Hello. Could you please delete my wikipedi acount my username is sushiante, and my acount is placed in english and persian wikipedia. if it is not possible to delete please rename it to xz1037tpm. thank you very much. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sushiante ( talk • contribs) 15:32, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi Raul654. Please see my comments at March 15. Is there any chance whatsoever of having the Hurva featured on March 15? Regards, Chesdovi ( talk) 17:18, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi Raul. These ones are eligible for closing and I've already chimed in, so it's up to you
These two as well please
MAny thanks YellowMonkey ( vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 00:18, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
Doing it now. Raul654 ( talk) 00:02, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
Someone asked me why today's FA Superb Fairywren was also featured on 10th Jan Wikipedia:Today's_featured_article/January_2010. Is that odd? William M. Connolley ( talk) 12:35, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
Hey man, I just want to take the time to thank you. Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication. I, as well as many other users I am sure, really appreciate your help on this site. It's people like you that makes me want to get on this site. Again, thank you.
Hey there Raul. Seeing as you seemed to have obtained the Stanford archives lists with the help of a bot/automatically and also managed to add them with the correct formatting (i.e. adding the * and [ ] between the names), I was wondering if you can help out with the new set of lists I just made. I just started this sub list: Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Global Names Index and I was hoping the have the lists organized in such a way so that they look like this: Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Global Names Index/A. Now if worse comes to worse I will go on ahead and do all that manually but in the hope of saving a bit of time I was wondering if you could tell me/assist me in a way that would make it all done automatically (as I said; in the style that your stanford archive lists were automatically added). Kindest regards. Calaka ( talk) 12:35, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
I've tweaked the script to do pagination. It's probably going to take the better part of a day to run now. Raul654 ( talk) 19:59, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
The connection times out every few hundred thousand entries. The script dumps frequently now, and I've added the ability to manually restart the script, so all that is required is restarting the script every few hours. (Eventually, I might add a try-catch cability so it doesn't crash). Anyway, here is the first data set. The file is 17 megs, and consists of 321,341 entries covering AAA through ADX. I'll let you decide what to do with it. There's probably another 50-75 files like that in this database. Raul654 ( talk) 19:35, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
Two more things - (1) I noticed that the search template is wrong (it searches for "X" instead of the entry). I've fixed this going forward. (2) On the instructions at the top of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Global Names Index, you said that "Under no circumstances are these names/articles to be created with the assistance of a bot/computer/program." I think that's a bit naive. If you and 9 other people created one article from that list, every 10 seconds, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, it would take you the better part of a year to finish. More realistically, without substantially more effecient tools (including bots and editing assistance programs), I don't think you have a chance of scratching the surface of that list. Raul654 ( talk) 19:41, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
I've fixed the data files to add + signs where appropriate. Raul654 ( talk) 00:24, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
FWIW, I have scraped 9.2 million names - so that means I'm just over half-way done. The total data size is 731 megabytes. Raul654 ( talk) 03:58, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Hey man. I just wanted to ask you (and this in no way is asking you to actually do it - I know you are a very busy person in the wiki world so no stress) how the code changing was going along for the list? I hope there were no problems encountered in trying to change the code to remove the names of individuals (i.e. second word being a capital letter). I am feeling quite good re: the fact that the list got shortened down so much that I am anxiously waiting for the final touches before I copy/paste all the genus/species names on the lists! Oh and in case you are curious there are many many subspecies that inevitably got removed (I have been doing a few mammal articles so I came across quite a few!) but as I probably said somewhere above: 1st priority Genus and higher taxonomic rankings. 2nd priority species. 3rd priority subspecies. Cheers! Calaka ( talk) 09:59, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
Hey there Raul! I thought I bring you a bit of good news/info: [2] a bot that can create all the species articles! It is first going through the marine species (from the Worms database) which will eventually create ~200,000 or so species articles (or less depending how many are not already on Wikipedia) and subsequently the genera and higher taxonomic rankings. There is hence the potential for this to be utilised with the other databases. To sum up, we might be able to see this project getting completed sometime this century hehehe! But of course that particular list of 200,000 or so names will take a bit of time so I am not going to get help from them for the other databases with the bot until later on. Anyway, all the best. :) Calaka ( talk) 02:55, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Hmm I tried to add the list of names on the second page of A at least 10 times now but it constantly fails/gives me an error message. I might have to employ a bot for this if they are going to end up crashing so often in placing up the lists. :( Calaka ( talk) 09:32, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
Raul, could you keep an eye on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/History of logic/archive1? Thanks, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 16:42, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
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I've tried to track down how Ruffed lemur got nominated or set up for inclusion in "Today's Featured Article", but have not been able to do so. I noticed that you added it to the queue, so I guess you're the person to thank. I've been wanting to nominate one of the lemur FAs I've written for months, but every time I add up the points I just don't make the cut. Therefore, I haven't bothered to nominate them... yet. Anyway, thank you very much for the honor! Any time you want a biology article added to the nomination page (due a lack of good submissions), just ask. I don't always check the nomination page. I've currently got 5 FAs on lemurs, and I hope to eventually make all 100+ articles FA or GA, so there should be lots to choose from in the future. Best wishes! – VisionHolder « talk » 18:19, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
It looks like you are skilled with bots, maybe you can help out the Intertranswiki project? Thanks! Djacku ( talk) 15:15, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
Raul, I'm on dialup for the near future, after a nasty storm wiped out half my town; how about archiving some of your talk page :) :) SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 16:26, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
Raul,
I opened up Wikipedia today and noticed that your featured article for March 14th is about Luftwaffe General Field Marshal Albert Kesselring. As a person of Jewish descent, I found this choice to be somewhat troubling. Field Marshal Kesselring was found guilty of war crimes by a British Military Court and sentenced to death for his role in the massacre of 335 Italians during the war. He was later pardoned and then released from prison for medical reasons, afterwards becoming the leader of the neonazi organization Stahlhelm Bund der Frontsoldaten. He kept this position until his death in 1960. As an unrepentant supporter of the Nazi regime, I have nothing but contempt for him.
Curious as to the occasion for this article, I looked up the historical anniversaries that occurred on March 14th, and found that this date was the anniversary of the final "liquidation" of the Krakow Ghetto in 1943. On this date, 2000 Jews were murdered. On March 13th, which was the date in my timezone when I found the article, the Nazis completed Anschluss, the unification of Germany and Austria. This was for Hitler a major accomplishment, as he desired the formation of an empire uniting all the German-speaking peoples of Europe, those who were part of the Aryan "master race".
