Wikipedia:Featured and good topic candidates/Good log/April 2017
- Contributor(s): jclemens
With the season summary article recently promoted to FL, the 10 GAs for each episode of the first season of the international hit HBO series now together meet GT criteria. --Jclemens (talk) 06:15, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
- As per standard formatting and precedent at Wikipedia:Good topics/Media and drama, episode titles should be in quotes- now done for you. --PresN 12:39, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
- Thank you! Jclemens (talk) 17:14, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
- Support I've been waiting for this topic for a long time and it's finally here. Great job. :) Nickag989talk 14:11, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
- Support the soundtrak seems minimal. Nergaal (talk) 11:41, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
- Yes, I did not include Game of Thrones Theme or Music of Game of Thrones in this topic because while they started with season 1, each of them has continued and the articles cover music throughout all six seasons to date. I think they would be properly included in a series overview topic, which this does not strive to be. Jclemens (talk) 16:50, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
- Digging a bit deeper into this, I was not even aware there was a separate music article for each season's soundtrack--music's not really my thing. I am in the process of working that article up to GA status, but note that other similar GTs, like Book:Doctor Who (series 5) 1) have a soundtrack album for the season in question, but 2) don't include it in the season topic, and 3) the soundtrack isn't GA either, and none of that seems to matter. Jclemens (talk) 22:20, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
- Support if Game of Thrones: Season 1 (soundtrack) is promoted to GA, otherwise oppose as without it the topic is incomplete. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:20, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
- Can you cite any other GT/FT television season which 1) has a soundtrack album and 2) in which the soundtrack is included in the GT/FT? I've pointed out Book:Doctor Who (series 5), above, does not, and I do not see anything anywhere listed in Wikipedia:Good topics/Media and drama which has a similar composition: None of the other television season GTs delve into music at all, and the film GTs (Book:Pirates of the Caribbean films, List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films) don't touch on soundtracks, either. Let's look at featured topics: Book:Seasons of Avatar: The Last Airbender has a soundtrack album and it is not included in that topic, either. Even more egregiously, several show season FTs (Smallville (season 1), Supernatural (season 1), and Supernatural (season 2) don't even have articles for every episode! More to the point, a soundtrack article cannot be similar to an episode article, as suggested by WP:WIAGT, so it's unclear that any topic with both episodes AND soundtracks included meets the current GT criteria. I respectfully request that this request be struck, or that the criteria be clarified and applied consistently to other similar topics. Jclemens (talk) 07:39, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
- That's (mostly) like comparing oranges and apples.
- Wikipedia:Featured topics/Pirates of the Caribbean films and Wikipedia:Featured topics/Marvel Cinematic Universe films have a restricted scope to films only. Also the Marvel Cinematic Universe, AFAICS, doesn't a have soundtrack article for all the films combined.
- Likewise, Wikipedia:Featured topics/Seasons of Avatar: The Last Airbender is restricted to only seasons, and I don't see a soundtrack article.
- "don't even have articles for every episode" Well, that doesn't matter, because at a good/featured topic nomination only existing articles are considered. If one of the missing articles is created, and it doesn't attains GA/FA status within three months (retention period), than the topic becomes eligible for delisting.
- I think it's highly relevant, because if I am being dinged on incompleteness in a GT for not having an article that's not even part of the season per se, but other Featured topics could have articles on other episodes created, but don't, that's an entirely consistent perverse incentive against creation of articles, or for the deletion of other articles, in order to get better bling. Jclemens (talk) 06:16, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
- You're right about Wikipedia:Featured topics/Doctor Who (series 5), that should contain Doctor Who: Series 5 (soundtrack), so I will think about nominating it for delisting. Armbrust The Homunculus 14:47, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
- So if the topic were to be renamed "Episodes of Game of Thrones Season 1" then you would support? Jclemens (talk) 06:09, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
- Yeah, although I would prefer the "Game of Thrones (season 1) episodes" title for the topic. Armbrust The Homunculus 22:55, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
- So if the topic were to be renamed "Episodes of Game of Thrones Season 1" then you would support? Jclemens (talk) 06:09, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
- That's (mostly) like comparing oranges and apples.
- Can you cite any other GT/FT television season which 1) has a soundtrack album and 2) in which the soundtrack is included in the GT/FT? I've pointed out Book:Doctor Who (series 5), above, does not, and I do not see anything anywhere listed in Wikipedia:Good topics/Media and drama which has a similar composition: None of the other television season GTs delve into music at all, and the film GTs (Book:Pirates of the Caribbean films, List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films) don't touch on soundtracks, either. Let's look at featured topics: Book:Seasons of Avatar: The Last Airbender has a soundtrack album and it is not included in that topic, either. Even more egregiously, several show season FTs (Smallville (season 1), Supernatural (season 1), and Supernatural (season 2) don't even have articles for every episode! More to the point, a soundtrack article cannot be similar to an episode article, as suggested by WP:WIAGT, so it's unclear that any topic with both episodes AND soundtracks included meets the current GT criteria. I respectfully request that this request be struck, or that the criteria be clarified and applied consistently to other similar topics. Jclemens (talk) 07:39, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
- Director Comment - Not seeing much of a consensus for this topic. There needs to be more discussion here before a consensus can be made. GamerPro64 14:33, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
- Conditional Support - based on the concerns above, I will support this topic if the scope and name is changed to cover Season 1 episodes only. --haha169 (talk) 15:53, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
- And again... 1) That's not particularly fair as no other season GT/FT includes music and thus my contention is that a 'season X' topic is inherently limited to the episodes, and 2) I've nominated the S1 soundtrack for GA based on the feedback here, but no one has seen fit to pick it up yet. If someone here wants to do a GA review on that article, I can address those concerns.
