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POTD Request

Hi Armbrust,

Please try to add this image as POTD of 30th October ie the birthday of the performer. If possible please do the needful.

Thanks in advance : Bellus Delphina ^talk 11:40, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Will do once I get home. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:48, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Thank you so much Armbrust for accepting my request and for the immediate reply : Bellus Delphina ^talk 11:50, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

 Done. The blurb will be written latter by Crisco 1492. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:57, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Excellent. Armbrust, I'm back on Wiki, so if there are further requests, please ping me as well. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:29, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Thank you so much Armbrust and Chris Woodrich : Bellus Delphina ^talk 13:59, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Okily dokily. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:03, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

No problemerino. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:10, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

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POTD notification (George Catlin)

POTD

Hi Armbrust,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:William Fisk - George Catlin - Google Art Project.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 26, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-07-26. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:53, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Just another great blurb. Thank you. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 04:41, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Category nominations

Just wondering why you are mass-opposing my nominations? With regards to the Bahamas nomination, as WP:STRONGNAT makes clear, categories about countries should use local variant of English spelling. British/Commonwealth spelling is used in The Bahamas. With regards to the Grenada nomination, you are failing to provide a serious reason of opposition. With the English atheists you are ignoring (C2C, C2D) the category tree, practice, article title and parent category. Irrelgion is not a religion. That's the whole point. AusLondonder (talk) 01:06, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Because I disagree with you rationale. C2C is for "Bringing a category into line with established naming conventions for that category tree". If such a convention doesn't exist, than C2C isn't applicable. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 04:44, 7 July 2015 (UTC)ű

However, you have ignored the evidence regarding English atheists clearly meeting the criteria. Secondly, the convention to use local variant of English is well established. I regularly nominate such categories without any issues. AusLondonder (talk) 05:01, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

No, it doesn't meet it as a subcategory of Category:English people by religion. Also dividing up British categories after the constituent nations is a standard praxis in the category tree (see: Category:British people).
That's probably because the other category trees consistently use that variant of English (like the one for India and the United Kingdom). Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 05:20, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi Armbrust, thanks for tagging a pair that I listed but didn't finish nominating.
Would you consider withdrawing your opposition to the "Performance art in Foo City" at WP:CFDS? – Fayenatic London 10:32, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

 Done. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 05:51, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Westerlund 2

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:NASA Unveils Celestial Fireworks as Official Hubble 25th Anniversary Image.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Adam Cuerden (talk) 20:51, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 02:02, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

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Removal of opposed categories

Hello, Can I ask on what basis you removed the British/English atheists and organisation/organization category nominations which I proposed from the speedy page? AusLondonder (talk) 15:36, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Per the lead of WP:CFDS: "Contested requests become stale, and can be un-tagged and de-listed, after 7 days of inactivity." Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:29, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Hegassen scroll.jpg

Armbrust, this picture was entirely Bgwhite idea, the reason why he never edited it because I made the nom, and he agreed, he is a legimate co-nom, by agreement. I should have probably asked him to sign the page himself, but he looked content with this so he never did so, in spite of the fact I pointed out the nomination to him, he never went back to sign it. Check the diffs. here and here. It was his idea and he agreed to co-nom... So I really think he should be credited too. Please? Hafspajen (talk) 16:19, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, but only people can receive credit as a co-nominator, who take part in the discussion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 06:23, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

Armbrust that vote was there before, you removed it. This is not fair towars Bghwite, I was showing you all the evidence above that it was his idea, that we discussed it. The only thing that doesn't happened that he missed to sign it himself. Now PLEASE don't do this, it is not fair. He deserve this nomination, he was happy about it and he was looking forward to this. It was maybe a mistake not to sign it, but come on, he was set -up during the whole nomination as a con-nom. He might not sign it, but this is only a formality, and assuming that neither Bgwhite or me are criminals or trying to snach undeserved credits, it think this should be possible to be fixed somehow. He is a good admin and a nice person and you have all the evidence that was indeed a co-nom. Hafspajen (talk) 14:48, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

Also, per not to bite the newbies - Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers. Bgwhite is newbeginner. On DYKs you can put on anyone without you ever need to ask them to sign it for you, so he maybe though there was no need for that? Maybe Bghwithe thought is was OK, as it was. this was his first FP nomination. Hafspajen (talk) 15:39, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

