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National Raisin Reserve - {{toofewopinions}}

FYI, I removed your {{toofewopinions}} tag from the National Raisin Reserve page since there was no accompanying talk page note about your concerns. I also added one sentence on the benefit of the program, but I doubt that will address your concern. You're welcome to add the tag back if you think it's merited, but if you do, could you please place an accompanying note on the talk page detailing your concerns? Thanks. --skeptical scientist (talk) 20:44, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

• Hi Skeptical scientist I did not initially add the template, but simply moved it to what seemed to be a more representative place for it in the article (diff). I'm fine with its removal. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:34, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2017)

George Lazenby at the Supanova Pop Culture Expo in 2014 Hello, Northamerica1000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: George Lazenby Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Spelling • Pond hockey Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 16:16, 25 September 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Need project notices

Good day, NA...please see WikiProject_LibrariesRfc - Library of Congress Classification subpages which probaby should have been added to the TP of Library of Congress Classification but that isn't what happened, probably because it's such a specialty question. Not sure if it needs more coverage or if it could simple be closed as keep, and notice of the decision added to the article TP? ^{Atsme📞📧} 16:56, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

• Hi @Atsme: I'm busy working on other matters, and may not become involved at the RfC. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:43, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Merge of PMCP

Hi Northamerica1000,

I boldly performed a selective merge of the PMCP content into Program_and_System_Information_Protocol#Programming_Metadata_Communication_Protocol per the AfD outcome. Please feel free to edit to taste. --Mark viking (talk) 17:43, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

• Greetings Mark viking: Thank you for the notification. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:09, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Very Impressed

I made this account to clear backlogs and to help improve the encyclopedia. I work in an office and edit in my free time. I joined Project Cleanup, to help fix up articles that were most in need of work. Last Night, I decided to cleanup an article and I noticed something. I noticed that half the articles in the Cleanup page were archived and cleaned. I looked at the history section and looked through every edit of yours. You do not know how impressed I was to see the work you did. Ever since day one of my wikipedia editing days, I have been impressed with your account. I always see your name and every time I do I know what a good person you are.

Thank you so much for your work to Wikipedia. I hope we can work together to continue to make wikipedia a better place. AmericanAir88 (talk) 17:59, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

		The Admin's Barnstar
		For your Fantastic Work and Contributions to help improve wikipedia AmericanAir88 (talk) 17:59, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

• Hi AmericanAir88: thanks for the words of encouragement, which is inspiring. Just so you know, I didn't clean up all of the articles listed at the WP:CLEAN page, although I did cleanup some. Some of the entries were dated and the issues presented at Cleanup were no longer existent in some of the article too. Anyway, thanks again for the kind words, and thanks for your work to improve the encyclopedia. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:20, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

• North America Thank you so much for replying, I am so impressed with your work. If you look on WP:CLEAN I just sorted out the entire archive for you! Cheers! AmericanAir88 (talk) 12:56, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

• AmericanAir88: I noticed that, and thanks. The sorting may or may not be necessary, but it does make the archive page easier to navigate. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:00, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Thankyou

For the greeting - I've been lurking around Wikipedia for awhile, but that list of links will come in very useful; lotsa good stuff there. I don't recall seeing the editor index one before. Curdle (talk) 11:37, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi @Curdle: Enjoy the template. For a more detailed one that I created a while back based upon other similar templates, see Template:Welcome-detailed. You can use it to welcome other new/newer users if you'd like using: {{subst:Welcome-detailed}}. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:58, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

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• Draft:Sulfurimonas

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• Draft:Orville D. Cochran

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2017).

Administrator changes

Boing! said Zebedee • Ansh666 • Ad Orientem

Tonywalton • AmiDaniel • Silence • BanyanTree • Magioladitis • Vanamonde93 • Mr.Z-man • Jdavidb • Jakec • Ram-Man • Yelyos • Kurt Shaped Box

Guideline and policy news

• Following a successful proposal to create it, a new user right called "edit filter helper" is now assignable and revocable by administrators. The right allows non-administrators to view the details of private edit filters, but not to edit them.
• Following a discussion about mass-application of ECP and how the need for logging and other details of an evolving consensus may have been missed by some administrators, a rough guide to extended confirmed protection has been written. This information page describes how the extended-confirmed aspects of the protection policy are currently being applied by administrators.

Technical news

• You can now search for IP ranges at Special:Contributions. Some log pages and Special:DeletedContributions are not yet supported. Wildcards (e.g. 192.168.0.*) are also not supported, but the popular contribsrange gadget will continue to work.

