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Contents 1 Amazing Race Wikipedia Starts! 2 multi-column templates 3 The WPVG Newsletter (Q2 2009) 4 GA Sweeps July update 5 pokerstars 6 Metroid Good Topic

[edit] Amazing Race Wikipedia Starts!

Hello, Shappy. This is a reminder that Amazing Race Wikipedia will start very soon. At 00.00 (or whereabouts), our host Firestorm will place the first Detour on your submissions page. Again, the Detour is a choice between two tasks; both members of the team choose one task and work together to complete it. A Roadblock is a task only one team member must perform; he/she may not have any help from the other team member. Good luck and enjoy the Race! :-) Shappy (talk · contribs) and Firestorm (talk · contribs) --EdwardsBot (talk) 13:33, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Hey Gary, do you know any articles we can expand for DYK? TheLeftorium 15:24, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Nice work, but I don't know if that counts. The submissions page says "5x Expansion DYKs". TheLeftorium 21:23, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Heh, the submissions page is located here. Some of the sections here might make stuff clearer for you. :P TheLeftorium 21:32, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Sure. Do you know any articles we can model the lead on? TheLeftorium 21:43, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi Gary. I'm feeling very stressed right now both on Wikipedia and IRL so I'd like to withdraw from the contest (Sorry!). Is that okay with you? Theleftorium 16:21, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] multi-column templates

Hi Gary,

At User_talk:John_Vandenberg#Template:Divbegin I have been asked about Internet Explorer support for {{divbegin}}. While documenting this at Help:Columns, I noticed that you have created a similar template, {{colbegin}}, differing only in that it defaults to 2 columns. I've been doing a bit of additional research into what options we have, and if possible it would be good if we can find a solution that also works in IE, which neither of our templates do. {{Columns-start}} and {{multicol}} appear to work well in many browsers.

John Vandenberg ^(chat) 07:56, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] The WPVG Newsletter (Q2 2009)

• Newsletter delivery by xenobot 15:22, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] GA Sweeps July update

Thanks to everyone's dedicated efforts to the GA Sweeps process, a total of 290 articles were swept in June! Last month was our second most successful month in reviewing articles (after May). We are currently over 70% done with Sweeps, with just under 800 articles left to review. With nearly 50 members, that averages out to about 15 articles per person. If each member reviews an article every other day this month (or several!), we'll be completely finished. This may sound difficult, but if everyone completes their reviews, Sweeps would be completed in less than two years when we first started (with only four members!). With the conclusion of Sweeps, each editor could spend more time writing GAs, reviewing at the backlogged GAN, or focusing on other GARs. Again, I want to thank you for using your time to ensure the quality of the older GAs. Feel free to recruit other editors who have reviewed GANs in the past and might be interested in the process. The more editors, the less the workload, and hopefully the faster this will be completed. If you have any questions about reviews or the process let me know and I'll be happy to get back to you. Again, thank you for taking the time to help with the process, I appreciate your efforts! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 17:48, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

The video games section of the articles remaining to be swept could use you, if you've got the time :) --Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^(talk) 18:41, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] pokerstars

FYI, I would not consider the bio on PokerStars of Chris to be a reliable source. I put the major poker sites as contigent reliability. They can be reliable, but when they are discussing their "team" then you have to treat it like a SPS. PokerStars wants to hype Chris because Chris is their posterboy. I would trust a bio on Chris more if it was from a rival site ;-)---Balloonman ^{NO! I'm Spartacus!} 22:04, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Metroid Good Topic

You should nominate it, Samus Aran passed a while ago :) Judgesurreal777 (talk) 20:36, 4 July 2009 (UTC)