Hi Hog Farm, just dropping by for a brief follow-up to this exchange. I've not kept up with the project at Wikipedia:Unreviewed featured articles/2020, but I'm happy to help with the medicine articles. I certainly don't have Sandy's rolodex, but I've got a general sense of who is interested in what among the medicine editors. I'll try to keep an eye on at least one old medicine FA at a time. Is Acute myeloid leukemia where I should start? I think(?) it's the oldest medicine FAC/FAR date on the URFA page, but I might've missed another. More importantly, I hope all is well on your end! Ajpolino ( talk) 00:14, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
@ Ajpolino: A more detailed list of the older list of medical-related FAs by last review date:
Alzheimer's disease was last reviewed in 2008. Hog Farm Talk 04:34, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
Made all changes; thanks for the review! Let me know if anything more is needed.
Also, thanks for letting me know about Willie Mays. I feel like I'm in the same boat with you as far as images go. I always get annoyed when people ask what makes them appropriate (I don't know...I assume you're the expert...figure it out yourself!). :) Thanks for all the lookovers you've done with the Mays article. Sanfranciscogiants17 ( talk) 21:35, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
Hog Farm - Thank you for reviewing for GA the article Darnestown, Maryland. I see you have reviewed some of my GAs before, and you are also have an article getting reviewed for GA. A question: I use Microsoft Word and a Wikipedia tool called Highlight Duplicate Links on articles, and used to have an automated peer review macro. Are there any additional tools or macros that I should be using? TwoScars ( talk) 15:22, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
Hog Farm, thanks for reviewing this article nine months (!!) ago. I've emerged from the bowels of real life to come back to Wikipedia, and I've addressed the comments you left on the review back then. If there's any other sources (like the corona beer one) that you'd like to review, I'm happy to pull them for you and send them your way, but I think it should be in a much better place now.
I'm sorry to have left it dormant so long, really appreciate all the work you put into the review. Thanks so much. Nomader ( talk) 18:37, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article
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Hey HF -- I've been considering the concept of a GA sweep extensively lately (people might've noticed), and I'm starting to draft an idea of what a workable plan to look for substandard GAs and maintain/raise/create (depending on your level of cynicism) GA standards would look like. I suspect this is something you might be interested in, so I'm dumping my workshopping at User:Vaticidalprophet/GA reform here for you (and talk page stalkers?) to see if you think this is heading in a viable direction. (Ignore the "crackpot scratchpad" -- or don't, if you want -- but it's a much more speculative and unformed "bounce some stuff and see what's interesting" set of ideas, rather than the relatively crystallized sweeps.) I think successive sweeps each individually broken down into the thousand-ish highest priority articles is a workable idea if we can get some productive and dedicated people on board (but getting productive and dedicated people on board is always the sticking point, isn't it? the original sweeps had one guy assess 10% of all GAs). I've also been contemplating lately the last point -- how the rapidly rising number of GAs represents an insufficient number of articles taken to/passing FAC as well as insufficient reassessment of older or at-risk GAs -- and at what can be done to solve that problem as well. Vaticidal prophet 10:48, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
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On 10 July 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Battle of Hancock, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the temperature was 0 °F (−18 °C) on the morning that the Battle of Hancock began? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Battle of Hancock. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Battle of Hancock), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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I think it's pretty safe to say that if you had messed anything up then it would pretty quickly be made apparent. And for the record? I think you've been doing a fantastic job. — Ched ( talk) 09:25, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
Just wanted to say I have been offline and just saw your question. E.B. Long, The Civil War Day by Day, shows a skirmish at Adamstown, MD on October 14, 1864. As in almost all instances where a minor action is noted, Long shows no further details. This occurred the day after Mosby took up a section of the B&O Railroad near Kearneysville, west of Harper's Ferry, seized $173,000 from two Union Army paymasters and burned a train, according to Long. That certainly puts Mosby and company in the same area the day before the skirmish but that doesn't necessarily mean they were involved. As you noted, the Battle of Cedar Creek was only five days later so the skirmish would not seem to be connected to the Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1864. I will look into this further tonight. Donner60 ( talk) 22:30, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
I had a visual just now of you and CaptainEek racing to be the first to endorse my candidacy. That it was you two is a pleasant thing to me. I am in a sort of meta-retreat mode now, with my creative gumption low but a need to express gratitude high. I just did a contested AfD reclose but felt pretty confident about it. Please be the one to tell me when my fly is down. BusterD ( talk) 20:59, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
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I notice you edit a lot of American Civil War articles and bring many to Good Article status. The above article I created in 2009 and brought to Good Article status in 2010. I also helped brought to Good Article status Australia and the American Civil War.-- Doug Coldwell ( talk) 11:05, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi Hog Farm. I noticed that you removed the red links of Navjivan from several articles (including Mahadev Desai and Kishansinh Chavda). The article deleted under this AfD is Navjivan (Neighbourhood), a place in Ahmedabad. While the 'Navjivan' (a redirect which is now deleted) was a weekly newspaper in founded by Mahatma Gandhi (also in Ahmedabad). For information, see the lead section of Navajivan Trust. Thanks. -- Gazal world ( talk) 12:16, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
Hello Hog Farm, I apologize for an unexpected message but I simply wanted to ask your 3rd party opinion as a Wikipedia admin on this concern I have:
User by the username of BaxçeyêReş made this edit, where I am particularly concerned about the "your nation's germinal vitriol'" sentence in reference to the country of Azerbaijan. Personally, it seemed to me like a racist sentence to make, given the user referred to a "nation" and not a government, for example. I posted my intention to seek administrative action on the user's talk page in this edit, which was just reverted. The user also has edit the history of removing Azerbaijani names from Caucasus villages and locations, which in itself is not a problem if proper reasoning is provided, by combined with the above sentence looks concerning.