Arbitration

• Community consultation on the 2017 candidates for CheckUser and Oversight has concluded. The Arbitration Committee will appoint successful candidates by October 11.
• A request for comment is open regarding the structure, rules, and procedures of the December 2017 Arbitration Committee election, and how to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

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Tech News: 2017-40

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now use preload features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it. [1]

Changes later this week

• If you have turned on "Automatically enable most beta features" you will now get the 2017 wikitext editor. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature. [2]
• Special:Block and Special:Unblock will get the OOUI look. [3]
• The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October. [4]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar).

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Future changes

• A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can give feedback on this feature. [5]
• The search function has used fallback languages for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can read more and give feedback.

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23:25, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

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AfD..

For some strange reason ,Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Noel Betowski has been closed as a NAC.Could be a script error! Please amend it.Regards:)Winged Blades of Godric^{On leave} 09:36, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi Godric on Leave: That close occurred before I was an admin on Wikipedia, so the NAC note should stay. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:36, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Facepalm --Err...It's fully mysterical how I managed to come across the article (which definitely has zero overlap with my editing interests) and then across it's AfD which happened years back! All that I remember was me scouring through the AfD logs of the past few days! It's equally mysterious how I manged to overlook the time-stamp after your close.Regrets:)Winged Blades of Godric^{On leave} 15:57, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Godric on Leave: It's all good. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:59, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

At last found out the connection.Strangely this appears at Wikipedia:List of AfDs closing today#Noel Betowski.Any idea?Winged Blades of Godric^{On leave} 16:18, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Godric on Leave: Clearly some sort of glitch somewhere. I likely won't research this, though. Working on other matters. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:21, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Advice

How do I approach an administrator for some friendly advice on how to de-escalate a potential conflict? I've read as many policies as I can find and can't seem to find what I need. I don't care if I am 'right' and another editor is 'wrong'. I only want to do the right thing. IF there is conflict I understand the options, but I want to stop it before it happens. Best Regard, Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 22:45, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

• Hi Barbara (WVS): Not sure. There's all kinds of information at WP:DR, but this concerns an actual conflict, rather than a potential one. For potential conflicts, my personal recommendation would be to discuss the matter with the user you may have a potential conflict with, in hopes to reach an agreement or compromise. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:41, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2017)

Ivan Tsarevich, a hero of Russian folklore Hello, Northamerica1000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Hero Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: George Lazenby • Spelling Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 2 October 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bridgette Andersen

When does this close? Paul Benjamin Austin (talk) 11:09, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

• Hi Paul Benjamin Austin: The discussion was closed by another user. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:34, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Phased plasma gun

Only the nominator opining delete, one keep, two merges. Why relist that, rather than closing as a merge? That seems to be pretty normal participation levels. Jclemens (talk) 18:33, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

• I felt that the discussion would benefit from additional participation, which has subsequently occurred. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:26, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest

Hi. Thankyou for your participation in the challenge series or/and contests. In November The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There will be over $4000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. If this would appeal to you and you think you'd be interested in contributing new articles on women during this month for your region or wherever please sign up in the participants section. The articles done may also count towards the ongoing challenge. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate and raise money to buy books about women for others to use, this is also fine. Help would also be appreciated in drawing up the lists of missing articles. If you think of any missing articles please add them to the sub lists by continent at Missing articles. Thankyou, and if taking part, good luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:50, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2017)

Wikipedia is sometimes criticized for being used as a source of circular reporting. Hello, Northamerica1000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Circular reporting Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Hero • George Lazenby Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 9 October 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Tech News: 2017-41

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The number of active users listed by {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}} and on Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too. [6]
• Previously you could create wiki links starting with two colons. Now you need to use one colon. [[::File:X.jpg]] now has to be [[:File:X.jpg]]. There is now a new Linter category. You can see a list on Special:Linterrors/multi-colon-escape. The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. You can read more about using Linter. [7]

Problems

• You will not be able to edit or upload files to Commons for around 30 minutes on 11 October. This will start at 06:00 UTC. This is because of work to let Commons show 3D models. [8]

Changes later this week

• The font in the edit window is monospace by default. Today you can change preferences to another font family or use "the browser default" instead of monospace. Switching to the browser default has only changed the font on Macs. The option to use browser default will be removed this week. [9]
• If you want to print a page or make a PDF of a page you can do so in the side menu. The way the pages look when you do this will change. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).

Meetings

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14:21, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Loggerhead Key

Hello! Your submission of Loggerhead Key at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 21:28, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

New ways to Promote WP:CLEAN

Hello NorthAmerica,

Thank you so much for your contributions to WP:CLEAN. Your dedication to improving the encyclopedia is very impressive and I am very proud of you.

