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:Gimmetrow has suggested that a category could be populated. Would you and Joel be happy with that? One thing I want to do is see if there was any substantial change before and after the FAR. i.e. distinguish between frivolous FARs and those where a lot of work was done to save it (are there lots of frivolous FARs). That would be more complicated I guess, and ''would'' be better handled by a list. I was also looking at [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log]] and [[Wikipedia:Featured article statistics]], and was wondering where FAR stats and logs fit in. The number of demoted articles is a FAR measure, but the number of FAR saves is that as well. Again, the frivolous FARs would skew any stats, but some measure of the overall rate of FARs and how that has varied over the years would be nice. Only if there's time of course. I'm aware that something like that is more time-consuming than simply populating a category. I would be happy to help out though. [[User:Carcharoth|Carcharoth]] ([[User talk:Carcharoth|talk]]) 06:33, 7 November 2008 (UTC) |
:Gimmetrow has suggested that a category could be populated. Would you and Joel be happy with that? One thing I want to do is see if there was any substantial change before and after the FAR. i.e. distinguish between frivolous FARs and those where a lot of work was done to save it (are there lots of frivolous FARs). That would be more complicated I guess, and ''would'' be better handled by a list. I was also looking at [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log]] and [[Wikipedia:Featured article statistics]], and was wondering where FAR stats and logs fit in. The number of demoted articles is a FAR measure, but the number of FAR saves is that as well. Again, the frivolous FARs would skew any stats, but some measure of the overall rate of FARs and how that has varied over the years would be nice. Only if there's time of course. I'm aware that something like that is more time-consuming than simply populating a category. I would be happy to help out though. [[User:Carcharoth|Carcharoth]] ([[User talk:Carcharoth|talk]]) 06:33, 7 November 2008 (UTC) |
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::Update: Gimmetrow found an old category and has triggered ArticleHistory to populate it. See [[:Category:Wikipedia featured article review candidates (closed)]]. Sandy says she knows which ones are the trivial FARs (closed without need for action), and there might be a need to find articles removed after a second (or more) FAR (how common is that?). But I have what I need now. Sorry to have split the discussion over three different talk pages. [[User:Carcharoth|Carcharoth]] ([[User talk:Carcharoth|talk]]) 07:18, 7 November 2008 (UTC) |
::Update: Gimmetrow found an old category and has triggered ArticleHistory to populate it. See [[:Category:Wikipedia featured article review candidates (closed)]]. Sandy says she knows which ones are the trivial FARs (closed without need for action), and there might be a need to find articles removed after a second (or more) FAR (how common is that?). But I have what I need now. Sorry to have split the discussion over three different talk pages. [[User:Carcharoth|Carcharoth]] ([[User talk:Carcharoth|talk]]) 07:18, 7 November 2008 (UTC) |
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Sorry to have [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Carcharoth&diff=250216056&oldid=250150761 confused you]. I'll try and explain what happened. I was talking to Sandy about one of those 2004 FAs that got extensively rewritten this year (2008) at FAR (the article in question was [[Shrine of Remembrance]]). I'm always very impressed when someone makes the effort to save an article at FAR (I'm sure you mentioned this vital aspect of FAR yourself in one of your 'Dispatches' for the Signpost). This led me to wonder if there was a list anywhere of the articles that have been 'saved' at FAR. Hence my question to you above. I then had the idea that this information could be extracted through the {{tl|ArticleHistory}} template (rather than manually going back through the FAR archives). So I went and asked Gimmetrow, who suggested a category and made [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Historyoutput&diff=prev&oldid=250186523 this edit]. |
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This is where it does get slightly confusing. I thought Gimmetrow had ''created'' that category, but it turns out that [[:Category:Wikipedia featured article review candidates (closed)]] has existed since [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Wikipedia_featured_article_review_candidates_(closed)&diff=prev&oldid=61348153 June 2006] (when you created it - which is why I'm asking you about the history of what happened here). At the time, it appears to have been populated by {{tl|FARpassed}} (see the note left on the category page in [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Wikipedia_featured_article_review_candidates_(closed)&diff=64136645&oldid=61872959 July 2006]). Presumably the FARpassed template was in use from July 2006 until sometime around January 2007. As I said, I don't know the full history here and you (as the category creator) are far more likely to know. The reason I mention January 2007 is that this is the date of [[Wikipedia_talk:Featured_article_review/archive_5#FAR_and_the_FAC_bot|this discussion]] (titled 'FAR and the FAC bot'), started by Gimmetrow. In the final section of that discussion ([[Wikipedia_talk:Featured_article_review/archive_5#The_process|the process]]), you said ''"BTW, keeps are categorized at [[:Category:Wikipedia featured article review candidates (closed)]] (a bit of a clunky category name) and removes under [[:Category:Wikipedia former featured articles]]."'' What happened after that, I don't know. |
