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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

Administrator changes

added Novem Linguae
removed

Bureaucrat changes

removed MBisanz

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:58, 1 July 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your GA nomination of Doom (1993 video game)[edit]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Doom (1993 video game) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Shooterwalker -- Shooterwalker (talk) 23:42, 2 July 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Promotion of List of peramelemorphs[edit]

Congratulations, PresN! The list you nominated, List of peramelemorphs, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists 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 The nomination discussion has been archived.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 list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Giants2008 (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 3 July 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

WikiCup 2023 July newsletter[edit]

The third round of the 2023 WikiCup has come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 175 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

Contestants achieved 11 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 47 good articles, 72 featured or good article reviews, over 100 DYKs and 40 ITN appearances. As always, any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

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 Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). 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 your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:18, 8 July 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Multiple FLCs[edit]

Hello PresN. I'm having a tough time finding it, but I thought I read something about not being able to have multiple FL nominations open at the same time. Are you able to point me towards anything where this is mentioned? I'm listed as a co nom on a current nomination and I wanted to see whether I could nominate a different article I have ready. Hey man im josh (talk) 22:42, 13 July 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Hey man im josh: It's on the main FLC page, 2nd paragraph: "Nominators should not add a second featured list nomination until the first has gained substantial support and reviewers' concerns have been substantially addressed." That said, all rules are up to coordinator discretion, and since your first is a co-nom I'm fine with you nominating a second list. The point is to avoid having nominators have too much open at once that they get overwhelmed, especially if they're new to FLC (or the reviewers get overwhelmed with too many similar nominations), but you have 2 FLs already and it's a co-nom anyway, so I'm not worried. --PresN 00:54, 14 July 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I appreciate you getting back to me, I feel blind having missed that. That's awesome to hear, I'll be putting the finishing touches and putting up a nomination tomorrow then. Thanks for the work you do and for helping me out! Hey man im josh (talk) 01:17, 14 July 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Promotion of List of pilosans[edit]

Congratulations, PresN! The list you nominated, List of pilosans, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists 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 list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Giants2008 (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 24 July 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

August 2023 Good Article Nominations backlog drive[edit]

Good article nominations | August 2023 Backlog Drive
August 2023 Backlog Drive:
  • On 1 August, a one-month backlog drive for good article nominations will begin.
  • Barnstars will be awarded.
  • Interested in taking part? You can sign up here.
Other ways to participate:
You're receiving this message because you have reviewed or nominated a good article in the last year.

(t · c) buidhe 05:15, 30 July 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your GA nomination of Doom (1993 video game)[edit]

The article Doom (1993 video game) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Doom (1993 video game) for comments about the article, and Talk:Doom (1993 video game)/GA2 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Shooterwalker -- Shooterwalker (talk) 00:44, 31 July 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

List advise, revert or not?[edit]

Howdy. Earlier this year, List of British armies in World War II was promoted to FLC. Yesterday, this edit was made. Can you advise if this is okay, or if it should be reverted back to the format the list was in when it was promoted.EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 15:29, 4 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@EnigmaMcmxc: The change is fine in terms of FL status- revert or not as you choose. The FL project's opinion on post-promotion changes is just "if it's egregious, then revert it or take it to FLR", but overall we don't have the resources or inclination to demand that FLs stay unchanged post-promotion.
That said, I'm in favor of the change not for the "readers can jump to subsections" reason the IP editor gave (the list isn't so long that the reader can't just scroll down another inch or two), but because there enough text and columns in the table that on narrower screens the text gets squished horizontally pretty far, so moving it below the table makes it easier to read that way. If you'd rather that the text be next to the other details of the army in question, that's fine though; there's a limit to how much we can do for small screens when if comes to tabular data. --PresN 15:48, 4 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
My lack of experience in the "list" side of things made me wonder if it would even be acceptable. So, I really appreciate the follow-up. I shall leave the edit in place, based on your reasoning.EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 18:00, 4 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

WikiProject Video games[edit]

Hello PresN, I was surprised at being notified at the topic you added at WT:WikiProject Video games#New Articles (July 31 to August 6). My name was listed against MUSHclient as having un-redirected it, which I have not done. I had reverted some changes earlier though, and now that it came to my notice, I have just turned it back to a redirect. If the updates you added were generated by a script, then the script is wrong. Jay 💬 16:16, 7 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Jay: Sorry, the script tagged you as the "last creator" because your edit on June 18 had the "Removed redirect" tag, e.g. changing the article from a redirect to an actual article, probably because your edit restored the RfD tag thereby making the page no longer redirect. --PresN 16:30, 7 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Got it! I guess Twinkle needs to be tweaked to understand that adding a RfD notice while technically is removing a redirect, it should be tagged as something else, perhaps with a new tagname. Jay 💬 16:42, 7 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – August 2023[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).

