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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Line of Duty series 4 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 Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie (talk) 07:03, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

The article Line of Duty series 4 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:Line of Duty series 4 and Talk:Line of Duty series 4/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie (talk) 07:24, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Line of Duty 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 Simongraham -- Simongraham (talk) 21:21, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

The article Line of Duty 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:Line of Duty and Talk:Line of Duty/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Simongraham -- Simongraham (talk) 22:22, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

The article Line of Duty series 4 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Line of Duty series 4 for comments about the article, and Talk:Line of Duty series 4/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 Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie (talk) 05:21, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

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The article Line of Duty you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Line of Duty for comments about the article, and Talk:Line of Duty/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 Simongraham -- Simongraham (talk) 15:42, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Space Babies 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 Mr Sitcom -- Mr Sitcom (talk) 23:41, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

The article Space Babies you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Space Babies for comments about the article, and Talk:Space Babies/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 Mr Sitcom -- Mr Sitcom (talk) 05:46, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

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• Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: CaptainEek, Daniel, Elli, KrakatoaKatie, Liz, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, Theleekycauldron, Worm That Turned.

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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Legend of the Sea Devils 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 Prince of Erebor -- Prince of Erebor (talk) 14:45, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article The Legend of Ruby Sunday 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 Vanamonde93 -- Vanamonde93 (talk) 01:41, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

The article Legend of the Sea Devils you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Legend of the Sea Devils for comments about the article, and Talk:Legend of the Sea Devils/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 Prince of Erebor -- Prince of Erebor (talk) 09:45, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

On 10 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Doctor Who specials (2022), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the producers of Doctor Who only wrote a queer romance into the programme's 2022 special episodes after viewers began shipping two characters? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Doctor Who specials (2022). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Doctor Who specials (2022)), 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 suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 12:03, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article The Power of the Doctor 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 Sims2aholic8 -- Sims2aholic8 (talk) 09:24, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

The article The Power of the Doctor 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:The Power of the Doctor and Talk:The Power of the Doctor/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Sims2aholic8 -- Sims2aholic8 (talk) 11:02, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

On 19 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Doctor Who series 14, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Susan Twist portrayed seven different roles in the eight episodes of Doctor Who's fourteenth series? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Doctor Who series 14. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Doctor Who series 14), 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 suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:03, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

The article The Power of the Doctor you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:The Power of the Doctor for comments about the article, and Talk:The Power of the Doctor/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 Sims2aholic8 -- Sims2aholic8 (talk) 16:04, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

The article The Legend of Ruby Sunday you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:The Legend of Ruby Sunday for comments about the article, and Talk:The Legend of Ruby Sunday/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 Vanamonde93 -- Vanamonde93 (talk) 18:01, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

On 21 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Joy to the World (Doctor Who), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Disney+ released a promotional poster for the Doctor Who Christmas special "Joy to the World" with the title spelled incorrectly? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Joy to the World (Doctor Who). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Joy to the World (Doctor Who)), 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 suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:03, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 8,044 views (670.3 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of January 2025 – nice work!

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On 24 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Line of Duty, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that BBC One initially passed on Line of Duty, whose finale would become its highest-rated drama in 19 years? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Line of Duty. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Line of Duty), 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 suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

SL93 (talk) 12:03, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

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• The arbitration case Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.

On 9 February 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Abbott Elementary and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia crossover, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the unlicensed Willy's Chocolate Experience in Scotland led to a crossover event between the American television series Abbott Elementary and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Abbott Elementary and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia crossover. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Abbott Elementary and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia crossover), 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 suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article People Watching (Conan Gray song) 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 Kyle Peake -- Kyle Peake (talk) 09:24, 14 February 2025 (UTC)

The article People Watching (Conan Gray song) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article needs changes or clarifications to meet the good article criteria. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:People Watching (Conan Gray song) and Talk:People Watching (Conan Gray song)/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Kyle Peake -- Kyle Peake (talk) 11:42, 14 February 2025 (UTC)

The article People Watching (Conan Gray song) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:People Watching (Conan Gray song) for comments about the article, and Talk:People Watching (Conan Gray song)/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 Kyle Peake -- Kyle Peake (talk) 08:25, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

Hey there, I saw that you were a frequent reviewer at Featured Lists. I have two lists that are pending and seem to be going nowhere. I thought Ukrainian Figure Skating Championships was about wrapped up, but it seems to be stuck in limbo. And I nominated European Figure Skating Championships a little while ago and have received only one set of feedback. Perhaps if you have a chance, you could take a look at them and let me know? Thank you so much! Bgsu98 (Talk) 23:54, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

@Bgsu98: Can't say I'm too knowledgeable on the topic, but I'll try to see if I can give a review in the next few days . TheDoctorWho (talk) 07:11, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

You’ll be more knowledgeable after reading them. 😉 Bgsu98 (Talk) 07:13, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

@Bgsu98: I left reviews on both nominations, I know it's not much, but I hope they're helpful. I suppose I'm slightly more knowledgeable, I typically just seem to have trouble reviewing articles that aren't entertainment-related. 😅 TheDoctorWho (talk) 05:22, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

I appreciate your input and your votes of support. Public interest in figure skating peaks every four years, and that peak is about one year away, so I want these flagship articles (Worlds, Europeans, U.S., and Canada) at featured status by then. Bgsu98 (Talk) 21:04, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

@Bgsu98: Being completely honest, I don't think I ever realized it was such a huge deal outside of the Olympics. Regardless, don't hesitate to drop me a message if you ever need a review on any similar (or even completely different) lists!!! TheDoctorWho (talk) 21:50, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

I really want to get The Amazing Race 1 to featured status, but that's not a list, and I think featured articles are actually more difficult to get passed. Anyway, Canada is ready to go once these two are processed, with Worlds probably very close. I'm working on U.S., and Estonia may need only a little bit more work. And Germany... God bless their record-keeping; they made sourcing so easy. 😉 Bgsu98 (Talk) 22:02, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

@Bgsu98: I always tell people there's a reason why I only have one FAC 😅. I'm sure TAR1 could get there eventually. It looks rather decent on a first glance, but there is some room before it'd be at FA standards. I'll try to keep my eyes on the FLC page for those then, I'm usually there at least once every other day. TheDoctorWho (talk) 22:18, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

Hey TDW. Continuing on the above discussion on how {{Episode table/part}} template is apparently an accessibility issue per MOS:COLHEAD, I'm wondering how |ShortSummary= in {{Episode list}} does not cause the same accessibility issue. Does you know anyone with COLHEAD knowledge that would understand this? -- Alex_21 _TALK 06:56, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

