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I totally forgot I had done anything on this episode; it passed GA years ago, but to my eyes looks like it only really needs a solid push to finish off the reception and release section and it's good to go for FAC, if you're interested in helping. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs(talk)19:12, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
No problem. I'll go through the extra couple of TNG sources I have here as well in case there's anything more I can add (although it's clear that the Making of book is the best available source for this, and you've used that already). Miyagawa (talk) 20:37, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
One thing that jumps to mind that will have happened after the GA is that Star Trek Online has a sequel level to "Yesterday's Enterprise". The Enterprise-C travels back in time to the wrong time period and ends up changing history so that the Tholians are the dominate force in the quadrant. The player then has to assist Yar in taking the ship back and send it back to the right period. Crosby returned to voice the character, which had some coverage at the time so there should be sources out there. Miyagawa (talk) 20:41, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
I just noticed something odd. The source I use for ratings [1] gives a different Nielsen rating than what is already in the article. Miyagawa (talk) 18:31, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
We could include both, I suppose. They're both reporting on the Nielsen ratings so unless there's an actual bonified source we can pull from it's two different sources of pretty much equal worthiness disagreeing. Anything else remaining to add from any sources you've found? Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs(talk)17:34, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
Help with Captains' Logs Supplemental: The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages
Hello. I was wondering if you owned a physical copy of Captains' Logs Supplemental: The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages. I am currently working on making an article for Janeway Lambda one in my sandbox here. It is still in the very early phases, but I was really fascinated by this storyline and wanted to try writing an article about it. I would like to quote some materials about the episode "Persistence of Vision" and Taylor's comments about the holonovel, but I cannot access the book without buying a physical copy as an electronic copy is not available anywhere unfortunately.
If you do own it, I was wondering if you could provide me with the page numbers for the following sections so I could properly format the references: 1) the part which discusses how "Persistence of Vision" was rejected from being an episode in the first season, and 2) the negative reaction to the holonovel and Taylor's comments about a resolution and its removal from the show. I apologize for the inconvenience. I hope you are having a wonderful day. Aoba47 (talk) 16:08, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
@Aoba47: Unfortunately I don't have a copy, I've only got the original Captains' Logs. I would offer A Vision of the Future, but I see you've already used that. Miyagawa (talk) 16:11, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
No worries. I think I will buy it as I would be interested in reading it for research for this article and my own personal enjoyment. Thank you for your quick response :-) Aoba47 (talk) 16:14, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
Cool. I've only put off buying it because I have a nasty habit of buying books (Star Trek: Action! is a good example) and then not getting around to using them for years. You might also want to take a look at Delta Quadrant - [2], which is unofficial guide to the first few years of Voyager. I thought I made a break through with an old archive.org version of the Star Trek Continuum website a couple of days ago, but all I managed to track down was an index list to articles on production information for mid to late Voyager - buy annoyingly the individual articles themselves weren't archived. Miyagawa (talk) 16:21, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for the suggestion! I will definitely look into it as well. I have the same habit, so I know exactly how you feel lol. Once I get either book, feel free to ask me page numbers or information if you need anything for future expansions. Archives are an amazing resource, but they can be extremely annoying, so I know that feeling all too well unfortunately >< lol. Aoba47 (talk) 16:34, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
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I noticed you had made substantial edits to the Development section of Spock. I wanted to notify you that there is a separate Development of Spock article that would benefit from your knowledge :). Pyrusca (talk) 15:10, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
@Pyrusca: I also wrote that one! :) I was trying to abbreviate the Development of Spock article into the Development section within the Spock article to make it a proper spin-out. There was several things in the old version of the Development section that I'd found to be really inaccurate during the creation of the specific article. Miyagawa (talk) 15:11, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hello. I just wanted to ask you if you have time could you look at(review) some of the episode from
Game of Thrones (season 6) that are up for a Good Article nomination, they have been up for a nomination for a while now. The last two episodes. (Battle of the Bastards and The Winds of Winter (Game of Thrones)) are pretty much perfectly written and should be no problem to get to GA right away. -- AffeL (talk
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No worries, I've just put the review up for BotB (not many problems at all) and I've just grabbed TWoW, which I'll get to either today or tomorrow. Miyagawa (talk) 14:40, 19 August 2016 (UTC)
Thanks. I did just that. Another thing man, sorry to bother you again.. but the I have nominated the Game of Thrones article for GA. I have worked hard to get this to a Good Article statues, and I have a feeling that the article is just gonna sit there for a while until some one finally reviews it. I know that it's a big article to review. You don't need to do it if you don't have the time. But If you can, you don't need to review right away.. No rush. My goal is that one day it will be a "Featured Article" -- AffeL (talk) 19:32, 22 August 2016
Don't Forget
