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HI there BlueMoonset. Sorry it took me so long to respond. Güstrow Castle needed additional work and we wanted to get it right. Again, apologies; I didn't mean to come across as ignoring you. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 13:54, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering (since I respect you as an editor, and I have come across you at GAN before) if you would mind taking an informal look over Clarence Chesterfield Howerton for any issues with a potential GA review, as I feel that I have addressed the issues set out in the GA review. Please don't feel as if you have to do this, but thank you in advance if you do. Thanks, Mat ty. 007 14:25, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
I became an associate professor this year, and the increased class load has left me little time for Wikipedia, particularly around mid-term and final exams. I have finally finished grading all the mid-term exams and projects. I see that Beixin culture was rejected due to "close paraphrasing." What does that mean, and when did DYK standards become so demanding that the article might as well be nominated for Good Article status? It was not always this way. Remember that the article must be created or 5x expanded within a five day timespan. Setting the quality bar this high and the time period this short, for volunteer editors who may not have a lot of time for editing, is self-defeating and effectively abandons DYK to the dedicated fans of obscure music genres, video games, and other trivia. I have tried to produce a quality scholarly article about a serious subject. Liangshan Yi ( talk) 00:02, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-10-23/In_the_media
"Among the significant problems that aren't getting resolved is the site's skewed coverage: its entries on Pokemon and female porn stars are comprehensive, but its pages on female novelists or places in sub-Saharan Africa are sketchy. Authoritative entries remain elusive. Of the 1,000 articles that the project's own volunteers have tagged as forming the core of a good encyclopedia, most don't earn even Wikipedia's own middle-ranking quality scores."
Noting that Wikipedia "threw out centuries of accepted methods" for compiling an authoritative and comprehensive reference work, the article goes on to detail efforts under Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner to decrease the gender gap and attract new editors ... trying to develop an overall more-diverse editor group. "Because Wikipedia has failed to replenish its supply of editors, its skew toward technical, Western, and male-dominated subject matter has persisted," the article says. Jimmy Wales commented, "The biggest issue is editor diversity." If there aren't confident, new editors coming to Wikipedia with a drive to write great articles about Wikipedia's underrepresented content, then the encyclopedia will not improve, and will be in an eternal state of "decline" in quality ... Liangshan Yi ( talk) 01:38, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
I think 1) either DYKbot is making errors to tag a Good article's talk page or b) the process is a bit confusing. I am providing example—
See
Talk:Swami Vivekananda
Tito, I guess it's b) confusing, then: that's the way it's always worked on my GAs.
I think the idea here is to condense all the Article History information so that part of the talk page doesn't get huge. It was designed back in the day that GA usually came after DYK rather than before; many of the links would later go away, or never get made. It would be risky changing the history list yourself; too many things could go wrong the next time the bot needs to do something to the page. BlueMoonset ( talk) 21:12, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi, the page creator has done nothing to add sourcing to the charts or the hook material, and appears to have relinquished his nomination. Crisco just gave it a red X to remove it from consideration. Thanks, Yoninah ( talk) 23:25, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
Say, was wondering if you'd be able to promote the hook on Katherine Ritvo, which was passed for DYK a couple days ago... seems to have been missed. Kind of want to strike while the iron is hot to get this on the main page before it's old news. Thanks! Montanabw (talk) 20:51, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the note on my talk page. The page creator actually did very little to address the concerns of close paraphrasing that I raised in the DYK review. I just spent some time rewriting the material from the half of the sources that are English-language, to remove the close paraphrasing issue on that score. However, I cannot check the other half of sources that are Serbo-Croatian. Since the page creator showed a definite tendency to lift things verbatim from the English sources, I am hesitant to pass the nomination unless someone can double-check (and rewrite, if necessary) the foreign-language sources. Yoninah ( talk) 23:20, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
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Just letting you know that I replied at Template:Did you know nominations/Maurzyce Bridge. // Halibu tt 13:10, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
![]() | On 16 November 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article A Katy or a Gaga, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that although Lady Gaga tweeted that Adam Lambert was "perfect" to cover her song " Applause" in his Glee debut episode " A Katy or a Gaga" "cause he's glammer", what he sang was " Marry the Night"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/A Katy or a Gaga. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 00:02, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi Blue. I wonder if it would be possible to make the rower hook in this promotion to a different queue, where the image can be used. The image is especially good to have with this hook, IMHO, because his apparently vibrantly healthy image contrasts sharply with the content of the hook -- making it especially hooky. And the image is fine quality. Thanks.-- Epeefleche ( talk) 05:27, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
