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The Signpost: 01 August 2011
- In the news: Consensus of Wikipedia authors questioned about Shakespeare authorship; 10 biggest edit wars on Wikipedia; brief news
- Research interview: The Huggle Experiment: interview with the research team
- WikiProject report: Little Project, Big Heart — WikiProject Croatia
- Featured content: Featured pictures is back in town
- Arbitration report: Proposed decision submitted for one case
- Technology report: Developers descend on Haifa; wikitech-l discussions; brief news
re: Neki
Very cool. I fixed those three links. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 15:28, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
The Signpost: 08 August 2011
- News and notes: Wikimania a success; board letter controversial; and evidence showing bitten newbies don't stay
- In the news: Israeli news focuses on Wikimania; worldwide coverage of contributor decline and gender gap; brief news
- WikiProject report: Shooting the breeze with WikiProject Firearms
- Featured content: The best of the week
- Arbitration report: Manipulation of BLPs case opened; one case comes to a close
- Technology report: Wikimania technology roundup; brief news
Removal of content
I didn't realise I had. My apologies it was not intentional. Stupidstudent (talk) 17:55, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
The Signpost: 15 August 2011
- Women and Wikipedia: New Research, WikiChix
- WikiProject report: The Oregonians
- Featured content: The best of the week
- Arbitration report: Abortion case opened, two more still in progress
- Technology report: Forks, upload slowness and mobile redirection
The Signpost: 22 August 2011
- News and notes: Girl Geeks edit while they dine, candidates needed for forthcoming steward elections, image referendum opens
- WikiProject report: Images in Motion – WikiProject Animation
- Featured content: JJ Harrison on avian photography
- Arbitration report: After eleven moves, name for islands now under arbitration
- Technology report: Engineering report, sprint, and more testers needed
The Signpost: 29 August 2011
- News and notes: Abuse filter on all Wikimedia sites; Foundation's report for July; editor survey results
- Recent research: Article promotion by collaboration; deleted revisions; Wikipedia's use of open access; readers unimpressed by FAs; swine flu anxiety
- The pending changes fiasco: How an attempt to answer one question turned into a quagmire
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Tennis
- Featured content: The best of the week
- Arbitration report: Four existing cases
- Technology report: The bugosphere, new mobile site and MediaWiki 1.18 close in on deployment
The Signpost: 05 September 2011
- News and notes: 24,000 votes later and community position on image filter still unclear; first index of editor satisfaction appears positive
- WikiProject report: Riding with WikiProject London Transport
- Sister projects: Wiki Loves Monuments 2011
- Featured content: The best of the week
- Opinion essay: The copyright crisis, and why we should care
- Arbitration report: BLP case closed; Cirt-Jayen466 nearly there; AUSC reshuffle
The Signpost: 12 September 2011
- News and notes: Foundation reports on research, Kenya trip, Mumbai Wikiconference; Canada, Hungary and Estonia; English Wikinews forked
- WikiProject report: Politics in the Pacific: WikiProject Australian Politics
- Featured content: Wikipedians explain two new featured pictures
- Arbitration report: Ohconfucius sanctions removed, Cirt desysopped 6:5 and a call for CU/OS applications
- Technology report: What is: agile development? and new mobile site goes live
- Opinion essay: The Walrus and the Carpenter
The Signpost: 19 September 2011
- From the editor: Changes to The Signpost
- News and notes: Ushahidi research tool announced, Citizendium five years on: success or failure?, and Wikimedia DC officially recognised
- Sister projects: On the Wikinews fork
- WikiProject report: Back to school
- Featured content: The best of the week
- Arbitration report: ArbCom narrowly rejects application to open new case
- Technology report: MediaWiki 1.18 deployment begins, the alleged "injustice" of WMF engineering policy, and Wikimedians warned of imminent fix to magic word
- Popular pages: Article stats for the English Wikipedia in the last year
The Signpost: 26 September 2011
- Recent research: Top female Wikipedians, reverted newbies, link spam, social influence on admin votes, Wikipedians' weekends, WikiSym previews
- News and notes: WMF strikes down enwiki consensus, academic journal partnerships, and eyebrows raised over minors editing porn-related content
- In the news: Sockpuppeting journalist recants, search dominance threatened, new novels replete with Wikipedia references
- WikiProject report: A project in overdrive: WikiProject Automobiles
- Featured content: The best of the week
The Signpost: 3 October 2011
- News and notes: Italian Wikipedia shuts down over new privacy law; Wikimedia Sverige produce short Wikipedia films, Sue Gardner calls for empathy
- In the news: QRpedia launches to acclaim, Jimbo talks social media, Wikipedia attracts fungi, terriers and Greeks bearing gifts
