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A little beam of sunshine :)

Hello Fridae'sDoom, Clementina has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing! → Clementina [ Scribble ] 08:01, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Of course I remember you, dear Fridae! :) Great job with the new mottos (I'm a nobody here, though, so my opinion isn't really much ;)). See you around! Love, → Clementina [ Scribble ] 08:01, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Clementina :) You're not a nobody, everyone's opinion is valuable. Others choose not to express theirs. Love and warm regards, —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 6:06pm • 08:06, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

RfA

I've given it a lot of thought, and I've decided that after I have at least five more DYK credits on my userpage, I will be ready for an RfA nomination. Keep an eye on my userpage, and when there are six DYK top icons there's already one, feel free to nominate me (don't forget to contact me first). Sound good? The Utahraptor^{Talk to me}/_{Contributions} 03:37, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Ok then, sounds good to me :) Sorry I couldn't reply earlier I was helping out my local church with spring cleaning (even though spring's over here in Australia ;) ) I've got lots of pages listed, I'll keep an eye out on yours especially though. Cheers, —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 6:02pm • 08:02, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

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Daylight savings...

Re: this, does this help? (Disclaimer: I didn't do it, I don't know if it would help...) TFOWR 00:36, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

It'd help if I could get my head around the time codes... because then the offset would help the code determine my local time. I'd use the UBX but it's too big for the top right of my user and talk pages. Thanks and regards, —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 11:41am • 00:41, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Oh wait I'm an idiot, thanks TFOWR :) >.< That's exactly what I need! >.< Shoot me lol. —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 11:42am • 00:42, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Your nomination for VP was promoted

Your Valued picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for valued picture status, File:Sydney Harbour Bridge from the air.JPG, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates. Spongie555 (talk) 04:21, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Woohoo! Thanks again Spongie :) Regards, —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 3:24pm • 04:24, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

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Guy Sebastian

When I meant at the bottom, I didn't mean literally at the bottom. Personal life sections usually come after the Music career section. I've really not seen a musician article that has the personal life come after the early life. Its usally Early life then music career. And theres really no need to expand what it says in the personal life section because its nothing major. ozurbanmusic (talk) 03:32, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Its vandalism to me when its unsourced and added in the early life section. That sort of information is really not needed on the article. And the personal life section looks better at the bottom. They don't go after the early life. A good example of this is the Beyonce Knowles article. ozurbanmusic (talk) 03:37, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Did you check the Manual of Style in regards to the layout? Regards, —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 2:39pm • 03:39, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

What about the layouts? they look fine just the way they are and have no problems. Please do not add the X Factor slip up in the lead, as it should not go there. You can add in the X Factor section in the Other ventures but I think its really not needed. ozurbanmusic (talk) 03:47, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia omits nothing, it's an encyclopedia, I moved it to the X-Factor section. What about layout? It has to conform to the Manual of Style... if an article doesn't conform it gets deleted. Regards, —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 2:55pm • 03:55, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Guy Sebastian

I have strarted a discussion on Sebastian's talk page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Guy_Sebastian#Trivia_etc.

Please feel free to add your opinion. Yes it is pointless trivia in my humble opinion, and I also explained the other changes I made.

Natbelle (talk) 04:47, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

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Order of the Mop

Thanks, Fridae, I really appreciate it, and it came at a much-needed point. Thank you! SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 07:53, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

No worries, heh what a coincidence eh? I'm glad it made you happy :) Regards, —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 7:01pm • 08:01, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

I saw you add a question about account-creation rights, then remove it. Let me know if you still want me to do something there, though I've never done it, so you'd have to tell me what to look at. :) SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 12:16, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

I left a response on your talk page. —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 10:27am • 23:27, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi FD, it's not that I'm reluctant, I just don't know what I'm supposed to be looking at. If you'd like me to add a right, please let me know in detail where I should be looking and for what. Cheers, SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 02:17, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Would you mind asking someone else about this? It's not that I don't want to help you, it's just that I really don't know what I'm supposed to be looking at. I see a list of accounts, but I can't see what to evaluate. I'm sorry I can't be of more help! SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 02:27, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Nomination was promoted to VP

Your Valued picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for valued picture status, File:Sydney opera house side view.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates. Spongie555 (talk) 00:21, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Your the first person's nomination i closed right on the time,it had enough votes, instead of it going over the required 7 days like other nominations. Spongie555 (talk) 00:21, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Wow, thanks again Spongie, I'll do my best to find more images. Regards, —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 11:26am • 00:26, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

