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IP 109.240.131.27
That user will not stop vandalizing the rio page, and I see they even did something on your talk page. Any ideas? Johnsmith2116 (talk) 22:24, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, I just reported them to AIV. Woodstop45 (talk) 22:26, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Woodstop45. Hopefully now it will end soon. We can't be having a high traffic page like Rio de Janeiro continue to keep getting messed around with. Johnsmith2116 (talk) 22:30, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
 * IP is now blocked. Woodstop45 (talk) 22:31, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

Request on 23:43:44, 17 August 2016 for assistance on AfC submission by 162.245.21.61
Hello Woodstop45, thanks for taking the time to review the submission for Credible. Could you please provide additional guidance on achieving neutral tone? Previous reviewers have used identical language in rejecting the submission ("This submission appears to read more like an advertisement ..."). The article has been extensively revised to address the points about neutral language raised by previous reviewers, and now refers to more than a dozen "independent, reliable, published sources" including The Washington Post, NBC Nightly News, Bloomberg News, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Fortune, Tech Crunch, and Inc.

There are no opinions expressed in this article, and it is written in a tone that "neither sympathizes with nor disparages its subject."

Wikipedia editors are instructed that "a differentiation should be made between spam articles and legitimate articles about commercial entities."

The reason that you have given for rejecting this submission does not provide any specifics on why you do not consider this submission to be a legitimate article about a commercial entity, written in a neutral tone. 162.245.21.61 (talk) 23:43, 17 August 2016 (UTC) 162.245.21.61 (talk) 23:43, 17 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi, the reason why I declined your submission is because in some small parts of it, it seems to promote Credible. For instance; saying "Borrowers may turn to private lenders to refinance student loan debt in order to reduce the interest rate they are paying on their debt. In a March, 2015 report, analysts with Goldman Sachs Group estimated that $150 billion in government student loans could be refinanced at a lower rate by private lenders," seems to promote it. While the promotional aspects are pretty small, I think that some words need to be changed a bit to make the article more neutral. Another aspect (which is unrelated to the advertising part) is that some of the information needs to be put into different sections; for instance, "On Sept. 30, 2015, Credible announced that it had closed $10 million in Series A funding, bringing the total raised to date to $12.7 million," and "On Oct. 27, 2015, the Better Business Bureau determined that Credible met its accreditation standards, assigning the company an A+ rating. Dozens of consumers have reviewed the company’s services on the BBB’s website and Trustpilot.com," need to be added into a different section with more information included in the section itself. I also think that those two parts need to be changed a bit as well. I hope this helps! Woodstop45 (talk) 17:19, 19 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks Woodstop45. I have added an inline citation for the statement, "Borrowers may turn to private lenders to refinance student loan debt in order to reduce the interest rate they are paying on their debt." The Goldman Sachs estimate already had a citation. Neither statement promotes Credible -- they provide context about the nature of the business that the company is in, and the size of the market. I have created section headings as you requested and resubmitted the article. 162.245.21.61 (talk) 00:02, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Rollback granted
Hi Woodstop45. After reviewing your request for "rollbacker", I have [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&user=&page=User%3AWoodstop45 enabled] rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback: If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see New admin school/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! Widr (talk) 17:22, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
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Thank you so much! Woodstop45 (talk) 17:25, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Congratulations Woodstop! Even though you have rollback permissions, I recommend you to still finish my course so you don't accidentally make a mistake ;). Dat GuyTalkContribs 17:25, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I'll still be doing your course, I'm just trying to find a place when I can request an article's protection. I have already requested it once, but that was creation protection, I'm still trying to get either pending, semi, or full. Woodstop45 (talk) 17:35, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Now that you can use Huggle, I suggest that you check the histories of articles to see if the vandalism is persistent (if the edit is vandalism), or if there's a severe edit war in-place. Dat GuyTalkContribs 17:39, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I'll start right now! (or in 3 hours as I'll be busy with something in 20 minutes) Woodstop45 (talk) 17:43, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

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Hi Woodstop45, thank you for cleaning up my submission: Thomas Harte (Irish Republican). Im new to this and find the whole process challenging. My submission has been rejected twice due to issues with the "subject notability". Finding more information on a member of a revolutionary organization that was executed almost 100 years ago is difficult, I think I've gathered all available information on Mr. Harte. I tried to show how his involvement with the "S Plan" and how the newly enacted Offenses Against the State Act made his execution notable.

My question: would this short article have a better chance at getting posted if I included the several categories that apply: People Executed in Ireland by Firing Squad, Executed Irish People etc? Any suggestions you might offer are appreciated.

