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Russell Spanner
Hello. I recently submitted my first entry to Wikipedia. Looks like you rejected it on February 4. I would greatly appreciate any feedback so that I can make improvements and better understand the process for creating accurate submissions. The entry was for "Russell Spanner". J1544k (talk) 21:22, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
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Re: Pokémon Channel
Thanks for the review; I was afraid no one would get to it for months. For each of your concerns, I've either fixed the text accordingly or explain why I don't think it needs to be. Tezero (talk) 00:55, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I think I'm done now. Tezero (talk) 04:37, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 February 2014

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VisualEditor Newsletter—February 2014
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked on some small changes to the user interface, such as moving the reference item to the top of the Insert menu, as well as some minor features and fixing bugs, especially for rich copying and pasting of references.

The biggest change was the addition of more features to the image dialog, including the ability to set alignment (left, right, center), framing options (thumbnail, frame, frameless, and none), adding alt text, and defining the size manually. There is still some work to be done here, including a quick way to set the default size.


 * The main priority is redesigning the reference dialog, with the goal of providing autofill features for ISBNs and URLs and streamlining the process. Current concept drawings are available at VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog. Please share your ideas about making referencing quick and easy with the designers.
 * A few bugs in the existing reference dialog were fixed. The toolbar was simplified to remove galleries and lists from the reference dialog.  When you re-use references, it now correctly displays the references again, rather than just the number and name.  If you paste content into a dialog that can't fit there (e.g.   in references), it now strips out the inappropriate HTML.
 * You can now edit image galleries inside VisualEditor. At this time, the gallery tool is a very limited option that gives you access to the wikitext.  It will see significant improvements at a later date.
 * The character inserter tool in the "Insert" menu is being redesigned. Your feedback on the special character inserter is still wanted, especially if you depend on Wikipedia's character inserters for your normal editing rather than using the ones built into your computer.
 * You can now see a help page about keyboard shortcuts in the page menu (three bars next to the Cancel button).
 * If you edit categories, your changes will now display correctly after saving the page.
 * Saving the page should be faster now.
 * Any community can ask to test a new tool to edit TemplateData by leaving a note at.

Looking ahead: The link tool will tell you when you're linking to a disambiguation or redirect page. The warning about wikitext will hide itself after you remove the wikitext markup in that paragraph. Support for creating and editing redirects is in the pipeline. Looking further out, image handling will be improved, including default and upright sizes. The developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments, some behavioral magic words like DISPLAYTITLE, and in-line language setting.

If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at VisualEditor/Feedback. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 04:20, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 February 2014

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Villanelle
Hi Buffbills7701, just letting you know that I've responded to all of the points you raise in your GA review. Thanks, MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk) 19:28, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Articles for creation March 2014 Backlog Elimination Drive
 Hello Buffbills7701:

WikiProject AFC is holding a  month long Backlog Elimination Drive!

The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from March 1, 2014 to March 31, 2014.

Awards will be given out for all reviewers participating in the drive in the form of barnstars at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over articles, so start reviewing articles! Visit the drive's page and help out!

A new version of our AfC helper script has been released! It includes many bug fixes, new improvements and features, code enhancements, and more. If you want to see a full list of changes, visit the changelog. Please report bugs and feature requests there, too! Thanks. Posted by on 02:12, 28 February 2014 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk), on behalf of WikiProject Articles for creation

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WikiCup 2014 February newsletter
And so ends the most competitive first round we have ever seen, with 38 points required to qualify for round 2. Last year, 19 points secured a place; before that, 11 (2012) or 8 (2011) were enough. This is both a blessing and a curse. While it shows the vigourous good health of the competition, it also means that we have already lost many worthy competitors. Our top three scorers were:


 * , a WikiCup newcomer whose high-quality scans of rare banknotes represent an unusual, interesting and valuable contribution to Wikipedia. Most of Godot's points this round have come from a large set of pictures used in Treasury Note (1890–91).
 * , a WikiCup veteran and a finalist last year, Adam is also a featured picture specialist, focusing on the restoration of historical images. This month's promotions have included a carefully restored set of artist William Russell Flint's work.
 * , another WikiCup newcomer. WikiRedactor has claimed points for good article reviews and good articles relating to pop music, many of which were awarded bonus points. Articles include Sky Ferreira, Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus and "Wrecking Ball" (Miley Cyrus song).

Other competitors of note include:


 * , who helped take Thirty Flights of Loving through good article candidates and featured article candidates, claiming the first first featured article of the competition.
 * , who claimed the first featured list of the competition with Natalia Kills discography.
 * , who takes the title of the contributor awarded the highest bonus point multiplier (resulting in the highest scoring article) of the competition so far. Her high-importance salamander, now a good article, scored 108 points.

After such a competitive first round, expect the second round to also be fiercely fought. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2, but please do not update your submission page until March (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 00:01, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Upcoming signpost wikiproject interview
I just realized that you have completed an interview with wp:ARS, which is one of the most important wikiprojects on Wikipedia in my humble opinion. Is it too late to add questions to this interview to liven it up a bit? For example:
 * What type of articles are more likely to be nominated for deletion?
 * Have you ever noticed articles nominated for deletion as a form of censorhip?
 * Where can interested editors find statistics about the number of articles nominated for deletion/% deleted/% kept etc over the years?
 * Does the project collaborate with other related projects, such as wp:editor retention?
 * Why was this project itself  a candidate for deletion?
 * Have you ever considered expanding to save other wiki-content such as templates, categories, etc?  XOttawahitech (talk)
 * Sorry, but it's too late to add questions. Thank you, however, as those questions are really good. buffbills7701 02:07, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Just wondering if user:Mabeenot and user:The ed17 also think it is too late? Thanks, XOttawahitech (talk) 15:33, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I'd leave it up to the writer of the report to determine whether it's too late to add more. Ultimately, it's a question of whether you can get the respondents to return and answer more questions with such a short notice (and whether they're willing to do it). The other option is pushing this report back a week and running next week's report in it's place. –Mabeenot (talk) 16:52, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I was thinking about holding it back a week, but then I remembered about getting the answerers back. It honestly just would take too much unnecessary work. buffbills7701 22:15, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
 * You two are the ones writing it, so I'll leave the decision to you. While adding insightful questions adds interest, I'm not the one who has to do the work to transcribe it all. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 15:24, 4 March 2014 (UTC)