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Charles Richardson

Hi, thanks again for your assistance with Charles Richardson (Royal Navy officer). I certainly wouldn't have put it up for ACR if you hadn't suggested it! I know you vaguely mentioned FAC too, but I worry that my sources are perhaps a little old for what might be acceptable there. Thanks again anyhow, Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 19:01, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Weeell, possibly. You might look at who has been doing source reviews recently at FAC and ask one of them their opinion? Gog the Mild (talk) 19:09, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Struggled to find someone doing source reviews (doesn't seem like anyone's kind of fun!), but received some reassuring comments from someone much more experienced in writing articles relating to the Napoleonic period than I. Have thus nominated the article at FAC..! Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 22:28, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

50th FA

Warmest congrats: fifty FAs – that's some achievement! I look forward to plenty more from you: they are always a pleasure to read and review. Tim riley talk 08:59, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Promotion of Battle of Poitiers

Congratulations, Gog the Mild! The article you nominated, Battle of Poitiers, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Buidhe (talk) via FACBot (talk) 12:05, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Congratulations! - Thank you today for Battle of Oroscopa, "on a brief conflict from 2,172 years ago ... An inconsequential conflict in itself, it is much commented on as the event which sparked the Third Punic War and the destruction of Carthage."! - Heard what they called "the voice of Ukraine" yesterday (pictured, more than once), and the violinist played a piece he heard in Russia for his encore. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:36, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

GOCE April 2022 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors April 2022 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the April newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2021. Election results: Jonesey95 retired as lead coordinator. Reidgreg was approved to fill this role after an 18-month absence from the coordinator team, and Baffle gab1978 was chosen as an assistant coordinator following a one-year break. Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu continued on as long-standing assistant coordinators. January Drive: Of the 22 editors who signed up, 16 editors claimed 146 copy edits including 45 requests. (details) February Blitz: This one-week effort focused on requests and a theme of Africa and African diaspora history. Of the 12 editors who signed up, 6 editors recorded 21 copy edits, including 4 requests. (details) March Drive: Of the 28 editors who signed up, 18 claimed 116 copy edits including 25 requests. (details) April Blitz: This one-week copy editing event has been scheduled for 17–23 April, sign up now! Progress report: As of 11 April, copy editors have removed approximately 500 articles from the backlog and completed 127 copy-editing requests during 2022. The backlog has been hovering at about 1,100 tagged articles for the past six months. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Request

Hi, I am grateful for the corrections you made in the article Timișoara Fortress. Could I ask you to correct the article Timișoara Palace of Culture as well? It would be a support for Timișoara, which will be the European Capital of Culture in 2023. Thanks for any answer. --Turbojet (talk) 07:23, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi again Turbojet. That was four years ago, when I did a lot of work for GoCE. If you would like, I could give it a quick rum through, do a quick and dirty copy edit and flag up any issues I notice as I go on the talk page. I wouldn't have the time to really get into the detail of bringing it up to scratch, but once I had finished and you had addressed anything I pointed out, you could then put it to GoCE for a polish. How does that sound? Gog the Mild (talk) 18:51, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

That sounds great. Of course, everyone only does what they have time for. I turned to you because I didn't know about GoCE, thanks for the info. I will do what I can do. Thank you. --Turbojet (talk) 04:26, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Mentor

Hello @Gog the Mild! In the past I got a few articles promoted to GA status, but this time I'd like to get one to FA status. Would you like to mentor me in the process with the NSA ANT catalog article? Please also see Wikipedia:Peer_review/NSA_ANT_catalog/archive1. Thanks in advance. PhotographyEdits (talk) 11:10, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi PhotographyEdits, if you have ambitions to take an article to Featured status - which is a tough row to hoe, albeit very satisfying - can I earnestly recommend that you chose a different one. NSA ANT catalog is a long way from the standard required, I am not even sure if it would be possible to get it there; perhaps consider it for Wikipedia:Featured lists? Gog the Mild (talk) 19:02, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply @Gog the Mild. Since a significant part of the article are tables, I think going for WP:FL makes a lot of sense. Would you still be willing to mentor me in the process of getting this article to FL, or would you prefer me to look for a different mentor since there is apparently still a lot of work to be done? If this article is a long way of meeting the FA criteria, then all my GA articles probably are and I would like to work on one of the articles that I promoted to GA status since I would then already be familiar with the subject and its sources. Thanks for your advice in any case. PhotographyEdits (talk) 14:19, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi again. I don't think that I would be doing you any favours, trying to mentor you towards an FL. I have never nominated one myself; I assessed a couple two years ago, but decided that I would never wrap my head around their criteria. However, articles such as IBM Palm Top PC 110 and Android Debug Bridge may have the potential to go through FAC. I would recommend starting with one of Gorbachev Pizza Hut commercial or The Epic Split which seem to need, relatively, less work. I would be prepared to assist on working up one of those two, with a view to getting it to FAC standard. (Note the very recently promoted Daisy (advertisement).) Gog the Mild (talk) 17:09, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Gog the Mild. That makes sense. I already got a peer review on The Epic Split, which I forgot about. I will work through the feedback of the review and will come back to you later, to get it up to WP:FAC. PhotographyEdits (talk) 09:31, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

Standard advise to editors considering their first FACs: 1. Read any other similar FAs, especially those from the past five or six years. See what themes or sections they have that you don't. Read their FACs. See what similar issues are likely to be picked up in your nomination and address them. 2. Review eight or ten FACs yourself. Firstly there is nothing better to give you a real grip on what the criteria need than trying to apply them to another article. And reading other reviewers' comments on an article you have just assessed means more than just reading them in isolation. Secondly, getting your name recognised as someone who is generous with FAC reviews may mean that when you nominate the "regulars" are more likely to reciprocate with reviews for you. Gog the Mild (talk) 09:47, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for your advice! PhotographyEdits (talk) 10:53, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

