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Your assistance would be appreciated

Hello there. I've got a few template syntax issues over at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Massachusetts that I could really use your help with. When you get a chance, could you head over there. Just search for your name, I've said I'd ask you for help at each one, so they shouldn't be hard to find. Thanks! Sven Manguard Wha? 04:21, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Okay, sure, will take a look soon. :) — Cirt (talk) 04:23, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Closing steps for portal pro/de-motions

Hmmm... I'm sure someone else asked Gimmetoo (talk · contribs) if his handy bot could do any more of this, but I don't know what the answer is. There's probably only a limited amount of streamlining that can be done under the current structure. I'm not sure, for example, that the closer ought to have to leave a congratulations message for the nominator (that doesn't happen at FAC, although admittedly they have a greater turnover of nominations). Nor am I sure that delisted portals need to be added to Goings On - do delisted FAs get mentioned there? I'm not sure. Beyond that, we'd need to think more radically. Do we need Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/List? Checking "what links here", it's not widely used. Does anyone use, or need, Wikipedia:Portal/Directory? Portal:Featured content is in dire need of a cleanup - the random selection of past TFAs and TFPs (some of which will now be delisted) hasn't been updated since sometime in 2009, and the situation is much the same for the FL selection (which isn't based in any way on the TFL system...). So I'd be tempted to abandon Portal:Featured content/Portals as {{historical}} on the basis that only the FPo maintainers keep that part of P:FC up-to-date and why should you/we bother if nobody else does? Thoughts? Bencherlite^Talk 15:25, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

The portal directory is the only place I know of to find portal maintainers, if that info isn't listed on the portal itself. As such it's particularly useful for working out who to notify when bringing featured portals to review (a task that sorely needs addressing atm). Espresso Addict (talk) 15:52, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Okay understood, but can you please help with suggestions of other ways to make the Portal Promotion/Demotion process much less steps? — Cirt (talk) 15:53, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Well, there's no obvious reason for that directory to include whether or not the portal is featured; if that info were removed the directory would continue to serve its purpose. I'd agree with Bencherlite that there's no necessity to leave a congratulations message for the nominator, who should be watching the relevant pages.

I'm not sure what other steps are involved. If there were a list of necessary steps, then it would be easier for experienced portal reviewers to close ongoing promotions/demotions without recourse to the portal directors. Espresso Addict (talk) 16:06, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Great ideas! Thanks! I've gone ahead and  Done most of those above suggestions from Bencherlite (talk · contribs) and also from Espresso Addict (talk · contribs). :) — Cirt (talk) 16:09, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

I would have thought that it would be possible to work out from the page histories of the portals who (if anyone) is maintaining it, but that is about the only point of the directory I suppose - if it's kept up to date... Bencherlite^Talk 16:16, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Cirt, thanks for letting me know. I'll keep an eye on this discussion and check in once in a while. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 04:03, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Beck v. Eiland-Hall

Thank you very much! — Cirt (talk) 22:32, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Signpost question

Hi Cirt, as an active delegate at WP:FPOC would you be willing to give a write up about your favourite new FPo of 2012, or the one you consider most representative of Wikipedians' work during the timeframe? Something like this maybe, but for portals. If you're interested, just reply here and I'll set some space aside. (Note: I am also asking OhanaUnited, because the more the merrier). I figured, since we've promoted four portals this week there's no time like the present! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:50, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Could we structure it more like an interview, as in my most recent prior contribution to The Signpost, Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-12-10/WikiProject report? — Cirt (talk) 17:11, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

• That wouldn't be fair to the other processes, which used a format like above (we've done FA, FL, and FT so far) — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:05, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

• Hrm, we used that model for Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-12-10/WikiProject report and it worked very well. I don't know what you mean by "wouldn't be fair", you could just put together the amount of questions you want to take up a similar amount of space as those other processes did in the past? — Cirt (talk) 02:03, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

• Except the other processes did exactly as I outlined above: FA, FT, FL. This is not the same as the Wikiproject writeup, so it has a different style (especially since it's meant as a supplement to the regular content i.e. summaries of promoted content). — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:06, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

It's a bad week for me to write something because I have a few things that needs to be done by Tuesday. But I should be available to answer some questions for the issue after that. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 04:00, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

@Crisco 1492 (talk · contribs), could you set up a draft page with the structure, format, layout, and organization that you prefer, and I'll start contributing to that and then you can give input after I've put some stuff down there? :) — Cirt (talk) 04:59, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

• It's basically up to you and Ohana how and what you write, although I'll put an empty space in the upcoming edition. @Ohana: I was hoping this week, because it's unlikely that we'll have another Featured Portal promoted next week. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:18, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

• Here you go. 150 words or so about an interesting portal or trend would be plenty. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:24, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Also, no rush. Deadline here isn't until Tuesday, and I can probably get Ed to push back publication if we need it. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:28, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

I'm trying to avoid talking about my favourite promoted featured portal in 2012 given the small sample size. I can write about Cirt's efforts in getting the portals listed on the main page to featured status. If I'm stealing Cirt's ideas, then I can talk about the discussion on main page portal icons. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 07:10, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