@MPGuy2824 and PresN: were the two to first bring it up to me an FLC of mine. If anyone can tell us if it's an issue, it's likely one of them? TheDoctorWho (talk) 07:08, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

Wonderful, thanks for pinging them. To give context, both the /part template and ShortSummary parameter can be seen at Doctor Who series 14#Episodes. -- Alex_21 _TALK 07:30, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

So. In a technical, specific sense, that kind of "it's a new row that doesn't correspond to any of the column headers" isn't correct. So, not 100% accessible. That said, however, when you dig into it, "accessibility", even on-wiki, is nowhere near 100%, so there are compromises when it comes to "still very usable by humans even if it doesn't meet the spec". In this case, even though the summary row doesn't correspond with any of the column headers, it isn't really any harder for screen-reader users to understand than it is for sighted-users. So it's not a big deal. So, even FLC, which is much further ahead than the rest of wiki for enforcing this stuff, doesn't try to forbid this kind of thing description field. Pseudo-column headers, despite looking similar, are much worse, because they're not just contextual to the previous row like this case but instead are a context for every row thereafter and there's no programmatic way to carry that context through. Tl;dr you're fine. --PresN 19:23, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

Courtesy ping @Alex 21: to the above response just in case they're not watching/subscribed. TheDoctorWho (talk) 03:56, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, I saw it, thanks. Gonna see if I can change the two types of row-spanning columns into the same non-header format. -- Alex_21 _TALK 06:01, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

Hopefully it works out! It'd definitely be nice to keep something closer to the /part format. TheDoctorWho (talk) 06:07, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

Hi, TheDoctorWho. I'm just posting to let you know that List of Torchwood episodes – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for March 28. 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) 21:22, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) I didn't realized this had been promoted, TDW - amazing work! -- Alex_21 _TALK 22:15, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

Thank you so so much, truly means a lot! :) TheDoctorWho (talk) 04:18, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

The first round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 26 February. As a reminder, we are no longer disqualifying the lowest-scoring contestants; everyone who competed in round 1 will advance to round 2 unless they have withdrawn or been banned from Wikipedia. Instead, the contestants with the highest round-point totals now receive tournament points at the end of each round. Unlike the round points in the main WikiCup table, which are reset at the end of each round, tournament points are carried over between rounds and can only be earned if a competitor is among the top 16 round-point scorers. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far.

Round 1 was very competitive compared with previous years; two contestants scored more than 1,000 round points, and the top 16 contestants all scored more than 500 round points. The following competitors scored more than 800 round points:

• Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1,168 round points, mainly from 4 featured articles and 4 good articles on old military history, in addition to an assortment of GA and FA reviews.
• Generalissima (submissions) with 1,095 round points, mainly from 2 FAs, 2 featured lists, 8 GAs, and 16 Did You Know articles mainly on historical topics.
• BeanieFan11 (submissions), with 866 round points from 20 GAs, 23 DYKs, and 2 In the News articles primarily about athletes.
• Sammi Brie (submissions), with 846 round points from 16 GAs about radio and TV stations, 45 GA reviews, and 3 DYKs.
• Hey man im josh (submissions), with 816 round points from 5 FLs about sports and Olympic topics, 46 FL reviews, 3 ITN articles, and a large number of bonus points.
• MaranoFan (submissions), with 815 round points primarily from 3 FAs and 1 GA about music, in addition to 9 article reviews.

The full scores for round 1 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 18 featured articles, 26 featured lists, 1 featured-topic article, 197 good articles, 38 good-topic articles and more than 100 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 23 In the News articles, and they have conducted nearly 550 reviews.

Remember that any content promoted after 26 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2, which begins on 1 March. 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) 14:13, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

The article House Made of Bongs you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article needs changes or clarifications to meet the good article criteria. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:House Made of Bongs and Talk:House Made of Bongs/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 20:03, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

The article Elora's Dad you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article needs changes or clarifications to meet the good article criteria. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Elora's Dad and Talk:Elora's Dad/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 23:42, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

The article Elora's Dad you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Elora's Dad for comments about the article, and Talk:Elora's Dad/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 DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 06:21, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

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• A request for comment is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
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• A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. T378488
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Miscellaneous

• The 2025 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, Arcticocean, Ameisenigel, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, Galahad, Nehaoua, Renvoy, Revi C., RoySmith, Teles and Zafer as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the 2025 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: 1234qwer1234qwer4, AramilFeraxa, Daniuu, KonstantinaG07, MdsShakil and XXBlackburnXx.

The article House Made of Bongs you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:House Made of Bongs for comments about the article, and Talk:House Made of Bongs/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 DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 20:21, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

The article Deer Lady you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article needs changes or clarifications to meet the good article criteria. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Deer Lady and Talk:Deer Lady/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 07:06, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

The article Deer Lady you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Deer Lady for comments about the article, and Talk:Deer Lady/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 DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 03:42, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

	The Writer's Barnstar
	Well done for your amazing work on Reservation Dogs episodes and getting them to GA - I enjoyed reviewing them and was very happy I was able to pass them. I have really enjoyed learning about the episodes and their context and it is so important that more stories about indigenous people are told, so please do carry on with your amazing work! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 03:42, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

@DaniloDaysOfOurLives: Thank you for the barnstar, it truly means so much! I'm not indigenous myself, but as an Oklahoman (where the series is filmed), I've found the series to be crucial for the stories it's told. I hope to make more episode articles for the program soon. TheDoctorWho (talk) 04:18, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Hey, @TheDoctorWho! I saw that you recently started a source review but didn't mention the duplicate references in the list. Do you have User:Polygnotus/DuplicateReferences? If not, you should get it as it spots duplicates very easily. Thanks, Cowboygilbert - (talk) ♥ 04:34, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

I have not used it, but I will definitely take a look at it. Thank you! TheDoctorWho (talk) 18:34, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi, TheDoctorWho ... I noticed you identified yourself as an INFJ on your User page, though you had a T out to the right of the J. As someone very much into the MBTI and other similar assessments, as well as a sharer of three of your four letters, I'd be interested to take this forward in conversation, if you're up for it. I identify as INTJ, but my J is just over the middle line and so I often say I'm INTX. I think I understand now why I felt so in tune with your writing as I copy edited it. :) Augnablik (talk) 10:05, 15 March 2025 (UTC)

@Augnablik: Apologies for the delayed response, I have been sidetracked with some on- and off-wiki projects. We took Myers-Briggs tests and discussed the results in-detail in a college psychology course of mine. The T at the end stands for "turbulent" and is a further subtype of INFJ that you can read more about here if you're interested! It's interesting how close our personality types are. TheDoctorWho (talk) 18:38, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

This Turbulent and Assertive breakdown is fascinating, and I'm surprised I hadn't heard of it before because the MBTI was one of the assessment tools I studied extensively when I was doing my doctoral work on cognitive and learning styles, and related tools — then continued with that area of interest in the world of education and training for quite a while.