The user also made this statement: "I will continue to crush you and your vitriol every time you re-join Wikipedia", which also I thought is bizarre. The user also informed me of their intention to report me to ANI here immediately after I informed them of my intention, which again seems like bad conduct.
I am asking for your opinion, what do you think? I think a clear breach of WP:NPA and WP:CIVIL. I also want to ask more people but since you're an admin I wanted to contact you first.
Edit: please also note these [1] [2] [3] on Kurdish wikipedia, where the user states: "Azerbaijan is worth as much as dirt", "Azerbaijani articles were created by god to be vandalized" and "you are a dirty prostitue ElijaM".
Thank you in advance. - WimpyDood ( talk) 22:44, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
I have received similar messages and, hm, dealt with the situation. ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 00:26, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
Hey HF, hope all is well. Been working on Witold Lutosławski for URFA, as (for some reason) someone decided to remove 100+ inline cites a few years back. I think it's back up to standard (besides some remaining citation formatting and references needed in the Awards and honours section)—what would be your take (should you have the time/interest)? Best - Aza24 ( talk) 18:38, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article
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I noticed that you are a sysop active in WP:GA and was wondering if GA reviewers are supposed to edit the article. In my experience maybe they might do some small grammar corrections but I am mostly interested in if reviewers are supposed to institute wording changes or edit phrases. I've done a fair number of GA Reviews and have also had articles undergo the process and usually reviewers stay pretty much hands-off but is there anything in the instructions that speaks to how much reviewers are allowed to change? An article that I have done some work on is undergoing a review right now - Talk:Mountain Meadows Massacre/GA1 - and today I noticed that the reviewer went in and incrementally changed content. Looking for advice - thanks. Shearonink ( talk) 19:30, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
Update: Well, it's been almost 4 weeks since the GA Reviewer has made any substantial edit on the Review (they haven't edited WP much at all lately), they've made two short posts saying they're busy & will get to it soon, etc., last substantial edits were on July 27th (see Review editing history). I've posted to their user talk but if they don't respond substantially by the one month mark (August 24th) how do I go about filing for another Review since, at that point, this one basically would seem abandoned? Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 14:04, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for that, I completely missed it was already under review when I looked at it today. Guess my mind was still on when I poked around it yesterday. CMD ( talk) 16:13, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
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Hog Farm - thank you for reviewing the Battle of White Sulphur Springs. Many of the soldiers in this battle were also in the Battle of Droop Mountain and Battle of Cove Mountain. TwoScars ( talk) 12:06, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
@ Hog Farm: Thanks again for your time and effort in reviewing the Battle of White Sulphur Springs. I have another project that I am working on: upgrading the Battle of the Wilderness to Good Article. It probably will not be ready until 2022, since it does not always get my highest priority. I e-mailed Hal J. nearly a year ago, and he is OK with me working on it. However, I still need to be careful with an article that gets 10,000 views per month and has been praised in an online editorial (in 2015). I plan to use Hal's maps as much as possible and drop some of the things that have probably been added over time, such as the entire "In popular culture" section and casualties table. Also, galleries are now frowned upon. I have hard copies of Rhea's and Gallagher's books, but want to make sure other sources are used too. Do you think it would be wise to have a few people from WikiProject Military history to look over the revised article in my sandbox (once it is ready) before it replaces the current article? It would not need to be a thorough review, but just make sure there is not something now out, or in, that causes "heartburn". TwoScars ( talk) 17:08, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello. I want to acknowledge that closing the Angola, Deleware Afd way too early was not a good idea [4]. Looking back on the whole thing it was somewhat disruptive behavior on my part.
