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WikiCup 2010 February newsletter

Round one is over, and round two has begun! Congratulations to the 64 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our first round. A special well done goes to Sasata (submissions), our round one winner (1010 points), and to Hunter Kahn (submissions) and TonyTheTiger (submissions), who were second and third respectively (640 points/605 points). Sasata was awarded the most points for both good articles (300 points) and featured articles (600 points), and TonyTheTiger was awarded the most for featured topics (225 points), while Hunter Kahn claimed the most for good topics (70). Staxringold (submissions) claimed the most featured lists (240 points) and featured pictures (35 points), Geschichte (submissions) claimed the most for Did you know? entries (490 points), Jujutacular (submissions) claimed the most for featured sounds (70 points) and Candlewicke (submissions) claimed the most for In the news entries (40 points). No one claimed a featured portal or valued picture.

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Thanks to everyone's amazing efforts in February, we have reviewed all of the articles and are now finished with Sweeps! There are still about 30 articles currently on hold, and once those reviews are completed, I will send you a final message about Sweeps process stats including the total number of articles that were passed and failed. If you have one of these open reviews, be sure to update your count when the review is completed so I can compile the stats. You can except to receive your award for reviewing within the next week or two. Although the majority of the editors did not start Sweeps at the beginning in August 2007 (myself included), over 50 editors have all come together to complete a monumental task and improve many articles in the process. I commend you for sticking with this often challenging task and strengthening the integrity of the GA WikiProject as well as the GAs themselves. I invite you to take a break from reviewing (don't want you to burn out!) and then consider returning/starting to review GANs and/or contribute to GAR reviews. With your assistance, we can help bring the backlog down to a manageable level and help inspire more editors to improve articles to higher classes and consider reviewing themselves. Again, thank you for putting up with difficult reviews, unhappy editors, numerous spam messages from me, and taking the time to help with the process, I appreciate your efforts! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 02:39, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of 2009 Michigan Wolverines football team

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Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

Hey Tony. I've passed your GAN for Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, I've listed it as a GA on the talk page and removed it from WP:GAN. However, I am honestly not sure which category to list it under at WP:GA. As of right now, it's not there yet. Which category do you feel its right for? Let me know and I'll list it, or if you like, just go ahead and put it in the right place yourself. Thanks! — Hunter Kahn 13:48, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

• Finding no fashion category, I listed it under television and radio drama. Feel free to move it if you find a better one. Thanks! — Hunter Kahn 13:55, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

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Sorry

Sorry for biting your head off earlier, I'm pretty new to GAN's. Have another Detroit Tiger for your collection. TomCat4680 (talk) 04:39, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Tigers ace Justin Verlander

Help

Jim Brandstatter is currently on hold for GAN. Please read Talk:Jim_Brandstatter/GA1 and help improve it more. Thanks. TomCat4680 (talk) 01:23, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

While I thank you for the notice, getting involved in the GAN review for an article that I have been totally uninvolved in is not something I usually do. Imagine if I suddenly asked you to get involved in my Tai Streets GAN. I did make one comment on the review, however. I think the rest of the issues should be resolved by involved editors.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:09, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

I thought you could at least help expand and improve it or address the issues mentioned. But if you don't want to that's okay, just thought I'd ask since you love all things Michigan football. TomCat4680 (talk) 02:12, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

When I was doing WP 10-12 hours a day that would have been a great offer. Now I try to find a couple hours a day and he is low on my priority list. After cleaning up the current GANs for the 2009 season and Tai Streets, I hope to get to Juwan Howard and Jason Avant. I am going to spend the rest of the evening trying to cobble together a preview of the 2009 to satisfy the GAN reviewer.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:56, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Okay sorry for bothering you. TomCat4680 (talk) 03:23, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Popular Page Improvement Award

Although there are no official bonus points for the WP:Wikicup, I'd like to award you with 50 honorary bonus points for Round 1. I thank and congratulate you for your fantastic work on Inauguration of Barack Obama, which receives well over 500 page views per day. While you could have done an article on an easy unknown topic, you chose a more difficult, important, popular article that will be a great benefit to many more Wikipedia readers. Keep up the nice work! Reywas92^Talk 23:06, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Golden W Awards launching soon

