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Hi Malcolm, I've undone all your edits to the Ally & AJ redirects. You went through changing my preparation for a page move, just 3 minutes before I moved 78violet to 78 Violet. Astronaut (talk) 05:07, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Because the article has been deleted it is now impossible to explain what a brace means in an article. I used to wikilink it to explain what it meant but now I can't Spiderone (talk) 09:23, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
HI Malcolm
I'm curious as to why all references to Swansea Cork Ferry and Swansea Cork Ferries have been deleted. As co-organiser of the Campaign to restore this ferry link - I'm kind of concerned.
Can you explain please ?
Thanks - Adrian
Nobullman (talk) 22:10, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Update !
Hi Malcolm - thanks for the reinstatement of the article. It seems that there is one particular contributor who is intent on sabotaging this article, and has a history of malicious editing. Thankfully, you've now restored the article back to where it was before they wrecked it last time..
There's a lot of background to this - but it's not for an open forum - if you care to email me via the links on the Ferry Campaign website then I'll explain. - Thanks again , Adrian Nobullman (talk) 06:07, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Updated update <g>
Hi again Malcolm.
Looking at it again - the origninal article has been tagged 'May date quickly' (this happened sometime ago). What can we do to get this tag removed ? Fact is - we're updating the article as we have more news, and it will continue to be updated as the situation develops....
Thanks
Adrian
Nobullman (talk) 06:42, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Further update
Over the past days there have been several amendments and attempts (by the same user) to hijack the Swansea Cork Ferry article and redirect it to Swansea Cork Ferries. The Swansea Cork Ferries article that was deleted has now been reinstated and expanded by that user, but the content contains no references to back it up - and it seems only intended to damage the article about Swansea Cork Ferry.. Your advice would be welcomed.... Thanks
92.39.189.2 (talk) 07:34, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Article about John Brzozowski
Dear Malcolmxl5,
you deleted the redirect page entitled John Brzozowski. The page it redirects to has been restored in the meantime; please do also restore the redirect. Thank you in advance. Hermel (talk) 06:15, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
I was wondering why you deleted this page? I had found it extremely useful since as far as I can tell there is no other well maintained list. Graywolf323 (talk) 08:08, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
as an active editor of bouchta el hayani's page, i wanted your help for two things. first, the user that keeps making changes to the page removed pictures which are taken as pictures under pretext taht art work photos violate copyright which is totally not true, at least in morocco as if you type the artist's work on google you find his work in webgalleries, ministry sites, auction sites, newspaper ... second thing i need your help for is formatting because with the pictures the text moved and the page looks very messy. I would appreciate your opinion on the first issue and help on the second one. thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Khatibimaroc (talk • contribs) 21:07, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Khatibimaroc. Copyright can be quite complicated. I'll look at this over the next couple of days (it is close to midnight and I have to work tomorrow. :) ). In the meantime, be reassured that people are not trying to do you or Mr El Hayani harm, they are just trying to do the right thing for Wikipedia. What we have to do is to find and steer the right course through the rules of Wikipedia. The formatting issues can be dealt with quite easily and I'll look at that soon. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 22:45, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
JFK Assassination / Jim Braden
Hi, thanks for your recent helpful contributions to the Jim Braden article regarding JFK conspiracies. I wanted to bring to your attention that this article is being targeted for deletion. Your help saving it would be greatly appreciated. DrippingGoss (talk) 19:33, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
WP:AN
The section "Inappropriate mass changes to multiple threads" is asking for admin intervention to stop him from acting until an RfC is done. DGG already pointed out the need for an RfC before mass changes. These come up all the time at AN. Please unclose the topic as it has nothing to do with a dispute resolution. Ottava Rima (talk) 01:52, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
Thank you. I do not think there is merit in reopening the section. This is as singular a content dispute as you can hope to find. Reconsideration has indicated that he is willing to discuss the issue and my advice would be to proceed directly to WP:RFC or discuss at some other venue. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 19:29, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 6,538 last month to 6,651 on July 27th). WP:LONDON have had a major tagging spree by a bot and now have 12,595 articles which is twice as may as this project. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 39 out of a total number of 1,946 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 46 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 45.
Thank you and well done to all those who contributed.
Article Activity
Peak District passed a GA review on July 2nd Ilkley failed a GA review on July 19th Arctic Monkeys kept following GAR reassessment on July 21st York nominated for GA review on July 21st Geoffrey Boycott nominated for GA review on July 25th
Member News
There are now 65 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! A warm welcome to the new members that have joined us since the July newsletter:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
Images
This month we focus on a recent requirement for images in articles—that of supplying alternative text for each of the images. This has been raised in FAC debates and is now a requirement for FA articles and as a result there is a general push to get all images marked-up. For example the {{Infobox UK place}} is currently undergoing changes in preparation for the use of alternative text on its images.
