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Hi. I see you edited the Alan Smith article. Feel free to drop by Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Article improvement drive Kingjeff 02:36, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please come join the WikiProject Ice Hockey Notability standards for hockey players discussion. I'd like to see input from all our project members who have an opinion. Thanks! ColtsScore 02:40, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

edit  WikiProject Ice Hockey Newsletter Dear Raphie! You are receiving this newsletter because you have signed up as a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey. The purpose of this newsletter is to update on the goings on of the project, as there have been major changes, and a lot of new recognized content in the past few weeks. If you are an inactive user, you probably won't recognize the new and improved state of the WikiProject! From the project, Maxim. edit  New recognized content By Maxim There have been a lot more Good and Featured articles written in the past few weeks. Here is a list:[1][2][3][4] Featured articles Wayne Gretzky — Promoted on 2006-02-14; on Main Page on 2006-06-13 New Jersey Devils — Promoted on 2006-11-20; on Main Page on 2007-06-30 Martin Brodeur — Promoted on 2007-04-28 Fighting in ice hockey — Promoted on 2007-05-07; on Main Page on 2007-07-19 Dominik Hasek — Promoted on 2007-05-25 Good articles Calgary Hitmen Colorado Avalanche National Hockey League Joe Sakic Nottingham Panthers Stanley Cup Traditions and anecdotes associated with the Stanley Cup Ray Emery The French Connection (hockey) Featured lists[5] List of ice hockey teams in Alberta List of ice hockey teams in Saskatchewan Frölunda HC seasons List of Colorado Avalanche players List of family relations in the National Hockey League List of New Jersey Devils players List of New Jersey Devils head coaches List of drafted Frölunda HC players Notes ^ All articles are in order of promotion, as written on the main WikiProject page; FA's have official dates of promotions. ^ A star represents a featured article or list ^ A green circle represents a good article ^ Stanley Cup is an A-Class article ^ The lists system differs from articles, and doesn't give an official date of promotion edit  Article Improvement By Maxim Upon some discussion on the WikiProject talk page, the Article Improvement Drive page was revamped by Krm500 and Maxim. It was renamed Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Article Improvement, and it includes two section. The first section is called articles in dire need of improvement. It list articles, usually important, that are in very poor shape. The second section is called requested help. Users list an article they request help improving a certain article, which will facilitate collaboration, which is the aim of any WikiProject. There is one article currently listed there, Henrik Lundqvist, here. The goal is to at least get it to Good article status. edit  Diacritics By Maxim In the past few weeks, there has been quite heated discussion about the use of diacritics in article name. The current guideline is using diacritics in the pages of articles of all player names which require them, but redirects are exempt. edit  Task forces By Maxim There have been two new task forces started within the WikiProject to coordinate major topics. Sweden Ice Hockey task force This task force was initiated by Krm500. Its current goal is to improve Henrik Lundqvist to Good or Featured article status. It covers all Swedish clubs, leagues and competitions and associated articles, players and coaches that are Swedish, or have played/coached for a Swedish club, and arenas in Sweden. They plan to eventually operate as a sort of a sub-project, which will have its own articles for creation, ranking importance and quality of articles, and co-ordinate article improvement. Its current members are Krm500, Bamsefar75, and CLAES. New Jersey Devils task force This task force was initiated by Bsroiaadn. Its goal is to improve New Jersey Devils to Featured Topic status. Although it currently meets the required article count, the task force wishes to improve it further. Its area of coverage is very similar to the Sweden Ice Hockey task force. Its members are Bsroiaadn, JHMM13, FutureNJGov, Sportskido8, Michael Greiner, JRWalko, and Soxrock. edit  Requested Images By Maxim After discussion on the WikiProject talk page, Serte created a page for Requested Images. The page encourages users to license images for use on articles. The page also has section to request images for players, arenas, game situations, miscellaneous, and team and league logos. The page has been quite popular; since it was created on July 21, there have been six completed requests. There are four currently outstanding requests: Patrik Eliáš — Photo of player, requested by Bsroiaadn Scott Stevens — Photo of player, requested by Bsroiaadn Daniel Alfredsson — Photo of player, requested by Maxim Hart Trophy — Photo of the original Hart Trophy (retired in 1960), requested by Scorpion0422 edit  Article assessement completed By Maxim On July 12, Kaiser matias announced that he had completed assessing all the articles with a {{ice hockey}} tag, sorting them into Category:Unassessed Ice Hockey articles. Kaiser matias has ranked about 9000 articles in that category, and most were stubs, and "have no information at all", according to him. Everybody is encouraged to expand the stubs into real articles. This effort took around 5 months. A big thanks goes to Kaiser matias from me and all the project.

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To Videmus Omnia

I have added information on the page for 180 ZX Spectrum.png as to explain why I believe the image should be used for fair use. Pleased read it and understand my view, please note that I am what you could call a "virgin" on this topic, so any parts that seem "off-colour" to you, I can only apologise.

As crazy as it sounds, making screenshots from various emulators is one of my favourite things to do in life and I have had the pleasure and honour, to share my "hobby" on various websites, such as arcadehistory.com and worldofspectrum.com, and I felt that Wikipedia would be a new chapter. However, there seems to be a problem with that and for that, I can only apologise.