Administrator changes

added Firefangledfeathers
removed

Interface administrator changes

added Novem Linguae

Technical news

Arbitration

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:54, 8 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

A goat for you![edit]

Cos you are the G.O.A.T. for making the various primate lists into tables (which I'm now working to copy to the genus articles).

UtherSRG (talk) 14:42, 11 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@UtherSRG: Thanks! Happy to see them propagate, and thanks for adding the images to the lorisoids list. --PresN 14:57, 11 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar[edit]

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Thank you for everything that you do as a featured list director. I'm not sure what we'd do without you but I hope that we never have to find out. Hey man im josh (talk) 16:37, 11 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Chrono Cross under Featured Article Review[edit]

I have nominated Chrono Cross for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. George Ho (talk) 09:56, 13 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Promotion of World Video Game Hall of Fame[edit]

Congratulations, PresN! The list you nominated, World Video Game Hall of Fame, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists 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 list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Giants2008 (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 14 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Pygmy slow loris[edit]

ASM MDD has already moved even further to split this into two species in Xanthonycticebus. The species article was updated over a year ago, as was the former genus article. MSW3 is super out of date. We generally move forward if either the IUCN or ASM's MDD move forward, though we certainly prefer when IUCN and ASM agree. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:10, 15 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Also, while I originally created the Primates wikiproject as a child of the mammals project, it stands alone and is independent. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:22, 15 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Further, a quick search for Xanthonycticebus shows a variety of well respected secondary sources using it, including some that already accept the species split. The notion of waiting for both the IUCN and ASM to accept a taxonomic change is a benchmark used in absence of any other secondary sources supporting the change. - UtherSRG (talk) 15:04, 15 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@UtherSRG: I'll revert my reversion, but to be completely honest, the real issue is that I need a hard line to follow for these species lists, because there's 5700+ mammal species and I can't manually evaluate all of them. Primates may be internally consistent on-wiki, but in other orders I've found species articles that are years out of date, that contradict their own genus/family articles, or which even contradict themselves. And never mind when ASM decides to follow a single 6-month-old research paper to split a species into 5 because nothing contradicts it yet, like they did multiple times in Lagomorpha. "What is the general consensus among scholars" isn't a useful metric when the accepted consensus recorders disagree- I'm not a subject matter expert and can't decide better then they can, so I need a straightforward rule to follow. MAMMAL's "iucn+asm" works well for that. If WP:PRIMATE has its own rule for that subdomain I can follow that instead, though I note that no such rule is listed on the wikiproject page. --PresN 15:36, 15 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I totally understand your perspective. Taxonomy is a slippery eel! I work hard to keep the primates in line and help out where I can with a lot of mammals and some others. Cheers! - UtherSRG (talk) 15:44, 15 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

TFL notification for September 2023[edit]

Hi, PresN. I'm just posting to let you know that List of dasyuromorphs – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for September 4. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 22:34, 19 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Multiple FLCs[edit]

Hello! I currently have one FLC up for review, and I've resolved all the comments from the reviewers. I understand that there's a rule against having multiple FLCs up for review. However, I've seen some users with multiple FLCs open and wanted to ask if there are any exceptions to this rule, like do you need to review a couple of others for each extra you nominate? I'm asking because I have another list that I'm planning to nominate soon. Thanks :) ULPS (talk • contribs) 23:03, 19 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@ULPS: Yep, the rule is "Nominators should not add a second featured list nomination until the first has gained substantial support and reviewers' concerns have been substantially addressed.", and it's up to coordinator discretion. Your list has multiple supports and no outstanding reviewer comments to resolve, and it's not your first FLC, so you're good to go ahead and add another one. There's no review requirement, though obviously it's polite (and a good idea to help your own nominations get reviews) to do so. --PresN 00:29, 20 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Alright great! I'll keep that in mind when its ready and I'll knock out some reviews in the meantine. Appreciate the quick response. ULPS (talk • contribs) 00:33, 20 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

False title[edit]

Hey, thanks for reading the essay. I won't restore the changes, but I just have to ask about this in your edit summary:

"noun as adjective" isn't the same thing as "false title"