Yes, it was there, but it wasn't signed by him. (I only noticed, because the signature's timestamp was a date before the voting periods start.)
Also I don't see in any of the diffs, that he intended that this picture become a FP candidate, he just wanted to add an image to your talk page.
IMO newbeginner isn't the same as newcomer. Also you can't, even at DYK, sign in the place of someone else. See WP:SIGFORGE. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:26, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hudson's Soap advertisement

Suspend

Could you suspend this nom a little bit? I'm nearly done restoring the front half, but it won't be today; once it's done I'll notify the voters. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 21:12, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

I think I will postpone closure instead of suspending it. There is less than 2,5 hours until than. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:16, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

Aye, just seems pointless to promote only to have a delist and replace opened hours later. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 21:29, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

I will not promote anything from that nomination (at least for now). Just like the John Morrison and Kamal Bahamdan nominations are still open in the Suspended nominations section. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:33, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

Restoration done

It's done. Let's get the votes clarified, which I don't imagine will take long. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 18:55, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Good to hear. Will close ASAP. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:13, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Ready for closure

Looks like we're at quorum. I leave determining when to close up to you. =) Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 20:15, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

 Done Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:38, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Vithoba

Hello, thanks for closing discussion at Talk:1st Indian Cavalry Brigade‎. You have closed discussion only after 2 votes. Can you close discussion at Talk:Vithoba? In two sections there are nearly 7-8 people supported move, while only 2 people opposed without replying to counter. Thanks. --Human3015^{Send WikiLove}  09:54, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

That RM hasn't reached the full listing period (7 days), so it shouldn't be closed yet. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:11, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Use of {{RMnac}} with RM closes

Hello Armbrust! First let me apologize for not pinging you in the discussion at User talk:Fuhghettaboutit – I probably should have done that straight away, but my original question about your closes was informational, not accusatory, and I really didn't wish to alarm you about it. In any case, sorry about that.

But, in light of the above-referenced discussion, it seems pretty clear from WP:RMNAC that you should be signing all of your closes with the {{RMnac}} template. The relevant section of the guideline states, "Any non-admin closure must be explicitly declared with template {{RMnac}} placed directly after the reasoning for the close within the {{RM top}} template." So I would ask that you please start signing all of your closes with the {{RMnac}} template now. Thank you! --IJBall (contribs • talk) 16:46, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Okay. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:12, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

You Can't Take It w/With You

I respectfully disagree with your closure of this requested move. I just noticed the RM on my watchlist when you closed it, so I didn't comment in the discussion, but I don't believe the number of editors who participated were sufficient to establish a consensus. Please let me know if you'd be willing to reopen this for additional discussion or if I should go ahead and seek some form of formal move review. Thanks for your consideration. Newyorkbrad (talk) 21:14, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

IMO there was sufficient participation to reach consensus, especially for an RM (which sometimes are closed without any comment at all). Also the nomination has run for more than 18 days, so there is no need for additional discussion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:50, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

The outcome of this little-publicized RM (that's totally not your fault) is so clearly unsatisfactory that I feel compelled to pursue the matter. That said, I'm not sure what is the best way of doing so. I will give some thought and let you know what, if anything, I figure out can be done. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 21:52, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

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Typo

File:Marcel Jambon - Giuseppe Verdi - Otello Act I set design model.jpg' is not quite the file you meant to promote. Think I've fixed it, though. Could you double-check me? Special:WhatLinksHere/File:Marcel_Jambon_-_Giuseppe_Verdi_-_Otello_Act_I_set_design_model.jpg' is still showing a couple results for some reason. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 12:29, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Looks okay to me now. Oops. Don't even know how that happened. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:38, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

FPC close script

What's the new FPC close script? According to User:Mr._Stradivarius/Scripts_using_Sajax the one I'm using will break on the 13th. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 14:13, 6 August 2015‎ (UTC)

There is no such a thing. Either some writes one, or FPC closing will become completely manual again. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:26, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Right. I'm requesting immediate help. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 14:32, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Problem at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 May 25#1st to 5th century BC births

This discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
Please stop the bot task ArmbrustBot has engaged in w.r.t. to the above CfD decision, and repair according to applicable guidelines, as explained after the concluded CfD discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 May 25#1st to 5th century BC births. Tx. --Francis Schonken (talk) 19:29, 9 August 2015 (UTC) The both already finished the task, and there is nothing to fix. It's job is to implement CFD decisions (in this case a dual upmerge), and it just did that. Armbrust The Homunculus 19:37, 9 August 2015 (UTC) Whatever the bot did it had to follow bot policy. If you're asked to perform a task against bot policy, maybe the least you could have done is ask whether the people were sure they wanted to override bot policy. So where do you want me to take this: WP:ANI or Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard? Or would you still consider removing the "year" categories that can only be added to biographical categories against both bot policy and Wikipedia:Categorization of people? Tx. --Francis Schonken (talk) 19:43, 9 August 2015 (UTC) → Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#ArmbrustBot overriding bot policy --Francis Schonken (talk) 19:49, 9 August 2015 (UTC) (edit conflict) The bot is clearly approved for making dual upmerges. It doesn't contain any such restrictions. Take it where-ever you want it. Just because you don't like the result of the CFD, it doesn't mean that it can be implemented. I won't remove the categories, but anyone can, if they want (including you). Armbrust The Homunculus 19:53, 9 August 2015 (UTC) Well, afaics there's a permission for dual upmerges that are not in conflict with applicable bot policy of course: categorization of people is limited in bot policy, so still leaves you to interpret whether a particular task conforms to policy or not. So if you continue the "I did nothing wrong" line of defense, you're clearly not up to managing AmbrustBot 4, and the bots permission should be revoked. Otherwise a simple sorry, and a constructive attitude on how to repare the damage will suffise. Anyhow, I've started undoing the last batch of the bot's edits, manually, since I'm not a bot, and will continue doing so until someone has figured out how to implement the CfD decision without transgression of both bot policy and the applicable guidance on categorization of people. --Francis Schonken (talk) 20:06, 9 August 2015 (UTC) Yeah, go ahead and add back red categories to all of the pages. (Which you can't recreate, because they were deleted via unanimous consensus at CFD.) Armbrust The Homunculus 20:11, 9 August 2015 (UTC) → your unwillingness to look for a constructive solution is clear, Wikipedia talk:Bots/Requests for approval#ArmbrustBot 4 --Francis Schonken (talk) 20:15, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

POTD notification (Nighthawks)

POTD

Hi Armbrust,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Nighthawks by Edward Hopper 1942.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 30, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-08-30. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:21, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Looks good to me. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 02:58, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Close FPC script saved

Major thanks are due TheDJ, who stepped up and salvaged this. If you don't have the copy of it I do, let me know. =) Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 14:02, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

@Adam Cuerden: Great. BTW: (1) I already tested the script live at 2:42am. and it worked perfectly. (2) Could you close Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Micrometer for me? Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:11, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Micrometer

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Mahr Micromar 40A 0–25 mm Micrometer.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Adam Cuerden (talk) 14:58, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Thank you Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:20, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

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FPC

What's up with this one? Sca (talk) 21:04, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

The nominator copied the text from a previous nomination of the video. I tried to remove if from FPC as a malformed nomination, but was reverted. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:16, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Sock-puppet

I noticed that you stroke one of the support votes. What's the reason? how did you find the user as puppet? Mhhossein (talk) 16:54, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Just click on his userpage link and it says clearly there that it's a sockpuppet. Also even if I wouldn't struck his !vote, the result would have been the same (just with a 62.5% support.) Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:03, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your explanation. Mhhossein (talk) 17:30, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

FP promotion

Thanks for the Aurier picture, now FP in the enwp. I was not aware of the nomination, but I'm happy of the result ! --Jebulon (talk) 16:53, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Be my guest. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:03, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Budapest

First two images uploaded...

