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Joey Wat

Hi. I work for Joey Wat, the CEO of Yum China, which operates KFC, Taco Bell, and other fast food brands in China. I noticed you were a major contributor to pages like List of restaurants in China and Fast food in China, so I was hoping you might be willing to get involved in this page. The current page is only a few paragraphs long. Also, a dedicated section on awards seems promotional. Following WP:COI, I shared a proposed expanded version for impartial editors to consider. Sincerely appreciated if you can take the time to give the expanded draft an impartial lookover and provide any feedback. Coreyhcooper (talk) 08:09, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Hello Coreyhcooper: I may not have time to become involved in this matter, but I'll keep it in mind. North America1000 11:54, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
Greatly appreciate your consideration and thanks for your time. Coreyhcooper (talk) 06:01, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

I'm wishing you a Merry Christmas, because that is what I celebrate. Feel free to take a "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings" if you prefer.  :) BOZ (talk) 00:21, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas!

 
Merry Christmas North! FeydHuxtable (talk) 18:39, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2023)

 
Cycle between autotrophs and heterotrophs: autotrophs use light, carbon dioxide, and water to form oxygen and organic compounds, mainly through the process of photosynthesis (green arrow).
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Carbon source (biology)

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Seasonal greetings!!

  Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2024!

Hello Northamerica1000, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2024.
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Season's greetings


 
~ ~ ~ Merry Christmas! ~ ~ ~

Hello Northamerica1000: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 20:47, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

  Happy New Year!
Hello Northamerica1000:


Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles with axes, hammers and chisels?

Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unnecessary blisters.

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This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2024)

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Fish slice

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This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2024)

 
An antacid is a substance which neutralizes stomach acidity and is used to relieve heartburn, indigestion or an upset stomach.
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Antacid

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This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2024)

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Shovel

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This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2024)

 
Visualization of one newton of force
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Newton (unit)

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This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2024)

 
Mahatma Gandhi with a young Indira Ghandi, during his fast in 1924
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Hunger strike

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

 

  CheckUser changes

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  Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

  Technical news

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  Arbitration

  • Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
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This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2024)

 
Various pâtés
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Pâté

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Speedy deletion nomination of The Insider (news website)

 

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This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2024)

 
Uncooked rigatoni
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Rigatoni

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This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2024)

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Foreign policy

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This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2024)

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Economy of South America

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Nomination of America Cultural Center for deletion

 
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article America Cultural Center is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/America Cultural Center until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2024)

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Community service

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This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2024)

Hello, Northamerica1000. The article for improvement of the week is:

Religious music

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Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report
 

Our 2023 Annual Report is now ready for review.

Highlights:

  • Introduction
  • Membership news, obituary and election results
  • Summary of Drives, Blitzes and the Requests page
  • Closing words
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"Lumbersexual" listed at Redirects for discussion

  The redirect Lumbersexual has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 March 19 § Lumbersexual until a consensus is reached. —blindlynx 00:39, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Nomination of Avocado cake for deletion

 
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Avocado cake is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Avocado cake until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2024)

File:Bucaram foto.png
Abdalá Bucaram
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Abdalá Bucaram

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This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2024)

 
Gabin in The Little Rebels (1955)
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Jean Gabin

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

 

  Administrator changes

 

  Guideline and policy news

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  • The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

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  • Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

Hello Northamerica1000,

 
New Page Review queue January to March 2024

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards

 

Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.

Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.

Reminders:

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Nomination of Halloween cake for deletion

 
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Halloween cake is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Halloween cake until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Guild of Copy Editors April 2024 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors April 2024 Newsletter
 

 

Hello and welcome to the April 2024 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing.

Election results: In our December 2023 coordinator election, Zippybonzo stepped down as coordinator; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Dhtwiki and Miniapolis were reelected coordinators, and Wracking was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC).

Drive: 46 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive, 32 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 289 articles totaling 626,729 words. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: 23 editors signed up for our February Copy Editing Blitz. 18 claimed at least one copy-edit and between them, they copy-edited 100,293 words in 32 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Drive: 53 editors signed up for our March Backlog Elimination Drive, 34 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 300 articles totaling 587,828 words. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: Sign up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 14 to 20 April. Barnstars will be awarded here.

Progress report: As of 23:17, 11 April 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 109 requests since 1 January 2024, and the backlog stands at 2,480 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.

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Nomination of Clementine cake for deletion

 
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Clementine cake is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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BaduFerreira (talk) 20:01, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

 
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Carrot cake cookie is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carrot cake cookie until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2024)

Hello, Northamerica1000. The article for improvement of the week is:

Antarctic

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