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AE

Not sure if these are relevant to your AE filing about Physchim62. Please have a look and feel free to use them if they are.

• After he made his "murderous dogs" comment, I asked if this is considered acceptable discourse here. His response was that he was calling a spade a spade.
• While looking up the two diffs I posted above, I happened to come across this, which seems like part of the same pattern.
• Did you notice that in his response to your filing, he calls on other editors to also use wikipedia as a FORUM?

No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 21:59, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

The top of the talk page quite clearly states that it is subject to ARBPIA discretionary sanctions, so I'm not sure if the technicality of receiving the warning prior to making the edits is relevant. By the way, he got the warning because I asked Tim Song to give it to him. I was getting pretty tired of the hostile environment he's creating there. I find it hard to believe no admin saw it as it was going on, but nobody did anything despite my specifically asking. I find that quite disappointing.

I'd really prefer not to get involved with that AE case. If you can use the stuff, by all means do so, but I won't post it there. No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 22:22, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Indo-Israeli relations

Popping off the same warning to the 3RR evading IPs on the article would have left your message with less feigned integrity. No need to answer this. Thanks. - TwoHorned _{User_talk:TwoHorned} 12:32, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2010 June newsletter

We're half way through 2010, and the end of the WikiCup is in sight! Round 3 is over, and we're down to our final 16. Our pool winners were Ian Rose (submissions) (A), Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) (B, and the round's overall leader), ThinkBlue (submissions) (C) Casliber (submissions) and TonyTheTiger (submissions) (D, joint), but, with the scores reset, everything is to play for in our last pooled round. The pools will be up before midnight tonight, and have been selected randomly by J Milburn. This will be the toughest round yet, and so, as ever, anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.

Though unaffiliated with the WikiCup, July sees the third Great Wikipedia Dramaout- a project with not dissimilar goals to the WikiCup. Everyone is welcome to take part and do their bit to contribute to the encyclopedia itself.

If you're interested in the scores for the last round of the Cup, please take a look at Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2010/Round 3 and Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2010/Full/Round 3. Our thanks go to Stone (submissions) for compiling these. As was predicted, Group C ended up the "Group of Death", with 670 points required for second place, and, therefore, automatic promotion. This round will probably be even tougher- again, the top two from each of the two groups will make it through, while the twelve remaining participants will compete for four wildcard places- good luck everyone! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox and The ed17

AN/I thread with threat from IP

Could you please take a look at the following AN/I thread: Idle threats or worthy of concern and see if you think this is something to be concerned about? Thanks,Cordelia Vorkosigan (talk) 00:06, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Blocked one of your long-term problems

188.225.180.251 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

3 months' vacation. Not that it will likely change the behavior, but at least give us some time without his POV edits. DMacks (talk) 13:01, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

?

Was it you who made the DYK: "that Mount Hermon was captured by Syria on the first day of the Yom Kippur War and recaptured by Israel fifteen days later?" ?

Also, you have some posts on all three Battle of Mount Hermon articles. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 17:55, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Could you help to copy edit an article?

The Holocaust's Arab Heroes Thank you.--Mbz1 (talk) 14:06, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Israel Projest

Thank you. I have joined. Very useful page.AMuseo (talk) 18:26, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

DYK for 115 Squadron (Israel)

— Rlevse • Talk • 12:02, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Alan Mcilwraith

Hello, please don't correct spelling mistakes in quotes as you did to this article. --Cameron Scott (talk) 06:07, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Help with new article

Hi, Ynhockey, could you please tell me, if you have a time to copy edit my new article Stealing a Soviet MiG? Thanks.--Mbz1 (talk) 06:10, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

WikiCup 2010 July newsletter

We are half-way through our penultimate round, and nothing is yet certain. Pool A, currently led by Sasata (submissions) has ended up the more competitive, with three contestants ( Sasata (submissions), Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) and TonyTheTiger (submissions)) scoring over 500 points already. Pool B is led by Casliber (submissions), who has also scored well over 500. The top two from each pool, as well as the next four highest scorers regardless of pool, will make it through to our final eight. As ever, anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.

