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Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
4,338	Nintendo 3DS (talk)	Add sources
109	Looking for a Home (film) (talk)	Add sources
4	Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association (talk)	Add sources
547	Parakeet (talk)	Add sources
646	Peeta Mellark (talk)	Add sources
485	Kelpie (talk)	Add sources
452	Clash of Clans (talk)	Cleanup
28	Cerulean Warbler (talk)	Cleanup
45	Regional Transportation District (talk)	Cleanup
150	Illeism (talk)	Expand
71	Nausicaä (character) (talk)	Expand
254	Damien Thorn (talk)	Expand
14	The Journey of Shuna (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
567	Fushigi Yûgi (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
52	Katsa (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
407	Kinetic energy recovery system (talk)	Merge
91	Khufu ship (talk)	Merge
129	Anjan Dutt (talk)	Merge
442	Oxymorphone (talk)	Wikify
154	Bison hunting (talk)	Wikify
780	Neuroticism (talk)	Wikify
1	Brow Point (talk)	Orphan
1	Elektryk Bestia (band) (talk)	Orphan
5	Sugarless (manga) (talk)	Orphan
4	MTMR2 (talk)	Stub
10	Aequornithes (talk)	Stub
12	Zürich Zoologischer Garten (talk)	Stub
6	Eoperipatus (talk)	Stub
4	Leptostomias (talk)	Stub
10	Shungicu Uchida (talk)	Stub

Changes to SuggestBot's suggestions

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Content: Is more content needed?
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Links: Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?
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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Templates for discussion

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
10	Tom Egeland (talk)	Add sources
16	Akiko (Anime) (talk)	Add sources
3,713	Manga (talk)	Add sources
46	Bird hybrid (talk)	Add sources
2,554	Pokémon (video game series) (talk)	Add sources
45	Aviculture (talk)	Add sources
123	Bear hunting (talk)	Cleanup
32	Karnataka literature (talk)	Cleanup
146	Electric toothbrush (talk)	Cleanup
1,793	Kitty Pryde (talk)	Expand
52	Gengar (talk)	Expand
354	Sokka (talk)	Expand
581	Polybius (video game) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
205	Budder (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
6,460	Nintendo (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
73	Indian aesthetics (talk)	Merge
457	Loon (talk)	Merge
1,052	State of Palestine (talk)	Merge
178	Fuel cell vehicle (talk)	Wikify
311	Viz Media (talk)	Wikify
3	Excerebration (talk)	Wikify
1	National Amalgamated Union of Enginemen, Firemen, Mechanics, Motormen and Electrical Workers (talk)	Orphan
3	Stories of divine birth in the eighteenth dynasty (talk)	Orphan
3	Army School, Delhi Cantt (talk)	Orphan
2	Radcliffe and District Enginemen and Boilermen's Provident Society (talk)	Stub
4	John Kenneth Terres (talk)	Stub
6	Chauliodus danae (talk)	Stub
0	Heterophotus ophistoma (talk)	Stub
18	Opisthocomidae (talk)	Stub
30	Gigantothermy (talk)	Stub

Changes to SuggestBot's suggestions

We have changed the number of suggested articles and which categories they are selected from. The number of stubs has been greatly reduced, the number of articles needing sources doubled, and two new categories added (orphans and unencyclopaedic articles). We have also modified the layout of the suggestions and added sortable columns with various types of information about each article. The first two columns are:

Views/Day: Daily average number of views an article's had over the past 14 days.
Quality: Predicted article quality on a 1- to 3-star scale. Placing your cursor over the stars should give you a pop-up describing the article's quality (Low/Medium/High), current assessment class, and predicted assessment class.

The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

Content: Is more content needed?
Headings: Does this article have an appropriate section structure?
Images: Is the number of illustrative images about right?
Links: Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?
Sources: For its length, is there an appropriate number of citations to sources in this article?

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly, your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 00:13, 27 September 2013 (UTC)