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Update ...
... on our FAC editorial in the Bugle, including your comments, here. The idea for this editorial was to give a lot of brief statements by a lot of people to convey the idea that there's broad support for the idea that anyone can (and more should) review at FAC. After we see if the editorial has any effect, we can try to do something less scattershot in another editorial. Please let me know if you are (or aren't) happy with any effect this might have at FAC. - Dank (push to talk) 19:45, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
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RE:Heads up
Ok. Thanks for the heads up. Hope it has enough supports for me to pass it. GamerPro64 03:31, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Transylvania Television Page Reinstatement Reqeuest
Dear Wizardman,
I am posting another talk thread to your page to request reinstatment of the Transylvania Television page.
The article was subject to an AfD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2011_April_17#Transylvania_Television
Which unfortunately, none of the interest parties commented or provided additional content, media references during the discussion period and then you, per the AfD deleted the page.
I subsequently contacted you and MelanieN, about reinstatement, you both advised that if provided more noteable articles, the page could be reinstated. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:ElationTalk&oldid=425940633
Given that advice, I created this talk page, providing more content, which is now moved to your archive, and as far as I can tell, no comments back from you on the issue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Wizardman/Archive36#Transylvania_Television_Page_-_re-in-statement_request
Please forgive me, if I am missing something, I am new to the WP, and am trying to follow protocol. Does my request being moved to your archive, with no follow up, mean you will not reinstate the page? Or have you not had time to get to it? I have tried to be patient and not pester you, as it's deletion is our fault in not providing information during the AfD period.
If we can get the page reinstated, we will update and address the AfD issues. If you cannot reinstate, is our next best option to go through the formal Deletion Review process?
Thank you and regards ElationTalk (talk) 23:10, 3 May 2011 (UTC) ElationTalk
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FTC problem
Hey Wizard, I just promoted Atlantic Coast Conference football championship games. When I updated the history part in its talk page, it says that its a good topic. Do you know how to change that? GamerPro64 01:49, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
- You have to mark the topic's repromotion on each articles' talk page, and add it to the topic's relevant category. Once that is done- you'll have four articles in the topic's "featured content" category and four in the "good content" category, the wikimagic will take over and promote it to an FT on the topic's talk page. Courcelles 01:53, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for that. JKBrooks85 (talk) 08:09, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
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Regarding Integrative Rehabilitation
Dear Sir, the said article has eventually been deleted after going through a proposed for deletion nomination, then article for deletion nomination followed by two re-listings - which goes to show the procedural maturity in wikipedia - but my only regret is that despite my elaborate explanatory notes as well as complete revamp of the article when compared to the 1st version (as also acknowledged by an administrator regarding the author's "hardwork") - still till the end, I remained the sole creator -cum- contributor to this article - whereas I kept hoping throughout this duration of nearly 4 weeks that some of the reviewers would also help me out in tracing more material and content for the same.
I just have two queries for you, that is if you may choose to reply: 1. Did you go through the talkpage contents - both at the AFD talkpage as well as the article talkpage OR the deletion was due to no . of "Delete" vs "Keep" votes? 2. Is it possible for you to have the deleted article put into my userspace?
Regards, Jn.mdel --Jn.mdel (talk) 04:10, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for doing the needful, regards, Jn.mdel --Jn.mdel (talk) 09:10, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
FYI
Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Major League Baseball Draft first-round picks/archive1 Courcelles 21:18, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
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Would you be billing to userify to me? He'll be a 1st round NHL draft pick next month, so he'll meet the "rules" at that point.--Milowent • talkblp-r 17:39, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
Datang town (Chengdu Datang) at RFD 04-24
Not to cast judgment or doubt on your actions, but I seriously question whether a waiting period of several months (perhaps July) would resolve these issues:
- Whether Thryduulf or Rossami come barging in. They say they seriously consider my arguments, but did not respond at all to my first bullet point (about confusion). So long as they come in, they will absolutely ruin the debate, to the effect of trolling, even.
- Whether new arguments or circumstances can surface. The metropolitan area of Chengdu would have to expand at an unthinkable rate (60 km in several months!!) to even barely include this town and possibly force a re-organisation of counties. So long as the current state of affairs holds, my argument about confusion will remain the same. My other arguments will probably be the same.
