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The content is continuing to pile in, it's great! Nothing significant this issue, but we currently have a straw poll going on regarding the point values of featured pictures, sounds, and lists. Garden., iMatthew // talk, and TheHelpfulOne
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Spencer (150)
Pool B
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Sceptre (35)
Spittlespat (10)
Pool C
Candlewicke (250)
Scorpion0422 (146)
Steven Walling (29)
Pool D
97198 (89)
ThinkBlue (37)
NapHit (31)
Pool E
Sasata (140)
X! (105)
Straight Edge PXK (9)
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Bedford (101)
the_ed17 (40)
RyanCross (32)
Pool G
Sunderland06 (107)
Ceranthor (67)
jj137 (50)
Pool H
Juliancolton (355)
Tinucherian (71)
Ottava Rima (28)
Pool I
Durova (462)
Theleftorium (264)
J Milburn (88)
Pool J
Climie.ca (135)
Paxse (134)
Useight (116)
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Thanks. I wasn't concerned so much about three links as the idea that you might significantly raise the link density throughout the article. That didn't happen, though. I'd be happy to review Glacier Peak. Finetooth (talk) 01:32, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
My RFA passed today at 150/48/6. I wanted to thank you for weighing in, and I wanted to let you know I appreciated all of the comments, advice, criticism, and seriously took it all to heart this past week. I'll do my absolute best to not let any of you down with the incredible trust given me today. rootology (C)(T) 07:43, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
Sure, I'm game. I'm currently working on bringing Sourou-Migan Apithy to DYK (and hopefully GA) status. I'm having a bit of trouble with Hubert Maga: it just failed GAR and GAN because a I'm ordering a book on the man (and his article is already 60kb long!) Are you willing to review it when the book arrives? ~EDDY(talk/contribs/editor review)~ 21:47, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Copyediting request
Hi. You signed up to my insane idea project a few weeks ago, and I was wondering if you could take a look at my latest work 2008 Chinese Grand Prix before I take it to PR. It's not too long, but any smoothing out there you do would be incredibly useful. Thanks in advance, Apterygial11:35, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
DYK nomination for 1848 Marlborough earthquake
Hi Ceranth,
Thanks for nominating this. Can I suggest an alternative hook that matches the sources better?
Well I found out that it wasn't the first mag 7+ in NZ for which written records exist, which means I had to come up with an alternative hook and also that gives me another article to write (the 1843 Wanganui earthquake), for which I know the DYK hook before I start! Anyway it's going to be in the next update. Mikenorton (talk) 13:15, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
We're still going strong. Couple of things though; please note that you must make it known you are in the WikiCup when nominating FAs, FLs, FPos, FPs, and FSs. This is to lower the possibility of bias. We're also changing the way you get to the next round. Now, the top two from each round get through, along with ten wildcards. This means that even if you're not in the top two you can still get into Round 2, so even if you're in the group of death you can still go through. Hopefully this will be fairer for all. We've also unfortunately had our first withdrawal - Truco has left the Cup. Best wishes for him in the future. Garden., iMatthew // talk, and TheHelpfulOne
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Catalan (254)
Pool B
Shoemaker's Holiday (233)
La Pianista (61)
Pool C
Candlewicke (400)
Scorpion0422 (249)
Pool D
97198 (148)
NapHit (63)
Pool E
Sasata (233)
X! (210)
Pool F
Bedford (202)
the_ed17 (148)
Pool G
Sunderland06 (142)
Ceranthor (134)
Pool H
Juliancolton (491)
Tinucherian (95)
Pool I
Durova (887)
Theleftorium (458)
Pool J
Mitchazenia (671)
Paxse (291)
Wildcards
Useight (250)
J Milburn (181)
Spencer (177)
Climie.ca (169)
Rambo's Revenge (100)
Tinucherian (95)
WereSpielChequers (77)
Wrestlinglover (67)
Rlevse (65)
10. ThinkBlue (57)
10. Skinny87 (57)
All scores are accurate as of the time the newsletter was sent out.
