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Halloween cheer!

Hello E.M.Gregory:
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Audubon Mural Project

Congratulatiions on your excellent work and beating me to the punch. I might do a couple of the artist's pages whose work is included in the project. If you have the time it might be good to list in a new section of the mural project page all tbe artists whose work is included. Thanks again stupendous. Masterknighted (talk) 02:35, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, User:Masterknighted, I'd love to cooperate with you on this.E.M.Gregory (talk) 12:26, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Finding content for Presidential Village - thanks

I know you get a lot of grief for...stuff...concerning AfDs, but I wanted to thank you for finding an obscure citation for the Presidential Village article (even though it was my nominiation). I paid to get the entire 1909 newspaper article. It was unknown to the town's historical society, and is helping fill in historical gaps. David notMD (talk) 13:54, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Western guilt (concept) for deletion

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WP:AFD Discussion

User:E.M.Gregory, there is currently a discussion on whether or not an article that I created should be deleted; see: Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Jewish etiquette. The issues that were initially raised which prompted the request for deletion have since been addressed and corrected. If you think the article is now worthy of being retained, please voice your opinion by writing "Keep." Thanks.Davidbena (talk) 02:51, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

fwiw, this is very clear canvassing. E.M.Gregory you should probably not go !vote now. Jytdog (talk) 03:02, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Well, if it is viewed as "canvassing," rather than a "friendly notice," I would also advise him not to post any comment there. Be well.Davidbena (talk) 03:26, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

It is not even a little ambiguous. Jytdog (talk) 17:04, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Well, with my latest comment, it should be clear that I am only interested in his honest opinion, or none at all. G-d bless.Davidbena (talk) 19:19, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

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My behavior

You have seen me participating in AfDs of terrorism. If you have some free time then please consider adding your comments on my behavior. Thanks. Störm (talk) 14:51, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

Happy turkey day

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/CAGE_(organisation)

Thanks for words of support. I had been violently attacked for providing information available on Cage own web page! The content of the page actually is based of POV of the editors, not on factual evidence. They presumed that Cage is not lead by bunch of extreme Islamists that aim at paralysis of West effort fighting Islamic terror against the evidence. Charity organization CAGE demands withdrawal of UN troops from Africa! What kind of charity is it? CAGE is only showcase of inability of Western legal system to deal with political wing of the Islamists. Cautious (talk) 10:16, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

Assuming good faith

Hello! You seem like a nice person but you have changed my signature into something that claims I'm an SPA. You also made the edit summary comment "puppet". Please see WP:AGF and WP:NPA. Please assume good faith. If you had bothered to look at my contribs, you would see that I am not an SPA. Badgering people who make a fair point is not in the spirit of the encyclo. 198.58.171.47 (talk) 15:54, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

• Note that this IP/SPA started editing on 9 November, is highly fluent in Wikispeak, and is editing Seph Lawless and Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Seph Lawless (2nd nomination), two of the most IP, sock and meatpuppet-laden pages that it has ever been my misfortune to happen on.E.M.Gregory (talk) 16:01, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

• Me again, the IP (mY IP reset). You have zero evidence of any ill activity on my part-- because there is none. Also, your argument is lousy: you edited those pages as well, which are "two of the most IP, sock and meatpuppet-laden pages that it has ever been my misfortune to happen on." Misplaced Pages has a policy of assuming good faith for a reason. Calling people sockpuppets and meatpuppets without any evidence is just sad, and a very weak form of ad hominem argument. Stop with the name calling. 104.163.155.42 (talk) 20:01, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

delsort

Hi, Just letting you know you might want to add delsort to your scripts. Then, at each AFD you can sort just by clicking on the delsort tab and typing in all the different categories. You can read how to do it at: User:Enterprisey/delsortSir Joseph 20:41, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

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Category:1768 establishments in New York (state)

Hi, would you object to my moving Category:1768 establishments in New York (state) to Category:1768 establishments in New York? This should fix the current red links; and neighbouring categories do not use "(state)" until 1776, see Category:Establishments in New York (state) by year. (Procedurally, with your consent, I can move the page under WP:C2E.) – Fayenatic London 23:49, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

• Yes, Fayenatic, please do fix it. I did wonder but couldn't find the non-"state" category.E.M.Gregory (talk) 23:51, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

• Thanks... Ah, the links were not automatic as I imagined. I'll do more work on that hierarchy to get more links working. – Fayenatic London 00:21, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
• OK, I think I have done all that is required on that set now. A lot more links between categories are now working. – Fayenatic London 12:51, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Grammar fix

My latest additions probably need some grammar fixes thanks.--Shrike (talk) 12:27, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

