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The Signpost: 25 February 2015

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• Featured content: The Moon, Mars, Venus, and Saturn, in no particular order. Also, Kaiser Kong.

• Gallery: Far from home

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• Recent research: Gender bias, SOPA blackout, and a student assignment that backfired

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The Signpost: 04 March 2015

• From the editor: A sign of the times: the Signpost revamps its internal structure to make contributing easier

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation and OTRS team both publish reports, indicate operating changes

• Editorial: Conspiracy theories distract from real questions about grantmaking report

• Traffic report: Attack of the movies

• Arbitration report: Bradspeaks—impact, regrets, and advice; current cases hinge on sex, religion, and ... infoboxes

• Interview: Meet a paid editor

• In the media: Kanye West rebranded; Wikipedia in court; editors for hire

• Featured content: Ploughing fields and trading horses with Rosa Bonheur

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The Signpost: 11 March 2015

• Special report: An advance look at the WMF's fundraising survey

• News and notes: WikiWomen's History Month—meetups, blog posts, and "Inspire" grant-making campaign

• In the media: Gamergate; a Wiki hoax; Kanye West

• In focus: WMF to NSA: "stop spying on Wikipedia users"

• Traffic report: Wikipedia: handing knowledge to the world, one prank at a time

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LA edit-a-thons on March 18 (tomorrow!) and 28

Wadewitz memorial edit-a-thon (3/18), Redondo Loves Wikipedia (3/28)

Dear fellow Wikipedian, The LA Wikipedia community has two events in this second half of March -- please consider attending! First, there is a memorial edit-a-thon in honor of the prolific LA Wikipedian Adrianne Wadewitz, which is being held downtown on March 18 (tomorrow!) from noon to 8pm as a part of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies' annual conference. Please drop by to contribute your own work or teach other users how to write for Wikipedia. Second, there will be an event at the Redondo Beach Public Library (following up on last month's session), in collaboration with the Redondo Beach Historical Society. Please join us from 10am to noon on Saturday, March 28 at the main branch of the Redondo Beach Public Library! I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:39, 17 March 2015 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here! To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

The Signpost: 18 March 2015

• From the editor: A salute to Pine

• News and notes: SUL finalization imminent; executive office shake-ups at the Foundation

• In the media: NYPD editing articles regarding allegations of police brutality and misconduct

• Op-ed: Does the Wikimedia fundraising survey address community concerns?

• Featured content: A woman who loved kings

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The Signpost – Volume 11, Issue 12 – 25 March 2015

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation adopts open-access research policy

• Op-ed: How my father's railroad image collection now benefits the world: the value of digitization

• Featured content: A carnival of animals, a river of dung, a wasteland of uncles, and some people with attitude

• Special report: Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2014

• Traffic report: Oddly familiar

• Recent research: Most important people; respiratory reliability; academic attitudes

• Blog: The Wikipedia Library Team reflects on its new Visiting Scholars program

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The Signpost, 1 April 2015

• In focus: WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data

• In the media: Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism

• Featured content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.

• Traffic report: All over the place

• News and notes: New edits-by-mail option will "revolutionize" Wikipedia and its editor base

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The Signpost: 01 April 2015

• In focus: WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data

• In the media: Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism

• Featured content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.

• Traffic report: All over the place

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The Signpost: 01 April 2015

• In focus: WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data

• In the media: Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism

• Featured content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe.

• Traffic report: All over the place

• News and notes: New edits-by-mail option will "revolutionize" Wikipedia and its editor base

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The Signpost: 08 April 2015

• Op-ed: We are drowning in promotional artspam

• News and notes: Advancement department to be created at the Foundation, milestone fixes

• In the media: Wikipedia on 60 Minutes, Kickstarter, and in the classroom

• Traffic report: Resurrection week

• Featured content: Partisan arrangements, dodgy dollars, a mysterious union of strings, and a hole that became a monument

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Christianity

• Arbitration report: New Functionary appointments

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The Signpost: 15 April 2015

• News and notes: Erik Möller leaving Foundation; annual plan grants under community review

• In the media: Saving Wikipedia; Internet regulation; Thoreau quote hoax

• Blog: Single-User Login provides access to all wikis

• Traffic report: Furious domination

• Featured content: Au-delà de les Alpes, le chien lit de Sainte Bernard. Sous les pavés, les trimes d'argent! Mes enfants, suivez-moi!

