User talk:Brianboulton/Archive3

Jesse Jackson, Jr. GAC

I appreciated your feedback and hope for continued feedback, patience and advice.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 05:17, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Our communications are sure to get hard to follow and keep track of. Would you be able to use the {{hide}} template that is common at WP:FAC discussions so I can understand what you consider resolved and distinguish from things you may not have commented on because you haven't gotten back to them yet.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 22:42, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Can you put this officially "on hold"--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 23:37, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

I don't know if you know about the WP:LOTM experiment we are running. Voting for this month goes for about another 24 hours. You seem to like to look closely at things and might want to vote at User:TonyTheTiger/List of the Day/voting/200806.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 00:02, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Jifna news

Greetings Brian! I finally got a section on Jifna's village council and I added more info to the Economy section. You should check it out; It might need some copyeditting. The ref I used for the Government portion was hard to decipher (it was translated from improvements, whenever you have time to read it of course. --Al Ameer son (Arabic), which prevented me from adding more info. Anyhow, could you give me your opinions on how to improve it if it needstalk) 22:01, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Chicago Barnstar

		The Chicago Barnstar
		Thank you for you patience, diligence and expertise in helping me to take my congressman's article to WP:GA. You have helped to create a great resource for the people of Jesse Jackson, Jr.'s district and for persons concerned with congressional politics. TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 06:51, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

. I am passing out belated thanks on this article and I realize that you were the reviewer, but the extent of your participation on the review deserves another commendation:

This user helped promote Jesse Jackson, Jr. to good article status.

--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:01, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Jack Kemp

I mentioned this before, but I think Jack Kemp is getting close to WP:FA level and after its current run at WP:PR I would like to renominate it. I really appreciated you good eye at Jesse Jackson, Jr. and was hoping I might convince you to take Jack Kemp under your wing at Wikipedia:Peer review/Jack Kemp/archive1.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 06:52, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Actually, in general, most of my work on WP is not political. Do you have any current articles at WP:FAC, WP:PR or WP:GAC?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:20, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Scottish National Antarctic Expedition

Scottish National Antarctic Expedition is on hold.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 02:12, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Request for Peer Review help

Thank you for you work as a peer review volunteer. Since March, there has been a concerted effort to make sure all peer review requests get some response. Requests that have gone three days or longer without a substantial response are listed at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog. I have three requests to help this continue.

1) If you are asked to do a peer review, please ask the person who made the request to also do a review, preferably of a request that has not yet had feedback. This is fairly simple, but helps. For example when I review requests on the backlog list, I close with Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). Yours, ...

2) While there are several people who help with the backlog, lately I have been doing up to 3 or 4 peer reviews a day and can not keep this up much longer. We need help. Since there are now well over 100 names on the PR volunteers page, if each volunteer reviewed just one PR request without a response from the list each month, it would easily take care of the "no response" backlog. To help spread out the load, I suggest those willing pick a day of the month and do a review that day (for example, my first edit was on the 8th, so I could pick the 8th). Please pick a peer review request with no responses yet, if possible off the backlog list. If you want, leave a note on my talk page as to which day you picked and I will remind you each month.

3) I have made some proposals to add some limits to peer review requests at Wikipedia_talk:Peer_review#Proposed_limits. The idea is to prevent any one user from overly burdening the process. These seem fairly reasonable (one PR request per editor per day, only four total PR requests per editor at a time, PR requests with cleanup banners can be delisted (like GAN quick fail), and wait two weeks to relist a PR request after it is archived), but have gotten no feedback in one week. If you have any thoughts on these, please weigh in.

Thanks again for your help and in advance for any assistance with the backlog. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 21:08, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your review of Richard of Dover! Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 02:11, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Nimrod copyedit

Hi Brian. Yes, I see the situation. What I would suggest is that I go forward with a good-faith copyedit of the entire article, which I believe to be FA-worthy. I can see a few commas that I'd like to change per our discussion at peer review, and I might catch some other small things as I go. Such a copyedit would not take long, because we are down to the last level of nit-picks. I will wait for approval from you before plunging ahead. I could do the copyedit today, and then I would weigh in at FAC saying that I had completed a copyedit and mentioning that I had also done a peer review earlier. Just let me know if this sounds reasonable. Finetooth (talk) 16:42, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

• Hi Brian, (and Finetooth), I've replied to your message on my talkpage. Best of luck with the article; I would love to see it on the Main Page. Graham. GrahamColm^Talk 21:56, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

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Zelda

Hi Brian, thanks for catching that in Zelda. Seems that it was accidentally added as some sort of AutoWikiBrowser malfunction. Luckily it was a quick revert to fix. Thanks also for your help with the article along the way. I may have mentioned it was my first pit stop into doing more about F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night is now on my shortlist for future projects. Hope all is well. If you're ever in need of a review, I definitely owe you one! --JayHenry (talk) 00:33, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

various

First, my apologies for not responding about Nimrod - I saw that others beat me to it. I'll give it another readthrough today.