I would like an explanation as to why this page was chosen for the Feature Article on this date. Nazism is a highly charged topic and you should recognize the impact that this article has on your readers. As the Featured Articles Director, you have a responsibility to choose articles that promote decency or at the very least do not promote indecency. The selection of a Nazi General and war criminal is in poor taste, especially on this date.
Sincerely,
Eric —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.251.6.252 ( talk) 20:35, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
96.251.6.252 ( talk) 04:33, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Are you still interested on feturing the article or at least make it get the GA status? OboeCrack ( talk) 23:10, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi Raul. Is there a chance of getting another delegate? Marskell and Joelito aren't around anymore, and on a lot of the FARs that are non-trivial (those that weren't flagrantly failing, or had some work done on them) there are often no more than one serious review, and on many of them I see lots of problems, but if I comment, it may cause about 50% of the FARs to be unclosable by me. So I recommend adding Dana boomer ( talk · contribs); she has done a lot of reviews including many on the in-depth, non-trivial cases where there is usually no comment or people just sit around looking at each other YellowMonkey ( vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 00:55, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Recently you archived Wikipedia:Featured article review/Manila Light Rail Transit System/archive1. Admittedly it has been at FAR for a long time, but I was actively editing it and I was given to understand from the various discussions there that while that was so, it wouldn't be a big deal for the article to stay there. I'm not familiar enough with FAR to know the chances of the article being retained as FA but I believe I have made material improvements to it and if the issues that were initially brought up are the only ones to address, the article can be brought up to standard if it is not there already. Would it be all right to request that the article be reinstated for review? There were three holds there at the time it was removed and two delists that were given before most of my improvements. If the article is still deemed deficient after attempts to address the concerns, then there's not much to say, but I would like the opportunity to get the opinion of those who reserved judgment pending the outcome of my efforts. Lambanog ( talk) 05:06, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
Sorry to not catch this sooner, but there is a small error on the Ruffed lemur summary that is now on the main page. In the opening sentence, it starts off by saying: "The ruffed lemur is a Strepsirhine primate" "Strepsirhine" should be lowercase and have a double "r": strepsirrhine. Anyway, sorry for the trouble. I'm doing my best to monitor things, but I'm out of town at the moment and having to work off a public computer in a hotel. – VisionHolder « talk » 06:14, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi Raul! Thanks for the note on my talk page. I would be willing to step up into a position as FAR delegate. You have probably already been through my contributions, and if you believe that I have the experience and knowledge necessary, I would love to be able to help out more on the FAR page. Dana boomer ( talk) 11:45, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
I checked and I liked what I saw. I've made her a FAR delegate. Raul654 ( talk) 21:34, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi Raul. You'll have to close Bath school disaster as both of us have bitten already YellowMonkey ( vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 03:30, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you... but if we wait eight months, we could get a 100-year anniversary. – Juliancolton | Talk 21:54, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello, Raul645! May 11, 1960 will be the fiftieth anniversary of the return of the nuclear submarine USS Triton following the completion of its maiden voyage, which included the first submerge circumnavigation of the world. Triton was commanded by the late Captain Edward L. Beach, a highly-decorated naval officer from World War Two and author of the novel Run Silent, Run Deep.
I have worked hard to improve the Triton article from its original B-rating, and it has been upgraded to A-Class status, and it is currently undergoing a FAC review. Can you offer any assistance on moving the FAC process forward so that the Triton article can be considered as the TFA for May 11, 2010? Thank you for your time and consideration. This is an important anniversary for me and those who have helped me on this matter. All the best! Marcd30319 ( talk) 23:21, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi Raul, does Quehanna Wild Area have any chance as the April 1 TFA for 2011 (assuming it passes FAC, which looks pretty good at the moment)? The reason I ask is thet if it has no chance, I will nominate it for a DYK for April 1 this year. If it has a chance I will wait and take my chances next year on TFA (and not spoil the surprise this year with a DYK). Thanks, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 11:00, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
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for letting File:Insane Clown Posse concert.jpg hit the main page unprotected. βcommand 00:14, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
is there a way to contact you in private? I have some information that you may be interested in. This is not spam, I am just trying to stay anonymous. 99.106.226.1 ( talk) 19:08, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
Could you have least picked a band who makes good music?
How wonderful it is you created this article! I hope you won't mind me butting in at some point and expanding; after having brought Stephen Crane to FA almost a year and a half ago, I'm finally spending time improving the articles dedicated to his works; " The Open Boat" is a GA and bound for FAC in a week or so, The Monster may soon be GA-worthy, and just a few days ago I created The Black Riders and Other Lines. It's so great to see someone take an interest in Crane. :) María ( habla con migo) 16:45, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
Just to let you know, in case you've been too busy to notice, that the potential April 1 item Quehanna Wild Area cleared FAC on Saturday. I am aware that you had already scheduled (or at least added the blurb) for Wife Selling prior to this FAC.
That is fine. Wikipedia is not censored, and, just as I support the right of the German Wikipedia to feature "Vulva" on the main page, so I support the right of the English Wikipedia to feature a serious article on an emotive topic with serious blurb on a joke day: some readers may think it is a joke, others may be offended, but that is their problem, right?
If you have the view that all publicity is good publicity, then such a choice is likely to be a big success. I don't have that view. My personal opinion is that our freedoms should be employed and deployed with discretion: Wife Selling, with such a blurb, would be a great article to feature on any other day, when it would be unambiguously clear that the project was taking the subject seriously. Using it on April 1 may instead be damaging.
I've been wrong before, though, and I could be wrong now. You are the expert in TFA's, and I am grateful for the work that you do. Geometry guy 21:34, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
Not sure if you were aware of this but both delegates have !voted on this one, so you will have to close it. Cheers, Dabomb87 ( talk) 12:59, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi, there! What's up? It's me User:Hephaestos. I'm back, but I now have a new account, because I lost the password to my Hephaestos account. Well, take care! John Maynard Robinson ( talk) 21:42, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
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Do you have any thoughts on whether or not the current Main Page article wife selling ought to be semi-protected? Has consensus changed about this? See here and here. Paul August ☎ 20:50, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
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Do you know of a list of popular TFAs, by view count? 307,600 views of Wife selling would certainly belong on it... Parrot of Doom 11:49, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
I am slightly confused. Prior to the stats tool, hit counts were done using edits, not actual views. See Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-12-11/Features and admins, Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-12-11/SPV, Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-04-23/News and notes, Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-04-23/SPV, etc. Raul654 ( talk) 19:22, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for the kind words. I'm a big fan of your work, especially the photos you posted from the Taubman Museum. And you've cleaned up my messes more than once. I appreciate it. BoringHistoryGuy ( talk) 21:21, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
The user this page pertains to has been site banned. What reason is there to keep it?— Dæ dαlus Contribs 06:36, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
You may also wish to read Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:GoRight/Raul654. Although I still think the evidence page you have should be deleted, I'm not going to nom it right away. I'm rather going to seek input from others, including yourself, in hopes you yourself will delete it.— Dæ dαlus Contribs 06:39, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
I thought you might be interested to know that I am working on getting peer reviews of FAs on 18th- and 19th-century topics. Awadewit ( talk) 05:59, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
I have nominated Jon Wilhite, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jon Wilhite. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.
