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Congratulations, please help with more improvements

OhanaUnited, congratulations in your new role as a featured portal co-director. I look forward to your continued efforts to help improve Wikipedia's portal namespace. Along those lines, I am asking for your help. Please take a look at the portal peer review for Contents and megaportals. Just like adding featured portal co-directors, it is a part of a larger portal namespace improvement drive. All of your comments, suggestions and participation in this improvement effort will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, RichardF (talk) 15:29, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

GA Newsletter

Hi! I'm back! =) Thanks for filling in for me with a lot of this info. The DYK section is a good idea (it's got some interesting facts even I didn't know!). I did rename it and spelled out 'did you know', just to (a) provide more context for newer readers that might not be familiar with WP:DYK, and (b) avoid confusion with WP:DYK. I also decided to stick with Volume I, since there's only two issues there so far. There's set rules that say we have to go by calendar year, and I think I'd rather have more volumes than two. Maybe we'll go by wikipedia's fiscal year? When's that?

Based on the updates posted by Epbr123 for each of the four weeks in December, deciding the GAN Reviewer of the Month was easy (so far, it has been ;-)! I've got Dihydrogen Monoxide slated as the next reviewer of the month, having been listed as #1 for 3 out of the 4 weeks. I've already started putting that in, and am just waiting on some biographical details from DHMO, and then that's ready.

I already use WP:AWB to "publish" this and send out messages to everyone's talk page. Is there a way to make this newsletter table show up as a single line in someone's talk page, and let them click 'show' to view the newsletter right on their talk page? That way, I can just put a single template link when I publish it, and it will make reading easier.

I think we're about ready to go. As soon as we get DHMO's bio details, I'll add it and we can publish it. The GA sweeps section looks good; it's turning into a real update now,... Hopefully, that will help the sweeps,... ;-)

Cheers! Dr. Cash (talk) 05:03, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks and Happy New Year

Firstly, let me wish you a very happy New Year and thank you for all your help in the Milhist Tag & Assess 2007 drive.

		Military history service award
		For tagging and assessing 250 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES talk 10:50, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

		Military history service award
		For tagging and assessing 500 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES talk 10:50, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Secondly, although the Tag & Assess 2007 drive is now officially closed, you are very welcome to continue tagging and assessing until 31 January 2008. Any articles you tag and assess during this time will be credited fully to your tagging tally for further award purposes.

Thirdly, if you can find the time, it would be good to have your feedback/comments on the drive at the Tag & Assess workshop

Thanks again for your help, --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 10:50, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

My RFA

Hey Ohana, since you offered to nominate me for adminship a few weeks back, I've had 5 other offers (1 being my admin coach, Rlevse)—out of those 5 I've picked you and Ioeth to do the co-nominations. Would you be willing to do this? I could contact one of the others if not. Thanks. Best, Rt. 11:06, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm going to offer the co-nomination position to Ryan Postlethwaite, due to the lack of a reply. Hope you don't mind. Best regards, Rt. 14:49, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Change of featured article for January 5

It appears that Giano and Raul654 have come to an agreement[1] that there should be a change in the featured article for January 5, from Prince's Palace of Monaco to Queluz National Palace. The FA list has been changed and updated; however, the template advising editors that Prince's Palace of Monaco will be the January 5 featured article has not been removed, and there is no template on Queluz National Palace saying it will be the January 5 feature article. Since you were the editor who placed the template on Prince's Palace of Monaco (and since I have no experience editing templates and will probably break something), may I impose on you to make the switch? Thanks. --Risker (talk) 01:23, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles January Newsletter

Happy New Year! Here is the latest edition of the WikiProject GA Newsletter! Dr. Cash (talk) 04:04, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter

The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter Volume I, No. 3 - January 2008 December issue | February issue Project News There are now 3,301 Good Articles listed at WP:GA. With 1,789 current featured articles, that brings the total of good and featured articles to 5,090! The most recently promoted articles are: Hurricane Daniel (2006), Tarbosaurus, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Wicca, Seth MacFarlane, Stanley Internment Camp, Hurricane Karen (2007), Interstate 155 (Illinois), Tropical Storm Ingrid (2007), Brian Sings and Swings, Winston Churchill, Mzoli's, John Kefalas, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The backlog at Good Article Nominations has recently exploded to 236 unreviewed articles! Out of 264 total nominations, 17 are on hold, 10 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance! The oldest unreviewed articles are: Attachment disorder, Byzantium under the Palaiologoi, Byzantium under the Angeloi, Wowowee, Tyrone Wheatley, Mina (singer), Jon Burge, Mercury Hayes, William Lowndes Yancey, and Toni Preckwinkle. The top five categories with the largest backlogs are: Sports and recreation (47 articles), Film and cinema (25 articles), Television and journalism (16 articles), Art and architecture (15 articles), and Politics and government (14 articles). The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 17 articles up for re-review. If every participant of WikiProject Good Articles could review just one article in the next week, the backlog would be almost eliminated! Reviewer of the Month Dihydrogen Monoxide is the GAN Reviewer of the Month of December, based on the assessments made by Epbr123 of the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Dihydrogen Monoxide hails from Brisbane (which, incidentally, is almost a GA, kids ;)) and has been editing Wikipedia since August 2006. He mostly likes to review articles relating to music, Australia, or anything else that takes his fancy! He also has two articles waiting, and notes that there's still a huge backlog,... so get cracking! Other outstanding reviewers recognized during the month of December include: Awadewit (talk · contribs) Canadian Paul (talk · contribs) Derek.cashman (talk · contribs) Drewcifer3000 (talk · contribs) Elcobbola (talk · contribs) Jackyd101 (talk · contribs) Kane5187 (talk · contribs) M3tal H3ad (talk · contribs) Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs) The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) VanTucky (talk · contribs) Wassupwestcoast (talk · contribs) Member News There are now 166 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 7 new members that joined during the month of December: Majoreditor (talk · contribs) Bernstein2291 (talk · contribs) The4325 (talk · contribs) Pepsi2786 (talk · contribs) Monowi (talk · contribs) Rankun (talk · contribs) This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all! GAReview Template Lots of you that frequent WP:GAN have undoubtedly seen the articles under review, marked with "Review - I am reviewing this article. ...". The articles have been marked as being under review by an editor using the {{GAReview}} template. The purpose of this template is essentially to prevent two editors from reviewing the same article at the same time, so it's essentially a common courtesy notice to other editors so that they don't pass or fail an article while you're in the midst of collecting and writing comments. However, just because an article is marked, shouldn't preclude another editor from contributing to the review. If you'd like to review it, go ahead; simply collect your comments and write them down on the article's talk page – but don't pass or fail the article – leave that to the other reviewer. To use this template yourself, simply write "#:{{GAReview}} ~~~~" on the line immediately following the article's nomination at WP:GAN. You can even leave additional comments as well (e.g. "#:{{GAReview}} I will finish my review in the next 24 hours. ~~~~"). Reviewers marking articles with this template should also observe some common etiquette; please don't mark more than 1-3 articles as being under review at a time, and please try and finish your review within 3-5 days of marking the article. GA Sweeps After openly requesting the community for more participants into the Sweeps, we have 3 more members on the board. They are (in no particular order) Canadian Paul, VanTucky, and Masem. Canadian Paul will be sweeping "Middle East and the World" articles. VanTucky will be sweeping "Religion, mysticism, and mythology" and "Literature" articles. Masem will be sweeping "Television episodes". We're still looking for more reviewers. Interested individuals should contact OhanaUnited for details. At this moment, participation in the sweeps project is by invitation only, as we desire experienced reviewers who have a thorough and extensive knowledge of the criteria. This is to ensure that articles that have "fallen through the cracks" would be found and removed, and that additional articles don't fall through the cracks during the sweep. Currently, there are 16 members working on the project, and we have reviewed 74 articles in December 2007. Of those that are swept, 275 articles are kept as GA, 126 articles are delisted, and 5 promoted to FA. Did You Know,... ... that the total number of good and featured articles is now over 5000? ... that GA was formed on October 11, 2005 and was formerly called "Half-decent articles"? ... that there is a bot (StatisticianBot) that gives a daily report on GAN? ... that many discussions were made over the years on whether GA should have a symbol placed on the main article space, yet at the end always removed? ... that there was a proposal to change the GA symbol to a green featured star? From the Editors Happy New Year, everyone! I'm just filling in for Dr. Cash as he's busy (or away) in real life. This explains why I wasn't prepared for a full-length article on GA process, and instead I resort to a tiny DYK for GA. OhanaUnited Happy New Year as well! I'm still here, and haven't totally disappeared. I had to cut back on editing and reviewing during the month of December as I made the transition from Flagstaff, Arizona to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. But I should be about settled in the Keystone State, so I'll be contributing more to Wikipedia again in the new year. Thanks to OhanaUnited for putting together much of the content for this newsletter! He's been working hard with the Sweeps, and the 'Did You Know' section is also a great idea, so I think that will become a regular feature now! I also figured out how to have a collapsible newsletter, so that will change our delivery options a bit. Cheers! Dr. Cash Contributors to this Issue Dr. Cash (Lead Editor, Distributor) OhanaUnited (GA Sweeps correspondent) Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005! WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia. Nominations: Choctaw • One Night Stand (2007) • Impalement arts • Backlash (2007) • Sam Cowan Reassessment: Madonna (entertainer) • Sweeps / List: references (All Categories), image tags (All Categories), article quality (All Categories) Possible GAs Needing References: Clarinet • Carleton University • Appalachian Mountains Task forces: Project quality • Unreferenced GA Good article criteria | Statistics | GAN Report | Changes log Nominations queue: 214 articles (45 of them are on hold) as of 08:00, 10 June 2008 | edit