This breakdown must have come later, when I more or less stopped keeping up with the area. All because of running into you, and through you, this, I'll look into it.

Is there a T and A for each letter? Augnablik (talk) 03:18, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

@Augnablik: I honestly wasn't sure at first, but a quick search of the website does make it appear so. Here's the further T/A breakdown for INTJ. TheDoctorWho (talk) 04:58, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

I followed the link you gave me two days ago somewhat further, and even took this company's version of the assessment tool. This time I ended up over on the P side of the dividing line, though only by one point ... so again I think it's fair to claim an X as my fourth letter, all the more because in my earlier assessment, I was a J by only three points.

And like you, I found that I also ended up as a T!

Incidentally, although this new assessment places me in the Logician category, I feel much at home as an Explorer. I don't feel comfortable with the cold feel of being labeled a Logician! And I'm definitely no mathematician or physicist, just someone who seeks truth, accuracy, and clarity above most everything else. Augnablik (talk) 06:33, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

A perfect example of my T, if it hasn't already occurred to you: this quest for clarity about what happened to my edits of your article that Mox Eden picked up on in the Guild of Copy Editors! 😂 Augnablik (talk) 07:18, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

On 18 March 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article People Watching (Conan Gray song), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the lyrics in Conan Gray's song "People Watching" were based on things he heard while eavesdropping on couples? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/People Watching (Conan Gray song). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, People Watching (Conan Gray song)), 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 suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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I was going to leave a smart comment about Oklahoma being just one giant ghost town, and then I saw you were from Oklahoma...

All kidding aside, that's a neat article and I will take a closer look when I get home this afternoon! Bgsu98 (Talk) 15:48, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

@Bgsu98: The state practically is a ghost town if you don't live in OKC or Tulsa. That's the reason why the tornadoes only ever make cows fly and why Missouri has a warning sign up about us. /j 😂 TheDoctorWho (talk) 04:58, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

The article looks good! Since you're practically a figure skating expert at this point, I currently have World Figure Skating Championships up for FL review. Fun fact: the World Championships are next week in Boston and I'll be there! Bgsu98 (Talk) 12:50, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

@Bgsu98: I'll absolutely give it a review, I'll try to get to it sooner rather than later and put myself a placeholder down there. TheDoctorWho (talk) 03:23, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

I appreciate that, especially your rebuttal of that ridiculous Oppose. Bgsu98 (Talk) 19:20, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

@Bgsu98: Yeah, I'm not really sure why that oppose was necessary. The list is likely 75%+ of the article size, and it's understood that background context is necessary. TheDoctorWho (talk) 05:10, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi, in this edit to List of ghost towns in Oklahoma you use {{sfn|Schmidt|1978|pp=104–106}} and {{sfn|Schmidt|1978|pp=51–54}}. Unfortunately there is no work "Schmidt 1978" listed, so nobody can look the references up, and the article is added to Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors. If you could supply the missing source it would be appreciated. DuncanHill (talk) 00:57, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

Fixed, thanks! TheDoctorWho (talk) 03:26, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. DuncanHill (talk) 03:28, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

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@QuicoleJR and Buster7: Thank you both so much, this truly means a lot! TheDoctorWho (talk) 05:11, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

On 24 March 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Deer Lady, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that an attempt to use automated dialogue replacement in the Reservation Dogs episode "Deer Lady" failed because the voice sounded too much like Yoda? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Deer Lady. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Deer Lady), 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 suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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I see from the posts at the head of User talk:DoctorWhoFan91 that you have agreed to take on editing certain pages on their behalf. I feel I should point out to you that the next day DoctorWhoFan91 was blocked for 6 months. Please be most careful that you only make edits which you stand behind yourself and do not unintentionally end up PROXYING. I'm not sure I need to tell you this but between me and another Admin the others mentioned have been notified. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 11:28, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

For complete transparency (for you or anyone else), I have actually declined to make edits on behalf of DWF91 that they've requested off-wiki. The only thing I've taken on is their Good Topic nom, which I was already contributing to prior to the initial AN thread that kicked off all this drama, and that was of my own interest in seeing this promoted. Time stamps of my involvement in that topic area prior to the ban can be seen in the editing history at WP:WHO/G. Thanks, TheDoctorWho (talk) 17:02, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Much appreciated, thanks. Doug Weller talk 17:06, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Please do not restore the celebrity runners-up to {{Big Brother in the United States}}. Per Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2016 August 11#Template:Celebrity Big Brother and Template talk:Big Brother in the United States#Celebrity HouseGuests (which you were a part of the discussion), it was agreed that only winners could be included. --woodensuperman 07:44, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

It's been a while, I can't remember every discussion that I was a part of 7 years ago. I probably wouldn't have reverted had you pointed to that discussion rather than a vague guideline that doesn't directly address the situation. Thanks for bringing it back to my attention though, I'll try and keep my on it from here on out to make sure no one beyond winners are included for CBB TheDoctorWho (talk) 07:53, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! :) --woodensuperman 07:54, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

Maybe I'm just impatient, but it seems like there's a backlog at the Featured List project? Bgsu98 (Talk) 00:32, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

@Bgsu98: The "Older nominations" section does seem a tad long right to me right now, but I'm not a coord there so I'm not really sure what could be done. The instructions do say "Each nomination will typically last at least twenty days, but may last longer if changes are ongoing or insufficient discussion or analysis has occurred", but there's no maximum length, so it would appear that everything is on the up and up. The most recent archiving was done less than a week ago. TheDoctorWho (talk) 02:16, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

