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FAC

Hi! Would you like to take a look at my FAC, which is also my first solo effort. I would appreciate your gesture. Thanks.Krish | Talk 19:10, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

RSN posting

Hi, thanks for the feedback. I removed the posting: diff. However, I've always considered the noticeboards to be appropriate notification. Could you clarify? K.e.coffman (talk) 17:44, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

Y.A. Tittle

Given your FA experience and interest in the Giants, perhaps you could take a look at Y.A. Tittle's article and see what would need to be done to bring it to FA. The GA reviewer said it was "most probably the best article I've picked up at GAN." I'm not sure how many GAs he's reviewed, but anyway. I didn't really plan on it, but after that endorsement I figured I might as well give FA a shot. Lizard (talk) 06:46, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Canadian Base Ball Association or Canadian Association of Baseball Players

I can not find any sources besides Humber to definitely confirm the creation of the Canadian Base Ball Association in 1864. Is it possible he was actually talking about the Canadian Association of Baseball Players. Because according to this source, Canadian Base Ball Association was not formed till 1876. Is possible that the Canadian Association of Baseball Players was an earlier name of the Canadian Base Ball Association? Another possibility is that my new source has the names reversed as "Base Ball" is an earlier name for the game. Can you quote what Humber actually says. I cannot access pg114 of his book. — አቤል ዳዊት^?(Janweh64) (talk) 00:13, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

I am sorry I left the wrong link. Here is the correct book: Sports: The First Five Millennia By Allen Guttmann. Now I do admit that Humber is the expert on Shuttleworth and the year "1876" seems dubious per your point about the formation of National League. But what if Humber is wrong. Everywhere I look I find conflicting information. Look at the results for this google search. The first result is the book by Guttman I mentioned before, the second confirms Humber, but the third is the most interesting. It seems well researched and cites "Toronto Globe, 6 Apr. 1877". It is an except of chapter 6 in this book: Sport in Canada: A History. It is extremely specific down to the location of the hotel where the CBBA was formed. Do you think we could find this original Toronto Globe article?

I apologize for pestering you about this. — አቤል ዳዊት^?(Janweh64) (talk) 04:52, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Ok, I found a new source that confirms that Allen Guttman and Don Morrow had the names wrong and the 1876 organization was the one called: Canadian Association of Baseball Players. Forget it, I give up. — አቤል ዳዊት^?(Janweh64) (talk) 05:48, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Curious

Curious why you are not an admin? As the FL director, I would believe that your requirement of admin tools is not only high, but necessary. I'm just curious about this. Would you be open to an Rfa in the future? Thanks. Lourdes 04:36, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

DYK for William Shuttleworth

On 25 January 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article William Shuttleworth, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the historian who researched early Canadian baseball figure William Shuttleworth believed that "at first people thought I made him up"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/William Shuttleworth. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, William Shuttleworth), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Schwede66 12:01, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

Hey!

Hey Giants! I wanted to inform you about the article whose peer review you took part in. I have nominated it for the FA. Thanks.Krish | Talk 08:37, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Just a gentle reminder.Krish | Talk 13:47, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

March 2017 WikiCup newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. It would have been 5 points, but when a late entrant was permitted to join the contest in February, a promise was made that his inclusion would not result in the exclusion of any other competitor. To achieve this, the six entrants that had the lowest positive score of 4 points have been added to the 64 people who otherwise would have qualified. As a result, some of the groups have nine contestants rather than eight. Our top four scorers in round 1 were:

• Cas Liber, last year's winner, led the field with two featured articles on birds and a total score of 674.
• Iry-Hor, a WikiCup newcomer, came next with a featured article, a good article and a tally of 282 bonus points for a score of 517. All these points came from the article Nyuserre Ini, an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh,
• 1989, another WikiCup newcomer, was in joint third place at 240. 1989 has claimed points for two featured lists and one good article relating to anime and comedy series, all of which were awarded bonus points.
• Peacemaker67 shared third place with five good articles and thirteen good article reviews, mostly on naval vessels. He is also new to the competition.

