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WikiCup 2011 July newsletter

The finals are upon us; we're down to the last few. One of the eight remaining contestants will be this year's WikiCup champion! 150 was the score needed to progress to the final; just under double the 76 required to reach round 4, and more than triple the 41 required to reach round 3. Our eight finalists are:

• Casliber (submissions), Pool A's winner. Casliber has the highest total score in the competition, with 1528, the bulk of which is made up of 8 featured articles. He has the highest number of total featured articles (8, 1 of which was eligible for double points) and total did you knows (72) of any finalist. Casliber writes mostly on biology, including ornithology, botany and mycology.
• PresN (submissions), Pool B's winner and the highest scorer this round. PresN is the only finalist who has scored featured topic points, and he has gathered an impressive 330, but most of his points come from his 4 featured articles, one of which scored double. PresN writes mostly on video games and the Hugo Awards.
• Hurricanehink (submissions), Pool A's runner-up. Hurricanehink's points are mostly from his 30 good articles, more than any other finalist, and he is also the only finalist to score good topic points. Hurricanehink, as his name suggests, writes mostly on meteorology.
• Wizardman (submissions), Pool B's runner-up. Wizardman has completed 86 good article reviews, more than any other finalist, but most of his points come from his 2 featured articles. Wizardman writes mostly on American sport, especially baseball.
• Miyagawa (submissions), the "fastest loser" (Pool A). Miyagawa has written 3 featured lists, one of which was awarded double points, more than any other finalist, but he was awarded points mostly for his 68 did you knows. Miyagawa writes on a variety of topics, including dogs, military history and sport.
• Resolute (submissions), the second "fastest loser" (Pool B). Most of Resolute's points come from his 9 good articles. He writes mostly on Canadian topics, including ice hockey.
• Yellow Evan (submissions), who was joint third "fastest loser" (Pool A). Most of Evan's points come from his 10 good articles, and he writes mostly on meteorology.
• Sp33dyphil (submissions), who was joint third "fastest loser" (Pool B). Most of Phil's points come from his 9 good articles, 4 of which (more than any other finalist) were eligible for double points. He writes mostly on aeronautics.

We say goodbye to our seven other semi-finalists, Another Believer (submissions), Piotrus (submissions), Grandiose (submissions), Stone (submissions), Eisfbnore (submissions), Canada Hky (submissions) and MuZemike (submissions). Everyone still in the competition at this stage has done fantastically well, and contributed greatly to Wikipedia. We're on the home straight now, and we will know our winner in two months.

In other news, preparations for next year's competition have begun with a brainstorming thread. Please, feel free to drop by and share any thoughts you have about how the competition should work next year. Sign ups are not yet open, but will be opened in due course. Watch this space. Further, there has been a discussion about the rule whereby those in the WikiCup must delcare their participation when nominating articles at featured article candidates. This has resulted in a bot being created by new featured article delegate Ucucha (talk · contribs). The bot will leave a message on FAC pages if the nominator is a participant in the WikiCup.

A reminder of the rules: any points scored after August 29 may be claimed for the final round, and please remember to update submission pages promptly. If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! 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 and The ed17 23:51, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Userpage

Well, i've modified my userpage. Now it looks different from your page. Well, are you gonna join the WikiConference India 2011? If so, we can surely meet in the conference. Rishabh Tatiraju (talk) 15:25, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Lee

The most notable Lee right now is not the active tropical storm which is causing minor effects, but the typhoon which caused nearly 200 causalities. I reverted your move FWIW. Juliancolton (talk) 15:05, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

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Webcite

FYI: On September 3rd (just before the long labor day weekend), WebCite went down due to a hardware failure. While we are restoring the database from our backups, no new snapshots can be made, and old snapshots may be temporarily unavailable.Jason Rees (talk) 20:20, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Invite to WikiConference India 2011

Hi Anirudh Emani, The First WikiConference India is being organized in Mumbai and will take place on 18-20 November 2011. You can see our Official website, the Facebook event and our Scholarship form. But the activities start now with the 100 day long WikiOutreach. As you are part of WikiProject India community we invite you to be there for conference and share your experience. Thank you for your contributions. We look forward to see you at Mumbai on 18-20 November 2011. Sorry, i wont be present at the WikiConference India 2011.--Anirudh Emani (talk) 09:24, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:Anikingos/ATCW

User:Anikingos/ATCW, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Anikingos/ATCW and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:Anikingos/ATCW during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. HurricaneFan25 15:41, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Your Signature

Hello, Per Wikipedia policy, you cannot have images in your signatures. Also, copyrighted images cannot be used except in the mainspace article they belong to.

