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Wikiproject Food and Drink Newsletter - September 2013

The WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter
Volume III, no. 1 – September 2013

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The project has been updated with new Goals, with target numbers of 500 each for Featured and Good articles, and for 10% of all project-related articles to be improved to B-Class or better.

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Food and drink articles by quality and importance

There are currently 26,063 articles and 10,184 stubs attributed to the project.

31 articles are at Featured article level, 114 are at Good article level, 2 are at Featured list level and 1 is at A-level.
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Article statistics

Food and drink articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		7	8	16			31
FL		2					2
FM					60		60
A	1						1
GA	6	9	31	68			114
B	11	10	28	29			78
C	54	296	507	677		364	1,898
Start	40	412	1,255	3,014		2,002	6,723
Stub	4	99	726	4,306		5,049	10,184
List	6	42	49	131	31	71	330
Category					1,513		1,513
Disambig					55		55
File					682		682
Portal					427		427
Project					193	1	194
Redirect					391		391
Template					475		475
Assessed	122	877	2,604	8,241	3,838	7,487	23,169
Unassessed						2,894	2,894
Total	122	877	2,604	8,241	3,838	10,381	26,063

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Bill Lockyer article

HI,

Some time back, I think over a year, you posted a complaint that accusations against Bill Lockyer made on his Wikipedia page Talk section were not provided with links, and it was character assassination you could remove, but you were leaving them to show how low people could stoop (paraphrasing, fairly I think)

Well, you've got links now.

I hope you can be big enough to go back to the Talk section and apologize, since it would have been very easy for you to get the links yourself -- you didn't have to post them -- just get them before you accuse people of bad faith or flat out lying -- that's all.

I know we are anonymous but still I think you implied I was lying. I was not, and implied the accusations made were untrue =- which I don't know personally but they were reported in the mainstream press. I did not make them up or have any reason to doubt them, any more than any other press report. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.61.137.124 (talk) 11:39, 23 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I will not apologize for something i didnt do. people making comments on talk pages about living people without any sources to back them up is not thorough editing regardless of whether the information is available or not. "I" dont have links, WP has links. I am under no obligation to find links about a subject to support someone elses ideas about what to add. I also have absolutely no patience with any editor who would use the word "liberal" as an insult here. it shows the kind of sleazy political bias that ruins good encyclopedic writing. I havent checked IP addresses to see who said that, but since the person who wrote it never apologized for their editorializing, and no other editor called them on it, i really dont care to go out of my way to be kind and courteous to anonymous editors to the article. I will simpy refrain from expressing how i really feel about the political editors of a certain strong conservative/republican/libertarian/dembashing bias. seriously, no one wants to hear my "illiberal" opinions on that here. OK, thats enough, im pushing civility, and need to back away from the topic. go easy, and if you cant go easy, go as easy as you can...Mercurywoodrose (talk) 18:47, 23 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your upset

I'm not sure what happened to you here. I had a look but I can't see what was so upsetting. I have reverted stuff you added in the past, but what I do not doubt in the slightest is your good faith. Please bear in mind that Wikipedia administrators are a very mixed bag, some of them thoroughly competent and some of them thoroughly incompetent. If it would help heal you, you should give the links to what was so distressing. Incompetent administrators are at least as serious a problem on Wikipedia as vandals, and uphill as the task is, it is essential for the health of Wikipedia that they be challenged. Best wishes. --Epipelagic (talk) 10:33, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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