Special Barnstar

		The Special Barnstar
		To Ohana, for your stirling efforts at WP:GA and WP:Environment -- Johnfos (talk) 07:20, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

GA Sweeps

Hi. I saw the message in the WikiProject Good Articles newsletter about GA Sweeps. I'm quite happy to help sweep over some articles; please let me know if you would like me to participate. Have a look at my userpage to determine if i'm qualified to assist. I mainly contribute to Sports and recreation articles, but am willing to sweep any categories; specifically I may be able to assist with chemistry articles. Anyway let me know whether you want my assistance. - Shudde ^talk 09:20, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

re: GA sweeps

My apologies, I did not realize the project was invitation only. The full list of my previous GA reviews is here. Ɛƚƈơƅƅơƚɑ _talk 21:42, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Holds are to be applied "if the changes needed are minor and can be reasonably expected to be completed before the hold expires" (emphasis added). GA reviewers are allowed to make those judgement calls. I held and allowed time for improvements on Lessons for Children, Heuschrecke 10, John Balchen and Covering of the Senne. Your expeditious response indicates you did not give the matter appropriate consideration. Ɛƚƈơƅƅơƚɑ _talk 21:54, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

		Thanks for your support
		Thank you SO MUCH for your support in my unanimous RFA. Take this cookie as a small token of my appreciation.--Jayron32|talk|contribs 06:14, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Portal:Iceland

You missed a few steps after you promoted the portal, I hope I fixed everything, there sure are a lot of steps to cover after a portal is promoted. Perhaps we could ask someone familiar with bot stuff to do it... Cirt (talk) 07:35, 15 January 2008 (UTC).

Rudget!

Dear OhanaUnited, my sincere thanks for your support in my second request for adminship (and over the past few weeks in general), which ended with 113 supports, 11 opposes, and 4 neutral. I would especially like to thank my admin coach and nominator, Rlevse and Ryan Postlethwaite who in addition to Ioeth all inspired me to run for a second candidacy. I would also like to make a special mention to Phoenix-wiki, Dihyrdogen Monoxide and OhanaUnited who all offered to do co-nominations, but I unfortunately had to decline. I had all these funny ideas that it would fail again, and I was prepared for the worst, but at least it showed that the community really does have something other places don't. Who would have though Gmail would have been so effective? 32 emails in one week! (Even if it does classify some as junk :P) I'm glad that I've been appointed after a nail biting and some might call, decision changing RFA, but if you ever need anything, just get in touch. The very best of luck for 2008 and beyond, Rudget. 16:27, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

