What is going on with Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Preity Zinta/1? Failing an article that is well prepared for FAC because it doesn't use "western sources"? This one-person system has issues. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 02:14, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
I set up a basic shell (and archives) for coordinating the weekly dispatch at Wikipedia:Featured article dispatch workshop. The 25th is approaching! Are you interested in starting something on peer review? If not, Marskell might do it. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 01:42, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
I pondered this briefly during the archive shuffle, but now I want to launch one peer review for the saxophone series ( Contrabass saxophone, Bass saxophone , Baritone saxophone, Tenor saxophone, Alto saxophone, Soprano saxophone, Sopranino saxophone, to gauge how people think they should relate to the main article saxophone (no there's no featured topic in this, honest!). This is not unheard of, so perhaps we should prescribe a system to use so that we don't allow our nice shiny archives to get screwed up. Should we say to launch a PR in a normal way from one of the articles, then link to that PR from the others? Or have a totally different location for multiple peer reviews? Where should it go: Wikipedia:Peer review/alto saxophone/archive1, with the others linking to it? Wikipedia:Peer review/saxophone articles/archive1? Perhaps even Wikipedia:Peer review/Multiple/saxophones?? What do you think? Happy‑ melon 13:22, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
{{
Peer review/header}}
templates?
Happy‑
melon 20:00, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
I do have it on my watchlist; however, the AGR discussion edit got kind of hidden between two other edits from the same nominator. The GAR process should probably be updated to include notification to the GA nominator. Otto4711 ( talk) 00:49, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Can you take another look at the article, to see if there are any additional issues standing in its way of making GA? Thanks for all the help you've provided so far. Thegreatdr ( talk) 05:41, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, yes, I'll support, but where is it? Can't find it, and I have very limited time until 7 March. Tony (talk) 14:18, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Hmm, so my digging around the wiki for bot building information has lead me right back where I started—just worked out that your the wizard behind the curtain-of-automation at wp:pr! So, seeing as you've done this before, how would you suggest I (we?) proceed in GA-process automation? -- jwanders Talk 17:52, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
I wonder if and incremental approach would work best? That is, take a single small step in the current GA process, automate it exactly as is, and slowly build up towards complete automation (where by complete I of course mean only the aspects that don't need human judgemet). I think it would be easier to convince regular reviewers to change the system once an automated system is established. But this would probably involve more than just category filling, so I'm probably being over-ambitious. Regarding the running such a bot, I'm not sure what it entails. Is in as simple as leaving a machine on 24/7 with a process running every half-hour? That I could conceivably achieve. Alternatively, is there any area on the Wikimedia servers that bots can be hosted?-- jwanders Talk 22:19, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
With the new PR system, I noticed that the "follow this link" from the starting PR template doesn't switch to "a request" right away. It might be good to add a "step 4" with a purge link so it gets updated. So, do you want to compare experiences with portal PR? I was wondering if Carl has portal PR tracking already set up somewhere. Gimmetrow 01:00, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Another little issue: [1] Is this how a GAR pass is currently handled? Gimmetrow 05:54, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi G-guy! :)
How have you been? I get the impression that you've been busy with something involving peer review, although I haven't looked into it; p'raps you could explain it to me sometime? :)
I've been inching and oozing forward with the problem of Apollonius, although I reckon much more needs to be done. :P I'm also trying to gradually improve a few other articles, most recently sundial (which has a nice connection to the conic sections and, thus, Apollonius of Perga), Usher syndrome and lactoylglutathione lyase, which was random fun but fascinating. :)
I'm not sure if I told you, but I'm leaving soon to visit my sister and help her to prepare for her wedding, which is happening this July? (I should get some really nice shoes for a change! ;) I'll be away for a while, but if you had any suggestions for any of those articles, most especially the problem of Apollonius, I'd be very grateful. I'm toying with the idea of trying to raise it to FA, since mathematics seems to need more FA's, from what I read in the Signpost. Hoping that you're happy and healthy and hale, Willow ( talk) 10:23, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Geometry guy, I have made the new directory for semi-automated peer reviews at Wikipedia:Peer review/Automated/March 2008 but wanted to check in case anything else needed to be done to make the switch to the new month. Thanks, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 20:04, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