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The Signpost: 22 April 2015

• Special report: Sony emails reveal corporate practices and undisclosed advocacy editing

• In the media: UK political editing; hoaxes; net neutrality

• News and notes: Call for candidates as the movement approaches the Wikimedia Board elections

• In focus: 2015 Wikimedia Foundation election preparations underway

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The Signpost: 29 April 2015

• Wikimania: Choice of small village for Wikimania 2016 ruffles feathers

• News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments evaluation sees diminishing returns and increasing cost

• In the media: Scottish MEP blocked for edit warring; ranking articles by importance

• Featured content: Another day, another dollar

• Traffic report: Bruce, Nessie, and genocide

• Recent research: Military history, cricket, and Australia targeted in Wikipedia articles' popularity vs. quality; how copyright damages economy

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Resurrection of Southern California Task Force

After moving from Los Angeles County to Kern County to San Luis Obispo County, I am finally realizing that there is life in California outside of L.A. and San Francisco, where I lived and grew up. Oh, I have also lived in San Diego, San Bernardino, San Joaquin, Yolo and Sacramento counties, and I earned my undergraduate degree in Riverside County. I am trying to breathe life into the Southern California Task Force, and I hope you will join me. Could you visit our list of participants at the other end of this link and update your description of what you are interested in doing for us, assuming that you still want to be in the mix, that is.

In recompense, I will buy you a drink during the Wikipedia Welcome Week I am planning for Morro Bay on the Central Coast in July. Yours sincerely, BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 18:29, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 May 2015

• News and notes: "Inspire" grant-making campaign concludes, grantees announced

• Featured content: The amorous android and the horsebreeder; WikiCup round two concludes

• In the media: Guggenheim image donation; Wiki campaign gets advertising award

• Special report: FDC candidates respond to key issues

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The Signpost: 13 May 2015

• Foundation elections: Board candidates share their views with the Signpost

• News and notes: Swedish Wikimedia chapter organizes simultaneous Wikidata contests

• Traffic report: Round Two

• In the media: Grant Shapps story continues

• Op-ed: What made Wikipedia lose its reputation?

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The Signpost: 20 May 2015

• From the editor: Your voice is needed: strategic voting in the WMF election

• In focus: The awful truth about Wikimedia's article counts

• Traffic report: Inner Core

• News and notes: A dark side of comedy: the Wikipedia volunteers cleaning up behind John Oliver's fowl jokes

• Featured content: Puppets, fungi, and waterfalls

• In the media: Jimmy Wales accepts Dan David Prize

• WikiProject report: Cell-ebrating Molecular Biology

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The Signpost: 27 May 2015

• News and notes: WMF releases quarterly reports, annual plans

• In the media: Scrubbing Parliamentary biographies; Wikipedia's invisible history

• Discussion report: A relic from the past that needs to be updated

• Featured content: When music was confined to a ribbon of rust

• Recent research: Drug articles accurate and largely complete; women "slightly overrepresented"; talking like an admin

• Traffic report: Summer, summer, summertime

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The Signpost: 03 June 2015

• News and notes: Three new community-elected trustees announced, incumbents out

• Blog: How Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition

• Discussion report: The deprecation of Persondata; RfA – A broken process; Complaints from users on Swedish Wikipedia

• Featured content: It's not over till the fat man sings

• Technology report: Things are getting SPDYier

• Special report: Towards "Health Information for All": Medical content on Wikipedia received 6.5 billion page views in 2013

• In the media: Anonymous Australian editing targets football player, shooting victim

