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Article Feedback Tool update
Hey Ross Hill. I'm contacting you because you're involved in the Article Feedback Tool in some way, either as a previous newsletter recipient or as an active user of the system. As you might have heard, a user recently anonymously disabled the feedback tool on 2,000 pages. We were unable to track or prevent this due to the lack of logging feature in AFT5. We're deeply sorry for this, as we know that quite a few users found the software very useful, and were using it on their articles.

We've now re-released the software, with the addition of a logging feature and restrictions on the ability to disable. Obviously, we're not going to automatically re-enable it on each article—we don't want to create a situation where it was enabled by users who have now moved on, and feedback would sit there unattended—but if you're interested in enabling it for your articles, it's pretty simple to do. Just go to the article you want to enable it on, click the "request feedback" link in the toolbox in the sidebar, and AFT5 will be enabled for that article.

Again, we're very sorry about this issue; hopefully it'll be smooth sailing after this :). If you have any questions, just drop them at the talkpage. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) 21:47, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

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Bramson Page September 10, 2013
Hi Ross, thanks for the friendly message and advice for the Noam Bramson page. I was an intern this summer for the Mayor and was surprised to see that his office nor him had a page on wikipedia. As Mayor of a city of over 80,000 people and currently the Democratic candidate for Westchester County Executive in which he would represent over 900,000 people, I felt that he is a notable person and thus needed to add to the largest worldwide encylopedia in humanities history. Despite this, I have taken care to responsibly stay neutral in writing this stub, and have taken the correct precautions in order to follow Wikipedian standards of notability and COI. I have cited numerous prestigious news organizations such as the New York Times, The Journal News, and Westchester Magazine. Thus, I feel as though I have properly stayed neutral as fits Wikipedia metrics. I would however like you to feel free to check my work and critically analyze if it holds the standard. If this is the case, perhaps we could take the COI tag down and let the new page be viewed by the community. I'm excited to hear back from you Ross, and have a great day.

JGW — Preceding unsigned comment added by Concretebeachri (talk • contribs) 14:58, 10 September 2013 (UTC)


 * I have removed the tag, and made some edits to make the article more neutral. You can see those changes by going to the "View history" tab on the top of the Noam Bramson page. Thanks!  Ross  Hill  12:02, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

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Hello!
Hello, fellow Wikipedian! How are you? Padraig Singal (talk) 20:59, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Good, Padraig, you? Do you need help with anything?  Ross  Hill  21:00, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I can't figure out how to make my signature colourful :'( Padraig Singal (talk) 21:08, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Go into your preferences and, find find the signature section in General. Tick the box that says "Treat the above as wiki markup.". In the box, use HTML, and wiki markup to code your sig.
 * Ex:  Padraig 
 * which equals...  Padraig 


 * Does that help? You can find colours at http://html-color-codes.info/. Ross  Hill  21:15, 23 September 2013 (UTC)


 * !!! Padraig Singal  21:37, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Congrats  Ross   Hill  22:00, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Your involvement with DRN
Hi there, I noticed that you haven't been as active at DRN as you was before. DRN has been a bit backlogged lately and we could use some extra hands. We have updated our volunteer list to a new format, Dispute resolution noticeboard/Volunteers (your name is still there under the old format if you haven't updated it) and are looking into ways to make DRN more effective and more rewarding for volunteers (your input is appreciated!). If you don't have much time to volunteer at the moment, that's fine too, just move your name to the inactive list (you're free to add yourself back to active at any time). Hope to see you again soon :) Steven Zhang (talk) 13:23, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

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