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Zachary Taylor: I have requested feedback

TheGracefulSlick recently accepted an edit to remove two sentences from Zachary Taylor. There is a section on that article's talk page where I requested feedback on the potential of that edit to be WP:GOOD. Please address the issue in section "168 years" before reverting the edit again, thanks. - Sleyece 17:43:02, July 3, 2017 (UTC)

The Good Article Nominations Page Needs Your Help!

Good Articles: Music needs the help of willing reviewers!

Hi there. You nominated an article for evaluation against the good article criteria some time ago, but I noticed you have yet to review an article yourself. Although it's not mandatory, it would be helpful if every user who creates a nomination also reviewed at least one other article, as this would help clear the massive backlog. Reviewing someone else's article can also help you in the long run: every article reviewed brings yours one position closer to the top of the nominations list! If you worked on the article you nominated, chances are you're already familiar with the six good article criteria. It really isn't hard to review, and may take an experienced editor only a few hours to complete. If you have the time and would like to help, please click here, take a moment to figure out which article you'd like to review, then click on its (start review) button. Thank you for reading, and if you need assistance with your review at any point, please feel free to leave a message on my talk page and I'll respond to you as soon as I can. Homeostasis07 (talk)

Lest We Forget: The Best Of

Hi, @TheGracefulSlick: you might remember me from our collaboration on the "Look at Your Game, Girl" article. I recently nominated the (short) article for Marilyn Manson's album Lest We Forget: The Best Of for GA and I was wondering if you might like to review it. Let me know --MagicatthemovieS

Voting now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards

Voting for our annual Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards is open until 23:59 (GMT) on 30 December 2018. Why don't you vote for the editors who you believe have made a real difference to Misplaced Pages's coverage of military history in 2018? MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:17, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Merry

		Happy Christmas!
		Hello TGS, Early in A Child's Christmas in Wales the young Dylan and his friend Jim Prothero witness smoke pouring from Jim's home. After the conflagration has been extinguished Dylan writes that Nobody could have had a noisier Christmas Eve. And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?" My thanks to you for your efforts to keep the 'pedia readable in case the firemen chose one of our articles :-) Best wishes to you and yours and happy editing in 2019. MarnetteD|Talk 21:21, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

Best wishes for this holiday season! Thank you for your Wiki contributions in 2018. May 2019 be prosperous and joyful. --K.e.coffman (talk) 22:25, 21 December 2018 (UTC) Noël ~ καλά Χριστούγεννα ~ З Калядамі ~ חנוכה שמח ~ Gott nytt år!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

	Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
	Hi TheGracefulSlick, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy and Prosperous New Year, Thanks for all your help and thanks for all your contributions to the 'pedia,    –Davey2010 14:55, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and Hala Alyan

Merry Christmas Grace. I'm glad to see you back. While you were gone I created this from your Sandbox, Hala Alyan but someone is questioning its "notability" and I just thought I'd mention it in case you care. Peace. --the eloquent peasant (talk) 00:53, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Level C yeah I noticed that a little after I was unblocked. Notability is far too obvious for me, so I removed the tag. If it goes to AfD, I already have the article watchlisted. In the meantime, you can always expand the article.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 01:05, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. Have a good day.--the eloquent peasant (talk) 01:05, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

IP Edit Warring

Hi. As you might have seen already you were brought up in a discussion at WP:WikiProject Baseball. You can read my reply to the content dispute there but I am curious about what basis you suggest the IP user was edit warring. While I hadn't looked over the IP (or your) edit history prior to the comment, I have now and I'm seeing an editor acting in good faith to improve the encyclopedia. What am I missing? Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 03:49, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Barkeep49 the editor failed to discuss my initial revert at Andrew Knapp; the onus was on him/her to explain their reasoning for including a social media account. A bot removed a link to a twitter account at Dylan Cozens, introduced by the IP. A subsequent notice by the bot was ignored and the account was reintroduced, as were others on baseball-related articles. My basis for removal comes from WP:ELNO #11, listing: “Social networking sites (such as Myspace, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram), chat or discussion forums/groups (such as Yahoo! Groups), Twitter feeds, Usenet newsgroups or email lists”. Since the bot message specifically mentions this, it would have been more productive for the IP to discuss his edits.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 05:29, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. I did see everything you've noted. You'll notice that my initial response was to tell them to start a discussion to gain consensus to include it so I get ONUS. However, the fact that they choose to undo you a single time is not edit warring. As they explained in their edit summary, which as we both know is not a replacement for actual talk page discussion, their ignoring of the bot's message and your removal had a basis in policy so it seems reasonable to suggest they hadn't ignored anything - they had simply considered it and decided that an automated message by a bot did not apply to them. This might not be correct and the consensus that is ultimately arrived at for those pages, but I guess I would just ask you to perhaps not be so quick to suggest a good faith editor has a behavior problem like edit warring. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 05:45, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CLIII, January 2019

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Notice of noticeboard discussion

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Your GA nomination of Günther von Kluge

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Günther von Kluge 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 Ed! -- Ed! (talk) 01:01, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Günther von Kluge

The article Günther von Kluge you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Günther von Kluge for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ed! -- Ed! (talk) 03:01, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Herbert Lee (activist)

On 15 January 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Herbert Lee (activist), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that black voting rights activist Herbert Lee was killed in 1961 by Mississippi state representative E. H. Hurst? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Herbert Lee (activist). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Herbert Lee (activist)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.

Alex Shih (talk) 00:01, 15 January 2019 (UTC)