Wikipedia:Simple News/20-07-09

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Issue Ten

20th July 2009

Announcements

Ludwig van Beethoven has been promoted to Good Article status.
The Simple English Wikipedia now has 54,000 articles, with the creation of Cross-City Line by Pmlinediter.
Wernher von Braun has been promoted to Good Article status.
Adolf Hitler, Italy and British Rail Class 117 are currently at Proposed Good Articles - your comments are welcomed.
Jupiter and Victoria line are currently at Proposed Very Good Articles - your comments are welcomed.
Pope John Paul II is up for demotion from Very Good Article status - your comments are welcomed.

User Articles

Pmlinediter - Article 3

Did you know and Stubs are the topic of Pmlinediter's third Simple News article.

Shappy - Article 4

In his fourth article, Shappy talks about Oversight at the Simple English Wikipedia.

Yotcmdr - Article 10

Yotcmdr's tenth Simple News article focusses on Stubs, Simple News and Good Articles.

Administrator News

NonvocalScream had a request for deadminshp, but it was closed per WP:SNOW.
Good luck to Fr33kman who is having a request for bureaucratship!
Good luck to Bluegoblin7 who is having a request for adminship!

Swine Flu update

As of Sunday 19th July 2009 137,258 cases of Swine Flu have been confirmed. 779 people have now died from it.

QandA

The QandA. Every month, a user will be interviewed by a member of the Simple News team. This idea was started by Kennedy. Interviews are generally taking by a member of the Simple News Team - to date this has included Bluegoblin7, Kennedy, Pmlinediter, Shappy and Yotcmdr.

This weeks interview is with Chenzw.

Click here for Chenzw's interview!

The Commander's Choice

The Commanders's Choice. For every edition, Yotcmdr will be chosing articles that need creating, expanding or being attended to. Here is this edition's list:

The News in Brief

Main Stories:

Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins think that the USA should concentrate on going to Mars instead of the Moon.
The US Army is going to increase its size by 22,000 soldiers for the next three years.

Click here to see the Sport stories

Song of the Fortnight

This week's song is Teenage Kicks (by The Undertones). There are 3 versions: One with Yot singing, the second with BG singing and the third with both singing. Drums by BG, Guitar and Bass by Yot. The Holiday cover which was deleted can now be found here.

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