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WikiCup 2013 August newsletter

This year's final is upon us. Our final eight, in order of last round's score, are:

1. Hawkeye7 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer who has contributed on topics of military history and physics, including a number of high-importance topics. Good articles have made up the bulk of his points, but he has also scored a great deal of bonus points. He has the second highest score overall so far, with more than 3000 points accumulated.
2. Casliber (submissions), another WikiCup veteran who reached the finals in 2012, 2011 and 2010. He writes on a variety of topics including botany, mycology and astronomy, and has claimed the highest or joint highest number of featured articles every round so far this year. He has the third highest score overall, with just under 3000 points accumulated.
3. Cwmhiraeth (submissions), 2012 WikiCup champion, who writes mostly on marine biology. She has also contributed to high-importance topics, seeing huge numbers of bonus points for high-importance featured and good articles. Previous rounds have seen her scoring the most bonus points, with scoring spread across did you knows, good articles and featured articles.
4. Sasata (submissions), a WikiCup veteran who finished in second place in 2012, and competed as early as 2009. He writes articles on biology, especially mycology, and has scored highly for a number of collaborations at featured article candidates.
5. Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), the winner of the 2010 competition. His contributions mostly concern Naval history, and he has scored a very large number of points for good articles and good article reviews in every round. He is the highest scorer overall this year, with over 3500 points in total.
6. Ealdgyth (submissions), who is competing in the WikiCup for the second time, though this will be her first time in the final. A regular at FAC, she is mostly interested in British medieval history, and has scored very highly for some top-importance featured articles on the topic.
7. Miyagawa (submissions), a finalist in 2012 and 2011. He writes on a broad variety of topics, with many of this year's points coming from good articles about Star Trek. Good articles make up the bulk of his points, and he had the most good articles back in round 2; he was also the highest scorer for DYK in rounds 1 and 2.
8. Adam Cuerden (submissions) has previously been involved with the WikiCup, but hasn't participated for a number of years. He scores mostly from restoration work leading to featured picture credits, but has also done some article writing and reviewing.

We say goodbye to eight great participants who did not qualify for the final: Piotrus (submissions), Figureskatingfan (submissions), ThaddeusB (submissions), Dana boomer (submissions), Status (submissions), Ed! (submissions), 12george1 (submissions), Calvin999 (submissions). Having made it to this stage is still an excellent achievement, and you can leave with your heads held high. We hope to see you all again next year. Signups are now open for the 2014 WikiCup, which will begin on 1 January. All Wikipedians, whatever their interest or level of experience, are warmly invited to participate in next year's competition.

This last month has seen some incredible contributions; for instance, Cwmhiraeth's Starfish and Ealdgyth's Battle of Hastings—two highly important, highly viewed pages—made it to featured article status. It would be all too easy to focus solely on these stunning achievements at the expense of those participants working in lower-scoring areas, when in fact all WikiCup participants are doing excellent work. A mention of everything done is impossible, but here are a few: Last round saw the completion of several good topics (on the 1958, 1959 and 1962 Atlantic hurricane seasons) to which 12george1 had contributed. Calvin999 saw "S&M" (song), on which he has been working for several years, through to featured article status on its tenth try. Figureskatingfan continued towards her goal of a broad featured/good topic on Maya Angelou, with two featured and four good articles. ThaddeusB contributed significantly to over 20 articles which appeared on the main page's "in the news" section. Adam Cuerden continued to restore a large number of historical images, resulting in over a dozen FP credits this round alone. The WikiCup is not just about top-importance featured articles, and the work of all of these users is worthy of commendation.

Finally, the usual notices: 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. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! 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) 05:34, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Circumcision

Hi, Because my request was denied in four minutes and because your response had nothing to do with the content of my proposed edit, I'm wondering if you gave no consideration to what I actually said and purely denied my request on the basis of my not having edited wikipedia articles. I also wonder why you think that I am not "used to the challenges of reliable sources". I have posted in the "talk" section like you suggested. I have read the article on wikipedia consensus. How will I receive feedback from my post in the talk section to determine if it has reached a consensus? Kylepeer (talk) 17:37, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Probably one of the users, who is watching the page will answer you on the talk page of the article. (If they agree, than it's possible they make the edit for you.) Armbrust 17:52, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

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How to cite?