This is a form message being sent out to all of the GA sweeps reviewers. Thank you for all of your dedicated work in the difficult and time-consuming task of ensuring the quality of articles within the GA project. Many reviewers have taken time out of reviewing articles at WP:GAN (this may be one factor in the expansion of the backlog), writing articles, and probably getting some sleep! I have sent this message out to update you on our current progress and to remind you to please keep up with completing your reviews and updating GARs/holds. As of March 1, 2008, we have swept 20% of the 2,808 GAs we started with. At our current progress, all of the articles will be assessed in just under three years (based on when we started). If we want to complete the sweeps sooner, we need to continue reviewing at a higher rate (consider doing one or two more reviews a week or whatever you feel comfortable with) and inviting new, experienced reviewers. If you are taking a break, focusing on GAN, writing your own GAs, or are already reviewing articles like crazy, I still want to thank you for all of your hard work and hope you are pleased about our current progress. Keep up the good work and happy editing! -- Nehrams2020 ( talk) 09:02, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Okay, moved to User:Dank55/Essays, and I'm very happy you liked it. Split infinitives are like water these days in opinion magazines, but you're right, that one needed to go. - Dan Dank55 ( talk) 14:27, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
(Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Portal:Peer_review&curid=15969573&diff=195095188&oldid=194910757)
I just noticed that you fixed a categorization issue. I thought you might want to know that I created that portal recently using {{subst:box portal skeleton}}, and I have not modified the part you edited. So, if there is an issue with the way it formats the category, it's more than likely in the box portal skeleton itself. You might want to have a look at that directly.
Cheers! -- Msanford ( talk) 02:56, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi GGuy, I'm having trouble knowing how best to deal with the response from a GA review I did on Nader Shah. The main article contributor was not pleased by my review, almost taking his comments to the level of personal attack. I've tried to diffuse the situation, but in the end have had to just point the editor along to GAR. I hate "passing the buck", but think it was probably the best course of action here. Don't think nothing you need to do at this point, but would you mind skimming through the talk page discussion and seeing if there's anything I could have done better for next time? Thanks -- jwanders Talk 00:57, 3 March 2008 (UTC) P.S. Forgot to mention: a bit further up that same talk page, it looks like another editor did a review for the same nomination. After received a similar response, he got fed up, erased that review and left the nomination for someone else.-- jwanders Talk 01:33, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Do you seriously believe I was unaware of this story? Do you seriously believe I have not thought about in as much depth than you have? Do you seriously believe that this is endemic? Read up. Geometry guy 21:34, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
Here's what I'm thinking: We can get them a peer review. We don't have to go through the old process. We have a lot of good reviewers on our team already. They aren't a problem. Also, when it comes to GA, we can dredge up a reviewer easy. We just get someone on the team who hasn't edited the article to do it. There's no reason they should sit and wait. Wrad ( talk) 19:16, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
I brought up in an article about toning down sex and violence on the main page and this administrator replied that books are boring and he would prefer this book about child abuse. I want to have a go at getting him de-admin-ed. Where would I bring that up? (go see Talk:Main page#Computer game article yesterday comment by J Milburn) ThisMunkey ( talk) 19:18, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Umm, with no authorization, someone moved David Paterson to David A. Paterson (politician). I accidentally moved it to David A. Paterson. Can you sort out this mess by moving it back to David Paterson and deleting all the new pages that were created? J.delanoy gabs adds 22:42, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Could you do the GA review for The President (novel)? I noticed you hadn't contributed to it at all, so you qualify. Wrad ( talk) 23:00, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up - I think that mentioning the new Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog which lists articles at least a week old that have had no new comments at all might be helpful. I have let the oldest ones go 17 days so far, but think I may archive them tomorrow (if they have no replies). Ruhrfisch ><>°° 02:23, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
I don't know what's going on with the Dispatch for the 17th, because the WP:SIGNPOST hasn't run the 10th yet ... I think Ral315 has the flu. Also, if anyone is doing PR stats, I'm still trying to replace the lost data (for the last 3 mos) on WP:FAS. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 00:59, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
GG, thanks for all the work you're putting in on this. I have to say I'm tired and frustrated that I'm finding half my time taken up with rooting out plagiarism... Oh well. This is how editors learn, I hope! -- jbmurray ( talk| contribs) 00:09, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for making it possible for an ordinary editor to move the article.
