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GA Review

I think one day you will regret helping me with my first GAN, because now you have become doomed as my go-to for GA issues ;-)

I was wondering if you could take a look at this and let me know what I should do to get a proper review:

• Talk:WhitePages (company)/GA1

I don't want to start drama over it or anything, just looking to bring an article up to GA. CorporateM (Talk) 04:13, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

• That was a terrible review. I'd go to WT:GAN and request a rereview. The lede is adequate for an article of that length, and your COI should mean nothing if the article itself is actually neutral. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:16, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
• CorporateM: Indeed, that was a terrible review. Ugh, I hate it when we have users doing that. I would re-review it myself but I won't have time to do so until thursday maybe. If you are willing to wait, I'd lovely do it. In the meantime, however, you can post at WT:GAN, because I don't want more of those reviews out there. I forgot we were on Backlog Drive time. — ΛΧΣ 04:34, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

I would be honored if you took the time to do the review and waiting even a week or two when you have time would be no bother at all. CorporateM (Talk) 04:47, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

I will add it to my to-do list then :) — ΛΧΣ 04:51, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

And I will add it to the list of things I am grateful to you for. Hopefully you accept gratitude as currency for your assistance. user:Drmies insists on cash fees and he is pricey! (inside joke) CorporateM (Talk) 05:25, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

CorporateM: Happy to see that it became a good article, after all. Still, I am going to put my eyes over it soon. Cheers. — ΛΧΣ 03:12, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks so much! CorporateM (Talk) 03:21, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

FLC & FAC bot

I know you too have seen that VoxelBot has grown increasingly unreliable. The operator of the FLC/FAC task has not directly responded to any post about it since 09 July! This was barely tolerable when we were asking for improvements, but now that I can't even get the task restarted, things have to change; even a new operator running the same unimproved bot code would be preferable to the current void. I noticed that you said last month you had approached someone else about taking over the task. Has anything come of that? I am prepared to approach someone myself if not. Thanks. Maralia (talk) 14:48, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Maralia: I asked Legoktm if he could rewrite a better bot and take over the task. He said he could, but we haven't talked ever since. I will ask him again and, well, meanwhile, I will close the FLCs manually. No other options we have. Cheers. — ΛΧΣ 15:02, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

That's who I was planning to ask; just didn't want to duplicate efforts. I will take it up on his talk page if you haven't beaten me to it already. I have a copy of the current bot code, so getting at least that up and running should be fairly trivial. Maralia (talk) 15:11, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

I have finals next week, so I can't spend any time on it until after then. I've looked at the existing code and it's not in a state where it can easily be re-used IMO. I would want to fix up a lot of it. So I can prioritize properly (there are a ton of other things I'd like to get done... ;)), how important is this bot to the FAC/FLC process? Legoktm (talk) 08:54, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

The bot is critical. It is a vital part of the promoting/closing process and without it FLC/FAC will be very damaged :

Let me rephrase that. What happens if the bot magically stops running? Legoktm (talk) 03:34, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Well, then all promoted and/or archived FLCs won't be properly closed. FL stars won't be added, ArticleHistory's won't get updated, and the lists won't appear as if they were (not ) promoted. — ΛΧΣ 03:39, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

And it has to be done by hand. --Rschen7754 03:40, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

I have created a centralized point for discussion at User talk:Maralia/FA bot, and answered Lego's question in some detail there. Maralia (talk) 06:11, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Universal Triple Crowns

I actually have at least two images that are Featured pictures on three or more Wikipedias:

File:Gustave Doré - Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote - Part 1 - Chapter 1 - Plate 1 "A world of disorderly notions, picked out of his books, crowded into his imagination".jpg - En, Tr, Es, Com

File:Sarah Vaughan - William P. Gottlieb - No. 1.jpg - En, Tr, De, Es.

There may be others, but those are the only ones I know of offhand. Do I qualify for a Universal crown? Adam Cuerden 13:56, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Hey Adam Cuerden! Yes, you qualify for a Universal Triple Crown for each one of these images :) — ΛΧΣ 14:05, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

For that matter, can I update to Timeless Triple Crown for the ones listed here? It was under my old account, but... me. =) Adam Cuerden 14:13, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Well, yes. You can ask at WP:TRIPLE/NOM to receive the Timeless Tripel Crown, since it's a separate award ;) — ΛΧΣ 14:23, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

CVUA

Ping. Ping. Assignment 3 is done. `Buster Seven Talk 17:26, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Buster7: Oh, yay! Let me check and give you your final test. — ΛΧΣ 20:25, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

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Homework is the debut studio album by French electronic music duo Daft Punk (Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo pictured in 2010), released in January 1997 on Virgin Records. Homework's success brought worldwide attention to French house music. According to The Village Voice, the album revived house music and departed from the Eurodance formula. The duo produced the tracks without plans to release an album. After working on projects that were intended to be separate singles over five months, they considered the material good enough for an album. Homework charted in 14 different countries, peaking at number 150 on the United States Billboard 200 and at number 8 on the UK Albums Chart. By February 2001, the album had sold more than two million copies worldwide and received several gold and platinum certifications. Overall Homework received positive critical response. The album features singles that had significant impact in the French house and global dance music scenes. These include the US Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play number-one singles "Da Funk" and "Around the World", the latter of which reached number 61 on the Billboard Hot 100. (Full article...)

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A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar

I really appreciate your willingness to mentor others. Recently, I completely revised the WIKIPEDIA biographical entry on me written by another user. the entry is titled D. Shelton A. Gunaratne. I want you to check whether my revised entry meets the criteria for GA? Are the inline citations and references good enough and authoritative? Does the article look unbiased? Gunarat 05:05, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

@Gunarat: Hey! Thanks for the barnstar :) I have taken a look at the article and it still needs some work before it can reach good article status. Although I understand your desire to touch the article (it's about you), I think it would be best if another editor finish the revision before it can proceed the GA-way. I would be willing to review it a bit and make it compliant with all of our policies, but I'm not sure I'd have time to do all the necessary work to make it to GA. Cheers. — ΛΧΣ 06:07, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas!

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Re:Arbitration

Thank you for the message. I'm glad to be done with the process, all the more so since in the nearly 10 years I've been here I've never had to bother with an arbitration request as an actual party to it until now. Hopefully, though, the resulting handout will settle the issue(s) enough so that the long term editors come back to the material again. Thanks for everything, and Merry Christmas. TomStar81 (Talk) 03:42, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

You're very welcome. And Merry Christmas to you too, TomStar81 :) — ΛΧΣ 03:52, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

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