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WikiCup 2012 October newsletter

The 2012 WikiCup has come to a close; congratulations to Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions), our 2012 champion! Cwmhiraeth joins our exclusive club of previous winners: Dreamafter (2007), jj137 (2008), Durova (2009), Sturmvogel 66 (2010) and Hurricanehink (2011). Our final standings were as follows:

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WP:TW

Hello, Please tell me a bit about Reverting Vandalism through Twinkle because I am interested to fight against Vandalism Greatuser (talk) 14:52, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, but I'm not active in fighting vandalism. I think you should enrol in the Counter-Vandalism Unit Academy. Regards, Armbrust The Homonculus 14:55, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
But You are experienced User about Twinkle especially Reverting Vandalism through Twinkle, That does not matter wheather you are active on fighting Vandalism or Inactive Greatuser (talk) 15:01, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
For how to use this module of Twinkle see WP:TW/DOC#Revert and rollback. Armbrust The Homonculus 15:05, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Massenhafte Änderungen von User:Wonderwizard

Hast du das hier gesehen? Der Typ hat fast alle Snookerartikel umgeschmissen. Ziemlich unsinnige Bearbeitung. Jemand sollte ihm mal erklären dass man das auch innerhalb des Artikels ändern kann und nicht immer beide Abschnitte bearbeiten. Der sammelt wohl contrib points. Gruß --LezFraniak (talk) 21:24, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Ja, ich habe es gesehen und alle seine Änderungen zurückgesetzt. Es sah besser aus, als es war. Armbrust The Homonculus 21:31, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
Wirklich alle? Wow! das waren doch bestimmt 40 Stück. Etwas anderes. Ich habe gesehen dass du bei den alten Snooker WM noch Reffs gefunden hast. Kannst du die auch gleich in den deutschen Artikel packen? Das wäre nett. Schöne Wochenende. Ich gehe jetzt ein Bier trinken und Billard spielen. Gruß. --LezFraniak (talk) 21:35, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
Vielleicht morgen. Armbrust The Homonculus 21:48, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

File:Université de Saint-Boniface logo.png

The white space around this image has been cropped tighter than the supplied image to be uploaded. The original image had approximately 15px of breathing room (white space) on all sides of the logo. This was done to prevent text and other images from butting right up against the logo. Is it possible to replace this image with the originally supplied image? If the logo must be cropped as tight as possible then may we supply a PNG file that uses a transparent background?

Also, we had requested that this image be uploaded to both the French and English Wikipedia pages, it appears that it has only been uploaded to English Wikipedia. Is a separate upload request and fair use rational needed to upload this image to the French page? Deschenes Regnier (talk) 20:33, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Fixed the problem with the whitespace and uploaded the file to French Wikipedia. Please note, however, that if there is any problem with the file on fr.Wikipedia, than I can't fix it. Armbrust The Homonculus 02:38, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 05 November 2012

Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/RISC OS

Thanks for closing Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/RISC OS. I wouldn't have bothered adding the NAC note, except that I was editing to date it anyway. Thanks very much for tidying this up. Cheers. -- Trevj (talk) 12:46, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

No problem. Armbrust The Homonculus 12:47, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Friendly Fire

So sorry about my misclick! All the URL additions looked like spam, and I didn't even notice who I was reverting until after I rolled back. — further, Francophonie&Androphilie sayeth naught (Je vous invite à me parler) 16:37, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

No problem, but be more cautious next time. Armbrust The Homonculus 17:46, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

CFDS

Thanks for finishing the nom for tax evaders; I had to dash (RL)! – Fayenatic London 17:39, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Be my guest. Armbrust The Homonculus 18:41, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure

Hi Armbrust. Thank you very much for your numerous closes at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure. I appreciate the good work you do there.

Would you take another look at your close of Talk:Richard Tylman#RfC: Should information sourced to research in genealogical websites be included?. I don't think you considered Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 132#Genealogy databases in your close. I find the arguments by My very best wishes (talk · contribs), Shearonink (talk · contribs), Amadscientist (talk · contribs), Brianann MacAmhlaidh (talk · contribs), Slp1 (talk · contribs), and The Four Deuces (talk · contribs) very compelling. The arguments that the genealogical website links in the articles are primary sources that are discouraged per WP:SPS don't seem to be refuted in the RfC.

On the talk page, GeorgeLouis (talk · contribs) wrote, "The reason we have footnotes and links is so anybody can go to the Source and see if it is authoritative or not." This is unsupported by the reliable sources guideline which forbids inclusion of unreliable sources. ClemRutter (talk · contribs)'s comment reads like an ad hominem against the RfC initiator and admits that many of the genealogical references are primary sources or user-generated, and Juraj Budak (talk · contribs) did not provide any arguments beyond saying "per GeorgeLouis and ClemRetter". Best, Cunard (talk) 02:53, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Undone closure. If I knew, that I had to consider this RSN thread too, than I wouldn't closed it at all. Too long to read. Armbrust The Homonculus 09:34, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Ancient Roman Christians in Britain

Why did you remove the speedy tag saying that it stale when it was only a few days old? Laurel Lodged (talk) 23:14, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Because the nomination was stale. Stale means in this case, that the speedy renaming was opposed and you didn't take it to a full discussion within one week. Now you have another one week to do it (like you did with this category there), after which it will become stale again. Armbrust The Homonculus 23:17, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 November 2012

Poster Upload

Hello, Thank you for your support with uploading the poster for The Mountain. Elmauser (talk) 13:58, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Be my guest. Armbrust The Homonculus 08:47, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Super Mega Worm

Hello! I am a computer science student from the University of Strathclyde. I do not have enough edits to add a picture onto the wiki page Super_Mega_Worm and noticed you had already added a one. I was wondering if it would be possible for you to add screen shot onto the page for us. Regards John — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.159.17.136 (talk) 15:55, 19 November 2012‎

If you give me a link to a screenshot and exactly say, where to put it in the article, than yes. Armbrust The Homonculus 22:31, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
Could you put this screenshot in the 'Gameplay' section ? http://img.stpcdn.net/screenshots/super-mega-worm_2.jpg Thank you so much ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.148.186.162 (talk) 17:22, 26 November 2012
 Done Armbrust The Homonculus 18:41, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks a lot ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.148.186.162 (talk) 19:07, 26 November 2012

The Signpost: 19 November 2012

Your RM close, needs speedy restore

Hi, Please see Talk:Supernatural (U.S. TV series), I think it is the correct thing to advise closer of an undiscussed move counter RM result. (even though I would !vote the other way, procedure means respecting the RM process). In ictu oculi (talk) 04:48, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, but I can't help as I'm not an admin. Therefore I can't move back the article, as the edit history of Supernatural (TV series) contains more than just the move. Try WP:RM/TR. Armbrust The Homonculus 08:58, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks.....

