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I think you are right is ther anyway to Semi-Protect it for good? Æon ^{Insane Ward} 23:18, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

An administrator would have to do it. -- Shane ^{( talk/ contrib)} 23:57, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Point taken I think I know one that might be willing to help. Æon ^{Insane Ward} 00:00, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

The template has been protected again. Æon ^{Insane Ward} 00:12, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Shane, I noticed that you wrote

Support as nom

in Misfitoy's RfA. I'm assuming you meant "per nom." Could you possibly clarify your comment?

Sorry for nitpicking =D. alphaChimp ^laudare 23:19, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Heh. Now I'm even more confused. Did you nominate him? I totally missed that. (Once, again, sorry for nitpicking =D). alphaChimp ^laudare 23:42, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

hahahahahahahaha. that's awesome. regards, alphaChimp ^laudare 23:45, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I apologize for any mistakes I might have made in trying to make sure that the right links point to The Dark Knight. I think that the problem should be solved now, and I reverted "The Dark Knight" back... so I might've reverted your re-revert? Change anything necessary. Thanks. -- Erik 03:15, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing the issue with relocating the Batman sequel article. However, I was wondering how one should address this new situation. Yesterday, Talk:The Dark Knight (film) redirected to Talk:The Dark Knight, since that is where the edit history is (left behind from the mess of moving around, I assume). Someone recently copied/pasted the current edit of Talk:The Dark Knight to Talk:The Dark Knight (film) and removed the redirect. This leaves behind the edit history in Talk:The Dark Knight. Is there a way to move a talk page's history from one place to another? -- Erik 18:28, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Bugs5382! Thank you for taking part in my RfA! Unfortunately, it ended with a final result of (62/23/7), and with only 73% support, no consensus was achieved. Nevertheless, I'd like to thank you again for your support and better luck to me next time! :)   G. H e 02:30, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Wait, tough crowd about what? You mean the guys editing the article? If so, I know what you mean. RoryS89 01:34, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, she has a baby after all. Allegedly. RoryS89 02:19, 13 August 2006 (UTC)RoryS89

It is kind of weird how Batman is the only hero who doesn't have a recurring love interest. Except maybe Selina Kyle, but she's a villain at the same time. I mean, you've got Superman and Lois Lane, Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson, Hulk and Betty Ross, Daredevil and Elektra, and so on. But no main love interest for Batman. I guess it shows that Batman's goal of protecting Gotham doesn't leave him time to fall in love. RoryS89 02:41, 13 August 2006 (UTC)RoryS89

Thanks so much for voting, Bugs5382! Thanks so much for your support vote on my request for adminship! With a final vote count of (82/5/0), it succeeded, and I'm now an administrator! I am thrilled with the overwhelming positive support from the community, and sincerely thank you once again for taking your time to voice your opinion. Feel free to contact me with any comments/suggestions in the future! — Mets501 ( talk) 03:47, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Could you possibly make the text on your userpage a *wee* bit bigger? It was really interesting to read, but a little hard to see.

Regards, alphaChimp ^laudare 04:27, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. That change really makes a big difference. I tried to revert that vandal, btw, but you beat me to the punch by something like .5 seconds. alphaChimp ^laudare 04:49, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Hey Shane, what do you think of my minor change to the ubx, do you think the text is better as "BSG" or as a quote? I thought it would be better to use "So say we all" then just "BSG" (heh)! Matthew Fenton ( Talk | Contribs) 12:07, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

O.k, np. Matthew Fenton ( Talk | Contribs) 16:18, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Your welcome! it is the best one forhte design Æon ^{Insane Ward} 15:42, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

I love it! Great work on making it. However, Level 1 (Red) currently reads "Serve". Shouldn't that be "Severe"? Otherwise, it is easily the best-looking WDC there is in my opinion! Cheers, Daniel. Bryant 06:10, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		For making what is, in my opinion, the best-looking Wdefcon template of them all, I award you this da Vinci Barnstar. Just looking at the coding itself exemplifies the amount of effort you put in to making it look good and function well, and for this, I thank you. Daniel. Bryant 06:25, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! :) Shane ^{( talk/ contrib)} 06:52, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Yea, i've been watching as it progresses its pretty cool, i use the "BSGBook" tried "Monobook" as well  :-) MatthewFenton ( talk • contribs) 07:14, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for creating a script that should make it easier to grade. Only I'm not sure how to use it. Could you tell me how, please? -- Supernumerary 18:10, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Just a small note... please use the "Future" class next time instead of the "Stub" or any other class when categorizing a film article for a film that hasn't been released yet - thanks. :) Esn 01:32, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

I was wondering if you could find some way to create two scripts for WikiProject Films.