• Traffic report: A rather ordinary week

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The Signpost: 10 June 2015

• News and notes: Chapter financial trends analyzed, news in brief

• Traffic report: Two households, both alike in dignity

• In the media: Arbitration case attracts media coverage; Wikipedia in Israel

• Featured content: Just the bear facts, ma'am

• Technology report: Wikimedia sites are going HTTPS only

• Blog: Making Wikipedia’s medical articles accessible in Chinese

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The Signpost: 17 June 2015

• In the media: Wikipedia wins Asturias Prize; printing out Wikipedia; HTTPS switch

• Arbitration report: An election has consequences

• In focus: Three weeks to save freedom of panorama in Europe

• Op-ed: Making a difference in Wikipedia, one GA at a time

• Technology report: HTTPS-only rollout completed; proposal to enable VisualEditor for new accounts

• Interview: A veteran’s Wikipedia edits help him understand the brutality behind Yugoslavia’s wars

• News and notes: Labs outage kills tools, self; news in brief

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• Discussion report: A quick way of becoming an admin

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5th Annual Wiknic

5th Annual Wiknic (Saturday, July 11, 2015, ~9:30am-4pm)

Dear fellow Wikipedian, You are cordinally invited to the fifth annual Los Angeles Wiknic! The Wiknic is a part of the nationwide Great American Wiknic. We'll be grilling, getting to know each other better, and building the L.A. Wikipedia community! The event is tentatively planned for Pan-Pacific Park (map) and will be held on Saturday, July 11, 2014 from 9:30am to 4pm or so. Please RSVP and volunteer to bring food or drinks if possible! I hope to see you there! Howcheng (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:41, 21 June 2015 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here! To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

The Signpost: 24 June 2015

• From the editor: The Signpost tagging initiative

• Op-ed: Content Translation beta is coming to the English Wikipedia

• Special report: Small impact of the large Google Translation Project on Telugu Wikipedia

• Featured content: One eye when begun, two when it's done

• Recent research: How Wikipedia built governance capability; readability of plastic surgery articles

• Technology report: 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus and Multimedia roadmap announced

• News and notes: Board of Trustees propose bylaw amendments

• In the media: Turkish Wikipedia censorship; "Can Wikipedia survive?"; PR editing

• Blog: 7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 01 July 2015

• News and notes: Training the Trainers; VP of Engineering leaves WMF

• In the media: EU freedom of panorama; Nehru outrage; BBC apology

• WikiProject report: Able to make a stand

• Featured content: Viva V.E.R.D.I.

• Traffic report: We're Baaaaack

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Wikinic rescheduled

5th Annual Wiknic rescheduled to Saturday, July 25, 2015, ~9:30am-4pm

Due to a conflict with the Redondo Loves Wikipedia edit-a-thon, the fifth annual Los Angeles Wiknic has been rescheduled. As before, the location will be at Pan-Pacific Park (map) and will be held on Saturday, July 25, 2015 from 9:30am to 4pm or so. Please RSVP and volunteer to bring food or drinks if possible! I hope to see you there! —howcheng {chat} - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:28, 7 July 2015 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here! To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

The Signpost: 08 July 2015

• Editorial: So you want to get your message out. Where do you turn?

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation annual plan released, news in brief

• In the media: Wikimania warning; Wikipedia "mystery" easily solved

• Traffic report: The Empire lobs back

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The Signpost: 15 July 2015

• Op-ed: On paid editing and advocacy: when the Bright Line fails to shine, and what we can do about it

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• WikiProject report: What happens when a country is no longer a country?

• In the media: Shapps requests WMUK data; professor's plagiarism demotion

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The Signpost: 22 July 2015

• From the editor: Change the world

• News and notes: Wikimanía 2016; Lightbreather ArbCom case

• Wikimanía report: Wikimanía 2015 report, part 1, the plenaries

• In the media: Novelists annotate Wikipedia; Wales promotes TPO; Working for free

• Traffic report: The Nerds, They Are A-Changin'

• WikiProject report: Some more politics

• Featured content: The sleep of reason produces monsters

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The Signpost: 29 July 2015

• News and notes: BARC de-adminship proposal; Wikimania recordings debate

• Op-ed: My life as an autistic Wikipedian

• Recent research: Wikipedia and collective intelligence; how Wikipedia is tweeted

• In the media: Is Wikipedia a battleground in the culture wars?