...for fixing my RFPP entry :); much appreciated. Lectonar (talk) 10:12, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

My pleasure. It was bugging me, that it was still not archived. Armbrust The Homonculus 10:29, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 November 2012

Royal Military College, Sandhurst

Any further discussion should take place at WP:CFDS. Armbrust The Homonculus 13:55, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

Please re-examine the speedy cfr you've just opposed and revise your opinion. They're two separate institutions. The one I'm talking about is a predecessor from an era when proper punctuation was invariably used. Thanks. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:33, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

 Answered there. Armbrust The Homonculus 11:49, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
I think actually reading the article might help! You clearly haven't done. I agree it's not very well phrased, but the gist is that the current Royal Military Academy Sandhurst was formed after the war by the merger of the Royal Military College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. That's why there are three separate categories for the graduates. Although on the same site, the RMAS is effectively a new institution, not a continuation of the former Sandhurst. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:39, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

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Sorry, but the answer to the fifth missing question, "Do you like to read about subject, which doesn't interest you?", is no. Armbrust The Homonculus 23:07, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

WP:FFU

On FFU, you closed "PCI DSS 2.0 Security Standards Overview" as declined. While this is the correct result, "© 2012 SlideShare Inc. All rights reserved" is the copyright notice for the hosting site, which does not own the copyright to the content. It is instead "Copyright 2012 Vormetric, Inc." Just be careful, because for example, someone might own a blog whose content is licensed under the CC-BY, but says "© 2012 (blog host)" at the bottom. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:30, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

 Fixed Armbrust The Homonculus 09:18, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks for helping to make MMA articles on Wikipedia better! In November 97 people made a total of 899 edits to MMA articles. I noticed you haven't listed yourself on the WikiProject Mixed martial arts Participants page. Take a look, sign up, and don't forget to say hi on the talk page.
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Won't join, as my only contributions to MMA articles are to remove/add categories. Armbrust The Homonculus 23:08, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Super Bowl Logo Upload

Vince Lombardi Trophy
Thak you for uploading the Super Bowl XLVII Logo to Wikipedia Eastgiants (talk) 23:10, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks. Armbrust The Homunculus 00:04, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

EchoStar

Hey, Armbrust! I just noticed you switched the logo for EchoStar from a vector image to a rasterized image. I don't see any immediate difference except higher compression and artifacting in the latter, plus the removal of the gradient. It doesn't look like the gradient has been removed totally from their logo family, it just looks like they sometimes use it (press releases) and sometimes do not (their website navigation bar). jæs (talk) 05:53, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Well I have no opinion on this matter, although for me it looks like the new logo has different colours too. The new logo was requested at Files for upload by KABM (talk · contribs). Armbrust The Homunculus 09:45, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
The logo that I submitted contains 2 changes: 1. removal of the gradient 2. addition of the registered trademark symbol. The version with the gradient is no longer valid for use. I am a newbie, and not authorized to upload, so could only submit the version published for media use http://www.echostar.com/~/media/EchoStarWeb/Images/Media%20Downloads/EchoStar%20Logo.ashx KABM (talk) 19:43, 3 December 2012 (UTC)KABM
Where have you read that it is "no longer valid for use"? jæs (talk) 20:19, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 December 2012

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Closing procedure

Got it. Sorry, it's a tiny bit of text on a very long set of instructions that I generally just skim for blue links. Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:00, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

No problem. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:02, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

A little favour

Hey, could you please merge the histories of List of games developed by Crystal Dynamics into List of Crystal Dynamics video games? I did both articles but performed a copy-paste move because I created the redirect before and thus couldn't do the move over the redirect. I'd appreciate your help very much. Thanks. — ΛΧΣ21 21:44, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, but I'm not an admin and therefore I can't help you. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:46, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 December 2012

No true Scotsman merge closure

Hello, Armbrust! I just thought I should let you know I removed the merge tag from Special pleading and added No true Scotsman to the “See also” section there. I hope you don’t mind.—Odysseus1479 (talk) 21:38, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Of course not. Thanks for removing the merge tags, totally forgot that. Armbrust The Homunculus 23:52, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Punctuation and signature

Hi, just a tiny suggestion: you might like to include a dash or other punctuation at the start of your signature (as I do). This would save momentary confusion from scanning consecutive links at WP:CFDS e.g. "per BBC Radio Armbrust". HTH – Fayenatic London 14:05, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, but I decided, that I won't change my signature for just one page. Armbrust The Homunculus 14:12, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

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Sharing some holiday cheer

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Thanks. Armbrust The Homunculus 20:34, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Seasons greetings

 Armbrust, I hope you have a Merry Christmas and hope your day is full of the true spirit of the day.
Plus, good food, good family and good times. :) Have a Great Day! :) -- Dianna (talk) 17:54, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Modified from {{subst:User:Neutralhomer/MerryChristmas}}

Thanks. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:09, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 December 2012

WP:RPP question

Hey there. I have just noticed two of your edits to WP:RPP adding the Declined template to the sections I had added the NotDone template to. Does the bot not archive if the NotDone template is added? ·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 00:59, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

I think not, but I'm not sure (I saw {{RFPP|no}} for the first time today). But according to this edit summary, the bot identified two open requests on the page, and if you look at the revision reached by the previous edit, than there are 2 marked as declined and 2 as not done. Armbrust The Homunculus 03:26, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
Hmm, interesting, I guess I will stop using it :) ·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 11:40, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
Also I just noticed one of your revision on WP:RPP that was asking about protection/un-protection on your talk page archives. If you want this but don't want to fill out the noticeboard just post a list on my talk page and I will be sure to do this for you! ·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 00:39, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Premature closure of Sila-Nunam RM

Armbrust, please undo the premature closure of the requested move:

The emerging consensus was that the move was proper, per policies wp:COMMONNAME (wp:TITLE) as most-common form in wp:RS reliable sources (search Google Scholar) and wp:ACCESS for accessibility, and because the hyphenated name, "79360 Sila-Nunam" refers to the binary system, as a whole as if a married name in a specific order, where "Nunam-Sila" could refer to a different object. Anyway, discussion had not concluded, and more editors had been posting replies just hours before the premature closure. -Wikid77 (talk) 06:07, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Emerging consensus? I'm wondering which of the 9 opposers you and Apteva and Enric were thinking you were on the verge of convincing. Based on all the other venues where the same idea has lost, a WP:SNOW close here seems entirely appropriate, no? Though I agree that such a close is probably not appropriate for a non-admin to be doing. Dicklyon (talk) 06:15, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
People keep rehashing the same old arguments, instead of realizing that there is no difference between McGraw-Hill and Sila-Numan. Neither syntactical, nor grammatical, nor lexical, nor semantical, nor anything. They are both hyphenated single words, working as proper names of single entities, created by joining two elements that are independent when presented by separate.
Discussions should be closed on strength of argument, not on head counting, see WP:ROUGH CONSENSUS: "Consensus is not determined by counting heads, but by looking at strength of argument, and underlying policy (if any). Arguments that contradict policy, are based on opinion rather than fact, or are logically fallacious, are frequently discounted." But admins are very wary of closing a discussion against a 9-2 head count. Specially in areas where they are guaranteed to get attacks on his the credibility and lengthy arguments in his talk page.
I don't think it's worth reopening the move request, it's unlikely to result in any improvement to the encyclopedia. I'll tr sending another email to the IAU, to see if they really know about the difference between a hyphen and an en dash. --Enric Naval (talk) 12:29, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
@Wikid77: I don't know what you mean. There was a clear consensus against the proposed move and that the title should follow Wikipedia's own style guide (AKA as Manual of Style). The closure was also not premature, as it was open for more than seven days and was listed in the "Backlog" section of WP:RM. Armbrust The Homunculus 12:40, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Military Bowl

