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Thank you today for Talyllyn Railway, introduced (in 2008): "I just stumbled across this article after visiting the railway on holiday with my son, who's a big steam fan, and taking a picture which I thought could be added to WP. When I saw the quality of the article (and the existing pictures, which were much better than mine!) and that it had narrowly missed out on FA once before, I thought I'd give it a helping hand so have gone through and given it a pretty ruthless copy edit, which I think now brings it up to FA standard."! - Good timing to see it again for the anniversary. I had wanted a 300th anniversary but when I saw this one nominated I relaxed and just brought it to OTD. The FAC for it is still open. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:00, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

update: Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen, BWV 43 is now a FA. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:54, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Promotion of List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1962

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June 2026 GAN Backlog Drive

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Promotion of 1980–81 Gillingham F.C. season

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75th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards

Hi there,

I read your comments regarding 75th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for its featured list nominations and have responded with corrections based off of them. Thanks for your feedback.

--Birdienest81talk 00:36, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

Promotion of List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1961

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The list you nominated, List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1961, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists 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 The nomination discussion has been archived.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 list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 11:25, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

TFL notification

Hi, ChrisTheDude. I'm just posting to let you know that List of Harlem Hit Parade number ones of 1943 – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for June 19. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 21:37, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

Promotion of List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1960

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The list you nominated, List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1960, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists 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 list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Giants2008 (talk) via FACBot (talk) 11:25, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Your nomination of M.I.7 (album) has passed

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Cillian Murphy on stage on screen

Hello,

I read your comments about Cillian Murphy on stage and screen regarding its featured list nomination, and I have made corrections based off of them. Thank you for your help.

--Birdienest81talk 20:21, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Comment

Hi Chris! You recently stated that you will review my recent FAC, and I really do appreciate it. However, I've gathered 4-5 supports from it today, so instead of this, could you please take a look for this article? There's still no comment for it yet over a month, so I'd like to listen your thoughts for this. I'm sorry if I minded you, thanks! Camilasdandelions (✉️) 04:23, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

@Camilasdandelions: - no problem. I can do it while listening to "Dry Spell" playing on BBC Radio One for the hundredth time this week ;-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 06:37, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! I really love that song too. I'm looking forward to your review, hope you have a nice weekend this week! :) Camilasdandelions (✉️) 06:39, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

List of Gillingham F.C. records and statistics

Hello Chris, apologies but its me again. For the International caps section it has Andrew Crofts as 12 for Wales, which is correct from his permanent stint with the club. When he rejoined Gillingham on loan in 2016, he earned an additional cap for Wales. So my question is, should this be updated to 13 or does the parent club have the benefit of having that cap attributed to them? Randomnia (talk) 10:57, 25 June 2026 (UTC)

@Randomnia: - that's a very good question and in all honesty I am not sure. I'll have to have a look through some of my football reference books and see if I can find an example of a player in a similar situation and how they are treated..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:07, 25 June 2026 (UTC)

@ChrisTheDudeThanks Chris, I look forward to your findings. Randomnia (talk) 14:35, 25 June 2026 (UTC)

@ChrisTheDude Hi Chris, just wondered if you'd had a chance to do some further digging on this at all and know whether it should be 12 caps for Crofts or 13? Randomnia (talk) 09:55, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

@Randomnia: - apologies for not replying. All I could find in any of my books was info on the highest cap holder for a given club, and none of those players (as far as I can tell) spent any time on loan at the club in question, so it didn't really answer the question. I would be tempted to maybe show 13 and then just add a footnote explaining the detail -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 10:05, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

Promotion of List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1968

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The list you nominated, List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1968, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists 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 list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 23:25, 26 June 2026 (UTC)

Promotion of List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1969

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The list you nominated, List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1969, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists 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 list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 23:25, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

Promotion of List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1970

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The list you nominated, List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1970, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists 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 list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 11:26, 22 July 2026 (UTC)

98th Academy Awards FLC

Hi there,

I read your comments regarding the 98th Academy Awards for featured list candidacy and have made corrections based off of them. Thank you for your feedback.

--Birdienest81talk 00:31, 26 July 2026 (UTC)

FLC

I added all the necessary sources on List of awards and nominations received by Prince per your feedback. Could you take a look? I pinged you but you haven't responded yet. NP (talk) 23:13, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

98th Academy Awards FLC follow up

Hi there,

I have promptly addressed your latest comment regarding the 98th Academy Awards for featured list promotion. Thanks for your help.

--Birdienest81talk 06:48, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

Promotion of List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1971

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The list you nominated, List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1971, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists 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 list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 11:25, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

98th Academy Awards FLC change

Hi there again,

I changed the word bake-off into shortlist presentation. For the reasoning see the featured list nomination the 98th Academy Awards.

