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This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2019)

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Karla Faye Tucker

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DYK for Lydia Lavelle

On 9 June 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lydia Lavelle, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Lydia Lavelle is the first openly lesbian mayor in the US state of North Carolina? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lydia Lavelle. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Lydia Lavelle), 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.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of What Is Democracy?

Hello! Your submission of What Is Democracy? 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! – Teratix ₵ 13:56, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-24

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 create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by Proton. Before this we used Electron. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them. [1][2]
  • The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment. [3]
  • Advanced item Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly. [4]

Problems

  • Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it. [5]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:06, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:The Internationale

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Wikidata weekly summary #368

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

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CENT

You reverted me, referring to "opinions on the talkpage" there is nothing relevant on Wikipedia talk:Centralized discussion. Please undo your revert, and, if you wish, start a dicussion there. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:05, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Pigsonthewing - I was referring to the talk page of the associated discussion and WT:BN. I see no need to have the same discussion twice. StudiesWorld (talk) 16:07, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
Ah, you're perhaps not familiar with Wikipedia:LOCALCONSENUS. It applies here. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:24, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
Pigsonthewing - What community consensus says that all changes to WP:CENT must occur at WT:CENT? StudiesWorld (talk) 16:27, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
Straw man. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:42, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
Then, explain to me why Local Consensus matters here, if there is no contrary community consensus. I'm not sure that I understand your case. StudiesWorld (talk) 16:44, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Please restore my comment

I'm not certain why you deleted my statement of support on the Fram issue but I'd appreciate it if you would restore it again please. Simonm223 (talk) 16:46, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Simonm223, I've restored it. I didn't intend to delete it and I think it occurred due to a complicated edit conflict. StudiesWorld (talk) 16:50, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
It's fine. I actually put it back myself when I realized it was just an EC. I'll make sure I only show up once. No worries. Simonm223 (talk) 16:50, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Kamarupi Prakrit

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GOCE June newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2019 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2019. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below.

Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 16 June. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.

June Blitz: Our June blitz will soon be upon us; it will begin at 00:01 on 16 June (UTC) and will close at 23:59 on 22 June (UTC). The themes are "nature and the environment" and all requests.

March Drive: Thanks to everyone for their work in March's Backlog Elimination Drive. We removed copyedit tags from 182 of the articles tagged in our original target months October and November 2018, and the month finished with 64 target articles remaining from November and 811 in the backlog. GOCE copyeditors also completed 22 requests for copyedit in March; the month ended with 34 requests pending. Of the 32 people who signed up for this drive, 24 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

April Blitz: Thanks to everyone who participated in the April Blitz; the blitz ran from 14 to 20 April (UTC) inclusive and the themes were Sports and Entertainment. Of the 15 people who signed up, 13 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: As of 04:36, 3 June 2019 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 267 requests since 1 January. The backlog of tagged articles stands at 605 articles.

May Drive: During the May Backlog Elimination Drive, Guild copy-editors removed copyedit tags from 191 of the 192 articles tagged in our original target months of November and December 2018, and January 2019 was added on 22 May. We finished the month with 81 target articles remaining and a record low of 598 articles in the backlog. GOCE copyeditors also completed 24 requests for copyedit during the May drive, and the month ended with 35 requests pending. Of the 26 people who signed up for this drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

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Update about a script you use

Hi StudiesWorld. I'm DannyS712 (talk), and I wanted to send you a warning about a change I am making to a script, User:DannyS712/DiscussionCloser, that you currently import. If you are an administrator, feel free to ignore this message. For non-administrators, you should be advised that I am removing the script's automatic addition of {{nac}} to your closes. If you have relied on this to mark such closes for you, please remember to add {{nac}} yourself. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk)

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Please comment on Talk:Kodomo no Jikan

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Please comment on Talk:Calvin Cheng

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ITN recognition for June 2019 Gulf of Oman incident

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Please comment on Talk:George Washington

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Please comment on Talk:Electric smoking system

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DYK for Harue Kitamura

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2019)

Bookworm damage inside a book
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Bookworm (insect)

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Wikidata weekly summary #369

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

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Tech News: 2019-25

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

Problems

  • You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [6]

Changes later this week

  • MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension. You can then add them with [[File:Filename.midi]]. Later override_midi and override_audio will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score. [7]
  • A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in your preferences. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems. [8]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Advanced item Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old wgEnableAPI and wgEnableWriteAPI values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values. [9]

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20:37, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Hafte Tir bombing

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ITN recognition for 2019 Argentina and Uruguay blackout

On 18 June 2019, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article 2019 Argentina and Uruguay blackout, which you created and nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page.