Don't you think it might be friendly to admit on your talk page/user page that you're an admin?
Yellowdesk (
talk) 01:34, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
After reading your graph and comments on Wikipedia talk:Good article nominations/Report#Graph, is it time to run another backlog elimination drive? Let's run it for 1 week, since last time we did 1 month and have all kinds of trouble at the end of the month when people just piling on reviews hastely just to get enough number for an award. OhanaUnited Talk page 08:36, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi G guy, there appears to be a broken peer review request for Komodo Dragon at "(Peer review added on Tuesday 4 March 2008, 21:38 UTC)" (between the requests for "Rwanda" and "Six Feet Under (band)" in the PR by date list), but I am not sure how to fix it. Thanks, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 03:35, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Geometry guy. I looked at GAR and FAR archives and you are one of the Wikipedians who best fight for Neutrality. Your help is needed at Atheism where the article sounds as an apology of Atheism and worse, it is a Featured Article! The editors are strongly against any change. They are propose a very minor compromise in the form of linking to Criticism to Atheism.
I told them the article on atheism "should fairly represent all significant viewpoints that have been published by a reliable source, and should do so in proportion to the prominence of each," "in proportion to their representation among experts on the subject, or among the concerned parties." (NPOV)
The discussion place is here. Please help. Kleinbell ( talk) 07:32, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Following up jbmurray's comments on the Mission 1 talk page, I'm rather concerned about the quality of the unsolicited GA review on Miguel Ángel Asturias. I know this article is on your watchlist - how do you think we should handle this? EyeSerene talk 08:41, 14 March 2008 (UTC) (edit) I've also left a note with Karanacs. EyeSerene talk 11:19, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
The review for Amsoil is showing up, but has a red link for the PR itself. Also the peer review request for Greater Manchester is from an editor who just retired (Joshi) - it has no responses so far, do you think it would be OK to just archive it? Ruhrfisch ><>°° 21:52, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I have made a proposal that no peer review request be archived without some response. To aid in this, there is a new list of PR requests at least one week old that have had no repsonses beyond a semi-automated peer review. This list is at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog.
There are just over 100 names on the PR volunteers page, so I figure if each of these volunteers reviewed just one or two PR requests without a response from the list each month, it would easily take care of the "no response" backlog (as there have been 2 or 3 such unanswered requests a day on average).
If you would be able to help out with a review or two a month from the "no responses" backlog list that would be great (and much appreciated). Please discuss questions, comments, or ideas at the PR talk page and thanks in advance for your help, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 00:21, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
You seem to be the go-to man for hvnb... I'd left a few messages on talk pages, but finally figured out for myself that this only workd with citation, not with "cite book," "cite journal" etc. So as I do so like those little wikilinks from the note to the references, I was thinking of converting some reference lists to citation.
But I got caught at the first hurdle, looking at The General in His Labyrinth, trying to do the reference for the book itself. How do you add a translator's name?