I have been aware that all images needed to contain a "fair-use rationale", however I decide to copy (yes I'm a copycat) other examples of video game screenshots and followed that lead, (if you can't beat 'em, JOIN 'EM) in which most of them, contained what you saw on 180. Another reason was pure and simple, I thought "what the heck do I type", so I ultimatley decided to "leave it and hope for the best", in which now for the third time my ass has been bitten for this very same reason. (Oh oh, three strikes and you out right??)

You know I've typed this before but I can only offer you my fullest apologises (well I am a softy after all) and hope you can understand my view of this situation. However, understanding you are American, sometimes reading British English isn't always a piece of cake so I hope you understand everything.

I look forward to your response. That is all for now. Raphie 02:15, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I just saw your reply - I appreciate your contributions, and it looks like the images can be easily justified. To avoid further messages, I would look back through your upload log and make sure the images you have made and contributed have a rationale. You should be able to use a very similar rationale for nearly all video game screenshots. Thanks again, and best wishes. Videmus Omnia ^Talk 02:19, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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edit  WikiProject Ice Hockey Newsletter Dear Raphie! You are receiving as you are a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey There's been more new thing going on at WP:HOCKEY, and I think this will help you to stay informed. Since the last newsletter sent out in August, there's been great changes. Read on to find out! Maxim(talk) This just in: Maurice 'Rocket' Richard Trophy has just been promoted to featured list status, while the bot was delivering the newsletter. Maxim(talk) 02:02, 28 September 2007 (UTC)[reply] And I've just promoted Art Ross Trophy. And Clarence S. Campbell Bowl is at FLC. This should be the last update. Maxim(talk) 00:40, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply] edit  New recognized content By Maxim Especially due to the featured topic drive, there have been many new featured lists promoted concerning NHL awards. Here's the full list of all the 13 FL's promoted since the last newsletter.[1][2] Hart Memorial Trophy James Norris Memorial Trophy Vezina Trophy Conn Smythe Trophy Frank J. Selke Trophy Lady Byng Memorial Trophy Lester B. Pearson Award Calder Memorial Trophy Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy King Clancy Memorial Trophy Jack Adams Award Presidents' Trophy List of Calgary Flames players There have been no new good articles or featured articles. Maurice 'Rocket' Richard Trophy has been given A-Class status due to multiple issues raised at FLC. ^ The last one, List of Calgary Flames players, is the only one not associated with the featured topic drive. ^ At the time of publishing, there were 5 lists at WP:FLC and 2 lists in the "Holding cell", as there's been an accepted guideline to not put more that 5 trophy lists at the same time to, "compensate for the sanity of the reviewers". edit  Did You Know? By Maxim There have been 4 new articles featured in the Did You Know section? on the Main Page since August. Wally Tatomir - August 4, 2007, authored by User:Maxim. ...that Wally Tatomir, head equipment manager of the Carolina Hurricanes, holds four patents on ice hockey-related equipment? Mark Major - August 12, 2007, authored by User:Schmackity ...that ice hockey player Mark Major attained 355 penalty minutes during the 1997-98 AHL season for the Portland Pirates, where he averaged 4.5 penalty minutes a game and still holds the club record? Garth Butcher - September 15, 2007, authored by User:Canuckle. ...that Garth Butcher was a member of Canada's first-ever gold medal team at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships before becoming a pest and setting team records for penalty minutes in the National Hockey League? AMP NHL Winter Classic - September 22, 2007, authored by User:Skudrafan1 ..that the AMP NHL Winter Classic is scheduled to be the first regular-season outdoor National Hockey League game in the United States? edit  Featured Topic Drive By Maxim Started by User:Scorpion0422, the aim of this drive is to make NHL awards a featured topic. A featured topic is basically a set of very high quality articles (good articles and featured articles/lists). In this case, the topic is NHL awards. Many users have helped, including Scorpion0422, Resolute, Serte, Hasek is the best, Maxim, Croat Canuck, Spike Wilbury, FutureNJGov, and T Rex/Dinosaur puppy. The progress has been very good; there are 12 featured lists promoted, and 2 good articles: Hart Memorial Trophy (Scorpion) James Norris Memorial Trophy (Scorpion) Vezina Trophy (Scorpion) Conn Smythe Trophy (Serte) Frank J. Selke Trophy (FutureNJGov) Lady Byng Memorial Trophy (Scorpion) Lester B. Pearson Award (Scorpion) Calder Memorial Trophy (Croat Canuck) Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy (Maxim) King Clancy Memorial Trophy (Maxim) Jack Adams Award (Maxim) Presidents' Trophy (Scorpion) Stanley Cup (Earlier collaboration, very many involved) Traditions and anecdotes associated with the Stanley Cup (Maxim) Check the project page if you are interested in helping out. Although it's closer to being done than not, there's still work to be done. The next topic that might be tackled is Stanley Cup, but this remains purely speculative and in discussion.

