User talk:It is a wonderful world

Review of Santi Romano for GA

Hi, I have made some improvements to the page and added a source; tomorrow I will take a look at the other sources in Italian. Itemirus (talk) 00:56, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Itemirus I'll start the review and ping you there. Thank you for your help. IAWW (talk) 07:02, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Starting the review of Lake Como for Good Article status

Hi @It is a wonderful world, asking for a favour back! For quite some time, I’ve been the main contributor to the Lake Como article, and since it’s also my hometown, I’m especially passionate about getting it right. Would you be up for starting to review it for Good Article status? ;-) Itemirus (talk) 17:36, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Itemirus, yes, I saw you nominated this and added it to my list to review in the current GAN nomination drive when I have the time. I will be able to review about 90% of the criteria but will need an Italian speaker to check for paraphrasing and broadness. I'm currently reviewing seven GANs, so I'll finish a few of them to close before starting any more big ones, but I should hopefully be able to get to this in the next week or so. IAWW (talk) 18:14, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Helping Hand Barnstar
		For your patience and mentorship on Talk:Cady Noland/GA1. asilvering (talk) 17:23, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

One might say this is premature, but I think you've earned it already. :) -- asilvering (talk) 17:23, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you asilvering! I'm gonna be in for the long haul with this one, no matter how it goes... IAWW (talk) 17:26, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

Comment from dcw2003

Thanks for the barn star!! I greatly appreciate it. I'm glad my work on Shelley Mann was to your liking. Dcw2003 (talk) 12:26, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

@Dcw2003 No worries, you do great work. Ping me if you ever want a peer review. IAWW (talk) 12:38, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

Dcw2003 (talk)I could use a review for swim coach Stan Tinkham which has yet to be edited, and though its a bit long, its detailed and interesting. You might also really enjoy reading Betty Brey which is a very intersting story of an Olympic swimmer who swam with Shelley Mann at the 1956 Olympics. Let me know if you get to edit Stan Tinkham.

WP:MOS - arguably redundant filler in lede

Dude, I don't wish to step on toes as last time we had a huge argument. so you should discuss with others that you trust - like mentors or experienced editors about this info you add to a lede. You wrote on men's and women's individal 100 free events in 2024 summer Olympics that - "SInce an Olympic size swimming pool is 50m long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool". I cannot be the only one that think it goes against Wikipedia policy - Manual of style as well as just adding in filler redundant info. if you look at all other articles of 100 free, in which you haven't edited, none of those articles point out the blatant obvious. It's neither notable or necessary to point out something that isn't necessary. I added a talk thread to one article [1] and removed it from the lede in the other. I don't wish to spend time arguing like last time ,so ask you to instead find someone you trust and discuss it minimally with them. I am sure if they're as experienced like Andy the Grump, they should explain to you why it is redundant filler that goes against WP:MOS. IP49XX (talk) 11:09, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Btw credit should be given when it's deserved. Other than that one off filler info, the rest of the article is great so much appreciation for your hard work. I don't have complaints on the rest of that article and I agree it's a good article that you helped significantly. So kudos. IP49XX (talk) 11:52, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi @IP49XX, thanks for raising this. I also don't want to waste time arguing either, I addressed the concern at the talk page. Please understand I hold no hostility toward you or anyone else from that conversation, but I do agree it might be best to seek a third opinion straight away this time if we still do not agree after an initial back and forth. IAWW (talk) 14:21, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Hey @It is a wonderful world, we had a discussion that was resolved approx 4 days ago. I actually expected that as OP, you would trim the lede. As you haven't already since, I been doing that and I think I can understand why you have not already. I can see it's a lot of work and rather tiring. I do hope the issue is resolved and just giving you a courtesy message to state that I have taken care of it. And hope all is good. IP49XX (talk) 02:24, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

@IP49XX Thanks, it is rather painful going through every little article making tiny edits. IAWW (talk) 07:25, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		For your extraordinary diligence and helpful suggestions at Talk:Santi_Romano/GA2 Gitz (talk) (contribs) 22:41, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

This looked quite grim and unattractive at the beginning, so another barnstar for courage and commitment would be in order. Thank you! Gitz (talk) (contribs) 22:41, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

@Gitz6666 Thanks for being a pleasure to work with IAWW (talk) 22:46, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	For your hard work on improving the 2024 Olympic articles and getting many of them to GA, for being so nice during GA reviews, for reviewing 2 of my GANs and for being such a lovely person on this website. Keep slaying you icon! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 09:13, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! Thank you so much for reviewing so many of them too. IAWW (talk) 10:37, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

GA reviews and visual editor

Hi IAWW, you mentioned at AN GA reviews don't work with visual editor. I haven't heard about this, would you mind expanding? Asking here if that's okay since it's off-topic for the AN. CMD (talk) 03:42, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Chipmunkdavis, I should have been more clear. I wish I could write the review page in the visual editor, but I believe this would be hard to implement since it is classed as a talk page. Though, I've never really understood why the VE cannot be used on talk pages. IAWW (talk) 07:25, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for explaining. Unfortunately, I don't think moving GAN to article space is a proposal with any sort of legs. VE development is oddly restrained in a few ways. CMD (talk) 08:57, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

Yes, it is what it is. Thanks for expressing interest. IAWW (talk) 09:07, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

Barnstar for you!