Planning has begun for the 2011 WikiCup, with open discussions concerning scoring and flags for next year's competition. Contributions to those discussions would be appreciated, especially concerning the flags, as next year's signups cannot begin until the flag issue has been resolved. Signups will hopefully open at some point in this round, with discussion about possible changing in the scoring/process opening some time afterwards.

Earlier this round, we said goodbye to Hunter Kahn (submissions), who has bowed out to spend more time on the book he is authoring with his wife. We wish him all the best. In other news, the start of this round also saw some WikiCup awards sent out by Suomi Finland 2009 (submissions). We appreciate his enthusiasm, and contestants are of course welcome to award each other prizes as they see fit, but rest assured that we will be sending out "official" awards at the end of the competition. If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox and The ed17 22:53, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

VPC

— raekyT 23:54, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

My 2 cents on high schools

See User:Bearian/Standards#Notability_of_High_Schools_at_WP:AfD. Bearian (talk) 15:39, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Yavna/Yibma

It is possible that I have clinched this debate. Take a look. I don't know how such tings are closed. And whether, if we settle this one, it can be used as a precedent. There are many, many pages that should be merged, or reorganized to a modern city with subsidiary links to previous eras of settlement. Such as Antakya/Antioch.AMuseo (talk) 19:28, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Romanization for words of English origin

On the MOS:JP talk page, a discussion has been started about including or not including romanizations for words of English origin, such as Fainaru Fantajī in Final Fantasy (ファイナルファンタジー, Fainaru Fantajī) (for the sake of simplicity, I called this case "words of English origin", more information on semantics here).

Over the course of a month, it has become apparent that both the parties proposing to include or not include those romanizations cannot be convinced by the arguments or guidelines brought up by the other side. Therefore, a compromise is trying to be found that will satisfy both parties. One suggestion on a compromise has been given already, but it has not found unanimous agreement, so additional compromises are encouraged to be suggested.

One universally accepted point was to bring more users from the affected projects in to help achieve consensus, and you were one of those selected in the process.

What this invitation is:

• You should give feedback on the first suggested compromise and are highly encouraged to provide other solutions.

What this invitation is not:

• This is not a vote on including or excluding such romanizations.
• This is not a vote on compromises either.

It would be highly appreciated if you came over to the MOS:JP talk page and helped find a solution. Thank you in advance. Prime Blue (talk) 11:29, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Hebrew

Is this edit right? The Hebrew page has it as העסק הביש. nableezy - 19:47, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

העסק הביש is grammatically correct but nobody says that... it's known as העסק ביש 174.112.83.21 (talk) 03:41, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Oded Brigade

File:OdedBrigade.svg is much better than the fuzzy piece of crap I found and uploaded. I was deliberately using a low-resolution version, not knowing the ins-and-outs of copyright law in Israel, but it seems that was copyright paranoia. You speak Hebrew, right? I could find some traces of Oded being active as a reserve unit today, but nothing good in English and machine translation of Hebrew is less than perfect. You might be able to find some sources to bring the article more up to date than 1956. Fences&Windows 12:09, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Fosh (Haganah unit)

Is this article name correct? From my understanding of the opening sentence it should be "Push."--brewcrewer (yada, yada) 04:18, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. I understood that if if was an acronym for "'P'lugot Sadeh", it should be "'P'ush." I guess it was changed to avoid a name that was a variant of piss.[1] --brewcrewer (yada, yada) 16:01, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Also, I'm seeing a weird discrepancy here, and was wondering if you had any better sourcing. --brewcrewer (yada, yada) 17:51, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

FYI

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Question

I am in a discussion about a truly minor article about a project sponsored directly by Hassan Nasrallah and Hezbollah. I used "terrorist" along with "paramilitary" and "political" as descriptors of Hezbollah. The other editor removed the word terrorist and wrote, "calling them terrorists is not NPOV unless we have a RS indicating that they call themselves terrorists"? Can this possibly be Wikipedia policy? Because I don't think that a terrorist group that self-describes as terrorists? Thank you.AMuseo (talk) 11:57, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Can't reach you

I've been trying to reach you through Messanger and Skype. When are you going to be available? TheCuriousGnome (talk) 17:19, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Please share your opinion...

