User talk:Wolverine XI

Your GA nomination of Giant panda

The article Giant panda you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Giant panda for comments about the article, and Talk:Giant panda/GA2 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Thebiguglyalien -- Thebiguglyalien (talk) 02:24, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

story · music · places

Congratulations and welcome to WP:QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:01, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Magdalena Hinterdobler is on the Main page today, together with an opera that reviewers deemed not interesting and too obscure for our general readers. The soprano thought differently, - listen and see. - Also on the Main page: a TFA by sadly missed Vami_IV who was a project member. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:42, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

did you listen and see? - today's story has a pic of a woman holding her cat, a DYK of 5 years ago - the recent pics show 2 orange tip butterflies --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:30, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: I saw the photo, and it's wonderful. I wasn't alive in 1957, but I have to say, what a picture, and what quality for the time. As for the song, I don't know what you're talking about. Wolverine XI ^{(talk to me)} 15:54, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

I also like the image! None of the people I wrote about was born on 14 May, so I looked for a different connection to the day. - song? I gave you (and others) a yt link because I had nominated the two singers you can watch singing and talking for DYK, with mixed results, to keep it short. I don't understand how the rarely performed opera they deal with could be deemed "not interesting" - seeing how enthusiastic they are about it, - and if you have more time watch the conductor as well. Yes, it's in German, but they all talk in a very expressive manner. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:03, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for improving articles in May! - Today's story mentions a concert I loved to hear and a piece I loved to sing in choir, 150 years old OTD. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:54, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Asian elephant

The article Asian elephant 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:Asian elephant and Talk:Asian elephant/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Magentic Manifestations -- Magentic Manifestations (talk) 08:42, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Asian elephant

The article Asian elephant you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Asian elephant for comments about the article, and Talk:Asian elephant/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Magentic Manifestations -- Magentic Manifestations (talk) 08:41, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Komodo dragon

Just crious, are you also planning to improve that article? 2001:4455:36D:9100:DD4A:4AC9:AACC:5382 (talk) 12:51, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Ummm :-/, maybe later on this month I'll drop Komodo dragon at GAN. After I feature narwhal and chimpanzee I'll work to push this article to FA status. If my calculations are correct, Komodo dragon should be featured on March 21, 2025. Wolverine XI ^{(talk to me)} 13:32, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Snake lead

Hello. I don't understand why you (rightfully) think one image of a shark can represent the whole group but not a snake. Snakes are much less diverse in form; basically scaly, elongated and legless. LittleJerry (talk) 15:03, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

@LittleJerry: You see, the issue with your perspective is that you only emphasize on the limblessness and body plan of snakes. You don't consider body color, thickness and scale texture. I believe the picture you used is a pit viper, however this serpent cannot speak for all snakes. To begin with, its scales are rougher than those of say, a Burmese python and it's much, much thinner. You may be right to say that all snakes have the "same" body plan, but so do lizards and many animal groups. Using a pit viper also has an additional drawback because, as you are well aware, not all snakes are green. Wolverine XI ^{(talk to me)} 16:39, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

PS, I'll create a collage with four snake species: a king cobra, Burmese python, that green pit viper and a Brahminy blind snake. Wolverine XI ^{(talk to me)} 16:51, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Differences in color, thickness and scale texture are relatively superficial and not important for the lead image. That doesn't matter to the average person. Being legless and elongated is a very simple body plan and the most recognizable feature of snakes. By contrast a group like Carnivora could not possibly be represented by one image. LittleJerry (talk) 17:04, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

@LittleJerry: I created a collage File:Snake collage (1).jpg, but I think it can be better, maybe like this one with 8 species. Your thoughts? Wolverine XI ^{(talk to me)} 19:51, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Don't like the cropping. I think we should display the images like for rodent. LittleJerry (talk) 21:50, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Drive-by nomination

Please don’t make drive-by nominations, as you did at World War I. Your main significant contributions were archiving sources and adding them. Don’t think you actually added significant amounts of prose, just wikitext. 48JCL TALK 22:06, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

48JCL What is your problem? Who do you think you are telling me what to do. I'm not violating any guidelines. Wolverine XI ^{(talk to me)} 22:12, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Yes you are. 48JCL TALK 22:20, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Don't make the rookie mistake of not reading the pages you're linking. It also states that if the editor is ranked 6th or below, it is considered a drive-by nomination. Wolverine XI ^{(talk to me)} 22:26, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

6th or 10%, actually. 48JCL TALK 22:29, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Either way, you really haven’t done much with the prose. 48JCL TALK 22:34, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

GA instructions doesn't require that. As long as I've improved the article's sourcing, then that's fine. Please avoid areas you have little experience in. It will help save editor time. 22:38, 12 June 2024 (UTC) Wolverine XI ^{(talk to me)}