		The Guidance Barnstar
		Thank you for your thoughtful and constructive review of the Washington University in St. Louis article. Like Clarence guiding George Bailey, your feedback didn’t just help—it improved the article and taught me a lot about the GA process. I truly appreciate the time and effort you put into this. Wozal (talk) 19:10, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

Aha thank you. See you round. IAWW (talk) 21:18, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

Revert

Hi - I reverted your close here as it was formatted incorrectly. When you close a nomination discussion it is recommended to indicate if it is a non-admin closure (Template:Non-admin closure). If you install this tool: Wikipedia:XFDcloser, all these things can be done automatically (correct formatting, sign as non-admin). Regards, Goldsztajn (talk) 23:18, 18 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Goldsztajn, Thanks for fixing my mistake. I got the script to make it correct in the future. IAWW (talk) 10:45, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

Hey

Hey! I hope you are doing well. I wanted to please ask how to install the tool that tells you how many words an article is? Also, I have replied to your email during the weekend but there's no rush to reply, just wanted to let you know 😊 DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 22:27, 21 May 2025 (UTC)

Hey @DaniloDaysOfOurLives, kinda forgot about replying to the email after I viewed it... Oops... I have replied now ;)

The word count gadget instructions can be found at Wikipedia:Prosesize. I also added a section on my user page with three scripts you might want to check out :) IAWW (talk) 10:55, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you so so so so much!! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 02:21, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

GA reviews

Thank you for the three newly started reviews. I plan to go through them one after the other in the next weeks. – Editør (talk) 23:36, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

Okay :) IAWW (talk) 06:38, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

I noticed that you are a participant of this month's Women in Green editathon, so you could list these GA reviews of women-related articles there as well:

• Talk:2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres/GA1
• Talk:2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay/GA1
• Talk:2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay/GA1

– Editør (talk) 19:39, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

I didn't realise I could do that. I could also add a few more reviews relating to women that I have done this month! Thanks for the idea! IAWW (talk) 23:14, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

I cannot add them under "Nominated" because I created the nominations long before May 2025, but you can under "Reviewed" because the reviews were then. You may also want to add {{WikiProject Women in Green|8}} to the article talk pages. – Editør (talk) 23:25, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

The article Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification 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 Arconning -- Arconning (talk) 05:41, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

@Arconning Thanks for reviewing this. I have no clue why it never occurred to me that this should have been nominated at FLC. I appreciate your comments/ IAWW (talk) 08:51, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metre freestyle

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metre freestyle 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 DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 02:44, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metre freestyle

The article Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metre freestyle you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metre freestyle for comments about the article, and Talk:Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metre freestyle/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 DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 03:03, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

@DaniloDaysOfOurLives Thank you for reviewing again!! IAWW (talk) 13:51, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

You're welcome! :) DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 14:17, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay

The article Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay for comments about the article, and Talk:Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay/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 PCN02WPS -- PCN02WPS (talk) 21:23, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

Ten good article nomination reviews

		A hearty meal after all the hard work
		Thank you for reviewing as many as ten of my good article nominations in about a month time! Any more and "You know what you need to do" would probably have sufficed for the entire review... :-) Your efforts and positive attitude are much appreciated. Here is some hearty hutspot after all the hard work. – Editør (talk) 10:55, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you @Editør, you were a pleasure to work with, and thank you for responding to my comments so quickly every time! If you have the inclination, consider completing a review or a few at the Television section of the GANs. Several of us are working hard to clear that section, but it is a big job and help would be appreciated. IAWW (talk) 11:25, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! Success with your TV-related reviews. I need to finish an earlier review before I should take on any new ones. – Editør (talk) 11:35, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

No worries! It's only if you feel the inclination anyways :) IAWW (talk) 12:18, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

And if you feel the inclination, I have nominated two more athletics articles (one, two)... – Editør (talk) 10:31, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley

The article Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article needs changes or clarifications to meet the good article criteria. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley and Talk:Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of DaniloDaysOfOurLives -- DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 17:04, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

GA Mentorship

Hi @It is a wonderful world! Hope you're doing well. I'm just checking in, as I'm not too sure what the standard practice is re "ending" a mentorship, or how many reviews a mentorship usually covers, and rather than overthinking it I thought I might as well just ask. Thanks to your invaluable feedback and guidance, I now feel a lot more confident about carrying out reviews independently going forwards. However, I still only have two reviews' worth of experience, and I'm sure there's lots of unknown unknowns out there waiting for me to stumble across them! At the moment, I'm hoping to complete 5 reviews within the next few weeks/couple of months (depending on real-life commitments), as I feel like this will give me a solid foundation to go forward with. I'm just wondering, would you be happy to oversee these reviews as well? As mentioned, I do feel a lot more confident in my understanding of the GA criteria than I did before, so hopefully I won't need to bother you too much with queries; if I could just ping you (for instance) before closing the review so that you could check I haven't made any glaring errors/omissions (like the watermark issue you brought to my attention at Talk:Fury 325/GA1!) then this would be really helpful. Obviously, if you don't have time or just don't want to, that's totally fine and understandable! As I said, I don't know whether there's a standard operating procedure regarding this for GA mentorship, but I'm very flexible and happy to go with whatever works for you. Pineapple Storage (talk) 19:37, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Pineapple Storage, the mentorship normally covers just the first review, but it's quite informal so it's really up to you and me! I think both your reviews were excellent, and I certainly do not have any concerns about you continuing reviews without oversight. Though, of course, I'm always here to help if you have any queries. The unknown unknowns will always be there – nobody knows everything! But you clearly have the mentality to learn well as you go along, and that's the main thing. Feel free to ping me at reviews for a third opinion or any quick checks. I occasionally browse open reviews anyways to see the approaches other reviewers take, and to check standards are up. IAWW (talk) 21:32, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

Ah okay! That makes sense. Thank you very much for your kind words; I guess I just need to have that same confidence in myself! :D I will let you know if I need a third opinion etc. Thank you again! :) Pineapple Storage (talk) 07:37, 1 June 2025 (UTC)