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Moving forward to yesterday (7 November 2008), Gimmetrow said, when I asked, that [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Gimmetrow&diff=250190322&oldid=250190078 the FAR closed category was empty] (except for one Wikipedia page). So at some point, [[:Category:Wikipedia featured article review candidates (closed)]] got depopulated. My guess is that this happened when Template:FARpassed ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:FARpassed not in use today]) got replaced with ArticleHistory. See the discussion at [[Template talk:ArticleHistory/Deprecation]] and at [[Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2007_December_22#Old_article_history_tags|this TfD debate]] (from December 2007, where Gimmetrow said ''"FARpassed and FormerFA2 would be used if FAR needs to do things by hand"''). Indeed, in August 2008, Sandy removed the 'historical' tag from FARpassed with the comment [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:FARpassed&diff=232594329&oldid=180913100 Remove historical, with GimmeBot on vacation, I'm going to need to use this temporarily]. |
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So the key points are that [[:Category:Wikipedia featured article review candidates (closed)]] ''used'' to be populated, then got depopulated at some indeterminate point, and then Gimmetrow ''repopulated'' it with his edit to 'ArticleHistoryoutput' yesterday. The questions for you (as you created the category) are probably: what do you do with that category, and do you want it populated or not? |
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Going further, it would be nice to work out exactly why that category got missed out when the transition was made from FARpassed to ArticleHistory, but I'm confused as to exactly what happened there, so it might be best to leave that. And to address the points about 'make work' that Sandy and others have raised (Sandy made [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:SandyGeorgia&diff=prev&oldid=250187493 several] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Today%27s_featured_article/requests&diff=prev&oldid=250194226 comments] in edit summaries and posts yesterday about 'make work' that I had to try mightily to avoid being discouraged by), my initial questions here might have been aimed at creating a list that it would take work to maintain, but let's be clear - I wasn't asking anyone else to do that work. It was my own personal interest (I would probably eventually have identified the FARs where a long period of time had passed between original promotion and the FAR, and where 'substantial' changes had been made to save the FAR). All rather subjective of course, but if I want to spend time on that, I don't think people should be discouraging me with 'make work' comments (that's not directed at you, Marskell - and in fairness I will leave Sandy a note pointing her to what I've said here). |
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And it would be nice to get an acknowledgement that even if my initial questions might have been to 'make work', that I do have a fair point when asking about this category that was created by you, depopulated, and then repopulated. It's really unclear what happened there. I hope that what I've written above has made things clearer. If it hasn't, I can extract the key points if you ask me to. I'll drop a note off to Gimmetrow and Sandy to keep them informed about this. If, as they said, they deal with template stuff and ArticleHistory, and not you (at least I think that is what Sandy meant when she [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:SandyGeorgia&diff=250187493&oldid=250187337 said]: ''"Gimmetrow and I deal with such things"''), then I'll talk to them and not you. But as the creator of the category in question, I think you might have some insight into what it was used for and what it could be used for. [[User:Carcharoth|Carcharoth]] ([[User talk:Carcharoth|talk]]) 08:53, 8 November 2008 (UTC) |
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Archived round about 30K. I will respond on your user talk page. I don't watch user talk pages, so I may or may not respond if you don't reply to me here.
My user talk has slowly become my user page; my actual user page I just find frustrating and I think I'll stick with the poems. I throw extra stuff here. For the record: Tim Marskell, a Canadian living in the United Arab Emirates (though often found elsewhere).