• That would be fine, or something about trending. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:12, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Okay that arrangement sounds great to me. — Cirt (talk) 14:54, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

• Alright, thanks! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:48, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

TB

Hello, Cirt. You have new messages at Sven Manguard's talk page.
Message added 19:54, 2 February 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Sven Manguard Wha? 19:54, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

My portal comments for The Signpost

Cirt

We've had a bunch of portals promoted to Featured Portal quality in 2012 among a diverse group of subjects, including: Animation, Arts, Conservatism, Indonesia, History, Maryland Roads, and New England. So far in 2013, we've promoted portals Bollywood, Cheshire, Massachusetts, and Society. I've personally worked on two of these: Arts and Society, as part of the Main Page Featured Portal drive. This is an effort to improve all portals linked from the top-right navigation of the Main Page to Featured quality. We've only got two more portals left to improve all the way up to Featured status in this quality improvement drive, Geography and Technology; the former is almost there and the latter is coming along nicely. It's been fun helping out with the quality improvement process of portals in the past year. Hopefully it won't take too much longer to complete the Main Page Featured Portal drive, and that will serve as a good model for future contributors to portals.

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The above are my comments for The Signpost, at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-02-04/Featured content. — Cirt (talk) 00:23, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

• Looks good. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:30, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
  • Thanks! I gave my first stab at the most silly sounding title I could think of. :P — Cirt (talk) 00:31, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
    • Looks good, I've tweaked for alliteration (can you find the Wikipedia in-joke in the article body? Great SNL ref, btw) — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:33, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
• Like Yep, that's it. Wonder how many'll catch it. My favourite part of the sketch was Connery, simply because he's Connery. Reynolds... not so much. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:38, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
• We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. Ed doesn't usually publish until Tuesday, so no big rush. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:53, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

OhanaUnited
Being a small project is a double-edged sword. On one hand, we rarely (if ever) have to deal with vandals and other wiki-drama. On the other hand, our target audience is not as much as some article pages and therefore portals are less frequently maintained even though the articles showcased in the portal may be more up to date. Often there is a lot of inertia from the community and we have less capital to work with when the total number of votes matter a lot in a discussion. Just over a year ago, there were a number of good ideas presented to increase the visibility of portals. Including Cirt's idea of improving the portals listed on the main page to featured status, most of the ideas presented have received strong support and implemented. The one idea, championed by myself, would involve changing the standard bullet points on the main page to diagrams that reflect the portal. Even though it has already been implemented in German Wikipedia's home page (where the idea of portal originated), the effort involved in getting this implemented in English Wikipedia would be far too much. At this point, we're aiming for more participants in the featured portals candidate process. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 03:31, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

• Perfect, thanks! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:34, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
  • Looks great! :) — Cirt (talk) 05:11, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

username block of Edwardgug

You blocked Edwardgug (talk · contribs). Why? That is his real name, which is hardly promotional. He was editing his bio Edward Guglielmino. --John Vandenberg ^(chat) 05:48, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

I certainly have no objections to an unblock, but of course I'll defer to previously uninvolved admins about that. :) — Cirt (talk) 06:08, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

But why did you block? Was there a reason except his name? John Vandenberg ^(chat) 06:13, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

I honestly don't recall, but again, I've got no objections to an unblock at this point in time from a Wikipedia administrator. — Cirt (talk) 12:44, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

I could hazard a guess that it may have been something I'd responded to that another user had reported to WP:UAA, but I simply don't remember. — Cirt (talk) 12:47, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Chopra FLC

Hi, I have nominated Chopra's awards and nominations list for FLC. Please, feel free to represent your though on it. The list was successfully reviewed for one month and have improved a lot. I'll be grateful if you can represent your suggestions here...Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of awards and nominations received by Priyanka Chopra/archive2 as fast as you can. Thank You.Prashant  ✉  10:58, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Okay I'll try to see if I've got some time to go over the list page. — Cirt (talk) 12:45, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Portal:Society

Congratulations! Great work! Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 12:16, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

		The Portal Barnstar
		The Portal Barnstar is awarded to Wikipedians who have made significant contributions to topic portals. For your excellent work improving the portals linked from the main page. Although the picture for this should totally have the barnstar going into an orange hole on one side, and coming out of a blue hole on the other. However, I don't have time to draw that. Adam Cuerden (talk) 12:18, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much! — Cirt (talk) 12:45, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

Please, talkback at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of awards and nominations received by Priyanka Chopra/archive2 Prashant  ✉  14:54, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Portal:Geography at peer review

Portal:Geography is now up for portal peer review, the review page is at Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Geography/archive1. I've put a bit of effort into this as part of a featured portal drive related to portals linked from the top-right corner of the Main Page, and feedback would be appreciated prior to featured portal candidacy. Thank you for your time, — Cirt (talk) 21:00, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

