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ClickRick (talk) 06:54, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Seth Whales 16:52, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Geaux Tigers! User:Dank 18:29, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Geaux Tigers! User:Dank 18:29, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
User:Smallbones October 2, 2009
In "Sansindo" (Painting of a Sansin, mountain deity), a shamanistic picture of Korea. Caspian blue 21:52, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Tiger and magpie, a minhwa (Korean folk painting) Caspian blue 21:55, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Sleeping tiger
Calmer Waters
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Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 00:45, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Here we see Brandon Inge, a Detroit Tiger from User:TomCat4680 04:37, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
TonyTheTiger helping a "newbie" find his way.User:Buster7 7 January 2010 (UTC)
Les Miles, head coach of the LSU Tigers. User:Staxringold 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Commonly known as the Tasmanian Tiger. User:Rossrs 31 January 2010
another Detroit Tiger from User:TomCat4680 04:39, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Fallschirmjäger 10:02, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Yarnalgo _talk to me 06:25, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
TonyTheTiger conversing with a vandal. User:Buster7 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Calgary Tigers' Barney Stanley Reso lute 19:57, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Wayne Olajuwon (talk) 18:17, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Tiger Williams - All-Star Legends 2008 in Toronto. Kelapstick 05:04, 1 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Bengal tiger - --Extra 999 (Contact ^me + _contribs) 12:03, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Shearonink (talk) 17:16, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
From the "mushroom people", it's a Tiger Tricholoma! J Milburn (talk) 21:52, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keeping it rare with Tasmanian tigers Spongie555 (talk) 04:56, 25 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Gduwen (talk) 22:46, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Sleeping Tiger MarnetteD Talk 01:59, 25 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yourrr'e grrrreat! He looks like you even. Bearian (talk) 16:17, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
This guy approves of your work on the tasty-looking Shackleford (horse). – Quadell ^(talk) 15:25, 9 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Guest and resident at Tiger Temple in Thailand. – Quadell ^(talk) 15:04, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Have a tiger catshark on me! Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:03, 19 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Tiger in the water Buster7 11:05, 09 Nov 2011 "
I uploaded this one and the meanies at FP rejected it. TCO 16:59, 23 November 2011‎
Harrison49 (talk) 13:00, 13 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Indian tiger dance. Redtigerxyz ^Talk 10:24, 24 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for making Wikipedia a better place! Imthebombliketicktick (talk) 17:41, 31 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
A Tiger Moth plane SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 02:37, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
A Tiger Moth moth SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 02:37, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
A Bengal, for your hard work. Achowat (talk) 14:42, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers . Hugh (talk) 19:50, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Tiger holding Hunters at bay, by Charles R. Knight 1917. FunkMonk (talk) 13:43, 14 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Cover of Popular Natural History by Henry Scherren, 1906. Chiswick Chap (talk) 11:32, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
A very cool cat . --My76Strat (talk) 14:57, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nobody steals the ball from Tiger.-- I Jethrobot (talk · contribs) 01:12, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
A Tiger with a brush-like tail :) J Kadavoor J e e 06:54, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
A beautiful-looking tiger lily. buff bills 7701 18:14, 2 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
A literary Tyger for your cooperative help reviewing our respective FACs. Thank you! --SkotyWA^T_C 18:14, 3 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
A Hungarian stamp from 1961!]] Newyorkadam (talk) 19:34, 19 December 2013 (UTC)Newyorkadam

A Hungarian stamp from 1961!]] Newyorkadam (talk) 19:34, 19 December 2013 (UTC)Newyorkadam[reply]
Muenster Zoo. Buster Seven Talk 19:33, 23 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Tiger by Franz Marc, 1912, for all of your good work I wish I could give you the real painting! Randy Kryn (talk) 16:08, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
This White Tiger appreciates your good job.Alexcalamaro (talk) 07:53, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Tiger lily, Fritzmann (message me) 01:39, 12 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Impressive work!!! BeFriendlyGoodSir (talk) 02:23, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
queen of 🖤 (they/them; chat) 00:47, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiCup 2011 March newsletter

We are half way through round two of the WikiCup, which will end on 28 April. Of the 64 current contestants, 32 will make it through to the next round; the two highest in each pool, and the 16 next highest scorers. At the time of writing, our current overall leader is Hurricanehink (submissions) with 231 points, who leads Pool H. Piotrus (submissions) (Pool G) also has over 200 points, while 9 others (three of whom are in Pool D) have over 100 points. Remember that certain content (specifically, articles/portals included in at least 20 Wikipedias as of 31 December 2010 or articles which are considered "vital") is worth double points if promoted to good or featured status, or if it appears on the main page in the Did You Know column. There were some articles last round which were eligible for double points, but which were not claimed for. For more details, see Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring.

