Wikipedia:Featured and good topic candidates/Featured log/April 2018
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Final Fantasy series
- Contributor(s): PresN, ProtoDrake, Sjones23 (Before 2010: Guyinblack25, Gary, Kung Fu Man, Deckiller, The Prince of Darkness, Ryu Kaze, Judgesurreal777)
- (Previous nominations can be found at Wikipedia talk:Featured topics/Final Fantasy titles)
Final Fantasy has been a frequent visitor to FTC- the original Final Fantasy titles topic was one of a set of 5 topics tied for the record of the second FT ever in November 2006. Two supplementary nominations later, it was demoted in June 2008 when FT standards started to require that all articles be at least GAs, and the topic couldn't measure up. It took 7 years for all of the ducks to get in a row, and it was re-promoted to FT in December 2015 ; a year and change later in April 2017 it was demoted for not getting Final Fantasy XV to GA. Turn the clock forward a year to today, and XV is a GA (and VII an FA), so this topic gets to make its 7th appearance on this page!
Representing 12 years of work by 10 primary editors, the "Final Fantasy series" topic includes every main numbered Final Fantasy game—one through fifteen—worked up to at least GA level, with enough stars to make it an FT. (The full, expanded Final Fantasy franchise includes over 100 games, and is way out of scope.) Many of the original editors have left us, but several editors, including ProtoDrake, Sjones23, and myself, have kept the articles alive since, and the older FAs have had successful FARs. Thanks all for reviewing, again... again. --PresN 17:58, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
- Support - wow, what a large amount of work! Congratulations on getting it here again, until the next time! Kees08 (Talk) 20:26, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
- Support - damn fine work to all the editors who still have time to keep up with all this! Thanks for the memories. Axem Titanium (talk) 05:00, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
- Support Rreagan007 (talk) 20:18, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
- Support Awesome effort. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 11:55, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- Support - Looks great! Nice to have our flagship topic back, and meeting all featured topic requirements :) Great job everyone! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 17:54, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- Support: Great work with this! Aoba47 (talk) 21:23, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- Closed with a consensus to promote to Featured Topic.--十八 18:40, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Supplementary nominations
Central Link is a light rail line serving Seattle, Washington, United States, and its surrounding suburbs. It is operated by Sound Transit as part of the Link light rail system and runs 20 miles (32 km) from the University of Washington campus to the city of SeaTac, passing through Downtown Seattle, the Rainier Valley, the city of Tukwila, and Seattle–Tacoma International Airport. Construction on the system began in 2003 after decades of shelved transit plans and trains began operating from Downtown Seattle to Tukwila in 2009. Since then, the line has been expanded three times; it currently carries over 70,000 daily passengers and is slated to be extended to the north, south, and east in the early 2020s.
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- Contributor(s): SounderBruce
Over the past three years, I have been slowly piecing together this topic to represent Seattle's budding "light metro" system. All currently opened stations are included; future stations opening in the next extension (three stations, 2021) have already attained GA status and can be added on opening day, while articles on under construction stations (to open in 2023) are in the middle of being improved to GA status. Note that University of Washington station is currently at FAC, and I plan to take Central Link to FAC before its ten-year anniversary in July 2019. --SounderBruce 07:58, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
- Comment: University of Washington station was promoted to FA on March 14. SounderBruce 23:13, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
- Wow, nice work! Even have a featured article in there! I first thought maybe List of Link light rail stations would be appropriate to include, however I can see that it's slightly outside the scope of this topic (though could eventually be merged into a topic called Link light rail stations with the addition of the Takoma stations). As it stands now, Support Mattximus (talk) 17:48, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks. I modeled this GTC after the Ring Line (Oslo) topic, putting the line as the lead article. I plan to take the list of stations to FLC within the next few months, but the Tacoma stations are unlikely to be improved to GA status, being little more than streetcar stops. SounderBruce 20:37, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
- Support Nice! 87Fan (talk) 19:20, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
- Support Good job, the article I reviewed was well put together. Kees08 (Talk) 06:37, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
- Closed with a consensus to promote to Good Topic - GamerPro64 16:28, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Supplementary nominations
Tuvalu has not participated in many Olympics, and has participated in Summer Olympics at that. Not only has no one medaled, they have never made it past the first round in any event. This is primarily due to poor facilities and training.