1. An addition the our template ({{ Film}}) that would automatically assess articles as stub if they use a stub template (similar to those used by WP Biography and WP Songs) but only if they do not have a previous rating.
2. A tag that would add a Category:English-language films if it stated English in the {{ Infobox film}} next to Language.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, you can reply on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Films or on my talk page. Cbrown1023 20:00, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Good to see you still editing some. Looks like you are busy in real life. I haven't much a chance to work on the FBI article, lately. Among other things, I've been busy monitoring and working on 9/11-related pages. But, have picked up several books about the FBI, by Richard Gid Powers, Ronald Kessler, Athan G. Theoharis, and others at used book shops. The FBI is a tricky topic to write about, because there are so many facets to cover and NPOV issues always come up, but will still give it a try to further improve the article and its referencing. -- Aude ( talk) 18:37, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Could you make sure that the new project banner that you proposed and designed is kept up to date with the current one. Cbrown1023 03:07, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

You told me to remind you in a couple of days and I didn't want to forget... Cbrown1023 01:34, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Wait, make sure you make it an option to have the class as lower-case or capitalized. Cbrown1023 23:20, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, it looks great! Cbrown1023 02:42, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Does wikipedia have an interwiki link for BSGWiki? Like: [[BSGWiki:xyz]] - Would be cool if it did, not sure how to get one though. thanks/ Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 07:01, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Oh thats pretty good then - i'll update the pages i know use external links to BSW to use the new interlink - i know of a couple of pages that dont link to BSW as well. thanks/ Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 07:15, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive. This week Pluto was selected to be improved to featured article status. Hope you can help.

Davodd 20:00, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi there, I am doing some clean up on the list of proposed WikiProjects. I noticed that WikiProject US Exec Branch has been listed for more than 60 days. Unless you object, I would like to remove it from the list since it is unlikely to receive further feedback. Thanks! -- Aguerriero ( talk) 15:51, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

What should we do about articles with which importance is not applicable? Should we get like an NA-type thing or some other class? Cbrown1023 20:45, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Could you help me with something? I'm trying to add past-collaboration, collaboration-candidate, and attention

'Removed to save space, available via the page history here.

There are just a few bugs... could you tell me what's wrong with this complicated sytnax when you get a chance? Cbrown1023 02:50, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

This takes up like your whole user talk page, feel free to move it to a sub-page of my user page... like User:Cbrown1023/Template:Film. Cbrown1023 02:56, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Figured it out and updated the template. :) :) :) Cbrown1023 00:39, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey there Shane.. You having problems over at BSWiki? I havent been abke to access it for several days :(. MatthewFenton ( talk · contribs · count · email) 21:54, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Ahh. Thought it was my ISPs proxy. MatthewFenton ( talk · contribs · count · email) 23:39, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi Bugs5382, I am a graduate design student doing a case-study of Wikipedia. I am trying to collect input from users with a high level of involvement like yourself. My goal is to take Wikipedia's design into an experimental direction, one that would assist users and community involvement. I would be greatful, if you have a moment, if you could provide me with some suggestions that would improve the web site design in your opinion. Thank You. Graphixmdp 00:28, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

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Hi Shane. I'm just wondering if you are still interested in admin coaching. If you are, I can try to set you up with a coach. Cheers! -- Fang Aili ^talk 19:17, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I am just starting my job, Jan. 8th, and I have to moving from Boston, MA to Fairfax, VA so in about a weeks time, I will no longer be online until everything is hooked up in Virginia. So... I would still love the coaching to become a Sysop, but times are really wacky right now. Shane ^{( talk/ contrib)} 07:25, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