I noticed the comment you added to your userpage today, where you're wondering about [1]. I'm not sure how you came up with that link, but I can explain what the result looks like: the files aren't intermingled, but rather, that url is simply comparing a version of ES with a version of that image file. I can create the same type of link intentionally - see [2] for a 'diff' comparing ES with your userpage. Just wanted to let you know that the link itself isn't indicative of a problem with the article. Curious how you came across such a link, though. Maralia (talk) 14:58, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations

My congratulations on the FA for Nimrod. I was very pleased to see it. Finetooth (talk) 03:42, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

And mine, GrahamColm^Talk 05:26, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

William Speirs Bruce: inline citations

Thanks for the thanks. I had noticed that you already had the cite web template on the article, but as I review or check a lot of GAs and encounter a lot of articles with incorrect citation and users unaware of how to format it correctly I have developed a template explaining how to do it that I leave on any article talk page that needs it. I think that on first look your article is very good and will probably pass without too many problems. Regards--Jackyd101 (talk) 18:09, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Charing Cross, Euston & Hamsptead Railway

Thanks for the supportive comments. I was disappointed to see that FA candidate status was terminated in such an arbitrary way, particularly as I was still in the midst of responding to comments. I don't know if the process has changed, but last time I took an article through the FA review it lasted six weeks not the two that have passed this time.

I will finish working through the comments made so far and resubmit it as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, specialist interest articles like this can attract more opposing comments than supportive ones so there is always the risk that one user can stand in the way of a good article. -- DavidCane (talk) 11:42, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your help

Thanks for your ongoing help with peer reviews at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 13:58, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

• I would go ahead and list the recent GA (congratulations) at PR. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 01:02, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Choctaw Article

I attended a seminar for the last two weeks and now I'm ready to edit once again ... Thanks for the article review. I need time to go through it as it is, once again, a long list. Rob (talk) 18:58, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Bruce...

Yep, things were good. As you can see, I'm working on the backlog of PRs I hadn't gotten to in the last two weeks, thus my neglect of telling you that things were good. (Like you're suprised...) If I haven't made it back to him in a week, bop me on my talk page. Things should be a little less busy now.. hopefully. Ealdgyth - Talk 00:25, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Operatic works of W. A. Mozart

Hi Brian, I saw that rather sneery comment on the talk page. I think what he/she was referring to is that the title might make it relatively difficult for the general reader to find. You might want to think about moving it to a more user-friendly (and search engine-friendly) title like Mozart's operas or Operas by Mozart. But it's looking like a useful, well-written article, whatever it's called! If you need any advice, etc. do pop into the Opera Project talk page. All the best, Voceditenore (talk) 15:12, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

• Whoops! As I was writing this I see that you already solved the problem. Nevermind, do pop into the Opera Project anyway, we're always looking for new members, and you'd be a real asset. All the best (again), Voceditenore (talk) 15:16, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

TFA

Have you seen Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 28, 2008? Woohoo! I will look at the FAC next - have reread the article and love the piper and penguin photo addition. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 00:23, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Peer review request

Hi there. I just nominated the article on opera singer June Anderson for a peer review. I hope to eventually get this article a GA rating. I would appriciate your feedback. Thanks.Nrswanson (talk) 13:45, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

William Speirs Bruce

... overlaps a lot of categories. If the FAC succeeds, where do you see him at WP:FA? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:55, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

PR for General aviation in the United Kingdom

Brian. Thank you so much for your excellent review of this article. It's really appreciated. I'm not going to be able to have the time to address your points for a day or so, but rest assured that I will get onto them and hopefully do justice to the amount of time you've put into the review. Cheers. --FactotEm (talk) 17:02, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Dulwich College/GA1

I have responded to you. Gary King (talk) 17:22, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

I too have made a note on this page Bensonby (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 11:13, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

William Speirs Bruce

Hello, Brianboulton. Good luck with your featured candidate. I could have sworn Price appeared twice here in William Speirs Bruce and then disappeared. Apologies, but I give up trying to figure out where he went (guess I shouldn't be editing while too tired to see why!). —SusanLesch (talk) 05:11, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Mystery solved. You have fancy notes! —SusanLesch (talk) 05:37, 1 July 2008 (UTC)