Merged the flagbearers article into the lead article, expanded the NOC article into a GA, and expanded all the individual Olympic articles into GAs --Kees08 (Talk) 03:12, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
Support - looks great thank you! 87Fan (talk) 18:19, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
Comment A few minor issues I found:
the topic should include a book page (currently does not)- The book tool is currently undergoing massive changes, and I am unable to get it to work. I noticed several other topics did not have a book, so I assumed they had issues too. Is it still possible to make a book with the tool in the state it is in? Kees08 (Talk) 20:20, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
- I think the books themselves are not as important as the talk page reports that show how the articles in it are. Anyway, made that for you. igordebraga ≠ 01:45, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
- Oh...duh. Thanks, I will do that next time. I will address your other comments later. Kees08 (Talk) 04:59, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
- I think the books themselves are not as important as the talk page reports that show how the articles in it are. Anyway, made that for you. igordebraga ≠ 01:45, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
- The book tool is currently undergoing massive changes, and I am unable to get it to work. I noticed several other topics did not have a book, so I assumed they had issues too. Is it still possible to make a book with the tool in the state it is in? Kees08 (Talk) 20:20, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
please standardize the categories for the pages - for example some articles are part of the 'Tuvalu at the Olympics' category, and some are not. Shouldn't they all be?- In {{:Category:Tuvalu at the Summer Olympics by year}} (which contains all three individual Summer Olympics articles), it says "The main article for this category is Tuvalu at the Summer Olympics." I believe the categories are correct based on that, did you have any thoughts? Kees08 (Talk) 19:50, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
- Sounds good to me - it felt like things were uneven but if you've taken a look and it makes sense, I'm good with that. Thank you!! 87Fan (talk) 16:01, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
not sure why the 2016 article doesn't have a table of contents when the 2008 & 2012 do? (maybe it has too few sections?)- Too few of sections, requires three. Kees08 (Talk) 20:21, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are listed in the 'Tuvalu at the Olympics' page but there's nothing in the article that talks about the 2020 Olympics - it's not clear if they've even qualified? I realize this probably should have been addressed in the GA review of the page but I figured this is good a time as any to address that too.Thanks! 87Fan (talk) 17:45, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
- Technically, no one has qualified for Tokyo yet... it's still over two years away. Not one competitor is qualified, and won't be for at least another year to 18 months. Courcelles (talk) 23:37, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
- Some of us are still recovering from Rio. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:27, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- Technically, no one has qualified for Tokyo yet... it's still over two years away. Not one competitor is qualified, and won't be for at least another year to 18 months. Courcelles (talk) 23:37, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
Support Looks good to me. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:28, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- Closed with a consensus to promote to Good Topic.--十八 01:55, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Supplementary nominations
Saint Kitts and Nevis has participated in six Summer Olympic Games and has never participated in the Winter Olympics. No athlete from the country has earned a medal.
- Contributor(s): Kees08, Cameron11598
Covers all the Olympics that the country has competed in. --Kees08 (Talk) 06:19, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- Some of those intros are awfully short. Same as for the Tuvalu nomination above. 86.125.46.41 (talk) 08:59, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
- The articles themselves are all very short, and already passed GAC. I can take another look and verify they summarized the articles well. Kees08 (Talk) 20:27, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
- Support. The articles are consistent and of good quality; I would like to see the dates in the references harmonized to a single date format across all articles, though. Otherwise looks good, even if the leads are "short" (per MOS:LEADLENGTH, a one-paragraph lead for articles less than 15,000 characters long is fine). SounderBruce 21:54, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
- Support It's a short list of small articles, but it's a small country, and we have to start somewhere. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:04, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
- Closed with a consensus to promote to Good Topic.--十八 01:42, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Romanian singer Inna has released her second studio album I Am the Club Rocker in 2011, which yielded worldwide success for the lead single "Sun Is Up" (2010). Other singles from the record — "Club Rocker" (2011), "Un Momento" (2011), "Endless" (2012) and "Wow" (2012) reached moderate to minor success in European countries.
- Contributor(s): Cartoon network freak
All articles have been promoted to GA status in time, so I believe this topic is out there as well... --Cartoon network freak (talk) 19:57, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
- Everything looks good to me. Good work with this! Aoba47 (talk) 20:52, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
- Support, all the singles and the album are GA. Kees08 (Talk) 06:25, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- Support: All of the articles are well-written and meeting the criteria. I definitively support this. What a great work CNF. UrbanJE (talk) 20:15, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
- Closed with a consensus to promote to Good Topic.--十八 01:27, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- Contributor(s): Lemonade51, PeeJay2K3, VEO15
I'm nominating this as a complete topic, an account of the rivalry between Arsenal and Manchester United. The articles selected for this topic are ones which have shaped and defined the rivalry, hence why the 1979 FA Cup Final and 1948 FA Charity Shield are omitted. It begins with the Old Trafford brawl and ends with the 2005 FA Cup Final. --Lemonade51 (talk) 19:53, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
- Support because this has gone quiet and I can't see any issues! 94.15.181.120 (talk) 16:29, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
- Support: Well, the main topic and games that fit the category, seems complete. (no need for the clubs themselves as it's only about a part of their history) igordebraga ≠ 18:57, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
- Director Comment - Almost promoted this topic then noticed that one of the Supports came from an IP address. Gonna need more discussion before closing this. GamerPro64 18:29, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
- Support Is a great football topic and a well known rivalry. While not as big as it used to be in the 90's-00's, it is still one of the games each fan base want to see their team win. NZFC(talk) 21:26, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
- Comment @GamerPro64: With the additional support above, is this good to go now? Kees08 (Talk) 07:13, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
- Closed with a consensus to promote to Good Topic.--十八 01:10, 9 April 2018 (UTC)