Hello, How do I message you about some help on a new article creation. I am almost done, but I have reached brain fog on proper citing methods..confused myself.. Rcnet1 (talk) 09:49, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

You can find information about this at Help:Referencing for beginners and Misplaced Pages:Citation templates. Armbrust 11:17, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Cat work

I haven't done much with cats, so please forgive me if this question is simple-minded, but I see some requests at Category:Candidates_for_speedy_deletion#Pages_in_category and I wanted to help out.
For example I see Category:1830s in Turkey with a notice that can be deleted, but also a notice that it should be renamed.
I know we "rename" articles by moving them to a new name, but there is no "move" option for the cat. So I thought perhaps it was a multi-step process, create the new cat, move the contents, then delete the old one.
However, I note the contents are supposed to be moved, and the target is red linked, so I was initially confused, but I think I see the issue.
The template says the rename is to Category:1830s in Ottoman Empire while the discussion talks about Category:1830s in the Ottoman Empire (With "the")
So maybe the template note is a simple slip?
It looks to me like the merge, at least of this one, is complete, and the old cat can be deleted. Is this correct? No need to do a rename, that has been taken care of, just a delete?--SPhilbrick(Talk) 13:52, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Exactly as you say. Categories are moved by creating the new category, recategorising the pages in the new category and than delete the old one. It's not necessary a slip. Maybe the proposal was modified on the daily log, but not on the category itself. The renaming/merging of the categories was already done, and now just the old ones need to be deleted. Armbrust 14:04, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

By "slip" I mean that I expected to see a blue link on the template, where it says:

This category is being considered for renaming to Category:1830s in Ottoman Empire

I think, and now am sure, it should have said:

This category is being considered for renaming to Category:1830s in the Ottoman Empire--SPhilbrick(Talk) 14:12, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, probably. Interesting, that they were added with the "the" to daily log in this edit. Armbrust 14:18, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

That explains it. OK, all cleaned up now, I think, Thanks.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 18:28, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Thank you too, @Sphilbrick:, for helping by the clean-up. Armbrust 05:14, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

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Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates/The Church at Auvers

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Vincent van Gogh - The Church in Auvers-sur-Oise, View from the Chevet - Google Art Project.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates. Adam Cuerden 23:22, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Been a while since I've done this. Still, just a matter of following instructions. =) Adam Cuerden 23:22, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for closing it. Armbrust 23:24, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks (ANRFC)

Hi Armbrust. Thanks for this edit. I was not aware of the manual archiving. I also previously removed this. -- Jreferee (talk) 14:18, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

 Archived both sections and two more. Armbrust 15:55, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

Danke

Hi Armbrust, Danke erstmal für den Sortierschlüssel. Wahrscheinlich gibt es da noch mehr. Ich bin auf der Suche nach der englischen Vorlage de:Vorlage:NONE, kann sie aber nicht finden. Wo versteckt sie sich? Gruß. --LezFraniak (talk) 16:20, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Ich weiß nicht, ob eine solche Vorlage hier existiert. {{Noflag}} ist die Vorlage, die es am ähnlichsten ist. Armbrust 16:27, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Hmm, nicht ganz das was ich suchte (CEB_European_Three-cushion_Championship), aber wieder was Neues kennengelernt. Danke. --LezFraniak (talk) 16:47, 12 September 2013 (UTC)  Done

Bot posts redlinked category

In this diff a redlinked category is produced. Thanks. – S. Rich (talk) 01:29, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

 Now resolved. Someone else already created the new category. Armbrust 12:59, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

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ArmbrustBot

Hello!

I've noticed that after ArmbrustBot empties a category that needs to be renamed, merged, or deleted, it edits the category to add a deletion notice or to convert it into a category redirect. It seems to me that the bot has a relatively high level of accuracy in identifying the most suitable categories for conversion into category redirects and I've noticed just a few that I considered unnecessary. What criteria does the bot use to decide which categories should be deleted and which should be converted?

