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Thanks for helping make Wikipedia better. Enjoy your research! Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 04:42, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am here as you were part of a previously Rfd discussion HERE. Based on the comments on the Rfd, I believe that this article could have been saved if it was cited better and written more in Wikipedia styling and formatting (Wikified article HERE). I have made substantial improvements to the article and reposted it. As you part of the discussion for Rfd (either you nominated or took part in the Rfd discussion), I wanted to personally notify you. While this is not an official Rfc, I would appreciate any feedback that you may have. I have not notified the original creator of the article as it does not look like they have made any contributions on Wikipedia since the article was deleted.

Hey again all :). So, some big news, some small news, some good news, some bad news!

On the "big news" front; we've now deployed AFT5 on to 10 percent of articles, This is pretty awesome :). On the "bad news", however, it looks like we're having to stop at 10 percent until around September - there are scaling issues that make it dangerous to deploy wider. Happily, our awesome features engineering team is looking into them as we speak, and I'm optimistic that the issues will be resolved.

For both "small" and "good" news; we've got another office hours session. This one is tomorrow, at 22:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office ^connect - I appreciate it's a bit late for Europeans, but I wanted to juggle it so US east coasters could attend if they wanted :). Hope to see you all there!

We're approaching the beginning of 2012's final round. Pool A sees Cwmhiraeth (submissions) as the leader, with 300 points being awarded for the featured article Bivalvia, and Pool B sees Grapple X (submissions) in the lead, with 10 good articles, and over 35 articles eligible for good topic points. Pool A sees Muboshgu (submissions) in second place with a number of articles relating to baseball, while Pool B's Ruby2010 (submissions) follows Grapple X, with a variety of contributions including the high-scoring, high-importance featured article on the 2010 film Pride & Prejudice. Ruby2010, like Grapple X, also claimed a number of good topic points; despite this, not a single point has been claimed for featured topics in the contest so far. The same is true for featured portals.

Currently, the eighth-place competitor (and so the lowest scorer who would reach the final round right now) has scored 332, more than double the 150 needed to reach the final round last year. In 2010, however, 430 was the lowest qualifying score. In this competition, we have generally seen scores closer to those in 2010 than those in 2011. Let's see what kind of benchmark we can set for future competitions! As ever, 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) 22:22, 31 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• File:TVtropolis 2011.png (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Would you please restore this file and add the {{KeepLocal}} tag to it? Thanks. Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 23:39, 2 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

 Done — foxj 09:53, 3 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Welcome to the fifth edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!

• Guest activity increased in July. Questions are up from an average of 36 per week in June to 43 per week in July, and guest profile creation has also increased. This is likely a result of the automatic invite experiments we started near the end of month, which seeks to lessen the burden on hosts and other volunteer who manually invite editors. During the last week of July, questions doubled in the Teahouse! (But don't let that deter you from inviting editors to the Teahouse, please, there are still lots of new editors who haven't found Teahouse yet.)
• More Teahouse hosts than ever. We had 12 new hosts sign up to participate at the Teahouse! We now have 35 hosts volunteering at the Teahouse. Feel free to stop by and see them all here.
• Phase two update: Host sprint. In August, the Teahouse team plans to improve the host experience by developing a simpler new-host creation process, a better way of surfacing active hosts, and a host lounge renovation. Take a look at the plan and weigh in here.
• New Teahouse guest barnstar is awarded to first recipient: Charlie Inks. Using the Teahouse barnstar designed by Heatherawalls, hosts hajatvrc and Ryan Vesey created the new Teahouse Guest Barnstar. The first recipient is Charlie Inks, for her boldness in asking questions at the Teahouse. Check out the award in action here.
• Teahouse was a hot topic at Wikimania! The Teahouse was a hot topic at Wikimania this past month, where editor retention and interface design was heavily discussed. Sarah and Jonathan presented the Teahouse during the Wikimedia Fellowships panel. Slides can be viewed here. A lunch was also held at Wikimania for Teahouse hosts.

As always, thanks for supporting the Teahouse project! Stop by and visit us today!

You are receiving The Tea Leaf after expressing interest or participating in the Teahouse! To remove yourself from receiving future newsletters, please remove your username here. SarahStierch (talk) 08:26, 4 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Foxj, seeing you posted on Kmarinas86's talkpage regarding his block, I thought it would be prudent to let you know about WP:AN#Unblock request from Kmarinas86. Cheers, Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 22:52, 4 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please explain why you basically deleted this article by doing a redirect? --NeilN ^{talk to me} 20:23, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Redirecting an article is not even close to deleting it. Looking over the article, the subject seemed only marginally (if that) notable, and redirecting to the only really notable thing the person has done is perfectly acceptable. Foxj hasn't done anything here other than being bold in dealing with a BLP issue like this. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 20:52, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think you're looking for a response here so I'll reply here. :) This was a rather complex situation; essentially, the subject emailed us about potential BLP violations within the article. Noticing that Bauer doesn't seem to be independently notable outside of MLW, and that the article looked to be a bit of a battleground, it seemed that the ideal solution here would be to redirect it to MLW's article itself, which is much more notable. Of course, this is subject to review, as with any other admin action, but I think I did the right thing here. — foxj 20:58, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The issue I have was the edit summary referred to a OTRS ticket number instead of providing an explanation regular editors could view. I'm certainly not going to revert an OTRS action which I (and most editors I would think) view differently from an admin action. If OTRS says it needs to go, it's gone. Admin redirects, as you say, are treated as regular edits and are subject to WP:BRD. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 02:38, 8 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that was my mistake. Linking exclusively to the OTRS ticket is definitely not the thing to do in situations like this, and I apologise for that. Thanks for understanding though, I appreciate it. — foxj 10:39, 8 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Fox. You have new messages at Wikipedia_talk:Teahouse/Host_lounge.
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SarahStierch (talk) 23:36, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]