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1,080		Supply-side economics (talk)	Merge
72		3D Test of Antisemitism (talk)	Merge
69		Forenoon (talk)	Merge
25		Timeline of the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict (talk)	Wikify
5		Westwood, Seattle (talk)	Wikify
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17		Adalah-NY (talk)	Orphan
5		Crossing the Line 2: The New Face of Anti-Semitism on Campus (talk)	Orphan
10		DBL Partners (talk)	Orphan
2		Flujerd (talk)	Stub
14		Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino (talk)	Stub
6		Wanakah, New York (talk)	Stub
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55		Economy of the Iroquois (talk)	Expand
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401		WrestleMania IV (talk)	Expand
17		Commodification of the womb (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
233		Seneca people (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
96		ATA Carnet (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
45		Light rail in North America (talk)	Merge
252		Kafala system (talk)	Merge
61		Foreign-trade zones of the United States (talk)	Merge
508		Average White Band (talk)	Wikify
12		Reservists on Duty (talk)	Wikify
302		On-the-job training (talk)	Wikify
14		Kiu kiu (talk)	Orphan
240		Effects of blue light technology (talk)	Orphan
3		Grobhäusern (talk)	Orphan
80		Zebop! (talk)	Stub
3		Kensington Heights, Buffalo (talk)	Stub
7		North Park, Buffalo (talk)	Stub
34		Blues for Salvador (talk)	Stub
1,370		Dacre Montgomery (talk)	Stub
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1,656		Erie Canal (talk)	Add sources
4,678		IBM (talk)	Add sources
28		Sky brightness (talk)	Cleanup
2,441		Alpaca (talk)	Cleanup
14		Disney's Fantillusion (talk)	Cleanup
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11		Timeline of Queens (talk)	Expand
85		The Beatles' recording technology (talk)	Expand
73		John Lennon's musical instruments (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
46		Sandton City (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
7		Metacrap (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
107		Ion rapid transit (talk)	Merge
257		New antisemitism (talk)	Merge
2		Boselli Foundation (talk)	Merge
14		We're Not from Here (talk)	Wikify
18		Block Starz Music (talk)	Wikify
2		System Wide Automated Network (SWAN) (talk)	Wikify
3		Ed Wool (talk)	Orphan
2		Pick a Partner Poker (talk)	Orphan
3		Allah Dino Khaskheli (talk)	Orphan
12		Fruit Belt, Buffalo (talk)	Stub
7		Steve Webber (talk)	Stub
28		Cattaraugus Reservation (talk)	Stub
20		Wenrohronon (talk)	Stub
20		East Side, Buffalo (talk)	Stub
12		You Know That I Love You (Santana song) (talk)	Stub

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132		Fort Erie, Ontario (talk)	Add sources
35		Baseball in Dominican Republic (talk)	Add sources
165		New York gubernatorial election, 2010 (talk)	Add sources
14		Camillus Plaza (talk)	Add sources
7		Buffalo Niagara Convention Center (talk)	Add sources
8		Ellisburg, New York (talk)	Add sources
16		Mohawk Mall (talk)	Cleanup
481		Darien Lake (talk)	Cleanup
618		Roger Penske (talk)	Cleanup
283		SpaceX Mars transportation infrastructure (talk)	Expand
220		Joe Gibbs Racing (talk)	Expand
274		Working Families Party (talk)	Expand
653		Corporate tax (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
5,154		Caucasian race (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
15		Delegitimisation (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
140		Hottentot (talk)	Merge
66		Broadband Global Area Network (talk)	Merge
690		Jordanian annexation of the West Bank (talk)	Merge
43		Badugi (talk)	Wikify
639		UMTS (talk)	Wikify
22		Wait for It (How I Met Your Mother) (talk)	Wikify
4		Discrete-time proportional hazards (talk)	Orphan
17		An African City (talk)	Orphan
2		Franklin Baer (talk)	Orphan
15		Bill Vinovich (talk)	Stub
53		Wheel gymnastics (talk)	Stub
5		Cold Springs, Buffalo (talk)	Stub
4		Parkside West Historic District (talk)	Stub
44		Dance troupe (talk)	Stub
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37		Canalside (talk)	Add sources
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540		Voting (talk)	Cleanup
12		Amherst Central High School (talk)	Cleanup
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35		Neighborhoods of Buffalo, New York (talk)	Expand
1,028		Davey Allison (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,229		Maasai people (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,862		Richie Sambora (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
9		Aerial observer (talk)	Merge
1,194		Subscriber identity module (talk)	Merge
1,028		Quito (talk)	Merge
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4		John Brickell (talk)	Wikify
6		Cohoes Commons (talk)	Wikify
3		Public policy limitation on deduction for business expenses (talk)	Orphan
20		Communication audit (talk)	Orphan
6		Industry funding of academic research (talk)	Orphan
20		Valerie Tripp (talk)	Stub
6		Broadway-Fillmore, Buffalo (talk)	Stub
63		Rubber Band Man (talk)	Stub
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Your draft article, Draft:Electric rail freight transport

