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Hello Amakuru, I was looking over the move discussion for Grenoble Alps University to Université Grenoble Alpes, and I would like to suggest reopening the discussion.
It seems that some relevant evidence was not taken into account, which is that both Reuters [1] and The Times [2] refer to the university as "Grenoble Alpes University". This puts into question what seems to be the basis for the move, which is that there is no established English usage.
Also, even if we were to agree that there is no established English usage, I'd query the manner in which Wikipedia policy on using English in article titles was applied here. The policy describes an example involving valley names: For lesser known geographical objects or structures with few reliable English sources, follow the translation convention, if any, used for well known objects or structures of the same type e.g. because Rheintal and Moseltal are translated Rhine Valley and Moselle Valley, it makes sense to translate lesser known valley names in the same way. By analogy, I suggest we should use the English "University" rather than the French "Université", even for a university that is little-known in the English-speaking world.
Please keep in mind that "University" is the overwhelming usage in the titles of English-language Wikipedia articles about universities in countries that use other languages. For example, the German university article titles use "University" rather than "Universität", and the Spanish university article titles use "University" rather than "Universidad", etc. This, even though a Google search on most of those university names would overwhelmingly return the domestic-language versions.
These points, about how to apply the "use English" policy, and the established practice for university article titles on Wikipedia, were not thoroughly addressed in the move discussion.
Thank you kindly for your consideration of this issue. MyPOV ( talk) 17:21, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
I need you help, why the almost all South Korean article on Wikipedia use American date Format (MDY Format) like US figures rather than British date format (DMY Format) ? 111.94.241.4 ( talk) 10:06, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
I have changed the South Korean article to British date format (DMY Format), but returned again to American date format (MDY Format), all my efforts were in vain 111.94.241.4 ( talk) 15:48, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
i feel it's very strange only Asian continent like South Korea and Japan articles use American date format (MDY Format) rather than British date format (DMY Format) make the feel angry ? 111.94.241.4 ( talk) 14:48, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
I know the Guessing the User to created Article of South Korean Figures likes American date format (MDY Format) not British date format (DMY Format) is Kenny htv and Alexanderlee they are deliberated the created article to famous of the world and be approved like US ? 111.94.241.18 ( talk) 16:41, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
Mr. Amakuru, I very need your answer, I know the suspect first page of South Korean articles looked like US figures is Emperorbma deliberated created or revised BoA and almost all page on Wikipedia use American date format (MDY Format) created about South Korea followed by Kenny htv, Alexanderlee and Abdotorg 111.94.202.92 ( talk) 22:06, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
And why the Chinese articles use DMY not MDY example G.E.M. ? 111.94.202.92 ( talk) 07:25, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
Whoops, I didn't realize until after I'd moved to queue that you were working on it! Sorry! Did I screw anything up for you? I was going to start doing the admin checks, then saw you'd edited heavily this morning. --valereee ( talk) 13:25, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
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Really religious usernames are not accepted? Rumbacrush ( talk) 16:15, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your tweaks on the hook, but if there were 25,000 ornaments on this tree, the hook should say so. Also, it is incorrect to say "this year" when the news about 5,000 ornaments was published in 2018. I'd like MB to work with us on a revised hook before this goes live. Yoninah ( talk) 19:36, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
Yoninah, what do you think of this:
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Hello Amakuru: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, DBig Xrayᗙ Happy Holidays! 15:14, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, I think there are sufficient comments to post it one way or the other. Are the admins unable to decide which way to post it?-- Happy Holidays! ᗙ DBig Xrayᗙ 02:29, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
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Seeing you active: I left already several emergency calls about recent deaths no longer being recent. Could you perhaps move some, or at least mark ready. I think of Peter Schreier, but see many others waiting as well. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:16, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for your help, there and many times before! Today, it's Harry Kupfer. Looking forward to 2020 with your presence! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:04, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
Today it was a Holocaust survivor, an actor (not yet done), and a soprano (done by BabbaQ). Yesterday, It was Nello Santi. I expanded all day, then - tired - made a mistake in the infobox ... - so it's still not posted, only because I was tired. Long obituary in the New York Times, and readers possibly waiting ... - enough, turning to food and then the actor. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 17:24, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
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Why did you close the discussion and move the articles? The disussion had not reached a consensus, and the arguments that I had made for keeping the current names had not been addressed. ThessalonianR ( talk) 18:36, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
Amakuru, I wasn't sure whether you'd seen the ping from this nomination, where Evrik is asking you for your opinion of the two newly proposed hooks based on your prior comments in superseding the tick with a non-approval icon. Please stop by when you get the chance; the review seems to be waiting on your response. Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 04:41, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
Amakuru, thank you so much for all the prep to queue promotions you've been doing at DYK, and the checking that goes with it. I noticed that you pulled the JoAnne Graf hook today, but didn't quite complete the process, so I took care of the final step for you.
