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WikiCup 2011 October newsletter

The 2011 WikiCup is now over, and our new champion is Hurricanehink (submissions), who joins the exclusive club of the previous winners: Dreamafter (2007), jj137 (2008), Durova (2009) and Sturmvogel_66 (2010). The final standings were as follows:

Prizes for first, second, third and fourth will be awarded, as will prizes for all those who reached the final eight. Every participant who scored in the competition will receive a ribbon of participation. In addition to the prizes based on placement, the following special prizes will be awarded based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, the prize is awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round.

The Featured Article Award: Casliber (submissions), for his performance in round 2. Hurricanehink (submissions) matched the score, but Casliber won the tiebreaker.
The Good Article Award: Yellow Evan (submissions), for his performance in round 4.
The Featured List Award: Miyagawa (submissions), for his performance in round 4. PresN (submissions) matched the score, but Miyagawa won the tiebreaker.
The Recognised Topic Award (for good and featured topics): PresN (submissions), for his performance in round 3.
The Did You Know Award: The Bushranger (submissions), for his performance in round 1.
The In the News Award: Candlewicke (submissions), for his performance in round 1.
The Reviewer Award (for good article reviews): Wizardman (submissions), for his performance in round 3.

No prize was awarded for featured pictures, sounds or portals, as none were claimed throughout the competition. The awards will be handed out over the next few days. Congratulations to all our participants, and especially our winners; we've all had fun, and Wikipedia has benefitted massively from our content work.

Preparation for next year's WikiCup is ongoing. Interested parties are invited to sign up and participate in our straw polls. It's been a pleasure to work with you all this year, and, whoever's taking part in and running the competition in 2012, we hope to see you all in January! J Milburn and The ed17 00:49, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks and Congrats

Thanks for the Halloween treat... and congratulations on getting Vietnam Airlines to GA! You really put a lot of sustained effort into developing the article, and that's finally paid off. Here's to seeing it reach FA :) --dragfyre_ʞןɐʇc 15:02, 1 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Robinsons of Warsaw GAs

I don't mean to be nagging and normally I wouldn't ask again (since October 26), but my last question was archived with no response. I was wondering if you were going to follow through with the GA review at Robinson Crusoes of Warsaw (October 14). After leaving your initial comments you have not followed up on any of it, and like I said, my previous question about it was archived, or something. Volunteer Marek 03:18, 2 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Halloween!

Pinkstrawberry02 has given you some caramel and a candy apple! Caramel and candy-coated apples are fun Halloween treats, and promote WikiLove on Halloween. Hopefully these have made your Halloween (and the proceeding days) much sweeter. Happy Halloween!

If Trick-or-treaters come your way, add {{subst:Halloween apples}} to their talkpage with a spoooooky message!

Pinkstrawberry02™^talk 00:35, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Something for you

		The Airborne Warfare Barnstar
		In recognition of your copy edit of the Battle of Bréville, please accept the Airborne Barnstar. I am more than pleased with the improvements. Jim Sweeney (talk) 09:36, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't expecting it, but I'll take it. --Sp33dyphil © • © 07:22, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

See: Wikipedia:Contact us for providing permission to submit photos that you did not take. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 14:17, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File permission problem with File:Aboard a Boeing 777 during Frankfurt flight .jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Aboard a Boeing 777 during Frankfurt flight .jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either

make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
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If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-enwikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Russavia ^{Let's dialogue} 16:20, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I asked the photographer for permission to upload on Wikipedia, and he said yes, but I don't know how to upload the permission to OTRS. . --Sp33dyphil © • © 02:31, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

See: Wikipedia:Contact us for providing permission to submit photos that you did not take. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 14:20, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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I love you

hello Sp33dyphil,

A red rose to someone who is in my heart.

--'--,--@ the guy in n° 189.4.30.29 (talk) 02:11, 5 November 2011 (UTC)'[reply]

Awww, that's very touching. Although you're an IP user, I think I have an idea of who you are <3 --Sp33dyphil © • © 04:31, 5 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Murder of Selena

I would like to thank you for copy-editing the article for me :) I have some questions, why did you remove most of the celebrities that identify as being fans of Selena? And also, why did you put {{POV}} when you didn't identify the problems on the talk page so I can fix them? Best, Jona yo! ^{Selena 4 ever} 13:15, 5 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the celebrities because it violates UNDUE, and partially POV, because you seem to be glorifying Selena by listing every single celebrity who claims to admire the singer. --Sp33dyphil © • © 23:33, 5 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2011 runner up

Congrats mate! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 23:11, 5 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, Sp33dyphil. You have new messages at Abhishek191288's talk page.
Message added 15:14, 7 November 2011 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.[reply]

— Abhishek ^Talk 15:14, 7 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey my name is Meaghan. (Mfwilliams3 (talk) 19:54, 9 November 2011 (UTC))[reply]

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October Wikification drive

		The Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar
		This is given to Sp33dyphil for his fifth place appearance on the leaderboard. Congratulations! Nolelover ^Talk^·^Contribs 02:38, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

		The Bronze Wikification Barnstar
		This barnstar is also given to Sp33dyphil for wikifying 56 articles. Thanks for your work -- Nolelover ^Talk^·^Contribs 02:38, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help!

		The Guidance Barnstar
		I was on the verge of asking someone if such a tool existed, but you beat me to it. Thanks for the heads up on the duplicate wikilink identifier, most useful tool ever! Basalisk ^{inspect damage}⁄_berate 16:12, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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