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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…
2,322		Ryback (wrestler) ( talk)						Add sources
67		Lisbon Lions ( talk)						Add sources
2		2007–08 St. Mirren F.C. season ( talk)						Add sources
1,281		Danielle Moinet ( talk)						Add sources
8		1986–87 in Scottish football ( talk)						Add sources
3,090		Adidas ( talk)						Add sources
20		Ted McMinn ( talk)						Cleanup
182		Noel Hunt ( talk)						Cleanup
26		Kane Hemmings ( talk)						Cleanup
149		Tore André Flo ( talk)						Expand
686		FC Nantes ( talk)						Expand
2		2009–10 St. Mirren F.C. season ( talk)						Expand
65		Paul Dalglish ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
12		Coyotes in popular culture ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
6		Dougie McDonald ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
925		Luc Besson ( talk)						Merge
1		Griffin Hall ( talk)						Merge
145		Hose clamp ( talk)						Merge
144		Ronald de Boer ( talk)						Wikify
164		Dunfermline Athletic F.C. ( talk)						Wikify
140		Jean-Alain Boumsong ( talk)						Wikify
0		Vatpara ( talk)						Orphan
0		(217650) 1998 QN29 ( talk)						Orphan
9		Ateliers deMonaco ( talk)						Orphan
16		Chris Millar ( talk)						Stub
36		The Regime (group) ( talk)						Stub
10		Kenny McDowall ( talk)						Stub
5		Remo Staubli ( talk)						Stub
27		Franklin Foer ( talk)						Stub
27		Portsoy ( talk)						Stub

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) 12:33, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

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…
702		Barnsley F.C. ( talk)						Add sources
13		Danny Noonan (American football) ( talk)						Add sources
9		1982–83 in Scottish football ( talk)						Add sources
7		William Wilton ( talk)						Add sources
8		Gor Sujyan ( talk)						Add sources
239		Airdrieonians F.C. ( talk)						Add sources
190		Pathankot ( talk)						Cleanup
66		Steve Davies (footballer born 1987) ( talk)						Cleanup
9		Kevin McBride (footballer) ( talk)						Cleanup
3		2000–01 Dundee United F.C. season ( talk)						Expand
111		Numb/Encore ( talk)						Expand
2		2001–02 Dundee United F.C. season ( talk)						Expand
667		Football hooliganism ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
2,169		Clive Palmer (businessman) ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
131		Tifosi ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
121		The Fall discography ( talk)						Merge
66		Wynton Rufer ( talk)						Merge
5		HP Enterprise Security Products ( talk)						Merge
48		Alan Gilzean ( talk)						Wikify
1,953		Marko Arnautović ( talk)						Wikify
20		Tommy Coyne ( talk)						Wikify
1		Alès Film Festival ( talk)						Orphan
3		Anna Ouroumian ( talk)						Orphan
2		Amauju ( talk)						Orphan
3		Robert Davidson (footballer) ( talk)						Stub
61		Marco Negri ( talk)						Stub
3		Slovan Bratislava (women) ( talk)						Stub
12		George McCluskey ( talk)						Stub
32		Celtic Boys Club ( talk)						Stub
7		Aziz Ben Askar ( talk)						Stub

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) 11:57, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

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…
59		Davie Cooper ( talk)						Add sources
3,183		Laos ( talk)						Add sources
3		Croatian Times ( talk)						Add sources
14		Inkpot Award ( talk)						Add sources
1,223		Telly Savalas ( talk)						Add sources
6		William Devlin ( talk)						Add sources
9		Jamie Adams ( talk)						Cleanup
24		Joe Harper (footballer) ( talk)						Cleanup
22		Neil McCann ( talk)						Cleanup
69		Cornish nationalism ( talk)						Expand
64		Vladimir Romanov ( talk)						Expand
1,124		Nicolas Anelka ( talk)						Expand
342		Employee stock ownership plan ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
1,321		2013 protests in Turkey ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
160		Alex Bruce (footballer born 1984) ( talk)						Unencyclopaedic
2		Job File Table ( talk)						Merge
308		Close reading ( talk)						Merge
11		Ethnicity theory ( talk)						Merge
41		Billy Dodds ( talk)						Wikify
117		Turisas2013 ( talk)						Wikify
11		Harry Hood (footballer) ( talk)						Wikify
2		Journal of Material Culture ( talk)						Orphan
2		Arumanallur ( talk)						Orphan
0		Actinodoria cuprea ( talk)						Orphan
36		Simon Kuper ( talk)						Stub
6		David Meiklejohn ( talk)						Stub
12		Ryan Dow ( talk)						Stub
3		Jimmy Duncanson ( talk)						Stub
14		Antonio Reguero ( talk)						Stub
3		Bert Yarnall ( talk)						Stub

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, 19 September 2013 (UTC)