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Issue Eleven

3rd August 2009

Announcements Adolf Hitler has been promoted to Good Article status. Earth is currently at Proposed Good Articles - your comments are welcomed. Victoria line is currently at Proposed Very Good Articles - your comments are welcomed. Pope John Paul II has been demoted to normal article status. User Articles Pmlinediter - Article 4 In his fourth article, Pmlinediter talks about Oversight, DYK and more Administrator News Commiserations to... Purplebackpack89 whose request for adminship was closed per WP:SNOW. Parker1297 whose request for adminship was closed per WP:SNOW. Bluegoblin7 whose request for adminship was unsuccessful. Congratulations to... Fr33kman whose request for bureaucratship was successful. Djsasso whose request for bureaucratship was successful. Good luck to... Fr33kman who is having a request for checkusership! NonvocalScream who is having a request for checkusership!		Swine Flu update As of Sunday 3th August 2009 188,139 cases of Swine Flu have been confirmed. 1265 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 Barras. Click here for Barras' 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. This time Pmlinediter is selecting the articles. Here is this edition's list: Oxygen Michael Jackson Sport Confucius Food The News in Brief Main Stories: The longest solar eclipse of the 21st century was seen on 22nd July 2009. Sarah Palin resigned as Governor of Alaska on 26th July. The new governor is Sean Parnell. Click here for the Sports stories!

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