...here. TheCuriousGnome (talk) 16:33, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Need your help

Would it be possible to chat with you again through Skype sometime soon? TheCuriousGnome (talk) 18:01, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

List of Israeli musical artists

Shalom ! :) Thank you for not reverting me. I did this whole bunch of work to remove the non notable entries (those who weren't in the Hebrew or English Wikis) but I too understand why you reverted me. I wasn't aware of this problem when I started working on the article. But I think it's manageable and the "he" links can be removed, or added to a red link to english. What do you think ? Thank you in advance, 85.250.163.152 (talk) 20:19, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

You can do something smarter here: I will create a template. Rich Farmbrough, 20:26, 30 August 2010 (UTC).

This is the sort of thing I mean

* {{Interwiki if redlink|Gili Argov|he|גיל ארגוב}}

gives:

• {{Interwiki if redlink|Gili Argov|he|גיל ארגוב}}

Note, this would be limited to about 250 uses per page due to the calls to "#ifexist:"

Rgds, Rich Farmbrough, 20:35, 30 August 2010 (UTC).

Cool. Now who is expected to do all the work? Me? 85.250.163.152 (talk) 20:43, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

'tis done. Rich Farmbrough, 21:14, 30 August 2010 (UTC).

WikiCup 2010 August newsletter

We have our final eight! The best of luck to those who remain. A bumper newsletter this week as we start our home straight.

• Pool A's winner was Sturmvogel_66 (submissions). Awarded the top score overall this round, Sturmvogel_66 writes primarily on military history, favouring Naval warfare.
• Pool B's winner was Casliber (submissions). Awarded the top score for featured articles this round, Casliber writes primarily on natural sciences, especially botany and ornithology.
• Pool A's close second was Sasata (submissions). Awarded the top score for featured pictures this round, Sasata writes primarily on natural sciences, favouring mycology.
• Pool B's close second was ThinkBlue (submissions). Awarded the top score for good articles and topics this round, ThinkBlue primarily writes content related to television and film, including 30 Rock.
• The first wildcard was TonyTheTiger (submissions). Awarded the top score for did you knows and valued pictures this round, TonyTheTiger writes on a number of topics, including baseball, American football and Chicago.
• The second wildcard was White Shadows (submissions). Someone who has helped the Cup behind the scenes all year, White Shadows said "I'm still in shock that I made it this far" and writes primarily on Naval warfare, especially U-boats.
• The third wildcard was Staxringold (submissions). Awarded the top score for featured lists and topics this round, Staxringold primarily writes on sport and television, including baseball and 30 Rock.
• The fourth wildcard was William S. Saturn (submissions). Entering the final eight only on the final day of the round, William S. Saturn writes on a number of topics, mostly related to Texas.

We say goodbye to the six who fell at the final hurdle. Geschichte (submissions) only just missed out on a place in the final eight. Resolute (submissions) was not far behind. Candlewicke (submissions) was awarded top points for in the news this round. Gary King (submissions) contributed a variety of did you know articles. Suomi Finland 2009 (submissions) said "I'm surprised to have survived so far into the competition", but was extactic to see Finland in the semi-finals. Arsenikk (submissions) did not score this round, but has scored highly in previous rounds. We also say goodbye to Ian Rose (submissions), who withdrew earlier this month after spending six weeks overseas. Anyone interested in this round's results can see them here and here. Thank you to Stone (submissions) for these.

Signups for next year's competition are now open. Planning is ongoing, with a key discussion about judges for next year open. Discussion about how next year's scoring will work is ongoing, and thoughts are more than welcome at Wikipedia talk:WikiCup/Scoring. Also, TonyTheTiger is compiling some information and statistics on the finalists here- the final eight are encouraged to add themselves to the list.

Our final eight will play it out for two months, after which we will know 2010's WikiCup winner, and a variety of prizes will be awarded. As ever, anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox and The ed17 23:18, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

New Message for you at User talk:KosherNostraGang

User talk:KosherNostraGang left a message here for you, and also put the {{helpme}} tag on it. So I moved it from here to his talk page for clarity. You can find it there. -- Crazysane (^T/_C\^D) 14:24, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Well, as far as I can see the only mistake was including the {{helpme}} template. I see nothing wrong with posting here a request for Ynhockey to help, so I am copying it back here (below). JamesBWatson (talk) 14:42, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

New page by an absolute ignorant!

