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This is a log of good topics and featured topics from Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates. Discussions about unsuccessful nominations are located in the failed log. Automatic promotions/demotions from good topics to featured topics/featured topics to good topics are not logged.

Candidacy discussion about topics promoted in this calendar month is being placed at Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Featured log/July 2009.

Contents 1 Full current month log 1.1 Music of the Final Fantasy series 1.2 Canadian campaign of 1775

Full current month log

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edit2006
April	1 promoted	6 not promoted
October	4 promoted	2 not promoted
December	1 promoted	2 not promoted	1 sup.
2007
January	2 promoted	7 not promoted
February	1 promoted	2 not promoted	0 sup.	1 demoted
March	1 promoted	4 not promoted	0 sup.	1 demoted
April	2 promoted	1 not promoted
May	2 promoted	4 not promoted	2 sup.	1 kept
June	3 promoted	2 not promoted
July	0 promoted	0 not promoted
August	1 promoted	0 not promoted
September	4 promoted	6 not promoted	1 sup.
October	4 promoted	1 not promoted
November	2 promoted	0 not promoted	2 sup.
December	3 promoted	1 not promoted
2008
January	3 promoted	0 not promoted	2 sup.	2 demoted
February	2 promoted	1 not promoted
March	4 promoted	2 not promoted	1 sup.
April	5 promoted	4 not promoted	0 sup.	1 kept
May	5 promoted	1 not promoted	1 sup.
June	2 promoted	0 not promoted	1 sup.	2 demoted
July	3 promoted	4 not promoted	1 sup.
August	7 promoted	5 not promoted	2 sup.
September	10 FT, 7 GT	14 not promoted	3 sup.
October	2 FT, 7 GT	7 not promoted	3 sup.	1 kept
November	2 FT, 5 GT	3 not promoted	4 sup.
December	7 FT, 11 GT	5 not promoted	2 sup.
2009
January	2 FT, 4 GT	5 not promoted	2 sup.
February	7 FT, 6 GT	1 not promoted	2 sup.	1 kept, 1 demoted
March	2 FT, 2 GT	3 not promoted	1 sup.	1 kept
April	3 FT, 1 GT	3 not promoted	0 sup.	1 demoted
May	2 FT, 3 GT	0 not promoted	0 sup.
June	4 FT, 9 GT	2 not promoted	3 sup.	3 demoted
July	0 FT, 2 GT	1 not promoted	0 sup.

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Music of the Final Fantasy series

edit | Topic discussion | Book 18 articles Music of the Final Fantasy series
Final Fantasy I and II Final Fantasy III Final Fantasy IV Final Fantasy V Final Fantasy VI Final Fantasy VII series Final Fantasy VIII Final Fantasy IX Final Fantasy X Final Fantasy X-2 Final Fantasy XI Final Fantasy XII Final Fantasy Tactics series Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles series Chocobo series Final Fantasy compilation albums Final Fantasy concerts

I'm nominating this as a good topic as I think it meets the criteria. Over the past year I've gotten every single article up there to GA/FL with the exception of FF8. The topic includes the music articles on all of the main series Final Fantasy games, as well as the spinoff series that have their own music/discography articles, which are linked together in a template. --PresN 15:19, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

• Support impressive! igordebraga ≠ 03:41, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
• Comment - fantastic work, I really appreciate how you've even got the spinoff series discographies up to scratch as well. However I do not think this topic has quite earned the moniker "Music of the Final Fantasy series", as it is lacking articles on concert tours such as Tour de Japon, Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy and Dear Friends -Music from Final Fantasy-. However I think it would be acceptable to get around this by rescoping the topic by piping the lead to "Discographies of the Final Fantasy series" - rst20xx (talk) 10:33, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

  Do the tours really add anything to the subject of the music itself however?--Kung Fu Man (talk) 14:34, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

  I think so, yes. Certainly they are covered with their own section in the lead article - rst20xx (talk) 16:43, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

  Alright, I can see where you're coming from. I'd prefer to leave it at "Music of FF", but I'm okay if we change the scope to "Discographies of FF". I'll go ahead and move the nom page and stuff. --PresN 17:58, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

  Support - very well done, a labour of love and a really useful collection of information - rst20xx (talk) 16:28, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

  If I got, say, a "Final Fantasy Concerts" page (combining the concert articles you state above) up to GA+ and added it to the topic, would you support renaming the topic back to "Music of"? --PresN 16:39, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

  I think the three articles could probably be expanded to GAs individually, but with that said, my answer is still yes - rst20xx (talk) 18:43, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

• Support Well rounded and thorough.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 14:34, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
• Support With it's current title of "Discographies of the Final Fantasy series", because it meets the featured topic criteria. Alex Douglas (talk) 11:37, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
• Comment: I think Rst20xx brought up a good point. Since the main article covers concerts, it makes sense to include them in topic. I'm not certain that simply renaming the scope really solves that though. I've always felt the lead should be the major defining point to the scope. PresN, do you think Final Fantasy concerts could reach GA? (Guyinblack25 ^talk 19:22, 3 June 2009 (UTC))