That's fine. When you're ready to be coached, you can leave a note next to your name on the requests page. Right now it says you want coaching at a later date. Good luck with your move and new job! -- Fang Aili ^talk 17:22, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Can you tell me what is status of this extensions, fixing it to working with new FF and new features requested on bug list on http://wikipedia.mozdev.org/bugs.html. Thanks -- Sasa Stefanovic • 22:03, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

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Woah! I forgot that you weren't an admin! Come on, I'm sure you'd be a great one! Cbrown1023 14:55, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi Shane, we had a talk with Nehrams about the unresolved problem of long/short film plots. Some people want to be able to find an extended plot for a film, but others argue that one shouldn't have to go through too much. So one idea was that we have a Plot summary in the article and we create separate pages for the Extended plot. But we were told such standalone plots aren't allowed. So I had another idea, but I don't know if it's possible. Do you see any way of hiding a section and offering some button which if pressed makes it display? Like this we could hide the long version and offer a "click here for extended plot". Hoverfish Talk 22:48, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Update: In the meanwhile, User:PhantomS showed me how it's done with CSS and we are on our way to propsing it as the long awaited solution. So, thanks for your attention anyway and wish you all the best for 2007. Hoverfish Talk 13:41, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

I just wanted to know if you have started the formatting for the new stub to start template from here. Is it possible for it to be formatted to fit in the {{ Film}} template when only the stub class is selected? Also if this does work, would we have to copy it into all stub articles or would it automatically be added to the stub class articles? -- Nehrams2020 08:09, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi Shane, knowing that you are on tight schedual, we passed the template problem Nehrams mentioned to another tech-wiz, so please, don't worry about it. Surely work and real life have priority. Our new idea is to start a board for tech problems in WP Films where any tech-fellow with free time can pick a task. Cheers! Hoverfish Talk 07:36, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

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I just joined the WikiProject FBI the other day, and I made a few minor changes and created a small article. The project is rather small, and there is nothing on the "To Do List", so I wondered if there was anything that needed to be done that I could help out with. Cheers! BlackBear 21:12, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

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Dear Shane, What happened to the icon/image of the FBI Wikiproject template? The image got deleted? Now it's shown as 50px! Hope you are fine and well, best wishes. -- Cyril Thomas 01:46, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Okay, now the image is back...thanks Shane :)-- Cyril Thomas 01:37, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm using it on de.wiki (Mediawiki 1.10alpha). The main problem was with the edit token:

-       $reply =~ m/value="(\w+)" name="wpEditToken"/;
+       $reply =~ m/value="(\w+\\?)" name="wpEditToken"/;

Another problem is that it moves DEFAULTSORT and the Link FA template to the wrong place. I don't have a fix for Link FA yet. -- 08-15 23:02, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

I only use it as a "Task Bot". Thanks! :-) Shane ^{( talk/ contrib)} 03:16, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Hey bugs, I was just looking around for users who know php and found you! If you are interested in helping our with some php programming on another wikimedia project, drop me a line, I'd greatly appreciate it!

PS, I was just looking at your contibutions to wikipedia - if I were you, I would start looking at RFA - yoou seem like you would be a good admin :)

--talk to symode09's or Spread the love! 17:08, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree, but my time is very limited now that I am working 87 hour weeks. :-) I'll drop a line to see what you need. ;-) Shane ^{( talk/ contrib)} 21:19, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi Bugs5382,

I have seen that you are involved in developing the mw:Extension:Firefox_toolbar. The extension is currently probably not compatible with the JavaScript editor extension wikEd. Would it be possible to adapt the toolbar as outlined here. Thanks, Cacycle 02:53, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

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It's future-class for a reason. Alientraveller 11:32, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

I just wanted to thank you for registering the 11th support on the Ronald Reagan FAC page. Best, Happyme22 17:21, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Hey there. What's cooking? D-Fluff has had E-Nuff 19:30, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

