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WikiCup 2015: The results
WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.

This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is. All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program. came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science. , a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.

Our newcomer award, presented to the best-performing new competitor in the WikiCup, goes to. Everyone should be very proud of the work they accomplished. We will announce our other award winners soon.

A full list of our award winners are:


 * wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 330 featured pictures in the final round.
 * wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 160 did you knows in the final round (310 in all rounds).
 * wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for 26 featured articles in all rounds.
 * wins the prize for fourth place
 * wins a final 8 prize.
 * wins a final 8 prize.
 * wins a final 8 prize and the FL prize for 11 featured lists.
 * wins the most prizes: a final 8 prize, the GA prize for 41 good articles, and the topic prize for a 13-article good topic and an 8-article featured topic, both in round 3.
 * wins the news prize for the most news articles in round 3.

We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2016 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

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Armenian Communist Party
Could you please elaborate the removal of "Pro-Russian" from the party's infobox? -- Ե րևանցի talk  12:47, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I accidentaly hit the enter button whilst writing the edit summary. I disagree with "Pro-Russian" or "pro-European" being put in infoboxes as ideologies. We should differentiate between ideology of a party (i.e. its core system of beliefs) and positions (on a particular issue). The fact that HKK supports integration with EEU is interesting, but the stance doesn't constitute an ideology as such. --Soman (talk) 13:13, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The party does not simply supports integration with the Eurasian Union, but is simply supports Russia in every possible way. Merriam Webster defines ideology as "the set of ideas and beliefs of a group or political party". The pro-Russia vs pro-EU/West divide is a major one in Armenian politics. Why is it that many European parties have "Pro-Europeanism" or "Eurosceptisim" in their ideology? You can't just dismiss it based on personal opinion. -- Ե րևանցի talk  09:10, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
 * To be clear, I generally don't agree with "Pro-Europeanism"/"Eurosceptisism" being added in other infoboxes. --Soman (talk) 16:27, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

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Bharatiya Pratiraksha Mazdoor Sangh
Greetings. I noticed you de-PRODed Bharatiya Pratiraksha Mazdoor Sangh. I am struggling to find any sources covering it, and the article for Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh is not large enough that even if such sources were to be found, merging would be a problem. I am of a mind to AfD it, but I thought I'd ask you if you had any sources first, and potentially save everybody some trouble. Regards, Vanamonde93 (talk) 06:43, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

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