Again, thank you for your assistance. Palisades1 17:56, 22 August 2016 (UTC)--Palisades1 17:56, 22 August 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Palisades1 (talk • contribs)


 * Adding categories would help a bit, but the main issue is that there has to be a bit more references, and they have to be inline citations after the information which it is included in the reference. All of the information also needs to be split into different sections. That's all I can see wrong with it right now and I hope this helps! Woodstop45 (talk) 23:05, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

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Please remember to assume good faith when dealing with other editors. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.244.132.95 (talk) 18:40, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I left a message on your talk page. Woodstop45 (talk) 18:48, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Regarding deletion of page Jose Febles
Yes hi I would like to know why you flagged the page for deletion. Jose Febles was a well known musician and integral band member of Hector Lavoe's band. If you notice, he is referenced a few times on Hector Lavoe's page. I am his widow and I would like to post his bio and accomplishments to the new page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aidafebles (talk • contribs) 21:32, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello, the reason why I tagged your page for speedy deletion was because only putting "This page will house details of the life of musician, composer and arranger Jose Febles," does not indicate why he is important. Please see the message C.Fred placed on your talk page. Also, if you still think you want to write the article, try doing it first as a draft through the Article Wizard in a neutral form. Thank you, Woodstop45  &bull;  Talk   (Contribs) 21:37, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

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Request on 12:35:32, 17 August 2016 for assistance on AfC submission by Tirutirutiru
Hi Woodstop45, This is regarding draft of R Nandakumar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:R_Nandakumar Please see the references given with clear page number, publisher, and author. Do not understand what more reference is needed? Could you please advice?:

Citations by other Scholars

Parul Dave Mukherji, “The Making of Sakuntala: The Erotica and the Paradox of Representation”, Revisiting Abhijnana Sakuntalam: Love, Lineage and Language in Kalidasa’s Nataka, ed., Saraswati Sengupta and Deepika Tandon, Orient Blackswan, 2011, p. 90 – 110

Niharika Dinkar, “Modernity at the Crossroads: Sakuntala Looks Back in Love”, Marg (magazine), Vol. 61, No. 2, September 2009 (p. 54 – 59)

Niharika Dinkar, Colonial Shadows: Indian Nationalism and the Negotiation of Enlightenment Vision, unpublished doctoral dissertation, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2006, pp. 16 – 17

Geeta Kapur, When was Modernism in India?, Tulika (2000), p. 175

Yoshitaka Terada, “T. N. Rajarattinam Pillai and Caste Rivalry in South Indian Classical Music”, Ethnomusicology, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Fall 2000), p. 476, p. 488

Susan Visvanathan, “Uniformly Good”, Indian Review of Books (16 January 1997 – 15 February 1997),p. 47

Christopher Pinney, ‘Photos of the Gods’: The Printed Image and Political Struggle in India, Reaktion Books (London 2004), p. 215, p. 224

Dr. Ratan Parimoo, “The Significance of the Paintings of Raja Ravi Varma in Gaekwad Collection”, The Legacy of Raja Ravi Varma the Painter, ed. Prof. Ratan Parimoo (Baroda 1998), p. 4, p. 15

Ashish Rajadhyaksha, “Varma, Raja Ravi (1848 – 1906)”, Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema, ed. Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen British Film Institute and Oxford University Press 1999), p. 230, p. 541

Tirutirutiru (talk) 12:35, 17 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi Tirutirutiru, the reason why I declined your submission is as follows.


 * Some of the references were published by him and not by others
 * There are not enough references in particular sections to prove that information as accurate
 * The draft needs to be fixed a bit with it's grammar
 * Some of the information is not included in the citation given


 * I hope this helps you for right now, and I hope you have a good day! Woodstop45 (talk) 16:19, 17 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi Woodstop45, Greetings. Have removed certain lines without reference. As I mentioned there are not enough online references to show accuracy of certain parts, however, the citations and other publication details I have given has sufficient evidence for the notability and contribution made by Prof. R Nandakumar. He was conferred with the prestigious Senior Nehru Fellowship by Nehru Memorial Musuem & Library, New Delhi which is given only to scholars who have made significant contribution in their respective fields . I feel that Wiki should have the scope to include senior academicians who have many works published in print media, but have very little featured in online platforms. Prof. R Nandakumar's works have been repeated referred by Indian and International scholars to the likes of Christopher Pinney who received Padma Shri from Government of India.

