Wikipedia talk:Requests for feedback

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If you wish to place a request for feedback, please click here. This page is for discussion about the "request for feedback" project and how to improve it. --J.L.W.S. The Special One 13:48, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

When did this get shut down?

Can someone point me to the community discussion that ended this process and redirected it to WP:HD? I am unclear on what discussion ended this. --Jayron32 00:03, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Ditto that. I recall seeing, somewhere a while back, the claim that the page was worse than useless since it wasn't generating sufficient responses. If that's true, fine, although another approach would be a campaign to get more people involved. Also, is it not arguably possible that the redirect should instead be somewhere else (Wikipedia:Article development maybe) or be a menu options. Not sure, but was this discussed? --Herostratus (talk) 17:20, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

The people who had worked here are (mostly) the same like the ones at WP:AFC and WP:HD and thus totally overworked since the backlog i really big everywhere. WP:FEED was shut down since the last two weeks nobody responded to the actual requests. It is def. so that the last and only contributor here was User:Chzz. Maybe we shold redirect that project page to his talkpage :/ mabdul 18:22, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Hey, Jayron. Briefly, for right-now... -the page was failing to provide feedback to a large number of new users. They were just falling off the end, with nothing. I have tried very very hard, for years, to make it work; it kinda worked for a bit, but only due to massive efforts from fantastic users like SPhilbrick and others; they worked their collective arses off, trying to make it work... but it didn't. I begged, cajoled, grovelled, and tried SO HARD to get more folks to make it work. So hard. I do care, you know that. But, right now, with the resources we have, the users are better-served on HD. There's much more I could write about this... I could get into the fact that WP:AFC is heading the same way, that WMF rejection of WP:ACTRIAL was a fucking disaster, and that things need to change. But not right now.

There was no big debate here; it was redirected BOLDly; and I support the redirection. And I'm the dude who redesigned it. If it could be made to work, I'd be absolutely in favour; please, feel free to chat with me, personally, if you want.  Chzz  ►  18:33, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Yes, that's fine then. Right, having a board which doesn't work is less than useless. I appreciate your work, a lot, and I trust that what you did was best. Herostratus (talk) 19:15, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

I absolutely appreciate the work that had been done here; which is why I send people here from the help desk. Imagine my surprise when they get sent right back to the help desk. Somewhat embarassing. It'd have been nice to know, is all I am saying. --Jayron32 21:56, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Trenzalore article restoration

Hello,

I need another administrator to review a collaborative article call Trenzalore. It has been redirected to the [[Doctor Who] planets list by Tom Morris. I have serviced his requests to provide all of my resources and other supporting material. He says that where i retrieved my information was unreliable. To which i responded that textfiles.com has been around much longer than wikipedia and was designed to be a repository of knowledge before the idea caught on to the public. I would like to make note that the Trenzalore does not exist to prove whether or not aliens exist. It is for those with an esoteric understanding of future events in the doctor who universe to add their input. Which is the purpose of wikipedia. I will happily answer any question you may have. To reach the article please view the history of trenzalore. I have place a copy of the most current version. There is also other post that may help you understand the material.

Have a good day, Jerrydeanrsmith (talk) 16:03, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

It's being discussed at wp:DRV. What you are doing here is known as wp:FORUMSHOPPING and considered highly disruptive. Yoenit (talk) 22:52, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Lachlan Macquarie

I noticed in this article that the clan name of this gentleman is spelled differently than his last name. It is spelled: MacQuarrie. Is this correct? Thank you Ms Dale Gallaway msdalegallaway@yahoo.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.18.60.113 (talk) 18:16, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Gary Wales Actor

Hey so I'm new to this, I have created a draft for actor and social media personality Gary Wales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Gary_A_Wales

And was wondering if you can' give me feedback, the media are talking right now about him as he is doing a thing for Stand Up To Cancer

Brian2483 (talk) 09:55, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Hi Brian2483 I think you need to add references that link to the article, rather than listing them at the end. Leave a message on my talk page if you need help. Egaoblai (talk) 18:38, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

Hello Egaoblai My name is Rome I work for Gary Wales. The article was submitted for review over 4 months ago and still hasn’t been looked at. Would you care to update me of any changes needing done. Or can you tell me if approval or decline is in place. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by RomeZw (talk • contribs) 03:32, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Night Reader theme

I really hate having to read long text on white background, especially when it's lo light. So I use some custom style for different webpage but I need to use a plugin for that.

Honestly, I know black on white makes it easier to identify the character but in another hand it tires our eyes faster. It's not a book it's a computer screen, basically a light throwing a lot of like into your eyes. On another end darker theme, background dark grey and writing witn white or close light color makes a lil more harder to recognize the character buit it almost doesn't tier our eye. There are studies about that and results had been printed.

So it's not only about being cool or something like that, it's because for people who spend a lot of time on a computer like to have a good darker theme for website and read stuff. Lately some major website realized that and added the dark them, they call this night mode. I'm thinking about reddit and youtube where you have the options to activate it or not.

For a website with many long articles like wikipedia, I think it would be very nice to offer such option for registered users.

Thank you.

P.S. : It doesn't concern editing only but the primarily reading wikipedia. I don't know I ended up here.

The advantage of positive text-background polarity is due to high display luminance

Perceived Legibility and Aesthetic Pleasingness of Light and Ultralight Fonts

Revealing Differences in Legibility Between Typefaces Using Psychophysical Techniques: Implications for Glance Time and Cognitive Processing

The relative legibility of black and white print. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nausix (talk • contribs) 07:55, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

British ski jumper still jumping at 60 years old

I looked up British ski jumpers and was suprised only Eddie appeared. I myself and James Lambert have been jumping from around Eddies time and a long time after that. I am still jumping 90m hills at 60 years old. I was the first ever British ski jumper to receive gold medals and that was back in 1992 at the British Lowlanders championships. Eddie was supposed to turn up and compete, but never appeared. I took 4 gold medals: British and Lowlander champion in both ski jumping and Nordic combined. If I remember correct there were 4 British jumpers, about 4-6 Dutch jumpers and 3-4 jumpers from North Germany. This all took place in Scheidegg, Allgau Southern Germany.

This January 2019 I will be participating in the World Masters Games in Insbruck/ seefeld in both the special ski jumping and Nordic combined

By Alan Donald Jones, British ski jumper Alandonaldj (talk) 18:53, 28 November 2019 (UTC)