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A goat for you!

I just read the page on radiocarbon dating. I think you were a primary author on it. If so -- wow -- what a great job your did. Although it's an amazingly complex topic, I felt I really understood how it worked. Kudos to you, Mr. Christie! Enjoy the goat!

Ted Wham

WhamboMPS (talk) 05:51, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:02, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nice job! A goat for you!

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GAN

Well, it seems that ChristieBot has not updated the GA nominations page with my recent nomination for the article Prince Louis of Wales and also the fact that I have already transcluded the GA review discussion for the article Mirella Freni. Looking forward to your response. Regards. MSincccc (talk) 18:21, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The bot has now made both updates. It's sometimes forced to stop running, for example when system resources are low, so if it doesn't update inside the usual twenty minutes it might just be that it will have to wait another twenty minutes. If you see it successfully update the GAN page and omit your changes, that indicates a problem, but if it doesn't update the GAN page it is probably simply waiting till the system will allow it to complete a full run. I suspect that's what happened here. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 20:50, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested change to GAN page

Hello Mike Christie, I hope all is well with you. I propose two minor (I hope) changes to the Good article nominations page:

At the top of the page, delete the overkill: "To add good article nominations to this page, please see the instructions." We have already said this, in a box above.
At the bottom of the page, Add a new Back button to help readers who have reached the bottom of the list. (This is similar to the Back buttons I have added to the Main GA pages.)

You can see how these changes would look, here:

Let me know what you think. Thank you! Prhartcom (talk) 15:46, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Could you post these suggestions at WT:GAN? I'd prefer to get consensus for even minor changes, to avoid having to make the edits multiple times in case of slight tweaks. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:21, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Hello Mike Christie, just had a quick question that I don't seem to be finding the answer for in the documentation. How does ChristieBot determine the amount of GAs someone has successfully nominated? My description on the GAN page is correctly reflecting the amount of reviews I've done, but says that I've 0 GAs when I actually have 1. Thanks for any help you can provide. Grumpylawnchair (talk) 19:24, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Let me know the name of the article you got promoted and I'll see if I can figure out what happened. One common cause is username changes; if you change your username, ChristieBot doesn't know about anything done under the earlier name. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 00:09, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Elena Gorolová, my username has never changed. The article was only promoted yesterday, so maybe the bot didn't update yet. Thanks for your time, Grumpylawnchair (talk) 00:12, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It can take up to a day to update it. Looks like it's caught up now; let me know if you see delays longer than a day in the future. Thanks. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 21:20, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your time. I thought it was because I don't keep a userspace GA log, so I wanted to double check. Grumpylawnchair (talk) 21:24, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]