User talk:GMH Melbourne/Archive 2024

Pop up links
Yesterday's main page had an atticle on the House of Habsburg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Habsburg). When hovering over the link to "Holy Roman Empire" in the third papagraph, a complexity weird pop up appeared about non existent organisations and people. Today it has been fixed, but I took a screen shot of it. The link though when clicked was to the real wiki Holy roman empire page.

How do these pop ups work? Yesterday I thought I would try to fix it but obviously that has now been done. But i am interested anyway

Thanks Virgobeach (talk) 09:08, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Happy New Year, GMH Melbourne!


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Your GA nomination of Alphington Paper Mill
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Your GA nomination of Alphington Paper Mill
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Orphaned non-free image File:Lindsay Thompson Portrait.jpg
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Paulie Stewart moved to draftspace
Thanks for your contributions to Paulie Stewart. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability and '''see WP:MUSICBIO for what constitutes notability for a music biography. All four references fail WP:IS'''. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. UtherSRG (talk) 11:47, 11 January 2024 (UTC)


 * @UtherSRG: I have moved the article back to mainspace. At least 2 of the 4 sources are independent of the subject (SMH & The Guardian). If this isn't sufficient, there are other sources that exist (   & more ). If you still believe that isn't sufficient to meet GNG, I suggest taking it to AfD. GMH Melbourne (talk) 17:45, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Did you read those two sources? They include interview material and, as such, are not WP:IS. See WP:MUSICBIO and I will indeed go to AFD. - UtherSRG (talk) 17:51, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Also, the purpose of draft space is to give time for an article to get made with adequate sources before being moved into main article space. If you have additional sources, they should be added to the draft before it is made into an article. - UtherSRG (talk) 17:57, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I thought I'd let you know that this article you moved to main space twice is being discussed at Articles for deletion/Paulie Stewart. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 01:53, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

TFL notification
Hi, GMH Melbourne. I'm just posting to let you know that List of chief commissioners of the Victoria Police – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for February 16. 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 ) 22:32, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

DYK for 2020 Coulson Aviation Lockheed C-130 Hercules crash
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Npp
@GMH Melbourne Patrol the page Fisayomi Abebi Thanks. Jutos222 (talk) 23:12, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Monique Ryan
Hi GMH, I'd love to get your advice on something if possible. I recently put Monique Ryan up as a FAC, which was not successful.

One of the comments that was made was that ''The 'Member of Parliament' section is rather bitsy, and jumps from issue to issue. It would be better to discuss how Ryan has positioned herself as an MP, including her overall voting record rather than listing various issues of at times unclear importance (for instance, on what types of issues does she side with the government and on what does she side with the the opposition? Has she successfully influenced government policy?)''

I'm not really sure how to rework the "Member of Parliament" section to make this change. The trouble with writing about independent MPs is that they take public positions on a huge variety of things, and so putting their statements chronologically would mean jumping between lots of topics. Writing about government MPs seems much easier as you can't attribute decisions of a government solely to them, so ordering chronologically is fine. Grouping Ryan's statements by topic seems to me to make more sense, but it still makes it a bit choppy.

Do you have any advice about how to restructure the Member of Parliament section? Any thoughts are appreciated and totally fine if you're not sure!

GraziePrego (talk) 05:53, 22 February 2024 (UTC)


 * I would suggest perhaps rewriting the Member of Parliament section to be a chronological biography of her time in parliament and maybe have a seperate section on her political views. I would also recommend a Peer Review as you'll be able to get many people nitpicking on the finer details to get the article near-perfect. There are also a few articles (here) that are Australian political biographies and FA status which can provide you with a bit of a structure/ guide on the best way to do this. GMH Melbourne (talk) 06:04, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Great thank you :) GraziePrego (talk) 06:05, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 2020 Coulson Aviation Lockheed C-130 Hercules crash
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Your GA nomination of 2020 Coulson Aviation Lockheed C-130 Hercules crash
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 * @Z1720: Thank you for taking the time to review and for all your work and helpful suggestions! GMH Melbourne (talk) 00:21, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Parliamentary Secretary of the Cabinet
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:1840s in Mauritius


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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 21:45, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
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Nomination of Amelia Hamer for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Amelia Hamer is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Amelia Hamer until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished. AusLondonder (talk) 19:35, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Deletion
I must apologise to you @GMH Melbourne- I mentioned Hamer in the discussion for deletion of Alex Bhathal, (also nominated by AusLondoner). Because of this, they immediately nominated Hamer for deletion as well. I recently created Alex Bhathal and I very much think her article should be kept- I only mentioned Hamer as an example of how a candidate can be notable enough to keep. The deletion discussion for Bhathal is ongoing. GraziePrego (talk) 02:13, 14 April 2024 (UTC)