I've responded to your concerns at Template:Did you know nominations/St Jude storm. The C of E God Save the Queen! ( talk) 08:54, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your input. Please check the DYK nom for George Strock. I've responded to your concerns. — btphelps ( talk to me) ( what I've done) 02:49, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi, you moved the Doctor Who DYK to Prep, and changed the wording of the hook slightly per a suggestion. However, the change is not at present in the Prep, here. The change was changing 'played by' to 'acted by'. Thanks, Mat ty. 007 14:46, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
Ping to Template:Did you know nominations/U.S. Route 31 in Michigan. Imzadi 1979 → 00:46, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
This joint DYK nomination suffers from the same problem as this rejected one in that the article Rossomyrmex (not mine) is largely copied from a free access source and probably has insufficient original content to qualify for DYK. Is it possible to change the DYK nomination at this stage to relate to the single article Polyergus rufescens, written by me, which does not suffer from the same problems? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cwmhiraeth ( talk • contribs) 06:26, 25 November 2013
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On behalf of WP:CHICAGO, I thank you for your editorial contributions to Erving Goffman, which recently was promoted to WP:GA.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 17:53, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello BlueMoonset. I am just letting you know that I deleted Talk:Durga Shakti Nagpal/GA1, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, under a different criterion from the one you provided, which doesn't fit the page in question. Thank you. Martijn Hoekstra ( talk) 16:21, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
Okay, I think I may have managed to submit quite a few nominations without QPQs. If you could give me a list, I'll get on to them.-- Laun chba ller 21:05, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
I hope i did this right, okay, Can you please see if i properly cited my source on the page for Mary's Boy Child? Thanks 21:35, 2 December 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.114.203.49 ( talk) 21:35, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
I know that Glee Wikia's not an acceptable source for facts, someone gathered up info from Ancestry.com and screen capped this info. Thoughts? dXterminator017 | ( discuss) 15:36, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
So yeah I noticed the last time someone mentioned an RfA on your talk page was on Sept 29. :-) I know you've turned down several offers before and I completely understand your reasons for doing so, but I just wanted to say that if you ever do run, I'd support you with no questions asked. You're one of the most conscientious and courteous people I've ever met on this site and I really appreciate your help at DYK when I came back after my extended wikibreak (two years can be a long time). I also wanted to say that because of your advice and example, my reviewing (and writing, meager though it may be) has improved a lot even in areas that aren't related to DYK, especially when it comes to sourcing requirements and copyvio checks. To be completely honest, your position now reminds me of Gatoclass back in 2008 (although if I remember correctly he wasn't necessarily opposed to being an admin then) and it's obviously been a good thing for the DYK project that his RfA was successful. And I think you becoming an admin would have a similarly positive effect. But yeah, anyways, just thought I'd say thanks for all the good work you do and I hope I will be able to support you in an RfA at some point. Thingg ⊕ ⊗ 05:30, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
Please reply at Template:Did you know nominations/U.S. Route 31 in Michigan. Thanks, Imzadi 1979 → 08:55, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
First off, thank you for taking the time to actually remind me. Too often no ping is sent, and things are silently PRODed into oblivion or similar (like this). I do appreciate it.
But I don't know what to do here. I suck at DYK reviews. Its that simple. When I do them, people complain. When I don't, people complain.
Maury Markowitz ( talk) 03:11, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, real life intrudes this weekend. I'm travelling next week, returning Saturday. May as well PROD the first one. Maury Markowitz ( talk) 17:09, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi BlueMoonset, I've been reviewing the Template:Did you know nominations/Sexy Lady (Jessie J song) which is now just about ready to get a pass? Launchballer has done one QPQ but has only made a brief comment on another. I have suggested he pings the Nominator (am I correctly remembering that pings on templates don't work?). Do you think as there are is such a large backlog of unreviewed hooks I should delay approval until the QPQ is a bit further on or trust they will complete it? Sorry to bother you with this! SagaciousPhil - Chat 07:18, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
This is the now the third time I've been criticised for my use of quotes - I thought only quotes in excess of forty words didn't count, as they would need to be put in blockquotes?-- Laun chba ller 13:33, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi BlueMoonset, I noticed your note on
Lilian Bland; Crisco has been helping in the image discussion after I left him a note. Andrew Gray has also indicated on Crisco's talk page that he needs to do some more work on the article (he created it but Andrew Davidson, who nominated it, is now indefinitely blocked). I will keep an eye on it and do a complete review once the image status is clarified - hopefully Andrew will have had time to finish working on it by then as well!