What are you talking about here? Can you give me an example? Popcornfud (talk) 15:38, 20 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Popcornfud: Sure, you seem to be arguing that any time you use a noun as an adjective without a "the" in front of it, that you're making a "false title". So, taking as an example your version:
"Additionally, the other co-founders, the designer John Romero and the lead artist, Adrian Carmack, wanted to create something in a darker style than the Keen games."
You're saying that ", designer John Romero" is a false title, while ", the designer John Romero" is not. I have three disagreements with this kind of change: 1, "designer John Romero", where the noun "designer" is acting as an adjective describing John Romero, is perfectly grammatically correct, so the change is just your own stylistic opinion that it denotes a "title". 2, "the designer" is just as much of a "title" as "designer", only now its two words instead of one, and to my ear reads as an emphasized title rather than a descriptor. "The President Joe Biden" is a title with or without the "the", and sounds like even more of a title to me. And 3, slapping "the" in front of these words often implies a singularity that isn't true: Romero wasn't, "the designer", in either sense—Tom Hall was the lead designer for half of the game's development, so Romero wasn't "the only" designer, and Romero was also one of the programmers, meaning he wasn't just the "designer". And it's not just that sentence- "the id co-founder and lead programmer, John Carmack" - Carmack definitionally cannot be "the" co-founder as there were several, and in fact a few sentences later you had "The co-founder and lead designer, Tom Hall, proposed a new game", but Tom Hall is again not "the" co-founder, and is not even "the other" co-founder, as there were four. --PresN 16:59, 20 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks for the reply. This is indeed a stylistic matter so that's why I won't press the issue. I'm always interested in hearing how persuasive (or not) people find the argument I make for this one.
To respond to the issue of "implying a singularity that isn't true" — that's a completely unrelated matter, which is determined by commas:
  • the designer, John Romero = Romero was the only designer
  • the designer John Romero = Romero was one of several designers
Garner's Modern English Usage covers this (in the context of false titles) if you're interested. If you're not interested, feel free to ignore and carry on with your life! Popcornfud (talk) 17:13, 20 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Promotion of List of lorisoids[edit]

Congratulations, PresN! The list you nominated, List of lorisoids, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists 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 list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Giants2008 (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 21 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Spacewar![edit]

Hi PresN, I want a video game for the October TFAs ... how about this one? Is this a good time to run it? - Dank (push to talk) 16:00, 22 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Dank: Sounds good to me! --PresN 16:15, 22 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Looks like it will be October 19. - Dank (push to talk) 03:33, 3 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Identification of AI generated article content[edit]

I note you recently redirected the article The Tearoom on the basis that its content was unsourced and relied on AI-generated content. I agree this was a sound move as the article had numerous problems, but I was curious how you identified the content was AI-generated as opposed to the work of an enthusiastic if inexperienced contributor? ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 01:37, 25 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Vrxces: See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games#Coin945 and AI generated articles - Cleanup - the editor in question has been around for a long time, has admitted it, and has been recently blocked for it. Asides from that, I had been going through a bunch of their articles in a row, and some of the other ones were more blatent in "AI-speak" where it uses odd, corporate turns of phrase that don't really say anything or else way overstate things, cited to a citation that says nothing of the sort. --PresN 02:01, 25 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Wonderful, thanks for providing some background. I didn't realise it was systemic on the part of this user. Looking through them now, the biggest issues seemed to have been fairly blatant POV statements and non-existent sourcing. I plan to redo Robert Yang game articles with proper content in due course. Thanks again! ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 02:31, 25 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

id Software in lowercase[edit]

"id Software" is not just a stylization used exclusively in their logo, lettering or something, but simply the only correct spelling of their proper name. It's also constantly written in lowercase in the article about the company, even if it's a sentence start, see id Software.

It's comparable to "iPhone", which can also only be written in lowercase, even if it's the first word in a sentence; "iPhone" is not a stylization, but the only correct use of the brand name, just like "id Software" is the correct name of the company. Maxeto0910 (talk) 16:25, 30 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Maxeto0910: MOS:TMLOWER - iPhone and eBay get an exception because you uppercase the second letter and pronounce the first, but for id, technically all uses of it should be capitalized, even in the middle of sentences. I'm not going to bother to enforce that, or touch id Software at all, but for the start of sentences it needs to follow English grammar rules. --PresN 16:57, 30 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Your linked guideline page states:

"[...] if the title of the article is the stylized version of the name [...], it should be [...] used throughout the text (and, in most cases, in other articles that mention it)."

So it seems like Wikipedia adopted the spelling of "id Software" by using it as the lemma of the company's article, which is why this spelling should be used throughout Wikipedia. Maxeto0910 (talk) 17:05, 30 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – September 2023[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:22, 1 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

List of hornbills[edit]

Currently working on list of hornbills in my sandbox, and I was thinking of including species in a slightly unconventional way. The "true" hornbills are all in Bucerotidae, and the sister ground hornbills are in Bucorvidae. I know we usually organize species lists by family, but since both of these form a monophyletic clade and are covered by the term hornbill, I would include both Bucorvidae and Bucerotidae in the same list. Thoughts? AryKun (talk) 14:21, 2 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@AryKun: Looks like those are the only two extant families in the suborder Buceroti? Then yeah, makes sense to me to combine the two families into one list. I think as long as the grouping makes logical sense and is useful to readers then it's fine to vary from "per-family" groupings, and in this case it feels fine to add on the 2 ground hornbill species into a combined "hornbills" list. I've done suborders before in mammals (for the kangaroo+ order), and for primates I'm doing superfamilies, so whatever makes sense for the readers for that clade works. --PresN 19:04, 2 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