{{helpme}} Dear Ynhockey, I hope that so far you have survived my ambitious attempt to put a new page (Oz Almog) on Wikipedia. Just take into consideration it took me 3 days to decipher how to contact you! Please, can you help me improving the page?! I was adding and adding and adding citations, and cleaning and cleaning... nothing seems to suffice, although at this point it seems that this page has more citations than any other. I will do the final proof-reading myself, and very soon, but this notability issue is puzzling me - I mean, this artist had more than 50 solo exhibitions, there is hundreds of articles about his art (a small fraction is in on-line reading section)... No doubt he is notable enough, but it seems that the problem is in my lack of abilities (or maybe it's because he is a Holonian?!). Pls advise! Best regards from rainy Belgrade (Serbia) (KosherNostraGang (talk) 14:14, 1 September 2010 (UTC))

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Ron Prosor

Hi Ynhockey. You've tagged this page for grammar and style - can you elaborate on what needs changing? Thank you! Public1london (talk) 18:59, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Copyrights

I'm not sure, but I used the same copyright template that I saw on some of the IDF shoulder tag images in Commons, uploaded by somebody else, namely SouthCom. tag. So I added NorthCom. and GenSt. in the same way. Flayer (talk) 17:44, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Alas... Flayer (talk) 17:59, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Do you mind to remove your nomination for deletion form this one? It wasn't taken from any IDF/IDF-related website. Flayer (talk) 15:41, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Why do you think the uploaded didn't just take a photo of his own tag? It looks worn out and bent, amateur photo... Flayer (talk) 19:23, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

I see. Then what about lapel pins, patches? Flayer (talk) 19:37, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

If I find a trustworthy expert I let you know. Thank you for your contribution! Cheers. Flayer (talk) 19:50, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Your svg files are excellent! Flayer (talk) 20:00, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Question

Hello, Ynhockey. I recently noticed the page called "Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Israel‎" and commented on three specific terror incidents against Israel that have since gone kaput. However, at one of these I read where you commented that the "List of Palestinian terror events" would soon be gone and indeed it was. Does this mean that there is no place in Wikipedia where I can see a list of terror events perpetrated against Israel by the Palestinians? I am just wondering. KantElope (talk) 22:43, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel

Do you want to change this to List of foreign affairs ministers of Israel? It seems natural to do that... WhisperToMe (talk) 03:43, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Sounds good to me :) WhisperToMe (talk) 15:53, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Notification of WP:ARBPIA

As a result of an arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee has acknowledged long-term and persistent problems in the editing of articles related to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, broadly understood. As a result, the Committee has enacted broad editing restrictions, described here and below.

• Any uninvolved administrator may, on his or her own discretion, impose sanctions on any editor working in the area of conflict if, despite being warned, that editor repeatedly or seriously fails to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behavior, or any normal editorial process.
• The sanctions imposed may include blocks of up to one year in length; bans from editing any page or set of pages within the area of conflict; bans on any editing related to the topic or its closely related topics; restrictions on reverts or other specified behaviors; or any other measures which the imposing administrator believes are reasonably necessary to ensure the smooth functioning of the project.
• Prior to any sanctions being imposed, the editor in question shall be given a warning with a link to this decision; and, where appropriate, should be counseled on specific steps that he or she can take to improve his or her editing in accordance with relevant policies and guidelines.
• Discretionary sanctions imposed under the provisions of this decision may be appealed to the imposing administrator, the appropriate administrators' noticeboard (currently WP:AE), or the Committee.

These editing restrictions may be applied to any editor for cause, provided the editor has been previously informed of the case. This message is to so inform you. This message does not necessarily mean that your current editing has been deemed a problem; this is a template message crafted to make it easier to notify any user who has edited the topic of the existence of these sanctions.

Generally, the next step, if an administrator feels your conduct on pages in this topic area is disruptive, would be a warning, to be followed by the imposition of sanctions (although in cases of serious disruption, the warning may be omitted). Hopefully no such action will be necessary.