Thanks, — Ines(talk) 22:02, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

Additionally, you are not permitted to use external links in signatures; your signature contains a link to facebook. Please review Wikipedia's signature guideline if you are unsure of what is and is not permitted. Horologium (talk) 18:11, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

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Sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but you still have images in your signature.

Have a good day, — Ines(talk) 18:48, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Okay... no images at all right. Done. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 08:55, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

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Your request for rollback

Hi Anikingos. After reviewing your request for rollback, I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

• Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
• Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
• Rollback should never be used to edit war.
• If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
• Use common sense.

If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! FASTILY ^(TALK) 19:18, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Your signature

I was reviewing the "discussion" over at Talk:2011 Pacific typhoon season, and noticed that your signature has images in them. This is specifically not allowed by WP:SIG. Please change your signature to follow the policy. - Penwhale | ^{dance in the air and follow his steps} 02:20, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

• And obviously I can't read that someone already told you about it. -.- - Penwhale | ^{dance in the air and follow his steps} 03:03, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

• Yeah... I goofed twice. First I thought it wasn't you (your signature isn't your username), and then I didn't see that you have been told above. My apologies. >.< - Penwhale | ^{dance in the air and follow his steps} 08:10, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Greenwood Dale School

A quick google search will show yo u the Greenwood Dale school no longer exists, and has expanded onto four sites to become the nottingham Academy. Here is the website... http://www.nottinghamacademy.org/ And here is an article about the change... http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/PM-announces-city-school-run/story-12244009-detail/story.html As you can see by the age of the article... this update to the article is well overdue. please do not continue to revert my edits. Mrmccollough (talk) 11:39, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I'm not used to someone beating me to the revert trigger very often. You have done so repeatedly tonight. Keep up the good work, it's always nice to see another committed vandal whacker. Trusilver 06:11, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you so much. Only recently did i resume reverting vandalism. Seeing a big response makes me feel so happy!--Anirudh Emani (talk) 06:12, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

Hello Anikingos! I hope you enjoy this cookie as an amicable greeting from a fellow Wikipedian, SwisterTwister talk 06:07, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

AWB

Anikingos, I have approved your request for AWB. Please review the Rules of Use, then you can get started! Happy editing! --Philosopher ^{Let us reason together.} 06:21, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Over-hasty speedy tagging

Hi. I have declined the speedy deletion of Le Liban assassiné, lettre ouverte à Monsieur Sarkozy, which now has content but which you tagged with WP:CSD#A3 within a minute of its creation. That is much too soon for an A3 (or A1) tag: new users often put in a few words only and then click "Save page" to see how it looks, and it is very WP:BITEy and unwelcoming if a speedy-deletion tag immediately pops up - we have an unfortunately reputation for being unfriendly to newbies. Pages like G10 (attack) and G12 (copyvio) should be tagged immediately, but for A1 and A3 you should wait at least 10-15 minutes to see if more content appears. See {{uw-hasty}}. Thank you for doing New Page Patrol, a vital but rather thankless task where (I know from experience) the constant flood of rubbish makes it rather easy for one's attitude to slip from "Could this be improved?" to "How can I get rid of this?" I don't know whether this book meets WP:BK - I will keep an eye on it and maybe PROD if not. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 09:12, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Im sorry for the sudden nomination. And yeah, its true that fighting vandalism does change my attitude from "Could this be improved?" to "How can I get rid of this?". As i go on reverting edits, i find this page relatively small and all that i thought about was "yeah, now this one is definitely being removed". And also, i strongly doubt if the book is sufficiently notable to be on Wikipedia. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 10:48, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

True, but "non-notable book" isn't a speedy reason. Actually, I suspect COI here - this new user has put in a string of articles about books all by the same author; I have warned him about WP:BK and COI, and am meditating an AfD. But when considering a scrappy-looking new article, it's worth sometimes looking at the history of some present-day Featured Articles to see how they started off - for instance Buckingham Palace started like this, and stayed that way for several months (admittedly, back in the very early days). Regards, JohnCD (talk) 13:43, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

