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July backlog drive[edit]

Yes, it's happening! I'd apologize for the short notice, but a July backlog drive has been on the backlog page since April, so instead I'll apologize for disappearing for most of May-June and not getting to this earlier.

The aim this time around is to encourage participation by people who haven't done many GA reviews before. Experienced reviewers are encouraged to assist newbie reviewers with their reviews - but if you want to ignore the theme and just bang out a bunch of GA reviews as usual, go right ahead. This format is obviously somewhat experimental, so if anyone has suggestions, please do suggest away. And if anyone else would like to volunteer as co-ordinator, so far it's just me by my lonesome and I'd love to have you. -- asilvering (talk) 05:42, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Mike Christie, is it possible to get a list of all editors who have reviewed 1-4 GANs? A list of editors who have GAs but have never reviewed would also be really helpful. I have no idea how to generate either of these. -- asilvering (talk) 01:25, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
For the first question, does User:GA bot/Stats give you what you need? For the second, yes; do you want it restricted to editors who have a GA in the last N years, for some value of N? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 01:29, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, for the first one, that's fine. Though if there's some way to restrict the list to only active accounts, that would be even more useful. For the second, yes, a restriction like that would be useful, though I'm not sure exactly where I'd draw the line. The last two years maybe? Or if there's a way to only get active accounts, that would be useful too. Define "active" however seems workable. My aim is to come up with a list of people who might be interested in participating in the backlog drive as a newbie reviewer. -- asilvering (talk) 01:38, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
OK -- it'll be a few days, as I'm traveling, but I should be able to get you the data by some time this weekend. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 02:06, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Asilvering: I've never been a co-ordinator of a GAN backlog before, but I have participated in previous ones, so I'm interested. What and where could I help? Vacant0 (talk) 15:12, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Glad to have you! I'll add your name to the backlog drive page. While I'm at it, pinging @Ganesha811 and @Vaticidalprophet, who were also co-ords of the last one - are you folks interested?
The main part of the job is checking off reviews as editors post them as finished on the drive page - checking to make sure the reviews aren't seriously inadequate, and double-checking what additional points for length might be given, or if you think the review is so good you ought to give it a discretionary bonus point. Since this drive is specifically encouraging collaboration between newbie reviewers and more experienced reviewers, this will be a little (but only a little, I hope) more complicated than usual, since you'll also have to award a point to the assistant reviewer. I anticipate also that there will be more questions than usual and that we may need to assist with matching newbie reviewers with experienced ones.
Also, if you'd like to revise the barnstar awards list, that would be great! I just copied the one from the March backlog drive. But I think it would be nice to tailor it a bit - for example, we could have a barnstar for the editor who assisted with the highest number of reviews, some kind of special "thanks for joining" barnstar for newbies (I think there's a "promising newbie" barnstar somewhere?), or so on. I haven't put any further thought into it than that, so if you want to go ahead and rework the list, it's much appreciated, and all yours! -- asilvering (talk) 18:33, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Considering that assistant reviewers will get one point per review, I could create a couple of barnstars (e.g. a 5 point one, a 10/12 point one, and the one that reviewed the highest amount of GANs). Or we could only stick with one barnstar for assistant reviewers.
The only barnstar that I could have found similar to "promising newbie" is {{The New Editor's Barnstar}}.
Also, do we want to include qualifying old articles, like for previous GAN backlog drives? Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 19:08, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hm too bad re: promising newbie. Since I imagine most GAN newbies will not actually be new editors. Whatever you find that you like, go for it.
This drive deliberately doesn't have points for reviewing really old articles, to keep the focus on bringing new people into GA reviewing. Earlier, when we discussed having multiple backlog drives as part of the broader discussions about what to do with the backlog, there were concerns about reviewer burn-out or reviewers holding off on doing reviews when there aren't backlog drives (since another one will be around the corner). So the idea is that the January drive is the "main" drive, the mid-year one is focused on recruitment, and the fall one addresses a specific portion of the backlog, to be determined closer to the date, depending on what looks like it needs the most help. -- asilvering (talk) 19:46, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Before uploading anything, I'll send it first on Discord in case of possible corrections . I'll be busy tomorrow so expect barnstars to come during the weekend. Cheers, Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 13:51, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm happy to assist as a co-ordinator, but I do have some work travel in July which means I'd have to take on more of a background role - checking a few reviews where I can, not making any big decisions. If that's ok, feel free to add my name! —Ganesha811 (talk) 21:20, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds good to me! Thanks. -- asilvering (talk) 02:50, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