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Haumea FA
Hi Marskell,
Haumea has been cleaned up a bit since your comments, if you'd like to take another look. kwami (talk) 19:58, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
- bump Nergaal (talk) 20:48, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
- C'mon, Tim. It's not good form to fly-oppose an FA nom. Serendipodous 09:47, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks again Tim. Now I feel bad for badgering you. Serendipodous 15:37, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
- C'mon, Tim. It's not good form to fly-oppose an FA nom. Serendipodous 09:47, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
GimmeBot
Gimmetrow is gone. The steps the community will have to take to deal with FAC and FAR closings and talk page templates are outlined at User:SandyGeorgia/FA work. Gimme was in the process of bringing me up to speed so that I could run the bot myself, but we weren't done, and I don't have the latest code. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:53, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
- And, an out-of-process (today's TFA) FAR nom on Holloway, removed once and reverted once by the nom. Since it is so much work to build it into articlehistory without GimmeBot, I will suggest to Maralia (who is helping with the manual GimmeBot work) to just move it to archive and clear the redirect once you've dealt with it (in other words, not move to FAR archive since it was out of process and won't be botified, just moved to archive1). I hope that isn't Greek to you :-) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 04:59, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
- I'm inclined to remove it again—less than 3 days since it was TFA, still loosely within the 3–6 months since promotion, and the nomination doesn't address WP:WIAFA at all—but I've had enough drama for one week. Waiting to see what you think we should do. Maralia (talk) 14:48, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
- Removed from FAR and moved to archive1. Note I've used the generic archive templates for now, pending a proper closure. What next? Unfortunately, much of this is Greek to me because it's been so long since I did manual closures.
- What a clusterfuck this week has been—and I'm not even editing that much. Marskell (talk) 14:54, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
- Deleted the redirect Wikipedia:Featured article review/Natalee Holloway and full-protected it for five days. Why don't I simply delete Wikipedia:Featured article review/Natalee Holloway/archive1? Save us work. Marskell (talk) 15:14, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
- Actually, I wouldn't—in fact, I would recreate Wikipedia:Featured article review/Natalee Holloway to prepare it for any future nom, and link /archive1 from it too, so that !voters at any future nomination will be aware of the nonsense the article has already been through. This is pretty common procedure at FAC for out-of-process nominations. I tried to do this for you, and to update the archive tags on /archive1, but you've (understandably) protected both pages. Maralia (talk) 15:26, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
- I think we should leave the protections and deletion for at least 72 or 96 hours to discourage the point-y editor from restarting the FAR at 3 days + 1 second, as he's threatened on talk. As for whether to enter it in AH, I'll wait for Sandy's opinion. Marskell (talk) 15:31, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
- Actually, I wouldn't—in fact, I would recreate Wikipedia:Featured article review/Natalee Holloway to prepare it for any future nom, and link /archive1 from it too, so that !voters at any future nomination will be aware of the nonsense the article has already been through. This is pretty common procedure at FAC for out-of-process nominations. I tried to do this for you, and to update the archive tags on /archive1, but you've (understandably) protected both pages. Maralia (talk) 15:26, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
- I'm inclined to remove it again—less than 3 days since it was TFA, still loosely within the 3–6 months since promotion, and the nomination doesn't address WP:WIAFA at all—but I've had enough drama for one week. Waiting to see what you think we should do. Maralia (talk) 14:48, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
(outdent) Oh, I was in no way disputing the protection; only explaining why I didn't (couldn't!) tweak the archive tags. Since I already wrote them up, here's the info:
{{subst:FAR top| result= '''kept''' by [[User:Marskell]] 10:51, 22 October 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Featured_article_review&diff=246955389&oldid=246859532]}}
{{subst:FAR bottom}}
Maralia (talk) 15:49, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
- OK, I replaced the generic archive tags with the proper ones. Thanks Maralia. If you can't edit the page, perhaps we should get busy with an RfA!