• Featured content: Even mammoths get the Blues

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A Barnstar for you!

		The Socratic Barnstar
		People have been using WP:NAVBOX to argue for the deletion of templates on the redundancy of templates to categories, but you have read up on protocol better than any of us and correctly identified the most succinct argument against template creep.68.148.186.93 (talk) 04:40, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 05 August 2015

• Editorial: Wikipedia better equipped to deal with systemic bias than traditional publishers

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• In the media: Probe into Nehru edits launched; dangers of the right to be forgotten

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The Signpost: 12 August 2015

• News and notes: Superprotect, one year later; a contentious RfA

• In the media: Paid editing; traffic drop; Nicki Minaj

• Forum: Community voices on paid editing

• Wikimanía report: Wikimanía 2015, part 2, a community event

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The Signpost: 19 August 2015

• Op-ed: WP:THREATENING2MEN: The English Wikipedia's misogynist infopolitics and the hegemony of the asshole consensus

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The Signpost: 26 August 2015

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The Signpost: 02 September 2015

• Special report: Massive paid editing network unearthed on the English Wikipedia

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The Signpost: 09 September 2015

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The Signpost: 16 September 2015

• Editorial: No access is no answer to closed access

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The Signpost: 23 September 2015

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The Signpost: 30 September 2015

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UC Irvine men's volleyball

Do you want to expand the article for UC Irvine Anteaters men's volleyball or just leave it as a sloppy stub? Adding 24 sources to just a couple of sentences really doesn't make the team notable and just looks crappy; not to mention the fact that is just three different website in different articles. Also, Athletic colors for UC Irvine are the darker blue and Gold, not the lighter blue. Do not change it again. Corkythehornetfan 19:00, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

I reviewed the source you are citing and it appears to deal with licensed products, not athletics specifically. Additionally, it lists a number of different colors, not just the two mentioned in the article. Could you explain how this source verifies those two colors as the specific colors of the athletic program? The source I cited appeared to me to more authoritatively describe what the university's colors are; if that is incorrect, I apologize :) Thanks! --torri²(^talk/_contribs) 23:15, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Exactly, the ones you added are for the UNIVERSITY, not ATHLETICS. If you look at the logos, they use the two I listed --  #0C2340  &  #FFC72C . Usually, the athletics dept. will use the term "Trademarks" or "Licensing". If they do not use those terms, it will probably be either "Brand Identity". The top two (2) colors are their main colors because it is used in their logos and the Athletics website. Please keep in mind that not all universities have the same colors for both academics and athletics. Corkythehornetfan 23:49, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

I am having trouble understanding what reliable source you are citing for these claims. The third-party vendor document you cite provides a list of colors, but does not explicitly say which colors are the "main" colors for any part of the UCI brand. Colors on a website are hardly a reliable source. However, UCI's latest brand guidelines [1] specifically state that UCI blue and gold are the " primary color palette" that "should be used on all design and marketing materials, both internally and externally." Additionally, these colors officially "represent UC Irvine". [2] Can you provide a reliable source for your specific claims? Thanks again :) --Tt(^talk/_contribs) 01:47, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

It came directly from the UCI website (click "UCI Art Sheet" towards the bottom). Again, You have to look at how they brand themselves. It is pretty evident that their colors that I've mentioned above are correct for athletics. The bright blue and and gold are for ACADEMIC purposes only. Even the Brand Guide shows the Athletic Monogram the colors I've used. The light blue and gold do not go with the logos according to the UCI Art Sheet, which again comes directly from the UCI website. I really don't understand what is so confusing about this. If you cannot understand it after this, I'm done with this conversation because it is pretty simple and you are making something that is simple difficult. Corkythehornetfan 02:11, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 October 2015

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This Thursday: Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Getty Center

You are invited to join the Women in Architecture edit-a-thon @ Getty Center in LA on October 15! (drop-in any time, 10am-4pm)--Pharos (talk) 18:26, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 October 2015

• Op-ed: WikiConference USA 2015: built on good faith

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It is the name on the NRHP listing for the historic building at/near the station. --Tt(^talk/_contribs) 03:14, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