Alternative text is text added to the image mark-up to describe the image to someone who cannot see the image. The alternative text is in addition to the caption and should not duplicate information in the caption. It should be added, without any wikimark-up or line-breaks in it, using the alt= parameter of the image mark-up. For more information on this see WP:ALT.
Example
The exterior of York Castle, including a large portion of the motte.
[[Image:York castle exterior.jpg|thumb|100px|alt=A tall, circular, roofless building of honey coloured stone positioned on top of a high mound of grass.|The exterior of York Castle, including a large portion of the motte.]]
(If you are using a standard graphical browser and want to read this image's alt text, ask the browser to display the image's properties. Usually right click, properties.)
The same requirement is to be applied to Math-mode formulas but is probably less important to this project as very few of our articles contain such mark-up.
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/TiK ToK
Thanks for fixing above I was trying out the new beta version of wiki with twinkle and Opera 9 it appears it doesn't work as it should. BigDunc12:24, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
Per an appeal on my talk page, I have undeleted this article. Could you reopen the AfD? I think it is important to provide people with more time to discuss the possibility of a merger or other disposition. Thanks, Slrubenstein | Talk19:15, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
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Excuse me, I'd like to know what do you think about the sources in the article: are they enough? Is it possible to delete the template? Thank you. --Isadorad (talk) 20:40, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
Hello. No comment on the sources (as I have no expertise in neurocognitive rehabilitation!) but I'm happy for the template to be be removed as you have added sources. Kind regards, --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 23:03, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
Sorry if this is in the wrong place but i wondered why you have deleted the page for the band Hospital of death. As far as i know it was not offensive, maybe a little frivolous, but surely a discussion could have been had, rather than just deleting the page. Other bands on wikipedia have pages and i think you decision was unjustified and unnecessary. Contact me with reasons for your decision otherwise i will file a complaint. TheReverendD | Talk 21:17, 10 September 2009 (GMT)
Hello ReverendD, I deleted a redirect that was broken, that is, a page that directed the reader to an article that no longer existed. The article about the band itself, which was at Hospital of Death (band), was nominated for deletion by an editor under Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion as being an article about a band that did not indicate the importance or significance of the subject (see criteria A7). The nomination was then reviewed by an administrator who agreed that the article met the criteria for deletion and who then deleted it. Kind regards, --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 22:19, 10 September 2009 (UTC) Copied to User talk:TheReverendD. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 22:21, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 6,651 last month to 6,881 on August 23rd). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 41 out of a total number of 1,972 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 47 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 44.
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
Summer treasures?
As the summer holiday season draws to a close, it is likely that many of our project Yorkshire members will have visited the Yorkshire coast. Some will have digital photographs stored on their camera cards or have leaflets and guide books about places they have visited. Now is the time to put all that wonderful treasury of information onto Wikipedia, before they all get lost in the run up to Christmas. (Ah yes, I can see supermarkets selling off barbecues to make room for baubles.)
There are two major categories for our coastal venues Category:Coastal settlements in North Yorkshire and Category:Coastal settlements in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Many of the articles in these categories are not kept up to date on a regular basis. Although it has to be said that some of the articles about the more popular resorts are well maintained and regularly watched for vandalism. Some tend to suffer from being overlinked to commercial enterprises but most sit there waiting patiently for a bit of TLC.
Fish and tricks at the seaside
Our own watchlists often become unmanageable after a while, so here is a way to make the task of keeping an eye on specific articles much easier.
You can create your own separate Watchlist for any articles that you are interested in helping to maintain or expand by:
listing the articles on a clean Sandbox page
clicking on "Related changes" in the toolbox area to get a list of recent changes for your adopted articles
copying and pasting the URL displayed on the address bar of your browser to a convenient place, maybe your to do list.
And, of course, you can change the options at the top of the page to display more or fewer changes, as usual.
(This trick works for any special little watchlists that you might like to create!!)
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Infoboxes Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox.
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Would you considering userfying the article which you put up for deletion? The will delete it from main space completely and move it to a subpage of the creators.
The editor is a new editor, and this will give the new user a chance to rework this article and maybe wikipedia will get a long term dedicated editor
Please let me know as soon as possible, because as soon as someone else comments on the AfD, they must agree also before I can userfy the article. Thanks for your time.Ikip (talk) 06:16, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
I really appreciate you allowing me to userfy this article. I warned the creator about building articles in name space.