- Note I'll be out of action for the next 12+ hrs. Marskell (talk) 16:10, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
- Yes, we have needed to get Maralia sysopped for quite a while now; so far, she's refused. She is the only other person who is fully versed in every step of GimmeBotification, btw. Marskell, I explained in detail at Talk:Natalee Holloway, but the precedent at FAC and FAR (and what Maralia and I have done in all previous similar cases) is to 1) move the file to the next open N archiveN, and 2) clear the redirect, leaving a link to "previous FAR withdrawn", 3) without recording it in articlehistory or adding it to the FAC or FAR archive (since it's not truly an "event"). A record is left in the cleared FAR page, prepped for the next submission. When the FAR page is unprotected, Maralia or I could recreate that, so there's nothing else you need to do now. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:01, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
Marskell, follow up at User talk:Dr pda#FAC and FAR templates. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:28, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
- Gimme mentioned on my talk page that the irregularity of our closings is a drain on him. I don't want FAC to be too constrained for various reasons, but can we work around something along these lines? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:42, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
- FYI, Physchim62 (talk · contribs) has requested the reversal of your protection on Wikipedia:Featured article review/Natalee Holloway. - auburnpilot talk 17:57, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
FAR notification (WP Solar System)
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Watchmen FAR
Hey, I've posted my revised edition of Watchmen in the main article space. Is there anything else I need to take care of for the FAR? WesleyDodds (talk) 05:49, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for the info. WesleyDodds (talk) 11:19, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Update on FAC/FAR/FL closings
- (Note: directing others to the discussion here)
Gimme mentioned on my talk page that the irregularity of our closings is a drain on him, and proposed a more regular schedule on FAC/FAR/FL closings, with us perhaps working around bot runs shortly after 23:59 Tuesdays and Saturdays. I can understand how draining it must be to have to do this bot work every single day; it also probably makes it hard for Gimme to find time to focus on his own article interests. For FAC, I can't commit to always following this schedule (particularly in the current environment of reviewer complaints about list size, even though I've held the list to around 30 by processing FACs daily), but in the interest of not overtaxing GimmeBot, I can try to stay as closely to that schedule as allowed by other constraints. I've done/proposed the following:
- updated the wording at WP:FAC/ar to hopefully educate editors that there may be delays
- updated the wording at Template:FAC-instructions and Template:FAR-instructions similarly
- asked more people to keep an eye on Category:ArticleHistory error
- asked Dr pda to rework the old templates in case we need to use them temporarily (which he did, beautifully):
- trained Maralia (talk · contribs) in processing closed FACs and FARs
- written up all instructions at User:SandyGeorgia/FA work.
So, I have the following questions:
- Can FAR and FL work around Gimme's proposed schedule?
- Can GimmeBot still process the old templates in the event we have to promote several days in advance of a bot run, and should we use the old templates in those cases?
Perhaps on withdrawn FACs, Maralia and I will just botify them manually, as removing them as soon as they withdraw helps with list size; but, if Gimme says it works, we can also just use the old templates on the talk page for those cases. We need to convince Maralia to submit to RfA, too.
SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:03, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
- As a followup sample, if I were to archive Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Sarah Geronimo ahead of the planned bot runs, would it be better to add the old {{facfailed}} template to the talk page and wait for the bot, or for Maralia and I to manually process the close? (Never mind that some editors are entering "quick fail" when we have no such thing at FAC; in this case, there are more than half a dozen opposes.) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:29, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
- Another situation: this forces us to do articlehistory manually, because the job is half done and I believe that stalls the bot. Is that correct? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:58, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
- Maralia is a machine: [1] But is that the best way to go on these? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:00, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
I spoke to Scorpion, and we're okay at FLC with that. A couple of questions:
- Is Gimmetrow asking that the projects close nominations only twice a week, or just saying that the bot will add gold stars and update article history twice a week. On the one hand leaving nominations open might encourage more reviews, but on the other, people might start getting impatient as to why their nom still hasn't been closed especially when it's so clear cut one way or the other. Another thing is that when there's 50 or 60 nominations open, reviewers, and especially any potential new reviewers, may be scared away by the volume.
- To ease Gimmetrow/bot's workload, would it halt the bot if we manually closed FxC and moved to archive subpages, and just left the bot to update article history, or even vica verca (adding the star and updating article history, and letting the bot deal with the FxC archiving?
Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 00:37, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
- On 2) , if you do part of the process and not all of it, my understanding is that makes it harder for the bot (in fact, stalls the bot), but Gimmetrow would have to clarify. That is why Maralia and I are seeking clarification if it is better for us to add the old templates to the talk pages on those closings and then wait for the bot, or to just fully complete the process ourselves on any closes that aren't on schedule with the bot.
