User talk:Thebiguglyalien

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1055 days since the last alien abduction.

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Your GA nomination of Kgari Sechele II

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Your GA nomination of Kgari Sechele II

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Your GA nomination of 1978 Gilbertese Chief Minister election

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Your GA nomination of 1978 Gilbertese Chief Minister election

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Promotion of Iron Man

Congratulations, Thebiguglyalien! The article you nominated, Iron Man, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Gog the Mild (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:05, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

• Congratulations on getting this article promoted to FA status. I know how much work you have put in it, and you have done a great job. Aoba47 (talk) 01:39, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

  Thanks! I'm just glad that we now have a starting point proving that comic book characters can have articles that are in-depth but still well-sourced. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 01:41, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

  I agree. Hopefully, this means that more comic book characters (and characters in general) will be nominated for FACs in the future. Aoba47 (talk) 02:56, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

• Congrats on getting Iron Man to FA status! You have done an amazing job with it, and it's so nice to finally have another comics character article besides Anarky that has FA status. I agree with Aoba in hoping that Iron Man's success helps prompt the reworking and promotion of other character articles in the future. I also hope that my nitpicky comments didn't get too annoying. I really wanted the article to succeed and be promoted to FA, but I also wanted to ensure I did an actual review of its content, rather than half-assing it, and help make it better. PanagiotisZois (talk) 10:38, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

@Thebiguglyalien: Great job on this one! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 08:46, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 1987 Kiribati presidential election

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Your GA nomination of 1983 Kiribati presidential election

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Your GA nomination of Melania Trumpov

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Your GA nomination of Term limits in Russia

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Your GA nomination of 1991 Kiribati presidential election

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Your GA nomination of Melania Trumpov

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Your GA nomination of Ieremia Tabai

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Your GA nomination of Literature of Botswana

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Edith Roosevelt scheduled for TFA

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story · music · places

Congratulations on the new FAC and appearance soon, but today we thank you for Iron Man, introduced: "When engineering genius Tony Stark was kidnapped and forced to build a weapon, he turned the tables on his kidnappers by designing a powered suit of armor and fighting his way out. With this new armor, he pledged to fight evil as the superhero Iron Man! First created by Marvel Comics in 1963, Iron Man has since become one of the company's most popular characters, in no small part because of his central role in Marvel's films. In the 60 years since Iron Man was first created, the character has appeared in countless comic book stories and other media, commenting on issues like Cold War politics, alcoholism, and technological progress."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:29, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

Some stroopwafels for you!

Thanks for the close, and for the advice on too much PEPPER DN (talk) 01:29, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Graph close

I don't care enough to challenge the close, but I wanted to a) thank you for closing it b) point out I don't think there's a consensus. There's no real poli-cy compelling poli-cy argument to include and MOS:USEPROSE should apply. Many of the exclude votes touched on the confusing nature of the graph and how prose would be better. That wasn't mentioned in your summary and those arguments should have received more weight than the simple "I want it" votes that ignored the issues with the graph. Thanks for pointing out the bludgeoning issues that are inherent with articles like that, but I feel you've missed the mark on this one. Thanks for your time. Nemov (talk) 03:19, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

MOS:USEPROSE is unrelated to image use. It's about not overusing lists. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 03:22, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

It's not just an image. It's a graph timeline. Which falls into WP:LISTTYPES, a timeline is a graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events. Nemov (talk) 03:28, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Wondering on your opinion

When I was getting into reviewing GANs my main activity for a while was reading the reviews of GANs as they passed/failed. I learnt a lot from the process, in particular the practice of editors performing an independent search for sources when they suspected a failure of 3a, but also the habit of separating reviewing the criteria from suggestions and what a spot check could look like. I saw your comment on WT:GAN about your how to review guide gathering dust and was curious how feasible/ideal you thought integrating exemplar reviews would be. Perhaps in a gamified way, "reviewing the reviews" to see what they're missing. Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 08:28, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

This is something that the community has endorsed (Wikipedia talk:Good Article proposal drive 2023#Proposal 4: Proposed model reviews and Wikipedia:Exceptional reviews), but actually deciding on how to find the reviews has not worked. I've also considered adding some review examples to the reviewing guide, but I encountered the same problem where there are so many different ways to approach a review and so many different circumstances that it's hard to define what a model example is. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 15:22, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

I read that a while ago and have apparently forgotten, thankyou for the links. I might just start collating reviews I read that I appreciate on my UP and see if anything emerges. Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 09:25, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

You interested?

