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MILHIST Military Aviation questionnaire

This is a short questionaire I am conducting to give me an idea of what others would like the task force to achieve and their capabilities that might contribute positively to the task force. The four questions of this questionaire are:

1. What are your strengths on Wikipedia?
2. Which four military aviation articles would you like to see be promoted to at least GA?
3. What detailed resources (books, journals, etc) about military aviation do you have access to? Please provide the publications' authors, titles and ISSNs/ISBNs.
4. Which three military aviation articles are you wiling to provide assistance? This can be expansion, copyediting, reference formatting, etc.

Please reply by pasting the following below the previous user's comments before filling it out with specific examples for points 2 and 4.

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#My strengths
#Articles I'd like to see the task force improve
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#Sources which I have
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LanceBarber (talk)

My strengths

• Century Series, USAF sqdns, wings, bases, aviation museums, aviation historical societies

Articles I'd like to see the task force improve

1. aviation historical societies
2. aviation museums
3. aviation hall of fames

Sources which I have (short list)

• Yenne’s Spacecrafts, a/c walk-arounds/profiles on many USAF, 4-5 other a/c encyclopedias
• USAF Magazines for 15-20 yrs
• USAF Reference Series(hardbound)- Bases, Bases Overseas, Chiefs of Staff, USAAF, WWI
• USAF T.O.s for F-100C, D, B-24, Sabreliner
• Navy carrier books, +
• Jone’s:, US Bombers, Fighters, Nav Fighters

Articles I'm willing to provide assistance

1. any of the above mentioned topics

LanceBarber (talk) 20:29, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

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DPdH (talk)

Pleased to meet you, and thanks for contacting me for this valuable initiative! As I'm very busy currenmtly in "real life", it will take me some time to gather the details on the sources I have (they're in "long-term" storage and not at hand); maybe I'll have some time over the Xmas break. When do you need the full questionnaire responded, please? Regards,DPdH (talk) 06:11, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

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Harrison49 (talk)

1. My strengths

   Historical research

2. Articles I'd like to see the task force improve

   RAF Bentley Priory

   RAF Fighter Command

   RAF Bomber Command

   Battle of Britain Bunker

3. Sources which I have

   Bristow, Mark. (2005) A History of Royal Air Force Northolt. RAF Northolt: No. 1 AIDU

4. Articles I'm willing to provide assistance

   Royal Air Force stations

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MoRsE (talk)

1. My strengths

   I have some deeper knowledge of aviation subjects relating to Finland, to a somewhat lesser degree I am also interested in German, Russian/Soviet and Nordic aviation subjects. I have also tried to follow up on new aircraft projects. I know several languages so I can also translate entire articles or paragraphs from other language wikipedias. I have been a wikipedian for quite a long time, and currently I am an administrator on enwp (I have also had oversight and admin rights on other language wp's). I used to work with smaller code-writing projects such as creating infoboxes and such but this has diminished due to time constraints.

2. Articles I'd like to see the task force improve

   Finnish Air Force and its aces

   Warsaw Pact air forces

   Generally air force history from the cold war period, most articles have neglected sections on this time period

   Editing many of the articles involving Italian aircraft. These have lots of information, but are in many cases poorly written (the same is rquired also of French Navy ships, but this is not of interest here).

3. Sources which I have

   Too many to mention, I have quite a lot of printed resources, but most are currently stored in Finland (I am spending 95% of my time in Norway and Germany due to my work)

   I like to think that I also have skills for finding necessary information from different resources other than printed books (contacts, electronic references and snippets of information from available electronic publications etc)

4. Articles I'm willing to provide assistance

   I suspect that my future contributions will mostly involve Finnish Air Force-related subjects, as most of the avaition articles outside my scope (see question 1) now have reached a certain level of maturity. I am not sure I can devote so much time to the project that I could contribute to more to these in any significant manner. I do know what is expected from a new aircraft article, and if I stumble upon one that doesn't live up to the standards I will try to do the necessary work to improve it.

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Poliocretes (talk)

1. My strengths

   Israeli Air Force, Israeli aviation and aerial warfare in the Middle East.

2. Articles I'd like to see the task force improve

   Israeli Air Force

   Arab Air Forces

   Everything about the Dassault Mirage III

   Air force histories are generally neglected

3. Sources which I have

   Numerous sources about the Israeli Air Force and Arab-Israeli air wars, plus assorted military aviation titles.

4. Articles I'm willing to provide assistance

   Anything really, though I think I can best contribute to articles about aerial warfare in the Middle East. Not limited to Arab-Israeli though, but also WWII, Suez Crisis and other conflicts.

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Petebutt (talk)

1. My strengths Aircraft, Aviation history, Miltary aviation, Gliders / gliding, Aero-engines
2. Articles I'd like to see the task force improve

   Aichi M6A

   Antonov An-22

   Avro York

   Avro 504

3. Sources which I have

   A wide range of books including Janes AWA, Putnams (most of them). The Red Star series from Midland Publishing (Russian/Soviet aircraft),

   Aircraft weapons books, Aero-engine books, Aircraft manufacturer books

4. Articles I'm willing to provide assistance

   Any Aviation related

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Marcus Qwertyus

1. I'm a Flickr poweruser and can find or request photos on any topic.
2. Articles I'd like to see the task force improve

   Chengdu J-20

   Sukhoi/HAL FGFA

   Sukhoi PAK FA

   Joint Multi-role Helicopter

3. Sources which I have

   Google News sections like this one are easy to set up. This one is about fighter aircraft [1]

   Also a stack of Boeing's Frontiers magazine dating back to May 2002.

