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WikiCup 2014 April newsletter

Round 3 of the 2014 WikiCup has just begun; 32 competitors remain. Pool G's Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Round 2's highest scorer, with a large number of featured picture credits. In March/April, he restored star charts from Urania's Mirror, lithographs of various warships (such as SMS Gefion) and assorted other historical media. Second overall was Pool E's Godot13 (submissions), whose featured list Silver certificate (United States) contains dozens of scans of banknotes recently promoted to featured picture status. Third was Pool G's ChrisGualtieri (submissions) who has produced a large number of good articles, many, including Falkner Island, on Connecticut-related topics. Other successful participants included Cliftonian (submissions), who saw three articles (including the top-importance Ian Smith) through featured article candidacies, and Caponer (submissions), who saw three lists (including the beautifully-illustrated list of plantations in West Virginia) through featured list candidacies. High-importance good articles promoted this round include narwhal from Reid,iain james (submissions), tiger from Cwmhiraeth (submissions) and The Lion King from Igordebraga (submissions). We also saw our first featured topic points of the competition, awarded to Czar (submissions) and Red Phoenix (submissions) for their work on the Sega Genesis topic. No points have been claimed so far for good topics or featured portals.

192 was our lowest qualifying score, again showing that this WikiCup is the most competitive ever. In previous years, 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) or 100 (2010) secured a place in Round 3. Pool H was the strongest performer, with all but one of its members advancing, while only the two highest scorers in Pools G and F advanced. At the end of June, 16 users will advance into the semi-finals. 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 Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages 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 Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 17:57, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Need assistance in Potential Superpowers please

I am making an inquiry on user from the Potential Superpowers I made an edit asking for discussion and not blocking the source links on the potential superpowers, two minutes later user Antiochus the Great reverts to revision saying Rv disruptive edit. I don't understand disruptive Rv? What is this? I reverted the edit about 12 minutes later here I replied and said Where is there a disruptive ip? Where is your verification? Now I said verification should be in the discussion not in the article. I make my case. About 6 minutes later Antiochus the Great reverts edit again Rv disruptive edit. Removing tags

I made a claim on concern on blocking the sources and I am labeled as an disruptive rv? Where am I disruptive? I think I am being characterized for nothing? What did I do? I am asking you to remove this edit please and let the discussion discussed. Thank you--64.64.127.147 (talk) 19:05, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

During January of this year when I and several other editors cleaned up the Superpower article and thus removed your Russian POV, you responded in a very hostile manner and caused allot of grief. Eventually, both the article and the talk page had to be protected just to stop your atrocious behaviour (the article is still under semi-protection!). Since then, you have spent the past few months sporadically (but frequently) trolling, stalking and harassing my contributions to Misplaced Pages. This continued behaviour has resulted in many more articles having to be semi-protected.

Now what are the reasons behind your above comments? Well I will tell you... yesterday I opened the following discussion at Talk:Potential superpowers#Should Russia be removed from this article?, anyone who reads my post will likely understand the valid issues and concerns I have raised. However you don't like this do you, because once again your POV is under threat! Quite simply then, your above comments and recent behaviour at Potential superpowers is nothing more that an unfortunate attempt at disrupting my efforts to engage in a constructive discussion with other editors about the issues I have highlighted.

My advice to you is stop acting the distraught POV-pusher, but instead try and provide some reliable scholarly sources for the article. You will achieve much more that way. Continue to be disruptive and the admins will only be forced to semi-protect the article. Antiochus the Great (talk) 20:45, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

As Antiochus points out, your behavior has been such that any edits by you are de-facto disruptive. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 22:21, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

I am completely lost. Who are you talking about? I live in Maryland and this is my work address. My son saw this and I replied as he needs this page for his research paper for high school. So you are reframing to somebody else.--64.64.127.147 (talk) 22:48, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Initiation, really?

"nuclear explosion", 37 million hits, all about nuclear explosions "nuclear initiation", 16 million hits, of which about 5 are-topic, and likely neither of those are really on topic.

Nuclear explosion is an article. Initiation (physics) is not. Nuclear bombs explode, because "an explosion is a rapid increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner".

So I'm all ears, how is it that nuclear explosives don't explode, exactly? FYI, you're talking to physicist who warmed up his hands on a nickel gamma source, so be as technical as you wish.

Maury Markowitz (talk) 21:20, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

I'm on another military board with people who worked in the physics side of The Business. Saying nuclear devicies 'explode' is a bit of a pet peeve with them. The high-explosive triggers explode, causing an initiation. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 23:40, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Hmmm. So "these people you know" take umbrage at the perfectly correct usage of a term? And suggest a term that appears nowhere in the literature is a better one? Forgive me if I'll ask for multiple references before I'll allow that edit to stand. References to the quality of the US government, Glasstone's Effects of Nuclear Weapons, Cary Sublette's wonderful FAQ, the official OSTI report on Japanese bombing, or as the terminology of both Oppenheimer and Teller, not one of which even mentions the word "initiate", well then, color me handed. In the meantime, it's wrong, and you can tell your friends that think otherwise to email me if they want to discuss why they're wrong. Maury Markowitz (talk) 00:14, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Worth monitoring

G'day, I reckon we should keep an eye on this guy. Cheers YSSYguy (talk) 10:26, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Yep. This does look suspicious... - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 12:54, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

IP hopping edits

BR, a series of IPs has been adding unsourced dubious material to Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15. The initial IP was also involved in adding nonsense to other pages, which were then readded by oteh IPs. Could you semi-protect the article? Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 11:18, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Semi'd. I don't have the claimed source but seeing as the North Vietnamese Air Force didn't exist until 1959 it seems quite dubious indeed... - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 12:57, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 13:14, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

List of programs broadcast by Cartoon Network AfD nom

I removed the 'extended content' dropdown box on the nom after-close since it took forever to fully render the page, but left a link behind so it could be viewed with one click. If this wasn't appropriate let me know and feel free to revert it back no questions asked. Nate • (chatter) 07:28, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

Sounds decent to me. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 07:41, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

There is one last tome at 71 Talk (user block) page...

Please do not respond there, I will be closing out that IP almost immediately. Feel free to say something here, if you wish (but not rearguing, let us be past that)—and I will look to this periodically as I close up shop. Cheers, Best wishes. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 08:21, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	For exhibiting orders of magnitude greater attention, diligence, and engagement in the process of "disciplining" an old Professor, including trying to retain him in the fold, I acknowledge your service with this award, the only that I have given in my tenure. Leprof 7272 (talk) 08:25, 7 May 2014 (UTC)