User talk:Rodw/Archive 19

A5 and A7 edits become a war
Hi there! We need your help to stop Michge editing them because everyone know A5 and A7 are simply range of luxury fastback coupes. For example, Porsche Panamera, VW Arteon, BMW 4 series Gran Coupe, Tesla Model 3, Mercedes CLS-Class and more of it. Fastback is a little hatch styled of sedan; Liftback is more hatch styled car and unlike to be a sedan anymore! I don't know why Michge keep using liftback this term instead. It shouldn't be used of the hatched sedans at all! We are tired of the this war! Maybe someone administrators block these pages one day at least and a week the most! I hope you responded our message thanks!

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Avon and Somerset Constabulary
Hi,

Many Police chief officers have pages on Wikipedia. However, there have not been any for Avon and Somerset officers since Nick Gargan. Would it be possible to create one for them, such as CC Andy Marsh QPM, AC Rob Beckley QPM and CC Gareth Morgan?

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Pending AfC Submissions
Morning Rodw - Hope you're keeping well. Have you managed to get this tool working? I've loaded the script and can get the page up, but I can't find the bloody "GO" button! Any advice gratefully received. KJP1 (talk) 10:37, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Radio Wey
Hiya there! I wanted to let you know, since you communicated with the author, that I nominated Radio Wey for deletion. Drewmutt ( ^ᴥ^ ) talk  00:26, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

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John Savage (died 1492) etc..
Hi Rod

I've just been in touch with Martin who speaks highly of you & may I also take this opportunity to thank you for helping with the Leghs of Lyme etc... Don't want to stray into controversial territory, but interestingly saw one of your recent edits touched on trance music! Not sure that the opening gambit is quite correct: "emerged during the early 1990s in Germany" - this sounds (no pun, ha ha) far too categoric a statement to me, and whilst it developed in the rave scene this was by no means exclusively German - very far from it!

Dunno how accurate Wiki would like to be about such matters, and not sure how I could verify my input (apart from first-hand experience!). Anyway, curious to hear how Wiki goes about such matters & thanking you again for your assistance so far. Best 217.169.51.41 (talk) 20:15, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
 * My only input to the trance music article has been to disambiguate bpm to the wiktionary entry for beats per minute, so I don't think I can comment further as my knowledge of the is music genre is extremely limited. I would also be pushed to identify a link with John Savage, KG so I'm a bit confused. If you are familiar with either of the topics you could always edit them yourself - there must be references to help as personal experience can not be verified by others.&mdash; Rod talk 20:24, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Don't worry, Rod. You are just invited to comment Talk:John Savage, KG. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:29, 17 February 2018 (UTC) ....did someone say Savage Trance??

Disambiguation
Thanks for picking up the place-name disambiguations I missed while adding to the list of rail accidents (1900-29).

Regarding Rákos, it's the one in Hungary listed on that disambiguation page, but it doesn't have its own page. "Disambiguation needed" seems to me the wrong tag when the disambiguated page doesn't exist and the referencing page says which one it means (i.e. that it's in Hungary). Whatcha think? (If you agree, just edit the page yourself, don't bother replying on this IP address's talk page.) --69.159.62.113 (talk) 03:01, 20 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Please familiarize yourself with WP:NOTBROKEN. Redirects can serve many useful purposes, and should not be circumvented for no reason.— TAnthonyTalk 15:30, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I see now that an IP changed the redirect to a disambig page. I've restored it, as the other topic is minor and hatnotes are usually used to differentiate between two topics rather than a dab page. Thanks for your edits!— TAnthonyTalk 15:30, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

TFL notification
Hi, Rodw. I'm just posting to let you know that Grade II* listed buildings in Mendip – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for March 19. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008  ( Talk ) 23:24, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Help for for new single at indonesia Processing speed new project redirect now — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.215.245.156 (talk) 14:30, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

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Columbus, Ohio
Thanks for these   and, I thought the most famous Columbus in Ohio would not have an identifier with it. Iggy (Swan) 11:35, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Geography of Sydney
would it be more likely the melaleuca, a common style of name that is common to Australia, and the tea tree oil, and not the kiwi tree ? Dave Rave (talk) 19:57, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Charming!
Perhaps you'd like to make a contribution at Talk:John Savage, KG; for me, where is the honor in letting Martin hang? The actual matter in hand should be fairly simple to sort out - he was never ever styled John Savage, KG and has for time immemorial been known as Sir John Savage KG. Hope you agree. Best, 217.169.51.41 (talk) 03:50, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