I saw your FP nomination for this. Fp is not as kind to images as VP as FP wants very high quality. Hopefully you get a FP sooner or later. Spongie555 (talk) 06:39, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Spongie :) It is the best image of the Opera House on enwiki so hopefully it makes the cut :) Regards, —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 5:42pm • 06:42, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Oooh, compared to the existing FP it's nowhere near as good. Best side-on view available though! —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 5:48pm • 06:48, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Hey could you help VP by voting on some nomination especially ones with 3 support votes(counting nominator). VP has a habit of having nominations only getting 3 support votes instead of 4. Spongie555 (talk) 03:51, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

An update from adopt a user

Hi there M.O.X! You may be wondering, what have I done to sound the alarm this time? Nothing. I'm messaging you in regards to the adopt-a-user program, which currently has a backlog of users wishing to be adopted. This doesn't make much sense, as we have a considerable list of users offer adoption, so there shouldn't be any backlog. I've begun to eliminate this backlog myself through a matching program, but I need your help to make it work. Of course, adoptees and adopters don't have to go through there, but I believe it helps eliminate the backlog because someone is actively matching pairs.

On the list of adopters, I have modified the middle column to say "Interests." It's easier working with other users that have similar interests, so if it's not too much to ask, could you add your interests in the middle column? For example, if I was interested in hurricanes, computers, business, and ... reptiles? I would place those in the middle column. Counter-vandalism and the like can also be included (maintenance should be used as the general term). The more interests, the better, since adoptees can learn more about you and choose the one they feel most comfortable working with. The information about when you're most active and other stuff can go into the "Notes" section to the right.

Finally, I've gone around and asked adoptees (and will in the future) to fill in a short survey so adopters can take the initiative and contact users they feel comfortable working with. We all know that most adoptees just place the adopt me template on their user page and leave it - so it's up to us to approach them and offer adoption. So, please take a look at the survey, adopt those that fit your interests, and maybe watchlist it so you can see the interests of adoptees and adopt one that fits your interests in the future.

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Your words were not helpful to the content article

I don't know if I'll be doing much vandal hunting 11614soup 15:10, 11 October 2010 (UTC)11614soup 15:58, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Clean up

I have two pages needed cleanup and attention "How do I do it?" Those are the pages I want to clean up first. Soren Kierkegaard Two Upbuilding Discourses, 1843 I'll work on cleaning them up but might need your assistance to understand what is wrong. 11614soup 01:21, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

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talkback

Because it's such an old thread, you've probably forgotten... Hello. You have a new message at User talk:Sonia#Holidaying in New Zealand's talk page. sonia♫ 09:51, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

I'm working on cleaning up Two Upbuilding Discourses

my philosophy is that an individual would learn how to clean up their own messes before they would presume to go out and clean up other people's messes. I do have a question? Is this the right way to respond to your posts to my sight - come to your talk site and editing. 11614soup 09:32, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

You have new messages

• Waiting for you on my talk page. Regards. Wifione _....... ^{Leave a message} 08:06, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

IRC Cloak

For the Wikimedia Cloak request. —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 4:34pm • 05:34, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

You have new messages

• Waiting for you on my talk page. Cheers. Wifione _....... ^{Leave a message} 02:31, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Account Creator permission

Hi Fridae, as you would not be active in the user name request process for the next few days, I'm reverting your account creator flag. Feel free to reapply post your regaining of the ACC Tool Server usage and after you have handled a considerable number of new user name requests. This will allow the granting administrator in the future to be comfortable assessing your request, in case you re-apply. Please feel free to ask me for any clarifications and don't get too put down by this removal. Wifione _....... ^{Leave a message} 08:44, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Suggested changes at MOTD

Hello fellow motto contributor. Discussions arer still open on Wikipedia talk:Motto of the day/Nominations#Suggested changes and still require further input especially on ideas 10-17. Please could you voice your opinion as this is going to be closed in early November. Please help out or even make any new idea suggestions. Simply south (talk) 15:25, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Removed MessageDeliveryBot Approval

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Answers

1. What is vandalism? - Vandalism is the act of incorrecting information on a certain page.

2. List 3 situations where a edit which could be considered vandalism, may not actually be vandalism. - Accidently mistyping a certain word, editing incorrect information to incorrect information and editing incorrect information to correct information (though the reverter may not think it's correct?)

3. What are obvious indicators of a vandalism edit while watching recent changes? - Very tiny bytes added and IP addresses shown instead of users to hide identities.

4. How do you revert vandalism? - Go to 'Recent Changes' and find a IP addressed edit, rollover the link (this requires popups), click 'Actions' then 'Revert'. The script then reverts the page back before it was vandalised.

5. What warning template would you use if a user removed or blanked all the content from a page? - If that user hadn't vandalised before, you would add a Level 1 template. If they have once, you give them a Level 2 and so on and so forth.