Heh, or is there any way that the folk who made hvnb can be persuaded to hack it to work with "cite book"?? -- jbmurray ( talk| contribs) 20:42, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Gguy, I have never been able to consistently locate this "Wikipedia 1.0 topic name" list. Instead of linking to Wikipedia 1.0 at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-03-17/Dispatches, can you change that link to go directly to that topic list, wherever it is? SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 21:12, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I know you've been watching Mario Vargas Llosa for the FA-Team. This article has come on in leaps and bounds in the last week or so. The editors who have been working on it hope to submit it to GA Review very shortly. It would be great if you were able to give it the once-over. Many thanks. -- jbmurray ( talk| contribs) 07:48, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Sound the trumpets in Zion, and all that - after 25,401 edits, along with a few hundred from my own account, the PR archive restructure is finished!! So at the very reasonable rate of £0.05 per edit, that comes to a grand total of £1270.05 plus
VAT. :D
Happy‑
melon 18:22, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
{{
ArticleHistory}}
bot which has been languishing for god knows how long.
Happy‑
melon 13:09, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Related to that I've tentatively proposed template:details and template:further be merged as well, though an admin will have to add the merge template. It's difficult because they are in such wide use, so I'm not sure what the response will be, but I think they are conceptually the same so would best be merged in the long run. It's either that or their functions are so vague as to render at least one of them useless. Richard001 ( talk) 23:18, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
I am trying to add all the projects which have been created since the directory was created, and it seemed reasonable to use the existing categorization. The one disadvantage that would be had with categorization, as I have found out much to my frustration, is that certain projects, particularly certain religious projects, and possibly others as well, will adamantly object to being called in any way "descendant" projects. The Judaism project, for whatever reason, comes to mind immediately here. I will however at least try to sort out the categories when I finish the draft directory, so that they perhaps resemble each other. No guarantees how long they'll stay that way, though, once I do so. John Carter ( talk) 21:33, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Geometry Guy, I wonder if you would consider applying your considerable interpersonal skills (and, perhaps, some of your administrative authority) to the case of a mathematically knowledgeable but extremely obnoxious editor whom I have already encountered several times, and I am bound to encounter again? Can you, please, take a look at the talk page for Orbifold, where he manifested himself in his typical fashion yet again and let me know what you think. Thanks a million in advance! Arcfrk ( talk) 04:48, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
What is going on with Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Preity Zinta/1? Failing an article that is well prepared for FAC because it doesn't use "western sources"? This one-person system has issues. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 02:14, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
I set up a basic shell (and archives) for coordinating the weekly dispatch at Wikipedia:Featured article dispatch workshop. The 25th is approaching! Are you interested in starting something on peer review? If not, Marskell might do it. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 01:42, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
I pondered this briefly during the archive shuffle, but now I want to launch one peer review for the saxophone series ( Contrabass saxophone, Bass saxophone , Baritone saxophone, Tenor saxophone, Alto saxophone, Soprano saxophone, Sopranino saxophone, to gauge how people think they should relate to the main article saxophone (no there's no featured topic in this, honest!). This is not unheard of, so perhaps we should prescribe a system to use so that we don't allow our nice shiny archives to get screwed up. Should we say to launch a PR in a normal way from one of the articles, then link to that PR from the others? Or have a totally different location for multiple peer reviews? Where should it go: Wikipedia:Peer review/alto saxophone/archive1, with the others linking to it? Wikipedia:Peer review/saxophone articles/archive1? Perhaps even Wikipedia:Peer review/Multiple/saxophones?? What do you think? Happy‑ melon 13:22, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
{{
Peer review/header}}
templates?
