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Hey PresN! Just wanted to ask: are you aware of any print sources (books, magazine articles) discussing Duke Nukem 3D's development that would be essential for the Duke Nukem 3D article? I'm planning to begin a rewrite and have gathered online sources, but the early history of FPSs is a subject that I'm not terribly familiar with, and since you've written about early FPSs I just wanted to ask. JOE BRO 64 11:03, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
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Hello PresN, welcome back from your three week break. It's good to see you back. Anyways, I'm writing to you as recently I was given advice to seek out an FA mentor for my first FA nomination and saw you were listed as one of them. The article in question is Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash, which I have just recently closed the peer review form for. Currently, I haven't nominated the article but plan to once it has copy edited, which hopefully shall be done within a few days. Would you be willing to help mentor me if possible? Captain Galaxy 16:02, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
Hello again, I think I am ready to submit the article as an FAC, thank you for the advice by the way. But before I do that, I am asking if you would be able to briefly check the article over again as the copy edit was completed not that long ago. Hopefully that, alongside my own adjustments, helped satisfy your requirements you listed above. Thanks. Captain Galaxy 12:13, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
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T130439)I have nominated Magnavox Odyssey as today's featured article for a non-specific date in September. Please join the discussion by clicking here. Z1720 ( talk) 16:49, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
Hi, PresN. I'm just posting to let you know that List of artiodactyls – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for August 12. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 ( Talk) 00:37, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
Hi PresN, hope you're doing well and sorry to bother you! If you have a moment, would you be able to take a look at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine/archive2? I'm struggling to find reviewers unfortunately. Anarchyte ( talk) 05:05, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
Hello. Thank you for dealing with the candidacy. I'll admit that I'm pretty happy the page was promoted to featured list. Having said that, are you sure about this decision? At the end of the day, it only got two supports and a third interaction that didn't really go anywhere. Is just two supports for a FLC good enough? PanagiotisZois ( talk) 14:53, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
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As far as I can see although small it does appear to have coverage, I'm not sure a merge was a good idea? Crouch, Swale ( talk) 16:08, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
Hi PresN,
where can I find the consensus to delete the individual Zork articles in favour of the overview article?
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Hello! Thanks for your work on the Zork article. Overall it seems accurate as far as I can see from files on backup tapes and conversations with the Zork authors. I have some points for your consideration:
Lars Brinkhoff ( talk) 19:07, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
"Following user requests, they also added the ability for the game to run on other PDP-10 computers running different operating systems, TENEX and TOPS-20.", but I guess it doesn't make it clear (as the source does) that TENEX/TOPS-20 was more popular than ITS (which... I also didn't namedrop as being the operating system). -- Pres N 20:15, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
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hello, PresN! i had a quick question regarding this article and the associated blurb. is the magnavox odyssey 2 generally not considered to be a part of the odyssey series? the article on the series currently includes the odyssey 2, so i had thought that it would be more appropriate to use "including" instead of "as well as" in the blurb (and in the article lead), since i feel that the use of "as well as" would suggest that the odyssey 2 was separate from the odyssey series. however, i then noticed that your edit of the tfa/r nomination had replaced "including" with "as well as", so i wanted to understand your reasoning before i did anything stupid.
speaking of me being stupid, i don't think i had realized how light guns worked until i read this article. i suppose i always thought the technology was too complex for me to easily understand, so i was rather surprised when it was clearly explained to me in one sentence. dying ( talk) 07:18, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
Thank you today for the article, introduced (in 2020): "Third in a series of early video game FACs (Spacewar!, Computer Space), here we have the Odyssey, the first video game console. Released in 1972 after 6 years of development and 21 years after Ralph Baer first had the idea, it had the good fortune to come out not only the year after Computer Space proved arcade video games could be a thing, but only a couple months before Pong, allowing for a mutual sales growth for both of them due to how similar Pong and the Odyssey's Table Tennis were. Though, as 20 years and US$100 million of lawsuits in Magnavox's favor proved, that wasn't exactly a coincidence. Calling one of Baer's patents for the console "the pioneering patent of the video game art", as a judge did, is frankly pushing it, and calling him the father of video games requires ignoring a lot of earlier video game history, but it's safe to say that his work on the Odyssey launched the entire concept of video games in the home before any other company had even considered the idea. It draws a line and three dots, and not much else, but the Odyssey is one of the first parts of the multi-billion dollar video game industry."! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:02, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