--Birdienest81talk 09:55, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

Hongxi Emperor

I noticed your involvement in FAC and FLC nominations related to articles about the Ming dynasty. The articles on the first three Ming emperors, Hongwu, Jianwen, and Yongle, have now passed FA, and the FAC is now open for the Hongxi Emperor. I thought that with your past participation in the discussions, you might be interested in reviewing this nomination. Векочел (talk) 17:19, 10 August 2026 (UTC)

Promotion of List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1972

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The list you nominated, List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1972, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists 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 list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 23:25, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

FLC

Hello Chris, if you're able to take a look at my FLC, I'd be more than happy, thank you and looking forward. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 22:48, 16 August 2026 (UTC)

Promotion of List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1973

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The list you nominated, List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1973, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists 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 list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 23:25, 21 August 2026 (UTC)

1986–87 Gillingham F.C. season scheduled for TFA

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Ebbsfleet United F.C.

Sorry that you had to reinstate a section of content that I accidentally deleted. I was making an edit to the final characters of the preceding section and must have moved the cursor before saving. Apologies. Best wishes. Paul W (talk) 22:10, 27 August 2026 (UTC)

@Paul W: - no worries. And as a Kent football fan, I really hope all the issues at Ebbsfleet can be resolved.... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:18, 29 August 2026 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:PerryStLg.jpg

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Rev del

Hi ChrisTheDude! I hope you're having a great day and that life is treating you nicely. :-) I saw that you recently performed revision deletion on a few edits here and removed some content that... yeah, definitely falls into RD2; I have absolutely no qualm at all regarding the redaction of the content. ;-)

However, I noticed that you also redacted the edit summary and username from each of the edits as well. I pulled up the in-depth information for each revision and found that they did not meet a criteria for redaction. It looks like you might've just accidentally applied the redaction to all of the data instead of only the revision text, so I went ahead and just fixed them for you. ;-) If there's something that I missed, or if there's a reason why you redacted the username and edit summary information that should be reinstated, please let me know. Otherwise, you're all set and there's nothing that you need to do. :-) Cheers - ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 15:35, 4 September 2026 (UTC)

@Oshwah: - thanks, that does indeed sound like mis-clicking on my part..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 15:54, 4 September 2026 (UTC)

ChrisTheDude - No worries; it happens... Hell, I won't even begin to try and figure out how many revisions I've redacted the wrong information from or redacted incorrectly over the years that I've been on this project... Take your wildest guess, add 2000 to the number, and you might be in the ballpark! XD ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 16:03, 4 September 2026 (UTC)

Regarding unfinished review of List of general elections in Botswana

Hello, I believe you started a review on my FLC List of general elections in Botswana but didn't respond to my ping. During an FAC, I was informed by @SchroCat and other FAC coordinators that none of my pings have been going through. I'm here since I really have no other choice if I want a reviewer to finish a review since my pings don't work. — splains (💬/📝) 15:32, 5 September 2026 (UTC)

You've got mail

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List of Emperor's Cup finals

Hey Chris. Pending other reviews of List of Copa del Rey finals, would you mind reviewing this other FL nominee? It’s been there for weeks on weeks but no one has taken a look at it. Wikipediæ philosophia (talk) 16:05, 10 September 2026 (UTC)

It’s me again. I really need a review from you before the FLN gets closed for inactivity. I reckon it’s a valid article. Wikipediæ philosophia (talk) 18:04, 15 September 2026 (UTC)

Promotion of 1872 FA Cup final

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The article you nominated, 1872 FA Cup final, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

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Been following recent edits in the "List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones" series

You've definitely done a great job in updating the early part of this series, and thanks for that as well as those having to do with some of the edits I've made in the mid and late 1970s portion (July 4, 1976 dating and the frozen charts notes). In the last few hours or days, though, I've been seeing temporary accounts try to change things back to the way they were, and while the normal convention has been to not do a second link to a song or artist within a table, I can see why it's important from the standpoint of the one-click column sortings within the table. Also noting that most if not all of the articles in this series you've edited so far are either featured lists or candidates. MPFitz1968 (talk) 18:08, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

@MPFitz1968: - thanks for your assistance with this yesterday evening (my time - may have been different your time :-)) while I was off WP -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 06:40, 15 September 2026 (UTC)

TFL notification

Hi, ChrisTheDude. I'm just posting to let you know that List of Hot R&B Sides number ones of 1960 – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for October 28, 2026. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. --PresN 13:06, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

Promotion of List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1975

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The list you nominated, List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1975, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists 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 list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 23:25, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

Promotion of List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1974

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The list you nominated, List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1974, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists 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 list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 23:26, 25 September 2026 (UTC)

77th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards FLC

Hi there,

Could you review the 77th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for featured list promotion? I would appreciate the help.

--Birdienest81talk 02:55, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

1906–07 New Brompton F.C. season scheduled for TFA

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New cross-language page link: IFPI Danmark

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Promotion of List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1976

Congratulations, ChrisTheDude! The list you nominated, List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1976, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists 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 list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Giants2008 (talk) via FACBot (talk) 23:25, 11 October 2026 (UTC)

CS1 error on 1871–72 FA Cup

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