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Fourth nag. Please? YellowMonkey ( vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll) 02:38, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
Why not include the Bio link in the template? - it seems to me that it aids navigation... Modernist ( talk) 16:37, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I nominated File:Edward Elgar.jpg for deletion, of which you had uploaded the original version. Hekerui ( talk) 19:42, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
You may wish to use George V of the United Kingdom as TFA on May 6. It will be 100 years since his accession. DrKiernan ( talk) 11:55, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi there Raul. I had nominated United States Academic Decathlon at WP:TFA/R to run on the main page on April 25 [5]. However, due to some unfortunate circumstances the article was bumped after having received eight supports and no opposes, and I don't see a chance for it to be readded to the list before April 25 is scheduled. Is there a possibility that I could make a special request to you to run it on the main page that day regardless? NW ( Talk) 11:13, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
I'll be doing some scheduling later today or early tomorrow. I'll consider these requests then. Raul654 ( talk) 19:52, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
I found an unrestricted copy of G-110, and uploaded it. Interesting, how this changes things: G-113 is obviously a direct study for G-110, and G-113's lacy blue & white patches are the chaperone from G-110 turned 90 degrees to face the model. Eakins tried 5 different locations/positions for the chaperone, but the problem of where to put her was never really resolved. It makes me wonder if G-109's chair with the clothes was a deliberate provocation by Eakins to distract from a composition that never quite satisfied him.
Funny, except for the location of the chaperone and the (probably inaccurate) high-ceilinged workshop, how well the vertical composition of G-110 works. And, with the model on a higher pedestal, how much stronger the visual connection is between model and nymph statue.
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Doh, this is what I get for not clicking the link first. I get to eat my above words. I thought you were talking about a photograph of a 2D work (which, the Crystal Bridge's all-encompasing disclaimr aside, are definitely not protected by copyright). However, you are talking about a photograph of a sculpture (a 3D work), which is not in the public domain.
Not to fear, though. I was planning to email a certain avidly pro-Wikipedian Smithsonian employee later today to follow up on our Denver meeting. I will also ask her if she can provide certifiable PD images of that sculpture.
Regarding this particular image, I'm pretty busy at the moment but in a couple of weeks I'll pull out my copy of Goodrich '33 and compare his descriptions in there to what you've found. Raul654 ( talk) 04:51, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Hiya! The report is held by an agency called NTIS, which hasn't digitized it, sadly. See [6]; they will scan & send it to you for $73 (and then it's digitized forever, though not free). If you're looking for a copy for yourself, I'd check with your university library's government publications department -- tell them you're looking for NTIS report DE87009360. Chances are pretty good that they received it on microfiche back in the 80s and you can go down & copy/print the thing off the fiche; else they can likely get it through interlibrary loan (these DE fiche sets are commonly held; we almost certainly have it in our collection, and if I'm feeling ambitious I could scan it for you - though it's 200 pages, so not today :). If you're looking for a copy to link in Wikipedia, I'm not seeing a scanned copy online :( - and I'm not sure if a Livermore pub would count as government PD or not - probably not, it's probably copyright UC. See also the related site [7]. best, -- phoebe / ( talk to me) 23:43, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
Doh - that's not really what I wanted to hear, Phoebe, but thanks for looking into this for me. Raul654 ( talk) 19:51, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
After the completion of the Bolognia push, which is still several months out, would you allow an exception at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests for the list of cutaneous conditions. I realize lists are generally not reviewed for possible feature on the main page, but I wanted to know if you would make an exception for this particular article, given the scope and quality? --- kilbad ( talk) 19:29, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Raul, I wanted to let you know that I've suggested one of your featured pictures be delisted, here. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion, please do! Thanks, Maedin\ talk 00:47, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi Raul, I just thought of you re: this article, which is in pretty nice shape; I don't know if you've looked at it, but given your efforts on behalf of Eakins, she might interest you as well. Cheers, JNW ( talk) 23:48, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
It was so nice to meet you in person! You should have stayed for the rest of the conference - it was so much fun! Anyway, I wanted to figure out a way to automate the list of 18th- and 19th-century FAs that I am trying to get peer reviewed. As new FAs get promoted, how can we add them to this list? We briefly talked about this at dinner, but I wanted to make sure we made it happen! Awadewit ( talk) 04:30, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
If the information is not provided, the image may eventually be proposed for deletion, a situation which is not desirable, and which can easily be avoided.
If you have any questions please see Help:Image page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 11:29, 23 April 2010 (UTC)Thanks for the help in sorting out the block. All the best. 4meter4 ( talk) 06:07, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Featured article review/John Vanbrugh/archive1 could probably do with you (or Sandy, Karanacs, Yellowmonkey or Dana Boomer, who I assume watch this page) stepping in and making an ex cathedra ruling as to what FA criteria 2c actually means; at the moment it's turning into an angels-on-a-pinhead exercise which shows every sign of turning into a shouting match. (In my opinion, both sides are 'right'; custom-and-practice and letter-of-the-law do seem to have diverged.) – iride scent 14:38, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
My my he is getting cheeky in his old age http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/DavidYork71&oldid=360288709 even editing his long term abuse report - is it worht putting another checkuser request to make sure - or did your action do a good block ? Satu Suro 14:08, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
See Wikipedia talk:Featured article review#Time to re-evaluate?. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 14:56, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Raul, Sandy has suggested that I ping you to ask for some input on the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Featured articles#International Space Station. I feel that International Space Station has been misclassified as a Physics and astronomy when it better suits the Engineering and technology category. Any input you could offer would be appreciated. Colds7ream ( talk) 12:01, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
1) Are you stalking me? Pdfpdf ( talk) 12:44, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
2) I couldn't find a reference with his date-of-death. I gather you did? If so, could you tell me the citation please? Thanks in advance. Pdfpdf ( talk) 12:48, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
[ Brief reply]. Pdfpdf ( talk) 03:09, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
When I reverted the edit on Laura Ingraham, I opened a discussion on the talk page.....but so much for discussion. You don't even bother with it. It appears it's going to be your way, no matter what, and nobody elses input matters. Niteshift36 ( talk) 17:23, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
You have no right to close a discussion based on the "concencus reached over months of discussions", so what?lets discuss its move again, where in wikipedia does it say that concensus is an inmovable mountain that oncereached its untouchable,huh?.Concensus changes as people changes according to the survey of people who vote so you have no right to stop the voting,i read that in a policy.-- Andres rojas22 ( talk) 02:24, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why when i click on the first external link, on this page " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banlieue", it displays a porn website?!!!!! Is it expected to happen?!!!!!!!! bye!!!!!!!-- bee ( talk) 13:43, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
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In primary school, you can get a gold star for writing an essay that is much better than classmates. Use that same essay in journalism school and you will easily flunk.