(disambiguation) (disambiguation)
Hello,

There is no need to create redirects such as Unconditional love (disambiguation) (disambiguation), English College (disambiguation) (disambiguation), Mohammad Ali (disambiguation) (disambiguation), John Adams (disambiguation) (disambiguation). older ≠ wiser 19:00, 13 March 2018 (UTC)


 * I've asked for help at User talk:Qwertyytrewqqwerty/DisamAssist. It appears others have had similar issues with a possible bug in the use of DisamAssist software.&mdash; Rod talk 20:23, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

City of Orange
Hi Rod. Thank you for helping to untangle the mass of inbound links to the City of Orange redirect that was created and modified by User:CookieMonster755. The article that used to be at that title is now at City of Orange (New South Wales), however I have only just added it to the list of places in the disambiguation page, so unfortunately, any links that you fixed by picking from the obvious list have ended up pointing at either Orange, New South Wales (the town itself) or Electoral district of Orange (a seat in the state legislative assembly) instead of the correct page about the Local Government Area (LGA - the third level of government). This message is to thank you for helping, and alert you that there is now a better option if there are any more pages that you intend to fix. --Scott Davis Talk 10:37, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you - that's not an area I usually focus on, but four of them showed up in my watchlist, so I knew something had gone awry. Thanks again for helping. I also left a message on the other user's talk page. --Scott Davis Talk 10:43, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

Wakanda
Orishas (comics) refers to deities of DC and not of Marvel, in Marvel orishas are as they call deities of Yoruba myths and voodoo and the Gods of Wakanda.Hyju (talk) 00:31, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

TFL notification
Hi, Rod. Due to some shenanigans at TFL that I didn't catch because of my relative inactivity lately, Grade II* listed buildings in Mendip was replaced at the last minute by a new editor. I've scheduled it for April 6 here so that it can still have its Main Page appearance, and can only apologize for the change in plans. Cheers. Giants2008 ( Talk ) 00:22, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Update: Due to a request for a date close to the 6th, I've moved the article's Main Page appearance again, this time to April 9. Giants2008  ( Talk ) 22:29, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

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Ham Wall
Given your extensive local knowledge, just a few things I wanted to run past you
 * annotations to your questions below:


 * Since the article is specifically about the reserve, I've tried to keep the first, more general, paragraph of "History" fairly concise, concentrating more on the canal, railway and peat which all have a direct connection to Ham Wall. Do you think that the first paragraph is missing anything essential?
 * The "Landscape" and "History" sections look fine to me with the possible exception of "Ham Wall Rhyne" where the etymology of "Ham" and "Wall" are explained but Rhyne isn't & this may not be familiar to some readers (There is a short cited explanation at Somerset Levels).&mdash; Rod talk 17:22, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Rhyne is wikilinked and glossed, but I'll take another look, and perhaps add an OED link Jimfbleak - talk to me?  06:19, 11 April 2018 (UTC)


 * In "Management", I have a bit on the Brue Living landscape, which is there because it was mentioned before I started working on this article. I'm now not sure even if It is part of the Brue Valley Living Landscape conservation project is actually true. The scheme seems designed to involve private landowners, whereas the former Fisons land all ended up with the SWT, Natural England and the RSPB, conservation organisations. The scheme seems moribund now, and I'm inclined to remove this section unless you can reassure me that the Westhay Moor-Shapwick-Ham Wall complex was actually part of the scheme
 * The Brue Living landscape scheme had grand intentions a few years ago but seemed to reduce in scope and eventually fizzle out so I would be happy for it to be removed as no longer relevant (if it ever was).&mdash; Rod talk 17:22, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
 * OK, I'll do that Jimfbleak - talk to me?  06:19, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Jimfbleak - talk to me?  10:58, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
 * The research for this has clearly involved much research on the wider Avalon marshes area, and when I eventually finish Ham Wall, I'm inclined to create a new article for Avalon marshes and take that to FAC too. Given that I'm likely to draw on your articles even more for that than I have for Ham Wall, would you want to be involved as a co-writer and/or co-nominator? No pressure, entirely your call
 * I would be happy to be involved as I've done some of the work and have lots of resources for Somerset Levels etc, however I am a bit cycnical about "Avalon Marches" which is a modern name which seems to be designed to attract tourists (and possibly sponsorship etc) but I have never seen it clearly defined and, as far as I know, has no statutory basis or official designation.&mdash; Rod talk 17:22, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, the Avalon Marshes Partnership exists, and acts as coordinating link between the main nature reserves in the area. The AMP site has a lot of material, particularly on the flora and fauna side and the SSSIs, that's relevant to the project's area as a whole rather than just Ham Wall. I think the area is clearly defined as the land covered by these nature reserves, and I'm not sure why it needs further statutory recognition. I'm sure you are right about attracting tourists, but big nature reserves do impact on the local economy (that's why many also have visitor centres with shops). Even Ham Wall, no proper visitor centre or shop, not on the coast, attracted 70,000 visitors last year.
 * Some of those are already managed/owned by other bodies:
 * Catcott, Edington and Chilton Moors by Somerset Wildlife Trust
 * River Huntspill by Environment Agency
 * Shapwick Heath by Natural England
 * Westhay Moor by Somerset Wildlife Trust
 * Shapwick Moor by Hawk and Owl Trust
 * and some are designated as NNR or LNR. So it may be useful to have one overarching article but also improve the specific sites.&mdash; Rod talk 18:05, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
 * The alternatives are to work up an article about a wider area, such as the levels as a whole, which I wasn't really considering, or doing individual reserves. That would have the same limitation as Ham Wall, but without the benefit of a major source like the British Birds article. Anyway, no need to rush into this, still whole sections to add to the Ham Wall article Jimfbleak - talk to me?  06:16, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
 * My main aim when I work on articles is to work them up to FA. In the case of nature reserve article, that means means there being a major published article to to base it on, as in the case of Ham Wall, which i would otherwise probably not have tackled For some of the older large reserves like Titchwell Marsh, it's possible to do it without that due to archaeology, military and history sources, but in the case of these newer reserves only your existing Westhay GA strikes me as one that could be readily elevated to FA Jimfbleak - talk to me?  06:50, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

