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The Editor of the Week initiative has been recognizing editors since 2013 for their hard work and dedication. Editing Wikipedia can be disheartening and tedious at times; the weekly Editor of the Week award lets its recipients know that their positive behaviour and collaborative spirit is appreciated. The response from the honorees has been enthusiastic and thankful.

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Some of the Aeolian Islands
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Some of the human organs
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The Sun and planets of the Solar System (distances not to scale) are examples of astronomical objects.
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Speedy deletion nomination of Kyle Kulinski

 

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Hi, I've userfied Kyle Kulinski to User:Buffaboy/Kyle Kulinski. While I found that it met the speedy deletion criterion applied, there's a good case that you're interested in finding sources to support the article eventually. You might also find common cause with AshLin, who also had an attempt at creating the same article userfied to User:AshLin/Kyle Kulinski. {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 03:21, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

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Editing News #1—2017

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A new wikitext editing mode is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. The 2017 wikitext editor has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures to enable the ⧼Visualeditor-preference-newwikitexteditor-label⧽.

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