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Advice on potential FA nomination

Hi! As I'm sure you'll remember, you were invaluable in helping me get Mary van Kleeck over the finish line to FA status - thank you again, by the way. I'm now considering nominating Mary Jane Richardson Jones for FA status. I created the article on New Year's and Edwininlondon did a great GA review with me in May (Talk:Mary Jane Richardson Jones/GA1).

Would you mind taking a quick look over the article and advising me of any major barriers/areas to work on before I nominate it? Edwin mentioned the reference organization in the GA review, and this is definitely something I want to improve on, so any advice in that area particularly would be great. Thank you! Ganesha811 (talk) 03:22, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Hi Gog, just checking if you had any time to do this - if you don't, no problem at all, and I'll ask someone else to take a look. Appreciate your time. Ganesha811 (talk) 11:41, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

1951

Hello, Gog!

Thank you for archiving my misfiled FAC. Is someone else going to move it or should I renominate but in FLC?

--Neopeius (talk) 13:03, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Neopeius, you will need to renominate it. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:13, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Promotion of Lancaster's Normandy chevauchée of 1356

Congratulations, Gog the Mild! The article you nominated, Lancaster's Normandy chevauchée of 1356, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) via FACBot (talk) 12:06, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

Peer review

What ho! If you have half an hour to spare perhaps you'd be kind enough to look in at the peer review for Arnold Bennett, which I'm considering taking to FAC if I return to that bandit country, now that, judging from my recent incursions, it is less bandit-infested than it was a little while ago. Tim riley talk 11:53, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

FAC nominations

Hi Gog! I hope you are well. I was a little sad to see the Davis article was archived, but I completely understand that there wasn't a consensus for promotion. I will work on the article and make sure it does on the next occasion, however. :) In the close, you mentioned that neither nominator would be able to nominate any articles for two weeks. I do understand that those are the rules, but my other FAC closed a minute earlier; so I'd like to request the possibility of opening a slot for a single nomination of an FAC (not the same article). I am happy to wait out the 2 weeks for this single nomination, if that's deemed to be beneficial to the project.Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 14:07, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

Lee Vilenski, get it nominated quickly and I'll turn a blind eye. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:16, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

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Good topic stuff

So I've recently decided on an ambitious project. Not sure how the scope would work. If I did Missouri in the American Civil War, would I need to tack on things such as Palmyra massacre and the Sacking of Osceola or the Camp Jackson affair, as well as all the campaigns. Or would it just be best to create List of American Civil War battles in Missouri, which would be hard to scope because there were over 1,000 when you count the skirmishes. Or do you think I could just get away with the lazy route and just do the overall article and the battles? Note: I'm not expecting this to be a quick process. Hog Farm _Talk 00:00, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

If 't'were me I would chip away at it by claiming sub-topics. And I would be careful to only include "significant" battles in them. So you must be well on your way to a List of battles of Price's Raid topic? Once you have two or three of these, you have a precedent you can refer back to if/when someone gets sticky about the subjective threshold of a "battle". So I suggest avoid publicly scoping a final topic yet; instead create some facts on the ground, as it were. Gog the Mild (talk) 11:51, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

For Price's Raid, I've just got Battle of Westport and whatever the main topic is left. My main concern is that the list might get AFD'd and merged into the main campaign article, which is in rather poor shape. Most of Westport shouldn't be too hard, except for the unsourced memorials and preservation details that may be hard to find sources for. Hog Farm _Talk 13:14, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Most battle articles don't have memorial and preservation details, or they are skimpy. If the sources aren't there, dinna worry. I stay well away from AFD, so don't have an opinion on that other than that it would seem to me odd if it were. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:18, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Second FAC

Hey there Gog. I'm currently co-nominator for the nomination of Martin Rundkvist. Knock on wood, it's going well—three supports, addressed comments from a recently added fourth review, and now just missing an image review. Would you mind if I got a head start on a second nomination? --Usernameunique (talk) 05:10, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Usernameunique, not a biggy, but usually these requests go on the review page. So other coordinators can pick it up if I am busy and so reviewers don't come back at you when you open a second nom and they can't see that you have been given permission.

As well as three general supports, a nomination also needs source and image review passes to allow a second nom. Edwininlondon seems to have the former well in hand, and I may be persuaded to allow a second nom without a formal image review pass, despite some obvious licencing issues. It has been on the talk page list for quite a while though, which makes me a little twitchy.

I assume that you are wanting to nominate another collaboration? Any editor is allowed both a sole nominator nom and a collaboration nom without special permission. Gog the Mild (talk) 11:37, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the response, Gog. All good to know. I was actually intending on a sole nomination, but didn't realize that one could do both a sole nomination and a collaboration at the same time. By the way, what are the licensing issues with the photos? This isn't my forte, but I had actually thought the images were in pretty good shape. --Usernameunique (talk) 16:40, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

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The third round of the 2021 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 294 points, and our top six scorers all had over 600 points. They were:

• The Rambling Man, with 1825 points from 3 featured articles, 44 featured article reviews, 14 good articles, 30 good article reviews and 10 DYKs. In addition, he completed a 34-article good topic on the EFL Championship play-offs.
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