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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 Hurricanehink (submissions) with 231 points, who leads Pool H. Piotrus (submissions) (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 Misplaced Pages: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 Misplaced Pages: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 Misplaced Pages 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 Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 01:09, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Valkyria Chronicles

I'm just wondering when you are gonna address the issues given out on the peer review. GamerPro64 (talk) 16:56, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q1 2011

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 4, No. 1 — 1st Quarter, 2011
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Project At a Glance
As of Q1 2011, the project has:

Content

• VG Project Main pages

  • Main project – talk
  • Project category – talk
  • Portal – talk

  VG Project Departments

  • Assessment – talk
  • Cleanup – talk
  • Peer review – talk

   

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  • Video game images – talk

MuZemike delivered by MuZebot 03:11, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

yankee stadium

I dont understand why my edits were taken down from about yankee stadium and considered vandalism. this is a homework assignment. i added a picture that i took of the yankee lockeroom during construction. i also mentioned that the hole from where the jersey was buried remains as part of the tour. i know this from working at the stadium and i believe it is just as interesting as the rest of the story of the jersey and man who did it Johnnyh24 (talk) 01:05, 7 April 2011 (UTC) John Hayes

Hello. When you upload images, you must first upload it from our sister site, the Wikimedia Commons. After this, you may file a fair use rationale in the image section and place it in an appropriate place. As for the mention about the hole from where the jersey was buried, it should stay. Make sense? Darth Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 01:22, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

I did put the image in wikimedia commons, but was uncategorized, i may have put it in the wrong part of the page, this is all new to me and just a college homework assignment about editing wikipedia. as for my text edit on the hole in which the jersey was buried, you said it should stay, but it was removed twice almost immediately and told it is vandalism — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnnyh24 (talk • contribs) 05:01, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, my mistake. I mistakenly thought that image removal was "vandalism." Thanks, Darth Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 19:00, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Test templates

Hi. I have undone the changes you made to the {{test}} family of templates. As noted in Template talk:Test, the templates retain their original wording and structure to accommodate editors who wish to continue using the versions made prior to the {{uw-vandalism}} template family being created. Modifying the templates the way you did only makes them superfluous to the uw-v templates, which defeats the whole purpose of keeping them this way. Titoxd 01:22, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Hmm, I see now. Thanks, Darth Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 01:32, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Edit war on Silent Hill (video game)

As you are a recent contributor to Silent Hill (video game), I'm just letting you know I have protected the article for a week as there is an edit war still continuing there. Should you wish to make contentious changes once the protection expires, please try to get a consensus on the Talk page first, or you may risk being blocked for edit-warring. (Note: I am copying this same, or a similar, message to all recent editors of the article - the prohibition against edit-warring applies whether or not you are right about the content) -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 10:03, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

My mistake - I'd looked at the wrong diff and had thought the edit war was continuing, when in fact someone had reverted an unconnected edit. I have unprotected the article. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 10:16, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

No hard feelings. At least the disruptive user has been blocked and will probably continue after his block. Darth Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 12:12, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Don't re-add the talk page post

When the person removes the post, it is assumed that the person has read the post. They are within their rights to remove things from their talk page, except for declined unblock requests while the block is still active and a few other exceptions. --Diannaa 02:40, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

For that, I am really sorry. I understand what you mean and I was only trying to help make sure the disruption does not get out of hand. Thanks, Diannaa. Darth Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 02:41, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

It's ok, you did not know that rule but now you know. --Diannaa 02:47, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Your comments are very much appreciated. I have a suggestion: Can you please close the discussion at Silent Hill since we have established consensus and remove Yomiel's impolite comment at Zebedee's talk page? Thanks, Darth Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 02:53, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

His comment has to stay on Boing's talk; I can only remove personal attacks, which this is not. I am not going to get involved in the content dispute at Silent Hill; that would give the impression that an admin has endorsed a particular version of the article. You folks will have to sort out the content dispute amongst the interested editors. And it looks like Y is asking for some coaching in how to add his citations! That's good. Please re-post at ANI or on my Talk if the problems continue. Good luck. Regards, --Diannaa 03:08, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments. Your words are very comforting. That way, we can fully resolve the content dispute at Silent Hill. All the best, Darth Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 03:10, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

By the way, Diannaa, I apologized to the user in question for this dispute and have resolved the situation and I have told the other admins that the situation is resolved and the RFC has been closed. Darth Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 03:39, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I just saw that. That was a great idea and will help diffuse the tension. I think Yomiel might be very young but if he is coached a bit he could turn into a good editor one day. --Diannaa 03:43, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

I know. I usually try and diffuse situations many times, but I had unfortunately lost my patience that time. So, for that, I apologize. By the way, is it possible if a user such as myself can get involved as an adoptee in the adopt-a-user program in helping newcomers out? Darth Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 04:03, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

I'm actually not very young, and I've been editing Misplaced Pages successfully for a while. I've only just created an actual account recently. I didn't bother due to frustrations with editors who use the rules to ruin articles people have worked so hard on. I saw it happen a lot. The infamous Wild ARMs debate was what finally made me lose interest in editing for a long time, and it still hasn't been fixed. Wish an admin would do something about that. Anyway, I had always been told that edits only needed to be sourced if people questioned whether or not they were true, since otherwise, you'd have to source pretty much every single sentence, and that would be quite impossible and messy. Perhaps this all could have been avoided if Golden had simply told me how to add sources, rather than just undo my edits and warn me.Yomiel (talk) 04:32, 27 April 2011 (UTC)