Hence why I consider waiting out useless and why I will probably consider renominating within a few weeks. –HXL's Roundtable and Record 04:23, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Rfd closures
Thank you for going through and sorting the backlog at RfD, but you didn't place the {{oldrfd}} template on the talk pages of redirects that were not deleted. I'm going through and doing this for you now, but it would be helpful if you could do it yourself in the future. Cheers, Thryduulf (talk) 08:36, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
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I'm wondering why the articles nominated here are still not deleted. Thank you. Moray An Par (talk) 03:27, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
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The Swamp Thing Set
Can you expand on why you relisted Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Swamp Thing Set? It seems pretty clear that the consensus is to merge reference-able material to the partent article.--RadioFan (talk) 20:15, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
Kepler-9
Hey Wizard. Can you close Kepler-9? I forgot that I supported the topic. GamerPro64 00:38, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
Lara Logan
Hi, I am looking for an uninvolved admin to consider adding this {{Arab-Israeli Arbitration Enforcement}} arbitration notice to this BLP. The disruption of that BLP has been unending over the last couple of months and imo its become a battlefield for Arab Israeli issues as she was attacked and someone shouted she a Jew which has variously been alleged to be the reason the crown did it. Imo raising the level of editing restrictions will protect the BLP from some of the disruption, the template restricts users to one revert and if users have previous restrictions in the area any violations could be assessed via any previous history, thoughts? The article has been at the BLPN multiple times also over the last couple of months and is there again now here. Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard#Lara Logan Off2riorob (talk) 18:08, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you very much for looking at that. Regards. Off2riorob (talk) 10:23, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
Gardner
Thanks for salting those. I went to look if anyone had when I saw it was deleted. It wouldn't be worth salting the two 'films' - they seem to have sunk without trace from his 'portfolio' (why am I not surprised?). Peridon (talk) 20:33, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
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make mine Milk
Hi. I'd like to post an article on the 'make mine Milk' campaign. I previously submitted one but it was deleted. As I am a new user, I'd like some help on how to create a new article which isn't advertorial but is informative.
I have posted the following for notability:
References:
Award nominations: http://www.cipr.co.uk/excellence-shortlist
1 year anniversary: http://www.farmersguardian.com/home/business/business-news/milk-campaign-celebrates-first-anniversary/38335.article
From the information above, would it be possible to create an article? Please give any advice.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Thanks Apunj (talk) 11:51, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Apunj (talk • contribs) 11:35, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
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Stuff
Hey Wizard, letting you know that Tony1 has requested the FTC closers (us) to say if the topic is closed as a GT or a FT. He mentioned it on the Signpost's Features and Admins section and I can't link it now since I'm on my Android. GamerPro64 18:51, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Simeon Ekpe unsourced BLP :)
He's dead Jim :)
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Though the wpbiography tag on the talk page still identified him as living. I corrected it. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:45, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
blocked for removing PC from BLPs
You might be interested in WP:ANI#Mass removal of Flagged revision from BLPs. Short summary: Scott MacDonald blocked me for removing PC from BLPs.—Kww(talk) 18:48, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
You certainly want to keep an eye on Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case in case some kind of landmine develops there: I've been taken to arbcom for removing PC from BLPs.—Kww(talk) 21:18, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
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Hi, I have been studying SOA since few years and hence got involved into editing the page for Thomas Erl. He is a reputed author and speaker on SOA related field. I requested for the undeletion of page and they asked me to contact the administrator who closed the page. Let me know if you have any questions related to the author and I would be glad to provide my inputs. I wanted the page to be an introduction to the author, his books, and seminar rather than using it for advertisement or self-promotion. Please restore the page so that I can edit it with the current update on the author.
Edited by Sanjay (talk) 19:15, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for relisting the article page. I will have my comments on the Article for Deletion/Thomas Erl page to keep it on wikipedia. Edited by Sanjay (talk) 06:18, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Jessica Dykstra
Jessica Dykstra recently contacted me when she noticed her Wikipedia article was gone. She needs a bio to give her publicist, and wanted to use her article. The reason she contacted me is because she wanted to know if I kept a copy of what I wrote about her. I didn't.
