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Hi, PresN. I'm just posting to let you know that List of heteromyids – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for January 16. 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) 22:24, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

I just wanted to say thank you for promoting this article yesterday. I know the response to it wasn't exactly robust. I don't know what else I can do to attract other interest in my articles. I try to review lots of submissions, plus do source reviews which I know some people don't like to do, but I'm not sure what else to do. Is participation low at FLC all around? Bgsu98 (Talk) 16:45, 6 January 2026 (UTC)

@Bgsu98: It is low all around right now, especially prose reviews; that said, I'm more trusting of short reviews of lists that are part of a long-running series, and your figure skating lists have been mostly sailing through. --PresN 16:52, 6 January 2026 (UTC)

I appreciate that! Bgsu98 (Talk) 17:51, 6 January 2026 (UTC)

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Hi PresN, I was told by another editor that you might be able to advise on alt text for images. I've recently nominated Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester as an FLC, and there are over 200 images in the article. The specific comment is saved in its FLC archive under 'Style: Accessibility Criterion 5(c)'. It would be great to hear your thoughts on the matter. Many thanks in advance. Mmberney (talk) 18:29, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

@Mmberney: Replied there. --PresN 19:23, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

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I don't know if you are interested but I plan to nominate Protagonist of Nier. It was recently expanded with more out of universe information but was moved in the talk page since the two versions of the character only appear to be named in some old cd drama that the remaster added as extra ending. Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 00:10, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

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I was considering creating an article for Caim from the first Drakengard since there was a lot of big articles focused on the game's narrative primarily while using tools. Still, I'm not confident about it being able to pass newer notability guidelines so far. The sandbox is here. I tried using Google scholars and I found a book that heavily focuses on nearly all of Yoko Taro's works but I wonder if you are also interested. Feel free to edit the sandbox. Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 00:11, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

After I realized the sandbox's reception was becoming quite good in term of sources and size that do not involve reviews but instead heavy commentary on the story I created Caim (Drakengard). Tadah? I often make mistakes or lack knowledge so feel free to edit it.Tintor2 (talk) 13:09, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

Greetings. I was wondering how articles are flagged to appear in the new article announcements. I feel like, in the past, ones I've started and then added the WikiProject banner to were automatically flagged. I began one for Street Combat recently and it didn't seem to appear. TIA Haitch2PointOh (talk) 15:22, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

@Haitch2PointOh: I think that one got missed due to a bug that was fixed the following week, due to the article being created and then moved the same day. Adding the banner should be enough for it to be picked up on the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Video game articles by quality log (which it was), and then my script uses that page as a base to generate the report. Sorry for missing this article; let me know if it misses an article of yours again and I'll track down what's happening. --PresN 15:33, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. Not a big deal at all. Haitch2PointOh (talk) 15:38, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi, thought I'd let you know this image of the Checkers game on Ferranti Mark I seems to be incorrect (see link attached)

Not familiar at all with how Wikimedia Commons works, so apologies for not just fixing it myself. Pladica (talk) 19:10, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

@Pladica: Hmm, yeah, I could see how the photos were presented "upside down" compared to Strachey's paper, and the cleaned-up image from TCW does seem to be flipped left-right from the original. I'm unclear on why Æ said it was a "modern reproduction"; before he created the article the content was at Early history of video games, which had the image captioned Christopher Strachey's 1952 draughts program on a Ferranti Mark 1, and the original source says the same thing. It looks like it's clearly just a cleaned up photo in photoshop or something, not a photo of a modern screen. In any case, I've uploaded a new version with the board mirrored and spun, and fixed the caption. --PresN 19:43, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

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Will you be promoting any FL's tonight? Bgsu98 (Talk) 00:16, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

It looks like you did! I am sorry to have bothered you with this message, but what had started out as a decent day ended up being a terrible day, and I thought having one of my skating articles promoted might cheer me up. Mission accomplished. 😉 Bgsu98 (Talk) 02:03, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

@Bgsu98: No worries, I got lost in writing an article all weekend and so never got around to a promotion round. So off with the Swiss, and I'll likely be promoting the Soviet one next time I do a pass through. Always happy to see and promote them! --PresN 02:05, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