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Please comment on Talk:Call You Mine

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Please comment on Talk:China–United States trade war

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DYK for Naomi Koshi

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

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Please comment on Talk:List of German supercentenarians

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Minsk 2019 has been accepted

Minsk 2019, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
The article has been assessed as Redirect-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. If your account is more than four days old and you have made at least 10 edits you can create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.

Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!

StudiesWorld (talk) 22:14, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
Please note that this was mistakenly delivered here as opposed to the real creator's talk page. StudiesWorld (talk) 14:05, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

Could you help me make this less suggestive?

The article would leave readers completely oblivious of the storm without that statement. The only place when the storm can be seen is the photo. 87.205.193.76 (talk) 13:54, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

I think it could be added to the investigation section, as one proposed explanation. I think adding it to the timeline might be fine, but it would be more borderline. I think that it definitely should not appear in the lede unless there is a more concrete connection made. I'd also be interested in hearing what El C thinks. StudiesWorld (talk) 14:00, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
But it's not supposed to be an explanation. It's context. 87.205.193.76 (talk) 14:03, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
Adding that text to the lead suggest to the reader that there was some sort of connection between the storm and the blackout, which is not clear at this time. StudiesWorld (talk) 14:04, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
That's right. It's just one possibility, cited in one newspaper, attributed to un-named officials. El_C 14:06, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
No objection to adding it to the Investigation section, but again, qualified appropriately (see above). El_C 14:07, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
But it doesn't really even have much to do with the outage itself. It's literally just context. One thing happened while something else was going on. Those are not just any random rains. It's a big storm. 87.205.193.76 (talk) 14:10, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
If it's not at all connected, what context does it provide for the article? StudiesWorld (talk) 14:12, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
When i read i like to imagine things. That's all. It's connected by area. In the same place you had both, outage and storm. 87.205.193.76 (talk) 14:15, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
We don't go by imagination, nor does the fact that the storm and the outage coincided necessarily mean it was the cause for the outage. Maybe. Or maybe it was just one factor — we don't have enough information yet. Again, once the official report is published, we can be authoritative. El_C 14:19, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
Do you know any places on the web where helping people see the world the way it is is the goal? I guess i just got lost on the web. 87.205.193.76 (talk) 14:26, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
I'm not sure I see the connection, or entirely understand the question, for that matter. El_C 14:43, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 14

Newsletter • June 2019

Updates: I've been focusing largely on the development side of things, so we are a lot closer now to being ready to actually start discussing deploying it and testing it out here.

There's just a few things left that need to be resolved:

  • A bunch of language support issues in particular, plus some other release blockers, such as the fact that currently there's no good way to find any hubs people do create.
  • We also probably need some proper documentation and examples up to even reference if we want a meaningful discussion. We have the extension documentation and some test projects, but we probably need a bit more. Also I need to be able to even find the test projects! How can I possibly write reports about this stuff if I can't find any of it?!

Some other stuff that's happened in the meantime:

  • Midpoint report is out for this round of the project, if you want to read in too much detail about all the problems I've been running into.
  • WikiProject Molecular Biology have successfully set up using the old module system that CollaborationKit is intended to replace (eventually), and it even seems to work, so go them. Based on the issues they ran into, it looks like the members signup thing on that system has some of the same problems as we've been unable to resolve in CK, though, which is... interesting. (Need to change the content model to the right thing for the formwizard config to take. Ugh, content models.)