3RR

I would advice you to self-revert your latest revert. If you have an issue with providing a page number to verify the citation, take it to the talk page.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 19:47, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

• Did you just lure me into doing 3 reverts because you were tag-teaming to remove a perfectly valid source at Antisemitism in the Labour Party? Never mind, I can see that yoru did. Did you read the book? Did you look for the page number? I read it lase fall and I know who I lent my copy to. there must be a proverb about loaned books that never return. I added this source to The Left's Jewish Problem back when I created that page, And, true, I did not use a page number. Instead I sourced it to a book review. I have asked you to stop harassing me before, and I sincerely wish that you would.E.M.Gregory (talk) 19:54, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

• I actually hate fishing but that's besides the point. You included the improperly cited book yet you want me to go and find the synthed material for you in that said book? It is up to you to back any contributions with reliable and properly cited sources. Now please stop playing a victim and either fix yet another mistake or reapply the tag until you or, more realistically, someone else can.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 20:12, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

• The cited materiel is in the book, which says what I cited it as saying. Please AGF and have a little patience. the sorucing is valid even if the page number is missing.E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:21, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

• So I should AGF for an editor who deliberately misrepresents sources, engages in synth, bludgeons everyone they disagree with, accuses anyone who brings these claims to attention of harassing them, says I think less of the Jewish people (with no idea of my religious beliefs or background), and, most recently, makes "contributions" with incomplete citations? Sure I'll AGF but remember it isn't a suicide pact. Have a good evening.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 23:16, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

7700 16th Street NW

FYI: WP:Articles for deletion/7700 16th Street NW — Malik Shabazz /_Stalk 05:52, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Hi

Thank you for your input. And yes, also comparing AfD rationales as suggested by the nominator are very subjective. You can find some sentence that looks the same etc. But so can be said about hundreds of other rationales for other editors probably. There are basically no case here. Anyways I will try to move on from it and ignore it further. Thanks.--BabbaQ (talk) 23:06, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

wise.E.M.Gregory (talk) 00:18, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

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Do you have his birth date and death location from the obit? Are you able to download it? I want to add it to Familysearch and update Wikidata with the information. Do you have an account at Familysearch? --RAN (talk) 17:44, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

HEY, expanding article from the obit now. You might think about requesting access to a good news archive, Misplaced Pages has the power ot enable that for editors.RANE.M.Gregory (talk) 17:46, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Which available through Misplaced Pages news service do you recommend? --RAN (talk) 18:18, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

I have no idea. I just know that this sort of access exists. I usually use proquest, to which I have access. But I don't even know it it is one of the services available to Misplaced Pages editors.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:22, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

• If you need more help researching the biographies that Rusf10 nominated AFDs from this week, let me know, I think there are 10 in the AFD queue, someone will have to check the contribution history. All his recent contributions are to AFD, so maybe he does not have access to reference works. Let me know, and I will work on them before vacation. --RAN (talk) 18:57, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

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Bristol Bill

At a recent AfD, you expressed interest in this page, should I ever write it. I'm travelling over the next few weeks, and have gone ahead and uploaded my draft, which isn't quite as cleaned up as I might like, but is probably at a stage where it is not a net-negative for the project. If you are interested, I hope you read and enjoy it. Smmurphy 07:46, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Jesus Fabian Gonzalez

Jesus Fabian Gonzalez needs some expansion, and incorporation into wildfire article which currently make no mention of any arson arrests. There appears to be a strong effort to whitewash this incident as not notable and not massive cover up on the part of officials and media of what could possibly be an act of domestic terrorism, and release of a dangerous immigrant. Bachcell (talk) 15:18, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

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Translation of Luciabeslutet

Hi!

I noticed you removed my sentence about sv:Luciabeslutet from immigration to Sweden. I don't think you suggest that is was not relevant, but that you think it was not translated correctly, please feel free to provide a better translation.--Immunmotbluescreen (talk) 13:22, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

• User:Immunmotbluescreen The material I removed needs to be 1.) explained, if it was intended ot date the event, please add the Gregorian date; 2.) justified. Do accounts in ] refer to this event by the name of the Saint's Day?, and 3.) sourced. It needs sources. Cheers.E.M.Gregory (talk) 13:26, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

I don't know if it has ever been translated before. At least it is known as Luciabeslutet (the decision on Saint Lucy day) in media, but it also have a more formal name in the Riksdag (proposition XYZ). I was going to add a source, but then I got distracted by some trolls.