What should our standards be for FA? Compared to stubs, all FAs are much better than that. Compared to an average written newspaper piece, some FAs fall short of even that, much less being equal or better.
It would be unfair to single out an article. It would be more fair to make the standards clearer and subject new candidate articles to this standard. There is one article that reads like a diary. It is not organized well but just a chronological list written in paragraph form.
Can you think of a way to improve the FA instructions? I do not seek to sink a particular article, just to standardize and raise the standards. Suomi Finland 2009 ( talk) 21:05, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Raul, I am disappointed that you have ignored my question. :( Suomi Finland 2009 ( talk) 21:11, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
This is an excellent idea. It is non-confrontational since all articles would be subject to it. Articles awarded FA from 2000-2003 could be open for renewal in the next 6 months. Articles awarded FA from 2004-2006 could be open for renewal in the first half of 2011. Articles awarded FA from 2006-2009 could be open for renewal for the first half of 2012. From then on, they can be renewed 3 years from becoming FA or their last renewal. If there are no comments, then renewal is automatic.
Right now, if an article is proposed for FA, if there are no comments, it doesn't automatically become FA. But for renewal, we could do that to make things easier. What about it, Raul? Wehwalt's proposal is very good! Suomi Finland 2009 ( talk) 20:49, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Raul, thanks for scheduling Victoria Cross (Canada) as the TFA for 24 May. As a note, the image that you have scheduled is a Fair-use image. The award has never been awarded so there is no free-use image, though there are a number of images of the old VCs. Just to let you know as I didn't think fair-use images could be on the main page. Thanks, Woody ( talk) 09:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Raul, I thought I should make you aware fo this proposal since you are the person that can make the final determination. [8]. I put the discussion on the TFA page because I thought that would be the best place to get all of the interested parties involved. I know that the switch may not happen because I am too late, but I didn't really think about it until recently. While it may be a pain, I hope you will take this consideration under proposal. Cheers and keep up the good work. Remember ( talk) 16:29, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Can I beg a favour? I'm going to be traveling for the next 6 weeks, and it'd be great if none of the articles i've worked on became TFA while I was gone, since otherwise there probably won't be anyone to deal with the more subtle forms of vandalism. Thanks! Ealdgyth - Talk 15:00, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi. This is the FAC nominator of Iravan. Thanks for choosing Iravan as tomorrow's featured article, however IMO, the current draft misses out important facets of Iravan, so I propose the following draft (may need a copyedit) which IMO gives due weight to topics in accordance to Iravan's importance in them. Iravan (known as Aravan in Southern India) is popular because of his marriage to the transgender Alis (Koovagam ceremony has wide coverage in LGBT literature and sources like BBC and Indian media). Actually, the Aravan name is more popular in LGBT related affairs. Can you please check and do the needful. Thanks.
Iravan (Aravan) is a minor character from the Hindu epic of Mahabharata. The son of Pandava prince Arjuna (one of the main heroes of the Mahabharata) and the Naga princess Ulupi, Iravan is the central god of the cult of Kuttantavar and plays a major role in the cult of Draupadi. Both these cults are of South Indian origin, from a region of the country where he is worshipped as a village deity. The Mahabharata portrays Iravan as dying a heroic death in the 18-day Kurukshetra War, the epic's main subject. However, the South Indian cults have a supplementary tradition of honouring Iravan's self-sacrifice to the goddess Kali to ensure her favour and the victory of the Pandavas in the war. The South Indian cult focus on three boons granted to Iravan by the god Krishna in honour of this self-sacrifice. Iravan is also a patron god of well-known Indian transgender communities called Ali. In Koovagam, Tamil Nadu, an 18-day festival holds a ceremonial marriage of Iravan to Alis and male villagers (who have taken vows to Aravan) and followed then by their "widowhood" after ritual re-enactment of Iravan's sacrifice. Iravan is also known in Indonesia. Independent Javanese traditions present a dramatic marriage of Irawan to Titisari, daughter of Krishna, and a death resulting from a case of mistaken identity.( more...)
-- Redtigerxyz Talk 04:35, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Minor reworking (spelling consistency and grammar). I request you to also check for any grammar mistakes in the wording (may need a copyedit) as this is a reworking of the lead and the follow of the lead is very different:
Iravan (Aravan) is a minor character from the Hindu epic of Mahabharata. The son of Pandava prince Arjuna (one of the main heroes of the Mahabharata) and the Naga princess Ulupi, Iravan is the central god of the Kuttantavar cult and plays a major role in the cult of Draupadi. Both these cults are of South Indian origin, from a region of the country where he is worshipped as a village deity. The Mahabharata portrays Iravan as dying a heroic death in the 18-day Kurukshetra War, the epic's main subject. However, the South Indian cults have a supplementary tradition of honouring Iravan's self-sacrifice to the goddess Kali to ensure her favour and the victory of the Pandavas in the war. The South Indian cults focus on three boons granted to Iravan by the god Krishna in honour of his sacrifice. Iravan is also a patron god of the well-known Indian transgender communities called Ali. In Koovagam, Tamil Nadu, an 18-day festival holds a ceremonial marriage of Iravan to Alis and male villagers and followed then by their "widowhood" after ritual re-enactment of Iravan's sacrifice. Iravan is also known in Indonesia. Independent Javanese traditions present a dramatic marriage of Iravan to Titisari, daughter of Krishna, and a death resulting from a case of mistaken identity.( more...)