- On 1) the problem with closings too far in advance of the scheduled bot runs is that, as in 2), if someone does part of the work, or removes talk page templates or completes the job halfway, that stalls the bot (I believe, not sure). That will make Gimme's chore even worse. Gimme is proposing that we close on Tuesdays and Saturdays. I am raising the issue of, if we do any closings outside of that schedule, how is it best for us to handle them. Do we do the whole process manually, or can we add the old templates to talk and then wait for the bot. But ideally, Gimme is asking that we all get on one schedule so that he can do everything in two runs per week.
- Regarding your concerns about the list size, I have the same issue at FAC (that I've weaned the list size down to between 30 and 40 by promoting daily), but I haven't detected any evidence that holding down the list size actually encourages more or better reviews. If Maralia and I can hold the list size down in between bot runs, by moving off a few here and there as needed, I think Gimme's proposal is doable. We just need to know the best way to proceed on those that fall outside of the Tuesday, Saturday schedule. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:54, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
@ Marskell; the question for you is 1) if you can do most closings sometime before Tuesdays and Sats, knowing that there will be scheduled bot runs, and 2) the general issue to follow is how Gimme wants us to handle earlier closings (use the old templates, or manually botify). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:09, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
- To be clear, I should be closing not before Tues and Sat but on Tues and Sat because the bot run will begin in the first minutes of Wed and Sun. Correct? Correct.
- As I say, this will be no problem. The only issue for earlier ones is emergency closings, such as I just did with Holloway. I'm inclined to use the generic archive templates, {{archivetop}} and {{archivebottom}}, to shut discussion and then wait to include them with the regular batch. There are no emergency removals at FAR, of course. Will the bot be confused if I also remove the FAR template from talk? Yes, if you do part of the job, my understanding is that messes up the bot, and we need to do all the job. Maralia and I can handle the rare "Holloway" situations. The only reason I didn't handle Holloway is because I don't want the COI of removing FARs when I promoted the FAC. As long as the FAR page isn't protected, Maralia or I can complete the work. And, if we get her to submit to RfA, she can complete any "emergency" Holloway type withdrawals if you've had to protect the page. We need someone besides me to remove and botify those cases because of my COI. If it's not an FA I promoted, I don't mind removing the premature FARs. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:37, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Other news
I followed up on a post at WT:FFA#FFA -> which class about Assessments post-FAR, and restored a blanked articlehistory at Talk:A Tale of a Tub. When I restored it, I thought it was an issue coming from confused WikiProject members attempting to re-assess, and asking GimmeBot to do that. The discussion continued, and followup revealed otherwise. Another task that Gimmetrow routinely does is make sure the talk page tallies on FAs and FFAs agree with our tallies, so this is another thing he has to watch for. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:08, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
I have commented on this page. Please reply. :) _ Mgm|(talk) 11:31, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
- Instead of littering the article with reference needed tags, perhaps you could copy the most needy statements to the talk page... - Mgm|(talk) 23:38, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Otter
I put up the notice five days ago: [2] Do you want me to ping you in the future? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:10, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
- We need more bots? No one is nice to my favorite bots, how are we going to get more? :-)) Schutzbot (which bolds the mainpage) is busted again. I notify him a couple times a month. I think I'm going to sit on my fingers this time and see if anyone besides me does that task. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:40, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Premature, withdrawn FARs
No, I don't believe they should be in articlehistory. First, they aren't really an "event" and second, why create the work? Actually, the GimmeBot steps are at User:SandyGeorgia/sandbox#GimmeBot steps, but you don't have to do all of that on the premature withdraws.
- Remove transcluded FAR page from WP:FAR; do NOT move to the FAR archive file, as it doesn't need to be botified and isn't a true "event".
- Add the subst headings as in Wikipedia:Featured article review/Natalee Holloway/archive1 (but what is there now is incorrect, the "Kept" should be changed to "Withdrawn"). The substs are {{subst:FAR top| result= '''withdrawn''' by Marskell (date) diff }} and {{subst:FAR bottom}}
- Move the FAR page to the next open N, /archiveN , lowercase a, sample. GimmeBot looks for the next open N on its next archive, so it doesn't care if a previous number is used but not in history.