SagaciousPhil -
Chat
20:47, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
Can you please check this Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Vardges_Sureniants nomination. There are questions that need to be addressed about translations of the article in relation to the hook. Proudbolsahye ( talk) 07:22, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
Everything present and correct? I was building preps and edit-conflicted with you a couple of times, but I swapped two of the prep areas round to accomodate the date request.-- Gilderien Berate| List of good deeds 23:06, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
Could you take a look at the article, James Caudy? I've never seen 53 citations cited to one page in a book (footnote 1). Thanks, Yoninah ( talk) 17:10, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello BlueMoonset, this the first article for me and I find it difficult to do links, regarding your message I have found a link that also says Le Jeune was a regular in Searsons I don't know if it is ok, its at: http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/james-le-jeune-rha-1910-1983-upper-baggot-stree-44-c-3556f02aad please can you add it if ok. Thank you for your help. ( Enuejel ( talk) 19:21, 3 December 2013 (UTC))
Would you mind giving me a bit of advice on DYK reviews? I'm not quite sure when to use the two different templates
and
. The reviewing guide says that the first one is where an issue needs to be addressed and the second is where eligibility needs some extra work - what would the difference be between those two? Thank you for any help you can give me. --
Bcp67 (
talk)
10:34, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
Would you mind looking at the bottom-of-the-page DYK thread I posted regarding a drive-by QPQ. I don't know the QPQ editor involved. But I think it should be handled. I'm just really tired of all this, and I'm afraid I don't feel very diplomatic right now. Perhaps I'm reading arrogance into the QPQ drive-by, but I find it annoying, after all that QPQ thread we just went through. Would you mind? — Maile ( talk) 00:22, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi, is there something against reviews which do not explicitly say anything about the article, such as this or this, where all that is said is a general statement? Thanks, Mat ty. 007 17:15, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
I never fucking agreed to do a review. All I fucking did was pass on a consider view of the status of the article. I had been heavily edited for almost a month and User:Mattbuck suddenly expects the whole of Wikipedia to gather round and praise him. Get FUCKING REAL! Honestly, all you people who come on Wikipedia in order to get people to polish your ego's need to start to get FUCKING LIFE. So let me make this real clear to you ... I don't give a flying FUCK about the GA review for Bristol Parkway railway station. - 01:00, 20 December 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bhtpbank ( talk • contribs)
I created that page so as to avoid confusion which may arise. I will not use it further in any nom. Soham ( talk) 11:09, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
{{
subst:UpdatedDYK}}
states "You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to
DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000." It
has changed from how I remember it. Perhaps the automatic process was intended but never implemented - or it's broken? --
Redrose64 (
talk)
23:07, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hi BlueMoonset, I hope you don't mind but you are my appointed go to person for general DYK queries (Crisco gets landed with all the image questions
). Is there an easy way of going through the huge nominations page that I haven't managed to find yet? I often find ploughing through >200 nominations to check for something to review takes longer than doing the reviews! It must also be a nightmare for those trying to build prep sets - is there a way of identifying approved nominations? I've tried using the 'find' facility to search for various permutations but it doesn't help. If Shubinator is presently looking at the bots etc would it help, or indeed be possible, if the various {{subst:DYKtick}} etc templates had a brief wording incorporated (maybe something like "icon plus Eligibility verified", "icon plus Eligibility query" or "icon plus Eligibility fail" (I've tried to think of wording not generally used to make them easy to search for). Or could approved nominations be moved into a separate category page, preferably automatically? Maybe I'm just being lazy - or dim!!