The FACBot reported an error: an invalid status "promtoed". Another editor tried to correct it [1] but that doesn't work because they are not a FLC coordinator. One of you needs to roll that erdit back and re-apply the change. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:17, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
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I was wondering if you would like to provide a review for Lumines: Puzzle Fusion's FAC. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 23:56, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice. I just wished to know if the article has any flaws now, or if it is free of them. Atlantis77177 ( talk) 15:45, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
Do respond when u r free. Greetings.-- Atlantis77177 ( talk) 04:52, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
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I'm having issues adding row scopes to the larger table on List of National Football League annual receptions leaders, specifically with the cells that span multiple rows. Any tips? Newtothisedit ( talk) 15:27, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
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Any thoughts you might have on this work-in-progress before I nominate it would be appreciated. I think you'll enjoy the yoked rows that move in tandem when columns are sorted. - Dank ( push to talk) 23:37, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
Here's a question we haven't had to think about a lot at FLC because we don't usually have double rows. I'm working on List of commelinid families now. User:Johnboddie pointed out that, with that layout, it would be very easy for a reader to make the mistake of thinking that the first image is Bromelia, the second is Poales, etc., because those are the words in the next row, right beneath the pictures. I could fix this by giving every image a caption, but that would be incredibly repetitive. One possible fix is at User:Dank/Sandbox/9, where I've added a solid black line beneath the first row of images. Another approach would be to move the images so they appear above "Olof Bromelius (1639–1705), Swedish doctor and botanist" rather than appearing right above "Bromelia", "Poales", etc. ... doable but tricky. Do you have a preference? - Dank ( push to talk) 16:44, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
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On 8 November 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Zork, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that one scholar compared the importance of Zork to that of Homer's Iliad? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Zork. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Zork), 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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Hi, PresN. I'm just posting to let you know that List of Lionhead Studios games – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for December 12. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 ( Talk) 02:29, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
Excuse me Pres. Could you help out taking care of someone insulting me through an edit summary? I don't appreciate how this user has been treating me and this edit doesn't help either. GamerPro64 05:20, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
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Greetings. I'm always amazed when I *speak* to another editor for the first time, so hello. This isn't a big thing, but I never like taking credit for something I didn't do. You added several new articles on this page list, and attributed the creation of one, List of years in video games, to me. However, I simply reverted an edit I had made, changing the list to a redirect. User:Thebiguglyalien, really created the list out of a redirect earlier that day. Regardless, thank you for all you do on the project. Onel5969 TT me 15:01, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
How's the planned summary for Zork here? Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 20:34, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
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I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:15, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
This is to let you know that the Zork article has been scheduled as today's featured article for January 13, 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/January 13, 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/January 2023.
I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:29, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
Thank you today for the article, introduced:"Earlier this year, I brought Colossal Cave Adventure through FAC, as the ur-example and namesake of an adventure game. But despite it being first, the "father of the genre" isn't Adventure—it's Zork, the oddly named game first released in 1977 that truly launched the interactive fiction/text adventure genre in the early 80s and showed the exploding computer game community that video games contain a complex world and not just action. Zork got lucky with its timing, as not every game sells 100 times as much in its 3rd year than its first due to market expansion, but from the imaginations of four guys at MIT you can draw a straight line through to any modern game that features exploration and puzzle solving."! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:21, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
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Sorry, I've forgotten ... which works better if I have to change the list name, changing it now or waiting until the FLC concludes? (I'm changing it to
List of commelinid family names with etymologies, reasoning is in the intro at
