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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
229	Karwar (talk)	Add sources
3	Signature Sounds Recordings (talk)	Add sources
833	Devo (talk)	Add sources
24	Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin (talk)	Add sources
1,227	Sand (talk)	Add sources
3	Halakki Vokkaliga (talk)	Add sources
405	Konkani language (talk)	Cleanup
318	Rovio Entertainment (talk)	Cleanup
521	Marathi people (talk)	Cleanup
99	Kundapura (talk)	Expand
73	Index of India-related articles (talk)	Expand
215	Marth (Fire Emblem) (talk)	Expand
1,295	Grand Theft Auto (video game) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
18	Kudaldeshkar Gaud Brahman (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
630	Gameloft (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
4	South Kanara District (Madras Presidency) (talk)	Merge
18	South Canara (talk)	Merge
645	Vijayanagara Empire (talk)	Merge
8	Zainuddin Makhdoom (talk)	Wikify
37	Bruce Straley (talk)	Wikify
75	Casey Hudson (talk)	Wikify
0	Kudippady (talk)	Orphan
13	X-Wars (talk)	Orphan
1	Hans Roland (talk)	Orphan
3,969	Gone Home (talk)	Stub
3	Pearson's Metropark (talk)	Stub
1,272	Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (talk)	Stub
4	Holanagadde (talk)	Stub
1	Aalwad (talk)	Stub
1	Soyuz P (talk)	Stub

Changes to SuggestBot's suggestions

We have changed the number of suggested articles and which categories they are selected from. The number of stubs has been greatly reduced, the number of articles needing sources doubled, and two new categories added (orphans and unencyclopaedic articles). We have also modified the layout of the suggestions and added sortable columns with various types of information about each article. The first two columns are:

Views/Day: Daily average number of views an article's had over the past 14 days.
Quality: Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

Content: Is more content needed?
Headings: Does this article have an appropriate section structure?
Images: Is the number of illustrative images about right?
Links: Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?
Sources: For its length, is there an appropriate number of citations to sources in this article?

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If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 00:14, 6 September 2013 (UTC)