Slipknot discography

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previous FTC

Major contributors: Rezter, Blackngold29, Rtiztik, Dude527, Gary King, me

4th time the charm. Nergaal (talk) 18:57, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Credit: MNM, Adam Birch, John Hennigan = ThinkBlue and NiciVampireHeart; Melina Perez = Nikki311

 ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) and I are nominating the topic MNM as a Good Topic. MNM was a professional wrestling faction in WWE, comprised of John Hennigan, Adam Birch and Melina Perez, known by their ring names Johnny Nitro, Joey Mercury and Melina respectively. All four articles in the topic are of Good article status. ♥NiciVampireHeart01:14, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ionian Revolt

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I am nominating this as a good topic. It is intended as a sister topic to First Persian invasion of Greece and Second Persian invasion of Greece. There are only three articles, but between them these articles cover all the aspects of the campaign.

In the last nomination I had, there was a protracted debate about whether biographical articles needed to be included in the topic to make it complete. For this topic, I will repeat in advance the argument that biographies of the military commanders of this campaign will add little to the reader's understanding of the topic. This is mostly because it would be impossible to write a meaningful biography of any one of them, since so little is known of them. Furthermore, I note that two further military campaign topics have been promoted since then (Boston Campaign and Canadian campaign of 1775), without including any biographical articles. MinisterForBadTimes (talk) 18:20, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That is basically what I did. There had, at some point in the past, been a massive proliferation of articles on ancient battles which were essentially non-notable/only known from a single line in an ancient source. I have been methodically removing these where possible, and folding them into larger articles. IMHO, Sardis and Ephesus were not notable enought to require their own articles. For instance, the sum of historical knowledge on Ephesus is Herodotus's two sentences: "It chanced that they found the Ionians no longer at Sardis, but following on their tracks, they caught them at Ephesus. There the Ionians stood arrayed to meet them, but were utterly routed in the battle." I don't think that dragging this out into a whole article is really a good use of anyone's time. Ditto Sardis, which wasn't even a siege as such. I'm not just trying to cherrypick by eliminating articles.
OK, I just like to ask. I can see that the bulk of both articles pre-merge (if you can call it the "bulk"?) was the background and aftermath sections which was just basically context - rst20xx (talk) 18:59, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Also I'm not going to start this debate again because I'm fine with these topics not including individual participants, but to be fair the other battles topics that have been promoted are much more recent so it is likely the participants are notable for more than just their participation, or are notable for participation in several conflicts, unlike here, where they are only notable for this - rst20xx (talk) 12:07, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
That is a fair observation. I'm not suggesting that, for instance, George Washington should be included in Boston Campaign. MinisterForBadTimes (talk) 15:05, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Simpsons (season 7)

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Co-nominators: From Season 7 Topic Drive: TheLeftorium, Scorpion0422, Gran2, Cirt, Gary King, Nergaal, Maitch, ImperatorExercitus.

Good topic nomination, every article is a GA (except the main one, which is a FL). One step closer in Scorpion0422's evil plan to turn this site into Homerpedia... TheLeftorium 09:35, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Music of the Final Fantasy series

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I'm nominating this as a good topic as I think it meets the criteria. Over the past year I've gotten every single article up there to GA/FL with the exception of FF8. The topic includes the music articles on all of the main series Final Fantasy games, as well as the spinoff series that have their own music/discography articles, which are linked together in a template. --PresN 15:19, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • Yes, and I'm working on it- hopefully I'll get it up to nominating status in a week or two. Note the 70 or so edits on it since I created the page a week/week and a half ago. I disagree that renaming the scope does not solve the problem, though I hope to make the point moot soon. --PresN 20:55, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Neutral: (Leaning towards support) PresN, I'm confident you will improve the article to GA standards; you've done spectacular work on the whole topic. So long as you are working on it, I see no real problem, only technicalities which I believe should be acknowledged. I hope you understand my neutral stance, but I don't feel I should fully support the topic without the concert article and full music scope. (Guyinblack25 talk 21:07, 3 June 2009 (UTC))[reply]
    • Support: With the concert article now GA and the scope matching the main article, I see no reason to withhold support. I think this is one of the better video game topics we have now. Excellent work PresN. (Guyinblack25 talk 20:24, 3 July 2009 (UTC))[reply]
  • Support as either discography topic (as now), or even better as the more general topic - note that the concerts article is currently at GAN, so waiting to see the outcome there may be best.YobMod 17:39, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'd be okay with that, except that the current backlog (top to bottom) of the "Music" section of GAN is ~1.5 months - that may be a bit long to keep this on hold. --PresN 17:54, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • While generally it is advised against, I think given the circumstances it would be a good idea to hold off and wait and see how the GAN goes before promoting the topic. It would be easier this way. If you like we could hide the nomination until the GAN passes, effectively putting it on hold for the time being, or we can leave it here so other people have a chance to look it over in the meantime - rst20xx (talk) 10:57, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Supplementary nominations

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  1. Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Music of the Final Fantasy series/addition1
  2. Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Music of the Final Fantasy series/addition2
  3. Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Music of the Final Fantasy series/addition3
  4. Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Music of the Final Fantasy series/addition4
  5. Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Music of the Final Fantasy series/addition5
  6. Wikipedia:Featured and good topic candidates/Music of the Final Fantasy series/addition6

Canadian campaign of 1775

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I believe this grouping qualifies as a Good Topic. All of the elements are described in the main article, and are contained in {{Campaignbox American Revolutionary War: Canada}}. (Note that the campaignbox contains one more entry than shown here; the extra entry redirects into Capture of Fort Ticonderoga.)

Thanks for your consideration. Magic♪piano 23:59, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • Not sure what you mean. As far as I could discern, the place now known as "Vaudreuil" was then primarily known as "Quinze-Chenes". There is a section entitled "Battle at Quinze-Chenes" in Battle of the Cedars. Are you saying there is insufficient clarity in the explanation, or are you saying that section should be titled "Battle at Vaudreuil" (which I believe to be historically incorrect)? (Or something else entirely?) Magic♪piano 00:09, 29 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]