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Hello, UnbelievableError, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Elockid (Alternate) (Talk) 22:04, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

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New Pages update

Hey UnbelievableError/CBArchive1 :). A quick update on how things are going with the New Page Triage/New Pages Feed project. As the enwiki page notes, the project is divided into two chunks: the "list view" (essentially an updated version of Special:NewPages) and the "article view", a view you'll be presented with when you open up individual articles that contains a toolbar with lots of options to interact with the page - patrolling it, adding maintenance tags, nominating it for deletion, so on.

On the list view front, we're pretty much done! We tried deploying it to enwiki, in line with our Engagement Strategy on Wednesday, but ran into bugs and had to reschedule - the same happened on Thursday :(. We've queued a new deployment for Monday PST, and hopefully that one will go better. If it does, the software will be ready to play around with and test by the following week! :).

On the article view front, the developers are doing some fantastic work designing the toolbar, which we're calling the "curation bar"; you can see a mockup here. A stripped-down version of this should be ready to deploy fairly soon after the list view is; I'm afraid I don't have precise dates yet. When I have more info, or can unleash everyone to test the list view, I'll let you know :). As always, any questions to the talkpage for the project or mine. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:30, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage prototype released

Hey UnbelievableError! We've finally finished the NPT prototype and deployed it on enwiki. We'll be holding an office hours session on the 16th at 21:00 in #wikimedia-office to show it off, get feedback and plot future developments - hope to see you there! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 03:40, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage prototype released

Hey UnbelievableError! We've finally finished the NPT prototype and deployed it on enwiki. We'll be holding an office hours session on the 16th at 21:00 in #wikimedia-office to show it off, get feedback and plot future developments - hope to see you there! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 03:41, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

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New Page Triage/New Pages Feed

Hey all :). A notification that the prototype for the New Pages Feed is now live on enwiki! We had to briefly take it down after an unfortunate bug started showing up, but it's now live and we will continue developing it on-site.

The page can be found at Special:NewPagesFeed. Please, please, please test it and tell us what you think! Note that as a prototype it will inevitably have bugs - if you find one not already mentioned at the talkpage, bring it up and I'm happy to carry it through to the devs. The same is true of any additions you can think of to the software, or any questions you might have - let me know and I'll respond.

Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 13:24, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: SLO Down Wines

Hello UnbelievableError. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of SLO Down Wines, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not unambiguous advertising (can be cleaned without a fundamental rewrite). Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 04:45, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

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Robbie Harden

No worries. I actually hadn't even noticed that it was a repeat visitor to the uncategorized articles list; I just tagged it the second time without even realizing I'd seen it before. Bearcat (talk) 00:45, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

The Audinator

There's absolutely no reason why this page should have been tagged for deletion because of "blatant" advertising or any advertising for that matter. The article was purely factual, and was about one of the leading and most sophisticated (and eagerly awaited) pieces of spreadsheet auditing software in the industry. The Audinator software has a huge presence in the internal audit community and financial/BI analyst community, and anyone who knows anything about computer-aided spreadsheet audit tools is familiar with The Audinator and respects the innovations and benefits it has brought to our day-to-day work in spreadsheet modeling. There was no advertising speak, contact info, or even a link to the website. I trust that when you consider the above, and re-evaluate more closely you will see the truth in my comments here. Accordingly, I will re-post the article, and will be happy to engage in any meaningful dialogue or criticisms as to its content. As always, I am happy to edit as per any constructive suggestions in order to enhance and improve. BizIntelAnalyst —Preceding undated comment added 19:22, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for !voting

at my successful RFA
Thank you, UnbelievableError, for !voting at my successful RFA; I am humbled that you put your trust in me. I grant you this flower, which, if tended to properly, will grow to be the fruit of Wikipedia's labours. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:56, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

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Talkback

Hello, UnbelievableError. You have new messages at Wikipedia talk:STiki.
Message added 13:47, 10 June 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Thanks for showing an interest, we will glad to allow you DℬigXray 13:47, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi UnbelievableError,
I've added something else to that thread.
Yaris678 (talk) 21:06, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

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Re: timestamping

No worries. Edit conflicts are a pain in the neck! Graham87 03:11, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

ANI

I wouldn't worry too much about what User_Talk:Baseball_Bugs says to you in that ANI. As you can see from his interaction with me, he's trolling and diverting the conversation away from the behavior of his pal Dave1185. Thanks for your neutral opinion in this matter. Leontopodium alpinum (talk) 13:12, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks!