Thanks, -- Black Falcon 17:49, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

That's a recently approved completely manual task. I mostly leave behind a category redirect in the following cases:

• The new name contains a character (like á, é or –), that are not readily available on every keyboards.
• The old category contains a former/alternative name of the new category name (like Category:Democratic Republic of Armenia).

If you think some of them are not needed, than feel free delete them. I have no objection against it. Armbrust 17:59, 15 September :2013 (UTC)

Well, that explains it. :) I was surprised that a bot would be able to detect with such high precision when a category redirect is needed (e.g., Category:Democratic Republic of Armenia) and when it is not (e.g., Category:Books about Jack the Ripper).

Thank you for explaining and your continuing work at CFD! -- Black Falcon 18:23, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Barnstar (Thanks)

Hi Armbrust. Thanks for Admin's Barnstar! -- Jreferee (talk) 04:59, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

You deserved it. Armbrust 17:33, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

CFDS

Hi Armbrust, I'm writing to you because you were the last person to edit Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Speedy (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) before I nominated Category:Giessen 46ers players for renaming via Twinkle. I think you may have broken some code, otherwise Twinkle wouldn't have added my entry automatically to the "opposed" section. Would you mind having a look? Cheers! Jared Preston (talk) 10:50, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

 Fixed Thanks for pointing it out. Armbrust 12:21, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

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RFP/C

Remember, our role is to help when and where possible. In most malformed cases, the editor simply says "please confirm me" and doesn't even sign. Not worth fixing. In this specific case, they provided very good detail as to who they were, why EXACTLY they felt they needed confirmed status. For the sheer lack of WP:BITE, repairing their submission was the smartest thing to ES&L 08:52, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Okay, if you fix one, than I won't removed it again. Armbrust 17:34, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Bot category replacements

I see that you replace a lot of categories with non-existant categories. Why? And if it is by policy, why not first create the categories? --Aaron-Tripel (talk) 07:46, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Because the the re-categorisation of the pages is completely automatic, while the creation of the new categories is completely manual and therefore slower. The new categories will be created shortly. Armbrust 07:52, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Now  Done. Armbrust 08:50, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks (Godot13)

For the fix on this nomination, it does look better. It appears I have not have gotten enough support. Should I resubmit down the road or in smaller groups? Thanks-Godot13 (talk) 05:02, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

It's probably a good idea to resubmit these later in smaller groups, as the nomination was unopposed. Probably you should also leave some time between the group nominations. Armbrust 05:07, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Your participation at WP:FFU

Hello Armburst! I see you have been active at FFU using the new AFCH and I thought I would stop by and tell you about some upcoming improvements to the script on that page and get some feedback from you for possible extra improvements! First, let me tell you about what is already planned and what is being done:

1. I went through today and updated {{Ffu‎‎}} to fix a typo with the "on hold - afc" message (https://github.com/WPAFC/afch/issues/180)
2. I added a new "declined - afc" parameter (https://github.com/WPAFC/afch/issues/181).
3. Both of these afc related parameters now accept a {{{afc title}}} parameter which will allow https://github.com/WPAFC/afch/issues/182 to easy add a link to the draft that caused the hold (or decline).
4. External links to internal pages will be automatically ignored in the future (https://github.com/WPAFC/afch/issues/183)

Tomorrow, I intend to add a similar parameter for upload requests for use on articles at XfD to allow linking to the XfD discussion in the "on hold" or "decline" message. So, now I would like a little feedback as to what you might like to see added or fixed in the future for FFU! Technical 13 (talk) 04:03, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

@Technical 13: Lately the script doesn't want to work. I have no idea why. I click on "Review request", than it adds "#ffu-review-6" at the end of the url, but the interface won't show up. Armbrust 17:56, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Armbrust, it took me a moment to find since it is working in ßeta and Ðevelop scripts... I've mentioned you from the edit request with what it will take to fix. Once that is done, WP:BYPASS and try it again and it should work fine. :) Technical 13 (talk) 18:38, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Armbrust 18:57, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