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WP:FS

Have you poked through the recommended sources yet? Alternatively, consider making a field recording. I got a field recording of my cat to Featured sound with little more than her cooperation and a good-quality desktop microphone. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 14:39, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I can't help you with Video, but for audio, the easiest way is to use Audacity, a free sound editing program, load up the file, then choose "Export as Ogg Vorbis" in the File menu. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 14:47, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

FLC for Huskies of Honor

Hi Tony, hope you are doing well. I currently have a featured list candidacy open for Huskies of Honor, essentially a Hall of Fame for the best men's and women's basketball players in Connecticut Huskies history. I thought you might be interested in taking a look at it; if so, please leave any comments you have here. If not, no worries. –Grondemar 23:02, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Number of four awards

I ran a small script on Wikipedia:Four Award/Records to count how often File:Four Award.svg appears, and I came up with 184. Discounting the first instance at the top, that should leave 183, not 182. Are you sure there's not something missing somewhere? --Gyrobo (talk) 16:48, 3 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, I just realized I forgot to subtract one from the length. --Gyrobo (talk) 16:51, 3 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, ignore my retraction. Here's the script:

 var k = 0;
 for (var i = 0; i < (document.images).length; i++) {
   if (document.images[i].src == "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Four_Award.svg/20px-Four_Award.svg.png") {
     k++;
   }
 }
 k--; // Take initial header image into account.
 alert("Number of FOUR awards: " + k);

It shouldn't matter if it's length or length - 1, it only counts instances of that image. --Gyrobo (talk) 17:01, 3 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Recently listed good articles/Port of Miami Tunnel

I see that you have a lot of good, featured and other articles linked on your page, including the Port of Miami Tunnel, which I basically "took over" recently and have radically changed it over the past few weeks, even today. Over the past few months and a ton in the last week I've been improving the POM Tunnel article and I nominated it as a good article, and it easily passed with basic little changes, and now I don't see how it falls that short of meeting FAC, except for it's length. But I mean, it's not even one year out of four into construction and look how comprehensive of an article I was able to pull together on it. Even since it passing the GAN I've added a substantial amount to it. Daniel Christensen (talk) 21:44, 3 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oh.... I thought you'd contributed to it in the past, but no, I just realized your page linked to it and made an assumption. So do your user and talk pages automatically display recent GA's? Daniel Christensen (talk) 21:47, 3 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for 2010–11 Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team

On 4 April 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 2010–11 Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that members of the 2010–11 Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team won earned CCHA Best Defensive Forward and Best Goaltender awards? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Thanks for me and the wiki Victuallers (talk) 00:03, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Chris Hill (basketball)

On 4 April 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Chris Hill (basketball), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Chris Hill is one of only three Big Ten Conference men's basketball players to have been named an Academic All-America three times? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 08:04, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

DYK for The Fab Five

Hi, I put some new alt suggestions on the DYK talk page in response to your question. Best, Yoninah (talk) 14:12, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Tony, the hook was moved to Prep 4 and revised by another editor. You can comment on the new hook here. Yoninah (talk) 23:38, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File

The Fireside chat isn't going to clean up very much - that sort of static tends not to clean that well. The Peace Corps one I kind of did earlier today. Should've saved that. Still, it's not really worth duplicating work.

How about Truman's farewell? http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3355 - It's not going to clean up perfectly, but I think it'll clean up fairly well.

HAve a listen, and then we'll talk. =) Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 18:18, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I mean I should have saved it for you - it's already in the nom. =/ Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 19:07, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Click at the point you wwant to start selecting, hold the mouse button down, and drag to the end of the selection before releasing. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 23:01, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You're trying a bit too hard to remove static at the beginning, leading to ruining the rest of the speech. Try blending in a bit more of the original. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 08:08, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Wikivoices/Episode_48 - Just use part 2 of this; there's no particularly noticeable clicking.

