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The "How to delete your account" article is almost a year old, from June 2010. MKFI (talk) 06:45, 19 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

True. Still, the link recently made the rounds on Twitter, and hadn't been reported previously in the Signpost. But altogether I agree that we should generally focus on recent news. Regards, HaeB (talk) 08:16, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

USA gubernatorial election results.

Brown didn't fix the mistakes (or they've have been reverted). I fixed the biggest one at [1], but it's not a very good source (no 1st names, rounded %s, doesn't seem to include spoilt votes preventing calculating %s).

The other big mistakes are:

"Wikipedia’s next largest errors were for the New Hampshire 1998 (-2.2), New York 2006 (+1.2), and New Hampshire 2006 (-1.2) gubernatorial races."

Anyone up for fixing them, or finding a better source for the one I fixed? -- Jeandré, 2011-04-19t13:29z, -- Jeandré, 2011-04-19t13:36z, -- Jeandré, 2011-04-20t11:13z, -- Jeandré, 2011-04-20t11:15z

Glass Bead Game

You might want to fix "which earned Herman Hesse the Nobel Prize". The prize is not awarded to a book but to an author, although the book was mentioned in the citation. (the first section deals with Wikipedia's accuracy so let's make sure the Signpost is!) Pichpich (talk) 22:21, 19 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You are of course correct that the prize was awarded to the author, not the book; but in my understanding the wording doesn't imply the latter. Instead, it was intended to mean that the book was a main reason for the Nobel committee to choose Hesse. There might be some debate whether it was the only one, but for example the paper by Roberts and Peters discussed here says on its first page: "The Glass Bead Game, first published in 1943, was the crowning achievement of Hesse’s long writing career and earned him the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946." Regards, HaeB (talk) 08:16, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Company sues IP editors for defamation

This is a big story. Why did I find it first tucked in here? Jason Quinn (talk) 20:48, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]