Template talk:AfC status

Ipatrol's edit war
One could argue that it is bad if there are no submissions because that means IPs are not getting involved in creating new articles.--Ipatrol (talk) 14:57, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Ipatrol, you seem to have violated WP:3RR. Please revert yourself. As someone who is not even in this WikiProject, I am struggling to see why this is so important to you. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:06, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

I reverted one editor once and another twice, that comes nowhere near 3RR, also the reverts were over two seperate issues. I ask for dsicussion, not editwarring.--Ipatrol (talk) 16:45, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1+2=3. It doesn't matter that it was different editors. You actually made the same edit four times in less than 24 hours. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:03, 21 March 2009 (UTC)


 * It does matter, read the policy; " Contributors must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period, whether or not the edits involve the same material, except in certain circumstances". Ironholds (talk) 17:04, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Ipatrol, I restrict myself to 1RR when it comes to the appearance of a template, since there's really no point. If you're going to go beyond that, OK. But I'd advise you to adopt a similar policy. Someguy1221 (talk) 21:27, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Are we done here?--Ipatrol (talk) 19:12, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I have sought opinions of others in the wikiproject. I still favour the earlier version. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:17, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Adding the picture makes the template bigger, taking up more space on my userpage! There is probably a little benefit (pretty picture), just a downside - slower to load, more screen real estate. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 03:43, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I have now removed the space-waster. As Someguy liked the smiley this will appear inline if level 0 ever occurs :) &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:45, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

I absolutely fail to see the point in a smiley, doesn't that make some browers tougher to load the page?--Ipatrol (talk) 00:45, 24 March 2009 (UTC)


 * The point is to help confirm the shocking fact that there are no submissions pending, which if I recall has happened...twice in the last three years? And if it makes some browsers tougher to load, what was the point of your additions to the template? I still fail to understand why you feel so adamant about the appearance of this template you would edit war over it, even against the objections of those who actually use it. Someguy1221 (talk) 01:02, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

I've seen AFC clear, once after I cleared through the submissions. Is it really that rare that it's clear to deserve a smiley face?--Ipatrol (talk) 02:06, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Ipatrol, stop this ridiculous behaviour. It is disruptive. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 06:57, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Can we just go back to how it used to be?--Ipatrol (talk) 19:41, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I really don't understand the point of this revert. As before, I'm only going to revert once on this matter. But I'll still mention that edit warring to make a template look as you personally prefer it, and then edit warring to remove the changes another made for the same reason, achieves nothing but to reflect poorly on your own character. Someguy1221 (talk) 05:47, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Status numbers
With this (and technically this too) edit I changed the range of the AfC status template. Normal now applies only up to 40 (instead of 50), backlogged appears from 40 to 75 (instead of 50 to 100), and severely backlogged starts at 75 (instead of 100). I feel these numbers more accurately represent the state of things, such as this past week. ~ Amory (user • talk • contribs) 02:29, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Brutally backlogged.
Does brutally backlogged exist? And if it does what does it look like?-- The Master   of Mayhem  19:45, 31 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Ah. That might explain the change of colours.-- The     wikifyer's corner   11:15, 29 May 2011 (UTC)


 * ✅ Zach Vega (talk) 01:31, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Why >10000 as Question Marks?
Why did you say that "???" is for over 10000? Isn't this illogical? "Out of order" seems better. Qwertyxp2000 (talk) 05:16, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

DEFCON style
I have changed this template's status style from text to DEFCON. Is this OK with you? Phil roc My contribs 14:17, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't like the new style . I would rather have just the simply text back.  CookieMonster755   (talk)   02:39, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Updating the colours
I honestly don't pay much attention to this template, as I go by the numbers themselves, but out of curiosity I decided to again look and see what the number breakdowns were. Having done so, I think they're ridiculously optimistic. With an average of 155 submissions per day, I think we should shift each colour up a notch. In other words, 400-649 goes from "semi-backlogged" to "normal", and 650-899 is the new "semi-backlogged".

The main reason I think we should do this is because we managed to keep the number of submissions sub-400 for about a month. Once. In all the time since I started at AFC (and that was when we were at 3000!). The numbers were last updated in 2014, and I think it's time we accounted for inflation. Primefac (talk) 18:24, 1 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Make sense.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:56, 1 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Support I agree. I've just recently started afc but it's always backlogged. I'd agree that 400+ is the new normal. Yashovardhan (talk) 10:18, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

"Random submission" may take into a(n empty) category
I doubt there's any way to fix this sensibly, but I clicked "random submission" on my third click ever and was taken to Category:Pending AfC submissions in article space. The chances were ~1/3600 per click. I do imagine this may get a lot more annoying if the AFC queue was much shorter. 84.250.17.211 (talk) 22:22, 11 October 2018 (UTC) ; edited 22:23, 11 October 2018 (UTC) ; edited 22:24, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Interesting. Unfortunately, Special:RandomInCategory (which is what this template utilizes) isn't something that can easily be tweaked. Primefac (talk) 15:05, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 13 May 2019
At Template:AFC status/backlog, please replace

with

since Template:AfCON/doc was deleted (in 2015, ) as a copy of Template:AFC status/doc, which should be used, and since Template:AFC status/doc already includes the AfC templates category. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 19:55, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅. Primefac (talk) 19:58, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 31 July 2021
Add something like this: so that it says 1 pending submission s. &#8213; Qwerfjkl talk  11:48, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Pinging @Primefac &#8213; Qwerfjkl talk  11:49, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Not sure that's going to work the way you think, because currently there are seven pages in that category, with only two pending (two are being reviewed and three are project pages), so there is no guarantee that "1 page in the category" (or even "4 pages in category") would yield the proper results. I'm not necessarily opposed to having the template display the singular when there is only 1 pending draft, but this isn't it (and I honestly don't think it's a big enough deal to merit me spending the time to figure it out). Primefac (talk) 12:23, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
 * @Primefac Could you use the above markup, replacing with everything within  ? &#8213; Qwerfjkl  talk  12:34, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not going to duplicate 30 calls to PAGESINCATEGORY for the sole purpose of making a word singular instead of plural. Primefac (talk) 12:42, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
 * This might need some re-categorisation: non-pending submissions probably shouldn't be categorised as pending AfC submissions. &#8213; Qwerfjkl talk  12:48, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 August 2021
42.107.68.77 (talk) 12:50, 16 August 2021 (UTC) For adding extra information
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Qwerfjkl  talk  12:56, 16 August 2021 (UTC)