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Hi there. I see you moved my addition of Bugaboo (The Flea) on the List of ZX Spectrum games article. Can I ask what your reasoning was? I placed it below Bear Bovver which was also a 1983 game. I'm not saying you're wrong - I'm sure I was - but I'm intrigued about how the entries should be ordered on the page. -- JediLofty ^{User ¦ Talk} 13:28, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah. Okay, that makes sense. I'm currently (when I find time) working through all the games that were awarded a CRASH Smash, ensuring they have proper articles. I'll try to add in those that aren't already listed in the manner you've described when I come to them! -- JediLofty ^{User ¦ Talk} 13:56, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary. Thank you. Peanut4 (talk) 00:19, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've added the citation you provided. You might want to have a look at WP:CITE and WP:CITET for future reference. Cheers, -- JediLofty ^User_Talk 12:51, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Try to provide reliable source in the article Tim Conboy for the information you added. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 15:52, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, ok, if the information is included in hockeydb.com, then it will be ok. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 16:57, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

These might be useful as Reliable Sources.... CBS Sports, University Chronicle, Sportsnet Canada, Legends of Hockey, Albany Riverrats, Drop Your Gloves, and College Hockey News. Good luck. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 08:15, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. The sources I found speak toward other aspects of Tom Conboy's career just in case you wish to expand the article. Have fun! Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 17:39, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Re your discussion with User:Fram, your edits about Green's drugs test would be better sourced from newspapers; check Google News, where you'll find plenty. Sources like BBC News or the International Herald Tribune will be viewed as more reliable than the website of a company that sells darts. Gordonofcartoon (talk) 05:12, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I was going to delete it myself, but I didn't have a chance after the darts last night. Regards. Cs-wolves (talk) 14:03, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work fixing up the Jacko Barry article! I removed the tag requesting cleanup. I didn't add the tag requesting "improvements by adding citations", but given that you've removed most of the questionable material, probably no one would complain if you removed that one, too. Regards, Piano non troppo (talk) 03:20, 18 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I can stick a G7 candidate for speedy deletion on it, at the request of the author, which was you yes? That way it focuses on a single area for deletion. Regards. Cs-wolves(talk) 16:35, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is it the McCartney one you want it on, or the McCarthy one? Sorry, I'm a bit slow today – my mind is still frazzled after an exam at university today. Cs-wolves(talk) 16:46, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's alright, not a bad time at all. I stuck a redirect on it, if that's alright with you. Cs-wolves(talk) 16:57, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Heya, just a quick thanks for your work on List of ZX Spectrum games. Marasmusine (talk) 13:20, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

		The VG Barnstar
		This is a collective barnstar to everyone (Frodet, Miremare, JediLofy, Raphie and myself) who helped fill out the sortable List of ZX Spectrum games. It took over a year, on and off, but it's more or less done! Thanks Marasmusine (talk) 00:10, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. I'm currently rewriting the article on the hockey team the Blackburn Hawks. I have no experience writing Wikipedia articles, so would really appreciate any help you could offer! Being a small, local team, there isn't a big fanbase to help with the writing, and it seems like I'm doing it on my own... Let me know if you could take a quick look and offer any pointers. AltitudeJunkie (talk) 20:15, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I've got your compliments on my contribution to the Paco Menendez article. I came here to reply something like "you're welcome" but I stumbled upon your user boxes :-). How come a 25 year-old get to know Paco? I was there when La Abadia Del Crimen was the best game around, playing it on my MSX 1.0 machine (a Hot Bit from the Brazilian company Sharp)... But you were not even in your teens!!! Its nice that the new generation get to know and pay respect to those great programmers like Paco that did the impossible by using more creativity than resources to build great games!!! Of course, some people from that time are still creating AMAZING games, and the one I pay the utmost respect is Hideo Kojima... I still remember the first time I played Metal Gear on the MSX.... Loudenvier (talk) 16:49, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Welcome to the project! Well I hope you stay active all year long. In the off season we try to improve our articles and achieve Good Article class or higher, so we need all of the help we can get. Check in every so often to view our article alerts (scroll down), to see if anything major is going on, and the monthly newsletter will also help you stay involved by highlighting both Eurovision and project related news. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 15:31, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Project Talk Page The WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter Issue X - May 2009 Project News "Article Alerts" are available on our Eurovision project page and show which project related articles are tagged for things such as deletion, GA review, peer review, etc. Take a look and do what you can to help out. Thanks to Afkatk's recent tagging and assessing spree, there are now over 2,700 articles associated with the project and all are assessed. If you happen to see a Eurovision related article without the {{EurovisionNotice}} template on the article's talk page, please add it. You can also read Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment if you would like to help reassess articles in our project if you see that they have outgrown their current assessment. Eurovision News The Eurovision Song Contest 2009 was successfully held in Moscow, Russia this month. Two semi final shows preceded the final again this year. The first semi final was won by Iceland, while the second was won by Norway. Alexander Rybak won the Contest for Norway with the song "Fairytale" by a record breaking total of 387 points. Following Norway's win, the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 will be held in Oslo and take place between May 25 and 29, 2010. F. Y. R. Macedonia is threatening to withdraw from the 2010 Contest with the reasoning that it has come tenth twice in successive years in the semi final stage, but has failed to proceed to the final in both instances. More than a dozen countries have already confirmed their participation for the 2010 Contest. The countries confirmed so far can be seen here. Wikinews wrapped up its pre-Eurovision "special" with an interview set with eight past contestants. Jessica Garlick, Ani Lorak, Marie N, Niels Olsen, Hanna Pakarinen, Charlotte Perrelli, Sirusho and Tajci all participated. The Wikipedia Signpost covered the interviews in its May 25 issue. The interviews were translated into nine languages (Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian), marking the largest translation effort Wikinews has undertaken. TROS will be the new broadcaster for the Netherlands as NOS has withdrawn. Do you have news for the next issue? Submit it here! Page Milestones Eurovision Song Contest 2009 appeared on the Main Page's "In the News" section on May 16. Eurovision Song Contest appeared on the Main Page's "On this Day" section on May 24, marking the day of the first contest in 1956. Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, Junior Eurovision Song Contest, and David D'Or have been nominated as Good Articles and are awaiting reviews. From the Members Welcome to the tenth edition of the WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter! This month was a very busy month in terms of editing and adding to Eurovision 2009 articles. The 2009 contest is now over but there is still much work to be done. Some Country in ESC 2009 pages are yet to have their "At Eurovision" sections updated. Some countries need more information than others, e.g. Slovenia's article needs to mention that the song was actually sung in Slovenian and English, and not just English like in the official mp3, etc. Work has begun on the 2010 contest article already. Please do not add sections to the article about confirmed participants or withdrawn participants unless you have a source! That's all from me this month! Happy editing, Nathan | talk 16:03, 27 May 2009 (UTC).[reply] Member News The project currently has 70 members. Want to invite new members? Place our invitation template on the talk page of anyone you would like to invite to our project. New Members We would like to welcome the new members who joined in May. (by date joined) Raphie (talk · contribs) Bohemian Arcade (talk · contribs) Welshleprechaun (talk · contribs) YeshuaDavid (talk · contribs) Garden (talk · contribs)

