User talk:Launchballer

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I see that you have shortened the ALT1 hook for Vitamin E. I accept this, but do prefer the longer version of ALT1 or the primary proposed hook about vitamin E and vaping injury. David notMD (talk) 11:17, 21 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]

@David notMD: Shorter hooks tend to be more effective, which is why I trimmed it. I'm also surprised ALT1 wasn't selected (with the caveat that I'd have yeeted everything between "used" and "cartridges"), but I don't feel strongly enough either way.--Laun chba ller 13:55, 21 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]

I defer to you. If the curious are prompted to go to the article after seeing the trimmed version they will find the explanation in the History section. My expectation is a modest bump above average daily viewing. An observation: on the science-related articles I have raised to GA - the other vitamins and others - there is a consistent dip in views per day on weekends. I attribute this to more viewing during the week from students doing homework assignments. David notMD (talk) 14:41, 21 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]

Hello! Your submission of Luigi Mangione at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:15, 21 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Swim School you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Infoadder95 -- Infoadder95 (talk) 22:02, 24 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]

The article Swim School you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Swim School for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Infoadder95 -- Infoadder95 (talk) 22:24, 24 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]

Z1720 (talk) 00:02, 29 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]

GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:28, 30 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]

Z1720 (talk) 00:03, 29 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]

Launchballer, there has been a response to your request on this nomination; please stop by when you can to respond in turn. Thank you very much; this nomination is right on the DYKTIMEOUT cusp, and it would be a shame to have it closed unnecessarily. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:24, 29 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]

Z1720 (talk) 00:03, 30 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]

GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:29, 31 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]

Z1720 (talk) 00:03, 30 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]

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~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:03, 31 December 2024 (UTC) [reply ]

RoySmith (talk) 00:18, 1 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Hi Launchballer: Since you've been enforcing the deprecation of some media sources on trans issues, I wonder if I can get a second opinion from you on Brooke Slusser, which was created while I was expanding the Spartans volleyball article. I've tagged it for notability and explained why at some length on the talk page. Note in addition that of the cited sources, several are Fox News, one is the Telegraph, and the two "Texas sues ..." are the same AP article (and only tangentially related). I think it should be redirected to the Spartans volleyball article; I don't think it's bad enough to PROD (there is one RS article about her cited, SF Chronicle). Do you think I need to go through the BLP noticeboard or do you share my feeling this should just be redirected? Yngvadottir (talk) 21:18, 1 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

@Yngvadottir: I tend to leave articles I'm not planning on driveby DYKing alone, but my feeling is that that's probably a WP:BLP1E. I'd redirect it and see if anyone bites.--Laun chba ller 22:09, 1 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Swim School you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of AirshipJungleman29 -- AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:42, 2 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

The article Swim School you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Swim School and Talk:Swim School/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of AirshipJungleman29 -- AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 21:44, 2 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

The article Swim School you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Swim School for comments about the article, and Talk:Swim School/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of AirshipJungleman29 -- AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:06, 3 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

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GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:27, 5 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Honey Revenge you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Reidgreg -- Reidgreg (talk) 14:23, 6 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Hi Launchballer, just letting you know that the supposed previous record of 919 men is disbuted in The Atlantic article: Across the internet, you can find the rumor that the record is currently held by Lisa Sparks—more than 900 times, in 2004—but Sparks herself has written that it was about 150. There's more that you could add from this article; writer Helen Lewis makes an incisive point connecting 100 Men, and Internet pornography more broadly, to the logical endpoint of liberal feminism and liberalism and deregulation. GhulamIslam (talk) 19:51, 6 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Hello! Your submission of Swim School at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! ~ Pbritti (talk) 22:06, 6 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Just Stop Oil Sunflowers protest you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of GhostRiver -- GhostRiver (talk) 21:03, 7 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article The Cock Destroyers you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of GhostRiver -- GhostRiver (talk) 21:11, 7 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

The article Just Stop Oil Sunflowers protest you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Just Stop Oil Sunflowers protest and Talk:Just Stop Oil Sunflowers protest/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of GhostRiver -- GhostRiver (talk) 21:47, 7 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Dead Pony you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Ganesha811 -- Ganesha811 (talk) 02:05, 8 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article George Daniel you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of CatchMe -- CatchMe (talk) 14:26, 8 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

The article George Daniel you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:George Daniel and Talk:George Daniel/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of CatchMe -- CatchMe (talk) 15:44, 8 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

The article George Daniel you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:George Daniel for comments about the article, and Talk:George Daniel/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of CatchMe -- CatchMe (talk) 03:44, 9 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Wargasm you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie (talk) 07:04, 9 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

The article Wargasm you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Wargasm and Talk:Wargasm/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie (talk) 18:23, 9 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

The article Wargasm you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Wargasm for comments about the article, and Talk:Wargasm/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie (talk) 20:03, 10 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

– 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 00:02, 11 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

The article Just Stop Oil Sunflowers protest you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Just Stop Oil Sunflowers protest for comments about the article, and Talk:Just Stop Oil Sunflowers protest/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of GhostRiver -- GhostRiver (talk) 18:04, 12 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

The article The Cock Destroyers you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:The Cock Destroyers and Talk:The Cock Destroyers/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of GhostRiver -- GhostRiver (talk) 18:24, 12 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