References in family tree templates
I have just made changes to Template:Terry family tree to move the citations into the template, and saw you comments on Template talk:Terry family tree. Its positioning in the article Geoffrey Keen (below the refernces section) is a good example of why the citations need to appear in the template. Was my belated response in the section Help talk:Family trees satisfactory? -- PBS (talk) 20:28, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for tackling this - I had totally forgotten about this one.&mdash; Rod talk 21:58, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Bath Abbey entry
Hi Rodw

Thanks for your welcome message and also for pointing out that I can't use 'Bath Abbey' as a username as it's the name of an organisation / company. I have submitted a form to change it to Edgar973.

Your help and warm welcome are much appreciated. Bath Abbey (talk) 13:45, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

"Unconstructive Edits"
Hello "Rodw"

Its Kellyiscool37

On a ACDC Single,Released in 1979 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_to_Hell_(song) You Erroniously Stated that this song was a single by Bruce Springsteen even though many parts were wrong including the picture of the single,Members playing,Mixer,and many others pls Don't make anymore disruptive Edits on this wikipedia page if you arent going to make sure its right,people are looking and its important to tell truth, not lies

Signed Kellyiscool37 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kellyiscool37 (talk • contribs) 18:23, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Batsman
I suspect there will be future attempts to try to make a gender neutral term in future. I have no doubt that your suspicion is correct. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 13:44, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

You raised my curiousity: Yes, I have no doubt that your suspicion is correct. Pdfpdf (talk) 14:07, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Most articles try to avoid both words
 * England women's cricket team mainly uses batsman, with a couple of batters
 * New Zealand women's national cricket team uses batswoman/batswomen
 * India women's national cricket team uses batswoman/batswomen
 * Pakistan women's national cricket team - "the highest total by any batsman in Women's Test cricket"(!)
 * South Africa women's national cricket team uses batsman
 * Bangladesh women's national cricket team uses batter
 * It might be an issue to raise at WikiProject Cricket to try to get consensus and consistency. Unfortunately I do not have enough knowledge of cricket (or gender neutral wording) to be able to advise. &mdash; Rod talk 14:35, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Hmmmm. I can see endless heated discussion down that path. I think I'll just sit back and watch from a distance while I edit pages not involving cricket and/or gender. (I'm off to bed.) Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 14:57, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes I suspect any wording will be controversial. For cricket issues I normally refer to User:Harrias. I will go back to writing about the architecture of churches (but even that has its controversies). Sleep well. &mdash; Rod talk 15:24, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I note in the archives of the project talk page Harrias commented "However, batsman is more common than batter, and is generally considered gender-neutral, despite the obvious." & also at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cricket/Archive 28. For a non cricket person "Batsman" doesn't appear to be gender neutral & I suspect whoever played with the redirects etc yesterday doesn't think so either.&mdash; Rod talk 15:31, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
 * (but even that has its controversies) - LOL! (You surprise me. Thanks for the laugh.) Pdfpdf (talk) 02:41, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the cross-references. I suppose the same arguments apply as those regarding the use of "chairman". However, despite "chairperson" seeming to be semi-acceptable these days, I just don't see "batsperson" catching on any time soon. (However, personally I would find it difficult to argue that "batsman" was gender-neutral.) Pdfpdf (talk) 02:41, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Things seems to be moving over more to 'batter' recently, but 'batsman' remains by far the more common; this is an interesting article on it (despite being a blog, Raf is one of the leading voices on women's cricket in England. That article also links to some other opinion pieces. I suspect in a few years we might move to batter, but it definitely remains 'batsman' at the moment. Harrias  talk 13:20, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