• Sounds like a job for the article's history section. Seriously, an NHRP listing should always be included in an article's content. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 03:45, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

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Hi Torritorri, I was going to let you know that have a lot of knowledge by heart regarding many different subjects. For example I could tell you the best way to get from LA to NY by heart. I got that information when I was talking to someone regarding Ventura County and they mentioned that Ventura County was the largest county without an airline. Please write back if you have any questions. Thank You for excepting me as an editor Sincerely, Aram — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aram Dakessian (talk • contribs) 05:19, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

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Hi! I've reverted your move of Pomona Metrolink station as it's disambiguating without good reason. Can you show me where there is another Pomona Metrolink station please? Feel free to start a WP:RM if you think a move is still required. Thanks, Jeni ^(talk) 13:37, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

The stations are listed on the page's hatnote as well as the Pomona disambiguation page. See Metrolink (Southern California) and Pomona, CA generally, Downtown Pomona station and Pomona (North) station specifically. --Regards, James(^talk/_contribs) 13:42, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

None of those stations are called Pomona Metrolink station, disambiguation beyond a hatnote is not required here. Jeni ^(talk) 13:43, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

While the page titles may not match exactly due to the recent adoption of WP:USSTATION as a guideline, "Pomona Metrolink station" is a likely search term to be used for either of the Pomona Metrolink stations in Southern California. None of these stations qualify as a primary topic, arguably; so the title Pomona Metrolink station should link to the Pomona disambiguation page. --Regards, James(^talk/_contribs) 13:49, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Regardless of WP:USSTATION, there is no metrolink station in the US that is called "Pomona", it's either Pomona (North) or Downtown Pomona. In this situation the hatnote that is at the top of page is sufficient enough to direct people to the right page if they happen to land on Pomona Metrolink station by mistake. Redirecting to the Pomona disambiguation page is overkill and, quite frankly a step backwards for the original reader. Like I said, I'm happy for you to start a requested move if you feel that I'm being unfair, however I strongly suspect you will not gather sufficient consensus. Jeni ^(talk) 13:54, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

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Per this discussion, it'd probably be best if you do a requested move since the other user objected to the last page move you did. This way you'll have various editors commenting on the best name for the article. 🎄 Corkythehornetfan 🎄 03:46, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks! I fixed it now I think. --Regards, James(^talk/_contribs) 08:13, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

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Chambers of commerce

After nominating the one you voted on, I started looking at some other articles on chambers. Mind I didn't do any research, but on the surface, I only found 2 in the whole country that meet ORG with what's on the page. (Omaha and Gwinnett County, GA). Chicago's main chamber was so bad I stubbed it and am still tempted to AfD it. Thoughts? John from Idegon (talk) 08:54, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Given the inherently promotional nature of CCs, I would not be surprised if many of these articles are ads created by COI editors. However, it is possible that some of these organisations in large cities may have notable media coverage due to their political activities. I will take a look at the category in the near future. --Regards, James(^talk/_contribs) 06:40, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, James. I did go ahead and nominate a couple of glaringly bad ones. Not gonna tell ya which lest some wikilawyer say I'm canvassing. Merry Christmas and happy editing! John from Idegon (talk) 06:43, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest

James, I do not have a conflict of interest in regards to SSCCC. Merry Christmas! Hopscotcher3 (talk) 03:11, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Your concerns about the SSCCC article

James, you are right; the article about SSCCC "may be confusing or unclear to readers". SSCCC is in the process of transitioning from a "student body organization" to a corporation. As that transition proceeds, progressively more information about the corporation will be added to the article and most of the information about the unincorporated SSCCC will be deleted.

SSCCC will hold a "General Assembly" meeting in the spring of 2016. That meeting will probably be attended by about 400 people. They will consider adopting bylaws for their new corporation. Thereafter, they will repeal the bylaws of the unincorporated SSCCC. At that point, most of the information about the unincorporated SSCCC can be deleted from the Wikipedia article.

