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Hello! I nominated Li Rui for FA status, but the review is now at risk of being archived because there have not been many comments. Would you be willing to jump in and share your thoughts on the article? You previously were a reviewer for one of my other two FAs ( Mary Jane Richardson Jones), which I really appreciated. Thank you! — Ganesha811 ( talk) 14:11, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for such a thorough and thoroughly enjoyable GA Review! You are a phenomenal editor, and I appreciate you taking the time to so completely review such a long article. I intend to integrate any remaining FA-level changes you suggested, and perhaps one day, shepherd it on to that level. In the mean time, I appreciate all the help and education you provided. Best wishes! Cerebral726 ( talk) 13:05, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
Hey Mike. Since you have FAC experience, I was just wondering what kind of things I'd need to add, remove, etc. before I consider nominating Thanos. -- ZooBlazer talk 03:03, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
Hi. I can do some light cheerleading and stuff, but pleased be warned that I am a thin sliver of my former Gryphon self. The mere thought... and here I am not exaggerating... of the fetid slime I had to swim through in the past makes me feel as if earth's gravity had nearly doubled, and its skies are all grim and gray. § Lingzhi.Renascence ( talk) 01:05, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
I wanted to thank you for your comments on the Li Rui FA review. I appreciate your assistance in getting it to the state it's in today! — Ganesha811 ( talk) 14:48, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello! I hope you are having a good Easter. A few months ago, I wrote this article and I am considering nominating it for GA, but I'm not entirely sure if I should. I was wondering if you would mind having a quick skim of it to determine whether you think I should nominate it. I understand that this is not a necessary step in the GAN process, but I do not want to waste reviewers' time by nominating it only for it to be declined. If you can't quickly skim over the article, that is all good. As I said; I understand it is an extra step in the process. Thanks. - Therealscorp1an ( talk) 22:51, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
my story today |
Congratulatios, and thank you today for Science Fiction Monthly, introduced: "This article is about the first science fiction magazine I ever saw; you can blame Science Fiction Monthly for many of my previous magazine FAC submissions. It was an experiment in that it was focused on reprinting SF artwork, and the fiction was expected to be secondary. Many a teenager's bedroom was papered with the poster art from SF Monthly. It failed after a little over two years, so there's not a whole lot to say about it, but what there is, I believe, is here.! - Thank you also for doing the FAC stats! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:51, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
This is to let you know that the Science Fiction Monthly article has been scheduled as today's featured article for April 11, 2023. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page blurb, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 11, 2023, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1000 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so. If you wish to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article, you can do so at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/April 2023.
I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Feel free to change the image Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:08, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
I deeply appreciate the time you're taking to read through On Guard for Peace. It's my first GA nomination; I wasn't aware of the peer review process until last week and now have doubts about my nomination. I'm wondering whether I should withdraw and submit it there first. Any advice you can give me would be received with utmost gratitude. Thank you. — CurryTime7-24 ( talk) 20:11, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
ChristieBot seems insistent on adding duplicated guidelines to WP:GAN - any idea why? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 ( talk) 01:38, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
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Also, here's an editor's barnstar for your extensive contributions to our content review processes, including high-quality reviews at FAC and GA, and your work on the GA process with ChristieBot and, which has been nothing short of fantastic! Eddie891 Talk Work 02:58, 19 April 2023 (UTC) |
Hi Mike, hope all is well. Just curious about
your edit summary here. My reading of CONFORM is that it permits the brackets to indicate changed capitalizations (However, for more precision, the altered letter may be put inside square brackets: "The" → "[t]he".
) I don't really care either way, and am inclined to think it might look better without, but is there something there that suggests it should not be noted? Again, not upset or concerned, just curious. Cheers,
Eddie891
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Hello there, I hope you don't mind if I continue necessary discussions here from now. I have seen the suggestions you have made regarding some sources. So I will work on it now. And I will inform you on the talk page of Jamie Dornan if I am able to replace them with proper sources. I will do it as soon as I can. Have a good day. Fitzwilliams ( talk) 09:51, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
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Thanks for editing Kore Ilbo! I learned a lot during the process, both about writing and about Wikipedia 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Jacoblee628 ( talk) 18:11, 20 April 2023 (UTC) |
I am overjoyed to hear that you have chosen to help review my page on Trevor Carter. I have been a wikipedia editor for the past two years and this is the first time somebody has reviewed my page for GA-status. I look forward to hearing back from you in the future. The History Wizard of Cambridge ( talk) 22:39, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
Well, this was short and (for me) painless. Which came as a pleasant surprise: Although late last year I was flattering myself that my article was pretty good, this made me suppose that no, it would get a hammering. I hope reading and commenting on it didn't take too much of your time, and I apologize for its lack of any value whatever for Anglo-Saxon studies. -- Hoary ( talk) 01:42, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
GANs that are premature, even delusional, can indeed be depressing. ¶ A problem with "pictorialism" is that it's pretty close to "like a picture". Well, a picture by Vermeer, by Turner, by Watteau, by Magnasco? And what kind of similarity? Et cetera. ("Romanticism" and "decadence" are similarly meaningless.) ¶ Those comments of Buidhe's: I know I really should either reference or delete some of the footnotes. But rather than worry about FAs, I think that for now I'll limit my ambitions to GAs: for every hundred of these that Epicgenius has produced, I ought to be able to produce at least one. (I do have a third GAN in mind; again, the article has no Anglo-Saxon content.) -- Hoary ( talk) 04:02, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 14 June 2023. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 2023, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/June 2023. I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work!— Wehwalt ( talk) 12:44, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
I'm sorry I wasn't around, are you able to take another look and I'll respond to your review comments? It takes quite a while to get a reviewer so I was checking back in every once in a while... Princessa Unicorn ( talk) 00:19, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
"Thank you" doesn't nearly begin to convey how grateful I am for your patience and guidance in helping the On Guard for Peace article make it to GA. My very deepest gratitude to you for your work. — CurryTime7-24 ( talk) 20:22, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
