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Gary Peters (Michigan politician)

Please monitor the Gary Peters (Michigan politician) article as someone is trying to insert non-NPOV material from questionable sources and editing the material change context from non-biased sources. He also deleted material with multiple bonafied journalistic citations which I restored. Steelbeard1 (talk) 15:59, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 05 November 2014

  • In the media: Predicting the flu, MH17 conspiracy theories
    "Rachel Feltman, in The Washington Post (November 4), examined research in which a team, mostly from Los Alamos National Laboratory, headed by Kyle Hickman developed a model that enabled them "to successfully predict the 2013-2014 flu season in real time" by employing "an algorithm to link flu-related Wikipedia searches with CDC data from the same time." Apparently when individuals search for information about the flu and its symptoms in Wikipedia when they feel ill, this generates data useful in forecasting the the flu season."
  • Traffic report: Sweet dreams on Halloween
    "It is, perhaps, ironic that humanity chose the week of Halloween to finally put its fears to bed. Let's face it: 2014 has been a year of tragedies, conflicts, plagues and pain, and eventually something had to break... Whether we at last came to terms with our limited ability to affect events, shoved those events under the carpet, or just decided to let go and move on, we turned our eye to more positive things, such as sports heroes, hotly anticipated movies, and lifelong learning; two Google doodles appeared in the top 25 for the first time since the beginning of August."

November 2014

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The Signpost: 12 November 2014

  • In the media: Amazon Echo; EU freedom of panorama; Bluebeard's Castle
    "Technology media outlets are abuzz after the November 6 unveiling of the Amazon Echo, an Internet-connected voice command device"; "The EUobserver talks (November 4) with Dimitar Dimitrov (User:Dimi z) about the lack of freedom of panorama in some European Union countries and its implications for Wikimedia projects"; "Scott Cantrell, classical music critic for the Dallas Morning News, recounts efforts to verify an uncited claim in the Wikipedia article for the Béla Bartók opera Bluebeard's Castle."
  • Traffic report: Holidays, anyone?
    This was very much a week dominated by holidays and pop culture over current events, with new film Interstellar taking the top spot followed by holidays Day of the Dead (#2), Guy Fawkes and his Night (#4 and #5), and Halloween (#8, and its third week on the list). And a foursome of television shows, all return visitors, appear to setting up residence on the greater Top 25: The Walking Dead (#11), American Horror Story: Freak Show (#14), Gotham (#16), and The Flash (#18).
  • WikiProject report: Talking hospitals
    We return to our interview format this week, speaking with the participants of WikiProject Hospitals. This project, formed in 2010, has no Featured content and only three Good articles, yet aided by around 30 hard-working Wikipedians covers a topic that is essential to life.

The Signpost: 26 November 2014

  • In the media: A Russian alternative Wikipedia; Who's your grandfather?; ArtAndFeminism
    Numerous media outlets are reporting on a November 14 statement on the website of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library announcing the formation of a Russian "alternative" to Wikipedia, a "regional electronic encyclopedia" dedicated to "Russian regions and the life of the country".
  • WikiProject report: Back with the military historians
    It's time for this year's edition of the Report looking at possibly our largest wikiproject: Military history. Since our last interview in June 2013, the project has had no break in its huge quest to document everything in their scope, that is, militaries and conflicts of the past. As usual, its participants were eager to answer the questions posed by The Signpost and update us on how they are doing.
  • Traffic report: Big in Japan
    Often times in popular culture, a subject will be quite popular among a distinct niche of people or region of the world, but little-known elsewhere -- like a musical artist that is boasted to be "big in Japan". The Traffic Report provides a bevy of examples this week.

re LP

A number of the entries you put back there are of insufficient utility or notability as abbreviations to be useful to any reasonable number of readers in my opinion. I've engaged on the talk page there, let's work this out. Herostratus (talk) 05:42, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

Draft:Atonement

Pursuant to the discussion at Talk:Atonement#Reorganize, I have created this draft. The topic is a pretty clear WP:DABCONCEPT to me, and I am sure that if everyone pitched in a little, we could shortly have a fine article - perhaps with less effort than was put into the initial discussion itself. bd2412 T 19:36, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 03 December 2014

Engelbert Humperdinck

Thank you for your help 'altering' the links for Engelbert Humperdinck. You are super awesome.. You have saved my sanity :) ツStacey (talk) 11:34, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 December 2014

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The Signpost: 17 December 2014

Edit warring at Zombie (disambiguation)

Is there something I'm missing wrt Zombie (disambiguation)? Some shared joke between you and TheRedPenOfDoom that allows you to revert each other's edits without limit?

Honestly, I'm beginning to wonder whether you've both dreamt up a very late April Fool's joke to see whether you could get some poor sap to report the pair of you to the edit warring noticeboard and then claim that it wasn't really an edit war.

Well, you're at five reverts by my reckoning (I'd previously missed your revert of Editor510). No more, please. Thanks. --VeryCrocker (talk) 19:36, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 December 2014

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The Signpost: 31 December 2014

  • News and notes: The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers
    Wikidata, Wikimedia's free linked database that supplies Wikipedia and its sister projects, is gearing up to submit a grant application to the EU that would expand Wikidata's scope by developing it as a science hub. The proposal, supported by more than 25 volunteers and half a dozen European institutions as project partners, aims to create a virtual research environment (VRE) that will enhance the project's capacity for freely sharing scientific data.
  • In the media: Study tour controversy; class tackles the gender gap
    A "study tour" by the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation for the purpose of researching development projects has been the subject of much controversy and criticism in the Indian press... The Indian Express described a government report about the trip as having copied extensively from the Wikipedia articles for Port Blair and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.
  • Traffic report: Surfin' the Yuletide
    Unlike last year, Wikipedia viewers seem to have embraced the Christmas spirit, with three topics in the top 10 (and eight in the top 25) focused on the holiday season.
  • Op-ed: My issues with the Wiki Education Foundation
    Chris Troutman has been a campus ambassador for six classes in the Los Angeles area over the past four consecutive semesters. He is currently a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar at University of California, Riverside.
  • Featured content: A bit fruity
    Three articles, three lists, fifteen pictures, and one topic were promoted.

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