Hungarian Parliament Building

--Godot13 (talk) 02:11, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Francis S. Thayer

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:THAYER, Francis S. (engraved portrait).jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Mdann52 (talk) 15:09, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

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Le General Hiver

I've updated File:General Winter.jpg with the high-res version. Would you like me to clean it up? Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 12:37, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, it would be good. Could be a very good candidate for featured picture status. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:36, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

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POTD notification (Mary, Queen of Hungary)

POTD

Hi Armbrust,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Mary (1505–1558), Queen of Hungary.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on September 15, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-09-15. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:33, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

Looks good. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:34, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Reward Board

Hi, I recently got one of the articles, Nembrotha cristata, you offered on the reward board up to C class so I just wanted to let you know for my barnstar(s). I didnt add it to the reward board as it seemed like you were putting the completed ones on there in a certain way so Ill let you update it so the formatting will match. Thanks Tortle (talk) 08:10, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

IMO that's currently "just" a Start-class article. What do you think Chris? Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:37, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, still a start class. I'd want at least 1500-2000 characters. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:19, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

 Award delivered. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:43, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

@Crisco 1492: BTW I have scheduled three images from WP:POTD/Unused. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:41, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Yep, saw that. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 16:12, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ostmark

Hi Armbrust- I wondered if I am going to get one of the image promotion notifications for this nom as well. It was my image, proposed by me, promoted as the ALT. No worries either way, just wanted to check. Thanks.--Godot13 (talk) 23:07, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

@Godot13: Sorry for the late answer, but generally users, who offer alternatives in FPC nominations, doesn't receive notification for that. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:28, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

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User Talk AaronSw - MFD nomination warning template

Concerning the MFDWarning Template placed on the talk page for AaronSw (talk), please see his user page: AaronSw. The point is that I think the notification section should be removed, as it seems rather strange to see the template used in this case. 99.170.117.163 (talk) 07:23, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Feel free to remove it. That notification was only sent because he created that page (in the main namespace). Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 07:41, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks and done. 99.170.117.163 (talk) 08:49, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

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ECKERT II is C class compliant now

Hello! Just improved the Eckert II projection page as you requested. Please check it for minos syntax errors, as writing in English is still rusty after 25 years. Let me know if that added contents are enough to do the same for Eckart VI (actually on my iron-sights). (Have to use a image for equations as I have no time for figure it out how-to keep formatting right now). TienShenLong @ 06:57, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, but that's at best a Start-class article. @Crisco 1492: Is the article good enough for POTD now? Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:25, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

It's better than some projection articles that have run, so yes. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:41, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

 Award delivered and image scheduled. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:00, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

Oops!

I was trying to fix my attempted closure of this FP nom. Perhaps you'd like to close it? Sca (talk) 13:50, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Sorry for the late answer, but I decided against closing it early. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:26, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Leica Standard

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:LEI0190 188 Leica Standard Chrom Sn. 244297 1937 -38-M39 Front view-5809 hf.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Jujutacular (talk) 14:48, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:20, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

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Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:S.M. Küstenpanzerschiff Ägir - restoration.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 15, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-10-15. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:28, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Looks good. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:20, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Arrival of the Hungarians

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Feszty Panorama.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Godot13 (talk) 05:48, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

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Signpost FC

Hi, Armbrust,
I don't know if you are still working on the Signpost article on Featured Content but this week's edition has just been posted, if you would like to help with some descriptions or resizing photos: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-10-07/Featured content. Thanks for your help! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:19, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

 Done. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:31, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

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Category:Saterland Frisians

Hello Armbrust, fyi I just requested a speedy renaming of this category back to Category:German Frisians. Saterland is only one tiny area in Germany with a Frisian population and language, and your previous category move lumped together articles from two unrelated groups like Category:East Frisians and Category:North Frisians in this totally unrelated category. De728631 (talk) 23:27, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Makes sense. I thought Saterland Frisians was the main article, because it used the wrong sortkey and German Frisians doesn't exist. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:53, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Can you work your magic?