Dear Mike, I was making a small tweak to the template of the above article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Whiteside when I happened to see it should not be a GA under any circumstances due to inadequate references. However, I'm not sure I've adjusted the Talk page correctly, if you could fix this as required? I hope this is no trouble. Thanks Billsmith60 ( talk) 20:28, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for restoring the page. I am the author of the changes, and of course it falls on me to agree with the other editor. However. I have the feeling that they are being disingenuous and would appreciate it if you would weigh in to me with your opinion. 134.106.109.104 ( talk) 16:47, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
Finished and passed! Really nice little article, perfect for WP. Thank you for sharing with me. :-) Jenhawk777 ( talk) 16:08, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 56, March – April 2023
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Hey. Many times in my wiki-life in the past, when I was unsure about something, I went to the Talk of GA or FA or various other processes or projects to ask a question. Every single time it left me feeling more than a little embarrassed. I am becoming (and have perhaps already become) profoundly allergic to doing so. So I come here humbly asking a question: Talk:History of the United States (1776–1789)/GA1. I am inclined to Fail it because there is no coverage of Native Americans or free blacks. The section on slavery is tiny and rushed. The whole article seems too Anglo-centric to me, and that's coming from me. I may not be who you might expect to feel that way. I'm a very cranky, just past-middle-aged and staring at "old" from close distance, pretty conservative white guy from a flyover state (and very proud of the latter, Kentucky Forever!). But 1) it is a summary-style, so that creates a lot of leeway for rushed coverage, and 2) as for the native Americans, it depends on one's definition of "United States". Is "United States" a geographical or political entity? Do you think it is legitimate to Fail this for the reason I gave? Thanks. § Lingzhi ( talk| check refs) 23:32, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
On 28 May 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Transgender history in Finland, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that records of transgender people in Finland stretch back to the 19th century? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Transgender history in Finland. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Transgender history in Finland), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.
Aoidh ( talk) 00:03, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
Dear Mike. You started reviewing the article Antoine Hamilton on 20 April 2023. You convinced me that it needed more citations. How could I have thought that this article was ready for GA? Perhaps I should have retracted the nomination. I could still do this if you prefer so, but I hope you are still ready to go, possibly after some delay. I very much like your style of reviewing. I feel the depth of your experience.
Today is the 30 May. It spent more than 5 weeks. The size increased from 2257 to 2974 words and the citations from 109 to 213. There are still gaps in the verifiability especially in the Works section, but I feel I should at least give you some news. I changed the citation style to be not only "shortened footnotes" but also "list-defined references". This should result in more readable code. I wondered whether you think it worthwhile. I still provide the footquotes you mentioned. Some reviewers have demanded I should drop them and merge all the citations referring to the same page.
I tried to equilibrate the article against those of his father (George, 1st baronet) and his siblings (James, George, Elizabeth, Richard, and John), reducing overlap, and moving details to these articles. I simplified dates, dropping days and months when such precision is needless. Some reviewers have found timeline tables needless. Please have a look at the improved article if you have the time. With many thanks and best regards, Johannes Schade ( talk) 13:46, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
Hello Mike,
Is the {{good article}} tag missing from this page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Fegelein
All the best Billsmith60 ( talk) 11:14, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
This is to let you know that the The Black Cat (US magazine) article has been scheduled as today's featured article for July 18, 2023. Please check the article needs no amendments. Thanks Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:18, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi! You expressed interest in reviewing Mars in fiction when it was at WP:Peer review ( WP:Peer review/Mars in fiction/archive1). It is now at WP:FAC, see WP:Featured article candidates/Mars in fiction/archive1, and that process has slowed down considerably in the last few weeks. Your input at the FAC would be very appreciated indeed. TompaDompa ( talk) 20:56, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
Mike Christie, i had two quick questions regarding this article and the associated blurb.
alternatively, if you are unsure about whether the magazine printed other types of stories, the following rewording is ambiguous on the issue.It printed action-adventure stories, focusing on fiction longer than Infinity's.
It focused on action-adventure stories that were longer than Infinity's.
dying ( talk) 07:43, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
Thank you today for the article, "about a minor science fiction magazine from the 1950s. It was never prominent, but it did publish material by some well-known writers, such as Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg"! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:49, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
On 16 June 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ramón Iribarren, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ramón Iribarren developed a formula for the stability of breakwater slopes under wave attack in 1938, but Francoist Spain restricted its dissemination? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ramón Iribarren. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Ramón Iribarren), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.
-- RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Daisy Bacon, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Detective Story.
( Opt-out instructions.) -- DPL bot ( talk) 06:02, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
Think you'd be great with one. Why not? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 ( talk) 10:19, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
2013 CECAFA Cup has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke ( talk) 21:07, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi Mike. I haven't done a GA review for a while, so this is the first review I've done since you took over from Legobot. I prefer to notify nominators myself about the review, and Legoktm did adjust Legobot for me, so that I could give personal messages rather than bot messages. Would you be able to do a similar adjustment on ChristieBot? SilkTork ( talk) 16:16, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
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With many thanks for your endless dedication to maintaining bots, producing statistics, and of course the reviews and content production. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 ( talk) 22:04, 21 June 2023 (UTC) |
The GAN review of 1964–1965 Scripto strike was opened and deleted as abandoned. In this edit, the GAN template was reset to remove the onreview parameter. The article is correctly listed as waiting for review in the main GAN list but it should also show up on the 10 oldest unreviewed nominations. Possibly the error is happening with the bot that updates WP:GAN/R as it is incorrectly listed there as well. ( t · c) buidhe 17:18, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Mike. I just had a question about a recent article that became a GA. Originally I co-nominated it because it ended up being two of us who cleaned it up to prep for the GAN. I was happy to just help address a couple things in the review if needed. However, the original reviewer apparently abandoned it almost immediately a month ago, and was pinged multiple times by me and the reviewer. I eventually just told the reviewer I'd take over and address the issues that were brought up.