My grammer is not that, English is not my mother tongue. Could you please advice from whom I could ask help? I have resubmited the draft. Appreciate your valuable support. Thank you. Tirutirutiru (talk) 02:17, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

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Surely you have better things to do. The editor is perfectly entitled to remove those messages. It would be disappointing if I had to point out WP:OWNTALK and WP:EW etc. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 00:38, 26 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Hello W. I was trying to post this but got here first. I will leave the rest of the message anyway. Thanks for your help in dealing with the IP sock of Bigshowandkane64. I wanted to let you know that - per WP:OWNTALK - editors (even blocked ones) are allowed to remove posts on their talk pages with the exception of declined unblock requests. So if this IP blanks their page again it is probably best to leave it alone. Again thanks for your help and cheers. MarnetteD&#124;Talk 00:41, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
 * , if something is block evasion by some known sock, it would be a REALLY GOOD IDEA to mark that in edit summaries. What I see is a whole bunch of nonsensical unexplained reverts of edits that do not appear to be bad edits; I just left a note for saying so. I think you are one of the ones who like WP:DENY a lot, but I've never seen the point of it, and look at what it leads to here. Woodstop45 is in fact guilty of edit warring and I could block them on the spot if I wanted to be a jerk about it. So y'all can claim to get upset because someone told you all to fuck off--but what started it all? The edit in Michael Brandon? What in here improved the project? If DENY is invoked just because one can, we're dealing with retaliation, not with improvement. Marnette, you know as well as I do that I've been dealing with this guy for a while, so I don't want to hear any nonsense about "enabling", but seriously, all of you need to consider that you are not helping the cause nor are you doing anything to deter our long-term fool from ceasing disruption. Drmies (talk) 00:54, 26 August 2016 (UTC)


 * The reason why I was reverting those edits was because the IP was a sock-puppet and in WP:EW it says that an exception to the 3RR rule is if the user is a sockpuppet of a blocked or banned user, and I knew that a user is allowed to remove warning templates, but I didn't know they were allowed to removed blocking templates, and I am sorry for doing that. I knew I should have said something about it being a sockpuppet in the edit summary and I know I didn't and I am sorry for that as well. Even though reverting edits don't help the cause at all, as they will just continue with another IP and start vandalising again, I still think that it still should be reverted anyway as if they just started vandalising and weren't a sockpuppet. I know I would be guilty for edit warring when I was reverting those edits, but in my mind was that the user was a sockpuppet and those edits were supposed to be reverted. I am sorry for my mistakes and I hope this clears up soon. Woodstop45 (talk) 16:48, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Woodstop, what I want to ask you is not so much whether what you did was right or wrong under this or that policy or guidelines. Rather, is it helpful to revert? What harm is done by not reverting? Was there any kind of racist or sexist message, was there any kind of damage in article space? If the answer to these questions is no (or none), then it may well be best to leave it alone. Leave it for the admins--worry about other things. You can revert a million times but you can't stop them from reverting; an admin can. Let them take care of it. As it happens this particular guy is kind of an idiot (personal attack, I know), but the thing is, rather than DENYing him, all that reverting just enables him more, gives him extra incentive. As an admin, I am less interested in editors being able to cite policy than them exercising sound judgment--that's all. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 17:53, 26 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Does that mean that whenever I see another one of his sock-puppets again, I just ignore it and wait for an admin to do something about it, or do I just tell an admin about it then leave it alone? Woodstop45 (talk) 17:52, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

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Future changes
 * On Special:Notifications, pages and counts related to disabled notification types will not be shown anymore.

Flow [ More information · Help pages ]

Recent changes
 * Flow is available as a Beta feature on Greek Wikipedia.
 * A satisfaction survey was conducted concerning Flow in September 2016. Results will be published in December 2016.
 * Wikitext interface for Flow is now using a monospaced font.
 * It is now possible to moderate a Flow topic that have been resolved without re-opening it.
 * It is now possible to watch and unwatch topics directly from the Notification panel.

Problems
 * It is not possible to enable or disable Flow as a Beta feature on wikis where that option is available. This is under investigation.
 * Translation icon cropped.svg Some Flow messages were not supporting . This is now fixed.

Future changes
 * Communities that have Flow enabled manually on user talk pages will be asked to move on to a Beta feature activation to simplify the process.
 * Notifications related to Flow will be grouped on your Notifications preferences. It will be easier to choose which Notifications you want to have from Flow.

Edit Review Improvements [ More information ]

Recent changes
 * Translation icon cropped.svg Informations about Edit Review Improvements project have been published. That page is ready for translations.
 * Octicons-tools.svg ReviewStream feed product description is available. ReviewStream is a machine-readable feed that’s designed to be used by a variety of edit-review tools.

Future changes
 * Some improvements will be done to Special:RecentChanges, by adding new filters based on ORES.
 * Some tests are done with users to refine the design of those filters. You can volunteer for such tests.
 * Communities that already have ORES  and   filters enabled will be contacted to try that change as a Beta feature.

Miscellaneous
 * On that newsletter, some particular items are highlighted by an icon, to ease reading. The Translation icon cropped.svg icon highlights items that may interest volunteer translators and the Octicons-tools.svg icon highlights items that are relevant for readers with technical knowledge.