Happy‑
melon 20:00, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
I do have it on my watchlist; however, the AGR discussion edit got kind of hidden between two other edits from the same nominator. The GAR process should probably be updated to include notification to the GA nominator. Otto4711 ( talk) 00:49, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Can you take another look at the article, to see if there are any additional issues standing in its way of making GA? Thanks for all the help you've provided so far. Thegreatdr ( talk) 05:41, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, yes, I'll support, but where is it? Can't find it, and I have very limited time until 7 March. Tony (talk) 14:18, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Hmm, so my digging around the wiki for bot building information has lead me right back where I started—just worked out that your the wizard behind the curtain-of-automation at wp:pr! So, seeing as you've done this before, how would you suggest I (we?) proceed in GA-process automation? -- jwanders Talk 17:52, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
I wonder if and incremental approach would work best? That is, take a single small step in the current GA process, automate it exactly as is, and slowly build up towards complete automation (where by complete I of course mean only the aspects that don't need human judgemet). I think it would be easier to convince regular reviewers to change the system once an automated system is established. But this would probably involve more than just category filling, so I'm probably being over-ambitious. Regarding the running such a bot, I'm not sure what it entails. Is in as simple as leaving a machine on 24/7 with a process running every half-hour? That I could conceivably achieve. Alternatively, is there any area on the Wikimedia servers that bots can be hosted?-- jwanders Talk 22:19, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
With the new PR system, I noticed that the "follow this link" from the starting PR template doesn't switch to "a request" right away. It might be good to add a "step 4" with a purge link so it gets updated. So, do you want to compare experiences with portal PR? I was wondering if Carl has portal PR tracking already set up somewhere. Gimmetrow 01:00, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Another little issue: [1] Is this how a GAR pass is currently handled? Gimmetrow 05:54, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi G-guy! :)
How have you been? I get the impression that you've been busy with something involving peer review, although I haven't looked into it; p'raps you could explain it to me sometime? :)
I've been inching and oozing forward with the problem of Apollonius, although I reckon much more needs to be done. :P I'm also trying to gradually improve a few other articles, most recently sundial (which has a nice connection to the conic sections and, thus, Apollonius of Perga), Usher syndrome and lactoylglutathione lyase, which was random fun but fascinating. :)
I'm not sure if I told you, but I'm leaving soon to visit my sister and help her to prepare for her wedding, which is happening this July? (I should get some really nice shoes for a change! ;) I'll be away for a while, but if you had any suggestions for any of those articles, most especially the problem of Apollonius, I'd be very grateful. I'm toying with the idea of trying to raise it to FA, since mathematics seems to need more FA's, from what I read in the Signpost. Hoping that you're happy and healthy and hale, Willow ( talk) 10:23, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Geometry guy, I have made the new directory for semi-automated peer reviews at Wikipedia:Peer review/Automated/March 2008 but wanted to check in case anything else needed to be done to make the switch to the new month. Thanks, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 20:04, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
This is a form message being sent out to all of the GA sweeps reviewers. Thank you for all of your dedicated work in the difficult and time-consuming task of ensuring the quality of articles within the GA project. Many reviewers have taken time out of reviewing articles at WP:GAN (this may be one factor in the expansion of the backlog), writing articles, and probably getting some sleep! I have sent this message out to update you on our current progress and to remind you to please keep up with completing your reviews and updating GARs/holds. As of March 1, 2008, we have swept 20% of the 2,808 GAs we started with. At our current progress, all of the articles will be assessed in just under three years (based on when we started). If we want to complete the sweeps sooner, we need to continue reviewing at a higher rate (consider doing one or two more reviews a week or whatever you feel comfortable with) and inviting new, experienced reviewers. If you are taking a break, focusing on GAN, writing your own GAs, or are already reviewing articles like crazy, I still want to thank you for all of your hard work and hope you are pleased about our current progress. Keep up the good work and happy editing! -- Nehrams2020 ( talk) 09:02, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Okay, moved to User:Dank55/Essays, and I'm very happy you liked it. Split infinitives are like water these days in opinion magazines, but you're right, that one needed to go. - Dan Dank55 ( talk) 14:27, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
(Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Portal:Peer_review&curid=15969573&diff=195095188&oldid=194910757)
I just noticed that you fixed a categorization issue. I thought you might want to know that I created that portal recently using {{subst:box portal skeleton}}, and I have not modified the part you edited. So, if there is an issue with the way it formats the category, it's more than likely in the box portal skeleton itself. You might want to have a look at that directly.