4. Articles I'm willing to provide assistance

   F-35 Lightning II

   Sukhoi PAK FA

   American UAVs

Sabre ball (talk)

1. I actually have a BA in History. That should count for something.
2. Articles I'd like to see the task force improve

   Grumman F-14 Tomcat

   VFA-103

   Any article included in this book Book_talk:United_States_Navy_Aircraft_Squadrons

3. Sources which I have

   Not sure. Will have to check.

4. Articles I'm willing to provide assistance

   Grumman F-14 Tomcat

   VFA-103

   Any article included in this book Book_talk:United_States_Navy_Aircraft_Squadrons

   Potentially any other if I'm able and you ask nicely.

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Fnlayson (talk)

1. My strengths

   Teen Series fighters; most US, some European and some Soviet/Russian aircraft from 190s to present.

2. Articles I'd like to see the task force improve

   Grumman A-6 Intruder, LTV A- Corsair II, Douglas A-4 Skyhawk

   Lockheed A-12, Lockheed YF-12, especially SR-1 Blackbird

   Boeing 3 AEW&C

   See User:Fnlayson#Long term for some others

3. Sources which I have

   Many of the Warbird Tech book series

   Encyclopedia of Modern Military Aircraft and other encyclopedia/directory books

   See User:Fnlayson#Sources for a summary of what I have.

4. Articles I'm willing to provide assistance

   The above mentioned items. I will try to help with others if asked and am available.

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The Bushranger _{One ping only}

1. My strengths

   Oddballs - I like digging into the obscure and unusual, whereas things like P-51s do little to nothing for me.

2. Articles I'd like to see the task force improve

   Fisher P-5 Eagle

   Grumman FF

   Boeing YB-40 Flying Fortress

   Dornier Do 335

3. Sources which I have

   Angelluci and bowers' The American Fighter.

   Several "...In Action" series books.

   Google Books. ;P

4. Articles I'm willing to provide assistance

   I can chip in with reading and copyediting wherever.

Subs

I'm on a submarine mission… Going down, down, dragging me down… Down, down, under the sea…!

Here are some links i found using Dogpile and Cite4Wiki (to my knowledge they are not already used as refs on Wikipedia) :

General

1. "Trafalgar Class Nuclear-Powered Attack Submarine | Military-Today.com". military-today.com. 2011 [last update]. Retrieved 30 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
2. "Trafalgar Class Attack Submarines - Naval Technology". naval-technology.com. 2012 [last update]. Retrieved 30 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
3. "Trafalgar". deagel.com. 2012 [last update]. Retrieved 30 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
4. "Plymouth nuclear Dump Information Group, Submarine Watch". plymouth.unisonplus.net. 2003 [last update]. Retrieved 31 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
5. "Royal Navy - Fleet Submarines (SSN) - Swiftsure Class - Trafalgar Class - Astute Class - n3a2 - Armed Forces". armedforces.co.uk. 2009 [last update]. Retrieved 31 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
6. "List of Royal Navy and RFA ships by Pennant Number". oldingcuriosityshop.co.uk. 2012 [last update]. Retrieved 31 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)

HMS Trenchant

1. "SSN - HMS Trenchant (S91) :: United Kingdom (GBR) :: Submarines". en.valka.cz. 2012 [last update]. Retrieved 30 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
2. "defence.professionals | defpro.com". defpro.com. 2012 [last update]. Retrieved 31 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
3. "Videos / Latest News and Information on HMS Trenchant (S91)". livinginplymouth.info. 2012 [last update]. Retrieved 31 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
4. "Trafalgar Class Attack Submarines - Naval Technology". naval-technology.com. 2012 [last update]. Retrieved 31 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link) (mentions tomahawk missiles)

HMS Courageous

1. "SSN - HMS Courageous (S50) :: United Kingdom (GBR) :: Submarines". en.valka.cz. 2012 [last update]. Retrieved 30 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
2. "shipstamps.co.uk • View topic - COURAGEOUS HMS (S50)". shipstamps.co.uk. 2012 [last update]. Retrieved 30 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)

HMS Sceptre

1. "South Atlantic Royal Navy nuclear powered sub en route to be decommissioned — MercoPress". en.mercopress.com. 2012 [last update]. Retrieved 30 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
2. "Royal Navy - Fleet Submarines (SSN) - Swiftsure Class - Trafalgar Class - Astute Class - n3a2 - Armed Forces". armedforces.co.uk. 2009 [last update]. Retrieved 30 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
3. "HMS Sceptre (S104) : Ask Biography". askbiography.com. 2012 [last update]. Retrieved 30 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
4. "The South African Air Force". saairforce.co.za. 2012 [last update]. Retrieved 31 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
5. "Barrow Submariners Association". rnsubs.co.uk. 2012 [last update]. Retrieved 31 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
6. "Ports & Ships Maritime News". ports.co.za. 2010 [last update]. Retrieved 31 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)

