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Do we give credit to IPs? Yoninah ( talk) 22:46, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
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It's been really hard building balanced sets lately. We just dipped under 60 approved hooks. Could we switch over now? (BTW we need to make sure Queue 5 runs on December 16.) Thanks, Yoninah ( talk) 19:46, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
Hey BlueMoonset, thanks for the work on helping out with the Wiki Ed DYK nominations. In the future, if you see a Wiki Ed DYK, make sure to add the Template:Note DYK nominator WikiEd template on them for tracking purposes and also to allow reviewers to be aware of their relationship to Wiki Ed. Thank you and happy editing. Narutolovehinata5 t c csd new 10:47, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
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I think it would have been courteous to let me know that people have started discussing me at a place where I can have precisely zero ability to respond. The Rambling Man ( Hands! Face! Space!!!!) 12:11, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
Can we wrap this up already? Do I need to submit a request somewhere? Thanks for weighing in before. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 00:19, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
I'm trying to be discreet about this since the user in question seems to be new and enthusiastic, someone we do want to encourage, so I won't use his name, but you'll find it in the GA reviews he did for Arbor Hill Historic District–Ten Broeck Triangle and Fraser's Hill ... both passed within seven minutes of each other and with only a single sentence indicating why. The former was my nomination, and while at first I was grateful for someone taking a look at it after almost six months, I have like everyone else been affected by some of the other recent issues where we had to revoke GAs that had been promoted with even less haste due to the cursory reviews they received and put the articles back into the queue.
Regrettably I think we need to do the same here. I suppose you may have to bring this up at the GA talk page.
(If you need to respond to me, could you do it here and ping me? He might see your reply at my page, and again I don't want to be the one it falls to to tell him he needs to do much deeper dives even if the article looks good on first glance). Daniel Case ( talk) 05:14, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi, BlueMoonset. An AfD discussion for Harajuku Girls (song) has started. Please feel free to comment if you are interested. Thank you very much, HĐ ( talk) 16:13, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi BlueMoonset, for the record I did evaluate the article in Template:Did you know nominations/Israel–Morocco normalization agreement as submitted against all the criteria, finding issues per rules 2d and 3b, in addition to hook concerns. That said the article has changed completely since then, so a new review is warranted assuming the nomination has not been abandoned. CMD ( talk) 05:22, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi BlueMoonset and sorry to bother you -- Is it ok if I walk away from a review that was not well received and still use it as a QPQ credit? I was going to strike it and do another, but my nomination using it has already been passed. I don't think I and the article's creator are ever going to see eye to eye, and they seem good faith so I don't want to put them off. Cheers, Espresso Addict ( talk) 00:51, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
I don't remember when we move back to one set a day, but we currently have 79 approved nominations. SL93 ( talk) 17:24, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
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Nine years! |
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:41, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
The first time I updated it, I used the numbers in the Report tab. However you changed them stating: "adjusting March 4 numbers to midnight from 1am; March 5 was fine (no activity between midnight and 1am". So, I figured that the report must update at the wrong time and tried to use the numbers from the nominations page. In your latest edit, you left an edit summary saying, "using numbers from Report page, which is more accurate than Nominations page; actually down from yesterday's report". Now I'm really confused. What is the correct way to update the page? ( t · c) buidhe 07:51, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi Bluemoonset,
if you have the time and lust, could you comment on this edit request about Benito Mussolini? It is a purely language question, about the meaning of the word "step-sister", whether it applies in this case to Mussolini's wife. As I am not a native English speaker, it would be good to have the opinion of someone who is. Thanks anyway, Alex2006 ( talk) 12:02, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
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This barnstar is awarded to BlueMoonset for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE March 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Mini apolis 21:11, 5 April 2021 (UTC) |
Just wanted to point out with regard to the DYK closure, Adolf Uunona hasn't been deleted yet. It's still undergoing AFD. The C of E God Save the Queen! ( talk) 21:37, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
