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Good to featured[edit]

On the nomination procedure page it says Topics will move automatically from good to featured..., yet it's been 12 days since 2012 Tour de France gained FA status and the topic has not been moved? BaldBoris 14:07, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

  • I believe you still have to nominate it and gain support. If approved then it will move to FT.  MPJ-DK  15:48, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
    • I took care of it. It's now a Featured Topic. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. GamerPro64 15:58, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

─────────────────────────Interstate 675 (Michigan) was promoted to FA today, bumping Wikipedia:Featured topics/Interstate Highways in Michigan from GT to FT status. Imzadi 1979  01:32, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

  • Thanks for the update. Everything's good here. GamerPro64 01:43, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
    • @BaldBoris: mind making Book:Michigan_State_Trunkline_Highway_System a bit more readable? I think it is used by multiple topics too, so it would be nice to have a book that is more structured. Nergaal (talk) 09:42, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
    • ? BaldBoris 11:24, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
      • @Nergaal: you pinged the wrong person about that. What's wrong with it? The book lists every state highway in numerical order, which matches the previous/next browsing order at the bottom of the infoboxes in the individual state highway articles. Ahead of those individual highways, the book lists the article on the overall system and the 4 lists. I see nothing wrong with that, so you'll need to explain your concerns instead of asking uninvolved editors to fix things. Imzadi 1979  23:45, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
        • Essentially try to split it into some kind of subsections. Nergaal (talk) 02:10, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
          • To what end? Once List of state trunkline highways in Michigan is finished off and sent through FLC, then we'll have a Good Topic on that subsection of the state highway system, and finally a Featured Topic on the State Trunkline Highway System itself. The book really serves as the adjunct to that topic, a topic of subtopics 12 years in the making. While state trunkline highways in Michigan have one of three different designation types, they are equivalent. The split into subtopics is a matter of convenience, lest we have a 213-article Good Topic. Again, the articles are set to browse M-1 → US 2 → M-3 → ... M-68 → I-69 → M-69 → .... That is the order the articles appear in the book. Imzadi 1979  03:28, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured topics/Russell family (Passions) became a featured topic after Eve Russell was promoted to FA. I added it to the appropriate subpage of WP:GO and Template:Announcements/New featured content. Could somebody do the other steps? @GamerPro64: Armbrust The Homunculus 00:31, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Done. GamerPro64 15:56, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
Thank you! Aoba47 (talk) 03:36, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Better definition for rules[edit]

I think that the following criterion could be defined more clearly:

The featured topic director, GamerPro64, or his delegate Juhachi, determine the timing of the process for each nomination. For a nomination to be promoted to FT or GT status, consensus must be reached for a group to be promoted to featured or good topic status.

I am going to recommend that we follow the WP:FPC guidelines of:

For promotion, if an image is listed here for ten days with five or more reviewers in support and the consensus is in its favor, it can be added to the Wikipedia:Featured pictures list. Consensus is generally regarded to be a two-third majority in support, including the nominator and/or creator of the image; however, anonymous votes are generally disregarded, as are opinions of sockpuppets.

Rephrased for our project:

For promotion, if a topic is listed here for ten days with five or more reviewers in support and the consensus is in its favor, it can be promoted. Consensus is generally regarded to be a two-third majority in support, including the nominator(s) of the topic; however, anonymous votes are generally disregarded, as are opinions of sockpuppets.

Thoughts? Kees08(Talk) 19:59, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

  • A hard ten day limit is going to be very problematic here, given how long it can take to draw attention to even the most well-qualified of topics. I'd suggest a month, as that seems to be how long a normal nomination takes around here. Courcelles (talk) 21:04, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
  • Yeah, 30 days seems more appropriate. Kees08 (Talk) 19:21, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

Discussing article quality during nomination[edit]

Just curious what the consensus for this is. I think that the GT/FT nomination process should only talk about if all the relevant articles are included in the topic, and there are no extraneous articles. I think if there are any issues with the article itself, it should be brought up at the article's talk page, GAR, etc. Thoughts? Kees08 (Talk) 07:52, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Nomination needs closing[edit]

Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Type 1934-class destroyers/archive1 was promoted but the nomination is still open. Brad (talk) 00:43, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

GamerPro64 closed it last January...-- 01:08, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
Unlike FAC or FLC, FTC doesn't have a bot come by and put closing templates on the nomination page. When the coordinator says that the nomination is closed and adds the topic to WP:GT/FT, that's it. --PresN 01:17, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/Article alerts shows the nomination as still open so something isn't right. Brad (talk) 13:23, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

There was still a template up saying it was still nominated. I removed the template. GamerPro64 16:01, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Month-old addition page still open[edit]

This nomination for three additions to the Marvel Cinematic Universe films good topic has been open since April 8 and currently has six votes of support (and in the interest of transparency, one is from me). I wanted to request a user to review this addition and close it as either added or not, as I personally think it has remained open longer than necessary. Sock (tock talk) 17:50, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Ancient FTC[edit]

Greetings, shouldn't Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Naruto characters/archive1 be closed? It's almost a year old with no comments and two standing opposes. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:36, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

It says its been closed. GamerPro64 20:21, 25 September 2018 (UTC)