ACR

Hi, If you have the time and inclination, I'd be grateful if you look in on Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Foreign volunteers in the Rhodesian Security Forces. It's a bit outside your area of focus/expertise, but you have familiarity with working on articles covering the particularly ugly side of warfare so I'd really appreciate your thoughts on the article. No worries at all if you aren't able to review though! Regards, Nick-D (talk) 10:01, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Started. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:51, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Things

In case it was missed, the reply here[1] can be taken as an apology of sorts. Ceoil (talk) 10:24, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

@Ceoil: Yes, I did miss that, and thank you. I dislike opposing nominations, I got and get involved at FAC to help get articles over the line. Sometimes one can have an honest disagreement and/or misunderstanding. (Eg, just exactly how to describe the covering of a crosier.) Hopefully they can be sorted out in a friendly way. (My iffy prose means that I am on the receiving end of a lot of that sort of thing.) But if an article just doesn't IMO comply with the MoS, even if just in one particular, I need to oppose. No matter how high quality I may feel all of the rest of it is. As a FAC coordinator I don't really even have the option of just sitting out a nomination I am uncomfortable with, as most regular reviewers do. Given that this is a volunteer thing, which I do for "fun", that can sometimes leave me wondering why I bother. Hopefully, at the end of the day we all want the same things and can live with honest disagreements over boderline cases.

More than 25 years of war in less than 5,000 words. You sure you wouldn't like me to add another bushel or two of prose? Gog the Mild (talk) 12:18, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Well, if I can write 700 words on a 2 inch bronze knob, you can surely knock out a few hundred on describing eg the battlefield shrubbery!! But agree with all you said above. Peace be with us and talk later. Ceoil (talk) 18:18, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

On a currently scheduled TFA

I noticed that pronunciation of GIF is currently scheduled to be the TFA on May 7. However, the 35th anniversary of the GIF's creation is on June 15. There are currently no requests for that day. I was wondering if it is possible to reschedule the TFA's date? Painting17 (talk) 18:26, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

Sure. The usual way of indicating that you want a FA to run on some specific future date is to list it here Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/pending. Which "reserves" the slot and warns of schedulers from running it earlier. I'll swap it out. Gog the Mild (talk) 18:34, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

looks like it never made it to its destination...? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 06:01, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

I think we might just notify Wehwalt who will schedule June --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:57, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

It doesn't look like it will be a problem.--Wehwalt (talk) 09:20, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

Or Painting17 could go the conventional route and post a nomination here using the existing blurb. Gog the Mild (talk) 09:22, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

Ah, Wehwalt is on it. Gog the Mild (talk) 09:22, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

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A favour

Hey my dear fellow. Long time no see! I've recenyly made a review for the Battle of Utica and I'm looking forward for the Siege of Dundee. But another thing it suprises me that the Battle of Raymond is still up. Can you give it a try and then I'll give the Siege of Dundee a try. If you have the time and motivation of course.  :) Cheers. CPA-5 (talk) 21:33, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Sure, although it will take me a day or two to work round to it. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:20, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Petroleum industry in Iran

Petroleum industry in Iran has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Chidgk1 (talk) 19:13, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, April 2022

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 on military logistics and rebuilding Nagasaki

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Update

So I have decided to give myself a birthday present. I am sort of abandoning "the project". I had hoped others would help with the legal reviews, but they haven't; I am tired of conflict with POV editors who don't understand that nationality is a legal designation; and after doing women's studies scholars and doing the reviews on Tendeloo and Morris last month, I realize my time is better spent working on women and I enjoy it more. I think I have enough background now to actually write the article I want to write. (Missing perspective on China and Japan, but I think I can work the situation on those two in.) The work on all the others has given background on how colonization impacted most of the globe and though I haven't written Europe, as they were the colonizers their role is clear. That said, today I shall actually start the one on women's nationality and see how it goes. I imagine the sister article about what activists did to fix the nationality problem will simultaneously develop, but it may ultimately follow. I do appreciate you and thank you for your steady guidance. SusunW (talk) 15:27, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

WikiCup 2022 May newsletter

The second round of the 2022 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 115 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top seven contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 11 featured articles and the 79 good articles achieved in total by contestants.

Our top scorers in round 2 were:

1. Epicgenius, with 1264 points from 2 featured article, 4 good articles and 18 DYKs. Epicgenius was a finalist last year but has now withdrawn from the contest as he pursues a new career path.
2. AryKun, with 1172 points from two featured articles, one good article and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews.
3. Bloom6132, with 605 points from 44 in the news items and 4 DYKs.
4. Sammi Brie, with 573 points from 8 GAs and 21 DYKs.
5. Ealdgyth, with 567 points from 11 GAs and 34 good and featured article reviews.
6. Panini!, with 549 points from 1 FA, 4 GAs and several other sources.
7. Lee Vilenski, with 545 points from 1 FA, 4 GAs and a number of reviews.

The rules for featured and good article reviews require the review to be of sufficient length; brief quick fails and very short reviews will generally not be awarded points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:39, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Lumines: Puzzle Fusion

I'm planning on nominating the article into Featured-class again. I know criteria 1a was the one and only thing stopping the article. So far, not many edits were made since Jonesey took on the copy-edit. I wanted to know your thoughts, do you think it still fails 1a?Blue Pumpkin Pie (talk) 20:35, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

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