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Duke Nukem 3D
Hey PresN! Just wanted to ask: are you aware of any print sources (books, magazine articles) discussing Duke Nukem 3D's development that would be essential for the Duke Nukem 3D article? I'm planning to begin a rewrite and have gathered online sources, but the early history of FPSs is a subject that I'm not terribly familiar with, and since you've written about early FPSs I just wanted to ask. JOEBRO64 11:03, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
- @TheJoebro64: Out of the country at the moment, I'll get back to you on this in a few days. --PresN 21:04, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
WikiCup 2022 July newsletter
The third round of the 2022 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 180 points, which is a lower figure than last year when 294 points were needed to progress to round 4. Our top scorers in round 3 were:
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Your GA nomination of Maze (1973 video game)
The article Maze (1973 video game) you nominated as a good article has passed 
; see Talk:Maze (1973 video game) for comments about the article. 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 Legobot, on behalf of Indrian -- Indrian (talk) 14:03, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
Requesting an FA mentor for my first FA nominator
Hello PresN, welcome back from your three week break. It's good to see you back. Anyways, I'm writing to you as recently I was given advice to seek out an FA mentor for my first FA nomination and saw you were listed as one of them. The article in question is Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash, which I have just recently closed the peer review form for. Currently, I haven't nominated the article but plan to once it has copy edited, which hopefully shall be done within a few days. Would you be willing to help mentor me if possible? CaptainGalaxy 16:02, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
- @Captain Galaxy: Sure, I can give you some advice.
- About the FAC process:
- The biggest thing to be prepared for at FAC is that no matter how good the article is, reviewers are going to find things to fix, and it can feel a little overwhelming at first. No matter how long the list is, just take a deep breath and try to fix it all in a timely manner without getting defensive- people don't like to review nominations that have a lot of un-resolved issues or combative behavior. Note that you don't have to do exactly what a reviewer asks for, you can disagree and explain why you chose to do something else, but it's important to try to do it in a timely and collegial manner.
- If you can, try to fix what the reviewer is having a problem with, not just what they say- if they list grammar fixes, don't just do the ones they mention and stop, see if there's more you can spot. If they express confusion with something and recommend a fix, think about if there's a better way to fix the confusion beyond just copying their wording (and if there isn't, that's fine too).
- If a nomination goes a couple weeks without much traction from reviewers, you can/should post around at relevant wikiprojects and elsewhere asking if anyone is willing to take a look, so that the nomination doesn't get closed due to lack of response.
- It is completely normal and even somewhat likely that the nomination will not pass on the first try. Maybe because it stopped getting reviewers before it got enough support, maybe because a bunch of issues were raised and you couldn't get to them in time. Most people's first nomination doesn't pass (mine certainly didn't!), and it doesn't mean anything about you or your ability to write articles, it means that there's a learning curve for what the difference between an FA and a GA is - it's hard to get everything right before you even try the first time.
- If it doesn't pass, for whatever reason, just take a deep breath and a break. There's a two-week waiting period before you can renominate, and it's there so that you can emotionally distance from the reviews, and go back to the article to fix whatever issues it has without any time pressure. Rushing into another nomination is much worse than waiting another week or month to make sure the article is as good as you can get it.
- About the article:
- Getting a copyedit is always good!
- There's a bunch' of passive voice going on here- "The decision to shift genres was taken", "The character of Chibi-Robo was chosen", "The snack collectibles were implemented". Try to keep it active- "The developers chose to shift genres", "They picked the character of Chibi-Robo", etc. Actually, I don't really know what "The character of Chibi-Robo was chosen by developers to create a game that suited him well" means.
- Pull-quote boxes aren't always liked- I like them, but {{Quote box}} itself says generally not to use them in articles, so you may get pushback at FAC about it.
- Reception has a lot of "many critics said", and "most critics felt" instead of just naming examples, which feels weasel-wordy. This section also creeps into informality with phrases like "was a really good idea", "They even went on to accuse the game". There's also an overuse of unneeded transition words- "however"s and "furthermore"s and "besides that", which are awkwardly trying to connect sentences that don't need the connection. This section feels like it has the weakest writing of the article.