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ArmbrustBot removed category incorrectly

Your bot removed a category incorrectly. The category was Category:Schools damaged by arson on Thornden School, as seen here. I reverted this edit. If you disagree with this, then please let me know and put a note on my talk page to remind me to return here to respond. Thanks. --Jwikiediting (talk) 19:27, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Ummm. Jwikiediting, I believe that was correct as that category was deleted... Technical 13 (talk) 19:39, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

 Resolved Ahh, I have just seen that the category has been deleted. It was removed this month so I hadn't noticed since last time I looked (which wasn't long ago!) it existed. My mistake. --Jwikiediting (talk) 19:47, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

Talk:Mariah Carey#Request for Comment: Birth Year

Hi Armbrust. Thank you for your work at WP:ANRFC in closing discussions and clerking the board.

Thank you especially for reading and assessing the consensus at Talk:Mariah Carey#Request for Comment: Birth Year. I think there's a typo in your close: "bot" should be "both". Would you also indicate in your close whether there is consensus for this series of edits (changing to using both dates in the lead of the article) and this edit (changing to use both dates in the infobox)?

This may seem overly specific. However, I think the specificity would be helpful because of the numerous edits by editors who have disregarded the consensus by reverting the changes to the lead or the infobox or both. Best, Cunard (talk) 09:22, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

 Done Armbrust 17:49, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

2013 World Seniors Championship

Hello. I propose to rename the 2013 World Seniors Championship to the 2013 World Seniors Snooker Championship (and main page also). Some refs: There are many seniors championship in other sports. See also the logo with the "snooker" word. What do you think? NickSt (talk) 21:43, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

I don't think that's a good idea, most of the sources just use "World Seniors Championship". There are 8,810 hits for "World Seniors Snooker Championship" and 151,000 for "World Seniors Championship" snooker. Thus "World Seniors Championship" is the common name of the event. Armbrust 10:10, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 September newsletter

In 30 days, we will know the identity of our 2013 WikiCup champion. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) currently leads; if that lead is held, she will become the first person to have won the WikiCup twice. Sasata (submissions), Hawkeye7 (submissions)—who has never participated in the competition before—and Casliber (submissions) follow. The majority of points in this round have come from a mix of good articles and bonus points. This final round is seeing contributions to a number of highly important topics; recent submissions include Phoenix (constellation) (FA by Casliber), Ernest Lawrence (GA by Hawkeye7), Pinniped, and red fox (both GAs by Sasata).

The did you know (DYK) eligibility criteria have recently changed, meaning that newly passed good articles are accepted as "new" for did you know purposes. However, in the interests of not changing the WikiCup rules mid-competition, please note that only articles eligible for DYK under the old system (that is, newly created articles or 5x expansions) will be eligible for points in this year's WikiCup. We do, however, have time to discuss how this new system will work for next year's competition; a discussion will be opened in due course. On that note, thoughts are welcome on changes you'd like to see for next year. What worked? What didn't work? What would you like to see more of? What would you like to see less of? All Wikipedians, new or old, are also warmly invited to sign up for the 2014 WikiCup.

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. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! 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) 22:56, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Typo in Mariah Carey closing

Hello, Armbrust. In case you care, I'm letting you know of this typo ("bot" instead of "both") in your birth year closing at the Mariah Carey article. Though it's clear what you meant/mean, I figured that I might as well bring that typo to your attention in case you are interested in fixing it. I was, for a second, confused when I saw "bot possible birth years" (LOL). Flyer22 (talk) 23:22, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

 Fixed. Armbrust 23:24, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedians interested in Alternate History

Hello Armbrust.

I'd just like to notify you that the above category became empty as en effect of me changing the userbox User:Oren neu dag/my userboxes/User AH. So your bot nominated the category for deletion instead of renaming. Maybe I should've waited, and instead put a note in the speedy request to chance the userbox. But I guess it doesn't matter now, as there are no articles to recategorize.