RuneScape EL removal

How do you know RuneHQ and Zybez could compromise computers? Did you and Javascap get some virus warning when you were on those sites? Nishkid64 (talk) 16:39, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

So was there a virus on Zybez.net? You said the source of the problem was rootkit, but that's totally harmless. Was there something else? Nishkid64 (talk) 17:26, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Okay, but wouldn't AVG free just detect the rootkit because it was attempting to control the computer? As far as I know, anti-virus software detect rootkit signatures and report them to the user. It does not differentiate between what is good and what is bad. I think it's safe to say that Zybez's rootkit is safe (I haven't seen any widespread complaints about this. The tools seem to be working fine for people). RuneHQ might have also had a similar problem. I'll pose the question on Talk:RuneScape. Nishkid64 (talk) 17:46, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Scientific techniques

Thank you for your discouragement. You may well be right that WikiProjects are something else than a portal but frankly I think we first need to get together a critical mass of people from various disciplines and then decide how best to address what is a serious problem in all the sciences. A portal is one possibility but it may not be the best one.

Jcwf (talk) 20:23, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Co-directors

Hello. There is a discussion regarding the current status quo of featured portal co-directors here. Your views would be much appreciated. Thanks, Chris.B 16:02, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Wikimedia Canada

Hello, Ohana. I just read your message about Wikimedia Canada moments ago. Is there any update recently? Ktsquare (talk) 01:12, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

ok, thanks. Ktsquare (talk) 02:31, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Follow up on Admin Coaching

Hello, I just want to propose that our relations in admin coaching should cease. We haven't talked to each other since August last year and I think I got the concept to be an admin now. Sincerely, OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 17:10, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi Ohana,

Best of luck to you! :) Best wishes and happy editing, Firsfron of Ronchester 05:10, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

HK Portal's selected picture

Just wanted to let you know - I've reverted your switching of January's picture. It was already up for 20 days, there was no point in switching it. But I've put that Joey Yung picture up for April (Portal:Hong Kong/Selected picture/2008/April). Pictures were already selected for February and March. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 21:46, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Portal:Contents/Types layout

Please complete the maintenance so that the TOC & heading matches and the link isn't broken. RichardF (talk) 05:06, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, please do. Portal:Contents/Types TOC has "Arts and Culture", but Portal:Contents/Types layout has "Culture and the arts". User:Transhumanist had changed the name in both to "Culture and the arts", but you changed the TOC back on January 26, 2008. Wdfarmer (talk) 21:00, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me, cause according to Wikipedia:Portal/Directory, the category should be named "Arts and Culture" and not the other way around. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 03:21, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Actually, Wikipedia:Portal/Directory calls it "Art and Culture". Who's to say which is the definitive standard? Wdfarmer (talk) 03:27, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Opps, I'll go fix the directory now. Featured portals uses "Arts and Culture" as a category. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 03:33, 4 February 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wdfarmer (talk • contribs)

Wdfarmer asked me to weigh in on this, so... here's my suggestion! :-) Go to Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Contents#General comments (or any other section) and weigh in. After looking at all the other naming systems out there, I decided to put my support behind "Culture and the arts" because "Culture" is the broader term of the two, and "The Arts" is broader than "Art." Any other section names you see out there at this point simply reflect an inconsistently applied edit war among a few individuals. Developing a general consensus at the above portal peer review for all of the issues presented there would take care of this question. RichardF (talk) 04:11, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Sweeps update

I saw you've already put down some new DYKs for the newsletter. Thanks! I just pasted in the GAN Reviewer of the Month & new users section, and I'll update the project news section on 1/31 with the most up-to-date info. Could you put some of the GA Sweeps news in before Wed.? Thanks! Dr. Cash (talk) 17:03, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

My Rfa

My effort to regain adminship was unsuccessful, and I'll do what I can to ensure your opinion of my suitability for adminship improves. Thank you for taking some time out of your day to voice your opinion.--MONGO 19:40, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Thank you for voting in my RfA, which was unsuccessful with 19 support, 18 oppose, and 5 neutral. I have signed up for admin coaching and will retry later on in a couple more months.

