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On 16 March, 2009, In the news was updated with a news item that involved the article 2009 West African meningitis outbreak, which you created. 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.

-- BorgQueen ( talk) 10:35, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

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Delivered by §hepBot ( Disable) at 23:59, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

...for sorting out AIV!!! C.U.T.K.D ^{T | C} 15:06, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Why thank you! I'm getting credit for simply nominating now, am I? ;) -- Candlewicke _S ^T _# :) 15:43, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

I believe your concerns have been addressed. Please look at the alternates. ErikTheBikeMan ( talk) 22:35, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

What happened to the image of the Millennium Stadium? Surely we shouldn't be moving down ITN? -- can dle • wicke 21:02, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

I too came on, saw this, shook the computer a bit and passed it off as some unusual quirk you had all decided upon. I just thought it was strange that an image then appeared and was from further down. I think someone objected and removed an entire ITN and an image. Is there a rule against having no image? -- can dle • wicke 21:19, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

There are currently two image captions and one image. Hopefully you will have that solved by the time I save this. But if not... oh, the disabilities of not being able to sort these errors out myself... -- can dle • wicke 21:21, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Whoops...fixed by Mfield. Spencer ^{T♦ Nominate!} 21:25, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

How about this image? It looks a lot more lively than the other one. -- can dle • wicke 21:26, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Is it possible to have the image along the top or as a rule is it always to the right? -- can dle • wicke 21:34, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Delievered by SoxBot II ( talk) at 04:37, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Yup, done. Cheers!  GARDEN  19:48, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

thank you! for the suggestion about this template. Have a great and restful weekend. Ikip ( talk) 21:48, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Reply: Thanks for your comments, as well as the "tip". I was seconds away from using the no context tag, but this tag quite confuses me. Perhaps you may clarify. Would this tag used for articles with context, but biased? Or just a patent non-sense tag? For example:

===Irmenter=== (just a made up title) a type of bird.

Thanks for your help. Zoo Fari 22:32, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. Zoo Fari 22:50, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Spencer! Sorry, I haven't been active in Latakia lately. We need to finish that To-Do list and move on the to the big boys like Damascus and Aleppo! I've been a little busy with Saladin and updating populations for the Palestinian localities in the West Bank, but will jump back to the cities of Syria soon. -- Al Ameer son ( talk) 19:37, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

You don't appear to be online but I'll notify you of the sample design I created to give a vague indication of what ITN might look like on 1 April 2009. -- can dle • wicke 00:28, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Delievered by SoxBot II ( talk) at 20:36, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

The WikiCup Newsletter

The WikiCup Newsletter Round I, Issue 10 - March 31, 2009 Archive before | Archive after Content Leaders As of this newsletter, the following is a list of participants with the most: Featured articles Gary King and Juliancolton have both had 3 successful featured article nominations. Featured lists Matthewedwards has had 7 successful featured list nominations. Featured topics Scorpion0422 and Mitchazenia have both had 1 successful featured topic nomination. Featured pictures Durova has had 54 successful featured picture nominations. Featured sounds Shoemaker's Holiday has had 7 successful featured sound nominations. Featured portals Sunderland06 has had 1 successful featured portal nomination. Good topics Scorpion0422, Theleftorium, Gary King and Climie.ca have all had 1 successful good topic nomination. Good articles Mitchazenia has had 34 successful good article nominations. Did you know? items Candlewicke has had 53 successful "Did you know?" nominations. In the news items Candlewicke has had 28 successful "In the News" nominations. Biggest Jumps This week, the players with the biggest difference between their points last fortnight, and their points this week are: Rank User LF TF D 1 Durova 1713 1932 219 2 Mitchazenia 951 1167 216 3 Scorpion0422 683 788 105 4 ThinkBlue 291 386 95 5 Shoemaker's Holiday 791 873 82 6 Theleftorium 990 1060 70 7 Sasata 513 581 68 8 Rlevse 224 290 66 9 Matthewedwards 630 695 65 10 97198 314 360 46 LF = Last Week's score, TF = This Week's score, D = Difference between last week and this week's scores A full list is located at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Jumps From the Judges 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!  GARDEN , iMatthew // talk, and The Helpful One If you don't wish to receive this newsletter in the future, remove your name from this list. If you are not a participant, but would still like to receive this newsletter, feel free to add your name to the list. WikiCup At a Glance As of this newsletter, the WikiCup participants have collected a total of: 20 Featured articles 32 Featured lists 2 Featured topics 135 Featured pictures 21 Featured sounds 1 Featured portal 2 Good topics 143 Good articles 304 Did you know? items 49 In the news items Pool winners In this round of the WikiCup, the top two contestants from each pool, along with ten wildcards, will advance to the next round. As of this newsletter, the current pool leaders are: Pool A Gary King (1154) Spencer (377) Pool B Shoemaker's Holiday (1055) La Pianista (74) Pool C Scorpion0422 (944) Candlewicke (806) Pool D ThinkBlue (444) 97198 (374) Pool E Sasata (604) X! (216) Pool F Rlevse (405) Bedford (331) Pool G Sunderland06 (236) Ceranthor (190) Pool H Juliancolton (686) Dendodge (220) Pool I Theleftorium (1107) Durova (961) Pool J Mitchazenia (1180) Matthewedwards (702) Wildcard winners Useight (659) Paxse (507) Rambo's Revenge (333) the_ed17 (330) J Milburn (302) Climie.ca (265) Catalan (256) Ottava Rima (190) Wrestlinglover (169) Tinucherian (162) All scores are accurate as of the end of Round 1.

