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Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article/October 24, 2012

• Derry City F.C.

Hi Dabomb, I think you do a great job at running TFA in Raul's absence, but I think you've dropped the ball - pun intended - on this choice. As I pointed out at TFAR, the article has deadlinks, two {{unreferenced section}}, one {{refimprove section}} and is a member of Category:Articles containing potentially dated statements from July 2007. The prose is poor (two "however"s in two sentences in the lead and the blurb) and it needs a good clean-up, which isn't going to happen when the FAC nominator Danny Invincible (talk · contribs) stopped editing one month after the article was promoted to FA status over 5 years ago! Please rethink and reschedule this, please. If alternatively it's a waste of my time pointing out problems such as these at TFAR, please let me know and I'll find something else to do. Bencherlite 08:17, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

No, sorry, that was a bad choice. This is what happens when you have too many tabs open at once. I'll replace it immediately. Dabomb87 (talk) 16:06, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

And thank you for your tireless work at TFAR. Dabomb87 (talk) 16:14, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Apologies for the dramatic way in which I made this request. On reflection, it was wrong of me to get so worked up about it. Sorry. Bencherlite 21:37, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Once you are here, Stephen Crane was removed from the requests because too many were concerned about two authors within a week. I would have left the decision to you, obviously you were not afraid to schedule two Asian faces in a row. I parked this and prepared nominations here, feel free to help yourself. - Thanks for scheduling more, it's a relief, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:22, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

• Actually one article was about a recent book (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek) featured on September 17 and the other article was a biography on a different writer Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) (removed from requests), which per the rules (rule 5) are not considered similar, IMO. MathewTownsend (talk) 18:29, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Those were the initial concerns, but then Ian Fleming (23 Oct) was a new one. I think the two writers are different centuries and a week apart, not too similar. Crane died 1 Nov. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:26, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

The article history of Louis Riel tells me that "he" appeared in 2005, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:42, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

yes, Louis Riel appeared on May 13, 2005. See: Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article/May 13, 2005 And follow up: MathewTownsend (talk) 17:56, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

I think Louis Riel (comics) is what is meant. I'll change it and you can revert If I'm incorrect. MathewTownsend (talk) 18:12, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

• Tabbed browsing has gotten me into trouble a few times before... so annoying when that happens :) Mark Arsten (talk) 18:22, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Good explanation, Mathew, thanks for fixing, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:07, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Looking closer, this phrasing is not clear to me: "It deals with Métis rebel leader (pictured) Louis Riel's relationship", not even without "pictured". Is it right that the article is about a 2003 comic? The pic suggest something else, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:12, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

TFA protection

Would you mind protecting the pages when you schedule TFAs? Thanks. --Rschen7754 04:03, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Sure. I usually do, though I guess I forgot to the last time around. Dabomb87 (talk) 22:06, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! --Rschen7754 00:30, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks so much for protecting Folding@home. I was going to request that when the TFA got closer. You beat me too it, and I feel much safer now. • Jesse V. 00:19, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Wait, no its not semi-protected like I thought. Is it move protected or something? What did you do? I'm confused. • Jesse V. 00:27, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

It's under move protection. Standard protocol is to move protect the FA up to and through the day it is on the Main Page. Dabomb87 (talk) 00:29, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Oh. I just didn't understand the log but I see that the bot came by and added in the templates. Nice. Could it be semi-protected as well? I'm concerned about vandals during the traffic spike is all. It's appearance on the Main Page is set for November 1st. • Jesse V. 00:43, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

We generally don't semi-protect TFA unless the vandalism gets really bad (want to encourage people to edit and all). --Rschen7754 00:44, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Stephen Crane

Why was this article scheduled for November 2nd when consensus was against its appearance on November 1st? It's far too similar to Ian Fleming, which appeared this week. See here: seven opposes. The nomination was removed October 19th. María (yllosubmarine) 12:35, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Apologies, that must have slipped my mind. Now changed. Dabomb87 (talk) 18:47, 26 October 2012 (UTC)