Is there any way of getting a copy of her article as it existed before it was deleted?--Johnny Spasm (talk) 09:27, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you--Johnny Spasm (talk) 19:20, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
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Bill Stein
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--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:32, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
List of Chicago White Sox first-round draft picks
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 | This user helped promote List of Chicago White Sox first-round draft picks to featured list status. |
--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:46, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
Talk:2010–11 Harvard Crimson men's basketball team/GA1
I have replied to all your concerns at Talk:2010–11 Harvard Crimson men's basketball team/GA1 and added a little text.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 05:54, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
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We're half way through round 3 of the 2011 WikiCup. There are currently 32 remaining in the competition, but only 16 will progress to our penultimate round. 
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HIP 13044 b nomination
Hi! I've addressed your comments at the review page. --Starstriker7(Talk) 18:12, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
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A "1 voter" you punched "delete" back in 2009 so you may wish to evaluate and respond to this. I've no opinion on this right now but the nom and the editor !voting "delete" use to do a lot of "tag teaming" in AFD back in those days. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 04:43, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Question about featured topics
Greetings, I was wondering if you knew the answer to a couple questions.
- Is the featured topics process still going?
- What is the procedure for adding aticles to an existing topic and if I wanted to create a couple do I need to submit the entire group or related articles at once.
- For example, there are several new United States Naval Academy alumni that could be added to that topic.
- There are also a lot of Medal of Honor recipent lists that could be a topic but not all the lists are feaured yet, same with the lists of US state governors. Several are featured but not all.
Thanks in advance for the help. --Kumioko (talk) 11:39, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
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My RfA
I just wanted to take a minute to thank you very much for supporting me in my recent RfA. Even though it was unsuccessful, I appreciate your trust. With much gratitude, jsfouche ☽☾Talk 02:24, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
GA review of Émile Durkheim
I have reviewed Émile Durkheim according to the GA criteria: please see Talk:Émile Durkheim for details. —Tom Morris (talk) 08:41, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Request for page restoration: Association for Computing Machinery – UP Student Chapter
Jaredhtc (talk) 02:30, 9 June 2011 (UTC)Hi. I'm the incumbent Head of External Affairs of the Association for Computing Machinery – UP Student Chapter. I just wonder why our page was deleted. I'm a new Wikipedia "registered user" so I don't really know how to check the reasons for the deletion. I just got this from the Wikipedia logs:
"03:30, 9 May 2011 Wizardman (talk | contribs) deleted "Association for Computing Machinery – UP Student Chapter" (WP:AFD)"
but I don't really know what that means and how to fix this. I just want the "Association for Computing Machinery – UP Student Chapter" Wikipedia page to be restored. Thank you. :)
Jaredhtc (talk) 04:49, 9 June 2011 (UTC) We are listed as one of the Student Chapters of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Check this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_for_Computing_Machinery#Student_Chapters
and this (where we won an award), from the ACM website itself: http://www.acm.org/chapters/students/essay-contest/archive
Some links for the news about our org winning the International Awards already don't work. Maybe the online newspapers already deleted them since the articles were first posted years ago. Thanks. :)
RE: Elimination Chamber GA
I'll give it a shot. Please allow me a couple of days to make any changes necessary. Nikki♥311 03:58, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
I saw your dab on Philadelphia Phillies all-time roster (W-Z). Are we not worried that Jim Woods (baseball), previously third baseman, might be confused within the sport with Jim Woods the baseball sportscaster? — KV5 • Talk • 03:51, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
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Talk:2010–11 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team/GA1
I have responded to your concerns at Talk:2010–11 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team/GA1.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 20:51, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
- Have a look.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 18:10, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
Durkheim
Congratulations on successfully bringing a very vital article to GA. P. S. Burton (talk) 21:13, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
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Ken Hall GA review
Hi, thanks very much for your review of Ken Hall (footballer). I've (hopefully) addressed the issues you raised, so if you could take a look at Talk:Ken Hall (footballer)/GA1, it would be appreciated. Thanks again for your review. Cheers, Jenks24 (talk) 04:06, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
- Just wanted to say thanks again for your review. It really is appreciated. Cheers, Jenks24 (talk) 02:43, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of 1993 Grand National
The article 1993 Grand National you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:1993 Grand National for comments about the article. Well done! Jezhotwells (talk) 23:24, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
GA review
Hello, I know you are semi-retired, and are probably busy in real life. However, if you could conduct a review of 2011 Daytona 500 it will be well appreciated. Thank you. --Nascar1996 (talk • contribs) 18:05, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Killebrew picture
I keep meaning to give you one of those barnstars for securing a recent Harmon Killebrew picture before he passed away. Unfortunately my memory is terrible and I'm not good with barnstars... But anyway, well done!