Hi, Armbrust,
I see all of the bills on Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-10-14/Featured content (again!) and my instinct is to delete 85% of the content as being redundant and repetitive. But it seems important to some folks that every single Featured Picture has a place in the article instead of just a sampling. You did such a nice job restoring the images last week and resizing them so that it wasn't an overwhelming page to look at, I was wondering if you could take a moment to sort out this week's Featured content article. Your help would be appreciated, ten-fold! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:03, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

@Liz:  Done. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:28, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

Wow, you did a great job, Armbrust! Thank you so much. It's quite a lot of images for the page but I understand that it is important to acknowledge them all and the editors who get them to FP status. And resized, they don't seem overwhelming. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 14:53, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

A nomination

Hey, thanks for closing this nomination. But, supporters make exactly two thirds of the whole (4 supports and 2 opposes), should it be "not promoted"? Mhhossein (talk) 06:02, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

The nomination failed on quorum. From the lead of FPC: "For promotion, if an image is listed here for ten days with five or more reviewers in support", and in this case only 4 users supported. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:58, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

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Signpost Featured Content

This week is pulled together! See Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-10-21/Featured content. Only 25 images this week although if I never see another piece of currency or a coin again, I'd be quite happy. I hope you can help but I understand if you have other commitments. Thanks! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:56, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

@Liz:  Done. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:28, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Your speedy closure, 19:40, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Hello. At Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Tiger under a pine tree, you said: Speedy close, bellow the size requirements. Perhaps, could you be more explicit, and tell us what should be the minimal size (at least according to your opinion). Moreover, how should be understand the such as for historical, technically difficult or otherwise unique images part of the Wikipedia:What is a featured picture. Best regards. Pldx1 (talk) 07:58, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

The minimal size is written in the featured picture criteria, and it needs to be 1500px in width and height. File:Songhamaenghodo.jpg is bellow that on the shorter side.
The exception you quoted above is a bit complicated, and subjective. In such cases the nomination rationale should clearly explain why the size requirements shouldn't be considered for that image. (One example for this are video game screenshots, like File:Charlie Murder screenshot 5.png, where the native resolution of the game is lower. This, however, isn't generally applied for artworks.) Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 08:25, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

The picture stored is [720x1500]. And my question was not if I should read the page Wikipedia:What is a featured picture that I was quoting, but how you are reading this page. Should we require a minimal shorter size, leading to [1500x3125], or a minimal number of pixels (i.e. 1500x1500), leading to [1039x2165] ? In other words, is a square painting more featured-prone than a rectangular one? Pldx1 (talk) 09:46, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

IMO it says that the shorter side needs to be at least 1500px. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:55, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

A cup of tea for you!

With this ever dramatic world and winter coming, here's a cup of tea to alleviate your day! This e-tea's remains have been e-composted SwisterTwister talk 06:01, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

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Technical question

Hi Armbrust,

I'm wondering about a couple edits you made concerning the {{done}} tag at WP:ANRFC. In this diff I noticed that you had subst'ed in the tag, but then in this diff you undid the subst that I did (after noting your previous edit). I'm curious if there is a specific reasoning behind the opposite edits, so I can take it into account in the future.--Aervanath (talk) 18:45, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

The page is archived by a bot, if it detects some templates (like {{done}}). As this section, however, contained 4 dicussions to be closed, it wouldn't have been ideal if it was archived before all 4 were done. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:48, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Makes sense. I thought it would be something of that nature but I wanted it in black and white. Thanks!--Aervanath (talk) 20:29, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

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Looks good. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:01, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Portrait of an Iguana

At Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Portrait of an Iguana, I count five (5) support, and two (2) oppose, is that not 71.4 percent, and not 62.5 percent ? — Cirt (talk) 03:11, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

There are 3 opposes: Godot13, Josh Milburn and Chris Woodrich. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:14, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

Ah, quite right, you're totally correct. My apologies about that, and thank you for your efforts maintaining this area of Wikipedia !!! No worries man, — Cirt (talk) 03:15, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

No problem. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:17, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

The Armbrust Award

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Thank you. Nice idea, but my username comes from this anime charackter Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:01, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Mayoral elections categories

Hello.

Why did you delete my nominations from WP:CFD/Speedy? Shouldn't they be moved to full discussion?