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Hinton House
Hi, your entry on Hinton House identifies private family home, providing coordinates and a map. To reduce the privacy risk please may I ask that the name of the owner and the coordinates for the property are removed from this entry. Oliver Blair (talk) 12:44, 27 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your message. As new user I will also copy my response to your talk page as you may not yet have discovered watchlists etc to see my reply.
 * I presume you are talking about Hinton House, Hinton Charterhouse rather than Hinton House? If this is the case I would point out that Historic England makes the grid reference of the building available on the List entry page (as it does with all listed buildings) and therefore the location is in the public domain. The description and photograph are also available on the Hinton House History on the village web site. The location, along with aerial photographs and maps is available in this planning application on the Bath and North East Somerset Council web site. The location map is also available on Parks and Gardens UK. The ownership is included in this article from the BBC and this one in the Bath Chronicle. I do not think removing this information from wikipedia would reduce any privacy risk. If you want further discussion I would suggest posting on Talk:Hinton House, Hinton Charterhouse whether other editors would be able to give a response.&mdash; Rod talk 17:01, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 May newsletter
The second round of the 2018 WikiCup has now finished. Most contestants who advanced to the next round scored upwards of 100 points, but two with just 10 points managed to scrape through into round 3. Our top scorers in the last round were:


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 * Courcelles, another first time contestant, with twenty-seven GARs

So far contestants have achieved twelve featured articles between them and a splendid 124 good articles. Commendably, 326 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2018 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met; most of the GARs are fine, but a few have been a bit skimpy.

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Spanish War of Succession
Re the changes, the books on the war I've read primarily use 'Allies' and occasionally 'Grand Alliance.' This is an angels on pinheads debate (technically the Big Three in WWII was also referred to as 'The Grand Alliance) but its just clumsier.

Having pulled myself out of a debate on whether and when an article should use William II (of Scotland), William III (of England), William III (of Orange), William the Stadtholder etc, there's a difference between technically correct and common usage.

I haven't undone the changes except for when my OCD-inspired paragraphing requires it :) and I'm not challenging them but there's a lot that could be improved on Wikipedia and I'm not sure this is the best use of your time.

Robinvp11 (talk) 16:47, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks my edit was trying to resolve some of the diasmbiguation links in the article (of which there are thousands on wikipedia), which are annoying to readers. I'm happy to be guided by your expertise in the area of the Spanish War of Succession.&mdash; Rod talk 16:52, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

DR Congo airports
Hi Rodw. Thanks for your work on the DRC airports, but judging from the pushpin maps, these airports don't seem to be in the new smaller Equator province. I started to undo them, but if you undo them yourself you won't lose Brownie points.

Boende Airport, Bokada Airport, Bokela Airport, Bokungu Airport, Bosondjo Airport, Bumba Airport, Engengele Airport, Gemena Airport, Goyongo Airport, Gwaka Airport, Ikela Airport, Kala Airport, Karawa Airport, Kotakoli Air Base, Monkoto Airport, Tandala Airport, Yalingimba Airport, Yemo Airport Cptmrmcmillan (talk) 19:05, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry I don't quite understand. The options seemed to be the state before 2015 and the one currently in place. If the airport still exist I thought it was better to use the current state. If you have better knowledge please be kind enough to change them for me.&mdash; Rod talk 19:08, 20 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi again. I see some of the problem. I went through all the extant DRC airports in March and April verifying and updating the articles. There were no DAB pages at the time because I have them come up in orange letters in my preferences. Since then, there were some page moves on the two Equator province pages and the associated DAB pages, which affected the airport pages. You're right on the options, because when I went through them, I left the existing province pick alone in case someone who knew the new province wanted to change it.
 * A look at the country map on each page shows that the above airports that were in the "Equator (former province)" are not in the new smaller "Province of Equator". Changing them back to the Équateur (former province) link would be fine, otherwise you'd have to look up which new province they're in. The only list I've found is on the "File:Provinces de la République démocratique du Congo - 2005.svg" page: Nord-Ubangi, Mongala, Sud-Ubangi, Équateur, and Tshuapa. I did Boende Airport, Bokela Airport, and Bokungu Airport. Too much work for my old bones. I'm busy verifying the Dominican Republic airports now, so good luck. Cptmrmcmillan (talk) 05:21, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I have reverted my edit & tried to do some of these but there seem to be conflicts between map and text on lots of these. I hope someone else with better local knowledge will take them on.&mdash; Rod talk 17:38, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I haven't found any official source for the new boundaries, either, but Open Street Map has them marked, at least in the areas I've checked. Don't know where they got them. Looks like a project for someone in the DRC. Best, Cptmrmcmillan (talk) 23:45, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018
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Your GA nomination of HM Prison Shepton Mallet
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Re: Katherine Waterston versus Katherine Langford
You do realize that you've completely vandalized/overwritten Katherine Waterston's Wikipedia page, correct? Katherine Langford is an entirely different person, so you need to either clone the page & re-name it, or undo all of the edits you've done to Katherine Waterston's page, because if you don't, I will, & I'll report you for doing it.