Hello again, I think I am ready to submit the article as an FAC, thank you for the advice by the way. But before I do that, I am asking if you would be able to briefly check the article over again as the copy edit was completed not that long ago. Hopefully that, alongside my own adjustments, helped satisfy your requirements you listed above. Thanks. CaptainGalaxy 12:13, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
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I have nominated Magnavox Odyssey as today's featured article for a non-specific date in September. Please join the discussion by clicking here. Z1720 (talk) 16:49, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
TFL notification for August 2022
Hi, PresN. I'm just posting to let you know that List of artiodactyls – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for August 12. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 00:37, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
Promotion of List of scandentians
FA review request
Hi PresN, hope you're doing well and sorry to bother you! If you have a moment, would you be able to take a look at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine/archive2? I'm struggling to find reviewers unfortunately. Anarchyte (talk) 05:05, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Video Game
Hello. Thank you for dealing with the candidacy. I'll admit that I'm pretty happy the page was promoted to featured list. Having said that, are you sure about this decision? At the end of the day, it only got two supports and a third interaction that didn't really go anywhere. Is just two supports for a FLC good enough? PanagiotisZois (talk) 14:53, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
- @PanagiotisZois: Yes, there's no actual minimum support count in the rules, it's up to the discretion of the delegate. In this case, TRM often does not return to his reviews to give a final support, and I went through the list myself as well to make sure it was good to go. I would have liked another independent reviewer, but right now there's a whole sea of almost-promotable lists that have been waiting like yours for over a month, and it's not very fair to the editors in question so I'm going to be doing several more review/promotion combos like that in the near future to try to clear some of them out. --PresN 17:43, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
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As far as I can see although small it does appear to have coverage, I'm not sure a merge was a good idea? Crouch, Swale (talk) 16:08, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Crouch, Swale: The entirety of the article is included in the second paragraph of Loch Ness#Geography. There were 6 sentences and 2 references; all were merged into Loch Ness with nothing cut. There was essentially no content and nothing to demonstrate why a tiny little island with five trees and a long-since dismantled lodge was independently notable from the loch itself to justify keeping it in a separate article; it was basically just hiding the content away from readers of the not-terribly-long article on the loch itself. Not everything needs its own page; sometimes things work better as part of a more cohesive whole. --PresN 16:22, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
- OK, I've restored the categories. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:33, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
Zork
Hi PresN,
where can I find the consensus to delete the individual Zork articles in favour of the overview article?
Thanks and kind regards, Grueslayer 05:39, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Grueslayer: There shouldn't be anything that was in the individual episode articles that's not in the combined article besides some overly-detailed descriptions of puzzles. We don't need to have an article on the trilogy and also an article on each episode in it, especially considering the development history of it being created as a single game. Nothing was "deleted", they were merged. --PresN 14:52, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
- Hi PresN,
- The Zork III article (to pick an example) is 17 years old, over 100 editors have contributed to it. Again: Where is the consensus to merge it into an overview article?
- Kind regards, Grueslayer 12:30, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Grueslayer: Well, I don't think "it's been around a long time without anyone working on it" is a strong argument, but to be fair I've opened up a discussion on the Zork talk page and invited members of WT:VG to discuss. --PresN 14:21, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
Hello! Thanks for your work on the Zork article. Overall it seems accurate as far as I can see from files on backup tapes and conversations with the Zork authors. I have some points for your consideration:
- Supnik release in "January 1978". That seems off, given that the blizzard during which Supnik worked on the game was in February.
- "Hess at DEC decoded the protection the group had made for the source code". There were two protections: first, the directory for the files was made unreadable to everyone except the authors through an "invisible" binary patch to ITS (which has been found and analyzed). Second, the source files were encrypted.