The largest number of DYKs have been submitted by Vivvt and The C of E, who each claimed for seven, and MBlaze Lightning achieved eight articles at ITN. Carbrera and Peacemaker67 each claimed for five GAs and Krishna Chaitanya Velaga was well out in front for GARs, having reviewed 32. No featured pictures, featured topics or good topics yet, but we have achieved three featured articles and a splendid total of fifty good articles.

So, on to the second round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is a good article candidate, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! 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 yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:52, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Featured list query

Hi Giants2008. Just a query. I have a lot of experience with featured articles but absolutely none with featured list. I have been working off and on for many years at the List of drug-related deaths, where I am by far the top contributor. I am currently in the process of archiving all the sources and making sure they are all formatted consistently. I anticipate this will keep me busy on Wiki for a month. Anyway once all the references are perfect and assuming I seriously expand the lead, do you think this article could potentially by a featured list? I ask as I'm not sure if the list is too broad, and I am also well aware of the fact that as prodigious as the article is it does not and will never contain every notable drug-related death. I'll continue to improve it regardless of whether it is potentially eligible or not, just wanted to know your opinion. Thanks for your time. Freikorp (talk) 14:48, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Hello again. Thanks for your reply at my talk page. The advice was helpful and I implemented your suggestion about the lead. I'm now 3/4 of the way through archiving all the references and making sure they are reliable and formatted consistently. Something has occurred to me during this process and I'd like your advice on it. I know you're busy but I don't need you to do a close review, just some quick advice. The articles title is 'List of drug-related deaths'. This is a very broad title. In my efforts to write a good lead I discovered that about 80% of all 'drug-related' are from tobacco, but this list doesn't include any tobacco related deaths. I think it would be a bad idea to start adding them for several reasons. Firstly, there are over 1700 people in the category deaths from lung cancer alone, and that doesn't even begin to cover other non lung-cancer tobacco deaths. Adding tobacco deaths to the article would potentially increase it by several thousand people, which is both unwieldy, impractical, and would detract from all the other drug-related deaths. Not having tobacco deaths however probably makes the article fail on comprehensiveness.

Firstly, do you agree this lack of tobacco deaths would potentially render the article ineligible as a featured list?

If so, do you think moving the list to List of deaths from drug overdose and intoxication would be a appropriate solution? This would eliminate the eligibility of long-term effects from drug use, such as lung-cancer and cirrhosis (i'd have to go through and remove the 20-odd cirrhosis deaths, but that's a lot easier than adding 3000 tobacco cancer deaths), and instead focus on acute drug-related deaths. I am confident the article contains a comprehensive list of acute drug-related deaths, such as from overdose and intoxication, and that this would be more likely to pass FLC.

Let me know what you think, or is you have an alternative solution. I did consider just adding a disclaimer to the lead saying that tobacco related deaths are not included, but this struck me as un-encyclopedic. Thanks for your time. Freikorp (talk) 23:27, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

TFL nomination for Huskies of Honor

Just wanted to make sure you saw this before you updated TFL for the next couple of weeks. Thanks! –Grondemar 00:47, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Re: FLC comments

Hey Giants, thanks for commenting on my FLC nom a week ago. I believe I've addressed your one concern satisfactorily. I'd really appreciate it if you could confirm that and do a follow-up vote accordingly. Cheers! —Bloom6132 (talk) 13:03, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Possible NFL award featured lists

As you may be aware, the NFL has precious few FLs compared to the MLB and NBA, specifically for awards. I'm planning a long-term goal of a featured topic for NFL awards, a la Wikipedia:Featured topics/Major League Baseball awards and Wikipedia:Featured topics/National Basketball Association awards. But since there's literally hundreds of awards of varying significance in football, I'll probably limit it to awards given out at NFL Honors since those get the most media coverage. At the moment I think AP NFL MVP, AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year (which was completely unsourced until just recently!), and AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year are pretty close to FL; could you give those three a quick look-over and tell me what you think? Thanks, Lizard (talk) 12:30, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Talkback

