Using MMS for FAR notifications edit
- Note: Hurricane editors opting out of messages: Coredesat, Hello32020
- Note: Hurricane CCI is at Wikipedia:Contributor_copyright_investigations/WikiProject_Tropical_cyclones
It all looks very complicated, but once you do it a few times, you'll find it MUCH easier than it looks, and a real time-saver compared to doing manual notifications.
Steps edit
- General
- If you have Wikipedia:Mass message senders permissions, set up your MMS target page for FARs, eg User:SandyGeorgia/MMStargets.
- Bookmark the page you will need for actually sending the message.
- Consider saving a sample nomination statement, with sample content you will end up pasting in to the new FAR, eg #Sample. I add the notification list there so I just have to update the URLs to the notifications and paste the whole thing in after I've written the nom statement.
- Before starting the FAR nom
- Remember to edit the URFA page (WP:URFA/2020A or WP:URFA/2020B) to switch the Noticed entry to FAR followed by the date (sample)
- Remember to remove the Notice from WP:FARGIVEN [1] (while you're there, you can edit-copy the notification diff to edit-paste it into the URL for your new nomination as in #Sample
- Setting up the MMS targets
- Go to the FAC for the FA you are nominating to find the name of the original nominator; add that to the targets (sample)
- Go to the article stats on the FA, browse to find most active (and most recently active) editors, and add them to the targets page (sample)
- Remember to check the article talk page for any very active editors
- On the article talk page, grab the list of WikiProjects, copy them over to the targets page, and edit them to remove the trailing content, and add [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject ... in front of each entry (sample)
- If you're new to this, click on each of your target samples to make sure you're sending them to the right place
- Setting up the FAR nom
- Copy-paste the noticed diff to your #Sample, eg [2]
- Copy-paste the last version of your MMS targets to your Sample, eg [3]
- Write your nom blurb at your sample, eg [4]
- Initiate the FAR with {{subst:FAR}} on the talk page of the article
- Copy your sample text with notifications in (making sure to leave the header info, and only replace from where the smalled notifications begin)
- Add your nom to the top of WP:FAR
- Send Notifications
Now the FAR nom is done, on the FAR page, and you're ready to send the MMS notifications
- Go to the MassMessage send page and fill in
- "Page or category containing list of pages to leave a message on" is your MMS target page (eg User:SandyGeorgia/MMStargets)
- "Subject of the message" is: Name of article followed by Featured article review (this will appear as the edit summary, for example, FC Barcelona Featured article review yields this when sent)
- "Page to be sent as the message" (leave blank-- no idea what this is, haven't used it)
- "Body of the message": {{subst:FARMessage|articlename}} ~~~~
- Don't forget to sign, and the FARMessage subst may need to be adjusted if it is a second FAR nomination)
- Preview
- Send ... done!
Sample edit
- Notified: Mass Message Send notifications, talk page notice noticed 2023-11-01
The FAC nominator for this 2007 promotion has been gone since 2008, and the article has not been maintained to FA standards. Concern listed on 2023-11-01 include uncited text; inconsistent citation style; Wikipedia articles listed as sources; further reading and external links need pruning or to be worked in to the article; and incomplete citations. Much of the content is cited to dated sources and the article may be outdated.
PATT samples edit
- WP:PATT: content partially copied from WikiProject as of revision 1147207451 with this edit; refer to that page's edit history for additional attribution
- WP:PATT: content partially copied from Paul McCartney as of revision 534883490; refer to that page's edit history for additional attribution
- WP:PATT: content partially copied from Paul McCartney as of revision 534883490 with this edit; refer to that page's edit history for additional attribution
- WP:PATT for User:Wtfiv: content copied from Andrew Jackson as of revision 1184991311 with this edit; refer to that page's edit history for additional attribution
Draft proposals edit
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| Text that is currently in the article | Text that is the proposed change[1] |
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WP:URFA/2020 edit
I am reviewing this (old or very old) FA as part of WP:URFA/2020, an effort to determine whether old featured articles still meet the featured article criteria.
Article stats edit
FAC Nominator [[User:]]
Stats excerpted as of
Article stats at FAR close edit
Featured Article Save Award nominations edit
Please set up separate sections for each nomination.
FASA nomination Editor edit
Discussion Editor edit
Featured Article Save Award for article name edit
There is a Featured Article Save Award nomination at Wikipedia talk:Featured article review/article/archivex. Please join the discussion to recognize and celebrate editors who helped assure this article would retain its featured status.
Collapsed FAR list edit
Re-assessing articles that already have Featured status
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Featured articles that may no longer meet the featured article criteria are reviewed and improved on a different page: Featured article review (FAR). FAs are held to the current standards regardless of when they were promoted.
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