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Editing News #2—2018

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

Tap on the pencil icon to start editing. The page will probably open in the wikitext editor.

You will see another pencil icon in the toolbar. Tap on that pencil icon to the switch between visual editing and wikitext editing.

Remember to publish your changes when you're done.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has wrapped up most of their work on the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual diff tool. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.

Recent changes

• The Editing team has published an initial report about mobile editing.
• The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website. New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles. You can read the report.
• The Reading team is working on a separate mobile-based contributions project.
• The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer supported. If you used that toolbar, then you will no longer see any toolbar. You may choose another editing tool in your editing preferences, local gadgets, or beta features.
• The Editing team described the history and status of VisualEditor in this recorded public presentation (starting at 29 minutes, 30 seconds).
• The Language team released a new version of Content Translation (CX2) last month, on International Translation Day. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images. It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published. [1]

Let's work together

• The Editing team wants to improve visual editing on the mobile website. Please read their ideas and tell the team what you think would help editors who use the mobile site.
• The Community Wishlist Survey begins next week.
• If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Thank you!

— Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:11, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

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Your draft article, Draft:History of Buffalo, New York

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An association for Mesopedians

Hi greetings, I created a Wikipedian association named m:Association of Mesopedianist Wikipedians for mesopedians. Would you mind joining in it? Regards.--PATH SLOPU ^(Talk) 14:22, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Editing News #1—July 2019

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon to start editing.

Edit Cards

This is what the new Edit Cards for editing links in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here: 📲 Try Edit Cards.

Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.

Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.

Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:

Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?

If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.

Follow these instructions and share your experience:

📲 Try Edit Cards.

Recent releases

The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team has recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:

1. Section editing
   • The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
   • The team studied this with an A/B test. This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were 1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
2. Loading overlay
   • The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.

Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.

New and active projects

This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.

• Edit cards: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now. Go here to see how: 📲Try Edit Cards.
• Mobile toolbar refresh: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
• Mobile visual editor availability: This A/B test asks: Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor? We are collaborating with 20 Wikipedias to answer this question.
• Usability improvements: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use.  The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.

Looking ahead

• Wikimania: Several members of the Editing Team will be attending Wikimania in August 2019. They will lead a session about mobile editing in the Community Growth space. Talk to them about how editing can be improved.
• Talk Pages: In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin improving talk pages and communication on the wikis.

Learning more

The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

PPelberg (WMF) (talk) and Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:25, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

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Ways to improve George Jinda

Hello, Buffaboy,

Thanks for creating George Jinda! I edit here too, under the username Doomsdayer520 and it's nice to meet you :-)

I wanted to let you know that I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:-

Thank you for your new article on George Jinda, but please see WP:EXIST. The article does little more than list his existence, and the article could be made more robust with text from any professional reviews or feature articles he may have received.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|Doomsdayer520}}. And, don't forget to sign your reply with ~~~~ . For broader editing help, please visit the Teahouse.

Delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.

---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 18:38, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Shopping malls in New York (state)

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Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages – October 2019

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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.