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The Space-Time Telegraph Volume III, Issue I — March 2025 Brought to you by the editors of WikiProject Doctor Who One hell of a newsletter. Geronimoooo! Apparently this newsletter the queen of outer space... wait... no, sorry; that's Belinda! Swashbuckle your seatbelts because this newsletter is full of information regarding recent happenings in the Doctor Who WikiProject. You'll also find updates on the upcoming series and elsewhere the expanded Whoniverse. Series 15 The fifteenth series of Doctor Who is set to begin this Saturday with "The Robot Revolution" on 12 April and will conclude eight weeks later after "The Reality War" airs on 31 May. It will once again be accompanied by a new series of Doctor Who: Unleashed. Draft articles for all eight episodes have already been created, the links to which can be found here. New novelisations adapting the first three episodes of the series are set to be released on 10 July. Recent Article Regenerations Since the last Newsletter, we've had a whole heap of quality content added to the Project. The articles Thasmin, "Joy to the World", Vislor Turlough, "Space Babies", "Legend of the Sea Devils", Weeping Angel, Doctor Who series 13, Pyramids of Mars, "The Legend of Ruby Sunday", "The Power of the Doctor", The Twin Dilemma, "The Husbands of River Song", "Demons of the Punjab", Doctor Who Live, "The Return of Doctor Mysterio", and Attack of the Cybermen have all been improved to GA-level quality. List of Torchwood episodes and List of Doctor Who episodes (2005-present) have been improved to FL-level quality, while the Doctor Who specials (2022) and Doctor Who series 14 Good Topics have been successfully promoted. An additional good topic covering the series articles from 2005–present has been nominated and is currently receiving feedback. Though content creation has slowed in recent months, content improvement should hopefully see an increase as series 15 ticks ever closer. Future Project Goals The WikiProject will once again be working in collaboration to complete a Good Topic encompassing the series and its related articles. Any contributions will be greatly appreciated. Several editors have planned upcoming work for Doctor Who-related character, episode, and performer articles. More information, as well as where you can find out how to help, can be found it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Doctor Who/Goals. We Want You... To Help With The Newsletter Due to the departure of previous newsletter contributors, the Newsletter is beaming out a message from Stonehenge requesting your help. If anyone would like to help actively contribute to the Newsletter's content updates, please let us know, as we are willing to accept anyone who is interested in helping with writing the Newsletter. We'll all stories in the end... make sure the newsletter is a chapter in yours. Intelligence Bulletin from the Subwave Network An additional novelisation for the fourteenth series adapting "The Legend of Ruby Sunday" and "Empire of Death" written by script editor Scott Handcock is also set to be released on 10 July. Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper are reuniting as the Ninth Doctor and Rose for a new series of Big Finish audio dramas due to be released from this August. A special hour-long episode of Doctor Who: Unleashed documenting Doctor Who's 2005 revival process is currently in production. It is set to be released later this year on BBC iPlayer in the UK and internationally on YouTube to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the revival. The blu-ray box set for Doctor Who season 7 collection was made available on 3 March. In breaking news, David Tennant almost didn't touch this. Contributors TheDoctorWho (talk) Pokelego999 (Talk) If you wish to contribute to future editions of the newsletter, leave a message on the WikiProject talk page or reach out to one of the current contributors listed above. If you do not wish to receive future editions of the Space-Time Telegraph, please remove your name from our our mailing list.

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Hello. I'm interested in contributing to the newsletter. Spectritus (talk) 20:57, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

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I have another article up for FL review if you have a few free minutes. You're probably a skating expert at this point! 🙂 Bgsu98 (Talk) 15:51, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Of course, I'll check it out sometime in the next few days!!! TheDoctorWho (talk) 03:40, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

Hello... I am also working on Canadian National Skating Championships. If you have a chance, can you take a look at the History section? I'm not asking for a full analysis or anything like that, but I have been struggling with writing this section, especially regarding the chronology of events. If you can let me know how it reads or if there might be a better way to organize it, that would be super awesome! Bgsu98 (Talk) 15:31, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

@Bgsu98: Sure! I just got around to leaving comments on the British FLC, which I've been putting off for a minute. Give me another day or two and I'll look over the Canadian list! TheDoctorWho (talk) 21:06, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

@Bgsu98: I'll have to offer my sincerest apologies, I clearly and very frequently overestimate the time I have available. I've just gotten a chance to read over the history section on the Canadian article. I think it would read a lot better if the first two paragraphs were merged to flow chronologically a bit better. It's a little disorienting when we jump from 1905 > (1897) > 1913 > 1907 > 1887 > 1914 > 1905. I think it would be easier to keep track if it started with the background of the Amateur Skating Association as a lead into Minto, and then finally Skate Canada (if I have that in order), and of course with the relevant details about women's additions/competition changes/etc. interspersed. The same could be said for the last paragraph; the first sentence could be merged into the preceding paragraph while the following could be shifted up chronologically (and just slightly reworded) TheDoctorWho (talk) 02:39, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

That whole section has been maddening. Let me know how you think it looks now. Canadian National Skating Championships#History Bgsu98 (Talk) 05:54, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

@Bgsu98: It reads so much better to me now than it did before! After giving it another read through in its current state, I only had one portion that led to some slight confusion: "The championships were cancelled in 1907 after the Rideau Skating Rink was destroyed by a fire. While separate competitions for men and women were not held until 1913, an award was presented to the "top lady skater" at each competition prior to 1913. A separate governing organization for figure skating in Canada was established in 1914 [...]" When I first read this, I thought it implied that there were no competitions between 1907 and 1914, and only realized that it was just for that single year, after glancing at one of the tables. What about just rewording that one portion similar to one of the methods you use further down, either: "No 1907 championships were held after [...]" or "After the Rideau Skating Rink was destroyed in a fire, no 1907 championships were held"? Just provides less chance that it's misinterpreted as a permanent cancellation and provides slight variation so it's not an exact repeat of the World War/COVID cancellations. TheDoctorWho (talk) 02:28, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

I can see why that might be confusing. I'll take another look at it later. This will be the next national championship article to go up for FL nomination as soon as one of the pending nominations goes through. Bgsu98 (Talk) 12:11, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi TheDoctorWho, I work for Dan Abrams, and I am trying to add information to his article. I see that you have an interest in television and that you've edited the Live PD article in the past. Since Abrams was the host of Live PD and several other television shows, I hope you'll be willing to take a look at the edit request I posted here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dan_Abrams#Add_info_to_article. Thank you, 2020AM2009 (talk) 16:21, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

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Would you have any interest in improving the David Tennant (or any Doctor Who actor) filmography to FLC? Olliefant (she/her) 18:02, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

@OlifanofmrTennant: I'd love to! Tennant seems like a great place to start honestly. While there's some unsourced content, it's not in the worst shape, and shouldn't be too hard to fix up! TheDoctorWho (talk) 02:41, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

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I was coming to your talk page to see if you participated at the Good Article project too and then I saw the icons strung across the top of your user page like Christmas garland. Anyway, I have recently submitted this article – 2022 CS U.S. International Figure Skating Classic – to GA (among others). It's a pretty simple article, but I think it has a great hook because it's the competition where Ilia Malinin first performed his Quadruple Axel, and he is literally the only person on Earth who can perform one. If you have the time and wouldn't mind taking a look, I'd appreciate it. Also, I have another FS article up at FL, too. It's Grand Prix de France (figure skating). Thanks! Bgsu98 (Talk) 22:12, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

@Bgsu98: Apologies it's taken me so long to respond. My AuDHD gets the better of me more than I'd like to admit, and although I had plans to get to this sooner it ultimately took me ten days. I also admittedly have to say that most of those icons were articles written rather than reviewed. I feel like I suck at reviewing GA's, especially in topic areas I'm not familiar with, compared to content creation. Although I have taken on a few GAR's, that's why I typically (and more recently I'd say) try to give back in the form of reviews at FLC. I can focus on specific areas I specialize in there, even if it's not a familiar topic area.