SSCCC recently applied for recognition that it is exempt from federal income tax. And SSCCC recently registered with the California Attorney General's Registry of Charitable Trusts. SSCCC is in the process of negotiating a "Memorandum of Understanding" with the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges. At some point, SSCCC may be recognized by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges as a "statewide community college student organization".

The students have many more legal hoops to jump through before they have completed their transition and become recognized by the Board of Governors. So please be patient. The article about SSCCC will gradually become better organized and more concise. Hopscotcher3 (talk) 23:33, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

Information about this organisation's past should not be removed. That is a violation of WP:RECENTISM and comes across as promotional. I appreciate the contributions by a series of single-purpose accounts to this article, but they need to be thoroughly rewritten for encyclopedic tone, and information about the organisation's past that has been removed should be restored. --Regards, James(^talk/_contribs) 05:16, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

I agree that information about SSCCC's past should be preserved. However, that organization's existence only goes back to April 29, 2015 (the date of its incorporation). Information about the predecessor organization (established in 2006) is relevant to understanding how the incorporated SSCCC came into existence. But all of the information about the governing documents of the old SSCCC is going to be superseded when the new (incorporated) SSCCC adopts one or two or three dozen pages of bylaws that are compatible with the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law and with the Articles of Incorporation of Student Senate for California Community Colleges. Those new bylaws will probably be adopted in April or May, 2016.

Information about the "Student Senate", a predecessor of the unincorporated SSCCC, started accumulating before 2006. California Student Association of Community Colleges (CalSACC) had a "policy board" named "Student Senate". Fragments of information about that board are scattered across the Internet but verifiable information is very scarce, so I do not intend to include any of those fragments in the article about SSCCC. Do you know any "old timers" who remember CalSACC's "Student Senate"? They might know where verifiable information can be found. It might be published in community college student newspapers. I believe that it would be appropriate to include that kind of verifiable information in the article. Hopscotcher3 (talk) 20:07, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

James, I found a news report about the establishment of the unincorporated SSCCC in 2006. I added a reference about that news report to the Wikipedia page about SSCCC. I will check other college newspapers. Maybe I will find reports about the CalSACC policy board named "Student Senate". That kind of information would help to put the incorporated SSCCC into its historical context. Hopscotcher3 (talk) 22:45, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

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I must admit, I'm confused by this – could you explain in more detail why using the state/location as the disambiguator is disfavored in this case? East Ontario station, as an article title, is already disambiguated on its own, so I don't understand why its existence means that Ontario station (California) is the "wrong" choice... TIA. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 22:34, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

The California title (i.e., "a train station in Ontario, California") is still ambiguous as there are still two train stations in Ontario, California, that the title could refer to. --Regards, James(^talk/_contribs) 18:14, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

I was undecided about this, due to the fact that the stations do not have the same name. Because one is "Ontario, CA" and the other one is "East Ontario", the disambiguation of California seemed appropriate to me. I have come to realize that locally the best way to distinguish between them is by calling one the Amtrak station. That works, and the redirect is still there. Secondarywaltz (talk) 20:07, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

PlayStation Network

Hello James, can you kindly explain the {{Advert inline}} on PlayStation Network. Attribution was improved and the previously deleted text is now almost completely enclosed with inverted commas. These brief remarks were expressed the same day Sony officially unveiled the PlayStation Network to the press. It doesn't seem improper to include some historic detail and short quotation setting forth the purpose of the PlayStation Network. If I'm missing something else, I will attempt to correct it. — TPX 23:39, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

As I've explained in edit summary, the language is fundamentally unencyclopedic, extraneous and promotional, period. It doesn't matter whether it's in quotes or not, Wikipedia is not a promotional press release site; our job is to describe what happened (PSN was announced), not what some unnamed marketing employee wrote. Please do not remove maintenance tags without discussion. --Regards, James(^talk/_contribs) 19:43, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

CSUMB tag

Why don't you help contribute to fix the problem instead of reverting? ❄ Corkythehornetfan ❄ 19:55, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestion. I'll take it into consideration. --Regards, James(^talk/_contribs) 20:04, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Or at least point out the specific wording so the user can get it fixed. They are wanting to help clean the article up. ❄ Corkythehornetfan ❄ 20:08, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi James: knowing the specific wording would be helpful. I made a further edit to make the language more neutral. Thanks. Scottwithcsumbnews (talk) 17:54, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

