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[edit] "Degrassi: The Next Generation, Seasons of "Picture

"Degrassi: The Next Generation, Seasons of" currently doesn't have a picture, the only FT with that deficiency. Does anyone know of a good free picture we can use? --PresN (talk) 04:40, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

The only free one is Image:Degrassiautos.jpg. It's not that good, blurry and dark. I've asked User:Diliff if he can do anything with it. -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 05:02, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
May be we should add a photo requirement to the criteria for topics so this doesn't happen again. Zginder 2008-04-27T12:54Z (UTC)
I think that a photo can be found for any topic, so we probably don't have to make a specific requirement. For the Degrassi topic, I think our best bet would be to get a photo of whatever school is used for exterior shots in the show. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 17:43, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
See Degrassi: The Next Generation. Unfortunately this isn't possible, because the school is actually a set on the studio's backlog. The only free image is Image:Degrassiautos.jpg. I asked Diliff if he could do anything wizardry to clean up the image, but got no response. Right now, I think this is the only image we can use. Matthewedwards (talk · contribs · count · email) 21:05, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "There are 3 articles in more than one topic."

What is the value of stating this? Skomorokh 18:45, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

To explain the discrepency between the number of articles that are infeatured topics, and the sum of the number of articles in each topic. Tompw (talk) (review) 19:05, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Automatically maintained

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

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

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

The bot adds comments at the bottom of the table at WP:WBFTN indicating FTs or FFTs it finds that don't have an entry in one of the by-year summary lists (and vice-versa). There currently seems to be no nomination record for Wikipedia:Featured topics/Characters of Halo. If someone could help out with the history for this one, that'd be great. -- Rick Block (talk) 02:30, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Categories of topics

I suggest that the video game FTs, as they are definitely not everyday-life-events either A) be moved to the "arts" section, or B) be moved to a new section called just for video games. I really support only the first suggestion; mostly because video games "don't happen" to everyone. —OverMyHead 14:51, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

If the everyday-life section can only include things that are universal, than the only things that could be in it would be things like eating and sleeping, in which case we might as well get rid of the whole section. The reason I included an everyday-life section is that it is part of the classification system used in other places in Wikipedia, such as Wikipedia:Good articles. I would like for Wikipedia to have some consistency in its categories, but if this system really doesn't work here we can discuss changing it. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 17:37, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

We already have 17 topics in the "everyday life" subcategory. They are all about Sports or Videogames. What about subdividing them into these two sections to get a better overview. Maybe we can open a new "everyday life" section if we get a topic which is not about Sports or Videogames (maybe about food and drink)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.227.201.164 (talk) 12:04, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

I'll change the categorization to that used by WP:FA, it should serve our needs in this matter. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 15:33, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Can we get a bot?

Can we get a bot to make sure that only the articles that are in topics have their talk page marked as being in a topic. It could also let us know when a article gets demoted or promoted. Zginder 2008-05-23T20:24Z (UTC)

A bot to also link archived nomination discussions on the topic talk pages would be good. Since FA and FP have such histories linked, so should this. —OverMyHead 16:23, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
I can set up talk page archiving pretty easily, I get on that now. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 17:51, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
Has there been a problem with articles being tagged as part of an FT when they really weren't? If so I haven't seen it. I agree that it would be nice to automatically tell if an article has been demoted. I'll go ask the people at bot requests what we can do about it. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 17:51, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

I think the easiest thing to do is make {{Articlehistory}} put articles in FTs into a category together and then have a script we can run that checks if every article in the category are linked on the main FT page. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 17:00, 2 June 2008 (UTC)