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Derfflinger class battlecruisers

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All four articles have recently passed GA reviews; the three ship and class articles are all pretty comprehensive for this subject. Parsecboy (talk) 10:32, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Star Wars: Jedi Knight titles

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Major contributors: Bill, UnaLaguna

The 5 games are included (Movie Battles might also make the list). Nergaal (talk) 17:05, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • Weak oppose - firstly, I think this can only be called "titles", not "series", because it does not include all articles on the series - it's missing Kyle Katarn. But if that is fixed, I weak oppose anyway because I think when there is a scope narrowing to remove just one article (the last article!), that is, to me, cherrypicking. (Also I don't see any evidence you've tried to notify either of the major contributors. Appologies if I'm missing something but if you haven't I think that's incredibly rude) - rst20xx (talk) 23:45, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
the character, although makes a good appearance in this series, it does not appear to me that it is limited to only this series; therefore I don't really think he is a "natural" part of the topic. Furthermore, I am not 100% sure he is actually that notable to have its own page (and I am not a deletitionist to go for deleting it). I left a notice for the major contributors to the topic; maybe they have a better opinion about this. Nergaal (talk) 01:13, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
He appeared in some books after appearing in the series. He is the protagonist of the series and was created for it. I don't see why his also appearing in some books detracts from that - rst20xx (talk) 09:03, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

True Blue

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Hi all. I believe the following 6 articles should be a Good Topic for Wikipedia. They are comprehensive, sleek organized and are similar in content and structure. All are good articles and are interrelated. --Legolas (talk2me) 09:37, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Timothy Blackstone

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I believe this topic is complete. Although the Blackstones funded Blackstone Halls at the Art Institute of Chicago and Lake Forest College, I can find no link between them and Blackstone Hall at the University of Chicago.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:33, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why isn't the fifth article showing?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:37, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed, the box only has three columns. Woody (talk) 14:51, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Chough

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I'm nominating this for Good Topic because it's a coherent set of three articles, the genus Pyrrhocorax and its only two species. Two GAs and an FA so far. if successful here, I'll work up Alpine Chough to FA and go for FT. This is my first attempt at GT, and the first from WP:BIRDS, so please be gentle with me! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:16, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • Navbox on articles:
I presume that the new navbox at the bottom of all tree pages should look like the GAT table too. At the moment Chough, Alpine Chough, and Red-billed Chough are on the same box and it looks like they are all species. Snowman (talk) 07:29, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think that's the case. I copied the navbox from an existing GT/FT, so I assume that it's as it should be. The navbox isn't restricted to GT/FT, it can be used to link any related topics at any assessment level, and therefore isn't intended to mimic the FTbox format. It's just that at GT/FT, it's strongly suggested that a navbox is used to link the articles in the topic. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 08:35, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Nevertheless, I think the navbox could be amended to be clearer. I looked at another navbox and the fist one I looked at had a better structure, see Age of Empires. I think that it is potentially misleading that the common names for the genus and species are in the same box and the genus is repeated (with the scientific name) as the heading as well. Folowing the "Age of Empires" style, the heading would be "Chough" wikilinked (or "Genus: Chough") and the box would containe "Species: Red-winged Chough, Alpine Chough". Or perhaps there should be an extra column on the left for the taxa. the navbox could help the reader navigate to the genus and species better. It is not clear which is the genus and which are the species. In some parts of the world "Chough" would be used for the common name of the local species". I think that the current navbox is not fit for purpose. Snowman (talk) 09:17, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Fair enough, navbox rewritten to separate genus and species, also Pyrrhocorax added parenthetically to remove any possible ambiguity. please feel free to tweak further if you wish Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:32, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Enormous improvements in navbox seen and I think that the new transcluded "chough navbox template" is neat. Snowman (talk) 13:35, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support I see many more coming. Any plan on the next GTC thus far? I suggest working on more GTCs rather than taking this to FTC. Great job Jimfbleak and all others involved. - DSachan (talk) 17:44, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I think you are right. This is new ground for the project, but a few possibilities have been identified on the project page. This had the advantage of being a small genus, so relatively easy to work up. Thanks Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:54, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
thanks, Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:54, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Simpsons (season 5)

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Co-nominators: From Season 5 Topic Drive: Theleftorium, Scorpion0422, Maitch, Gran2, Cirt, Qst, Gary King, Ctjf83, ImperatorExercitus.

"A woman is a lot like a beer. They smell good, they look good, you'd step over your own mother just to get one! But you can't stop at one... you wanna drink another woman!" Anyway, this season GTC should meet the criteria. One small step for Wikipedia, one giant leap for Homerpedia. Theleftorium 11:26, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nah, seasons 10–20 suck. Theleftorium 20:04, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
If so, what's your next step? —Terrence and Phillip 16:17, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Probably character articles. And the seasons topic. Theleftorium 17:47, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
What about a ToH topic? btw: season 20 is ok. Nergaal (talk) 19:52, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
If you think this topic has a lot of GAs, WP:DOH actually has a total of 200 GAs (and counting...) —Terrence and Phillip 19:30, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]