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Hey, I wanted to know if editing out unnecessary humour (which I have seen on a few pages,) is something that I should do? --DivinePtr (talk) 05:17, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 16 May 2024 edit
- News and notes: Democracy in action: multiple elections
- Special report: Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?
- Arbitration report: Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24
- Comix: Generations
- Traffic report: Crawl out through the fallout, baby
Question from Colinkowal24 (17:06, 21 May 2024) edit
Hi. a user named Serimphimblade or something has been deleting my drafts. I do not know why as I have put lots of effort into them Thank you.
-CK24 --Colinkowal24 (talk) 17:06, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Colinkowal24, Seraphimblade deleted your drafts because your article appeared to be promotional in nature - please read WP:PROMO for more info. Please, when creating articles use sources that are reliable and secondary sources, not self published nor primary sources. Regards, ~Δ (delta • t • c) 18:34, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
May thanks edit
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Thank you for improving articles in May! - Today's story mentions a concert I loved to hear (DYK) and a piece I loved to sing in choir, 150 years old (OTD). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:13, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
Pretty Cure or PreCure for Wonderful Pretty Cure! edit
This person wants to move Wonderful Pretty Cure to PreCure and will need your insight here is talk page Talk:Wonderful Pretty Cure!#Requested move 21 May 2024 Anime1990 (talk) 16:01, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
Editor experience invitation edit
Hi ~delta :) I'm looking for experienced editors to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 04:35, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Clovermoss, I filled this out under my previous username a while ago :) I updated it with my current username. ~Δ (delta • t • c) 17:21, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors June 2024 Newsletter edit
Guild of Copy Editors June 2024 Newsletter
  Hello and welcome to the June 2024 newsletter, a quarterly-ish digest of Guild activities since April. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: Wanted: new Guild coordinators! If you value and enjoy the GOCE, why not help out behind the scenes? Nominations for our mid-year coordinator election are now open until 23:59 on 15 June (UTC). Self-nominations are welcome. Voting commences at 00:01 on 16 June and continues until 23:50 on 30 June. Results will be announced at the election page. Blitz: Nine of the fourteen editors who signed up for the April 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 55,853 words comprising twenty articles. Barnstars awarded are available here. Drive: 58 editors signed up for our May 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive and 33 of those completed at least one copy edit. 251 articles and 475,952 words were copy edited. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Our June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz will begin on 16 June and finish on 22 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 05:23, 8 June 2024 (UTC) , GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 2,779 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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The Signpost: 8 June 2024 edit
- Technology report: New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade
- Deletion report: The lore of Kalloor
- In the media: National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say
- News from the WMF: Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024
- Recent research: ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth
- Featured content: We didn't start the wiki
- Essay: No queerphobia
- Special report: RetractionBot is back to life!
- Traffic report: Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer
- Comix: The Wikipediholic Family
- Concept: Palimpsestuous
Question from Abdulkabeer19 (08:13, 10 June 2024) edit
how do i create a new article? --Abdulkabeer19 (talk) 08:13, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Abdulkabeer19, welcome to Wikipedia and happy editing! To learn how to write an article please see this page which lists out instructions for doing so. Best, ~Δ (delta • t • c) 14:54, 10 June 2024 (UTC)