- WikiProject report: Kia ora WikiProject New Zealand
- Featured content: Reviewers praise new featured topic: National treasures of Japan
- Arbitration report: Last call for comments on CheckUser and Oversight teams
- Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
The Signpost: 10 October 2011
- Opinion essay: The conservatism of Wikimedians
- News and notes: Largest ever donation to WMF, final findings of editor survey released, 'Terms of use' heavily revised
- In the news: Uproar over Italian shutdown, the varying reception of BLP mischief, and Wikipedia's doctor-evangelist
- WikiProject report: The World's Oldest People
- Featured content: The weird and the disgusting
The Signpost: 17 October 2011
- News and notes: Arabic Wikipedia gets video intros, Smithsonian gifts images, and WikiProject Conservatism scrutinized
- In the news: Why Wikipedia survives while others haven't; Wikipedia as an emerging social model; Jimbo speaks out
- WikiProject report: History in your neighborhood: WikiProject NRHP
- Featured content: Brazil's boom-time dreams of naval power: The ed17 explains the background to a new featured topic
New Page Patrol survey
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The Signpost: 24 October 2011
- From the editors: A call for contributors
- Opinion essay: There is a deadline
- Interview: Contracting for the Foundation
- WikiProject report: Great WikiProject Logos
- Featured content: The best of the week
- Arbitration report: Abortion; request for amendment on Climate Change case
- Technology report: WMF launches coding challenge, WMDE starts hiring for major new project
The Signpost: 31 October 2011
- Opinion essay: The monster under the rug
- Recent research: WikiSym; predicting editor survival; drug information found lacking; RfAs and trust; Wikipedia's search engine ranking justified
- News and notes: German Wikipedia continues image filter protest
- Discussion report: Proposal to return this section from hiatus is successful
- WikiProject report: 'In touch' with WikiProject Rugby union
- Featured content: The best of the week
- Arbitration report: Abortion case stalls, request for clarification on Δ, discretionary sanctions streamlined
- Technology report: Wikipedia Zero announced; New Orleans successfully hacked
Wikimedia Stories Project
Aloha!
My name is Victor Grigas, I’m a storyteller at the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco working on collecting unique and interesting stories from Wikipedians that can be used to compel donations for the 2011 fundraiser.
I found your user name on this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Chicago
If you are interested in participating, and would like to schedule a telephone or Skype interview with me, please send me an email (vgrigas@wikimedia.org) along with any questions you may have.
Thanks for your time!
Victor, User:Victorgrigas Victor Grigas (talk) 22:51, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
PS If you know of anyone with whom I should speak please let me know :)
The Signpost: 7 November2011
- Special report: A post-mortem on the Indian Education Program pilot
- Discussion report: Special report on the ArbCom Elections steering RfC
- WikiProject report: Booting up with WikiProject Computer Science
- Featured content: Slow week for Featured content
- Arbitration report: Δ saga returns to arbitration, while the Abortion case stalls for another week
The Signpost: 14 November 2011
- News and notes: ArbCom nominations open, participation grants finalized, survey results on perceptions on Wikipedia released
- WikiProject report: Having a Conference with WikiProject India
- Arbitration report: Abortion and Betacommand 3 in evidence phase, three case requests outstanding
File:South Bend Airport Route Map.PNG listed for deletion
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:South Bend Airport Route Map.PNG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Skier Dude (talk) 07:42, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
The Signpost: 21 November 2011
- Discussion report: Much ado about censorship
- WikiProject report: Working on a term paper with WikiProject Academic Journals
- Featured content: The best of the week
- Arbitration report: End in sight for Abortion case, nominations in 2011 elections
- Technology report: Mumbai and Brighton hacked; horizontal lists have got class
The Signpost: 28 November 2011
- News and notes: Arb's resignation sparks lightning RfC, Fundraiser 2011 off to a strong start, GLAM in Qatar
- In the news: The closed, unfriendly world of Wikipedia, fundraiser fun and games, and chemists vs pornstars
- Recent research: Quantifying quality collaboration patterns, systemic bias, POV pushing, the impact of news events, and editors' reputation
- WikiProject report: The Signpost scoops The Bugle
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The Signpost: 05 December 2011
- News and notes: Amsterdam gets the GLAM treatment, fundraising marches on, and a flourish of new admins
- In the news: A Wikistream of real time edits, a call for COI reform, and cracks in the ivory tower of knowledge
- Discussion report: Trial proposed for tool apprenticeship
- WikiProject report: This article is about WikiProject Disambiguation. For other uses...