Hey Armbrust, the reason I added the template was because it was suggested at the College Football Wiki-Project talk page that if we plan on editing these articles during the game, adding that template might be helpful to readers. Go Phightins! 19:17, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Well the problem is, that {{Current sport}} should be used on articles, that are rapidly changing and "is not intended to be used to mark an article that merely has recent news articles about the topic". If the editing becomes more frequent, than feel free to add it back. Armbrust The Homunculus 19:28, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
All right. The game will start in a half-hour, at which point I'll re-affix the template. Thanks. Go Phightins! 19:32, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

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Space Shower

I'm puzzled by your closure of the FPC Space Shower, as I have the four supports for promotion. Was there an outstanding issue with the image or something else that I missed? I had been under the impression that I would be starting the year off with a FP under my belt, and I am trying to understand why that didn't happen, so any information you could provide would be appreciated. TomStar81 (Talk) 21:23, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

You missed the part that an image can only be promoted, if it has 5 supports. From the top of WP:FPC: "For promotion, if an image is listed here for nine days with five or more reviewers in support and the consensus is in its favor, it can be added to the Wikipedia:Featured pictures list.") However the Space Shower FPC nomination has only 4.5, as "weak support" counts only as a half support. Feel free to renominate it. Armbrust The Homunculus 02:34, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
Five? And I see the size requirements have changed too. When did all this happen!? Anyway, thanks for the explanation. I am upset that I prematurely celebrated a good start to the new year, but I suppose that's what happens when I make assumptions about the stability of process here on Wikipedia. <sigh> Anyway, thanks for the explanation again, and I will keep my good cheer by wishing you a Happy New Year (hopefully yours had a better wiki-start than mine). TomStar81 (Talk) 03:57, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks and Happy New Year to you too. Armbrust The Homunculus 10:50, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 December 2012

Districts of Indonesia

The Category:Subdistricts of Indonesia is misnamed. This and the subcategories need renaming. AsianGeographer (talk) 12:06, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Really? Than nominate the categories for renaming at WP:CFD. Armbrust The Homunculus 12:14, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Yes, really. The correct name is "district". I don't understand WP:CFD. Is there a place to get help on this? I put a note at Category talk:Subdistricts of Indonesia AsianGeographer (talk) 12:21, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
I think in that case you should read WP:CFD#HOWTO, and follow the steps described there. If you still feel uneasy, than place {{help}} on your talk page. Armbrust The Homunculus 12:30, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
I will use the help template. Hopefully someone can do it. Thank you. AsianGeographer (talk) 12:50, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Category:Head chefs leading the kitchen of a Michelin starred restaurant

I have reverted your last edit on Categories for discussion/ Speedy deletion. There is not opposition to the rename and the rename follows our overall naming conventions. The comments merely clarify the the roles of head chefs, executive chefs, owner chefs, patron chefs, and restaurants. - MrX 13:08, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Okay with me, but it looks like two admins disagreed with you by processing renaming requests and leaving this nomination in place. (Timrollpickering & The Bushranger) Armbrust The Homunculus 13:17, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
I know. I don't understand that. I assume they are allowing for additional comments. It should either be completed or moved to CfD if there is some question as to the merit of the speedy request. I will add a comment and hope that someone takes the time to read it. - MrX 13:42, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Songs written by Peter Allen.

Explanation. The category was directed to the composer, I AFG and nominated, but having checked, it's Peter Woolnough Allen that wrote the songs in the category, so it was a bad nom. Thanks for your patience. --Richhoncho (talk) 18:33, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

No problem, everyone can make a mistake. That's one of the reasons, why the categories are listed on the page for 48 hours. Armbrust The Homunculus 19:10, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

?

OK, you outsmarted me: I have no idea what you did here. I assume you used some template or other? Thanks, Drmies (talk) 18:25, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Well I copied it from another closed MRV. But Wikipedia:Move review/Administrator instructions should be useful in the future. (I didn't use it, because my signature would have been automatically added.) Armbrust The Homunculus 18:27, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Armbrust, are you really telling me I should read the manual before I operate the machine?? Come on now! Drmies (talk) 21:30, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
No, I just tell there is one. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:34, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Move Review

I don't understand your action here. The "D" in "CFD" is "discussion", not "deletion", and this was not a deletion discussion. Move review is the proper venue. Powers T 01:19, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

That doesn't matter. Per WP:MRV: "Move review is a process designed to formally discuss and evaluate a contested close of a requested move discussion", and WP:CFD is not part of that process. Also CFD is listed at WP:XFD, making it a deletion process, which are reviewed at WP:DRV. Armbrust The Homunculus 01:23, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks..... (2)

I thought the bot at RFPP would archive the "Not done" too. Live and learn, so thanks a million. Cheers and happy editing. Lectonar (talk) 09:55, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

The bot should archive requests that were responded to with a "Not done" parameter. It should treat them exactly the same as "declined" (i.e. archive them after about 6 hours of inactivity, if I remember correctly). If it's not doing that, please let me know and I'll fix it. It should only be rare, unusual cases where you need to add something to trigger the bot to archive. ‑Scottywong| prattle _ 14:47, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Well the bot recognised these as open requests there, there. Therefore I assume it wouldn't have archived it. Armbrust The Homunculus 15:05, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 January 2013

Category redirects

Hi, I just gave credit to you for setting up a bunch of category redirects from hyphens to dashes.

I noticed that you used a 2-stage process in that set. Was that unavoidable, or to fix an oversight on the first run?