After you've reopened the nomination, the thing you need to do next is to retransclude the nomination template on the Nominations page. The date that should be used (in this case, I used January 5 for Template:Did you know nominations/JoAnne Graf) is the date the article was created, its 5× expansion was begun, or it was listed as a Good Article, based on UTC date/time. (If the article was moved from user or draft space to main space, it's the date of that move that serves as "creation" date.) Occasionally, there won't be a section for that exact date on the Nominations page, so you'll need to add a date header just above the nomination you're transcluding.
Sometimes, if not retranscluded, the reopened nominations get forgotten about, since they aren't visible to people who didn't already know about them, including potential new reviewers. I've seen nominations neglected for weeks or months, because no one could see that they weren't getting any attention.
Thanks again! BlueMoonset ( talk) 18:06, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
Nothing's getting me annoyed here any longer but we never ever ever have two-sentence blurbs at ITN! Cheers. The Rambling Man ( Staying alive since 2005!) 14:13, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi, are you clearing Prep 1 since promoting to Queue 1? Yoninah ( talk) 01:00, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
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On 14 January 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Tony Garnett, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Ad Orientem ( talk) 20:36, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
Please see my comments at Talk:Causeway_Street_Elevated#Requested_move_25_December_2019. -- В²C ☎
Kudos on the moves on these articles. I was about to put in a request with a resident radio station article updater, Mlaffs, when I saw you had already made the changes. Well done! :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 18:39 on January 16, 2020 (UTC)
This was rude, arrogant, complacent and tantamount to vandalism as you restored errors to the article. Please consider this as a warning. Please do not repeat this behaviour. Thanks. The Huhsz ( talk) 14:49, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi, looks like every admin other than you had commented there. It is ready. Can you see if you can post it. -- DBig Xrayᗙ 22:15, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi Amakura,
adlsm here from the Glenworth Valley/ Popran Creek site that you were on last night for me. Need your help on this one as I am wanting to change the title from Glenworth Valley to Popran Creek as I requested. There are compelling reasons for this change and would appreciate your help on this. Many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ad lsm ( talk • contribs) 07:35, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi Amakuru,
I see you have completed the move for the above dab page to Private Life, but it looks like the move discussion didn't survive. It was on the source page of the move, which could, in itself, be the problem, but wondering if you can somehow restore the revisions for Talk:Private Life (disambiguation) at Talk:Private Life?
Cheers,
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Regarding your recent comment at WP:ERRORS: Considering that the creation of POTD templates is normally automated by a bot, I understand that manually substing the unprotected versions through {{POTD row}} may not be a familiar process. The easiest way to go about this, as far as I've noticed, is to click the "create protected version" link on the archive page and follow the given instructions to replace the first line with something else, etc. Also, you're right that the threshold for the image size to switch to the vertical layout has been amended slightly – I subtly made the alteration such that we can use a round number (i.e. 400) to maximise the image size for the standard horizontal layout, which seems like a more natural alternative to me. — RAVENPVFF · talk · 16:28, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
Sorry. – Sca ( talk) 22:53, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
When you closed the discussion as "moved" and moved the article, looks like the talkpage didn't get moved along. Talk:Soufrière Hills is still a redirect to the ...Volcano name rather than being reversed. DMacks ( talk) 14:50, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
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Thanks for participating! I wasn't sure about contacting everybody from the Africa and Women contests, I contacted a few and then thought just leave a notice at the top and hope it's still on watchlists! I think I'll ask Ser Amantio to send out notices to a range of Wikiprojects and ask Casliber to put up a central notice as it gets nearer.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:53, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
On 3 February 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sunrise, Inverness Copse, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Sunrise, Inverness Copse, a World War I watercolour by Paul Nash, was one of what he described as "fifty drawings of muddy places on the Front"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sunrise, Inverness Copse. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Sunrise, Inverness Copse), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Quick update on this. The only source that is holding me back from FAC now is this one used to cite a couple of facts and figures I can't find anywhere else. WP:SPS says self-published works are okay if written by an expert who has already had stuff published elsewhere, but actual news sources for the Marshlink Action Group are relatively thin on the ground. Also, the page says "really could do with an update". So while the source is probably okay for GA, as we ought to be able to trust its factual accuracy, I don't think it clears the "high-quality" part of FA criteria 1c. I'm carrying on looking at book sources, but we really are getting into diminishing returns, with no new ground being uncovered. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 13:18, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
Amakuru, there was a call for you to return to your review and check the latest ALT hook. If you could stop by here soon, that would be great. Many thanks! BlueMoonset ( talk) 23:46, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
On 5 February 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Daniel arap Moi, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Spencer T• C 03:15, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
@ Amakuru:
Since you have a lot of experience with requested page moves...would you mind assessing the consensus for a merger discussion, Amakuru?
