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Welcome to the 2011
WikiCup
!

Hello, happy new year and welcome to the 2011 WikiCup! Your submissions' page can be found

WikiCup talk page, on their respective talk pages, or by email. Other than that, we will be in contact at the end of every month with the newsletter. If you want to stop or start receiving newsletters, please remove your name from or add your name to this list. Good luck! J Milburn and The ed17
13:01, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK

Thanks for your review of my Al Burris nomination. I've since lengthened the article a little so that it meets the 5x expansion requirement. - PM800 (talk) 21:29, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Superchips article reinstatement

I would propose the reinstatement of the Superchips article as it is an important company in the development of tuning cars. Contrary to the deletion argument put forward elsewhere, the company is reported in many reputable publications such as

Skoda Fabia, BMW 1 Series, Volkswagen Golf and SEAT Ibiza
as reported in the following selection of articles. Perhaps the article was in need of an edit rather than deletion?

Warren Whyte (talk) 22:46, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

GA procedures

I have notice that there is quite a bit of in-breeding in the review of Transport article relating to roads in the United States. Since I have some interest and familiarity with the topic, I have started reviewing such article. A couple of nominators have been very resistant to suggestions to the point of coming across as stuborn. I am now involved in a review of U.S._Route_223 which resulted in Talk:U.S._Route_223/GA1 and Talk:U.S._Route_223/GA2. The content dispute is that I found press coverage quoting Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood calling upon the Congressional delegations from Michigan to South Carolina to include funding for I-73 in the 2011 Transportation Bill. There is also an I-73 Coalition website which lists all of the involved Michigan elected officials. The nominator discounts all of this, and refuses to modify the article. Rather than ask for a second opinion, the nominator failed the nomination and renominated it. I signed up for the reviewer of the second nomination and he again failed it, and manually edited the WP:GAN page. I have raised this at ANI, but it was quickly addressed by an administrator who reviews a lot of his nominations. The entire purpose of GAN is to bring a separate set of eyes to an article. If content disputes can be evaded by procedural hijinks to hide the existence of nominations and "on hold" reviews on the GAN page, the process is doomed to failure. He is also trying to cover up the problem by removing the transclusion of the review from the talk page. Please help. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 08:22, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

  • Thank you for your response. I obviously don't want to die on my sword over this matter, and it is clear that the nominator does not want to have anything to do with me. What would you suggest that I do: "fail" the second GA nomination and do the edits myself or ask for the second opinion before closing the review? Thanks for your advice. Racepacket (talk) 02:52, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
    I decided to go the second opinion route, and I hope this will all be resolved soon. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 17:19, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
I know that I'm not expected to comment here, but I feel the need to set the record straight on two things. Racepacket is making assumptions in error. I didn't care who picked up the review the second time, as long as he had disengaged from the review process. For him to assume I had a specific editor or class of editors in mind for the second review assumes "facts not in evidence" let alone attempts to assign a false intent to my actions. Second, neither administrator who commented at ANI "review a lot of [my] nominations." The last time either did so was 2008 or 2009. Imzadi 1979 → 19:48, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 3 January 2011

Empire of Brazil FAC is now open!

Empire of Brazil is now a Featured Article candidate. Your opinion (either as support or oppose) is welcome. Here is the page: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Empire of Brazil/archive1. Kind regards, --Lecen (talk) 18:54, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

WT:GAN.
Message added 09:43, 5 January 2011 (UTC). You can remove this notice
at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

David Yates

Thanks for the note, I've added my thoughts there. J Milburn (talk) 22:04, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

The Land of Green Plums

I saw your note on the talk page and responded there. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 06:00, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

FT write-up for "F and A"?

Hi there, we talked briefly about this a few weeks ago. I wonder whether you might do something for us in the next week or so. The featured sounds write-up is nice, but you wouldn't have to do it that way at all, of course. Tony (talk) 12:13, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Tucky Guvnas. Oh my heaven. Unlikely to be beaten. Tony (talk) 02:28, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Wizardman, just checking you'll fling something to us by early Monday east-coast time (or Sunday before you turn in)? Doesn't have to huge. Tony (talk) 08:47, 8 January 2011 (UTC) PS or it could go into the following week's edition if that suits you better. Tony (talk) 10:14, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
I've emailed you. Tony (talk) 13:01, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Steve Collins (American football)