- Zork was ported to TENEX and TOPS-20, enjoying a much wider success on Arpanet. Rich Shiffman at ISI logged in to the MIT machines and discovered the MDL/Muddle language. This lead to the work to port Muddle to TENEX which was the system in use at ISI. Of course Zork came along as well. Later the TENEX version of Muddle was adapted for TOPS-20 as well.
Lars Brinkhoff (talk) 19:07, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Larsbrinkhoff: Thanks for the review! I still have more work on reception and overall copyediting to do, but I'm glad to hear from someone who would know that it seems accurate—I myself postdate Zork by quite a bit, so I'm working entirely on what sources say.
- Not sure what source I read said January, but the used one just says post-blizzard (which was per Great Blizzard of 1978 the very end of January) so to be accurate I'll make it "early 1978", though February is likely true.
- I was aware about the multiple protections and was eliding the technical details, but I'll make it plural to be more clear that Hess didn't just jump one hurdle.
- I have a line already as
"Following user requests, they also added the ability for the game to run on other PDP-10 computers running different operating systems, TENEX and TOPS-20."
, but I guess it doesn't make it clear (as the source does) that TENEX/TOPS-20 was more popular than ITS (which... I also didn't namedrop as being the operating system). --PresN 20:15, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks! Mine are only suggestions or notes. I don't have good sources for everything, so do with them as you will. Regarding the blizzard, it appears there were several, or maybe a single one that hit many places over time. I believe the one Supnik refers to is Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978. Lars Brinkhoff (talk) 05:09, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
- I transcribed Supnik's Get Lamp interview, and he does say "early February". https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/813 Lars Brinkhoff (talk) 05:13, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Larsbrinkhoff: Excellent, thank you! --PresN 14:10, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
Promotion of List of didelphimorphs
Promotion of List of macroscelids
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hello, PresN! i had a quick question regarding this article and the associated blurb. is the magnavox odyssey 2 generally not considered to be a part of the odyssey series? the article on the series currently includes the odyssey 2, so i had thought that it would be more appropriate to use "including" instead of "as well as" in the blurb (and in the article lead), since i feel that the use of "as well as" would suggest that the odyssey 2 was separate from the odyssey series. however, i then noticed that your edit of the tfa/r nomination had replaced "including" with "as well as", so i wanted to understand your reasoning before i did anything stupid.
speaking of me being stupid, i don't think i had realized how light guns worked until i read this article. i suppose i always thought the technology was too complex for me to easily understand, so i was rather surprised when it was clearly explained to me in one sentence. dying (talk) 07:18, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
- @Dying: My edit was because it read to me like it was saying that the Odyssey 2 was one of the "series of dedicated consoles", when it wasn't a "dedicated console". I guess my interpretation of the series article is that it's saying that there's the Odyssey 1, the "Odyssey series" of dedicated consoles (Odyssey 100/200/300/400/500/4305/2000/3000/4000/5000), and the Odyssey 2, meaning that the "series" did not include either of the 2 non-dedicated consoles. I don't know if that's supported by sources though? Pretty sure Magnavox didn't market them like that so the whole "Odyssey series" thing is a retronym, and it also makes sense to me to say that the "series of consoles" includes everything with the "Odyssey" name, including the Odyssey 1 and 2. So, it's either the "Odyssey series of dedicated consoles" + 2, or it's the "Odyssey series", which includes a set of dedicated consoles and both home console releases. --PresN 19:18, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
- oh, that makes sense; thanks for the clear explanation. i had caught that the odyssey 2 was not a dedicated console, but had not realized that "as well as" was used to make more clear that the odyssey 2 was not a dedicated console. what if the blurb was reworded so that it does not rely on how the odyssey series is defined? for example, if "the Odyssey series of dedicated consoles, as well as the 1978 Magnavox Odyssey 2" was replaced with "the 1978 Magnavox Odyssey 2 and the Odyssey series of consoles", then the "and" can serve as an ambiguous conjunction, since it can be used to conjoin two related nouns when the first is an element of the second (as in "Jem and the Holograms") or when the first is not an element of the second (as in "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars"). the link to "dedicated console" can be salvaged by, for example, moving it to the start of the second sentence so that it begins with "A dedicated console, it consists ...". of course, this is just a suggestion, as i think the blurb is already good enough as it is. dying (talk) 08:15, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