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There have been a series of proposals to initiate a Featured List of the Day on the main page. Numerous proposals have been put forth. After the third one failed, I audited all WP:FL's in order to begin an experiment in my own user space that will hopefully get it going. Today, it commences at WP:LOTD. Afterwards I created my experimental page, a new proposal was set forth to do a featured list that is strikingly similar to my own which is to do a user page experimental featured list, but no format has been confirmed and mechanism set in place. I continue to be willing to do the experiment myself and with this posting it commences. Please submit any list that you would like to have considered for list of the day in the month of January 2008 by the end of this month to WP:LOTD and its subpages. You may submit multiple lists for consideration.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:LOTD) 19:10, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

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Happy New Year! Here is the latest edition of the WikiProject GA Newsletter! Dr. Cash ( talk) 03:54, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter

The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter Volume I, No. 3 - January 2008 December issue | February issue Project News There are now 3,301 Good Articles listed at WP:GA. With 1,789 current featured articles, that brings the total of good and featured articles to 5,090! The most recently promoted articles are: Hurricane Daniel (2006), Tarbosaurus, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Wicca, Seth MacFarlane, Stanley Internment Camp, Hurricane Karen (2007), Interstate 155 (Illinois), Tropical Storm Ingrid (2007), Brian Sings and Swings, Winston Churchill, Mzoli's, John Kefalas, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The backlog at Good Article Nominations has recently exploded to 236 unreviewed articles! Out of 264 total nominations, 17 are on hold, 10 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance! The oldest unreviewed articles are: Attachment disorder, Byzantium under the Palaiologoi, Byzantium under the Angeloi, Wowowee, Tyrone Wheatley, Mina (singer), Jon Burge, Mercury Hayes, William Lowndes Yancey, and Toni Preckwinkle. The top five categories with the largest backlogs are: Sports and recreation (47 articles), Film and cinema (25 articles), Television and journalism (16 articles), Art and architecture (15 articles), and Politics and government (14 articles). The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 17 articles up for re-review. If every participant of WikiProject Good Articles could review just one article in the next week, the backlog would be almost eliminated! Reviewer of the Month Dihydrogen Monoxide is the GAN Reviewer of the Month of December, based on the assessments made by Epbr123 of the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Dihydrogen Monoxide hails from Brisbane (which, incidentally, is almost a GA, kids ;)) and has been editing Wikipedia since August 2006. He mostly likes to review articles relating to music, Australia, or anything else that takes his fancy! He also has two articles waiting, and notes that there's still a huge backlog,... so get cracking! Other outstanding reviewers recognized during the month of December include: Awadewit ( talk · contribs) Canadian Paul ( talk · contribs) Derek.cashman ( talk · contribs) Drewcifer3000 ( talk · contribs) Elcobbola ( talk · contribs) Jackyd101 ( talk · contribs) Kane5187 ( talk · contribs) M3tal H3ad ( talk · contribs) Nehrams2020 ( talk · contribs) The Rambling Man ( talk · contribs) VanTucky ( talk · contribs) Wassupwestcoast ( talk · contribs) Member News There are now 166 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 7 new members that joined during the month of December: Majoreditor ( talk · contribs) Bernstein2291 ( talk · contribs) The4325 ( talk · contribs) Pepsi2786 ( talk · contribs) Monowi ( talk · contribs) Rankun ( talk · contribs) This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all! GAReview Template Lots of you that frequent WP:GAN have undoubtedly seen the articles under review, marked with "Review - I am reviewing this article. ...". The articles have been marked as being under review by an editor using the {{ GAReview}} template. The purpose of