BlueMoonset, are you available to update the progress tracker for this drive? If you are, that would be great! If not, no worries of course. —Ganesha811 (talk) 17:44, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ganesha811, thanks for asking. I'm going to be away the first week; though I might be able to log on at night, it won't be as timely as usual. Another difficulty is that I would be required to make the second column the number of old nominations (90 days or more) rather than the number of unreviewed nominations (which we have always done before), per the general RfC that was held earlier in the year, so rather than just taking the number from the Reports page and adjusting back the hour), I'd have to do a more manual calculation. I'm not sure I'll have the time to deal with the extra work involved. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:10, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hm, good point. And since we aren't targetting old noms specifically this time around, maybe we should rethink the progress list, at least for this drive. A running total of reviews opened/ended might be the way to go this time. I'm happy to do that one, since I tend to be around when a new day starts on UTC time. -- asilvering (talk) 00:23, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
asilvering, I'm not sure how that would work with the current {{GAN changes}} template in terms of display. You may need to create your own table. But I would keep the total number of nominations as the first column, since that tracks how many are outstanding at the beginning of the drive, and all the way through to the end. Good luck! I'll sit this one out, then, unless you change your mind on how you want it to work. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:33, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category organisation[edit]

Grouping these here, if no further comments or consensus is reached I plan to implement these at the end of the month, before the backlog drive starts. CMD (talk) 01:02, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Video games[edit]

Wikipedia:Good articles/Video games is one of two long lv2 categories with no lv3 split (the other is Lang & Lit), and one that feels it has a very obvious split: between the Video Games (and series) themselves, and everything else (provisionally I propose "Context and content"). Regarding the lower splits, the video games are currently divided into five-year blocks, some of which are getting very large. There's no clean split there, but if there is a desire to maintain the chronological split it could transition into two-year chunks for at least the 21st century, imitating Music. The other large sections is "Video game characters", currently at 200. This seems a simple candidate from pulling out series, with the two obvious candidates being Pokémon (26) and Final Fantasy (at least 34, I think, it's a complicated series). 13:45, 24 June 2024 (UTC) CMD (talk) 13:45, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe break out some entire series into their own subcat? Eg you could put all Final Fantasy, Mario, Pokemon, etc grouped together (both games and game-adjacent articles). That seems more helpful to me than these huge by-half-decade chunks. -- asilvering (talk) 01:23, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Well that would invalidate my lv3 split, but I'm not in opposition. I have pulled out just the characters for now, which can be a start for pulling relevant articles out from the other subsections too. Pokémon is easy enough, the games all include the word Pokémon, Final Fantasy has a list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Square Enix. CMD (talk) 14:31, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I would go the other way on this - games should be listed strictly chronologically. Having some sorted by series, and some sorted by chronology, seems strange and "surprising" (in the bad sense) to me. SnowFire (talk) 17:37, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Do you have a better idea for how to separate them? The issue at hand here is that when the categories get super long, they should be subdivided. But the chronology sections are already divided in 5-year blocks. We could make the categories shorter by shortening that to 2-year blocks, I suppose, but I don't think that's likely to be helpful to anyone. -- asilvering (talk) 02:53, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
An alternate lvl3 split could be "by date" and "by series", in that case. I do agree that your originally proposed lvl3 split is better than no lvl3 split at all. -- asilvering (talk) 02:54, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rail transport - time for some splitting?[edit]

In Wikipedia:Good articles/Engineering and technology#Transport, we have 208 articles classified under "rail transport" and a whopping 243 articles under "Rail bridges, tunnels, and stations: United States". I think we should discuss breaking these into subcategories. Some ideas I have for breaking down the general rail transport category are "rail lines", "rail accidents and incidents", "rail companies", and "rapid transit/tram systems". Rail bridges, tunnels, and stations: United States could be divided into rapid transit stations and heavy rail stations, while we could add a "bridges, tunnels, and facilities" section to hold pretty much everything else, including freight facilities (I think the only one is Northup Avenue Yard, my nomination). Trainsandotherthings (talk) 22:48, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note the general rail transport category is basically an "others" group for all rail-related pages that don't fall within a subcategory. The proposed subcats make sense in the abstract, at a glance I can see a lot of incidents. Unsure if I'd cleanly split rail lines and rail systems, something encompassing systems and lines like it could pick up related articles like Northern line extension to Battersea too? Can't at a glance figure out how many company article there are. Splitting stations from bridges, tunnels, and facilities also sounds sensible, to the point it raises the question of whether to split them entirely rather than just in the United States, but that doesn't mean the smaller action won't work. CMD (talk) 01:13, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
My thinking was I'd throw out some ideas and we as a community evaluate which make sense. A separate rail accidents and incidents section seems like a no-brainer to me, as does one for bridges, tunnels, and facilities. A lot of the U.S. articles on railroads cover both a company and the line(s) it operated in a single article, making them hard to split between lines vs. companies. We can always make more changes in the future. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 14:11, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've split the facilities etc. from the United States, a heavy/rapid station split will require more time and/or a subject matter expert. I looked at accidents and incidents quickly and only found 9 so left those alone for now. If splitting lines/companies/systems becomes a bit complex, perhaps splitting off just the United States here as well would be helpful. CMD (talk) 10:30, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Biology and medicine reviews[edit]