SagaciousPhil -
Chat
10:56, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
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Please explain to me what sense there is in reviewers like me having to plough through dozens of articles looking for the Christmas related noms when they could be added straight to the Christmas section where they can be immediately located? Gatoclass ( talk) 15:27, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for dealing with the Christmas hook that seemed so easy. We have now a image in the article showing that it was published this way. I don't feel strongly about orthography, but about the composer's choice who dedicated it to his father ;) - Everybody who thinks that is a error can look at the image. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:53, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
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HI there BlueMoonset. Sorry it took me so long to respond. Güstrow Castle needed additional work and we wanted to get it right. Again, apologies; I didn't mean to come across as ignoring you. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 13:54, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering (since I respect you as an editor, and I have come across you at GAN before) if you would mind taking an informal look over Clarence Chesterfield Howerton for any issues with a potential GA review, as I feel that I have addressed the issues set out in the GA review. Please don't feel as if you have to do this, but thank you in advance if you do. Thanks, Mat ty. 007 14:25, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
I became an associate professor this year, and the increased class load has left me little time for Wikipedia, particularly around mid-term and final exams. I have finally finished grading all the mid-term exams and projects. I see that Beixin culture was rejected due to "close paraphrasing." What does that mean, and when did DYK standards become so demanding that the article might as well be nominated for Good Article status? It was not always this way. Remember that the article must be created or 5x expanded within a five day timespan. Setting the quality bar this high and the time period this short, for volunteer editors who may not have a lot of time for editing, is self-defeating and effectively abandons DYK to the dedicated fans of obscure music genres, video games, and other trivia. I have tried to produce a quality scholarly article about a serious subject. Liangshan Yi ( talk) 00:02, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-10-23/In_the_media
"Among the significant problems that aren't getting resolved is the site's skewed coverage: its entries on Pokemon and female porn stars are comprehensive, but its pages on female novelists or places in sub-Saharan Africa are sketchy. Authoritative entries remain elusive. Of the 1,000 articles that the project's own volunteers have tagged as forming the core of a good encyclopedia, most don't earn even Wikipedia's own middle-ranking quality scores."
Noting that Wikipedia "threw out centuries of accepted methods" for compiling an authoritative and comprehensive reference work, the article goes on to detail efforts under Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner to decrease the gender gap and attract new editors ... trying to develop an overall more-diverse editor group. "Because Wikipedia has failed to replenish its supply of editors, its skew toward technical, Western, and male-dominated subject matter has persisted," the article says. Jimmy Wales commented, "The biggest issue is editor diversity." If there aren't confident, new editors coming to Wikipedia with a drive to write great articles about Wikipedia's underrepresented content, then the encyclopedia will not improve, and will be in an eternal state of "decline" in quality ... Liangshan Yi ( talk) 01:38, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
I think 1) either DYKbot is making errors to tag a Good article's talk page or b) the process is a bit confusing. I am providing example—
See
Talk:Swami Vivekananda
Tito, I guess it's b) confusing, then: that's the way it's always worked on my GAs.
I think the idea here is to condense all the Article History information so that part of the talk page doesn't get huge. It was designed back in the day that GA usually came after DYK rather than before; many of the links would later go away, or never get made. It would be risky changing the history list yourself; too many things could go wrong the next time the bot needs to do something to the page. BlueMoonset ( talk) 21:12, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi, the page creator has done nothing to add sourcing to the charts or the hook material, and appears to have relinquished his nomination. Crisco just gave it a red X to remove it from consideration. Thanks, Yoninah ( talk) 23:25, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
Say, was wondering if you'd be able to promote the hook on Katherine Ritvo, which was passed for DYK a couple days ago... seems to have been missed. Kind of want to strike while the iron is hot to get this on the main page before it's old news. Thanks! Montanabw (talk) 20:51, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the note on my talk page. The page creator actually did very little to address the concerns of close paraphrasing that I raised in the DYK review. I just spent some time rewriting the material from the half of the sources that are English-language, to remove the close paraphrasing issue on that score. However, I cannot check the other half of sources that are Serbo-Croatian. Since the page creator showed a definite tendency to lift things verbatim from the English sources, I am hesitant to pass the nomination unless someone can double-check (and rewrite, if necessary) the foreign-language sources. Yoninah ( talk) 23:20, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
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Hello BlueMoonset, Eduemoni has given you a shining smiling star! You see, these things promote WikiLove and hopefully this has made your day better. Spread the Shining Smiling Star whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or someone putting up with some stick at this time. Enjoy! Eduemoni ↑talk↓ 12:28, 11 November 2013 (UTC) |
Just letting you know that I replied at Template:Did you know nominations/Maurzyce Bridge. // Halibu tt 13:10, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