this template is essentially to prevent two editors from reviewing the same article at the same time, so it's essentially a common courtesy notice to other editors so that they don't pass or fail an article while you're in the midst of collecting and writing comments. However, just because an article is marked, shouldn't preclude another editor from contributing to the review. If you'd like to review it, go ahead; simply collect your comments and write them down on the article's talk page – but don't pass or fail the article – leave that to the other reviewer. To use this template yourself, simply write "#:{{GAReview}} ~~~~" on the line immediately following the article's nomination at WP:GAN. You can even leave additional comments as well (e.g. "#:{{GAReview}} I will finish my review in the next 24 hours. ~~~~"). Reviewers marking articles with this template should also observe some common etiquette; please don't mark more than 1-3 articles as being under review at a time, and please try and finish your review within 3-5 days of marking the article. GA Sweeps After openly requesting the community for more participants into the Sweeps, we have 3 more members on the board. They are (in no particular order) Canadian Paul, VanTucky, and Masem. Canadian Paul will be sweeping "Middle East and the World" articles. VanTucky will be sweeping "Religion, mysticism, and mythology" and "Literature" articles. Masem will be sweeping "Television episodes". We're still looking for more reviewers. Interested individuals should contact OhanaUnited for details. At this moment, participation in the sweeps project is by invitation only, as we desire experienced reviewers who have a thorough and extensive knowledge of the criteria. This is to ensure that articles that have "fallen through the cracks" would be found and removed, and that additional articles don't fall through the cracks during the sweep. Currently, there are 16 members working on the project, and we have reviewed 74 articles in December 2007. Of those that are swept, 275 articles are kept as GA, 126 articles are delisted, and 5 promoted to FA. Did You Know,... ... that the total number of good and featured articles is now over 5000? ... that GA was formed on October 11, 2005 and was formerly called "Half-decent articles"? ... that there is a bot ( StatisticianBot) that gives a daily report on GAN? ... that many discussions were made over the years on whether GA should have a symbol placed on the main article space, yet at the end always removed? ... that there was a proposal to change the GA symbol to a green featured star? From the Editors Happy New Year, everyone! I'm just filling in for Dr. Cash as he's busy (or away) in real life. This explains why I wasn't prepared for a full-length article on GA process, and instead I resort to a tiny DYK for GA. OhanaUnited Happy New Year as well! I'm still here, and haven't totally disappeared. I had to cut back on editing and reviewing during the month of December as I made the transition from Flagstaff, Arizona to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. But I should be about settled in the Keystone State, so I'll be contributing more to Wikipedia again in the new year. Thanks to OhanaUnited for putting together much of the content for this newsletter! He's been working hard with the Sweeps, and the 'Did You Know' section is also a great idea, so I think that will become a regular feature now! I also figured out how to have a collapsible newsletter, so that will change our delivery options a bit. Cheers! Dr. Cash Contributors to this Issue Dr. Cash (Lead Editor, Distributor) OhanaUnited (GA Sweeps correspondent) Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005! WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia. Nominations: Madame X (album) ( talk | history | start review) • Gedling Town F.C. ( talk | history | start review) • Reggie Barnes (skateboarder) ( talk | history | start review) • Exile (American band) ( talk | history | start review) • Jude Law ( talk | history | start review) Reassessment: Mezhyhirya Monastery • Giant Schnauzer • Fallout 3 • Muhammad in Islam • Angels in Neon Genesis Evangelion • Northallerton • Task forces: Project quality • Sweeps • GAN Backlog Drives • GA Cup WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013) Good article criteria | Statistics | GAN Report | Changes log Nominations list |

