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Any article featured on the front page obviously gets more visits than usual. Yesterday it was the turn of Barn owl to be TFA. During the day it had 14 events of vandalism, admittedly some of these were from one persistent offender, and three hours before it was due to be replaced, was protected by being restricted to "Require autoconfirmed or confirmed access". Would it not be useful to protect TFAs in this way automatically for the day they are featured? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:08, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for your work on the blurb, for this and "always"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:28, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Danke. War ein Genuss. - Dank (push to talk) 12:15, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
...are at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 12:01, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
For your service to the best little corner of the Main Page czar 23:52, 21 July 2016 (UTC) |
Hi Dank, thanks for the notification. Saw the nomination via the ping, just didn't get round to commenting as I forgot about it. Lemonade51 (talk) 23:33, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
Late-to-the-party support for "United". "MUFC" is a bit fanziney for an encyclopedia though. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 21:55, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
The WikiChevrons | ||
On behalf of the Milhist coordinators, you are hereby awarded the WikiChevrons for reviewing a total of 17 Milhist articles during the period March to June 2016. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:14, 23 July 2016 (UTC) |
Great stuff, but I don't think we can call him good-natured, as it's a bit POVish. What was wrong with humorous? --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 15:35, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
Done --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 18:35, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
headed to the hospital, I'll check back in when I can. - Dank (push to talk) 10:23, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
Thanks. Have comparatively minor surgery scheduled Friday morning.
Thanks Ed, TRM, Hchc, Ian, Gerda, soetermans, and Nikki. I'm doing incredibly well today ... I was strong enough to take a shower and do some self-care-giving (although my partner John is doing a massively competent job with that). There's not much pain, weakness or fever, and most of the risk is gone. I could still get an infection in the hole they poked in my side for the drainage tube, but there's not much drainage so that's probably coming out in a few days. I'm probably out of the woods. I've been sweating and in pain off and on for 8 months ... turned out to be gallbladder stones and an infection that kept getting misdiagnosed, in part because the doctors and I thought it was more likely diverticulitis or GERD-related gastritis, since that's what I had before. With this new information, we have to recalculate, but there's a good chance that i'll be heaving a big sigh of relief at the end of this bout ... my other problems are the kind that sometimes can't be fixed, but a bad gallbladder can be (and was) removed, and that's the end of that problem. And maybe the other problems aren't problems any more, after all. - Dank (push to talk) 14:54, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
I haven't gotten around to making the changes yet, as the real world has kept me too busy - I will let them know as soon as I have done so. Hammersfan (talk) 09:54, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your help with the intro in Wytheville Raid. I changed it a little, but overall it is an improvement. I plan to add a picture of Walker Mountain in a couple of months, and then nominate for good article. Thanks again. TwoScars (talk) 12:44, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
Doc's just started up this contest about topics and articles covering Classical Hollywood cinema. Do express if you are interested or not by signing up under the "Editors Interested" section. Thanks. — Ssven2 Speak 2 me 05:56, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
As an incubator tier task force, we reached 4 active members and 1 sporadic, with one that is retired but may return, I followed the instructions of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators and made all of the necessary categories, an infobox and the templates, I was wondering who I should ask to include us in the talk page template, I have already added the baseline of |Roman= to the template, but have not touched the underlying code to make it work. Thanks. Iazyges (talk) 23:22, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
Thank You | |
Thanks for leaving a comment/review on my FAC. The article passed and I just wanted to stop by and say thanks. – jona ✉ 19:51, 26 August 2016 (UTC) |
Sorry, I didn't save my edits because I found an issue I needed to fix in the text, now saved! FunkMonk (talk) 22:10, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:55, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
Thanks Gerda. What a wonderful prize to receive ... I hope I'm still open, patient and receptive. - Dank (push to talk) 12:21, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
Hey Dank, I made a small copyedit to Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 28, 2016—I hope that's alright, but please feel free to revert. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 18:32, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
During a recent lengthy discussion on the WP:FAC talkpage, several ideas were put forward as to how this procedure could be improved, particularly in making it more user-friendly towards first-time nominees. The promotion rate for first-timers at FAC is depressingly low – around 16 percent – which is a cause for concern. To help remedy this, Mike Christie and I, with the co-operation of the FAC coordinators, have devised a voluntary mentoring scheme, in which newcomers will guided by more experienced editors through the stages of preparation and submission of their articles. The general format of the scheme is explained in more detail on Wikipedia: Mentoring for FAC, which also includes a list of editors who have indicated that they are prepared to act as mentors.
Would you be prepared to take on this role occasionally? If so, please add your name to the list. By doing so you incur no obligation; it will be entirely for you to decide how often and on which articles you want to act in this capacity. We anticipate that the scheme will have a trial run for a few months before we appraise its effectiveness. Your participation will be most welcome. Brianboulton (talk) 17:05, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
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