![]() | On 16 November 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article A Katy or a Gaga, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that although Lady Gaga tweeted that Adam Lambert was "perfect" to cover her song " Applause" in his Glee debut episode " A Katy or a Gaga" "cause he's glammer", what he sang was " Marry the Night"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/A Katy or a Gaga. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 00:02, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi Blue. I wonder if it would be possible to make the rower hook in this promotion to a different queue, where the image can be used. The image is especially good to have with this hook, IMHO, because his apparently vibrantly healthy image contrasts sharply with the content of the hook -- making it especially hooky. And the image is fine quality. Thanks.-- Epeefleche ( talk) 05:27, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
I've responded to your concerns at Template:Did you know nominations/St Jude storm. The C of E God Save the Queen! ( talk) 08:54, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your input. Please check the DYK nom for George Strock. I've responded to your concerns. — btphelps ( talk to me) ( what I've done) 02:49, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi, you moved the Doctor Who DYK to Prep, and changed the wording of the hook slightly per a suggestion. However, the change is not at present in the Prep, here. The change was changing 'played by' to 'acted by'. Thanks, Mat ty. 007 14:46, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
Ping to Template:Did you know nominations/U.S. Route 31 in Michigan. Imzadi 1979 → 00:46, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
This joint DYK nomination suffers from the same problem as this rejected one in that the article Rossomyrmex (not mine) is largely copied from a free access source and probably has insufficient original content to qualify for DYK. Is it possible to change the DYK nomination at this stage to relate to the single article Polyergus rufescens, written by me, which does not suffer from the same problems? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cwmhiraeth ( talk • contribs) 06:26, 25 November 2013
![]() | This user has contributed to Erving Goffman good articles on Wikipedia. |
On behalf of WP:CHICAGO, I thank you for your editorial contributions to Erving Goffman, which recently was promoted to WP:GA.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 17:53, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello BlueMoonset. I am just letting you know that I deleted Talk:Durga Shakti Nagpal/GA1, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, under a different criterion from the one you provided, which doesn't fit the page in question. Thank you. Martijn Hoekstra ( talk) 16:21, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
Okay, I think I may have managed to submit quite a few nominations without QPQs. If you could give me a list, I'll get on to them.-- Laun chba ller 21:05, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
I hope i did this right, okay, Can you please see if i properly cited my source on the page for Mary's Boy Child? Thanks 21:35, 2 December 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.114.203.49 ( talk) 21:35, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
I know that Glee Wikia's not an acceptable source for facts, someone gathered up info from Ancestry.com and screen capped this info. Thoughts? dXterminator017 | ( discuss) 15:36, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
So yeah I noticed the last time someone mentioned an RfA on your talk page was on Sept 29. :-) I know you've turned down several offers before and I completely understand your reasons for doing so, but I just wanted to say that if you ever do run, I'd support you with no questions asked. You're one of the most conscientious and courteous people I've ever met on this site and I really appreciate your help at DYK when I came back after my extended wikibreak (two years can be a long time). I also wanted to say that because of your advice and example, my reviewing (and writing, meager though it may be) has improved a lot even in areas that aren't related to DYK, especially when it comes to sourcing requirements and copyvio checks. To be completely honest, your position now reminds me of Gatoclass back in 2008 (although if I remember correctly he wasn't necessarily opposed to being an admin then) and it's obviously been a good thing for the DYK project that his RfA was successful. And I think you becoming an admin would have a similarly positive effect. But yeah, anyways, just thought I'd say thanks for all the good work you do and I hope I will be able to support you in an RfA at some point. Thingg ⊕ ⊗ 05:30, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
Please reply at Template:Did you know nominations/U.S. Route 31 in Michigan. Thanks, Imzadi 1979 → 08:55, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
First off, thank you for taking the time to actually remind me. Too often no ping is sent, and things are silently PRODed into oblivion or similar (like this). I do appreciate it.
But I don't know what to do here. I suck at DYK reviews. Its that simple. When I do them, people complain. When I don't, people complain.
Maury Markowitz ( talk) 03:11, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, real life intrudes this weekend. I'm travelling next week, returning Saturday. May as well PROD the first one. Maury Markowitz ( talk) 17:09, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi BlueMoonset, I've been reviewing the Template:Did you know nominations/Sexy Lady (Jessie J song) which is now just about ready to get a pass? Launchballer has done one QPQ but has only made a brief comment on another. I have suggested he pings the Nominator (am I correctly remembering that pings on templates don't work?). Do you think as there are is such a large backlog of unreviewed hooks I should delay approval until the QPQ is a bit further on or trust they will complete it? Sorry to bother you with this! SagaciousPhil - Chat 07:18, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
This is the now the third time I've been criticised for my use of quotes - I thought only quotes in excess of forty words didn't count, as they would need to be put in blockquotes?-- Laun chba ller 13:33, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi BlueMoonset, I noticed your note on
Lilian Bland; Crisco has been helping in the image discussion after I left him a note. Andrew Gray has also indicated on Crisco's talk page that he needs to do some more work on the article (he created it but Andrew Davidson, who nominated it, is now indefinitely blocked). I will keep an eye on it and do a complete review once the image status is clarified - hopefully Andrew will have had time to finish working on it by then as well!