Cleaning up a sound file should not make it harder to listen to - the current version distorts the voice so much that it'svery hard to make out the words. Harder than in the original. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 08:47, 5 April 2011 (UTC) Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 08:10, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

When you nominate a file don't forget to add {{FSC|Name of subpage (without Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/}} It's great to see you eager to participate, consider commenting on other nominations as well :) Regards, —Ancient Apparition • Champagne? • 9:19pm • 11:19, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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DYK for The Fab Five (film)

On 7 April 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Fab Five (film), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that in response to Jalen Rose's comments in The Fab Five, which has become the highest-rated ESPN documentary, Grant Hill's response was shared by nearly 100,000 people on Facebook in the next few days? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 08:03, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

DYK for List of Football Academic All-America Team Members of the Year

On 8 April 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article List of Football Academic All-America Team Members of the Year, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Tim Tebow, Maya Moore and Matt Bonner were two-time team members of the Year in American football, women's basketball, and men's basketball, respectively? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 08:03, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

DYK for List of Women's Basketball Academic All-America Team Members of the Year

On 8 April 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article List of Women's Basketball Academic All-America Team Members of the Year, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Tim Tebow, Maya Moore and Matt Bonner were two-time team members of the Year in American football, women's basketball, and men's basketball, respectively? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 08:03, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

DYK for List of Men's Basketball Academic All-America Team Members of the Year

On 8 April 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article List of Men's Basketball Academic All-America Team Members of the Year, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Tim Tebow, Maya Moore and Matt Bonner were two-time team members of the Year in American football, women's basketball, and men's basketball, respectively? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 08:04, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

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Tvoz/talk 06:35, 9 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And again.Tvoz/talk 19:14, 9 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Forgot to say, one more round on my talk. Cheers. Tvoz/talk 18:22, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

FS!

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Your Featured sound candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured sound status, File:Fireside Chat 1 On the Banking Crisis (March 12, 1933) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.ogg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another sound, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates. Sven Manguard Wha? 07:09, 9 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Tony! I'd like to invite you to join wikimediaus-l, where we already discussing The Great American Wiknic :)--Pharos (talk) 00:38, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

FS

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Your Featured sound candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured sound status, File:FDR's 1941 State of the Union (Four Freedoms speech) Edit 1.ogg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another sound, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates. Guerillero | My Talk | Review Me 16:14, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Since you started the discussion I consider you a co-nominator--Guerillero | My Talk | Review Me 16:14, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Infoboxes

Hi. I encountered a surprising opposition yesterday to the St. Petersburg pin map I made and the infobox I added to Winter Palace showing city location. The reverter seems to have a load of people who are against infoboxes and supported him. I've opened a discussion, I was under the impression that infoboxes are generally preferred on here given that they are used in most articles. I think there should be a general consensus made either way which stops people re,oving or adding infoboxes based on personal preferences but based on those which adequately reflect the mainstream view. Are infoboxes generally accepted on wikipedia?, I need some feedback at the pump on this as obviously if I had believed there wasn't I a] would not have added an infobox b] I wouldn't have created a map and c] I wouldn't have asked the reverter not to remove the infobox.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:22, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thankyou for taking to time to comment. It just struck me as odd as I've honestly never seen a group express their distaste for infoboxes except the opera project with composers.Generally if you add infoboxes to articles you don't anticipate it being reverted!! City maps are my thing, so I thought a city locator in the article would be useful like I did with Chicago.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:00, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Winter Palace

Worked heavily on improving this today and finding new sources, copy editing, making concise, filling in refs to nominate for GA. See this. My hours of work completely reverted. Is this acceptable? I'm going to take some time away from here right now but can you seriously look into this revert and bring proper justice to this situation. I as you know am an experienced GA contributor but this sort of hostitlity has sickened me to the core.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:34, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Blofeld on this - there was no reason for a wholesale revert without any attempt at mollifying the situation. I have reverted the revert - something I don't do lightly - because I think it was unwarranted. I'm going to suggest that the issue be taken up on the article talkpage, unless you think otherwise. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:06, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. It may have to wait until tonight. (I did a bit of a fly-by on the Winter Palace article, admittedly - I didn't read everything, just enough to satisfy myself that my revert could be justified.)

I've seen you around some - I lurk over at WP:FPC from time to time, and I've seen you come up in the newpage patrol. I've become mostly a gnome, myself, with periods of active article creation. But I tend to fly under the radar a lot - I don't go over to WP:FA or WP:GA hardly at all (been meaning to change that, though - I simply don't have the time to work something up to a decent standard any more), and tend to live in article space.

And I don't know anything about Chicago beyond what I read in books, I'm afraid, so I'm of scant help on that subject. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:38, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

OK nobody has a right to remove GA noms like this, That is NOT debatable. This guy needs sorting out.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:32, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, it is debatable. You nominated it, then posted a wikibreak notice. He's the main contributor. You may not agree with his actions, but you can't argue that it's not arguable. Nikkimaria (talk) 21:09, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WP vs. Commons

Long story short, I can't support commons because I feel it supports and protects racist trolls. If you need to move a copy to Commons, feel free; just put a {{Keep Local}} on the original, since I also don't trust Commons' occasional deletion sprees.

