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Thanks for your contributions to Pula (motto). Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing as a live article at this time because it has no sources. I have converted it to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 05:50, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

Your good article nomination of the article Flag of Botswana 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 HaphazardBinBag -- HaphazardBinBag (talk) 11:23, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

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Heya, could you be a bit more specific? What pages should be updated, exactly? I'm interested in making Wikipedia icons and templates more consistent. FaviFake (talk) 16:12, 8 August 2026 (UTC)

@FaviFake: The colors of the FAC/FLC and FFAC/FFLC icons have different colors than the FA/FL star (a bit lighter). I recently got the FFL star changed to the FFA star (the previous FFL star was different color, and the X was literally two lines drawn on top of each other, but they weren't perpendicular or the same in length) — splains (💬/📝) 01:52, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

Again, you described the problem, but not your proposed solution. I don't know what to do with this information... what pages or files do you want to change? Where exactly do the old icons appear and how do you want them to be updated or changed? Thanks in advance! FaviFake (talk) 09:04, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

FaviFake: Template:Icon, WP:FAC, WP:FLC, Template:FAC, Template:FLC and Template:Article history. If you compare those stars (FFAC, FAC) with the regular FA star, you'll notice the colors are different. The version I attached in the village pump thread has the same colors as the regular FA star. — splains (💬/📝) 14:00, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

So do you want those pages and templates' source codes to be updated with the new file names, or do you want the old files on WP:COMMONS to be overwritten with your new version? I can do both, and only the former involves updating pages on enwiki.

Also, when you refer to a FFAC do you mean WP:FFA? I couldn't understand what a FFAC is.

What are the names of the old files? FaviFake (talk) 14:09, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

Articles with the FFAC icon include Talk:United States, Talk:Juventus FC, Talk:Lionel Messi, and Talk:History of Scotland. splains (💬/📝) 14:59, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

You have not responded to any of my three questions. Would you like me to clarify them? FaviFake (talk) 15:01, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

New file names pls. The old ones should be kept for archive. An FFAC is the icon for a former featured article candidate. Talk:United States does not feature it. My bad. splains (💬/📝) 15:03, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! That's two out of three though. What are the names of the old files that need to be replaced with the new files? FaviFake (talk) 15:06, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

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Hi Splains,

There is an ongoing Request for Comment (RfC) at Wikipedia:Good article nominations/August 2026 RfC, which you may be interested in because in the past year, you have nominated or reviewed more than one good article nomination. This message has also been sent to all subscribers to the Good Article Gazette. The RfC contains many proposals (33 at the time of writing), which are split into the following categories: nominators, reviewers, reviews, volunteer roles, reviewing initiatives, and others. However, you are more than welcome to add any proposals of your own that you wish to put to the community.

By the end of September, all the proposals will have been closed by an uninvolved editor, either as a consensus for one of the options or with no consensus. At this point, editors will be invited again to develop these proposals into coherent policy and implement them.

Thank you for your contributions to the good articles project, and I look forward to your input! (in solidarity), JacobTheRox^{(talk|contributions)} 16:03, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

Your good article nomination of the article Flag of Botswana has passed; congratulations! See the review page for more information. 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. Please also consider reviewing somebody else's nomination to help keep the backlog down. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of HaphazardBinBag -- HaphazardBinBag (talk) 17:43, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

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The 2026 Developing Countries WikiContest has now been running for two months! We have seen tremendous improvements in the encyclopedic coverage of several underrepresented areas thanks to contributions from a wide range of editors. The coordinators would like to highlight some of the new participants this year who have been making notable contributions to the contest, including but by no means limited to:

• Kisseran (submissions) – 462 points, with a featured article (Ancient Cappadocian language) and various reviews primarily on Chinese topics
• Dragonhawk12 (submissions) – 280 points, who's well on their way to breaking the DCWC record for good article reviews and peer reviews
• Jishara (submissions) – 268 points, with a couple of good articles and a diverse selection of reviews as well
• Rainsage (submissions) – 113 points, with two good articles, notably the Jenin Horse
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• The Good Article Nominations backlog drive has begun and is scheduled to end on November 3.

Template:Expand index has been listed for discussion, which may result in the template being merged or deleted by consensus. You are invited to comment on the proposed action at the nomination on the Templates for discussion page. Bearcat (talk) 14:19, 10 October 2026 (UTC)

On 11 October 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Edwin Masuge, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Edwin Masuge temporarily stepped away from athletics to focus on his schooling after placing seventh in the 400 metres T13 final at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Edwin Masuge. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (Edwin Masuge), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

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