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Hi Iazyges. You removed the "non-license" templates from File:IRI Air Defence Flag.svg and File:IRI Navy Flag.svg but did not seem to provide a copyright license as required per WP:F4. Template:Insignia is not a copyright license so something from Category:Copyright licenses needs to be added to file. If I'm missing something here, then please clarify. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:23, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

@Marchjuly: Nope, I just seriously wasn't paying attention, my bad. -- Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 03:31, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2017).

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• A recent RfC has redefined how articles on schools are evaluated at AfD. Specifically, secondary schools are not presumed to be notable simply because they exist.
• AfDs that receive little participation should now be closed like an expired proposed deletion, following a deletion process RfC.
• Defender, HakanIST, Matiia and Sjoerddebruin are our newest stewards, following the 2017 steward elections.
• The 2017 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Góngora, Krd, Lankiveil, Richwales and Vogone. They will serve for approximately 1 year.

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March 2017 WikiCup newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. It would have been 5 points, but when a late entrant was permitted to join the contest in February, a promise was made that his inclusion would not result in the exclusion of any other competitor. To achieve this, the six entrants that had the lowest positive score of 4 points have been added to the 64 people who otherwise would have qualified. As a result, some of the groups have nine contestants rather than eight. Our top four scorers in round 1 were:

• Cas Liber, last year's winner, led the field with two featured articles on birds and a total score of 674.
• Iry-Hor, a WikiCup newcomer, came next with a featured article, a good article and a tally of 282 bonus points for a score of 517. All these points came from the article Nyuserre Ini, an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh,
• 1989, another WikiCup newcomer, was in joint third place at 240. 1989 has claimed points for two featured lists and one good article relating to anime and comedy series, all of which were awarded bonus points.
• Peacemaker67 shared third place with five good articles and thirteen good article reviews, mostly on naval vessels. He is also new to the competition.

The largest number of DYKs have been submitted by Vivvt and The C of E, who each claimed for seven, and MBlaze Lightning achieved eight articles at ITN. Carbrera and Peacemaker67 each claimed for five GAs and Krishna Chaitanya Velaga was well out in front for GARs, having reviewed 32. No featured pictures, featured topics or good topics yet, but we have achieved three featured articles and a splendid total of fifty good articles.

So, on to the second round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:52, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

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Your faith merits you an indulgence.

The Plenary Indulgence

Thank you for nominating me to run NPP. Kudpung had nominated several well-qualified Wikipedians, two of which will now lead that project. Although I did not win the consensus of the aggregate you gave everyone another choice and I'm gratified that you had faith in me. Chris Troutman (talk) 17:50, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

@Chris troutman: No problem. To be fair a Kudpung nomination carries a lot of weight, in NPP or RFA. -- Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 22:55, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

4th GA Cup - The Final

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016 GA Cup - Final Hello, GA Cup competitors! Sunday, February 26 saw the end of Round 3. Shearonink finished in first with 616 points, which is more than the point totals for all the other competitors combined! In second place, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga earned an impressive 152 points, followed by Sturmvogel_66 in third with 111 points. Chris troutman and Kees08 each received a wild-card and were able to advance to the Final Round. There was a major error on the part of the judges, and initially, 8 users were advanced instead of 5. This has been corrected, and we sincerely apologize for this confusion. In Round 3, 71 reviews were completed! At the beginning of this GA Cup, the longest wait was over 7 months; at the end of Round 3, the longest wait is still holding steady at a little over 6 months, the same as for the previous round. By the end of all three Rounds, the total number of nominations increased slightly - this suggests that users are more willing to nominate, knowing that their articles will be reviewed. We hope to see all remaining users fighting it out in the Final so we can keep tackling the backlog. In the Final Round, the user with the highest score will be the winner. The Final has already started and will end on March 31st at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Finals and the pools can be found here. Good luck and have fun! Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, and MrWooHoo. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant still competing, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.