This notice is only effective if given by an uninvolved administrator and logged here. PhilKnight (talk) 21:32, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Editing advice

Ynhockey, you should avoid using rollback in content disputes, as you did here. PhilKnight (talk) 21:53, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Content dispute? That editor is persistent vandal who goes to article after article inserting POV edits, breaking 3RR, when he gets banned on one IP he moves to next one. Please review more carefully it is surely not a case of content dispute. LibiBamizrach (talk) 22:44, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

1973 Arab-Israeli War

I think, that politics and religion should be separated as much as possible. The term "1973 Arab-Israeli war" is a valid alternative for "Y-K war". The combination of "Y-K" and "war" is necessary for someone, who wants information about the mentioned war, because it's the most common name, but not not for someone, who wants information about Y-K. And if someone wants to read about the mentioned war (but typed only Y.K.), then the link would still be obvious! (And I hope, that as the years go bye, fewer and fewer people will want to read about the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.)

I'm no native English speaker —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.152.53.94 (talk) 21:58, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

WP:INTDABLINK

Per your note on my talk page, this is not an error, this is an intentional redirect as mandated by policy at WP:INTDABLINK, to prevent the page from showing up at the list of pages requiring repair. This prevents our hard-working disambiguators from wasting literally thousands of hours checking and rechecking intentional links among the approximately 900,000 disambig links requiring repair. Cheers! bd2412 T 21:43, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Request for comment on Talk: 1920 in Palestine (British administered/Mandate)

Hi Ynhockey! I would like to hear your opinion on this issue. Shana Tova, Davshul (talk) 22:30, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Help on my article EarlySense

Dear Ynhockey, You gave me some help when I started writing my article on a company I wrote on - EarlySense, and referenced me to do some cleanup which I did (I hope). Problem is someone attacked me without any apparent reason that it looks like an advertisement :( Therefore I deleted a lot of stuff and now it looks like list of facts ( which I am actually considering removing since now it seems too dry writing with too many tedious details) PLEASE help me remove this ugly notice! Thank you very much Kerenya (talk) 13:57, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Merge discussion for Adulam Grove Nature Reserve

An article called Adulam Grove Nature Reserve, has been proposed for a merge with another article. Your input would be appreciated; please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Sreifa (talk) 17:26, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Amos Yarkoni

Hi Ynhockey, I'm searching for a free picture of Amos Yarkoni I could use at Spanish Wikipedia and other projects as well. There is one here, but I cannot use that because its fair use. I know you're from Israel and you served the IDF, so may be you know some sources we can use to upload the picture. I want something like this, I would be grateful so much for your help. Regards, Kordas (sínome!) 14:05, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

WikiCup 2010 September newsletter

We are half-way through our final round, entering the home straight. TonyTheTiger (submissions) leads at the time of writing with 1180 points, immediately followed by Sasata (submissions) with 1175 points. Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) closely follows in third place with 1100 points. For those who are interested, data about the finalists has been compiled at Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2010/finalists, while a list of content submitted by all WikiCup contestants prior to this round has been compiled at Wikipedia:WikiCup/History/2010/Submissions. As ever, anything contestants worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.

Despite controversy, the WikiCup remains open. Signups for next year's competition are more than welcome, and suggestions for how next year's competition will work are appreciated at Wikipedia talk:WikiCup/Scoring. More general comments and discussions should be directed at the WikiCup talk page. One month remains in the 2010 WikiCup, after which we will know our champion. Good luck everyone! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox and The ed17 23:11, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

I hope that you will take a look at the wikibias website.~~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by RockvilleMD (talk • contribs) 15:49, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Please share your opinion...

