User talk:Armbrust/Archive 23

Happy First Edit Day! (2019)
 Happy First Edit Day! Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 05:51, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Armbrust The Homunculus 07:02, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

 Happy First Edit Day! Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 15:58, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Armbrust The Homunculus 16:02, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Invitation to join the Ten Year Society
Dear ,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more. &#x200B;

Best regards, Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 22:30, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

POTD
I am curious to know what was wrong with this POTD nomination? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:43, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
 * The image you scheduled doesn’t appear in any article. Armbrust The Homunculus 04:57, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:45, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Belated holiday greetings


Merry Christmas and happy new year.

↠Pine  ( ✉ )  16:19, 27 December 2019 (UTC) Armbrust The Homunculus 16:46, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Featured_picture_candidates/Hygrocybe_miniata
I've made the judgement call, such as it is, but I'm having computer troubles, and therefore don't have access to the closure tools. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.3% of all FPs 01:01, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Sorry that took so long. It's been a while. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.3% of all FPs 21:22, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
 * . Armbrust The Homunculus 22:10, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

hoping you might do that
the FM is a bit of an unnanounced surprise - and wasnt sure of the process of evaluating within the larger scheme of things as any person or their dog (as in on the internet no one knows you are a dog) had over the years created a vast 20k +collection of very irregular and unchecked items, it has taken a few of use over 14 months to get the unassessed importance to 0 - and now there will be at least 4 to 5 passes of the whole set for a whole range of improvements - (a big problem is some project taggers dont always understand project tagging) - and if what you just did is consistent across all projects on wp en- that is FM = NA, that is a start for standardising that at least... thanks for creating it anyways... JarrahTree 09:22, 16 March 2020 (UTC)


 * found some more new items - thanks for your efforts! JarrahTree 11:07, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Armbrust The Homunculus 18:06, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Happy Birthday! (2020)
 Happy Birthday! Have a very happy birthday on your special day!

Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 03:29, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * . Armbrust The Homunculus 16:40, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Association football position CFDs
Many thanks for the heads up! GiantSnowman 19:00, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

National Indoor Soccer League
Hi, you created Category:National Indoor Soccer League seasons as ambiguous for (at least) two periods, and Category:National Indoor Soccer League teams as ambiguous for three periods. However, the Seasons articles indicate that only in 2008–09 National Indoor Soccer League season was the league known as National Indoor Soccer League, so I believe that all pages/categories referring to NISL should be merged/redirected to Category:Major Indoor Soccer League (2008–2014). Any objection? – Fayenatic  L ondon 11:41, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
 * It would be probably be better to rename to  and  to, and than redirecting the NISL categories to their corresponding MISL (2008–2014) subcategories. Armbrust The Homunculus 14:10, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'll take than as a "then". – Fayenatic  L ondon 15:31, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that’s a common error of mine. 😅 Armbrust The Homunculus 15:33, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Speedy question
Hey, to save me some time, will you oppose renaming Category:Washington Senators (1901–60) and it's subcategory (such as Category:Washington Senators (1901–60) coaches) per mos:daterange because the title is at History of the Washington Senators (1901–1960)? That means Category:History of the Washington Senators (1901–1960) coaches etc. --Gonnym (talk) 14:26, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
 * No, although the main article should probably be renamed at some point too. Armbrust The Homunculus 14:59, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

not a featured picture?
Hey, Armbrust, I don't understand what happened here. It's not a featured picture? —valereee (talk) 18:20, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Pictures for the POTD section are chosen from the English Wikipedia’s featured pictures, and that file is only featured on Commons. Armbrust The Homunculus 20:04, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see...how weird that it even ended up scheduled. I saw it and thought, "Food! I can help with that" lol —valereee (talk) 12:24, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Another featured picture
Is it appropriate for Template:POTD/2020-06-19 to be a POTD considering that the user concerned is globally blocked? I haven't completed the caption yet in case it would be wasted effort! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:09, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I don’t think that’s a problem. The focus is on the picture and not on the user who made it. Armbrust The Homunculus 09:19, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