I was looking over the GAN's in the Biology and medicine category and noticed that 11 of these were started by Wolverine XI, all within the span of five days (June 10th through 15th). I thought to bring this up here because I'm concerned that the quality of these reviews will suffer from the quantity that this user has taken on, which I think is more than evident in the fact that 8 of them haven't even been started yet. Some of these reviews have received no comments for two whole weeks since their inception.

While I commend their ambition, I don't think this practise is conducive to the standard of quality that the Good Article system should uphold. Perhaps something can be done about it? The Morrison Man (talk) 13:54, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm busy with another project (at the moment). I should have all these articles reviewed by Saturday. After that, I'm retiring from reviewing GANs. Reviews can take some time, so people should be patient. Wolverine XI (talk to me) 14:10, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If you haven't really gotten started on some of those, you may want to CSD them so that another reviewer can pick them up. You don't need to rush yourself to get through them all this week. You can call this a learning experience and toss some back into the queue. -- asilvering (talk) 01:43, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It is Saturday (at least where I am): I can see that Wolverine XI has managed to make comments on two of the open reviews, but the remainder appear to be blank. Wolverine XI, I would echo the concerns here that you may have taken on too much here: the reviews you have done (see e.g. Talk:Enchylium polycarpon/GA2) are really a short list of isolated prose and content points rather than full reviews. In particular, we need some evidence of source checking, image review, copyvio checks and so on. In other places, the comments are so brief as to be of little help: writing "please write a proper measurement" against that are 5–7 x 1-1.5 μm doesn't really tell the nominator what is wrong or how to fix it. Similarly, I don't think the review on Talk:Charles De Geer/GA1 really gave the nominator a fair go: the article looks very close to GA standard to me and I would have thought it an excellent candidate to get up to that status in the course of the review.
As the other commenters here have said, reviewing is a learning process and we always have to go through practice to get good at it, but it would be polite to delete those review pages so that others can take them on, or return to them once you have finished your active reviews more fully, if they are still un-taken. UndercoverClassicist T·C 16:13, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'll add that I brought this up on their talk page, and I was not reassured by their response. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 17:14, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Having read it, neither am I honestly. The Morrison Man (talk) 18:38, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Since Wolverine XI seems not to understand the issue and is still editing without addressing the concerns here, I suggest the blank reviews be deleted. We may also wish to go over their completed reviews, as the ones they've worked on indicate that they don't totally understand how the review process works. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 02:26, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You can delete them; I have other projects—both on wiki and in RL—to complete. Wolverine XI (talk to me) 08:42, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have tagged the empty ones for deletion. Regarding Talk:Enchylium limosum/GA1, Talk:Katablepharid/GA1, and Talk:Enchylium polycarpon/GA2, Wolverine XI left comments indicating some improvements needed on 15 June which have not been responded to, so my preference is to close those as failed. CMD (talk) 09:50, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That seems like a good solution. UndercoverClassicist T·C 10:30, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That would seem like the best course of action, yes. The Morrison Man (talk) 14:32, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rule of thumb for blank review CSDing[edit]