Regards

HandsomeFella (talk) 05:53, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

The categories were removed, because nobody moved them to a full discussion, and they became stale. (In this case they can be summarily delisted from the page, and the categories detagged.) Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:01, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Speedy nomination

Hi; you nominated the following for speedy category renaming. I've tried to process it at WP:CFDW, but there's something about it that Cydebot doesn't like and it won't transfer the articles. (I'm not sure what the problem is since the bot seems to be doing all its other regular tasks.) I thought maybe you could make your bot do it:

• Category:Indians imprisoned during the Emergency to Category:Indians imprisoned during the Emergency (India)

Thanks Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 06:34, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Will do it, after I get home. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:01, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

 Done. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:26, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Edmond Soussa

Hi Armbrust, habe seit längerer Zeit mal wieder einen Artikel von de nach en übersetzt. Wäre schön, wenn du da mal drüber schauen könntest. Dank im Voraus und schönes Wochenende. Gruß aus Berlin. --LezFraniak (talk) 16:52, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

@LezFraniak:  Erledigt... besser später, als nie. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:55, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Danke (^_^)d Die PD wird nicht mehr benutzt? Gruß. --LezFraniak (talk) 14:42, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Nein, es wurde nach dieser Diskussion bescloßen, dass es nicht mehr benutzt werden soll. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:03, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

OK. Danke für die Info. Gruß. --LezFraniak (talk) 06:31, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

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Mützenabzeichen Gebirgsjäger

Armbrust, ich danke Dir für Deine Korrektur des falschen Begriffes für das Mützenabzeichen der Gebirgsjäger, das mir schon lange auf den Keks ging. Gruß --JostGudelius (talk) 16:40, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

Tja... dann ist es auch erledigt. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:33, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

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Apologies

I apologize for reverting your productive edit. I appear to be having "one of those days". Thanks for your always good work. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 20:59, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

No problem. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:48, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Jane Seymour

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Hans Holbein the Younger - Jane Seymour, Queen of England - Google Art Project.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:06, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 04:47, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

FC report - 2015-11-25

Hi, Armbrust. Nice work this week, but I notice FAs aren't there. I thought the bot inserted a bare list automatically, but perhaps I'm wrong. Any chance you'll be back to the page before publication?

Cheers, Tony (talk) 10:30, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

@Tony1: There were no FAs promoted that week. See Wikipedia:Goings-on/November 15, 2015. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:48, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Ah, a rare occurrence. Thanks for the FC page! Tony (talk) 04:15, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

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Hi Armbrust,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on December 17, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-12-17. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:03, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

Looks good. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:48, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

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A Visit to the Seaside

I see that you promoted the video. Did anyone really consider the possibility that it is a copyvio? Did you look at the original YT video from which it was excerpted ("stolen")? --Janke | Talk 14:49, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

I don't know whether everyone considered it or not. If, however, you think it is, than why didn't you nominated the file for deletion? (In which case I wouldn't closed it until that discussion wasn't concluded.) Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:29, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

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Logo for North High School (North St. Paul, Minnesota)

Hi, I see you uploaded a logo for this high school. The logo was taken from a Facebook page that uses the incorrect logo. The logo is actually from a different North High School and was changed to be red from blue. The logo for "North High School (North St. Paul, MN)" is at http://www.isd622.org/NORTH. The logo image is here. Can you please make the correction? Thanks! Blake — Preceding unsigned comment added by MplsBlake (talk • contribs) 17:42, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

 Done. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:55, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Unusual FPC

Armbrust, can we do something about this? Sca (talk) 21:37, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

I just speedy closed it. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:58, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

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Best wishes for the holidays...

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Seasons Greetings

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Georg Giese

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Hans Holbein der Jüngere - Der Kaufmann Georg Gisze - Google Art Project.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Adam Cuerden (talk) 20:49, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for closing it. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:35, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

Happy Christmas!

Hope Christmas treated you well! Here's to another year of featured pictures! Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 20:50, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, and a merry Christmas to you too. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:35, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

Trojan Coffee pot

Did the rules change or something? Looking at the nomination, the vote was 6 Supports and Two Opposes. That would make it a 4/5 decision then. GamerPro64 16:37, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

No, the rules have not changed, and that's enough for promotion. (4/5≥2/3) Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:49, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

Ah. I missed the 2/3 majority. Cheers. GamerPro64 16:52, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Thin Red Line

I think this one's passing. If I'm right, can you remove it from the Urgents? Thanks! Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 04:23, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

 Done Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:13, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

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Looks great. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:24, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, Armbrust!

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