POTD Unused
Armbrust, that discussion was closed as No Consensus, other than not having it on Intersex Awareness Day. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.3% of all FPs 16:06, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the late reply. I added the image to the list, because it was de-scheduled by . It looks like there is a discussion about this at Talk:Main page. Good luck with that. Armbrust The Homunculus 00:09, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * This edit was made in response to the fact that the image was no longer scheduled as POTD for any date, so the picture of the day template was out of place on the file description page. The actual descheduling had been done by someone else. —  RAVEN PVFF   · talk · 00:33, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Checking the logs, the reason given for its removal was "rescheduling". I really, really don't know what's going on there. Since the Main Page discussion is largely positive, I say we just put it in as quickly as possible after... say, 2 weeks' chance to state ones' views. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.3% of all FPs 11:11, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

While we're at it, can we just schedule the Michele Merkin image? It's cheesecakey, sure, but that's not a very good reason to censor it, and it feels more weird every year. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.3% of all FPs 16:07, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * The relevant discussion in this case took place at WT:POTD. Armbrust The Homunculus 00:09, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

POTD... again
The POTD scheduled for 17 September 2020 is Template:POTD/2020-09-17. Now I notice that the general rule is that images that have appeared as POTD should not appear again because of the backlog of images that have not yet appeared, and this image appeared in 2006. I would like to make an exception for it because it has been nominated, and the caption written, by User:FEMSmatt, who has made no other edits to Wikipedia. I would not like his only contribution to be rejected on a technicality, and as an electron micrograph of bacteria, it adds interest and variety to POTD. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:13, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't think that's a good idea. IMO the same file could only be reused if it has some date relevance. Armbrust The Homunculus 15:47, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Sinustrombus sinuatus
Could you please explain why you undid my revision on this page please? Simuliid talk  18:06, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Why should I bother explaining, if you can’t be bothered to leave an edit summary either. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:40, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

A non-transclude nomination page for an already featured picture
I wanted to alert you to Featured picture candidates/microorganism. I don't know what we do in such situations. --- C &amp; C ( Coffeeandcrumbs ) 18:29, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
 * G6 worked this time. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:50, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Crucible Almanac
Hi Armbrust, I hope you are well and life is treating you well. Did I read at here that you have a copy of the Crucible Almanac? I'm trying to source some stuff for the 1984 and 1986 World Snooker Championship FAs. If you don't have a copy, don't worry. :) Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 20:09, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I have a copy of the 2012 edition. Armbrust The Homunculus 20:17, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Excellent news! I have a copy supposedly on its way to me, but Snooker Scene have been quite delayed at getting it to me. Does the Almanac list the qualifying century breaks in 1984? Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 20:34, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 * No, the Crucible Almanac doesn’t has any info about the qualifying stage at all. Armbrust The Homunculus 02:51, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/Rosa Raisa


My best guess is either a stealth edit conflict, or accidentally editing an old revision somehow. It certainly wasn't intentional. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.5% of all FPs 19:15, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Yeah, this can happen sometimes. Luckily it's fixed now. Armbrust The Homunculus 06:32, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:05, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Armbrust The Homunculus 11:56, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Very sorry
Very sorry about the POTD problem. Hope it doesnt disrupt any POTD processes. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael (marhata) 12:47, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
 * No problem. The file was just renamed today on Commons, so it’s earlier run wasn’t visible on the file description page. Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 15:09, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
 * You misspell regards? Regards, Jeromi Mikhael (marhata) 10:34, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
 * . Armbrust The Homunculus 09:30, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

Problematic user
Hi Armbrust,

I'm currently writing a report against another user, who has been involved in too many edit wars. You seem to have interacted with them during an edit war.

However, I need support from other editors, otherwise administrators will not take the matter seriously. Would you be interested in cooperating? I would need you to review my current report and, if you agree with supporting it, add your signature to it.

Best,  Walwal20  talk ▾ contribs 08:59, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Good luck with that, but I'm not interested in pursuing this issue. Armbrust The Homunculus 22:51, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Ok, no problem. I do appreciate that you replied though! 👍 Kindly,  Walwal20  talk ▾ contribs 04:57, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

Category naming
Hi there!

