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GAN report: mystery solved?

Wugapodes, you may recall that in the GAN report's Malformed nominations sections, an "Unknown nomination" link to the Film section of the page, but with no other information beyond that, showed up for this first time on June 1, 2019. It finally disappeared last night, and I have a tentative diagnosis.

I believe the nomination in question was for Rushmore (film), which was originally made on May 31, 2019, during the day and with a subtopic of "Film". It was clearly a handmade GA nominee template (people are supposed to substitute the GAN template): what I thought was the problem here was that there were no links for the nominator or their talk page, which I fixed. What I missed when I finally started investigating in mid-June—and what I think caused your bot to pick up on the error—was that the date/time field was malformed: all times are supposed to have two digits for the hour and two for the minutes, and this was formatted "8:20, 31 May 2019 (UTC)" rather than "08:20, 31 May 2019 (UTC)", something I didn't notice until today, when I was trying to figure out what went wrong.

I think it was the problematic date that caused the problem, though there may have been something else about this nomination that caused it—this is a tentative diagnosis, after all, and it may be accurate, partially accurate, or not the actual issue at all. Still, this info might help you track down where in the code the error might have been generated, and why the link was to the section rather than the actual (problematic) nomination.

Hope all is well, and best of luck tracking this down. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:15, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, yeah, that's probably it. The regular expression which parses the noms assumes that the timestamp has two digits for the hour, so that's an easy fix. Wug·a·po·des​ 18:46, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

GANs to do

New Years Greetings

I've noticed that some of these GANs directly above are either done or on hold. In case you might be interested, I've recently listed the biography for the film director Martin Scorsese as a nomination. He is nominated for an Oscar this year and I thought it might be nice if his article could be brought to peer review quality before the Oscars next month, if you might be inclined to look at it. CodexJustin (talk) 17:12, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2022 September newsletter

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WikiCup 2023 September newsletter

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February music

story · music · places

The image, taken on a cemetery last year after the funeral of a distant but dear family member, commemorates today, with thanks for their achievements, four subjects mentioned on the Main page and Vami_IV, a friend here. Listen to music by Tchaikovsky (an article where one of the four is pictured), sung by today's subject (whose performance on stage I enjoyed two days ago). -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:33, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Listen to music from Ukraine if you like, - I heard it in 2022, and the November concert (at a different church) raised a truckload of winter clothes. My story today is also from my life: I heard the singer in 3 of the 4 mentioned musical items. I sang in yesterday's. - Rinaldo (opera) premiered OTD, DYK? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:04, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

more music and flowers on Rossini's rare birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:45, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

kindly look at Vivaldi --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:49, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Question from K-bots224 (08:23, 9 March 2024)

Hi! Can u tell me how to report IP addresses. A person is continuously making wrong edits on a cricketer --K-bots224 (talk) 08:23, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi K-bots224, you can try WP:ANI for general reports of misconduct. If it's multiple IPs on a single page, you can try WP:RFPP as well. — Wug·a·po·des 19:51, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Editor experience invitation

Hi Wugapodes :) I'm surprised I haven't asked you this before (I've checked three times) but... are you interested in pitching in at User:Clovermoss/Editor reflections? If you're not, feel free to pass. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 17:12, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Clovermoss, nice to hear from you! I'd seen the page early on in the initiative and thought it was cool, but it's grown a lot since then (an understatement). My first thought just now was "wow, this is a really cool data set", so I'm a bit research-brained at the moment if you can't tell. I do want to contribute, but I need some time to reflect on the answers. They're good questions, so I'd rather give them a good response rather than whatever ticks the box. — Wug·a·po·des 20:03, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Question from Hbar663 (04:16, 15 March 2024)

Hi, I just published my first edit on the page for Marjorie Lees at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Lees and I made a note that I am adding a reference. It appears someone else immediately deleted my 1 sentence addition because it did not have a reference. Is this normal? --Hbar663 (talk) 04:16, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Hbar663 and welcome to Wikipedia! I saw your most recent edit has a reference which supports the text, so thank you for your contribution! In general, we have very high standards for articles about people because of the harm incorrect information can cause, so many editors prefer to revert any addition of information that doesn't have a reference. You did the right thing though: you made another edit which fixed the problem the other editor had. It happens pretty often and it doesn't mean you've done something wrong. Something similar happened to me a few weeks ago on an article I was writing, and just like you did, I made another edit to address the original concern. It's how collaboration tends to work around here, and you seem to have a knack for it already! I look forward to more contributions, and let me know if you have other questions. — Wug·a·po·des 19:49, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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