...here. TheCuriousGnome (talk) 01:27, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Amos Yarkoni pic

Hi Ynhockey :) To answer your question about the Amos Yarkoni picture, no, it didn't say when the picture was taken :( Sorry! AWN2 (talk) 09:41, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Nava Applebaum

Thank you for the help at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nava Applebaum. The article is now on the front page as a DYK.--brewcrewer (yada, yada) 04:24, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Should the Old City of Jerusalem and the Walls of Jerusalem be included in this template

Please share your knowledge on this matter here. TheCuriousGnome (talk) 19:47, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

genuineness of a photo

Hi, can you take a look at this please? Do the uniforms indicate anything? Thanks. Zero^talk 13:41, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

WikiCup 2010 October newsletter

The 2010 WikiCup is over! It has been a long journey, but what has been achieved is impressive: combined, participants have produced over seventy featured articles, over five hundred good articles, over fifty featured lists, over one thousand one hundred "did you know" entries, in addition to various other pieces of recognised content. A full list (which has yet to be updated to reflect the scores in the final round) can be found here. Perhaps more importantly, we have our winner! The 2010 WikiCup champion is Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), with an unbelievable 4220 points in the final round. Second place goes to TonyTheTiger (submissions), with 2260, and third to Casliber (submissions), with 560. Congratulations to our other four finalists – White Shadows (submissions), William S. Saturn (submissions), Staxringold (submissions) and ThinkBlue (submissions). Also, congratulations to Sasata (submissions), who withdrew from the competition with an impressive 2685 points earlier in this round.

Prizes will also be going to those who claimed the most points for different types of content in a single round. It was decided that the prizes would be awarded for those with the highest in a round, rather than overall, so that the finalists did not have an unfair advantage. Winning the featured article prize is Casliber (submissions), for five featured articles in round 4. Winning the good article prize is Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), for eighty-one good articles in round 5. Winning the featured list prize is Staxringold (submissions), for six featured lists in round 1. Winning the picture and sound award is Jujutacular (submissions), for four featured pictures in round 3. Winning the topic award is Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), for forty-seven articles in various good topics in round 5. Winning the "did you know" award is TonyTheTiger (submissions), for over one hundred did you knows is round 5. Finally, winning the in the news award is Candlewicke (submissions), for nineteen articles in the news in round three.

The WikiCup has faced criticism in the last month – hopefully, we will take something positive from it and create a better contest for next year. Like Wikipedia itself, the Cup is a work in progress, and ideas for how it should work are more than welcome on the WikiCup talk page and on the scoring talk page. Also, people are more than welcome to sign up for next year's competition on the signup page. Well done and thank you to everyone involved – the Cup has been a pleasure to run, and we, as judges, have been proud to be a part of it. We hope that next year, however the Cup is working, and whoever is running it, it will be back, stronger and more popular than ever. Until then, goodbye and happy editing! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox and The ed17 03:14, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

WikiCup 2010 Ribbon of Participation

		The WikiCup 2010 Ribbon of Participation
		Awarded to Ynhockey, for participation in the 2010 WikiCup. J Milburn, Fox and The ed17 09:01, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

sleeper account

Shalom! How are you? (Israeli etiquette) Please, can you examine this and give me your opinion,

- at the discusion Should the Old City of Jerusalem and the Walls of Jerusalem be included in this template about this Template:World Heritage Sites in Israel I noticed a new (to me) guy Asad112 edit waring and as usual I checked his contributions and found some gaps [2]:

1. 15:14, 2 May 2010 (diff | hist) Dead Sea Scrolls ‎
2. 16:35, 9 June 2009 (diff | hist) Pan-Africanism ‎ (→See also)
3. 16:33, 9 June 2009 (diff | hist) Malcolm X ‎
4. 16:31, 9 June 2009 (diff | hist) Malcolm X ‎
5. 19:47, 11 November 2008 (diff | hist) Islam in the United States ‎ (→Nation of Islam)
6. 04:30, 26 August 2006 (diff | hist) Mumia Abu-Jamal ‎
7. 04:46, 14 June 2006 (diff | hist) The Marked Men ‎

Subsequently I asked him if his was a sleeper account and he answered.[3]

Is that an acknowledgment and where do we go from there (I am still learning the ropes)? Many thanks in advance, bivrachah, Hope&Act3! (talk) 14:14, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your answer, I do have an idea of his 'identity' but I'm afraid my proof might be too light yet, I'll wait for the time being, Asad contacted me... claiming innocence (I do have sympathy for lions, the four legged ones, those don't cheat), cheers, Hope&Act3! (talk) 23:50, 2 November 2010 (UTC)