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Replying to your note at the (now closed) nomination: (and also pinging Elizabeth): 1. On the longer vs. the shorter list name: I've discussed the pros and cons on Elizabeth's talk page. I'm happy to go with whatever you two prefer, and damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead. 2. You have a preference, I think, for me to re-add the genus numbers. I have no objection ... but many of my genus numbers are already "wrong" (according to my source for them, POWO), only a month or two after I first looked them up. The problem is that they change their minds a lot, especially when it comes to numbers ... but POWO is the best we've got, and the source that WP:PLANTS is most likely to rely on for these things. Elizabeth is working on the list of campanulids now, and odds are she'll get that up at FLC before I get another family list up. If Elizabeth decides to include genus numbers, and if the genus numbers change during the nomination, let's see how people feel about that and take another look at the issue. 3. Re: "Images for a member of the type genus": done, for all 3 lists. - Dank ( push to talk) 20:34, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
Per discussion at WT:PLANTS, and here, etc., I'm changing the list names now to "List of X families". - Dank ( push to talk) 00:42, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
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Hey PresN! Just wanted to ask: are you aware of any print sources (books, magazine articles) discussing Duke Nukem 3D's development that would be essential for the Duke Nukem 3D article? I'm planning to begin a rewrite and have gathered online sources, but the early history of FPSs is a subject that I'm not terribly familiar with, and since you've written about early FPSs I just wanted to ask. JOE BRO 64 11:03, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
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Hello PresN, welcome back from your three week break. It's good to see you back. Anyways, I'm writing to you as recently I was given advice to seek out an FA mentor for my first FA nomination and saw you were listed as one of them. The article in question is Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash, which I have just recently closed the peer review form for. Currently, I haven't nominated the article but plan to once it has copy edited, which hopefully shall be done within a few days. Would you be willing to help mentor me if possible? Captain Galaxy 16:02, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
Hello again, I think I am ready to submit the article as an FAC, thank you for the advice by the way. But before I do that, I am asking if you would be able to briefly check the article over again as the copy edit was completed not that long ago. Hopefully that, alongside my own adjustments, helped satisfy your requirements you listed above. Thanks. Captain Galaxy 12:13, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
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T130439)I have nominated Magnavox Odyssey as today's featured article for a non-specific date in September. Please join the discussion by clicking here. Z1720 ( talk) 16:49, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
Hi, PresN. I'm just posting to let you know that List of artiodactyls – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for August 12. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 ( Talk) 00:37, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
Hi PresN, hope you're doing well and sorry to bother you! If you have a moment, would you be able to take a look at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine/archive2? I'm struggling to find reviewers unfortunately. Anarchyte ( talk) 05:05, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
Hello. Thank you for dealing with the candidacy. I'll admit that I'm pretty happy the page was promoted to featured list. Having said that, are you sure about this decision? At the end of the day, it only got two supports and a third interaction that didn't really go anywhere. Is just two supports for a FLC good enough? PanagiotisZois ( talk) 14:53, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
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As far as I can see although small it does appear to have coverage, I'm not sure a merge was a good idea? Crouch, Swale ( talk) 16:08, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
Hi PresN,
where can I find the consensus to delete the individual Zork articles in favour of the overview article?
Thanks and kind regards,
Grueslayer
05:39, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
Hello! Thanks for your work on the Zork article. Overall it seems accurate as far as I can see from files on backup tapes and conversations with the Zork authors. I have some points for your consideration:
Lars Brinkhoff ( talk) 19:07, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
"Following user requests, they also added the ability for the game to run on other PDP-10 computers running different operating systems, TENEX and TOPS-20.", but I guess it doesn't make it clear (as the source does) that TENEX/TOPS-20 was more popular than ITS (which... I also didn't namedrop as being the operating system). -- Pres N 20:15, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
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The fourth round of the WikiCup has now finished. 383 points were required to reach the final, and the new round has got off to a flying start with all finalists already scoring. In round 4, Bloom6132 with 939 points was the highest points-scorer, with a combination of DYKs and In the news items, followed by BennyOnTheLoose, Sammi Brie and Lee Vilenski. The points of all contestants are swept away as we start afresh for the final round.
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hello, PresN! i had a quick question regarding this article and the associated blurb. is the magnavox odyssey 2 generally not considered to be a part of the odyssey series? the article on the series currently includes the odyssey 2, so i had thought that it would be more appropriate to use "including" instead of "as well as" in the blurb (and in the article lead), since i feel that the use of "as well as" would suggest that the odyssey 2 was separate from the odyssey series. however, i then noticed that your edit of the tfa/r nomination had replaced "including" with "as well as", so i wanted to understand your reasoning before i did anything stupid.
