User talk:Mike Christie

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story · music · places

Thank you today for Munsey's Magazine, "about a magazine that revolutionized the magazine publishing industry. Munsey's Magazine cut its price from twenty-five cents to ten cents in 1893, and became the first magazine to derive its revenue primarily from advertising, by driving circulation up with a low price, and reaping the rewards in high advertising rates. The magazine was a stable-mate of Argosy, which I brought to FAC a couple of months ago: Argosy was much more influential in the world of genre fiction, but Munsey's had a much greater impact on the industry as a whole. The publisher, Frank Munsey, had a rags-to-riches life: half the story of how he became a millionaire was told in the article on Argosy, and this is the other half."! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:16, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you today for The Spider (magazine), "about one of the hero pulps that were popular during the 1930s. It includes everything I've been able to find on the topic."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:27, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Today is "the day" for James Joyce, also for Bach's fourth chorale cantata (and why does it come before the third?) - the new pics have a mammal I had to look up --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:14, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

New pics of food and flowers come with the story of Noye's Fludde (premiered on 18 June), written by Brian Boulton. I nominated Éric Tappy because he died, and it needs support today! I nominated another women for GA in the Women in Green June run, - review welcome, and more noms planned. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:42, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

GA review requests

Hello, this might be silly of me to ask anyone this, but I was wondering if you could look over two long pages that I have modified with all-reliable sources and let me know if they’re worthy of any GA nominations. The pages I’m referring to are Chicago and North Western 1385 and Texas and Pacific 610; just a couple of years ago, they were much shorter and filled with sources from unreliable websites, but now their info is purely taken from books, magazines, and newspapers. Someone who likes train writing (talk) 05:38, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

I'm not knowledgeable about trains, so I'm not the best person to ask. At a quick glance it appears everything's cited, and I saw no obviously unreliable sources, so that's a good start. I would suggest either taking the plunge and nominating them, or if you actually want a knowledgeable opinion, try asking at WT:TRAINS, where you may get an expert response. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 10:07, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Alright, I understand. I do thank you for replying regardless, and for the advice. Someone who likes train writing (talk) 13:48, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Collapsing FAC nominations

Hi Mike. I have followed your advice and added a line "importScript('User:A455bcd9/nominations viewer.js');" to my common.js. I have also bypassed the cache with shift/reload (I assume this is the circle with an arrow top left). This does not work. I am using Firefox with Windows 10. I have tried restarting the computer and using Chrome. Can you advise what I am doing wrong? Dudley Miles (talk) 12:46, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

The only thing I can suggest is disabling all your other scripts (put a "//" in front of the line for each of them in common.js and vector.js (if you use the Vector skin)) and see if it starts to work then. If it does, gradually reenable everything else till you find what's causing the conflict. I have one script that conflicts with others and I have to leave it disabled till I need it. If that doesn't help, the only thing I can suggest is posting at WP:VPT. I suspect something new is going on, because several people at WT:FAC are complaining all at once, but I've no idea what it could be. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 12:52, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks Mike. It did not work so I gave asked for advice at WP:VPT. Dudley Miles (talk) 13:43, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	Sending some gratitude your way after Blackrocks passed FAC earlier today. I am very thankful the time you put into the pre-review! Ed [talk] [OMT] 02:53, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

It was a pleasure to review it. I hope we see you back at FAC more often! Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 08:00, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Problem with ChristieBot?

Mike Christie, the bot has not been updating the main WP:GAN page over the past eight hours or so, even though it has been updating subpages and other stuff. There were a couple of bot errors around that time, but nothing since that I can see: we're nevertheless missing new noms, new reviews, etc. Please take a look when you get the chance. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 02:22, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the alert. The problem appears to be that a review managed to get into the database with no reviewer. This has never happened before: there's code to detect it and what's actually causing the crash is that the code that is supposed to report the discrepancy has an error in it. So when the bot runs, it gets as far as checking the data is clean, tries to report that it is not clean, and crashes. For the moment I've fixed it (I hope) by correcting the record in the database and rerunning the bot, but I'll have to see if I can figure out how the bad data got in the database in the first place. It was the review of Evarcha praeclara that caused the problem, somehow. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 03:31, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Mike Christie, the bot is once again not updating the main WP:GAN page; the last update was 07:48, and the next transaction that should have caused an update was at 10:28. Can you please check to see what's happened this time? Thank you very much for everything you do. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:39, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Yes, it looks like the same problem. I left a note at WT:GAN about it. I'll be home in about three hours and will take a look then. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 18:45, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Fixed now, I think. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 23:52, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