HandsomeFella (talk) 16:12, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

The bot nominated the category for deletion, because it was speedily merged to Category:Wikipedians interested in alternate history. BTW at the time it processed the request, there were 3 pages in the category (Category:Wikipedians who read alternate history fiction, User:Neilckr & User:Imperator331.) Armbrust 18:03, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I realized, after a couple of other categories that I had nominated were changed the same way, that that is the way it works.

Cheers.HandsomeFella (talk) 07:15, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates/View of Jaffa

As I read it, this one's passing, because one of the opposes is only to Alt 1. Am I correct? I'm trying to get the urgents suitably populated. Adam Cuerden 13:43, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

By my count the original has 5 supports and 2 opposes, and with circa 71% support it's passing. IMO @Crisco 1492: only opposes the Alt 1. Armbrust 16:12, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Right. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:23, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for confirming this. Armbrust 23:56, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Indeed. Thank you both. Adam Cuerden 07:13, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

Mosconi Cup

Re. Mosconi Cup; when only two teams compete and one is declared the winner, won't it be redundant to list the loser? Regardless, I should have made separate edits, because the link density should still be reduced as per MOS — Deon Steyn (talk) 12:34, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

Which MOS? AFAIK overlinking doesn't apply to tables. Armbrust 12:38, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

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professional players
Thank you, "serious cat", for quality articles on professional snooker players such as Ronnie O'Sullivan and pool players such as Jasmin Ouschan, for your helpful bot, for living through retirement and returning, for encouraging others, for diligent work on infoboxes including your own, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:58, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Armbrust 07:01, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

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• EdwardsBot (talk) 03:20, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Template:Featured_picture_set

I've fixed this so it behaves more sensibly, while still allowing the old format. #ifexist is one of those things you don't to use too much, but is fine for a one-a-page thing. Adam Cuerden (talk) 11:46, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

And then I realised that, since it's subst:'d anyway, there's absolutely no reason not to allow the same File: or no File: in FPC noms, and updated. Adam Cuerden 12:12, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

About your revert

I've already read the WP:NOTNEWS, but there is nothing about the partial results... Csák (talk) 15:01, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Yes, there is. It says "breaking news should not be emphasized or otherwise treated differently from other information", and by making partial results italicized you violate the policy. Without that however it would be misleading, therefore they should be omitted altogether. Armbrust 15:04, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

First, this is your opinion, my point is partial result is such as important fact as the others, the policy relates to breaking news, when not clear informations are confusing. Second I remembering you to the three-revert rule you have already 2, don't test the rule! Csák (talk) 15:13, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

It's not just my opinion, Eternal Triangle (talk · contribs) was indefinitely blocked for it. If you want to be blocked too, than feel free to continue. Armbrust 15:16, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

I see. No argument, no discussion, no intelligence, just the force. Thanks! Csák (talk) 15:19, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

If you want to discuss this, than you initiate it at WT:NOT. Until you either follow the policies the community agreed upon or make yourself blocked. Your choice. Armbrust 15:22, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

I can not follow the policies the community agreed upon because there is no agree about this very example. But you have the force and wickedness to kick me out of the project, so I go away with pleasure. You win, I dont want to work on a project with arbitrary co-workers. Bye. Csák (talk) 15:30, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Barnstar (Obiwankenobi)

Moved Barnstar to User:Armbrust/My Barnstars.

Thanks. Armbrust 22:15, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Edge of Seventeen (song)

Just a small heads up, not that important. Unfortunately your good faith and helpful non-admin close of Talk:Edge of Seventeen (song) RM seems to have picked up a sock vote. 37.9.56.220 , but seeing as you didn't give weight to the sock's comment, I personally don't think it changes anything or justifies a relist, I'm just letting you know. Cheers and thanks. In ictu oculi (talk) 04:10, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. To be honest, his argument doesn't make any sense to me. Armbrust 05:27, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Whistlejacket

Was the edit not enough to claim credit? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:46, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

That's a little bit tricky. If you had cropped the image File:Whistlejacket by George Stubbs edit.jpg, than you wouldn't, but I'm not sure in this case. I mean the change is very minimal, but if you want it, than I can add it to your talk page. (The edit is mentioned on Misplaced Pages:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings BTW.) Armbrust 13:14, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