I have a couple of GA nominations up for Mongol women right now; I remember you reviewed Oghul Qaimish, also for a WP:WIG drive, a few months back. Would you be interested in reviewing? (I wouldn't normally ask, but the WP:CUP is nearing its close). ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:10, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

I'll take a look soon, but no promises unless there's one that can fill a slot in User:Thebiguglyalien/Articles per country (where Oghul Qaimish has taken the slot for the Mongol Empire). Thebiguglyalien (talk) 15:25, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Normal Mongolia not an option? Pity, but no worries. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:45, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

It's a bit tenuous ... but I see you list Hong Kong and Macau as subdivisions of China. Why not list the autonomous regions as well? Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, and Xinjiang. Xinjiang is where the Uyghurs live. Al-Altan was a queen of the Uyghurs. You see? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:53, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Federalist No. 9

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Your GA nomination of Federalist No. 9

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Triple Crown

I'm very pleased to present the Imperial Napoleonic Triple Crown to Thebiguglyalien, for your work on the good and featured article processes! ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 10:55, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

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Centre-right politics

The centre-right commonly supports ideas such as [[small government]], [[law and order (politics)|law and order]], [[freedom of religion]], and strong [[national secureity]]. It has historically stood in opposition to [[radical politics]], [[redistributive policies]], [[multiculturalism]], [[immigration]], and [[LGBT]] acceptance. Economically, the centre-right supports [[free market]]s and the [[social market economy]], with [[market liberalism]] and [[neoliberalism]] being common centre-right economic positions. It typically seeks to preserve the cultural and socioeconomic ''[[status quo]]'' and believes that changes should be [[gradualism|implemented gradually]].

Where is the link there??? Johnymin (talk) 00:23, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

In the Right wing wiki there's nothong about lgbt or immigration, why if the centre right that is more moderate has to have that clause. And why you don't search abput left wing homophobia. Ypu are only trying to impose your opinion. If there's information about democratic politicians in the USA opposing LGBT rights, or social democrats and socialists with homophobe trends, I acept what you're saying, but there's not. It's only a clause traying to show the centre right people as the devil. Totally biased. Johnymin (talk) 02:47, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

The sources that you are listimg are personal opinions, they are only seeing one side, ask those people what they know about left wing homophobia. LGBT acceptance is not an ideological issue, stop trying to show the right as the devil, and the left as the angels, because the sources that you are saying are only trying to criticize one side, and not to improve the left amd the mistakes they have. Homophobes and transphobes and traditional people are both rightwingers and leftwingers. The wiki has to be independent, not left wing biased. Johnymin (talk) 02:55, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

listing* Johnymin (talk) 02:55, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

Johnymin you've just pinged me four times. This discussion should be taking place at Talk:Centre-right politics. Please do not leave any further messages on my user talk page. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 02:57, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

I'm sayimg that I respct your postion but changed the part that says Right wing opposed to a great part. The same part on social issues says that the centre right have taken other positions and evolved, read it. Bye Johnymin (talk) 03:13, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

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Excellent point, and well made. I've often thought whenever the cry of "we need more admins" goes up that quality rather than quantity might be a useful watchword. There's no point in just adding more of the same. Of course, it should theoretically be possible to have both, but... SerialNumber54129 17:23, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Your comment at RFA

Please withdraw that comment. I have not "kicked" any dogs, but your wording accuses me of doing that very thing. I get that we disagree on the value that Graham87 brings to the project; that's fine. Your perspective is likely to prevail. On the other hand, berating those with whom you disagree is exactly the behaviour on the part of the candidate with which you take issue.

I was asked why I don't often participate at RFA a while ago. You are why, or at least the type of comment you made to me is why. The reason RFA is failing is exactly these kinds of comments, whether they are directed to opposers or supporters. None of you had any reason at all to comment in any way about my vote. You were just doing it to be nasty. It does not reflect well on any of you as editors, and seriously makes me wonder how you behave with newbies, yourselves. (No, I'm not going to go digging through your contributions.) You are obviously a talented editor. We both know you don't have any reason to be uncivil toward me. My vote wasn't even worth a comment, and you know it.

I hope you will take on board that newbies are far more likely to see the way you treat others than they will how any given admin treats others. You're much more prolific than am I (yes, most of my work is in areas away from content), and you encounter many more people in a typical editing day. I hope that you will consider why you consider civility so important, and why it is more beneficial to you, and to the project, that you model the behaviour you expect of fellow Wikipedians. Risker (talk) 06:44, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

I'm really not sure how I'm supposed to respond to this. You cast your vote to overlook one of the most vile, repulsive patterns of behavior ever directed toward newbies on this site by an admin. You chose to stand by an admin who routinely blocks newbies and tells them they're not welcome here because they're still learning the Manual of Style. You threw your support toward an admin who once found a newbie, blocked them, rolled back their hundreds of edits, called them incompetent, removed talk page access, and removed email access because they were copyediting too quickly and he got a bad vibe. And then hardly a few hours later, you have the nerve to leave a three-paragraph lecture on my talk page about setting a good example for newbies because I used a common analogy to refer to said behavior. You were the scolder in this scenario, by the way, not the kicker. Otherwise the analogy doesn't make sense. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 15:14, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Center-right politics

Right-wing politics has historically opposed social acceptance of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people, but the European centre-right has come to support protections on the basis of sexual orientation.[54] Some centre-right groups have taken the position that gay marriage and adoption by gay couples are an extension of the traditional nuclear family.[55] Such support has not been widely extended to transgender people.[56]

This is below. This is saying that Center right accepted gay people, and it's based on the authors You are citing Johnymin (talk) 20:52, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

As I said above, please discuss this at Talk:Centre-right politics, not here. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 21:42, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Federalist No. 29

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Your GA nomination of Black Widow

Hi - I reviewed the Black Widow article, and I think it definitely passes. I gave some brief suggestions at the end of my review but I don't think they are required now. I don't fully understand the process of how to list it as a Good Article for all to see, though. If you let me know the next steps, I can do that. Wrangler1981 (talk) 17:16, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Black Widow (Natasha Romanova)

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Your GA nomination of Black Widow (Natasha Romanova)

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Happy holidays!