FAC review for Windswept Adan

Hello Mike Christie! I've recently opened up an FAC nomination for Windswept Adan, and I'm seeking experienced editors who can provide unbiased feedback and/or source checks. I noticed your critiques in reviews for other nominations (particularly the one for Ghost in the Machine), and I believe that my nomination could use some of that same impartial scrutiny in order to meet FA expectations. Of course, you are in no way obligated to conduct a review if you do not feel the topic is something of interest to you (I'd reckon you would tire of reviewing music-related articles at some point), and as it is a recent listing, you are at liberty to refuse as I can and likely should learn to be a bit more patient with the process. Feel free to let me know what you think about this, and I hope you have an amazing week ahead of you! joeyquism (talk) 21:37, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi -- I don't know when I'll next do FAC reviewing, but when I do I'll have a look at yours and may review it. Good luck with the FAC. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 10:24, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

That is entirely fine, and of course, there is no rush or obligation. Thank you for your response and your good luck wishes! joeyquism (talk) 14:34, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Facstats question

Hi Mike, I was wondering how feasible it would be for you to query the facstats database for users who became successful first-time FA nominators within a certain period, say the last three years? If it's an easy thing, I would greatly appreciate such a list (off-wiki if you'd prefer). If it's a pain, please don't worry about it. Vanamonde93 (talk) 16:24, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Should be an easy query. Do you want only nominators who were successful with their first nomination, or all first nominations regardless of success, or all first successes regardless of whether they were the first nomination? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 17:05, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

I think "all first successes" would be most useful, if it's all the same. Thanks very much! Vanamonde93 (talk) 19:48, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Coding question

Mike, sir, I need your help if you can. In each of the 15 good article topic pages, we now call template Wikipedia:Good articles/GA topic header, per a discussion. It looks fine when any of the topic pages are called directly, like Wikipedia:Good articles/Agriculture, food and drink, but when called by Wikipedia:Good articles/all or Wikipedia:Good articles/all2 we don't want to call the new template. Look at those last two pages now and you'll see what I mean; we don't want to show the new template repeatedly like that. Some sort of conditional call? Thanks for any help. Prhartcom (talk) 02:53, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

I'm not expert on transclusion, but wouldn't WP:SELTRANS be what you need? I can have another look, maybe tomorrow, if you don't find what you're looking for there, but I'm traveling and might be slow to respond for a few days. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 06:46, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for John W. Campbell

John W. Campbell has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 13:33, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Comment

@Mike Christie Hope you are doing well. I could not find the updated user statistics on the FAC Stats page. Are you still working on it, or will you publish it along with the July 2024 FAC reviewing and nominations stats? Looking forward to your response. Regards MSincccc (talk) 16:17, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Someone else is doing the stats this month, and they expect to be done by Wednesday; once they're done I should be able to post them, probably Thursday. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 16:19, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Which languages did you use while creating the bot? I am interested in computer programming;hence I would like to know. Regards. MSincccc (talk) 16:34, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

It's written in Python -- there's a link to the source code on the bot's user page. I think it might be slightly out of date but only by a line or two. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 16:36, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Do you do it for the Wikimedia foundation or on your own? Is it beneficial for a user who creates a bot which can be used by all registered members of the community? Looking forward to your response. Regards. MSincccc (talk) 17:16, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

I did it with no involvement from anyone else, just because the problem interested me. Not sure what you're asking -- are you thinking about writing a bot? It's quite hard to come up with something useful a bot could do that a bot isn't already doing. In my case I was mostly replacing the functionality of an existing bot, so I didn't need to come up with a new idea. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 17:20, 8 July 2024 (UTC)