There are some long-outstanding review pages that don't have any real activity on them at all. Normally, another editor will come in and check up on them, and eventually they get CSD'd when there's no response from the reviewer. Here is one where Thebiguglyalien just came through to do just that. But in the interests of not dragging out this procedure unnecessarily, could we perhaps institute a general guideline for when we should simply nominate these for CSD without further discussion? How about one month? To be clear, I'm talking only about reviews that have not been started at all, beyond the usual "I'll take this review" opening comment. -- asilvering (talk) 00:47, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I took a page from BlueMoonset's book (as it's mostly just them doing it) and nudged some of the inactive reviews, but I didn't give more specific instructions specifically because we don't have an agreed upon procedure like this. Anything like this should also apply where the reviewer has set up a template or headings but didn't fill them in with a review. For the ones where there was activity, we might also consider talking about second opinions, because right now the second opinion system is kind of useless. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 01:01, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I didn't mean to imply you'd done anything out of the ordinary, I just grabbed that one as a good example of what I mean by a blank review. I'm just suggesting that we make a guideline to cut down on this extra "are you still here" "[silence]" "nominator, what do you want to do?" in the process. -- asilvering (talk) 01:13, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think having a general procedure to point to is a great idea. I'd suggest a week. If you open a review but make no comment in a week, the review can be closed and the nomination returned to the queue. No penalty or particular shame, it's just a politeness to the nominator, so that the nomination has the chance to be picked up by a reviewer who has the time to dedicate to the review at the moment. Ajpolino (talk) 01:15, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
My initial thought was that a week was much too short, but on reflection, automatically clearing out reviews that are still blank a week after they were opened would probably cut down on the number of reviews that get stretched out over several months. == asilvering (talk) 01:19, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm hesitant to recommend deleting without nudging, and also feel a week after opening is a bit short. Reviews can take time, and that time might only be possible on weekends or similar. That said, a week after nudging seems pretty harmless. If there is a consensus that nudging is not required, I would recommend multiple weeks, maybe 3-4, for CSD. There should be no prejudice of course to the same reviewer restarting the review page if they come back to it. CMD (talk) 01:18, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
What do you think about "nudge at one week, CSD after a week of no response"? -- asilvering (talk) 01:20, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I suppose I could be convinced so long as the response can just be a brief "I am working on this", although it still feels a short timeframe for a nudge. As a general thought, the same principles being discussed here should not only apply to empty reviews but to partial ones, just with a different resulting process (CSD for empty, archiving and resetting for partial except in the few circumstances 2O may be useful). CMD (talk) 01:23, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hm, I deliberately restricted this thought to blank reviews only, since I think partial reviews should be handled on a more case-by-case basis. There are lots of reasons why a review might have stalled out. Reviews that are simply blank, however, are all basically the same "case". -- asilvering (talk) 01:27, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Fair enough, I was thinking of past nudging of months-old reviews, but appreciate the value of maintaining a narrow proposal here. CMD (talk) 01:30, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I like the idea of applying this to stalled reviews of any stripe (of course, as CMD said, we would archive rather than delete stalled partial reviews). The reviewer could always start the review again at any time. No one is being penalized. Asilvering's suggestion of one week til nudge, another week til close, sounds good to me. If the reviewer responds in any way that would reset the clock. The idea is just to return nominations to the queue if the reviewer truly doesn't have time to complete the review. Ajpolino (talk) 12:59, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Is there anything the bot could do that would help? E.g. a "stalled review" section at the end of the GAN page, listing open reviews with no edits for more than N days? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 13:09, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that would be excellent. In a perfect world, I assume we would want a blank review that gets removed (possibly even an incomplete "stalled review"?) to also be removed from the bot's count of an editor's GA reviews. Not a huge deal either way, of course. Ajpolino (talk) 21:07, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If a review is deleted and another review is later done with the same page number, the prior review is no longer included in an editor's GA review count, though if the later review never happens the earlier one won't get removed from the stats. If the review is just marked as failed and the page number is incremented, the reviewer does get credit. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 21:17, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, no edits for more than n days would be helpful. If it could check "no edits to article OR to GA review page" that would probably be the most helpful way to list them. N = 7? No one's suggested a time shorter than 7 days for any of the hypotheticals we've been discussing. -- asilvering (talk) 06:03, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'll have a look at this some time this weekend if I get time. I think what you're asking for should be possible. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 10:25, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thinking about this some more, I'd like to get agreement on exactly what we'd want to see in a section called "Stalled reviews". Suppose the reviewer opens the review by posting a full review with their first edit -- that's not a stalled review, so is there a way to avoid including those? Some reviewers post an empty reviewing template as their first review; if they never edit it again that counts as stalled, but how could the bot tell those apart? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 17:27, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Aren't they both "stalled" if there's no motion after n days? -- asilvering (talk) 02:49, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, but I think an automatic list is only going to be helpful if the entries mean that someone needs to look at the review. If the review were to be deleted, it would disappear from the list, but if the list includes reviews that aren't blank and aren't going to be deleted then it won't be possible to tell if someone has already taken action. I could remove anything from the list if someone else posts to that page -- i.e. someone not the nominator or reviewer. Would that work? CMD, any thoughts? Since you were dubious below about the process to deal with non-blank stalled reviews. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 15:31, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
My first idea for the bot would be to place a talkpage reminders for reviews which were opened but have had no edits since. This would miss say a review where someone writes "Will get to this soon" and doesn't, but on the other hand it would have no false positives. I would not put a section on the GAN page itself, that feels a very public sort of reprimand. We already have Wikipedia:Good article nominations/Report, which gives an indicator of what is stalled even if it doesn't state the time of last edit. CMD (talk) 16:02, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, I don't think we should have automated talk page reminders for this! I thought we were talking about a line on the Report page you mention here. Reading back up, I see I misunderstood Mike Christie's initial comment, where he said "at the end of the GAN page". I don't think that's a good idea either - I was thinking about the Report page. -- asilvering (talk) 17:57, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Actually I did mean on the main GAN page, in a section at the end, but if it would be perceived as a reprimand I agree that might be a bad idea. The way the FAC nominations viewer does it is to have "Inactive for N days/weeks" after each entry. Something like that might be possible; it doesn't single anyone out. That would not be easy to convert into "I need to go look at this particular review", though. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 18:29, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I do think it could be perceived as a reprimand. The Report page, less so, I think, since barely anyone uses it. I've gone through the longest-running open reviews before both this backlog drive and the last one, and found in most of the cases that no other uninvolved editor had popped in to check on the reviews. For that reason, I don't think it would lead to significantly more people being hassled if there was a "no edits for n days" listing on the report page. I do think that having that list on the report page would allow stalled reviews to be noticed much earlier than they are now, which seems to be a timeframe of at least a couple of months. -- asilvering (talk) 18:36, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's worth noting that the speedy deletion of incomplete reviews is rather controversial whenever it gets brought up at MfD. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:42, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sure. No need to CSD incomplete "stalled" reviews. They can just be closed and the nom returned to the queue. The same could be said of blank reviews of course. I don't have a strong preference on CSD vs. close-and-ignore for truly blank review pages. Ajpolino (talk) 21:04, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, no intention of applying a CSD rule-of-thumb to incompletes, just the ones with no review whatsoever. -- asilvering (talk) 05:55, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that is what I was referring to @Ajpolino and Asilvering: see Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:Blackpink/GA1. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:11, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I'm not talking about this kind of review. That's a complete review. It's a poor one, but it's complete, not blank. -- asilvering (talk) 02:45, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The current Talk:Blackpink/GA1 was not the one that was the subject of a MfD, the MfD was about the previous version which was essentially blank. That said, it was an MfD complicated by a new user engaging in procedurally questionable actions rather that added to the page history, so that particular case is an outlier. (The current Talk:Blackpink/GA1, being as you note poor but not empty, was invalidated and the counter incremented.) CMD (talk) 15:00, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I and the MfD were discussing the original review which was deleted Asilvering. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:11, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, I see. I suppose my confusion here is an argument in favour of not CSDing these pages... but I do strongly agree with you and jpxg in that discussion. -- asilvering (talk) 18:18, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Withdraw[edit]