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Tech News: 2016-42
<section begin="technews-2016-W42"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * There is a new newsletter from the Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation. It will have more details about for example Flow and notifications. You can read the first issue.

Problems
 * Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate last week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign had. This has now been fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning.
 * Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version.

Changes this week
 * There will be no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * The Editing Department are working on a new wikitext editor. It will have tools that are in the visual editor but not in the wikitext editor today. You can read more about this. This is an early plan and things can change. The old wikitext editor will still exist.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2016-W42"/> 16:43, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Draft: Paul Clark (designer)
This is about Draft: Paul Clark (designer). In August you put a copyvio tag on the draft. Could you please take another look at it and see whether the copyright violation has been removed? Robert McClenon (talk) 13:26, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I believe the copyvio is now gone and the tag can be removed now.  Woodstop45  &bull;  Talk   (Contribs) 17:20, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 October 2016
<div class="hlist" style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:28, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-43
<section begin="technews-2016-W43"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * The abuse filters had a problem and caught too many edits. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from October 26. It will be on all wikis from October 27 (calendar).
 * The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia".
 * About a dozen wikis now have numerical sorting in categories. If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can ask for it.
 * Some wikis that want numerical sorting in categories can also ask to use UCA to sort categories. The biggest difference is that characters with diacritics will be sorted together. For example, for most languages Ä will be sorted with A instead of at the end of the alphabet. This is not true for languages that have Ä as a character in their alphabet. Wikis that already use UCA are listed on Meta. Languages that can use UCA are listed on MediaWiki.org. You can test it.

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Tech News: 2016-44
<section begin="technews-2016-W44"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only.
 * Search now has an updated preference tab to configure the search completion suggester.
 * The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3rd (calendar).
 * Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "" field when editing templates.
 * Special:NewPages can now be filtered by page size.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg New MediaWiki deployments will be now based on MediaWiki 1.29.

Miscellaneous
 * The Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Collaboration Guideline is available for community review. Any feedback welcome, in any language.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2016-W44"/> 16:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 19
<div style = "color: #936c29; font-size: 4em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif"> The Wikipedia Library <span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">Books & Bytes

Issue 19, September–October 2016 by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: .9em"> Read the full newsletter 19:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
 * New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
 * New Library Card Platform and Conference news
 * Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links

The Signpost: 4 November 2016
<div class="hlist" style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:51, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-45
<section begin="technews-2016-W45"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Victoria Coleman is the new Chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation.
 * First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available.
 * Octicons-tools.svg for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using.
 * Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability.

Changes this week
 * The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 7 November.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 8th. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 9th. It will be on all wikis from November 10th (calendar).
 * Special:ActiveUsers will allow users groups selection.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 November 2016 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Image Thumbnail API and allow SVG files uploaded on MediaWiki to have XHTML namespaces. The meeting will be on 9 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * RevisionSlider will be enabled by default on all beta wikis, on testwiki, testwiki2, mediawikiwiki and de.wikipedia.org.
 * Upcoming holidays will impact deployments. The schedule has been published.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2016-W45"/> 23:01, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016-2017 GA Cup
--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:41, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup 2016 November newsletter: Final results
The final round of the 2016 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2016 WikiCup top three finalists:
 * First Place -
 * Second Place -
 * Third Place -

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:
 * Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a three-way tie with themselves for two FAs in each of R2, R3, and R5).
 * Good Article – MPJ-DK had 14 GAs promoted in R3.
 * Featured List – produced 2 FLs in R2
 * Featured Pictures – Adam Cuerden restored 18 images to FP status in R4.
 * Featured Portal – produced the only FPO of the Cup in R2.
 * Featured Topic – and Calvin were each responsible for one FT in R3 and R2, respectively.
 * Good Topic – MPJ-DK created a GT with 9 GAs in R5.
 * Did You Know – MPJ-DK put 53 DYKs on the main page in R4.
 * In The News – and, each with 5 ITN, both in R4.
 * Good Article Review – MPJ-DK completed 61 GARs in R2.

Over the course of the 2016 WikiCup the following content was added to Wikipedia (only reporting on fixed value categories): 17 Featured Articles, 183 Good Articles, 8 Featured Lists, 87 Featured Pictures, 40 In The News, and 321 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:52, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

We will open up a discussion for comments on process and scoring in a few days. The 2017 WikiCup is just around the corner! Many thanks from all the judges. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. ,, and

16:34:42, 28 October 2016 review of submission by Palisades1
HI Ive added some context to why the subject is notable (he was held responsible for the death of two Irish Police Officers which led to enactment of national level legislation that greatly empowered the State security forces). I would also appreciate a review of the footnotes/links as Im not sure how to correctly enter them. Thanks!Palisades1 16:34, 28 October 2016 (UTC)