WikiCup 2023 September newsletter[edit]

The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them and within 24 hours of the end of the final. If you are concerned that your nomination 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. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

I will be standing down as a judge after the end of the contest. I think the Cup encourages productive editors to improve their contributions to Wikipedia and I hope that someone else will step up to take over the running of the Cup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), and Cwmhiraeth (talk)

Doom RPG[edit]

Hi! Was wondering can you help expand Doom RPG? I found a lot more sources than I though [1], [2], [3], [4] (some other aticles from IGN as well) Timur9008 (talk) 18:34, 10 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Timur9008: Sorry, already have a few projects queued up, and it's not a subject I'm that interested in despite working on the original Doom. --PresN 01:05, 11 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
No worries. Thanks! Timur9008 (talk) 02:35, 11 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@PresN: Not sure if this ref is useful for the Doom 1993 article [5](mentions sales for full version of the game for the first five months ~ 65,000 according to Wilbur)
Timur9008 (talk) 16:40, 5 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Promotion of List of cercopithecoids[edit]

Congratulations, PresN! The list you nominated, List of cercopithecoids, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists 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 list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Giants2008 (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 11 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Animal genera table[edit]

Hey, I'm reworking the hummingbird list with genera tables, and I'd appreciate if you could add an option to suppress the ecology column to Template:Animal genera table the way you did for the species table template. AryKun (talk) 13:56, 14 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@AryKun: Alright, done, let me know if you have any problems. --PresN 15:15, 14 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Using a gif[edit]

After expanding more Mega Man X games, I wondered if I should give an extra image to the protagonist X. The problem I am having is that the article which I expanded some months ago to make it GA has several discussions about the idea of X wearing armors. I couldn't find any concept image that might stand out except this gif from Marvel vs Capcom Infinite which might be extra helpful since Capcom explained that they added X to the fighting game since he is popular to Western audiences. Still I can't save this image as a gif and wanted to know your opinion regarding it. Maybe I should get rid of the concept art image from creation and add the gif to avoid having too many nonfree images? Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 00:14, 24 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Tintor2: I don't really think that clip adds much that's not already in the article; the image in "Development and designs" basically covers the concept of "wears armor", and showing another style would be overkill. I'd rather keep the image in "Original concept". --PresN 00:32, 24 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks. By the way another question about Mega Man. I've sourced most of Mega Man X: Command Mission's gameplay and plot through the official guide that was archived by google books. Is it okay to use it like this? Maybe I should add it to a "bibliography" subsection and cut it to pages to save weight? Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 18:29, 26 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Tintor2: Yeah, you can cite that. Making a section for the full book is also fine, with only one book source it's not too bad either way, but for e.g. Doom (1993 video game) I have a "Sources" section at the bottom for books and then just do like "Kushner, pp. 113–117" in the references to reduce the duplication. --PresN 18:36, 26 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I managed to cut 2 kylobites through it but there is an issue with citing the author apparently.Tintor2 (talk) 18:57, 26 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Promotion of Nebula Award for Best Game Writing[edit]

Congratulations, PresN! The list you nominated, Nebula Award for Best Game Writing, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists 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 list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Giants2008 (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:26, 25 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Tunic (video game) scheduled for TFA[edit]

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 12 November 2023. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 12, 2023, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/November 2023. I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:42, 30 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – September 2023[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:41, 4 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Editor of the Week[edit]

Editor of the Week
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:Panini! submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I would like to nominate PresN to be the editor of the week! An administrator and WP:FLC delegate, PresN has made over 70,000 edits over his 15 active years on Wikipedia. I'm not sure where FLC would be without them. He has contributed to over 120 good articles, 24 featured articles, and next to 100 featured lists, mainly about animals, science fiction, and the early years of video games. I know him from the latter. A consistent and reliable editor, who simultaneously maintains administrative and content-creations sides of Wikipedia with ease and excellence. He is active in Wikiproject video games, maintaining scripts for quick-glance stats. His well-mannered cooperation and continuously friendly reputation is on display everywhere. User:Aza24, User:Kavyansh.Singh, User:Hey man im josh and User:AryKun have all seconded this nomination.