- Featured content: This week's Signpost is for the birds!
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The Signpost: 12 December 2011
- Opinion essay: Wikipedia in Academe – and vice versa
- News and notes: Research project banner ads run afoul of community
- In the news: Bell Pottinger investigation, Gardner on gender gap, and another plagiarist caught red-handed
- WikiProject report: Spanning Nine Time Zones with WikiProject Russia
- Featured content: Wehwalt gives his fifty cents; spies, ambushes, sieges, and Entombment
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The Signpost: 19 December 2011
- News and notes: Anti-piracy act has Wikimedians on the defensive, WMF annual report released, and Indic language dynamics
- In the news: To save the wiki: strike first, then makeover?
- Discussion report: Polls, templates, and other December discussions
- WikiProject report: A dalliance with the dismal scientists of WikiProject Economics
- Featured content: Panoramas with Farwestern and a good week for featured content
- Arbitration report: The community elects eight arbitrators
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The Signpost: 26 December 2011
- Recent research: Psychiatrists: Wikipedia better than Britannica; spell-checking Wikipedia; Wikipedians smart but fun; structured biological data
- News and notes: Fundraiser passes 2010 watermark, brief news
- WikiProject report: The Tree of Life
- Arbitration report: Three open cases, one set for acceptance, arbitrators formally appointed by Jimmy Wales
- Technology report: Wikimedia in Go Daddy boycott, and why you should 'Join the Swarm'
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The Signpost: 02 January 2012
- Interview: The Gardner interview
- News and notes: Things bubbling along as Wikimedians enjoy their holidays
- WikiProject report: Where are they now? Part III
- Featured content: Ghosts of featured content past, present, and future
- Arbitration report: New case accepted, four open cases, terms begin for new arbitrators
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The Signpost: 09 January 2012
- Technological roadmap: 2011's technological achievements in review, and what 2012 may hold
- News and notes: Fundraiser 2011 ends with a bang
- WikiProject report: From Traditional to Experimental: WikiProject Jazz
- Featured content: Contentious FAC debate: a week in review
- Arbitration report: Four open cases, proposed decision in Betacommand 3
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The Signpost: 16 January 2012
- Special report: English Wikipedia to go dark on January 18
- Sister projects: What are our sisters up to now?