While we're on the subject, I've declined Tastet. It's not patent nonsense, it's just a Spaniard writing extremely bad English. It may not be notable, but that's a different problem. Elen of the Roads (talk) 20:34, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

I am extremely sorry for the trouble that i caused. But i still feel that both the articles need to remain in the userspace or as a sandbox as long as they are properly written and meet the requirements (as per the project they may be a part of). --Anirudh Emani (talk) 08:06, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

While I'd say that's a perfectly valid view designed to improve the encyclopaedia, there's nothing in the speedy deletion policy that covers it. Elen of the Roads (talk) 11:31, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Yes i agree, however the page Le Liban assassiné, lettre ouverte à Monsieur Sarkozy has been re-nominated by this user who says that there is "Insufficient reliable source coverage to demonstrate notability for inclusion." What i say is immediately move both pages to user-space where they can be developed and then published as articles. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 11:39, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

How do you get pictures from WMS?

I want to get pictures of tropical cyclones from it, but I don't know how to get them directly. How do you get them? -- Meow 15:25, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Over-hasty speedy reverting

Anikingos, you recently reverted my edits to the article on the Manitoba Schools Question. I have three comments:

(1) I worked on the edits for two hours, totalling +3,710 keystrokes. I was not finished the editing, but chose to save my work because of low computer battery - I didn't want to lose it all. I saved, got my power cord, and continued editing. Seven minutes from my saving it, you deleted all the changes, without any real explanation other than a "form letter" posted on my talk page. Such hasty deletions are unwarranted, in my opinion - editors have to respect the work habits of other editors, and give them time to work, especially on substantial revisions. I was extremely discouraged by your action and gave up on trying to improve the article. Fortunately, I see that another editor, taking a more collaborative approach, has undone your reversion and then begun to edit some of the stray bits of text and formatting issues in my additions to the article. That sort of supportive, collaborative approach to wiki and to other editors has encouraged me to go back and try to continue to work on that article. Your approach, on the other hand, strongly discouraged me from continuing on wiki.

(2) In the form letter you posted on my talk page, you state that my edit "did not appear to be constructive." I would like to know what criteria you used to judge the value of my edit. That page has had a tag on it for three years (November 2008), calling for the addition of in-line citations. That is exactly what I was providing: in-line citations to relevant Canadian statutes, provisions of the Canadian Constitution, and to court cases interpreting those provisions including decisions from the Judicial Committee of the Imperial Privy Council, at that time the highest court of appeal for the British Empire. Please explain why adding citations to these primary, authoritative legal sources is "not constructive." As well, I provided additional commentary, from a NPOV, explaining these primary sources and their relationship to the basic questions raised by the controversy. I also provided headings, to improve the flow of what was becoming a longer article, and to improve reader accessibility. Please explain why you found these additions to the article to be "not constructive."

(3) The form begins with "Welcome to Wikipedia". When you're busy deleting +3,710 keystrokes on the basis that they are "not constructive", without any substantive criticism, that's a pretty patronising salutation, in my opinion. As well, I would suggest that you should not assume that an editor is new to wiki simply because that editor posts something you disagree with, or has different editing/work habits style from yours. --Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 19:14, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Mr Serjeant Buzfuz, the only reason i reverted your edits of +3,710 keystrokes is because the references you provided were still not sufficient. I am sorry if i actually discouraged you. On receiving a lot of criticism, i stopped fighting vandalism on Wikipedia. I no longer do that. Also, consider saving edits in a sandbox within your user-space and publish that as an article after the work is over. Saving unfinished work because of non availability of power in you laptop is not a valid reason. Also, do not get discouraged by reverts. It is something that all of us have to experience. Its inevitable and i have experienced reverting to nearly 1000 of my edits and i still continue editing at the same pace. Once again, sorry. Happy editing. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 08:25, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2011 September newsletter

We are on this year's home straight, with less than a month to go until the winner of the 2011 WikiCup will be decided. The fight for first place is currently being contested by Miyagawa (submissions), Hurricanehink (submissions) and Sp33dyphil (submissions), all of whom have over 200 points. This round has already seen multiple featured articles (1991 Atlantic hurricane season from Hurricanehink and Northrop YF-23 from Sp33dyphil) and a double-scoring featured list (Miyagawa's 1948 Summer Olympics medal table). The scores will likely increase far further before the end of the round on October 31 as everyone ups their pace. There is not much more to say- thoughts about next year's competition are welcome on the WikiCup talk page or the scoring talk page, and signups will open once a few things have been sorted out.