Long story short, is it possible for me to get credit for the nomination even though I wasn't the original nominator since after giving the original nominator a month, I ended up doing 99% of the work? -- ZooBlazer talk 07:09, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
On 2 July 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Killing of Mitch Henriquez, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the killing of Mitch Henriquez led to four days of rioting in The Hague, prompting the police to announce a ban on public assemblies of more than three people? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Killing of Mitch Henriquez. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Killing of Mitch Henriquez), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Amakuru ( talk) 00:02, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
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Your hook reached 16,406 views (683.6 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of July 2023 – nice work! |
GalliumBot ( talk • contribs) (he/ it) 03:27, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi Mike. Gog would like to put this one up at TFA on August 17, unless there are objections. If you're interested in writing a blurb for it, just write whatever you want and I'll format it if necessary. If you prefer, I'll try doing the blurb myself. - Dank ( push to talk) 02:11, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 17 August 2023. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 17, 2023, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/August 2023. I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work. Gog the Mild ( talk) 20:59, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi Mike, looking at Wikipedia:Good article nominations, I see a few duplicated short descriptions (see for example, Airbus Beluga, 2023 Djerba shooting, Ida Hunt Udall. Is this a bug in your bot or a problem from elsewhere? — Kusma ( talk) 14:16, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
Mike, since we've just been chatting about another matter, perhaps it's a good moment to ask whether some other things might get counted in the GA stats. It's obviously a side-issue but it could still be significant.
One thing is participating at GAR, helping to save articles from being delisted. There are some at User:Chiswick Chap/Rescues (most recent at the end). These may be tricky to count as roles are flexible and there can be more than one person involved in a rescue.
Another thing is taking over as a GAN reviewer, when, as at Talk:Agriculture in Turkey/GA1, a reviewer becomes unavailable or drops out for some reason (in this case, two reviewers have gone, for different reasons). In this case I've just started, but have already done a substantial amount of work on the case. Again, I can see that calculating the stats could be tricky as there are multiple people involved; but it'd be nice to be credited where credit is due. All the best, Chiswick Chap ( talk) 16:20, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
Congratulations, and thank you today for The Black Cat (US magazine), "about an unusual and somewhat influential fiction magazine started at the end of the 19th century. It published many writers who later became famous -- Henry Miller's first sale was to The Black Cat, and it saved Jack London's career by buying a story from him just as he was about to give up writing. The covers were the work of the publisher's wife, Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter, who went on to have a minor career as an artist. It published science fiction and fantasy, but also just about every other kind of fiction."! - I have a Bach cantata and a saxophonist on the same page ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:12, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 57, May – June 2023
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --11:22, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi Mike, can you help on the above article, which has been nominated at GA? I was intending to review it, but instead put the cleanup tag. After getting a reply from the nominator, I'm not sure who is right (see User_talk:Amitchell125#DeepStateMap.Live_fixes). Am I going wrong somewhere? Regards, Amitchell125 ( talk) 06:34, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
Hey, if you have time in the coming months(?), would you be willing to do the GA review for Avengers (Marvel Cinematic Universe)? You did a great job and helped a lot on your review for Thanos a few months ago, and this is another important MCU article that's planned to be the main article in an eventual GT/FT. It's another tough one to write like Thanos was that might need the eye of someone who doesn't watch every MCU movie. There's no rush since I only nominated the article a couple days ago, but I figured I'd ask. -- ZooBlazer talk 07:14, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
On 23 July 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Leeds 13, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Leeds 13's attempt at staging a holiday at Leeds University Union's expense was taken literally by the British press? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Leeds 13. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Leeds 13), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.
RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
I need to send out signup reminders for the backlog drive that starts on August 1 and this list would be helpful to me. If you're busy I can get it another way. ( t · c) buidhe 01:25, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
OK, here's the list. It includes IPs, I'm afraid; hope that's not too tricky to remove. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 02:33, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
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Editor of the Week for the week beginning July 30, 2023 |
84 Featured Articles on science fiction magazines, prehistoric and Anglo-Saxon history plus all the reviews he does at FAC and the fabulous work he has done revamping ChristieBot at the Good Article process. 380 reviews at GAN. Editing since 2006 with 60000 edits. 663 reviews at FAC (174 of them in 2022) |
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Thanks again for your efforts! ― Buster7 ☎ 12:27, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
Thanks, all! This was a very pleasant surprise, and much appreciated! Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 15:48, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
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my story today |
Thank you today for Radiocarbon dating, introduced (in 2015): "Radiocarbon dating has revolutionized archaeology, and the invention of the method earned Willard F. Libby a Nobel Prize. I've been working on the article for over a year, and I think it's now ready to be nominated here. It's benefitted from a peer review, where several editors helped improve the article."! - My story today pictures a friend whose birthday is today ;) - at a fancy place where we listened to music she helped publishing. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 12:07, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi! You reviewed Venus in fiction when it was at WP:FAC last year ( Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Venus in fiction/archive1). It has now been nominated again, see Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Venus in fiction/archive2. If you are interested in weighing in on the new FAC, your input would be appreciated. TompaDompa ( talk) 00:41, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, the script I used at Daisy Bacon that suggested the (unwanted) changes that I made was User:Ohconfucius/script/formatgeneral. Congratulations on another Featured Article. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose ( talk) 19:27, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
Mike, I added an image to Thursday's TFA blurb but it looks like that image won't work. User:Dying has suggested two possible images, if you want to weigh in; the link is at WP:ERRORS. Thx. - Dank ( push to talk) 13:26, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
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Congratulations! Today, we thank you for Doc Savage (magazine), "about the magazine that started the Doc Savage franchise. Doc Savage never became as famous as The Shadow, but the magazine was very successful, lasting over 180 issues. It was mostly the work of one man, Lester Dent. As with most pulp fiction, the prose is poor, but Dent made up for the writing style by stuffing his stories full of enough plot elements to fill several novels. The franchise is alive to this day, but that's covered in Doc Savage; this article covers just the original magazine."! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 05:43, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
Today is Debussy's birthday. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:15, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
Hello Mike Christie. I have recently gone over all the points
you listed here on the GA review for Kylian Mbappé from September 2022. If you would be open to reviewing the article a second time, since you already had started the main work, I would highly appreciate it.