I nominated William Brooks Close for GA in early January. I was wondering if there is a list or category of editors who would be willing to accept GA review requests on their talk page. SL93 ( talk) 05:29, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
BlueMoonset, there's been no movement on this open GAN since 27 March. I see from Ardenter's talk page that he had to drop work on a GAN in January for medical reasons; he's not replied to pings on 3 April and 13 April, so perhaps we need another reviewer? He has in fact done a little editing in the past few days but I'm loth to ping him a third time. All the best, Chiswick Chap ( talk) 11:06, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
user:Siirski accidentally started reviews of his 3 new nominations and contacted me for help in fixing his mistakes. Do I just delete the review pages? I'm not an admin, so I'm not sure that I can do that, but whatever it takes.-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 01:43, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
consult regular editors of the article on the article talk page prior to a nomination, which wasn't the case for any of the three. BlueMoonset ( talk) 14:34, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
I think it was you who explained to me a while back how the nominations counts work and why what's listed in the columns on the various dyk pages doesn't represent how many noms there actually are/eve were, but I was too busy at the time to try to follow your explanation and meant to go back to it when I had time, and now I can't find it again. Would you be willing to re-explain? Sorry for causing you to have to repeat yourself, I just can't figure this out. If it wasn't you who explained this, beg pardon. :D —valereee ( talk) 19:28, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
BlueMoonset, can you help? I'd like this on a "special date"--June 12, which is Trinity Sunday, but I don't know how to do it, or where to do it. It's now at Template talk:Did you know/Approved. User:Gerda Arendt was asking for 25 May--but that's almost over in her time zone. Thank you so much... Drmies ( talk) 16:55, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
BlueMoonset, I nominated Tolkien's legendarium this evening. It was immediately taken up for review, but the comment was brief, hostile, and in my view quite ill-informed. I've replied with a straight bat and have received a pile of personal attacks, all confused, in reply. Further, the same editor has immediately taken Women in The Lord of the Rings to GAR, again with a mix what seem to me incoherent assertions and personal attacks. I've again replied plainly, citing policy. The editor has had an account since 2008 but has made fewer than 100 edits in that time. I hope you won't mind if I ask what you think would be the best thing to do (including nothing)? I don't mind at all just failing the Legendarium and trying again after some time-out period, but I wonder if someone doesn't need to have a quiet word about the whole thing somehow. Chiswick Chap ( talk) 19:43, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
Understanding Middle-earth: Essays on Tolkien's Middle-earth by Michael Martinez (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: ViviSphere, 2003) is a somewhat rewritten and edited collection of Web-published essays by a popular online writer on Tolkien. These explore many general and specific Tolkienian topics, from explorations of Tolkien’s lesser-known sources to whimsical speculations and outright guesswork. Unlike Perry, Martinez uses posthumously published material extensively. His most characteristic posture is a forceful intervention in debates over the sub-creation, especially in testing the limits of reliable sub-creational knowledge. He is particularly interested in the questions of to what extent and in what circumstances the posthumous works may be used to supplement the canon of sub-creational facts established in the works Tolkien published. Though his interpretations are sometimes questionable, Martinez's facts are generally reliable. He writes informally and argumentatively but (in small doses) readably in adequate prose, without pretensions to formal scholarship.
— David Bratman (Bratman, David (2006). "The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2003". Tolkien Studies. 3 (1): 241–265. doi: 10.1353/tks.2006.0008. ISSN 1547-3163.)
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This barnstar is awarded to BlueMoonset for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE May 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Mini apolis 00:08, 5 June 2021 (UTC) |
Category:Glee (TV series) songs has been nominated for conversion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Binksternet ( talk) 15:12, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello, BlueMoonset,
Thanks for spending the time going through all the malformed Did You Know nominations and tagging them. It's one of those thankless tasks that helps keep the place tidy. Liz Read! Talk! 02:55, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
First, remind me. The QPQ is due from the nominator, right? -- not the creator/expander of the article (assuming those are different people). So anyway, do we have any stats (even if old) on frequent flyers at DYK, maybe a table of top nominators someone put together? And while we're alone here, what do you think of my proposal (not what do you think its chances are, but what do you think of its merits)? E Eng 21:04, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
If, at the time a nomination is promoted to the main page, its nominator has fewer than five DYK credits (whether or not self-nominated) then the nomination is exempt from QPQ.