-- Redtigerxyz Talk 07:05, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I take it you've had no response from the museum curator you mentioned on Wikipedia talk: WikiProject Africa...? Dsp13 ( talk) 13:28, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I am awaiting an official peer review, but was told by a FAC delegate to get as many people looking at the page as possible. The page just received GA status today. At your earliest convenience, could you take a look at the Stephens City, Virginia page and review it (placing it on the page's talk page or mine is fine) independent of the official peer review. I would open to any and all requests during the review. Thanks... NeutralHomer • Talk • 01:27, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
I'm hardly an expert, but it looks fine to me. Raul654 ( talk) 23:19, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
I have nominated Steve McIntyre, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steve McIntyre. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. TexasAndroid ( talk) 03:54, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
I transformed Nokian Tyres from a stub to a GA and have improved it more. However, it is not an extremely long article. I have seen some FA that are very long but are not the best written. Is length a requirement? I am debating whether to do further repairs to the Nokian article then submit it for a FA. Suomi Finland 2009 ( talk) 21:04, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Mark,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Traumatic insemination 1 edit1.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 4, 2010. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2010-06-04. howcheng { chat} 16:19, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
I am notifying you a request has been made here to postpone the TFA date of Mary Rose, which is scheduled to appear as tomorrows article as you are no doubt aware. Yoenit ( talk) 14:29, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
In order to demonstrate that I don't disagree with every edit you make, I'll point out that I think this one was a good move. Pdfpdf ( talk) 15:33, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
I want to make an article an FA or FA like. I don't want people to complain that the references are not the same format. XXXXX Is it ok if the references are not exactly the same format?
Here is something that was on another talk page.
I manually put "retrieved" because if I don't, people say that the references are not a consistent format. I want the article to be either a FA or equivalent to a FA. Suomi Finland 2009 (talk) 18:24, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
OK, no problem - I just wanted to make sure you knew about the parameter option. I usually use accessdate= because it forces the refs to stay consistent, but it's up to you. MastCell Talk 18:54, 8 June 2010 (UTC) Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:MastCell"
Others may answer but I would like the answer of the main FA person, which is you. Suomi Finland 2009 ( talk) 18:58, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Raul, are you awake? Suomi Finland 2009 ( talk) 14:56, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
I don't want to take up a slot at TFAR, especially with only three days' notice, but in case you've missed it can I draw your attention to Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests#World Cup? I wholeheartedly agree that we ought to highlight it in some way; in Europe, Africa and Latin America this is by far the biggest event of the year (the Olympics come a distant second), and the Final in particular will be certain to break the worldwide TV and radio audience records. – iride scent 21:39, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I come here to ask a favour. Since the admin script that used to move protect the TFA appears to have been down for several weeks, myself and several other admins have been running round making sure that the TFA is move-protected before it hits the Main Page, but since you schedule the things, would you mind protecting them, setting it to expire after the new TFA is up. It would be... undesirable, shall we say, if Grawp or one of his moron sycophants were able to move the TFA. Thanks for your time, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 03:17, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that you have revised either Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri or Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire.
I intend to revise those articles following the Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Article guidelines. There are more details on the discussion pages of those articles. I'd be interested in any comments you have. It would be best if your comments were on the discussion pages of the two articles.
Thank you.
Vyeh ( talk) 10:55, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
I noticed you Wikified the link for Canterburg, Virginia on the Stephens City, Virginia page. One problem with this is that Canterburg, Virginia is a redlink and Stephens City is a newly-minted GA. My question, will you be making an article for Canterburg, Virginia? - NeutralHomer • Talk • 23:22, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
I was also wondering if you could re-review this GA review. I am asking as User:Risker has blocked User:Xtzou as a sock of a blocked account. This is a problem for me as Xtzou was my GA Reviewer. Since Xtzou was blocked as a sock, I want to make sure this doesn't void my GA review, hence my request. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 23:24, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
I seem to remember you had some edit check tools. See this can you help with data on the number of cases commented on in the uninvolved section by uninvolved editors? By hand is TDS -- BozMo talk 11:03, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
Would you mind page moving Knight, Death, and the Devil to Knight, Death and the Devil. The second is the British Museum title and the most usual in the sources. I am searching about for possible BM FA candidate, by the way, if you are interested in a colab at some stage. I think it would give us a lot of creditability with them if we did it sooner rather than later. I know that a relic would be the most obvious choice, but you me and lith are all interested in Dürer, and that goes a long way to generating work. Ceoil ( talk) 18:11, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi - would you consider setting up links like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Today%27s_featured_article
for each of the elements of:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Featured_content
These would be similar in spirit to the link for:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
but would be much more likely to lead to an article of general interest.
Rationale: one could bookmark a link to TFA, or other TF? items, perhaps as part of a set of links one might visit on a daily or other regular basis, but without having to enter the Portal:Featured_content salad page.
thanks, 24.5.184.87 (talk) 19:12, 15 June 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.5.184.87 ( talk)
Hi Raul, is there any chance you could please deselect International Space Station for June 16? I was hoping to run it in October, on the date it takes the 'longest continuous human presence in space' record from Mir. Thanks, Colds7ream ( talk) 09:07, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Could you please rename my English Wikipedia account from SZv to Ang15. It was already done in Russian Wikipedia. SZv ( talk) 09:19, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Is there any way of changing the current featured article (Empire Strikes Back)? It is in horrible shape and certainly not something we should showcase. I've already put it up for featured article review, but I'd like to see something (even another of the films if any of them are better) more deserving of the position. Cheers, ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 19:31, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
![]() | On 20 June, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Knight, Death and the Devil, which you recently nominated. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
— Rlevse • Talk • 18:03, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Please take a look at Talk:Main Page#Peerage privilege. A user has raised a concern about the quality of this upcoming TFA and feels it should be substituted. I've motivated for it being postponed somewhat, on the basis that the article was a very old FA and was last reviewed in 2007. Your response would be much appreciated. Zunaid 18:12, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
I was wondering if there was any thought to get some sort of American article for TFA on July 4th. If there isn't, I'd like to put in a plug for our article on Virginia. We'd got a good amount of support on the requests board before Wehwalt decided it was too similar to the article on the city of Grand Forks. So just a thought. It would also work if you needed an article to replace Privilege of Peerage, since June 26 was one of the state's anniversaries, and the date we'd nominated Virginia for. Thanks!-- Patrick { oѺ∞} 23:04, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
Raul, July 5 is Venezuela's declaration of independence day, in case you're looking to run The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (film) any time soon (it could also be saved for another day, since it's the only Venezuelan FA). Steve did a great job on it-- he was more neutral than I liked! [9] SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 11:33, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
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He Raul. As you're the FA director, I thought I'd notice you about a small change I suggested. Cheers, theFace 19:47, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, please read my comment: "There are two color changed versions. The second one is a bit little washed out. Please, compare with [10], if it is better - you can return to it". PawełMM ( talk) 21:16, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi Raul. I'm in the process of processing FAC today, and I'm promoting Royal Gold Cup. This is the first FA resulting from the collaboration with the British Museum. I wanted to let you know so that you could decide when this would hit the main page. Karanacs ( talk) 17:18, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
Whacking with a wet trout or trouting is a common practice on Wikipedia when experienced editors slip up and make a silly mistake. It, along with
sentencing to the village stocks, is used to resolve one-off instances of seemingly silly behavior amongst normally constructive community members, as opposed to long term patterns of
disruptive edits, which earn
warnings and
blocks.
for letting File:GardenStreetBridgeSchuylkillRiverSkylinePhiladelphiaPennsylvania.jpg (todays FP) reach the main page unprotected. βcommand 00:13, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
My impression from the discussion at /requests that you intended to feature Mary Rose on July 19. If this assumption is correct, I have an altearntive blurb for the article that you might be interested in. If you're interested, reply here and I'll post it.