- News and notes: WMF on the looming SOPA blackout, Wikipedia turns 11, and Commons passes 12 million files
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Beer
- Featured content: Lecen on systemic bias in featured content
- Arbitration report: Four open cases, Betacommand case deadlocked, Muhammad images close near
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The Signpost: 23 January 2012
- News and notes: SOPA blackout, Orange partnership
- WikiProject report: The Golden Horseshoe: WikiProject Toronto
- Featured content: Interview with Muhammad Mahdi Karim and the best of the week
- Arbitration report: Four open cases, proposed decision in Muhammad images, AUSC call for applications
- Technology report: Looking ahead to MediaWiki 1.19 and related issues
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The Signpost: 30 January 2012
- In the news: Zambian wiki-assassins, Foundation über alles, editor engagement and the innovation plateau
- Recent research: Language analyses examine power structure and political slant; Wikipedia compared to commercial databases
- WikiProject report: Digging Up WikiProject Palaeontology
- Featured content: Featured content soaring this week
- Arbitration report: Five open cases, voting on proposed decisions in two cases
- Technology report: Why "Lua" is on everybody's lips, and when to expect MediaWiki 1.19
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2011 new england tornado outbreak
I would like to change some information that is not accurate and add some accurate information, but it asks me to give a source, but this is from my knowledge. For example, I would like to add in something about Monson. I am extremely vigilant of the scientific Fujita scale, and i know it inside and out and the elements that go into it. I would like to add that the degree of structural damage in Monson suggested damage of EF-4 intensity, although it was officially confirmed an EF-3. I cannot source my knowledge. So my edit is not accepted. How can i fix this, i want to make sure that the information on here is accurate and people know the truth. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.106.68.94 (talk) 19:59, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
The Signpost: 06 February 2012
- News and notes: The Foundation visits Tunisia, analyzes donors
- In the news: Leading scholar hails Wikipedia, historians urged to contribute while PR pros remain shunned
- Discussion report: Discussion swarms around Templates for deletion and returning editors of colourful pasts
- WikiProject report: The Eye of the Storm: WikiProject Tropical Cyclones
- Featured content: Talking architecture with MrPanyGoff
- Arbitration report: Four open cases, final decision in Muhammad images, Betacommand 3 near closure
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The Signpost: 13 February 2012
- Special report: Fundraising proposals spark a furore among the chapters
- News and notes: Foundation launches Legal and Community Advocacy department
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Stub Sorting
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Why does King Arthur Court keep getting created?
I'm the one who prodded King Arthur Court, Tennessee some time back. Here's my stated reason: "I live in the local area, and I've never heard of King Arthur Court as an unincorporated community near here. Google didn't find any hits other than Wikipedia and various pages auto-generated based on the GNIS entry. Studying the map, I determined that this is the name of a residential subdivision in the Karns-Powell area. Obscure residential subdivisions do not deserve encyclopedia articles, even if they have GNIS entries."
I don't want to say how many decades I've lived in this area, but suffice it to say that it's long. I stand by my earlier assertions. (And I don't know how this subdivision, which doesn't even appear to be very big, got itself into GNIS.)
Anderson County, Tennessee, and Knox County, Tennessee, have scores of unincorporated places that lack Wikipedia articles that are more significant than King Arthur Court, which doesn't mean they are significant. However, unlike "King Arthur Court" these places (names like Frost Bottom, Byington, Rosedale, Dutch Valley, New River, Medford, Bethel, Kimberlin Heights, and Heiskell) show up occasionally in newspaper obituaries, election precinct names, etc., indicating some inkling of a real existence. "King Arthur Court" does not.
What gave you the idea that King Arthur Court is a notable place that needs an article -- and even deserves to be enshrined in two county templates? --Orlady (talk) 06:00, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
- Mind you I didn't have full access to what your prod said, all I know is that the place was deleted because it seemed it didn't exist. The only reason I even found out about this place was through Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Avounbaka, where the nominator cited King Arthur Court as a fictitious entity which caused me to look at it in the first place; the USGS is the premier source of GIS and cartographic information worldwide, and to think they would create a false entry had me up in arms to an extent. Last I checked, and bear in mind I have been absent from Wikipedia since fall, there is a precedent that "populated places" are notable for inclusion. If you need help creating articles on other communities in the area, I would be more then obliged to help. -Marcusmax(speak) 13:15, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
- Well, it is clear from lists like http://tennessee.hometownlocator.com/tn/knox/ (a commercial list which appears to indiscriminantly include all of the "populated places" that GNIS lists in Knox County, Tennessee) that GNIS is now registering every residential subdivision, trailer park, or neighborhood for which someone has recorded a name on a map. IMO, this does not make every residential subdivision or trailer park notable and worthy of becoming the topic of an encyclopedia article. And it totally defeats the value of a county navbox template when the list of "unincorporated communities" in the county is diluted by the addition of residential subdivisions, trailer parks, and other non-notable places. I don't have access to the source where you found that 1994 newspaper article about King Arthur Court, but I bet you could find something in a local newspaper at some time or another concerning every platted subdivision or trailer park in the county -- that doesn't make them worthy subjects for an encyclopedia. --Orlady (talk) 14:51, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
- Looking at the Bearden Quadrangle, there are quite a few places that sound like subdivisions; Oxmoor Hills, Imperial Estates, Spanish Trails all subdivision/trailer park sounding communities. King Arthur Court was registered in the federal database in 1980, but it first appears on topographic maps in 1978. It seems that the Tennessee Valley Authority is responsible for these updates, and these communities being included in the federal registry. I see 3 solutions to permanently resolve this issue, either:
- A.) We rework the county navbox to include an "Other" category of sorts, for these pseudo-communities
- B.) Find some way to redirect these communities into a parent article (County, township etc.)
