Wikipedia talk:Featured and good topic candidates/2010

Help with criterion 2
Sorry, didn't see the comment at the top of the page. Moved discussion to Wikipedia talk:Featured topic questions.—NMajdan •talk 14:04, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Status check
What is the status of both Featured topic candidates/M-28/archive2 and Featured topic removal candidates/State highways in Marquette County, Michigan/archive1? The former has been open since May 4, the latter since May 19.  Imzadi  1979   →   19:14, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry, the former should be promoted and the latter demoted but I've been really busy lately so haven't had time to do it yet - rst20xx (talk) 21:53, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

"Reviewer" userright
The "reviewer" userright, allowing you to to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, will be commencing a a two-month trial at approximately 23:00, 2010 June 15 (UTC).

The Flagged Protection trial is going to be starting very soon, and non-admins who have had access to edit semi-protected articles since roughly Day 4 of their editorship will now have their edits going into a vetting queue unless they are granted autoreviewer and/or edit reviewer permissions by an administrator. This will have a significant impact on editors who have, for years, been working on quality content. More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.

If you have not already done so, please request this "right" at WP:PERM/RW or ask any administrator. Cheers, Dabomb87 (talk) 15:21, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Is one allowed to object or launch FTRC because nominally FA/GA articles aren't up to it?
Way old undersourced FA/GAs within FT/FTCs mainly  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  02:53, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * If FAs or GAs don't meet the FA or GA criteria, you know the appropriate processes to reassess them; I don't think FT(R)C should get in the business of assessing individual articles. Ucucha 02:56, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Unless a FARC/GARC is completed I do not think going for the topic is appropriate. Here it is dealt more about the definition of the topic rather than the lack of citations within articles. Nergaal (talk) 12:04, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I'd also say FTRC is the wrong venue- remember that there is a three month grace period after the article is demoted before the topic is out of compliance. FAR, FLRC, and GAR are better suited processes than FTRC to handle problems with individual articles. Courcelles 12:23, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

2003 Atlantic hurricane season
(copied from here)

I was wondering how to go about updating that topic. Two articles were merged, so that needs to be reflected. Hurricanehink ( talk ) 22:42, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The "right" way would be to add a 4th "supplementary/addition" nomination in which the new format is listed. That way there is a history in the topic, with people voting. The short way is to do it manually yourself (if there there is still nobody in charge here) and update the topic history. Still, I am a bit weary how did the articles get promoted in the first place to GA if they were not notable. Was there a change in the guidelines of the project? Nergaal (talk) 23:22, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The articles were borderline notability to begin with. They were made when most all storms got articles, but that has changed, so they were peacefully merged. So I should still to an addition, even though it's removing two articles? --Hurricanehink ( talk ) 01:37, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Hrvey family
Is there an issue here? The GTN has been open 4 weeks  YellowMonkey  ( new photo poll )  02:26, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

FT/GT director(s)
FAs, FLs, and Featured Portals all have directors. Lately, since user:rst20xx's inactivity, the project started to lag significantly. Since the closing procedure for XTCs and XTRCs is a bit complicated, I think it would be beneficial to have a couple of users in charge of them. I know this has been proposed in the past, but now, with 215 FTs and GTs the project has become larger than for example the portals one (which does has two directors). Ps: no, I am not interested. Nergaal (talk) 02:45, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I concur, the lag here has become a bit much and there's plenty to do. I might be willing to do this, although I have no idea what's involved, but I expect to run a lot of GTs through in the near future and could be considered to have a CoI.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 23:02, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I was about to ask what was wrong with rst still running the show, but I didn't realize he'd dropped off the radar. Who's been handling the promotions, etc. right now? If he or she can stand it, throw 'em in the saddle and/or add some additional people. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk ) 23:24, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Wizardman has been doing that. Ucucha 00:21, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Perhaps we should ask him then if he's confident enough that we can make the de facto the de jure, or if he'd like some other hands on board for coordination? Then just slap it on FTC and be done with it :) Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk ) 16:29, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

I'm still hopeful that rst20xx will return - he's a student at Oxford, and their term hasn't started yet. Maybe he'll get back behind a computer more often when his summer hols are over. But in any case, having a few other people building up experience in promotion / transfer / demotion is no bad thing. BencherliteTalk 16:34, 23 September 2010 (UTC)


 * How about having rst20xx as coordinator/director emeritus, and adding two more directors? Nergaal (talk) 17:21, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I could be considered the director if you guys are fine with that. Sorry that the backlog's starting to grow, I've fallen behind in that regard. If Sturm wants tohelp out as well he's of course more than welcome to. Wizardman  Operation Big Bear 23:01, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Search option
Is there a way to search quickly though all the topic candidates subpages? Nergaal (talk) 23:46, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
 * this page will give you a list of all subpages of WP:FTC, and if you go to the search page and follow your search string with "prefix:Wikipedia talk:Featured topic candidates/", ie like this you can do a text search in all of the subpages. -- Pres N  23:53, 15 December 2010 (UTC)