HMS Vigilant

1. "Royal Navy - Royal Naval Vessels - Strategic Deterrent - Vanguard Class - HMS Victorious - HMS Vigilant - HMS Vengeance - n3a1 - Armed Forces". armedforces.co.uk. 2009 [last update]. Retrieved 30 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
2. "HMS Vigilant| Royal Navy". royalnavy.mod.uk. 2012 [last update]. Retrieved 31 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
3. "Barrow Submariners Association". rnsubs.co.uk. 2012 [last update]. Retrieved 31 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
4. "HMS Vigilant". bob.plord.net. 2012 [last update]. Retrieved 31 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)

Cheers, benzband (talk) 19:04, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Added some, benzband (talk) 18:10, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Cheers for the barnstar(s) - benzband (talk) 16:0, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Submarine References

Hi, I have found some submarine references for the HMS Sceptre (S104)

http://plak.co.za/moreinfo.php?id=1831 http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3434.html http://plak.co.za/moreinfo.php?id=1831 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/059093.stm http://www.banthebomb.org/archives/news/000306.html http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/2010/08/08/nuclear-subamarine-hms-sceptre-set-to-be-recycled-86908-2243522/ http://www.banthebomb.org/archives/news/000306.html Rjeng2000 (talk) 00:05, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2012 February newsletter

Round 1 is already over! The 64 highest scorers have progressed to round 2. Our highest scorer was Grapple X (submissions), again thanks mostly to a swathe of good articles on The X-Files. In second place was Tigerboy1966 (submissions), thanks an impressive list of did you knows about racehorses. Both scored over 400 points. Following behind with over 300 points were Ruby2010 (submissions), Cwmhiraeth (submissions), Miyagawa (submissions) and Casliber (submissions). February also saw the competition's first featured list: List of colleges and universities in North Dakota, from Ruby2010 (submissions). At the other end of the scale, 11 points was enough to secure a place in this round, and some contestants with 10 points made it into the round on a tiebreaker. This is higher than the 8 points that were needed last year, but lower than the 20 points required the year before. The number of points required to progress to round 3 will be significantly higher.

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STRAT-X

I'm still awaiting your response to my review of STRAT-X at Template:Did you know nominations/STRAT-X. S_peakF_ree ^(talk)_(contribs) 01:12, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK for List of Sturgeon class submarines

Casliber (talk · contribs) 16:22, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for GA review

Thanks for doing the GA review of Foley Square trial. I notice your edit comment says "Review done, will ask for outside comments" ... is there anything I can do to help with that? FYI: the article is in the queue for a Peer Review here, so if there are any outstanding prose issues, the PR will probably catch them. Is there any specific GA criteria that still needs work? --Noleander (talk) 21:03, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

I'd like someone to perform a quality check on my reviews in case I missed something. --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions 04:56, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Okay, that sounds good. --Noleander (talk) 16:59, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Ashleigh Southern

Casliber (talk · contribs) 08:03, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Rowena Webster

Casliber (talk · contribs) 08:04, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK for STRAT-X

The DYK project (nominate) 16:03, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage engagement strategy released

Hey guys!

I'm dropping you a note because you filled out the New Page Patrol survey, and indicated you'd be interested in being contacted about follow-up work. This is to notify you that we've finally released both the initial documentation about the project and also the engagement strategy, which sets out how we plan to work with the community on this. Please give both a read, and leave any comments or suggestions you have on the talkpage, on my talkpage, or in my inbox - okeyeswikimedia.org.

It's awesome to finally get to start work on this! :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 02:44, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

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PJ Harvey GA

Thanks! Although my role was pretty minimal... I was happy to look over such a generally well-done article on a subject I'm interested in. Cheers, Sindinero (talk) 09:4, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

GA thoughts?

Sorry to hear you are semi-retired ... you contributed a good deal to WP. Sorry to nag about Talk:Foley_Square_trial/GA2, but I was wondering if you could look again and see if it meets GA criteria? Alternatively, could you identify which aspect of the article leads you to request a second GA opinion? If you let me know what aspect of the article is causing you to refrain from bestowing GA status, perhaps I can be proactive and start addressing that issue now. The GA queue for the law/politics articles is rather long, and it could be awhile before another reviewer jumps in. --Noleander (talk) 20:50, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

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Page Triage newsletter

Hey guys!

Thanks to all of you who have commented on the New Page Triage talkpage. If you haven't had a chance yet, check it out; we're discussing some pretty interesting ideas, both from the Foundation and the community, and moving towards implementing quite a few of them :).

