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Your GA nomination of Martin Farquhar Tupper

The article Martin Farquhar Tupper you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Martin Farquhar Tupper and Talk:Martin Farquhar Tupper/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Mike Christie -- Mike Christie (talk) 02:22, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Martin Farquhar Tupper

The article Martin Farquhar Tupper you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Martin Farquhar Tupper for comments about the article, and Talk:Martin Farquhar Tupper/GA1 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 Mike Christie -- Mike Christie (talk) 19:03, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

As it happens I've never done a DYK, so I wouldn't know how to review it! But I gather they operate a fairly robust system in which everyone who nominates one has to review one, so that probably means you will automatically get a reviewer. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:15, 16 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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

DYK for Martin Farquhar Tupper

On 1 August 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Martin Farquhar Tupper, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Martin Farquhar Tupper was a favourite poet of Queen Victoria, but his works are now almost entirely forgotten? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Martin Farquhar Tupper. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Martin Farquhar Tupper), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 1 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Just a quick note to thank you for the GA review of Shaparak Khorsandi. Your improvement suggestions really helped make the article better. Much appreciated. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 08:42, 11 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Supreme Court of Mississippi GA review

Thank you for reviewing the article. Your comments were good and well-founded, but I would ask that next time you not quick-fail so quickly. In my experience the type of critiques you made were not the sort that would be impossible to address in a week's time. I would recommend you have a look at some other GA reviews with variety in extensiveness to gauge when to quick-fail. At they very least, you can always ask the nominator if they think the issues to can be rectified in a timely matter and if they don't think so, then you can fail the review. -Indy beetle (talk) 20:30, 12 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comment. I certainly didn't want to quick-fail the nomination, but I felt that the issues were so extensive that they would take a considerable amount of effort to address, and as I saw you were an experienced GA submitter I assumed that you had already brought the article up to the highest standard you were able to. If you can improve the article sufficiently I'd be happy to reassess it. Garnet-Septagon (talk) 20:56, 12 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'll get cracking on it. I am an experienced nominator but I also have my blind spots, and there have been times for me both as a nominator and a reviewer where a new source or topic aspect has been introduced that leads to "Aha" moment. Some of your comments can be addressed directly with improvements to the article, but others have to be handled with explanations in the review (like if there's a lack source material on an issue which you think should be included, I have to argue that in the review, I can't write about it in article space so that the next reviewer sees it as resolved or addressed). -Indy beetle (talk)
@Indy beetle: Great; fix any that you think are reasonable and then you can address any others during the new GA review. It's worth noting that I made a mistake when I wrote about the number of sources - I saw after archiving the review that "Works Cited" doesn't cover all of them, and as I didn't get to a spot check I didn't look at them properly. Make sure you make references across the article consistent (GA criterion 2a: MOS:FNNR) before resubmitting. (talk) 21:52, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
I've almost always used Harvard style shortened footnotes with a Works Cited section for large sources from which I cite individual pages/sections, but not used the footnotes when the source I'm citing is a single web page or 1-2 page news article, for example. I've never had any issues with this and the example image at MOS:FNNR seems to depict this as well. -Indy beetle (talk) 22:41, 12 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'd expect a section called Works Cited to contain all the works cited, so I thought perhaps over time the article had ended up with a blend of styles. But if I'm wrong about that then that's fine. Garnet-Septagon (talk) 07:13, 13 August 2023 (UTC) Garnet-Septagon (talk) 07:13, 13 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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