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Request for peer review

Hii Maclean25. I am a new editor on Wikipedia and i request you to review the Lucknow article. Please note that i am not the admin or creator of the article but i have restructured the article according to the wikipedia guidelines. So keeping it short and simple, i am looking for your suggestions on making it a high quality (GA or FA worthy) article. link for PR:-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Peer_review/Lucknow/archive4 Thanks, Wikiboy2364 (talk) 17:10, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Featured List Candidate

Thanks for your input on List of municipalities in Yukon. I'm wondering if you have time to support or oppose it's promotion as time is nearly up. Either way, thanks for your comments! Mattximus (talk) 20:38, 25 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

1977 Boat Race review

Hi maclean, I noticed your note (which was quickly removed) regarding a specific concern over the '77 article. You could have told me, but in any case, I've addressed that particular issue. Thanks. The Rambling Man (talk) 07:45, 27 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Good. I figured it would be a simple fix for you. My concern is more with the quality of the review, though. maclean (talk) 03:56, 30 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Feel free to let me know about this sort of issue in the future. The Rambling Man (talk) 04:54, 30 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

autobiography
Thank you for quality articles on people and their stories, such as David Suzuki: The Autobiography and Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (7 December 2010)!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:05, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Two years ago, you were the 305th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, repeated in br'erly style, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:25, 15 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Seven years ago, you were recipient no. 305 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:46, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

RTI International

Hi Maclean. You performed the "Good Article" review on this page in February-March of last year and no significant changes have occurred to the article since then. Recently editor user:Exit8 has tagged it for alleged neutrality problems, claiming the article has been subjected to COI whitewashing (I have a COI).

Their point-of-view appears to come from the book "The Shock Doctoring", which claims to "[Expose] the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades." The book seems to make a lot of bold claims of corrupt political manipulation that I have not seen in other sources.

I was wondering if you had a minute to take a look at the discussion here and evaluate whether the neutrality tag is really appropriate. CorporateM (Talk) 15:10, 4 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Crossing the BLVD

Hi, thank you for helping me with the Crossing the BLVD page. I will go ahead and edit the text to improve its quality. Is there any way to have the old page deleted? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Boulevard It still comes up in Google searches. Thank you! Marybarbour (talk) 22:04, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia's use CC BY-SA 3.0 License requires that all article history be preserved and therefore, the article history of that new redirect page cannot be deleted. The problem is with google's cache system which still has the old page in its memory. maclean (talk) 23:43, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Instead of a cheque...

		The Running Man Barnstar
		Thank you for all you have done to help me with the Boat Race articles. Tonight we hit a landmark, over 50% of the race articles are now Good or Featured Articles, which is a monumental achievement considering that none of the articles even existed eight months ago. Thanks again. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:34, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Bohemia in London

I have deleted your addition of Bohemia in London to the novels project as it is not a novel but a description or memoir with names changed. Dabbler (talk) 22:04, 26 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Reception sect

Hey there, thanks so much for the GA Review!

I wasn't sure which stuff you thought was more Style and genre vs. Reception material, so wasn't sure which to move where.

Also, that might make the sect a bit smaller.

Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks again for the review,

— Cirt (talk) 21:15, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Boat Race review

		The Running Man Barnstar
		Hey Maclean25, just a quick barnstar to say thanks for the review of one of Boat Race articles you conducted over the past year. As of this morning, I completed my (initial) goal of ensuing that every Boat Race had, not only its own article, but one that was either of GA or FA status: we now have 158 GAs and 3 FAs that we can all be proud of! It doesn't stop here, for me at least, I'm going to keep up with improving the quality of the GAs and look for more FA opportunities. Plus, there's the small matter of 70 Women's Boat Race articles to get up and running! But thanks again, I couldn't have done it without your help. The Rambling Man (talk) 15:52, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Peer Review

