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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

Administrator changes

Novem Linguae

Bureaucrat changes

MBisanz

Guideline and policy news

Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.

Technical news

Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.

Arbitration

Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:58, 1 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Doom (1993 video game)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Doom (1993 video game) 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 ChristieBot, on behalf of Shooterwalker -- Shooterwalker (talk) 23:42, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion of List of peramelemorphs

Congratulations, PresN! The list you nominated, List of peramelemorphs, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Giants2008 (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 3 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2023 July newsletter

The third round of the 2023 WikiCup has come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 175 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

Thebiguglyalien, with 919 points from a featured article on Frances Cleveland as well as five good articles and many reviews,
Unlimitedlead, with 862 points from a high-scoring featured articles on Henry II of England and numerous reviews,
Iazyges, with 560 points from a high-scoring featured article on Tiberius III.

Contestants achieved 11 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 47 good articles, 72 featured or good article reviews, over 100 DYKs and 40 ITN appearances. As always, any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:18, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple FLCs

Hello PresN. I'm having a tough time finding it, but I thought I read something about not being able to have multiple FL nominations open at the same time. Are you able to point me towards anything where this is mentioned? I'm listed as a co nom on a current nomination and I wanted to see whether I could nominate a different article I have ready. Hey man im josh (talk) 22:42, 13 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Hey man im josh: It's on the main FLC page, 2nd paragraph: "Nominators should not add a second featured list nomination until the first has gained substantial support and reviewers' concerns have been substantially addressed." That said, all rules are up to coordinator discretion, and since your first is a co-nom I'm fine with you nominating a second list. The point is to avoid having nominators have too much open at once that they get overwhelmed, especially if they're new to FLC (or the reviewers get overwhelmed with too many similar nominations), but you have 2 FLs already and it's a co-nom anyway, so I'm not worried. --Pres N 00:54, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate you getting back to me, I feel blind having missed that. That's awesome to hear, I'll be putting the finishing touches and putting up a nomination tomorrow then. Thanks for the work you do and for helping me out! Hey man im josh (talk) 01:17, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion of List of pilosans

Congratulations, PresN! The list you nominated, List of pilosans, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Giants2008 (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

August 2023 Good Article Nominations backlog drive

Good article nominations \| August 2023 Backlog Drive
August 2023 Backlog Drive: On 1 August, a one-month backlog drive for good article nominations will begin. Barnstars will be awarded. Interested in taking part? You can sign up here.
Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage
You're receiving this message because you have reviewed or nominated a good article in the last year. (t · c) buidhe 05:15, 30 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Doom (1993 video game)

The article Doom (1993 video game) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Doom (1993 video game) for comments about the article, and Talk:Doom (1993 video game)/GA2 for the nomination. 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 ChristieBot, on behalf of Shooterwalker -- Shooterwalker (talk) 00:44, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List advise, revert or not?

Howdy. Earlier this year, List of British armies in World War II was promoted to FLC. Yesterday, this edit was made. Can you advise if this is okay, or if it should be reverted back to the format the list was in when it was promoted.EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 15:29, 4 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@EnigmaMcmxc: The change is fine in terms of FL status- revert or not as you choose. The FL project's opinion on post-promotion changes is just "if it's egregious, then revert it or take it to FLR", but overall we don't have the resources or inclination to demand that FLs stay unchanged post-promotion.

That said, I'm in favor of the change not for the "readers can jump to subsections" reason the IP editor gave (the list isn't so long that the reader can't just scroll down another inch or two), but because there enough text and columns in the table that on narrower screens the text gets squished horizontally pretty far, so moving it below the table makes it easier to read that way. If you'd rather that the text be next to the other details of the army in question, that's fine though; there's a limit to how much we can do for small screens when if comes to tabular data. --Pres N 15:48, 4 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

My lack of experience in the "list" side of things made me wonder if it would even be acceptable. So, I really appreciate the follow-up. I shall leave the edit in place, based on your reasoning.EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 18:00, 4 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Video games

Hello PresN, I was surprised at being notified at the topic you added at WT:WikiProject Video games#New Articles (July 31 to August 6). My name was listed against MUSHclient as having un-redirected it, which I have not done. I had reverted some changes earlier though, and now that it came to my notice, I have just turned it back to a redirect. If the updates you added were generated by a script, then the script is wrong. Jay 💬 16:16, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Jay: Sorry, the script tagged you as the "last creator" because your edit on June 18 had the "Removed redirect" tag, e.g. changing the article from a redirect to an actual article, probably because your edit restored the RfD tag thereby making the page no longer redirect. --Pres N 16:30, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Got it! I guess Twinkle needs to be tweaked to understand that adding a RfD notice while technically is removing a redirect, it should be tagged as something else, perhaps with a new tagname. Jay 💬 16:42, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – August 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).