The King and I is at FAC

Hi, Cirt. The King and I has been nominated for FAC. I know that you have reviewed articles in the musical theatre area before. It would be great if you could take a look at the article and give comments at the FAC. Thanks for any time you could spare! -- Ssilvers (talk) 00:28, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Okay I'll try to get a chance to look it over. — Cirt (talk) 03:08, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Portal:Geography for featured portal consideration

• Geography

I've nominated Portal:Geography for featured portal candidacy, discussion is at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Geography. Thank you for your time, — Cirt (talk) 21:25, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Concern with Portal:Technology

The selection of articles for the selected articles at Portal:Technology is overwhelmingly computer and internet based. The rest of the portal is much more balanced, but that one section is very, very unbalanced. We need to fix it. Additionally, a lot of them aren't really even primarily technology related. I believe items 12, 22, 28, 33, 34, 35, 37, 41, 42, 43, and everything from 46 through 52 need replacing. I won't be able to do this until, at the earliest, the weekend. There's been a major update at Wikidata and I'm spending my (limited) internet time on that site for a while until everything is stabilized. Sven Manguard Wha? 04:02, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

I think I'll start by adding more from the subject of Mathematics, but if you have any other suggestions for additions that are WP:FA or WP:GA quality, I'd love to hear them? :) — Cirt (talk) 16:04, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Revert Elimination

Hi Cirt. I consulted the article entitled Mister World, and saw that she was eliminated. I tried another article, but was later eliminated because of the discussion of elimination. I am new to Wikipedia and did not know it. I tried asking for the reversal of removal, and replied that I had to get in touch with you directly, who brokered the deletion of the article. Would that elimination was reversed without the controversial items that caused the deletion. My idea is just making an outline, without giving many details. If there is any item that is controversial in the article, this may be corrected first before proposing elimination. This is important because it is one of the leading beauty contest that occur constantly, then it would make sense that this event had not post on Wikipedia. I hope you understand that. Brenhunk (talk) 15:24, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Suggest you consult administrators about this with a post to WP:AN. — Cirt (talk) 15:25, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Chris Claremont photo

Hi. Can you offer your opinion in the discussion on whether to include a 1990s photograph of Chris Claremont in his article? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 22:33, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

 Done. — Cirt (talk) 18:43, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Editor's Barnstar
	For Chonga. I am very impressed: thanks. Drmies (talk) 15:41, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, much appreciated! — Cirt (talk) 18:10, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

SP title this week

Nice work with the Signpost's featured content title this week! Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 15:36, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks very much! I really appreciate your stopping by with those kind words! Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 15:39, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Re: Barnstar

• Thanks! I'd say its a living, but we're all volunteers here. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:48, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Reistatement of Structure101

Hi Cirt,

I'm writing to you to request the reinstatement of a page that was deleted some years ago - Structure101.

I do not need, or intend to use the original content.

I have been carefully studying the requirements for Article Creation on Wikipedia, and I intend to create an article that meets these standards.

I will write the article in my userspace before submitting it for review.

I appreciate your attention, and look forward to hearing from you soon

Regards Robgey

--Robgey (talk) 11:55, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Writing a draft in your userspace is a good idea, with regards to reinstatement, suggest you post a request about that at WP:AN, and I'll defer to the judgment over there. — Cirt (talk) 16:40, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter - February 2013

The WikiProject Good articles Newsletter Volume IV, No. 2 – February 2013 For past newsletters click here

In This Issue Featured editorial: Time to make a Sweep by Hahc21. Project News: Several proposals are currently ongoin at the project, including two requests for comment. Good Articles of the Month: See which articles were picked this year of records: 282 articles passed in January! GA Task Forces: Some minor notes this month Member News: Member news Read this newsletter Single-page Unsubscribe Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot · 12 February 2012

Deletion review for Mister World

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Mister World. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brenhunk (talk • contribs)

Thanks for the notice, — Cirt (talk) 21:33, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Chandra Levy

I noticed that the lede is either too long or too detailed... or something. The upcoming 2013 hearing is not mentioned outside the lede paragrah, and it's been two years since you promoted this article as a Good Article. I was thinking of re-assessment, but I must discuss the article's current state with you first. --George Ho (talk) 16:38, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

I'll defer to your judgment about it. — Cirt (talk) 20:43, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Cleanup

Hello, Cirt. You are invited to join WikiProject Cleanup, a WikiProject and resource for Wikipedia cleanup listings, information and discussion. To join the project, just add your name to the member list. Northamerica1000(talk) 15:15, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the notification, I'll try to take a look at this when I next get a chance. — Cirt (talk) 18:23, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

YouSendIt

Hi Cirt. Most of the things you suggested in the Peer Review I implemented directly, being mostly fairly mundane and obvious edits, but I took a second run at the Reception section and posted on Talk. If you have a minute, I'd love your comment.

• Talk:YouSendIt#Reception

CorporateM (Talk) 00:51, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Okay, will try to take a look soon. — Cirt (talk) 16:08, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Renaming Chandra Levy?