Side note: I didn't remove the BR Football sources because I disagree - there is no proof that it is inherently unreliable. It is widely used on Wikipedia, and is not a problem for factual information at all.
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Hello. Could you tell me if this bug is still happening? If not, thank you, and let me know, I will remove this note. Prhartcom ( talk) 11:22, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
Hey there, maybe I'm wrong but it looks like your Bot is a little broken, as it has stopped updating GA nominations since yesterday. Regards User23242343 ( talk) 16:39, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Mike. I am planning on running Asimov's Science Fiction as the TFA for 1 Novemeber. I wondered if you fancied doing the draft blurb? Cheers. Gog the Mild ( talk) 20:06, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi Mike, hope you're well. I've been working on " The Day Before the Revolution", and I'd like to add contemporary magazine reviews; but I'm really struggling to find some. ISFDB does not list any reviews for the major anthologies it was included it: [1], [2], [3]. I thought this rather odd; surely there must have been a couple of reviews? Any advice would be appreciated. Vanamonde ( Talk) 22:03, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Mike. Since you have reviewed Thwaites Glacier for me, and run the GA notification bot, I think it's only natural to ask you if there are any differences between nominating an article that has never been GA before, and an article which was a GA once, but then lost its status. I am looking to nominate global dimming, which was apparently a GA between 2007 and 2020, when it got delisted. Is there anything specific I would need to do or keep in mind? Cheers. InformationToKnowledge ( talk) 09:57, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
Hello Mike Christie, I wanted to let you know that I nominated the article Communication for featured article status, see Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Communication/archive1. So far, there has not been much response from reviewers. I was wondering whether you are inclined to have a look at it due to your interest in literature. If you have the time, I would appreciate your comments. Phlsph7 ( talk) 07:56, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi Mike, do you happen to know why the GA list pages are autocollapsed? ( Wikipedia:Good articles/Music) It's a bit annoying, and I don't remember them doing that before so I'm wondering if something changed in some backend. Best, CMD ( talk) 10:11, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
which indicates that something has been generated with the collapsed flag set to true, but I can't see what that is. Someone at
WP:VPT would probably be able to figure it out.
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Do you think it would be possible to add a rank column to User:GA bot/Stats like how Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by good article nominations has one? WikiOriginal-9 ( talk) 02:37, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi Mike, I've been working to expand The Wind's Twelve Quarters, as offshoot of my work on " The Day Before the Revolution"; many sources I read looking for material on the latter were more relevant to the former. I've never written about an anthology before, and am not confident in the way I've structured it; if you could offer any feedback, I'd much appreciate it. I'm targeting GA status only; I think the source material is too fragmentary to take this to FAC. Vanamonde ( Talk) 04:14, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
Greetings, not sure if I already asked this question. How did you find/select the sources when writing ice core? I tend towards the "brute-force" approach of checking every source that mentions a topic, but that clearly didn't happen here. Asking because I was thinking to apply the same treatment to speleothem Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk) 10:13, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
It's common for editors to mistakenly edit this page, not realizing that their changes will be overwritten by the bot. Besides causing confusion, these edits clog up editors' watch lists compared to adding notes in the GAN template and waiting for a bot run. I was thinking that it would require full or template protection to prevent the issue since it is commonly made by ecp editors. Do you think it would be a good idea to protect the page and get the necessary permissions for your bot? ( t · c) buidhe 17:47, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
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This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 1 November 2023. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 1, 2023, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/November 2023. I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work. Gog the Mild ( talk) 13:17, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Mike, I hope all is well. I've been drafting up the text for the two RFCs I'll put on FA shortly. As you're more skilled at these, and as you have a better grasp of the machinations of FA than I do, would you be able to have a look over them and make any changes or suggestions you think beneficial? The text is at User talk:SchroCat/littertray 3. Cheers - SchroCat ( talk) 12:58, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
I'd love to understand your reasoning behind thinking FAC is functioning fine, as it degenerates to a page where reviewers are repeatedly (three now) told to go fuck themselves up their ass. That seems a bit contradictory, but that could be because I don't speak the language.
