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I haven't actually finished it yet so you will be able to see it's not about promotion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pancakedancer (talk • contribs) 06:34, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Ah, good work. It could use more sources, though. →Σσς. (Sigma) 08:31, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 February newsletter

Round 1 is now over. The top 64 scorers have progressed to round 2, where they have been randomly split into eight pools of eight. At the end of April, the top two from each pool, as well as the 16 highest scorers from those remaining, will progress to round 3. Commiserations to those eliminated; if you're interested in still being involved in the WikiCup, able and willing reviewers will always be needed, and if you're interested in getting involved with other collaborative projects, take a look at the WikiWomen's Month discussed below.

Round 1 saw 21 competitors with over 100 points, which is fantastic; that suggests that this year's competition is going to be highly competative. Our lower scores indicate this, too: A score of 19 was required to reach round 2, which was significantly higher than the 11 points required in 2012 and 8 points required in 2011. The score needed to reach round 3 will be higher, and may depend on pool groupings. In 2011, 41 points secured a round 3 place, while in 2012, 65 was needed. Our top three scorers in round 1 were:

  1. Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), primarily for an array of warship GAs.
  2. London Miyagawa (submissions), primarily for an array of did you knows and good articles, some of which were awarded bonus points.
  3. New South Wales Casliber (submissions), due in no small part to Canis Minor, a featured article awarded a total of 340 points. A joint submission with Alaska Keilana (submissions), this is the highest scoring single article yet submitted in this year's competition.

Other contributors of note include:

Featured topics have still played no part in this year's competition, but once again, a curious contribution has been offered by British Empire The C of E (submissions): did you know that there is a Shit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...

March sees the WikiWomen's History Month, a series of collaborative efforts to aid the women's history WikiProject to coincide with Women's History Month and International Women's Day. A number of WikiCup participants have already started to take part. The project has a to-do list of articles needing work on the topic of women's history. Those interested in helping out with the project can find articles in need of attention there, or, alternatively, add articles to the list. Those interested in collaborating on articles on women's history are also welcome to use the WikiCup talk page to find others willing to lend a helping hand. Another collaboration currently running is an an effort from WikiCup participants to coordinate a number of Easter-themed did you know articles. Contributions are welcome!

A few final administrative issues. From now on, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews. 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) J Milburn (talk) 11:46, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Jenna Rose for deletion

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The article will be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Jenna Rose (4th nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Rogerthat94 (talk) 10:45, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of The Dragon Family (disambiguation)

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Unnecessary addition of pp-template II

Hi, further to User talk:Σ/Archive/2013/February#Unnecessary addition of pp-template - this is a similar case. The {{pp-template}} is again handled within the documentation, which is part of {{class mask/templatepage}}. The use of {{pp-move-indef}} is debatable, since the only action of that template is to put the page in Category:Misplaced Pages indefinitely move-protected pages - but it's already in Category:Misplaced Pages move-protected templates, again because of the documentation. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:22, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

I just reverted this edit because the unbalanced <noinclude> broke every talk page transcluding {{WikiProject Cities}}; and that's in addition to the unnecessary {{pp-template}} mentioned above. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:27, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Blocked

Lowercase sigmabot (talk · contribs) has been blocked for repeating the above bad edit. Evidence to follow. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:09, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Here is a screenshot from Talk:Berlin illustrating the damage. Something similar happened to over 54000 pages. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:19, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Σ/Archive/2013 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Bug fixed. Sorry for the delay. →Σσς. (Sigma) 03:42, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Also, consider using the bot's shutoff page next time. →Σσς. (Sigma) 08:49, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Accept reason:

OK, thanks for fixing. I didn't use the shutoff button, this is true: but surely it's just a different link to Special:Block. Redrose64 (talk) 14:56, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Psssstt...the unblock request goes on the BOT's talkpage :-) (✉→BWilkins←✎) 09:56, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
...which redirects right back here. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:56, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) I think Sigma was referring to this when he mentioned the shutoff page. Changing the content to anything but true should disable the bot without having to block it. wctaiwan (talk) 16:32, 16 March 2013 (UTC)