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FAC mentorship

Hi! I saw that you are listed at Wikipedia:Mentoring for FAC, and was wondering if you might be willing to give some feedback on Mary Fortune? I’m considering nominating this as my first FAC and would really appreciate any advice or suggestions you have in advance of nominating it. No worries at all if not :) MCE89 (talk) 16:24, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I'd be happy to look at it. If for some reason I forget, and 24 hours go by, remind me. Noleander (talk) 17:46, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@MCE89 - I went thru the article and posted some notes at Talk:Mary_Fortune#Comments_from_Noleander. Noleander (talk) 14:28, 12 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much, really appreciate it! I'll work through all of those points and do some final spot checks to make sure my citations are all in order before nominating it. MCE89 (talk) 14:37, 12 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your nomination of Bridge has passed

Your good article nomination of the article Bridge has passed; congratulations! See the review page for more information. If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Generalissima -- Generalissima (talk) 18:46, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Don't know if you seen it, but hope you don't mind I highlighted your work in Bridge channeling some James Brown. igordebraga ≠ 00:32, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion of James Cook

Congratulations, Noleander! The article you nominated, James Cook, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Gog the Mild (talk) via FACBot (talk) 23:22, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WP:GARC invitation

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Sanger edit

Obviously I disagree with the IPs edits, but that was not a good use of rollback. You may want to make a null edit with an explanation, per WP:ROLLBACK#What to do with accidental rollbacks. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 19:58, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reminder ... I'll do the null edit as you suggest. Noleander (talk) 20:28, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In appreciation

		The Reviewers Award
		By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this award in recognition of the thorough, detailed and actionable reviews you have carried out at FAC. This work is very much appreciated. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:06, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Regarding Meg White as a FAC

@Noleander - Thank you so much! @David Fuchs said they would review Meg White next month, but I wouldn't mind more help! I want to cover all bases, so whatever capacity you want to help that'd be great! Watagwaan (talk) 17:36, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, I can look at the article. Did you have any specific questions about FA criteria? or how the FA nomination process works? Noleander (talk) 19:19, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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DYK for Bridge

On 24 November 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Bridge, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that cables of large suspension bridges can reach over 1 metre (3.3 ft) in diameter and weigh more than 20,000 tonnes? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bridge. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Bridge), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

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A cup of coffee for you!

driving by from your DYK hook on Bridge to say that I wholeheartedly appreciate your work! have a cup of coffee to keep you energised in your quest to FA. Juwan (talk) 10:47, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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James Cook

Hi, you have listed this for TFA at pending for February. I have tentatively reserved a date for it, but if you would still like it be considered you will need to nominate it at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests, which is now open. Cheers. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:17, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RefCheck tool

Hey, you mentioned the RefCheck tool here. How can I find this tool for my own use? Z1720 (talk) 23:47, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Z1720 - I'm 99% sure it is User:Lingzhi/reviewsourcecheck.js. If not that, then User:Ucucha/HarvErrors.js. First you install the JS script (once), then the tool appears in the "Tools" menu at the top of page, with the name "Show ref check". You click on that when viewing any article, then scroll down to the References section and warnings are displayed there.

Here is a list of tools I've used at one point or another:

IA bot - will generate archive links, if missing. Very hard to get it to complete. Often times-out. IF it displays a time-pout message: DO NOT CLOSE THE browser tab: leave it up... the process may still be working. May take 3 hours to complete? here or here
Add author-links: User:DVRTed/author-link (run from Tools menu within the "Edit article" page)
LLM-AI detector: https://gptzero.me/ Must manually copy-paste individual paragraphs.
Spell check (I don't think WP has a built-in spell checker, so may need to copy text into a word processor app and check there)
Reference Checker e.g. User:Ucucha/HarvErrors.js or User:Lingzhi/reviewsourcecheck.js (latter is "Show Ref Check" on Tools menu)
Plagiarism/copyright tool: https://copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=en&project=wikipedia (found in GA review toolbox)
Highlight duplicate links: (install tool into menu from User:Aaron_Liu/duplinks.js )
Authorship tool https://xtools.wmcloud.org/authorship/en.wikipedia.org/ (found in GA review toolbox)
Page statistics https://xtools.wmcloud.org/articleinfo/en.wikipedia.org/Kitty%20Marion (found in FA review toolbox)
Citation Bot https://iw.toolforge.org/citations/process_page.php?edit=toolbar&slow=1&page=Kitty+Marion (found in FA review toolbox)
External Links tool https://link-dispenser.toolforge.org/analyze/Kitty_Marion (found in FA review toolbox) This is a great tool, but produces many false positives for dead URL sources that have a valid archive link: but archive is slow, so the tool reports a warning. HOWEVER, the tool will find original URLs that are dead, yet not so marked.
"Highlight unreferenced passages" tool into menu from User:Phlsph7/HighlightUnreferencedPassages.js On the Tools menu; will find sentences that need a cite