The article Dead Pony you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Dead Pony for comments about the article, and Talk:Dead Pony/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Ganesha811 -- Ganesha811 (talk) 19:04, 12 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

The article Honey Revenge you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Honey Revenge and Talk:Honey Revenge/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Reidgreg -- Reidgreg (talk) 22:23, 12 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

I changed it, removing the bit you did at [1]. I'm sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. All the best, Grumpylawnchair (talk) 22:25, 15 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Is the DYK ready now that it's cited? SL93 (talk) 22:15, 17 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Should I get someone else? SL93 (talk) 14:55, 18 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

In response to your comment on the DYK nomination page, it’s fine. SL93 (talk) 15:03, 19 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Regarding your comment I hit something of a wall last week after attempting two in a day, I feel your pain. A long time ago, @Valereee gave me some sage advice which I've taken to heart and now pass on to you. Make sure you don't burn out. It's easy to look at something like this and say, "If I don't step in and do another <whatever/>, things are going to break". Been there, done that. It's easy to get sucked into thinking you need to keep the world from crashing and just keep doing more work. It's OK for it to crash. It's not OK for you to burn out. RoySmith (talk) 23:21, 17 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Burnout sucks. When I was burned out a few times, I took breaks of a year and more. I regretted it. SL93 (talk) 00:35, 18 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

I burned a couple years ago badly enough that I stopped editing completely for two months. Came back and desysopped, and after a few weeks realized it was the sense of responsibility as an admin to DYK that had burned me out. Decided, regretfully, that I was only going to do my fair share at DYK and resysopped. If a volunteer job is actually important, someone else will step up. If no one steps up, maybe it's not actually important to anyone else. And if it's not important to anyone else, why should I treat it as important enough to burn me out on a hobby I otherwise enjoy very much? Valereee (talk) 12:46, 18 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Thank you all for your comments, I'm feeling slightly better now. Looking at my contributions, having seven GAs taken within the space of a week, several of which hadn't been brought to DYK yet and one of which I had planned on running as a triple nom with two articles I had yet to write, is probably what knocked me out. I'm feeling slightly better now. (I am slightly disinclined to queue sets anyway while one of mine is on deck.)--Laun chba ller 14:42, 19 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

I just went to promote a queue and discovered I couldn't because all the queues were already filled! Definitely something to file under "good problems to have". RoySmith (talk) 14:50, 19 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

I promoted my first prep to queue, although I had a mishap with a source not initially loading as described on the DYK talk page. I’m glad to be able to help out. SL93 (talk) 15:02, 19 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

I'm about ready to get burnout not from preps or queues, but from reviewing hooks. That is only because no one has been promoting hooks that I review, and those nominations just get older and older. I don't want to place nominators in that position. SL93 (talk) 01:27, 23 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Is there a DYKpromoters group ping that you could use when a hook you reviewed needs attention? Or maybe somehow mark such approved hooks so that other promoters, as they're looking for hooks to promote, know a certain one was reviewed by (or nominated by) a regular promoter? Valereee (talk) 15:27, 23 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

The article Honey Revenge you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Honey Revenge for comments about the article, and Talk:Honey Revenge/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Reidgreg -- Reidgreg (talk) 16:21, 19 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Ayup! So glad to see that all of our articles that we nominated for GA have now been promoted!! Was thinking about the discussion that I had about moving James Marriott (musician) to James Marriott and creating a seperate disambig page at James Marriott (disambiguation) a while ago and I believe the mods that reviewed it were completely unreasonable about the move, quoting that one of the Marriott's was more relevant due to writing something called the 'Formulare instrumentarum' which doesn't even show up any results on google, when in comparison the musician Marriott has millions of viewers & has charted in multiple countries? Doesn't really make sense in my eyes haha. Let me know your thoughts! George (talk) 20:53, 20 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Sorry to keep you waiting, I kept getting tongue-tied. I had a look at WP:PRIMARYTOPIC and it says that although there is no single criterion for determining which would belong at James Marriott, the two usual aspects are usage and long-term significance and they're different in this case. I think it could have gone either way and I regret not voting. (That said, Formulare Instrumentarum only seems to appear on Google in Google Books and if it really was that influential, you'd think some secondary coverage would have made Google by now...)--Laun chba ller 00:29, 25 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

SL93 (talk) 12:03, 23 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

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GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:29, 27 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Phoebe Plummer you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Jolielover -- Jolielover (talk) 17:22, 28 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

The article Phoebe Plummer you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Phoebe Plummer and Talk:Phoebe Plummer/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Jolielover -- Jolielover (talk) 11:01, 29 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

The article The Cock Destroyers you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:The Cock Destroyers for comments about the article, and Talk:The Cock Destroyers/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of GhostRiver -- GhostRiver (talk) 04:04, 31 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

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The article Phoebe Plummer you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Phoebe Plummer for comments about the article, and Talk:Phoebe Plummer/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Jolielover -- Jolielover (talk) 09:21, 31 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

I just wanted to post this message for thanking you for fixing my recent mistakes done in my newbie stages of DYK promoting. Apologies for my silly errors. I'll try my best to avoid this in the future. Thanks again! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 16:00, 2 February 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

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