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week: 

((User:UBX/EoTWBox))
Project Video Games
PresN
 
Editor of the Week
for the week beginning
A consistent and reliable editor, who maintains administrative and content-creations sides of Wikipedia with ease and excellence. Over 70,000 edits over his 15 active years with over 120 good articles, 24 featured articles, and next to 100 featured lists, mainly about animals, science fiction, and the early years of video games. Active in maintaining scripts in Wikiproject video games for quick-glance stats.
Recognized for
his well-mannered cooperation and continuously friendly reputation
Submit a nomination

Thanks again for your efforts! ―Buster7 ☎ 05:00, 7 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you, and thank you Panini!, Aza24, Kavyansh.Singh, Hey man im josh, AryKun! --PresN 14:16, 7 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Well deserved! – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 14:18, 7 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
You definitely deserve this one! AryKun (talk) 14:31, 7 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Long overdue! Hey man im josh (talk) 17:57, 7 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Congratulations, you earned it! Happy editing, SilverTiger12 (talk) 19:30, 7 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Promotion of Doom (1993 video game)[edit]

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Congrats PresN.Tintor2 (talk) 00:40, 8 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

A huge accomplishment! Panini! • 🥪 21:26, 8 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Promotion of List of hominoids[edit]

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TFL notification for November 2023[edit]

Hi, PresN. I'm just posting to let you know that Ray Bradbury Award – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for November 3. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 21:34, 9 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Accessibility for tables[edit]

Hello, since you were the one to review/help with the accessibility part of the 2012 NBA draft FLC, I was hoping I could get your help with another list before I eventually nominate it for FLC.

The article is Portland Trail Blazers draft history. I'm looking for help with adding !scope=col just because of how the table is coded, so I'm not sure how to fit it in without breaking it.

I'm also not sure where to put !scope=row since since none of the columns are really unique to each row. -- ZooBlazertalk 15:55, 11 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@ZooBlazer: Made a couple edits with explanations in the comments; feel free to revert any/all of it. --18:34, 11 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you for your help! -- ZooBlazertalk 19:07, 11 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hate to bother you again, but I realized how bad I am with adding these types of things when it isn't just a basic table. Could you help me out with Portland Trail Blazers all-time roster if you have a chance? This should be the last time I bother you about a list. -- ZooBlazertalk 05:59, 16 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@ZooBlazer: Done. --PresN 15:33, 16 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you! -- ZooBlazertalk 15:45, 16 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hello Pres I was wondering if you had suggestions of what to do about adding !scope=row in the table under selections at 1970 NBA expansion draft. It's supposed to be a column of unique entries in each row, correct? The only column like that in this case is the players, but the problem is it overrides the accomplishment colors for the four players that have them. -- ZooBlazer 21:35, 27 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@ZooBlazer: Fixed it for you- there's probably another way to do it, but as far as I could tell, even though it shouldn't make a difference, "bgcolor=whatever" was being overridden by the row header styling, but replacing it with the actual styling that's a shorthand for, style="background-color:whatever", doesn't get overridden. So, swapping that out let the player column be the row headers while still having the coloring. --PresN 01:01, 28 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks again for your help! -- ZooBlazer 01:05, 28 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Sorry to bother you yet again... you're just the only editor that I know of who helps with accessibility for FLC. Although this question is a little different as it involves colors in tables. It may not be accessibility, but more readability this time. It involves players at Portland Trail Blazers draft history with multiple accomplishments, meaning multiple background colors are needed.

The current conversation is at the FLC with me and SounderBruce. The idea was originally suggested by EN-Jungwon in one of my previous FLCs. I bring that up because this color situation affects three lists I've worked on/am working on, so any changes will have to be made to them too. Any suggestions of how to make it obvious there are multiple accomplishments beyond just the symbols that denote them? -- ZooBlazer 19:14, 30 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

List of songs recorded by Basshunter[edit]

Hello. Archived versions are incorrect. Eurohunter (talk) 16:54, 13 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Eurohunter: Alright, guess IABot doesn't archive spotify links correctly; feel free to just revert me. --PresN 20:22, 15 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Promotion of List of tarsiiformes[edit]

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List of platyrrhines[edit]

Do you have this list on your task list to convert to use those beautiful tables? - UtherSRG (talk) 12:20, 16 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@UtherSRG: Yep, that's next. I've been very busy the last few weeks, but I'm slowing working through it at User:PresN/plats. --PresN 12:59, 16 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Fantastic! :) - UtherSRG (talk) 13:16, 16 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

List of Crystal Dynamics video games[edit]

Heya. I'm currently having Crystal Dynamics reviewed for GA. Meanwhile, List of Crystal Dynamics video games has been a FL since early 2013. Given the knowledge from the rewritten article, a glance over the listicle reveals a dire state: Factual errors (in both the text and the table), a missing game (Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain), incorrect entries (Toys for Bob games published by Eidos Interactive instead of Crystal Dynamics), missing platforms, unsourced data, and unreliable sources. Additionally, the heavily efn-based information system is convoluted and inherently reader-unfriendly. Since I currently do not have the resources to overhaul the listicle, I quickly whipped up a condensed, in-article games table (as I usually do). As our resident games list expert, what do you think is best course of action here? Is the listicle worth a complete rework or should it be redirected to the main article? Regards, IceWelder [✉] 09:42, 18 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@IceWelder: Hmm. I don't think it should be redirected, but it does need an overhaul. Let me see if I can get it mostly cleaned up this weekend- most of the sources are fine, just not sufficient (though I have no idea what Spong is), and these mostly aren't small titles so it shouldn't be too hard to source. --PresN 11:59, 18 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Contest?[edit]