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Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 15:18, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

TFL nomination for List of five-wicket hauls in women's Twenty20 International cricket

Hi Giants2008, I nominated List of five-wicket hauls in women's Twenty20 International cricket for TFL back on 31 January. Is that any reason why you haven't run it yet? If there is problem with the list or the blurb please let me know. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 08:04, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi Giants2008, thanks very much for the explanation that you left on my talk page. I look forward to its Main Page appearance. In the mean time, I will continue to make sure that the list is updated. All the best – Ianblair23 (talk) 03:39, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Kansas City Cowboys

Thank you for approving this list as a Featured List of the Day. I am stunned that no corrections were needed to the article nearly 7 years after I created it.Neonblak ^talk - 20:56, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

References

Sorry about missing the date formatting on some of the citations I changed or added on articles that you wrote. I tried to remember to match the date formatting to the existing citations. I have done rodeo category updating to dozens of articles the last several days, and the Visual Source editor formats the date in all numbers. I wish you could change its default. I tried to remember to go in and edit them but I missed a few. Thanks for fixing them. It's this project on categories and ProRodeo Hall of Fame inductees that our wikiproject is doing. If I saw something I could easily add or correct in the article along the way, I did. Anyway, I belong to two wikiprojects that oversee all the rodeo articles. We are going to be creating a Rodeo task force or wikiproject soon. Hopefully, you'd like to join then. Your articles are great. dawnleelynn^(talk) 17:39, 24 April 2017 (UTC) Oops, ps I am working on a rodeo list article now. List of ProRodeo Hall of Fame inductees

FAC review request

Hey Giants. I've got an old-time sports related article at FAC (Joe Warbrick) and there hasn't been much feedback over the last ten days or so. I'm worried it's not going to attract enough comments, so I was wondering if you would have the time to take a look? The review can be found here. Thanks. -- Shudde ^talk 07:34, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

May 2017 WikiCup newsletter

The second round of the competition has now closed, with just under 100 points being required to qualify for round 3. YellowEvan just scraped into the next round with 98 points but we have to say goodbye to the thirty or so competitors who didn't achieve this threshold; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Our top scorers in round 2 were:

• Cas Liber, led the field with five featured articles, four on birds and one on astronomy, and a total score of 2049, half of which came from bonus points.
• 1989 was in second place with 826 points, 466 of which were bonus points. 1989 has claimed points mostly relating to anime and Japanese-related articles.
• Peacemaker67 took third place with two FAs, one GA and seven GARs, mostly on naval vessels or military personnel, scoring 543 points.
• Other contestants who scored over 400 points were Freikorp, Carbrera, and Czar. Of course all these points are now wiped out and the 32 remaining contestants start again from zero in round 3.

Vivvt submitted the largest number of DYKs (30), and MBlaze Lightning achieved 13 articles at ITN. Carbrera claimed for 11 GAs and Argento Surfer performed the most GARs, having reviewed 11. So far we have achieved 38 featured articles and a splendid 132 good articles. Commendably, 279 GARs have been achieved so far, more than double the number of GAs.

So, on to the third round. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! 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 yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 13:16, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

FLC: List of songs written by Tove Lo

Hello, Giants 2008. I just wanted to tell you that this FLC, List of songs written by Tove Lo, has received a source review. The Rambling Man said that the List only needed a source review before being promoted to FL status. Aoba47 made the source review this past week, but no one has promoted the list yet. Regards, --Paparazzzi (talk) 02:48, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Re: Featured list candidates/List of Major League Baseball single-game hits leaders

Hey Giants! I responded to all the comments you made on my FLC. I hope you can have another look to see that I've addressed them satisfactorily. Cheers! —Bloom6132 (talk) 12:57, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