I found the tick template, thanks for the advise in DYK! - Aussie Article Writer ( talk) 00:59, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
BlueMoonset, I am pretending to talk to you about official business, when I am really asking about you. How are you? You are doing well, my friend? I don't even know if you are male or female. You do realize my friend that due to your longevity of service and years of experience working the GAN helpdesk and related pages, you must know more about WP:GA than anyone. I worked with you, manning the GA Help Desk for one year, and improved what I could. You are still doing the work and I want to say that the Wikipedia community thanks you. How are you? You are doing well? How has the help desk work been? Prhartcom ( talk) 02:48, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
I notice that you altered the formatting of the hook for Kibi Daijin Nittō Emaki, now in Queue 7. I think that was a mistake, because looking at the hook, the text looks insignificant and I think most people will click on the "Museum of Fine Arts, Boston" instead. I am tempted to reverse your formatting. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 06:35, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for being the excellent control of DYK (and sorry for failing again)! My 12th today, DYK? I decorated, also for a birthday. Songs invite to more music, places, food and flowers. Now is not the time, but I'll see what I can do for the psalm. (Two more recent deaths, one to expand tomorow, one to create the day after, one psalm given up already ...) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:26, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
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This barnstar is awarded to BlueMoonset for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Mini apolis 13:57, 6 August 2021 (UTC) |
If we're going to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat there's not a moment to lose, so your opinion is earnestly and urgently solicited on the modification proposed at User_talk:David_Eppstein#Side_discussion_re_DYK_2-QPQ_RfC. E Eng 15:44, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
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You get this barnstar for making sure that GA nominees are properly reviewed. I won't be reviewing any more articles for GA status, and will just stick to normal editing. Sahaib3005 ( talk) 18:56, 7 August 2021 (UTC) |
This successful good article nomination report tool shows I have successfully promoted 171 GANs to Good Article. Just put in my User name. I have a pretty good idea what a Good Article looks like, so I have submitted Marsala Ship again as a GAN. Please let it get to the next GA reviewer in line to do reviews and I am sure with few issues I can quickly get this article promoted to Good Article status. FYI, during the last GAN drive I got 21 GANs promoted to Good Article status. During the 2020 two GAN drives that consisted of 62 days total I got 62 of my GANs promoted to Good Article status. Thanks for not reverting my GANs and allowing them to be seen by a GA reviewer. I am aiming for a grand total of 200 Good Articles by Christmas.-- Doug Coldwell ( talk) 10:49, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello BlueMoonset! I saw on Vaticidalprophet's page they responded to you and said they couldn't come back to the Bobbi Kristina Brown GA review. Do you know if this will be placed back in the queue, or is someone able to take the GA review over? If it's placed back in the queue, it will still retain its nomination date of May 12, yes? Any guidance appreciated. Hopefully you're enjoying your weekend. Kind regards. -- Kbabej ( talk) 19:20, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
We are now at 64 approved nominations. I think that means we go back to 24 hour rotations for now, but I'm not sure. SL93 ( talk) 09:01, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
Hey there, noticed that you've been reverting out-of-process nominations. The person who nominated Kobe Bryant is not a significant contributor, but I did not want to step on any toes by reverting the nom myself. Mind taking a look? — Ghost River 20:32, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
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Do we give credit to IPs? Yoninah ( talk) 22:46, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
The Minor Barnstar | ||
This barnstar is awarded to BlueMoonset for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE November 2020 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! – Jonesey95 ( talk) 03:36, 8 December 2020 (UTC) |
It's been really hard building balanced sets lately. We just dipped under 60 approved hooks. Could we switch over now? (BTW we need to make sure Queue 5 runs on December 16.) Thanks, Yoninah ( talk) 19:46, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