20:26, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Delivered by J Milburn, on behalf of the judges. 20:26, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Helen Keller pic
Probably should be cloned out rather than cropped out (already a tight crop as is), which is why I didn't do it immediately. You also could take a look at the original TIFF, which is slightly wider (though not much). I'd be glad to co-nom once it's cloned properly. I might have a go at it in the next day or two. Calliopejen1 (talk) 20:18, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
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Hi Ceran, you may not have spotted the various threads about FA and the Cup - but it looks like Sandy wants to know when a cup participant is at FA. See User_talk:Garden/WikiCup#Participating or submitting FAs etc. Hence I've declared my cup participation on Nevado even though we are in different pools, if you haven't already done so you might want to do something similar. Cheers WereSpielChequers16:06, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the deletion. It was a typo on may part and I hadnt figured out how to delete the article. The proper article is under 'Anopheles: Taxonomy' now. BTW some one has put a notability notice on this. The taxonomy of Anopheles is a HUGE problem. Only a limited number of species are involved in disease transmission. Some species use rock pools; others use tree holes; still others use discarded tires and similar objects. If you want to deal with malaria and other nasties it is essential to know which species is causing the problem in your area. Which is why there has been such an effort in this direction. DrMicro (talk) 17:52, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
Dear Ceran/Lord Sunday, Many thanks for your support in my RFA and I look forward to our next opportunity to work together. There's a full glitzy version of my acceptance speech here. PS When are you going to run? WereSpielChequers14:21, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
There's not really much to say this week, everyone is still doing well. There was a discussion on shortening the length of round one, but the idea is dead in the water. Thanks for contributing! GARDEN, iMatthew // talk, and TheHelpfulOne
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Pool A
Gary King (673)
Catalan (254)
Pool B
Shoemaker's Holiday (308)
La Pianista (62)
Pool C
Scorpion0422 (483)
Candlewicke (451)
Pool D
97198 (210)
NapHit (97)
Pool E
Sasata (262)
X! (210)
Pool F
Bedford (275)
the_ed17 (161)
Pool G
Sunderland06 (144)
Ceranthor (136)
Pool H
Juliancolton (559)
Tinucherian (100)
Pool I
Durova (1135)
Theleftorium (656)
Pool J
Mitchazenia (777)
Paxse (371)
Wildcards
Useight (325)
Spencer (215)
Climie.ca (203)
J Milburn (202)
Rambo's Revenge (110)
Rlevse (93)
WereSpielChequers (82)
Dendodge (74)
ThinkBlue (72)
Wrestlinglover (72)
All scores are accurate as of 22:40, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey I was just checking in to see if you were still working on my suggestions for GA? It's been on hold a week and I'd like to clear it as soon as possible. Let me know. Thanks. H1nkles (talk) 21:36, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Guys! Well it's Thehelpfulone's first time properly looking at the scores as he made this newsletter and he's impressed on how much work you have all done. It's a shame to say that RyanCross has withdrawn from the Cup. We have almost hit 200 DYKs, not far off from 100 GA's and Durova has passed the 1000 point mark on points, with 1347 points so congratulations to her! GARDEN, iMatthew // talk, and TheHelpfulOne
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Pool A
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Catalan (254)
Pool B
Shoemaker's Holiday (419)
La Pianista (66)
Pool C
Scorpion0422 (530)
Candlewicke (502)
Pool D
97198 (240)
ThinkBlue (141)
Pool E
Sasata (412)
X! (211)
Pool F
Bedford (284)
the_ed17 (169)
Pool G
Sunderland06 (157)
Ceranthor (137)
Pool H
Juliancolton (582)
Tinucherian (110)
Pool I
Durova (1347)
Theleftorium (840)
Pool J
Mitchazenia (779)
Matthewedwards (503)
Wildcards
Useight (396)
Bedford (284)
Catalan (254)
97198 (240)
Spencer (238)
Climie.ca (234)
J Milburn (216)
X! (211)
the_ed17 (169)
Sunderland06 (157)
All scores are accurate as of 17:15, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for signing up at Wikipedia:Peer review/volunteers and for your work doing reviews. It is now just over a year since the last peer review was archived with no repsonse after 14 (or more) days, something we all can be proud of. There is a new Peer review user box to track the backlog (peer reviews at least 4 days old with no substantial response), which can be found here. To include it on your user or talk page, please add {{Wikipedia:Peer review/PRbox}} . Thanks again, and keep up the good work, Ruhrfisch><>°°03:58, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi there. You flicked my DYK nom overnight (well, overnight in this bit of the world) - quite appropriately. I hadn't paid attention to what counted and what didn't re length. It is in any case now over the 1500 characters and I wondered if you'd consider revisiting it? Cheers. hamiltonstone (talk) 00:39, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi Ceranthor. I don't remember mentioning any sources for Glacier Peak, and I'm not finding any mention of them in the peer review. Can you give me something more to go on? Finetooth (talk) 21:35, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
I believe the note that reads, "I'll get back to this section, found a couple more possible sources" was your note to me rather than my note to you. Finetooth (talk) 22:13, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
We have 31 days left, just one month left in the first round. The first two months have already produced spectacular results, and we're hoping to see a great race to the end of the round. Get those nominations in for them to count for this round, but remember that any nominations that are not promoted before the end of this round, will still count for round two if you make it. We unfortunately had another contestant, What!?Why?Who?, withdraw this week and we wish them the best.