6. What warning template would you use if a user add the words "i really hate wikipedia!" to an article? - As I said before, if that user hadn't vandalised before, you would add a Level 1 template. If they have once, you give them a Level 2 and so on and so forth.

7. How do you add an article to your watchlist? - Since I have the old version, I am going to explain it by the old version. You go to the page you would like to watch and click 'Watch' at the top of the page.

8. If you misuse such tools as WP:TW or WP:VPRF what could happen? - You could get blocked. You shouldn't use it if you don't understand how to use it.

Damon (talk) 11:06, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedians_open_to_whale_squishing

Hi. Category:Wikipedians_open_to_whale_squishing, which I assume you added yourself to, has been nominated for deletion. Your comments at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2010_October_14#Category:Wikipedians_open_to_whale_squishing would be appreciated. What purpose do you think this category has? --SmokeyJoe (talk) 12:30, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Request, and a talkback

• Hi Fridae, I have a request to make. When you post any new message on my talk page, and if the same relates to a new occurrence, kindly do post the messages at the bottom of my talk page rather than appending your new messages to some old messages that you may have left on my talk page. You've also in between appended your messages to one other editor's message on my talk page. I have noticed you do the same on some other editors' talk pages too. This all may well be inadvertent and in all probability is an oversight. Therefore, please do take care in the future, at least on my talk page, as I might simply miss your message given that I have many messages on my talk page. Also, I have replied on my talk page with respect to your request to get back your ACC permission which I had withdrawn post your suspension from the ACC Tool Server interface. Finally, keep smiling Wifione _....... ^{Leave a message} 08:55, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

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DragonFable

I know a while ago you tried to make an article for AQWorlds. If you're interested in helping, I'm working on one for DragonFable in my userspace, here. Harry Blue5 (talk) 09:45, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

I too am at school right, so I can't really edit right now, like you. However, when I started the article, I had the most recent version of DragonFable e-mailed to me. It had no non-primary sources. And not many primary sources either. I can really see why it was deleted, viewing it makes me realize just how non-notable it must've looked, length of the article aside. Harry Blue5 (talk) 12:10, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Indeed, some Wikipedia mirror websites have the versions before that that include gameplay info etc. The laptop I use is part of the Digital Education Revolution in Australia, it belongs to the government until I finish Year 12 and it's the only computer I can use until the end of the year. Regards, —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 9:17am • 22:17, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Fridae, do you know anywhere where I can get a source for confirming the release date (both test and live, though live is the more necassary). It doesn't have to be third-party, since its just there for confirmation, but if it is third-party, that'd be nicer (as it establishes some, albeit a small amount of, notability). Harry Blue5 (talk) 12:15, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

The official BattleOn! Forums and the Design Notes archive. —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 9:08am • 22:08, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

How many more sources do you think we'll need until we can finally make this a proper article? Harry Blue5 (talk) 23:16, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Hey, do you know anything about Onrpg? If Onrpg turns out to be reliable, it'd really help the DF article. Harry Blue5 (talk) 23:46, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

I've finished the article. See here. Harry Blue5 (talk) 21:33, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Hey, do you know whether we could use this for the DragonFable logo, or maybe somehow get a larger version? I'm terrible at finding out whether things are fairuse, free, and even when I know I have no idea how to tag it. Harry Blue5 (talk) 22:24, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Could you upload it? I suck at proving fair use. Harry Blue5 (talk) 10:01, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Calochilus paludosus

Hello! Your submission of Calochilus paludosus at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Smartse (talk) 15:18, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi Fridae, is this going anywhere? If not it's probably best to remove it from the nomination page. Also you forgot to sign your !vote at Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Diannaa, I added an {{unsigned}}, hope you don't mind. Smartse (talk) 15:24, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

I've signed it. —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 9:29am • 22:29, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

GOCE copy edit drive

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Hi,I completed the form that you asked me to complete. What else do I need to do now to start the adoption? Renegadegill (talk) 21:51, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

User:SoWhy/Not everyone is an artist

What you should have done was waited for me to answer SoWhy's question on my userpage. The use of 'unjustified' is particularly insulting; the justification was given when I moved the page. How rude. → ROUX ₪ 23:43, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

redesign

Hiya. Mono uses a script to indicate online/offline/whatever status. So do I, it's in my monobook.js page. After that it's just a matter of templates checking your status and then changing things accordingly. Could you let me know what you want exactly? → ROUX ₪ 10:07, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

I want the circles that Mono has, ok I'll dig in your monobook.js, will it work in Vector. Regards, —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 9:10am • 22:10, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