In addition, on Tuesday 13th March, we're holding an office hours session in #wikimedia-office on IRC at 19:00 UTC (11am Pacific time). If you can make it, please do; we'll have a lot of stuff to show you and talk about, including (hopefully) a timetable of when we're planning to do what. If you can't come, for whatever reason, let me know on my talkpage and I'm happy to send you the logs so you can get an idea of what happened :). Regards, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:38, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Bronwen Knox

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Cleanup tag for Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Hi Sp33dyphil, I noticed you placed a cleanup tag in this edit on Boeing Commercial Airplanes, but you didn't provide a reason why it needed cleanup. Is there any sort of cleanup needed besides what is already stated by maintenance tags in the article? If you forgot why you put it there, that's okay, I was just curious. Thanks, Compdude¹²³ 21:22, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

help triage some feedback

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WikiCup 2012 March newsletter

We are over half way through the second round of this year's WikiCup and things are going well! Grapple X (submissions), of Pool B, is our highest overall scorer thanks to his prolific writings on television and film. In second place is Pool H's Cwmhiraeth (submissions), thanks primarily to work on biological articles, especially in marine biology and herpetology. Third place goes to Pool E's Casliber (submissions), who also writes primarily on biology (including ornithology and botany) and has already submitted two featured articles this round. Of the 63 contestants remaining, 15 (just under a quarter) have over 100 points this round. However, 25 are yet to score. Please remember to update your submission pages promptly. 32 contestants, the top two from each pool and the 16 next-highest scorers, will advance to round 3.

Congratulations to Matthewedwards (submissions), whose impressive File:Wacht am Rhein map (Opaque).svg became the competition's first featured picture. Also, congratulations to 12george1 (submissions), who claimed good topic points, our first contestant this year to do so, for his work on Wikipedia:Featured topics/1982 Atlantic hurricane season. This leaves featured topics and featured portals as the only sources of points not yet utilised. However, as recent statistics from Miyagawa (submissions) show, no source has yet been utilised this competition to the same extent it has been previously!

It has been observed that the backlogs at good article candidates are building up again. While the points for good article reviews will be remaining constant, any help that can be offered keeping the backlog down would be appreciated. On a related note, if you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. As ever, 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 receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:28, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

A big NPT update

Hey! Big update on what the developers have been working on, and what is coming up:

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• Fixes for the "moved pages do not show up in Special:NewPages" and "pages created from redirects do not show up in Special:NewPages" bugs have been completed and signed off on. Unfortunately we won't be able to integrate them into the existing version, but they will be worked into the Page Triage interface.
• Coding has been completed on three elements; the API for displaying metadata about the article in the "list view", the ability to keep the "patrol" button visible if you edit an article before patrolling it, and the automatic removal of deleted pages from the queue. All three are awaiting testing but otherwise complete.

All other elements are either undergoing research, or about to have development started. I appreciate this sounds like we've not got through much work, and truthfully we're a bit disappointed with it as well; we thought we'd be going at a faster pace :(. Unfortunately there seems to be some 24-72 hour bug sweeping the San Francisco office at the moment, and at one time or another we've had several devs out of it. It's kind of messed with workflow.

Stuff to look at

We've got a pair of new mockups to comment on that deal with the filtering mechanism; this is a slightly updated mockup of the list view, and this is what the filtering tab is going to look like. All thoughts, comments and suggestions welcome on the NPT talkpage :). I'd also like to thank the people who came to our last two office hours sessions; the logs will be shortly available here.

I've also just heard that the first functional prototype for enwiki will be deployed mid-April! Really, really stoked to see this happening :). We're finding out if we can stick something up a bit sooner on prototype.wiki or something.

I appreciate there may be questions or suggestions where I've said "I'll find out and get back to you" and then, uh. not ;p. I sincerely apologise for that: things have been a bit hectic at this end over the last few weeks. But if you've got anything I've missed, drop me a line and I'll deal with it! Further questions or issues to the usual address. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 17:02, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

GOCE March drive wrap-up

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Hello!

Thanks for kind words! Well, most of my uploads are work of other people. I'm not good at photo stuff really. Anyway, I'm ready for any collaboration, however most of my efforts goes into Commons and Russian section of Wikipedia. How can I help? James R. Nockson (talk) 19:19, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Let's talk here, for me it's easier. OK, so what Russian aviation articles are you working on now? I see you made a GA about Su-33. I have a FA plans for it but in a long perspective - now my priority №1 is group of articles about "Forger" - Yak-38, Yak-38U and Yak-38M. James R. Nockson (talk) 18:30, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Lucky for both of us, I have several comprehensive publications on the Su-33 and Yak-38. The trouble is whether I have to stamina and time to last an overhaul of both articles. It would be good if you could, as a Russian speaker, scour the net for as many articles, including news items, on both subjects. --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions 06:51, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Well, I already have some good books about both Su-33 and Yak-38. Book about Yak-38 is "Yakovlev Yak-36, Yak-38 & Yak-41: The Soviet 'Jump Jets'" by Efim Gordon. It's in English that's good for you. About Su-33 best source is "Su-33. Korabelnaya epopeya" by Andrey Fomin. It's in Russian but gives great details on development of Su-33. Have you read them? I think this two books are more than enough for writing a great article. My FA Yak-141 is 85% based on Gordon's book. If you need I have other material about Forger (mostly in Russian however). James R. Nockson (talk) 18:31, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Ah yes, I happen to have the Yakolev book, but not the latter, as I would have trouble reading Russian. However, I do have the book Sukhoi Su-27, which is perhaps the most detailed book about the Su-27 and its derivatives. --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions 01:25, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Hm, I haven't read Gordon's book about Su-27. Gonna check it out. So, what we gonna do? James R. Nockson (talk) 11:23, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2012 April newsletter

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New Pages update

Hey Sp33dyphil :). A quick update on how things are going with the New Page Triage/New Pages Feed project. As the enwiki page notes, the project is divided into two chunks: the "list view" (essentially an updated version of Special:NewPages) and the "article view", a view you'll be presented with when you open up individual articles that contains a toolbar with lots of options to interact with the page - patrolling it, adding maintenance tags, nominating it for deletion, so on.