I have been noticing that "Project Cleanup" has only two prominent editors to it. You and I. Project Cleanup is supported to be a place where wikipedians can post articles that they think need cleaning up but it seems the only people posting new articles are you and I. I looked back at the archive and it seemed at some points, many wikipedians were posting on Project Cleanup.

I do not want this project to die out like others are.

Do you think there are anymore ways of promoting people to put submissions on the page? Could you try to put more advertisement up on the maintenance page like "Post your project to cleanup" I think that if more people saw banners, we would have more participation.

One idea I had was to have a bot dump random articles(preferably older) from "Category:Articles needing cleanup" maybe weekly. A dump system would give us many articles to cleanup and would help us reduce the backlog of cleanup templates.

I hope you can help benefit Project Cleanup. Keep up the good work. AmericanAir88 (talk) 21:15, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

• Hi AmericanAir88 Nice ideas. I will provide a detailed response in the next 24 to 48 hours or so. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:01, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Hey chaps, I'd like to help, too. Hit me up. A Train^talk 13:17, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

• Thank you so much User:A Train and User:Northamerica1000 AmericanAir88 (talk) 19:07, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

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Ping @AmericanAir88 and A Train: I have copied the above to Wikipedia talk:Cleanup. Let's please discuss the matter there.North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:56, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

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Disambiguation link notification for October 15

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• Both fixed. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:51, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2017-42

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• When you edit a template with the visual editor it follows the template's format configuration on how to save it. You can now change the format in more powerful ways if your wiki wants it. [10][11]
• The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It has been a beta feature for the last five months. You can now try out the new interface on a page where you will actually get simulated edit conflicts. You can give feedback to the developers.

Problems

• There is a problem with recent changes pages and your watchlist that show a large number of pages. Until it is fixed, Wikidata edits will not be shown on recent changes or in your watchlist on Commons or Russian Wikipedia. If necessary, Wikidata edits will be removed from all wikis. [12]
• Notifications are not working for some actions. For example some users don't get a notification when they are mentioned. The developers are working on fixing this. [13]
• Users on some wikis could not change their preferences. This has now been fixed. [14]

Changes later this week

• Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia from 17 October. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. [15]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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15:31, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

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G13 Eligibility Notice

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This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2017)

A fire sprinkler with red liquid alcohol in the capsule Hello, Northamerica1000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Fire sprinkler Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Circular reporting • Hero Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 16 October 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Smith (registrar)

Any chance you can email me the text of the article on William Smith? I missed the AfD and I think I might like to rehab the article. I'd like to see what was there, I have some materials that might be enough to show the subject to be suitable for an article, and if so, I prefer to add it to the original article (keeping the old history) than create something new. I'd like to check the text and my materials before asking if the article could be moved to my user space or draft space. Smmurphy^(Talk) 02:07, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

• @Smmurphy:  Done. Check your email. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:17, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks!Smmurphy^(Talk) 03:31, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Just letting you know that I've replied by email. Smmurphy^(Talk) 03:00, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Northamerica1000, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 12,878 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a day.
• We have successfully cleared the backlog of pages created by non-confirmed accounts before ACTRIAL. Thank you to everyone who participated in that drive.

Technology update:

• Primefac has created a script that will assist in requesting revision deletion for copyright violations that are often found in new pages. For more information see User:Primefac/revdel.

General project update:

• The Article Wizard has been updated and simplified to match the layout style of the new user landing page. If you have not yet seen it, take a look.
• To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

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This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2017)

A 1912 illustration of Robin Hood and Little John Hello, Northamerica1000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Little John Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Fire sprinkler • Circular reporting Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 23 October 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

The Signpost: 23 October 2017

• News and notes: Money! WMF fundraising, Wikimedia strategy, WMF new office!

• Featured content: Don, Marcel, Emily, Jessica and other notables

• Humour: Guys named Ralph

• In focus: Offline Wikipedia developed at OFF.NETWORK Content Hackathon

• Blog: The future of offline access to Wikipedia: The Kiwix example

• In the media: Facebook and poetry

• Special report: Working with GLAMs in the UK

• Traffic report: Death, disaster, and entertainment

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• Draft:Hammer Toe Orthopedic Surgery

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Tech News: 2017-43

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can use ccnorm_contains_any when you create an abuse filter. This can be used to look for multiple words or phrases within a string. It will find words where some characters have been replaced. You can read more in the documentation. [16]

