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Sorry, I have no idea what I'm doing (heavy user of Wikipedia, brand new to editing). I don't intend to start an edit war, but I feel that the list format would help immensely. How do I go about weighing my thoughts on the consensus? Or how do I know what the consensus will be? Sorry, I'm confused as to where I should be asking these questions, so I went straight to you.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bchill53 (talk • contribs) 22:21, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Bchill53, hi. I understand it takes time to learn how Wikipedia works and you're getting off to a good start. I think you should just reread the arguments Popcornduff and I made against using the list. I'd also recommend reading WP:CONSENSUS, WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS, and other guidelines/essays. They'll help you learn; you can also ask a administrator for help. JOEBRO6419:45, 5 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Actually, anyone can nominate a good article, as per WP:GAN: "Anyone may nominate an article, and any uninvolved and registered user with sufficient knowledge and experience with Wikipedia content policies may review an article nominated at this page against the good article criteria."SemiHypercube00:31, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@SemiHypercube, read Wikipedia:Good article nominations/Instructions: "it is preferable that nominators have contributed significantly to the article and are familiar with its subject and its cited sources. Nominators who are not significant contributors to the article should consult regular editors of the article on the article talk page prior to a nomination." From what I can tell, you haven't edited the article at all ([1]). Not to mention that there's plenty of information that's either not in the article or is unsourced. JOEBRO6400:44, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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That sounds amazing! Thank you so much. While copyediting, if you need clarification on anything in the text, just post a comment on the Talk Page and ping me.--Coin945 (talk) 01:41, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Coin945: I've been pretty busy lately so I haven't been able to be on Wikipedia that much, so I probably won't finish the copyedit until the weekend. Just wanted to let you know so you didn't think I'd forgotten. JOEBRO6420:18, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hello again! I was wondering if you could help me with my current FAC? I understand if you do not have time or are not interested though; just wanted to ask. Have a great weekend! Aoba47 (talk) 20:43, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@TarkusAB: that definitely wasn't me, I haven't edited as an IP since before I created my account. I wonder how that IP found my draft (and IMO the development section isn't finished yet, I still need to add a few sources like for his voice actors). JOEBRO6416:48, 16 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hello again. I was wondering if you could do a GAN review for me. I recently did a quick-fail on the My Love from the Star article as I did not believe the references were properly done for a good article, though the nominator and another editor disagreed. I opened the review up again for a second opinion, and I was wondering if you could pick it up. I feel somewhat bad about the ordeal, and I would like to hopefully get another editor to look through it for them. Also please do not feel influenced by review for the article, as I could be wrong. I was only wondering because you are one of the only editors currently doing a television-related GAN review, and you have plenty of experience doing GANs. Apologies for the random message, and I hope you are doing well. Personally, I have decided to stop reviewing articles, and I am currently only pursuing my own projects on here. Aoba47 (talk) 21:19, 31 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Now that the consensus was to merge the Amy Rose article for the time being, I've started a new draft for a future de-merge. For now, I copied the whole article pre-merge to one of my sandboxes. I see you're currently busy with Knuckles, but if you can give me any advice on how to "fix" the article, please do so. Kokoro20 (talk) 00:59, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Really try hard to build the article just off secondary sources and only use primary sources if they have something important the secondary ones don't. One of the problems with the Amy page was its reliance on primary sources; many of its details could've been sourced to secondary ones.
Avoid getting into in-universe specifics. For example, when I rewrote Shadow the Hedgehog, I only chose the details I felt were essential to understanding the character—he's dark, he's brooding, and he's essentially anti-Sonic, for example. The Amy article was filled with minor trivia that in no way enhanced the reader's understanding of the character (e.g. she uses tarot cards).
Avoid an "appearances" section because Amy's been in so many games and instead limit it to a "character biography" or "lore" section that discusses notable character developments. The main problem with the Amy article was the appearances section, which was devoted to every single appearance she'd made since her inception, no matter how trivial it was.
Check info.sonicretro.org and Sonic News Network to see if they have any sources you could use, as I've found in my time editing Wikipedia they usually do (the former has a big magazine scan archive, which is extremely useful). I'd also toy around with the Google Custom Search for video game RSs I linked at the merge discussion, as you can find mentions in a few RSs there pretty quickly.
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I am writing this to inform you that it was I who had been adding Sonic Nexus to this page, Retro Engine. Sonic Nexus was created in the Multimedia Fusion 2 Engine. However, in 2008, the game was ported to the Retro Engine by Christian Whitehead and joined the development team for the, now cancelled, Retro Sonic Nexus. At this point in time, March 7th 2019, the game only has one public demo, for PC and Mac, in the Retro Engine from 2008. It is still available here[1][2], if you are interested. If you need any further proof, the demo actually states that it was made in the Retro Engine, which an image is provided here[3].
First of all congratulations for making Shadow's article become a GA. It sure looks like a well written article. This brought me to my concern of the visual novel article Shirou Emiya. I nominated this article last week to GA after multiple copyedits but I have concerns about it. Could you give it a look or review? Sadly, since I'm not an English native speaker I might not be able to fix issues found in a review in regards to the prose.Tintor2 (talk) 16:25, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Tintor2, thank you! I'll be more than happy to take a look later this week; I'll post what stands out to me on the talk page. At first glance (this is just from a skim, not an in-depth analysis) it looks nice and comprehensive. JOEBRO6418:38, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kokoro20 -- Kokoro20 (talk) 09:00, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
; see Talk:Shadow the Hedgehog for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kokoro20 -- Kokoro20 (talk) 19:41, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
. The article is close to meeting the 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:Yoshi's Safari for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of TarkusAB -- TarkusAB (talk) 23:40, 23 March 2019 (UTC)