More on topic. What I would think is patently obvious is that the decline in reviews is not only because of the alienation of old-timers, the refusal to respect the need for higher quality sourcing, the rudeness directed by Coords towards nominators and reviewers alike, but more relevant to me as opposed to others, is that if I can't even load the page to review as once did (go down the entire page, top-to-bottom) and enter the much-needed Opposes, how do we expect reviews not to decline? The last time we had a discussion of the instructions, and I told you they weren't clear and didn't say what y'all thought they said, I was ignored (now we have a new reviewer saying same). If I could understand your thinking on that simple aspect (declining because reviewers can't load the page), I might be able to see more than a dictatorial regime running the process, which pleases those who get their own stars, overall quality aside. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 16:35, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hello! I nominated Li Rui for FA status, but the review is now at risk of being archived because there have not been many comments. Would you be willing to jump in and share your thoughts on the article? You previously were a reviewer for one of my other two FAs ( Mary Jane Richardson Jones), which I really appreciated. Thank you! — Ganesha811 ( talk) 14:11, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for such a thorough and thoroughly enjoyable GA Review! You are a phenomenal editor, and I appreciate you taking the time to so completely review such a long article. I intend to integrate any remaining FA-level changes you suggested, and perhaps one day, shepherd it on to that level. In the mean time, I appreciate all the help and education you provided. Best wishes! Cerebral726 ( talk) 13:05, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
Hey Mike. Since you have FAC experience, I was just wondering what kind of things I'd need to add, remove, etc. before I consider nominating Thanos. -- ZooBlazer talk 03:03, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
Hi. I can do some light cheerleading and stuff, but pleased be warned that I am a thin sliver of my former Gryphon self. The mere thought... and here I am not exaggerating... of the fetid slime I had to swim through in the past makes me feel as if earth's gravity had nearly doubled, and its skies are all grim and gray. § Lingzhi.Renascence ( talk) 01:05, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
I wanted to thank you for your comments on the Li Rui FA review. I appreciate your assistance in getting it to the state it's in today! — Ganesha811 ( talk) 14:48, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello! I hope you are having a good Easter. A few months ago, I wrote this article and I am considering nominating it for GA, but I'm not entirely sure if I should. I was wondering if you would mind having a quick skim of it to determine whether you think I should nominate it. I understand that this is not a necessary step in the GAN process, but I do not want to waste reviewers' time by nominating it only for it to be declined. If you can't quickly skim over the article, that is all good. As I said; I understand it is an extra step in the process. Thanks. - Therealscorp1an ( talk) 22:51, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
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Congratulatios, and thank you today for Science Fiction Monthly, introduced: "This article is about the first science fiction magazine I ever saw; you can blame Science Fiction Monthly for many of my previous magazine FAC submissions. It was an experiment in that it was focused on reprinting SF artwork, and the fiction was expected to be secondary. Many a teenager's bedroom was papered with the poster art from SF Monthly. It failed after a little over two years, so there's not a whole lot to say about it, but what there is, I believe, is here.! - Thank you also for doing the FAC stats! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:51, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
This is to let you know that the Science Fiction Monthly article has been scheduled as today's featured article for April 11, 2023. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page blurb, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 11, 2023, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1000 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so. If you wish to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article, you can do so at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/April 2023.
I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Feel free to change the image Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:08, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
I deeply appreciate the time you're taking to read through On Guard for Peace. It's my first GA nomination; I wasn't aware of the peer review process until last week and now have doubts about my nomination. I'm wondering whether I should withdraw and submit it there first. Any advice you can give me would be received with utmost gratitude. Thank you. — CurryTime7-24 ( talk) 20:11, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
ChristieBot seems insistent on adding duplicated guidelines to WP:GAN - any idea why? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 ( talk) 01:38, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
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Also, here's an editor's barnstar for your extensive contributions to our content review processes, including high-quality reviews at FAC and GA, and your work on the GA process with ChristieBot and, which has been nothing short of fantastic! Eddie891 Talk Work 02:58, 19 April 2023 (UTC) |
Hi Mike, hope all is well. Just curious about
your edit summary here. My reading of CONFORM is that it permits the brackets to indicate changed capitalizations (However, for more precision, the altered letter may be put inside square brackets: "The" → "[t]he".
) I don't really care either way, and am inclined to think it might look better without, but is there something there that suggests it should not be noted? Again, not upset or concerned, just curious. Cheers,
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Hello there, I hope you don't mind if I continue necessary discussions here from now. I have seen the suggestions you have made regarding some sources. So I will work on it now. And I will inform you on the talk page of Jamie Dornan if I am able to replace them with proper sources. I will do it as soon as I can. Have a good day. Fitzwilliams ( talk) 09:51, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
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Thanks for editing Kore Ilbo! I learned a lot during the process, both about writing and about Wikipedia 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Jacoblee628 ( talk) 18:11, 20 April 2023 (UTC) |
I am overjoyed to hear that you have chosen to help review my page on Trevor Carter. I have been a wikipedia editor for the past two years and this is the first time somebody has reviewed my page for GA-status. I look forward to hearing back from you in the future. The History Wizard of Cambridge ( talk) 22:39, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
Well, this was short and (for me) painless. Which came as a pleasant surprise: Although late last year I was flattering myself that my article was pretty good, this made me suppose that no, it would get a hammering. I hope reading and commenting on it didn't take too much of your time, and I apologize for its lack of any value whatever for Anglo-Saxon studies. -- Hoary ( talk) 01:42, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