Hey BlueMoonset, thanks for the work on helping out with the Wiki Ed DYK nominations. In the future, if you see a Wiki Ed DYK, make sure to add the Template:Note DYK nominator WikiEd template on them for tracking purposes and also to allow reviewers to be aware of their relationship to Wiki Ed. Thank you and happy editing. Narutolovehinata5 t c csd new 10:47, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2021! | |
Hello BlueMoonset, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this
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Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2021. Spread the love by adding {{ subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages. |
I think it would have been courteous to let me know that people have started discussing me at a place where I can have precisely zero ability to respond. The Rambling Man ( Hands! Face! Space!!!!) 12:11, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
Can we wrap this up already? Do I need to submit a request somewhere? Thanks for weighing in before. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 00:19, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
I'm trying to be discreet about this since the user in question seems to be new and enthusiastic, someone we do want to encourage, so I won't use his name, but you'll find it in the GA reviews he did for Arbor Hill Historic District–Ten Broeck Triangle and Fraser's Hill ... both passed within seven minutes of each other and with only a single sentence indicating why. The former was my nomination, and while at first I was grateful for someone taking a look at it after almost six months, I have like everyone else been affected by some of the other recent issues where we had to revoke GAs that had been promoted with even less haste due to the cursory reviews they received and put the articles back into the queue.
Regrettably I think we need to do the same here. I suppose you may have to bring this up at the GA talk page.
(If you need to respond to me, could you do it here and ping me? He might see your reply at my page, and again I don't want to be the one it falls to to tell him he needs to do much deeper dives even if the article looks good on first glance). Daniel Case ( talk) 05:14, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi, BlueMoonset. An AfD discussion for Harajuku Girls (song) has started. Please feel free to comment if you are interested. Thank you very much, HĐ ( talk) 16:13, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi BlueMoonset, for the record I did evaluate the article in Template:Did you know nominations/Israel–Morocco normalization agreement as submitted against all the criteria, finding issues per rules 2d and 3b, in addition to hook concerns. That said the article has changed completely since then, so a new review is warranted assuming the nomination has not been abandoned. CMD ( talk) 05:22, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi BlueMoonset and sorry to bother you -- Is it ok if I walk away from a review that was not well received and still use it as a QPQ credit? I was going to strike it and do another, but my nomination using it has already been passed. I don't think I and the article's creator are ever going to see eye to eye, and they seem good faith so I don't want to put them off. Cheers, Espresso Addict ( talk) 00:51, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
I don't remember when we move back to one set a day, but we currently have 79 approved nominations. SL93 ( talk) 17:24, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
The Minor Barnstar | ||
This barnstar is awarded to BlueMoonset for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE January 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg ( talk) 18:52, 15 February 2021 (UTC) |
Nine years! |
---|
-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:41, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
The first time I updated it, I used the numbers in the Report tab. However you changed them stating: "adjusting March 4 numbers to midnight from 1am; March 5 was fine (no activity between midnight and 1am". So, I figured that the report must update at the wrong time and tried to use the numbers from the nominations page. In your latest edit, you left an edit summary saying, "using numbers from Report page, which is more accurate than Nominations page; actually down from yesterday's report". Now I'm really confused. What is the correct way to update the page? ( t · c) buidhe 07:51, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi Bluemoonset,
if you have the time and lust, could you comment on this edit request about Benito Mussolini? It is a purely language question, about the meaning of the word "step-sister", whether it applies in this case to Mussolini's wife. As I am not a native English speaker, it would be good to have the opinion of someone who is. Thanks anyway, Alex2006 ( talk) 12:02, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