- C.) Go to AFD, and set a firm precedent on places like this.
- This is what I am thinking right now, unless you have a better idea. I recognize the oddity of this situation, but these are still recognized locations both on the federal and local level. -Marcusmax(speak) 15:29, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
- Well, it is clear from lists like http://tennessee.hometownlocator.com/tn/knox/ (a commercial list which appears to indiscriminantly include all of the "populated places" that GNIS lists in Knox County, Tennessee) that GNIS is now registering every residential subdivision, trailer park, or neighborhood for which someone has recorded a name on a map. IMO, this does not make every residential subdivision or trailer park notable and worthy of becoming the topic of an encyclopedia article. And it totally defeats the value of a county navbox template when the list of "unincorporated communities" in the county is diluted by the addition of residential subdivisions, trailer parks, and other non-notable places. I don't have access to the source where you found that 1994 newspaper article about King Arthur Court, but I bet you could find something in a local newspaper at some time or another concerning every platted subdivision or trailer park in the county -- that doesn't make them worthy subjects for an encyclopedia. --Orlady (talk) 14:51, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
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- Yes, those are subdivisions. The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federal agency and it produces topographic mapping in its region. A quick look around the country leads me to think that subdivisions and trailer parks are creeping into GNIS for non-TVA regions, too. For example, see the trailer park listings on http://wisconsin.hometownlocator.com/wi/dane/ . Creating articles for every such "place" and defending them by saying "GNIS made me do it" seems like a colossal waste of effort, although it likely would be appreciated by self-interested real estate developers and trailer park operators everywhere. --Orlady (talk) 20:17, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
- You raise valuable points, this will cause me to take GNIS data with a grain of salt...do you think it is possible to redirect King Arthur Court to an article for a higher geographic division? -Marcusmax(speak) 20:40, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
- Don't believe everything you read in a U.S. federal government database! As for King Arthur Court, it appears to be part of the Karns area. --Orlady (talk) 05:06, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- Orlady, a thousand thanks to you...I had no idea that USGS was adding such trivial places to their databases. I will keep a sharp eye out for similar articles, and work to make sure an "unincorporated place" is not confused with a trailer park. -Marcusmax(speak) 16:03, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- Don't believe everything you read in a U.S. federal government database! As for King Arthur Court, it appears to be part of the Karns area. --Orlady (talk) 05:06, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
- You raise valuable points, this will cause me to take GNIS data with a grain of salt...do you think it is possible to redirect King Arthur Court to an article for a higher geographic division? -Marcusmax(speak) 20:40, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, those are subdivisions. The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federal agency and it produces topographic mapping in its region. A quick look around the country leads me to think that subdivisions and trailer parks are creeping into GNIS for non-TVA regions, too. For example, see the trailer park listings on http://wisconsin.hometownlocator.com/wi/dane/ . Creating articles for every such "place" and defending them by saying "GNIS made me do it" seems like a colossal waste of effort, although it likely would be appreciated by self-interested real estate developers and trailer park operators everywhere. --Orlady (talk) 20:17, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 20 February 2012
- Special report: The plight of the new page patrollers
- News and notes: Fundraiser row continues, new director of engineering
- Discussion report: Discussion on copyrighted files from non-US relation states
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The Signpost: 27 February 2012
- News and notes: Finance meeting fallout, Gardner recommendations forthcoming
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- Discussion report: Focus on admin conduct and editor retention
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The Signpost: 05 March 2012
- News and notes: Chapter-selected Board seats, an invite to the Teahouse, patrol becomes triage, and this week in history
- In the news: Heights reached in search rankings, privacy and mental health info; clouds remain over content policing
- Discussion report: COI and NOTCENSORED: policies under discussion
- WikiProject report: We don't bite: WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles
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The Signpost: 12 March 2012
- Interview: Liaising with the Education Program
- Women and Wikipedia: Women's history, what we're missing, and why it matters
- Arbitration analysis: A look at new arbitrators
- Discussion report: Nothing changes as long discussions continue
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Women's History
- Featured content: Extinct humans, birds, and Birdman
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The Signpost: 19 March 2012
- News and notes: Chapters Council proposals take form as research applications invited for Wikipedia Academy and HighBeam accounts
- Discussion report: Article Rescue Squadron in need of rescue yet again
- WikiProject report: Lessons from another Wikipedia: Czech WikiProject Protected Areas
- Featured content: Featured content on the upswing!
