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Nomination of Action Force (Teletoon) for deletion

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GOCE news: February 2013

Guild of Copy Editors Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/February 2013 wrap-up Participation: Out of 19 people who signed up for this blitz, 9 copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: During the six-day blitz, we removed over twenty articles from the requests queue. Hope to see you at the March drive in a few days! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Torchiest, BDD and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 21:34, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

List of important publications in anthropology

Hi Northamerica1000, I noticed that you were involved in the List of important publications in chemistry. It has been requested by Cnilep that List of important publications in anthropology be moved to Bibliography of anthropology. Your comments on this request are most welcome. Please see Talk:List of important publications in anthropology#Requested move. Anthrophilos (talk) 22:40, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks for the notification; I'm undecided at this time regarding the matter. Northamerica1000^(talk) 18:30, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Birmingham (horse)

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 16:03, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks for the notification. Northamerica1000^(talk) 04:54, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

dawei fixture

Thanks for Dawei Port Project copyright fixtures. thevikas (talk) 04:36, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Certainly. After clearing out all of the WP:COPYVIOs, the article needs significant work, if you're interested in working on it. Cheers, Northamerica1000^(talk) 04:52, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Cleanup

Thanks for the invite, North.[1] -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 12:48, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Sure thing, and thanks for all of your work to improve the encyclopedia. Northamerica1000^(talk) 19:11, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikiproject Articles for creation Needs You!

Hello Northamerica1000:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over 2800 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! ~~~~

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The Tea Leaf - Issue Seven (special Birthday recap)

A celebratory cupcake from the Teahouse Birthday Badge

It's been a full year since the Teahouse opened, and as we're reflecting on what's been accomplished, we wanted to celebrate with you.

Teahouse guests and hosts are sharing their stories in a new blog post about the project.

1 year statistics for Teahouse visitors compared to invited non-visitors from the pilot:

Metric	Control group	Teahouse group	Contrast
Average retention (weeks with at least 1 edit)	5.02 weeks	8.57 weeks	1.7x retention
Average number of articles edited	58.7 articles	116.9 edits	2.0x articles edited
Average talk page edits	36.5 edits	85.6 edits	2.4x talk page edits
Average article space edits	129.6 edits	360.4 edits	2.8x article edits
Average total edits (all namespaces)	182.1 edits	532.4 edits	2.9x total edits

Over the past year almost 2000 questions have been asked and answered, 669 editors have introduced themselves, 1670 guests have been served, 867 experienced Wikipedians have participated in the project, and 137 have served as hosts. Read more project analysis in our CSCW 2013 paper

Last month January was our most active month so far! 78 profiles were created, 46 active hosts answered 263 questions, and 11 new hosts joined the project.

Come by the Teahouse to share a cup of tea and enjoy a Birthday Cupcake! Happy Birthday to the Teahouse and thank you for a year's worth of interest and support :-)

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Kat Dahlia

I've taken it out as spam rather than copyvio as the page you cited doesn't seem to contain any text at all. Now. Probably did then. Not the first time that's happened. Text can go at the first mention of a copyvio here.... It was pure unadulterated spam anyway. Peridon (talk) 20:13, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks for the information. I recall that the page had information at the time I visited it, from which the copyvio CSD tagging was based. Northamerica1000^(talk) 20:15, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #47

