User talk:Novem Linguae/Work instructions/FGTC

Questions and suggestions
Hi Novem, I hope your well. Just a few things to run by you, when you have a moment. Can NovemBot do promotions of former topics? Thinking about Featured and good topic candidates/Dwarf planets/archive1, in this case.

Also, two requests for the NovemBot, granted that you deem them reasonable and have a moment:


 * 1) Could the bot possibly add something like Fa top & Fa bottom to promoted nominations? Consistency with the FA bot would be ideal—and I think the visual element makes it clearer if a conversation has ended.
 * 2) Could the bot also put FC pass talk message on nominator talk pages? Although there's no template for GTs in this regard at the moment.

Again, these are super low-priority, so please no rush! Thank you again for all that you do here.  Aza24  (talk)   02:47, 14 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Hey buddy. Just acknowledging that I've seen this. Will circle back to it when I'm less busy with work stuff. – Novem Linguae (talk) 17:48, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Sounds good, thank you for your invaluable efforts. And again, no rush at all.  Aza24  (talk)   00:08, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @Aza24
 * Hard:
 * Looks like NovemBot can't currently handle former/demoted FGTs. This is because I haven't programmed logic for how to handle things like Wikipedia talk:Featured topics/Dwarf planets, where it'd have to add an action4 to Featuredtopictalk and change its current status, instead of just writing a brand new page like it currently does. I would also have to add logic on how to reconcile the new set of WikiProjects with the existing WikiProjects already on the talk page. If you want to trick the bot into doing this anyway, blank both Featured topics/Dwarf planets and Wikipedia talk:Featured topics/Dwarf planets, run the bot, then manually fix/merge the old and new content at Wikipedia talk:Featured topics/Dwarf planets.
 * Easy, let's knock these out, need some action on your side though:
 * Fa top & Fa bottom: Can you show me a diff please? Unclear which page you want this on and where exactly the two would go.
 * FC pass talk message: I think you'd need to fork this into its own template and make a few modifications, or modify the existing template to handle a "topic" parameter. Once this is ready, let me know and we can add this to the FGTC promotion work instruction and to NovemBot.
 * – Novem Linguae (talk) 16:19, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for all of this.
 * For the FA top and bottom I'm thinking of what the FAC bot does —so this would be after pages are promoted, on the discussion page. Just seems like an archiving standard we ought to include; I imagine we'd be fine having it place Archive top and Archive bottom?
 * I'm currently discussing this was Sdkb. I think a new template is probably the route; although the current supports featured topics, it doesn't for good topics, as you allude to. And using the single-star icon for featured topics is a bit strange anyways. Will report back once progress is made on this template.
 *  Aza24  (talk)   03:10, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @Aza24. I added the Archive top/Archive bottom feature just now. Can you run the bot on ONE regular topic (not an addition) so I can confirm the change? – Novem Linguae (talk) 09:46, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I've now just promoted one (Featured and good topic candidates/Overview of Ben&Ben/archive1) –  Aza24  (talk)   03:47, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * @Aza24. Let me know when you finish forking FC pass talk message, and I can get that added to NovemBot. Also let me know the next time you need a former topic re-promoted. That will give me a nice push to work on that feature. – Novem Linguae (talk) 10:48, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Sounds good, thank you! There may be a delay with forking the template, I'm rather busy this May, but hopefully I'll get around to it early this summer.  Aza24  (talk)   06:46, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi Novem, I've gotten around to forking the template, see GA pass talk message, I hope I did it right. FC pass talk message should already be available for topics. Feel free to add these to NovemBot whenever you have a chance. Thanks as always for your efforts. Best –  Aza24  (talk)   05:37, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Hey @Aza24. Can you do me a favor and repost this somewhere (maybe User talk:Novem Linguae/Work instructions/FGTC) and ping me? Pings and notifications on user talk get erased really easily (MediaWiki clears them every time you visit the user talk page). Pings from remote talk pages stay in my ping box until I get around to them :) – Novem Linguae (talk) 11:23, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Now moved –   Aza24  (talk)   17:03, 20 June 2024 (UTC)