I would like to withdraw Afraid of Tomorrows for GAN consideration. The article will certainly not pass as is, and I'd rather expand it first myself than wait for a review to tell me what I already know. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 16:46, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I see you've deleted the GA nomination template from the talk page; that's all you need to do if the review has not started. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 17:12, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Alright, good to know. Wasn't sure if it would be removed automatically but I see that it has been. Thanks. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 15:52, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is a reviewer allowed to contribute to an article during the review?[edit]

While looking at a certain GAN nominee that needs a review (I have not decided yet whether to review it or not), I noticed that some of the statements in the article had dubious sourcing. I was able to find some sources that I felt were more reliable + had valuable information. I also noticed some translation errors; as the original language is a language I speak, I would be able to correct these translations. Would I as a reviewer be allowed to recommend these sources to the nominator + offer translation corrections? I understand that reviewers are not allowed to significantly contribute to the article before review. Jaguarnik (talk) 19:22, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jaguarnik, recommending sources is absolutely fine. It is always great when a GA reviewer's suggestions make an article substantially better. A problem only arises when you end up contributing so much to an article that you would have to review your own work; in such cases, best to ask for a second opinion. —Kusma (talk) 19:31, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
(ec)You can certainly make suggestions to the nominator, and to be honest for minor corrections (punctuation and typos for example) I would recommend making the changes yourself, since it takes longer to type out "you have mispelt 'supersede'" than it does to correct it. However, do be sure you're right when you make such changes. I have frequently made more extensive copy edits than that when I am confident that the nominator won't mind -- e.g. when the author clearly has English as their second language, but the article is well-researched and close to GA standard, I'll do some clean up editing. This is more of a judgement call. For the translation corrections you're suggesting, you might ask the nominator if they would mind if you just did the fixes yourself, in case they disagree with your translation. Few nominators will object. One circumstance in which I will not make changes myself is if the point at issue is something I suspect the nominator is unfamiliar with -- I'd rather they made the fix so they understand the issue. None of the above is required, and many reviewers won't change a single comma on the article they're reviewing, and that's fine too -- it's your call. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 19:37, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request Help with Abrupt GA Delist at Florida State University (Main article)[edit]