If you have any useful advice e.g. on how to select pages or set up the task in AWB, please share it at Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion/Working#Speedy processing issue: remember the hyphen issue, please! – Fayenatic London 13:54, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Well I couldn't come up with a better method of creating this much category redirects fast. I used the "Append/Pretend text" function to add {{category redirect|{{subst:PAGENAME}}}}, and than replaced the hyphens with dashes. Armbrust The Homunculus 14:12, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Skylab

Hey, Armbrust! Just a reminder: When an alternative gets promoted, part of the closing procedure says that you need to replace the original with the alternative in the articles. As you've become pretty much the official FPC closer, it's best to remember that bit of the procedure. =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 20:54, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I know. I just wasn't sure if I should the image to the infobox, as the image was already on the page. Now I know. Armbrust The Homunculus 09:35, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Delrevxfd tags at WP:DRV

Hi Armbrust. Would you consider keeping an eye on DRV and adding the {{Delrevxfd|date=}} tags to DRV discussions? If I remember correctly, I think you did some of the tagging in the past. I will be marginally active for the next few months, so will be unable to place timely Delrevxfd notices on the DRV discussions. It's better to add the DRV tags while the discussions are occurring so that XfD participants have the chance to comment at the DRVs.

Thank you again for all the work you've done at WP:ANRFC in 2012. I'm very grateful for your numerous RfC closures and for your clerking at ANRFC. Best, Cunard (talk) 02:00, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

I think I can do it once a day, after I wake up. Armbrust The Homunculus 09:34, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

AFC

I hope you don't make edits like this any more! Look at what a google search brings up. Johnbod (talk) 05:04, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

No, I don't. I also very very very rarely review AFC submission nowadays. Armbrust The Homunculus 14:43, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
I shouldn't worry too much, Armbrust. The draft was under the artist's full name Zanobi di Benedetto Strozzi, which doesn't bring up a great deal in a search engine. It's been raised by a disgruntled editor at the Visual Arts project. Sionk (talk) 14:56, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 January 2013

Translation request

Hi Armbrust, is it possible for you to translate this page to Hungarian? ●Mehran Debate● 06:11, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, but I don't like to do translations. Armbrust The Homunculus 06:51, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 January 2013

Radio Station Logos

Hi, Just to let you know there is no need to use a fair use rationale on a logo that consists of only text and simple geometric shapes as they are not seen as copyrightable you can just add the {{pd-textlogo}} along with the basic information when you upload them. Hope this helps. LightGreenApple talk to me 22:14, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Will try in the future. Altough marking textlogos as non-free files is better, than vice-versa. Armbrust The Homunculus 10:39, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

PERM/C

Hi Armbrust. When making your non-admin closures such as you did at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Confirmed#User:The deVere Group, please be sure to state an accurate reason such as for example '{{Notdone}} - your account contravenes our username policy and will shortly be blocked' , and to notify an admin that admin action is immediately required. Thanks. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:28, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

I don't think, that "{{not done}} - As per the notice at the top of this page, this type of file can be uploaded using the [[WP:Files for upload|Files for Upload]] process which will not require advanced permissions" isn't accurate. Armbrust The Homunculus 10:37, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
OK, substitute accurate for appropriate. What I suggested still means the same thing. If you're going to make NAC - and you usually do quite a good job of it, indeed I missed you while you were blocked - you may as well do the whole thing. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 11:09, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
Okay, will try to be more complete. Armbrust The Homunculus 11:30, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 January 2013

Falscher Interwikilink!

Hallo Armbrust, Kennst du dich mit Interwikilinks aus? Wenn ja, dann schau doch mal hier. Wenn man auf der französischen Seite zur deutschen kommen will, landet man immer bei der Vorlage. Habe es schon mit löschen und einfügen probiert, hat aber nicht funktioniert. Dank im Voraus. Gruß. --LezFraniak (talk) 12:30, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

 Fixed Armbrust The Homunculus 12:53, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
War ein kleiner Flüchtigkeitsfehler. Danke. Gruß. --LezFraniak (talk) 13:15, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 January newsletter

Signups are now closed; we have our final 127 contestants for this year's competition. 64 contestants will make it to the next round at the end of February, but we're already seeing strong scoring compared to previous years. Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) currently leads, with 358 points. At this stage in 2012, the leader (Irish Citizen Army Grapple X (submissions)) had 342 points, while in 2011, the leader had 228 points. We also have a large number of scorers when compared with this stage in previous years. Florida 12george1 (submissions) was the first competitor to score this year, as he was last year, with a detailed good article review. Some other firsts:

Featured articles, portals and topics, as well as good topics, are yet to feature in the competition.

This year, the bonus points system has been reworked, with bonus points on offer for old articles prepared for did you know, and "multiplier" points reworked to become more linear. For details, please see Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. There have been some teething problems as the bot has worked its way around the new system, but issues should mostly be ironed out- please report any problems to the WikiCup talk page. Here are some participants worthy of note with regards to the bonus points:

  • United States Ed! (submissions) was the first to score bonus points, with Portland-class cruiser, a good article.
  • Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions) has the highest overall bonus points, as well as the highest scoring article, thanks to his work on Enrico Fermi, now a good article. The biography of such a significant figure to the history of science warrants nearly five times the normal score.
  • Chicago HueSatLum (submissions) claimed bonus points for René Vautier and Nicolas de Fer, articles that did not exist on the English Wikipedia at the start of the year; a first for the WikiCup. The articles were eligible for bonus points because of fact they were both covered on a number of other Wikipedias.

Also, a quick mention of British Empire The C of E (submissions), who may well have already written the oddest article of the WikiCup this year: did you know that the Fucking mayor objected to Fucking Hell on the grounds that there was no Fucking brewery? The gauntlet has been thrown down; can anyone beat it?

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) 00:35, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Categories cannot be renamed to user pages

Hi Armbrust. I just saw this edit of yours and I was wondering if you had any advice on how to proceed here. A new editor created that category accidentally by clicking the "(+)" icon at the bottom of my talk page instead of editing it. The category is empty except for my user talk page and it only contains a conversation between this new editor and me. In looking at WP:CFD, I was immediately attracted to the section on merging categories. I feel that this is closest to what I actually want to do. To merge the contents of that "category" into my talk page where it was originally intended to be placed. I didn't want to rename the category but just to merge the contents. I've never seen this kind of error before and I was hoping you could point me to the correct place to get this taken care of. Thanks in advance, -Thibbs (talk) 16:10, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Moved the comment to your talk page and nominated the category for deletion. Categories can only merged with categories, and even in this case merging means, that the contents of the category are moved to the other category. No content of the pages is happening. Armbrust The Homunculus 16:17, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
OK thanks for your help. It's nice to see someone from Szombathely here, by the way. I just visited Herény last August and I have good memories of it. Happy editing. -Thibbs (talk) 16:24, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Permissions Application

Hi, I made a request for permissions WP:PERM/C and was declined but have since made a comment about the application on that page that I think could change the decision. Since you are an impartial admin and have experience, from what I can see on the page in this part of WP, I would appreciate it if you would review my comment to see if permissions should be given or not. Thanks, Josh1024 (talk) 06:58, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