I just can’t decide which national article to submit next. What do you think? These are all set to go: France, Austria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Russia (I think I’ll hold off until the USSR is done), the Netherlands, and Slovenia. Bgsu98 (Talk) 02:08, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

@Bgsu98: Hah, your backlog of nominations is almost as high as mine's gotten! I vote Netherlands. --PresN 02:20, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

@PresN: I'm sorry to be so wishy-washy, but would you be able to undo the closure of the French nomination? Bgsu98 (Talk) 14:57, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

@Bgsu98: Yep, easy enough, done. --PresN 15:01, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! Bgsu98 (Talk) 16:08, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

Congratulations, PresN! The list you nominated, List of dipodids, 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, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:08, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

You congratulated yourself! 😉 Bgsu98 (Talk) 00:40, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Haha, the bot does it automatically. --PresN 01:12, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi. I understand that Archive.today is now blacklisted, but I made a bad decision because I made some changes and decided to remove most of it. Can you please restore this version here and also this article to here so that we can apply here to change into archive.org, please? I literally spent more than an hour on this!! 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) 03:15, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

@Boneless Pizza!: Done. --PresN 03:45, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi. can you do for this article aswell ? tysm 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) 03:47, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

@Boneless Pizza!: you just linked the Chris Redfield article again; are you good or do you need a different one? --PresN 12:39, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

It should be all. Thanks for the hand! 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) 12:57, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

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I nominated Protagonist of Nier. I gave it some touches like cutting some big sections like creations and reception into smaller ones and added some touches for the appearances section. In the Discord group focused on fictional characters, I was recommended to use third party sources for the in-universe sections to make the article for more accessible for users who have no access to the game. Feel free to add anything. If the review has problems, could you be a conominator? I trust you since in the beginning you were the one who made the game GA. I have just finished playing Replicant so I wanted the protagonist to be GA. There is also the suggested source Moore, K. (December 2024). "Eternal sunshine and the "Gestaltized" mind: the broken promise of the posthuman in NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139". Journal of Games Criticism. 6 (A). but I really have no idea what to add. Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 19:38, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

@Tintor2: I'll keep an eye on it, but I'm sure it will be fine. --PresN 21:22, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

The thing is that the source I've just left in this talk page might help to improve the coverage when it comes to analysis of the character in the remaster but I don't know what part would be the best to improve it. I guess something about the protagonist's section to Kaine? Tintor2 (talk) 22:15, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

I went ahead and expanded the analysis based on articles that studied the more explicit content from Replicant that weren't in the original 360 game just like how the protagonist's relationship with LGBTQ characters and the impact of ending E. Feel free to revisit it. Also, talking about that, I did find some third party sources talking about Emil's homosexuality so I guess he has potential to have his own article. Tintor2 (talk) 13:37, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

the article is being reviewed with some doubts about the prose I can't give it a look due to work. Could revise the review? Tintor2 (talk) 10:20, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the copyedit. Now both Nier's protagonist and Kaine are GA! I will see if I can create one for Emil to complete the trio since there is commentary about gender themes. Tintor2 (talk) 18:17, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

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Created Emil (Nier) after finding some strong third party sources that focus on his character including a scholar. Still, the appearances and creation sections might be lacking information. Also, I'm entirely sure why but Emil's homosexuality was not present in the 2010 game so this might a key important part for the creation if you find something about the localization. Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 21:31, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

A fellow user copyedited Emil. Now it's in better shape but I couldn't find more creation section about him or what he does in Automata to give the other sections a bigger size. At least now the three Nier mains are completed. I considered doing A2 but I couldn't find anything about her. Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 19:55, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

@Tintor2: Good job! --PresN 00:06, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi, I'm having trouble figuring out how to cite certain chapters from this 60-page booklet I'm using as a reference in the Tremors (1990 film) article. At the moment I'm using Template:Cite AV media notes with a Harvard citation to cite each chapter, but something tells me that it's not intuitive to do so as I do here Tremors (1990 film)#Media cited (notice how I use the same booklet five times?). So, how do I go about making this work without using the template that much? Nineteen Ninety-Four guy (talk) 08:26, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