We saw some big jumps in content upgrades this week! We saw 33 new good articles, 3 new featured articles and lists, 8 featured pictures, 5 featured sounds, and 24 did you know items. (Also note, there are 111 good articles and 222 did you know items as of this newsletter). Keep it up during the final push to round two. GARDEN, iMatthew // talk, and TheHelpfulOne
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Pool A
Gary King (1012)
Spencer (292)
Pool B
Shoemaker's Holiday (566)
La Pianista (68)
Pool C
Scorpion0422 (580)
Candlewicke (580)
Pool D
97198 (313)
ThinkBlue (248)
Pool E
Sasata (480)
X! (211)
Pool F
the_ed17 (299)
Bedford (290)
Pool G
Ceranthor (177)
Sunderland06 (159)
Pool H
Juliancolton (604)
Tinucherian (112)
Pool I
Durova (1528)
Theleftorium (913)
Pool J
Mitchazenia (816)
Matthewedwards (625)
Wildcards
Useight (549)
Paxse (454)
Climie.ca (259}
Catalan (254)
J Milburn (232)
Rambo's Revenge (201)
Rlevse (129)
NapHit (99)
WereSpielChequers (92)
Howard the Duck (82)
Wrestlinglover (82)
Dendodge (78)
Steven Walling (69)
All scores are accurate as of 15:02, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
Contestants in italics are those crawling up behind the wildcards.
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ready to be drafted?
'WereSpielChequers' would like to nominate you to become an administrator. Please visit Wikipedia:Requests for adminship to see what this process entails, and then contact me to accept or decline the nomination. A page has been created for your nomination at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Ceranthor. If you accept the nomination, you must state and sign your acceptance. You also need to answer the optional questions to supplement the information your nominator has given. Once you are satisfied with the page, you may post your nomination for discussion, or request that your nominator do so.
I advise you to answer questions quicker (but thinking before answering them, of course), because some participant begin to lose patience. Ruslik (talk) 13:12, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
I think it's safe to say that this week is probably your last chance to nominate anything for promotion to count in this round, so start planning that all-important final push. Bear in mind that anything not promoted this month will still count in the next round if you go through. It's looking very close in the Wildcards section, so if you don't see yourself there, don't panic—you may not be too far off the pace! GARDEN, iMatthew // talk, and TheHelpfulOne
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Pool A
Gary King (1087)
Spencer (353)
Pool B
Shoemaker's Holiday (873)
Spittlespat (77)
Pool C
Scorpion0422 (788)
Candlewicke (658)
Pool D
ThinkBlue (386)
97198 (360)
Pool E
Sasata (581)
X! (215)
Pool F
Bedford (331)
the_ed17 (313)
Pool G
Sunderland06 (228)
Ceranthor (183)
Pool H
Juliancolton (632)
Dendodge (219)
Pool I
Durova (1932)
Theleftorium (1060)
Pool J
Mitchazenia (1167)
Matthewedwards (695)
Wildcards
Useight (648)
Paxse (468)
Rlevse (290)
J Milburn (288)
Climie.ca (262)
Catalan (255)
Rambo's Revenge (241)
Tinucherian (159)
Ottava Rima (159)
PeterSymonds (127)
Neurolysis (108)
WereSpielChequers (107)
NapHit (100)
All scores are accurate as of 12:12, 15 March 2009 (UTC).
Contestants in italics are just behind the wildcards.
Your RFA was closed as not reaching consensus. Please work on areas of concern and try again later. Thank you for your interest. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:12, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
In my opinion your RFA was not very bad, as the opposes were not particularly strong. I think your second RFA will pass (in 3-4 months), but you need to learn some things from policy before reapplying. Among them are:
Admins are expected to follow consensus, except in cases when this will violate a policy;
I advise you to think about other questions as well. The answers could be better, in my opinion. However, do not get much upset about this RFA, as I said above, the opposition was not strong. Regards, Ruslik (talk) 10:02, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
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Hi,
I am currently sorting out the 2008 German Grand Prix as part of MII. I was wondering whether you could copyedit for me, and generally point out anything that's wrong. Thanks,
Hi Ceran, hope your keeping well. Just to say that I think Wikipedia:COFFEELOUNGE is the first page I've declined a speedy on under one criteria and then speedied after a second speedy nom. ϢereSpielChequers12:33, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Mt. Redoubt
On 24 March, 2009, In the news was updated with a news item that involved the article Mount Redoubt (Alaska), which you recently nominated and substantially updated. If you know of another interesting news item involving a recently created or updated article, then please suggest it on the In the news candidates page.
