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Career Academy Senior Secondary School
Instead of deletion, I redirected this page to Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education. That's our usual practice for non-notable middle and high schools. Bearian (talk) 23:00, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXIX, January 2017
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Books and Bytes - Issue 20
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Issue 20, November-December 2016 by, , ,

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 * Partner resource expansions
 * New search tool for finding TWL resources
 * # 1lib1ref 2017
 * Wikidata Visiting Scholar

February 2017 at Women in Red
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Japanese detainment listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Japanese detainment. Since you had some involvement with the Japanese detainment redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. BDD (talk) 21:08, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

Category:Smithsonian test articles
Do you still need this category? I see that it hasn't been edited in years czar  19:33, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Nope, feel free to delete. Sadads (talk) 22:42, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news
 * A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
 * Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
 * Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news
 * When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
 * Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
 * The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries
 * JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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The Bugle: Issue CXXX, February 2017
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March Madness 2017
G'day all, please be advised that throughout March 2017 the Military history Wikiproject is running its March Madness drive. This is a backlog drive that is focused on several key areas:


 * tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
 * updating the project's currently listed A-class articles to ensure their ongoing compliance with the listed criteria
 * creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various task force pages or other lists of missing articles.

As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the military history scope will be considered eligible. More information can be found here for those that are interested, and members can sign up as participants at that page also.

The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 March and runs until 23:59 UTC on 31 March 2017, so please sign up now.

For the Milhist co-ordinators. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:24, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 10
Issue 10 of the WikiProject X newsletter is here!

This month, we discuss the new CollaborationKit extension. Here's an image as a teaser:



23:59, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXI, March 2017
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Thank you!
Thank you for the Barnstar. Actually, I was working on Emma Bell Miles for a friend who was too intimidated to try doing it herself. Watch out -- you will encourage us. OctaviaGraystone (talk) 14:06, 20 March 2017 (UTC)OctaviaGraystone
 * Thats great! We definitely need more work on Women writers: WikiProject Women writers, and their are plenty of gaps and opportunities for adding incremental expansions like you have been doing on the Emma Bell Miles article :) Sadads (talk) 14:13, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

DYK for The Little Red Chairs
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Good job, the article is most welcome at The 10,000 Challenge.♦ Dr. Blofeld  14:38, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Precious two years!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:18, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Always a pleasure to see your name around! Keep up the great work on supporting community morale! Sadads (talk) 13:56, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 21
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Issue 21, January-March 2017 by, , , ,

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 * # 1lib1ref 2017
 * Wikipedia Library User Group
 * Wikipedia + Libraries at Wikimedia Conference 2017
 * Spotlight: Library Card Platform

The Bugle: Issue CXXXII, April 2017
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Wikimedian in Residence BoF at Wikimania 2017
Hello!

My name is David Alves (User:Horadrim~usurped), and I'm an Wikipedian in Residence at RIDC NeuroMat (User:Horadrim). I've reach your contact through the Wikimedian in residence page in Outreach. As you may know, Wikimania 2017 is coming! I am here because, as a fellow WiR, I believe this would be a great opportunity for us to share experiences, discuss difficulties and exchange solutions, creating a community among us capable of supporting in other projects that would benefit from residents. In that sense, I have submitted a proposal of a Birds of a Feather activity to Wikimania that you can check out here. I hope to count with your support in this project and would like to invite you to join us if you participate in Wikimania. In case of any doubts, please feel free to contact me, either in my talk pages or by e-mail at david.alvesoutlook.com.

Thank you very much! ‎Horadrim~usurped (talk) 00:33, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletions
Do not reverse my deletions without discussion with me. If you think it was an inaccurate call, deletion review exists for a reason. Seraphimblade Talk to me 22:08, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, I have never had to use DRV, so apologies. Moreover, this article was not a blatantly self-promotional, per WP:G11 -- it looked like you made a mistake moving too quick through the queue. It was very bizarre delete for an article about a clearly-well reviewed, notable work, on article that has been cleaned up multiple times, by multiple experienced editors -- and if you had done due diligence on the history, you would have seen that. I went for the undelete because you had two experienced editors confused on the talk page. Sadads (talk) 22:39, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, it is promotional. The "plot summary" is a teaser and not a full summary, the "characters" section is written to talk it up, and the "reception" section is glowing. (And being notable has nothing to do with G11, something on even a clearly notable subject can be deleted if it's promotional.) But none of that matters to the main point. If you intend to reverse another administrator's action, and they are active and available for discussion, you talk to them first. Period. If you cannot reach agreement with them, then the matter goes to the community, in this case via DRV. You don't unilaterally reverse it. Seraphimblade Talk to me 22:43, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXXIII, May 2017
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Assessment of William Jarvis (merchant)
Hi Sadads! I see you've to C-class. Could you leave a comment at Talk:William Jarvis (merchant) explaining which of the B-Class criteria the article is failing, so we can work to improve it? Thanks, Ibadibam (talk) 17:08, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
 * The primary point of failure is the referencing (Criteria 1). There are several large sections/paragraphs where there is 0 or only one footnote supporting the claims. Typically, B class articles are very specifically footnoted: with many, if not every, sentence having a footnote to a WP:RS, and if those works are multi-page works, typically to a specific page or group of pages. Additionally, the lead is not sufficient summary of all of the content in the article (per Criteria 3). At times, there is also very odd colloquial language throughout article (i.e. "snapped up", "snagged") that wouldn't be appropriate for international or non-native English readers, the references are very inconsistently formatted (I recommend WP:CS1), and the legacy section feels inappropriately short for something that radically changed the economy and landscape of Vermont and New England. Collectively, these lead to a state of quality for the article less than the typical B-Class article I have read in the last couple years. 5-8 years ago, it might have been a B class -- but not any more.Sadads (talk) 17:23, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Talkback
Osarius - Want a chat? 10:53, 9 May 2017 (UTC)