Stentor7 (talk) 22:37, 28 May 2018 (UTC)Stentor7

My mistake, sorry, it was the entry above yours that vandalized the page, & that IP has subsequently been blocked. You may want to go back & see if you can restore the previous edition. I tried to revert it, but was told it must be done manually. You look like you have more experience than I do, so you may be able to do it more quickly than I would, thanks. Sorry for any misunderstanding. I try to be careful, but the entries were right next to one another.

Stentor7 (talk) 22:48, 28 May 2018 (UTC)Stentor7


 * The only edit I made to Katherine Waterston was to disambiguate The Factory (film) to The Factory (2012 film) - are you saying she didn't appear in that film? The subsequent vandalism appears to have been reverted. I have not edited Katherine Langford.&mdash; Rod talk 05:51, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

No, I wasn't questioning that, it was the complete vandalization of the page with the substitution of some Australian actress named Katherine Langford in place of American actress Katherine Waterston's biography on that page. But right after I made the first comment here in this section, I realized my mistake because the entry right below yours in the history log was the culprit, someone from an unsigned IP & an extensive history of vandalizing pages. By the time I came back to this page & posted my second comment apologizing for the mistake, someone else entirely had managed to revert the page to a previous version, which I was attempting to do, because I've previously reverted other pages that have been vandalized, but for some reason I wasn't able to figure out how to revert Waterston's page to the previous version which you had edited, so sorry for the confusion. That being said, I appreciate the comment welcoming me to Wikipedia & the links to the help articles for beginners, but I've already read all of those on my own. I've actually been making contributional corrections here for over a decade when I spot them, & I've been a member for nearly the same period of time, so I"m not really a neophyte volunteer editor. The only thing preventing me from being more involved in editing or creating article pages on Wikipedia is that I'm incredibly busy working for NASA on space projects as a Systems Test & Integration Engineer, presently the M2020 Rover in the Mars Science Lab. But if I have any questions in the future I will come & ask you, thanks.

Stentor7 (talk) 23:22, 2 June 2018 (UTC)Stentor7

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:16, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

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Thank you for improvement of 5G article
Thank you for improvement of the 5G article: fixing several disambiguation links. I appreciate your contribution to the next generation article 5G. I believe that if we have a clear understanding of what 5G really is, it would make our society safer. Goodtiming8871 (talk) 22:35, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Seeking opinion
Regarding the current hot topic: 5G rollout schedule and human health, Would you please be able to let me know your opinion to upgrade 5G article including the summary of the radiation danger to the human body? Step 1: Adding section to the  Concerns over health effects with  5G  Millimeter wave bands in  Mobile phone radiation and health ‎ Step 2: Adding few lines of the summary with the subject in 5G Step 3: Propose a Separate Wikipedia article of "health effects with 5G  Millimeter wavebands".

Please see the references below 5G Wireless Technology: Major newspaper editorials oppose "small cell" antenna bills

From my understanding, The 5G network requires the 5G Antenna in every 250 meters but, non-thermal health risks associated with wireless radiation exposure were intentionally ignored in the FCCC safety guideline. I believe that FCCC was unable to accept the non-thermal health risks associated with wireless radiation exposure, because of the interest of mobile industry; if there is no upgrade of the mobile technology, there is no job to do in the mobile research industry; however human health should be the first priority, and there would be way to develop the upgraded bandwidth technology in the long term without using high-risk Millimeter wavebands and small cells Antenna (every 250 meters )

The danger of 5G radiation : Goodtiming8871 (talk) 23:29, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer?
Dear Rodw:

Are you a New Page Reviewer?