I'm not requesting a GA re-assessment this time. Instead, I made a rename request; you can go to Talk:Chandra Levy#Requested move to improve consensus. --George Ho (talk) 00:48, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

I appreciate the notice but I'll respectfully defer to community consensus from this discussion, and it seems like you're going about the process the right way so far. :) — Cirt (talk) 03:57, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Your assistance please

You closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sherbourne Street I request userification of the article, its revision history, and talk page, to User:Geo Swan/Sherbourne Street, Suffolk. Geo Swan (talk) 03:20, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

I have no objections to that, I'd suggest you contact an admin or request this at WP:AN. — Cirt (talk) 04:06, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Jenna Rose for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Jenna Rose 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 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jenna Rose (4th nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone 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.

You had deleted the article after I nominated it to Afd the first time. It was recreated and survived two subsequent Afds (one which I nominated myself). I have nominated it a 4th time, and hope you might review or contribute to the discussion. Thanks Rogerthat94 (talk) 10:03, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Not sure why I was notified about this, but okay thanks. — Cirt (talk) 22:01, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Need your opinion on reliable source

Hi Cirt,

Saw you were one of the last active editor on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Culture

I am in quandary and trying to make this question as general as possible. Here goes: what, according to you, might serve as a solid source in the field of cultural studies?
P.S. Kindly take the question at its face value. Mr T^{(Talk?) (New thread?)} 14:28, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

I mean basically have you read pages WP:RS and WP:V? That would basically be my answer. — Cirt (talk) 15:18, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Okay. Mr T^{(Talk?) (New thread?)} 15:29, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Article notability notification

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Thank you for the notification. I will respectfully defer to community consensus from others about this. — Cirt (talk) 02:42, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kamran Talatoff

Dear Cirt, I was looking at this Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kamran Talatoff and I found this Kamran Talattof. So I made a redirect. Hope is OK. Best wishes (Msrasnw (talk) 15:15, 13 March 2013 (UTC))

Thank you for the notification, I'll respectfully defer to the judgment of the community consensus about that. — Cirt (talk) 15:21, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

YouSendIt

Hi Cirt. You had provided a peer review for the article on YouSendIt last month and I was hoping I could pester you to close out a couple related Request Edits that are a couple weeks old:

• A request to add YouSendIt to Comparison of online file hosting services.
• A proposed, expanded version of their Reception section based on the Peer Review feedback

CorporateM (Talk) 12:38, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Apologies, just noticing I already asked if you could take a look at the Reception section above and you said you would try to take a look soon. CorporateM (Talk) 12:39, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Hrm, I'd suggest you post to several talk pages of relevant WikiProjects to garner more view, and possible the Village Pump, as well. — Cirt (talk) 13:06, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

She Has a Name

Hi Cirt,

Thank you for contributing to the first She Has a Name FAC. Unfortunately, it failed, but the article then passed a GAN and I have nominated it for another FAC. If you would be willing to contribute to the second FAC here, your input would be greatly appreciated. I contact you specifically because you were the reviewer who most encouraged me to split off subarticles, which I did, and that act is undergoing scrutiny in the new FAC.

Neelix (talk) 14:27, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Okay, will try to find time to take another look soon. — Cirt (talk) 16:35, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Article notability notification

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A most interesting development and fascinating case study into Wikipedia, however I shall defer to community consensus from this intriguing discussion. — Cirt (talk) 02:32, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

The nominator has withdrawn the deletion request, though the Afd is not closed and the tags remain on the article. Been quite a while; how ya doing? Jusdafax 20:05, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the update. :) I'm doin alright, gettin over a head cold. — Cirt (talk) 22:46, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

City of Maroondah unblock

This user, whom you blocked for name reasons a year and a half or so ago, has requested to unblocked to change her name to "Sue at Maroondah." I am inclined to allow it as it fits the "Mark at Alcoa" exception. Are you OK with this? Daniel Case (talk) 13:44, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

I've no objections, but I'll respectfully defer to your judgment about that. — Cirt (talk) 22:18, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari

Hi there Cirt. You reviewed this a while back and I was wondering if you'd be willing to weigh in at the PR here. Thanks! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:28, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Busy lately but will take a look over it sometime soon. — Cirt (talk) 19:00, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Good Article Nominations Request For Comment

A 'Request For Comment' for Good Article Nominations is currently being held. We are asking that you please take five to ten minutes to review all seven proposals that will affect Good Article Nominations if approved. Full details of each proposal can be found here. Please comment on each proposal (or as many as you can) here. At this time, Proposal 1, 3, and 5 have received full (or close to) support. If you have questions of anything general (not related to one specif proposal), please leave a message under the General discussion thread. Please note that Proposal 2 has been withdrawn and no further comments are needed. Also, please disregard Proposal 9 as it was never an actual proposal.

Thanks for the notification. — Cirt (talk) 03:05, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:European military history

Everything I'm working on has slowed down a bit because I'm on stage this week in the chorus of The Yeomen of the Guard. This ends Saturday, so I should be able to catch up Sundayish. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 00:11, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Okay, sounds good, break a leg! — Cirt (talk) 03:05, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

1906 (film) merge discussion

An uninvolved admin. needs to close this merge discussion, which has now been dormant for almost two months. Would you mind taking a look? ---The Old Jacobite_{The '45} 15:59, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, but I'll respectfully defer to someone else, suggest you request someone at WP:AN. — Cirt (talk) 16:00, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Are you stalking me?

