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Books and Bytes - Issue 19
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 19, September–October 2016 by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti  Read the full newsletter 19:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
 * New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
 * New Library Card Platform and Conference news
 * Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links

WikiCup 2016 November newsletter: Final results
The final round of the 2016 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2016 WikiCup top three finalists:
 * First Place -
 * Second Place -
 * Third Place -

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:
 * Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a three-way tie with themselves for two FAs in each of R2, R3, and R5).
 * Good Article – MPJ-DK had 14 GAs promoted in R3.
 * Featured List – produced 2 FLs in R2
 * Featured Pictures – Adam Cuerden restored 18 images to FP status in R4.
 * Featured Portal – produced the only FPO of the Cup in R2.
 * Featured Topic – and Calvin were each responsible for one FT in R3 and R2, respectively.
 * Good Topic – MPJ-DK created a GT with 9 GAs in R5.
 * Did You Know – MPJ-DK put 53 DYKs on the main page in R4.
 * In The News – and, each with 5 ITN, both in R4.
 * Good Article Review – MPJ-DK completed 61 GARs in R2.

Over the course of the 2016 WikiCup the following content was added to Wikipedia (only reporting on fixed value categories): 17 Featured Articles, 183 Good Articles, 8 Featured Lists, 87 Featured Pictures, 40 In The News, and 321 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:53, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

We will open up a discussion for comments on process and scoring in a few days. The 2017 WikiCup is just around the corner! Many thanks from all the judges. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. ,, and

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The Signpost: 4 November 2016
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The Bugle: Issue CXXVII, November 2016
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Wikidata weekly summary #234
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 

Thanks to everyone who celebrated the birthday by organizing or attending to an event, letting a message on Wikidata or on the social networks, writing a story or creating a present!
 * Fourth birthday: thank you!

Here's the list of the birthday presents from the community and development team:
 * d:Template:User Wikidata birthday 2016 (Pigsonthewing)
 * A new version of the map showing all the Wikidata items with geolocalisation (Addshore)
 * Wikidata's 4th birthday logo (Incabell)
 * A new release of the Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on has made working with Wikidata a lot easier for Google Sheets users. (Tomayac)
 * A guide to SPARQL and the Wikidata Query Service (TweetsFactsAndQueries)
 * Four new types of charts for the Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart! Read more and try examples in the documentation (Jonas)
 * , a new parser function is currently in development with better features: try it here! (Thiemo, Wikidata dev team and volunteers)
 * Search field added in Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles (fnielsen)
 * Technical documentation about Wikibase for PHP and JS scripts (Ladsgroup and Jonas)
 * new feature for the graph view in the Query Service: it can now browse the properties of items. see in the video (Jonas)
 * graph builder tool for the query service to create and export graphs (demo video) (Jonas, [[d:user:Smalyshev (WMF)|Smalyshev)
 * d:Module:PropertyPath and d:Template:Show Path Items (TomT0m)
 * Everything is connected, a knowledge game based on Wikidata and Commons (list of levels) (Denny)


 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Histropedia: “The power of data visualisation combined with free knowledge” on WMF's blog
 * Presenting the Wikidata Human Gender Indicators by Max Klein
 * How the world’s first Wikidata Visiting Scholar created linked open data for five thousand works of art on WMF's blog


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Music in Canada at 150 Wikipedia Project, a multifaceted campaign to increase the amount and quality of content about Canadian music in Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * 400,000,000th edit was made.
 * The average amount of statements per item became higher than five and is still growing.
 * Wikidata entities usage on Wikimedia projects


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: DRÚSOP ID, code, encoding, BALaT image ID, DocCheck Flexikon De ID, DocCheck Flexikon En ID, biography at the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cellosaurus ID, World Spider Catalog ID, Squash Info ID, MSC ID, Yahoo! Japan Talent Database ID, Bandcamp artist ID, French National Assembly Lobbyist ID, BanQ author ID, statistical leader, Sandbox-Monolingual text II