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Hear, hear. Thank you for deleting that unsourced piece about Alexander Rybak unable to play the violin. I should tell you that it kind of freaked me out a little bit reading it. It looks convincing though. I can't play the violin so I don't know what was going on there. Cheerio Armabeedon (talk) 11:34, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well when I read it the first thing I notice was that there were no references, such a claim requires a reference. I went to Google News, Yahoo! News, Sky News, BBC News and found nothing so I took it as vandalism so I removed it. Haven't check the page today (in fact I've just logged in for the first time today now) so I won't surprise me if it's back in already. Raphie (talk) 15:10, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A second RfC has been started on sourcing for Eurovision articles, you can view it at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Eurovision#RfC on reliable sources for Eurovision articles. This RfC is critical as it will help determine how current and future Eurovision articles are sourced, and as much participation as possible is needed for a consensus to develop. You are being notified as you are listed as an active user of Wikipedia:WikiProject Eurovision, and hence the results of this RfC could have a large impact on the articles you edit. Camaron · Christopher · talk 09:20, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Project Talk Page The WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter Issue XI - June 2009 Project News There are now over 2,800 articles associated with the project (100 more than last month) and all are assessed. If you happen to see a Eurovision related article without the {{EurovisionNotice}} template on the article's talk page, please add it. You can also read Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment if you would like to help reassess articles in our project if you see that they have outgrown their current assessment. Following recent disputes relating to sourcing in Eurovision articles, an RfC has been opened on the issue at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Eurovision#RfC on reliable sources for Eurovision articles. The dispute particularly focuses on use of ESCToday and Oikotimes as sources in articles. The RfC is suffering from lack of participation; all project members are encouraged to state their opinion. Project members are reminded that text and images in articles must follow Wikipedia's copyright policies. Text must not be copied out or copied and pasted into articles from websites whose material is not under a Wikipedia compatible free license. Fully copyrighted text includes that from the EBU (Eurovision.tv), ESCToday, and Okiotimes. Images must also not be uploaded onto Wikimedia Commons for use in Eurovision articles unless they are under a free license, this does not include most images on the internet or TV screen shots even if they were taken by the uploader. Copyrighted images may be uploaded onto the English Wikipedia (not Commons) for use in Eurovision articles if a valid claim of fair use can be made, note that the criteria are strict. Eurovision News Russia and Ukraine selected their entries to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009, which will be held on 21 November in Kiev. Russia will be represented by 11-year-old Ekaterina Ryabova with the song "Malenkiy prints", while host country Ukraine will be represented by Andranik Alexanyan, also 11 years old, with "Tri topoli, tri surmy". Over fifteen countries have confirmed their participation in Eurovision Song Contest 2010. See Eurovision Song Contest 2010#Confirmed participants for the full list. Do you have news for the next issue? Submit it here! Page Milestones Junior Eurovision Song Contest became a Good Article (GA). Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 and Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 were declined GA status on the grounds of sourcing issues. David D'Or was also declined GA status but was granted B-class status, it was previously C-class. Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 has been demoted to C-class following a good article reassessment. There was opposition to the proposed demotion, but the decision has not as of yet been directly challenged. From the Members Welcome to the eleventh edition of the WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter! Things are beginning to quiet down now that the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest is behind us, which is the project's busiest time of year. A few of us however still had to slow down during this period, including myself, as May and June also happens to be exam season in multiple parts of the world. There is much still to be done in any case with preparations for the 2010 Song Contest now well under way, and the host city, Oslo, now confirmed. There are several items that this project needs to debate including choices of sourcing and what contests come under the banner of this project. The first of these items is already being addressed at a new RfC (see left). Further ideas that could be developed include creation of some article guidelines for Eurovision articles. This could start as an advisory essay and then later, if consensus permits, become an official Wikipedia guideline. Examples of these already in existence include Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools/Article guidelines and Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Article guidelines. Happy editing, Camaron · Christopher · talk Member News The project currently has 71 members. Want to invite new members? Place our invitation template on the talk page of anyone you would like to invite to our project. New Members We would like to welcome the new member who joined in June. (by date joined) AlexandrDmitri (talk · contribs)