BTW, it's high time you removed that semi-retired notice from your user page, eh? 
Wknight94 talk 19:25, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Backup
Hi, does it mean "reserve player"? Can't find a definition anywhere. Writing blurb for the SP. Tony (talk) 14:59, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
Luke Schenn
I've had another look and the issues persist, I'm afraid. I seem to be in a minority here and I hate being such a nuisance over this, but the prose seems quite poor in places. In general, I wish sports articles had a higher standard of prose at FAC, as it would never be excused in another topic. Just because it's about a sportsman, standards shouldn't drop. I've left a comment at the FAC. --Sarastro1 (talk) 11:42, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
Thank you
Thank you thank you thank you. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:07, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
- While we're on the subject, would you mind reverting his most recent edit while the issue is discussed in a mature fashion? I would, but I believe that would put me over the 3RR threshold. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:08, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
- Should there be any further sanction for his not adhering to policy on talk page notices? – Muboshgu (talk) 00:31, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
- It is a bit of a grey area. WP:Blanking mentions notices about sanctions currently in effect. So I agree that they shouldn't be removed so I removed his access to his talk page. That being said there is a belief that since it WP:Blanking doesn't specifically mention block notices that those aren't included. He has actually had this issue come up in the past looking at his block log and the history of the talk page. At that time they decided he was allowed to remove them but I don't really think that is what WP:BLANKING means. Feel free to remove my change though if you don't agree. -DJSasso (talk) 13:22, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
- Ahh didn't notice you had responded to this on his talk page. Was coming here to let you know I had changed it anyways. -DJSasso (talk) 13:23, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
Just an update that the students will be finishing soon, so you may want to do a second pass and leave some final comments before closing the article (tomorrow?). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 23:07, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks. After grading tomorrow, if needed, I can also help with the articles myself :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 05:57, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
Re: Collab?
Re your message: I think it would be great to work with you again, but I am at a bit of a loss on what that collaboration might be. I am admittedly not a great content writer. It is just not really my thing. You just happened to run across me on a more significant article subject that I took interest in. Perhaps I can turn it around the other way: What can I do to help you? -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:42, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
GAR notification
You were the most recent GA reviewer. Please be aware of Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Hugh Culverhouse/1.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 08:38, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
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Hi! I just noticed that your signature has a bad link at the end. It would be good to fix it. Wilbysuffolk Talk to me 19:17, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
I noticed that you protected this template and I was just wondering if that was due to a request or based on the number of articles it is on? I don't mind but since none of us that usually are the ones to update the template are administrators it is putting work on others. --Kumioko (talk) 15:46, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
- No problem thanks for the explanation. I thought it was something like that since its on about 98000 items now including articles, templates and the like. --Kumioko (talk) 18:35, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Wizardman. I'm not sure consensus at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sierra McCormick was to delete, and I am about to go to deletion review regarding the outcome. Do you have any objections? Eagles 24/7 (C) 00:19, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for the reply. If you discount one of the keep !votes, you are left with one keep !vote, one neutral !vote, one delete !vote, and one delete !vote from the nominator. The one delete !vote, IMO, should be discounted the same way one of the keep !votes was discounted, for the user cites the multiple deletions of the article as a reason to delete it once more. That's not consensus in my eyes and should have been closed as "no consensus." Eagles 24/7 (C) 02:37, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
Deletion review for Sierra McCormick
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Sierra McCormick. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Eagles 24/7 (C) 14:36, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
Hugh Culverhouse Article Review
