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Promotion of Tomorrow Speculative Fiction[edit]

Congratulations, Mike Christie! The article you nominated, Tomorrow Speculative Fiction, 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 The nomination discussion has been archived.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, Ian Rose (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:06, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! A good way to start the month. Anyway, I came to your talk page to say (if you hadn't seen already) that WT:GAN#Survey looks pretty clear already; I don't know if it needs to run the full 30 days, but if it doesn't, how quickly will you be able to revert to the old system? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:23, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If I remember the way I set it up, I think it's just a one-line change -- I have the various possible sort orders prebuilt and just need to set a flag to say which one to use. I'd rather wait till the RfC is actually closed, but if you think it's ready to be closed you could ask for a closer. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 00:29, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, and thank you today for Argosy (magazine), "about one of the most influential magazines in American history. Argosy was the first pulp magazine and spawned hundreds of imitators and an entire industry that lasted almost sixty years. It was the first brick in the publishing empire built by Frank Munsey, an often-reviled publishing mogul of the early 20th century. It outlasted Munsey, who died in 1925, but the magazine eventually succumbed in 1978, though it has been revived several times since then."! - I was on vacation, pictures to be found under "places", - enjoy. I enjoyed not to have time for infobox discussions. Look at my recent stories: many composers, and most have infoboxes installed without any problem, sooner or later:

Bach (2015)
Max Reger (2016)
Arvo Pärt (2017)
Aribert Reimann (2017)
Mozart (2023)
Wolfgang Fortner (2024)

Why do we seem to get problematic only when it comes to a few FAs by a few editors? Can we perhaps establish some walled garden for them and leave the rest in peace? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:07, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The image - from last year's vacation on the same island - stands for missing Vami-IV. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:10, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Some days later, a calf in the mist and chocolate cake, and a story of collaboration --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:40, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you![edit]

	The Technical Barnstar
	Thanks for being the guy that keeps GAN running smoothly. I really appreciate all the hard work you do on the tech side. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 19:11, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Much appreciated. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 19:19, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bless you MC. Well deserved. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 19:19, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

+1 Just saw that you already implemented the nomintator/reviewer change—nice work! And thanks for everything! – Aza24 (talk) 00:37, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

FAC review[edit]

Hey Mike, if you have time, could you have a look at my FAC nom? It already has multiple supports, but because it is my first nomination, Gog said on his talk page that he felt it needed more reviews, including possibly from experienced reviewers. -- Zoo Blazer 20:02, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll see if I can find some time this week. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 20:22, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you[edit]

I can't figure out the technology anymore to find a comment and thank you on it. The times on the page, no longer match the times on the history and I just cannot figure it out. I appreciate very much that you heard me. That doesn't often happen in WP, so I sincerely thank you. SusunW (talk) 22:18, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your comments are always thoughtful, and I have a lot of respect for the work you do. There are others who write more than they review, but to me you're the poster child for why we need to support writers why don't review much. That doesn't mean we don't need to support reviewers, as I know you know, but you (and others) convinced me we have to find another way to do it. Thanks for stopping by. Oh, and by the way, the difference in the timestamps on the page and in the history is that the ones on the page are UTC (basically, UK time) whereas the ones in the history are whatever time zone you're in. So if you know how many hours away from the UK you are you can usually figure out what timestamp in the history corresponds to the page. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 23:53, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I used to just try to look for a timestamp with the minutes that were the same, but now not even the minutes are the same, so it makes no sense to me. I agree both sides need to be supported, but a lot of the discussion seemed to be missing the point that it is quality we are after, not numbers. As they say, if it were easy, we would have solved it by now. I try to divide my reviewing time for both GA and FA. My GA review stats are the opposite of my FA stats, where I have reviewed more than I have ever nominated. There just aren't really enough hours in the day to write and review and do a good job of it, or at least to the standard that I hold myself. I appreciate the work you do. SusunW (talk) 04:03, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Alexander J. Clements for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Alexander J. Clements is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexander J. Clements (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

Ruud Buitelaar (talk) 22:23, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A couple of oddities re ChristieBot and GAN[edit]

Mike Christie, I've been checking the WP:GAN page around midnight in order to determine the total nominations and total needing reviews for the GAN backlog drive, and have noticed some odd behavior.