The Minor Barnstar | ||
This barnstar is awarded to BlueMoonset for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE March 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Mini apolis 21:11, 5 April 2021 (UTC) |
Just wanted to point out with regard to the DYK closure, Adolf Uunona hasn't been deleted yet. It's still undergoing AFD. The C of E God Save the Queen! ( talk) 21:37, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
I nominated William Brooks Close for GA in early January. I was wondering if there is a list or category of editors who would be willing to accept GA review requests on their talk page. SL93 ( talk) 05:29, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
BlueMoonset, there's been no movement on this open GAN since 27 March. I see from Ardenter's talk page that he had to drop work on a GAN in January for medical reasons; he's not replied to pings on 3 April and 13 April, so perhaps we need another reviewer? He has in fact done a little editing in the past few days but I'm loth to ping him a third time. All the best, Chiswick Chap ( talk) 11:06, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
user:Siirski accidentally started reviews of his 3 new nominations and contacted me for help in fixing his mistakes. Do I just delete the review pages? I'm not an admin, so I'm not sure that I can do that, but whatever it takes.-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 01:43, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
consult regular editors of the article on the article talk page prior to a nomination, which wasn't the case for any of the three. BlueMoonset ( talk) 14:34, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
I think it was you who explained to me a while back how the nominations counts work and why what's listed in the columns on the various dyk pages doesn't represent how many noms there actually are/eve were, but I was too busy at the time to try to follow your explanation and meant to go back to it when I had time, and now I can't find it again. Would you be willing to re-explain? Sorry for causing you to have to repeat yourself, I just can't figure this out. If it wasn't you who explained this, beg pardon. :D —valereee ( talk) 19:28, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
BlueMoonset, can you help? I'd like this on a "special date"--June 12, which is Trinity Sunday, but I don't know how to do it, or where to do it. It's now at Template talk:Did you know/Approved. User:Gerda Arendt was asking for 25 May--but that's almost over in her time zone. Thank you so much... Drmies ( talk) 16:55, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
BlueMoonset, I nominated Tolkien's legendarium this evening. It was immediately taken up for review, but the comment was brief, hostile, and in my view quite ill-informed. I've replied with a straight bat and have received a pile of personal attacks, all confused, in reply. Further, the same editor has immediately taken Women in The Lord of the Rings to GAR, again with a mix what seem to me incoherent assertions and personal attacks. I've again replied plainly, citing policy. The editor has had an account since 2008 but has made fewer than 100 edits in that time. I hope you won't mind if I ask what you think would be the best thing to do (including nothing)? I don't mind at all just failing the Legendarium and trying again after some time-out period, but I wonder if someone doesn't need to have a quiet word about the whole thing somehow. Chiswick Chap ( talk) 19:43, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
Understanding Middle-earth: Essays on Tolkien's Middle-earth by Michael Martinez (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: ViviSphere, 2003) is a somewhat rewritten and edited collection of Web-published essays by a popular online writer on Tolkien. These explore many general and specific Tolkienian topics, from explorations of Tolkien’s lesser-known sources to whimsical speculations and outright guesswork. Unlike Perry, Martinez uses posthumously published material extensively. His most characteristic posture is a forceful intervention in debates over the sub-creation, especially in testing the limits of reliable sub-creational knowledge. He is particularly interested in the questions of to what extent and in what circumstances the posthumous works may be used to supplement the canon of sub-creational facts established in the works Tolkien published. Though his interpretations are sometimes questionable, Martinez's facts are generally reliable. He writes informally and argumentatively but (in small doses) readably in adequate prose, without pretensions to formal scholarship.
— David Bratman (Bratman, David (2006). "The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2003". Tolkien Studies. 3 (1): 241–265. doi: 10.1353/tks.2006.0008. ISSN 1547-3163.)
