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Former good articleThe Signpost was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Did You Know Article milestones
DateProcessResult
February 28, 2016Guild of Copy EditorsCopyedited
March 1, 2016Articles for deletionKept
March 13, 2016Guild of Copy EditorsCopyedited
March 16, 2016WikiProject approved revisionDiff to current version
April 6, 2016Good article nomineeListed
April 11, 2016WikiProject approved revisionDiff to current version
April 22, 2016Guild of Copy EditorsCopyedited
May 29, 2021Good article reassessmentDelisted
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 16, 2016.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that The Signpost publishes stories related to the Wikipedia community, the Wikimedia Foundation, and other Wikipedia-related projects?
Current status: Delisted good article

Graph of Wikipedia

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I NEED a discussion of this most excellent video: Video on YouTube. Please link me to one :-) Cheers Video "I Made a Graph of Wikipedia... This Is What I Found" by adumb if it for some reason disappears. Cross posted from Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 77#Graph of Wikipedia. CapnZapp (talk) 20:48, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Content from English Wikipedia

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I've removed excessive detail about The Signpost in the article about the English Wikipedia: [1] Someone might want to incorporate parts of it here. fgnievinski (talk) 05:51, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Will this article ever be free from the Primary Sources warning?

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There's not as much about The Signpost off of this website compared to on it. GarethBaloney (talk) 19:05, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Other Wikipedia languages?

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Is there a signpost equivalent in other Wikipedias? 🇪🇭 Easternsahara U T C 22:33, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Some more coverage

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  • Anderson, Nate (August 14, 2025). "Dedicated volunteer exposes "single largest self-promotion operation in Wikipedia's history"". Ars Technica.
  • "La più grande operazione di autopromozione nella storia di Wikipedia". Il Post. August 20, 2025.

from August of this year. jp×g🗯️ 10:16, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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the link is broken, i am unable to find anything valid about this news source, how may one gain access to reading it and is it still active? Eupleres (talk) 02:23, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@JPxG: signpost.news is down.
@Eupleres: you can still read it at WP:POSTBri (talk) 04:23, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
thank you so much. Eupleres (talk) 18:28, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]