That said, as you know, I did finally make it around to reviewing Grand Prix de France, and I'd be more than happy to review any FAC's of yours (either drop me a message here, or I have the FAC page on my watchlist, and will likely see anything in due time). However, I'm not sure how well I'd succeed at taking on that GAN, knowing that I don't know anything about the related MOS. I did notice though that you have The Amazing Race 1 sitting at GAN. I'm a little sidetracked currently with Doctor Who series 15 and its related episode article(s) at the moment, but the finale is next Saturday, so if TAR1 hasn't been reviewed by then (likely the second week of June, time to wrap up DW15, plus my upcoming art gallery show) I may take that on. TheDoctorWho (talk) 05:39, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

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Hello again. I hope you are doing well and having a good day so far. Apologies for the random message. I was wondering if you could help with my current FAC for an article about a character from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics? I completely understand if you do not have the time or interest. I hope you have a great rest of your week and best of luck with everything both on- and off-Wiki! Aoba47 (talk) 01:45, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

Just left a few comments, honestly had trouble finding things to mention with how perfect it already stands! TheDoctorWho (talk) 07:05, 18 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for your help and for your kind words! I really do appreciate that. I hope that you are doing well today. Aoba47 (talk) 15:43, 18 May 2025 (UTC)

Sorry for the double-reply here. Thank you for the edits to the Private Practice season 1 article. I would imagine that will likely go through the WP:FLRC process one day. I can't remember if I asked you this already so apologies if this is a repeat, but I had formatted citations for this article in my sandbox. Since I do not plan on working on this article further, do you think that it would be helpful to post this more complete set of sources to the article talk page? Aoba47 (talk) 20:25, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

No worries! I'd agree that an FLRC is imminent there, particularly with the discussion at WT:FLC. I think placing those on the talk page where other editors might notice them would be very useful! My immediate plan is to take List of Private Practice episodes to FLC, that list transcludes references from the season 1 article, which is why I cleaned up those references. List of Grey's Anatomy episodes and List of Station 19 episodes are already FL's, so this would be the last LoE in the Grey's franchise. TheDoctorWho (talk) 21:14, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the link to the WT:FLC discussion. I will place the sources on the talk page sometime later today. Hopefully, it would help any editors who are interested in further working on the page. It would also make it hopefully easier for them as the citations are already formatted and archived.

Best of luck with the Private Practice episode list. It would be nice to have all of the Grey's LoE at FL status, especially since I doubt that there will be any further spin-offs or shows set in that universe. There were some reports on a potential Private Practice revival, but I doubt that would actually happen. Maybe it is because I have not kept up with Grey's in over a decade now (which is wild!), it feels like that franchise is more so winding down, which is rather bittersweet.

Let me know if there is anything that I can do to help with the Private Practice episode list. Aoba47 (talk) 00:35, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for dropping those references on there! I may eventually get around to trying to get season 1 at least up to GA (I'm a little sidetracked with other projects at the moment, though).

There were actually a few rumors circling a few years ago about a third spin-off, but nothing substantial has come of it since. Station 19 is a great watch too, if you're looking for something shorter (105 episodes compared to Grey's' ~450), but there are several crossover plots at times that might occasionally make it difficult to keep up with if you haven't seen Grey's recently. TheDoctorWho (talk) 22:12, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

The article The Robot Revolution you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:The Robot Revolution for comments about the article, and Talk:The Robot Revolution/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 DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 03:21, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

On 17 May 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Robot Revolution, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the robotic costumes used in the Doctor Who episode "The Robot Revolution" were 3D printed in thirty-four different pieces before being assembled? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Robot Revolution. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The Robot Revolution), 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 suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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The article Lux (Doctor Who) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Lux (Doctor Who) for comments about the article, and Talk:Lux (Doctor Who)/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 DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 08:45, 21 May 2025 (UTC)

	The Writer's Barnstar
	Well done for getting many more Doctor Who articles to GA! You are such an asset to the project DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 16:29, 21 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, once again. I appreciate your reviews of my good article nominations. This barnstar means a lot! TheDoctorWho (talk) 03:44, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I noticed you cleaned up the references and endnote on My Name Is Earl, that had the same name, but supposedly different content. My intention here was to define the endnote content on each season page so that it would transclude into the list of episodes page in as one note (the same way multiple references can be transcluded across pages with the same content). After you cleaned it up, I tried it again using just seasons 3 and 4, but I'm already getting an error on the episode page. Are you able to tell me why when the content on both pages in regards to that is identical? TheDoctorWho (talk) 21:27, 21 May 2025 (UTC)

The best way that I can figure to fix the "duplicate" references is to change each seasons page reference to a short reference, e.g. in each seasons page, change the full reference from:

<ref name="TFC">{{Cite web ... |url-status=live}}</ref> to
<ref name="TFC" />

and then move the full reference to the references section like:
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name="TFC">{{Cite web ... |url-status=live}}</ref>
}}
</nowiki> and the same reference section will have to be added to the "List" page as well.

I hope that helps... Quebec99 (talk) 22:45, 21 May 2025 (UTC)

On 22 May 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Well (Doctor Who), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that "The Well" is a sequel to a 17-year-old Doctor Who episode? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Well (Doctor Who). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The Well (Doctor Who)), 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 suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:02, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Lucky Day (Doctor Who) 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 DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 13:07, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

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The article Lucky Day (Doctor Who) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Lucky Day (Doctor Who) for comments about the article, and Talk:Lucky Day (Doctor Who)/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 DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 19:45, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

On 27 May 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lux (Doctor Who), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Doctor Who episode "Lux" is set in Miami, Florida, despite being filmed in Penarth, Wales? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lux (Doctor Who). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Lux (Doctor Who)), 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 suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cielquiparle (talk) 00:03, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

Hello. Has work on the new issue already begun? We've passed mid May. Spectritus (talk) 09:50, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

Apologies for the delay, I believe both myself and the other regular writer have been busy with the series 15 article. I just opened a new section on WT:WHO/N TheDoctorWho (talk) 22:23, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article The Story & the Engine 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 DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 04:45, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

The article The Story & the Engine you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article needs changes or clarifications to meet the good article criteria. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:The Story & the Engine and Talk:The Story & the Engine/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 05:04, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

How do I add a co-nominator to a GA? Bgsu98 (Talk) 20:02, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

@Bgsu98: The generally accepted way is to add it into the nomination template as a note, like this: {{subst:GAN|subtopic=television|note=Co-nominated with [[User:Bgsu98]]}}.