I understand that you are infallible and omniscient, but I would appreciate it if you would stop tracking all my edits. Afasmit (talk) 00:19, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Please read this post I made to that article's talk page, back in October 2012. The article has been on my watchlist since then. — Cirt (talk) 00:27, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Good article reviews

Found these two candidates listed over at Wikipedia:Good article nominations/Topic lists/Social sciences and society:

1. Antara (news agency)
2. Transactive memory

I will review these two articles. — Cirt (talk) 17:11, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Both marked as GA on Hold for now. — Cirt (talk) 04:25, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Hello, Cirt. I think I have resolved your concerns at Talk:Antara (news agency)/GA1 sufficiently. Please let me know your thoughts. —Arsonal (talk + contribs)— 03:31, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Oh, great, that's encouraging! At the moment suffering from a bout of Gastroenteritis, but I'll try to take another look soon. — Cirt (talk) 21:08, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

I'll be out of commission for the next week or two while I move. If there are still outstanding issues, I hope you can hold the assessment a bit longer until I return. —Arsonal (talk + contribs)— 14:47, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Okay, I'll keep that in mind. — Cirt (talk) 16:10, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Portal

Finished my other delayed task, this one's next. Sorry this took so long. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 23:40, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

userification please

You closed the 2nd {{afd}} on Abd al Malik Abd al Wahab. Al Wahab is in the news again.

• "Guantanamo hunger strikers ready for death: lawyer". Agence France-Presse. 2013-03-31. Archived from the original on 2013-03-31. His body ravaged and weakened by a 50-day hunger strike staged in protest at alleged mistreatment of Korans at Guantanamo jail, Abd al-Malik Abd al-Wahab has a message for his loved ones. "Tell my family if I die to forgive me," said Abd al-Wahab, a 33-year-old Yemeni national who has spent 11 years — or a third of his life — behind bars at the controversial US detention facility in Cuba. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

Could you please userify the article?

Thanks Geo Swan (talk) 15:23, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

• You indicated a month or so ago that you had stepped down from being an administrator. Geo Swan (talk) 15:47, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

• Do you want to be told when I request userification of articles you closed as delete? Geo Swan (talk) 15:56, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Two selected biographies with no portraits

Hey there. Just noticed that Otto Julius Zobel and George Koval don't have portraits in their selected bio writeups. I tend to try to avoid that, and would recommend finding replacement bios if portraits can't be found, however I'll defer to you on whether you want to do that or not. Sven Manguard Wha? 17:33, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Good thoughts, if we can find relevant free-use images, great, if not, we could try to look for replacement bios of WP:GA or WP:FA quality with free-use pictures. — Cirt (talk) 05:41, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

New article created: Neville Page

• Neville Page

I've created the new article, Neville Page. Feel free to improve or discuss at Talk:Neville Page. — Cirt (talk) 04:28, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

I've nominated it to be part of DYK. I did my best; that's all. --George Ho (talk) 04:45, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

WP:AN#Proposal to unblock User:Kalki

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Konjakupoet2 (talk • contribs) 08:06, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Thank you

	The Freedom of Speech Award
	Thank you for creating Freedom for the Thought That We Hate and WikiProject Freedom of speech. Cheers, :-) benzband (talk) 17:46, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Wow, thanks very much, I really appreciate this! — Cirt (talk) 19:24, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Apologize?

Hi Cirt. Are you convinced yet or do you need more evidence? I would like to know if you are going to apologize for making this baseless accusation. Thanks. ~ DanielTom (talk) 22:14, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

I see you requested that I be checked like I asked (though you didn't notify me). Anyway, thanks very much. Please save your apologies for later ;) Yours, DanielTom (talk) 23:00, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

OK, you can apologize now. Thanks ~ DanielTom (talk) 23:35, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

I apologize to you, per your at least three separate requests. :)

Admittedly I was clued in to this discrepancy by a comment from Beyond My Ken (talk · contribs), and upon further investigation found similarities in behavioral patterns between Kalki (talk · contribs) and DanielTom (talk · contribs), including:

1. Affinity for posting walls-of-text comments in response to others.
2. Usage of ALL CAPS POSTINGS multiple times interspersed throughout comments.
3. Other curiosities as pointed out by Beyond My Ken (talk · contribs).