@Nineteen Ninety-Four guy: Hmm. Well, according to how Harvard referencing works, that's correct - you could add James Flowers as the editor (the end of the booklet credits him with the disc/booklet), but each chapter gets its own citation as they have different authors. If you break away from using pure harvard style (and therefore the sfn template), you could put it in once and then manually create the inline refs, like <ref>[[#CITEREFFlower2020|Melville, Jonathan in Flower 2020]], pp. 7–12.</ref>, but that's about it. --PresN 11:44, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Ah, so kind of like the APA style. Gotcha. Thanks, Nineteen Ninety-Four guy (talk) 13:07, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Ah, I see you posted in Help talk:Citation Style 1, I didn't know about the {{harvc}} template, which is a way to condense the citation side of it (though still multiple sub-citations). --PresN 13:13, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

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@Aranae: You're welcome! Glad to hear they're appreciated. I'm moving through List of mammals (recently overhauled) as most families don't have a map, so there will be more to come! --PresN 01:07, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

I've seen all the distribution maps you've been creating and adding. It should not be a thankless task. Thank you! SchreiberBike | ⌨  14:30, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

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Hi, thanks very much for creating the Bear range map. However, the use of the same colour for the maritime range (of the polar bear, presumably) does look unusual, especially on a Mercator-style projection with a huge area representing the North pole; and given the shrinkage of the Arctic ice with global warming, the implication that bears can be found anywhere in the region is starting to look a bit doubtful, too. Perhaps at least give the maritime range a different (blue?) colour, and add a key indicating that the range is maritime and an upper limit? In addition, an equal-area type projection with a curve around the North would look better. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 03:53, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

@Chiswick Chap: I certainly agree about the projection; unfortunately, the family maps I'm making (I'm going down List of mammals) are based on the IUCN shapes data, which uses Mercator instead of something more sensible, and does have that giant, blocky polar bear range instead of the more likely patchy subset. I was hesitant to make the non-land areas a different color, as polar bears aren't aquatic, but I see you've done so which is fine. --PresN 11:39, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

OK, well I just kludged it. Ideally the maps would be SVG to make colouring and labelling in any language easy... but thanks anyway. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:42, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

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After doing some reasearch of third party sources, I created Buster Sword. Besides some strong sources, there are scholars and books discussing the weapon and the lore behind it. If possible, could you give it a look? Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 22:45, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

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Hi, PresN. I'm just posting to let you know that List of lorisoids – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for May 29. 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) 00:28, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

I saw where you just promoted a few lists... Any chance you'd be willing to promote my Austria list? Bgsu98 (Talk) 13:33, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

Needs another support first. --PresN 13:54, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

Okay, I must have miscounted. Thank you! Bgsu98 (Talk) 15:10, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

You were right… What I thought were two reviews were actually one double-review from Vestrian. Bgsu98 (Talk) 23:24, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

Hi @PresN, just wanted to thank you for the thorough GA review. I really appreciated the detailed suggestions, and especially that you put the nomination on hold to give me time to address the issues before passing it. The article is much stronger because of your review. Thanks again, Cheers! Umais🗣 21:56, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

@Umais Bin Sajjad: You're welcome, and thanks for putting so much work in to the article, both before and during the review! --PresN 00:27, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

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Your good article nomination of the article King's Quest II is under review. See the review page for more information. This may take up to 7 days; feel free to contact the reviewer with any questions you might have. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of IceWelder -- IceWelder (talk) 14:44, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

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Hello there,

User:AndrewT0410 keeps placing column headers for List of Los Angeles Rams seasons separating the Los Angeles Rams season into the Clevelenad, Los Angeles, and St Louis seasons. I have to remove them because per MOS:COLHEAD they create problems with screen readers. I do not want to get into an edit war, but I don't want this list be demoted. I have spent time updating it to current featured list standards. Birdienest81talk 07:50, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

Yeah, AndrewT0410, please don't do that. They 'look like' headers to sighted readers, but they don't act like one in the table code, so screen reader software (used by blind or poorly-sighted readers) cannot parse it in the way you intend. If you think it's important enough to notate, then it needs to be either separate tables per team city, or a column that says what city name they were playing under for each row. Y'all can debate which one (or neither, as it is now) is better, but the mid-table header method isn't acceptable. --PresN 12:49, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