That note will transclude to WP:GAN, similar to how my nominations of "The Story & the Engine" and "The Interstellar Song Contest" currently look.

It's important to note that by doing this, no official counts or formal records are kept, besides what would be in the history of the respective talk page. By that I mean that the co-nominator won't receive credit for the GA on Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by good article nominations or Toolforge, nor will they receive talk page notifications when the nomination is reviewed, placed on hold, passed, or failed. TheDoctorWho (talk) 20:35, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you; I wanted to add a co-editor from the Amazing Race project on my GA nomination of The Amazing Race 1. Bgsu98 (Talk) 21:30, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

@Bgsu98: Since that article has already been nominated, I believe you should be able to just append note=Co-nominated with [[User:Example]] to the end of the template, to prevent your nomination from resetting in the queue. TheDoctorWho (talk) 21:34, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

That's what I did; thank you for your help! Bgsu98 (Talk) 21:35, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

The article The Story & the Engine you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:The Story & the Engine for comments about the article, and Talk:The Story & the Engine/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 DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 01:05, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

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• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 17 June 2025. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!
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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Wish World 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 DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 00:24, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

The article Wish World you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article needs changes or clarifications to meet the good article criteria. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Wish World and Talk:Wish World/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 07:03, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article The Interstellar Song Contest 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 DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 07:42, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

The article Wish World you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Wish World for comments about the article, and Talk:Wish World/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 DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 05:05, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

On 13 June 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lucky Day (Doctor Who), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that two-thirds of the six-week budget allocated to the filming of a Doctor Who episode was used up in only three days? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lucky Day (Doctor Who). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Lucky Day (Doctor Who)), 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 suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

The article The Interstellar Song Contest you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article needs changes or clarifications to meet the good article criteria. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:The Interstellar Song Contest and Talk:The Interstellar Song Contest/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 06:25, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

The article The Reality War you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article needs changes or clarifications to meet the good article criteria. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:The Reality War and Talk:The Reality War/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 02:46, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

On 16 June 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Interstellar Song Contest, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that "The Interstellar Song Contest" featured the return of a Doctor Who character last seen more than 40 years earlier? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Interstellar Song Contest. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The Interstellar Song Contest), 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 suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 00:02, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

Jeannie (TV series) has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:44, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

On 18 June 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Story & the Engine, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Inua Ellams created the antagonist for "The Story & the Engine" after learning that "ghost writer" translates to 'Black person' in French? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Story & the Engine. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The Story & the Engine), 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 suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 00:02, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

Hi, TheDoctorWho. I'm just posting to let you know that List of ghost towns in Oklahoma – 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 15. 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) 00:44, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

The article The Reality War you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:The Reality War for comments about the article, and Talk:The Reality War/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 DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 03:44, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

The article The Interstellar Song Contest you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:The Interstellar Song Contest for comments about the article, and Talk:The Interstellar Song Contest/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 DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 21:45, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

Hey there... I haven't seen you at the FL project in a while and just wanted to check in to see how you're doing! 😃 Bgsu98 (Talk) 15:32, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

@Bgsu98: Hi, thanks for checking in, I appreciate it a lot! I had gotten a little sidetracked with the Doctor Who series 15 episode articles for a little while, which consumed most of my on-wiki time. Since that's nearly wrapped up though, I'm looking forward to jumping back into reviewing and nominating FL's. I actually just pushed through an FLC nom for List of Private Practice episodes (and an FAC nom for Deer Lady), if you're interested in taking a look at either of those. I see that you have two FLC noms up right now I'll try to take a look at them and leave a review on them soon. Hope you're doing well too? TheDoctorWho (talk) 05:42, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

I did the source review for your Private Practice article... There are some problems with the season 1 and 2 ratings. As for me, this wasn't the highlight of my Wikitenure. 🥴 Bgsu98 (Talk) 13:52, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

I did the source review for your FAC nomination. I also have one article at FAC – 2021 World Figure Skating Championships – and another at FL – North American Figure Skating Championships. Is the PP article the only one you have at FL right now? Bgsu98 (Talk) 22:07, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

@Bgsu98: Thanks for doing the source review on both of those for me! Yup, those are my only two right now. I have another FLC in mind I'll try to get up in a few weeks (but knowing me, we'll see). I'll definitely check out your other two nom's. And big oof, reading over that AFD discussion on the Bulgaria Juniors gave me a headache (would've been an easy keep for me too). TheDoctorWho (talk) 16:55, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

It seems to me source reviews are what most people enjoy doing the least, but they're usually not too bad, so I don't mind doing them if it helps out. Bgsu98 (Talk) 16:57, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

I honestly enjoy doing source reviews for topic-adjacent areas to what I usually edit in. Sometimes they just a bit more of a time-commitment to check quality, formatting, supported statements, etc., so I don't always get to do them quite as often as I like. TheDoctorWho (talk) 18:20, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

On 26 June 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Reality War, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a Doctor Who episode was still in post-production in the month before it aired? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Reality War. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The Reality War), 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 suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:03, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

The third round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 28 June. This round was again competitive, with three contestants scoring more than 1,000 round points:

• BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,314 round points, mostly from articles about athletes and politicians, including 20 good articles and 48 did you know articles
• Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1,197 round points, mostly from military history articles, including 9 featured topic articles, two featured articles, and four good articles
• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 1,055 round points, mostly from television station articles, including 27 good articles and 9 good topic articles

Everyone who competed in round 3 will advance to round 4 unless they have withdrawn. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far, while the full scores for round 3 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 4 featured articles, 16 featured lists, 1 featured picture, 9 featured-topic articles, 149 good articles, 27 good-topic articles, and more than 90 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 18 In the News articles, and they have conducted more than 200 reviews.