Thanks for participating in my RFA! I appreciate your support. Zagalejo^^^ 06:13, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

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Page Triage newsletter

Hey all. Some quick but important updates on what we've been up to and what's coming up next :).

The curation toolbar, our Wikimedia-supported twinkle replacement. We're going to be deploying it, along with a pile of bugfixes, to wikipedia on 9 August. After a few days to check it doesn't make anything explode or die, we'll be sticking up a big notice and sending out an additional newsletter inviting people to test it out and give us feedback :). This will be followed by two office hours sessions - one on Tuesday the 14th of August at 19:00 UTC for all us Europeans, and one on Wednesday the 15th at 23:00 UTC for the East Coasters out there :). As always, these will be held in #wikimedia-office; drop me a note if you want to know how to easily get on IRC, or if you aren't able to attend but would like the logs.

I hope to see a lot of you there; it's going to be a big day for everyone involved, I think :). I'll have more notes after the deployment! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 20:03, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

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New Pages newsletter

Hey all :)

A couple of new things.

First, you'll note that all the project titles have now changed to the Page Curation prefix, rather than having the New Pages Feed prefix. This is because the overarching project name has changed to Page Curation; the feed is still known as New Pages Feed, and the Curation Toolbar is still the Curation Toolbar. Hopefully this will be the last namechange ;p.

On the subject of the Curation Toolbar (nice segue, Oliver!) - it's now deployed on Wikipedia. Just open up any article in the New Pages Feed and it should appear on the right. It's still a beta version - bugs are expected - and we've got a lot more work to do. But if you see something going wrong, or a feature missing, drop me a note or post on the project talkpage and I'll be happy to help :). We'll be holding two office hours sessions to discuss the tool and improvements to it; the first is at 19:00 UTC on 14 August, and the second at 23:00 on the 15th. Both will be in #wikimedia-office as always. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 15:40, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

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Page Curation update

Hey all :). We've just deployed another set of features for Page Curation. They include flyouts from the icons in Special:NewPagesFeed, showing who reviewed an article and when, a listing of this in the "info" flyout, and a general re-jigging of the info flyout - we've also fixed the weird bug with page_titles_having_underscores_instead_of_spaces in messages sent to talkpages, and introduced CSD logging! As always, these features will need some work - but any feedback would be most welcome.

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Page Curation newsletter

Hey UnbelievableError. This will be, if not our final newsletter, one of the final ones :). After months of churning away at this project, our final version (apart from a few tweaks and bugfixes) is now live. Changes between this and the last release include deletion tag logging, a centralised log, and fixes to things like edit summaries.

Hopefully you like what we've done with the place; suggestions for future work on it, complaints and bugs to the usual address :). We'll be holding a couple of office hours sessions, which I hope you'll all attend. Many thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 11:04, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

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Page Curation newsletter - closing up!

Hey all :).

We're (very shortly) closing down this development cycle for Page Curation. It's genuinely been a pleasure to talk with you all and build software that is so close to my own heart, and also so effective. The current backlog is 9 days, and I've never seen it that low before.

However! Closing up shop does not mean not making any improvements. First-off, this is your last chance to give us a poke about unresolved bugs or report new ones on the talkpage. If something's going wrong, we want to know about it :). Second, we'll hopefully be taking another pass over the software next year. If you've got ideas for features Page Curation doesn't currently have, stick them here.

Again, it's been an honour. Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 12:10, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

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This is not a newsletter

This is just a tribute.

Anyway. You're getting this note because you've participated in discussion and/or asked for updates to either the Article Feedback Tool or Page Curation. This isn't about either of those things, I'm afraid ;p. We've recently started working on yet another project: Echo, a notifications system to augment the watchlist. There's not much information at the moment, because we're still working out the scope and the concepts, but if you're interested in further updates you can sign up here.

In addition, we'll be holding an office hours session at 21:00 UTC on Wednesday, 14 November in #wikimedia-office - hope to see you all there :). I appreciate it's an annoying time for non-Europeans: if you're interested in chatting about the project but can't make it, give me a shout and I can set up another session if there's enough interest in one particular timezone or a skype call if there isn't. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 11:26, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

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Yea, thanks for that help on the page. Its been a while since Ive done serious editing so Ive been rusty but I figured out what I was doing wrong. Thanks for your help.DaltonCastle (talk) 04:48, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Hello UnbelievableError. I blocked indefinitely, as the only purpose of this account is advertising. They recreated the same promotional article few minutes after my deletion and warning. --Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 06:23, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion declined: Liezl van Zyl

Hello UnbelievableError. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Liezl van Zyl, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: There is sufficient context to identify the subject of the article. Thank you. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 12:46, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

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