After trimming some parts from Caim's role in Drakengard 1, I asked the Guild of Copyeditors to revise it and then see if we could nominate it for GA. The only problem I have is that I never got access to Drakengard 2 so maybe the section is lacking something to explore about him even if it's not part of Yoko Taro's canon. Could you possibly revisit Caim (Drakengard) one of these days? Cheers.Tintor2 (talk) 20:03, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

Never played any of the Drakengard games, sorry. Maybe watch a longplay on youtube? --PresN 02:07, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Emil became GA. That means all Nier protagonists are Ga. I plan to nominate Caim after its copyedit. In regards to Autómata, making an article for A2 seems hard due to that name making searching hard Tintor2 (talk) 18:25, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Caim was copyedited so I nominated it. I tried using more third party sources for appearances rather than quotes as it appears it is recommended to try more accessible sources for appearance especially with that template that says articles shouldn't solely rely on first party sources. Tintor2 (talk) 01:36, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

The third round of the 2026 WikiCup ended on 28 June at 23:59 (UTC). As a reminder, good article nomination reviews now receive 10 points, while peer reviews, which continue to be worth 5 points, are now listed in the same section as featured article candidate reviews, rather than with good article reviews. Everyone who competed in round 3 will advance to round 4 unless they have withdrawn or been banned. No other changes to the round-point system have been made for this year.

Round 3 was competitive. Three contestants scored more than 1,000 round points; eight scored over 500; and thirteen scored over 300. The top three contestants had at least one featured article (two of them with two apiece). The following competitors scored more than 800 round points:

• MCE89 (submissions) with 1567 points, mainly from good and featured articles about Australian people and geography, as well as some article reviews
• Bgsu98 (submissions) with 1547 points, mainly from good articles, featured articles, featured lists, and a good topic about figure skating, along with 20 article reviews
• Reconrabbit (submissions) with 1004 points, mainly from a high-multiplier featured article on European rabbit and several good articles, DYKs, and reviews
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• Generalissima (submissions) with 859 points, mainly from good and featured articles about rivers and East Asian topics

The full scores for round 3 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 12 featured articles, 12 featured lists, 7 featured-topic articles, 117 good articles, 74 good-topic articles and more than 30 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 13 In the News articles, and they have conducted nearly 180 reviews. The tournament points table has been updated.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed in Round 4. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. 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. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:49, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

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I have nominated Mana (series) for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria, or help improve the article. 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 regard to the article's featured status (see review instructions). 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) 02:10, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

Hey there... Would you be okay with me bringing Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics/archive1 over to FLC? The folks at FAC have decided after three full reviews that this article would be better suited at FLC instead, and quite honestly, it probably would be. I have two pending articles at FLC right now, but the Czechoslovak article is nearing completion, so this overlap of a third article wouldn't be for very long. Thank you so much! Bgsu98 (Talk) 18:37, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

@Bgsu98: While I think I agree that the table to prose ratio leans more list than article for that, I'd rather you wait until one of the existing nominations is closed rather than open a third, sorry. --PresN 03:40, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

Go ahead and close the Dutch article then. Bgsu98 (Talk) 03:54, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

Or you could promote the Czechoslovak article. Either works. 😉 Bgsu98 (Talk) 15:33, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

Yeah, it's early for promotion but it would most likely have just sat there doing nothing for a week, so I just let it go. --PresN 15:35, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

I appreciate it either way! Bgsu98 (Talk) 15:42, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi PresN, I'd appreciate your advice; KJP1 suggested I get in touch. I previously created Listed pubs in Manchester (which you kindly promoted), and since then I've been creating individual articles for the listed pubs across Greater Manchester's other nine boroughs, which now totals 134 entries (including Manchester's). I'm unsure whether creating a Greater Manchester‑wide "listed pubs" list would be appropriate for FLC, or whether it would clash with or duplicate the existing Listed pubs in Manchester page. Are there any guidelines on sub‑regional lists that might affect this? And if a GM‑wide list isn't ideal, would a City of Salford list (14 pubs) be a more sensible alternative, covering the other city within the region? For additional context, each borough's Buildings & Structures template now includes its listed and notable pubs, so readers can find them geographically without difficulty. Kind regards. Mmberney (talk) 15:38, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