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The second RfC on sourcing for Eurovision articles has now being running for several weeks, you can view it at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Eurovision#RfC on reliable sources for Eurovision articles. In order to help gauge the spread of opinion and draw conclusions from this discussion a straw poll has been started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Eurovision#Straw poll. All project members are encouraged to read the RfC thoroughly and then cast their votes as they see fit. Rationales are still encouraged in the main discussion area above the poll, and participants can add appropriate new sources or options to the poll as they wish. Camaron · Christopher · talk 19:08, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Project Talk Page The WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter Issue XII - July 2009 Project News The RfC on article sourcing was closed by Moonriddengirl (talk · contribs) as an uninvolved editor. The decisions were for each source: ESCToday: Reliable ESCKaz: Semi-reliable ESCTime: Not reliable Oikotimes: No consensus More details on the decision as well as the full RfC can be found on the project talk page. The decisions made in the RfC will likely impact on future drafts of the article guidelines. Please note that further use of Oikotimes and ESCTime is discouraged and existing uses should be replaced with reliable sources. If no other source exists for the information, leave the current source for the time being. Due to a new naming convention relating to the use of the term "FYR Macedonia", the Republic of Macedonia should be referred to as "Macedonia" in Eurovision articles. Mention of the country's participation in the Contest under the name "FYR Macedonia" should be written in the lead of articles such as Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest, though it is not necessary to express this fact in the general Contest articles. Project News Luara Hayrapetyan will represent Armenia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song "Barcelona" following her win at the 11 July national final. Belarusian broadcaster ONT will be in charge of the country's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, taking over the task from BTRC. Two months after the 2009 Contest ended, the EBU revealed the full jury and televoting results for each country on its website. The results showed that Norway was the winner of both the jury and the televoting, while many placings would have changed had no jury voting taken place. Georgia announced its return to the Contest, while the Czech Republic will withdraw from the 2010 Contest. STV announced plans for Slovakia's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, with songs submitted for the national final now allowed to include choruses in English. Do you have news for the next issue? Submit it here! Page Milestones A fact from Melodifestivalen 2009 was featured in the did you know section of the Main Page. Eurovision Song Contest is in the middle of a featured article review in an attempt for it to retain its featured article status. Norway and Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 have been renominated as Good Articles and are awaiting reviews. From the Members Welcome to the twelfth edition of the WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter! It has been a very slow couple of months in terms of Eurovision news since the passing of the 2009 Contest, however, it has been a very busy time for guidelines and policies affecting our project. Landmark decisions have been made regarding our use of sources and even how we are to refer to Macedonia. In addition, several of our Good Articles have been delisted as part of a task force charged with maintaining the quality of Wikipedia's Good Articles. With there being less information to add and therefore less to do for some, we need to focus on the upkeep and quality of our project's articles and getting those inactive members active once again. We can do this by making sure all new guidelines and naming policies are adhered to and by working to move articles up the quality scale. We are a WikiProject and we all work towards a similar goal. Introduce yourself to your fellow members and get active! Happy editing, Grk1011/Stephen (talk). Member News The project currently has 75 members. Want to invite new members? Place our invitation template on the talk page of anyone you would like to invite to our project. New Members We would like to welcome the new member who joined in July. (by date joined) Das Ansehnlisch (talk · contribs) Jackie-thai (talk · contribs) Baller449 (talk · contribs) Rak-Tai (talk · contribs)