Administrator changes

Firefangledfeathers

Interface administrator changes

Novem Linguae

Technical news

The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (T337431)

Arbitration

The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:54, 8 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A goat for you!

Cos you are the G.O.A.T. for making the various primate lists into tables (which I'm now working to copy to the genus articles).

UtherSRG (talk) 14:42, 11 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@UtherSRG: Thanks! Happy to see them propagate, and thanks for adding the images to the lorisoids list. --Pres N 14:57, 11 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		Thank you for everything that you do as a featured list director. I'm not sure what we'd do without you but I hope that we never have to find out. Hey man im josh (talk) 16:37, 11 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Chrono Cross under Featured Article Review

I have nominated Chrono Cross for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. George Ho (talk) 09:56, 13 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion of World Video Game Hall of Fame

Congratulations, PresN! The list you nominated, World Video Game Hall of Fame, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Giants2008 (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 14 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Pygmy slow loris

ASM MDD has already moved even further to split this into two species in Xanthonycticebus. The species article was updated over a year ago, as was the former genus article. MSW3 is super out of date. We generally move forward if either the IUCN or ASM's MDD move forward, though we certainly prefer when IUCN and ASM agree. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:10, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Also, while I originally created the Primates wikiproject as a child of the mammals project, it stands alone and is independent. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:22, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Further, a quick search for Xanthonycticebus shows a variety of well respected secondary sources using it, including some that already accept the species split. The notion of waiting for both the IUCN and ASM to accept a taxonomic change is a benchmark used in absence of any other secondary sources supporting the change. - UtherSRG (talk) 15:04, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@UtherSRG: I'll revert my reversion, but to be completely honest, the real issue is that I need a hard line to follow for these species lists, because there's 5700+ mammal species and I can't manually evaluate all of them. Primates may be internally consistent on-wiki, but in other orders I've found species articles that are years out of date, that contradict their own genus/family articles, or which even contradict themselves. And never mind when ASM decides to follow a single 6-month-old research paper to split a species into 5 because nothing contradicts it yet, like they did multiple times in Lagomorpha. "What is the general consensus among scholars" isn't a useful metric when the accepted consensus recorders disagree- I'm not a subject matter expert and can't decide better then they can, so I need a straightforward rule to follow. MAMMAL's "iucn+asm" works well for that. If WP:PRIMATE has its own rule for that subdomain I can follow that instead, though I note that no such rule is listed on the wikiproject page. --Pres N 15:36, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I totally understand your perspective. Taxonomy is a slippery eel! I work hard to keep the primates in line and help out where I can with a lot of mammals and some others. Cheers! - UtherSRG (talk) 15:44, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

TFL notification for September 2023

Hi, PresN. I'm just posting to let you know that List of dasyuromorphs – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for September 4. 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) 22:34, 19 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple FLCs

Hello! I currently have one FLC up for review, and I've resolved all the comments from the reviewers. I understand that there's a rule against having multiple FLCs up for review. However, I've seen some users with multiple FLCs open and wanted to ask if there are any exceptions to this rule, like do you need to review a couple of others for each extra you nominate? I'm asking because I have another list that I'm planning to nominate soon. Thanks :) ULPS ^{(talk • contribs)} 23:03, 19 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@ULPS: Yep, the rule is "Nominators should not add a second featured list nomination until the first has gained substantial support and reviewers' concerns have been substantially addressed.", and it's up to coordinator discretion. Your list has multiple supports and no outstanding reviewer comments to resolve, and it's not your first FLC, so you're good to go ahead and add another one. There's no review requirement, though obviously it's polite (and a good idea to help your own nominations get reviews) to do so. --Pres N 00:29, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Alright great! I'll keep that in mind when its ready and I'll knock out some reviews in the meantine. Appreciate the quick response. ULPS ^{(talk • contribs)} 00:33, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

False title

Hey, thanks for reading the essay. I won't restore the changes, but I just have to ask about this in your edit summary:

"noun as adjective" isn't the same thing as "false title"

What are you talking about here? Can you give me an example? Popcornfud (talk) 15:38, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Popcornfud: Sure, you seem to be arguing that any time you use a noun as an adjective without a "the" in front of it, that you're making a "false title". So, taking as an example your version:

"Additionally, the other co-founders, the designer John Romero and the lead artist, Adrian Carmack, wanted to create something in a darker style than the Keen games."