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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter Volume I, No. 4 - February 2008 January issue | March issue Project News There are now 3,485 Good Articles listed at WP:GA. The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 206 unreviewed articles. Out of 251 total nominations, 37 are on hold, 7 are under review, and 1 is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance! The oldest unreviewed articles are: Johan Derksen, Trafford, J. Michael Bailey, Greg Skrepenak, Paleolithic-style diet, Alan Dershowitz, Natalee Holloway, Slovenian presidential election, 2007, San Francisco Municipal Railway, and Marcela Agoncillo. The top five categories with the largest backlogs are: Sports and recreation (57 articles), Theatre film and drama (34 articles), Music (19 articles), Transport (17 articles), Politics and government (16 articles), World history (13 articles), and Meteorology and atmospheric sciences (13 articles). The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 8 articles up for re-review. If every participant of WikiProject Good Articles could review just one article in the next week, the backlog would be almost eliminated! GA Sweeps Update During January, 57 Good Articles were reviewed. Including those articles that were under GAR or on hold, 35 were kept as GA, 20 delisted, 9 currently on hold or at GAR, and 3 were exempted as they are now Featured Articles. Reviewer of the Month Ealdgyth is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for January, based on the assessments made by Epbr123 on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Ealdgyth, known in real life as Victoria Short, hails from Central Illinois, and has been editing Wikipedia since May 26, 2007. In this short time, she has made significant contributions to 9 Good Articles, including Baldwin of Exeter and Hubert Walter. Her interests in editing are in the areas of the Middle Ages, History, and horses. Outside of Wikipedia, she is starting her own photography business, and owns three horses. She likes to read science fiction, history, and geneology books. Congratulations to our GAN Reviewer of the Month for January! Other outstanding reviewers recognized during the month of January include: AnonEMouse ( talk · contribs) Canadian Paul ( talk · contribs) Casliber ( talk · contribs) Derek.cashman ( talk · contribs) Dihydrogen Monoxide ( talk · contribs) Drewcifer3000 ( talk · contribs) Jackyd101 ( talk · contribs) Johnfos ( talk · contribs) M3tal H3ad ( talk · contribs) Miranda ( talk · contribs) Nehrams2020 ( talk · contribs) VanTucky ( talk · contribs) Member News There are now 176 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 15 new members that joined during the month of January: Atlantik ( talk · contribs) Auawise ( talk · contribs) Cyclonenim ( talk · contribs) Dihydrogen Monoxide ( talk · contribs) Ddstretch ( talk · contribs) Ealdgyth ( talk · contribs) FamicomJL ( talk · contribs) Hamiltonstone ( talk · contribs) jackturner3 ( talk · contribs) Kbthompson ( talk · contribs) Keilana ( talk · contribs) Miranda ( talk · contribs) pcbene ( talk · contribs) Skeeker ( talk · contribs) Snowolf ( talk · contribs) This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all! On Hold versus Failing an Article This month, I thought I'd focus on a less technical and more of a procedural issue at WP:GAN – determining what the appropriate course of action to take when reviewing an article. Currently, there are four options to decide what to do with an article: Passing – it meets all six of the good article criteria; add it to WP:GA and add {{ ArticleHistory}} or {{ GA}} to the article's talk page. Failing it – it does not meet the criteria; remove the article's listing from WP:GAN and add {{ ArticleHistory}} or {{ failedGA}} to the article's talk page. On Hold – The article meets most of the criteria, but might fall short in a few areas; keep it listed at WP:GAN, add #: {{GAOnHold|ArticleName}} ~~~~ below the listing and add {{GAonhold}} to the article's talk page. Second Opinion – Similar to the on hold option, except an editor is either inexperienced or not knowledgeable enough about a given topic and asks another reviewer to offer another opinion before passing or failing; add #: {{GA2ndopinion|ArticleName}} ~~~~ to WP:GAN below the article's listing and add {{GA2ndoptalk}} to the article's talk page. So how to you know when an article fails outright, or fails initially, but meets "enough" of the criteria to be placed on hold? The answer to this question probably varies by about the same amount as there are reviewers of Good Articles! Everybody treats this slightly differently. The most important thing to consider is that articles should not be on hold for longer than about one week. Although there is no hard and fast time limit for this, most editors would probably agree that five to seven days is enough time to address any GA-related issues with the article to get it to pass. Some editors have extended this a few days in the past, due to other extenuating circumstances, such as an article's primary editor being very busy with school or work, so they have asked for extra time. But as a general rule, a GA nominee that is placed on hold should meet enough of the criteria to be able to be passed within five to seven days. Some examples of articles that might be placed on hold would be: the article is mostly complete, but might be missing one topic (subcategory). minor copyediting is required (needs a few minor manual of style, spelling, or grammatical fixes. mostly well sourced, but missing maybe a handful of references. a couple of images need to be tagged with appropriate copyright tags. On the other hand, an article should be failed if it: is missing several topic categories, or there are several sections which are very short (1-3 sentences per section). contains numerous sections which are just lists of information, as opposed to written out as prose. there's entire sections of text that have no references, or there are a lot of {{ cn}} or {{ unreferenced}} tags. has evidence of an active edit war in the article history. has major neutrality issues. has any {{ cleanup}} or other warning tags in various places. Did You Know... ... that on July 19, 2007, 1,548 good articles that have not been categorized at all were categorized in 15 days? ... that in Chinese Wikipedia, articles need to have at least six net support votes before they are promoted to GA? ... that the English Wikipedia has the most Good Articles, the German Wikipedia has the second most (at over 2000), followed by the Spanish Wikipedia (at over 800), the Chinese Wikipedia (at over 400), and the French Wikipedia (at over 200)? ... that Simple English Wikipedia has zero Good Articles? ... that "Sport and games people" category has the most Good Articles? ... that Virginia Tech massacre (which is now a featured article) was promoted to GA just only about one month after the shooting incident, but took more than seven months to reach FA status? From the Editors Originally, I wasn't planning to do "Did you know" other than as a fill-in for Dr. Cash. However, I decided to continue writing this section until I ran out of ideas. OhanaUnited Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here. Dr. Cash Contributors to this Issue Dr. Cash (Lead Editor, Distributor) OhanaUnited (GA Sweeps and Did You Know correspondent) Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005! WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia. Nominations: Madame X (album) ( talk | history | start review) • Gedling Town F.C. ( talk | history | start review) • Reggie Barnes (skateboarder) ( talk | history | start review) • Exile (American band) ( talk | history | start review) • Jude Law ( talk | history | start review) Reassessment: Mezhyhirya Monastery • Giant Schnauzer • Fallout 3 • Muhammad in Islam • Angels in Neon Genesis Evangelion • Northallerton • Task forces: Project quality • Sweeps • GAN Backlog Drives • GA Cup WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013) Good article criteria | Statistics | GAN Report | Changes log Nominations list |