 * @GraziePrego: Hello, no need to apologise, I understand where AusLondonder is coming from. WP:NPOLITICIAN states that unelected candidates aren't inherently notable, which is the case here. But if the articles meet GNG, then they are 'notable' outside of the requirements of NPOLITICIAN and hopefully the community discussion should result in a keep outcome. GMH Melbourne (talk) 06:16, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks @GMH Melbourne, glad there's no hard feelings. Happy to see what others think. AusLondonder (talk) 06:24, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I should also say no hard feelings from me to you either @AusLondonder, we’re all here to make Wikipedia better :) totally respect your nominations. GraziePrego (talk) 08:12, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Matthew Charles Johnson
Hello! Your submission of Matthew Charles Johnson at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! PCN02WPS ( talk  &#124;  contribs ) 15:31, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the review
Thanks for your through and detailed good article review of John Tonkin. You did well! I hope for List of premiers of Victoria to be promoted at FLC soon. You now have 2 supports which might be enough. Steelkamp (talk) 13:53, 23 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Thank you! GMH Melbourne (talk) 14:16, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 May newsletter
The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.

The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:
 * with 707 points, mostly from 45 good article nomination reviews and 12 good articless about radio and television;
 * with 600 points, mostly from 12 good articles and 12 did you know nominations about coinage and history;
 * with 552 points, mostly from a featured article about the 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season, three featured lists, and two good articles;
 * with 548 points, mostly from a featured article about the snooker player John Pulman, two featured lists, and one good article;
 * with 530 points, mostly from two featured articles (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three good articles.

The full scores for Round 2 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76 in the news credits and at least 200 did you know credits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed during Round 3, which starts on 1 May at 00:00 (UTC). 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 WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

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ndash and mdash
Re:

Hello. The article you edited uses ndash and mdash instead of the actual characters for clarity of coding. Depending on the font (and depending on one's visual acuity), it can be difficult to tell the difference between -, –, and —. The price of this clarity is a few additional characters in the wikitext.

Unless you can cite a guideline that discourages this practice, please do not make this kind of edit. I have restored the ndashes and mdashes at that article. Thank you. &#8213; Mandruss  &#9742;  15:49, 29 April 2024 (UTC)


 * @Mandruss: Sorry for the error, this was a bot-assisted edit (m:User:TMg/autoFormatter). I agree that code is more practicable in this situation. I will be more careful next time around. GMH Melbourne (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I have requested that that script be changed to remove this type of edit, but I'm not optimistic. Being more careful may have to suffice. &#8213; Mandruss  &#9742;  16:25, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Rollback on London 03.06.17
Hi there! I started to edit the page on the Aphex Twin release London 03.06.17 and added a new section about the background of the record (being released at the festival, etc) since the article is a stub right now, however I noticed you rolled back those changes. I thought the edits were constructive and I don't understand why they were rolled back. I am new to editing Wikipedia, so I'm sorry if my edit wasn't actually constructive! Beachweak (talk) 13:34, 30 April 2024 (UTC)


 * @Beachweak: Sorry about that, I was patrolling recent edits to try and undo vandalism and from the interface I was using (which is different from the normal interface) your edit must have appeared to be vandalism. This was of course an error and I apologise. I have undone my undo. Thank you for your edits! GMH Melbourne (talk) 13:39, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
 * All good, thank you for the explanation, have a good day! Beachweak (talk) 13:40, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Reverted draftifications
Hello. I wanted to let you know that I reversed your draftification of John Jaycee Cuijpers, Gabriel & Co., Stadionul Soda, and Gary L. Coleman. I did so because articles older than 90 days should not be draftified without prior consensus at AfD, per the result of this RfC. Please be mindful of this when moving pages to draft space in the future. Hey man im josh (talk) 14:34, 1 May 2024 (UTC)


 * @Hey man im josh: Hello, not a problem, I have now PRODed them. Sorry for the inconvenience. Because the RfD says 'too old' and isn't really clear about the '90 days' rule, I assumed it was ok to draftify them as they hadn't been reviewed yet. Again, sorry for the trouble. GMH Melbourne (talk) 14:55, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
 * No worries, I usually end up telling one or two editors a week about this, as it's really only written down in WP:DRAFTIFY, which is an essay itself and not policy. Hey man im josh (talk) 14:58, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Nomination of Aida Vee for deletion
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TFL notification
Hi, GMH Melbourne. I'm just posting to let you know that List of premiers of Victoria – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for June 7. 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 ) 21:26, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Matthew Charles Johnson
Z1720 (talk) 00:03, 26 May 2024 (UTC) GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:28, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Free content from State Government of Victoria


A tag has been placed on Category:Free content from State Government of Victoria indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 07:13, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

GA review circle
Hey! This is. Earlier, you invited me to your GA review circle. I just wanted to say- great idea! I hope it works out and helps facilitate many GA reviews to come. The Sharpest Lives (the deadliest to lead) 16:47, 7 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your encourangement! GMH Melbourne (talk) 00:53, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Brad Banducci
The SandDoctor Talk 00:03, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Matthew Charles Johnson
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