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The pics are just great! Tony (talk) 10:24, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Serendipodous really deserves virtually all of the credit for Timeline of the far future. Regards, RJH (talk) 21:27, 22 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the comment. I only based it on what info was available at FLC, which has a long list of editors. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:12, 23 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sadly, we have recently lost a key GA and FA reviewer, who was also a productive contributor of Featured Articles. User:Tim riley has left the project, unhappy with editors who are uncivil to other experienced Wikipedia editors. It is good that we are concerned with being friendly to newbies, but we should be just as concerned about being kind and considerate to our fellow experienced editors - people edit here because it is a worthwhile project, but if what Tim called the "joy" goes out of it, it is difficult to justify continuing to put in a lot of time. I would refer everyone specifically to WP:CITEVAR. Personally, I think that there should be a corollary to WP:OWN that says that when an experienced editor has brought an article to GA or FA quality and continues to monitor the quality of that article, other editors should avoid arguing with him or her about silly formatting changes that make that editor's life difficult and should respect that editor's preferences regarding non-substantive content issues, unless there is an important technical consideration involved, like WP:ACCESS. -- Ssilvers (talk) 23:32, 23 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Ssilvers. It's sad to see a productive editor leave. I wish User:Tim riley well and hope he's only on an extended wikibreak. Efforts are underway to improve the climate including WikiProject Editor Retention as a start; discovering why editors leave, inviting them back, retaining those who are active and much more needs to be done. Everyone can help. The corollary to WP:OWN is there on the page under stewardship. Stewardship needs to be explained better and emphasized more. Take care, everyone, DocTree (ʞlɐʇ) (cont) Join WER 17:13, 24 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No, he's gone for good. And, an editor has just attacked me on my talk page insisting that his style of formatting at The King and I is better than mine; and so he has reformatted the references there over my objection, and without giving me a chance to consider his comments first. After producing quite a few GAs and FAs (and hundreds of other articles) myself, over the past six years, this makes me feel as if it is not worth working on the project. Thanks for pointing me to stewardship. -- Ssilvers (talk) 17:46, 24 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]