SagaciousPhil -
Chat
20:47, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
Can you please check this Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Vardges_Sureniants nomination. There are questions that need to be addressed about translations of the article in relation to the hook. Proudbolsahye ( talk) 07:22, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
Everything present and correct? I was building preps and edit-conflicted with you a couple of times, but I swapped two of the prep areas round to accomodate the date request.-- Gilderien Berate| List of good deeds 23:06, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
Could you take a look at the article, James Caudy? I've never seen 53 citations cited to one page in a book (footnote 1). Thanks, Yoninah ( talk) 17:10, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello BlueMoonset, this the first article for me and I find it difficult to do links, regarding your message I have found a link that also says Le Jeune was a regular in Searsons I don't know if it is ok, its at: http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/james-le-jeune-rha-1910-1983-upper-baggot-stree-44-c-3556f02aad please can you add it if ok. Thank you for your help. ( Enuejel ( talk) 19:21, 3 December 2013 (UTC))
Would you mind giving me a bit of advice on DYK reviews? I'm not quite sure when to use the two different templates
and
. The reviewing guide says that the first one is where an issue needs to be addressed and the second is where eligibility needs some extra work - what would the difference be between those two? Thank you for any help you can give me. --
Bcp67 (
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10:34, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
Would you mind looking at the bottom-of-the-page DYK thread I posted regarding a drive-by QPQ. I don't know the QPQ editor involved. But I think it should be handled. I'm just really tired of all this, and I'm afraid I don't feel very diplomatic right now. Perhaps I'm reading arrogance into the QPQ drive-by, but I find it annoying, after all that QPQ thread we just went through. Would you mind? — Maile ( talk) 00:22, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi, is there something against reviews which do not explicitly say anything about the article, such as this or this, where all that is said is a general statement? Thanks, Mat ty. 007 17:15, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
I never fucking agreed to do a review. All I fucking did was pass on a consider view of the status of the article. I had been heavily edited for almost a month and User:Mattbuck suddenly expects the whole of Wikipedia to gather round and praise him. Get FUCKING REAL! Honestly, all you people who come on Wikipedia in order to get people to polish your ego's need to start to get FUCKING LIFE. So let me make this real clear to you ... I don't give a flying FUCK about the GA review for Bristol Parkway railway station. - 01:00, 20 December 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bhtpbank ( talk • contribs)
I created that page so as to avoid confusion which may arise. I will not use it further in any nom. Soham ( talk) 11:09, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
{{
subst:UpdatedDYK}}
states "You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to
DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000." It
has changed from how I remember it. Perhaps the automatic process was intended but never implemented - or it's broken? --
Redrose64 (
talk)
23:07, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hi BlueMoonset, I hope you don't mind but you are my appointed go to person for general DYK queries (Crisco gets landed with all the image questions
). Is there an easy way of going through the huge nominations page that I haven't managed to find yet? I often find ploughing through >200 nominations to check for something to review takes longer than doing the reviews! It must also be a nightmare for those trying to build prep sets - is there a way of identifying approved nominations? I've tried using the 'find' facility to search for various permutations but it doesn't help. If Shubinator is presently looking at the bots etc would it help, or indeed be possible, if the various {{subst:DYKtick}} etc templates had a brief wording incorporated (maybe something like "icon plus Eligibility verified", "icon plus Eligibility query" or "icon plus Eligibility fail" (I've tried to think of wording not generally used to make them easy to search for). Or could approved nominations be moved into a separate category page, preferably automatically? Maybe I'm just being lazy - or dim!!
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Please explain to me what sense there is in reviewers like me having to plough through dozens of articles looking for the Christmas related noms when they could be added straight to the Christmas section where they can be immediately located? Gatoclass ( talk) 15:27, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for dealing with the Christmas hook that seemed so easy. We have now a image in the article showing that it was published this way. I don't feel strongly about orthography, but about the composer's choice who dedicated it to his father ;) - Everybody who thinks that is a error can look at the image. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:53, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
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