Until next time,

-— Isarra ༆ 21:43, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thank you for your contribution on ISIAQ

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Please comment on Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard

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Thank You For the Guidance: Ref: Jsnaol/Green Society Forum Page

Hi I am happy to hear about the facts that lead to deletion of my article. As I am an Journalist I tried to give my Best. As a Social Worker I wanted to spread the Information for the development of the Society. As a Traveler I wanted to share the Green Technologies with the Society. Anyhow I will rewrite my article with Wikipedia Guidelines. i hope I will learn the methodology at the earliest. Regards --Jaspal Singh Naol (Jal) 04:10, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Ronald Reagan

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Mirza Azim Beg Chugtai (June 23)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by StudiesWorld were:
This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.
This submission reads more like an essay than an encyclopedia article. Submissions should summarise information in secondary, reliable sources and not contain opinions or original research. Please write about the topic from a neutral point of view in an encyclopedic manner.
 The comment the reviewer left was:
I submitted this due to a comment at WP:PERM. I think this has potential, but it will require some rewriting and cleaning up, as well as additional sources.
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
StudiesWorld (talk) 14:11, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
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Moved to intended location. StudiesWorld (talk) 14:12, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2019)

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Legislator

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Wikidata weekly summary #370

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Beginning of wb_terms migration (phab:T221764)
    • Fixed a bug with phan on Wikibase (phab:T226083)
    • Enable bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223303)
    • Fix an issue with pipe character on some special pages (phab:T223270)
    • Fix an issue with removed constraint still displayed on Lexeme (phab:T223372)
    • Make edits to EntitySchema pages autopatrolled (phab:T224495)
    • Work on creating better edit summaries for wbeditentity API endpoint (phab:T224010)
    • Deploy the work environment for new mobile termbox
    • Start setting up the technical environment for Wikidata bridge

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Tech News: 2019-26

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

Problems

  • The new version of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday. [10]
  • Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced. [11]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar).

Meetings

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17:29, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Articles for creation: University of Maryland College of Arts and Humanities

I recently submitted a draft for Articles for creation: University of Maryland College of Arts and Humanities and it was marked as not notable. However, 10/13 other colleges (A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Maryland College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences, University of Maryland College of Information Studies, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland School of Architecture, University of Maryland School of Public Health, University of Maryland School of Public Policy) at the University of Maryland are notable enough and have their own Wikipedia pages and are not merged onto the University of Maryland, College Park page. I was wondering if I could either get advice as to how to make the page more notable or why it is not considered a notable subject when almost all the other colleges are. Thanks. Ktkncd (talk) 19:24, 24 June 2019 (UTC)ktkncd

Ktkncd, I wasn't aware of the other schools. I don't think that most of them need their own article, but given that they have them, I would be willing to accept this one, if you resubmit it. Additionally, it would be improved by some more prose, such as a description of the leadership. I apologize for the inconsistency. StudiesWorld (talk) 19:35, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Domestic violence

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125th Street

I deleted 125th Street station(IRT Lexington Avenue Line) and realised that I had created a mass of broken redirects. So I restored it. The redirects are now double and a bot will fix them]]. Please watch special:WhatLinksHere/125th Street station(IRT Lexington Avenue Line). When there are no redirects pointing to it, you may re-instate the speedy tag. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 15:05, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

RHaworth -Sorry about that. I thought that I had gotten them all, but one of the bots must have “fixed” a redirect before I caught it. One all of them have been fixed, I’ll renominates it. Thanks and my apologies, PublicWorld (talk) 15:10, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

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Please comment on Talk:Electric smoking system

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Page mover granted

Hello, StudiesWorld. Your account has been granted the "extendedmover" user right, either following a request for it or demonstrating familiarity with working with article names and moving pages. You are now able to rename pages without leaving behind a redirect, move subpages when moving the parent page(s), and move category pages.

Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Page mover for more information on this user right, especially the criteria for moving pages without leaving redirect. Please remember to follow post-move cleanup procedures and make link corrections where necessary, including broken double-redirects when suppressredirect is used. This can be done using Special:WhatLinksHere. It is also very important that no one else be allowed to access your account, so you should consider taking a few moments to secure your password. As with all user rights, be aware that if abused, or used in controversial ways without consensus, your page mover status can be revoked.

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If you do not want the page mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! Primefac (talk) 15:32, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

Primefac, thanks for this. If I find that I have made use of it between now and September, I will return to request it again. StudiesWorld (talk) 15:43, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Charles Desmarais

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New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

Hello StudiesWorld,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.

QUALITY of REVIEWING

Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.

Backlog

The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.

Move to draft

NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.

Notifying users

Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.

PERM

Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway.

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School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.

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