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Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Lady with a Squirrel.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust 19:27, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Enthiran FAC 2.0

I have opened the 2nd FAC for the article. Please do let me know if you would like to make any comments. Thanks. — Ssven2 02:28, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Ssven2, I will try and get to this shortly. I have a couple of things to clear up first, but I'll try and make it. Please nudge me in a week if I've not made an appearance! Thanks - SchroCat (talk) 07:45, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Will do, SchroCat. — Ssven2 08:20, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Ahem

Listen, Schro, I was trying to find arguments; as much as I could to save that nom, and because I think that an artwork depicting a man from the 5-th century should not be asked upon any real likeness with the subject, but it would be nice if you would follow a bit that nomination. Maybe this should be discussed. Hafspajen (talk) 09:03, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

• I've been following, and I agree with you entirely, as I've already said in the nom, but I do not think that anything either you or I say on the subject will change the minds of the other two editors, just as we are unlikely to be swayed by their arguments. Both argument are equally valid, and it comes down to a mattr of opinion and taste only. - SchroCat (talk) 09:15, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

• Well, I am not sure about opinion - only. One can't really judge artwork like this. But the point is that one doesn't want a precedent -starting judging artwork if they are depicting enough likeness or not. How about Picasso, Mondrian, Matisse? Those artist's works bear with almost no likeness with depicted persons either. One have to be careful about what criteria is risen. This is not really about photographic likeness at all. --Hafspajen (talk) 09:56, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

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Records and achievements of Madonna

Hello SchroCat, since you are a FL director and deal with lists, would you care to browse your eyes on the above article and give some feed back as to whether its structure is fine, or it needs major restructuring for satisfying the WP:FLC criteria. —Indian:BIO 04:58, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

• Hi IndianBio, At a brief glance, I'd say ths needs some fairly heavy duty work doing to it before it goes near FLC. The lead is too short, the opening sentence is cumbersome, there are several disambig links in there, some of the referencing is problematic - and that's just from a very quick glance. It's also a massive piece. I appreciate that this makes it comprehensive, but it does make it something of a mountain plough through! Sorry this probably isn't what you wanted to hear, but best you know the bad news up front. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 12:44, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

No no, that is exactly what I wanted to hear. I know this is a mountain of work, but this feedback is very very helpful. —Indian:BIO 13:31, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates/La Schiavona

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Congratulations

Featured Article Live and Let Die (novel) To SchroCat, for getting Live and Let Die, the novel to FA status. — Ssven2 13:45, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Indeed, well done Schro!♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:38, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Congrats from me as well! Snuggums (talk / edits) 13:46, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Many thanks to all of you for thoughts and comments during the PR/FAC – it was all mcu appreciated! Cheers – SchroCat (talk) 15:58, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Ismah

With thanks for your previous helps, may I ask you to help and guide us to make this article a FA? Salman mahdi (talk) 14:19, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi Salman mahdi, It's a bit out of my usual area of expertise. I will have a look over it shortly and see if there is anything I can suggest. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 07:40, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates/A Winter Scene in the round

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Congratulations!

Congratulations to all the contributors to today's featured article. You deserve a lot of applause, recognition and appreciation. What a interesting and wonderful article.

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That's very kind thank you. - SchroCat (talk) 11:58, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Request for Comments on Peer Review

I know you're busy with a thousand things but I've always trusted your input on peer reviews and featured noms. If you could, I'd love to see what your thoughts are on this one. Thanks so much.  :) LADY LOTUS • TALK 12:33, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi Lady, No problems - always happy to look over PRs, especially yours, as they're always fairly close to FL quality already! I'll be there a little later today, hopefully! - SchroCat (talk) 12:45, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

On constructiveness

I just wanted to say, separate from the discussion at Talk:List of James Bond novels and short stories § Small reversion, that I am sorry for the way the discussion is panning out. Whether you choose to believe it or not, I really am trying to be constructive and not to misrepresent you or to bludgeon you. The discussion probably wasn't aided by having fractured threads on different pages at the start, which is why I thought it best to consolidate them.

I always try to keep an open mind and, as I've said elsewhere before, am happy to be proven wrong and learn from my mistakes. The trouble is that I'm genuinely having difficulties following your comments to understand exactly why we disagree. I also wanted to avoid your anticipated frustration at trying to prove one thing only to be told that it wasn't the point or to feel like the goalposts had shifted. That's why I set out my understanding step by step in the "Clarification" section so you could see where I'm coming from and hopefully point out where you disagree.

I'm sure we both want what's best for Misplaced Pages—we just disagree in this case on which way is best—but I'm sure we can agree that it's not best for good editors to war over italics. I sincerely hope we can be civil and come away from this peacefully. —sroc 💬 18:58, 13 April 2015 (UTC)