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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter Volume I, No. 5 - March 2008 February issue | April issue Project News There are currently 3,647 Good Articles listed at WP:GA. The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 185 unreviewed articles. Out of 237 total nominations, 42 are on hold, and 10 are under review. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance! The oldest unreviewed articles are: Ian Browne (cyclist), Tony Marchant, Reginald fitz Jocelin, Annie Russell, Brodie Croyle, and Jimmy Moore. The top five categories with the largest backlogs are: Sports and recreation (39 articles), Theatre, film, and drama (34 articles), Transport (23 articles), Music (21 articles), Politics and government (18 articles), Culture and society (13 articles), Places (13 articles), and World history (12 articles). The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 13 articles up for re-review. If every participant of WikiProject Good Articles could review just one article in the next week, the backlog would be almost eliminated! GA Sweeps Update Two members joined the sweeps team this month. They are Jwanders and jackyd101. Jwanders swept Physics sub-category quickly and is now sweeping "Astronomy and astrophysics". Meanwhile, jackyd101 is sweeping "Armies, military units and legal issues". During February, 66 Good Articles were reviewed. Including those articles that were under GAR or on hold, 33 were kept as GA, 21 delisted, 17 currently on hold or at GAR, and 1 was exempted as they are now Featured Articles. Reviewer of the Month Blnguyen is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for February, based on the assessments made by Epbr123 on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Blnguyen is from South Australia and has been editing Wikipedia since 2005. He was also the reviewer for the month of December 2007, so this marks the second time that he has been GAN's Top Reviewer for the Month. Congratulations to our GAN Reviewer of the Month for February! Other outstanding reviewers recognized during the month of January include: Blnguyen ( talk · contribs) David Fuchs ( talk · contribs) Derek.cashman ( talk · contribs) Dihydrogen Monoxide ( talk · contribs) Calbear22 ( talk · contribs) Ealdgyth ( talk · contribs) Jackturner3 ( talk · contribs) TimVickers ( talk · contribs) VanTucky ( talk · contribs) Wrad ( talk · contribs) Member News There are now 185 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 9 new members that joined during the month of February: Bibliomaniac15 ( talk · contribs) Canyouhearmenow ( talk · contribs) Chrisisinchrist ( talk · contribs) Ed! ( talk · contribs) Juliancolton ( talk · contribs) Kakofonous ( talk · contribs) LOTRrules ( talk · contribs) Matthewedwards ( talk · contribs) Nousernamesleft ( talk · contribs) Did You Know... ...that the shortest timespan for a GA to be listed and subsequently delisted is 8 minutes? (The article is Project Chanology and currently listed on WP:GAR) ...that the current nominations system started on March 10, 2006? ...that in May 2006, number of GA surpassed number of FA? This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all! One GA Requirement - The Lead Section By Geometry guy In this issue, we will focus on one of the requirements for good articles: a good article article should follow Wikipedia's guideline on lead sections. So what does this guideline say, why does it say what it does, and how can good article reviewers help? The lead section is particularly important, because for many readers, it is the only part of the article which they will read. For instance, they may have come to the article by following a wikilink in another article simply to obtain a quick overview before they continue reading the original article. They may only read the first paragraph, or even the first sentence. On the other hand, one of the joys of Wikipedia is the way that it embodies the endlessly branching tree of knowledge; if a lead is well written, it may encourage even such a reader to read on and learn something new. This is reflected in the terminology: "lead" is a word taken from journalism, where it recognized that many readers will only read the beginning of a newspaper article, and so it is important to convey the key points first, before going into detail. Note that "lead", in this sense, is pronounced as in "leading