I mean, when two editors come to my talk page, and one is an Admin, and they both tell me I am in error. And I am told, I need to revert my edit [5]. Well, that was the first clue that something was wrong. And I should have reverted as soon as I saw both your messages. My next mistake was allowing this error judgement to cause a DRV discussion.
I am embarrassed that I let such poor judgement cause a disruption. I am chalking it up to a learning experience and the fact I should have known better. I'm also reading up on this stuff again, such as WP:NACD, WP:INVOLVED and WP:DRV. I left the same message on User:Extraordinary Writ's talk page. --- Steve Quinn ( talk) 00:24, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello. Would you be able to review the article and give it another spotcheck? Thank you. LittleJerry ( talk) 12:07, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
From what I can see, both Jimtown, Delaware and Pinetown, Delaware are historic black communities. There's a passing congressional hearing statement to that effect for the first(not that such questioning can be considered in any way reliable), and it's baldly obvious with the second, though the news articles about the place seem to want to avoid saying that. And there's the problem: I can't get any history on either even though there has to be some. If you can find some time to expand either, I would really appreciate it. I wouldn't delete either, but I don't want to leave them as just "unincorporated communities". Mangoe ( talk) 03:01, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
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The Reviewers Award | |
By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this award in recognition of the thorough, detailed and actionable reviews you have carried out at FAC. This work is very much appreciated. Gog the Mild ( talk) 15:29, 6 August 2021 (UTC) |
I have started a discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_United_States#State-line-straddling_towns concerning dealing with two cases where towns straddle the MD-DE state line. Mangoe ( talk) 03:47, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
See discussion at Talk:Postal_village#Accuracy. And congratulations! Mangoe ( talk) 04:46, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
Nearly five days. I'm slipping
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I removed the PROD and added the image to the page where it belongs. I added a fair use rationale, which is something the original uploader should have done. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 05:18, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi! I was wondering if you would be keen and have time to do a peer review for sustainable energy, which we are preparing for a FAC run. We have had two reviews so far, and will be done addressing those point in a weeks time. We'd like a final review to assess whether we've managed to explain the topic well to people less familiar with it, and whether the structure of the article makes sense. Thanks :). FemkeMilene ( talk) 08:53, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article
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On 28 August 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article CSS Pickens, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that three high-ranking officers of USRC Robert McClelland remained with the ship after it surrendered and entered Confederate service? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/CSRC Pickens. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, CSS Pickens), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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The Copyright Cleanup Barnstar | |
It's been a while since you started pitching in at CCI, so this barnstar is way overdue. Thank you, Hog Farm, for helping us beat back the Backlog. – ♠Vami _IV†♠ 18:43, 29 August 2021 (UTC) |
| Hello, Hog Farm. This is a courtesy notice that the copy edit you requested for Great Lakes Storm of 1913 at the Guild of Copy Editors requests page is now complete. All feedback welcome! Cheers, Baffle☿gab 01:22, 31 August 2021 (UTC) |
Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 01:58, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi Hog Farm, hope all is well. Could I interest you in a source review of Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln/archive1? I'd imagine you're very busy, so please don't feel obligated if you don't have the time or interest. Cheers, Eddie891 Talk Work 13:51, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Hog Farm, just dropping by for a brief follow-up to this exchange. I've not kept up with the project at Wikipedia:Unreviewed featured articles/2020, but I'm happy to help with the medicine articles. I certainly don't have Sandy's rolodex, but I've got a general sense of who is interested in what among the medicine editors. I'll try to keep an eye on at least one old medicine FA at a time. Is Acute myeloid leukemia where I should start? I think(?) it's the oldest medicine FAC/FAR date on the URFA page, but I might've missed another. More importantly, I hope all is well on your end! Ajpolino ( talk) 00:14, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
@ Ajpolino: A more detailed list of the older list of medical-related FAs by last review date:
Alzheimer's disease was last reviewed in 2008. Hog Farm Talk 04:34, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
Made all changes; thanks for the review! Let me know if anything more is needed.
