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Hello, fans! Let's go over what's been happening in the community, and other news as of late.
Firstly, we're just going to briefly go through some of the serious stuff. Our Discussions guidelines page has been renamed to Communication Policy. The policy itself has had some updates too, so please remind yourselves to read the guidelines to find out what's changed.
Also, spammers have been targeting our wiki as of late. If you'd like to know more about how to combat spam, please head over to this page, contact me or another administrator on their message wall, or head over to the Editing Q&A post. As one spam wiki article stayed up for over 4 hours, it's important that any newly created article which depicts advertising, especially if they're accompanied by suspicious-looking links, needs to be dealt with as soon as possible, by adding the {{Delete}} tag. Heading over to our Recent Changes page is one of the easiest ways to check over what's been happening to our newest updated articles.
Now onto the positives, we'd like to welcome back @Yamakawa Akihiko ! He is one of our longest serving bureaucrats who's always been dedicated to maintaining our discussion boards to a high standard. I also like to wish happy birthday to @ShadowKitsune85 .
On the content front, I woke up last Saturday to an achievement that's been coming: We finally have over 20,000 pages! And I'm sure there'll be more to come. The plot for the Indigo Disk is complete; The Tera Raid templates for all the regular battles have been completed, and by the time we get some further information from the latest event raids I won't hesitate to update them too. Moreover, a neat little feature has been added this week: If you access another user's user profile in Desktop Mode, you'll be able to find out the date of their first contribution to the wiki! If you'd like to help out with any content-related matter, please send us a request on the Editing Q&A Post, or have a look at our tasks over at the Special:Community page.
I hear that some of you are keen to find out what's been happening in terms of the User of the Year awards; well earlier this week the polls have been made, so to prevent cluttering the message, I have created a link for viewers who haven't voted yet to access to all the links to give them a chance to do so. While all that is going on, I'd like to thank all of those users who voted for me; whether I win an award or not, to be shown that little bit of appreciation from members of an established community is a great feeling.
Now onto the games front: I hope you enjoyed all the exciting new features in the second half of Scarlet/Violet's Downloadable Content, including the cool new Synchro Machine, the unpredictable combo of fighting Terastallizing Pokémon in Double Battles, and the new permanent flight feature for your ride Pokémon. Moving on, we have plenty of new upcoming raids and outbreaks coming up: This weekend, Iron Bundle will make its debut as Tera Raid Battle boss, along with the returning Blissey Raids. Aftwerwards, Walking Wake and Iron Leaves will be returning from 00:00 December 25 until 23:59 January 7. From this weekend there will also be outbreaks of Delibird with an increased shiny chance, followed by three Dragon-type Pokémon: Dratini, Jangmo-o and Duraludon in Paldea, Kitakami and the Terarium respectively, from 00:00 December 25 until 23:59 January 3 - These three will have the increased chance of the Joyful Mark. Whichever sparks your interest, if you haven't already caught these Pokémon, this is a great opportunity to do so. If you'd like more players to take part in your games, or just for a bit of social interaction, head over to the Online Connection Post and hopefully somebody will join you for a fun session.
To those who celebrate it, we wish you a happy Christmas and New Year! To all of you though, we hope you stay safe and get a good solid rest.