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Development
  • Extended diff view to include references now
  • Fixed bug where incorrect statements revision was shown in diff view
  • Added first version of Linked Data interface (RDF/XML); will be accessible from Special:EntityData
  • Updated the demo system
  • More work towards using Solr for our search
  • More investigation and fixes of search issues
  • Fixed several bugs in the entity selector and improved its behavior
  • Worked on refactoring of how our widgets use the toolbar
  • Worked on implementation of missing data model components in JavaScript
  • A lot of bug fixing
• Events
  • Wikipedia Day NYC
  • upcoming: Wikimedia metrics and activities meeting
  • upcoming: office hour (German)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Rollout of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias is still planned for March 6
  • Next update on wikidata.org is also planned for March 6. This will have bugfixes and if all goes well string as a new available data type.
  • Proposal was made to the Hungarian, Hebrew and Italian Wikipedias to be the first batch to use phase 2 of Wikidata (infoboxes). Scheduled timeframe for this is end of March
  • d:Wikidata:Database reports has some useful reports like the list of most used properties
  • The interwiki shortcut :d was changed to always use www in the resulting link (to prevent editing issues on other URLs).
  • The list of available properties is growing and a whole bunch of new ones are being discussed
  • Reasonator gives you a nice adapted view of an item about a person
  • Items by cat helps you find missing items in a certain Wikipedia category
  • A few more additions to d:Wikidata:Tools that you should have a look at if you’re editing statements
  • We now have more than 2600 active users on Wikidata. Thanks for being awesome. <3
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  • Help bring the content of en:Wikipedia:Wikidata to the remaining Wikipedias that will get phase 1 on March 6
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Horticulture and Gardening Project COTM

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Northamerica1000^(talk) 12:17, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Ice luge

I just deleted a sentence which was not found in the citation. Also, words like "common" violate WP:PEACOCK.Curb Chain (talk) 00:12, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

I rewrote the sentence as a re-addition to the article, along with the source. In the future, please consider moving sources to the Further reading sections of articles, rather than removing them in entirety. Northamerica1000^(talk) 00:22, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Sure I can consider it. The source should be relevant to the article. Also, I just deleted [2] since the source has nothing the information is supposed to glean from.Curb Chain (talk) 00:24, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Hello!

Hi there,

My name is Bo Weber. I represent the recording artist The Silver Heart Club. The Silver Heart Club has a distribution deal with Spotify LLC, and iHeartRadio Inc. Both companies wrote me an email explaining that I will need to submit a biography of the artist to Wikipedia, in order for our information to be viewable on the music distribution sites, for Wikipedia is where they stream information about artists from.

I have had trouble with the article being submitted, because of the "subjects notability". This artist has more than enough notability on and off the web.

url here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/The_Silver_Heart_Club

Your assistance or advise on what our options are would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Weber bo (talk • contribs) 22:39, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

• Regarding topic notability on Wikipedia, the notability in itself is based upon Wikipedia's standards. While many topics may be notable per other standards, Wikipedia editors has developed notability guidelines through consensus regarding content in the encyclopedia. Also, per WP:NOTPROMOTION, part of Wikipedia's policy page of What Wikipedia is not, the encyclopedia is not to be used for promotional and advertising purposes. The AfC submission at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/The Silver Heart Club requires copy editing to eliminate promotional tone and to be written in an encyclopedic style with a neutral point-of-view.

Sources in the submission from VolumeOne magazine and the Tribune Press Reporter are functional to demonstrate notability. At this time, the topic appears to have borderline notability per WP:BAND, and copy editing the entry to base the submission solely upon what is stated in reliable sources will likely increase the chances of the submission being accepted. For example, the source [3] in the submission doesn't qualify as a reliable source, because it's a blog that is largely based upon personal opinion, and its publishers may not have a proven reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. Information sourced from these types of questionable sources should typically be omitted from encyclopedia entries on Wikipedia.

Check out Writing better articles, Your first article, Starting an article and Third-party sources for additional suggestions and tips. Northamerica1000^(talk) 23:12, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

• Update: I've created the following article, which is now in Wikipedia's main namespace: The Silver Heart Club (band). If you plan on copy editing the article, please be sure to follow Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, such as WP:NPOV, WP:RS, WP:BAND and WP:V. I've redirected the AfC submission located at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/The Silver Heart Club to this article. Cheers, Northamerica1000^(talk) 00:01, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

The Silver Heart Club

Wikipedia is extremely confusing to someone like myself who has little experience with the layout, and rules. Thank you for helping me. From reading the notes you had written, it seems as if you have revised the biography and approved your edits? I am satisfied with what is there. I am confused with what you were saying with "copy edit", but if there is no further action that is needed from me, let me know. Thank you.

If possible, could you put "Photo credit: Calinn Weber" as the photo caption?

Thanks again! Very much appreciate your help!