Re-open the original FAR page,(sample) to (a) remove the redirect, (b) prep it ready for next submission by adding the page header ===[[Article name]]=== and a link to previous FAR withdrawn (no uppercase p all uppercase FAR, this is for some other scripts)New bot procedure. Just maintenance delete the old page now.- Go to the article talk page. (a) Remove the {{FAR}} template from the article talk page, (b) leave a comment on the talk page in a new section noting that the FAR was withdrawn, with a link to the archive file.
- If necessary, notify the nominator.
As long as the FAR page isn't protected, and there isn't a COI, Maralia or I can do these for you. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:54, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
- Here's a diff with a complete sample of how it's done: [3] SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:50, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
FAR mismatch
Marskell, there's a mismatch in your archives today; what you entered in archive [4] [5] is different than what you entered at WP:FA. [6] [7] Are you still on? It appears that you intended to delist United States Constitution instead of Menstrual cycle. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:11, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
- I alerted Gimmetrow. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:01, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
- Gimmetrow botified according to what you listed in the FAR archive, as that looked correct. If that is correct, then the entries at WP:FA and WP:FFA (on Menstrual cycle and US Constitution) are the only corrections needed. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:19, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
Kreutz Sungrazers
Me and Ruslik have agreed that he will do the sourcing and I will do the copyedit. I'll jump in if he needs it, but I want to avoid us both doing it at the same time so we don't do duplicate work. - Mgm|(talk) 16:55, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
Read fully
I don't know where this came from: it was likely one of Tony's rewrites, but it's misleading and wrong. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:27, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
- Checked history, there since the earliest days. Who knew: well slap my hand. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:50, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
FAR of Crab Nebula
Crab Nebula has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Ceran →(sing→see →scribe) 14:30, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
- The nomination has been postponed. Ceran →(sing→see →scribe) 14:43, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
- I'd love to try and copy edit through this slush, I'll start ASAP. Ceran →(sing→see →scribe) 14:52, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit
Hi Marskell; I saw your name on WP:PR/V, so I came to ask if you'd be willing to help copyedit Christmas 1994 nor'easter. I'd really appreciate it if you could. Cheers, –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 01:39, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
RCC
Drop me a note when you put up your list for Nancy? So I can compare notes, etc. Ealdgyth - Talk 22:57, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
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Marskell, Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Primate has been floating around the bottom of the page for a while, and really needs an animal-person review, in case you have time for a quick glance. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:44, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
List of FAR saves
Following up on the tag-end of this discussion, I asked Sandy if there was a list of FAR saves anywhere. I said I'd ask you, so do you know of any such list? Carcharoth (talk) 06:10, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
- Gimmetrow has suggested that a category could be populated. Would you and Joel be happy with that? One thing I want to do is see if there was any substantial change before and after the FAR. i.e. distinguish between frivolous FARs and those where a lot of work was done to save it (are there lots of frivolous FARs). That would be more complicated I guess, and would be better handled by a list. I was also looking at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log and Wikipedia:Featured article statistics, and was wondering where FAR stats and logs fit in. The number of demoted articles is a FAR measure, but the number of FAR saves is that as well. Again, the frivolous FARs would skew any stats, but some measure of the overall rate of FARs and how that has varied over the years would be nice. Only if there's time of course. I'm aware that something like that is more time-consuming than simply populating a category. I would be happy to help out though. Carcharoth (talk) 06:33, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
- Update: Gimmetrow found an old category and has triggered ArticleHistory to populate it. See Category:Wikipedia featured article review candidates (closed). Sandy says she knows which ones are the trivial FARs (closed without need for action), and there might be a need to find articles removed after a second (or more) FAR (how common is that?). But I have what I need now. Sorry to have split the discussion over three different talk pages. Carcharoth (talk) 07:18, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Explaining further
Sorry to have confused you. I'll try and explain what happened. I was talking to Sandy about one of those 2004 FAs that got extensively rewritten this year (2008) at FAR (the article in question was Shrine of Remembrance). I'm always very impressed when someone makes the effort to save an article at FAR (I'm sure you mentioned this vital aspect of FAR yourself in one of your 'Dispatches' for the Signpost). This led me to wonder if there was a list anywhere of the articles that have been 'saved' at FAR. Hence my question to you above. I then had the idea that this information could be extracted through the {{ArticleHistory}} template (rather than manually going back through the FAR archives). So I went and asked Gimmetrow, who suggested a category and made this edit.
