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3,515	Grand Theft Auto (series) (talk)	Add sources
810	Farming Simulator (talk)	Add sources
75	Range (aeronautics) (talk)	Add sources
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205	Tom Clancy's EndWar (talk)	Expand
477	Ahmad Shah Massoud (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
712	Omar Khayyám (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
407	Fourth-generation jet fighter (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
14	EA Autolog (talk)	Merge
492	Need for Speed: The Run (talk)	Merge
504	Unmanned combat aerial vehicle (talk)	Merge
579	Rage (video game) (talk)	Wikify
98	Kane (Command & Conquer) (talk)	Wikify
191	Torchlight (talk)	Wikify
3	Selman Uranues (talk)	Orphan
4	Why U (talk)	Orphan
41	Hammerwatch (talk)	Orphan
8	Fighter Wing Skrydstrup (talk)	Stub
43	Discourse (software) (talk)	Stub
67	DoNotTrackMe (talk)	Stub
24	Cairo Aviation (talk)	Stub
5	Flyford Flavell (talk)	Stub
26	Disney's PK: Out of the Shadows (talk)	Stub

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Copyright checks when performing AfC reviews

Hello Redalert2fan. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular.

The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.

If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)

If you do find a copyright violation, please do not decline the draft on that basis. Copyright violations need to be dealt with immediately as they may harm those whose content is being used and expose Wikipedia to potential legal liability. If the draft is substantially a copyvio, and there's no non-infringing version to revert to, please mark the page for speedy deletion right away using {{db-g12|url=URL of source}}. If there is an assertion of permission, please replace the draft article's content with {{subst:copyvio|url=URL of source}}.

Some of the more obvious indicia of a copyvio are use of the first person ("we/our/us..."), phrases like "this site", or apparent artifacts of content written for somewhere else ("top", "go to top", "next page", "click here", use of smartquotes, etc.); inappropriate tone of voice, such as an overly informal tone or a very slanted marketing voice with weasel words; including intellectual property symbols (™,®); and blocks of text being added all at once in a finished form with no misspellings or other errors.

I hope this message finds you well and thanks again you for your efforts in this area. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC).

Sent via--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

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102	Ceiling (aeronautics) (talk)	Add sources
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143	Helmet-mounted display (talk)	Add sources
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210	Cubana de Aviación (talk)	Add sources
81	Claude (Grand Theft Auto) (talk)	Cleanup
30	VG247 (talk)	Cleanup
73	Wuala (talk)	Cleanup
660	Max Payne 3 (talk)	Expand
427	Game design (talk)	Expand
1,014	Boeing CH-47 Chinook (talk)	Expand
307	Fictional military aircraft (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
120	Long-acting reversible contraception (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,994	The Elder Scrolls (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
215	Czech Airlines (talk)	Merge
364	Los Santos (Grand Theft Auto) (talk)	Merge
15	PowerPlay (technology) (talk)	Merge
315	Thief in law (talk)	Wikify
517	Aliens: Colonial Marines (talk)	Wikify
63	Kaman HH-43 Huskie (talk)	Wikify
4	Apabad (talk)	Orphan
4	ActionAid Kenya (talk)	Orphan
1	Atzenberger Höhe (talk)	Orphan
8	The UnderGarden (talk)	Stub
54	Combat radius (talk)	Stub
16	Alexei Borodin (talk)	Stub
35	Manufacturer's empty weight (talk)	Stub
37	Dead Space: Martyr (talk)	Stub
29	Pike Transit Initiative (talk)	Stub

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60	HAVE QUICK (talk)	Add sources
456	Winning streak (sports) (talk)	Add sources
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13	GripShift (talk)	Cleanup
410	Poptropica (talk)	Cleanup
1,225	Borderlands (video game) (talk)	Expand
131	Golden Joystick Award (talk)	Expand
106	Equipment of the United States Armed Forces (talk)	Expand
1,000	TotalBiscuit (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
62	Select Bus Service (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
16	Brewster XA-32 (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
104	American Airlines accidents and incidents (talk)	Merge
576	Ferrari Testarossa (talk)	Merge
667	Purified water (talk)	Merge
471	Rayman Legends (talk)	Wikify
139	BTR-4 (talk)	Wikify
295	Niko Bellic (talk)	Wikify
4	Bava Pyara caves (talk)	Orphan
2	ACTR1B (talk)	Orphan
2	Atuba Park (talk)	Orphan
14	The Weakest Link (video game) (talk)	Stub
35	MAKS (air show) (talk)	Stub
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VisualEditor newsletter—December 2014

Did you know?

Basic table editing is now available in VisualEditor. You can add and remove rows and columns from existing tables at the click of a button.

The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on table editing and performance. Their weekly status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.

VisualEditor was deployed to several hundred remaining wikis as an opt-in beta feature at the end of November, except for most Wiktionaries (which depend heavily upon templates) and all Wikisources (which await integration with ProofreadPage).

Recent improvements

Basic support for editing tables is available. You can insert new tables, add and remove rows and columns, set or remove a caption for a table, and merge cells together. To change the contents of a cell, double-click inside it. More features will be added in the coming months. In addition, VisualEditor now ignores broken, invalid rowspan and colspan elements, instead of trying to repair them.

You can now use find and replace in VisualEditor, reachable through the tool menu or by pressing ⌃ Ctrl+F or ⌘ Cmd+F.

You can now create and edit simple <blockquote> paragraphs for quoting and indenting content. This changes a "Paragraph" into a "Block quote".

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If you add a category that has been redirected, then VisualEditor now adds its target. Categories without description pages show up as red.

You can again create and edit galleries as wikitext code.

Looking ahead

VisualEditor will replace the existing design with a new theme designed by the User Experience group. The new theme will be visible for desktop systems at MediaWiki.org in late December and at other sites early January. (You can see a developer preview of the old "Apex" theme and the new "MediaWiki" one which will replace it.)

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Thank you! WhatamIdoing (WMF) (talk) 23:37, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

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