Thank you today for the article, introduced (in 2020): "Third in a series of early video game FACs (Spacewar!, Computer Space), here we have the Odyssey, the first video game console. Released in 1972 after 6 years of development and 21 years after Ralph Baer first had the idea, it had the good fortune to come out not only the year after Computer Space proved arcade video games could be a thing, but only a couple months before Pong, allowing for a mutual sales growth for both of them due to how similar Pong and the Odyssey's Table Tennis were. Though, as 20 years and US$100 million of lawsuits in Magnavox's favor proved, that wasn't exactly a coincidence. Calling one of Baer's patents for the console "the pioneering patent of the video game art", as a judge did, is frankly pushing it, and calling him the father of video games requires ignoring a lot of earlier video game history, but it's safe to say that his work on the Odyssey launched the entire concept of video games in the home before any other company had even considered the idea. It draws a line and three dots, and not much else, but the Odyssey is one of the first parts of the multi-billion dollar video game industry."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:02, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of presidents of the United States/archive1
The FACBot reported an error: an invalid status "promtoed". Another editor tried to correct it [1] but that doesn't work because they are not a FLC coordinator. One of you needs to roll that erdit back and re-apply the change. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:17, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
- Could you do Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of municipalities in Arkansas/archive1 as well? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:58, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Zork you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. 
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Shooterwalker -- Shooterwalker (talk) 14:40, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
Possible review swap?
I was wondering if you would like to provide a review for Lumines: Puzzle Fusion's FAC.Blue Pumpkin Pie (talk) 23:56, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
List of UEFA Champions League hat-tricks
Thanks for the advice. I just wished to know if the article has any flaws now, or if it is free of them. Atlantis77177 (talk) 15:45, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
Do respond when u r free. Greetings.--Atlantis77177 (talk) 04:52, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
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Row Scopes
I'm having issues adding row scopes to the larger table on List of National Football League annual receptions leaders, specifically with the cells that span multiple rows. Any tips? Newtothisedit (talk) 15:27, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
- @Newtothisedit: Just did an example of the first few rows of the table, including one that had a rowspan. --PresN 15:45, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks! Newtothisedit (talk) 16:46, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
The article Zork you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Zork for comments about the article. 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 Legobot, on behalf of Shooterwalker -- Shooterwalker (talk) 02:21, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
Any thoughts you might have on this work-in-progress before I nominate it would be appreciated. I think you'll enjoy the yoked rows that move in tandem when columns are sorted. - Dank (push to talk) 23:37, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
- @Dank: Looks good overall; my initial concerns are minor: I don't like having a whole sentence as a parenthetical (in the lead); I find the position of the text odd in the first cell of each row (why not centered?); and the format of "location found: number of genera" is odd to me when it's not a list of location types and number of genera in each one. Those are all small, though- overall it looks good! --PresN 04:02, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks! Handled all of these, I hope. Back in the morning. - Dank (push to talk) 04:27, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
- Is "5 mm" okay in a scientific data table without converting to inches? (I could go either way ... at some point, once you get out the microscope and start looking at pollen grains, people aren't expecting inches. But larger measurements generally wind up getting converted.) - Dank (push to talk) 17:22, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
