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Books & Bytes New Years Double Issue

Happy New Year, and welcome to a special double issue of Books & Bytes. We've included a retrospective on the changes and progress TWL has seen over the last year, the results of the survey TWL participants completed in December, some of our plans for the future, a second interview with a Wiki Love Libraries coordinator, and more. Here's to 2014 being a year of expansion and innovation for TWL!

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Saturday: NYC Art And Feminism Misplaced Pages Editathon

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Upcoming Saturday events - March 1: Harlem History Editathon and March 8: NYU Law Editathon

Upcoming Saturday events - March 1: Harlem History Editathon and March 8: NYU Law Editathon

You are invited to join upcoming Misplaced Pages "Editathons", where both experienced and new Misplaced Pages editors will collaboratively improve articles on a selected theme, on the following two Saturdays in March: Saturday March 1: Harlem History Editathon (RSVP), focusing on Harlem history, landmarks and biographies Saturday March 8: NYU Law Editathon (RSVP), focusing on innovation law and intellectual property (with social dinner afterward) I hope to see you there! Pharos (talk)

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GOCE February blitz wrapup

Guild of Copy Editors Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Blitzes/February 2014 wrap-up Participation: Out of seven people who signed up for this blitz, all copy-edited at least one article. Thanks to all who participated! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: During the seven-day blitz, we removed 16 articles from the requests queue. Hope to see you at the March drive! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Baffle gab1978. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by

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Riverdale, New Jersey

I updated the references dates on the Geographic Names Information System line for Riverdale, New Jersey Infobox which you reverted for no apparent reason. At the same time I removed the reference "CensusArea" because it is not relevant. The GNIS value 0885371 comes directly from /http://geonames.usgs.gov/ by clicking the Search Domestic Names link and using the search page it opens. The reference "CensusArea" is in no way needed find or verify this value. Please explain why you believe it is need here even though it is not included on most municipality pages. Joy if (talk) 12:47, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

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Re: Turnpike Widening change from future tense to past tense

Thanks. Took a while. Mlaurenti (talk) 20:10, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014: The results

The 2014 WikiCup champion is Godot13 (submissions), who flew the flag of the Smithsonian Institution. This was Godot13's first WikiCup competition and, over the 10 months of the competition, he has produced (among other contributions) two featured lists and an incredible 292 featured pictures, including architectural photographs and scans of historical documents. Cwmhiraeth (submissions), 2012 and 2013 WikiCup champion, came in second, having written a large number of biology-related articles. Casliber (submissions), WikiCup finalist every year since 2010, finished in third.

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• Godot13 (submissions) wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 181 featured pictures in the final round.
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Re: High School Infobox Parameters

Let me explain the logic of the edits I made. For one thing you mentioned the grade links in the infobox. A common thing on encyclopedic sites such as this and wikis are to link to articles in other articles where they are mentioned. Even though everyone most likely has an idea of how grades work there are still articles for Ninth grade and such. So that is why I linked to them in high school infoboxes since they are unlikely to be mentioned in the following sections about the school. It's pretty simple. If a government or military article mentions food (i.e. pizza) why not link to it although we all know what pizza is (or at least we should)? Anyway I see why you raised it as 10th and 11th grades are excluded. Perhaps I should remove the links. Anyway I was unaware of the sample school infobox. I thought it was superfluous and unnecessary to have "high school" listed as the type in the infobox when it is in the title of most secondary schools as well as the opening sentences in the articles. I still think adding the link in infoboxes is not needed as the reader is aware that it is a high school. Also to be even more specific instead of merely linking secondary education in the United States to "high school" in American high school articles, I believe linking Secondary education in the United States#High school is better. So it looks like some resolution has to be made. Can you link me to the sample school infobox model so I can look it over? Banan14kab (talk) 23:22, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Template:Infobox New Jersey State Legislature district

Hello, you seem to be the editor who made Template:Infobox New Jersey State Legislature district happen. I've just noted a problem and possible solution at Template talk:Infobox New Jersey State Legislature district and I'm hoping you can respond. Thank you. SchreiberBike talk 02:50, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

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Yvonne Thornton citation

Hello - I wanted to let you know that I just happened to be working on some C-SPAN links, and I just happened to come to the article for Yvonne Thornton shortly after you added some information to it. I changed CNN to C-SPAN, and I changed the date from the date that the excerpt was created to the date that the interview was originally aired. KConWiki (talk) 01:35, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

• Thanks so much for making the correction. In looking at the source, I realize the error. Alansohn (talk) 02:15, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

People who apparently can't assume good faith or work collaboratively

I told you not once but twice that there was nothing further to discuss but you continued to post your arrogant crap at my talk. Now I will tell you in simpler language that hopefully you can understand. STAY OFF MY TALK PAGE!!! Please note that is to be in no way construed as a request. I will continue to edit any article I please, even in and about your kingdom. When a person makes an edit summary stating that they are editing on behalf of the administration of the school which page they are editing, they from that point forward will always have a coi. It does not matter that the school is in jersey. The same rules apply there as in the other 49 states and the rest of the English speaking world. I have never attempted to edit any article on a school in Jersey to get it within guidelines that you haven't showed up and said thats not the way we do it in jersey. Well contrary to your opinion there is value in having some uniformity in articles on the same general subject such as schools. Now..BYE — Preceding unsigned comment added by John from Idegon (talk • contribs)

• I told you twice that my goal is to improve the article in question and I have the distinct impression that your goal here is to be as disruptive and destructive as possible. When I see that someone from the school is editing the article, my warning flags go off. I watch the article carefully and monitor the content. In this case, the issues were trivial, while the additions were rather productive, providing details that might best be provided by an insider. Your removal of reliably sourced neutral content made the article worse than it was before. Misplaced Pages has little need for folks looking to impose their own personal and arbitrary interpretations on other editors with a genuine interest on building an encyclopedia. If policy is being violated you might well have a leg to stand on, but if you're just trying to impose some foolish consistency and ram that through without justification, then you may as well move on. I wish you the best of luck and hope that you will start learning how to assume good faith and start working on a collaborative basis with all editors, new and old. Alansohn (talk) 03:23, 20 November 2014 (UTC)