Cheers! -- Msanford ( talk) 02:56, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi GGuy, I'm having trouble knowing how best to deal with the response from a GA review I did on Nader Shah. The main article contributor was not pleased by my review, almost taking his comments to the level of personal attack. I've tried to diffuse the situation, but in the end have had to just point the editor along to GAR. I hate "passing the buck", but think it was probably the best course of action here. Don't think nothing you need to do at this point, but would you mind skimming through the talk page discussion and seeing if there's anything I could have done better for next time? Thanks -- jwanders Talk 00:57, 3 March 2008 (UTC) P.S. Forgot to mention: a bit further up that same talk page, it looks like another editor did a review for the same nomination. After received a similar response, he got fed up, erased that review and left the nomination for someone else.-- jwanders Talk 01:33, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Do you seriously believe I was unaware of this story? Do you seriously believe I have not thought about in as much depth than you have? Do you seriously believe that this is endemic? Read up. Geometry guy 21:34, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
Here's what I'm thinking: We can get them a peer review. We don't have to go through the old process. We have a lot of good reviewers on our team already. They aren't a problem. Also, when it comes to GA, we can dredge up a reviewer easy. We just get someone on the team who hasn't edited the article to do it. There's no reason they should sit and wait. Wrad ( talk) 19:16, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
I brought up in an article about toning down sex and violence on the main page and this administrator replied that books are boring and he would prefer this book about child abuse. I want to have a go at getting him de-admin-ed. Where would I bring that up? (go see Talk:Main page#Computer game article yesterday comment by J Milburn) ThisMunkey ( talk) 19:18, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Umm, with no authorization, someone moved David Paterson to David A. Paterson (politician). I accidentally moved it to David A. Paterson. Can you sort out this mess by moving it back to David Paterson and deleting all the new pages that were created? J.delanoy gabs adds 22:42, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Could you do the GA review for The President (novel)? I noticed you hadn't contributed to it at all, so you qualify. Wrad ( talk) 23:00, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up - I think that mentioning the new Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog which lists articles at least a week old that have had no new comments at all might be helpful. I have let the oldest ones go 17 days so far, but think I may archive them tomorrow (if they have no replies). Ruhrfisch ><>°° 02:23, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
I don't know what's going on with the Dispatch for the 17th, because the WP:SIGNPOST hasn't run the 10th yet ... I think Ral315 has the flu. Also, if anyone is doing PR stats, I'm still trying to replace the lost data (for the last 3 mos) on WP:FAS. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 00:59, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
GG, thanks for all the work you're putting in on this. I have to say I'm tired and frustrated that I'm finding half my time taken up with rooting out plagiarism... Oh well. This is how editors learn, I hope! -- jbmurray ( talk| contribs) 00:09, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for making it possible for an ordinary editor to move the article.
Don't you think it might be friendly to admit on your talk page/user page that you're an admin?
Yellowdesk (
talk) 01:34, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
After reading your graph and comments on Wikipedia talk:Good article nominations/Report#Graph, is it time to run another backlog elimination drive? Let's run it for 1 week, since last time we did 1 month and have all kinds of trouble at the end of the month when people just piling on reviews hastely just to get enough number for an award. OhanaUnited Talk page 08:36, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi G guy, there appears to be a broken peer review request for Komodo Dragon at "(Peer review added on Tuesday 4 March 2008, 21:38 UTC)" (between the requests for "Rwanda" and "Six Feet Under (band)" in the PR by date list), but I am not sure how to fix it. Thanks, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 03:35, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Geometry guy. I looked at GAR and FAR archives and you are one of the Wikipedians who best fight for Neutrality. Your help is needed at Atheism where the article sounds as an apology of Atheism and worse, it is a Featured Article! The editors are strongly against any change. They are propose a very minor compromise in the form of linking to Criticism to Atheism.