Hello, I noticed that you've been getting around two species lists to FL every month; maybe you'd like to note your contributions at the TOL contest? AryKun (talk) 08:54, 19 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

TFA[edit]

Thank you today for Spacewar!, introduced (in 2020): "The history of video games in many references begins with the first commercial products in 1972, but they're predated by a much more robust game a decade prior: Spacewar!. Appearing out of almost whole cloth, it leapt past prior "tic-tac-toe" or "20 questions" games played by a handful of people as a multiplayer real-time space combat game that led to the first detached controllers and first game tournament. It was the first game known to be played at more than one computer installation, and in fact spread to nearly every possible mainframe installation as the most popular game of the 60s. It directly inspired both of the first two arcade video games, as well as games for years after, and was included as one of the first 10 games of the game canon at the Library of Congress in 2007."! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:38, 19 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

WikiCup 2023 November newsletter[edit]

The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, Delaware BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-

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TFL notification for December 2023[edit]

Hi, PresN. I'm just posting to let you know that World Video Game Hall of Fame – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for December 4. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 22:29, 10 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

TFA again[edit]

November songs
my story today

Thank you today for Tunic (video game), introduced: "It is apparent to any video game player with experience or context that we have entered an era where an "indie video game" can match or exceed the depth and design quality of titles constructed by hundreds of developers. No longer small little art projects or games that aren't judged against those made by "real companies", we're seeing games like 2022's Tunic: a game made primarily by one person, where the design was done after 6 months but he then spent 6 more years refining and revising. And the result? The article will tell you that it won 2 BAFTAs and was in the top 30-scored games of the year for most platforms, and top-10 for the Switch, but I'll tell you that it was one of my top-5 gaming experiences ever. Andrew Shouldice wanted players to not just feel the sense that the world around the character was bigger than them, but to be hit with the revelation that it was bigger than they realized an hour ago, over and over, and that there was always just a little bit more that they didn't have the context for yet, and he succeeded. The result is a game that looks like "what if Zelda but with a fox" at first glance but then finds you hours later scrawling notes about puzzles in between hitting monsters with a sword while trying to figure out the backstory through nothing but context clues and a dogged refusal to check Reddit for the answers. So, I played the game, and then I turned around and wrote the article (pretty much scrapping whatever was there in the process) ..."! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:00, 12 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Promotion of List of platyrrhines[edit]

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Space Invaders[edit]

Do you have a quick opinion on this? I'm looking for a video game rerun at TFA in January, and this one is jumping out at me. If not this one ... do you have a suggestion? I'm looking for a Vital Article. (Yes, I'll be running Doom (1993 video game) as well, unless you'd rather put that off.) - Dank (push to talk) 21:48, 25 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Dank: Quick opinion is that it's probably fine for a re-run; there's some formatting oddities, but it looks like every so often someone has gone through and cleaned up poorly-sourced bits and its much more solid than I'd have expected from it being a 2008 nomination. And yes, January is fine for Doom, it's still close to its 30-year anniversary on December 10. --PresN 22:02, 25 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I ran the "highlight unreferenced passages" tool and some others, and I got the same impression. Any objection to moving Doom to December 10? Wehwalt is fine with that. - Dank (push to talk) 00:07, 26 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Dank: No objection at all! --PresN 00:26, 26 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Okay, I'll be finished with the blurb in a minute, feel free to edit. - Dank (push to talk) 00:28, 26 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

While I'm here, a spot opened up in January; any objections to running Homeworld on the 28th 19th? We talked about it before but it never actually ran. - Dank (push to talk) 18:50, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Dank: No objection! --PresN 19:31, 29 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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The reason for the redlinked criterion[edit]

Hi, the list master. :-P I have a question about the featured list criteria.

WIAFL says:

5. Style...
(a) Visual appeal... a minimal proportion of items are redlinked.

Is the presence of red links purely an aesthetic matter? Would the list comply with the latter part of 5a if I replaced all red links with black text, even though these items have potential to be developed into articles? Are there any implicit factors (e.g. the functionality of navigation) to consider?