Cheers,

Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 21:17, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured_sound_candidates/The_Thunderer

I don't think this one has any chance of passing; if you agree with that analysis, do you think you could withdraw it? It'll cut down the number of nominations a bit. =) Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 21:19, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured_sound_candidates/Response_to_the_Lewinsky_Allegations_(January_26,_1998)_Bill_Clinton

Is it possible to use edited audio on this? If you give me the synced audio track - you have my e-mail, I think - I'll send you one with the background noise removed. As it is, there's so much noise that it's hard to support.

Also Wikipedia:Featured_sound_candidates/Speech_Before_Congress_on_Voting_Rights_(March_15,_1965)_Lyndon_Baines_Johnson

By the way, please use the best possible sound settings on all your videos; this is, after all, featured sounds, so the sound quality is much more important than video. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 17:15, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

FSCs

They're not short videos, Tony, and I do need to listen in full before voting. =) Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 19:13, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Long videos

Have you considered dividing them into a few parts, to get around the 100 mb limit? Adam Cuerden ^(talk)

Well, play it by ear. These may not divide up well, but if you had a recording of an opera, say, then you might well want to divide it more. =) Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 00:15, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Amazing Grace

I would suggest taking a break from that discussion, you seem to be getting overly worked-up. Saying that someone lacks sophistication and is a "hater", no matter how you may disagree with them, qualifies as a personal attack and is unhelpful in constructive conversation. Nikkimaria (talk) 13:17, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yours were the most blatant PAs on the page, unless I'm overlooking something; do you have diffs for someone else saying something comparable? Nikkimaria (talk) 13:33, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That one's about equal to "gibberish", not as bad as "hater". Subjective quantifications aside, do you really think "she started it" is a good reason to start making blatant attacks? Nikkimaria (talk) 13:52, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File:Address Before a Joint Session of Congress (February 24, 2009)-Barack Obama (WhiteHouse.gov).ogv

I don't suppose you could eke out a little more video quality with the remaining 25 megs? Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 19:13, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured_sound_candidates/First_Inaugural_(January_20,_1993)_Bill_Clinton

Also Wikipedia:Featured_sound_candidates/Jimmy_Carter's_Remarks_on_Joint_Statement_at_Camp_David_Summit_(September_17,_1978) and Wikipedia:Featured_sound_candidates/Statement_on_the_Panama_Canal_Treaty_Signing_(September_7,_1977)_Jimmy_Carter

Hey, Tony, would you mind withdrawing these for, say, a week or so, then renominating? These were part of the big batch, and seem to have been completely neglected, but I think they'd likely pass on a fresh nomination. Alternatively, we could leave it a bit longer and see if they attract people. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 19:31, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I have no objection to leaving them open, or relisting. It's just that the FS directors are also regular voters. If it was closed, it'd be a voluntary action on your part, not a statement that it shouldn't pass. I'm just wondering if spacing out the big batch a bit more would speed up promotion of the ones that do have votes. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 19:44, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Another Star for your Wall

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Your Featured sound candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured sound status, File:File-State of the Union Address (January 27, 2010) Barack Obama (WhiteHouse.gov-reedit).ogv, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another sound, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates. Sven Manguard Wha? 20:55, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If those stars were physical, and you melted them all down, you could smelt yourself a life sized statue by now. Sven Manguard Wha? 20:55, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Amazing Grace

The entire nomination is nothing but discussion about how difficult it is t get things into the articles; I don't see anything needing to be kept for when the debate finishes. =) Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 01:33, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File:JFK Establishment of the Peace Corps edit.ogg Promoted!

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Your Featured sound candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured sound status, File:JFK Establishment of the Peace Corps edit.ogg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another sound, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates. —James ^{(Talk • Contribs)} • 11:36am • 01:36, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Cadence

See military cadence. Hyacinth (talk) 02:21, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

See the newly created drum cadence. Hyacinth (talk) 02:50, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your welcome. Hyacinth (talk) 03:32, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know much about band music. The book under further reading says the pieces in it are arranged for "SNARE DRUMS, TRIOS, CYMBALS, AND TUNED BASS DRUMS." Marching band#Instrumentation lists "snare drums, tenor drums, bass drums, and cymbals" so that seems to be standard. Hyacinth (talk) 15:56, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Elite 88 Award

On 17 April 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Elite 88 Award, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) established the Elite 88 Award in 2009 to recognize the student athlete with the highest grade point average at each NCAA championship? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 08:04, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Gery Chico

Thanks, but I did post a message on the project talk page on 13 April. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chicago#Gery Chico. Jezhotwells (talk) 18:00, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey! Thanks for your advice. Please see Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Gery Chico/1 Geread (talk) 05:52, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]