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 LGBT WikiProject Newsletter 

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 The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter! Issue III - February 1, 2007 
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Announcement: If someone requests help or feedback on an article, please try your hardest to help them out if you are able. Thank you.

 Project News
 The LGBT Portal has once again been revamped and a work rota started. Efforts towards Featured Portal status are slowly coming together.
 The assessment system has been a great success, we have tagged over 4000 articles! Please tag any LGBT related articles you come across by adding {{LGBTProject | class=}} to the talkpage. Please see the Assessment Department for how to assess an article according to the grading system.
 The Translation department has changed its focus, to LGBT articles about non-English topics and people on which there may be more information on the relevant foreign Wikipedia. Please add your name if you are fluent in any language other than English.
 Jumpaclass is picking up slowly, with nine people having entered. With over 2000 stubs we need to improve our article quality. Please sign up and get it going! Challenge another user to see how far you can jump a stub!
 There is an ongoing discussion about the current LGBT categorisation system here, here, and  a little bit here. A special page has now been set up here to deal with this.
 A Watchlist has been set up to monitor controversial and/or highly vandalised articles. It can also be used for article disputes, just add a note explaining the nature of the dispute.
 With the influx of so many active members, there is now enough support for a LGBT studies peer review, which may be found here. It's in the beta phase at the moment, so bear with us if we make any mistakes. Feel free to peer review any articles you have been working on.
  It was agreed this month to start reducing the uses of the Notice board, as many members felt that it was not effective. An open tasks template has been created, bringing together important announcements, FAC/FARs, Peer reviews, XfDs, the COTM, and requested articles. You may desire to [ watchlist] it. A Deletion sorting subpage is also now working to bring together XfDs - this should be bot-driven, but we have not currently tagged enough articles to make this fully automated, so please update the list with any LGBT-related XfDs you come across.

 Article news

 Two articles were recently shepherded through the Featured Article process by two of our members - Same-sex marriage in Spain and The Well of Loneliness.  Congratulations go to (respectively)  and !

 Member News
 We more than doubled our membership this month! 53 new users have joined the Wikiproject: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , [[User:Musim