views are problematic at AN/I, atleast make sure your facts are straight. --Pudeo (talk) 20:04, 3 March 2019 (UTC)


 * I don't intend to start discussing immigration and crime in Germany ... because nobody's talking about Germany. None of that thread is about Germany. It's about the US. That's the area of EMG's edits that have been problematic; that's what nearly all (if not all) of the diffs/articles linked are about. That's what the list article that led to this discussion is about. So it's true I didn't feel it necessary to specify in every instance. That you have managed to find a separate country for which migrants may have something to do with a crime increase (a claim which even that article hedges on, but that's a different can of worms) doesn't really seem relevant to anything anyone is saying. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 20:23, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
 * For posterity, this concerns this thread.
 * Dive in the rabbit-hole and see how many parallels there are: Immigration and crime in Germany. Worth noting that many editors active there are also active in the US topic.--Pudeo (talk) 20:41, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Dive in the rabbit-hole and see how many parallels there are: Immigration and crime in Germany. Worth noting that many editors active there are also active in the US topic.--Pudeo (talk) 20:41, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: February 2019
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 * Great! Thanks very much. Looking forward to your review. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 15:03, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

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 * Great! Thanks, ! &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 19:35, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

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feel free to migrate this barnstar to your talk page, or delete it altogether if you don't want it there.
 * Gladly. I really appreciate that. Thanks. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 22:35, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

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