question" and is sometimes spelled as "lede" by journalists to distinguish it from lead, the metal, which was once very important in typesetting. Wikipedia supports both spellings. Wikipedia:Lead section is written with all this in mind, and describes two different roles for the lead: first, it should introduce the topic; second it should summarize the article. This is not always as easy as it seems; indeed, it is almost impossible to write a good lead if the article itself does not cover the topic well. It has a side benefit that an article which satisfies this guideline is probably also broad: if the lead is both a good introduction and a summary, then the article probably covers the main points. The good article process is often the first place in which an article is judged against this criterion, yet many current good articles may not meet it. A common fault is that the lead is purely an introduction, while the rest of the article contains other information, which should be summarized in the lead, but isn't. So, how can reviewers help to improve this? One approach is to read the rest of the article, and not the lead, first. Make a note of the significant points discussed in the article. There is usually at least one important issue in each section. Then, go back to the lead and ask the following questions: Does the first sentence of the lead define the topic, as described in the article? Is the most important information mentioned in the first paragraph? Is the lead a suitable length for the article? The lead guideline recommends 2–4 paragraphs depending on the article length, but judgment is more important than counting. Are each of the significant topics that you noted mentioned in the lead? If the answer to each of these questions is "yes", then the article probably meets the guideline. If not, you may be able to fix it yourself by summarizing the article. If you can't, then it suggests that there are not only problems with the lead, but also the rest of the article. That is the beauty of Wikipedia:Lead section. Finally, there isn't universal agreement on whether the lead should contain inline citations. As long as the material in the lead is developed and cited elsewhere in the article, then inline citation is not required. There are exceptions, the most significant being quotations and controversial material about living persons. Good luck helping more articles meet this important criterion! From the Editors Well, this is somewhat GA-related but at the same time not totally GA-related. However, I think this is important. Thanks to everyone who supported me at my 2nd RfA. It passed unanimously at 79 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral. As many are impressed by my work in Good Articles processes, I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone giving me a very enjoyable time at GA. There are 2 people that I want to explicitly say thank you to. They are Nehrams2020 and Epbr123. They patiently taught me how to do GA reviews properly in summer 2007. I couldn't achieve better without them. Now that I have the mop and the bucket, some of my time will be working on reducing Commons image backlog. Nevertheless, you will still see me once in a while in matters related to GA. OhanaUnited Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here. Dr. Cash Contributors to this Issue Dr. Cash (Lead Editor, Distributor) OhanaUnited (GA Sweeps and Did You Know correspondent) Geometry guy (News Correspondent) Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005! WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia. Nominations: Madame X (album) ( talk | history | start review) • Gedling Town F.C. ( talk | history | start review) • Reggie Barnes (skateboarder) ( talk | history | start review) • Exile (American band) ( talk | history | start review) • Jude Law ( talk | history | start review) Reassessment: Mezhyhirya Monastery • Giant Schnauzer • Fallout 3 • Muhammad in Islam • Angels in Neon Genesis Evangelion • Northallerton • Task forces: Project quality • Sweeps • GAN Backlog Drives • GA Cup WikiProject Good articles newsletter (last updated January 2013) Good article criteria | Statistics | GAN Report | Changes log Nominations list |

The WikiProject Films coordinator selection process is starting. We are aiming to elect five coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by March 28! Girolamo Savonarola ( talk) 04:26, 15 March 2008 (UTC)