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Project Talk Page The WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter Issue XIII - August 2009 Project News There has been some discussion on if a monthly newsletter is viable. The current result is not clear, though it appears for the time being months will simply be skipped as necessary when project activity is low. There has been a heated debate on how to deal with criticism and controversy in Eurovision Song Contest article, with a proposal made to re-organise articles to avoid dedicated "controversy" and "criticism" sections in order to have maximum neutral point of view policy compliance. As a result of continued coverage on Azerbaijan-Armenia relations and its impact on the Eurovision Song Contest a new dedicated article on the issue has been created at Armenia–Azerbaijan relations in the Eurovision Song Contest. Discussion about the article name occurred at Talk:Eurovision Song Contest 2010#Suggestion on azerbaijan-armenia conflict. Eurovision News 23 countries have confirmed their participation in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest. This includes the confirmed return of Georgia, and the confirmed withdrawal of the Czech Republic. The RTL Group has declared that they are seriously considering a return of Luxembourg to the Eurovision Song Contest for 2010. Azerbaijan's participation in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest has been put in doubt following controversial actions which are believed to have occurred after the 2009 Contest. Azerbaijan has denied that any questioning of individuals over voting in the contest has occurred. A return of the orchestra has been proposed for the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest with Jan Fredrik Heyerdahl of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra declaring interest in participating. Do you have news for the next issue? Submit it here! Page Milestones Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 has been declined GA status due to sourcing, with the issue of reliable sourcing being brought up once again in the discussion. Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 has been nominated for GA status but is on hold with many improvements still required for GA status. Eurovision Song Contest has been demoted to B-class from FA due to various issues highlighted in a long discussion. From the Members Welcome to the thirteenth edition of the WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter! August 2009 will not be remembered as a good month for WikiProject Eurovision. The number of this newsletter might have something to do with it, other possible explanations include circumstances, time of year, and even just coincidence. In any case we have had no new members and no further GA or FA article promotions. The demotion of Eurovision Song Contest, probably the most important article on the project, was a historic blow. Reasons for this and other demotions in recent months include an inflation of article standards, article deterioration through inappropriate edits, and possibly inappropriate promotions in some cases. We should remember however that despite these demotions we still have 2 FAs, 9 GAs, and 41 B-class articles, as well as 2 Featured Lists. This is a big achievement for a project with only 75 members, a small amount compared to other projects. To compare WikiProject Schools has 292 members with no newsletter, and WikiProject Video games has a massive 1,298 members with only a quarterly newsletter. This project will likely be disadvantaged for a long time to come with limited membership and fluctuating activity during the year, but it will grow out of this blip. Happy editing, Camaron · Christopher · talk Member News The project currently has 75 members. Want to invite new members? Place our invitation template on the talk page of anyone you would like to invite to our project. No new members joined the project in the month of August.

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Please try not to remove the defenceman redirect. It is likely in the future that we will be moving it back to the (ice hockey) dab. So if you remove those redirects on articles it will make more work when we transition back. -DJSasso (talk) 17:25, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, in general its a good idea not to remove redirects unless they are broken. There is a topic about it somewhere. I think its at WP:NOTBROKEN. -DJSasso (talk) 17:35, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't change defence to defense unless the article is American. Defence = Canadian, Defense = American. RandySavageFTW (talk) 19:59, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't really care about fixing redirects, I just reverted your editions to American players to get it back to the standard American spelling. It is not a big deal. RandySavageFTW (talk) 20:03, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your recent changes!!

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Project Talk Page The WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter Issue XIV - September and October 2009 Project News This is the first edition of the WikiProject Eurovision newsletter in a bimonthly format. Following a discussion on the project talk page this may now become the regular format for the newsletter during the months that the project is less active. Eurovision articles are being repeatedly targeted by sock puppets of banned user Xtinadbest (talk · contribs), who is not allowed to edit Wikipedia. The most effective way of tackling this disruption is to have all regular Eurovision article editors looking out for sock puppets. Editors should report any suspected sock puppets sighted to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations, more history can be found at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Xtinadbest/Archive. A proposal was made to change Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) to discourage the use of numeric dates, primarily YYYY-MM-DD (e.g. 2009-08-12 for 12 August 2009), in footnotes as at present it is only discouraged in the main article body. The proposal now seems unlikely to pass due to large levels of opposition, though it could have had a large impact on this project as the date format YYYY-MM-DD is frequently used in Eurovision for reference publication and access dates. Further discussion can be found on the project talk page. Eurovision News 31 countries have confirmed their participation in the 2010 Contest. ESCToday has suggested that the Eurovision Song Contest may be entering a crisis due to the possibility of a large drop in the number of participants next year with the ongoing international recession hitting the budgets of many broadcasters in Europe. Luxembourg and Monaco have both ruled out a return to the Eurovision Song Contest for 2010. A decision by San Marino on if to return or not has not yet been made. Hungary declared it is pulling out of the Eurovision Song Contest due to the financial difficulties of the national broadcaster Magyar Televízió (MTV). National selection details for the 2010 Contest are now available for sixteen countries. Despite the contest being over six months away, Bulgaria has already announced that the artist that will represent the country in 2010 will be Miroslav Kostadinov (who is frequently referred to as Miro). It has been announced that the voting system used for the Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals will change in 2010. The previous system was introduced in 2008 along with the first use of two semi-finals; it involved nine out of ten final places per semi-final being determined exclusively by televote, with the tenth place being determined by juries. This will be replaced by a more balanced 50% jury voting, 50% televoting system. The 2009 Junior Eurovision Song Contest is scheduled to occur next month on 21 November. 13 countries are participating in the contest, while three (Bulgaria, Greece, and Lithuania) are withdrawing. Do you have news for the next issue? Submit it here! Page Milestones Blaxy Girls was nominated for deletion and kept. Javine Hylton was also nominated for GA status but was quickly failed due to a large number of concerns. The nominator, Judo112 (talk · contribs), was later found to be a sock puppet of a previously blocked user. Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 was nominated for GA status and was placed on hold for almost a month. The GA nomination has now failed due to some remaining issues. From the Members Welcome to the fourteenth edition of the WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter! There have been quite a few updates to the 2010 Contest article since 1 September. Nine countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Ireland, Macedonia, Malta, Poland, Serbia, and Slovenia) have confirmed their participation, and the article in general has seen many changes. Sadly, whilst some editors have been working hard to provide reliable sources, others have been less thorough and the article has had to be semi-protected again to prevent further disruption. This is a shame, as ideally anyone should be able to edit; however, the talk page is always available to bring new information to light. The participating countries' section has also been updated to allow the inclusion of information about the language, artist and song (with an English translation as appropriate), although to date this is very much a work in progress. As news comes in, we look forward to enriching this section in the coming months—backed-up of course with sources! No new country-specific articles have been written these past two months. If you want to add more detailed information about a country's participation in the 2010 Contest, this is the ideal way to do it, and they are very much appreciated by our readers. Happy editing, Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) (Talk) Member News The project currently has 77 members, with a loss of one member and a gain of three others in September and October. Want to invite new members? Place our invitation template on the talk page of anyone you would like to invite to our project. New Members We would like to welcome the new members who joined in September and October (by date joined): BalticPat22 (talk · contribs) Oskyplop (talk · contribs) Hollac16 (talk · contribs)