It's painful to see a user giving advice to another user when they also did something wrong, like reviewing Talk:Slowpoke (Pokémon)/GA1 poorly and promising someone something that didn't happen.  🍕Boneless Pizza!🍕 (🔔) 01:30, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Is this a WP:PA? Sorry, I can’t tell, still learning. 48JCL • (^📲/_📝) 01:33, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

@48JCL: No, it's not. I was wrong in this case, but the fact that you were the one to tell me this with the mistakes you've done in the past, is kinda ironic. I'm still learning too; I've only been here for 19 months. Wikipedia is a learning experience. Wolverine XI ^{(talk to me)} 09:17, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from Capulina82 on Beto Quintanilla (21:30, 14 June 2024)

Hi i want to add relatives to this biografi --Capulina82 (talk) 21:30, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Fin whale

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Fin whale 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 Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:22, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Fin whale

The article Fin whale you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Fin whale for comments about the article, and Talk:Fin whale/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:04, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from Faketuxedo (20:16, 19 June 2024)

Hi! I'm writing an article about YouTuber Joel Haver. I have a question about using potentially unreliable sources as secondary sources for opinions, and what constitutes an unreliable source. Joel is best known for specific things like rotoscoping and his feature film output by his audience and is a large and well known content creator. This is well known among his community, however media reporting on this, while not nonexistent, is uncommon and often is from smaller, virtually unknown sources. Does their size automatically indicate that they are unreliable? Is it okay to use dubious sources if i use many to demonstrate a public consensus on an opinion? To me it seems appropriate given that I am not presenting fringe opinions and there is a good sense of consensus on media reporting as to what he is best known for and basic facts about Joel. The draft in question: https://en.chped.com/wiki/Draft:Joel_Haver --Faketuxedo (talk) 20:16, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Megafauna

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GA nomination of Charles De Geer

Hi, I am concerned that you closed the GA review of Charles De Geer very quickly and without a really thorough review. You voiced some very overarching concerns concerning what you saw as a lack of focus in the article. I replied to that as well as I could, asking for more clarity on your side and detailing my reasoning in the few cases of concrete concerns you put forward. By simply noting more "more work is needed" and closing the nomination the discussion was however cut short. I have never experienced this before. As a reviewer, I would expect you to provide some serious guidance and make a bit more of a commitment in helping me as nominator improve the article. I am willing to work on the article in an as constructive way as I can (with the caveat that, as I wrote, these coming days and weeks I am on vacation and only intermittently at my computer). I hope that you may reconsider your choice and re-open the nomination to work, as reviewer, constructively with me to improve the article. Kind regards, Yakikaki (talk) 18:24, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure about that. Wolverine XI ^{(talk to me)} 09:00, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

Wolverine XI, I came here to ask about some of the reviews as well. I'm looking at the twelve open reviews you have. Some of them have been waiting on you for a while; nominators will often consider it rude to take a review and then leave it untouched for weeks, and some of them are getting there. There are a few where you say you're going to complete it "today" but then don't. More importantly, the reviews you have done seem to be very shallow. There's some discretion over how closely you go over the article, but I don't see any indication that you checked the content of the sources, which would mean you didn't actually verify whether the article meets the requirements on original research or copyright violations (arguably the most important criteria in the GA process). Regarding this specific review of Charles De Geer, it's on the heavier end of early life focus for a biography, but there's a good case for keeping it, certainly not such a violation that it's worth an automatic failure. Even if some does need to be trimmed, it's not a structural issue that would require significant work to fix. There's a learning curve and it's okay to not have perfect reviews right away—my early ones had some of the same issues—but it's not ideal when you're trying to do a dozen of them at the same time before learning best practices. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 18:48, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Well, I took on all those reviews because I have the rest of the month to myself, but you know, there's a certain someone who keeps taking up all of my time. I regret not being able to complete the reviews on time. Regarding the source review, I usually just examine one or two citations from the article, and even then, I consistently fail to mention this in my reviews. Since my career is still in its early stages, I'll work to get better. Wolverine XI ^{(talk to me)} 09:09, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

OK, then I'll take the issue to the discussion page over at the GA project. Yakikaki (talk) 09:29, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

June thanks

story · music · places

Thank you for improving article quality in June! - Today we have a centenarian story (documentation about it by Percy Adlon) and an article that had two sentences yesterday and was up for deletion, and needs a few more citations. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:22, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Megafauna

The article Megafauna you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Megafauna for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of The Morrison Man -- The Morrison Man (talk) 23:23, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

GA reviews

Looks like you don't have time or inclination to finish these reviews you started on June 15 (almost 2 weeks ago), so I'm letting you know I'll be G6ing the three open but uncommented reviews according to the advice given in WP:GAN/I#N4a. Esculenta (talk) 16:36, 28 June 2024 (UTC)