The Helping Hand Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to user Malcolmxl5 for thinking about the concerns of new editors and fostering the development of new editors in the future. Thank you for your efforts in building the project. Ikip (talk) 07:57, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
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The C Crane page has been deleted. I would appreciate any and all suggestions you can give me so that we can reinstate the page appropriately. If you can give detailed suggestions as to what areas were considered spam and blatant advertising that would be much appreciated. Our goal is to be factual and historical about the Company. Your expertise would be very useful. Thank you.
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WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 6,881 last month to 7,532on September 26th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 41 out of a total number of 1,993 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 49 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 47.
For those of you who made changes to the coastal places articles after last month's feature. I think that the Scarborough article got the most attention and improvements during the month.
There has again been a number of suggestions on the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal and this has been kept up to date.
The football and rugby editors have continued keeping abreast of most, if not all, of the top clubs. Great!
WikiProkject Yorkshire editors have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist. Thanks.
A big Thank you to all the editors who help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
Priority Articles
The top priority articles that have been identified to date are as follows -
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
When looking at school articles please take time to check the Ofsted links in the article and the references as the site has been restructured and the links to the reports may just redirect to the main page. These need to be corrected if any are found. The link in the infobox has been corrected so that one should still operate correctly.
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Infoboxes Many of our articles would benefit from the addition of an appropriate infobox.
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As a significant contributor, if you feel the article isn't ready for FAC, it can be withdrawn, but if you feel it is ready, you can add yourself as a co-nominator, should you desire. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:16, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 7,532 last month to 7,738 on October 30th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 43 out of a total number of 2.034 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 52 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 47.
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
The addition of the popular pages facility to the Yorkshire sidebar last month has thrown light on which of our articles Wikipedia readers actually access most. The first month for which there is complete data is September when Arctic Monkeys were in pole position with an average 6,869 hits daily. In second place with 5,781 was Wuthering Heights followed by Dracula with 4,996. The table is sortable on a number of attributes but the sort takes a while to complete.
As the page has a link to current data it is possible to see and compare current raw data for daily hits. So far the October statistics (up to October 20th) reveal that Dracula with 5,474 daily hits is well ahead of seasonal favourite Guy Fawkes with 4,411, and last month's favourite, Arctic Monkeys, are pushed into third position with a daily hit score of 4,259.
Three football clubs Leeds United A.F.C., Hull City A.F.C. and Middlesbrough F.C.get into the top 25 along with several pages about literary topics such as the Brontë family and their works. Television personalities are well represented, Jeremy Clarkson (4,559) is 4th overall in the list and Judi Dench is 23rd with a hit score of 1,577. Do the history topics in the top 25 suggest homework assignments?
It will be interesting to monitor the rise and fall of pages on the list which will also suggest where our efforts as a project might best be directed for maximum impact.
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Hi, While stub-sorting I found a new article Celtic Legacy(band) ( no space!) ; I checked whether Celtic Legacy existed, it didn't, so I moved the article to the undisambiguated name. I now find that an article at that title went to Afd and was deleted in July 2009 by you - you might like to check the new one. PamD (talk) 08:16, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
WP:YORKS is a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 7,738 last month to 7,870 on November 29th). WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 43 out of a total number of 2,045 articles. In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 52 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 51.
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
Christmas Greetings
Welcome to all our active members. This is the twentieth newsletter, the Christmas 2009 issue, and by the time it reaches members there should still be time to drop some helpful hints about seasonal gifts for Wikipedians. The obvious things are computer and digital stuff, and books. (On Wikipedia socks are only for those with a sad identity crisis.) What sort of things? Well, computer stuff can be anything from a high spec laptop, through wireless networks, antivirus software, graphics software to memory cards and memory sticks. Digital cameras are coming down in price and an MP3 player can double up as a memory stick.
A useful book for apprentice Wikipedians is, "Wikipedia: The Missing Manual" by John Broughton, it's full of tips, tricks and explanations and can be bought at about half the price on the cover if you shop around. "The World and Wikipedia: How We are Editing Reality" by Andrew Dalby has just one five star review on Amazon, and the review of "The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia" by Andrew Lih says "it's a book that will certainly make you think, but it will also leave you frustrated!". It might be a better idea to go for a reference book about your next favourite sport, hobby or indulgence. A good atlas always comes in useful as does a thesaurus, for when you come across the seventh time a word has been used in a paragraph! Or the good old phrase "is the home of" turns up yet again.
Stocking fillers include pens and pencils, to replace the ones which fall on the floor and are never to be found again, and notebooks of all shapes and sizes. A ream of printer paper and the odd ink cartridge might be useful too.
Happy Christmas.
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Thanks for uploading File:Defra logo.gif. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
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Your opinion please...
During Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andrea J. Prasow I received advice about moving the article to my user space.
I said I would request the opinion of the admin who closed the {{afd}} if I thought I had added material to the article that addressed the concerns raised in the {{afd}}.
