Wikipedia talk:List of Wikipedians by featured list nominations

Question

Why list those with only one nomination separately at the bottom? See Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations, where they are all listed in the same table. Cirt (talk) 13:59, 6 December 2007 (UTC).

Because I didn't have enough time to finish converting them. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 14:07, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Hehe, oh, okay, no worries then, just curious. Cirt (talk) 14:09, 6 December 2007 (UTC).

 Done -- Cirt (talk) 18:09, 13 December 2007 (UTC).

Nominator Problem

User: Burningclean is credited for the nomination of Slipknot discography how ever it was I who nominated it. See Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Slipknot discography. Would it be possible to change it? REZTER ^TALK ø 11:45, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

The bot has fixed this, based on Wikipedia:Featured lists nominated in 2008#Nominated in February 2008. -- Rick Block (talk) 15:10, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Automatically maintained

This list is now being automatically regenerated daily by user:Rick Bot. The way the bot works is:

1. It looks for newly promoted lists in the Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log pages.
2. It determines the nominator based on the creator of the nomination page.
3. It adds newly promoted lists to the appropriate by-month section of the yearly summary list (e.g. Wikipedia:Featured lists nominated in 2008).
4. It reads the current WP:FL and WP:FFL lists.
5. It updates the by-year lists with featured/former status, also updating links to list articles that have been renamed.
6. It updates WP:WBFLN from the contents of the by-year lists (and the current featured/former status).

Nominator errors here can be fixed by directly editing the appropriate by-year summary list (any co-noms will need to be fixed this way). Changes to these lists will be reflected here the next time the bot runs. Gary King and I have looked over the by-year summary lists and they are correct as far as we can tell. If anyone notices any problems, please let me know. -- Rick Block (talk)

Former failed nominations are credited

I just noticed that since the bot started updating, some users are credited with the nominations that were either demoted or failed at first, but later nominated by other users and promoted. For example,

At first, Indian national cricket captains was nominated by User:SmokeDog and promoted. A little later, by looking at Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/Indian national cricket captains, that list was demoted. Two years later, User:Vimalkalyan nominated this list and it was promoted, see Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Indian national cricket captains. My question is, should User:SmokeDog be credited with this list even though his version was demoted? OR Is this too much nitpicking on my part? For the record, there was a rust colored star next to User:SmokeDog for his nomination before the bot started updating this list. I think that it's not fair that User:SmokeDog has a blue star now.--Crzycheetah 20:06, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

This has come up for the WBFAN list as well. Per my reasoning at Wikipedia talk:List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations#order by current # of FAs excluding former FAs the color of the star indicates current status of the article. It would actually be a little difficult to do it the way you're suggesting, so I'd rather not change the bot to do this unless there's an overwhelming consensus about it. -- Rick Block (talk) 01:15, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Would it really be difficult? Would striking out the nomination that was demoted/failed in those Wikipedia:Featured lists nominated in 20** pages not solve this "problem"? May I try striking out Indian national cricket captains at Wikipedia:Featured lists nominated in 2005 and see what happens? I really think that the bot will make that star rusty, even though I am no expert in bots. ;)--Crzycheetah 05:25, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

The bot (which I programmed) updates the by-year nomination lists similarly (unstruck means currently featured, struck means currently former). It's difficult because the bot currently decides whether the star should be blue or rusty based on WP:FL and WP:FFL, not based on what's in the by-year nomination lists (the only data the bot trusts from these lists is the nominators). In the case where there's more than one entry in the by-year lists for a single article, the bot could assume the article must have been de-featured in between and treat the earlier nom as a "former" but this involves keeping track of all noms at once (the by-year lists are currently updated independently, based only on WP:FL and WP:FFL). The other way to do this would be to trust strikeouts in the by-year lists (and never unstrike anything), but doing this would require figuring out which existing entries need to be struck-out (and seems a little too vulnerable to vandalism). -- Rick Block (talk) 14:12, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

All right, thanks for the explanation. I am going to stay out of this for now.--Crzycheetah 19:46, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Repeated nominations/stars

Not to be a whistle blower or anything, but I just noticed that Alex Douglas's entry has like 5 stars for Jessica Mauboy discography. Check it out. Something went crazy wrong here! Drewcifer (talk) 08:48, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

It has to do with the bot that updates Wikipedia:Featured lists promoted in 2009. I contacted the operator. Dabomb87 (talk) 12:51, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Also, Gary King has 7 stars for the List of universities in Canada. I know why(becacuse of all those mergers), but I don't know what we should do about it.--Crzycheetah 01:50, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Rumford Prize

...Is missing from me =) ResMar 21:32, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Fixed. Dabomb87 (talk) 22:32, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Question

I changed my username from User:Chrishomingtang to User:Chrishmt0423. Is it possible to combine the two rows? I tried to do it manually but the bot undo the edit.—Chris!_c/t 20:40, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

This is rebuilt nightly from pages such as Wikipedia:Featured lists promoted in 2011 and those from prior years. If you go through and fix all of the old usernames from there, the bot will catch that and combine your listings when it runs. Courcelles 21:12, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Ok, thanks.—Chris!_c/t 23:27, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Missing list

List of Cricket World Cup centuries, an existing FL, nominated by me is missing from the page. —Vensatry _{(Ping me)} 14:39, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

I'll look into this this weekend. -- Rick Block (talk) 01:39, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

The bot expects new entries in the monthly logs to be made before existing entries, like this

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Featured_list_candidates/Featured_log/February_2014&diff=next&oldid=596954578

There have been some instances lately where the log entries were made after existing entries, like this one

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Featured_list_candidates/Featured_log/December_2013&diff=next&oldid=584221869

I've looked for missing entries in the by-year lists and have manually added a few the bot missed because they were added at the end of an existing log file. They'll show up in WP:WBFLN tomorrow. I'll have to think about how to change the bot to accommodate new entries in the log files placed anywhere. -- Rick Block (talk) 16:57, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Wrong total

My total says three, but it should say 9?  — Calvin999 18:18, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

The bot failed to fetch WP:FL2012 yesterday. I've made it a little more resilient. It should correct itself today. -- Rick Block (talk) 16:08, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

There seem to be 8 (5 in WP:FL2012, 2 in WP:FL2013 and 1 in WP:FL2015). Is there one missing? -- Rick Block (talk) 19:22, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Any idea........

.......why the bot keeps amending the star for my most recent FL to show it as de-listed? -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 19:25, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

I suspect it is because the link on WP:FL page was to a redirect. I've changed it to point to the list directly. Let's wait for RickBot's next run. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:03, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

That seems to have fixed the issue. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 09:11, 19 April 2024 (UTC)