• Yes, and I'm working on it- hopefully I'll get it up to nominating status in a week or two. Note the 70 or so edits on it since I created the page a week/week and a half ago. I disagree that renaming the scope does not solve the problem, though I hope to make the point moot soon. --PresN 20:55, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

• Neutral: (Leaning towards support) PresN, I'm confident you will improve the article to GA standards; you've done spectacular work on the whole topic. So long as you are working on it, I see no real problem, only technicalities which I believe should be acknowledged. I hope you understand my neutral stance, but I don't feel I should fully support the topic without the concert article and full music scope. (Guyinblack25 ^talk 21:07, 3 June 2009 (UTC))
  • Support: With the concert article now GA and the scope matching the main article, I see no reason to withhold support. I think this is one of the better video game topics we have now. Excellent work PresN. (Guyinblack25 ^talk 20:24, 3 July 2009 (UTC))
• Support as either discography topic (as now), or even better as the more general topic - note that the concerts article is currently at GAN, so waiting to see the outcome there may be best.YobMod 17:39, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

• I'd be okay with that, except that the current backlog (top to bottom) of the "Music" section of GAN is ~1.5 months - that may be a bit long to keep this on hold. --PresN 17:54, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

• While generally it is advised against, I think given the circumstances it would be a good idea to hold off and wait and see how the GAN goes before promoting the topic. It would be easier this way. If you like we could hide the nomination until the GAN passes, effectively putting it on hold for the time being, or we can leave it here so other people have a chance to look it over in the meantime - rst20xx (talk) 10:57, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

• Don't really care one way or another. Hopefully it will get reviewed soon. --PresN 13:31, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

• Final Fantasy concerts has passed GA; I've added it to the nomination and renamed the topic back to "Music of the Final Fantasy series". I think it should be good to go now. --PresN 16:08, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

  Looking at the end result, I think you were definitely right to merge the articles :) rst20xx (talk) 13:14, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

• Close with consensus to promote - rst20xx (talk) 13:14, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Canadian campaign of 1775

edit | Topic discussion | Book 10 articles Canadian campaign of 1775
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga Siege of Fort St. Jean Battle of Longue-Pointe Arnold Expedition Battle of Quebec Battle of Saint-Pierre Battle of the Cedars Battle of Trois-Rivières Battle of Valcour Island

I believe this grouping qualifies as a Good Topic. All of the elements are described in the main article, and are contained in {{Campaignbox American Revolutionary War: Canada}}. (Note that the campaignbox contains one more entry than shown here; the extra entry redirects into Capture of Fort Ticonderoga.)

Thanks for your consideration. Magic♪piano 23:59, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

• Slightly unrelated comment: I understand why Crown Point is not its own article and not on this nom. But what makes it so important to have its own link in the campaignbox? —Goodtimber (walk/talk) 01:04, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
  • Good question. I believe that there was at one time a separate article for the Crown Point action that was merged into the Ticonderoga article. I've been cleaning up other campaign boxes, maybe I'll take care of this one too... Magic♪piano 14:22, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
• Support. Everything looks ok to me. Rreagan007 (talk) 17:43, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
• Note can the title of the topic be changed? Right now it sounds as if Canada fought the campaign. Try something like "American 1775 campaign in Canada". Nergaal (talk) 05:07, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

  I don't think this makes a huge amount of sense. Canada as an independent political entity did not exist yet. Canada did in effect fight this campain, under Britain - rst20xx (talk) 16:54, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

  • "Canada" in 1775 referred to what was at the time the Province of Quebec (1763-1791), which included the territory known until 1763 as Canada, New France. Most of the historical work on this campaign refers to it as "Canada". (This is elaborated at more length in Invasion of Canada (1775).) Magic♪piano 00:09, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

• Comment - so in summary, you merged Battle of Crown Point into Capture of Fort Ticonderoga (and indeed, there's now a section on Crown Point in the latter article) and Battle of Vaudreuil into Battle of the Cedars. However here the latter article mentions that "Crossing of the Ottawa River was made between Fort Anne and Quinze-Chênes, now Vaudreuil", but not the fact that there was any conflict occurring here. Would it be possible to mention this action? Apart from that, looks good - rst20xx (talk) 16:49, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

• Not sure what you mean. As far as I could discern, the place now known as "Vaudreuil" was then primarily known as "Quinze-Chenes". There is a section entitled "Battle at Quinze-Chenes" in Battle of the Cedars. Are you saying there is insufficient clarity in the explanation, or are you saying that section should be titled "Battle at Vaudreuil" (which I believe to be historically incorrect)? (Or something else entirely?) Magic♪piano 00:09, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

• Oh yeah sorry I missed that, d'oh! I just searched for "Vaudreuil" and only found the sentence I copied above. OK, that's that explained! rst20xx (talk) 08:49, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

• Support - rst20xx (talk) 08:49, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
• Close with consensus to promote - rst20xx (talk) 11:34, 1 July 2009 (UTC)