Mike Christie

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Hi, I just want to ask you some minor question. When your bot adds {{Good article}} template, it does it in all lowercase ({{good article}}). But could you include capital letter in initial alphabet ({{Good article}})? It's because the templates placed in the top usually are written in sentence case, and I've also seen several users changing a "g" to "G" sometimes. I hope this can be addressed. Thank you! Camilasdandelions (✉️) 16:07, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

Yes, I can make that change. It'll have to wait till the next time I update the bot for some other reason, though. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 18:29, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

RM on Template:GA nominee

I've closed this RM as moved, and I've also written a patch that should fix any issues with ChristieBot: (Just using Github since the diff interface is nice there) msk 01:19, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. I should be able to make the code change later this week; so long as nobody changes the instructions away from using GAN rather than Good article nominee, it should be fine. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 01:54, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, I think it's this edit that broke the bot, as it changed what GAN outputs. Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 17:37, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

@Olivaw-Daneel you're correct; if that edit is reverted then the bot should operate normally again (assuming the GA nominee *is* moved) msk 17:41, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

Are there any updates concerning the bot that I should be aware of? Thanks in advance. msk 17:48, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

At some point I will have to reimplement the moves but with luck there will be no impact on end users so you won't know it's happening. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 20:02, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

Forever under review?

I had the review page for one of my GA nominations deleted a few days ago because the reviewer never made any progress. However, the GA/FA tool still show the article as under review. I am just curious if it'll reset once someone else picks up the review since it'll still be /GA1, or will it always show that article as under review in my stats? -- ZooBlazer 03:08, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Sorry about the delay replying. I see someone else has picked it up. I think it will be fine now. I will look into fixing this -- the most recent nomination status ought to be what shows up in that tool. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 23:35, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Hey Mike, sort of partially related, but did the tool forge stats stop being updated/is there an error? I realized that most things from at least the last week haven't been updated, whether its GANs or reviews. -- ZooBlazer 17:54, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

There's a separate piece of the bot that updates historical data, and it looks like it was stuck because of a particular article that was too large for it to process. I've fixed that and am rerunning it now. Let me know if that doesn't seem to have fixed it. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 10:19, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

Looks good now. Thanks! -- ZooBlazer 17:22, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

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(reposting an earlier question)

Way back in February I asked if - as the author of WP:RECEPTION which has a similarly structured issue - for advice on Lake Tauca#Scenarios and research history. I am not sure what the ideal fix is - especially since this seems to be a topic where everyone is using their own dating - and was wondering if you had time to take a look. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 15:20, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

That does look similar. Assuming all the research you quote is equally high-quality, the ideal solution would be a recent survey article that assesses all the previous research. Without that, I wonder if some of the data could be presented in a table? E.g. one row per research paper, with columns for dating, maximum depth, age of paper, and authors, and perhaps a comments column? It's hard to keep track of the sequence of different estimates without something like that. Then the prose could be reserved for information that won't easily fit into such a table. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 10:08, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

I don't think such a source exists. What I think is more likely is that folks have settled on a rough dating scheme, averaged from all older sources. That's the assumption I wrote the preceding section under, anyway. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 13:09, 10 June 2026 (UTC)