Just by way of context, I now recall that User:Reywas92 did flag the possibility of a Greater Manchester list at the FLC for Manchester pubs. I was clearly wrong in saying it would be too unwieldy - 134 is doable. They may also have a useful perspective. The US must hit similar issues in how to sub-divide, geographically or by function, buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. KJP1 (talk) 15:52, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

@Mmberney: It sounds like if you made a Greater Manchester list in a similar manner to the Manchester one, that the existing Manchester list would end up being a WP:CFORK, since it would have identical content to the 35 rows in the Greater list. Different content areas handle this problem differently, such as by having the overall list for a county have less detail on each item, and then the borough lists go into further detail, or by having the county list go into the full level of detail for the non-city pubs and then having the Manchester/Salford (maybe) lists stubbed out as sublists. That said, at 134 items, it's large but not so unreasonably massive that you couldn't just expand/replace the existing Manchester list with one on the entire county and then just have the one list. Are you planning on continuing on beyond that to other counties? If so, it may be worth thinking about what pattern works best for multiple counties. --PresN 16:59, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for your insights - there's definitely some food for thought. I hadn't really considered continuing into other counties; with England's multiple county definitions (48 ceremonial counties or 84 metropolitan and non‑metropolitan counties), it's quite a sprawling landscape, and my brain hurts a little just thinking about how large a project that could become. Greater London alone would likely have several hundred listed pubs. I'm not saying it couldn't be done, but it would take an awfully long time to complete.

Part of the reason I started with Greater Manchester is simply that I live here, so it felt like a manageable and familiar place to begin. If the Manchester list were expanded to cover the rest of the city‑region, how would that affect its FL status? Would it be best to copy the existing text into draftspace to form part of the single Greater Manchester list, and then seek peer reviews before nominating - and before the Manchester list is subsequently deleted? If that makes sense. Mmberney (talk) 17:33, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

@Mmberney: It's always case-by-case when things like this happen; I think that I would be fine if you write it up in draftspace, and I'll look through it, and assuming it's all fine you could just copy it in to the existing Manchester list and then move the list to "Listed pubs in Greater Manchester", retaining the star. It would be a fairly large expansion of the existing list, but historical practice has been to not require a new review just because a list has changed over time (generally meaning dynamic lists that grow every year, but sometimes things like this). --PresN 18:00, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

@PresN: Hi again. Here's the Draft:Listed pubs in Greater Manchester article, which is hopefully in a finished-enough state for review. As an aside, I've just taken delivery of Hartwell, Hyde, and Pevsner's Buildings of England volume Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (pinging @KJP1: you'll be pleased to learn!) so over the coming days I'll add the occasional quotation for the buildings it covers. I'd welcome any initial thoughts on the article in the meantime. Many thanks. Mmberney (talk) 08:19, 16 July 2026 (UTC)

@Mmberney: Looks good to me! Feel free to expand/move the Manchester list whenever you want. --PresN 14:07, 16 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi, PresN. I'm just posting to let you know that Nebula Award for Best Novel – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for August 3. 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) 00:21, 12 July 2026 (UTC)

Guessing you're aware of this already, but it does appear to be the culprit; when the Set Index Article template is on the article itself, having class=SIA does nothing. But removing it and having the banner template have class=SIA makes them properly flagged as SIAs.

Maybe a true/false check got inverted somewhere? Kung Fu Man (talk) 00:20, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

@Kung Fu Man: I had made a comment at Template talk:WikiProject banner shell#Article/page mess continues when I first saw it, but I never figured out what was the solution (or what in the code was causing it; it was part of a much larger code change by the template maintainer). --PresN 12:15, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

Yeah looking over Template: Set index article's coding I think everything is on the Wikiproject Banner end, so something must have gotten flipped or switched around. Gotta love old code that's been built on for several decades.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 12:44, 13 July 2026 (UTC)