We are 3 days within the 7 days to contest an abrupt GA delist, so I am requesting additional editors and assistance today to resolve this delist while I simultaneously try to persuade the delisting editor to reverse their action. Another editor and I were in the middle of an appropriate GAR of the Florida State University main article. The cooperating editor and I were waiting for a subject matter expert to weigh into non-free materials assessment. All other matters were style and minor. A third editor enters and without establishing collaboration or consenus and abrupting delists the article, which has had GA status for years. Kindly help me resolve this matter. Sirberus (talk) 17:32, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Florida State University, Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Florida State University/1. CMD (talk) 01:05, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The GAR was closed after two weeks of no activity on the reassessment page, and a week of no edits to the article, with copyright issues still unresolved. Closing the reassessment as delist in this situation does not seem problematic to me. That said, the reassessment has now been reopened – is there anything else that needs to be done here? Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 18:25, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I agree—I have left comments at the reassessment, and will close it myself if there aren't arguments against. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:29, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Questionable reviews[edit]

Please see User_talk:TheNuggeteer#GA_on_Philippines_at_the_1924_Summer_Olympics, and also Talk:Jorge Choquetarqui, where I followed a suggestion by User:750h+ and undid the status change. Wait--I see this is part of a contest. Your attention is appreciated. Drmies (talk) 12:11, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've commented at the GA review; I think it needs to be speedy deleted. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:17, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've tagged the remaining reviews (Sikidy, Giado concentration camp, and Jorge Choquetarqui) for CSD and restored their nominations on their respective talk pages. I'm not sure what if anything needs to be done with the transcluded reviews or the good article topicons, so I haven't touched them. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 18:38, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think the topicons should go; not sure about the transclusions ꧁Zanahary꧂ 20:08, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops[edit]

Hi. I did my first review and closed it as passed without realizing that I needed an experienced reviewer to check it. So, could anyone take a look? Thanks. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) 12:02, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewing new nominators[edit]

We've had multiple discussions about whether nominations from editors with no GAs deserve to be reviewed earlier than other nominations, but I'd like to make a different case: reviewing nominations from these editors as soon as possible is beneficial for GAN.

I've done a lot of first-time-nominator reviewing, and my observations would include:

  • They are more likely to fail
  • They are more likely to be ill-prepared
  • The nominators are usually (but not always) enthusiastic about the process and keen to fix any issues
  • They also, more often than not, are clearly delighted by success in a way that those of us jaded by ten or more GAs have probably forgotten.

The two most important observations, though, are:

  • The first review is a great way to show them how a review should be done -- detailed spotchecks, verification of sources, no complaining about aspects of the MoS that aren't part of GACR, and -- a key point -- how communication works between the nominator and the reviewer.
  • The first promotion is the perfect time to encourage them to review. They've seen how reviews work, and they're successful so their skill is validated. If they've already done a review, I sometimes post a note on their talk page after promotion telling them that that's why I picked their GA to review, and saying we always need reviewers.

I think first-time nominators are the pool from which we should be hoping to draw the innumerable reviewers we need to keep GAN going. If you review first-time nominators, you will see more than your share of editors who (currently) lack the skills to put a GA-quality article together, but you'll also be helping to attract new reviewers, more effectively than any other method I can think of. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 22:17, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

well-said :) ... sawyer * he/they * talk 22:56, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
indeed! -- asilvering (talk) 23:54, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Concerns about a review: Taj Mahal[edit]

Hi! I want to bring to notice that the review done for Taj Mahal seems to be done by a reviewer in a haste with the review not done as per all the GA criteria.

Background: The article was a GA for many years (2006-2021) and it was de-listed. The article has gone through multiple reviews (eight GA/FA/peer reviews/reassessments to be precise), with three previous assessments retaining it as a GA. The concerns raised in the previous review where it was de-listed (gallery, citation tags, expansion of certain sections), have been fairly addressed. The article is fairly expansive, was a GA and has gone through improvements to address the issues.

