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List of SailGP Teams Draft

Hey there! I've been editing the SailGP page recently. I've noticed that you have a draft list article on SailGP teams: [[1]]; I've just added full team information for the SailGP 2019, 2020, and 2021-22 rosters. Just letting you know as this might be of use to you. Thanks! NixV ^(talk) 02:07, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, me again. Just had to edit the last message as it didn't work out - I'm still learning Wikipedia as I'm pretty new to this. NixV ^(talk) 02:09, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@NixV: Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! I'm thinking that past rosters might be better suited to the Draft:List of SailGP teams rather than the overall article, since the main article should be focussed on the sport as a whole. The struggle I had with writing that draft is proving notability. Because of WP:INDISCRIMINATE we can't really have articles that consist solely of data without some sort of justification of its notability. Combining the two could be a step in the right direction towards bulking out the article into something more substantial. Would you be happy to merge those sections with the draft list to make a more comprehensive article on the teams and rosters?
5225_C (talk • contributions) 11:23, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I'd be absolutely up for that - it seems like a great idea. It'll definitely clean up the main article as well. That being said, I propose keeping current team rosters and their footnotes in the main article until the next season as it's relevant enough information. :) NixV ^(talk) 11:29, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

That makes sense to me.
5225_C (talk • contributions) 11:31, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – June 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).

Administrator changes

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Editing news 2021 #2

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Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

The key results were:

Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
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