I am also trying to crowd source the missing history section (1991-2006), if you have opinions on what it should include (I can probably find the correct sources), feel free to join the discussion. --Immunmotbluescreen (talk) 00:35, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

CMOM

Quick question on this edit, assume you mean 2021, not 2011? Wanted to check before I fixed, in case I was missing something. StarM 16:48, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

• Yes. a typo. fixed. Thanks, ].E.M.Gregory (talk) 22:38, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

You're welcome. NYT site was having a moment so couldn't confirm whether it was simply a digit off or a different year. StarM 23:59, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

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Press coverage

Hello!

Please take a note of the EdSum here:. You did a similar thing on the 2017 page, which I corrected then. The articles you added didn´t actually show up on the saved page. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:36, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

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I would like to ponder "international". This being the English Misplaced Pages, I do not think one necessarily needs international coverage to establish notability. Clearly there are many articles that are relevant only to the U.S., in fact, many are relevant only to any given state of the Union, and only with local sources, and yet they make the Wiki. I am fairly sure the same could be said of many articles about Australia, or New Zealand, England, or Scotland, or what have you. So if we take a British issue, I would think if one has several WP:RS as sources, and especially the BBC (which is national media in the UK, as are others), then that establishes notability for the UK, and UK notability is sufficient for a UK article, don't you think?

Now, a corollary to the above might be lands where the language is not English... so, perhaps on an article about Israel, in the English Wiki, local sources (in Hebrew, Ladino, Russian, Yiddish, English, or what have you) are not sufficient? Perhaps in this latter case we do need international sources? Anyway, just speculating. Maybe you have looked into this in the past and can cite policy? Thanks in advance for any thoughts. XavierItzm (talk) 07:03, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

• User:XavierItzm It is my understanding the international sources are not required to establish WP:SIGCOV, and that not only does national coverage suffice, but regional coverage often does in a region where multiple WP:RS media give WP:INDEPTH coverage to an EVENT.E.M.Gregory (talk) 13:43, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

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• My edit comment, "(daughter of the Veep; with a bluelinked children's picture book out this week. Despite lack of sourcing, a Prod seems inappropriate.)" on removing this Prod at Charlotte Pence at a heated political moment related to bunny, rabbits, Trump, Pence, John Oliver and the use of Misplaced Pages in political battles. Sometimes we abandon all rules just to keep things civil. Page was speedily sourced, long before this unnecessary comment was left on my page.E.M.Gregory (talk) 03:13, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

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Organization of Iranian American Communities

Hi E.M.Gregory - about your AfD comment on this page, I have also found that the nominator has long history of non neutral (attack) edits on the People's Mujahedin of Iran page. I've tried to clean up some of it but it's proving impossible as Pahlevun keeps reverting my edits. Could you have a look at this please and share your thoughts on weather you think reverting to an earlier version and protecting the page would be a viable solution? Thank you. London Hall (talk) 15:50, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

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Ramallah Porn

The link provided says I cannot edit articles relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict not that I cannot vote whether to keep them or not.ApolloCarmb (talk) 12:42, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

• Wrong.E.M.Gregory (talk) 13:57, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Sutton Hoo Helmet (sculpture) merger proposal

--Bejnar (talk) 16:07, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Comments on Samoon Ahmad,MD - deleted page

Thank you for feedback on the page noted, however, your points of reasoning (summarized in your last comment line)could be justified without the harsh overtones and simplification of achievements, etc. - I noticed that other users on the discussion page were quite respectful. Regardless perhaps it is your communication style and I won't take offense. I will ask for a review of the page in the future should new information with solid references come available and work on the page thru the Tea House. Editing other pages will also help me gain insight. Thanks again,MegEng (talk) 04:17, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

All Systems Down (novel)

E.M., Could you weigh in on this Afd? Very much appreciated! Bmax52 (talk) 17:49, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

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NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

ACTRIAL:

• WP:ACREQ has been implemented. The flow at the feed has dropped back to the levels during the trial. However, the backlog is on the rise again so please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day; a backlog approaching 5,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

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Editathons

• There will be a large increase in the number of editathons in June. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

Paid editing - new policy

• Now that ACTRIAL is ACREQ, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. There is a new global WMF policy that requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

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• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies.

Not English

• A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, tag as required, then move to draft if they do have potential.

News

• Development is underway by the WMF on upgrades to the New Pages Feed, in particular ORES features that will help to identify COPYVIOs, and more granular options for selecting articles to review.
• The next issue of The Signpost has been published. The newspaper is one of the best ways to stay up to date with news and new developments. between our newsletters.

Before?

I am stretching my good faith to the brink here. Your recent tagging of The Color of Olives and Speed Sisters for notability, when performing a basic before search would easily find reliable sources, is discouraging.