In the current review, the reviewer seems to have taken up a few random citations and has found contentious reasons (e.g. "It is not available in Google Books", "it is rather vague", "Author's meaning is different") for discrediting them, quickly failing the GA on the same. Ironically, some of these sources discredited are reliable, verifiable, and have been there for years through all these reviews.

As an editor, I would have been happy to provide clarifications if this was discussed and would work on improving the article if constructive comments have been provided. As comments provided previously have been addressed adequately, the current review adds little value as to what needs to be done. Would request clarity on the below points:

Book citations have been rejected simply because it is not accessible on Google Books or it requires paid access. As per WP:CITEHOW and WP:RS, onus is on providing the required details and not that the book should be available for free or in Google books, I presume. This is of concern as majority sources quoted here are journal sources with paid access and books. There has been no concern raised on this over the years through multiple assessments as well. I request for clarity on verifiability of books not accessible through Google Books and paid journals with respect to the GA.

While there are quick criteria for the failure of GA, in my opinion, the review has not done justice to the article and certainly is not a case for quick failure. Would request further comments or second opinion on this as to how to proceed. Thanks!

Tagging co-nominators as well: The Herald and DreamRimmer.

Magentic Manifestations (talk) 05:31, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As co nominator, I agree with MM. The review seemed to have been done hastily for a former GA and former FAC. Also, it would be better for an experienced GA reviewer to take up an article like Taj. It is definitely not in a quick fail criteria and can always be improved upon. Thanks. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 07:03, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I gave a full reply on the review, but to me this is overstating the prominence of "inability to access sources" in the review, and it doesn't mention some fundamental issues with OR and failed verification. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 07:10, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Thebiguglyalien To me, your revert seem to be only justifying what has been done and does nothing to address any of the concerns. Please let me be clear here. The intention is to productively work on the comments/issues, so that it can be addressed and I do not want to simply waste our times in engaging in a fruitless dispute just for the sake of it with no real clarity at the end as to what to do. Whether it is a GA fail or a pass, a GA review should be fair enough to do justice to the editor(s), who put in effort and nominate the article. I will state in certain terms that this review at best throws some clarity requirements for a few statements and does not provide much to help in improving the article further.
Your comments also conveniently fail to sufficiently address any of the questions or clarifications raised here. So it would be helpful if these are addressed point by point. I am repeating this, as this was the whole pointing of raising this here as this would again help in getting clarity on these issues, so that they can be worked upon.
1. It has not addressed the basic question of why book/journal sources were simply considered not verifiable because somebody was not able to access it. Shouldn't a clarification be sought from the editor in the first place? Are book sources not available in Google Books prohibited as per WP:RS? Does the GA criteria say that if the source is not available in Google Books or requires a subscription, it has to be considered unverifiable and quick failed?
2. There was no comprehensive review on all the criteria. The page has gone through iterations and if it is quick failed with few suspect comments (which in my opinion is nowhere close to the criteria for quick fail), another reviewer might do the same for another paragraph and GA reviews will roll on forever. Unless there is a comprehensive review with comments and some kind of consistency, I do not see a point of having a GA framework.
3. In my opinion, for vague or rather unclear statements, an editor's response has to be sought. It might at best be a minor edit if there is a disagreement and the entire statement does not certainly become unverifiable because the interpretation of particular word(s) were different (your answer to one of these issues seem to be suggesting exact copyvio from the source).
As a last request, let me know from your experience as to what should be done as an editor here based on the comments, so that I will proceed accordingly with the page concerned.
Thanks! Magentic Manifestations (talk) 08:29, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
1. Books and journals do not have to be accessible to the reviewer as you state (although the nominator should be familiar with them).
2. There does not have to be a comprehensive review of all criteria if there are sufficient issues identified for any one part. It is not expected that as part of the process significant issues will be found and given time to be addressed, articles should be as ready as possible before nomination.
3. I am not sure what this is asking, but disagreements can be handled by discussion.
What should be done as an editor is to edit the article in question and ensure the sources back up the information they are citing. From the examples provided, there are improvements that can be made in this regard. CMD (talk) 09:11, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Or, if you think there are no improvements that can be made, you can simply renominate the article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 09:48, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, as reviewer I've provided answers to the points raised by Magentic Manifestations at Talk:Taj Mahal/GA1#Response to Magentic Manifestations. I stand by my decision to quick-fail the article because the sample of six spot-checks clearly indicate the failure of citations to directly support material, as required by WP:V. I therefore consider the article to be, per WP:GAFAIL, a long way from meeting the requirements of criteria#2, which includes WP:V. The spot-checks have also revealed breaches of WP:NOR and WP:NPOV. Happy to discuss further. PearlyGigs (talk) 13:40, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@CMD, Thanks for giving clarity on the points. I do agree that there are clarifications needed + improvements that can be made and I am happy to do it. My whole point was that this could have been resolved through a simple discussion if the reviewer was willing to do it in the first place and it certainly did not satisfy the criteria for a quick fail (hence my request for a comprehensive review!).