- @Dank: MOS:CONVERSIONS says... "But in science-related articles, supplying such conversion is not required unless there is some special reason to do so.". So no, the conversion isn't required. I'd do so anyway for larger amounts, but 5mm rounds to 0 inches, so you either violate sigfigs to make it 0.2 inches, or leave it as just 5 mm, and I think that's cleaner. --PresN 01:13, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
- Works for me. - Dank (push to talk) 01:15, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
- @Dank: MOS:CONVERSIONS says... "But in science-related articles, supplying such conversion is not required unless there is some special reason to do so.". So no, the conversion isn't required. I'd do so anyway for larger amounts, but 5mm rounds to 0 inches, so you either violate sigfigs to make it 0.2 inches, or leave it as just 5 mm, and I think that's cleaner. --PresN 01:13, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
Here's a question we haven't had to think about a lot at FLC because we don't usually have double rows. I'm working on List of commelinid families now. User:Johnboddie pointed out that, with that layout, it would be very easy for a reader to make the mistake of thinking that the first image is Bromelia, the second is Poales, etc., because those are the words in the next row, right beneath the pictures. I could fix this by giving every image a caption, but that would be incredibly repetitive. One possible fix is at User:Dank/Sandbox/9, where I've added a solid black line beneath the first row of images. Another approach would be to move the images so they appear above "Olof Bromelius (1639–1705), Swedish doctor and botanist" rather than appearing right above "Bromelia", "Poales", etc. ... doable but tricky. Do you have a preference? - Dank (push to talk) 16:44, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
- @Dank: Yeah, I think moving/swapping it with the notes would be better? I think as it is now even if the black line separates one plant from the next, it's also easy to assume that the images correspond with the three words above them as well- e.g. image 1 is for the type genus, image 2 is for the order, image 3 is for the common name. --PresN 17:11, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
- @Dank: re your email: Hmm. I've played with a couple options at User:Dank/Sandbox/9; I think it's just hard to do multi-row tables that preserve sortability without it getting awkward, and it's also hard to have tables with more than 4 columns that don't squish weirdly at narrow viewports. The biggest tool I have there is to apply min-widths to columns so that the images and notes columns can't get squished beyond a certain point. The fewer columns you can get to the better, though- I think the notes mega column you have at present is a bit much, maybe? It's why my animal lists have 3 distinct "sections" to their ecology (aka notes) columns, to make it a bit more structured. It does feel a shame to have a whole column that only has 2 letters in it; does it make sense to combine it with name origin? Or Notes? I don't know. --PresN 00:57, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
- Your option 2 solves the problems I think, I'll get to work on that. Agreed with you about the 2-letter column. Also, CaptainEek, reviewing my current list, was confused about terse terms like "Greek:", "Greek name", etc. ... and I think they're right, those should be explained in the notes. And John says that there have been a bunch of genera he can only find 2 good images for ... so we'll go with 2 images instead of 3. That should do it, I think, but let me know if you see anything else that looks off. - Dank (push to talk) 02:47, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
- @Dank: re your email: Hmm. I've played with a couple options at User:Dank/Sandbox/9; I think it's just hard to do multi-row tables that preserve sortability without it getting awkward, and it's also hard to have tables with more than 4 columns that don't squish weirdly at narrow viewports. The biggest tool I have there is to apply min-widths to columns so that the images and notes columns can't get squished beyond a certain point. The fewer columns you can get to the better, though- I think the notes mega column you have at present is a bit much, maybe? It's why my animal lists have 3 distinct "sections" to their ecology (aka notes) columns, to make it a bit more structured. It does feel a shame to have a whole column that only has 2 letters in it; does it make sense to combine it with name origin? Or Notes? I don't know. --PresN 00:57, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2022 November newsletter
The 2022 WikiCup has drawn to a close with the final round going down to the wire. The 2022 champion is
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Z1720 (25) who had DYKs on various topics including historic Canadians.
During the WikiCup, contestants achieved 37 featured articles, 349 good articles, 360 featured article reviews, 683 good article reviews and 480 In the news items, so Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors. Well done everyone! All those who reached the final round will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or the overall leader in this field.