The Checkusers have since looked into this and they have said this appears to be an unfounded concern. I am sorry you were bothered by this. Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 02:21, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) You handled this thread quite well. I tend to apologize when I realize I'm wrong, but when people demand apologies, I tend to politely or less than politely tell them to shove it. Demanding apologies is rude and also thoroughly useless, because one can never truly be assured of the sincerity of a demanded apology. I should also note that while I have no knowledge of the specifics of this case, just because a checkuser came back negative does not mean that two people are actually unrelated. Checkuser results can be fooled, and behavioral evidence can override a 'negative' checkuser when the behavioral evidence is strong enough. Sven Manguard Wha? 02:48, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Agreed, Sven Manguard (talk · contribs), and thank you for your illuminating and wise words. — Cirt (talk) 02:53, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

The "evidence" you presented was laughable, in my opinion. Why did you disregard all the serious evidence that I had presented showing that I am Daniel Tomé, studying at the University of Porto, and a Go player? Does Kalki even know Go? Worse, your extremely poor "evidence" was all based on language. But that means you had to look at my contributions in an extremely biased way, ignoring my many, many edits and contributions written in Portuguese that you know full well that Kalki could never make. Yet, to further your Kalki-bashing agenda, you assumed that I had lied countless times about being who I am. Anyway. Now you did the proper thing, which is to apologize, and I do accept your apologies. Thanks and take care of yourself, Cirt. ~ DanielTom (talk) 08:44, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Note to self

Note to self:

1. Comments by Someguy1221 (talk · contribs).
2. Comments by Beyond My Ken (talk · contribs).

— Cirt (talk) 02:24, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Invitation to WikiProject Breakfast

Hello, Cirt. You are invited to join WikiProject Breakfast, a WikiProject and resource dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of breakfast-related topics. To join the project, just add your name to the member list. Northamerica1000(talk) 20:58, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Thank you, I'll look it over a bit. — Cirt (talk) 23:12, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Final Fantasy

Agreed, there doesn't seem to be anyone on the case. If we want to improve it, we could push to have it be A class, in preparation for FA status. That would basically involve a peer review with Square Enix Wikiproject. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 02:55, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

I'll definitely do that, I have been thinking about A class for a while, kinda like a mini FA, and copyediting help is just what I need, it's not my strong suit. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 03:24, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Thank you...

Cirt, I don't know how to send you a private message. I see you trying to be fair and supportive when others are not. I feel that I am before an audience that makes LGBT community work twice as hard to keep their materials on Wikipedia. In my opinion, it's a flawed system at best that skews towards a majority. However, you are (to me) the only ray of sunshine is all of this terrible experience. You may delete this if you wish but I just didn't want you to walk away not knowing that all the good karma that you do here doesn't go unnoticed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Desaderal (talk • contribs)

You're most welcome! — Cirt (talk) 15:11, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

World Press Freedom Day

Cirt, I've been discussing with Khazar 2 and just started a discussion with Cisco 1492 about seeing if we could request that Wikipedia devote some space on the front page on 3 May about world press freedom and journalism as that is the day set aside annually for World Press Freedom Day. We just started talking at User talk:Crisco 1492#Pembrita_Betawi. Do you know some article under your project that would fit in DYK or in the Featured Article slot? Crtew (talk) 19:23, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Why don't you post a notice about this at WT:WikiProject Freedom of speech, and we can all discuss it centrally, there? — Cirt (talk) 19:25, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Neville Page

Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 00:02, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Featured Portals update

Greetings Portal Comrade!

Just a quick update on the two FPOCs I'm involved in.

Portal:Sports has it's first review in. I'd really appreciate it if you'd be willing to do the second review (so that I have some momentum going for it.)

I've been chipping away at that last section of Portal:Geography for a while now. Did some yesterday with my alt account. It takes surprisingly long to make everything the same size, and I really don't have much time to spend on Wikipedia as it is, but I am aiming to get it done late this month. 1 through 14 and 18 through 20 are the right size. 15 through 17 and 21 through 30 still need to be done, and then I'll cast a support vote for the portal.

Cheers, Sven Manguard Wha? 16:33, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Welcome

Thank you very much for your welcome message. Well, I am a French contributor since 2004, and I work sometimes with the English one. My English is not good enough to write directly in the main part of the English encyclopaedia, so I usually write remarks in discussions pages. Dues to the area I am working (Spanish art), I am not that sure many people read it. I will try to found people involved in this areas following your links. Thank you again. v_atekor (talk) 18:38, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Chandrasekhar fifers FLC

Hi, would you mind having a look at the main article? —Vensatry _{(Ping me)} 04:11, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

I've added refs. now. Can you now look at reviewing the list? —Vensatry _{(Ping me)} 12:16, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Two articles for GA Review

1. Mallory Hagan
2. 2012 tour of She Has a Name

I will review these two articles. They were both found, listed at Wikipedia:Good article nominations/Topic lists/Media and drama. — Cirt (talk) 20:45, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Chandrasekhar fifers FLC

Hope I've resolved your concerns in the main article. Can we now have a look at reviewing the list? —Vensatry _{(Ping me)} 19:08, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, a bit busy but I'll try to take another look sometime soon. Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 22:50, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Youshotandywarhol

A blast from the past - you slapped a {{ublock}} on this guy back in 2010, and he's suddenly reappeared and requested a username change. In the absence of any other evidence of wrongdoing, I've unblocked and pointed him at WP:CHU; this is just a quick note to let you know. All the best. Yunshui 雲‍水 08:58, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Okay, no worries, I'll respectfully defer to your judgment on this matter, thanks for letting me know, — Cirt (talk) 18:01, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

2012 tour of She Has a Name

Hi Cirt,

Thank you for promoting 2012 tour of She Has a Name to good article status. I hope that the new status will encourage more discussion at the article's next featured article candidacy.