Since you nominated a bunch of PDC categories for renaming, I was just wondering if you could point me to some naming convention guidelines. Is it just that we should use exact page names? I was using Category:PDC world darts champions as my baseline. Thanks! DLManiac (talk) 00:50, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
 * That's generally a good idea. You can find others at Category names. Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 06:58, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

Topics
We went ahead and got the 2018 Category 5 hurricanes to FA so there would be less pressure in the future for maintaining the featured status of the Category 5 Pacific hurricanes topic. Also, there should be a new FT coming within the next few months that contain those three Category 5 hurricanes. I'm glad you noticed that Walaka got promoted as sometimes I feel that very few care about the work being done. Noah Talk 23:36, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Good luck with that. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:46, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day! (2020)
 Happy First Edit Day! Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 18:39, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
 * . Armbrust The Homunculus 18:49, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Vernon Jordan
I noticed you put him under "Business". Given it's him running a voter education project, should it be "Political"? Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.8% of all FPs 21:00, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Adam Cuerden Well the article describes him as "an American business executive and civil rights activist in the United States". So, I think it's good where it is. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:40, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Preston
I saw you're thanks on Commons for some of the Preston edits, regarding Preston here, the sub categories of Category:City of Preston, Lancashire should probably be disambiguated since as can be seen from Preston/Category:Preston there's a lot of uses but some like Category:Tourist attractions in Preston indicate (by being included in Category:Tourist attractions in England by city) that they are for the city (settlement) not the city (district). Maybe they should be renamed to "Preston, Lancashire" rather than "City of Preston, Lancashire" for this reason. As a side note I'm not sure we should generally sub divide by district in England rather than just by county (or sometimes settlment) but that's a different discussion.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 21:43, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

FPC
Hi, looks like a possible case of votestacking on the Nepalese photo [] at FPC. Care to look into that? Best regards, Janke | Talk 17:38, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Janke That's certainly possible, though I couldn't find any evidence of it onwiki. Armbrust The Homunculus 20:07, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Solicitation, if any, would probably be found on the Nepalese wiki - but I'm not going to dwell on that... Janke | Talk 09:27, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

Happy Birthday! (2021)
 Happy Birthday! Have a very happy birthday on your special day!

Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 22:11, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Armbrust The Homunculus 12:02, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

New user on FPC
FYI: Unfortunately, user Elvorix talk hasn't enough edits for their votes to be eligible to count. Didn't want to advertise that on the FPC page itself, thus this alert... Cheers, --Janke | Talk 14:18, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I see that Bammesk (talk) did that already... --Janke | Talk 08:23, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Bammesk, for your swift action. Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 13:04, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for participating in my recent RFA
I appreciate your support and trust in my recent run for admin. I've had an interesting first few weeks and am learning a lot by being able to better watch (through tools) what admins do. Please call on me if you see making an error, or if you just need help. Thanks again. BusterD (talk) 18:00, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Armbrust The Homunculus 13:11, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:03, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Armbrust The Homunculus 12:20, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Quorum Question
Hi! What is the quorum necessary for featured picture promotion? I've been trying to find it but haven't been able to. Thanks, Tyrone Madera (talk) 22:42, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Tyrone Madera From the lead of WP:FPC: "For promotion, if an image is listed here for ten days with five or more reviewers in support and the consensus is in its favor, it can be added to the Wikipedia:Featured pictures list." Armbrust The Homunculus 03:34, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I was looking for it but having trouble locating it for some reason. So quorum has nothing to do with the total number of voters? Tyrone Madera (talk) 16:29, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Tyrone Madera Yeah, for quorum just the number of supports mater. Additionally, for promotion it there needs to be twice as many supports as opposed. Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 10:07, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

SOAS Crest
Dear Armbrust, I just saw that you had added a non-free rationale, corrected the license tag and even uploaded a new coloured version of the "File:SOAS Crest.jpg". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SOAS_Crest.jpg I would like to use that file you uploaded in the infobox of the french version of the SOAS wikipedia article but it wouldn't let me. The use of low-resolution images of crests to illustrate in an educational article about the entity represented by the image is also legal in France. However, I have no idea how to do so. Could you please help me by putting your file in the french infobox if you know how to do it? Thank you very much in advance. --서윤하은 (talk) 09:25, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
 * You can only use the file on the French Wikipedia, if you upload it locally, but I don't know how to do that. Armbrust The Homunculus 03:50, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