Thanks.--Lopullinen 09:19, 9 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Lopullinen: That one's just aesthetic, and isn't strongly enforced. The recent Vietnamese politics lists, for example, have been mostly redlinks and no one has raised an issue. --PresN 15:08, 9 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

TFA again and again[edit]

December: story · music · places

Thank you today for Doom (1993 video game), introduced: "Doom is many things: the father of first-person shooter video games, one of the most influential games in any genre, the game that made id Software a household name and its developers millionaire stars, and possibly what single-handedly changed the cultural perception at large of a "video game" from bleeps and bloops in an arcade into shooter games. It's nearly 30 years old now, and yet I bet there are people scrolling through FAC today who don't play video games but saw the title and still immediately recognized the name. It's a big deal in video games, is what I'm saying, so like a fool I'm bringing it here for review."! - Interesting article history ;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:35, 10 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

My story today is about Michael Robinson, - it's an honour to have known him. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:14, 13 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Today, I have a special story to tell, of the works of a musician born 300 years ago. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:53, 22 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Happy Holidays[edit]

Peace is a state of balance and understanding in yourself and between others, where respect is gained by the acceptance of differences, tolerance persists, conflicts are resolved through dialog, people's rights are respected and their voices are heard, and everyone is at their highest point of serenity without social tension. Happy Holidays to you and yours. ―Buster7 ☎

Technical question on the first column of a list[edit]

I'm pretty sure this is just a technical question of presentation (and thus right up your alley), but you be the judge. I'm doing a list of tree genera that uses two rows for pine, because pine has more species so I want to divide it into its two subgenera. I usually use a zoom of 133%, and for that reason and just general accessibility concerns, I'm against adding columns that strike me as completely unnecessary just because "people usually do it that way". When I've already got a column of "fir, Callitropsis, juniper, larch, spruce, Pinus subgenus Pinus and Pinus subgenus Strobus", creating an additional column of "fir, Callitropsis, juniper, larch, spruce and Pinus" (just to meet the technical requirement of "one row per item", where the items are genera) seems redundant. Does that work for you? - Dank (push to talk) 18:01, 10 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Dank: You're talking about User:Dank/Sandbox/11? Yeah, I don't think there's a problem with splitting Pinus into two rows like that instead of having a separate "subgenus" column. It's still clear to the reader what you're doing, which is what matters, and I don't think it matters that sometimes the grouping is the full genus but when available is a subgenus, especially when the distinction between genus and subgenus is pretty arbitrary anyway. --PresN 19:53, 10 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Yes Sandbox/11, and that was my thinking. Thx. - Dank (push to talk) 20:06, 10 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Your ping[edit]

Well this is cool. I don't usually see wikiprojects doing stuff like this :) While it's true that Pokémon Bank was originally a draft... said draft is one I started. I tend to use draftspace when I'm not able to write a decent article in one sitting. I'd say it's a start class article if you want to update the list, but feel free to decide otherwise. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 21:31, 18 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Clovermoss: Yep, it's a custom script I wrote and run just for WPVG; glad you liked it! It adds a notice for articles moved out of draft space just as a minor notice of "this existed elsewhere first", though maybe adding that the creator was the one to move it would be useful. I get the ratings from the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Video_game_articles_by_quality_log, not the actual talk page; not sure why it missed that you tagged it a Start but it's on my list of bugs to eventually fix. --PresN 21:41, 18 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

TFL notification for January 2024[edit]

Hi, PresN. I'm just posting to let you know that List of ochotonids – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for January 19, 2024. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 02:38, 23 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yo Ho Ho![edit]

Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) is wishing you Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding ((subst:User:WereSpielChequers/Dec19b)) to your friends' talk pages.


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Re FF Music, plus greetings[edit]

Hi. Just letting you know, I've GAN'd the article for the Music of Final Fantasy XVI. Going through the process of FFXVI getting GAN'd so the FF series topic was retained (XVI's up for an addition nom now by the way), I realised the FF Music GT had slipped through the cracks. Just letting you know, as I think you were the prime mover for that GT.

Also, belated Seasons Greetings and a Happy New Year. Here's to a 2024 that's...enjoyable. ProtoDrake (talk) 20:11, 28 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@ProtoDrake: Happy New Year to you too! Thanks for writing/nominating that- I'm largely disconnected from FF music and the series in general now, but it makes me happy to see the topics still complete. I hope you have a good 2024 as well! --PresN 22:47, 28 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Welcome to the 2024 WikiCup![edit]

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User WP:NOTHERE?[edit]

Hi, I've just received interaction from the user Alistair McBuffio regarding the page List of political parties in the United Kingdom, and looking at their contributions almost all of them seem to be highly focused on adding content related to the Far-Right British Democratic Party, regardless of notability or triviliaty. Believe this user may fall afoul of Wikipedia:NOTHERE and is only interested in promoting the party, given their stated support of it on their user page.