Vismajor 08:30, 13 June 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vismajor (talk • contribs)

Somerset Levels scheduled for TFA
This is to let you know that the Somerset Levels article has been scheduled as today's featured article for July 14, 2018. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Today's featured article/July 14, 2018, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1100 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so. Thanks! Rodw, in in view of the relative age of this, I ran checklinks, all the refs are apparently still working, Jimfbleak - talk to me?  09:19, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Elimination Drive
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Coopers Creek
It would have been far easier to correct an obvious typo than to post on my talk page about it, just as it was for me to fix your sloppy mistake in a disambiguation issue that should have been pretty obvious rather than bring it here. The Drover&#39;s Wife (talk) 12:08, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Bristol meetup
You have previously attended or expressed an interest in attending a meetup in Bristol. I am organising one for this summer - provisionally Saturday 1 September 2018. For details see Meetup/Bristol/3 to join the discussion, including expressing preferences about dates and venues, see the talk page at m:Talk:Meetup/Bristol/3. Thryduulf (talk) 18:31, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

Thank you
I really appreciate your vigilance User:Rodw...and correction of my silly Copeland/Copland error on Margery Lewis...well spotted! --Jamesmcardle(talk) 00:51, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 July newsletter
The third round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:


 * Courcelles, a first time contestant, with 1756 points, a tally built largely on 27 GAs related to the Olympics
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three GAs on natural history and astronomy topics
 * SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with a variety of submissions related to transport in the state of Washington

Contestants managed 7 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 120 good articles, 1 good topic, 124 DYK entries, 15 ITN entries, and 132 good article reviews. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 458 GA reviews, in comparison to 244 good articles submitted for review and promoted. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process; several submissions, particularly in abstruse or technical areas, have needed additional work to make them completely verifiable.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk), Vanamonde (talk) 04:55, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

TFA
Thank you for the Somerset Levels, that !cover a large area of low lying wetland, with complex geology and ecology. Man has been living on the Levels since the Paleolithic era, with many loosing their lives in floods, and trying to drain the area for about a thousand years.°! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:22, 14 July 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers. Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.
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Amazon-class frigate (disambiguation) listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Amazon-class frigate (disambiguation). Since you had some involvement with the Amazon-class frigate (disambiguation) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Widefox ; talk 14:40, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

Your edit
Is there some reason you made this edit? Or that you didn't take two seconds to look at the edit after you made it? 75.182.115.183 (talk) 19:23, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for correcting that - I hadn't spotted the duplication of "(disambiguation)" probably a "mis-click" using DisamAssist.&mdash; Rod talk 19:28, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

the Woman's Building
You added links on several pages. The organization was the Woman's Building with a "a". Not women's. There is also a Women's Building in SF. But the one they were associated with was the one in L.A. It was named after the Woman's Building of 1893. They need to correct the main page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maberry (talk • contribs)

WikiCup 2018 September newsletter
The fourth round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The eight users who made it to the final round had to score a minimum of 422 points to qualify, with the top score in the round being 4869 points. The leaders in round 4 were:


 * Courcelles scored a magnificent 4869 points, with 92 good articles on Olympics-related themes. Courcelles' bonus points alone exceeded the total score of any of the other contestants!
 * Kees08 was second with 1155 points, including a high-scoring featured article for Neil Armstrong, two good topics and some Olympics-related good articles.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Cas Liber, with 1066 points, was in third place this round, with two featured articles and a good article, all on natural history topics.
 * Other contestants who qualified for the final round were 🇲🇭 Nova Crystallis, Iazyges,  SounderBruce,  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Kosack and 🇺🇸 Ceranthor.

During round four, 6 featured articles and 164 good articles were promoted by WikiCup contestants, 13 articles were included in good topics and 143 good article reviews were performed. There were also 10 "in the news" contributions on the main page and 53 "did you knows". Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to 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, and let the best editor win! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:31, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Event coordinator granted
After reviewing your request for the " eventcoordinator " permission, I have enabled the flag on your account. Keep in mind these things: If you no longer require the right, let me know, or ask any other administrator. Drop a note on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of the event coordinator right. Happy editing! TonyBallioni (talk) 21:34, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
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 * Please note, if you were previously a member of the "account creator" group, your flag may have been converted to this new group.

Sedrakyan's inequality
Hello, thank you very much for your comment. I have fixed the disambiguation issue related to Arthur Engel on the page Sedrakyan's inequality. Now, it is precised that he is Arthur Engel (mathematician). Could you please review the article once again and confirm that everything is ok now? Sorry, my Wikipedia article writing skills are not perfect, trying my best to learn :) thank you very much for your comments and time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HaykHS (talk • contribs) 14:54, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Burrow mump
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/flying-drones-at-our-places

Here is the national trust about drones stating they do not allow it and it is illegal.