I told them the article on atheism "should fairly represent all significant viewpoints that have been published by a reliable source, and should do so in proportion to the prominence of each," "in proportion to their representation among experts on the subject, or among the concerned parties." (NPOV)
The discussion place is here. Please help. Kleinbell ( talk) 07:32, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Following up jbmurray's comments on the Mission 1 talk page, I'm rather concerned about the quality of the unsolicited GA review on Miguel Ángel Asturias. I know this article is on your watchlist - how do you think we should handle this? EyeSerene talk 08:41, 14 March 2008 (UTC) (edit) I've also left a note with Karanacs. EyeSerene talk 11:19, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
The review for Amsoil is showing up, but has a red link for the PR itself. Also the peer review request for Greater Manchester is from an editor who just retired (Joshi) - it has no responses so far, do you think it would be OK to just archive it? Ruhrfisch ><>°° 21:52, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I have made a proposal that no peer review request be archived without some response. To aid in this, there is a new list of PR requests at least one week old that have had no repsonses beyond a semi-automated peer review. This list is at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog.
There are just over 100 names on the PR volunteers page, so I figure if each of these volunteers reviewed just one or two PR requests without a response from the list each month, it would easily take care of the "no response" backlog (as there have been 2 or 3 such unanswered requests a day on average).
If you would be able to help out with a review or two a month from the "no responses" backlog list that would be great (and much appreciated). Please discuss questions, comments, or ideas at the PR talk page and thanks in advance for your help, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 00:21, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
You seem to be the go-to man for hvnb... I'd left a few messages on talk pages, but finally figured out for myself that this only workd with citation, not with "cite book," "cite journal" etc. So as I do so like those little wikilinks from the note to the references, I was thinking of converting some reference lists to citation.
But I got caught at the first hurdle, looking at The General in His Labyrinth, trying to do the reference for the book itself. How do you add a translator's name?
Heh, or is there any way that the folk who made hvnb can be persuaded to hack it to work with "cite book"?? -- jbmurray ( talk| contribs) 20:42, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Gguy, I have never been able to consistently locate this "Wikipedia 1.0 topic name" list. Instead of linking to Wikipedia 1.0 at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-03-17/Dispatches, can you change that link to go directly to that topic list, wherever it is? SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 21:12, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I know you've been watching Mario Vargas Llosa for the FA-Team. This article has come on in leaps and bounds in the last week or so. The editors who have been working on it hope to submit it to GA Review very shortly. It would be great if you were able to give it the once-over. Many thanks. -- jbmurray ( talk| contribs) 07:48, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
Sound the trumpets in Zion, and all that - after 25,401 edits, along with a few hundred from my own account, the PR archive restructure is finished!! So at the very reasonable rate of £0.05 per edit, that comes to a grand total of £1270.05 plus
VAT. :D
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melon 18:22, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
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melon 13:09, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Related to that I've tentatively proposed template:details and template:further be merged as well, though an admin will have to add the merge template. It's difficult because they are in such wide use, so I'm not sure what the response will be, but I think they are conceptually the same so would best be merged in the long run. It's either that or their functions are so vague as to render at least one of them useless. Richard001 ( talk) 23:18, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
I am trying to add all the projects which have been created since the directory was created, and it seemed reasonable to use the existing categorization. The one disadvantage that would be had with categorization, as I have found out much to my frustration, is that certain projects, particularly certain religious projects, and possibly others as well, will adamantly object to being called in any way "descendant" projects. The Judaism project, for whatever reason, comes to mind immediately here. I will however at least try to sort out the categories when I finish the draft directory, so that they perhaps resemble each other. No guarantees how long they'll stay that way, though, once I do so. John Carter ( talk) 21:33, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Geometry Guy, I wonder if you would consider applying your considerable interpersonal skills (and, perhaps, some of your administrative authority) to the case of a mathematically knowledgeable but extremely obnoxious editor whom I have already encountered several times, and I am bound to encounter again? Can you, please, take a look at the talk page for Orbifold, where he manifested himself in his typical fashion yet again and let me know what you think. Thanks a million in advance! Arcfrk ( talk) 04:48, 4 March 2008 (UTC)