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Speedy deletion nomination of Avian Brands

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A tag has been placed on Avian Brands requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a company, corporation or organization that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Editing news 2020 #2 – Quick updates

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This edition of the Editing newsletter includes information the Misplaced Pages:Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. The central project page is on MediaWiki.org.

• Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing @. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
• New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
• New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
• Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:11, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #3

Seven years ago this week, the Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Misplaced Pages. Here's what happened since its introduction:

• The 50 millionth edit using the visual editor on desktop was made this year. More than 10 million edits have been made here at the English Misplaced Pages.
• More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
• Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
• The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has been increasing every year.
• Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.
• On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor.
• In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers, and half of their first edits, were made using the visual editor. This percentage has been increasing every year since the tool became available.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:05, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Requesting small help

Hi,

We are looking for inputs understanding scope for improvement @ Talk:Intimate parts in Islam#Hat note update and support in updating Draft:Aurats (word) with south east Asian perspective.

Thanks and regards

Bookku (talk) 17:39, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

American spelling

I notice that you have marked a large number of articles with use American spelling. I came across this at Analogical models when it came up on my watchlist. This is not an exclusively American topic, the article does not currently consistently use American spelling, and there had been no discussion on the talk page. It might even be entirely British spelling (generalisation and modeller appear in the article). Looking through your editing history I found a couple more equally dubious. Please read WP:ENGVAR for our guidelines on this. Care and research of the article history, and if necessary, discussion is required on this sensitive issue before declaring an article to be in a particular English variety. I don't think that has happened here, and in view of that, I think these edits should be rolled back. SpinningSpark 12:26, 27 July 2020 (UTC)