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Themacman4me
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Please cut off his talk page access. I can confirm he will continue abusing it. Just look at the history.
Alex2564 (
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00:09, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
I think you misunderstood the question. I'm not saying that it has to be either the orange bar or Echo. Rather, I'm saying that the orange bar should at least be an option.
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19:56, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
We are a week into Round 3, but it is off to a flying start, with Sven Manguard (
submissions) claiming for the high-importance
Portal:Sports and
Portal:Geography (which are the first portals ever awarded bonus points in the WikiCup) and Cwmhiraeth (
submissions) claiming for a did you know of
sea, the highest scoring individual did you know article ever submitted for the WikiCup. Round 2 saw very impressive scores at close; first place Casliber (
submissions) and second place Sturmvogel_66 (
submissions) both scored over 1000 points; a feat not seen in Round 2 since 2010. This, in part, has been made possible by the change in the bonus points rules, but is also testament to the quality of the competition this year. Pool C and Pool G were most competitive, with three quarters of participants making it to Round 3, while Pool D was the least, with only the top two scorers making it through. The lowest qualifying score was 123, significantly higher than last year's 65, 2011's 41 or even 2010's 100.
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There are growing concerns that
Amiram Goldblum is himself editing the article about him. He has two accounts:
User:Rastiniak and
User:רסטיניאק. Take a look at the this
sockpuppet investigation. Also, read the following
discussion. רסטיניאק has removed the POV tag from the article twice so far:
1 and
2. While I don't find this subject particularly interesting, I'm alarmed by the fact that Goldblum is fighting tooth and nail to get users who question the neutrality of his article to get blocked. I request you to help us determine whether the two accounts indeed belong to Goldblum.
Nataev (
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11:30, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
Please note that
Nataev (
talk·contribs) is posting this item on the talk pages of > a dozen admins. It might be instructive to investigate more deeply via his contribs as to why he is doing this -- I suggest that it has to do with his right-wing (Israeli) sympathies and his desire to smear Goldblum for being a leftist (on which
[1]).
Nomoskedasticity (
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11:39, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
Here we go again. This is the first time I have asked for help from a user who has access to CheckUser. Now Nomoskedasticity himself is calling me names. I don't know much about left-right politics. I have no interest about subjects related to Israel either. My sole problem is that Amiram Goldblum has written the entire article about himself. If doing so is acceptable on Wikipedia, then I have no problems with it.
Nataev (
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11:47, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I was wondering if you could add some more information onto the Sheltie/Silkie bit of List of guinea pig breeds. If you don't know about them, please can you tell me who would. Thank you
Lusa bear (
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18:48, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter - May 2013
Your monthly ProjectEurovision newsletter has arrived. Click show to open.
Well we have a winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2013, and the 2014 article is already up and running. However, the work on the 2013 edition is still not complete. Over the next few weeks many editors will be doing the final clean-up operation on the article, and we hope to achieve yet another GA classification on the article in the coming months. We will of course keep you all updated of the progress via the newsletter.
But if you are already starting to get Eurovision withdrawal symptoms, then don't panic. We have the
ABU TV Song Festival in Vietnam to look forward to, as well as the
Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev. Your contributions to both of these articles are gratefully appreciated. Remember it is
teamwork collaborations that help to make this project a success.
As always, be on the look out for potential new members to the project. Post {{subst:EurovisionInvite}} (which will produced
this template) on any user page you think is interested to join the WikiProject, to officially invite them to join.
Please remember to keep checking the project articles that have been flagged up as an alert. Since our last publication the following are listed as alerts:
Bonnie Tyler failed to achieve GA status on 8 May 2013,
see here for the rejection reasons. If anyone can help to improve the article based on the reasons, then feel free to do so.
Click here to view the full list of new and existing alerts.
Just in case you've been sleeping under a rock recently, "
Only Teardrops", by Danish singer
Emmelie de Forest won the 58th Eurovision Song Contest with a score of 281 points.
In what is becoming a regularity with new Eurovision articles, they are potential subjects to
vandalism, so be on guard and revert any vandalistic edits.
Also make sure you only add verified content to the article, including countries that have confirmed.
Avoid using the term "possible debut", "possible return", and "possible withdrawal". The term possible makes us sound speculative and is prohibited per
Crystal Ball guidelines. Any such information should be added to the "Other countries" section, with a citation for verifiability.
The second ABU TV Song Festival is scheduled to take place on 26 October 2013, in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi. The host broadcaster will be Vietnam Television.
The article is already up and running. Your help to improve the article is gratefully appreciated. Keep a look out for news articles regarding participations etc. So far only Vietnam and Indonesia are confirmed.
ABU Radio Song Festival 2014 - The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) have confirmed that the 2014 Radio Festival will take place in Colombo, Sri Lanka hosted by national broadcaster
MBC Networks. As it is too soon to start work on the new article, can we please try and avoid creating one. Unless of course, there's enough information out there that would warrant an early creation.