 Not done If you have a problem with the decision, than you should ask the admin, who handled you request (Bwilkins in this case). Armbrust The Homunculus 19:43, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) In the interest of transparency and less confusion, shouldn't you let users at WP:PERM know that you are not an Administrator, and can not change account statuses ? Mlpearc (powwow) 19:56, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
In reference to the point by Mlpearc it would probably be worth doing this because from your activity it could easily be misunderstood that you are an admin. But anyway thanks for your suggestion and I would like to ask the admin involved but in an ironic twist I have found that his talk page is semi-protected and as I am unconfirmed I can't edit it. I would appreciate it if you or anyone else could let Bwilkins be aware of my request for his reconsideration as he doesn't seem to be watching the page. Thanks, Josh1024 (talk) 21:02, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
 Notified Bwilkins for you. BTW you will become autoconfirmed at 18:39:41 5 January 2013 (UTC). Armbrust The Homunculus 21:07, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
ok, thanks for your help with this :) Josh1024 (talk) 22:17, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
by the way, I saw that post moments after you made it, and the fact you asked there instead of on my talkpage actually confirmed my decision. However, any other admin could have acted differently but they didn't...which also says lots. Look, you're starting well...and these extra 2 days are already helping you to learn. Choosing not to approach the person directly was a sub-par decision, but it has led to a good learning opportunity --(✉→BWilkins←✎) 22:37, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
It looks like you forgot, that your talk page is currently semi-protected, therefore the user (neither confirmed or autoconfirmed) can't edit it. Armbrust The Homunculus 22:39, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

FPC Withdrawal

Hi Armbrust, I've withdrawn the Dioptase nomination. ceranthor 04:35, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

 Closed. Armbrust The Homunculus 08:14, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 February 2013

Category:Images that should have transparent backgrounds

Hi. In connection with this, you might want to comment at Wikipedia talk:Non-free content#NFCC exemptions - Category:Images that should have transparent backgrounds. Cheers. -- Trevj (talk) 12:55, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

 Commented there. Armbrust The Homunculus 12:58, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. I notified members of WP:WPIM and WP:GL too. -- Trevj (talk) 13:37, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

thanks for the help


Jax 23:08, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Armbrust The Homunculus 09:31, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Syriansupportgroup username

Armbrust, Many thanks for your notification, I am new to Wikipedia and was unaware of the conflict of interest rules. Will change the username posthaste. Best, DLayman

Be my guest. Armbrust The Homunculus 14:31, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 February 2013

Category:Welsh Open (snooker)

Please note, Category:Recurring sporting events established in 1992 (and such others) used not for categories of the events, but for their main articles only. NickSt (talk) 12:19, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

That's not true. There is no reason, why Category:Recurring sporting events established in 1992 could not contain subcategories other than Category:Sports leagues established in 1992. Armbrust The Homunculus 12:22, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
Only Welsh Open (snooker) was established in 1992. But 2013 Welsh Open (snooker) was "not established" in 1992. Please, read WP:CAT carefully and return your edits back. NickSt (talk) 12:39, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
Thank you very much. Good luck! NickSt (talk) 12:56, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

File:WFLK logo.jpg

When a logo changes, such as with File:WFLK logo.jpg, rather than upload a new file, please upload a new version to the existing file. This saves a lot of people a lot of work. Bots that tag the old version for lack of use, original uploaders who get notices on their talk page due to the lack of use, admins who much delete the old unused logo. Uploading a new version to the existing file eliminates all this noise and has the added benefit of providing a bit of a record of changes to the logo over time in the history section of the file.--RadioFan (talk) 12:26, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Well it only would eliminate only one, as I tagged the file and an admin still needs to delete the old orphaned version of the file. Armbrust The Homunculus 12:35, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 February 2013

RfPerm

Why did you create Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Reviewer/Archive 14? We haven't been using that format for the reviewer requests for months. It was meant to be switched over to the same format used by the other requests at the end of the pending changes trial (when PC was officially started). The clue is in how all the other archives in that format have "historical" in the title. Now I admit that it took me a while to realise this myself (although I have now had the bot updated for a good while), since the bot just kept running happily and nobody said anything, but I think it's a bit ridiculous to actually manually end up creating a new archive page like that. I really don't get why you still insist on doing the archiving manually all the time when it's a job which can be handled much more efficiently by a computer program, without making the same mistakes as a human does. This is akin to someone taking it upon themselves to manually move ANI threads to the archives there and update archive indexes and what not - in other words, a complete waste of time since a bot is doing that very well already. Maybe you could put that effort into something worthwhile? Although feel free to cleanup the mess at the reviewer archives. - Kingpin13 (talk) 21:18, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Because I didn't know, that the archiving method of WP:PERM/RV was changed. I moved these back to the page, and the bot can archive them, like they should. BTW I archived the page, because the bot was down for at least 16 days. Why doesn't the bot work automatically, without the need for you to initiate it every day? You can see, that didn't archive it manually, after the bot continued it's work. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:31, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
I don't need to initiate it everyday, it runs automatically. It was just down for a while because I was installing a new operating system and it took me a while to get everything set up again. Sure, I didn't actually see that you had stopped, although you have said in the past you keep doing it when the bot is running. If you want, I can try to give you prior notification if the bot is going to be down for a while, and that way we have some backup for the bot but we also avoid any wasted effort when the bot is running? - Kingpin13 (talk) 22:13, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Well, it would be good to know, if the bot is down for longer times. Armbrust The Homunculus 22:21, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Thank you

... for fixing my CFD/S nomination. I meant to type C2D, but goofed. :( --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:20, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Well, it was fairly obvious. Disambiguation is every time C2B. Armbrust The Homunculus 12:23, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Please can you help?

I am in search of an admin who is actually active, so I'm writing to your talk page to present my problem. My great problem: After having checked my E-Mails, with a redirected obscene spam "still open", I just wrote a message to editor Rumiton, and instead of inserting the correct link, by error I copied an obscene wrong link from that spam. I did correct the false link, yes, and now I am asking you if it is possible to "delete" that incorrect obscene link that I posted first. I would be happy if my mishap could be "deleted" as soon as possible (if possible). Is that possible? Thank you and kind regards, Gerhardvalentin (talk) 19:19, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)I've zapped it as a WP:IAR application of something similiar to G7. - The Bushranger One ping only 20:21, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
Armbrust, thank you and Bushranger also, for having solved my problem. Gerhardvalentin (talk) 20:31, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
Well, the only problem with that is now I can't see what it was. I might have found it entertaining! :) Rumiton (talk) 08:32, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
. . . nothing to regret, Rumiton . . . it was regrettable :(   Regards, Gerhardvalentin (talk) 09:59, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