I have previously received creator credits from crops (User talk:Crisco 1492/Archive 8#Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates/Marrus orthocanna), though to be honest I didn't think it was worth it. For this, since it took about 15 to 20 minutes (rather than under 30 seconds like crops; had to get the textures lined up correctly), the ability to claim credit would be appreciated. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:31, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Also, in the similar case File:Shun Lee Crisco edit.jpg I received credit (although since that one was a couple hundred pixels, it was a bit more obvious what the changes were) — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:33, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

 Done. BTW what does "moi" mean on your userpage? Armbrust 13:39, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks a lot. Think Miss Piggy (i.e. gratuitous French; means "me") — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:04, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

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Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates/Sleeping Venus

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Giorgione - Sleeping Venus - Google Art Project 2.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates. Adam Cuerden 07:58, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for closing it. Armbrust 08:04, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Snooker Draw layout

Hello, i was wondering where you find the draw layout for past snooker tournaments, before you add them to Misplaced Pages. Many Thanks in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bodgey5 (talk • contribs) 17:18, 12 October 2013

I don't have such a source, but try to place the defending champion at the top of the draw. Armbrust 17:28, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Move to Ragamuffin War

Hi, Armbrust. Regarding your close of the above RM, were you aware that it was a partial revert of a previous RM, whose extensive discussion was archived by the proposer just before this proposal was made? Kanguole 00:18, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

No, but that requested moves discussion was closed more than a year ago and consensus can change. Armbrust 00:25, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

My view is that the failure to mention the previous RM, and indeed the hiding of it, has tainted this RM discussion, and it should be undone and relisted. Kanguole 00:34, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

I disagree with you on that. AFAIK there is no obligation mention previous RMs in a new one. Armbrust 00:39, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Well, disagreements happen. I've asked for review at Misplaced Pages:Move review/Log/2013 October#Ragamuffin War to get more views. Kanguole 01:03, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Wrapup of CfD Category:Duos and duets situation

Hello! I have been working on emptying Category:Duos and duets following the conclusion of the discussion at CfD, in which it was resolved to restore the original split into Category:Musical duos and Category:Duets. However, the template message on the page has not been changed since the conclusion was reached, and still says that the split is being considered. I was unable to find a template message to describe the result of the discussion. As the administrator who closed the discussion, can you resolve this, or tell me how to do so? Thanks for any help you can give. InnocuousPseudonym (talk) 03:34, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

AFAIK such a template doesn't exists. Armbrust 07:34, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks for clerking at RFPP, I appreciate it. Mark Arsten (talk) 05:17, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

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This picture I nominated had 100% support (one was weak), but you just marked it as "Not Promoted." I realize there were only a few votes, but wouldn't that suggest relisting for more opinions might be more appropriate than just closing it? -- Dougie WII (talk) 23:23, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

At Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates relisting is not an option, and an image needs five or more supports to be promoted. Therefore this nomination could be closed only as "Not Promoted". Off course you can renominate the image, but you shouldn't do that too soon after the first failed attempt. Also if you think your nomination isn't getting the attention it needs, than you can list it at {{FPCurgents}}. Regards, Armbrust 23:28, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for clarifying the process. I thought that box would show up automatically, guess not. This was my first featured picture nomination. -- Dougie WII (talk) 02:46, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

This happened with me too. The Spanish Wedding lacked one !vote to be promoted, but the renomination one month later was successful. Armbrust 02:19, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the fix on the Talk:A Real American Hero (TV film) discussion

I knew I was forgetting something ... after I saw your edit. I guess that's what I get for being about six months out of practice. Anyways, thanks! Steel1943 (talk) 05:03, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Be my guest. It was a really easy fix. Armbrust 16:26, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure entry

Hi, I assume you thought my  Not done here was inappropriate? My feeling was that since User:-sche's well-reasoned proposal had gone unanswered for a month, it should just be implemented. – Smyth\ 11:23, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

IMO it still needs a closure, event if it's only notes, that the discussion has been superseded by other discussions. Armbrust 07:20, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

OK, I have done so. – Smyth\ 13:35, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

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