On the list view front, we're pretty much done! We tried deploying it to enwiki, in line with our Engagement Strategy on Wednesday, but ran into bugs and had to reschedule - the same happened on Thursday :(. We've queued a new deployment for Monday PST, and hopefully that one will go better. If it does, the software will be ready to play around with and test by the following week! :).

On the article view front, the developers are doing some fantastic work designing the toolbar, which we're calling the "curation bar"; you can see a mockup here. A stripped-down version of this should be ready to deploy fairly soon after the list view is; I'm afraid I don't have precise dates yet. When I have more info, or can unleash everyone to test the list view, I'll let you know :). As always, any questions to the talkpage for the project or mine. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:21, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Retirement

Hi,
Sorry to hear that you're semi-retired. I hope you're enjoying the stress-free life out there in the real world. We miss you, though; after all the good work you've done, it would be nice to have you back. ;-) bobrayner (talk) 22:12, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Viktor Chirkov and Viktor Bondarev

Thankyou very much for doing these two articles - we're up to date instantly, ever before Ru-wiki, it seems ! Buckshot06 (talk) 05:17, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

No problems. It picked up the appointments after having looked at the news. I need some assistance with the Bondarev article, so if you can, please help out. Otherwise, no biggie. --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions 07:07, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Re: Your Warning

I will not act as unilaterally in the future, and explained my most recent changes in part on the TP of the article in question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Covert_United_States_foreign_regime_change_actions#Sourcing_Problems--Seymour_Hersh_And_Company Cheers.TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 05:59, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage prototype released

Hey Sp33dyphil! We've finally finished the NPT prototype and deployed it on enwiki. We'll be holding an office hours session on the 16th at 21:00 in #wikimedia-office to show it off, get feedback and plot future developments - hope to see you there! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 03:29, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Mount Salak crash

See List of aircraft by tail number. Apparently as a test aircraft it did not carry the RA- prefix. I fell into this one myself, and Aviation Herald / Aviation Safety Network did too. Mjroots (talk) 08:37, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

GOCE May mid-drive newsletter

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DYK for Viktor Bondarev

Shubinator (talk) 19:23, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Viktor Chirkov

Yngvadottir (talk) 16:03, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

What do you mean?

When you removed this image you left the edit summary "No use". What does that mean? Moriori (talk) 03:33, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

The section doesn't mention braking systems; it had two images, which was more than enough; and the parachute is not even fully inflated. If the image wasn't included in the article just for the sake of it, I don't know what is. --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions 03:56, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

No, the section doesn't mention braking systems, but aerodynamics, and none of the images apply to aerodynamics. If two images were more than enough, why didn't you reduce the number to one? How does the image you removed detract from the article? Why didn't you move it to another space in the article? It's not a bad image, is it? Moriori (talk) 08:24, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

You're right, the current image has no connection with aerodynamics; however, I wasn't saying it was connected -- that is what you are inferring. My view simply is that the removed image had no value in relation to the section whatsoever because of the reasons above. Since you questioned the status of the image about the Thach Wave manouever, I will replace it. And no, the parachute image is not bad -- it just doesn't have any encyclopediac value. --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions 13:05, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

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New Page Triage/New Pages Feed

Hey all :). A notification that the prototype for the New Pages Feed is now live on enwiki! We had to briefly take it down after an unfortunate bug started showing up, but it's now live and we will continue developing it on-site.

The page can be found at Special:NewPagesFeed. Please, please, please test it and tell us what you think! Note that as a prototype it will inevitably have bugs - if you find one not already mentioned at the talkpage, bring it up and I'm happy to carry it through to the devs. The same is true of any additions you can think of to the software, or any questions you might have - let me know and I'll respond.

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McCartney

Per your edit at McCartney: look here. — GabeMc (talk) 07:27, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Also, here. — GabeMc (talk) 07:31, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

That page had never been brought to my attention before. If the community had decided on the issue, I'd like to withdraw and apologize for my actions. However, I can't help but question the process by which the community came to such a conclusion. On The Beatles' official website, the band's name is simultaneously spelt as "The Beatles" and "the Beatles". Such inconsistency eliminates the website as being a reliable website upon which a decision should be based. Wikipedia:Article titles#Common_names dictates that the most common name be used, preferably "major international organizations, major English-language media outlets, quality encyclopedias, [...]" About 80% of the Google results endorsed the uncapitalised style. Therefore, I will stick with that version for now. Nevertheless, I don't understand why "The Hague" is capitalised -- maybe the word Hague is so uncommon that it compels the reader to also capitalise the definite article. Also, the band's name should be capitalised when it's wikilinked, and somebody needs to do somebody about John Lennon's article, which is full of the capitalised style, and any other similarly-worded articles. --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions 08:30, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

I agree, John Lennon needs attention. I plan to get to it after Paul McCartney achieves FA. — GabeMc (talk) 21:38, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2012 May newsletter