 * Query examples:
 * Continents on Wikidata (All eleven of them) (source)
 * Sluices on the river "Vilaine" in Brittany (source)
 * Countries with most cities named after saints (source)
 * Disney characters who share name with their actors (source)
 * 204 items that cite themselves (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20statements%20with%20two%20references%20where%20one%20source%20cites%20the%20other%0ASELECT%20%3Fsubject%20%3FsubjectLabel%20%3FpropertyLabel%20%3FobjectLabel%20%3Fsource1Label%20%3Fsource2Label%0AWITH%20%7B%20%23%20subquery%20that%20actually%20finds%20the%20statements%20and%20sources%20%28written%20as%20named%20subquery%20to%20ensure%20it%E2%80%99s%20only%20run%20once%2C%20independently%20of%20the%20rest%20of%20the%20query%3B%20see%20https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.blazegraph.com%2Fwiki%2Findex.php%2FNamedSubquery%29%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fstatement%20%3Fsource1%20%3Fsource2%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20prov%3AwasDerivedFrom%2Fpr%3AP248%20%3Fsource1%2C%20%3Fsource2.%20%23%20statement%20has%20two%20%E2%80%9Cstated%20in%E2%80%9D%20references%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fsource1%20wdt%3AP2860%20%3Fsource2.%20%23%20first%20source%20cites%20the%20second%20one%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fsource1%20%21%3D%20%3Fsource2%29.%20%23%20apparently%20some%20items%20cite%20themselves%3F%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results.%0A%20%20%23%20auxiliary%20query%20to%20find%20the%20subject%2C%20property%20and%20object%20of%20the%20statement%2C%20as%20well%20as%20labels%0A%20%20%3Fsubject%20%3Fp%20%3Fstatement.%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20%3Fps%20%3Fobject.%0A%20%20%3Fproperty%20a%20wikibase%3AProperty%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Aclaim%20%3Fp%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AstatementProperty%20%3Fps.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Statements with two references where one source cites the other] (source)


 * Development
 * Stable interface policy update
 * More work on federation in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe media files on Wikimedia Commons in the future (T149580)
 * Worked on first version of Lexeme entity type (T148139)
 * Worked more on linking values in Lua and the property parser function instead of just returning the label (T142940) You can test it here: https://de.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Statements
 * Improved map layer colors in the query service (T148022)
 * Improved size of map markers in the query service (T148496)
 * Upcoming: quantity changes
 * Worked more on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (T987) Test system is coming in the next days.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Tech News: 2016-45
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Victoria Coleman is the new Chief technology officer for the Wikimedia Foundation.
 * First release candidate for MediaWiki 1.28 is now available.
 * Octicons-tools.svg for MediaWiki branches and extensions switched from targeting a specific branch to using.
 * Section numbers in Table of Contents boxes will use grey to improve readability.

Changes this week
 * The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 7 November.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 8th. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 9th. It will be on all wikis from November 10th (calendar).
 * Special:ActiveUsers will allow users groups selection.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 November 2016 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are Image Thumbnail API and allow SVG files uploaded on MediaWiki to have XHTML namespaces. The meeting will be on 9 November at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * RevisionSlider will be enabled by default on all beta wikis, on testwiki, testwiki2, mediawikiwiki and de.wikipedia.org.
 * Upcoming holidays will impact deployments. The schedule has been published.

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This Month in GLAM: October 2016
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ANI post
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WikiProject Anatomy newsletter #5
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Wikidata weekly summary #235
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.  This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-11-12.


 * Discussions
 * Current request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Wikidata and the Chain of Death, by Karl Beecher
 * Scaling multilingual name tags with Wikidata OpenStreetMap contributor blog post
 * Wikidata and Persistent Identifiers was presented at PIDapalooza November 9th.
 * Wikidata in OpenStreetMap
 * Wikidata and the Semantic Web of Food