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Germanicus

Germanicus was reviewed a couple days ago. I see you have a lot on your hands, so I figured I'd let you know. Have a good one. Psychotic Spartan 123 18:18, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

@PsychoticSpartan123: Sorry, I recently got a puppy, and I can't seem to leave her alone for 20 minutes without her peeing everywhere. -- Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 19:23, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Oh, you're fine. I honestly didn't expect a random person to review the article as fast as he did. By the way, I hope you don't mind if I steal your referencing style from Iazyges in future articles. It's nice and tidy. Psychotic Spartan 123 19:36, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Not at all. -- Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 13:14, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

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Re: U.S. Navy Section Patrol Craft

I think it's a good idea to develop a Section Patrol craft list. I have several recommendations that may help you (some of which you may have already done, but I'm just being thorough):

• Look at the Wikipedia section patrol article to familiarize yourself with the basic concepts of how the World War I SP and ID classification system worked. It was rather messy and sometimes inconsistent. The key thing to note is that although all the SP and ID numbers fall under a single series from 1 to 5000-plus, not all of the vessels were section patrol craft. Those with "SP" numbers are section patrol craft, while those with "ID" numbers tend to come later in the series and usually were big seagoing auxiliary ships unsuitable for and not intended for use in patrol work like cargo ships, tankers, and troop transports – and in no way "Section Patrol" craft which were small yachts and motorboats suitable for patrol duty. A few of the vessels with "ID" numbers may actually qualify as patrol vessels (such as minesweepers), but you have to look them up and make sure they aren't big freighters or tankers or passenger ships before you count them as "Section Patrol" vessels. (By the way "ID" just stands for "identification number" and is a modern anachronism that mimics the U.S. Navy's post-1920 hull classification symbol system; back in 1917-1918 they just wrote "Id. No." as the abbreviation.)
• The best list of all the SP and ID numbers is at NavSource at http://www.navsource.org/. On the left-hand side, scroll down to "Civilian Vessels (SP & ID)" and click on it to bring up the page that lists all the SP and ID vessels. Some of the vessels never received a number, but they also are listed on that page as "Unnumbered vessels."
• After "Unnumbered vessels," that page also lists revenue cutters of the United States Coast Guard and vessels of the United States Lighthouse Service and United States Coast and Geodetic Survey that saw naval service during World War I. Be careful about how you list these, as they probably were not part of the section patrol program (unless you discover otherwise in your research).
• You probably also will find the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) Web site useful. It is at https://www.history.navy.mil/. I used two key sources at the page to cross-check the navsource.org listing:
  • I used the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS), which can be accessed from the NHHC home page by scrolling down to "Find Ship Histories" and then clicking on "Explore." On the next page, click on "Browse Ships by Name." With a few possible exceptions, this will have all of the SP and ID vessels listed by name.
  • I also used the site′s photography collection, which sometimes had additional or better information than DANFS. To access the photography collection, go to the NHHC home page, scroll down to "View Historic Photos" and click on "Explore," then on the next page scroll down and click on "US Navy Ships," and on the page after that click on "Alphabetical listing." This will have some of the SP and ID vessels but, being tied to whether or not NHHC has a photo or not, is less comprehensive. It does, however, tend to have more complete and more up-to-date information than DANFS, and sometimes information that contradicts DANFS and must be considered.
  • I created almost all of the articles for SP and ID vessels a few years ago. Unfortunately, NHHC has since overhauled its Web site and made almost all of my DANFS and photography collection citations into dead links. Any of these links you update during your research would be most helpful.
  • Some of the SP vessels were assigned numbers but never saw naval service for various reasons. For the sake of completeness, I wrote articles for these as well when information was available for them. However, there is a cohort of Wikipedians who hate these article and have been deleting them without making an effort to capture the information about them they deleted in a list somewhere else, even though I asked them not to delete anything unless they captured the information in a list. Wikipedia has lost several SP articles in this way, and it saddens me when real history gets deleted, considering the number of articles Wikipedia has on video game characters and other trivialities, but it is what it is. You may be able to resurrect the deleted information for SP vessels that did not servce in the Navy in your list, which would help Wikipedia recover from the ill-advised deletions.

I hope this has not been too pedantic – you may well know much of this already – and I hope that it is of help to you. Please contact me on my talk page with any further questions or comments you may have. And I wish you the best of luck with your listing effort. Mdnavman (talk) 12:40, 15 March 2017 (UTC)mdnavman

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Thank you ...

...for the barnstar! NobuTamura (talk) 02:35, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

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