GANs that are premature, even delusional, can indeed be depressing. ¶ A problem with "pictorialism" is that it's pretty close to "like a picture". Well, a picture by Vermeer, by Turner, by Watteau, by Magnasco? And what kind of similarity? Et cetera. ("Romanticism" and "decadence" are similarly meaningless.) ¶ Those comments of Buidhe's: I know I really should either reference or delete some of the footnotes. But rather than worry about FAs, I think that for now I'll limit my ambitions to GAs: for every hundred of these that Epicgenius has produced, I ought to be able to produce at least one. (I do have a third GAN in mind; again, the article has no Anglo-Saxon content.) -- Hoary ( talk) 04:02, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 14 June 2023. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 2023, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/June 2023. I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work!— Wehwalt ( talk) 12:44, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
I'm sorry I wasn't around, are you able to take another look and I'll respond to your review comments? It takes quite a while to get a reviewer so I was checking back in every once in a while... Princessa Unicorn ( talk) 00:19, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
"Thank you" doesn't nearly begin to convey how grateful I am for your patience and guidance in helping the On Guard for Peace article make it to GA. My very deepest gratitude to you for your work. — CurryTime7-24 ( talk) 20:22, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
Dear Mike, I was making a small tweak to the template of the above article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Whiteside when I happened to see it should not be a GA under any circumstances due to inadequate references. However, I'm not sure I've adjusted the Talk page correctly, if you could fix this as required? I hope this is no trouble. Thanks Billsmith60 ( talk) 20:28, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for restoring the page. I am the author of the changes, and of course it falls on me to agree with the other editor. However. I have the feeling that they are being disingenuous and would appreciate it if you would weigh in to me with your opinion. 134.106.109.104 ( talk) 16:47, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
Finished and passed! Really nice little article, perfect for WP. Thank you for sharing with me. :-) Jenhawk777 ( talk) 16:08, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
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Hey. Many times in my wiki-life in the past, when I was unsure about something, I went to the Talk of GA or FA or various other processes or projects to ask a question. Every single time it left me feeling more than a little embarrassed. I am becoming (and have perhaps already become) profoundly allergic to doing so. So I come here humbly asking a question: Talk:History of the United States (1776–1789)/GA1. I am inclined to Fail it because there is no coverage of Native Americans or free blacks. The section on slavery is tiny and rushed. The whole article seems too Anglo-centric to me, and that's coming from me. I may not be who you might expect to feel that way. I'm a very cranky, just past-middle-aged and staring at "old" from close distance, pretty conservative white guy from a flyover state (and very proud of the latter, Kentucky Forever!). But 1) it is a summary-style, so that creates a lot of leeway for rushed coverage, and 2) as for the native Americans, it depends on one's definition of "United States". Is "United States" a geographical or political entity? Do you think it is legitimate to Fail this for the reason I gave? Thanks. § Lingzhi ( talk| check refs) 23:32, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
On 28 May 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Transgender history in Finland, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that records of transgender people in Finland stretch back to the 19th century? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Transgender history in Finland. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Transgender history in Finland), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.
Aoidh ( talk) 00:03, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
Dear Mike. You started reviewing the article Antoine Hamilton on 20 April 2023. You convinced me that it needed more citations. How could I have thought that this article was ready for GA? Perhaps I should have retracted the nomination. I could still do this if you prefer so, but I hope you are still ready to go, possibly after some delay. I very much like your style of reviewing. I feel the depth of your experience.
Today is the 30 May. It spent more than 5 weeks. The size increased from 2257 to 2974 words and the citations from 109 to 213. There are still gaps in the verifiability especially in the Works section, but I feel I should at least give you some news. I changed the citation style to be not only "shortened footnotes" but also "list-defined references". This should result in more readable code. I wondered whether you think it worthwhile. I still provide the footquotes you mentioned. Some reviewers have demanded I should drop them and merge all the citations referring to the same page.
I tried to equilibrate the article against those of his father (George, 1st baronet) and his siblings (James, George, Elizabeth, Richard, and John), reducing overlap, and moving details to these articles. I simplified dates, dropping days and months when such precision is needless. Some reviewers have found timeline tables needless. Please have a look at the improved article if you have the time. With many thanks and best regards, Johannes Schade ( talk) 13:46, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
Hello Mike,
Is the {{good article}} tag missing from this page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Fegelein
All the best Billsmith60 ( talk) 11:14, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
This is to let you know that the The Black Cat (US magazine) article has been scheduled as today's featured article for July 18, 2023. Please check the article needs no amendments. Thanks Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:18, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi! You expressed interest in reviewing Mars in fiction when it was at WP:Peer review ( WP:Peer review/Mars in fiction/archive1). It is now at WP:FAC, see WP:Featured article candidates/Mars in fiction/archive1, and that process has slowed down considerably in the last few weeks. Your input at the FAC would be very appreciated indeed. TompaDompa ( talk) 20:56, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
Mike Christie, i had two quick questions regarding this article and the associated blurb.
alternatively, if you are unsure about whether the magazine printed other types of stories, the following rewording is ambiguous on the issue.It printed action-adventure stories, focusing on fiction longer than Infinity's.
It focused on action-adventure stories that were longer than Infinity's.
dying ( talk) 07:43, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
Thank you today for the article, "about a minor science fiction magazine from the 1950s. It was never prominent, but it did publish material by some well-known writers, such as Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg"! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 13:49, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
On 16 June 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ramón Iribarren, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ramón Iribarren developed a formula for the stability of breakwater slopes under wave attack in 1938, but Francoist Spain restricted its dissemination? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ramón Iribarren. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Ramón Iribarren), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.
-- RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
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Think you'd be great with one. Why not? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 ( talk) 10:19, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
2013 CECAFA Cup has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke ( talk) 21:07, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi Mike. I haven't done a GA review for a while, so this is the first review I've done since you took over from Legobot. I prefer to notify nominators myself about the review, and Legoktm did adjust Legobot for me, so that I could give personal messages rather than bot messages. Would you be able to do a similar adjustment on ChristieBot? SilkTork ( talk) 16:16, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
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With many thanks for your endless dedication to maintaining bots, producing statistics, and of course the reviews and content production. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 ( talk) 22:04, 21 June 2023 (UTC) |
The GAN review of 1964–1965 Scripto strike was opened and deleted as abandoned. In this edit, the GAN template was reset to remove the onreview parameter. The article is correctly listed as waiting for review in the main GAN list but it should also show up on the 10 oldest unreviewed nominations. Possibly the error is happening with the bot that updates WP:GAN/R as it is incorrectly listed there as well. ( t · c) buidhe 17:18, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Mike. I just had a question about a recent article that became a GA. Originally I co-nominated it because it ended up being two of us who cleaned it up to prep for the GAN. I was happy to just help address a couple things in the review if needed. However, the original reviewer apparently abandoned it almost immediately a month ago, and was pinged multiple times by me and the reviewer. I eventually just told the reviewer I'd take over and address the issues that were brought up.
Long story short, is it possible for me to get credit for the nomination even though I wasn't the original nominator since after giving the original nominator a month, I ended up doing 99% of the work? -- ZooBlazer talk 07:09, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
On 2 July 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Killing of Mitch Henriquez, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the killing of Mitch Henriquez led to four days of rioting in The Hague, prompting the police to announce a ban on public assemblies of more than three people? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Killing of Mitch Henriquez. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Killing of Mitch Henriquez), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Amakuru ( talk) 00:02, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
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GalliumBot ( talk • contribs) (he/ it) 03:27, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi Mike. Gog would like to put this one up at TFA on August 17, unless there are objections. If you're interested in writing a blurb for it, just write whatever you want and I'll format it if necessary. If you prefer, I'll try doing the blurb myself. - Dank ( push to talk) 02:11, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 17 August 2023. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 17, 2023, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/August 2023. I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work. Gog the Mild ( talk) 20:59, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi Mike, looking at Wikipedia:Good article nominations, I see a few duplicated short descriptions (see for example, Airbus Beluga, 2023 Djerba shooting, Ida Hunt Udall. Is this a bug in your bot or a problem from elsewhere? — Kusma ( talk) 14:16, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
Mike, since we've just been chatting about another matter, perhaps it's a good moment to ask whether some other things might get counted in the GA stats. It's obviously a side-issue but it could still be significant.
One thing is participating at GAR, helping to save articles from being delisted. There are some at User:Chiswick Chap/Rescues (most recent at the end). These may be tricky to count as roles are flexible and there can be more than one person involved in a rescue.
Another thing is taking over as a GAN reviewer, when, as at Talk:Agriculture in Turkey/GA1, a reviewer becomes unavailable or drops out for some reason (in this case, two reviewers have gone, for different reasons). In this case I've just started, but have already done a substantial amount of work on the case. Again, I can see that calculating the stats could be tricky as there are multiple people involved; but it'd be nice to be credited where credit is due. All the best, Chiswick Chap ( talk) 16:20, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
Congratulations, and thank you today for The Black Cat (US magazine), "about an unusual and somewhat influential fiction magazine started at the end of the 19th century. It published many writers who later became famous -- Henry Miller's first sale was to The Black Cat, and it saved Jack London's career by buying a story from him just as he was about to give up writing. The covers were the work of the publisher's wife, Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter, who went on to have a minor career as an artist. It published science fiction and fantasy, but also just about every other kind of fiction."! - I have a Bach cantata and a saxophonist on the same page ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:12, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
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Hi Mike, can you help on the above article, which has been nominated at GA? I was intending to review it, but instead put the cleanup tag. After getting a reply from the nominator, I'm not sure who is right (see User_talk:Amitchell125#DeepStateMap.Live_fixes). Am I going wrong somewhere? Regards, Amitchell125 ( talk) 06:34, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
Hey, if you have time in the coming months(?), would you be willing to do the GA review for Avengers (Marvel Cinematic Universe)? You did a great job and helped a lot on your review for Thanos a few months ago, and this is another important MCU article that's planned to be the main article in an eventual GT/FT. It's another tough one to write like Thanos was that might need the eye of someone who doesn't watch every MCU movie. There's no rush since I only nominated the article a couple days ago, but I figured I'd ask. -- ZooBlazer talk 07:14, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
On 23 July 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Leeds 13, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Leeds 13's attempt at staging a holiday at Leeds University Union's expense was taken literally by the British press? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Leeds 13. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Leeds 13), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.
RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
I need to send out signup reminders for the backlog drive that starts on August 1 and this list would be helpful to me. If you're busy I can get it another way. ( t · c) buidhe 01:25, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
OK, here's the list. It includes IPs, I'm afraid; hope that's not too tricky to remove. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 02:33, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
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Thank you today for Radiocarbon dating, introduced (in 2015): "Radiocarbon dating has revolutionized archaeology, and the invention of the method earned Willard F. Libby a Nobel Prize. I've been working on the article for over a year, and I think it's now ready to be nominated here. It's benefitted from a peer review, where several editors helped improve the article."! - My story today pictures a friend whose birthday is today ;) - at a fancy place where we listened to music she helped publishing. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 12:07, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi! You reviewed Venus in fiction when it was at WP:FAC last year ( Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Venus in fiction/archive1). It has now been nominated again, see Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Venus in fiction/archive2. If you are interested in weighing in on the new FAC, your input would be appreciated. TompaDompa ( talk) 00:41, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, the script I used at Daisy Bacon that suggested the (unwanted) changes that I made was User:Ohconfucius/script/formatgeneral. Congratulations on another Featured Article. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose ( talk) 19:27, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
Mike, I added an image to Thursday's TFA blurb but it looks like that image won't work. User:Dying has suggested two possible images, if you want to weigh in; the link is at WP:ERRORS. Thx. - Dank ( push to talk) 13:26, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
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Congratulations! Today, we thank you for Doc Savage (magazine), "about the magazine that started the Doc Savage franchise. Doc Savage never became as famous as The Shadow, but the magazine was very successful, lasting over 180 issues. It was mostly the work of one man, Lester Dent. As with most pulp fiction, the prose is poor, but Dent made up for the writing style by stuffing his stories full of enough plot elements to fill several novels. The franchise is alive to this day, but that's covered in Doc Savage; this article covers just the original magazine."! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 05:43, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
Today is Debussy's birthday. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:15, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
Hello Mike Christie. I have recently gone over all the points
you listed here on the GA review for Kylian Mbappé from September 2022. If you would be open to reviewing the article a second time, since you already had started the main work, I would highly appreciate it.