WP:QUI THEMONO™ 03:46, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Mono, but the statuses QUI uses are very limited, I use {{StatusTemplate}} which is based off Hersfold's version which is no longer updated. Except StatusTemplate uses most of {{UserStatus}} statuses. Regards, —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 4:57pm • 05:57, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

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AdventureQuest Worlds

I was going to ask Graham87 to userfy AdventureQuest Worlds for me so I could work on an article for it, when I remembered you still had User:Fridae'sDoom/AQW. Is it all right if I request it to Graham? Harry Blue5 (talk) 20:36, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

I've started editing User:Fridae'sDoom/AQW. You're welcome to help, if you want. Harry Blue5 (talk) 15:06, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Righto, keep up the good work Harry :) Regards, —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 9:25am • 22:25, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Dear gods, I'm wondering if anyone actually checked IGN for sources for AQWorlds when it was on AfD. How many more sources do we need? Harry Blue5 (talk) 21:23, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

It wasn't so much as I had trouble splitting the plot into subsections, but a subsection for every zone was overkill. I was planning on reducing it, preferably to one paragraph per zone or some such, and then seeing what fitted where. Harry Blue5 (talk) 23:16, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

We could shorten it to just being the Chaos Beast and the Chaos Lord, then see how we can reasonably expand that. Harry Blue5 (talk) 00:03, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

I think the problem is that it was originally being updated each release, making it so loads of unessential information was added. The Dwarfhold segment really should be "The dwarves are being enslaved by Vath, a Drow DragonLord who is magically controlling a dragon named Stalagbite. Vath uses the dwarves to summon the Roc Roc but is defeated by the player and dragged off by Stalagbite." However as it stands the Vath bit last a few paragraphs, and when you read it in the plot it all sounds a lot more important than it actually is. Harry Blue5 (talk) 00:23, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Should we make AdventureQuest Worlds a proper article now? We seem to have enough sources, and we can always shorten the article's plot later, perhaps even with the help of other people. Or we could just hope for the best and hope some random guy does it for us. Harry Blue5 (talk) 22:19, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

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The article I'm working on

Hello! I am writting an article about Bernardo Quintana Arrioja, a mexican engineer that made many contributions to Mexico. I would truly appreciate if you could help me with this by telling me what to correct so it wont get erased!! (although it is still under construction) thank you.

Natquintana (talk) 02:41, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Adopt Me, or Face the Wrath!

Hi! I am just another lonely Wikipedia noob looking for adoption. I ask every other admin and their mother to adopt me, so I may aswell ask you. Pretty please will you adopt me? Ill be your best freind. Conkern65 (talk) 23:22, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Topicons

Hi Fridae'sDoom! At the top of your user page are three icons that I would like to add to the topicons on my userpage. The only problem is that you are transcluding and so I cannot see the code that produces them. I am interested in the following that appear in the top right corner: Huggle, AWB, and Unified Logon (Global). Any direction you could give me would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! — SpikeToronto 04:19, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

P.S. Please answer here as I have your page watchlisted and it keeps the thread in one place. Thanks! — SpikeToronto 04:20, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Sure, I've put them in User:Fridae'sDoom/Header. Keep up the good work here and at ACC. Regards, —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 3:22pm • 04:22, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! It’s all done here. You have quite the collection! — SpikeToronto 04:47, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome :D heh yeah, I used to have more but they didn't really describe me that well as I don't fall into any general editing philosophy, hence my multiple userboxes. Regards, —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 6:26pm • 07:26, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

I used to have tonnes of userboxes, but I moved them all to a subpage in my user namespace that I do not link to from my userpage. Maybe one day I’ll clean them up and put a userbox link on my userpage. On another note, I never realized that one should track everything one does. So, I have no record of pages I’ve marked for speedy that got deleted, stubs I’ve cleaned up, stubs I’ve turned into full articles, articles whose bare URL references, I’ve fleshed out, etc. It seemed too tooting-one’s-horn for me; but, now I see that it has some importance here on Wikipedia. (sigh). Thanks again for letting me into the secret world of your header file. By the way, how do you get the stuff to transclude into your userpage, as you do, without there being any transclusion coding (e.g., {{User:Fridae'sDoom/Header}})? Thanks! — SpikeToronto 18:32, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

I copied the code and put it into one of my many subpages, but it's not possible to transclude without having the actual code in the twiggy brackets. I don't keep track of anything these days lol. Regards, —Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм • Champagne? • 9:55am • 22:55, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

MOTD changes

This is a last call. Any opinions should be suggested by and including November 5th. See Wikipedia talk:Motto of the day/Nominations/Archive 2#Suggested Changes Simply south (talk) 21:29, 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 03:05, 1 November 2010 (UTC)