de:Dreiband-Weltmeisterschaft für Nationalmannschaften

Hallo Armbrust, Du hast heute die Weltrangliste formatiert. Erst einmal Danke dafür. Ich verstehe nur nicht wie du auf die Werte der Auf- und Ab-Platzierungen kommst. Sie sollten doch die Bewegungen zwischen den letzten beiden Jahren, hier also 2011/2012, zeigen Stimmt aber so nicht. Un die aktuelle hat die UMB noch nicht rausgegeben. Ich werde die „alte Liste" auch erst mal archivieren. Dann haben wir nochmal die Möglichkeit darauf zuzugreifen. Gruß. --LezFraniak (talk) 16:09, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Ich have die Ranglistenplatzierungen mit diesen Version des Artikels verglichen, mit der Ausnahme, dass ich angenommen hatte, gleich Punktzahl bedeutet gleiche Ranglistenplatzierung. Armbrust The Homunculus 17:12, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
Die Punktezahlen unter den Jahreszahlen sind auch gleichzeitig die Ranglistenpositionen (siehe Text). Also 1=Platz1/Sieger, 16=Platz16 usw.. Gruß. --LezFraniak (talk) 17:45, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
Kannst du die untere Tabelle (Turnierstatistik) noch mit dem gleichen Rahmen versehen, dann sieht es schöner aus. Dank im Voraus. Gruß.--LezFraniak (talk) 00:19, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 Done. Armbrust The Homunculus 00:34, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Danke. Verstanden habe ich es aber leider nicht. Zu deiner Syntax habe ich leider keine Hilfe in der deutschen Wiki gefunden. Daher weiß ich auch nicht wie es funzt. Vielleicht finde ich ja was in en:wiki. Was mir jetzt gerade noch aufgefallen ist, dass die Breite von 100% mit den Fotos kollidiert. Ich möchte die Fotos aber nicht kleiner machen, sondern lieber die Tabelle lieber auf ein Minimum setzen. Ist mir leider auch nicht gelungen. Weißt du Rat? Gruß. --LezFraniak (talk) 22:27, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Habe etwas versucht. Was meinst du? Armbrust The Homunculus 06:33, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
Finde ich zu viele Flaggen. Versuche später mal was Anderes. Fehlt nur noch die letzte Tabelle, damit es überall gleich aussieht. Sonst aber gut. Danke. Sorry für die späte Rückmeldung. Gruß. --LezFraniak (talk) 23:11, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 Done Armbrust The Homunculus 08:44, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Hikikomori kid

I withdrew the nomination because I do not know if it meets the criteria. What do you think? Kotjap (talk) 22:03, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

According to WP:WIAFP#2 "Still images should be a minimum of 1500 pixels in width and height". This image certainly fails that, as it as a resolution of only 1,200 × 900 pixels. Armbrust The Homunculus 22:06, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Sorry about that!

...I was trying to add a category to my own user talk page, not to Wikipedia! I figured out how to do it... Jeff Nailen 00:18, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

No problem. Armbrust The Homunculus 00:46, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. By the way, what is Wikipedia policy regarding content not in alignment with the style manual? When encountering content, like a new contribution, that does not conform to the style manual what is Wikipedia policy for how to deal with it? Should all of the new content be deleted or should it be edited to conform to the style manual? Thanks. Jeff Nailen 00:55, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
In that case it should be rewritten to conform the Manual of Style. Armbrust The Homunculus 01:10, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Rewritten rather than deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeffnailen (talk • contribs) 01:16, 27 February 2013
Yes. Armbrust The Homunculus 01:19, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Well that's what I thought, it seems more constructive. I've encountered an overzealous deleter who insists on deleting an entire contribution I made to an article based on one little technicality. Instead of merely editing that technicality, or informing me to do so, he repeatedly deleted the entire contribution which seemed a bit extreme. I believe he violated the three-revert rule because he did it several times on the same day. He insisted on reverting even a spelling error I corrected back to the misspelled version! Even after showing him evidence for every addition I made to the article he's still arguing every point and coming up with new ones that don't seem to be related just to be antagonistic as if he's a control freak. It seems very personal to him as if he feels threatened by contributions from others. I checked out his talk page and he seems to have a history of doing this and a history of not getting along with people. He has deleted our own conversation on his talk page twice as if he's embarrassed for people to see it which is why I posted it on my talk page. Is there anything that can be done about people like this? It's what gives Wikipedia a bad rep. Thanks. Jeff Nailen 01:32, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Well it looks like, that he's partly right. External links shouldn't be added in the articles, except as references or in the external links section. In the former case it needs to meet WP:RS and in later case WP:EL. If you think he has violated WP:3RR, than you can report him at WP:ANEW. However, be aware, that in this case also your behaviour could be examined. Also I think you should strike the "Wikipedia n***" part of your comment, as it could be interpreted a personal attack, for which you can be blocked. Armbrust The Homunculus 01:42, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. Yes, I know he was right about the link, my question is not about who's right or wrong. My question is about Wikipedia policy regarding best practices when someone encounters a contribution with such a mistake. Should the entire contribution from the writer be repeatedly deleted without explanation or should that mistake be edited/corrected to preserve the content? Which is a more constructive response, deleting or editing? I (think) I corrected my sig, please let me know if it's still not good... Jeff Nailen | Talk 17:03, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Yeah, that's why I said partly. He should have corrected it, and not wholesale remove it. BTW you should change your signature to [[User:Jeff Nailen|Jeff Nailen]] | [[User talk:Jeff Nailen|Talk]]. Armbrust The Homunculus 17:06, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
"Yeah, that's why I said partly. He should have corrected it, and not wholesale remove it." Oh, ok...yeah, that's what I thought, it seems more constructive. "BTW you should change your signature to..." Ahh, thanks for that. I think I (finally) got it right. Do you mind checking it once more? :-) Thanks for all your time with a newbie, you've been very helpful. Jeff Nailen | Talk 17:16, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Oops, forgot that you write you username differently. You should change it to [[User:Jeffnailen|Jeff Nailen]] | [[User talk:Jeffnailen|Talk]] Armbrust The Homunculus 17:18, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I changed it in my preferences from Jeffnailen to Jeff Nailen, but it's still showing up as the first one?? Maybe that's my nickname rather than user name? Also, are these pages indexed by search engines or are they excluded? Should I use a pseudoname instead of my real one?? Seems more authentic to use real one... Thanks again for your time... Jeff Nailen | Talk 17:32, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Changing it in the preferences from "Jeffnailen" to "Jeff Nailen" only affects you signature, but it can't change you username. If you want to use your real name, than you can request a username change at WP:CHUS. You should, however, read WP:REALNAME before doing that. If you decide against changing you user name, than you should change your signature to [[User:Jeffnailen|Jeff Nailen]] ([[User talk:Jeffnailen|Talk]]), as your current one fails WP:SIGLINK. Armbrust The Homunculus 17:38, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Ok,thanks. >> Jeff Nailen (Talk 17:45, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi, sorry to bother you again, but I quoted what you told me here, in case you're not following it...just thought you should know in case it's not automatic: Talk:Scrum (development)#Reference on JIRA + GreenHopper. I may ask you to arbitrate if you don't mind. It's getting ridiculous and eating up way too much time... Thanks again. Jeff Nailen (Talk 23:40, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, but I can't help you with that, as I'm not active in dispute resolution. Armbrust The Homunculus 06:49, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 February 2013

WikiCup 2013 February newsletter

Round 1 is now over. The top 64 scorers have progressed to round 2, where they have been randomly split into eight pools of eight. At the end of April, the top two from each pool, as well as the 16 highest scorers from those remaining, will progress to round 3. Commiserations to those eliminated; if you're interested in still being involved in the WikiCup, able and willing reviewers will always be needed, and if you're interested in getting involved with other collaborative projects, take a look at the WikiWomen's Month discussed below.

