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We're so glad you're here! Yamaka122 ...:) 21:12, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

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You are being recruited by the Salem Witch Trials Task Force, a collaborative project committed to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the Salem Witch Trials. Join us!

Psdubow 21:15, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

SWTTF Newsletter

The Salem Witch Trials Task Force Newsletter Volume I, September 2007
Project News We have just initiated a SWTTF Collaboration. It is an effort to bring a selected article in the scope of this Task Force to at least GA status. Our current collaboration is, our main article, the Salem Witch Trials. You may nominate an article for the next collaboration here. We have also just created a new unit, the SWTTF Anti-Vandalism Unit. This Unit concentrates on stopping, preventing, reverting, and reporting vandalism in articles within the scope of this Task Force. This Unit also focuses on cleaning up articles as well. Although all members of this Task Force are encouraged to revert vandalism, to specifically be a member of this Unit please sign yourself up here. The SWTTF Fall Requested Article Creation Drive is starting, This is a task for all wikipedians, whether or not they are a part of this Task Force, who wish to participate. Prizes range for the friendly cookie, to the SWTTF Barnstar and the grand prize of The Golden Wiki-Award! For Rules and more information go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Massachusetts/Salem Witch Trials Task Force#The Fall Requested Article Creation Drive. Member News There has been some discussion about breaking off from the Massachusetts wikiproject. Please join in at the task force talk page If you know anyone who would be interested in joining the project please invite them.(but please don't spam random talk pages :P) We also welcome all are new members. Thanks for joining!!!	Messages from the Editors This is are first newsletter, and because of me its a day late. This first issue was not very well announced (which is probably also my fault :D), but for the next issue we encourage everyone to help write it. Also for the first time I delivered the newsletter personally, but for the future Grafikbot or betacommandbot hopefully will be doing this automatically. So please place your self in the right place here. And last but not least please be bold in your editing. Happy Editing! Yamaka122 ...:) 22:59, 11 September 2007 (UTC) Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 10 – November 2007). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
Articles Needing Attention Make visible or invisible by clicking Show or Hide, respectively. Cleanup needed Edward Bishop • Giles Corey • Sarah Good • Jonathan Corwin • Thomas Danforth • Tituba • Abigail Williams • John Willard • Mary Warren Requested articles Bartholomew Gendey • Nicholas Noyes • Deodat Lawson • Thomas Brattle • Robert Calef • Elizabeth Hubbard • Susannah Sheldon • Sarah Bibber • John Alden • Sarah Bishop • Mary Black • Mary Bradbury • Sarah Cloyce • Mary English • Phillip English • Abigail Faulkner • William Hobbs • Mary Lacy • Sarah Morey • Benjamin Proctor • Sarah Proctor • William Proctor • Abigail Hobbs • Deliverance Hobbs • Margaret Jacobs • Mary Lacey Jr. • Mary Lacey Sr. • Sarah Churchwell • Mary Eastey • Elizabeth Howe • George Jacobs, Sr. • Alice Parker • Mary Parker • Margaret Scott • Samuel Wardwell • Sarah Wildes • Lydia Dustin Expansion needed A Break with Charity • Abigail Williams • Ann Foster • Dorcas Good • John Hale • John Hathorne • John Willard • Jonathan Corwin • Martha Corey • Mary Walcott • Mary Warren • Mercy Lewis • Nathaniel Saltonstall • Rebecca Eames • Roger Toothaker • Samuel Sewall • Samuel Willard • Sarah Good • The Witch House • Wilmot Redd • 1692 • Ann Putnam, Jr. • Betty Parris • Bridget Bishop • Edward Bishop • Elizabeth Proctor • George Burroughs • Giles Corey • John Proctor • Rebecca Nurse • Samuel Parris • The Crucible (film) • Thomas Danforth • Tituba • William Stoughton
Contributors to this Issue Psdubow (Lead Editor) Yamaka122 (Sr. Editor) Cocoaguy (Jr. Editor) Grafikm and Grafikbot (Distributors)
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League of Copyeditors roll call

Greetings from the League of Copyeditors. Your name is listed on our members page, but we are unsure how many of the people listed there are still active contributors to the League's activities. If you are still interested in participating in the work of the League, please follow the instructions at the members page to add your name to the active members list. Once you have done that, you might want to familiarise yourself with the new requests system, which has replaced the old /proofreading subpage. As the old system is now deprecated, the main efforts of the League should be to clear the substantial backlog which still exists there. The League's services are in as high demand as ever, as evinced by the increasing backlog on our requests pages, both old and new. While FA and GA reviewers regularly praise the League's contributions to reviewed articles, we remain perennially understaffed. Fulfilling requests to polish the prose of Wikipedia's highest-profile articles is a way that editors can make a very noticeable difference to the appearance of the encyclopedia. On behalf of the League, if you do consider yourself to have left, I hope you will consider rejoining; if you consider yourself inactive, I hope you will consider returning to respond to just one request per week, or as many as you can manage. Merry Christmas and happy editing, The League of Copyeditors.

Melon‑Bot (STOP!) 18:31, 28 December 2007 (UTC)