This is where it does get slightly confusing. I thought Gimmetrow had created that category, but it turns out that Category:Wikipedia featured article review candidates (closed) has existed since June 2006 (when you created it - which is why I'm asking you about the history of what happened here). At the time, it appears to have been populated by {{FARpassed}} (see the note left on the category page in July 2006). Presumably the FARpassed template was in use from July 2006 until sometime around January 2007. As I said, I don't know the full history here and you (as the category creator) are far more likely to know. The reason I mention January 2007 is that this is the date of this discussion (titled 'FAR and the FAC bot'), started by Gimmetrow. In the final section of that discussion (the process), you said "BTW, keeps are categorized at Category:Wikipedia featured article review candidates (closed) (a bit of a clunky category name) and removes under Category:Wikipedia former featured articles." What happened after that, I don't know.
Moving forward to yesterday (7 November 2008), Gimmetrow said, when I asked, that the FAR closed category was empty (except for one Wikipedia page). So at some point, Category:Wikipedia featured article review candidates (closed) got depopulated. My guess is that this happened when Template:FARpassed (not in use today) got replaced with ArticleHistory. See the discussion at Template talk:ArticleHistory/Deprecation and at this TfD debate (from December 2007, where Gimmetrow said "FARpassed and FormerFA2 would be used if FAR needs to do things by hand"). Indeed, in August 2008, Sandy removed the 'historical' tag from FARpassed with the comment Remove historical, with GimmeBot on vacation, I'm going to need to use this temporarily.
So the key points are that Category:Wikipedia featured article review candidates (closed) used to be populated, then got depopulated at some indeterminate point, and then Gimmetrow repopulated it with his edit to 'ArticleHistoryoutput' yesterday. The questions for you (as you created the category) are probably: what do you do with that category, and do you want it populated or not?
Going further, it would be nice to work out exactly why that category got missed out when the transition was made from FARpassed to ArticleHistory, but I'm confused as to exactly what happened there, so it might be best to leave that. And to address the points about 'make work' that Sandy and others have raised (Sandy made several comments in edit summaries and posts yesterday about 'make work' that I had to try mightily to avoid being discouraged by), my initial questions here might have been aimed at creating a list that it would take work to maintain, but let's be clear - I wasn't asking anyone else to do that work. It was my own personal interest (I would probably eventually have identified the FARs where a long period of time had passed between original promotion and the FAR, and where 'substantial' changes had been made to save the FAR). All rather subjective of course, but if I want to spend time on that, I don't think people should be discouraging me with 'make work' comments (that's not directed at you, Marskell - and in fairness I will leave Sandy a note pointing her to what I've said here).
And it would be nice to get an acknowledgement that even if my initial questions might have been to 'make work', that I do have a fair point when asking about this category that was created by you, depopulated, and then repopulated. It's really unclear what happened there. I hope that what I've written above has made things clearer. If it hasn't, I can extract the key points if you ask me to. I'll drop a note off to Gimmetrow and Sandy to keep them informed about this. If, as they said, they deal with template stuff and ArticleHistory, and not you (at least I think that is what Sandy meant when she said: "Gimmetrow and I deal with such things"), then I'll talk to them and not you. But as the creator of the category in question, I think you might have some insight into what it was used for and what it could be used for. Carcharoth (talk) 08:53, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Bsharvy is back
Bsharvy is back, deleting referenced material from the Anti-Americanism article. No prizes for guessing the name of the sock....Clues: newly created user who strangely, despite this, seems well-versed in wikipedia procedure and has homed straight for the Anti-Americanism article, to which he is devoting exclusive attention, deleting material and engaging in edit wars... Colin4C (talk) 09:07, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
RCC
Marskell, I have replaced the Aztec picture, added wording to article text to help with cultural exchange concerns and added quotes from our Western Civilization university textbook to the special page you set up for me to show you that what you are asking for in the history section regarding Church atrocities against the Indians is not covered by scholars and why. NancyHeise talk 03:32, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Wanna be depressed ?
Remember all the work you and I put into the Microsoft FAR a year ago?[8] Look at it now.[9] Gutted, destroyed, needs major cleanup. The lead's gone! Wikipedia:Featured articles/Cleanup listing is scary. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:56, 7 November 2008 (UTC)