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So he was a Welsh wrestler, with a pseduo Spanish stage name, plus a soccer player for Oldham Athletic ! With a first name of Orig ?! I do not doubt any of it, but surely there must be a story behind all of this. Please expand. Regards,

Derek R Bullamore (talk) 02:21, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Project Talk Page The WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter Issue XV - November and December 2009 Project News Happy Christmas and new year from WikiProject Eurovision. This is the second edition of the newsletter to be in a bimonthly format. This will probably continue at least up until the next Eurovision Song Contest when the project is more active. Editors are reminded that some articles covered WikiProject Eurovision are subject to the biographies of living persons policy. This does not just include biography articles such as Alexander Rybak, but any article with material related to living persons. Such information is highly sensitive, and unsourced or poorly sourced material about living persons must be removed immediately. Material which may seen trivial to editors, such as a false claim of participation in a contest, can potentially be highly sensitive to the living persons involved. Eurovision articles on this project have been repeatedly subject to a form of sneaky vandalism. This involves unregistered users adding false information to articles such as Eurovision Song Contest 2010 (while unprotected). These false claims are then made to look legitimate through the use of "fake references" with false titles and links, example. Cuchufleta (talk · contribs) was blocked indefinitely for creating multiple hoax articles with the same editing technique. Editors are advised to look out for further disruption of this kind, as it seems to be originating from a determined individial or an organised group. More information can be found at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Eurovision#User:Cuchufleta. Eurovision News The EBU released their participants list for the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest on 31 December 2009. 39 countries will take part. Five of these qualify directly to the final, with the 34 remaining countries each competing in one of two semi-finals (seventeen per semi-final). Five countries have declared they will be withdrawing from the contest in 2010. The Czech Republic are withdrawing due to three semi-final failures and a lack of interest from Czech viewers. Andorra, Hungary, Lithuania, and Montenegro have all declared they are withdrawing for financial reasons. Georgia is the only country that has declared it will be returning to the contest. No debuts are planned either with Liechtenstein's only broadcaster 1FLTV having ruled out joining the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) for December 2009. This made a debut by the country for the 2010 Contest no longer possible. Despite the 2010 Contest being many months away countries are now actively declaring which artists and songs will be representing them at the contest. A table for this can be found at Eurovision Song Contest 2010#Participants. Nearly all of the declared participants now have dedicated entry articles. The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 was held on 21 November 2009 and was won by Ralf Mackenbach of the Netherlands with the song "Click Clack". Do you have news for the next issue? Submit it here! Page Milestones MelodyVision Song Contest and related articles have been deleted following a discussion at Articles for deletion (AfD). The article on Sakis Rouvas received a peer review which is now archived. The Samantha Womack article was not moved following a discussion. A fact from Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 appeared on the Main Page during 26 December 2009. From the Members Welcome to the fifteenth edition of the WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter! Another decade has past for the Eurovision Song Contest. The naughties will probably be remembered as a decade of both success and controversy for the contest. Televoting reached its peak in the early 2000s. This gave the contest a more democratic edge, but by 2008 it was widely believed to have made Eurovision resemble a political and geographic football match rather than a song contest. The EBU took action in 2009 by reducing televoting to having only a 50% weighting in the results of each contest. Many new countries have joined the contest in the last decade, bringing the number of participants to a new high. Among this some countries withdrew while others returned, though one of the major missing countries, Italy, did not make a return as was hoped by many. There was not a shortage of controversy either. Two participants went to war, and the buzz over the planned participation of Kosovo put Eurovision in the middle of a political storm. One also cannot forget that this decade saw the introduction of two spin-off contests - the Junior Eurovision Song Contest and the Eurovision Dance Contest. It is still not fully clear on how these fit into this project, perhaps we will work that out during the tens. Happy editing in a new year and decade, Camaron · Christopher · talk Member News The project currently has 80 members, with three joining during November and December. Want to invite new members? Place our invitation template on the talk page of anyone you would like to invite to our project. New Members We would like to welcome the new members who joined in November and December (by date joined): Chio21 (talk · contribs) Draggleduck (talk · contribs) Back4goode (talk · contribs)