WikiEditing666 (talk) 15:12, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi - Somerset / SW pics etc
Thanks for your thanks for my edit. I just went back and checked the history and realised I was actually replacing your photo. I hope I did not appear rude in virtually 'barging into' an article and declaring my own photo better! I have been uploading pics for Wiki Loves Monuments, and have done so in past years as well, but a large proportion of previous uploads never ended up on any articles, so this year I was being a bit more forward in adding my own, even though that feels a bit cheeky. Anyway it appears our interests overlap; in a "small world!" sense I was amused/impressed to notice on your page that you started the Bristol Byzantine page for example, as one of the WLM pics I uploaded the other day was https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victoria_Court_-_Bristol_byzantine.jpg and I was wondering if it would be considered helpful or spammy to upload several more like it. Anyway if you know of anywhere to make use of any photos I've already put on Commons then that'd be great. At the moment my uploads to Commons are being a bit blinkered by WLM only wanting listed buildings and monuments, but I have various other stuff on flickr I'm happy to add if I knew it was wanted - is there is some other page listing photos wanted, or if you've got a mental list of requests for as-yet-unphotographed things in the Bristol/Somerset area feel free to drop me a line. Cheers Stevekeiretsu (talk) 01:36, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Disambiguating railway stations
Hello and thanks for your continued efforts in fixing the links to dabs. Dab Solver is clever enough to expand some templates such as stnlink and rws so you can choose the right station, but it doesn't put them back again afterwards. I think your edits such as are an improvement, but please be aware that some editors get surprisingly upset if you expand railway station templates. Certes (talk) 16:06, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Spliting discussion for List of state highways in Utah
An article that you have been involved with (List of state highways in Utah) has content that is proposed to be removed and move to another article (List of former state highways in Utah). If you are interested, please visit the discussion at the talk page. Thank you. BRES2773 (talk) 14:48, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.


 * Project news
 * The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.
 * As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.


 * There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See New pages patrol/Coordination for more info to see if you can help out.


 * Other
 * A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.


 * Moving to Draft and Page Mover
 * Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
 * If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
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UoW event
Hi Rodw, I saw your comment on Hchc2009's talk. I can't attend in person (actually, I left there a couple of years ago!), but if I can help in any way, I'd be pleased to. —SerialNumber54129 paranoia / cheap sh*t room 17:09, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Rodw, re. this, do I need to join the program? If so, a passcode is required. Hope it's going well! —SerialNumber54129  paranoia / cheap sh*t room 13:59, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Info about indexing
Hello Rodw, thanks for correcting my article on Costantino Carrara. I'd like to know why the page can't be indexed by Google, what's the problem? Thanks --Kosta97piano (talk) 18:33, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Re: Costantino article
I checked the source page of Costantino Carrara and I see a noindex command in the robot section. Maybe I'm wrong, but could you do a double check? Other times, the article was available on Google after a few hours, but this is taking so much. Thanks in advance--Kosta97piano (talk) 18:42, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Westland, Michigan
So you see the following sentence in a settlement article and your instinct is to disambiguate a link? in June 2018 There was a zombie like illness outbreak affecting birds in the city, killing 1000-1500 birds. It was later found out that the illness came from lions in Cat Creek MT, of which the lions are immune to....hmm John from Idegon (talk) 19:48, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

TFL notification
Hi, Rodw. I'm just posting to let you know that List of scheduled monuments in Taunton Deane – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for October 29. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008  ( Talk ) 01:23, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia Article Publishing
Hi Sir,

Can you please help me to publish the below article to public. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shiyas Kareem (talk • contribs) 06:23, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Pandeism edit
Not sure this ought to be that Law of Attraction. Can you confirm? Hyperbolick (talk) 21:46, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

question about Norwich State Hospital page
I edited the External Links section to this page a few months ago, because there were two bogus links. Someone has reverted my changes, and I'd like to know why. I removed the link to creepyconnecticut.net because the domain no longer exists. I removed the link to asyluminsane.com because it was a link farm. I think what I did improved the quality of the page. TackyJulieToo

- - ~ ~ ~ ~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by TackyJulieToo (talk • contribs) 12:40, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Richard Brock


The article Richard Brock has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Unref blp advert. Doesn't appear to meet WP:NOTABILITY."