I've removed the tag. --Regards, James(^talk/_contribs) 20:03, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

SSCCC article issues

James, does the lead section of the article about SSCCC comply with Wikipedia's layout guidelines? Is the lead section confusing or unclear? Does the lead section contain an excessive amount of intricate detail? Is the lead section too technical for most readers to understand? Does the lead section contain external links that may not follow Wikipedia's policies or guidelines? It would be helpful if you would identify such problems. Hopscotcher3 (talk) 22:24, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

I have already noted my concerns on the article's talk page, and I believe the discussion would be best had there. As I have stated, the contributions of a number of SPAs are in an overly legalistic tone and style that is unencyclopedic, the sources used are not reliable as required by policy, and the use of external links within the text of the article (this includes the infobox) is not appropriate. --Regards, James(^talk/_contribs) 20:14, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

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Hi James, thanks for your message on User talk:81.63.162.231. I am surprised by your readiness to remove an edit you can at least see as not being destructive. Were you sure it was not constructive ? The https link does not work on my computer / browser. Moreover, this webcomic mentions on each page a "Permanent link to this comic" which read "http://". So I will modify https to http again, hoping that if the correction is removed again, it will be for a better reason than my not being connected, my limited number of edits, or a lack of verification. It is sad to think that other corrections such as this one are removed on a regular basis. Lintawa (talk) 07:31, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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With respect to this edit to the article Loma Linda, California, nowhere does the cited source mention either of the figures $58,040 or 14.2%. If this were an isolated example, it would be plausible that it was just a slip or something, but the editor who placed the content there has an extensive history of making similar edits which conflict with cited sources, or which are cited to fake sources which don't even mention the content in question. He or she originally used to simply add fake information without giving any sources, and only after being blocked for doing so did he or she start giving fake sources. Some of the editor's edits were genuine, but hundreds of them are unambiguously vandalism, if one checks carefully enough, although on the face of it looking reasonable. Obviously, if you can find support in reliable sources for any of his/her edits which have been reverted, then restoring them is a reasonable thing to do, but this one is not supported by the cited source, which you restored. Unless you can provide a genuine source for the edit, perhaps you might either self-revert or correct the edit, and also that you don't make similar reverts in the future unless you can give a reliable source to support the content. The part of this edit relating to "Non-Hispanic White", on the other hand, turns out to be one of the few where that editor did actually add correct information, so thank you for restoring that. However, even there, I don't see that the cited source supports the content you restored about median household income: if it does, please correct me. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 20:43, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

I've self-reverted the edits you mention. Thanks. --Regards, James(^talk/_contribs) 00:43, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

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Just a courtesy note that I requested that Broadcom (disambiguation) be moved to Broadcom etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Broadcom_(disambiguation) ^{Talk to} SageGreenRider 12:27, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Renaming Metro Rail Lines

Hey James,

Per Metro's The Source, the board of directors has chosen not to study this plan any further, so this information is not necessary any more.

Thanks, Thomas — Preceding unsigned comment added by TJH2018 (talk • contribs) 17:19, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Please provide a reliable source for this and update the article, rather than blanking it. --Regards, James(^talk/_contribs) 17:21, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Hey James,

I got a verifiable resource (an Admin who did some research). Also, thanks for fixing the Pasadena Transit Logo I put in. I was unsure of how to size it correctly! Thanks Again!!

--TJH2018 (talk) 02:20, 13 February 2016 (UTC)TJH2018

Slauson station

In regards to that, there is an article called Slauson (Los Angeles Metro Silver Line station), also on the Los Angeles Metro. That's why I originally moved the article. However, BRT conventions may be different. epicgenius (talk) 03:56, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Got it. The proposed disambiguator seems overly long. How about something like "Slauson station (Los Angeles Metro Rail)" to distinguish from the Metro Liner BRT system? --Regards, James(^talk/_contribs) 03:17, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

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