Could you as an admin take a look (or if not suggest the best avenue to follow as I'm unsure as to whether it's best to report to ANI or vandalism)

Regards, Rambling Rambler (talk) 17:42, 15 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Rambling Rambler:
1) It's common and normal for someone to edit focused on individual topics of interest to them, and not against the rules.
2) Being a supporter of the BDP is not banned on wikipedia, as unpleasant as you may find them.
3) Alistair McBuffio appears to edit sporadically, with most edits being minor cleanups. It's not exactly a giant POV push.
4) What appears to actually be happening is that you are involved in a content dispute at List of political parties in the United Kingdom with another user, and McBuffio jumped in on their side and reverted all your edits. You're now reaching out to a completely random admin to weigh in on "your side". I'm not familiar enough with british politics to weigh in on who was right, but the next step would be to find other editors to weigh in on how the list should be organized. I recommend asking at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom for other editors interested in the area for their opinion. --PresN 18:25, 15 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I was wary of raising the issue precisely because of that potential it may instead be seen as vindictive reporting regarding the "content dispute" (one that was dealt with a week ago and I consider settled quite frankly). The thing is though I wouldn't need to do it even if I were someone of a vindictive nature because the changes I made are well-supported by Wikipedia policy and therefore just reverting back the insertion of unverifiable/OR content resolves it.
The only reason I felt the need to ask an admin for advice was because, looking through their edits (as sporadic as they may be) the overwhelming bulk of them are to add information regarding a singular political party they state to be a supporter of, and was unsure of at what point it becomes NotHere that I specifically thought best to raise via an admin talk page rather than a more definitive disciplinary board that may cause confrontation.
If you think it doesn't cross that line I don't intend to take it further, just wanted some advice on the matter. Rambling Rambler (talk) 18:38, 15 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

TFA[edit]

Thank you today for Homeworld, introduced (in 2017): "Claiming the title as the best strategy video game and best computer game of 1999, Homeworld is considered a classic of the genre for a single innovation: it was the first strategy game that was fully 3D, in the sense that units were not restricted to a plane like the ground, but could move anywhere within a sphere of space. Connecting the levels together so that the same plucky fighter ship from level 1 could end up leading a formation against a capital ship 6 levels later was the icing on the cake, and it's no surprise that when the rights came up for auction they were snapped up immediately." -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:57, 19 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Asellus (SaGa Frontier)[edit]

Hi, I was wondering if you would be interested and free to expand her appearances section. Kung Fu Man and I are doing a B drive on character articles, and I want to improve Asellus, but honestly, I still haven't beaten SaGa Frontier and I don't want to be spoiled, haha. - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 15:43, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Cukie Gherkin: Never played it either, haha. --PresN 16:05, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Oh, damn lol. Do you know anyone here who may have? Otherwise I'll just buckle down and finish the game. - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 16:17, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Cukie Gherkin: You can ask in the discord, but maybe ProtoDrake? --PresN 16:34, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Oh I'm banned from the Discord for telling a very good joke, but I'll ask ProtoDrake. Thanks! - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 16:36, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

TFL notification for March 2024[edit]

Hi, PresN. I'm just posting to let you know that World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for March 1. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 22:28, 29 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Video games assessment problem[edit]

Hi again, PresN. Further to your alert on my talk in regard to the need for individual quality assessment of Video games articles, while reviewing future DYKs I came across Jessica Mak. Although there was no individual assessment on the talk page listing of Video games, the article did not appear as unassessed; indeed, if you look at the history of the talk page, you will see that despite the lack of assessment, the article acquired Category:C-Class video game articles on 26 January when Robo37 introduced the new Banner shell display. I expect many more Video games articles have been updated by bot in this way. If you think it is important, you should perhaps undertake further action. Just to be safe, I added a C class myself. (MSGJ)--Ipigott (talk) 11:03, 4 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Ipigott: Ok, excellent, never mind then- it definitely used to not inherit from banner shell/supposedly wouldn't, but it appears that it's now inheriting from banner shell with the exception of A-class, which is exactly what it should do. I didn't know that changed, since Qwerfjkl (bot)'s and Cewbot's runs have been leaving it as-is. Feel free to disregard what I said, then! --PresN 16:41, 4 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks. That should make things easier. I don't know if you saw the messages I pinged to you on my talk page but I suggested that with your experience and interests you might perhaps be able to help us along with developing WP:Elit in its initial stages.--Ipigott (talk) 06:38, 5 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Semi-related, the only way in which the VG quality scale differs is that we have no defined "A" class, right? With PIQA, shouldn't we drop this constraint and just go with the new default? IceWelder [✉] 10:20, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@IceWelder: It's been a long time since we dropped it; feel free to start a discussion at WTVG about reinstating it to see if we still want to stay that way. --PresN 12:55, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

FF8 Good Topic[edit]

Just letting you know that "Eyes on Me" got merged by @Kung Fu Man:, so it should be good to go as a Good Topic (in which case, should the Characters of FF8 GT be removed in place of it?). - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 07:45, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Cukie Gherkin: Thanks for letting me know; I'll hold off for a while to make sure it sticks, since that particular merge has a history of being undone. I'll think about if we should merge the characters subtopic into it as well... --PresN 13:14, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Yeah, that makes sense. Just so you know, it'll probably get recreated because I'm working on the draft, but I'll split it out only once it's GA quality. - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 23:38, 11 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

WikiCup 2024 February newsletter[edit]

The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.

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