One example, tonight, had Felipe VI taken for review at 23:53, 31 March 2024, and the failure posted at both review page and talk page at 23:56, three minutes later. ChristieBot transcludes the review on the talk page at 00:03, 1 April 2024, adds the nominator information to the review page, also at 00:03, posts the review failure to the nominator's talk page at 00:03, updates the GA bot/stats at 00:05, but does not update the GAN page to remove Felipe VI from the list of nominated articles. It also didn't update on the run twenty minutes later, though this was an odd one since although the Yakub I of Germiyan had passed, it didn't pass until 00:21, presumably after ChristieBot started its run at 00:20, which may be why only the article was given the GA icon and the nominator was notified of passage. The next promotion, DiDa Ritz, occurred at 00:22, and processed through at 00:41, again only doing the article icon and the nominator talk page notice. I had expected this to end once a review or other non-pass/fail occurred, but that wasn't the case: the next set of changes, a fail of Dedebit Elementary School airstrike at 01:21, and the beginning of a review for Talk:Worlds (Porter Robinson album) at 01:23 (page was created at 01:15), didn't cause an edit to the main WP:GAN page.

The other one I had previously noticed is Phoenix (1980 video game), which was passed at 01:54, 31 March 2024 (this one had been under review since 28 March 2024, so a different situation from Felipe VI). At 02:00, the GA icon was added to the article, and at 02:01, the nominator was informed of passage, yet similarly to the others no update was made to WP:GAN. It was slipped into the next revision of the page at 02:26.

I thought you might want to know; it looks like the articles aren't always being removed from the GAN page after a GA or FailedGA is posted to the article talk page, or that every review gets there. Thanks for all the work you do to keep GAN humming along. I hope these are easy to track down. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:35, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This turned out to be quite entertaining. The problem, at least for Felipe VI and I think in all such cases, is that the bot crashed after the talk page updates and before rewriting the GAN page. As a general rule if it appears the bot didn't fully complete its tasks, it probably crashed before whatever tasks were not done. Here the crash was because Thebiguglyalien has set up an April Fool's Day redirect for their userid that goes to User:Thebiguglyalien/April Fools' Day 2024. This caused a problem because when the bot sees a redirect on a user page, it assumes it's because of a rename, so it follows it to give credit for the review to the user at the other end of the redirect. (Some editors redirect their user page to their talk page, which is fine too since the user for their talk page is the same.) Then the bot checks the edit count for that user, but if you call the editcount query using a page name that is a subpage of a userpage, it produces an error. That's what caused the crash. I've just updated the bot to ignore user page redirects to subpages, so that should fix it; it should clean up the page in a few minutes if so. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 12:42, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Now fixed. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 15:21, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Name change[edit]

Hello Dearest Wikipedian, I don't know that except when you told me on the bit's talk page. I just believe it will be easier now since I have made some there.

I renamed from User:Otuọcha to User:SafariScribe and will want my GA statistics be taken to my present name. Thanks! Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 10:09, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've added the name change to the bot's list, so the next time the GAN page updates it should correct your review statistics by including the reviews you did as Otuọcha. I'll keep an eye on it and make sure it goes through correctly. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 10:18, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 10:30, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day![edit]

GAN[edit]

Hi Mike Christie, apologies for this (I hope you don't mind this) but could you possibly review this this article about the Aston Martin Rapide for Good Article status? Best, 750h+ | Talk 12:18, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't mind being asked, but it's not something I know much about. The next time I pick up a GAN to review I might look at it, but I don't know when that will be. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 12:35, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You don't really have to know much about cars, GANs are primarily prose/sourcing reviews, so it should hopefully be just as readable as a biography GAN. 750h+ | Talk 12:38, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion of Munsey's Magazine[edit]

Congratulations, Mike Christie! The article you nominated, Munsey's Magazine, 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, Gog the Mild (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:05, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]