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IMPORTANT CHANGES: We have modified the selection of articles SuggestBot suggests and altered the design to incorporate more information about the articles, as described in this explanation.

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information.

Views/Day Quality Title Content Headings Images Links Sources Tagged with…
13   Fusiliers Commandos de l'Air (talk)         Add sources
12   2000 Super 12 season (talk)     Add sources
62   Fête de la Fédération (talk)         Add sources
471   1995 Rugby World Cup (talk)   Add sources
4   French-American Foundation (talk)           Add sources
6   Military reserve forces of France (talk)         Add sources
53   Foreign relations of Libya (talk) Cleanup
5   Cecil Moss (talk)           Cleanup
669   Algerian War (talk) Cleanup
24   2009 in the United States (talk) Expand
839   Leaves of Grass (talk)   Expand
3,394   Uganda (talk) Expand
2,829   Superhero (talk)   Unencyclopaedic
100   Schalk Burger (talk)     Unencyclopaedic
131   Transportation in Los Angeles (talk)   Unencyclopaedic
196   Embedded database (talk)     Merge
1,183   2003 invasion of Iraq (talk) Merge
2,546   NoSQL (talk)       Merge
289   2010 Pakistan floods (talk) Wikify
14   Golden Cavalry of St George (talk)           Wikify
4   2007 suicide bombings in Iraq (talk)     Wikify
1   Queensland Reds season 2009 (talk)         Orphan
1   Thierry Cassuto (talk)         Orphan
4   Deaths in April 1996 (talk)       Orphan
23   Kasthuri Maan (talk)           Stub
9   Heart Solent (talk)       Stub
10   1956 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia and New Zealand (talk)     Stub
3   Botshabelo Stadium (talk)           Stub
9   Maurizio Gasparri (talk)         Stub
39   New Zealand Cavaliers (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) 11:30, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

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Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

We are currently running a study on the effects of adding additional information to SuggestBot's suggestions. Participation in the study is voluntary. Should you wish to not participate in the study, or have questions or concerns, you can find contact information on the SuggestBot study page.

IMPORTANT CHANGES: We have modified the selection of articles SuggestBot suggests and altered the design to incorporate more information about the articles, as described in this explanation.

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information.

Views/Day Quality Title Content Headings Images Links Sources Tagged with…
262   BMW M30 (talk)         Add sources
18   Fusiliers Commandos de l'Air (talk)         Add sources
1,348   Marshall Plan (talk) Add sources
2,787   Superhero (talk)   Add sources
1,861   Police (talk) Add sources
380   Fête de la Fédération (talk)         Add sources
300   ΜTorrent (talk) Cleanup
47   Foreign relations of Libya (talk) Cleanup
28   Whittier High School (talk)         Cleanup
202   Future French aircraft carrier (talk)     Expand
56   Scorpions (South Africa) (talk)         Expand
24   2009 in the United States (talk) Expand
102   Schalk Burger (talk)     Unencyclopaedic
2,290   Napoleonic Wars (talk)   Unencyclopaedic
619   Master race (talk)   Unencyclopaedic
6   Pan Africanist Student Movement of Azania (talk)       Merge
33   Thoma Cressey Bravo (talk)           Merge
203   Embedded database (talk)     Merge
247   2010 Pakistan floods (talk) Wikify
5   James Arthur Calata (talk)         Wikify
548   Algerian War (talk) Wikify
5   Deaths in April 1996 (talk)       Orphan
4   South African Youth Congress (talk)       Orphan
1   Thierry Cassuto (talk)         Orphan
32   Peter Mokaba (talk)           Stub
7   1956 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia and New Zealand (talk)     Stub
5   Daniel Vaillant (talk)           Stub
24   Kasthuri Maan (talk)           Stub
26   New Zealand Cavaliers (talk)       Stub
32   History of rugby union matches between England and New Zealand (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) 11:31, 27 July 2013 (UTC)