I'm sorry you felt I that I lack the amount of interaction with other users. If you have reviewed my edit history, as mentioned on my reply under your comment on my RfA, that over 41.8% of my edits were on talk pages. I did want to see what specifically you were referring to, and even though my RfA has passed, I wanted to see what you were trying to say on that comment because I am still quite puzzled. (Did I mention that I also helped organize and participate in the recent Miami Wikipedia meetup?) Thanks for your vote. I look forward to your clarifications. - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 05:05, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

FP Directors

Hey. I'm willing to help in any way I can, but have a couple of questions. To clarify, other people will close the nominations, and I will simply ensure that they have done so correctly, and that a consensus has been reached? Also, if they have incorrectly closed it when a consensus has not been reached, what would I then do? - Shudde ^talk 10:07, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Hey. Sounds like something I should be able to do. Put me down if you havn't changed your mind! I won't be able to help out much for the next week or so though because my internet connection is rather sporadic, and I'm prob going to spend most of my time dealing with Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/All Blacks versus France at rugby union. After a week or two I should be able to help out more though. - Shudde ^talk 07:02, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Wikimania?

I've stuck my toe back into Wikipedia, and I've signed up on the Wikimania 2009 Toronto bid page. Never been to a Wikimania, but I did help organize and run the World Science Fiction Convention in 2003 in Toronto. Keep me posted. Avt tor (talk) 22:37, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm fairly overcommitted in the short term. Can't start any new projects until April. Avt tor (talk) 18:41, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Promoting Wine Portal

Hello OhanaUnited, you have closed Wine Portal's nomination without dealing all the issues listed. Kindly be mindful, whether they are dealt before promoting. If they are not dealt, then contact the nominator to fix them and get them fixed. After getting fixed them, kindly close portal. Thanks, Shyam ^(T/C) 12:01, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

I think you're taking about the issues of "noinclude" tags. If you take a look at Cirt and RichardF's comments, they explained clearly that they disagree with your comments and provided their rationales. I respect their views so I closed it since it establishes a consensus. Keep in mind that giving suggestions is not a equivalent of supporting or opposing OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 14:21, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Nope, I am talking about the issues, which were listed by me. I believe you went through the whole discussion listed on the nomination before closing. Thanks, Shyam ^(T/C) 05:59, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Featured portal co-director

You flatter me, but if you're not getting much activity w/ the co-director setup, might be time to go to the other idea, a bunch of active & semi-active reviewers. Cirt (talk) 23:06, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

• Perhaps someone from Template:PortalReviewVolunteers/List ? Cirt (talk) 23:10, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter

The February 2008 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter is ready! Dr. Cash (talk) 05:22, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter

The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter Volume I, No. 4 - February 2008 January issue | March issue Project News There are now 3,485 Good Articles listed at WP:GA. The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 206 unreviewed articles. Out of 251 total nominations, 37 are on hold, 7 are under review, and 1 is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance! The oldest unreviewed articles are: Johan Derksen, Trafford, J. Michael Bailey, Greg Skrepenak, Paleolithic-style diet, Alan Dershowitz, Natalee Holloway, Slovenian presidential election, 2007, San Francisco Municipal Railway, and Marcela Agoncillo. The top five categories with the largest backlogs are: Sports and recreation (57 articles), Theatre film and drama (34 articles), Music (19 articles), Transport (17 articles), Politics and government (16 articles), World history (13 articles), and Meteorology and atmospheric sciences (13 articles). The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 8 articles up for re-review. If every participant of WikiProject Good Articles could review just one article in the next week, the backlog would be almost eliminated! GA Sweeps Update During January, 57 Good Articles were reviewed. Including those articles that were under GAR or on hold, 35 were kept as GA, 20 delisted, 9 currently on hold or at GAR, and 3 were exempted as they are now Featured Articles. Reviewer of the Month Ealdgyth is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for January, based on the assessments made by Epbr123 on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Ealdgyth, known in real life as Victoria Short, hails from Central Illinois, and has been editing Wikipedia since May 26, 2007. In this short time, she has made significant contributions to 9 Good Articles, including Baldwin of Exeter and Hubert Walter. Her interests in editing are in the areas of the Middle Ages, History, and horses. Outside of Wikipedia, she is starting her own photography business, and owns three horses. She likes to read science fiction, history, and geneology books. Congratulations to our GAN Reviewer of the Month for January! Other outstanding reviewers recognized during the month of January include: AnonEMouse (talk · contribs) Canadian Paul (talk · contribs) Casliber (talk · contribs) Derek.cashman (talk · contribs) Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs) Drewcifer3000 (talk · contribs) Jackyd101 (talk · contribs) Johnfos (talk · contribs) M3tal H3ad (talk · contribs) Miranda (talk · contribs) Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs) VanTucky (talk · contribs) Member News There are now 176 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 15 new members that joined during the month of January: Atlantik (talk · contribs) Auawise (talk · contribs) Cyclonenim (talk · contribs) Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs) Ddstretch (talk · contribs) Ealdgyth (talk · contribs) FamicomJL (talk · contribs) Hamiltonstone (talk · contribs) jackturner3 (talk · contribs) Kbthompson (talk · contribs) Keilana (talk · contribs) Miranda (talk · contribs) pcbene (talk · contribs) Skeeker (talk · contribs) Snowolf (talk · contribs) This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all! On Hold versus Failing an Article This month, I thought I'd focus on a less technical and more of a procedural issue at WP:GAN – determining what the appropriate course of action to take when reviewing an article. Currently, there are four options to decide what to do with an article: Passing – it meets all six of the good article criteria; add it to WP:GA and add {{ArticleHistory}} or {{GA}} to the article's talk page. Failing it – it does not meet the criteria; remove the article's listing from WP:GAN and add {{ArticleHistory}} or {{failedGA}} to the article's talk page. On Hold – The article meets most of the criteria, but might fall short in a few areas; keep it listed at WP:GAN, add #: {{GAOnHold|ArticleName}} ~~~~ below the listing and add {{GAonhold}} to the article's talk page. Second Opinion – Similar to the on hold option, except an editor is either inexperienced or not knowledgeable enough about a given topic and asks another reviewer to offer another opinion before passing or failing; add #: {{GA2ndopinion|ArticleName}} ~~~~ to WP:GAN below the article's listing and add {{GA2ndoptalk}} to the article's talk page. So how to you know when an article fails outright, or fails initially, but meets "enough" of the criteria to be placed on hold? The answer to this question probably varies by about the same amount as there are reviewers of Good Articles! Everybody treats this slightly differently. The most important thing to consider is that articles should not be on hold for longer than about one week. Although there is no hard and fast time limit for this, most editors would probably agree that five to seven days is enough time to address any GA-related issues with the article to get it to pass. Some editors have extended this a few days in the past, due to other extenuating circumstances, such as an article's primary editor being very busy with school or work, so they have asked for extra time. But as a general rule, a GA nominee that is placed on hold should meet enough of the criteria to be able to be passed within five to seven days. Some examples of articles that might be placed on hold would be: the article is mostly complete, but might be missing one topic (subcategory). minor copyediting is required (needs a few minor manual of style, spelling, or grammatical fixes. mostly well sourced, but missing maybe a handful of references. a couple of images need to be tagged with appropriate copyright tags. On the other hand, an article should be failed if it: is missing several topic categories, or there are several sections which are very short (1-3 sentences per section). contains numerous sections which are just lists of information, as opposed to written out as prose. there's entire sections of text that have no references, or there are a lot of {{cn}} or {{unreferenced}} tags. has evidence of an active edit war in the article history. has major neutrality issues. has any {{cleanup}} or other warning tags in various places. Did You Know... ... that on July 19, 2007, 1,548 good articles that have not been categorized at all were categorized in 15 days? ... that in Chinese Wikipedia, articles need to have at least six net support votes before they are promoted to GA? ... that the English Wikipedia has the most Good Articles, the German Wikipedia has the second most (at over 2000), followed by the Spanish Wikipedia (at over 800), the Chinese Wikipedia (at over 400), and the French Wikipedia (at over 200)? ... that Simple English Wikipedia has zero Good Articles? ... that "Sport and games people" category has the most Good Articles? ... that Virginia Tech massacre (which is now a featured article) was promoted to GA just only about one month after the shooting incident, but took more than seven months to reach FA status? From the Editors Originally, I wasn't planning to do "Did you know" other than as a fill-in for Dr. Cash. However, I decided to continue writing this section until I ran out of ideas. OhanaUnited Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here. Dr. Cash Contributors to this Issue Dr. Cash (Lead Editor, Distributor) OhanaUnited (GA Sweeps and Did You Know correspondent) Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005! WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia. Nominations: Choctaw • One Night Stand (2007) • Impalement arts • Backlash (2007) • Sam Cowan Reassessment: Madonna (entertainer) • Sweeps / List: references (All Categories), image tags (All Categories), article quality (All Categories) Possible GAs Needing References: Clarinet • Carleton University • Appalachian Mountains Task forces: Project quality • Unreferenced GA Good article criteria | Statistics | GAN Report | Changes log Nominations queue: 214 articles (45 of them are on hold) as of 08:00, 10 June 2008 | edit