Help

What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!

Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team would value your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.

Talk Pages

The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.

The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.

Mobile visual editor

The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

Edit Cards

What happens when you click on a link. The new Edit Card is bigger and has more options for editing links.

• On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
• There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
• Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.

Toolbar

The editing toolbar is changing in the mobile visual editor. The old system had two different toolbars. Now, all the buttons are together. Tell the team what you think about the new toolbar.

• In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
  • One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
  • New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
  • Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
• Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.

Wikimania

The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.

Looking ahead

• Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
• Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
• Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: The Editing team hopes to share results in November. This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:51, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

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Kyle Kulinski Draft Deletion

I saw your comment on Kulinski Draft MfD and understand your view that while a page is not merited but the draft may be kept. That might have been the case earlier, but in the edits yesterday and today, the mentions on CNN, Fox, Vice, Guardian etc are substantial. Please see my 6 March comment at the bottom on MfD. I hope you will reconsider. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Viktorpp (talk • contribs) 13:11, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools

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This early version of the Reply tool automatically signs and indents comments.

The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.

In a future update, the team plans to test a tool for easily linking to another user's name, a rich-text editing option, and other tools.

The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.

• On 31 March 2020, the new reply tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias: Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
• The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page. The team will test features such as:
  • an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
  • a rich-text visual editing option, and
  • other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:45, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Writer's Barnstar
	This is for your outstanding edits for Upstate New York. Keep up the awesome work!! TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 01:39, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

• TheTexasNationalist99 Thanks for the award! I'll keep up the good work. Buffaboy ^talk 05:52, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

@Buffaboy: great!! How far do you think we are to getting the article to good article status? It would seem to me the transportation is the main section lacking citations. --TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 16:21, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #2 – Quick updates

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This edition of the Editing newsletter includes information the Wikipedia:Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. The central project page is on MediaWiki.org.

• Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing @. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
• New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
• New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
• Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:11, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #3

On 16 March 2020, the 50 millionth edit was made using the visual editor on desktop.

Seven years ago this week, the Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Wikipedia. Here's what happened since its introduction:

• The 50 millionth edit using the visual editor on desktop was made this year. More than 10 million edits have been made here at the English Wikipedia.
• More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
• Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
• The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has been increasing every year.
• Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.
• On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor.
• In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers, and half of their first edits, were made using the visual editor. This percentage has been increasing every year since the tool became available.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:05, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #4

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Reply tool

The number of comments posted with the Reply Tool from March through June 2020. People used the Reply Tool to post over 7,400 comments with the tool.

The Reply tool has been available as a Beta Feature at the Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias since 31 March 2020. The first analysis showed positive results.

• More than 300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They posted more than 7,400 replies during the study period.
• Of the people who posted a comment with the Reply tool, about 70% of them used the tool multiple times. About 60% of them used it on multiple days.
• Comments from Wikipedia editors are positive. One said, أعتقد أن الأداة تقدم فائدة ملحوظة؛ فهي تختصر الوقت لتقديم رد بدلًا من التنقل بالفأرة إلى وصلة تعديل القسم أو الصفحة، التي تكون بعيدة عن التعليق الأخير في الغالب، ويصل المساهم لصندوق التعديل بسرعة باستخدام الأداة. ("I think the tool has a significant impact; it saves time to reply while the classic way is to move with a mouse to the Edit link to edit the section or the page which is generally far away from the comment. And the user reaches to the edit box so quickly to use the Reply tool.")[2]

The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).

The Reply tool is still in active development. Per request from the Dutch Wikipedia and other editors, you will be able to customize the edit summary. (The default edit summary is "Reply".) A "ping" feature is available in the Reply tool's visual editing mode. This feature searches for usernames. Per request from the Arabic Wikipedia, each wiki will be able to set its own preferred symbol for pinging editors. Per request from editors at the Japanese and Hungarian Wikipedias, each wiki can define a preferred signature prefix in the page MediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix. For example, some languages omit spaces before signatures. Other communities want to add a dash or a non-breaking space.