We're halfway through round 3 (or the quarter finals, if you prefer) and things are running smoothly. We're seeing very high scoring; as of the time of writing, the top 16 all have over 90 points. This has already proved to be more competative than this time last year- in 2011, 76 points secured a place, while in 2010, a massive 250 was the lowest qualifying score. People have also upped their game slightly from last round, which is to be expected as we approach the end of the competition. Leading Pool A is Cwmhiraeth (submissions), whose points have mostly come from a large number of did you knows on marine biology. Pool B's leader, Grapple X (submissions), is for the first time not our highest scorer at the time of newsletter publication, but his good articles on The X-Files and Millenium keep him in second place overall. Miyagawa (submissions) leads Pool C, our quietest pool, with content in a variety of areas on a variety of topics. Pool D is led by Casliber (submissions), our current overall leader. Nearly half of Casliber's points come from his triple-scored Western Jackdaw, which is now a featured article.

This round has seen an unusually high number of featured lists, with nearly one in five remaining participants claiming one, and one user, Muboshgu (submissions), claiming two. Miyagawa's featured list, 1936 Summer Olympics medal table, was even awarded double points. By comparison, good article reviews seem to be playing a smaller part, and featured topics portals remain two content-types still unutilised in this competition. Other than that, there isn't much to say! Things are coming along smoothly. As ever, if you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. 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. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:45, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

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GOCE May drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors May 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up Participation: Out of 54 people who signed up this drive, 32 copy-edited at least one article. Last drive's superstar, Lfstevens, again stood out, topping the leader board in all three categories and copy-editing over 700 articles. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: We were once again successful in our primary goal—removing the oldest three months from the backlog—while removing 1166 articles from the queue, the second-most in our history. The total backlog currently sits at around 2600 articles, down from 8323 when we started out just over two years ago. Coodinator election: The six-month term for our third tranche of Guild coordinators will be expiring at the end of June. We will be accepting nominations for the fourth tranche of coordinators, who will also serve a six-month term. Nominations will open starting on June 5. For complete information, please have a look at the election page. – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa, and Stfg To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 16:00, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Needing Wiki contribution assistance!

Greetings Sp33dyphil,

I am looking for an experienced Wikipedian to contribute an article for our band Mr. Meeble. I have checked and we meet the Wikipedia "notability" guidelines for a band. We have a very basic Wikipedia article written already, but I know that someone like yourself may be able to point out our formatting errors and critical omissions. You can hear our music and see our videos here:

http://youtube.com/mrmeeble
http://soundcloud.com/meeble

Let me know if you would be willing to help!

Regards,
Devin
mm @ meeble.com

Devbot (talk) 05:16, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

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GOCE July 2012 Copy Edit Drive

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their July 2012 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on July 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on July 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to eliminate the articles tagged in April, May and June 2011 from the queue and to complete all requests placed before the end of June. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits more than 4,000 words, and special awards will be given to the top 6 in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged in April–June 2011", and "Longest article". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Dank, Diannaa and Stfg. >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 19:15, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Justin Bieber on Twitter for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Justin Bieber on Twitter is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Justin Bieber on Twitter until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article.

Informing you of this nomination because of your previous participation in the Justin Bieber on Twitter merge into Justin Bieber discussion.--LauraHale (talk) 06:42, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2012 June newsletter

Apologies for the lateness of this letter; our usual bot wasn't working. We are now entering round 4, our semi-finals, and have our final 16. A score of 243 was required to reach this round; significantly more than 2011's 76 points, and only a little behind 2010's 250 points. By comparison, last year, 150 points in round 4 secured a place in the final; in 2010, 430 were needed. Commiserations to Pool A's igordebraga (submissions), who scored 242 points, missing out on a place in the round by a whisker. However, congratulations to Pool B's Grapple X (submissions), whose television articles have brought him another round victory. Pool A's Cwmhiraeth (submissions) came second overall, with an impressive list of biological did you knows, good articles and featured articles. Third overall was Pool D's Muboshgu (submissions), with a long list of contibutions, mostly relating to baseball. Of course, with the points resetting every round, the playing field has been levelled. The most successful Pool was Pool D, which saw seven into the final round. Pool B saw four, C saw three and Pool A saw only the two round leaders.

A quick note about other competitions taking place on Wikipedia which may be of interest. There are 13 days remaining in the June-July GAN backlog elimination drive, but it is not too late to take part. August will also see the return of The Core Contest- a one month long competition first run in 2007. While the WikiCup awards points for audited content on any subject, The Core Contest about is raw article improvement, focussing heavily on the most important articles on Wikipedia. As ever, if you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. 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. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 11:10, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Reception section of film articles

You might want to comment at Talk:The Amazing Spider-Man (2012 film)#critical reception pov slant since it concerns an interaction you had with Williamsburgland. 91.224.154.100 (talk) 16:36, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

GOCE July 2012 mid-drive newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 backlog elimination drive mid-drive newsletter Participation: Out of 37 people signed up for this drive so far, 25 have copy-edited at least one article. It's a smaller group than last drive, but we're making good progress. If you've signed up but haven't yet copy-edited any articles, every bit helps; if you haven't signed up yet, it's not too late. Template:J Progress report: We're almost on track to meet our targets for the drive. Great work, guys. We have reduced our target group of articles—May, June, and July 2011—by about 40%, and the overall backlog has been reduced by 264 articles so far, to around 2500 articles. Copy Edit of the Month: Starting in August, your best copy-editing work of the month will be eligible for fabulous prizes! See here for details. – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 16:55, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks!