It's been open for approximately 10-11 calendar days, and with support based on policy, logic, and common sense from three editors, you can discount the trite arguments from the IP editor and the non-autoconfirmed registered editor, particularly when you take into account my, and the others', strong counter-arguments to each.
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Hello Amakuru, I was looking over the move discussion for Grenoble Alps University to Université Grenoble Alpes, and I would like to suggest reopening the discussion.
It seems that some relevant evidence was not taken into account, which is that both Reuters [1] and The Times [2] refer to the university as "Grenoble Alpes University". This puts into question what seems to be the basis for the move, which is that there is no established English usage.
Also, even if we were to agree that there is no established English usage, I'd query the manner in which Wikipedia policy on using English in article titles was applied here. The policy describes an example involving valley names: For lesser known geographical objects or structures with few reliable English sources, follow the translation convention, if any, used for well known objects or structures of the same type e.g. because Rheintal and Moseltal are translated Rhine Valley and Moselle Valley, it makes sense to translate lesser known valley names in the same way. By analogy, I suggest we should use the English "University" rather than the French "Université", even for a university that is little-known in the English-speaking world.
Please keep in mind that "University" is the overwhelming usage in the titles of English-language Wikipedia articles about universities in countries that use other languages. For example, the German university article titles use "University" rather than "Universität", and the Spanish university article titles use "University" rather than "Universidad", etc. This, even though a Google search on most of those university names would overwhelmingly return the domestic-language versions.
These points, about how to apply the "use English" policy, and the established practice for university article titles on Wikipedia, were not thoroughly addressed in the move discussion.
Thank you kindly for your consideration of this issue. MyPOV ( talk) 17:21, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
I need you help, why the almost all South Korean article on Wikipedia use American date Format (MDY Format) like US figures rather than British date format (DMY Format) ? 111.94.241.4 ( talk) 10:06, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
I have changed the South Korean article to British date format (DMY Format), but returned again to American date format (MDY Format), all my efforts were in vain 111.94.241.4 ( talk) 15:48, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
i feel it's very strange only Asian continent like South Korea and Japan articles use American date format (MDY Format) rather than British date format (DMY Format) make the feel angry ? 111.94.241.4 ( talk) 14:48, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
I know the Guessing the User to created Article of South Korean Figures likes American date format (MDY Format) not British date format (DMY Format) is Kenny htv and Alexanderlee they are deliberated the created article to famous of the world and be approved like US ? 111.94.241.18 ( talk) 16:41, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
Mr. Amakuru, I very need your answer, I know the suspect first page of South Korean articles looked like US figures is Emperorbma deliberated created or revised BoA and almost all page on Wikipedia use American date format (MDY Format) created about South Korea followed by Kenny htv, Alexanderlee and Abdotorg 111.94.202.92 ( talk) 22:06, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
And why the Chinese articles use DMY not MDY example G.E.M. ? 111.94.202.92 ( talk) 07:25, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
Whoops, I didn't realize until after I'd moved to queue that you were working on it! Sorry! Did I screw anything up for you? I was going to start doing the admin checks, then saw you'd edited heavily this morning. --valereee ( talk) 13:25, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
Please explain Reason for following blocks ?