New requirements for user signatures

• The new requirements for custom user signatures began on 6 July 2020. If you try to create a custom signature that does not meet the requirements, you will get an error message.
• Existing custom signatures that do not meet the new requirements will be unaffected temporarily. Eventually, all custom signatures will need to meet the new requirements. You can check your signature and see lists of active editors whose custom signatures need to be corrected. Volunteers have been contacting editors who need to change their custom signatures. If you need to change your custom signature, then please read the help page.

Next: New discussion tool

Next, the team will be working on a tool for quickly and easily starting a new discussion section to a talk page. To follow the development of this new tool, please put the New Discussion Tool project page on your watchlist.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:47, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of ACV Auctions for deletion

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Editing news 2021 #1

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Reply tool

Completion rates for comments made with the Reply tool and full-page wikitext editing. Details and limitations are in this report.

The Reply tool is available at most other Wikipedias.

• The Reply tool has been deployed as an opt-out preference to all editors at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
• It is also available as a Beta Feature at almost all Wikipedias except for the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias. If it is not available at your wiki, you can request it by following these simple instructions.

Research notes:

• As of January 2021, more than 3,500 editors have used the Reply tool to post about 70,000 comments.
• There is preliminary data from the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedia on the Reply tool. Junior Contributors who use the Reply tool are more likely to publish the comments that they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.[3]
• The Editing and Parsing teams have significantly reduced the number of edits that affect other parts of the page. About 0.3% of edits did this during the last month.[4] Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
• A large A/B test will start soon.[5] This is part of the process to offer the Reply tool to everyone. During this test, half of all editors at 24 Wikipedias (not including the English Wikipedia) will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. Editors at those Wikipeedias can still turn it on or off for their own accounts in Special:Preferences.

New discussion tool

Screenshot of version 1.0 of the New Discussion Tool prototype.

The new tool for starting new discussions (new sections) will join the Discussion tools in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures at the end of January. You can try the tool for yourself.[6] You can leave feedback in this thread or on the talk page.

Next: Notifications

During Talk pages consultation 2019, editors said that it should be easier to know about new activity in conversations they are interested in. The Notifications project is just beginning. What would help you become aware of new comments? What's working with the current system? Which pages at your wiki should the team look at? Please post your advice at mw:Talk:Talk pages project/Notifications.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 01:02, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Kyle Kulinski

Hello friend. Since you've edited it in the past, you may be interested to know that we found an additional reliable source with SIGCOV [7], so we may be moving Draft:Kyle Kulinski to mainspace soon. –Novem Linguae (talk) 00:21, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Roswell Park Page

Hello! I see you're interested in editing the BNMC area pages, including the Roswell Park page. I've added and updated some sources on that page today. I'm quite new at editing wikipedia pages, so there's a lot I don't know. How many more citations do you think the page needs before the "article needs additional citations for verification" issue can be removed?

Thank You! --Missikk2 (talk) 18:56, 10 May 2021 (UTC)missikk2

@Missikki2: Hello and welcome to editing! I actually didnt add the banner asking for more citations, but I did add one suggesting that things like statistics and facts would read better if they were in prose format. Meaning that detail and context can be better explained for the casual reader instead of via a list. Otherwise I think the article is in good condition with sufficient references. It looks like you've already done a great job improving the article, keep up the good work! Buffaboy ^talk

Roswell Park Page Rework

Hello again!

I've spent the past couple days doing a big rework (and citing) of the Roswell Park page in my sandbox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Missikk2/sandbox). If you have time, would you mind looking it over? I've tried my best to get info out of lists and into paragraph form, as well as a lot of restructuring and removing info that didn't really need to be on the page.

I just want to make sure I'm not doing anything crazy before I publish all my changes to the live page.

Any tips and pointers would be very appreciated!

Thank you! Missikk2 (talk) 18:10, 13 May 2021 (UTC)Missikk2

@Missikki2: That looks amazing, I have no complaints! If you want to replace the current page with your edits, feel free because I think it's a major improvement over what's there now. Buffaboy ^talk 19:45, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Thank You!