You're saying that ", designer John Romero" is a false title, while ", the designer John Romero" is not. I have three disagreements with this kind of change: 1, "designer John Romero", where the noun "designer" is acting as an adjective describing John Romero, is perfectly grammatically correct, so the change is just your own stylistic opinion that it denotes a "title". 2, "the designer" is just as much of a "title" as "designer", only now its two words instead of one, and to my ear reads as an emphasized title rather than a descriptor. "The President Joe Biden" is a title with or without the "the", and sounds like even more of a title to me. And 3, slapping "the" in front of these words often implies a singularity that isn't true: Romero wasn't, "the designer", in either sense—Tom Hall was the lead designer for half of the game's development, so Romero wasn't "the only" designer, and Romero was also one of the programmers, meaning he wasn't just the "designer". And it's not just that sentence- "the id co-founder and lead programmer, John Carmack" - Carmack definitionally cannot be "the" co-founder as there were several, and in fact a few sentences later you had "The co-founder and lead designer, Tom Hall, proposed a new game", but Tom Hall is again not "the" co-founder, and is not even "the other" co-founder, as there were four. --Pres N 16:59, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply. This is indeed a stylistic matter so that's why I won't press the issue. I'm always interested in hearing how persuasive (or not) people find the argument I make for this one.

To respond to the issue of "implying a singularity that isn't true" — that's a completely unrelated matter, which is determined by commas:

the designer, John Romero = Romero was the only designer
the designer John Romero = Romero was one of several designers

Garner's Modern English Usage covers this (in the context of false titles) if you're interested. If you're not interested, feel free to ignore and carry on with your life! Popcornfud (talk) 17:13, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion of List of lorisoids

Congratulations, PresN! The list you nominated, List of lorisoids, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Giants2008 (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 21 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Spacewar!

Hi PresN, I want a video game for the October TFAs ... how about this one? Is this a good time to run it? - Dank (push to talk) 16:00, 22 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Dank: Sounds good to me! --Pres N 16:15, 22 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like it will be October 19. - Dank (push to talk) 03:33, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Identification of AI generated article content

I note you recently redirected the article The Tearoom on the basis that its content was unsourced and relied on AI-generated content. I agree this was a sound move as the article had numerous problems, but I was curious how you identified the content was AI-generated as opposed to the work of an enthusiastic if inexperienced contributor? ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 01:37, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Vrxces: See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games#Coin945 and AI generated articles - Cleanup - the editor in question has been around for a long time, has admitted it, and has been recently blocked for it. Asides from that, I had been going through a bunch of their articles in a row, and some of the other ones were more blatent in "AI-speak" where it uses odd, corporate turns of phrase that don't really say anything or else way overstate things, cited to a citation that says nothing of the sort. --Pres N 02:01, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wonderful, thanks for providing some background. I didn't realise it was systemic on the part of this user. Looking through them now, the biggest issues seemed to have been fairly blatant POV statements and non-existent sourcing. I plan to redo Robert Yang game articles with proper content in due course. Thanks again! ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 02:31, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

id Software in lowercase

"id Software" is not just a stylization used exclusively in their logo, lettering or something, but simply the only correct spelling of their proper name. It's also constantly written in lowercase in the article about the company, even if it's a sentence start, see id Software.

It's comparable to "iPhone", which can also only be written in lowercase, even if it's the first word in a sentence; "iPhone" is not a stylization, but the only correct use of the brand name, just like "id Software" is the correct name of the company. Maxeto0910 (talk) 16:25, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Maxeto0910: MOS:TMLOWER - iPhone and eBay get an exception because you uppercase the second letter and pronounce the first, but for id, technically all uses of it should be capitalized, even in the middle of sentences. I'm not going to bother to enforce that, or touch id Software at all, but for the start of sentences it needs to follow English grammar rules. --Pres N 16:57, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your linked guideline page states:

"[...] if the title of the article is the stylized version of the name [...], it should be [...] used throughout the text (and, in most cases, in other articles that mention it)."

So it seems like Wikipedia adopted the spelling of "id Software" by using it as the lemma of the company's article, which is why this spelling should be used throughout Wikipedia. Maxeto0910 (talk) 17:05, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).

Administrator changes

CheckUser changes

Bradv

Oversighter changes

Bradv

Guideline and policy news

Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that [s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.

Technical news

Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)

Arbitration

The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

Miscellaneous

Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:22, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List of hornbills

Currently working on list of hornbills in my sandbox, and I was thinking of including species in a slightly unconventional way. The "true" hornbills are all in Bucerotidae, and the sister ground hornbills are in Bucorvidae. I know we usually organize species lists by family, but since both of these form a monophyletic clade and are covered by the term hornbill, I would include both Bucorvidae and Bucerotidae in the same list. Thoughts? AryKun (talk) 14:21, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@AryKun: Looks like those are the only two extant families in the suborder Buceroti? Then yeah, makes sense to me to combine the two families into one list. I think as long as the grouping makes logical sense and is useful to readers then it's fine to vary from "per-family" groupings, and in this case it feels fine to add on the 2 ground hornbill species into a combined "hornbills" list. I've done suborders before in mammals (for the kangaroo+ order), and for primates I'm doing superfamilies, so whatever makes sense for the readers for that clade works. --Pres N 19:04, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2023 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

Epicgenius, with 2173 points topping the scores, gained mainly from a featured article, 38 good articles and 9 DYKs. He was followed by
Sammi Brie, with 1575 points, gained mainly from a featured article, 28 good articles and 50 good article reviews. Close behind was
Thebiguglyalien, with 1535 points mainly gained from a featured article, 15 good articles, 26 good article reviews and lots of bonus points.

Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them and within 24 hours of the end of the final. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

I will be standing down as a judge after the end of the contest. I think the Cup encourages productive editors to improve their contributions to Wikipedia and I hope that someone else will step up to take over the running of the Cup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), and Cwmhiraeth (talk)

Doom RPG

Hi! Was wondering can you help expand Doom RPG? I found a lot more sources than I though [1], [2], [3], [4] (some other aticles from IGN as well) Timur9008 (talk) 18:34, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Timur9008: Sorry, already have a few projects queued up, and it's not a subject I'm that interested in despite working on the original Doom. --Pres N 01:05, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. Thanks! Timur9008 (talk) 02:35, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@PresN: Not sure if this ref is useful for the Doom 1993 article [5](mentions sales for full version of the game for the first five months ~ 65,000 according to Wilbur)

Timur9008 (talk) 16:40, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion of List of cercopithecoids

Congratulations, PresN! The list you nominated, List of cercopithecoids, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Giants2008 (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Animal genera table

Hey, I'm reworking the hummingbird list with genera tables, and I'd appreciate if you could add an option to suppress the ecology column to Template:Animal genera table the way you did for the species table template. AryKun (talk) 13:56, 14 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@AryKun: Alright, done, let me know if you have any problems. --Pres N 15:15, 14 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Using a gif

After expanding more Mega Man X games, I wondered if I should give an extra image to the protagonist X. The problem I am having is that the article which I expanded some months ago to make it GA has several discussions about the idea of X wearing armors. I couldn't find any concept image that might stand out except this gif from Marvel vs Capcom Infinite which might be extra helpful since Capcom explained that they added X to the fighting game since he is popular to Western audiences. Still I can't save this image as a gif and wanted to know your opinion regarding it. Maybe I should get rid of the concept art image from creation and add the gif to avoid having too many nonfree images? Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 00:14, 24 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Tintor2: I don't really think that clip adds much that's not already in the article; the image in "Development and designs" basically covers the concept of "wears armor", and showing another style would be overkill. I'd rather keep the image in "Original concept". --Pres N 00:32, 24 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. By the way another question about Mega Man. I've sourced most of Mega Man X: Command Mission's gameplay and plot through the official guide that was archived by google books. Is it okay to use it like this? Maybe I should add it to a "bibliography" subsection and cut it to pages to save weight? Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 18:29, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Tintor2: Yeah, you can cite that. Making a section for the full book is also fine, with only one book source it's not too bad either way, but for e.g. Doom (1993 video game) I have a "Sources" section at the bottom for books and then just do like "Kushner, pp. 113–117" in the references to reduce the duplication. --Pres N 18:36, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I managed to cut 2 kylobites through it but there is an issue with citing the author apparently.Tintor2 (talk) 18:57, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion of Nebula Award for Best Game Writing

Congratulations, PresN! The list you nominated, Nebula Award for Best Game Writing, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Giants2008 (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:26, 25 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tunic (video game) scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 12 November 2023. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 12, 2023, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/November 2023. I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work. Gog the Mild (talk) 13:42, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).

Administrator changes

Hey man im josh

CheckUser changes

DatGuy

Oversighter changes

RickinBaltimore

Guideline and policy news

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Technical news

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Editor of the Week

	Editor of the Week
	Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:Panini! submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I would like to nominate PresN to be the editor of the week! An administrator and WP:FLC delegate, PresN has made over 70,000 edits over his 15 active years on Wikipedia. I'm not sure where FLC would be without them. He has contributed to over 120 good articles, 24 featured articles, and next to 100 featured lists, mainly about animals, science fiction, and the early years of video games. I know him from the latter. A consistent and reliable editor, who simultaneously maintains administrative and content-creations sides of Wikipedia with ease and excellence. He is active in Wikiproject video games, maintaining scripts for quick-glance stats. His well-mannered cooperation and continuously friendly reputation is on display everywhere. User:Aza24, User:Kavyansh.Singh, User:Hey man im josh and User:AryKun have all seconded this nomination.

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:

{{User:UBX/EoTWBox}}

Thanks again for your efforts! ―Buster7 ☎ 05:00, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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