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User talk:Iazyges/Archives/2018/April
Cleopatra articlesHi Iazyges! Long time no see. Glad to see you are still knee-deep in the GA process. Can I ask you to do me a huge favor? Would you mind reviewing the following GA candidates that I've nominated recently? I think they look fairly decent, but I need a fresh set of eyes to look over them, to check for typos or much more grievous errors before I nominate them as Featured articles. You have passed various GA articles of mine in the past and for that I am eternally grateful, but I ask of you one more time, in one last hurrah, to please guide me through the GA process. Regards, Pericles of AthensTalk 17:53, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
A pita gyros for you!
Thank you ...
... for improving article quality in March! Happy Easter! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:54, 1 April 2018 (UTC) Hi there. Only if you are interested, I nominated a short article for good status a long time ago and I was wondering if you might be willing to review it. Harut111 (talk) 17:38, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2018News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018). 
March 2018 Milhist article writing contest
New page review "patrol (review) check" / "menu bar" against patrol logHi Iazyges, Good day. I come to seek you advise regarding the abovementioned.
Kindly advise/explain the above and is that another way/tool to check whether an article has been reviewed. Thank you in advance. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 08:59, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Tiberius (son of Justinian II)The article Tiberius (son of Justinian II) you nominated as a good article has passed The Bugle: Issue CXLIIV, April 2018
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. Fold3Hello! I requested access, and was accepted, but I was unable to actually gain access to the website. I was emailed with instructions to give account info (username); I did, and nothing has happened since. Thanks, Vermont | reply here 23:53, 10 April 2018 (UTC) Hello again. Thank you again for taking the review of the article of I. Mukuchyan. Since, you are the reviewer, I would like to ask a question about it, if it's okay. Recently, I have added this non-free image [3]... I was wondering if it's okay to use this in the article. Harut111 (talk) 11:37, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Constantius IIIHi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Constantius III you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. Speedy deletion nomination of Andronikos Tarchaneiotes
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Andronikos Tarchaneiotes requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Constantine ✍ 13:07, 14 April 2018 (UTC) Speedy deletion nomination of Michael Tornikes Komnenos Asan Palaiologos
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Michael Tornikes Komnenos Asan Palaiologos requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Constantine ✍ 13:09, 14 April 2018 (UTC) Speedy deletion nomination of John Plytos
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on John Plytos requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Constantine ✍ 13:26, 14 April 2018 (UTC) Cleopatra articlesHi Iazyges! I was wondering if you weren't too busy this weekend to review Reign of Cleopatra and Death of Cleopatra as GA nominees. I'm eager to get them up to GA status, while the main article Cleopatra is currently a Featured Article candidate. Also, congratulations on having some of your articles, such as Tiberius (son of Justinian II), lifted up to GA status! Pericles of AthensTalk 20:39, 14 April 2018 (UTC) Speedy deletion nomination of Constantine Komnenos A tag has been placed on Constantine Komnenos requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:
Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Constantine ✍ 11:58, 15 April 2018 (UTC) Books & Bytes - Issue 27
 Books & Bytes
Arabic, Chinese and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta! Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:50, 18 April 2018 (UTC) Shroud of Turin Dispute: Should I participate? Need adviceHi Iazyges, I had a question for you. I am thinking about entering the Shroud of Turin dispute. I don't really have any experience in disputes, and need some advice. I have an issue with the same sentence that Aarghdvaark is having issues with, and have posted a proposal to change the article on the Shroud talk page. Since both Aarghdvaark and I are having issues with the same sentence (though our issues are somewhat different, his is more with sourcing, mine is more with the sentence itself), do you think it is prudent to enter the discussion on the dispute, or would that probably only make things more crowded and less likely to come to an amicable solution? Best, Actuarialninja (talk) 20:32, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
January to March 2018 Milhist article reviewing
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Glycerius you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. Your GA nomination of VolusianusHi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Volusianus you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. Your GA nomination of VolusianusThe article Volusianus you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold Invitation to WikiProject PortalsThe Portals WikiProject has been rebooted. You are invited to join, and participate in the effort to revitalize and improve the Portal system and all the portals in it. There are sections on the WikiProject page dedicated to tasks (including WikiGnome tasks too), and areas on the talk page for discussing the improvement and automation of the various features of portals. Many complaints have been lodged in the RfC to delete all portals, pointing out their various problems. They say that many portals are not maintained, or have fallen out of date, are useless, etc. Many of the !votes indicate that the editors who posted them simply don't believe in the potential of portals anymore. It's time to change all that. Let's give them reasons to believe in portals, by revitalizing them. The best response to a deletion nomination is to fix the page that was nominated. The further underway the effort is to improve portals by the time the RfC has run its course, the more of the reasons against portals will no longer apply. RfCs typically run 30 days. There are 19 days left in this one. Let's see how many portals we can update and improve before the RfC is closed, and beyond. A healthy WikiProject dedicated to supporting and maintaining portals may be the strongest argument of all not to delete. We may even surprise ourselves and exceed all expectations. Who knows what we will be able to accomplish in what may become the biggest Wikicollaboration in years. Let's do this. See ya at the WikiProject! Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 10:21, 21 April 2018 (UTC) Your GA nomination of Constantius IIIThe article Constantius III you nominated as a good article has passed Byzantine emperors GANsHi Iazyges! I noticed you put up a number of Byzantine and Roman emperors' articles up for GA review. I can't really comment on the Roman ones, but a few of the Byzantine ones are highly problematic, to the point that I'de automatically fail them if I reviewed them. This is mostly a question of sources, which is a problem that may not be obvious to the non-expert, though, so here it goes:
As a general comment, try to avoid generalist works on unrelated subjects or "popular history" books like Norwich, Canduci, the Pen & Sword publications, or Osprey. They are good for beginners, very readable (I have enjoyed them myself), but definitely not suitable as references in an encyclopedia. Cheers, Constantine ✍ 21:09, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
Portals WikiProject update, April 22, 2018Thank you for joining the Portals WikiProject. Here's our first project-wide update. I hope you enjoy it... RebootThe WikiProject reboot has been a success: the new re-envisioned project is up and running, with new members, ongoing discussions about automation, design, and upkeep; maintained task queques; and updates to members, like this, the very first one! As you know, there's a proposal to delete all portals. It started out looking pretty dismal for portals, with primarily posts supporting their demise. It turned out that the proposer didn't post a deletion notice on the very pages being nominated for deletion (a requirement for all deletion discussions). Once that was done, a flood of opposition came in and has apparently turned the tide. RfCs generally run for 30 days. It started April 8th, and so it has about 14 more days to run its course. The more work we can do during that time on the portals, the stronger the reasons for keeping them will be. And the more prepared we will be for any MfDs that follow the closing of the RfC. AWB?You may be wondering why we asked for AWB experience in the member-sign-up list. We are gearing up to do maintenance runs on the entire set of portals, and the more people we have who can use AWB, the better. But we're not quite ready to start this yet. To be able to use AWB on the portals, we first need to know what the end result needs to be. Like on the news sections, do we comment out the out-of-date ones, or do we place the code to activate the newsbot on those pages? That would require an assessment of WikiNews and its news generating performance (areas covered, volume in each area), etc. You can help us figure this out at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals#Discussions about news sections. Another area we're gearing up for, to do passes with AWB, are upgrades to the intro sections of portals. Many of these have static (copied/pasted) excerpts that go stale over time. We're trying to figure out how to make self-updating excerpts to replace the existing static excerpts that are on many portals, and once this is done, AWB will be used to place the new code. See the discussion on this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals#Discussions about selective transclusion in intros. "What can I do?"There are 3 major areas of activity right now: Update the main portal list at Portal:Contents/PortalsThere are a few hundred existing portals that are missing from this list. The list of missing entries, and instructions on what to do, can be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet. We need everybody's help on this. It's a big chore for one persons. But, many hands make light work. Please help chip away at this chore as much as you can. A little each day, form all of us, will get this done pretty quick. Familiarize yourself with the portal systemIn addition to browsing the portals in the 2 lists mentioned in the section above, you should take a look at the portal name space itself and what is in it. That can be done at Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Watchlist. Join in on the discussionsThere are discussions on many aspects of the WikiProject's operations, with more to come. Such as about the purposes and functions of portals, design discussions, and so on. There's even a automated design discussion over at Village Pump Technical, on selective transclusion. I hope to see you on the talk page. What's coming?In addition to the automation efforts mentioned above, we will be looking into how to automate the selection and display of alternating excerpts, and alternating pictures, for the various portal sections. Watch for these discussions on the Wikiproject's talk page. Summing up...Get ready, get set, go! — The Transhumanist 22:54, 22 April 2018 (UTC) A Barnstar for you!
Thank you for your work on evaluating articles that have been proposed for Good Article status. Many times, reviewers don't get noticed for their work. Reviewing an article and working with other editors to improve content takes effort. In addition, a commitment to put aside a block of time for the review is also needed to finish the process. I don't think most other editors realize what a service you are doing to improve the quality of content. What you do provides an incentive for the continuing improvement of content. You’ve put in the time and effort to improve content and therefore deserve recognition and appreciation.
Shroud of TurinI extended the do-not-archive date by another week, since it appears that it is still proceeding, and is one of the longest-running cases I have seen at DRN. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:00, 25 April 2018 (UTC) A barnstar for you!
Portals WikiProject heads up, April 27, 2018We now have 52 members, and more are joining daily. New and easier way to handle excerptsAttention portal maintainers! There's a new template to improve existing and new portals, called {{Transclude lead excerpt}}. It is a lot easier to use than copying and pasting text from articles, as it displays the paragraphs you specify automatically for you. It makes excerpts so that they are always current and never go stale or fork. It is more powerful than it looks, because it has the Lua Module:Excerpt supporting it. Be careful, as it is alpha software. Please notify the WikiProject talkpage of any problems you come across. To give you a sense of the reaction this template is generating, here is an excerpt of a discussion thread from the WikiProject's talk page:
I wrote a comment in the the April 26 section of the RfC explaining what we are up to. I liked the excerpt above so much, that I went back to my RfC posting, and inserted it. Please add Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals to your watchlistWish listWhat's this? An old oil lamp. It's so dirty, I think I'll polish it... *poof* Whoa! Are you a WikiGenie? In that case, I get 3 wishes! I wish...
Please make my wishes come true. See you around the portals! — The Transhumanist 08:02, 27 April 2018 (UTC) |
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