Happy editing,

Neelix (talk) 16:23, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

GA

Well, Bruce Campbell decided to retire from the wiki, but not before removing the GA noms that she had started. At first I just renominated an X-Files episode (not only we both were in the project, but I edited that article as well). Then I decided to do a favor to her work and put all but two of her noms back - with my help, Crimewave, The College Dropout and Within the Woods have green shields on the top now. Now only The Evil Dead remains. (and if it's not too much trouble for you, a nom by me alone is pending because the reviewer still thinks there are prose issues, can you take a look?) igordebraga ≠ 14:43, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the helpful explanation! I'll take a look, — Cirt (talk) 15:56, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

TB

Hello, Cirt. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Featured_portal_candidates/Portal:Sports.
Message added 15:18, 26 April 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Sven Manguard Wha? 15:18, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for the heads up, will take a look soon. — Cirt (talk) 15:56, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Free Speech

I would be against it. This page already exists for 7 years and is quite often linked to. A lot of editors know what right you have to Free Speech on Wikipedia. :) The WikiProject however is only a few months old. I don't see a good reason why the WikiProject should suddenly have this name. A link to the wikiproject on the page, like there is now, should be sufficient. Garion96 (talk) 21:48, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

If you insist it should be on requested moves indeed. I am curious though. Why do you think a new wikiproject, with basically so far only you editing the project and talk page (with some exceptions) should have this name? Instead of the original page which had that name for 7 years (on Wikipedia an eternity), the name which has many incoming links, and where the name is quite well known to many editors. Garion96 (talk) 22:36, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Make that "yet" into "never". :) Nope, really don't agree with it. I could understand it perhaps if Wikipedia:Free speech has to be name of the project, but it only is a redirect Wikipedia:WikiProject Freedom of speech. So one page changing it's name, for just a redirect to another page? nah. :) Garion96 (talk) 22:43, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Fuck (film), freedom of speech-related quality improvement project

• Fuck (film)

As part of a quality improvement project on a topic related to freedom of speech, I've greatly expanded upon and improved the quality of the article at page, Fuck (film). Any further suggestions for additional secondary sources and referencing would be appreciated, at the article's talk page. — Cirt (talk) 20:19, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

BOTF

Funnily enough I was an avid player of Birth of the Federation and I remember it quite well. Fortunately it should just be young enough that information on it will be backed up in archive.org, so it should just be a case of digging it out of there. I'm certainly happy to give it a go, although it's likely that I won't be starting any new GA-type projects until after I get back from holiday in two weeks. Although a bit of variety sure is tempting, and the reception section should be fairly easy to add - the one at Star Trek: The Next Generation: Klingon Honor Guard didn't take too long at all. I'll see what I can do. Miyagawa (talk) 07:37, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikiproject interest

Hmm, no idea actually. I assume you tried the usual stuff, talk banner templates (how much I miss red talk pages when there is no actual discussion :), advertising and the like? I am not really a wikiproject person so can't really help you there. The other relevant WikiProjects perhaps? Like WikiProject law. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Garion96 (talk • contribs)

Okay, no worries, thanks for the input! :) — Cirt (talk) 12:03, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Unsigned?? That hasn't happened to me in a while. :P Garion96 (talk) 12:33, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Heheh, no worries, and no big deal about the other thing. Have a great day! :) — Cirt (talk) 16:48, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Mark Millar Infobox Photo

Hi. Can you offer your opinion here? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 17:04, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

 Done. — Cirt (talk) 18:20, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

2012 tour of She Has a Name

Hi Cirt,

I have renominated 2012 tour of She Has a Name for featured article status here. Considering that you were the GAN reviewer, I thought that I would inform you of the discussion. Any constructive comments you are willing to provide there would be greatly appreciated.

Neelix (talk) 19:59, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Okay, I'll give it another look over soon. — Cirt (talk) 20:05, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

About closing steps for featured portal promotions

(See relevant discussion from your archive)

You removed a few instructions from the closing steps per inputs from 2 others.[1] I think we should have kept 2 steps involving maintenance on Portal:Contents/Portals and Wikipedia:Portal/Directory. Both pages are highly visited, particularly for Portal:Contents/Portals.[2] What do you think? OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 19:30, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Portal/Directory may not be particularly useful to the general public. But when Portal:Contents/Portals gets 120k pageviews this month (and nearly 400k pageviews over last 90 days), the data speaks for itself for its usefulness and a very good opportunity to showcase which portals are featured. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 19:41, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your messages, Cirt. I've spent none of my limited WP time in portal land recently, so cannot remember precisely what the issues were or which steps I suggested cutting or why. If time permits I will try and get back up to speed with this issue but input from others would probably be good. Bencherlite^Talk 21:20, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

• Discussion now at Wikipedia_talk:Featured_portal_candidates#Featured_Portal_closing_discussions. — Cirt (talk) 21:31, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Modern Day Escape deletion