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Boleyn (talk) 20:03, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Talk:Azmi Bishara
Hello, I've seen in the article history you're capable of editing. If you may please help with removing a problematic quote from the article, I fear user:Icewhiz defending a misleading info.Dovole (talk) 13:49, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

TFL notification
Hi, Rodw. Please note that I moved up the TFL appearance of List of scheduled monuments in Taunton Deane up three days, to October 26. We had a request come in for that date and a hole in the schedule opened up in the previous slot due to another move that was required. Hopefully this isn't too much of an inconvenience. Giants2008 ( Talk ) 19:46, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

In use template
When another editor has put up an in use template, please don't correct dab links on that page. Even a minor edit can cause frustrating edit conflicts to occur. Thanks, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:52, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.
 * Backlog


 * Community Wishlist Proposal
 * There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding the drafting of a Community Wishlist Proposal for the purpose of requesting bug fixes and missing/useful features to be added to the New Page Feed and Curation Toolbar.
 * Please join the conversation as we only have until 29 October to draft this proposal!


 * Project updates
 * ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
 * There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.


 * New scripts
 * User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js(info) — A new script created for quickly placing copyvio-revdel on a page.

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Bed bug
Hi Rodw: Can I ask why you changed all the links from bed bug to bed bug (insect), which is a redirect to bed bug? Bed bug was never a DAB; the DAB article is bed bug (disambiguation). Now, instead of a direct link, you've introduced a redirect that points to the article that used to be the direct link! Perhaps you wouldn't mind changing those you've changed back? MeegsC (talk) 21:59, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Ah! Okay, but is someone now going to fix the unnecessary redirects? MeegsC (talk) 09:33, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
 * It's certainly unfortunate that a solution wasn't agreed upon by all parties before editors started making changes! I suppose the unnecessary redirects will be corrected over time. MeegsC (talk) 15:21, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Subject: Lists of UK top 10 albums
Rodw, this is 1996Larry here; I was wondering if you could assist 03md in completing the pages of the lists of UK top 10 albums. - 1996Larry

WikiCup 2018 November newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is, who over the course of the competition has amassed 147 GAs, 111 GARs, 9 DYKs, 4 FLs and 1 ITN. Our finalists were as follows:



All those who reached the final win awards, and awards will also be going to the following participants:


 * wins the FA prize, for three featured articles in round 2.
 * wins the GA prize, for 92 good articles in round 3.
 * wins the FL prize, for five featured lists overall.
 * wins the topic prize, for 30 articles in good topics overall.
 * wins the DYK prize, for 24 did you know articles in round 3.
 * wins the ITN prize, for 17 in the news articles overall.
 * wins the GAR prize, for 43 good article reviews in round 1.

Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2019 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. ,, and.

Thank you - List of South Australian Legislative Council by-elections
Thank you for the disambiguations on List of South Australian Legislative Council by-elections. It is still under development as part of a wider project of improving the history of the South Australian Legislative Council and I ran out of time last night well before I had finished what I planned to do, so checking all the links went to the right people was going to wait until I have filled the rest of the names in too. Thanks again for checking and fixing them. --Scott Davis Talk 23:24, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018
Hello ,
 * Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW
 * Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.


 * If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.


 * We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.


 * With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

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Talkback
 Programming Geek talk to me 03:48, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

TFL notification
Hi, Rodw. I'm just posting to let you know that List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Southwest England – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for December 24. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008  ( Talk ) 23:20, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

please check whether Church of St Mary, Hardington Mandeville and St Mary's Church, Hardington are not the same topic
Dear Rodw,

please check whether Church of St Mary, Hardington Mandeville and St Mary's Church, Hardington are not the same topic and eventually merge them. --Robby (talk) 23:22, 3 December 2018 (UTC)


 * They are different buildings in different small villages in the same parish see the NHLE documents 1058710 Hemington & 1345795 Hardington Mandeville. Some renaming may help with clarity but they should not be merged.&mdash; Rod talk 07:48, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Different parishes, and different districts for that matter. DuncanHill (talk) 12:14, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * You are right.&mdash; Rod talk 12:18, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Notable Residents of North Stoke
Hello. Thank you for your message. I do have the citation and references audible, but I have limited knowledge of how to put them on Wikipedia- so your help would be very much appreciated. '--Greywolf12345 (talk) 20:33, 10 December 2018 (UTC)'

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NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018
Hello ,

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.
 * Reviewer of the Year
 * Thanks are also extended for their work to (15,059 reviews),  (12,760reviews),  (9,001reviews),  (8,440reviews),  (8,092reviews),   (5,306reviews),  (4,153 reviews),  (4,016reviews),  and  (3,615reviews)., , , and  have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only sevenmonths, while , with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

See also the list of top100 reviewers.

The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.
 * Less good news, and an appeal for some help

At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals. See the results.
 * Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019

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