Since you supported the project, I thought I'd give you first look at the project page. It is still under construction. Feel free to lend a hand (actually, I'd love some help!). ɳorɑfʈ ^Talk! 16:33, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

I think the site is ready to go "live." Would you be willing to review it? If you agree that it is ready, let me know and I'll start promoting it. ɳorɑfʈ ^Talk! 09:24, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

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ɳorɑfʈ ^Talk! 08:58, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

The mockups are up here User_talk:Noraft/Golden_W_Award. I haven't had time to do a barnstar one with the five points, though. Let me know which of these you like, if either. ɳorɑfʈ ^Talk! 11:12, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Joe Cada update

Hey Tony. Since you did the GA for Joe Cada, I thought perhaps you might want to update his article with how he did in the 2010 National Heads-Up Poker Championship. There are sources for it here and here, but undoubtedly others are out there as well. I've added the info to the Darvin Moon page, which was my GA. I'd be happy to add it to Cada myself if you're too busy or whatever, but I figured you should have first crack at it if you'd like... — Hunter Kahn 00:23, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

• Well, it's a pretty big, invitational-only, televised tournament that only 64 players get to participate in every year. I thought at least a sentence or two mention was warranted. Perhaps we could ask for other opinions at the talk page or something? — Hunter Kahn 01:37, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

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Awards move

Hello Tony. I need help. User:Durova has allowed me to moved the Triple Crown Award to wikispace, as explained here. Can you help me with that task? GamerPro64 (talk) 03:58, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Wow. That was fast. Thanks! GamerPro64 (talk) 04:19, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Also, can you be a reviewer for the Triple crown as well? I think you might like it since its like the Four Award. GamerPro64 (talk) 04:43, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Demi's Birthday Suit

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off GA review

Hey Tony, I thought that as you pretty much singlehandedly Feature Article'd most of Millennium Park, maybe you could look over another Chicago-focused topic, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which I'm currently submitting for GA review. I would really appreciate your Chicago expertise.--The lorax (talk) 23:56, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Great job ...

On scheyer. two questions prompted by your recent edits -- there is an extra line under championships now--I can't figure out how to make it go away. Also, your rookie box ... can you make the text wrap around it, so we don't have that unseemly blank space to its right in the middle of the article? Many thanks, and nice work.--Epeefleche (talk) 23:12, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Done (hope I found the right place) here.

What about the unsightly blank space to the right of the new rookie box -- can that be addressed?

Also, can the needless extra blank line above "Note" within that box be deleted? Tx.--Epeefleche (talk) 23:48, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

FYI, I'm now (as to the Scheyer page) not troubled by the blank space to the right of the rookie infobox, as the other infobox descends low enough now to fill it up. I imagine it would be a nice fix to have the text wrap, though for other pages... if I get time, I will inquire ... Best.--Epeefleche (talk) 01:54, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Academic All-America

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basketball infoboxes

Query -- since you are doing such a great job on the college basketball infoboxes. Do you think the Scheyer one should properly reflect the level of awards and nominations for awards that are reflected in the Collins infobox (which includes a bunch of the high school awards and college award nominations not mentioned in the scheyer infobox)? Tx.--Epeefleche (talk) 08:56, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Amazingly, I believe I've discovered on my own how to get rid of the extra line in the bball infoboxes below titles such as "championships", etc. The problem seems to be that the extra line results from the insertion of either a "–" or a "<br />". Try, instead, inserting a "<nowiki></nowiki>", and it closes up, deleting an extraneous line.--Epeefleche (talk) 20:08, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

The Avery Coonley School at TFA cleared up

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The image in questions has been removed pending discussion, so the copyright question is resolved. Thanks for your support. I would say something about "way out in the 'burbs," but there's really nothing I can say. Downers Grove is basically Iowa. --Nasty Housecat (talk) 15:07, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

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Wooden Top 26 Finalists List

FYI.--Epeefleche (talk) 03:51, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