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The WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter

Project Talk Page The WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter Issue XVI - January and February 2010 Project News The articles by quality table has been changed for all WikiProjects as a result of changes to the WP 1.0 bot. Due to these changes editors are encouraged to add the {{EurovisionNotice}} banner to the talk pages of categories, files, templates, portals, disambiguation pages, as well as articles and project pages. This has the benefit of making the table more complete and covering such pages under article alerts. An FAQ has been created for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 page in an attempt to mitigate repetitive discussions on the talk page about content in the article. This has not been previously done for a Eurovision article, though they are also used in other high profile areas such as Barack Obama and global warming. There has been persistent problems on Anna Vissi related articles with a disruptive IP hopping editor making repeated sweeping and unwanted changes to the articles despite being asked to stop. An account that displayed similar behaviour, JORJKIE.AV (talk · contribs), has now been blocked indefinitely and some pages have had to be semi-protected for long periods. Disruption continues from sock puppets of banned user Xtinadbest (talk · contribs), including on Eurovision related articles. Editors are advised to report suspicious activity from new accounts to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Xtinadbest. Eurovision News On 7 February 2010 a draw was held to decide which semi-final of the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest each country will participate in. The draw also decided, for countries qualified straight to the final, which semi-final they will vote in. Notable confirmed changes to the format of the Eurovision Song Contest this year include that the semi-finals will now be divided into two halves, and that voting will be open throughout each show rather than only after all entries have preformed. Five countries have now confirmed participation in the 2010 Junior Eurovision Song Contest which is scheduled for 20 November 2010. The contest will be held in Minsk, Belarus. It was announced in January 2010 that the Third Eurovision Dance Contest has been postponed a second time. It was originally due to be held in 2009, but was then postponed till 2010, and may now not happen at all, at least within the next two years. The EBU have justified the decision by saying there has been a decline in the popularity of TV dance shows. Do you have news for the next issue? Submit it here! Page Milestones Sandie Shaw was tagged as a possible copyright infringement, but problematic material has now been removed. It's All About You was moved to Nuk mundem pa ty following discussion. António Calvário, Ruslan Alekhno, and Spain in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest were proposed for deletion, however in all cases the proposals were contested. Pfuri Gorps & Kniri was nominated for deletion at articles for deletion (AfD) and deleted. Innocent Heart was nominated for deletion at AfD and was deleted. Due to disruption the page was also protected to prevent re-creation. Users may consult an administrator or make a nomination at deletion review if they wish to make a good faith attempt at re-writing the article. Je ne sais quoi (song) was nominated for deletion at AfD and kept. The participation of WikiProject Eurovision members was commented on during the discussion. From the Members Welcome to the sixteenth edition of the WikiProject Eurovision Newsletter! We're in full swing now! Although the Eurovision Song Contest is around 2 months away, this is probably one of the busiest times of the year for the WikiProject, with a whole load of semi-finals, quarter finals, heats as well as national finals to see who the country chooses to represent them at this years Eurovision Song Contest. We now know which of the 35 countries will vote and perform in which semi-final. With the 'Big Four' and host country, Germany and Spain voting in the first semi-final and France, Norway and the United Kingdom in the second semi-final. With 22 out of the 39 countries decided, we are just about half way through, with a whole lot more to come! So when creating new articles about a performer or song, please remember to add sources either from Eurovision.tv, ESCToday or other reliable sources. Please get involved, and contribute anything to articles whether it's a little spelling mistake or a whole new paragraph, and remember to look at the talk pages and have your say on any discussions that may be present. Keep up the good work! -- [[ axg ◉ talk ]] Member News The project currently has 80 members, with two joining and two leaving in January and February. One user left due to retirement, another due to being blocked indefinitely. Want to invite new members? Place our invitation template on the talk page of anyone you would like to invite to our project. New Members We would like to welcome the new members who joined in January and February (by date joined): HOUZI (talk · contribs) DannyBoy20802 (talk · contribs)

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There is a proposal for a Wikiproject on darts, so why don't you join the proposal or discuss a Wikiproject for darts. Just click here and sign the proposal or discuss it. Mr.Kennedy1 (talk) 17:44, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have created a WikiProject for darts, come along and help, sign up aswell. Need as much help as possible Mr.Kennedy1 (talk) 11:11, 24 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for joining, it would be great if you would inform other users about the project and help out with the project.Mr.Kennedy1 (talk) 15:23, 24 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Add this to your userpage {{User WikiProject Darts}} Mr.Kennedy1 (talk) 16:42, 24 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

He mustn't even be a pro, did you look at the reference, it's from a wiki article, this article must be deleted. Excellent find, keep it up.

PS Put these messages in the talk page of WikiProject Darts, then everyone knows whats going on. Mr.Kennedy1 (talk) 10:22, 26 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]