Also, thanks for letting me know about Willie Mays. I feel like I'm in the same boat with you as far as images go. I always get annoyed when people ask what makes them appropriate (I don't know...I assume you're the expert...figure it out yourself!). :) Thanks for all the lookovers you've done with the Mays article. Sanfranciscogiants17 ( talk) 21:35, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
Hog Farm - Thank you for reviewing for GA the article Darnestown, Maryland. I see you have reviewed some of my GAs before, and you are also have an article getting reviewed for GA. A question: I use Microsoft Word and a Wikipedia tool called Highlight Duplicate Links on articles, and used to have an automated peer review macro. Are there any additional tools or macros that I should be using? TwoScars ( talk) 15:22, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
Hog Farm, thanks for reviewing this article nine months (!!) ago. I've emerged from the bowels of real life to come back to Wikipedia, and I've addressed the comments you left on the review back then. If there's any other sources (like the corona beer one) that you'd like to review, I'm happy to pull them for you and send them your way, but I think it should be in a much better place now.
I'm sorry to have left it dormant so long, really appreciate all the work you put into the review. Thanks so much. Nomader ( talk) 18:37, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article
USS Indianola (1862) you nominated for
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Hey HF -- I've been considering the concept of a GA sweep extensively lately (people might've noticed), and I'm starting to draft an idea of what a workable plan to look for substandard GAs and maintain/raise/create (depending on your level of cynicism) GA standards would look like. I suspect this is something you might be interested in, so I'm dumping my workshopping at User:Vaticidalprophet/GA reform here for you (and talk page stalkers?) to see if you think this is heading in a viable direction. (Ignore the "crackpot scratchpad" -- or don't, if you want -- but it's a much more speculative and unformed "bounce some stuff and see what's interesting" set of ideas, rather than the relatively crystallized sweeps.) I think successive sweeps each individually broken down into the thousand-ish highest priority articles is a workable idea if we can get some productive and dedicated people on board (but getting productive and dedicated people on board is always the sticking point, isn't it? the original sweeps had one guy assess 10% of all GAs). I've also been contemplating lately the last point -- how the rapidly rising number of GAs represents an insufficient number of articles taken to/passing FAC as well as insufficient reassessment of older or at-risk GAs -- and at what can be done to solve that problem as well. Vaticidal prophet 10:48, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
The article
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On 10 July 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Battle of Hancock, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the temperature was 0 °F (−18 °C) on the morning that the Battle of Hancock began? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Battle of Hancock. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Battle of Hancock), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 12:02, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
I think it's pretty safe to say that if you had messed anything up then it would pretty quickly be made apparent. And for the record? I think you've been doing a fantastic job. — Ched ( talk) 09:25, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
Just wanted to say I have been offline and just saw your question. E.B. Long, The Civil War Day by Day, shows a skirmish at Adamstown, MD on October 14, 1864. As in almost all instances where a minor action is noted, Long shows no further details. This occurred the day after Mosby took up a section of the B&O Railroad near Kearneysville, west of Harper's Ferry, seized $173,000 from two Union Army paymasters and burned a train, according to Long. That certainly puts Mosby and company in the same area the day before the skirmish but that doesn't necessarily mean they were involved. As you noted, the Battle of Cedar Creek was only five days later so the skirmish would not seem to be connected to the Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1864. I will look into this further tonight. Donner60 ( talk) 22:30, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
I had a visual just now of you and CaptainEek racing to be the first to endorse my candidacy. That it was you two is a pleasant thing to me. I am in a sort of meta-retreat mode now, with my creative gumption low but a need to express gratitude high. I just did a contested AfD reclose but felt pretty confident about it. Please be the one to tell me when my fly is down. BusterD ( talk) 20:59, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
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On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the A-Class medal for Nichols's Missouri Cavalry Regiment, Second Battle of Newtonia, and 13th Missouri Cavalry Regiment (Confederate). Peacemaker67 ( talk) via MilHistBot ( talk) 00:30, 15 July 2021 (UTC) |
I notice you edit a lot of American Civil War articles and bring many to Good Article status. The above article I created in 2009 and brought to Good Article status in 2010. I also helped brought to Good Article status Australia and the American Civil War.-- Doug Coldwell ( talk) 11:05, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi Hog Farm. I noticed that you removed the red links of Navjivan from several articles (including Mahadev Desai and Kishansinh Chavda). The article deleted under this AfD is Navjivan (Neighbourhood), a place in Ahmedabad. While the 'Navjivan' (a redirect which is now deleted) was a weekly newspaper in founded by Mahatma Gandhi (also in Ahmedabad). For information, see the lead section of Navajivan Trust. Thanks. -- Gazal world ( talk) 12:16, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
Hello Hog Farm, I apologize for an unexpected message but I simply wanted to ask your 3rd party opinion as a Wikipedia admin on this concern I have:
User by the username of BaxçeyêReş made this edit, where I am particularly concerned about the "your nation's germinal vitriol'" sentence in reference to the country of Azerbaijan. Personally, it seemed to me like a racist sentence to make, given the user referred to a "nation" and not a government, for example. I posted my intention to seek administrative action on the user's talk page in this edit, which was just reverted. The user also has edit the history of removing Azerbaijani names from Caucasus villages and locations, which in itself is not a problem if proper reasoning is provided, by combined with the above sentence looks concerning.