Round 1 saw 21 competitors with over 100 points, which is fantastic; that suggests that this year's competition is going to be highly competative. Our lower scores indicate this, too: A score of 19 was required to reach round 2, which was significantly higher than the 11 points required in 2012 and 8 points required in 2011. The score needed to reach round 3 will be higher, and may depend on pool groupings. In 2011, 41 points secured a round 3 place, while in 2012, 65 was needed. Our top three scorers in round 1 were:

  1. Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), primarily for an array of warship GAs.
  2. London Miyagawa (submissions), primarily for an array of did you knows and good articles, some of which were awarded bonus points.
  3. New South Wales Casliber (submissions), due in no small part to Canis Minor, a featured article awarded a total of 340 points. A joint submission with Alaska Keilana (submissions), this is the highest scoring single article yet submitted in this year's competition.

Other contributors of note include:

Featured topics have still played no part in this year's competition, but once again, a curious contribution has been offered by British Empire The C of E (submissions): did you know that there is a Shit Brook in Shropshire? With April Fools' Day during the next round, there will probably be a good chance of more unusual articles...

March sees the WikiWomen's History Month, a series of collaborative efforts to aid the women's history WikiProject to coincide with Women's History Month and International Women's Day. A number of WikiCup participants have already started to take part. The project has a to-do list of articles needing work on the topic of women's history. Those interested in helping out with the project can find articles in need of attention there, or, alternatively, add articles to the list. Those interested in collaborating on articles on women's history are also welcome to use the WikiCup talk page to find others willing to lend a helping hand. Another collaboration currently running is an an effort from WikiCup participants to coordinate a number of Easter-themed did you know articles. Contributions are welcome!

A few final administrative issues. From now on, submission pages will need only a link to the article and a link to the nomination page, or, in the case of good article reviews, a link to the review only. See your submissions' page for details. This will hopefully make updating submission pages a little less tedious. 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) J Milburn (talk) 17:21, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

File permission problems

Thank you for notifying me about the permission problems for the file File:Shooting Spree in Kochi.jpg I uploaded. I would like to state that the file I uploaded is available in public for reading, thus I presumed it to be freely available. If it is not so, certainly I would like it deleted. In this regard, I would like to bring to your notice that the file is copy of a news media report appeared in print. This was uploaded when the existence of that report was questioned in a dispute on a related issue in the talk page of Malayalam cinema. It is not meant to be displayed on any wiki page, but to be used only in Malayalam cinema talk page discussion. My request on this is to kindly keep the file until the discussion is complete (hopefully 2 or 3 weeks). Could you also let me know whether there were any specific complaint about that upload. Prathambhu (talk) 14:46, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

This issue is already moot, as the file was deleted. If you want to use the file in the discussion further, than I would advise you to upload the file to an external photo share service (like TinyPic) and link to it in the discussion. (Also note, that publicly available isn't the same as public domain.) Armbrust The Homunculus 14:55, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Deletion of image files

Hi Armbrust, thanks for the helpful messages earlier. The file I uploaded is still listed for deletion, under what I see is now an obsolete rationale. Do you have any influence over such things? The deletion discussion is here: Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2013_March_4#File:Adopted_as_Holograph_album_cover.jpg. Iacomus Siluriformes (talk) 14:58, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

No, but I !voted in the discussion to keep the image. I think, you should contact Stefan2 (talk · contribs) on his talk page. Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 16:11, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
Thanks... it appears to have been resolved now. Iacomus Siluriformes (talk) 17:01, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

CSD C1

Did you realize that you have tagged a few categories with C1 only about 10 hours after the categories were created? One example is Category:Short-chain alcohols. To use CSD 1 the category should be empty for 4 days. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:55, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

That's only affects deletion of the category not the speedy deletion nomination. If pages are added to the category within 4 days, than it obviously won't be deleted. Armbrust The Homunculus 22:00, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
Huh? If someone sees that the category has been tagged with C1 and it is empty, they are likely to delete it on the spot. Thus, the category would have been deleted after 10 hours, not after 4 days. That's not on. Empty categories can only be deleted after they have been empty for 4 days, so they should not be nominated until they have been empty for 4 days. Otherwise you're shifting the onus of checking to the admin who does the deletion. Also, if your approach were accepted, it would be OK for a user to manually empty a category and then immediately nominate it for deletion under C1, which obviously would not be OK. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:04, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
Whoa! From your comments it looks like, you don't event know, how {{db-c1}} works. The template places the empty category in Category:Empty categories awaiting deletion (which isn't even a deletion category) and after four days, they are automatically moved to Category:Candidates for speedy deletion and Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as empty categories. For example, this old revision of a category, which was latter populated, contains the second set of categories five days after the speedy nomination. Armbrust The Homunculus 22:40, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
Why then did I find Category:Short-chain alcohols in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as empty categories just hours after it was created? I've seen this happen more than once over the past few months. I know how the system is supposed to work, it's just that I have little faith in its actual performance, judging by what I have seen.Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:39, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 March 2013

UMB World Three-cushion Championship

Hallo Armbrust, kannst du bei genanntem Artikel mal vorbeischauen. User:Bjenks hat Sachen rausgeschmissen die ich nicht verstehe. Die Preisgeldliste habe ich mit dem aktuellen Regelwerk der UMB wieder eingestellt. Was hat er am Medaillenspiegel zu meckern? Ist von Hand gezählt nach vorangegangener Tabelle. Bei der Diskussion kann ich ihn verstehen. Ist tatsächlich verwirrend. Ist das der Grund warum der Artikel UMB .... heißt? Gruß. --LezFraniak (talk) 23:05, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Es sieht mir so aus, dass (1) die Preisgeldlist entfernt wurde, weil er denkt, es bezieht sich nur auf die 2012 Turnier und (2) die Medaillenspiegel entfernt wurde, weil die Artikel an keinem Platz erwähnt, dass Medaillen verteilt werden. (3) Ja genau, un und dann hat er Billiards World Cup Association#BWA World Three-cushion Champions nicht einmal berücksichtigt. Armbrust The Homunculus 08:25, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
Liegt es nur am Namen? Man kann die Liste/Tabelle auch anders nennen. Hast du einen Vorschlag? Auf Deutsch heißt es „Ewigenliste". Gruß. --LezFraniak (talk) 16:05, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
Habe, leider keine Idee. Armbrust The Homunculus 17:22, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much, Armbrust!

