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Please comment on Talk:Stephen Bannon

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Please comment on Talk:Logan (film)

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Please comment on Talk:Tinderbox (Siouxsie and the Banshees album)

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Please comment on MediaWiki talk:Sidebar

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Please comment on Talk:Family of Barack Obama

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Please comment on Talk:Scarlett Johansson

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Please comment on Talk:Issues of the Evolution v.s. Creation Debate

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BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected

New Page Reviewers are asked to be especially on the look out 08:00-20:00 UTC (that's local London time - check your USA and AUS times) on Thursday 8 December for new pages. The BBC together with Wikimedia UK is holding a large 12-hour editathon. Many new articles and drafts are expected. See BBC 100 Women 2016: How to join our edit-a-thon. Follow also on #100womenwiki, and please, don't bite the newbies :) (user:Kudpung for NPR. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:55, 7 December 2016 (UTC))

Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News

Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News

Hello everyone, and welcome to the December 2016 GOCE newsletter. We had an October newsletter all set to go, but it looks like we never pushed the button to deliver it, so this one contains a few months of updates. We have been busy and successful!

>>> Sign up for the December Blitz! <<<

Coordinator elections for the first half of 2017: Nominations are open for election of Coordinators for the first half of 2017. Please visit the election page to nominate yourself or another editor, and then return after December 15 to vote. Thanks for participating!

September Drive: The September drive was fruitful. We set out to remove July through October 2015 from our backlog (an ambitious 269 articles), and by the end of the month, we had cut that pile of oldest articles to just 83. We reduced our overall backlog by 97 articles, even with new copyedit tags being added to articles every day. We also handled 75% of the remaining Requests from August 2016. Overall, 19 editors recorded copy edits to 233 articles (over 378,000 words).

October Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 16 through 22 October; the theme was Requests, since the backlog was getting a bit long. Of the 16 editors who signed up, 10 editors completed 29 requests. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part.

November Drive: The November drive was a record-breaker! We set out to remove September through December 2015 from our backlog (239 articles), and by the end of the month, we had cut that pile of old articles to just 66, eliminating the two oldest months! We reduced our overall backlog by 523 articles, to a new record low of 1,414 articles, even with new tags being added to articles every day, which means we removed copy-editing tags from over 800 articles. We also handled all of the remaining Requests from October 2016. Officially, 14 editors recorded copy edits to 200 articles (over 312,000 words), but over 600 articles, usually quick fixes and short articles, were not recorded on the drive page.

Housekeeping note: we do not send a newsletter before every drive or blitz. To have a better chance of knowing when the next event will start, add the GOCE's message box to your Watchlist.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdslk.

>>> Sign up for the December Blitz! <<<

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:30, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Greetings Recent Changes Patrollers!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about technical proposals related to Recent Changes Patrol in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:

  1. Adjust number of entries and days at Last unpatrolled
  2. Editor-focused central editing dashboard
  3. "Hide trusted users" checkbox option on watchlists and related/recent changes (RC) pages
  4. Real-Time Recent Changes App for Android
  5. Shortcut for patrollers to last changes list

Further, there are more than 20 proposals related to Watchlists in general that you may be interested in reviewing. (and over 260 proposals in all, across many aspects of wikis)

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

Note: You received this message because you have transcluded {{User wikipedia/RC Patrol}} (user box) on your user page. Since this message is "one-time-only" there is no opt out for future mailings.

Best regards, Stevietheman — Delivered: 01:10, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Bot policy

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Please comment on Talk:Steve Bannon

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Songs

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Please comment on Talk:Sarah Jane Brown

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New Page Review - newsletter #2

Hello Amortias/Archives/2016,
Please help reduce the New Page backlog

This is our second request. The backlog is still growing. Your help is needed now - just a few minutes each day.

Getting the tools we need

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Sent to all New Page Reviewers. Discuss this newsletter here. If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself from the mailing list MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:54, 11 December 2016 (UTC) .

Please comment on Talk:The Stooges (album)

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Please comment on Talk:Lee Harvey Oswald

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Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)

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The Signpost: 22 December 2016

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Please comment on Category talk:New religious movements

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Please comment on Talk:Frank Gaffney

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Please comment on Talk:Frank Ocean

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Please comment on Talk:The Apprentice (UK series one)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: St Mary's church, Great Blakenham has been accepted

St Mary's church, Great Blakenham, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.

Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!

SwisterTwister talk 22:05, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

It was an accident

I had the window already open. Now it's fixed. Sorry. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:06, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

@Magioladitis:No problem, accidents happen. Just have to make sure that we spot all these issues that go on and make sure they're dealt with. Amortias (T)(C) 23:08, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography

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Please comment on Talk:Organizational behavior

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Telegram

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Please comment on Talk:Generation Snowflake

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Baylor University page

Hello Amortias,

I am not trying to step on your toes and you seem to be a very experienced editor on Wikipedia.

I am not sure why you are so concerned about the changes I made to the Baylor University page. I am very familiar with the history of Baylor and the edits I made are relevant. Ken Starr is no longer the president of Baylor and there is no need to keep his picture on the page. If there were pictures of all past presidents, then that would be fine, but there should not be a picture of one fired employee remaining on the page. The other changes were made, because the content is not part of the historical background of Baylor, which is the section where they are located. They seem to be pieces of information placed there to make an editorial statement. The section I was editing is about the history of Baylor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.77.1.207 (talk) 21:32, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

The image on screen depicts who we have recorded as in that role, if this is no longer the case this can be updated but we would need something verifiable to confirm this, if you can provide a link that shows that the position is either vacant or filled by another individual then you would be able to make this change. You will need to provide a reliable source in your edit summary to show this change is accurate.
With regards to the history section, history is not limited to events 1000's 100's or 10's of years ago, the history of an establishment can in theory be anything up until the present day. The fact that information could show the organisation in a negative light does not affect our criteria for inclusion. If you feel that it would be more appropriate to have this in a separate section then you are welcome to suggest it at the articles talk page and gain consensus for the change you wish to make. As at least one (I believe another editor has also reverted your changes) you would need to follow the guidance at this page with regards to proceeding further. Amortias (T)(C) 21:40, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Lars von Trier

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