List of earthquakes in Iran
Hi, I only just saw your message on IRC. A lot of those sortables don't actually work - fix them and then I'll take another look. :) — neuro(talk)(review)21:11, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
Request for peer review for asteroid 243 Ida
Hi, I noticed that you're listed as a volunteer for peer reviews of articles about astronomy, and you have some expertise in the area of featured articles. Would you be interested in reviewing 243 Ida? Wronkiew (talk) 05:23, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
There's an ongoing discussion on my talk page regarding reaching some of the goals of the FA for the workgroup. It you're active, can you voice your opinion, too? Thanks, ResMar00:15, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
What a brilliant finale to Round 1. With so little in it it was always going to be a tight contest, particularly in the all-important wildcard places. Congratulations to all those who have made it to Round 2, and commiserations to all who have been eliminated. I hope you continue to contribute as fully as you have been in the tournament, if not better!
As has been stated before, Round 2 begins Wednesday, April 1 2009. I hope you are all ready!
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The start of Round 2 has been in some respects an explosive one, with one user in particular almost in the triple figures after just a week. There are obviously contestants with no points or very few, but as it is so early in the round this can probably be excused. Keep it up everyone!
Note that due to unforeseen circumstances, Mitchazenia has been eliminated from the contest. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
In this round of the WikiCup, the top contestant from each pool, along with six wildcards, will advance to the next round. As of this newsletter, the current pool leaders are:
Pool A
Wrestlinglover (36)
Pool B
ThinkBlue (8)
Pool C
Ceranthor (80)
Pool D
Candlewicke (28)
Pool E
Ottava Rima (30)
Pool F
Scorpion0422 (36)
Current Wildcards
Climie.ca (30)
Matthewedwards (22)
J Milburn (16)
Rlevse (15)
Paxse (14)
Useight (12)
Theleftorium (10)
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User:Ceranthor/Archive 12 has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
and therefore, I've officially declared today as Ceranthor/Archive 12's day!
For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,
enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Ceranthor/Archive 12!
I restored text from your extensive deletions of Potentially impacted structures and features, which I assume were in good faith. It may take me some time to locate and add the appropriate references as I am quite involved with other work right now. If you consider the text itself unworthy of inclusion then that is a matter appropriate for further discussion.
Yes, that's fine. It was an attempt to remove the information that was not in any other sources I found. If you have them, that would be great if you could source them. Ceranllama chat post16:21, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
Actually, I do not have references at this time, other than a personal e-mail from a manager at BART, in response to my request to a BART director concerning the the Oakland Hills Tunnel. The writings are however based upon knowledge obtained through reading newspaper and magazine articles and material from radio and television shows and so references can be found but may take some time. I will assume that you do not consider the material doubtful at this point.
Note that the tag {{unreferenced}} is to be treated differently than the tags {{fact}}, which implies dubiousness, suggesting that if not subsquently referenced that the material should be removed.
If an article has no references, and you are unable to find them yourself, you can tag the article with the template {{Unreferenced}}, so long as the article is not nonsensical or a biography of a living person, in which case request admin assistance. If a particular claim in an article lacks citation and is doubtful, consider placing {{fact}} after the sentence or removing it. This will add a citation needed label. ... If a claim is doubtful but not harmful to the whole article or to Wikipedia, use the {{fact}} tag, but remember to go back and remove the claim if no source is produced within a reasonable time. (Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Unsourced_material) - Leonard G. (talk) 17:16, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
Re: UAA
15:47, June 7, 2008 Malinaccier (talk | contribs) changed rights for User:Ceranthor from (none) to Rollbackers (Trusted user)
Thanks for the message on my talk page. Can you do me a big favor, Please stop acting like you’re a Administrator. You only have rollback rights. I know what I'm doing on here. If you want to be a Administrator, Apply at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship.. Thanks.--Michael(Talk)12:30, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
In this round of the WikiCup, the top contestant from each pool, along with six wildcards, will advance to the next round. As of this newsletter, the current pool leaders are:
Pool A
Shoemaker's Holiday (156)
Pool B
ThinkBlue (79)
Pool C
Theleftorium (88)
Pool D
J Milburn (46)
Pool E
Durova (136)
Pool F
Sasata (131)
Current Wildcards
Ceranthor (82)
Ottava Rima (82)
Wrestlinglover (77)
Rlevse (63)
the_ed17 (49)
97198 (43)
Useight (41)
Scorpion0422 (41)
Candlewicke (38)
Matthewedwards (33)
All scores are accurate as of 15:31, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
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