I added material, at User:Geo Swan/review/Andrea J. Prasow. If you have time I would appreciate your opinion on whether it would need further material before it was ready for a move to article space.
I was recently inactive due to real life matters and may not be as active as previously. Apologies to everyone who left messages for me over the past three months or so while I was off wiki. If anyone wants to pick anything up again, let me know.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 7,870 last month to 7,888 on December 16th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 53 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 51. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 43 out of a total number of 2,048 articles.
Currently we have seventeen Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below)
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
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My userspace would be fine. I have done some work on Ajman Free Zone and will try to transfer any useful content there. If you encounter any other articles in the English Wikipedia that are not in English, please consider copying to the Wikipedia whose language they are written in and perhaps running them through a machine translation at http://translate.google.com to see if they are worth salvaging. Thanks. - Eastmain (talk) 01:16, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Userfying pages
Hi -- you recently changed my User page to remove links to deleted articles. I've been working with the admin who deleted the articles to address the reasons for deletion and am hoping that we can sort it out. To help with the revisions I had asked that the pages be userfied but the admin I asked to do that then went on a break. Is this something you can do? Should I ask the admin who deleted the articles? They are Victoria_Zen_Centre and Venerable_Eshu_Martin. Thanks for your help. Jmgoldberg (talk) 19:25, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks very much for your help with this! Am not sure how best to proceed with the redrafting as Seraphimblade hasn't responded to my request for further details on his comments about sourcing. Also not sure about tone, as I modelled the pages after other Wikipedia pages on Zen centres (from links at [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Zen_centers[/a]). This is my first time on Wikipedia and maybe as a newbie I'm missing something that is obvious to more experienced contributors -- if there are specific suggestions, the feedback would be a great help. Am happy to spend more time working on the articles, just want to go in a useful direction that is consistent with Wikipedia standards. Jmgoldberg (talk) 03:56, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
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Hi - you may remember that we had some problems in Aug 2009 with vexatious redirects on Swansea Cork Ferry. I've just discovered that another redirect has been set up - this time to a very poor article at Fastnet Line. I've undone the redirect - and left a message at Fastnet Line asking if there's any good reason for the redirect, and / or for the new page at Fastnet Line - neither of which seem to serve any useful purpose.....
Not sure what more I can do for the moment - or what I should do ?? Any suggestions, please ? Thanks Nobullman (talk) 21:51, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
Discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Darts
An article you contributed to has been nominated for deletion. There is an ongoing discussion taking place at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Epic duel where editors are deciding whether or not to delete it. You are invited to join the discussion and vote on the possibility of keeping or deleting the article.--JakkinxTalk to me!04:45, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 7,888 last month to 7,950 on January 29th). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 53 is just ahead of WP:GM who have 52. WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 43 out of a total number of 2,074 articles.
Currently we have seventeen Yorkshire featured articles:
There are now 73 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! The membership remaining unchanged since the last newsletter though the number of
active members is currently low.
Thanks
A very big Thank you to all the editors who labour away quietly and help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
To members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at Yorkshire Portal.
To the football and rugby editors who have done stirling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs.
To all the WikiProkject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at watchlist.
Great!
Priority Articles
The top priority articles that have been identified to date are as follows -
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below)
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.
Assessment
This month we focus on article assessment as a lot of work has been going on behind the scenes on this. In January the new version of the bot used for generating the information was deployed. For the observant you will have noticed the changes made to the assessment table on the left, it now has details of all of the pages other than articles that are tagged with the project banner. Now you can see counts of the categories, templates, files and other miscellaneous tagged pages that the project is looking after. The article count earlier in the newsletter does not include all of the newly reported classes as they are not really articles.
A new facility is the ability to click on any of the numbers and get a list of the articles that are in the intersection of the article importance rating with the quality rating. For example this enables you to see all of the articles that the project has rated as high priority stub-class articles. This is something that was not readily available prior to this revision of the bot.
The quality ratings are only valid at the time they are done and may be out of date as some of the assessments were done over two years ago. Many of the articles have changed since they were rated so it would be good if members could re-rate them when they see substantial changes to a particular article or flag it up for someone more experienced to take a look at and revise the quality rating if appropriate. Many of the articles were rated before the introduction of the C-class rating so may be over rated as B-class articles or under rated as Start-class articles.
Other changes have taken place in the formatting of the log files and more is to come. The data is now stored in a database off wiki and so tools can be written to generate further reports, have customised rating levels for projects etc. The bot is also able to get through the articles quicker and so is reporting changes daily rather than about weekly as with the previous version.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The February 2010 articles selected below are as discussed on the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis. The latest listing was created on December 11th.
Monitoring is essential Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR.
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