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Recent GA nominations
Duckduckstop, you recently began nominating a large number of articles for WP:GAN, your first nominations in this area as best I can determine. In all 17 cases, these were articles you hadn't been working on: you added the nomination and then posted a notification that you had done so.

The GA nomination instructions are quite clear that if you haven't done significant work on the article, you should consult with active editors on the article before nominating: Nominators who are not significant contributors to the article should consult regular editors of the article on the article talk page prior to a nomination.

Are you planning to shepherd these nominations through the review process, making corrections and adding inline cites as necessary? You're supposed to do that, too: The reviewer will be making suggestions to improve the article to GA quality during the review process, therefore the review will require your involvement as nominator. Before nominating an article, ensure that you will be able to respond to these comments in a timely manner. You cannot count on previous editors to do this ... unless, of course, you get their agreement that the article is ready for a GA nomination and that they're willing to respond to issues during the review. The same is true for mostly dormant articles, such as Elisabet Ney: if you don't address issues raised during the review, the odds are the article will fail.

All of your selections seem to be using the Objective Revision Evaluation Service as a basis for nominating, something I've never seen used as a reason before. Based on these 17 nominations, it's also not terribly accurate: your nomination of Cornelius Vanderbilt was reverted and the one for Martin Van Buren was quickfailed, while the Rogier van der Weyden article was characterized as "weak" and "underdeveloped for GA" by one of its editors. Elizabeth Catlett was scored at about 0.52 FA plus 0.39 GA, yet it has systemic prose and grammar issues, which should have been obvious to anyone reading it. Articles should be stable: instability is another reason for quickfail. Nominations of people who have just died (Andrew Grove and Johan Cruyff) are going to be problematic because of frequent edits due to their death; articles that are undergoing expansion (clearly seen in their history) should also not be nominated (Archibald Cox and Yann Martel). Articles should be ready to pass GA at the time they are nominated—while there is a large backlog, some nominations are chosen for review within hours of being nominated, when an article is interesting to a reviewer.

You currently have more active GA nominations than anyone by a significant margin, and all based on a novel criterion that doesn't reflect the actual GA criteria. I hope you will reconsider your methodology going forward, and withdraw all the ones that either you do not intend to edit at the review stage or are not immediately ready: undergoing expansion or otherwise unstable, tagged with problem templates or containing significant prose or other GA criteria issues, deemed not ready by active editors, and so on. Thank you for your understand, and I apologize if this is discouraging; I do hope you'll stick around and help Mary Mark Ockerbloom with the two nominations you've urged her to pursue. BlueMoonset (talk) 22:22, 28 March 2016 (UTC)


 * i have reached out on the talk page to encourage the editors of good articles to answer your reviews. i can handle any articles you can review.
 * the ores score seems to indicate that there is a large backlog of articles that very well could be "good", but for your broken process. you might want to fix your process, rather than throttling nominations to it. quick failing articles that very well could be improved is not a process improvement. but i see we will be thrashing resubmittals as at AfC.
 * it is important that articles that very well could be GA are promoted, so that we have an accurate quality assessment. deterring editors from even submitting their work to you, is dysfunctional, and cannot stand. Duckduckstop (talk) 16:16, 29 March 2016 (UTC)


 * It's good to know that you're willing to undertake to make all the necessary edits when one of the nominations is reviewed. However, it is unfortunate that you did not see GAN as a collaborative process: your need to have an "accurate quality assessment" seems to overrule all, including finding out from the editors most involved where they felt the article stood—and many of them have significant experience at GA and are aware of the criteria and how well (or poorly) the article currently compares to them. If you want accurate quality assessments, I recommend that you go to a primary WikiProject and ask for a general assessment, noting that you think it might be ready for GA. I'm sure they'll tell you if they agree; if their assessment is a C, for example, then they clearly don't. B-class, the highest they can go without a review, will tell you that it's certainly close. I will be reverting some of your nominations for articles that clearly are not ready, or that are actively being expanded or otherwise unstable. I think that is clearly preferable to quickfailing them. Please note that the process is not "mine", and I cannot change it for you or anyone: it's not within my power to do so. Engaging with people on the talk page to suggest or propose changes is the way to go. I do try to help it run as smoothly as possible, and that sometimes means posts like the one above when people new to the process nominate or review in bulk without fully understanding how GAN works or what makes a GA. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:11, 30 March 2016 (UTC)


 * i win awards for collaboration, and no, i do not see GAN as collaborative. it is a gatekeeper process, as broken as any on wikipedia. it stands in the way of quality improvement. Duckduckstop (talk) 19:30, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Yann Martel
The article Yann Martel you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Yann Martel for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of LT910001 -- LT910001 (talk) 22:21, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

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Help request for mapping section titles
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Proposed deletion of File:Art Buchwald.jpg


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