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Promotion of List of Lionhead Studios games
DYK for Zork
On 8 November 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Zork, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that one scholar compared the importance of Zork to that of Homer's Iliad? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Zork. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Zork), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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TFL notification for December 2022
Hi, PresN. I'm just posting to let you know that List of Lionhead Studios games – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for December 12. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 02:29, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
Personal Attacks
Excuse me Pres. Could you help out taking care of someone insulting me through an edit summary? I don't appreciate how this user has been treating me and this edit doesn't help either. GamerPro64 05:20, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
- @GamerPro64: Messaged them on their talk page. --PresN 15:55, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you and happy holidays. GamerPro64 02:55, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
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Promotion of Zork
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Greetings. I'm always amazed when I *speak* to another editor for the first time, so hello. This isn't a big thing, but I never like taking credit for something I didn't do. You added several new articles on this page list, and attributed the creation of one, List of years in video games, to me. However, I simply reverted an edit I had made, changing the list to a redirect. User:Thebiguglyalien, really created the list out of a redirect earlier that day. Regardless, thank you for all you do on the project. Onel5969 TT me 15:01, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
If you don't object....
How's the planned summary for Zork here? Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 20:34, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
- @Adam Cuerden: Hah, I love it! --PresN 21:11, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
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Zork scheduled for TFA
This is to let you know that the Zork article has been scheduled as today's featured article for January 7, 2023. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page blurb, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 7 2023, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1000 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so. If you wish to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article, you can do so at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/January 2023.
I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:15, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
- Sorry, I've had a late TFAR for January 7, so I can't run it then. I can run it later in the month, please let me know as soon as possible if you would like me to fit it in, probably on 21 or 22 January Jimfbleak - talk to me?
Zork scheduled for TFA
This is to let you know that the Zork article has been scheduled as today's featured article for January 13, 2023. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page blurb, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 13, 2023, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1000 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so. If you wish to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article, you can do so at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/January 2023.
I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:29, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
Thank you today for the article, introduced:"Earlier this year, I brought Colossal Cave Adventure through FAC, as the ur-example and namesake of an adventure game. But despite it being first, the "father of the genre" isn't Adventure—it's Zork, the oddly named game first released in 1977 that truly launched the interactive fiction/text adventure genre in the early 80s and showed the exploding computer game community that video games contain a complex world and not just action. Zork got lucky with its timing, as not every game sells 100 times as much in its 3rd year than its first due to market expansion, but from the imaginations of four guys at MIT you can draw a straight line through to any modern game that features exploration and puzzle solving."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:21, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
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Sorry, I've forgotten ... which works better if I have to change the list name, changing it now or waiting until the FLC concludes? (I'm changing it to List of commelinid family names with etymologies, reasoning is in the intro at List of lilioid monocot family names with etymologies WP:Featured list candidates/List of lilioid family names with etymologies/archive1). - Dank (push to talk) 19:08, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
- @Dank: Changing it now is fine- just make sure to move the FLC nomination page to the new title (and update the link on the main FLC page), and fix the list's talk page template to point to the new FLC title. --PresN 19:15, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
- Will do, thx. - Dank (push to talk) 19:23, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
- Also ... this is a little sketchy, I know, but see WP:Featured list candidates/List of commelinid family names with etymologies/archive1#Partial image review, particularly the last sentence. I can ask around for another reviewer, if you like. I'm working on the name change for the article now. - Dank (push to talk) 04:08, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
- Changing List of alismatid monocot families to List of alismatid family names with etymologies now. It's probably best if I don't edit any templates or WP:FL, I might screw it up. - Dank (push to talk) 00:09, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
Replying to your note at the (now closed) nomination: (and also pinging Elizabeth): 1. On the longer vs. the shorter list name: I've discussed the pros and cons on Elizabeth's talk page. I'm happy to go with whatever you two prefer, and damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead. 2. You have a preference, I think, for me to re-add the genus numbers. I have no objection ... but many of my genus numbers are already "wrong" (according to my source for them, POWO), only a month or two after I first looked them up. The problem is that they change their minds a lot, especially when it comes to numbers ... but POWO is the best we've got, and the source that WP:PLANTS is most likely to rely on for these things. Elizabeth is working on the list of campanulids now, and odds are she'll get that up at FLC before I get another family list up. If Elizabeth decides to include genus numbers, and if the genus numbers change during the nomination, let's see how people feel about that and take another look at the issue. 3. Re: "Images for a member of the type genus": done, for all 3 lists. - Dank (push to talk) 20:34, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
- @Dank: Yeah, I was worried about that (numbers changing). Keeping the animal lists accurate is a slight pain, but they may change annually, not monthly, and like I said at the FLC, those are lists for families that contain dozens of species, not thousands, and deciding something should be split or combined is a bigger deal than for plants.