Table sorting problem

For some reason the table on List of unanimous college football All-Americans isn't sorting correctly. It worked fine when it was about half way complete, as can be seen on the draft version. So at first I figured the size was the problem, but sorting on List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States works fine and that's a much larger table. Any idea what the issue is? Lizard (talk) 03:57, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Phil Lyne

On 5 June 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Phil Lyne, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Phil Lyne entered more than 100 rodeos in 1971 and 1972, winning the All-Around Cowboy championship in both years? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Phil Lyne. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Phil Lyne), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Mifter (talk) 00:03, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

List of Celtic F.C. players

Have to say I'm a bit disappointed at the apparently arbitrary failing of this List for Featured List status. I felt that I did address all the comments/queries/criticisms raised by the reviewers, so wouldn't mind a quick pointer as to where the List was still lacking. ShugSty (talk) 11:00, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

TFL 400-series highways

Howdy Giants2008,

Not sure if you saw my post from last year on the TFL talk page... I'm not sure if there is a better Canadian topic ready for July 1 (also the country's 150th birthday), but if not, July 1 is the 65th anniversary of the system.

Cheers, Floydian ^τ _¢ 19:17, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

I saw your post last year and somehow remembered it. TFL only runs on Mondays and Fridays, and July 1 is a Saturday. Therefore, June 30 is the closest available date to the anniversary. Giants2008 (Talk) 13:09, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Works for me. Thanks! - Floydian ^τ _¢ 20:40, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

FAC proposal

I've never done this before and don't exactly know how to initiate a co-nom, but it appears one may have two FACs going at the same time should he be the co-nominator of one of them. With that, would you like to be my co-nominator if we gave 2001 American Memorial an run at FAC? Honestly, I can't find much else to do in the means of improving the article and we've both contributed to it pretty substantially over time. Let me know what you think. Cheers, --Bcschneider53 (talk) 02:48, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

List of awards and nominations received by Inna

Hi! Why did you archive the FLC of the article above? It had already received three supports. Pleas ping me back, Cartoon network freak (talk) 20:28, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

• @Cartoon network freak: The Rambling Man and Harrias didn't support the FLC; they merely capped their comments. For comments to be treated as supports, we need to see reviewers specifically declare support, and that didn't happen here. Your FLC had only one supporter because of this, and the FLC was three months old. We can't leave FLCs open indefinitely, and at this point you're better off renominating the list and trying to draw attention to it that way. Giants2008 (Talk) 23:08, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Peter Dinklage

Hello, I'm in desperat need for someone to do a source review for Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Peter Dinklage/archive1 that I have nominated for FAC, If you have time, could you have a look? So far it has three supports and no source review as of today. - AffeL (talk) 08:15, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

WikiCup 2017 July newsletter

The third round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 288 points being required to qualify for round 4. It was a hotly competitive round with all but four of the contestants exceeding the 106 points that was necessary to proceed to round 4 last year. Coemgenus and Freikorp tied on 288, and both have been allowed to proceed, so round 4 now has one pool of eight competitors and one of nine.

Round 3 saw the achievement of a 26-topic Featured topic by MPJ-DK as well as 5 featured lists and 13 featured articles. PanagiotisZois and SounderBruce achieved their first ever featured articles. Carbrera led the GA score with 10, Tachs achieved 17 DYKs and MBlaze Lightning 10 In the news items. There were 167 DYKs, 93 GARs and 82 GAs overall, this last figure being higher than the number of GAs in round 2, when twice as many people were taking part. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.

As we start round 4, we say goodbye to the fifteen or so competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! 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 yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth 05:38, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Talkback

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I wanted to nominate another article within that same hook. I have done a QPQ for that already. Could you review this again if you get the chance? Thanks. epicgenius (talk) 18:19, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

TFL notification

Hi and thank you for the notification. I look forward to seeing it. DrNegative (talk) 03:28, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

DYK for 1963 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game

On 4 August 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 1963 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 1963 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game was the first NCAA title game to feature a majority of black starters? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/1963 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, 1963 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:04, 4 August 2017 (UTC)