• The Color of Olives: NY Times, Variety, Slant...and others.
• Speed Sisters: NY Times, LA Times, IndieWire...and others.

You know darn well the condition of an article is not an indicator of notability, existing coverage is. I am going to pretend you are having an off-day, but please perform searches in the future–for all topics.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 20:42, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

• a note my favorite WP:HOUND. I tagged a bunch of old, poorly sourced and unsourced articles on small documentary films for notability, sourcing. And PRODDED 2. If you think I was wrong, just source them and then remove the tags. E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:53, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

• Cute. When you are this wrong on the notability of the articles I listed, it is clear you did not perform any searches. All I asked was for you to consistently check for sources; attacking me and sighing over having to perform routine searches does not accomplish that.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 21:04, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

• Here's are some of the articles TheGracegulSlick took to AfD, where other editors sourced them : Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Andrew Heywood; Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Scott Malcomson; Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Emperor (debut EP); Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/2017 Arkema plant explosion; Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Miguel Tudela; Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Smile and Wave; Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Richie Parker. It is WP:HOUNDING when you follow a fellow editor with whom you disagree politically around looking for an opportunities to to pounce. So, yes, I should have run more careful searches before tagging for notability. But your HOUNDING is inappropriately aggressive and certainly "is disruption to another user's own enjoyment of editing."E.M.Gregory (talk) 21:26, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

• I don't know/care for your political affiliation, but whatever you have to tell yourself; thanks for taking my suggestion.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 22:01, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

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Hello

I would appreciate your input and help at the following talk pages. Thank you.

David A (talk) 17:33, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Harassment on this page

Hi, E.M.Gregory. You're getting quite a lot of IP attacks on this page. Would you like it semiprotected for a while? Bishonen | talk 18:44, 11 June 2018 (UTC).

User:Bishonen, Yes, please, and my sincere thanks.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:47, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Done for a week, and you're welcome. Let me know if you need it topped up later. Bishonen | talk 18:53, 11 June 2018 (UTC).

See the talk page

The fact that they are signed does not mean they are not based on press releases. Many of the journalists working in modern newspapers are up against targets, and will place copy wholesale unedited that has been provided by PR agencies (see http://badpr.co.uk for some examples and discussion of the red flags). The byline means nothing unless you find that the writer is a serious news or feature journalist with an independent reputation. That is the sorry state of newspapers today. Ironically it's one area where Indian sources are somewhat better than Western (the reverse is true for scientific journals). Guy (Help!) 12:00, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

Flensburg

Do you have any references supporting the changes you've made? Deb (talk) 18:14, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

See the next edit. You have to read the German sources.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:16, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

I did. Both the sources listed in the first paragraph support my wording. I've yet to see one that doesn't. Deb (talk) 18:25, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Look at the article form Die Welt 4 June; the articles you cited are breaking news reports, often these are inaccurate.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:27, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

If the reference is not correct, you should have removed it when you changed the wording and put the correct one in. Deb (talk) 18:29, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

• You wrote, "Please check the timeline, I was not responding to your demand). I had checked the false information that you inserted , and was making a series of corrective edits, which included a validating source (3rd in string) completed before you pinged me - although you did move awfully fast. I then added 2 more sources and a couple of edits updating/correcting inaccurate information from early reports. There really is no point in making false accusations like this when edits are time stamped. "

1. Anyone reading the above can see that I made no "demand".
2. Anyone looking at the timeline can see that I added no "false information", but simply amended the wording to reflect what the cited references actually said.
3. Fine, you were "making a series of corrective edits" because you hadn't noticed that your initial reversion meant you were making edits that conflicted with the references - how is this my fault?
4. Anyone reading this can see that I made no "false accusations" or indeed any "accusations" of any kind.

Remember Misplaced Pages:Etiquette, assume good faith, and you'll be a much happier bunny. Deb (talk) 19:56, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

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Category:Crimes related to the European migrant crisis has been nominated for discussion

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Nomination of Christopher Filardi for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Christopher Filardi is suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages according to Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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John Iadarola

Per the discussion Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/John Iadarola (2nd nomination) as Iadarola's career has grown, I have added additional sources covering his primary hosting of "True North" and "The Damage Report" series with additional non TYT sources. This is in addition to his daily hosting duties on the TYT main show. I have reactivated the article to mainspace. Trackinfo (talk) 07:50, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Interstate 75 rock-throwing death for deletion

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Deletion review for Ankit Love

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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. (Purge)

Hello E.M.Gregory, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

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.

New technology, new rules

• New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
• Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
• Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.

Editathons

• Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

The Signpost

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