- I guess the way I see it is: you renamed them to "X family names with etymologies". What do you feel is missing that separates that list from a broader "X families" list? The reviewer at the other FLC suggested paleontology and genus counts; but in a more general sense I think of it as "what are the defining/important characteristics of one family vs. another?
- I'm still slowly trying to answer that question for animals at User:PresN/mammals, but right now I'm going to try to go with what I had for lower (order) lists, and answer "how many species are in this family, where are they found in geography and biome, about how big are they, and what do they eat".
- Absent any deep knowledge of plants, but knowing that plant families cover a large range or sizes and often biomes, my supposition for what to add would be... pretty much just an approximate number of species or genera in the family? You have most of the rest of it that's applicable. --PresN 20:49, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
- I don't have a strong feeling about the genera, but there's no rush on that, I can add them back at any time, and I'd like to see what the reviewers of Elizabeth's first list have to say about it. The list names ... arguably that's more urgent, and I don't have a strong preference, I just thought that changing the name was the practical way to keep making progress, given the review I got at the lilioids. You don't like the longer names; if Elizabeth prefers the shorter names, then let's go with that. - Dank (push to talk) 21:05, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
- What do I feel is missing? Roughly speaking, nothing, because I think that things like paleontology, authorities, and keys (characteristics that separate one group from another) would work better in the next list series, which I'm imagining will focus on tribes instead of families. OTOH, adding one or two more details that I don't personally favor wouldn't "break" these lists, provided we can segregate and simplify the more complicated stuff, to keep it from overwhelming general readers and aspiring (budding?) botanists. - Dank (push to talk) 21:17, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
Per discussion at WT:PLANTS, and here, etc., I'm changing the list names now to "List of X families". - Dank (push to talk) 00:42, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
- Pinging PresN, User:Eewilson: since this might come up again, in my lists or in Elizabeth's. PresN, you were talking about (in the Commelinids review) "keeping the number of genera/species per family in the table". But the problems I was previously seeing (with many genus numbers changing monthly) at POWO might be linked to a post yesterday at WT:PLANTS#Temporary issues at Plants of the World Online. So IMO this is the wrong time to be including genus numbers cited to POWO (but POWO is what the plants project prefers, so I don't want to use a different source, either.) Elizabeth, feel free to handle this however you want in your articles and lists, but personally, I'd rather wait until things settle down at POWO ... if ever ... before adding these numbers back to my family lists. - Dank (push to talk) 19:41, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
- It was likely just a one time mess up of a bad update. Species numbers aren’t maintainable for a family from POWO’s interface, but genus numbers should be. What Peter drew our attention to is worrisome, but also to be expected of an update done over a holiday weekend. If it can go wrong, it will go wrong. They will sort themselves out soon. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 20:19, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
- We should use the As of template for the genus count description. I have it in the legend of the campanulids-in-progress. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 20:22, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
- Dank & PresN, and fortunately, I pulled the genus numbers for campanulids before the bad update. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 20:50, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks. I'll take another look after they fix the bad update. - Dank (push to talk) 20:56, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
- It was likely just a one time mess up of a bad update. Species numbers aren’t maintainable for a family from POWO’s interface, but genus numbers should be. What Peter drew our attention to is worrisome, but also to be expected of an update done over a holiday weekend. If it can go wrong, it will go wrong. They will sort themselves out soon. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 20:19, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
Happy New Year!
PresN,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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