Thanks for reviewing my Hugh Culverhouse GA nomination. I see that my old pal Tony the Tiger stepped in and put it up for community assessment. He did the original article review, and I regret having not challenged his original decision, because it was clear that he was judging it according to personal preferences that were not Wikipedia standards. That experience left such a bad taste in my mouth that I never wrote here again, but I did eventually come back and put the article back up for review, as I'd sunk a lot of time into it. I see this article as more important than many here, because the picture of Culverhouse that my research revealed was so different from the one that public perception has painted. The original stub article was little more than a borderline-slanderous hatchet job, and I feel good about setting the record straight. Thanks again. Dementia13 (talk) 03:18, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for reminding to revisit that GAN. I forgot about it after fallen ill over the weekend (yes, not the best time to become sick) OhanaUnitedTalk page 01:38, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
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Collaboration on Happy Chandler
Sounds great to me! Taking that article to FA is on my to-do list anyway, and I've already gotten more than a little start on a rewrite here. I've actually been hoping that someone with a baseball background would do that part of the article, or at least take a look at it. I can recommend a couple of articles from The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society that deal with his time in baseball, if you want. Having you work on the baseball end would allow me to get back to Divide and Dissent: Kentucky Politics 1930-1963, which goes into a lot of detail about the rivalry between the Chandler faction of the state Democratic Party and the faction led by Earle C. Clements. Is it OK with you just to work from the draft in my user space? Acdixon (talk • contribs • count) 13:23, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
re:Good articles
I thought a bot lists them at WP:GA. YE Tropical Cyclone 00:48, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
GBED
Do you know when the next GAN backlog elimination drive's happening? I remember reading somewhere that another would happen some time this year, but I don't really know for sure. --Starstriker7(Talk) 17:51, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
- Haha, hopefully not...we'll just have to hold the line the best we can until that date, then. :)
- Anyways, thanks for the heads-up! I only wish it was sooner, for I have way too much free time at the moment. --Starstriker7(Talk) 18:07, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
- I know. I suppose what I meant is that now would be a perfect time to engage in some friendly competition, given I do have so much time on my hands. :P --Starstriker7(Talk) 04:15, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
User:Carthage44
You blocked him for three days on June 20, but he's resuming the problematic edits that got him blocked. FYI. – Muboshgu (talk) 21:56, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2011 June newsletter
We are half way through 2011, and entering the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; the semi-finals are upon us! Points scored in the interim (29/30 June) may be counted towards next round, but please do not update your submissions' pages until the next round has begun. 16 contestants remain, and all have shown dedication to the project to reach this far. Our round leader was Casliber (submissions) who, among other things, successfully passed three articles through featured article candidates and claimed an impressive 29 articles at Did You Know, scoring 555 points. Casliber led pool D. Pool A was led by 
Wizardman (submissions), claiming points for a featured article, a featured list and seven good article reviews, while pool C was led by 
Eisfbnore (submissions), who claimed for two good articles, ten articles at Did You Know and four good article reviews. They scored 154 and 118 respectively. Pool B was by far our most competitive pool; six of the eight competitors made it through to round 4, with all of them scoring over 100 points. The pool was led by Hurricanehink (submissions), who claimed for, among other things, three featured articles and five good articles. In addition to the four pool leaders, 12 others (the four second places, and the 8 next highest overall) make up our final 16. The lowest scorer who reached round 4 scored 76 points; a significant increase on the 41 needed to reach round 3. Eight of our semi-finalists scored at least twice as much as this.
No points were awarded this round for featured pictures, good topics or In the News, and no points have been awarded in the whole competition for featured topics, featured portals or featured sounds. Instead, the highest percentage of points has come from good articles. Featured articles, despite their high point cost, are low in number, and so, overall, share a comparable number of points with Did You Know, which are high in number but low in cost. A comparatively small but still considerable number of points come from featured lists and good article reviews, rounding out this round's overall scores.
We would again like to thank 
Jarry1250 (submissions) and 
Stone (submissions) for invaluable background work, as well as all of those helping to provide reviews for the articles listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please do keep using it, and please do help by providing reviews for the articles listed there. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews generally at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup.
Two final notes: Firstly, please remember to state your participation in the WikiCup when nominating articles at FAC. Finally, some WikiCup-related statistics can be seen here and here, for those interested, though it appears that neither are completely accurate at this time. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:43, 30 June 2011 (UTC)