The Minor Barnstar | ||
This barnstar is awarded to BlueMoonset for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE May 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Mini apolis 00:08, 5 June 2021 (UTC) |
Category:Glee (TV series) songs has been nominated for conversion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Binksternet ( talk) 15:12, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello, BlueMoonset,
Thanks for spending the time going through all the malformed Did You Know nominations and tagging them. It's one of those thankless tasks that helps keep the place tidy. Liz Read! Talk! 02:55, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
First, remind me. The QPQ is due from the nominator, right? -- not the creator/expander of the article (assuming those are different people). So anyway, do we have any stats (even if old) on frequent flyers at DYK, maybe a table of top nominators someone put together? And while we're alone here, what do you think of my proposal (not what do you think its chances are, but what do you think of its merits)? E Eng 21:04, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
If, at the time a nomination is promoted to the main page, its nominator has fewer than five DYK credits (whether or not self-nominated) then the nomination is exempt from QPQ.
I found the tick template, thanks for the advise in DYK! - Aussie Article Writer ( talk) 00:59, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
BlueMoonset, I am pretending to talk to you about official business, when I am really asking about you. How are you? You are doing well, my friend? I don't even know if you are male or female. You do realize my friend that due to your longevity of service and years of experience working the GAN helpdesk and related pages, you must know more about WP:GA than anyone. I worked with you, manning the GA Help Desk for one year, and improved what I could. You are still doing the work and I want to say that the Wikipedia community thanks you. How are you? You are doing well? How has the help desk work been? Prhartcom ( talk) 02:48, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
I notice that you altered the formatting of the hook for Kibi Daijin Nittō Emaki, now in Queue 7. I think that was a mistake, because looking at the hook, the text looks insignificant and I think most people will click on the "Museum of Fine Arts, Boston" instead. I am tempted to reverse your formatting. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 06:35, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for being the excellent control of DYK (and sorry for failing again)! My 12th today, DYK? I decorated, also for a birthday. Songs invite to more music, places, food and flowers. Now is not the time, but I'll see what I can do for the psalm. (Two more recent deaths, one to expand tomorow, one to create the day after, one psalm given up already ...) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:26, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
The Minor Barnstar | ||
This barnstar is awarded to BlueMoonset for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Mini apolis 13:57, 6 August 2021 (UTC) |
If we're going to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat there's not a moment to lose, so your opinion is earnestly and urgently solicited on the modification proposed at User_talk:David_Eppstein#Side_discussion_re_DYK_2-QPQ_RfC. E Eng 15:44, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
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You get this barnstar for making sure that GA nominees are properly reviewed. I won't be reviewing any more articles for GA status, and will just stick to normal editing. Sahaib3005 ( talk) 18:56, 7 August 2021 (UTC) |
This successful good article nomination report tool shows I have successfully promoted 171 GANs to Good Article. Just put in my User name. I have a pretty good idea what a Good Article looks like, so I have submitted Marsala Ship again as a GAN. Please let it get to the next GA reviewer in line to do reviews and I am sure with few issues I can quickly get this article promoted to Good Article status. FYI, during the last GAN drive I got 21 GANs promoted to Good Article status. During the 2020 two GAN drives that consisted of 62 days total I got 62 of my GANs promoted to Good Article status. Thanks for not reverting my GANs and allowing them to be seen by a GA reviewer. I am aiming for a grand total of 200 Good Articles by Christmas.-- Doug Coldwell ( talk) 10:49, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello BlueMoonset! I saw on Vaticidalprophet's page they responded to you and said they couldn't come back to the Bobbi Kristina Brown GA review. Do you know if this will be placed back in the queue, or is someone able to take the GA review over? If it's placed back in the queue, it will still retain its nomination date of May 12, yes? Any guidance appreciated. Hopefully you're enjoying your weekend. Kind regards. -- Kbabej ( talk) 19:20, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
We are now at 64 approved nominations. I think that means we go back to 24 hour rotations for now, but I'm not sure. SL93 ( talk) 09:01, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
Hey there, noticed that you've been reverting out-of-process nominations. The person who nominated Kobe Bryant is not a significant contributor, but I did not want to step on any toes by reverting the nom myself. Mind taking a look? — Ghost River 20:32, 15 September 2021 (UTC)