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The Signpost: 05 December 2011

News and notes: Amsterdam gets the GLAM treatment, fundraising marches on, and a flourish of new admins

In the news: A Wikistream of real time edits, a call for COI reform, and cracks in the ivory tower of knowledge

Discussion report: Trial proposed for tool apprenticeship

WikiProject report: This article is about WikiProject Disambiguation. For other uses...

Featured content: This week's Signpost is for the birds!

Arbitration report: Elections due to finish this week, little activity on Betacommand 3, Abortion case amended

Technology report: Incremental dumps help mirrors, full screen search helps mobile visitors, and two MediaWiki releases help external sites

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EdwardsBot (talk) 19:42, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 12 December 2011

Opinion essay: Wikipedia in Academe – and vice versa

News and notes: Research project banner ads run afoul of community

In the news: Bell Pottinger investigation, Gardner on gender gap, and another plagiarist caught red-handed

WikiProject report: Spanning Nine Time Zones with WikiProject Russia

Featured content: Wehwalt gives his fifty cents; spies, ambushes, sieges, and Entombment

Arbitration report: Betacommand 3 workshop revived, two cases set for acceptance and the ArbCom elections finish on a whimper

Technology report: Trials and tribulations of image rotation, Article Feedback version 5, and new diff colours

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EdwardsBot (talk) 18:51, 13 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Patent Office 1836 fire

having errant marks in the citations. My inspection can't figure it out. Please help. Thanks. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:04, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:44, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 19 December 2011

News and notes: Anti-piracy act has Wikimedians on the defensive, WMF annual report released, and Indic language dynamics

In the news: To save the wiki: strike first, then makeover?

Discussion report: Polls, templates, and other December discussions

WikiProject report: A dalliance with the dismal scientists of WikiProject Economics

Featured content: Panoramas with Farwestern and a good week for featured content

Arbitration report: The community elects eight arbitrators

Technology report: Visual editor demo launched, hailed as "most important change to our user experience ... ever"; but elsewhere over-hasty deployments criticised

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EdwardsBot (talk) 04:58, 21 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Allers

As noted on the change description, there was a split tag requesting the page be split and turned into a disambiguation page and accordingly I split the article in order to reduce some of the backlog. If you think that I should not have done then that is fine, but if that is the case then you should also have deleted the split articles that I created, I would have thought. I do not have a particular axe to grind on this, apart from the fact the article has been tagged for nearly 2 years. Either it needs to be split properly as I did or the tag needs to be removed. Since the artcle is clearly talking about 2 different things then I would have thought 2 different articles would have been appropriate. However whatever happens, it needs to be tidy and not in the mess that things are now in. Before saving the changes, I tested them and ensured that the links work, so I do not see how the sandbox would help me. I have read the welcome page, and see nothing to assist on this one, especially since I read the pages on disambiguation before making the edit. If there is anything else that I should have done then I would like to know. If spending my time improving this encyclopedia is not constructive then I will be happy to find somewhere else to constructively spend my time. Op47 (talk) 17:50, 24 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thankyou for the reply Op47 (talk) 21:30, 24 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement‎

Thanks for unblocking! Belorn (talk) 18:49, 24 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Have a great Christmas

	Christmas pudding is hot stuff!
	Have a wonderful Christmas. As the song says: "I wish you a hopeful Christmas, I wish you a brave new year; All anguish, pain, and sadness Leave your heart and let your road be clear." Pesky (talk …stalk!) 22:28, 24 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]