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Please put new stuff at the bottom, where I'll see it.

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Winston McCall Comment

About the PROD, someone placed a no-reference BLP, which was rectified. I was torn between CSD and AfD, hoping to give the author/others a chance to expand. Therefore I did a normal PROD on it. Unless there is any improvement today I'll AfD Winston McCall.--☾Loriendrew☽ ☏(talk) 18:50, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Entirely fair enough :-) - David Gerard (talk) 19:39, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

List of content management systems

Hey there,

Do you think you could review this page again? I have been trying to delete entries that do not have any notabilities and/or even pages but my changes are being reverted! (By people who added their own companies I am guessing)

Thanks :) Puda (talk) 11:18, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

A Sisyphean task. Just cleaned out the redlinked and unlinked entries again - David Gerard (talk) 11:26, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

You are the best. Puda (talk) 12:08, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

errol dave et al

or something like that satusuro 16:12, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter for Janaury 2014

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Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has worked mostly minor features and fixing bugs. A few significant bugs include working around a bug in CSSJanus that was wrongly flipping images used in some templates in right-to-left (RTL) environments (bug 50910) a major bug that meant inserting any template or other transclusion failed (bug 59002), a major but quickly resolved problem due to an unannounced change in MediaWiki core, which caused VisualEditor to crash on trying to save (bug 59867). This last bugs did not appear on any Misplaced Pages. Additionally, significant work has been done in the background to make VisualEditor work as an independent editing system.

As of today, VisualEditor is now available as an opt-out feature to all users at 149 active Wikipedias.

• The character inserter tool in the "Insert" menu has a very basic set of characters. The character inserter is especially important for languages that use Latin and Cyrillic alphabets with unusual characters or frequent diacritics. Your feedback on the character inserter is requested. In addition to feedback from any interested editor, the developers would particularly like to hear from anyone who speaks any of the 50+ languages listed under Phase 5 at mw:VisualEditor/Rollouts, including Breton, Mongolian, Icelandic, Welsh, Afrikaans, Macedonian, and Azerbaijani.
• meta:Office hours on IRC have been heavily attended recently. The next one will be held this coming Wednesday, 22 January at 23:00 UTC.
• You can now edit some of the page settings in the "options" dialog – __NOTOC__ and __FORCETOC__ as selection (forced on, forced off, or default setting; bugs 56866 and 56867) and __NOEDITSECTION__ as a checkbox (bug 57166).
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• Misplaced Pages:VisualEditor/User guide was updated recently to show some new and upcoming features.

Looking ahead: The character formatting menu on the toolbar will get a drop-down indicator next Thursday. The reference and media items will be the first two listed in the Insert menu. The help menu will get a page listing the keyboard shortcuts. Looking further out, image handling will be improved, including support for alignment (left, right, and center) and better control over image size (including default and upright sizes). The developers are also working on support for editing redirects and image galleries.

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Mark Overmars Nominated For Deletion

Hello there, I noticed you were in the previous discussion for the deletion of the Mark Overmars article which has since been recreated posing the same issues as before. If you could possibly weigh in on the new discussion it would be appreciated. Thanks. BlitzGreg (talk) 03:56, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Amira Pyliotis > Tecoma (musician)_Tecoma_(musician)-2014-01-20T23:41:00.000Z">

I've opened a discussion at talkpage suggesting the above move. I believe it is not controversial so I haven't used the formal 'plate. If you have an opinion either way you're welcome to provide it.shaidar cuebiyar (talk) 23:41, 20 January 2014 (UTC)_Tecoma_(musician)"> _Tecoma_(musician)">

Brendan Eich article

Hi David! As an editor on Brendan Eich, would you be up for contributing to the discussion at Talk:Brendan Eich#Prop 8 donation? Thanks! Dreamyshade (talk) 00:29, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Reference Errors on 27 January

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D'oh! - David Gerard (talk) 00:24, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

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OpenOffice.org

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