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The Signpost: 06 May 2015

  • Special report: FDC candidates respond to key issues
    Elections have begun for five community members of the Funds Dissemination Committee, the Foundation's volunteer body for judging and recommending millions of dollars worth of annual grants to affiliates in the movement. The election lasts just eight days, from Sunday 3 May until 23:59 UTC on Sunday 10 May, so at the time of publication, voters will need to act promptly.
  • Traffic report: The grim ship reality
    Like colliding ocean liners, rousing entertainment and harsh reality merged ungainly in this week's top 10 list. The much heralded pay-per-view pummeling of Manny Pacquiao by Floyd Mayweather, Jr. dominated the list's top slots, giving this list one of its highest total view counts in months.

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Howdy!

Been a long time since I've bumped into you around the water cooler. Hope you're doing well.

If you have a moment, I could use an uninvolved admin having a look at the recent history of 97.9 FM. Stupid little situation from which I'm disengaging before it becomes a thing. Mlaffs (talk) 02:54, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

I'm well, thanks. A disambiguation page is no place for that sort of extraneous description nor are the blog post and radio station website sufficient justification for same. The description belongs in the linked article and, since it didn't exist, I have created it. If the editor in question persists, point them at WXTF-LP then remind them that Wordpress sites from involved people are not reliable sources and that text about somewhat-related defunct internet radio stations is likely not relevant to the licensed LPFM. (Hope this helps.) - Dravecky (talk) 05:13, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
Follow-up: Okay, the original was not a defunct internet radio station but a defunct pirate radio station. WTF, indeed. I found this article from 2010 with a few juicy bits, if you're interested. - Dravecky (talk) 05:36, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 May 2015

  • Foundation elections: Board candidates share their views with the Signpost
    Three community-elected seats on the Board of Trustees—the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation—will be decided by Wikimedians in the election to be held 17–31 May.
  • Traffic report: Round Two
    Casual viewers may think I've posted the same list twice. But no, readers just happen to be really interested in May 2's Big Fight. In fact, last week was just the weigh-in and the trash talk. This week, the numbers actually increased.
  • In the media: Grant Shapps story continues
    Grant Shapps, who was the co-chairman of the UK's Conservative Party until this week, has been accused of maliciously editing the Wikipedia biographies of his party's rivals.

The Signpost: 20 May 2015

  • In focus: The awful truth about Wikimedia's article counts
    The article counts of many Wikimedia wikis suddenly changed on 29 March 2015: as the Signpost reported at the time, sixty-five wikis fell below milestones tracked at the Wikimedia News Meta page, and three increased to new milestones.
  • Traffic report: Inner Core
    The list is topped this week by Danish scientist Inge Lehmann, thanks to a Google Doodle celebrating her 127th birthday. Lehmann discovered in 1936 that the Earth has a solid inner core. It is sometimes surprising to realize how recently such basic scientific knowledge of the Earth, which we now take for granted, was discovered.
  • News and notes: A dark side of comedy: the Wikipedia volunteers cleaning up behind John Oliver's fowl jokes
    Wikipedia editors logging in on May 19 found themselves walking into an unexpected amount of anti-vandal work to keep the site in line with its extensive biographies of living persons policy. A plethora of Wikipedia articles related to the United States House Committee on Appropriations, and the fifty-one representatives serving on it, have been hit by a raft of anonymous editors making often vulgar edits referencing "chicken fucker," or more creative combinations: "sexual conduct", "sexual congress", "fornicator", "intimate relations", or "trysts with chickens."
  • In the media: Jimmy Wales accepts Dan David Prize
    Jimmy Wales and five others accepted the 2015 Dan David Prize at Tel Aviv University on May 17. The prize comes with US$1 million, ten percent of which goes to doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships.
  • WikiProject report: Cell-ebrating Molecular Biology
    This week, we had the pleasure of interviewing WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology, which has come a long way since our last interview in 2008. Like most projects, it has a long member list, but only a small subset of that group regularly contributes. With 28 featured articles and 58 top-importance start class ones, the project has clearly had some success, but has a ways to go. We talked to three regular project contributors.
  • Arbitration report: Editor conduct the subject of multiple cases
    The Arbitration Committee has an unusually large case load at present. Although perhaps not on a par with the high-profile, multi-party cases seen towards the end of last year and the beginning of this year, with five open cases the arbitrators are likely to be kept busy for the next several weeks.

PreerP

Hi! I wondered, did you read my comment at Talk:PreerP‎? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:27, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes, but speedy is only for blatant hoaxes and this case was not immediately conclusive. I'd suggest a {{prod}} tag instead. - Dravecky (talk) 23:37, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
OK, just wanted to be sure, as it seems pretty blatant to me. I tend not to use prod as "PROD must only be used if no opposition is to be expected", and you can almost always expect the article creator to object, as indeed I would in this case. AfD it is. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:37, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

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