FP category
Hi Armbrust, I think (a sea urchin) belongs in Category Echinoderms. Cheers. Bammesk (talk) 02:36, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Great catch. ✅. Armbrust The Homunculus 03:48, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

L'Origine du monde
Hi, I wonder why there wasn't any comment in Featured picture candidates/L'Origine du monde. I understand this image is controversial, but I am very surprised by the lack of answers and comments. Any idea? Yann (talk) 10:58, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
 * No idea. Armbrust The Homunculus 11:56, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

File:The Black Patti, Mme. M. Sissieretta Jones, The Greatest Singer of her Race.jpg
Hey there! Just nominated this on Commons FPC, and was asked if it was possible to change the filename to help keep the focus on her and not the old-timey racism of how she was promoted at the time (without changing description of image). I know en-wiki FPs are a little awkward as regards filemoves on Commons, if I wanted to move it to, say, File:1899 poster of Mme. M. Sissieretta Jones.jpg, is that a huge problem? Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 11:39, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Adam Cuerden Not at all. We promote the image and not the file name. Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 13:48, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Just had a vague idea that it was impossible to edit pages here that were file redirects on Commons. That may be old knowledge. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 21:39, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

Anyway! Have moved it. One of those things where I'm not sure it does anything really, but it makes someone feel better and costs very little, and, who knows, maybe does some good after all. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 09:46, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

Was this demoted?
I checked Featured and good topic removal candidates/Thatgamecompany/archive2 and article milestsones which suggest demotion was the most recent event, but it is still listed as a FA in the assessment templates... see Talk:Thatgamecompany. What am I missing? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 20:33, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
 * The featured topic Thatgamecompany is the one that got demoted, and not featured article Thatgamecompany. (The demotion of the topic is noted this way on every article of the topic.) Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 20:41, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see, thank you. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 12:56, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

Happy Birthday! (2022)

 * Armbrust The Homunculus 12:15, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Winston Churchill portrait: potential copyright violation?
Hello, the picture of Winston Churchill https://w.wiki/55Ek you uploaded to Wikimedia Commons appears to have got there via https://www.flickr.com/photos/28853433@N02/19086236948/ which has now been removed due to copyright violation (via Anthony McAndrew a.mcandrew@camerapress.com). Any ideas if this actually is a copyright violation or not? Duncan.Hull (talk) 07:16, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Duncan.Hull It seems to me that PD-Canada applies, as a photograph created before 1949. (BTW I didn't upload the file.) Armbrust The Homunculus 20:44, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Goings-on
Thanks for the fix. That... weird missed item in the Featured lists haunted the lists for ages. I put it in at the point I found it lest there was some reporting that had missed it, and... it broke something. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.9% of all FPs 19:55, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:21, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Armbrust The Homunculus 08:25, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Nom. question
Hi. I tried creating a nomination (which I don't normally attempt). It's not showing up yet on FPC. Did I do something wrong, or is there a waiting/approval period? TNX. – Sca (talk) 18:15, 14 November 2022 (UTC)


 * You have to manually transclude the nomination page to the WP:FPC page. (Which I have done for you.) Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 21:28, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Not sure what transclude means, but thanks very much. -- Sca (talk) 22:56, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

First Edit Day!

 * Armbrust The Homunculus 07:12, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

 * Armbrust The Homunculus 07:13, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

Featured picture candidates/1971-CANNIKIN-2.jpg
I assume the template was used by mistake, but I did not create the image. I merely realised when I came across a high resolution version of the image on OSTI that it was superior to the existing image and replaced it. Kylesenior (talk) 06:34, 17 December 2022 (UTC)


 * That’s because you did some restoration to the image (and there is no separate template for that). Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 13:01, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Armbrust!


Happy New Year! Armbrust, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

— Moops  ⋠ T ⋡ 20:30, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

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 * Armbrust The Homunculus 20:32, 1 January 2023 (UTC)



Happy New Year! Armbrust, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

Abishe (talk) 00:37, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

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 * Armbrust The Homunculus 00:51, 2 January 2023 (UTC)