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[edit] Barnstar

		What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
		Given with respect and admiration to Carl for all of your work here, and in particular for developing VeblenBot and PeerReviewBot to automate many otherwise tedious tasks. Yours, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 12:19, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, — Carl (CBM · talk) 17:29, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured articles/Candidate list

Hi, would it be possible if you could create a page like Wikipedia:Featured articles/Candidate list but for WP:FLC and WP:FTC? I would greatly appreciate it, and so would others. Thanks for all your hard work! Gary King (talk) 16:29, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

I created User:VeblenBot/C/Wikipedia featured list candidates and User:VeblenBot/C/Wikipedia featured topic candidates. The FLC page seems to work correctly. The FTC page is broken; at the moment, I don't think there is a category whose contents can be used to create a list of all the FTC discussion pages. I need a category like that in order to set up the FTC list correctly. — Carl (CBM · talk) 17:27, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, so far so good, but can it be formatted like the one for FAs? So, something like Wikipedia:Featured articles/Candidate list exists for FLC, and more importantly, at least for me, something like User:VeblenBot/C/Wikipedia featured article candidates for FLCs so that they are ordered in chronologically descending order. Also, which category do you use for FAC and FLC so I can create one for FTC? Gary King (talk) 17:34, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

I created Wikipedia:Featured lists/Candidate list, I think that's what you're looking for. I didn't change the shortcut though.

The categories I am using are Category:Wikipedia featured list candidates, Category:Wikipedia featured article candidates, Category:Wikipedia featured topic candidates, except that the last category has a different meaning than the first two. — Carl (CBM · talk) 17:58, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Ideally, I'd like User:VeblenBot/C/Wikipedia featured list candidates to be like User:VeblenBot/C/Wikipedia featured article candidates, which is nice and simple. Also, for FTC, use Category:Wikipedia featured topic candidate main articles instead. Don't worry if it is empty, because I just created it so it will take time to auto-populate. Gary King (talk) 19:46, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

I changed that, and fixed up the featured tppics candidates list using the new category you made. — Carl (CBM · talk) 23:15, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Awesome. Thanks! Gary King (talk) 00:06, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		For helping out with pages maintained by bots, and making life easier for the rest of us. Gary King (talk) 00:06, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

← Oh, I just noticed that User:VeblenBot/C/Wikipedia featured topic candidate main articles is in chronological order; could it be in reverse chronological order like the other pages so the newest candidates appear on the top? Gary King (talk) 00:07, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

I now see that they are in reverse chronological order already, but the dates are not the date the nominations began. I guess these are the dates the bot picked them up or something? Gary King (talk) 00:10, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

The dates are set when the page is added to the category. There are always a few incorrect ones at the beginning when the category is created. But future topic reviews will be in the right order. I changed the order, so it will really be reverse chronological for newer reviews. — Carl (CBM · talk) 00:24, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

This is getting a bit off topic, but I like the format of these pages so much that I thought I'd ask anyways. Would it be possible to generate similar lists but for WP:RFA? I know pages like WP:BNR exist, but I don't want to watchlist it because it updates once every hour and I don't want to have a new page on my watchlist that often. I only want the page to be updated when a new item is added or removed. Would that be possible? Gary King (talk) 03:21, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't think there is any category for active RFA pages, so I can't use this system to track them. It would be possible to make a special tracker for the RFA pages that only updates for changes in the list, but I already have too many commitments to do that right now. I may be able to do it in a few weeks once I get some things off my todo list. — Carl (CBM · talk) 10:55, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Alright. For RFA, you'd have to scrape the transcluded pages on WP:RFA; that's apparently the only way to do it there. Gary King (talk) 15:18, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Global rights usage has been marked as a policy

Wikipedia:Global rights usage (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) has recently been edited to mark it as a policy. This is an automated notice of the change (more information). -- VeblenBot (talk) 18:51, 11 June 2008 (UTC)