Thanks for the GA barnstar! It was my pleasure working on the article; it's one of my favorite albums ever. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 04:21, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hi Sp33dyphil. Just wanted to say big thanks for the Barnstar. Although I'd done good deal of work on two other recent GAs, someone else had done the actual nominations, so the Living in the Material World article's extra-special − and the Barnstar's rounds it all off very nicely! Thanks again. Best, JG66 (talk) 08:49, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

DYK help

Can you help improve these articles in my user space:

• User:LauraHale/Joann Formosa
• User:LauraHale/Grace Bowman (equestrian)
• User:LauraHale/Rob Oakley

They need a copy edit before I take them to DYK. Will happily give you credit for helping make the prose flow better. :D --LauraHale (talk) 10:32, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes the Australian War Memorial

Thought Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes the Australian War Memorial might be of interest to you. :) --LauraHale (talk) 03:30, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Wikify: July Newsletter and August Drive

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Hello. You have a new message at Sctechlaw's talk page. Sctechlaw (talk) 21:25, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
More: Hello. You have a new message at Sctechlaw's talk page. Sctechlaw (talk) 21:50, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
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HighBeam

Hi, Phil! We tried to send you your HighBeam account code but you don't have email enabled. Can you email me something at wikiocaasi@yahoo.com and I'll respond with your code? Cheers Ocaasi ^{t | c} 23:05, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

GOCE July drive wrap-up

Guild of Copy Editors July 2012 backlog elimination drive wrap-up Participation: Out of 45 people who signed up this drive, 31 have copy-edited at least one article. Lfstevens continues to carry most of the weight, having edited 360 articles and over a quarter of a million words already. Thanks to all who have participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, will be available early in August here. Progress report: We are once again very close to achieving in our primary goal—removing the oldest three months from the backlog. Only 35 such articles remain at press time. The total backlog currently sits at under 2400 articles, down from 8323 when we started out over two years ago. We are just two articles away from completing all requests made before July 2012 (both are in progress). Copy Edit of the Month: Starting in August, you'll be able to submit your best copy-editing work for palaver, praise, and prizes. See here for details. – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 00:18, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

The Copyeditors barnstar

		The Copyeditor's Barnstar
		Great work on copy editing Samsung Galaxy S III. GA reviewer ObtundTalk 04:44, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you so much for the un-anticipated award! I've racked up nearly 700 edits on the article, and I'm currently looking to give it a thorough edit, shepherd it to GA, and head for the Bronze Star ;) Once again, thanks --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions 04:51, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Well why reviewing it I could see you put a lot of work into it. Obtund^Talk 13:32, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanks for the barnstar you gave me for Pont du Gard! Prioryman (talk) 20:12, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2012 July newsletter

We're approaching the beginning of 2012's final round. Pool A sees Cwmhiraeth (submissions) as the leader, with 300 points being awarded for the featured article Bivalvia, and Pool B sees Grapple X (submissions) in the lead, with 10 good articles, and over 35 articles eligible for good topic points. Pool A sees Muboshgu (submissions) in second place with a number of articles relating to baseball, while Pool B's Ruby2010 (submissions) follows Grapple X, with a variety of contributions including the high-scoring, high-importance featured article on the 2010 film Pride & Prejudice. Ruby2010, like Grapple X, also claimed a number of good topic points; despite this, not a single point has been claimed for featured topics in the contest so far. The same is true for featured portals.

Currently, the eighth-place competitor (and so the lowest scorer who would reach the final round right now) has scored 332, more than double the 150 needed to reach the final round last year. In 2010, however, 430 was the lowest qualifying score. In this competition, we have generally seen scores closer to those in 2010 than those in 2011. Let's see what kind of benchmark we can set for future competitions! As ever, if you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. 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. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 22:33, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Record Production invites you to join

76Strat ^String da _Broke da (talk) 07:32, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for joining the Record Production Wikiproject. I look forward to all manner of collaboration regarding this topic and ideas you have are welcome. I am happy to officially welcome you and affirm that your username has been added as a member of the project. 76Strat ^String da _Broke da (talk) 08:28, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Record Production proudly welcomes Sp33dyphil; an esteemed member and colleague. A Project benefactor since, 08/02/2012.

Page Triage newsletter

Hey all. Some quick but important updates on what we've been up to and what's coming up next :).

The curation toolbar, our Wikimedia-supported twinkle replacement. We're going to be deploying it, along with a pile of bugfixes, to wikipedia on 9 August. After a few days to check it doesn't make anything explode or die, we'll be sticking up a big notice and sending out an additional newsletter inviting people to test it out and give us feedback :). This will be followed by two office hours sessions - one on Tuesday the 14th of August at 19:00 UTC for all us Europeans, and one on Wednesday the 15th at 23:00 UTC for the East Coasters out there :). As always, these will be held in #wikimedia-office; drop me a note if you want to know how to easily get on IRC, or if you aren't able to attend but would like the logs.