speaking of me being stupid, i don't think i had realized how light guns worked until i read this article. i suppose i always thought the technology was too complex for me to easily understand, so i was rather surprised when it was clearly explained to me in one sentence. dying ( talk) 07:18, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
Thank you today for the article, introduced (in 2020): "Third in a series of early video game FACs (Spacewar!, Computer Space), here we have the Odyssey, the first video game console. Released in 1972 after 6 years of development and 21 years after Ralph Baer first had the idea, it had the good fortune to come out not only the year after Computer Space proved arcade video games could be a thing, but only a couple months before Pong, allowing for a mutual sales growth for both of them due to how similar Pong and the Odyssey's Table Tennis were. Though, as 20 years and US$100 million of lawsuits in Magnavox's favor proved, that wasn't exactly a coincidence. Calling one of Baer's patents for the console "the pioneering patent of the video game art", as a judge did, is frankly pushing it, and calling him the father of video games requires ignoring a lot of earlier video game history, but it's safe to say that his work on the Odyssey launched the entire concept of video games in the home before any other company had even considered the idea. It draws a line and three dots, and not much else, but the Odyssey is one of the first parts of the multi-billion dollar video game industry."! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:02, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
The FACBot reported an error: an invalid status "promtoed". Another editor tried to correct it [1] but that doesn't work because they are not a FLC coordinator. One of you needs to roll that erdit back and re-apply the change. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:17, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article
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I was wondering if you would like to provide a review for Lumines: Puzzle Fusion's FAC. Blue Pumpkin Pie ( talk) 23:56, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice. I just wished to know if the article has any flaws now, or if it is free of them. Atlantis77177 ( talk) 15:45, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
Do respond when u r free. Greetings.-- Atlantis77177 ( talk) 04:52, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
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I'm having issues adding row scopes to the larger table on List of National Football League annual receptions leaders, specifically with the cells that span multiple rows. Any tips? Newtothisedit ( talk) 15:27, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
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Any thoughts you might have on this work-in-progress before I nominate it would be appreciated. I think you'll enjoy the yoked rows that move in tandem when columns are sorted. - Dank ( push to talk) 23:37, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
Here's a question we haven't had to think about a lot at FLC because we don't usually have double rows. I'm working on List of commelinid families now. User:Johnboddie pointed out that, with that layout, it would be very easy for a reader to make the mistake of thinking that the first image is Bromelia, the second is Poales, etc., because those are the words in the next row, right beneath the pictures. I could fix this by giving every image a caption, but that would be incredibly repetitive. One possible fix is at User:Dank/Sandbox/9, where I've added a solid black line beneath the first row of images. Another approach would be to move the images so they appear above "Olof Bromelius (1639–1705), Swedish doctor and botanist" rather than appearing right above "Bromelia", "Poales", etc. ... doable but tricky. Do you have a preference? - Dank ( push to talk) 16:44, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
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On 8 November 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Zork, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that one scholar compared the importance of Zork to that of Homer's Iliad? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Zork. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Zork), 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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Hi, PresN. I'm just posting to let you know that List of Lionhead Studios games – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for December 12. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 ( Talk) 02:29, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
Excuse me Pres. Could you help out taking care of someone insulting me through an edit summary? I don't appreciate how this user has been treating me and this edit doesn't help either. GamerPro64 05:20, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
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Greetings. I'm always amazed when I *speak* to another editor for the first time, so hello. This isn't a big thing, but I never like taking credit for something I didn't do. You added several new articles on this page list, and attributed the creation of one, List of years in video games, to me. However, I simply reverted an edit I had made, changing the list to a redirect. User:Thebiguglyalien, really created the list out of a redirect earlier that day. Regardless, thank you for all you do on the project. Onel5969 TT me 15:01, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
How's the planned summary for Zork here? Adam Cuerden ( talk)Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 20:34, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
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I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:15, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
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I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:29, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
Thank you today for the article, introduced:"Earlier this year, I brought Colossal Cave Adventure through FAC, as the ur-example and namesake of an adventure game. But despite it being first, the "father of the genre" isn't Adventure—it's Zork, the oddly named game first released in 1977 that truly launched the interactive fiction/text adventure genre in the early 80s and showed the exploding computer game community that video games contain a complex world and not just action. Zork got lucky with its timing, as not every game sells 100 times as much in its 3rd year than its first due to market expansion, but from the imaginations of four guys at MIT you can draw a straight line through to any modern game that features exploration and puzzle solving."! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:21, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
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Sorry, I've forgotten ... which works better if I have to change the list name, changing it now or waiting until the FLC concludes? (I'm changing it to
List of commelinid family names with etymologies, reasoning is in the intro at
List of lilioid monocot family names with etymologies
WP:Featured list candidates/List of lilioid family names with etymologies/archive1). - Dank (
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19:08, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
Replying to your note at the (now closed) nomination: (and also pinging Elizabeth): 1. On the longer vs. the shorter list name: I've discussed the pros and cons on Elizabeth's talk page. I'm happy to go with whatever you two prefer, and damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead. 2. You have a preference, I think, for me to re-add the genus numbers. I have no objection ... but many of my genus numbers are already "wrong" (according to my source for them, POWO), only a month or two after I first looked them up. The problem is that they change their minds a lot, especially when it comes to numbers ... but POWO is the best we've got, and the source that WP:PLANTS is most likely to rely on for these things. Elizabeth is working on the list of campanulids now, and odds are she'll get that up at FLC before I get another family list up. If Elizabeth decides to include genus numbers, and if the genus numbers change during the nomination, let's see how people feel about that and take another look at the issue. 3. Re: "Images for a member of the type genus": done, for all 3 lists. - Dank ( push to talk) 20:34, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
Per discussion at WT:PLANTS, and here, etc., I'm changing the list names now to "List of X families". - Dank ( push to talk) 00:42, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
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