POTD

Dear Armbrust, this is my very first picture that has made it to the Featured Pictures section. Thank you very much for the promotion. I am nominating the image for the Picture of the Day section. Thanks!

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Black Pepper (Piper nigrum) fruits.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 26, 2013. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2013-03-26. Hari Krishnan 12:20, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Well the community thought, that it's good enough to be featured. It couldn't be closed any other way. Armbrust The Homunculus 12:32, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 March 2013

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Male impala profile.jpg

Hi, I think you mis-closed this. Five supports for the original and 1 oppose. Please do the needful, thanks --Muhammad(talk) 11:56, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

As I see it, at least two people who supported edit 1, opposed the original. They just didn't add a bolded statement. Armbrust The Homunculus 12:01, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
I see your point but an oppose is considered such only if it is explicitly mentioned. The users who did not even mention oppose may just have been showing their preference. --Muhammad(talk) 12:05, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
Undone closure and placed it in the Older nominations requiring additional input from users. Armbrust The Homunculus 12:09, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
Thanks :) --Muhammad(talk) 12:14, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

You didn't need to do that

I see that you tagged Category:2007 in French sports for speedy deletion after it had been moved, along with many other similar categories. You didn't need to do that; the bots delete the old category after a move. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:40, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

AFAIK the bot does this only immediately after the move. If it can't move every content from the other category, than it skips this, and never does it. (Because it doesn't delete categories, if the target category exists.) Armbrust The Homunculus 11:46, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
No, the bot is fairly smart. So long as the category remains listed at WP:CFD/W, the bot will delete it when it is empty. It did so this morning for several categories where I removed the last sticky page.
Its one downside is that the bots don't seem to like deleting after a merge. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:04, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
No, it doesn't. Otherwise the category redirects would be deleted too. The bot only does this if the page is listed in the "Empty then delete" section. Armbrust The Homunculus 12:11, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Goings-On

Tks for this, I was just in the process of doing it myself when you beat me to it.... ;-) Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 02:30, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Yeah. Just seen in my contributions, that it got a very unusual name. I had to correct it on sight. Armbrust The Homunculus 02:33, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Logo Upload

I notice you have declined this image for been "too low quality". What are the quality requirements? It was my understanding when I read the documentation the other day that for logos such as this for info boxes lower quality was preferred.TechGem (talk) 15:06, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

It would be good, if the logo had a resolution of at least 200 pixel x 200 pixel. Armbrust The Homunculus 15:28, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

german wiki: List of snooker number ones

Hi Armbrust, you undid a edit of mine at the List of world number ones recently. Afaik the last official revision (Cut off point) is from december were Mark Selby was number one (http://www.worldsnooker.com/staticFiles/16/ba/0,,13165~178710,00.pdf), while the next will be at 1st of April. So I cant really see why you made Judd Trump the current world No. 1. Regards, Tmv23 (talk) 12:00, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

for clarification: i know there is this updated list from february but its not an official cut off point, you can easily see that by looking into the seeding lists for the haikou and china open, where mark selby is number 2 (behind the defending champion) and trump is the number 3. And this is the reason why I wouldnt consider the february ranking "official". Tmv23 (talk) 12:18, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
Because he is the current world number one. The cut-off points only determined the seedings of ranking events, but the rankings are updated after every event carrying ranking points, see the official world rankings after the Welsh Open, the World Open and after the PTC Finals. The seedings list and the official rankings list are not the same.
Also going by your logic, (1) Neil Robertson gained the number one position in October, as there was no cut-off point in September (see: Snooker_world_ranking_points_2010/2011) and Mark Williams lost the position in October 2011, no cut-off point was in September (Snooker world ranking points 2011/2012). Armbrust The Homunculus 12:22, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
hmmmm.... well i get your point, but when you apply your logic you can have various position changes in one month which cant be displayed by the current form of the list, as there are sometimes a few ranking events a month where the no. 1 spot could change. Let me ask a question: If a player gets to the number 1 spot but falls off before the next CoP, would it be in his player article as "Highest ranking"? In en.wp probably yes as you write a month/date, but in de.wp atm not, as we only refresh it for every CoP, which would cause contradictions. Speaking of contradictions: I wasnt aware of the contradictions for the autumn 2011 Neil/Mark era, so you are probably right with that. Still all a bit confusing. Tmv23 (talk) 12:34, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
That's just means, that the German Wikipedia is out of sync with the real world on this. After the Welsh Open every reliable source describes him as number one. See the following:
  1. Daily Mail after losing to Burden: "World No 1 Judd Trump suffered a shock first-round defeat at the PTC Grand Finals".
  2. Eurosport after defeating Joyce: "World number one Judd Trump began his Haikou World Open campaig".
  3. Eurosport after defeating Bond: "as world number one Trump continued to revel in points with 104 and 48".
Wikipedia builds on reliable sources, and not opinions of their editors. I think the rankings should be updated more frequently on the German Wikipedia too to avoid this contradictions. Armbrust The Homunculus 12:44, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
well after reading this I dont disagree it SHOULD be updated more often, its just a matter of time and editors doing that :/ Tmv23 (talk) 12:51, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
To make this easier I just created {{Infobox snooker player/rankings}}. This is a template, which contains every player's ranking position. I also have employed it in {{Infobox snooker player}}, and it works perfectly. If you want you can adapt it to the German Wikipedia. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:25, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
I'm not sure I understood how this works. As far as I see there are still manual inserted places in those players articles i checked. Tmv23 (talk) 16:44, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
It works as a switch parameter based on the articles name, and |name= parameter of the {{Infobox snooker player}} (if exists on the page). For example there I removed it from the Ronnie O'Sullivan article, but the infobox still displays the current ranking correctly. Armbrust The Homunculus 16:50, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Image of Trang Phuong Ho needed in Wikipedia

Very kind of you. Thanks Thewatchr (talk) 17:44, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Be my guest. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:10, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/C. Everett Koop

Everything I'm working on has slowed down a bit because I'm on stage this week in the chorus of The Yeomen of the Guard. This ends Saturday, so I should be able to catch up Sundayish. Adam Cuerden (talk) 00:11, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

I have a tendency to try to set what I'm working on based on how much time I have, and how difficult it is to pick up from interruption; Sunday I'm scheduling as minimal stuff outside the house, so can probably catch up then. =) Adam Cuerden (talk) 00:14, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
Okay and thanks for the info. Armbrust The Homunculus 00:19, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Some stroopwafels for you!

Thanks for completing the professorship capitalization nominations which I was too tired too do last night :) Tim! (talk) 07:01, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. Armbrust The Homunculus 07:03, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
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