User talk:Tomcat7/2011/April

The Signpost: 21 March 2011
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Attack pages
Thanks for tagging that German page, but with an attack page like that there is a better tag to use than A7. The thing to do is, blank the page (to get the attack off the screen) and then add db-attack, or db-g10, which puts it in a high-priority queue for admin attention, and generates a suitably fierce warning to be copied to the attacker's talk page. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 18:20, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 March 2011
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Sonic recolor
This page most definitely is not nonsense. Please read the criterion: "Pages consisting entirely of incoherent text or gibberish with no meaningful content or history. This excludes poor writing, partisan screeds, obscene remarks, implausible theories, vandalism and hoaxes, fictional material, coherent non-English material, and poorly translated material." Any fluent reader of English will have no difficulty understanding the page, and thus it does not qualify for G1 speedy deletion. If you check the AFD, you'll note that I've agreed with deletion: my objection is strictly to the G1 speedy, not to deletion in general. Nyttend (talk) 22:36, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 March newsletter
We are half way through round two of the WikiCup, which will end on 28 April. Of the 64 current contestants, 32 will make it through to the next round; the two highest in each pool, and the 16 next highest scorers. At the time of writing, our current overall leader is with 231 points, who leads Pool H.  (Pool G) also has over 200 points, while 9 others (three of whom are in Pool D) have over 100 points. Remember that certain content (specifically, articles/portals included in at least 20 Wikipedias as of 31 December 2010 or articles which are considered "vital") is worth double points if promoted to good or featured status, or if it appears on the main page in the Did You Know column. There were some articles last round which were eligible for double points, but which were not claimed for. For more details, see WikiCup/Scoring.

A running total of claims can be seen here. However, numerous competitors are yet to score at all- please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. The number of points that will be needed to reach round three is not clear- everyone needs to get their entries in now to guarantee their places! 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 00:57, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

WP:HISTMERGE
Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently tried to give a page a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into another page with a different name. This is known as a "cut and paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is needed for attribution and various other purposes. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page. This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you. -- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 09:43, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Miles
This is the largest discography article I've ever seen, by far. If I was striving for my first FLC, I'd aim for something simpler.—indopug (talk) 08:59, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * No idea about what sales figure to use; the intense debate at Talk:Led Zeppelin thoroughly intimidates me. You do need to get that sorted out though. As for Coda, I guess there is consensus; but I've personally always considered it a compilation. I did not understand what you meant by, "What is your résumé?".—indopug (talk) 03:23, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Please don't put any CSD tags; just testing twinkle


Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and the page that you created has been or soon will be deleted. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia.

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 * Test things in your userspace, not in mainspace, please. BencherliteTalk 14:49, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 April 2011
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The Signpost: 11 April 2011
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Featured list candidates/Beyoncé Knowles discography/archive1
Hi. It has been 7 days and nobody has commented on the list. If you are free, can you please leave some comments? Jivesh   &bull;  Talk2Me  11:09, 15 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much. All issues . Jivesh    &bull;  Talk2Me  17:25, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Featured list candidates/Miley Cyrus discography/archive1

 * Can you please cross out the comments you feel were resolved. -- ipodnano05 * leave@message 22:03, 15 April 2011 (UTC)