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![]() | Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:CG 4 by ESO.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 14:03, 26 February 2015 (UTC) |
It's a useful tool, I'm running it myself, but blanking old talk threads down to nothing isn't always the ideal - the most recent thread you archived from Talk:The Mousetrap mentions a still-outstanding issue, even if it is a few months old now.
In most cases there's no problem in leaving four or five old threads on a talk page. It shows visitors what kinds of things have been discussed in the past, and what (perhaps) needn't be raised again. I'd actually leave the most recent two on the Mousetrap page, as it's useful to have a recent "but the identity of the murderer!" section on the talk page somewhere, so that well-meaning visitors don't start the same thread again and again. I'll go ahead and revert a bit now. --McGeddon (talk) 15:39, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
![]() | Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Helium discharge tube.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:51, 28 February 2015 (UTC) |
![]() | Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Neon discharge tube.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:51, 28 February 2015 (UTC) |
![]() | Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Argon discharge tube.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:51, 28 February 2015 (UTC) |
![]() | Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Krypton discharge tube.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:51, 28 February 2015 (UTC) |
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16:41, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. 64 competitors made it into this round, and are now broken into eight groups of eight. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups. Round 1 saw some interesting work on some very important articles, with the round leader Freikorp (submissions) owing most of his 622 points scored to a Featured Article on the 2001 film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within which qualified for a times-two multiplier. This is a higher score than in previous years, as
Godot13 (submissions) had 500 points in 2014 at the end of round 1, and our very own judge,
Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) led round 1 with 601 points in 2013.
In addition to Freikorp's work, some other important articles and pictures were improved during round one, here's a snapshot of a few of them:
You may also wish to know that The Core Contest is running through the month of March. Head there for further details - they even have actual prizes!
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![]() | Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Claude-Joseph Vernet - The four times of day- Morning - Google Art Project.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:09, 1 March 2015 (UTC) |
![]() | Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Claude-Joseph Vernet - The four times of day- Midday - Google Art Project.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:09, 1 March 2015 (UTC) |
![]() | Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Claude-Joseph Vernet - The four times of day- Evening - Google Art Project.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:09, 1 March 2015 (UTC) |
![]() | Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Claude-Joseph Vernet - The four times of day- Night - Google Art Project.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:09, 1 March 2015 (UTC) |
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15:19, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
Can you tell me why this article, BikeBandit, would be acceptable? Atsme☯Consult 14:00, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Tom Hallifax at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 17:23, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
![]() | Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Stephan's Quintet Hubble 2009.full denoise.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 15:31, 8 March 2015 (UTC) |
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15:15, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi TH,
I wanted to request, if you get a chance, that you review to my changes to the Westerhout 40 article, and if you think it's ready, pass the DYK nomination. Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Westerhout_40
Feel free to remove this message. Cheers, OtterAM (talk) 16:29, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Could you please refrain from unnecessarily rewrite references, as you did here? Doing so misleadingly lights up diffs, like a christmas tree, when the article's intellectual content remains unchanged.
If you use a rogue robot tool to help you edit, that rewrites references for you, I urge you to turn off this disruptive feature.
When I edit an article and find I have to fix, or add some fields, to references that were originally written with all the fields on one line, I leave it in that format, even though I find that format hard to work with, harder to figure out what is broken, out of consideration to other contributors, who should be able to expect diffs that only show strictly necessary changes, so that the changes to the articles actual intellectual content aren't drowned out by unnecessary changes.
If you use an automated tool to help you edit, that rewrites references for you, I urge you to turn off this disruptive feature. If you use a rogue robot tool to help you edit, could you please tell me what it is? I would like to contact the authors of tools that do this to deprecate this feature.
I started using the perfectly acceptable technique of leaving all the references within the {{Reflist}} template a few years ago. I have asked other contributors not to rewrite references, because of the chaos it causes, who have, in turn, asserted that policy requires contributors not to start using a different style in article to that already used.
However, those contributors completely misunderstood the policy's they cited. Since the wikipedia's policies have grown so complicated, this kind of confusion is inevitable. I hastarted participating in the wikipedia years before we started to used the {{cite}} template, when all articles used bare urls. When someone added support for Harvard style references, I used those, as superior to bare urls. But the {{cite}} template is much easier to use. Only a small fraction of the wikipedia's article use the Harvard style. The policy that recommends not using a different style is meant to prevent the mixing of incompatible styles.
Thanks Geo Swan (talk) 04:11, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
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15:10, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
![]() | Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:C2014 Q2.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:41, 13 March 2015 (UTC) |
![]() | Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Cygnus Wall.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:53, 14 March 2015 (UTC) |
![]() | Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Hafnium ebeam remelted.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 15:34, 15 March 2015 (UTC) |
Re your "Ready" tag - did you see the comment by User:The Almightey Drill regarding need for sources in the "Literary pursuits" section of the article (i.e. there are none)? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:50, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
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Could you close Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Clanculus corallinus for me? Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 13:39, 24 March 2015 (UTC)