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WikiCup Newsletter XXIII

The WikiCup Newsletter

The WikiCup Newsletter Round III, Issue 5 - July 5, 2009 Archive before | Archive after Pool leaders In this round of the WikiCup, the top contestant from each pool, along with four wildcards, will advance to the next round. The pool leaders are: Pool A Sasata (442) Pool B Scorpion0422 (389) Pool C Candlewicke (367) Pool D Theleftorium (486) Wildcard leaders Mitchazenia (290) Juliancolton (253) Ottava Rima (241) Wrestlinglover (228) For a full guide see Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/History/2009/Full All scores are accurate as of 16:17, 5 July 2009 (UTC) Content Leaders As of this newsletter, the following is a list of participants in this round with the most: Featured articles Juliancolton (1) Scorpion0422 (1) the_ed17 (1) Featured lists Scorpion0422 (4) Featured topics Nobody Featured pictures Sasata (1) Featured sounds Nobody Featured portals Juliancolton (1) Good topics Scorpion0422 (1) Theleftorium (1) ThinkBlue (1) Good articles Theleftorium (13) Did you know? items Ottava Rima (26) In the news items Candlewicke (21) For Round 1 stats, see Newsletter 10. For Round 2 stats, see Newsletter 18. WikiCup At a Glance As of this newsletter, the WikiCup participants have collected a Round 3 total of: 3 Featured articles 9 Featured lists 0 Featured topics 2 Featured pictures 0 Featured sounds 1 Featured portal 2 Good topic 46 Good articles 68 Did you know? items 21 In the news items This combines with the Round 1 totals and the Round 2 totals to make a grand total of: 28 Featured articles 56 Featured lists 3 Featured topics 177 Featured pictures 24 Featured sounds 3 Featured portal 5 Good topics 248 Good articles 515 Did you know? items 103 In the news items Biggest Jumps The difference between each contestant's point total from last week, and their point total from this week are: Rank User LF TF D 1 Sasata 311 442 131 2 Mitchazenia 160 290 130 3 Ottava Rima 134 241 107 4 Theleftorium 409 486 77 5 Scorpion0422 316 389 73 6 ThinkBlue 142 206 64 7 Candlewicke 319 367 48 8 Wrestlinglover 183 228 45 9 Juliancolton 232 253 21 10 Gary King 11 17 6 LF = Last Week's score, TF = This Week's score, D = Difference between last week and this week's scores This was generated from this diff. From the Judges Some did well this week, but a lot of you didn't move much. Some are still hanging under the 200 mark. Our current top 8 are all over 200, so if you are below that line, get moving! There is a poll up at the talk page about the rest of this year's competition. If all of you could give your opinion there, it would be very much appreciated. 'weburiedoursecretsinthegarden, iMatthew  at, and The Helpful One If you don't wish to receive this newsletter in the future, remove your name from this list. If you are not a participant, but would still like to receive this newsletter, feel free to add your name to the list.

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Hello

Hi I was away for ICSE examinations (10 class final) Thanks for your kind merry Christmas and happy new year banner (half the year is over).

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E Renault Talk + 16:03, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Adoption request

Promethean, I would like to be adopted by you. Your talents in contributing to Wikimedia projects has impressed me, and I think you may be able to teach this old dog some new tricks. How do we get started with you acting as my mentor? -- Thekohser 20:45, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi There, I kindly accept your offer as I will be more than happy to share the secrets of my trade. If there is anything you would like to know about Wikimedia and its projects (I'm sure you know enough about this one) or the more finer side of Misplaced Pages Administration than do feel free to ask. I will setup an adoption page for you shortly. I look forward to hearing from you.   «l| ?romethean ™|l»  (talk) 07:53, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Please let me know when the formal adoption page is set up and ready to go. Meanwhile, I noticed that a page into which you'd put an awful lot of work just got deleted by an administrator at Meta. I'd like some tutoring on how to avoid doing a lot of work that violates policy, then gets trash-canned, but maybe I should seek another mentor for that angle. -- Thekohser 14:04, 10 July 2009 (UTC) I apologize for the spiteful comment above. I think it would be best if I politely withdraw my request for mentorship, since that was just an attempt to make a mockery of you being a mentor. Apologies for that, too. -- Thekohser 17:06, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

An impostor?

Hello - someone claiming to be you has opened an account at Misplaced Pages Review. Can you confirm whether or not you are him or her? Thanks Peter Damian (talk) 10:01, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Sigh, can't even go on Misplaced Pages Review without people think its an impostor... - Yes it is me   «l| ?romethean ™|l»  (talk) 10:12, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Your post was quite naughty. Peter Damian (talk) 10:47, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Argh well, with naughty boy Gregory Khos running around at WR and meta I'm sure everyone will think I'm an angel :D   «l| ?romethean ™|l»  (talk) 10:58, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Meta/En.wiki

Hi Promethean - will you please keep Meta discussions on Meta? Thekohser has some severe restrictions on en.wiki; restrictions he does not have on Meta. Bringing acrimonious Meta issues between the two of you over here is unfair to him, because he can't really respond as he would probably like to. He has already violated his civility restriction with you on here, both above and over at the reliable source page. Could you please keep a discussion rooted on the project where it began? It would be appreciated. Happy editing. -->David Shankbone 16:38, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

I may not have a full picture of the timeline, but as far as I can tell, it was Thekohser who brought it to en.wiki with the above "request to be adopted". –xeno 16:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Dear David,

Whilst I'm well aware of your concerns, I must also impress that Thekohser (more fondly known as Gregory) approached me and asked me to be his mentor. Whilst I found his request somewhat bizarre given the happenings on meta that you speak of, it is something that I will fulfill to the best of my ability. The incident mentioned that occurred on meta has been laid to rest at last so that is no further need for discussion on that forum. I don't feel that Gregory has made any attempt to be uncivil to me and it is important to understand if it was it would only be able to be reported at ae by me (as it was a discussion between 2 people), something I don't intend to do as that would be un-mentor like. I can assure you that given that I have now adopted Thekohser, may aim is to help keep him out of trouble and not cause it. Kind Regards Brett 16:55, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

PS: Xeno is correct