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Really religious usernames are not accepted? Rumbacrush ( talk) 16:15, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your tweaks on the hook, but if there were 25,000 ornaments on this tree, the hook should say so. Also, it is incorrect to say "this year" when the news about 5,000 ornaments was published in 2018. I'd like MB to work with us on a revised hook before this goes live. Yoninah ( talk) 19:36, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
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Hello Amakuru: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, DBig Xrayᗙ Happy Holidays! 15:14, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, I think there are sufficient comments to post it one way or the other. Are the admins unable to decide which way to post it?-- Happy Holidays! ᗙ DBig Xrayᗙ 02:29, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
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Seeing you active: I left already several emergency calls about recent deaths no longer being recent. Could you perhaps move some, or at least mark ready. I think of Peter Schreier, but see many others waiting as well. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:16, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for your help, there and many times before! Today, it's Harry Kupfer. Looking forward to 2020 with your presence! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 21:04, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
Today it was a Holocaust survivor, an actor (not yet done), and a soprano (done by BabbaQ). Yesterday, It was Nello Santi. I expanded all day, then - tired - made a mistake in the infobox ... - so it's still not posted, only because I was tired. Long obituary in the New York Times, and readers possibly waiting ... - enough, turning to food and then the actor. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 17:24, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
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Hi I need your help to remove redirect link from this page Drift.com. Someone redirected it to its founder David Cancel page. Kindly check it and help me to fix the issues. Anchan Balti --WikiMaster 20:04, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
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Hello, I am Arabic, why English Wikipedia uses Latin names in articles on animals such as helicoprion, Thylacoleo, Megalania, Thank you 88محمد88المياحي88 ( talk) 10:21, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
Happy New Year, Happy New Decade and Happy New WikiCup! The 2020 WikiCup began at the start of January and all article creators, expanders and improvers are welcome to take part. If you are interested in joining, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Creative editors like yourself seem to enjoy taking part, and many return year after year. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup are Sturmvogel 66 ( talk · contribs · email), Godot13 ( talk · contribs · email), Vanamonde93 ( talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth ( talk).-- Hanberke ( talk) 17:56, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
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Why did you close the discussion and move the articles? The disussion had not reached a consensus, and the arguments that I had made for keeping the current names had not been addressed. ThessalonianR ( talk) 18:36, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
Amakuru, I wasn't sure whether you'd seen the ping from this nomination, where Evrik is asking you for your opinion of the two newly proposed hooks based on your prior comments in superseding the tick with a non-approval icon. Please stop by when you get the chance; the review seems to be waiting on your response. Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 04:41, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
Amakuru, thank you so much for all the prep to queue promotions you've been doing at DYK, and the checking that goes with it. I noticed that you pulled the JoAnne Graf hook today, but didn't quite complete the process, so I took care of the final step for you.
After you've reopened the nomination, the thing you need to do next is to retransclude the nomination template on the Nominations page. The date that should be used (in this case, I used January 5 for Template:Did you know nominations/JoAnne Graf) is the date the article was created, its 5× expansion was begun, or it was listed as a Good Article, based on UTC date/time. (If the article was moved from user or draft space to main space, it's the date of that move that serves as "creation" date.) Occasionally, there won't be a section for that exact date on the Nominations page, so you'll need to add a date header just above the nomination you're transcluding.
Sometimes, if not retranscluded, the reopened nominations get forgotten about, since they aren't visible to people who didn't already know about them, including potential new reviewers. I've seen nominations neglected for weeks or months, because no one could see that they weren't getting any attention.
