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Time limit for nominations?[edit]
Hey everyone! Is there a time limit or a minimum amount of support votes a candidate for Good Topic has to achieve? I am asking because the nomination for 2015 Formula One season reports has been lying around exclusively supports for over a month now and I was wondering when a promotion would be happening? Zwerg Nase (talk) 11:47, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
- I think that's nominated for good topic, not featured topic. Tvx1 14:46, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
- @Tvx1: Yes, that's what I said. Zwerg Nase (talk) 15:39, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
- Yes but this talk page is for Featured Topic candidates. Tvx1 15:43, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
- There is no specific page for Good Topics... Zwerg Nase (talk) 15:45, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
- Yes but this talk page is for Featured Topic candidates. Tvx1 15:43, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
- @Tvx1: Yes, that's what I said. Zwerg Nase (talk) 15:39, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
Hey. Director of Featured Topics here. It's been slow here this year but I can promise you that the topic will be promoted by the end of the month. Sorry for taking too long. GamerPro64 15:47, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
- @GamerPro64: Thanks :) Zwerg Nase (talk) 15:57, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
question on odd happening during nomination[edit]
So I recently opened Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/NWA World Historic Light Heavyweight Championship/archive1 as a Good Topic Candidate - the championship and all champions were GA and Mexican wrestling championships rock steady with few changes, sometimes none in years. Well 3 days after I posted the nom it happened, someone else won the championship (Hechicero), who is a GAN but not a GA yet. Not sure what the protocol is on this happening during the nomination - if it was after it's fairly clear. My instincts would say to withdraw the nomination until the last article is a GA and then renominate, I guess I just want a second opinion from someone more experienced than me. MPJ-DK 21:13, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
- If this topic was a Good Topic now, there would be a three month grace period before taking it to removal consideration. I think that if the article fails its GAN the nomination will be failed. Sound good? GamerPro64 21:18, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
- I am totally on board with that suggestion, than you. MPJ-DK 21:23, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
- And it is now a Good Article in line with the rest, so issue has been resolved. MPJ-DK 23:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
- Yeah you're good now. Just gotta get consensus now. GamerPro64 00:02, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Good to featured[edit]
On the nomination procedure page it says Topics will move automatically from good to featured..., yet it's been 12 days since 2012 Tour de France gained FA status and the topic has not been moved? BaldBoris 14:07, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
- I believe you still have to nominate it and gain support. If approved then it will move to FT. MPJ-DK 15:48, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
- I took care of it. It's now a Featured Topic. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. GamerPro64 15:58, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
Interstate 675 (Michigan) was promoted to FA today, bumping Wikipedia:Featured topics/Interstate Highways in Michigan from GT to FT status. Imzadi 1979 → 01:32, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks for the update. Everything's good here. GamerPro64 01:43, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
- @BaldBoris: mind making Book:Michigan_State_Trunkline_Highway_System a bit more readable? I think it is used by multiple topics too, so it would be nice to have a book that is more structured. Nergaal (talk) 09:42, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
- ? BaldBoris 11:24, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
- @Nergaal: you pinged the wrong person about that. What's wrong with it? The book lists every state highway in numerical order, which matches the previous/next browsing order at the bottom of the infoboxes in the individual state highway articles. Ahead of those individual highways, the book lists the article on the overall system and the 4 lists. I see nothing wrong with that, so you'll need to explain your concerns instead of asking uninvolved editors to fix things. Imzadi 1979 → 23:45, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
- Essentially try to split it into some kind of subsections. Nergaal (talk) 02:10, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
- To what end? Once List of state trunkline highways in Michigan is finished off and sent through FLC, then we'll have a Good Topic on that subsection of the state highway system, and finally a Featured Topic on the State Trunkline Highway System itself. The book really serves as the adjunct to that topic, a topic of subtopics 12 years in the making. While state trunkline highways in Michigan have one of three different designation types, they are equivalent. The split into subtopics is a matter of convenience, lest we have a 213-article Good Topic. Again, the articles are set to browse M-1 → US 2 → M-3 → ... M-68 → I-69 → M-69 → .... That is the order the articles appear in the book. Imzadi 1979 → 03:28, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
- Essentially try to split it into some kind of subsections. Nergaal (talk) 02:10, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
- @Nergaal: you pinged the wrong person about that. What's wrong with it? The book lists every state highway in numerical order, which matches the previous/next browsing order at the bottom of the infoboxes in the individual state highway articles. Ahead of those individual highways, the book lists the article on the overall system and the 4 lists. I see nothing wrong with that, so you'll need to explain your concerns instead of asking uninvolved editors to fix things. Imzadi 1979 → 23:45, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Featured topics/Russell family (Passions) became a featured topic after Eve Russell was promoted to FA. I added it to the appropriate subpage of WP:GO and Template:Announcements/New featured content. Could somebody do the other steps? @GamerPro64: Armbrust The Homunculus 00:31, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
- Done. GamerPro64 15:56, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
Better definition for rules[edit]
I think that the following criterion could be defined more clearly:
The featured topic director, GamerPro64, or his delegate Juhachi, determine the timing of the process for each nomination. For a nomination to be promoted to FT or GT status, consensus must be reached for a group to be promoted to featured or good topic status.
I am going to recommend that we follow the WP:FPC guidelines of:
For promotion, if an image is listed here for ten days with five or more reviewers in support and the consensus is in its favor, it can be added to the Wikipedia:Featured pictures list. Consensus is generally regarded to be a two-third majority in support, including the nominator and/or creator of the image; however, anonymous votes are generally disregarded, as are opinions of sockpuppets.
Rephrased for our project:
For promotion, if a topic is listed here for ten days with five or more reviewers in support and the consensus is in its favor, it can be promoted. Consensus is generally regarded to be a two-third majority in support, including the nominator(s) of the topic; however, anonymous votes are generally disregarded, as are opinions of sockpuppets.
Thoughts? Kees08(Talk) 19:59, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
Discussing article quality during nomination[edit]
Just curious what the consensus for this is. I think that the GT/FT nomination process should only talk about if all the relevant articles are included in the topic, and there are no extraneous articles. I think if there are any issues with the article itself, it should be brought up at the article's talk page, GAR, etc. Thoughts? Kees08 (Talk) 07:52, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