One response -- I like (prefer) the way you handle the championships for Collins.--Epeefleche (talk) 04:04, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Suggestion though -- I work more on baseball articles. There the convention, which I believe works well, is --where there are multiple championships or awards-- to have it read something like this: 3x blahblahblah champion (YYYY, YYYY-YY).--Epeefleche (talk) 04:09, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Hmmm. The only change in the above, if you wish to give each championship a link, is that you would want to know use the YYYY-YY construct, but instead have that parenthetical read something like (YYYY, YYYY, and YYYY). For college ballplayers, I don't expect that would be a problem. For pro ballplayers in any sport, that could get a little messy I guess (as in listing a different year for each year Barry Bonds had each award). But again, I don't see it as an issue for college ballplayers, and would address your concern.--Epeefleche (talk) 04:16, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Also, personally I've taken the approach that there's no need to indicate that a ballplayer is on the Top 50 Preseason, Top 30 Midseason, Final 26 Ballot, and won the award (if that happens). I would think that it's enough to simply reflect the highest level reached. But reasonable people can certainly differ on that.--Epeefleche (talk) 04:23, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

When you put Collins up, give me a holler, and if I have time to help I will be happy to.--Epeefleche (talk) 04:35, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

As to tournaments, I wonder (assuming we just indicate the year and tourney), if the best approach might not be "3x NCAA (YYYY, YYYY, and YYYY)". Where each year is in-lined to the specific tourney. I guess I personally don't feel a need to indicate seed and how far they've gone, but it might work -- I guess I would defer to your judgment. Of the two, it may be that finish is more important than seeding, if one had to choose.--Epeefleche (talk) 04:41, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

McCormick Tribune Plaza

There are still a few things I think can be done better. I've mentioned them at the FAC, but I'll restate them here, and try to give some clearer instructions:

• The description of the Earth From Above photos still seems only superficially paraphrased. I know that you changed some words here and there, but at least one long phrase is completely intact ("the 1999 earthquake in Turkey and the destruction of the Amazonian rain forest"). That could conceivably be reworded. At least shuffle things around, and replace "Amazonian rainforest" with "Amazon rainforest" (the more common name). Other details in that section should at least be reordered so that it doesn't look like you're simply copying the sentence structures of the source. Basically, uou need to make sure that everything is paraphrased as much as possible. (And there may be other sections of the article that need further paraphrasing, but I haven't checked everything.)
• It still seems a bit weird to me that so much space is dedicated to Earth From Above. Yeah, it was an important exhibit, but I still think many of those details would be better off in an article about the exhibit itself. They just seem like an unnecessary digression here. (However, I'll concede that this is a matter of opinion, and I won't oppose on this point alone.)
• This ref still bothers me. It's an important ref, since you're using it to establish international importance, but it seems like there should be more to the ref than there is. The first sentence doesn't even say that the park is in Chicago, and the mayor isn't mentioned by name anywhere. I'm wondering if this is just an excerpt from a larger article, which only mentions the ice rink as a minor supporting detail. Perhaps it's from an article on global warming, or something like that. (And if the ice rink is not the primary subject of the article, it doesn't seem fair to use the ref to talk about international media attention.) Zagalejo^^^ 20:36, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

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Hello, Since your very active at WP:CHICAGO will you be willing to help me out in getting German submarine U-505 to GA class? It is currently in a meuseum over in the windy city and I was trying to get it to a GA but there are a few issues that remain. (for more info, see Malleus's talk page) Thanks :)--Coldplay Expért ^{Let's talk} 00:46, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Origins of house music in chicago.

I was there. I lived it. And if i put forth the effort i probably can contact a large portion of my fellow classmates.

Why classmates? Because house music started with the classes of 79-80-81. It involved a small group of oh 10-20 students from the "Better" High schools in Chicago. The newly formed Hyde Park Carrer Acadamy, Kenwood Acadamy, Julian, St Ignatious Prep (St. Iggy)and others, Honor students, college preps, Very intellegent kids with a LOT of time on our hands... It was not a gay movement.. It was teenage angst. We were rebelling against everything. The world was moving into the "George Orwell years". Remember all the books that prophicied about the future and such? That was our national anthem,, Its why Prince wrote the song 1999. We chanted that the world was going to end from 1979 through 1984?. Though we were not nilhist... It was just an excuse to party.

We were not trying to be classified as gay, but to be unidentifiable to anyone other than ourselves. (Though gay and bi-sexual individual were involved). We strived to seperate from the norm by becoming androgenous, and at the same time adopting and combining punk, new wave and preppy as our 'look' both male and female, gay, straight or bi-sexual, we all dressed the same. I rememebr our parents calling us "The Lost Generation" OOooOoO! (this is where the confusion as to it being a gay movement started. But more on that later) At first identifying ourselves as new wave preps, well for a while (LOL).