When you began editing "City on the Edge of Forever" it was evident that you had not even bothered to watch the episode and based all your edits from what you read in books. That is apparent. And that information was wrong and needed correcting. I advise you to at least watch episodes if you want to edit information about them. Dickie birdie (talk) 19:41, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
Why are you taking a discussion from the talk page of an article to my talk page? Please continue any discussion there. Miyagawa (talk) 21:12, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, Miyagawa. Thank you for undertaking this GA review. I'm generally available and please don't hesitate to ask me if and when any questions arise. All the best. BoJó | talk UTC 10:36, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
No problem. Already had a read through, and I don't think there's anything major that needs to change. It'll all be nit picks and formatting, I'm sure. Miyagawa (talk) 10:48, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
Sounds good. As you'll appreciate, it was a very controversial match at the time. Don't worry if you need to fail it: I won't fling my shirt off and sulk . All the best. BoJó | talk UTC 12:52, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello again, Miyagawa, and thank you very much for the review and all your help. I'm pleased that it has passed and your good advice will certainly be useful when I develop another article. The one I'm thinking of is
I just received the DYK invitation and I think that just has to be the guy in Harrow who tried to take out summonses against Bremner and Keegan. I'll enter that and see how it goes. All the best. BoJó | talk UTC 10:48, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
That'd be where I'd go with that. You might want to sign up for an account at Wikipedia:BNA to get access to the British Newspaper Archive. Then you'll have a host of stuff (including the match reports) to use for expansion on finals etc. Miyagawa (talk) 10:55, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hey, I was wondering if www.trektoday.com is considered a reliable source or not? I believe that it is not reliable, but I just wanted to double-check as I found some information about the guest actress for the holonovel article. Thank you for your help as always! Aoba47 (talk) 04:57, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
@Aoba47: I would say that it is actually reliable. It's the news hub for TrekNation, which in itself has a long link with the official Star Trek website and is affiliated with UGO Networks. Until recently, it was one of only four fan websites linked to from the official site, alongside TrekMovie.com, TrekWeb.com and actually I forget the fourth off the top of my head. But going back even further, around 2004-7ish, TrekToday/Nation stories were actually promoted on the official website. I've certainly used them as sources for GA's, and I've got a review from TrekNation in one FA and the ratings for DS9 in another. So I'd say go for it. Miyagawa (talk) 10:49, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
Awesome! I will definitely use an article from the website then, as it is very helpful to the page. Thank you for your response. Aoba47 (talk) 15:40, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
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The article is using a dual references system. The main citations (including the harvard citations for the books) were under the notes section. Then the actual book details were under the references section. It's pretty normal. But there's no need to repeat the web citations in both sections. Miyagawa (talk) 20:52, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
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You'll be pleased to know that the grants have all been approved, there's $2385, about £1945 going into this. Though it's intended Amazon vouchers where contestants earn over £80 I would be happy to make the reward a British Library subscription etc. If you and anybody else really want that more than the Amazon vouchers and it's going to benefit wikipedia I can arrange that but I'll need your help on arranging it and contributing towards getting them haha!♦ Dr. Blofeld17:12, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
Having some more input offwiki and hearing about international editors who might prefer JSTOR access than Amazon vouchers, I've tweaked the prize winning to include subscriptions to British Library, JSTOR and anything else. But enough has to be earned to cover the subscription cost or strongly go towards it in the contest to earn that of course. So here's you chance to get that wanted subscription!♦ Dr. Blofeld19:08, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
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Expansion work like that you can still add the article to the main list at the bottom, but obviously won't count for the destubathon. Once it passes I'll jsut add a GA icon by it then. I'll add it for you.♦ Dr. Blofeld15:28, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
Thanks, will do. Hadn't planned on expanding it but came across the story while working on the first Somalian Olympic article I did and it was just so sad that I felt it needed an expansion and tidy. Miyagawa (talk) 15:51, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
Can you remember to update the articles on the main page at the bottom and update your entries with GA icons and GA count in total there? It's veyr time consuming running this, so if you could always add you own entries to the main list too and keep a record of the GAs there it's one less thing to worry about!♦ Dr. Blofeld20:01, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, can you get somebody to correct it to "almost $2400", there's a lot more than $1500 in funding on this! The max to win is $1800 odd, but multiple people will win a share in about $2380.♦ Dr. Blofeld10:03, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
I added some new bonus features for GAs on women higher importance African women bios and central core articles. The womens one are each worth 3 GAs and the central core ones worth 5 GAs a piece!♦ Dr. Blofeld13:16, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
Thanks, one further slight tweak though "Amazon vouchers/paid subscription resources" might be more accurate now ;-)♦ Dr. Blofeld17:16, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
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Miyagawa, this community GA reassessment is still open and still hanging around, but there have been major improvements to the article in the interim. I just struck my original "delist", posted shortly after yours back in March, and replaced it with a "keep". I was wondering whether you'd be interested in taking another look at whether it meets the GA criteria. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 07:04, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
