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"doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue" Charles Darwin
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New FAC and PR

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To any friendly talk page watchers, I have:

Article Process
Assassination of Lord Mountbatten @FAC
Elizabeth Alkin @FAC

If there is anyone who fancies commenting, I would be grateful. Cheers - SchroCat (talk)

FAC thoughts

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I think I'm going to have to sadly resign myself to the fact I'm never going to have time to try and write an FA again. The last one, Marshlink line was a good effort, but failed because when I went to the local library where I'd got the original books out to source from, I discovered half of them had disappeared because the library facilities had been downsized. And while I'd like to see the gold star on, for example, St Pancras railway station, I can't bring myself to go through the 18 book references in the article (most of which are, again, from the library and not owned by me), fact check everything they cite, add in any further missing information from books (I've seen at least one, possibly two books entirely dedicated to St Pancras that absolutely have to be used to meet FA criteria 1c) and ensure I've got them all to hand when spot checks come up at FAC (which they should do, absolutely). So I'm a bit up the creek without a paddle.

I'll just have to settle for writing good articles, or as I prefer to call them, decent articles. There's still plenty of articles that can be improved to that level. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 14:49, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ritchie, There's nothing wrong with avoiding FA to write decent articles, whether taken to GA or just as a decent article. It's a more efficient way to deliver content across multiple articles too, given you avoid the long slow review processes involved.
If you still want to go through FAC, however, and if having hard copies of the books is the bar to cracking it, you can always get the UK Wikimedia chapter to cough up. I've got them to pay for an expensive book before, and I think I'm right in saying Harry Mitchell got them to provide a number of the books he has used for the war memorial FAs. You definitely need the source books to hand to get through FAC, particularly the first one because of the spot checks. Once you've got the first one through, it does get easier. - SchroCat (talk) 18:29, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ritchie, see also this about a WMF offer to buy book. Hope either of these options are helpful. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 03:46, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
TP lurker comment. To avoid this problem, I try to use journal articles. Through wiki anyone can get access to wiki library. I mostly use JSTOR. Someone is GA reviewing Aomori Prefecture for me right now and brought up a valid concern today. Part of the way I resolved it was by adding three JSTOR articles. Wiki Library is all online; it's amazing what you can find in it. Of course, if what you want isn't anywhere online, you're back to the old school ways. To illustrate how esoteric the things found in JSTOR etc can be, the three articles I found today were on the changes that occurred in Aomori back in the the late 1800s after the Meiji Restoration. Hope this helps, Ritchie333. MisawaSakura (talk) 18:36, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Aomori Prefecture

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It's GA now. Yea! But Ganesha811 thinks it should have some more work before we go to FAC. See User_talk:Mccunicano#Your_nomination_of_Aomori_Prefecture_has_passed. MisawaSakura (talk) 23:37, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]