If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! 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 and The ed17 12:26, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Bleach episode articles

Please do not create articles on non-notable episodes, as you have done with the Bleach series. Not only do such articles fail the notability guideline, but they also violate Wikipedia's policies on what Wikipedia is not, specifically WP:NOTPLOT, and the non-free content criteria. —Farix (t | c) 11:19, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

I still feel each episode deserves an article. If you feel that they fail the notability guideline and also violate WP:NOTPLOT, please let me know why every episode of Chuck has an article. Most of them, as i see are only plot. The information about the production or anything else of the episode is too low or sometimes not even there! --Anirudh Emani (talk) 11:23, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Just because there are other articles that violate Wikipedia's policies and guidelines does not justify creating more articles that violate Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Each episode must show notability on its own. If an episode article fails to do it, then it should be either deleted, or preferably redirected to the episode list. —Farix (t | c) 11:28, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Alright then... BTW, can we simply expand the plot summary of the episode list itself to what i have done in the articles?? The list has too small summaries. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 11:32, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Give that List of Bleach episodes (season 1) is already a featured list, changing the episode summaries is not advisable and could risk the list being demoted. —Farix (t | c) 11:35, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

How can expanding something and adding images to depict things more clearly have a list demoted!!?? Now that i find three of my articles simply thrown in the dustbin withing two minutes, at least a bit of its content can be reused around Wikipedia, right? --Anirudh Emani (talk) 11:37, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Because "expanding" can introduced trivial or excessive details as well as poor grammar and sentence structure that degrade the quality of an article. Editors at WP:FL can be very particular when it comes to grammar and length of plot summaries. Also, Wikipedia has a very strict policy on the use of non-free images to illustrate and identify the subject. For lists, only one image may be used. —Farix (t | c) 12:04, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Okay! Thank you very much for providing me answers of all the silly questions that i have been asking. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 12:14, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

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Hi. I understand your enthusiasm, but could you please not place welcoming messages on the talk pages of users who have not yet edited, or whose only edits is vandalism, or spam. Thank you. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:30, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Hmm... okay. sure. I only wanted to say hi to everyone. Im still a kid. LOL! --Anirudh Emani (talk) 10:32, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

OK, but Wikipedia is a serious project and we need to be careful. It's not FaceBook and we don't want people to get the wrong idea. Please read WP:Advice for younger editors. Happy editing! --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:42, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

I am being careful with all my work. I just didnt know that we werent supposed to be welcoming every single user. Now that i know, i stopped. Thank you. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 10:47, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

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Regarding File:PrajaRajyamPartyFlag.gif

I have removed File:PrajaRajyamPartyFlag.gif which you added to 2004-2010 Telangana protests with this edit, because it does not have a valid non-free media use rationale for the article. Please see Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria for the applicable policy and Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline if you want to address the issues. Thank you. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 08:48, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

What i feel is the image needs to remain in the article. That is because the Praja Rajyam Party pledged that they would support the Telangana movement. It is very important to either mention the flag or the photo of Chiranjeevi (If the flag wont do.) --Anirudh Emani (talk) 08:52, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

The file is non-free and a non-free file needs a non-free use rationale for each page where the file is used. This is required by Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria Policy 10c. If you want to include the file, you have to show it meets the Non-free content criteria by providing a valid rationale. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 09:01, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Okay, so you mean to say that i have to give a valid reason in the file summary explaining why i am using the file. If it is it, then the reason for the usage of file is the same (except for the link to the article). The file is being used to mention the flag of the Political party. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 09:05, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

What I mean is you must provide a non-free use rationale for each page on which the file is used as described at Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 09:11, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, i understand. Thank you very much. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 09:13, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi Anikingos, I saw your message. Effective immediately I will be on an indefinite Wikibreak. If you need help with files, you can leave Hammersoft a message. He is one of the most knowledgeable editors on Wikipedia regarding Non-free content. Of course you can always leave a message on my talk page and I will do my best to help you but it is likely that I will not respond immediately. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 16:37, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Hello Toshio Yamaguchi, i have two problems right now, to discuss with you. So i will need you to wait for a day or two. First. Your template over here, that you directly posted on this talk page. Please note the fact that Wikipedia has a device called Twinkle for such purposes. You do not need to make templates on your own. Also, please note that even if you have made a template, you do not post it to a talk page in this way. Transclusion as it is called causes problems with the reply. Whenever i try to reply, it directly goes to the template page. To avoid this, you substitute. Second. Kindly do not ever duplicate one's signature. Its against WP:SIGEDITORIMPERSONATE. Per policy, Impersonating another editor by using his or her username or signature is forbidden. I hope you understand. Its night here and i will log off quick, so we may have to continue tomorrow.--Anirudh Emani (talk) 16:40, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Regarding the template, I agree, it should be substituted. Thanks for highlighting this issue. Regarding the NFCC issue, I replied at Talk:2004-2010 Telangana protests. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 17:11, 17 October 2011 (UTC) The discussion was brought here because it was only between us

