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Re: Pokémon Demographics edit

First, thanks for contacting me instead of just reverting the pages.

I removed the "demographics" section from some of the articles for two reasons: first, because it's fairly crufty - knowing the exact number of NPC sprites in a given city adds nothing to a reader's comprehension of the article. Also, the sections were written from an in-universe perspective, which is not only generally unsuitable for Wikipedia, but gave the slightly absurd impression that, in the Pokémon world, a population of around 50 constitutes a bustling metropolis. It just doesn't read well. All that said, it is definitely a good idea to mention the relative size and population of each city (e.g. Saffron is larger than most cities, etc.) - just be careful not to go in-universe or use OR in that endeavor. ~e.o.t.d~ 18:28, 6 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

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WP:POKE is doing some housecleaning edit

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ArbCom elections are now open! edit

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Invite to the African Destubathon edit

Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! So it would be a good chance to win something for improving stubs on African sportspeople, including footballers, athletes, Olympians and Paralympians etc, particularly female ones, but also male. Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing a few expanded articles on African Paralympians, Olympians and committees etc, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:13, 6 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Martok edit

Thank you on behalf of Wikipedia and Star Trek fans for being a part of the Star Trek project. In case you did not see the article alert, Martok was put up for AFD today here. Lets try to avoid a repeat of Weyoun, which was deleted with one vote! Starspotter (talk) 18:14, 11 May 2021 (UTC)Reply