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Hard Candy

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I believe these six articles are comprehensive and together denotes one of the best bunch in Wikipedia. They are about American recording artist (legend) Madonna's eleventh studio album Hard Candy. So with the consensus of my fellow editors, I would like to promote this topic to a good topic. --Legolas (talk2me) 10:00, 27 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mesozoic mammals of Madagascar

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This topic covers all of Madagascar's ancient mammalian fauna, including the oldest mammal with modern-type teeth, a member of one of the weirdest groups of extinct mammals, a broken tooth that can't quite be identified, and some interesting to highly interesting fossils that haven't been described in detail yet and that are therefore covered only in the main article. This is a good topic nomination, but I intend to bring enough articles to FA status to eventually make this a featured topic. Thanks go to Visionholder, Airplaneman, and Sasata (twice), who did the GA reviews for the four articles. Ucucha 19:47, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  • Low Support - well done, but a topic image would help. igordebraga 01:26, 27 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Main article implies that at least 6 species are known. Yet asides from the three here, there is only another mention of "nearly complete, articulated skeleton of an immature, cat-sized mammal that has not yet been fully described" in 2000. It appears that the mammal with the most remains known does not even have a separate article. I would be weary to support a topic which alludes to having at least 6 members, one of which I could not find a clear description in the main article, and another one which has remained "undescribed" since 2000. 18.111.55.86 (talk) 00:53, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • It's not unusual for such things to happen in biology; I'm currently describing some new species on the basis of material collected in the 1960s. The main article lists everything that has been published and summarizes information on the three species that have been fully described. I assume they are still preparing and describing the articulated skeleton, or perhaps waiting for Nature or Science reviewers—but there is no point in making a separate article on it now, as all available information is covered by the paragraph in the main article. I will, of course, write a full article on this animal as soon as its description has been published. Ucucha 07:27, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong support an interesting scientific read. Sandman888 (talk) Latest PR 13:58, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Courcelles 09:25, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Good work. Gage (talk) 20:40, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Kaiser Friedrich III class battleships

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These were Germany's second class of battleships, and the first class built under the naval expansion program initiated by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz. The ships saw very limited service during World War I and were quickly decommissioned. Parsecboy (talk) 10:41, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

German Type IXA submarines

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Good Topic nomination. This topic covers all of the German Type IXA submarines including the class article itself. It has taken me several months to promote all of these articles to GA status and I hope that you all agree that it meets all of the criteria.--White Shadows It's a wonderful life 16:20, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed.--White Shadows It's a wonderful life 14:16, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Indefatigable class battlecruisers

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This is a good topic nomination of another class of British WWI battlecruisers, once of which was actually an Australian-owned ship. I've been waiting for the last article to reach GA for quite a while.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 17:12, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Battlecruisers of Russia

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A proposed good topic consisting of all three of the unfinished Russian battlecruisers classes. The lead list was just promoted and hasn't been processed by the bot as I write this.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 17:07, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]