@AirshipJungleman29, I will sort these out and re-nominate it for a proper review.

The user PearlyGigs is engaging in unnecessary and irrelevant discussions/mudslinging on the GA page, bringing out my past reviews/edits. This does not reek of someone who wants to engage on a constructive conversation.

@PearlyGigs A discussion is what you ought to have done before. Request you to stop engaging in discussion not related to the subject at hand and not to go on a WP:Witch hunt, which is against the basic rule of civility. Keep the discussion to the relevant subject at hand. Magentic Manifestations (talk) 16:06, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Magentic Manifestations, I had walked away from this to concentrate on Leon Leuty (GAN backlog) and Charles the Bold (GOCE backlog). How you are handling a current GA review is entirely relevant to your criticisms of myself and Thebiguglyalien in respect of WP:GAFAIL and the way to use verification spot-checks, because it underlines your evident misunderstanding of the approved process.
As for "mudslinging", I think accusing me of feigning ignorance and suggesting that Thebiguglyalien endorses COPYVIO would qualify for that. Your being the victim of a witch hunt is rather an exaggeration considering that I have merely explained, albeit at length, my rationale for the GAFAIL, which includes noting that your objections indicate a failure to understand and comply with WP:GAN/I#R3. Your approach to the Ken Anderson review seems to confirm this and I think it is a learning point for you. I am not interested in any of your "past reviews/edits". Ken Anderson is a current review, now on hold, and I'm sure you wouldn't want to pass it without getting confirmation that an offline source in your spot-check sample directly supports its material?
Perhaps, as you are obviously so offended by the failure of the Taj Mahal review and so certain that I am entirely in the wrong, you should take your issues to WP:ANI? I will be happy to discuss the matter there if you are not prepared to WP:JUSTDROPIT. PearlyGigs (talk) 18:47, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@PearlyGigs How I handle my GA reviews is irrelevant to the GA review of the page discussed here. If there is an issue with such specific review, the respective nominator can address that and you are neither his/her voice nor the ultimate judge of things here. FYI, I have not failed the article for GA with dubious reasons for the sake of not spending enough time.
As for you cannot provide relevant reasons for the questions raised, you seem to be hell bent on dragging things irrelevant to the GA process at hand and proving that I am right. You seem to be offended as the issue was brought here and have added a larger retort bringing in a whole plethora of unnecessary jargon. As clarified by CMD here, try and understand the how the citations work and engage in a proper discussion next time, which could solve most of the issues and save time for everyone. Also, as two users have pointed out in the review page, try and familiarize yourself with the GA process by taking shorter, less traffic articles next time.
I have as such mentioned that the discussion on that particular GA is going nowhere and has dropped it. So please stay within the ambit of what is discussed and stay out of other discussions in which I am involved unless you have a due cause/constructive contribution or this is definitely going to go to ANI. Ciao! Magentic Manifestations (talk) 03:53, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WP:DISENGAGE is one of the site's wiser policies. If anyone who reads this discussion should wish to ask me anything, or offer any useful advice, please go to my talk page. Thanks. PearlyGigs (talk) 09:24, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why is List of Smallville characters a GA?[edit]

Shouldn't it be a Featured list? I think it's still good shape-wise; I don't keep up with this show, so I don't know if it's up-to-date. Spinixster (trout me!) 10:14, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article seems to have been named "Characters of Smallville" when it was originally a GAN, which was fine then, but it later got moved in a RM to the current title. It should likely be either removed as a GA (as an ineligible list) or assessed for FL status. Flemmish Nietzsche (talk) 10:22, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
While it has been renamed to a 'list of' format, it is absolutely not a list article. Mr rnddude (talk) 11:26, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I mean, comparing it to a similar Featured List article, say, List of The Mandalorian characters or List of Millennium characters, it's quite similar. Spinixster (trout me!) 07:43, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Off-topic, but boy does that Mando list badly need a revamp. The minor characters section is almost entirely unsourced. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 08:07, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Assist[edit]

I went and did a part of a GAR of Aoi Koga earlier today, can someone used to the GA process check if it is good? ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 05:47, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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