- Alternatively, do haha169 and Armbrust agree that this can be promoted as 'Game of Thrones (season 1) episodes' and then speedily renamed to 'Game of Thrones (season 1)' without having to go through GTC again, once the soundtrack article is brought to GA? Jclemens (talk) 17:35, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
- Jclemens What you propose seems fair; however, I'm not familiar with what the process is to rename a topic. Perhaps someone with more familiarity could chime in on the subject? --haha169 (talk) 00:32, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
- I think that's up to GamerPro64 and company. There's no particular encyclopedic limitation on renaming a topic, as they exist primarily within the GT/FT framework. Jclemens (talk) 06:12, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
- Jclemens What you propose seems fair; however, I'm not familiar with what the process is to rename a topic. Perhaps someone with more familiarity could chime in on the subject? --haha169 (talk) 00:32, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
- Support renamed topic 'Game of Thrones (season 1) episodes', to be speedily renamed to 'Game of Thrones (season 1)' if and when the soundtrack is brought to GA. --haha169 (talk) 16:02, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
- Note that the Soundtrack GA review has been picked up and I will be addressing the identified issues over the next few days. Jclemens (talk) 04:09, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
- And the Soundtrack has been promoted to GA, so I am including it mid-nomination to resolve a couple of the objections noted above. Jclemens (talk) 22:15, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
- Support all articles look good and with the soundtrack now included the topic is complete. Great job! (small note: there's actually 12 articles now not 11) - Brojam (talk) 05:39, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
- Fixed, thanks. Jclemens (talk) 14:17, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
- Support with the inclusion of the soundtrack! --haha169 (talk) 07:07, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
- Support everything looks good and ready to go with this. Congrats to everyone who worked on these articles. Aoba47 (talk) 15:30, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
- Support Looks great, especially with the new article addition. @Juhachi and GamerPro64: I can see no reason why this could not be passed today, it has been three months and the nominator addressed the concerns of the voters. Kees08 (talk) 02:50, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
- Closed with a consensus to promote to Good Topic. - GamerPro64 01:25, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
- Contributor(s): Kees08, Cameron11598
Meets all the criteria of a Good Topic. Comprehensive, covers every Olympics that Djibouti has competed in. --Kees08 (talk) 20:20, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
- Comment Shouldn't List of flag bearers for Djibouti at the Olympics also be part of the topic?--十八 22:32, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
- Yeah I can see that point of view. In my opinion, with how little information there would be for Djibouti flagbearers at the Olympics, I would recommend merging the two articles, but I am not sure how the person that made the flagbearers nav box would feel about that. I could always link to the appropriate section in the nav box. Kees08 (talk) 23:47, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
- Or leave it as a redirect in the template, but yeah, the list is entirely included in the main article (and in a prettier way) and so should be redirected to there and not included in this topic. --PresN 23:58, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
- I think that is best. I will start working on that. I have never done a merge before so I'll check it out. Kees08 (talk) 03:28, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
- I would advise against merging or converting the flag bearer article to a redirect given that it is part of a series of articles of that type (see Category:Lists of Olympic flag bearers by country) designed to create consistency across all nations that have competed at the Games. At the very least try and get some opinions at WT:OLY first - Basement12 (T.C) 16:03, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
- Can do, process initiated. Kees08 (talk) 02:52, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
- @Juhachi, PresN, and Basement12: The merge is complete. Kees08 (talk) 06:51, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
- Support even without the flagbearers list. To me that is a fork, that doesn't need to be split for a few decades. Plus it is just a meaningless stat to be the flagbearer. If anything I think having the lone medalist would be more important. Nergaal (talk) 12:26, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
- Support without the flagbearers article, I see no reason for that to even exist -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:59, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
- Support – Very good work on getting this topic to the state it has become. I concur with the views of the two other users over the issue concerning the flag bearers article. It is in no way useful to this topic. MWright96 (talk) 18:52, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
- Support Jclemens (talk) 03:06, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
- Support - complete collection of high-quality articles. Nice work. – Juliancolton | Talk 04:35, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
- Comment: It has been almost 30 days, should be long enough to promote, per the guidelines on this page 'Nominations will stay here for ten days if there is unanimous consent, or longer if warranted by debate.' Kees08 (talk) 06:06, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
- I was actually just about to ping @Juhachi: and ask about that myself --Cameron11598 (Talk) 00:01, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
- Closed with a consensus to promote to Good Topic. --十八 01:14, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
This is a comprehensive topic about singer Madonna's seventh studio album, Ray of Light, one of the most well-known and critically acclaimed and commercially successful albums of her career. With the consensus of my fellow editors, would like to promote this as a Featured topic. --—IB [ Poke ] 08:42, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
- Support — Passes criteria. Chrishonduras (Diskussion) 08:57, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
- Why does Sky Fits Heaven deserve an article? Nergaal (talk) 09:58, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
- What kind of a question is that? It was a promotional single, even charted in an important chart. —IB [ Poke ] 12:23, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
- User:Nergaal seems to have retired following his incident, so @Juhachi: what should I do with this point that he raised? —IB [ Poke ] 06:14, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
- What kind of a question is that? It was a promotional single, even charted in an important chart. —IB [ Poke ] 12:23, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
- Support Passes criteria. Great job everyone with this. Aoba47 (talk) 15:31, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
- Support. Passes criteria. - AffeL (talk) 15:37, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
- Support very well developed articles, and nothing that would warrant demotion Snuggums (talk / edits) 00:44, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
- Support Jclemens (talk) 07:40, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
- Closed with a consensus to promote to Good Topic. --十八 07:09, 6 April 2017 (UTC)