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * A new Wikidata PageRank dataset has been published. The dataset was computed in August 2016 and provides PageRank scores for 10,364,840 Wikidata entities.
 * Due to a possible hack, please consider resetting your passwords.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: generation time, hazard on site,	ACM Digital Library event ID,	ACM Digital Library citation ID,	HGVS nomenclature,	Supermodels.nl ID,	CIViC variant ID,	wurvoc.org measure ID,	Réserves Naturelles de France ID,	World Waterfall Database ID,	Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1853–1899 ID,	ID petit-patrimoine.com,	opponent during disputation,	Vlindernet ID,	male form of label,	board member,	Patrimonio Inmueble de Andalucía ID,	BDI ID,	ICCF ID,	chesstempo ID,	365chess player ID,	plan image,	muscle action,	SummitPost ID,	lib.reviews ID,	Galiciana Author ID,	ICAA rating,	KINENOTE person ID,	NGS pumping station ID,	third-party formatter URL,	Open Media Database film ID,	broadcast by,	musical conductor,	Student register of the University of Helsinki 1640–1852 ID,	Belgian Senate person ID,	Flemish Parliament person ID


 * Query examples:
 * Map of educational institutes from all over the world (source)
 * Current US Supreme Court justices by their date of birth (source)
 * Death dates of people with Wikidata items (source)
 * French towns that a street in Paris is name after(source)
 * Statements with “reason for deprecation” rank that aren’t deprecated(source)


 * Development
 * More work on federation (T76007)
 * Worked on first basic version of Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support (T148139)
 * Test system for automated language links for Wiktionary (T987)
 * Analysed feedback prototype for editing on Wikipedia in order to refine it
 * Worked on mapping Commons workflows and needs
 * Analysed queries used with Listeria
 * More work on making ArticlePlaceholder pages indexeable by search engines (T117693)
 * More work on enabling translations from existing articles in other languages on ArticlePlaceholder pages (T124036)
 * Link to local articles in ArticlePlaceholders (T113955)
 * Fix for bug that prevented editing (T150401)
 * Experimented with improvements for property suggestions (T132839)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Tech News: 2016-46
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * When you edit with the visual editor you can use  +   +   to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (calendar).
 * In Special:Preferences you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of fallback languages. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 15 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Magic links might not work in the future.

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CIS-A2K Newsletter October 2016
Hello,

CIS-A2K has published their newsletter for the months of October 2016. The edition includes details about these topics: Please read the complete newsletter here. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:18, 21 November 2016 (UTC) If you want to subscribe/unsubscribe this newsletter, click here.
 * Blog post Wikipedia Asian Month — 2016 iteration starts on 1 November — a revisit
 * Program report: Impact Report form for the Annual Program Grant
 * Program report: Kannada Wikipedia Education Program at Christ university: Work so far
 * Article: What Indian Language Wikipedias can do for Greater Open Access in India
 * Article: What Indian Language Wikipedias can do for Greater Open Access in India
 * . . . and more

Wikidata weekly summary #236
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 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: How to make new languages enabled on Wikidata


 * Events/Press/Blogs
 * Problematizing and Addressing the Article as Concept Assumption in Wikipedia (Q27827559)
 * schema.org, Wikidata, Knowledge Graph: strands of the modern semantic web by Dan Scott


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Parlement & Politiek ID (P1749) has been completed in Mix'n'match. Over 5000 politicians from the Netherlands (and also Belgium) now have a link to this resource
 * Two policies about abandoned tools on Tool Labs are currently voted on
 * The Community Wishlist Survey is now closed and the vote phase will start on November 28. Here's the category for Wikidata
 * Data import hub and Data import guide: feel free to give feedbacks on these documents!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties: musipedia tune ID, Adult Film Database person ID, WHO international non-proprietary names ID, designed to carry, National Library of Greece ID, PermID, HKMDb person ID, RxNorm CUI, Vote Smart ID, legislation.gov.uk ID, significant person, Kvikmyndir person ID, Kvikmyndir film ID, World Surf League ID, Encyclopedia of Surfing ID