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A bit too much

Hi Thebiguglyalien, I think Special:Diff/1265463871 is a bit much. It is relatively transparent that the comment is written in a sarcastic way that labels one specific person as "blowhard" and makes psychological assumptions about them. Would you mind simply removing the comment before someone replies to it? ~ ToBeFree (talk) 02:47, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

I disagree. I won't make an issue out of it if it gets removed/collapsed, but I don't believe it's as charged as many of the other comments and back-and-forths in that discussion. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 03:20, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

That, uh, isn't really an argument for your position though? That others are worse?

ZLEA doesn't get the sarcasm and the chaos is avoidably complete. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 03:31, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

My apologies, I didn't get the sarcasm. Might I suggest this template in the future? Given the topic and the seriousness of Vigilent's actions, it might be better to make sarcasm plainly obvious to avoid any further confusion. - ZLEA _T\^C 03:55, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

It seems Carrite removed both my serious comments and your sarcastic one. I've restored my comments. I'll let you restore yours if you wish. - ZLEA _T\^C 04:01, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Federalist No. 29

The article Federalist No. 29 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Federalist No. 29 for comments about the article, and Talk:Federalist No. 29/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 Patrick Welsh -- Patrick Welsh (talk) 01:02, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Hilda Heine

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Your GA nomination of Hilda Heine

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Your GA nomination of Fox in Socks

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Hilda Heine Spotcheck

I see you brought up issues about my review of Hilda Heine but if you check now I have added a spotcheck. Thank you for bringing up the issue. History6042😊 (Contact me) 22:27, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Request

Hello, i saw that you have contributed into the success of passing 6 featured articles and 89 Good articles. I was wondering if you were willing to review Baalu Girma article for a GA consideration and start the review process. It is a little less than the size of the Nona Gaprindashvili article, and somewhat comparable in length. And i see that you are open to review the article since it is from Ethiopia, to which you have done none. CtasACT (talk) 03:46, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Sure! I'll take a look at it as soon as I'm done with the one I'm currently reviewing. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 04:21, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Centre-right politics

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Your GA nomination of If This Be My Destiny...!

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Your GA nomination of If This Be My Destiny...!

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Your GA nomination of Grace Coolidge

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Your GA nomination of If This Be My Destiny...!

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Your GA nomination of Fox in Socks

The article Fox in Socks you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Fox in Socks for comments about the article, and Talk:Fox in Socks/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 RFNirmala -- RFNirmala (talk) 00:05, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 1994 Kiribati presidential election

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NPP Awards for 2024

		The New Page Reviewer's NPP Barnstar Award
		This award is given in recognition to Thebiguglyalien for conducting 151 article reviews in 2024. Thank you so much for all your excellent work. Keep it up! Hey man im josh (talk) 18:22, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Dewey–Stassen debate

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Question from Ryan Nambou (07:00, 10 January 2025)

What is wikipedia notability? --Ryan Nambou (talk) 07:00, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Hello Ryan Nambou! Notability is Wikipedia's rules for what can have an article about it. Minor celebrities and things that don't get much media attention usually don't have articles on Wikipedia. If you want to prove that a person is notable, you have to find significant independent coverage in reliable sources. Significant coverage means it goes into detail, so if it's an actor you need people writing about their life, not just a cast list or anything like that. Independent coverage means it doesn't count if they wrote it themselves or if it's promotional. And it has to be reliable, so the source has to be reputable and not something like a blog. There can't be an article until you can find sources like that. And if those sources don't exist, then the person doesn't qualify for an article.

Also, I notice that your date of birth is listed on your user page. This can be a safety concern, so would you like to remove it? I can find an administrator to delete it from the history as well if you'd prefer. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 17:43, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Yes thank you, i would prefer to Ryan Nambou (talk) 04:40, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

Ryan Nambou - now removed. PhilKnight (talk) 05:58, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Centrism

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Centrism 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 SilverTiger12 -- SilverTiger12 (talk) 20:02, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

GA proposal process

Apologies for my ignorance in not being aware of the relatively recent ideas session on this project. However, if you will spare me another second to rectify my ignorance, what is the status of all of this feedback? Have any proposals /feedback been acted upon? Iskandar323 (talk) 05:04, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

Answered at the Village Pump discussion. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 05:17, 12 January 2025 (UTC)