Is there any way to change the page Modern Day Escape into a redirect page to StandBy Records? — Thatemooverthere (Talk) 02:12, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

I'd have no objection to that, use your judgment, but I'd suggest discussing it with a relevant WikiProject on their talk page, for example, perhaps Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rock music. — Cirt (talk) 03:06, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Well when I click the red link to the page, it doesn't give the option to create the page at the top, whereas blank pages usually have the option. Do you have any idea as to why that is? — Thatemooverthere (talk) 02:14, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Reply

I've put in a request for unprotection, at Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection#Modern_Day_Escape_.28edit.7Ctalk.7Chistory.7Cprotect.7Clinks.7Cwatch.7Clogs.29. — Cirt (talk) 02:20, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

If the request goes through and it becomes a redirect, it would probably be best to protect it again to prevent the problems that led to its protection in the first place — Tha†emoover†here (talk) 02:26, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Unheeding reversals

Please do not revert edits without analysing properly whether they are constructive or not. You may have been edit warring with Defender miz; he may be a sockpuppet (no idea on that); he may have disrupted the style of a featured list (not everybody is aware of all FL discussions); he may have shown or does show some poor editing from time to time; but all that does not mean that you can revert a page to its state before he made any edits [3][4]. By that one, not only did you revert three other persons' edits, but also removed valuable additions to the article (which, unlike awards lists, is intrinsically incomplete). Five of the releases he added have they own articles (and do not necessitate references in a list - although, yes, they should be added if we aim for feature quality; but it is unattainable in this case...); the one that did not have an article, he referenced; and some other fixes he also did properly. At least he knows wiki markup, unlike all those IPs... And anticipating any questions, I am not a sockpuppet of anybody. YLSS (talk) 21:02, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Understood, thank you, I'll take more care to look into that in the future. Glad to hear someone else is looking into this disturbing behavior pattern by Defender miz (talk · contribs). — Cirt (talk) 21:06, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Media and drama reviews

I will review these three WP:GAN candidates:

1. The Evil Dead
2. Star Trek: Insurrection
3. Nefarious: Merchant of Souls

Found these, listed at Wikipedia:Good article nominations/Topic lists/Media and drama. — Cirt (talk) 02:41, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Did what I could in the first. Also, I meant to take a look at Bleed Like Me to see if a clean-up of the prose as the reviewer complained is possible (but thanks for your input, even changed a bit of the article). igordebraga ≠ 05:28, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Ah, okay thanks for the update, I'll take another look at those. — Cirt (talk) 06:04, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

SheiKra FAC

Hello, just wanted to stop by and ask if you me willing to include you opinion on the Sheikra FAC. (SheiKra is similar to Millennium Force) If you decide to leave your opinion, the review page can be found here. Thanks!--Dom497 (talk) 23:29, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Ah okay, I'll read it over in a bit. — Cirt (talk) 01:26, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

CFD

Hi Cirt! Long time no talk. I'm a little confused about whether or not this CFD notice is right for you; it was originally Smee but also a redirect ... anyway, if you *ARE* the creator of this category, you may wish to join in on the CFD discussion. As you probably know, award-winners are usually better handled in lists where they can be ordered properly and include information about how and why they won the award; see WP:OCAT#Award. I'm posting the official notice below. --Lquilter (talk) 13:35, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice, but I'll respectfully defer to the outcome from the discussion as determined by the consensus of the community, — Cirt (talk) 16:14, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, and have some pierogi!

	Pierogi Award
	Thanks for your support of my RfA. It didn't succeed this time, but that's no reason not to have some nice pierogi. Cheers, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 14:20, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you! Good luck next time, — Cirt (talk) 16:14, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Milhist FA, A-Class and Peer Reviews January–March 2013

		Military history service award
		By order of the Military history WikiProject coordinators, for your good contributions to the WikiProject's Peer, A-Class and Featured Article reviews for the period January–March 2013, I am delighted to award you the Military history WikiProject award. Anotherclown (talk) 23:38, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Freedom for the Thought That We Hate - FA nomination

• Freedom for the Thought That We Hate

Freedom for the Thought That We Hate is currently a candidate for consideration of Featured Article quality status. The discussion page is at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Freedom for the Thought That We Hate/archive1.

Thank you for your time, — Cirt (talk) 04:46, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Good Article Barnstar
		For your contributions to bring Fuck (film) to Good Fuckin' Article (GFA) status. Thanks, and keep up the good work! -- Khazar2 (talk) 05:18, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks very much! :) — Cirt (talk) 05:19, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Cirt. You have new messages at VoxelBot's talk page.
Message added 03:30, 5 May 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Vacation9 03:30, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Okay thanks for the notice! :) — Cirt (talk) 06:30, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

re: FAC

Haha, glad that caught on a bit! I, for one, think there should be mandatory quid-pro-quo reviews for FAC, but that's just my opinion. :) --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 16:15, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Got your message. Happy to collaborate with you. Cheers! Hawkeye7 (talk) 08:20, 7 May 2013 (UTC)