The user also made this statement: "I will continue to crush you and your vitriol every time you re-join Wikipedia", which also I thought is bizarre. The user also informed me of their intention to report me to ANI here immediately after I informed them of my intention, which again seems like bad conduct.
I am asking for your opinion, what do you think? I think a clear breach of WP:NPA and WP:CIVIL. I also want to ask more people but since you're an admin I wanted to contact you first.
Edit: please also note these [1] [2] [3] on Kurdish wikipedia, where the user states: "Azerbaijan is worth as much as dirt", "Azerbaijani articles were created by god to be vandalized" and "you are a dirty prostitue ElijaM".
Thank you in advance. - WimpyDood ( talk) 22:44, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
I have received similar messages and, hm, dealt with the situation. ~ ToBeFree ( talk) 00:26, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
Hey HF, hope all is well. Been working on Witold Lutosławski for URFA, as (for some reason) someone decided to remove 100+ inline cites a few years back. I think it's back up to standard (besides some remaining citation formatting and references needed in the Awards and honours section)—what would be your take (should you have the time/interest)? Best - Aza24 ( talk) 18:38, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article
The Last Hurrah: Sterling Price's Missouri Expedition of 1864 you nominated for
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I noticed that you are a sysop active in WP:GA and was wondering if GA reviewers are supposed to edit the article. In my experience maybe they might do some small grammar corrections but I am mostly interested in if reviewers are supposed to institute wording changes or edit phrases. I've done a fair number of GA Reviews and have also had articles undergo the process and usually reviewers stay pretty much hands-off but is there anything in the instructions that speaks to how much reviewers are allowed to change? An article that I have done some work on is undergoing a review right now - Talk:Mountain Meadows Massacre/GA1 - and today I noticed that the reviewer went in and incrementally changed content. Looking for advice - thanks. Shearonink ( talk) 19:30, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
Update: Well, it's been almost 4 weeks since the GA Reviewer has made any substantial edit on the Review (they haven't edited WP much at all lately), they've made two short posts saying they're busy & will get to it soon, etc., last substantial edits were on July 27th (see Review editing history). I've posted to their user talk but if they don't respond substantially by the one month mark (August 24th) how do I go about filing for another Review since, at that point, this one basically would seem abandoned? Thanks, Shearonink ( talk) 14:04, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for that, I completely missed it was already under review when I looked at it today. Guess my mind was still on when I poked around it yesterday. CMD ( talk) 16:13, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
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Hog Farm - thank you for reviewing the Battle of White Sulphur Springs. Many of the soldiers in this battle were also in the Battle of Droop Mountain and Battle of Cove Mountain. TwoScars ( talk) 12:06, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
@ Hog Farm: Thanks again for your time and effort in reviewing the Battle of White Sulphur Springs. I have another project that I am working on: upgrading the Battle of the Wilderness to Good Article. It probably will not be ready until 2022, since it does not always get my highest priority. I e-mailed Hal J. nearly a year ago, and he is OK with me working on it. However, I still need to be careful with an article that gets 10,000 views per month and has been praised in an online editorial (in 2015). I plan to use Hal's maps as much as possible and drop some of the things that have probably been added over time, such as the entire "In popular culture" section and casualties table. Also, galleries are now frowned upon. I have hard copies of Rhea's and Gallagher's books, but want to make sure other sources are used too. Do you think it would be wise to have a few people from WikiProject Military history to look over the revised article in my sandbox (once it is ready) before it replaces the current article? It would not need to be a thorough review, but just make sure there is not something now out, or in, that causes "heartburn". TwoScars ( talk) 17:08, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello. I want to acknowledge that closing the Angola, Deleware Afd way too early was not a good idea [4]. Looking back on the whole thing it was somewhat disruptive behavior on my part.