The name House or house music did not get started because of The Warehouse. It was much simpler. It, "House" literally was as simple as a renaming of basement parties, i.e. house parties. As these parties became more popular, or known, the core group moved. From basments to the parks, McDonalds on lower south Michigan, or White castles on 79th Stoney Island (All by word of mouth). Anyplace we could find to play music and gather (Because we were too young to go to clubs). Someone in our group struck upon the great idea to pool our moneies together and rent a place to be our own. We rented a loft apartment on 14th and michigan. Directly across the street from a fire house, which is a resturant today. A two story loft apartment. This was the Chicago loft, which we called simply "The Loft". This was the true birthplace of Chicago House.

Starting fridays throughout the weekend we held fashion shows, hosted parties, hired DJ's, some who went on to become very famous! (You can probably geuss their names.) The world was our apple, our playground. Dancing was called 'punking out' and grew to 'jacking your body, to 'new wave jack'. A person could dance by themselves, against pole, the wall, cars in the lot, or on the streets, or with two three or any number of people. All you needed was the music.

(Straight people danced with either straight or bisexual of the opposite sex. Bisexuals dance with gay, bisexual or straight. And gay danced with gay, bisexual or even straight. Just for the fun or sometimes just to stir up confusion. (remember it was about not being classified) or any combination of individuals). We didnt care what you were.. Just as long as you were a part of us, and not them.

The parties became popular, again. And the Core group moved, again. We rented places like the South Shore country club, a room in the Gucci building on michigan. But the crowd would eventually find out and follow. Thjis is how we ended up at The WareHouse. A place to dance, in an empty building, in the warehoue district in Chicago. Pulease a perfect match. The congruence of the term already in use "House" and The Warehouse, was just a MAJOR coincidence. Or fate. LOL! Because by the time it hit the warehouse it had spread beyond our abilty to keep it to ourselves.

Once the Class of 80 graduated and moved off to the various colleges, the class of 81 decided to out do the class of 80. As did 82 towards the class of 81. This is why it continued to grow and not die out. It was an extention of the Jr vs Sr rivalry, and a generation trying to define itself. And it was fun. Each school year trying to outdo each other in parties and antics. Former classmates would still return to the parties as would those who were out of state(during spring and summer breaks). This is how Chicago House parties and music was spread throughout the USA. Around 82-83 i personally left the scene, and moved on. Hey the world didnt end!

But boy was it a ride.

I dont know how to make this unbiased as i lived it. I can name places, people, events.. Its not just "The history of" Its my life, my past.

Sprite46 (talk) 02:45, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

• I can attest to the truth of this. "House music" was played at "house parties". The subculture was not gay, it was rooted in the "fashion plate" or "Bourgie Black" high schools and neighborhoods of Chicago. Is there some debate about this? Speciate (talk) 17:26, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Golden W Award is open and accepting nominations.

Feel free to nominate yourself; I'm pretty sure you qualify. ɳorɑfʈ ^Talk! 05:28, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

meetup or other WP Chicago session April 30 2010?

Tony,

I'd like to host a meetup Friday April 30 as part of an annual conference called eChicago, or invite you and others who have contributed to the Chicago content on Wikipedia to talk as a panel, or be convenors, whatever you like. eChicago attracts about 200 people and a number of them are interested in Wikipedia -- current and future librarians, students, community based IT people, city people. I'd make it a session in the conference, ideally just before the friday night dinner nearby. How could we get word out? A student of mine posted to

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but we haven't heard, maybe we need a better approach. Tell me who else to contact, too.