You're quite right, I don't see any issues with it now. In the current state, there wouldn't be any question about bringing it to GAR. Miyagawa (talk) 08:41, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
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There's triple GA score points on each African gold Olympic medalist promoted to GA, so those are worth three GAs each for each promoted.♦ Dr. Blofeld08:37, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
Very interesting. Annoyingly it isn't on the UK Amazon. I'm currently mostly using a preview of the Dictionary of African Biography volume 6 which is on Google Books (hence my sometimes sporadic country submissions). Miyagawa (talk) 09:31, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
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Well I can only add information that is in the sources. In that case, there is no question that the source is reliable, so I wouldn't double check every claim made in a reliable source. Miyagawa (talk) 20:18, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
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Miyagawa/Archive 23 is currently a Agriculture, food, and drink good article nominee. Nominated by Miyagawa (talk) at 18:44, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
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You might need to do a Quintruple GA scorer this weekend as Sturmvogel has done two now and looks on to win the top GA prize!♦ Dr. Blofeld12:38, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
Sturm's got it in the bag probably. I'm just happy that my initially big GA numbers inspired someone else to come along and beat it. I've got two goals for the weekend - I've got two more countries to go before I've worked up an article for at least one each, and then I'm going to try to do as many articles as possible to ensure that the target goal is reached. Miyagawa (talk) 18:11, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
Well, there's $50 for second anyway. You've certainly done some excellent work for this, and more motivated than you were even for Dragon throughout. If the Quintruple GA mechanism meant that it made one editor tackle a few on that main core list, then it had a good purpose after all, for a while there I didn't think anybody would do one, not that any articles promoted to GA isn't good! The GA thing was just a side dish on this, at some point you could probably run a core contest for Africa using those lists, but this served its purpose well!♦ Dr. Blofeld14:08, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
@Dthomsen8:@Dr. Blofeld: I just wanted to say thanks to you both, I received the book in the post today. I'll be sure to use it as intended - to make sure that every single listing has a Wiki page wherever possible. Miyagawa (talk) 17:07, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Women and destub
Hello ! I published a brand new fresh barnstar on your barnstar page :) Thank you ! Anthere (talk)
Well done! Dthomsen can hopefully sort out giving you the $200 (about $160), from that it would be easier to get your subscription, you might want $200 cash for that to go towards it. When I get the money from WMF I'll get you $175 in Amazon vouchers, about £140, or if you prefer I can use some of it to buy you some books using it to be delivered to your door for future articles, so in total you've got around £300 on this. Not bad!♦ Dr. Blofeld13:43, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
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DYK
Now that the African Destubathon and Asian Month are over, normal activities can be resumed! I haven't submitted many DYKs recently because the destubs I did for the Africa contest often would not have qualified and sometimes lacked polish, and anyway there was little time to submit the nominations and do QPQs. I enjoyed taking part in the contest.
I saw your comment on one DYK nomination template, later struck out, that you were put off building prep sets because of the excessive criticism on the DYK discussion page. I think you will find that these criticisms have largely died down. Anyway, it would be very helpful if you could build a prep set or two, because I have been doing this job largely unassisted, and cannot promote most of the oldest approved nominations because I reviewed the hooks myself or some such reason. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:53, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
Glad to hear the issues there have died off a bit. Despite quite a few of the articles I worked up on the destubathon qualifying for DYK purposes, I didn't nominate any of them because it simply wasn't worth the hassle. I'll take a look at the prep sets, as I always enjoyed putting them together before. Miyagawa (talk) 11:19, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
And yet, two sets created and a hook from each pulled on each occasion. I'll persevere - at least for the time being there isn't the attempt at public shaming or finger pointing as there has been in the past. Miyagawa (talk) 17:19, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, did Dthomsen send you the $200 for the women bios after? Did you use it to buy yourself the wanted subscription? Email me and I'll send you the remaining in Amazon vouchers, providing you've got your subscription.♦ Dr. Blofeld13:12, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
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I have just become a WikiCup judge, a role you used to have, I remember. Last year the WikiCup had fewer entries than previously and I asked Dr. Blofeld how one went about getting a banner advertising an editor event on each editor's page. He replied "The central notice banner has to be proposed on meta wiki I think. Ask Casliber or Miyagawa if you want the WikiCup publicized like that". So, can you give me any information on how it is done? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:51, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
It was quite effective back in 2014. I'd suggest you start with a request to run it through the sign up period and see what they come back with. My only warning, is that you will get a lot of inexperienced editors, especially if you mention the money element, so this did create quite the workload in the first couple of rounds for checking. Miyagawa (talk) 12:11, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
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good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Togo at the 2004 Summer Olympics for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kees08 -- Kees08 (talk) 20:21, 30 December 2016 (UTC)