Re: Reverting Portal's TOC

I have reverted your edit from "Culture and Arts" back to "Arts and Culture" [2] because according to Wikipedia:Portal/Directory, the correct category is Arts and Culture. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 03:14, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, but according to the actual location of the template, it's "Culture and the Arts". You will have to take it up with The Transhumanist – Gurch 12:50, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

How about both of you taking it up at Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Contents#General comments so we can work on getting some consensus about this? RichardF (talk)

I couldn't care less where it goes – Gurch 14:14, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Hong Kong Portal

It's been promoted. I've given quite a lengthy rationale in comparison with others I've done, but hopefully it'll make sense. Regards, Rudget. 19:25, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Re:F &A

Just dropping in. It looks good, but you need to summerize why articles, lists, or pictures lost their features status. The Placebo Effect (talk) 01:47, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you spam

		My RfA
		Thank you very much, OhanaUnited, for your support in my RfA which I really appreciate. It closed at 83/0/0. I was surprised by the unanimity and will do my best to live up to the new role. All the best, --ROGER DAVIES talk 16:49, 5 February 2008 (UTC) The patio at the Partal Palace in the Alhambra, Andalucia.

Features and admins

[3] Overall, good work though - I would never have the temperament. Cheers, dihydrogen monoxide (H₂0) 08:55, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

C'mon, we need you as an admin

You already know what I think of your editing, are you up to it? Rudget. 13:35, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Added an optional question. dihydrogen monoxide (H₂0) 09:06, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

RFA thanks

.: RFA thanks :.

Thanks for supporting me! My RfA passed with a final tally of 5 neutrals, 1 oppose and 148 supports, a turnout I couldn't have dreamed of. I'm going to do everything I can to help out the community, help with sysop tasks, and of course, contribute to the encyclopedia. If you ever need a hand with something, feel free to give a shout! Cheers! Master of Puppets Call me MoP!☺ 17:40, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

GA Sweep Request

I'm interested in helping out with the GA sweep project. The project page said I needed to check with you for vetting. What information do you need for that? --jwanders^Talk 18:38, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Here's a summary of the GA reviews I've done. Not too many, but I'm not an avid wikier ;-)

--jwanders^Talk 19:57, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Doczilla's RfA

.: Oh, no! There goes To-ky-o! Admin Doczilla! :.

Thanks for !voting! Thank you for !voting in my RfA which resulted in the collapse of civilization with 92 (94?) support, 1 oppose, and 1 neutral. Blame jc37 and Hiding for nominating me, everyone who had questions or comments, everyone who !voted, everyone who tallied the numbers correctly, and WJBScribe who closed without shouting, "No mop for you!" Seriously, your response has overwhelmed me. I am deeply grateful.

Messier 57 OhanaUnited Thanks for casting the 57th support vote (and for your question to the lone oppose).

     "The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." - Michael Althsuler

Doczilla RAWR! 07:02, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Edison photo scandal

During the course of this edit, you removed part of the fallout section. Is there any particular reason? Ohconfucius (talk) 13:55, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

OverlordQ's RfA

Just letting you know that the question you asked this candidate is a duplicate of a question already answered. GlassCobra 08:21, 17 February 2008 (UTC)