 * Query examples:
 * Occupations of women, with French female-form labels (source, database report)
 * Documents with most signatories (source)
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Wikidata%20map%20of%20James%20Bond%20filming%20locations%0A%23%20SPARQL%20by%20Jura1%2C%202016-11-05%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%09%3Ffilm%20%28CONCAT%28str%28%3FactorLabel%29%2C%20%22%20%2Fin%2F%20%22%2C%20str%28%3FfilmLabel%29%2C%20%22%20--%20the%20%22%2C%20str%28%3FfilmDescription%29%29%20as%20%3Flayer%29%20%0A%09%09%3Fenwiki_article%09%3Fcoor%09%0A%09%09%3Ffilminglocation%09%3FfilminglocationLabel%0A%7B%09SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Ffilm%09%3FfilmLabel%20%3FfilmDescription%20%09%3Fenwiki_article%09%3Fcoor%09%3Ffilminglocation%09%3FfilminglocationLabel%20%3FactorLabel%20%3FpropertyLabel%20%0A%09%7B%0A%20%20%09%3Fstatement%20pq%3AP453%20wd%3AQ2009573%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Ffilm%20p%3AP161%20%3Fstatement%20.%20%3Fstatement%20ps%3AP161%20%3Factor%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2A%20wd%3AQ11424%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP915%20%3Ffilminglocation%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Ffilminglocation%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20filter%20not%20exists%20%7B%20%3Ffilminglocation%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Ffilminglocation%20%7D%20%20%0A%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fenwiki_article%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Ffilm%20%3B%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20%7D%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ffilm%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FfilmLabel%20.%20%3Ffilm%20schema%3Adescription%20%3FfilmDescription%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ffilminglocation%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FfilminglocationLabel%20.%20%3Factor%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FactorLabel%20%20%7D%0A%09%7D%0A%7D Filming locations of James Bond films] (source)
 * United States National Historic Landmarks not actually located in the United States (source)
 * Items with VIAF, but no P31/279 (source)
 * Newest database reports: List of Italian language films without articles in Italian Wikipedia


 * Development
 * Unit conversion has been rolled out for the first dimension for a short while now.
 * Undo diffs now utilize language fallbacks for property and item labels (315291). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
 * Reworked database schema for Cognate (the extension that will do automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary). It is still waiting for security review before it can be deployed.
 * Worked more on basic version of Lexeme entity type
 * Fixed a bug where the links on action=info where wrong (T149598)
 * Getting close to finishing the groundwork for Federation so that in the future you'll be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons.
 * Added Innu-aimun as a language for monolingual text values (T151129)
 * Worked on linking to Wikipedia articles in the statements on an ArticlePlaceholder (T113955)
 * ArticlePlaceholder got a button to translate articles via the ContentTranslation extension (T124036)
 * Prepared a bot to fix quantity values after the recent changes to precisions (T142087)
 * Did user interviews for use cases and workflows on Commons
 * Analyzed more Listeria queries in order to figure out steps forward for easier query writing

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:07, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Monthly Tasks
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 * Help write the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item
 * Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Tech News: 2016-47
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use two-factor authentication. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in Special:Preferences. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone.
 * You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has.
 * The latest Collaboration team products newsletter has been published. It has more details about their work than Tech News has.

Problems
 * A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on two-factor authentication.

Changes this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
 * RevisionSlider will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this.
 * Hovercards will leave the beta stage. The Wikimedia Foundation Reading Web team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the Hovercards talk page.

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Your contributed article, Water in The Arab Region


Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Water in The Arab Region. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Middle East. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Middle East – you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

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 * Have a look at the content again. Merging Water in The Arab Region (which was deleted) into Middle East would have been a better alternative but I do not see a duplication between the two articles.<font style="white-space:nowrap;text-shadow:#FF0000 0.1em 0.1em 1.5em,#01EE796D -0.1em -0.1em 1.5em;color:#00000F"><font color="#01EE796D">—M@sssly <font color="#FFEG0000">✉ 20:27, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
 * "Merging &hellip; would have been a better alternative". So merge it! One reason that I deleted it was that an article where its subject is not mentioned until 500 chars into the text screams to me "student essay". I have emailed you your text. Do with it what you will. &mdash; RHaworth (talk · contribs) 22:02, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 November 2016
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