Side note: I didn't remove the BR Football sources because I disagree - there is no proof that it is inherently unreliable. It is widely used on Wikipedia, and is not a problem for factual information at all.
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Hello. Could you tell me if this bug is still happening? If not, thank you, and let me know, I will remove this note. Prhartcom ( talk) 11:22, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
Hey there, maybe I'm wrong but it looks like your Bot is a little broken, as it has stopped updating GA nominations since yesterday. Regards User23242343 ( talk) 16:39, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Argosy (magazine), you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Argosy.
( Opt-out instructions.) -- DPL bot ( talk) 06:24, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi Mike. I am planning on running Asimov's Science Fiction as the TFA for 1 Novemeber. I wondered if you fancied doing the draft blurb? Cheers. Gog the Mild ( talk) 20:06, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi Mike, hope you're well. I've been working on " The Day Before the Revolution", and I'd like to add contemporary magazine reviews; but I'm really struggling to find some. ISFDB does not list any reviews for the major anthologies it was included it: [1], [2], [3]. I thought this rather odd; surely there must have been a couple of reviews? Any advice would be appreciated. Vanamonde ( Talk) 22:03, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Mike. Since you have reviewed Thwaites Glacier for me, and run the GA notification bot, I think it's only natural to ask you if there are any differences between nominating an article that has never been GA before, and an article which was a GA once, but then lost its status. I am looking to nominate global dimming, which was apparently a GA between 2007 and 2020, when it got delisted. Is there anything specific I would need to do or keep in mind? Cheers. InformationToKnowledge ( talk) 09:57, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
Hello Mike Christie, I wanted to let you know that I nominated the article Communication for featured article status, see Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Communication/archive1. So far, there has not been much response from reviewers. I was wondering whether you are inclined to have a look at it due to your interest in literature. If you have the time, I would appreciate your comments. Phlsph7 ( talk) 07:56, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi Mike, do you happen to know why the GA list pages are autocollapsed? ( Wikipedia:Good articles/Music) It's a bit annoying, and I don't remember them doing that before so I'm wondering if something changed in some backend. Best, CMD ( talk) 10:11, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
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which indicates that something has been generated with the collapsed flag set to true, but I can't see what that is. Someone at
WP:VPT would probably be able to figure it out.
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Do you think it would be possible to add a rank column to User:GA bot/Stats like how Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by good article nominations has one? WikiOriginal-9 ( talk) 02:37, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi Mike, I've been working to expand The Wind's Twelve Quarters, as offshoot of my work on " The Day Before the Revolution"; many sources I read looking for material on the latter were more relevant to the former. I've never written about an anthology before, and am not confident in the way I've structured it; if you could offer any feedback, I'd much appreciate it. I'm targeting GA status only; I think the source material is too fragmentary to take this to FAC. Vanamonde ( Talk) 04:14, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
Greetings, not sure if I already asked this question. How did you find/select the sources when writing ice core? I tend towards the "brute-force" approach of checking every source that mentions a topic, but that clearly didn't happen here. Asking because I was thinking to apply the same treatment to speleothem Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk) 10:13, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
It's common for editors to mistakenly edit this page, not realizing that their changes will be overwritten by the bot. Besides causing confusion, these edits clog up editors' watch lists compared to adding notes in the GAN template and waiting for a bot run. I was thinking that it would require full or template protection to prevent the issue since it is commonly made by ecp editors. Do you think it would be a good idea to protect the page and get the necessary permissions for your bot? ( t · c) buidhe 17:47, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
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This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 1 November 2023. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 1, 2023, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/November 2023. I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work. Gog the Mild ( talk) 13:17, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Mike, I hope all is well. I've been drafting up the text for the two RFCs I'll put on FA shortly. As you're more skilled at these, and as you have a better grasp of the machinations of FA than I do, would you be able to have a look over them and make any changes or suggestions you think beneficial? The text is at User talk:SchroCat/littertray 3. Cheers - SchroCat ( talk) 12:58, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
I'd love to understand your reasoning behind thinking FAC is functioning fine, as it degenerates to a page where reviewers are repeatedly (three now) told to go fuck themselves up their ass. That seems a bit contradictory, but that could be because I don't speak the language.
More on topic. What I would think is patently obvious is that the decline in reviews is not only because of the alienation of old-timers, the refusal to respect the need for higher quality sourcing, the rudeness directed by Coords towards nominators and reviewers alike, but more relevant to me as opposed to others, is that if I can't even load the page to review as once did (go down the entire page, top-to-bottom) and enter the much-needed Opposes, how do we expect reviews not to decline? The last time we had a discussion of the instructions, and I told you they weren't clear and didn't say what y'all thought they said, I was ignored (now we have a new reviewer saying same). If I could understand your thinking on that simple aspect (declining because reviewers can't load the page), I might be able to see more than a dictatorial regime running the process, which pleases those who get their own stars, overall quality aside. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 16:35, 10 November 2023 (UTC)