Dear Maclean25,

Would you be interested in peer reviewing Utica, New York? This article has been going through a massive overhaul over the past month. It's had a lot of WP:WTW added, confusion, a WP:FORUM on its talk page, and has gone through WP:PP and WP:S-P. Eventually, I think it is capable of being a WP:GA, but it's not ready to tread those waters until the breadth and depth is taken care of, and everything is verified, valid and reliable. Buffaboy ^talk 19:07, 22 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Your Answer: Yes.
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Your Numeric Answer: More than a few
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Your Numeric Answer: 5
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Your List-Of-Usernames As Potential Future Candidates: No.
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Your Answer: Watchlist notice. Important positions of trust.
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Your List-Of-Letters Answer: G, K
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Thanks for your review

Thanks for reviewing my article, Earl Scruggs. I appreciate the time you spent. Regards,Eagledj (talk) 20:29, 8 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

List of protected areas of British Columbia

List of protected areas of British Columbia (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

I monitor a template error tracking category that alerted me to a typo in this article. I was looking at recent edits and noticed diff. That changed "19,121" to "19a121". I was going to fix that, but I noticed the edit seemed to break some other text—search for "Bella Coola Estuary Conservancy" to see it in the diff. Please have a look when you have some time. Happy editing! Johnuniq (talk) 07:56, 4 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Done maclean (talk) 05:35, 5 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Earl Scruggs article

Hi Maclean25, A few months ago, you reviewed my article, Earl Scruggs, and I appreciate it. I have nominated it for a "good article", and I wondered, since you have already taken the time to review it, if you would support it? I have one previous GA, so I know a little about the process. I see you have a long list of them as well as featured articles—very impressive, but none are in the music category. My mentor, who nominated my other GA, Diane Schurr, is Fuhghettaboutit, whom I consider a good friend, but this article is not in his scope of interests either. Any advice? Best regards,--Eagledj (talk) 21:07, 27 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you

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Introduction

Hello to all! I do not intend to write a regular peer review newsletter but there does occasionally come a time when those interested in contributing to peer review should be contacted, and now is one. I've mailed this out to everyone on the peer review volunteers list, and some editors that have contributed to past discussions. Apologies if I've left you off or contacted you and you didn't want it. Next time there is a newsletter / mass message it will be opt in (here), I'll talk about this below - but first:

THANK YOU! I want to thank you for your contributions and for volunteering on the list to help out at peer review. Thank you!
Peer review is useful! It's good to have an active peer review process. This is often the way that we help new or developing editors understand our ways, and improve the quality of their editing - so it fills an important and necessary gap between the teahouse (kindly introduction to our Wikiways) and GA and FA reviews (specific standards uphelp according to a set of quality criteria). And we should try and improve this process where possible (automate, simplify) so it can be used and maintained easily.

Updates

It can get quite lonely tinkering with peer review...

With a bit of effort we can renovate the place to look like this!

Update #1: the peer review volunteers list is changing

The list is here in case you've forgotten: WP:PRV. Kadane has kindly offered to create a bot that will ping editors on the volunteers list with unanswered reviews in their chosen subject areas every so often. You can choose the time interval by changing the "contact" parameter. Options are "never", "monthly", "quarterly", "halfyearly", and "annually". For example:

{{PRV|JohnSmith|History of engineering|contact=monthly}} - if placed in the "History" section, JohnSmith will receive an automatic update every month about unanswered peer reviews relating to history.
{{PRV|JaneSmith|Mesopotamian geography, Norwegian fjords|contact=annually}} - if placed in the "Geography" section, JaneSmith will receive an automatic update every yearly about unanswered peer reviews in the geography area.

We can at this stage only use the broad peer review section titles to guide what reviews you'd like, but that's better than nothing! You can also set an interest in multiple separate subject areas that will be updated at different times.

Update #2: a (lean) WikiProject Peer review

I don't think we need a WikiProject with a giant bureaucracy nor all sorts of whiz-bang features. However over the last few years I've found there are times when it would have been useful to have a list of editors that would like to contribute to discussions about the peer review process (e.g. instructions, layout, automation, simplification etc.). Also, it can get kind of lonely on the talk page as I am (correct me if I'm wrong) the only regular contributor, with most editors moving on after 6 - 12 months.

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You are probably better off with someone else. My time on spent on WP has been getting less and less. maclean (talk) 17:23, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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