Katewill (talk) 01:03, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

meetup april 30 2010

Hi Tony, aah, I misunderstood where to put a note. I'd rather you put a note up on WP:Chicago and I'll keep an eye on it as I am just learning the m.o. thanks. The organizing team is pretty psyched about the WP meetup, and there will also be a computer lab at the conference with a line up of people who are volunteering to show people different things (already including Wikipedia) in mini lessons during the conference... Katewill (talk) 04:27, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

St. Michael's Cathedral, Qingdao

I'm wondering, could you do me a favor and review St. Michael's Cathedral, Qingdao for FAC? I had a bunch of people come and leave comments, then I scurried around and made changes, and they never bothered to show back up and support or oppose. Could you give it a fair review for me? If it passes I'll win my first WP:FOUR, so I'm trying hard to make sure it passes muster. Link to review page at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/St. Michael's Cathedral, Qingdao/archive1 ɳorɑfʈ ^Talk! 06:36, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

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Princeton Tigers men's basketball redlinks

Good job in getting that article underway. Hard to believe a great historic basketball program like Princeton didn't already have an article. I'm still working away at Michigan football players of the past and All-American college football players. But if there were one or two Princeton greats on whom you want an assist, it would be nice to work together again. Cbl62 (talk) 22:27, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

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Do you think the FT criteria might be changed so that they don't discourage editors from creating new articles related to a topic, when they are unable to quickly pass GA? --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 19:47, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

WP:WIAFT is revised periodically, but usually to make it more stringent. Over time the required percentage of Featured Articles increases. The objective of topics is to encourage comprehensive coverage of topics. Although sometimes it may discourage new articles more often it works out like this case where people encourage each other to further develop new articles to make the topics even more complete than they were before.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 19:58, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

The outcome could have been the opposite. Schwa and Park Grill both got sent to AFD! [and people inside Chicago seemed unable to explain notability to people (me) who had never been to Chicago.] Has the FT community considered omitting a new article from FTs until it reaches GA? --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 20:09, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

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April 2010 GAN backlog elimination drive

WikiProject Good Articles will be running a GAN backlog elimination drive for the entire month of April. The goal of this drive is to bring the number of outstanding Good Article nominations down to below 200. This will help editors in restoring confidence to the GAN process as well as actively improving, polishing, and rewarding good content. If you are interested in participating in the drive, please place your name here. Awards will be given out to those who review certain numbers of GANs as well as to those who review the most. Hope we can see you in April.

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RE: Gar Heard

T3,

Thanks for adding to the Gar Heard article. But, read this sentence:

"The deal was part of the resume that earned Donavan the NBA Executive of the Year Award."

You must assume that the reader does not know who Donavan is, or what he does, or what he has to do with Mr. Heard. Billy Donavan the coach for the Florida Gators? There is no mention previously in the article about anybody named Donavan. Always write from the ignorant (me) readers point-of-view. Thanks. > Best O Fortuna (talk) 05:21, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia session at eChicago 10:30-11:45 a.m. on Saturday May 1, 2010

Tony, In answer to your question, yes, please do recruit two other people who could make up a panel for eChicago. (Wikipedia_talk:Meetup/Chicago_3.1) And let's get whatever outcome you can from the session -- educating, recruiting, planning WP:Chicago... Thanks. Katewill (talk) 23:53, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

A sincere thank you from Wikiproject Good Articles

On behalf of Wikiproject Good Articles, I would like to express our gratitude to you for your contributions to the Sweeps process, for which you completed 50 reviews. Completion of this monstrous task has proven to be a significant accomplishment not only for our project, but for Wikipedia. As a token of our sincere appreciation, please accept this ribbon. Lara 01:14, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Selected anniversaries on front page

Morning Tiger, you should just go and your hundreds of GA/A/FAs to WP:SA on the relevant dates. It's self-serve, and there are tons of unsourced start-class articles on there, so no need to feel guilty! YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 00:53, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

I replied. Can you think of other people who have lots of date-friendly quality articles that could throw something in the ring? YellowMonkey (vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 03:17, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2010 March newsletter

We're half way through round two, and everything is running smoothly. Hunter Kahn (submissions) leads overall with 650 points this round, and heads pool B. TonyTheTiger (submissions) currently leads pool C, dubbed the "Group of Death", which has a only a single contestant yet to score this round (the fewest of any group), as well five contestants over 100 points (the most). With a month still to go, as well as 16 wildcard places, everything is still to play for. Anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.

Although unrelated to the WikiCup, April sees a Good Article Nominations backlog elimination drive, formulated as a friendly competition with small awards, as the Cup is. Several WikiCup contestants and judges have already signed up, but regular reviewers and those who hope to do more reviewing are more than welcome to join at the drive page. 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, Fox, iMatthew and The ed17 Delivered by JCbot (talk) 22:24, 31 March 2010 (UTC)