Peter Isotalo 12:46, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Alright. Here we go:
The Mary Rose was a warship of the English Tudor navy of King Henry VIII in the first half of the 16th century. During four decades of service in wars against France, Scotland and Brittany, she was one of the largest ships in the English navy and one of the earliest ships specially built for warfare. The Mary Rose is well-known today due to the fact that she sank intact on 19 July 1545 in the battle of the Solent north of the Isle of Wight, while leading an attack on French galleys. The wreck of the Mary Rose was rediscovered in 1971 and salvaged in October 1982 by the Mary Rose Trust in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology. Though much of the ship has deteriorated, the surviving section of the hull, with thousands of artefacts, is immeasurable value as a time capsule of the Tudor period. The excavation and salvage of the Mary Rose has since become a milestone in the field of maritime archaeology, comparable only to the raising of the Swedish 17th-century warship Vasa in 1961. The finds include weapons, sailing equipment, naval supplies and a wide array of objects used by the crew, providing detailed knowledge of the era in which the ship was built, in peacetime as in war. Many of the artefacts are unique to the Mary Rose and have provided insights into topics ranging from naval warfare to the history of musical instruments. While undergoing conservation, the remains of the hull and many of its related artefacts have been on display since the mid-1980s in the Mary Rose Museum in the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. ( more...)
Pretty similar to what you wrote up for June 8, but slightly longer. I shuffled around some statements for continuity and tried to focus on what I felt is most relevant to the average reader.
Peter Isotalo 08:04, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, back from a 3 year wikibreak or so, been fairly active again - don't know if you remember but I asked you how to find where to de-admin (and you kindly replied like always :)) as I was going on a long wikibreak at the time (reason was as I stated I think - I didn't want some new user turned off because he tried to get help from a non-active admin), and of course I was rather active on... everything ;p. Glad too see you around still.
3 years later there still don't see any notes about former administrators re-applying; says 3 months now which in fine if I have to go through the process again. A lot of people I knew from back then aren't around anymore, even my old nominator :\. So question: What's the process for reapplying - and if it's just the normal way through RFA again how much of my previous administrative history should I mention, as it could be a fairly long nomination intro o_O? If I still have to do it the normal way it will be a couple months and such so more for future reference in that case.
RN 15:34, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
Will do so, thank you as always :). RN 15:43, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
-- Wow. Maybe, despite it mentioning it at WP:ADMIN also, and even getting my adminship back, wasn't the best idea; I don't know. See the massive amount of comments and... bitterness over "corruption"? at Wikipedia:Bureaucrats'_noticeboard.... I'm not sure why that happened there. If anything I was expecting controversy over any of the mistakes I made in the past (if there were any); instead I seem to be made an example of something about admin term limits or somesuch and seem to be already making some.... non-friends :\. I really don't mind waiting out the 2+ months to link up with people for a proper RFA.... perhaps you could help the other Bureaucrats calm down and come to a consensus or something? Right now there's just a finger pointing going on; it's like a nightmare RFA. Sorry about this, didn't mean to cause community unrest. I'll try to avoid using admin tools until the unrest subsides at the very least... RN 01:02, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
"Rivenburg" has made edits to the Michel Thomas article, from which he was banned & blocked several years ago. He was an LA Times reporter who was sued by Thomas for defamation a couple of years before Thomas died at age 90, in 2005, and for several years after Thomas died Rivenburg made extensive edits exclusively to Thomas's article to defend his point of view about the subject. I'm not an expert Wikipedian, how does one go about getting the ban and/or block enforced? 71.198.59.52 ( talk) 06:18, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
What'd I Say TFA July 13 and Ann Bannon TFA July 15, both mine. Just... you know...tell me right up front that you hate me. I won't be offended. I'll just respect you all the more for your honesty. -- Moni3 ( talk) 17:03, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Greetings. I nominated the FAC Sentence spacing. It's garnered some support, but seemingly not enough. [11] Can you give me a rough idea of how many more "supports" it will take to pass so I can start asking other editors for a review? I started doing so (with some success), but not sure how many more people to ask. Thanks, and best regards, -- Airborne84 ( talk) 15:30, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Raul. Since you focus on areas that are relevant to writing quality, I wanted to ask you, is the citation style in Life of Joseph Smith, Jr. from 1827 to 1830 appropriate? Not only does it have two different sets of footnotes (One called "Notes" and one called References"), but the inline citations of the former are interspersed throughout the text of the article body in the form of parenthetical wikilinks. This looks like a poor way to cite that makes the text difficult to read. It also constitutes multiple wikilinks of the same term in the same section, and even the same paragraphs. Is this right? Nightscream ( talk) 03:28, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi Raul,
It's now been over three days and still no word from James Edwards. I noticed at the top of the TFA requests page and saw that there is a time limit of 7 days for articles in the "nonspecific date" slot. Since I nominated this article on July 9, it appears as if the deadline is drawing near. I'm wondering what I should do; should I withdraw the nomination and resubmit it when (and if) I hear from James Edwards? Or should we make an exception and keep this article nominated for a couple more days even though that would violate the 7 day time limit, in hopes that James will finally respond? Or, should we just run the article using the Duke photo (or the fair-use logo, or no image at all)? Ultimately I think you should decide since you're the FA director. What do you think the best course of action is? Stonemason89 ( talk) 01:40, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
The bar for copyrightability is very low. I'm going to err on the side of caution here and not use it. I've scheduled the article for July 21 -- that should give Edwards plenty of time to get back to you, assuming he does get back to you. Raul654 ( talk) 16:26, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
Well, he finally e-mailed me; however, he's not being very cooperative, and the e-mail he sent me was quite rude.
To Whom It May Concern:
I have no interest whatsoever in being of assistance to you or Wikipedia.
It has been brought to my attention that there are numerous factual errors pertaining to the article "The Political Cesspool," which is the talk radio program that I created and host.
For reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Political_Cesspool
One such problem is the claim that we are syndicated by, "Stormfront Radio, a service of the white nationalist and supremacist website Stormfront.org."
This is false and I have reason to believe that you have been made aware of this error. Unfortunately, attempts by fans of my show to correct this problem have been erased and they have supposedly been reprimanded for trying to add an element of accuracy to that particular article.
If the Wikipedia article about my show represents one of the "best articles" of the Wikipedia community then that speaks very poorly of Wikipedia. Perhaps you should learn how to check for facts.
I have filed an official complaint to the following e-mail address: info-en-q@wikimedia.org
If the passage that has been brought to your attention is removed, as it should be, I will consider assigning a staff member to correct your other mistakes. If not, I will simply wash my hands of it and allow my legal team to handle the matter.
Sincerely,
James Edwards
Ok, I'll take a closer look at it tomorrow or Monday. Before then, I'm going to pull the article from the main page queue. It can be rescheduled later, but I don't want to antagonize him. Raul654 ( talk) 04:42, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
I found the OTRS ticket -- it is #2010071710026123. Raul654 ( talk) 20:12, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I am working on getting an article up to snuff for FA (still just a lowly GA) and when I finally get it to FA, I would like to have it featured on the main page. My question, how does one go about doing that? Do you and the other people at WP:TFA just pick an article out of the FA articles or is one chosen by !vote? Thanks... Neutralhomer • Talk • 04:36, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm overjoyed that Confirmation bias has been selected for TFA. Thanks also for making the suggested change to the summary. Friday will be a happy day! Cheers, MartinPoulter ( talk) 16:20, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
I was looking at some old featured article promotions, and have a couple of questions you may be able to answer. I noticed that most articles have a link to the promoted version, but some do not. Is there a standard practice for that? If so, how can I find out which versions were promoted so I can help clean up any gaps I find (e.g., Yom Kippur War)? Related to that question, the dates on the same article look odd. It looks like one FA candidate discussion that ran from 8-13 June. Is that right?
Thanks -- Pneubehdeet ( talk) 10:06, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
It was news to me, but Eakins's finished version of Wrestlers (painting) (G-317) is now at Los Angeles County Museum of Art: http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record&id=156181&type=101 The LACMA accession number contains the year 2007, and Columbus Museum of Art does not list the painting on its website. I updated both the individual page and the list of works. BoringHistoryGuy ( talk) 09:50, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
So I called LACMA and finally got it touch with Veronica, the registrar there. She confirmed they have both the Wrestlers portrait and one of the studies for it; she said she is going to send me a full listing of all their Eakins works, but I haven't gotten it yet. Raul654 ( talk) 05:09, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
We should hit 3,000 FAs sometime in August; perhaps someone will volunteer to write WP:FCDW/3000, from Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-04-14/Dispatches. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 16:31, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm going to be traveling until August 13. After then, I should be able to pit in for a write up. Raul654 ( talk) 17:17, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
You're on! SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 01:33, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
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Hi. I'm really proud of the work I've put into Union City High School, and was wondering if you could advise me as to what its ratings should be, and what it needs to get closer to Featured status? Can you respond on my talk page? Thanks. :-) Nightscream ( talk) 18:44, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Let me describe for you our unique project and I hope that you will be able to advise me how to proceed.
For the past six weeks, I and another Akira Kurosawa expert, Vili, have completely transformed the existing article on the Japanese film master. The reason we chose to work on it now is that 2010 is both the director’s centennial and the 60th Anniversary of the Tokyo premiere of his film, Rashomon, which became the first internationally-acclaimed Japanese film and which opened up Western film markets to Japanese cinema. We feel that the worldwide observance of this great director’s centennial has been decidedly underwhelming, and that a Today’s Featured Article about him on Wikipedia would be an exciting and well-deserved tribute.
That article, when we started working on it, was a “C” class article. When I finished some preliminary work on it, I submitted it for peer review for promotion to a “B”-level article, and the person who responded suggested that the process would be easier and quicker if we simply revised the whole article completely and then submitted it for Featured Article status. This made sense to me. We started serious work on the project in mid-June (the earliest period, for reasons I won’t get into, that I could devote time to it), hoping to get the work finished, accepted as a Featured Article and then appear as “Today’s Featured Article” for August 25, 2010, the 60th Anniversary of Rashomon’s Tokyo premiere.
The work has been much more difficult and slow than either of us had planned. My goal now is to get it ready to become a Today’s Featured Article by September 10, 2010, the 59th anniversary of Rashomon’s historic win of the Golden Lion at Venice. So if you look at the article and tell me it has problems, I am already very aware of these:
It may seem like a small difficulty, but the rules specify that in the blurb that needs to be created for a proposed Featured Article, a non-Fair-Use image is necessary. I believe that all the images I would have available, or which could become available for this article, would be Fair Use images. How can I get around this problem?
I would appreciate any help you could give us to accomplish our goal by the September 10th deadline.
Regards,
Dylanexpert (David Baldwin)
Dylanexpert ( talk) 01:21, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Hey, just in case you missed it, there is an oppurtunity to get a free dinner this Tuesday August 11 and a chance to meet and hang out talk about Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy and WP:GLAM/SI. Sorry that this is so late in the game, I was hoping the e-mail would be a better form of contact for active members (if you want to get on the e-mail list send me an User e-mail ). Hope that you can attend, User:Sadads ( talk)12:37, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Well, I've often wondered what exactly is 24 Hours from Tulsa. Now I know: it's the flag of Singapore, and the 2008 Japanese Grand Prix :-)
Keep up the good work! — Tivedshambo ( t/ c) 22:49, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Raul, of course it's your call (and I still don't understand how Pending revisions works), but I'm going to be traveling from 20 to 30 August, and in the absence of Colin and Eubulides, I may be the only editor left on Wiki who can answer talk page queries on that article. Best, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 13:43, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
I asked for a clarification on an FAC-related issue here. That talk page is not frequented much by users, so I'm sending out some messages in the hope that one of you can shed some light on this. Prime Blue ( talk) 16:48, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
This here really is a pressing issue given the length of the discussion – and the virtual inability to continue without having this issue clarified. Those proposed solutions would directly affect FAC candidates if they are impossible to use, so you FAC delegates are propably the only ones who can answer this. Please help. Prime Blue ( talk) 22:38, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
I've drafted the beggining of the article. Some of it is forked from the 2008 article, admittingly :) Res Mar 16:31, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
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I am requesting leave to renominate The Harbingers for FA on the grounds of minimal feedback from previous FAC ( WP:Featured article candidates/The Harbingers/archive1 and WP:Featured article candidates/The Harbingers/archive2). Thanks. d'oh! talk 02:36, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, I work with Hookers, Escorts and Masseurs Association and we are adding a new politicians section, we needed a picture of the U.S. Capitol and have chosen yours as it meets our needs and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, we have credited wikipedia & you, let us know if that is okay with you and check it out at HemaNetwork.org and click on politicians when it is live. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hemanetwork ( talk • contribs) 02:05, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
"New Zealander" is certainly the demonym for people from New Zealand, but a demonym is a noun. It is not at all appropriate to say a "New Zealander politican". The appropriate phrase is "New Zealand politician". I realise that most demonyms can be used as adjectives, but this one cannot. The informal term "Kiwi" is suitable as either a demonym or adjective, but is too informal for use in this context.