21:15, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Delivered for the WikiCup by  GARDEN  at 21:15, 31 March 2009 (UTC). Queries to my talk.

The WikiCup Newsletter

The WikiCup Newsletter Round II, Issue 1 - April 5, 2009 Archive before | Archive after Content Leaders As of this newsletter, the following is a list of participants in this round with the most: Featured articles Ceranthor has had 1 successful featured article nomination. Featured lists Wrestlinglover has had 1 successful featured list nomination. Featured topics No contestant has yet had a successful featured topic nomination. Featured pictures No contestant has yet had a successful featured picture nomination. Featured sounds No contestant has yet had a successful featured sound nomination. Featured portals No contestant has yet had a successful featured portal nomination. Good topics No contestant has yet had a successful good topic nomination. Good articles Ceranthor, Climie.ca, Ottava Rima and Scorpion0422 have all had 1 successful good article nomination. Did you know? items Paxse has had 2 successful "Did you know?" nominations. In the news items No contestant has yet had a successful "In the news" nomination. For Round 1 stats, see Newsletter 10. Biggest Jumps This week, the players with the biggest difference between their points last week, and their points this week are: Rank User LF TF D 1 Ceranthor 0 80 80 2= Scorpion0422 0 36 36 2= Wrestlinglover 0 36 36 4= Climie.ca 0 30 30 4= Ottava Rima 0 30 30 LF = Last Week's score, TF = This Week's score, D = Difference between last week and this week's scores A full list is located at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Jumps From the Judges 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.  GARDEN , iMatthew // talk, and The Helpful One WikiCup At a Glance As of this newsletter, the WikiCup participants have collected a Round 2 total of: 1 Featured article 1 Featured list 0 Featured topics 0 Featured pictures 0 Featured sounds 0 Featured portal 0 Good topics 4 Good articles 5 Did you know? items 0 In the news items This combines with the Round 1 totals to make a grand total of: 21 Featured articles 33 Featured lists 2 Featured topics 135 Featured pictures 21 Featured sounds 1 Featured portal 2 Good topics 147 Good articles 309 Did you know? items 49 In the news items Pool leaders 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) All scores are accurate as of the end of Round 1. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter in the future, remove your name from this list. If you are not a participant, but would still like to receive this newsletter, feel free to add your name to the list.

Delivered for the WikiCup by  ROBOTIC GARDEN  at 21:37, 5 April 2009 (UTC). To report errors see the talk page.

If I come across the original again, I'll see what I can do, but I'm afraid that I have this and a lot of other potential FPs in a somewhat disorganised arrangement, and it'll probably be quite some time before I locate it. Shoemaker's Holiday ( talk) 02:34, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Delievered by SoxBot II ( talk) at 19:46, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi, may I have credit for creating and nominating 2009 L'Aquila earthquake? I called it 2009 Italian earthquake at the the time because it had only happened a couple of hours previously and there was some confusion in the source which seemed to indicate Rome had been affected as well. I would still express reservations about it being L'Aquila only, as I witnessed a BBC television report last night which indicated dozens of bodies had been found in a nearby town and that other villages were affected too. But naming disputes are minor enough... -- can dle • wicke 19:52, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

On 6 April, 2009, In the news was updated with a news item that involved the article Slovak presidential election, 2009, which you 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.

ITN is seriously underfunded... we should demand more contributions! Oh wait, we've tried that already...:) -- can dle • wicke 20:28, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Ah yes, I've noticed that... you'll soon need a subpage... -- can dle • wicke 20:34, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments. I will be updating the site in the next few days and make the changes -- Muhammad (talk) 04:28, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

I know any administrator can post an ITN but can one post an ITN if a discussion at WP:ITN/C appears to be going against it? An admin at Talk:Death of Ian Tomlinson has attempted to post that item on the Main Page, ignoring the discussion and therefore making any opposition or debate pointless. I've pointed this out at a discussion on that page which seems to so far be going slightly against me. Or, at least if someone else were to come along and say they wanted it on the Main Page, it would be most certainly going against my somewhat feeble counter-argument, an argument which seems to be in line with standard ITN procedures concerning international significance. Whatever do you make of the situation? Should I leave it alone? But if it were to be posted it would seem unfair as other ITNs have been rejected for less and there appears to be the start of an attempt to elevate this one in status... oh, it is all such a puzzle as the admin seems to think they are correct and yet so do I. It cannot but end unhappily. :-S -- can dle • wicke 00:23, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Wow, I really sounded desperate there. :P Well it hasn't ended either happily or unhappily so I guess that's good. -- can dle • wicke 03:26, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

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Spencer...

I need your help. I uploaded some pictures to Wikimedia Commons, but I want to remove them so I can edit them. What should I do? GlobetrotterUltima ( talk) 13:32, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Also, how can I delete an image altogether? GlobetrotterUltima ( talk) 17:08, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Please re!vote on this nom. It was relisted and your previous vote no longer counts. Thanks. ~ ωαdεstεr16 _«talk ^stalk» 05:20, 10 April 2009 (UTC)