Thanks again! BlueMoonset ( talk) 18:06, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
Nothing's getting me annoyed here any longer but we never ever ever have two-sentence blurbs at ITN! Cheers. The Rambling Man ( Staying alive since 2005!) 14:13, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi, are you clearing Prep 1 since promoting to Queue 1? Yoninah ( talk) 01:00, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
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On 14 January 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Tony Garnett, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Ad Orientem ( talk) 20:36, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
Please see my comments at Talk:Causeway_Street_Elevated#Requested_move_25_December_2019. -- В²C ☎
Kudos on the moves on these articles. I was about to put in a request with a resident radio station article updater, Mlaffs, when I saw you had already made the changes. Well done! :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 18:39 on January 16, 2020 (UTC)
This was rude, arrogant, complacent and tantamount to vandalism as you restored errors to the article. Please consider this as a warning. Please do not repeat this behaviour. Thanks. The Huhsz ( talk) 14:49, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi, looks like every admin other than you had commented there. It is ready. Can you see if you can post it. -- DBig Xrayᗙ 22:15, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi Amakura,
adlsm here from the Glenworth Valley/ Popran Creek site that you were on last night for me. Need your help on this one as I am wanting to change the title from Glenworth Valley to Popran Creek as I requested. There are compelling reasons for this change and would appreciate your help on this. Many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ad lsm ( talk • contribs) 07:35, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi Amakuru,
I see you have completed the move for the above dab page to Private Life, but it looks like the move discussion didn't survive. It was on the source page of the move, which could, in itself, be the problem, but wondering if you can somehow restore the revisions for Talk:Private Life (disambiguation) at Talk:Private Life?
Cheers,
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Regarding your recent comment at WP:ERRORS: Considering that the creation of POTD templates is normally automated by a bot, I understand that manually substing the unprotected versions through {{POTD row}} may not be a familiar process. The easiest way to go about this, as far as I've noticed, is to click the "create protected version" link on the archive page and follow the given instructions to replace the first line with something else, etc. Also, you're right that the threshold for the image size to switch to the vertical layout has been amended slightly – I subtly made the alteration such that we can use a round number (i.e. 400) to maximise the image size for the standard horizontal layout, which seems like a more natural alternative to me. — RAVENPVFF · talk · 16:28, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
Sorry. – Sca ( talk) 22:53, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
When you closed the discussion as "moved" and moved the article, looks like the talkpage didn't get moved along. Talk:Soufrière Hills is still a redirect to the ...Volcano name rather than being reversed. DMacks ( talk) 14:50, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
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BTW, I received a message back from the Krinkle at Commons. We should be good from now on. --- C& C ( Coffeeandcrumbs) 16:57, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
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Thanks for participating! I wasn't sure about contacting everybody from the Africa and Women contests, I contacted a few and then thought just leave a notice at the top and hope it's still on watchlists! I think I'll ask Ser Amantio to send out notices to a range of Wikiprojects and ask Casliber to put up a central notice as it gets nearer.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:53, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
On 3 February 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sunrise, Inverness Copse, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Sunrise, Inverness Copse, a World War I watercolour by Paul Nash, was one of what he described as "fifty drawings of muddy places on the Front"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sunrise, Inverness Copse. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Sunrise, Inverness Copse), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Amakuru ( talk) 12:01, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
Quick update on this. The only source that is holding me back from FAC now is this one used to cite a couple of facts and figures I can't find anywhere else. WP:SPS says self-published works are okay if written by an expert who has already had stuff published elsewhere, but actual news sources for the Marshlink Action Group are relatively thin on the ground. Also, the page says "really could do with an update". So while the source is probably okay for GA, as we ought to be able to trust its factual accuracy, I don't think it clears the "high-quality" part of FA criteria 1c. I'm carrying on looking at book sources, but we really are getting into diminishing returns, with no new ground being uncovered. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 13:18, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
Amakuru, there was a call for you to return to your review and check the latest ALT hook. If you could stop by here soon, that would be great. Many thanks! BlueMoonset ( talk) 23:46, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
On 5 February 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Daniel arap Moi, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Spencer T• C 03:15, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
@ Amakuru:
Since you have a lot of experience with requested page moves...would you mind assessing the consensus for a merger discussion, Amakuru?
It's been open for approximately 10-11 calendar days, and with support based on policy, logic, and common sense from three editors, you can discount the trite arguments from the IP editor and the non-autoconfirmed registered editor, particularly when you take into account my, and the others', strong counter-arguments to each.
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An article that you have been involved with ( Member state of the European Union ) has content that is proposed to be removed and move to another article ( Member states of the European Union ). If you are interested, please visit the discussion at Talk:Member state of the European Union#Splitting proposal . Thank you. Doug Mehus T· C 23:30, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
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Hi not urgent but there’s an expired PROD at The Vine Band which seems to have been overlooked. If you have the time and inclination could you carry out the delete please? Many thanks Mccapra ( talk) 18:14, 15 February 2020 (UTC)