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Eris

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TFA - Eris (dwarf planet)

Hello, a while ago you put Eris (dwarf planet) on the pending nominations list for "Today's featured article" for July 29. This is just to let you know that the TFA nominations page is now accepting nominations for dates in July and early August, so if you'd like to nominate the article, please pop over and follow the instructions (which hopefully are less complicated than they used to be). Let me know if you've got any questions or problems. Thanks, BencherliteTalk 23:54, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Missed the nomination date. Oops. My fault for taking too long. Oh well, I can nominate Eris again for January 5th which might be a more appropriate date anyway since that'll be the 10th anniversary of the dwarf planet's discovery. Andromedabluesphere440 (talk) 17:14, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Wikipediholism test

Thank you for taking some care of it. Of course, this is a humorous page, but part of the joke is you can really take the test. As I see, some IPs think it is funny to make the page unfunny. As a result, potential wikiholics will be turned away from the last help available for them. As a 'wikiholic dormant', I dislike the idea of turning this page into a pile of garbage. Would you like to continue keeping your eye on the page? For some time I toyed with the idea to request semiprotection for it, but I am afraid admins will not see to it seriously. Of course we may disagree on what is funny, but I feel we have a reasonably close understanding of what is idiotic. Staszek Lem (talk) 18:54, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

It is difficult to judge what is funny and unfunny for the test since everyone has a different sense of humour. I do feel some of the IP edits are missing the point of the test such as by adding questions that have little or nothing to do with Wikipedia (or - in the case of 108.65.83.176 - repeating questions and extending the test's size to over a million bytes making it impossible for anyone to actually take like). I agree that the page could benefit from protection, although that discussion would be better located on the test's talk page. In the meantime, yes, I can continue watching the page. --Andromedabluesphere440 (talk) 19:10, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
I agree we cannot judge humour. However we can have an agreement of what is unfunny. For example, repeating the same joke with minor variation ("Joe comes into a bar". "Fred comes into a bar". "Bill comes into a bar") does not make people laugh, although some think it is funny to annoy people. I agree we have to judge relevance and common sense, just as everywhere in wikipedia. I am copying this chat into the article talk page. Staszek Lem (talk) 19:33, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

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...for your support over at my RfA. I shall do my best to be worthy of it. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 05:49, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

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WIkiProject Doctor Who Newsletter: July 2024

The Space-Time Telegraph
Volume II, Issue I — July 2024
Brought to you by the editors of WikiProject Doctor Who

Okay–ooh. New teeth newsletter. That's weird...

Hello!

Welcome to the first regenerated issue of The Space-Time Telegraph, the official newsletter of WikiProject Doctor Who. We hope it finds you well in your safe travels across the Whoniverse! This newsletter was founded in 2008 and seemed to get lost in the time vortex quite quickly. Thanks to the Doctor dragging Sutekh through the time vortex and bringing life by bringing death to death (yeah... I'm a little confused too), it seems to have regenerated. The writing staff hopes to bring you future editions quarterly.
For this first edition, we have created an updated version of our mailing list that includes any active editors who previously had their usernames included in our participants list. If you do not wish to receive future editions, please remove your name from the mailing list. If you no longer wish to participate in the project, please also remove your name from the participants list.
I think that's enough about the newsletter for now. Let's dive into interesting things happening within the Doctor Who side of Wikipedia. Geronimooooo.....

Big Spike in Productivity

During 2024, the project has scored 8 GAs, 2 FLs and a GT, up from last year's 4 GAs and a GT. Several additional things are in the pipeline, with a bunch of things currently having been nominated with some mix of OlifanofmrTennant, TheDoctorWho, and Pokelego999 having their names attached to them. Allow me to look into the nominees.
  1. Series 14: As of July 18th, every single episode has been sent to GAN, with "Boom", "73 Yards", and "The Devil's Chord" having made it to GA.
  2. 2023 Specials: Early in the year, as part of trying to not lose the WikiCup, Ollie sent "The Star Beast" (still salty about the move) to GAN. It was reviewed by frequent collaborator (fly high) of hers, but failed. She then fixed it up and sent it back where it passed. Later "The Giggle" was expanded and sent to GA, followed shortly by "Wild Blue Yonder". WBY received help by JustAnotherCompanion, a pretty fresh user. This other companion chose not to be listed as co-nom. A page was created for "Destination: Skaro" and quickly got GA status.
  3. The Daleks' Master Plan was also sent to GAN by Rhain. It passed to join Rhain's other First Doctor content, being the fourth season three article to get the green check.
  4. Peter Capaldi: The filmography and newly created awards of Capaldi were both sent to FLC and passed. Capaldi's main page was sent to GA, though due to some minor incompetence on the part of the nominator it was failed.

Proposals to the WikiProject

A recent proposal at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Doctor Who suggested potential improvements and suggestions for the main page of the project, as well as discussions about the project overall. The proposals are as follows:
  1. The Task Forces section should be removed due to inactivity in the Torchwood Task Force, and a lack of significant interest in creating further Task Forces.
  2. The freenode channel no longer works and should be removed due to most discussion taking place on site.
  3. Due to the low quality of Lungbarrow and Jubilee despite being sample articles, these articles should either be removed as samples or improved. Additionally, the "sample device" has a very small application field, and should be removed from the sample articles section.
  4. An updates infobox should be included, similarly to those used by Wikipedia:VGCHAR.
  5. Radio Times's Doctor Who sections should be included in the references section due to their benefits for the project sourcing wise.
  6. The Deletion Discussion archive should be removed, or have work invested in updating it, due to its lack of updates.

If you feel you have any thoughts or suggestions on these matters, or on any other matters pertaining to the project and its main page, feel free to chime in the ongoing discussion.

Discussions of Note

A move discussion is currently underway on whether or not Doctor Who series 14 should be moved to Doctor Who season 1 (2024). The discussion also involves conversation on a few other adjacent articles. If you have an opinion on the matter please read over the discussion or leave comments.

Contributors

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