I mean, when two editors come to my talk page, and one is an Admin, and they both tell me I am in error. And I am told, I need to revert my edit [5]. Well, that was the first clue that something was wrong. And I should have reverted as soon as I saw both your messages. My next mistake was allowing this error judgement to cause a DRV discussion.
I am embarrassed that I let such poor judgement cause a disruption. I am chalking it up to a learning experience and the fact I should have known better. I'm also reading up on this stuff again, such as WP:NACD, WP:INVOLVED and WP:DRV. I left the same message on User:Extraordinary Writ's talk page. --- Steve Quinn ( talk) 00:24, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello. Would you be able to review the article and give it another spotcheck? Thank you. LittleJerry ( talk) 12:07, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
From what I can see, both Jimtown, Delaware and Pinetown, Delaware are historic black communities. There's a passing congressional hearing statement to that effect for the first(not that such questioning can be considered in any way reliable), and it's baldly obvious with the second, though the news articles about the place seem to want to avoid saying that. And there's the problem: I can't get any history on either even though there has to be some. If you can find some time to expand either, I would really appreciate it. I wouldn't delete either, but I don't want to leave them as just "unincorporated communities". Mangoe ( talk) 03:01, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
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The Reviewers Award | |
By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this award in recognition of the thorough, detailed and actionable reviews you have carried out at FAC. This work is very much appreciated. Gog the Mild ( talk) 15:29, 6 August 2021 (UTC) |
I have started a discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_United_States#State-line-straddling_towns concerning dealing with two cases where towns straddle the MD-DE state line. Mangoe ( talk) 03:47, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
See discussion at Talk:Postal_village#Accuracy. And congratulations! Mangoe ( talk) 04:46, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
Nearly five days. I'm slipping
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Gog the Mild (
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I removed the PROD and added the image to the page where it belongs. I added a fair use rationale, which is something the original uploader should have done. Eastmain ( talk • contribs) 05:18, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi! I was wondering if you would be keen and have time to do a peer review for sustainable energy, which we are preparing for a FAC run. We have had two reviews so far, and will be done addressing those point in a weeks time. We'd like a final review to assess whether we've managed to explain the topic well to people less familiar with it, and whether the structure of the article makes sense. Thanks :). FemkeMilene ( talk) 08:53, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article
Henderson Hall Historic District you nominated for
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The article
Henderson Hall Historic District you nominated as a
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On 28 August 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article CSS Pickens, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that three high-ranking officers of USRC Robert McClelland remained with the ship after it surrendered and entered Confederate service? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/CSRC Pickens. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, CSS Pickens), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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The Copyright Cleanup Barnstar | |
It's been a while since you started pitching in at CCI, so this barnstar is way overdue. Thank you, Hog Farm, for helping us beat back the Backlog. – ♠Vami _IV†♠ 18:43, 29 August 2021 (UTC) |
| Hello, Hog Farm. This is a courtesy notice that the copy edit you requested for Great Lakes Storm of 1913 at the Guild of Copy Editors requests page is now complete. All feedback welcome! Cheers, Baffle☿gab 01:22, 31 August 2021 (UTC) |
Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 01:58, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi Hog Farm, hope all is well. Could I interest you in a source review of Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln/archive1? I'd imagine you're very busy, so please don't feel obligated if you don't have the time or interest. Cheers, Eddie891 Talk Work 13:51, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
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The Writer's Barnstar | |
On behalf of the Wikiproject Military History coordinators, I hereby award you the Writer's Barnstar for placing second in the August 2021 Military History Article Writing Contest with 36 points from 4 articles. Congratulations, Gog the Mild ( talk) 18:26, 1 September 2021 (UTC) |
The fourth round of the competition has finished with over 500 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants,
The Rambling Man and
Epicgenius, each scoring over 3000 points, and six contestants scoring over 1000. All but one of the finalists achieved one or more FAs during the round, the exception being
Bloom6132 who demonstrated that 61 "in the news" items produces an impressive number of points. Other contestants who made it to the final are
Gog the Mild,
Lee Vilenski,
BennyOnTheLoose,
Amakuru and
Hog Farm. However, all their points are now swept away and everyone starts afresh in the final round.
Round 4 saw the achievement of 18 featured articles and 157 good articles.
Bilorv scored for a 25-article good topic on
Black Mirror but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final round. There was enthusiasm for FARs, with 89 being performed, and there were 63 GARs and around 100 DYKs during the round. As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it to the final round; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For other contestants, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.
If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 13:01, 2 September 2021 (UTC)