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) 14:50, 29 June 2025 (UTC)

On 30 June 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Wish World, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that ducks, an owl, a horse and a baby were utilized for the opening scene of a Doctor Who episode? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Wish World. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Wish World), 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 suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 00:02, 30 June 2025 (UTC)

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I see the usual BS is back. Every year, like clockwork. 🥴🥴🥴 Bgsu98 (Talk) 02:06, 17 July 2025 (UTC)

@Bgsu98: Oh, I am very much well aware. Seems like we might need to grab lifevests ourselves 🦺.... TheDoctorWho (talk) 18:02, 18 July 2025 (UTC)

It's as predictable as Julie Chen's dialogue. 😉 Bgsu98 (Talk) 18:07, 18 July 2025 (UTC)

Hey, I have another national list up for consideration – East Germany – when you have a minute. 😃 Bgsu98 (Talk) 18:19, 18 July 2025 (UTC)

I'll take a look at it at some point over the next few days! TheDoctorWho (talk) 03:59, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

Hey, TheDoctorWho. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 23:36, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

@DaniloDaysOfOurLives: Thank you so much! Means a lot coming from you :) TheDoctorWho (talk) 04:00, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

I am so glad! Please continue being you - you are a legend! :D DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 18:40, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

The Space-Time Telegraph Volume III, Issue II — June 2025 Brought to you by the editors of WikiProject Doctor Who People assume that a newsletters are a strict progression of stuff happening to author's writing, but, actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of spacey-timey teley-graphy... stuff This is my Space-Time Telegraph Detector: 🕹️ It goes *ding* when there's a new newsletter out Welcome to the second 2025 issue of the Space-Time Telegraph. Apologies that we're a little late, sometimes this newsletter takes us when we need to go instead of when we want to go. In this edition you'll find everything that you need to keep you updated on things going on around the project as well as within the Whoniverse. Am I a good (or featured) man Wikipedia article? Since last Newsletter, many new GAs have been added to the Project. These include every individual episode in Doctor Who series 15 and a number of fictional characters, including Belinda Chandra, the companion of Series 15. A full list of Good promoted content can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Doctor Who#Articles with Good Article status. So far, we've promoted 33 GAs this year, and we're on track to beat our previous record of GAs promoted in a year (36 in 2012). In terms of Good Topics, Wikipedia:Featured topics/List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–present) and Wikipedia:Good topics/Doctor Who series 14 were both promoted in May. Additionally, with the promotion of Yeti (Doctor Who) to FA status just this past month, the project has gotten its first FA status article in nearly a decade, with the last FA promotion being From The Doctor to my son Thomas in November 2015. Congratulations to all involved with these articles, and keep up the good work! Space-Time Telegraph Materialization Schedule With uncertainty surrounding when production of the parent show will resume, newsletter editors have decided to shift the publication schedule from quarterly to triannually for the time being. This means that the next issue will be published in December, and then every April, August, and December thereafter. When the future of the series is more certain, the schedule may update once more at that time. 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I don't understand why elimination tables are not needed just because episode summaries exist. It's like saying we don't need to have graphs because the information on the graphs are already written in paragraphs. The pages for other shows, like MasterChef, Top Chef, Survivor and the Amazing Race, have both episode summaries and elimination tables. Elimination tables are much easier to look at to quickly see the results and the progression of each team episode-by-episode. Also, they are far easier to update than episode summaries.

Also, a lot of the episode summaries are too long because they contain a lot of unnecessary information. They are harder to read because of that. They also don't cover much ground about how each team performed other than the 1st place finisher and the eliminated team. Lastly, 14 seasons of The Great Food Truck Race don't have any information about what happened in those seasons TheVoicelessWriter (talk) 04:35, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

@TheVoicelssWriter: Per WP:BRD please don't revert further while discussion is ongoing. You made a bold edit that was reverted, the status quo should remain in place while discussion is ongoing. Please see WP:OTHERCONTENT and WP:OTHERSTUFF, just because "graphs and information" exists in one article, doesn't mean that it should automatically be included in other articles. All of the examples that you named have individual season articles, which is the proper place for this type of content.

The Great Food Truck Race does not have season articles (bar season 11, which does have a table). A "list of episodes" page isn't the appropriate place for these types of tables (see List of Top Chef episodes, List of MasterChef Canada episodes, List of Survivor episodes, and List of Amazing Race episodes for the proper equivalent), and should be limited to the article title. If you do want to include them, write season articles instead. TheDoctorWho (talk) 21:00, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

@TheVoicelessWriter: Correct ping TheDoctorWho (talk) 21:02, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

I am looking for a quick second opinion. I have just finished auditing Norwegian Figure Skating Championships. I had included a History section, but chose to eliminate it and instead slightly expand the lead, since the History section basically just repeated what was already in the lead. You can see a previous version of the article here. This article isn't like some of the other articles I've done (like the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain), where there is extensive information to include. It seems to me that the inclusion here is unnecessary and redundant. What do you think? Bgsu98 (Talk) 20:38, 27 July 2025 (UTC)

Apologies for taking so long to get to your FLC's. I ended up coming down with a cold last week and wasn't active as much as I'd originally hoped.

If that's all of the history information available, I'd agree that it's probably best without one. Most lists can be dealt with on a case-by-case for things like that. When I originally expanded List of ghost towns in Oklahoma, I had all of the stuff in the history section in the lead (as can be seen here), because no history section existed prior to that, nor did any of the lists for the other 50 states. Then I realized that the lead was unproportionately large and that an exception was warranted there. The same could be said for the Norwegian article, just from the opposite perspective. I definitely wouldn't oppose at FLC for lack of having one here. TheDoctorWho (talk) 21:30, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

Pinging @Bgsu98: to the above response. TheDoctorWho (talk) 21:33, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

I hope you're feeling better! The first article I brought to FLC in this series – Ukrainian Figure Skating Championships – had nothing between the lead and the tables. That discussion revealed that the lead was too short, so that's where a lot of the items which are not standard in my articles came from: who holds the most gold medals, etc. The next articles were all big: the U.S., Europe, World, Canada, Great Britain, Grand Prix de France... all with extensive histories. So when it came time for Estonia, I was so used to having a history, I struggled to pad it out, and frankly, I don't like how it turned out. I think, like with Norway, the lead can be expanded and the history section eliminated. Several of these just don't have a lot of extra stuff worth mentioning. Switzerland is another one that's done and ready to go; there just isn't a lot of extra stuff there. On the other hand, East Germany, Russia, and the Czech Republic, which are also ready to go, have histories worth expanding upon. I just wanted a second opinion. I think the Norway article, and also the Switzerland article, are better off without a history section that would ultimately just be repetitive and padding. Bgsu98 (Talk) 23:24, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

@Bgsu98: Sorry again for the delayed response, but I'd definitely agree with the way it seems you're leaning. If it came down to having to choose between a very well-fleshed out lead or a weak lead and weak history section because the two are split, I'd always pick the one that allows for stronger prose. TheDoctorWho (talk) 02:39, 11 August 2025 (UTC)

User:TheDoctorWho: I have the following articles up for FA/FL review if you have a free minute or two. Also let me know if you have anything in need of a review!