Changes later this week

• When you search in some languages the search function could use specific other languages if the first language didn't work. This is called a fallback language. This didn't work properly and created bad searches. The search index is being fixed to work better. [17]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There is a Structured Commons community focus group for Commons and Wikidata contributors who want to give input on structured data on Wikimedia Commons. You can sign up to join it. [18]

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18:18, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject Poultry

Hi, NA1000 - I was wondering who oversees the poultry project, and where the best place would be to place notification of an ongoing AfD, or if there is even enough activity there to bother? ^{Atsme📞📧} 00:51, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

• Hi Atsme: I restored your comment above in the unlikely event that you may have accidentally removed it. It appeared and then quickly disappeared. For what it's worth, WP:POULTRY is watchlisted by eight users (see here, "Number of page watchers"). You could post information on its talk page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:19, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

• LOL* Yes, I reverted it when I saw that you were on a semi-Wikibreak, and Poultry was semi-active as well. I wasn't sure if it should go in Article Alerts on the project page or the TP. ^{Atsme📞📧} 01:55, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Farmdrop for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Farmdrop is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Northamerica1000/sandbox

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A tag has been placed on User:Northamerica1000/sandbox, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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• Contested sd. Not promo at all. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:17, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

[Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion|Speedy deletion]] nomination of User:Northamerica1000/sandbox

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A tag has been placed on User:Northamerica1000/sandbox, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Nomination of To'ak Chocolate for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article To'ak Chocolate is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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• I was still working on this new article just created less than two hours ago. Now I will wait. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 05:03, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Loggerhead Key

On 18 October 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Loggerhead Key, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Loggerhead Key (pictured) was home to the Tortugas Laboratory, which performed some of the first research on Western hemisphere mangroves and coral reefs? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Loggerhead Key. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Loggerhead Key), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Alex Shih^Talk 00:17, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Updated search template

I updated the {{FSS}} with a search of Internet Archive. Would you be so kind to double check on this? I'm pretty sure I did it correctly but, I've been wrong once or twice before. Also, I have no idea how to update the documentation. Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 14:35, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi Barbara (WVS): I tested it out, and the IA search seems to be working fine. Nice addition! I haven't updated the documentation, because all it would state is the obvious, that various sites are used to perform searches. It's all quite self-explanatory. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 04:30, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

I am still amazed that I/we missed this valuable search option. I did a check and the template is used on a little less than 9000 talk pages. Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 13:20, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

@Barbara (WVS): I hadn't considered how useful IA would be for the template. I use IA to access stuff I like, such as: Eyes. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:01, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

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BOOOoooOOOOoooo!!!

	It's almost upon us!
	Bwahahahaha!!! Come to my house for tea and cookies before the ghosts and goblins arrive....Bwahahahaha!! TRICK OR TREAT!! Atsme📞📧 20:51, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi @Atsme: The "Bwahahahaha!!" reminds me of this guy below. Happy Halloween! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:02, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Bwahahahaha!!

Cousins Maine Lobster

Since you do a lot of work with food and beverage, thought I might interest you in collaborating on the article for Cousins Maine Lobster. I am working on a few notable companies that appeared on Shark Tank - keep in mind that many are not notable but this one certainly is - and this one seems pretty cool (I even ate from one recently and it was pretty good). I have started it as an open draft so feel free to jump in an add anything if you are so inclined User:CNMall41/Cousins Maine Lobster. CNMall41 (talk) 01:18, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi CNMall41: Thanks for the notice, and I'll see what I can do. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:33, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	Thanks again. Still needs work - as do most Wikipedia pages - but I moved it to the mainspace. There are two images I added to Commons and linked from the page. CNMall41 (talk) 22:57, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

• Hey now CNMall41: T h a n k s for the star. I enjoy collaborations, but unfortunately, they are quite rare on Wikipedia nowadays. Feel free to drop me more notes about articles/drafts/etc., and I will also keep you in mind. For starters, here's a new article I created today. Perhaps it can be improved. FYI, some new food- and drink-related articles can be found at WP:NEWFOOD. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:54, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2017)

Choreographed dancing at the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show in 2015 Hello, Northamerica1000. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Choreography Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Little John • Fire sprinkler Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 30 October 2017 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2017

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• The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team is creating an "Interaction Timeline" tool that intends to assist administrators in resolving user conduct disputes. Feedback on the concept may be posted on the talk page.
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• Eligible editors will be invited to submit candidate statements for the 2017 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 12 until November 21. Voting will begin on November 27 and last until December 10.
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• The Wikipedia community has recently learned that Allen3 (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as JohnCD. Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.

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