Thank you so much for the barnstar!! I've really enjoyed editing this week, and I hope my contributions are helpful to you and the WNY project :) Missikk2 (talk) 20:15, 13 May 2021 (UTC)Missikk2

@Missikki2: You're welcome! Buffaboy ^talk 20:32, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

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DYK

I haven't crossed paths with you in a while. Frontier Central School District is a what a school district article should look like. Most are really bad. Anyway, I approved the DYK nomination, but with some changes to the hook. It was really too long, so I shortened it. Hope you think it is better this way. MB 03:22, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

@MB: Yes, I've seen you around in the past as well. With the pandemic going on and having spare time on my hands, I've found my way back to Wikipedia and figured I'd give that article some TLC given I spent quite a bit of my early life there. Thanks for the approval! Buffaboy ^talk 03:31, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Hello again. Please don't take my comments at DYK as being negative about the article. I see you have nominated it for GA, as well. Just a piece of advice: the Western NY project looks dead, and there isn't anyone at the school project that does GA or FA review. You might want to approach a reviewer on your own. Good luck, and I hope you get it. The way school deletion has been going, school district articles are going to be more important. 174.212.227.200 (talk) 10:21, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the encouragement. I replied to your comments on the DYK page. Buffaboy ^t and ^c 14:58, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Frontier Central School District

On 4 June 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Frontier Central School District, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the principal of Big Tree Elementary read a book from a hot-air balloon to honor her students for having collectively read more than 2.5 million minutes in 2006? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Frontier Central School District. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Frontier Central School District), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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DYK for West Side Rowing Club

On 7 June 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article West Side Rowing Club, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Frank Lloyd Wright's 1905 plan for a Wisconsin Badgers Crew boathouse was shelved but the design was used in 2007 for the West Side Rowing Club in Buffalo, New York? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/West Side Rowing Club. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, West Side Rowing Club), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Frontier Central School District

Hello:

The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of this article has been completed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

I had a bit of trouble with the meaning this sentence from the lede—The district serves most of the town outside of the village of Hamburg.... I am wondering whether the meaning would be clearer if it read most of the "area surrounding" the village of Hamburg?

I went with "%" rather than "percent throughout the article for consistency, and it's easier to read. In some sentences the percentage was less than 10. These are normally written in words (two percent). Again, to make it easier for the reader I used numbers throughout.

Terms like sixth grade were linked later in the article. I removed them because a link is supposed to be added the first time a term is used in an article. I did not search to re-link the terms because I doubt they are of much use to readers.

The article was tagged with the date format "mdy" so every date has been changed to agree with the tag. This makes the citations neater.

Best of luck with the GAN when you get to it.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 19:09, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

@Twofingered Typist: Thank you for taking my request and the well wishes. Have a nice day. Buffaboy (talk) 20:41, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

Editing news 2021 #2

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When newcomers had the Reply tool and tried to post on a talk page, they were more successful at posting a comment. (Source)

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.
• The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

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Nomination of India Walton for deletion

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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/India Walton until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Buffalo copyedit

Miniapolis, thank you very much for your diligent edits and the well wishes. dekema (Formerly Buffaboy) (talk) 20:59, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Buffalo, New York

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DYK for Benjamin Rathbun

On 13 July 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Benjamin Rathbun, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Benjamin Rathbun constructed more than one hundred buildings in Buffalo, New York in the 19th century, and was later jailed for forged endorsements? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Benjamin Rathbun. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Benjamin Rathbun), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Your GA nomination of Buffalo, New York

The article Buffalo, New York you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Buffalo, New York for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Wugapodes -- Wugapodes (talk) 02:21, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Buffalo, New York

On 8 August 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Buffalo, New York, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Buffalo wings were first prepared at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Buffalo, New York. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Buffalo, New York), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:03, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Frontier Central School District

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Frontier Central School District you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie (talk) 05:20, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Frontier Central School District

The article Frontier Central School District you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Frontier Central School District for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie (talk) 06:00, 17 October 2021 (UTC)