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The Signpost: 26 March 2012
- News and notes: Controversial content saga continues, while the Foundation tries to engage editors with merchandising and restructuring
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Rock Music
- Featured content: Malfunctioning sharks, toothcombs and a famous mother: featured content for the week
- Arbitration report: Race and intelligence review at evidence, article titles closed
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- Education report: Universities unite for GLAM; and High Schools get their due.
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The Signpost: 02 April 2012
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- WikiProject report: The Signpost scoops The Signpost
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The Signpost: 09 April 2012
- News and notes: Projects launched in Brazil and the Middle East as advisors sought for funds committee
- WikiProject report: The Land of Steady Habits: WikiProject Connecticut
- Featured content: Assassination, genocide, internment, murder, and crucifixion: the bloodiest of the week
- Arbitration report: Arbitration evidence-limit motions, two open cases
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The Signpost: 16 April 2012
- Arbitration analysis: Inside the Arbitration Committee Mailing List
- Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Facilitator: Silver seren
- Discussion report: The future of pending changes
- WikiProject report: The Butterflies and Moths of WikiProject Lepidoptera
- Featured content: A few good sports: association football, rugby league, and the Olympics vie for medals
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The Signpost: 23 April 2012
- Investigative report: Spin doctors spin Jimmy's "bright line"
- WikiProject report: Skeptics and Believers: WikiProject The X-Files
- Featured content: A mirror (or seventeen) on this week's featured content
- Arbitration report: Evidence submissions close in Rich Farmbrough case, vote on proposed decision in R&I Review
- Technology report: Wikimedia Labs: soon to be at the cutting edge of MediaWiki development?
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The Signpost: 30 April 2012
- Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Consultant: Pete Forsyth
- Discussion report: 'ReferenceTooltips' by default
- WikiProject report: The Cartographers of WikiProject Maps
- Featured content: Featured content spreads its wings
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The Signpost: 07 May 2012
- Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Communicator: Phil Gomes
- News and notes: Hong Kong to host Wikimania 2013
- WikiProject report: Say What?: WikiProject Languages
- Featured content: This week at featured content: How much wood would a Wood Duck chuck if a Wood Duck could chuck wood?
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The Signpost: 14 May 2012
- WikiProject report: Welcome to Wikipedia with a cup of tea and all your questions answered - at the Teahouse
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Regional Juristrication
FYI: Regional Jurisdiction means naff all, as the JTWC prove every time they issue an advisory.Jason Rees (talk) 20:52, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
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Arkansas Tech University
I also think a lot of things were copied from the university website, since I cleared out a copyvio section about the halls a month ago. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 04:10, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
- Because of the copyright issues I feel it has (and as an recent alumni of this university), I agree it has a lot of stuff that needs to go completely. I can try and help, but not sure what time I have now. The only thing I know for sure is correct is the halls and also the Greek Life. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 04:27, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
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Kim Jong-un
So about that picture issue on the Kim Jong-un page, is what I did technically wrong? Did I violate any parameters of wikipedia? Would it be possible to revert back to my change by concurrence of other admins and members? The substance of reader feedback on that page is lack of a picture. --Spartan7W (talk) 10:50, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
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