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Please comment on Talk:Sanctions against Iran

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Please comment on Talk:Rape and pregnancy controversies in United States elections, 2012

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WP:Snuggle is live at snuggle.grouplens.org

 
The snuggle logo

Snuggle, the newcomer socialization tool I've been building, is finally ready for general use. All you need to do to get started is point your browser to https://snuggle.grouplens.org. Let me know if you run into any trouble. I'll be watching WT:Snuggle. Or you can also just contact me directly. Thanks for your patience.

See also:

--EpochFail(talkwork) 19:52, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Category:Films starring Jim Carrey

Category:Films starring Jim Carrey, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Pichpich (talk) 03:47, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:India Against Corruption

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WikiProject AFC needs your help... again

WikiProject Articles for creation Backlog Elimination Drive
 

WikiProject AFC is holding a one month long Backlog Elimination Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from July 1st, 2013 – July 31st, 2013.

Awards will be given out for all reviewers participating in the drive in the form of barnstars at the end of the drive.
There is a backlog of over 1000 articles, so start reviewing articles! Visit the drive's page and help out!

A new version of our AfC helper script is released! It includes many bug fixes, new improvements and features, code cleanup, and more page cleanups. If you want to see a full list of changes, go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Helper script/Development page. Please report bugs and feature requests there, too! Thanks.

Delivered at 12:50, 19 June 2013 (UTC) by EdwardsBot (talk), on behalf of WikiProject AFC

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39   Antisa Khvichava (talk)           Unencyclopaedic
60   Multiprotein complex (talk)           Merge
120   File archiver (talk)           Merge
36   48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (United States) (talk)       Merge
21   When You Kiss Me (talk)     Wikify
2,815   Black Panther Party (talk) Wikify
16   When (Shania Twain song) (talk)       Wikify
4   Madness in Valencia (talk)         Orphan
0   Live in Berkeley, CA (talk)           Orphan
1   Nashville Rehearsals (talk)           Orphan
1   Tommy Rovelstad (talk)           Stub
7   Victor Batarseh (talk)           Stub
4   Religious Studies (journal) (talk)           Stub
12   L.A. Posse (talk)           Stub
78   Karl Geary (talk)           Stub
2   Nikko Landeros (talk)         Stub

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Visual Editor

Hey Camyoung54

I'm sending you this because you've made quite a few edits to the template namespace in the past couple of months. If I've got this wrong, or if I haven't but you're not interested in my request, don't worry; this is the only notice I'm sending out on the subject :).

So, as you know (or should know - we sent out a centralnotice and several watchlist notices) we're planning to deploy the VisualEditor on Monday, 1 July, as the default editor. For those of us who prefer markup editing, fear not; we'll still be able to use the markup editor, which isn't going anywhere.

What's important here, though, is that the VisualEditor features an interactive template inspector; you click an icon on a template and it shows you the parameters, the contents of those fields, and human-readable parameter names, along with descriptions of what each parameter does. Personally, I find this pretty awesome, and from Monday it's going to be heavily used, since, as said, the VisualEditor will become the default.

The thing that generates the human-readable names and descriptions is a small JSON data structure, loaded through an extension called TemplateData. I'm reaching out to you in the hopes that you'd be willing and able to put some time into adding TemplateData to high-profile templates. It's pretty easy to understand (heck, if I can write it, anyone can) and you can find a guide here, along with a list of prominent templates, although I suspect we can all hazard a guess as to high-profile templates that would benefit from this. Hopefully you're willing to give it a try; the more TemplateData sections get added, the better the interface can be. If you run into any problems, drop a note on the Feedback page.

Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:54, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:SF1 (television)

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Please comment on Talk:List of Wikipedia controversies

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List of unaccredited institutions - Team Impact Christian University

Hi there Cam

I requested that TICU be listed as unaccredited and you asked (quite rightly) for a source. This is a letter from the Board of Regents in Louisiana to Team Impact, repudiating both TICU's and WWAC's claim of credentials.

Letter from Board of Regents, Lousiana

God bless you, Errol 41.174.1.96 (talk) 08:47, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

IRC office hours for wiki-mentors and Snuggle users

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Hi! I just wanted to post a reminder that this discussion will be happening in about 24 hours. If you haven't already used Snuggle, I recommend giving it a try before the meeting. I'll be in #wikimedia-office connect a half hour early to answer any questions you have. --EpochFail(talkwork) 16:19, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Eurovision

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439   Henry III of France (talk)   Add sources
20   Ethical non-naturalism (talk)           Add sources
12   Heartbeat (King Crimson song) (talk)       Add sources
277   Need You Now (song) (talk) Cleanup
5,567   Black Panther Party (talk) Cleanup
2   Music Collection of the National and University Library in Zagreb (talk)           Cleanup
725   Jesse James Hollywood (talk)     Expand
1,305   Optical fiber cable (talk)     Expand
252   Tony Levin (talk)       Expand
29   Universal prescriptivism (talk)           Unencyclopaedic
18   Duel (U.S. game show) (talk)         Unencyclopaedic
36   Thela Hun Ginjeet (talk)       Unencyclopaedic
46   Multiprotein complex (talk)           Merge
193   Bethany (biblical village) (talk)     Merge
33   48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (United States) (talk)       Merge
20   When You Kiss Me (talk)     Wikify
68   Ecosystem management (talk)         Wikify
23   Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under? (talk)     Wikify
3   Madness in Valencia (talk)         Orphan
4   Gulakai Kot (Shergol Kot) (talk)           Orphan
1   Live in Berkeley, CA (talk)           Orphan
2   Tommy Rovelstad (talk)           Stub
4   Steve Cash (sledge hockey) (talk)         Stub
487   White widow (Cannabis) (talk)       Stub
3   Nikko Landeros (talk)         Stub
43   Seasons 52 (talk)           Stub
4   Stig Tore Svee (talk)           Stub

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Views/Day
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Quality
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The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

Content
Is more content needed?
Headings
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Images
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Links
Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?
Sources
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Please comment on Talk:Next United Kingdom general election

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