• 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard
• Swedish Figure Skating Championships

Bgsu98 (Talk) 02:14, 12 August 2025 (UTC)

Congratulations, TheDoctorWho! The article you nominated, Deer Lady, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles 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 article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Gog the Mild (talk) via FACBot (talk) 12:11, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

• Congratulations on the promotion! Aoba47 (talk) 20:03, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

Congratulations for getting Deer Lady to FA!! That is amazing! I was about to comment and then realised that it had already passed. Well done!

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Hi, TheDoctorWho. I'm just posting to let you know that List of My Name Is Earl episodes – 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 12. 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) 00:31, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

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The episode was released today and, like every other South Park episode, the Wikipedia article for it has been created and is in the process of being updated by myself and other editors to have additional information. Reverting it back to a redirect when multiple editors were working on improving the article makes this more difficult. I will update the article with additional information/better sources but it was in the process of being worked on by multiple editors when it was reverted. Onyxqk (talk) 02:52, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

@Onyxqk Please see Talk:Wok Is Dead. -- Alex_21 _TALK 02:54, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

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Hey there... long time no see. I hope you are doing well! Anyway, I have these articles up for Featured Article or Featured List:

• 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard
• Four Continents Figure Skating Championships
• Swedish Figure Skating Championships

If you would be willing to review any of them, that would be awesome and much appreciated! I have several national championships where I have finished populating all of the tables with sources (Norway, Switzerland, France, etc.), but FLC restricts the number of nominations to two at a time, so it is slow going. If you have anything pending that needs attention, please let me know! Bgsu98 (Talk) 18:29, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Happy birthday! Hi TheDoctorWho! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy birthday! Enjoy this special day! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 08:50, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Hey, happy birthday, buddy! 😀😀😀 Bgsu98 (Talk) 10:52, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

@DaniloDaysOfOurLives and Bgsu98: Thank you both for the birthday wishes, truly means a lot! 🥳 TheDoctorWho (talk) 17:05, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello again. Apologies for the random. I was wondering if you could possibly help with my current FAC? I completely understand if you do not have time or interest though. I hope you are having a wonderful week so far! Aoba47 (talk) 03:55, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

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Congrats, thanks for writing and nominating that. Makes me remember the joy I felt when I first stumbled upon that show; an underappreciated treasure, Floquenbeam (talk) 19:59, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

@Floquenbeam: Thank you for your message! The show is absolute gem that I adore, and I wish it received far more attention than it did. I personally first discovered it when Ryan RedCorn was the keynote speaker for a student symposium at the university I attended; the first and only place I ever heard a college professor use the term 'shitass' when they opened the floor for questions. TheDoctorWho (talk) 04:37, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

On today! We thank you for the article about "the third episode in the third season of the American teen drama Reservation Dogs. This episode takes a brief departure from the traditional format of most episodes and tells the origin story of a character that has recurred throughout the programme. It also addresses the issue of American Indian boarding schools and Native American assimilation, for which the episode was extensively analyzed and received accolades for."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:17, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks a bunch! TheDoctorWho (talk) 18:12, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

Congratulations on the TFA! I very much enjoyed reading through the article, and I have a lot of respect and admiration for your work on it. I think that it is really cool that you discovered the show because a student symposium. It is inspiring in a way to see that kind of work and outreach being done in academic spaces. Aoba47 (talk) 15:14, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, truly! The article was a joy to write. It was such an honor to hear a writer on such a critically acclaimed series speak in-person. TheDoctorWho (talk) 18:12, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

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Most of this message was written by Mz7 (source). Thanks, 🎃 SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 02:47, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello again. I wanted to congratulate you on all of your work for List of songs by Conan Gray. I will try my best to do a review for your WP:FLC in the near future. It is really cool to read about when someone discovers their favorite artist and enjoys their music to the point of working on Wikipedia articles about them. I think that is really inspiring and heartwarming.

Anyway, I actually had a question about the YouTube citations. I noticed that you use the AV media notes template and that because of this, the titles (in this case, the titles for the YouTube videos) are presented in italics in the citations. I was wondering if that was an intentional choice on your part?

I do not think that there is a real or wrong way to cite YouTube videos. I have used the web source template, but I can see value in the AV media notes one. I was just a bit uncertain about having the YouTube videos with italic titles, and I wanted to get your perspective about it? Let me know if this makes sense lol. Aoba47 (talk) 02:56, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

@Aoba47: Thank you! Always appreciate hearing from you and seeing your comments on my work. As someone with AuDHD I always fall hard into my special interests, and that frequently evolves into expanding WP's coverage around that topic.

I took a quick look at the page, it appears for the YouTube videos I actually used {{cite AV media}} (and then used {{cite AV media notes}} for the liner notes from the CD/vinyl releases of the albums). I'm not too attached to that particular template, I just assumed it was acceptable as {{cite YouTube}} and {{cite video}} have both redirected there since 2019/2013. This was also a similar format to a series of citations we used across the 8 episodes of a recent Doctor Who season for behind the scenes featurettes that were uploaded to YouTube (see citation #2 here, for example), and have since all reached GA status.

However, I can also see the concern given that individual songs would generally be represented by double quotes rather than italics per our MOS. It does appear that this can be overridden with standard formatting, so if I enter title=''"Antics" - Original Song'' the resulting display in the references section would be "Antics" - Original Song rather than the current/default Antics - Original Song. If you think those cites would be better presented that way, let me know. I don't think it would take too long to go through and modify them. TheDoctorWho (talk) 03:46, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

Of course! I can relate to that. I have 100% fallen down rabbit holes and have gotten really into my interests on WP. I think that is a big part of the fun of this site, and it is always cool to learn more about editors based on what they work on.

Thank you for the clarification about this. Apologies for confusing the AV media notes template with the one for AV media. Just to be clear, I could be entirely wrong. I am not saying that I am right about this, as I could see the value in using the AV media template, particularly given the history with the YouTube and video templates being redirected there.

I think that it would be better to override the standard formatting to more accurately reflect how the title is represented in the YouTube video (as well as to go along with WP:CONFORMTITLE). That being said, it might be a good idea to wait and see if reviewers (or editors in general) brings this up. I could just be way overthinking this. I was just curious about it (both for your FLC and for my own editing in the future), so I wanted to get your opinion on it.

I hope that you are having a good weekend so far! Aoba47 (talk) 18:52, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

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