I hope to see a lot of you there; it's going to be a big day for everyone involved, I think :). I'll have more notes after the deployment! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 19:53, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

New Pages newsletter

Hey all :)

A couple of new things.

First, you'll note that all the project titles have now changed to the Page Curation prefix, rather than having the New Pages Feed prefix. This is because the overarching project name has changed to Page Curation; the feed is still known as New Pages Feed, and the Curation Toolbar is still the Curation Toolbar. Hopefully this will be the last namechange ;p.

On the subject of the Curation Toolbar (nice segue, Oliver!) - it's now deployed on Wikipedia. Just open up any article in the New Pages Feed and it should appear on the right. It's still a beta version - bugs are expected - and we've got a lot more work to do. But if you see something going wrong, or a feature missing, drop me a note or post on the project talkpage and I'll be happy to help :). We'll be holding two office hours sessions to discuss the tool and improvements to it; the first is at 19:00 UTC on 14 August, and the second at 23:00 on the 15th. Both will be in #wikimedia-office as always. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:01, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Wikify and the future of wikification

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Good article

		Samsung Galaxy S III is now a Good Article
		Congrats! The article you nominated Samsung Galaxy S III was just promoted to Good Article status! Great job to all of your hard work! ObtundTalk 03:38, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for your time! --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions 07:05, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

GOCE news and September drive invitation

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in its events: The August 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is currently in the submissions stage. Submit your best August copy edit there before the end of the month. Submissions end, and discussion and voting begin, on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC). September 2012 Backlog elimination drive is a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on September 30 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to copy edit the articles tagged longest ago and to complete all requests placed before the end of August. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top six in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged longest ago", and "Longest article". This drive features a much easier signup process. We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. >>> Sign up now <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 19:08, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Nexus 7

The article Nexus 7 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Nexus 7 for comments about the article. Well done! GRAPPLE X 00:05, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

WikiCup 2012 August newsletter

The final is upon us! We are down to our final 8. A massive 573 was our lowest qualifying score; this is higher than the 150 points needed last year and the 430 needed in 2010. Even in 2009, when points were acquired for mainspace edit count in addition to audited content, 417 points secured a place. That leaves this year's WikiCup, by one measure at least, our most competitive ever. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:

1. Grapple X (submissions) once again finishes the round in first place, leading Pool B. Grapple X writes articles about television, and especially The X-Files and Millenium, with good articles making up the bulk of the score.
2. Miyagawa (submissions) led Pool A this round. Fourth-place finalist last year, Miyagawa writes on a variety of topics, and has reached the final primarily off the back of his massive number of did you knows.
3. Ruby2010 (submissions) was second in Pool B. Ruby2010 writes primarily on television and film, and scores primarily from good articles.
4. Casliber (submissions) finished third in Pool B. Casliber is something of a WikiCup veteran, having finished sixth in 2011 and fourth in 2010. Casliber writes on the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy. Over half of Casliber's points this round were bonus points from the high-importance articles he has worked on.
5. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) came second in Pool A. Also writing on biology, especially marine biology, Cwmhiraeth received 390 points for one featured article (Bivalvia) and one good article (pelican), topping up with a large number of did you knows.
6. Muboshgu (submissions) was third in Pool A. Muboshgu writes primarily on baseball, and this round saw Muboshgu's first featured article, Derek Jeter, promoted on its fourth attempt at FAC.
7. Dana Boomer (submissions) was fourth in Pool A. She writes on a variety of topics, including horses, but this round also saw the high-importance lettuce reach featured article status.
8. Sasata (submissions) is another WikiCup veteran, having been a finalist in 2009 and 2010. He writes mostly on mycology.

However, we must also say goodbye to the eight who did not make the final, having fallen at the last hurdle: GreatOrangePumpkin (submissions), Ealdgyth (submissions), Calvin999 (submissions), Piotrus (submissions), Toa Nidhiki05 (submissions), 12george1 (submissions), The Bushranger (submissions) and 1111tomica (submissions). We hope to see you all next year.

On the subject of next year, a discussion has been opened here. Come and have your say about the competition, and how you'd like it to run in the future. This brainstorming will go on for some time before more focused discussions/polls are opened. As ever, if you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. 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. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 00:24, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

GOCE September activities

Reminders from the Guild of Copy Editors A quick reminder of our current events: The August 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is in the discussion and voting stage until midnight September 14 (UTC). The September 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is in the submissions stage until midnight September 30 (UTC), when discussion and voting begin. The September 2012 Backlog elimination drive is now underway! The event runs until midnight September 30 (UTC). The goal is to copy edit articles with the oldest tags and complete all requests placed before September. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who participates, with special awards given to the top five in the following categories: "Total articles", "Total words", "Total articles over 5,000 words", "Total articles tagged longest ago", and "Longest article". – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Message delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 04:32, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

In honor of your service as a Milhist coordinator

		The WikiProject Barnstar
		In honor of your service as coordinator for the Military History Project from September 2011 to September 2012, I hereby award you this WikiProject Barnstar. - Dank (push to talk) 03:29, 7 September 2012 (UTC)