Noleander (talk) 23:54, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Djibo Bakary Bridge

Please can you sort the references out on this article? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:25, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's on my list of things to do, i'm really busy this week ....I'll try to get to it. I figured it was better to get the article started even in an ugly state, than having no article at all. The edit summary of the very first edit has a link to the German Wikipedia article that has the properly formatted citations. Noleander (talk) 17:40, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Do you mind if I draftify it, and you can look at it when you have more time? It's not really in a fit state for mainspace right now — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:21, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I mind. I spent time getting that aritcle started ... if its draftified, no one (inclding me) will ever revisit it. Relax, there is no deadline. I added Template:underconstruction. Noleander (talk) 21:26, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks

...for the review at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Misti/archive2. Was wondering if you could take a look at Macauley Island which I am hoping to send to FAC as well. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 08:57, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, if I can find some time, I'll be happy to look at it. Noleander (talk) 23:35, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Season's Greetings

It was great to have the opportunity to review your articles in 2025, and I look forward to more in 2026. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Cheers. MSincccc (talk) 18:29, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, and best wishes to you also! I really appreciate all the work you do at the Featured Article pages. Noleander (talk) 20:03, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guidance on Improving Vital Engineering Articles?

Hi Noleander, thank you for your impressive contributions on engineering-related vital articles! I'm working on improving Archimedes' screw, a level 4 vital article, and will maybe nominate it for GA/FA status? I'm curious to know your research process for vital articles, as well as how you manage to push through the challenges of overhauling vital articles (especially considering this is a relatively obscure topic). Icepinner (Come to Hakurei Shrine!) 09:35, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Icepinner: - The process I use for vital articles is essentially the same as any article; the only difference is that reviewers may be familiar with the item/topic, and so they will make suggestions about content that should be added to the article. My process for any article, Vital or not, is

Aim for FA status from the start; use FA criteria from day one.
Go through GA, then one or two PRs, then FA
For GA and PRs: if a week goes by and no one starts the review, I find a good reviewer that has an article that also needs a review, and contact them, and ask them if the would be willing to swap reviews. 90% of the time they agree. Swapping reviews is common for PR, more rare in GA (some editors think swapping reviews in GA is discouraged - but swapping GA reviews is not prohibited).
I use about 10 tools to catch errors (CopyVio tool, Page Size; spell checker, AI-detector, Cite tool, Unreferenced passage tool, etc). Run them before nominating for GA or FA, and fix any issues they identify.
Cites/sources must be immaculate: Many reviewers will see errors in cites/source format/layout as a sign of sloppy editing
When there are 2 or more cites for a sentence: bundle them so they appear as a single superscript
Spend a lot of time searching for academic/scholarly sources: do not rely exclusively on books, newspapers & websites. Use WP:RX and WP:TWL if needed.

Feel free to contact me if you want me to look at the Archimedes' screw article some day, e.g I can do a Peer Review.

Here is the full checklist I use for my own FA nominations: User:Noleander/FA_checklist. Noleander (talk) 15:44, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I looked at the AS article, it is looking great! One small issue I see: Source titles:

Sentence case: Archimedes screw generators for sustainable micro-hydropower production
Title case: Sennacherib, Archimedes, and the Water Screw: The Context of Invention in the Ancient World

Pick one cap style and use it for all sources; ignore how the sources capitalize themselves. Noleander (talk) 16:01, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the guidance, Noleander! This has instilled hope in me that this article can be GA'ed (of course, much work still needs to be done). I've started changing the source titles, but ZKang's script doesn't seem to work for the sources in the bibliography section, so it'll take some time. Icepinner (Come to Hakurei Shrine!) 16:57, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for informing me about that Zkang tool ... I was unaware of it. Someone should post a "improvement suggestion" on their Talk page about getting it to work on sources in Biblio section ... that is where many articles have all or most of their sources. Noleander (talk) 17:17, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'll speak to ZKang about the issue. Icepinner (Come to Hakurei Shrine!) 23:17, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Your draft article, Draft:James Cook proposed text 1

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In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:24, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year, Noleander!

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James Cook scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for February 14, 2026. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 2026, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/February 2026. Please keep an eye on that page, as notifications of copy edits to or queries about the draft blurb may be left there by user:JennyOz, who assists the coordinators by reviewing the blurbs, or by others. I also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks, and congratulations on your work! Gog the Mild (talk) 11:38, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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