I have provided a valid reason and a separate fair use rationale in the file summary. Guess that solves the problem. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 16:20, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

At least that solves the issues that file had with WP:NFCC Policy 10c. The file still has problems with WP:NFCC Policy 8 though, but right now I only focus on 10c issues. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 16:50, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

What i feel is policy 8 is also solved. The rationale clearly mentions that The image serves as the primary means of visual identification of the subject (the flag of the political party). It illustrates the flag of Praja rajyam Party in the article, 2004-2010 Telangana protests. Which means that the readers will be able to identify the Praja rajyam party by its flag. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 09:05, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Actually having the rationale is only a bare minimum that is required to satisfy 10c. It is kind of a basic requirement and if that is not satisfied, the file has to go. Now the file satisfies this basic requirement. But only because the file satisfies 10c does not mean the appearance of the flag in the article is appropriate. WP:NFCC#Policy very clearly and unambiguously states "Other non-free content—including all copyrighted images, audio and video clips, and other media files that lack a free content license—may be used on the English Wikipedia only where ALL 10 of the following criteria are met." A file that meets 10c can for example still violate 8, as is the case with this flag. I don't see that the flag depicted in the image is discussed anywhere in the text at 2004-2010 Telangana protests#2009, thus it still fails NFCC Policy 8 and must be removed per WP:NFCC#Enforcement. But I will not remove the flag on that grounds, as I only look at the 10c violations right now. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 13:05, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Now that i have started to wonder how it still violates policy 8. The rationale describes why the readers will find the image and advantage. To clarify, may be i will have to explain you the 2009 section of the bloody movement. Okay, so the think is, the PRP has pledged to help the jerks in getting a different state. Now that the damned party's name has appeared, most readers simply drift through text and do not move on to the PRP article. Therefore, it is necessary to have the image of the flag of the PRP. I strongly doubt all this explanation is necessary at the rationale. So i just left it like that. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 14:25, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

It's ok, I will not do anything about the issue with 8. Also, yes compliance with or violation of 8 might not be as objectively determinable as 10c I guess. I just think the image does not convey any information that cannot also be conveyed with text alone in that article, but as I said I am not going to touch the image on that basis. I am fine with it satisfying 10c as a minimum. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 14:58, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Okay. I guess this puts the discussion temporarily at a hold. Also, kindly stop posting on my talk page that you have replied here. I am watching this page and will respond time-to-time. I will look up for a solution or simply ditch the image.--Anirudh Emani (talk) 16:25, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Your warning

Sorry, but I don't understand this warning. How was that vandalism? Wknight94 ^talk 10:07, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

The word show shouldn't be capitalized whatsoever. Also, changing seventies - 1970s and eighties - 1980 wasn't necessary. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 10:10, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Even if those are true, they aren't "vandalism". Frankly, I prefer "1970s". Wknight94 ^talk 10:17, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

I am sorry. The thing is, i get impatient at times. When there is too much vandalism, i find myself reverting even small stuff very hastily. It kinda affects my behavior. Too much vandalism, i go like yeah, and you can shut up already!. Less vandalism and i go like, no no, not like that... do it like this... I guess i need to wait and revert from now on. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 12:10, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

I hear you, and I have been too aggressive at times too. With Huggle, we often need to remind ourselves - and each other - to slow down and be careful. Events like User talk:190.163.3.204 happen too often, where an acceptable edit turns into a cussing contest and then a block (which I then had to undo when I looked closer). Feel free to remind me and other vandal fighters when hit the buttons too quick. Thanks. Wknight94 ^talk 12:31, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

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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:

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Any reason, why facts about delays of Spicejet were removed from the page without any discussion? Sunyrai (talk) 12:31, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

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