You might like to try google searches for "New Zealand politician" vs "New Zealander politician". Then try using some other occupation - artist, for example, in place of politician.- gadfium 01:10, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
I was wondering whether you could have tomorrow's FA not be a hurricane one. I know Juliancolton would really, really, really like 1910 Cuba hurricane for some time in early October (it'd be its 100 year anniversary). Also, I'm not particularly proud of Irene, FWIW. -- Hurricanehink ( talk) 13:24, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Raul, I've emailed you. Tony (talk) 14:28, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Raul, see Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates#Stats and Wikipedia talk:Featured articles#Subsections for the very long sections.3F; it may be time to tackle this because we have several cats close to or over 200. I have no brilliant ideas, but expect it to be a tedious discussion. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 11:33, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Raul, that discussion seems to have stalled, so I went ahead and split out biographies from the largest categories. That still left more than 200 articles in Warfare, so I split them further. Don't know how to handle Biology, as it has very few biographies, is large, and the Bio editors don't agree yet on how to split it. I also split Meteorology out. Could you have a look at WP:FA to see if you like what I've done? I don't want to continue in the event you may have other ideas-- if you like it, I'll continue splitting biographies. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 13:34, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
I may need to send this one to you: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/School for Creative and Performing Arts/archive1#Questions. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 16:38, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
DOUBLE RECUSAL!!!! OY MY GOD!!! IN MY FRONT YARD!!! WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN????
Just curious. -- Moni3 ( talk) 17:16, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Nice additions to the article. Thanks, JNW ( talk) 23:42, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
No big deal, no urgency, and I'm not looking to pick a fight. But I am interested to understand why. Thanks in advance. Cheers, Pdfpdf ( talk) 14:18, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
When I say advanced, I mean it. I'm hoping to reserve August 31, 2011 for Don Valley Parkway, as that will be the 50th anniversary of the road. My apologies if there's a specific venue to make such a request. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 15:16, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Wouldn't it be easier to have the template as:
and then transclude wp:FA to a different page? Nergaal ( talk) 04:17, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Oakwood Cemetery's TFA nom is scheduled for Oct 16, however some editors have suggested using this on Halloween. I'm not opposed to either and will leave the decision up to you, but I'd like to know soon since I will be emailing local historical societies, non-profits, and the cemetery itself to inform them of the date. upstate NYer 14:17, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
Mark, I emailed you about The Signpost. [A minute later: oh sorry, I see I made a similar post above. Just need to know if I should make other arrangements.] Tony (talk) 13:52, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
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I see you've set Oct 16, which Oakwood Cemetery had 10 votes for; discussion also led to use for Halloween. I'd appreciate your consideration for using Oakwood for the Halloween article. Let me know what you think. upstate NYer 18:48, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Hrm... I hadn't noticed that Oakwood and the Cuba Hurricane were both requested for the 16th. Hrmm... I could bump cuba by a couple of days (which was OK according to the requestor) and put Oakwood in for the 16th. Raul654 ( talk) 18:55, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
As for Halloween - once I finish scheduling the current batch, once I finish with the current batch, I'm going to open a discussion on the topic so I can get all the suggestions in one place before deciding. Raul654 ( talk) 19:02, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
The picture chosen to illustrate Grace Sherwood isn't a free image. Daniel Case ( talk) 05:12, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, do you think it would be possible to move Sunderland A.F.C. in the this months queue from October 21 to October 17 as the date would be more relevant. The Battle of Lissa article states no relevance to the date October 17 so they could easily be switched. Thanks. Sunderland06 ( talk) 21:59, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Raul. I'm rather concerned that you have someone helping you with the FA review process who has such a poor grasp of policies relating to WP:RS and who is so quick to rubbish an established academic. Please see [14], where YellowMonkey calls James S. Olson a "joke" and a "clown" and trashes anything he has had any involvement with on the basis of the fact that YellowMonkey thinks he found errata in two (unrelated) publications. What is the process for becoming your helper - are editors elected or do you select them? Presumably there is some way of requesting a review of an editor's appointment to such an important role? Thanks. The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick t 01:31, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
When you are considering TFA selections, may I ask that you do not pick Farthest South, the reason being that I am proposing to nominate this for 14 December 2011, that being the centenary of Amundsen's conquest of the South Pole; I don't think there is a more appropriate FA for this at the moment. Thanks. Brianboulton ( talk) 19:13, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Raul,
I wrote (with assistance from others) today's featured article Battle of Lissa (1811), and was quite surprised to find it on the main page today as I had been waiting for the 200th annivesary next March to nominate it. Given that the main contributors to the article were not consulted before it was put on the main page (and I can't find the process by which it was nominated - how did it happen?), will this prejudice its anniversary nomination next year?-- Jackyd101 ( talk) 12:53, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
FYI, I were bold and start doing it by myself. Manually of course, but I have no problem. Tbhotch Talk C. 19:39, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Re: [User_talk:Raul654#Battle_of_Lissa_.281811.29 this discussion] - in the future, when tagging articles scheduled for the main page, could you use a more descriptive edit summary -- something like "This article is schedule to appear as the main page featured article in the near future" (or something like that)? (Also, thank you for doing it - it's a thankless task). Raul654 ( talk) 21:17, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Raul. I'm not sure if you had any special reason for scheduling Acra (fortress) for TFA on Nov. 1, but there does appear to be an article, Posting system, that should have been requested (although nobody actually put it up) and has a date connection (see Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/pending). Just wanted to let you know. Cheers, Dabomb87 ( talk) 04:32, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Just wondering if you were going to run this on the 5th or not? Not that I'm bothered either way, but if you are I'd like to run through it again to make sure there aren't any silly mistakes. I've been working on the 13 plotters and therefore am more familiar with the source material than I was when I helped write this. Parrot of Doom 20:12, 21 October 2010 (UTC)