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The article The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets for comments about the article, and Talk:The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets/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 Kusma -- Kusma (talk) 15:07, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

	The Special Barnstar
	Thank you for expanding Torta caprese with much more information that I was initially unable to find. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 13:12, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Vacant0 :) Glad I could help. I have a feeling we should update Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink/Tools/sources to share techniques; I feel like I picked up a lot writing white chocolate which I'm keen to share. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 13:32, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's actually a good idea. I'll add it to my to-do list. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 13:34, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

We could style it like Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Sources. What do you think? Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 13:36, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Great idea. I'm not super keen on the RSP style at the bottom, but I'm excited to see where we can get this. I'll drop some preliminary stuff on the talk, tell me over the next few months + when you have some time. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 13:51, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, Rollinginhisgrave! The article you nominated, White chocolate, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles 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 The nomination discussion has been archived.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 article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Gog the Mild (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:11, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 10:46, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations on promotion and appearance, sweet! - Enjoy TFA day, your first, I believe. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:13, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

chocolate room

Thank you for quality articles around chocolate such as White chocolate, Dark chocolate, History of chocolate, Chocolate in savory cooking and Chocolate Room, for witty DYK hooks, for a "century" of quality reviews, for a tempting video introduction to review a FAC, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2989 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:54, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Moved to Talk:It (character) § It (character) GA nom

 – Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 02:50, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

First off, thanks for taking the time to review the GA nomination and for giving me good feedback. I plan on reading more of the Encountering Pennywise book you mentioned. I have a few questions though:

• How would you recommend I clean up the conception and appearances sections? You said there were things in both sections that you think belong in the other, but I am not exactly sure how to divide them. I've moved a few paragraphs from the appearances section into the conception section in an effort to start cleaning it up but am not sure what else I should do to address the messiness of the section.
• How would you recommend I "split analysis from reception"?

Gommeh 🎮 01:47, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Yue, as ever. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 08:14, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi RIGH. I saw you GA fail It (character) on my watchlist. I wanted to give some bystander feedback. Failing it on the basis of being 'Broad' strikes me as a missed opportunity at best.

One of the Pledge system's great perks is customising requests. The nominator's pledge request read: I've never had a successful GA nomination before, so I'd like a reviewer who can give me advice and help with any issues. Reading this pledge, I think it's quite reasonable that they hoped for a reviewer who would spend time with them, polishing the article up, essentially co-contributing through the review process.

The nominator looks pretty young. So to see it failed on the basis of broad, without giving them time to reply, simply doesn't seem charitable. I'm not sure what we gained through your review (I doubt the nominator learned anything; I suppose our GA standards were rigorously defended?) but I have a sense of what we might lose (a young contributor).

If you don't have time to give dedicated help to a young editor who needs it, you don't need to give it. But I would gently suggest just avoiding the GA review. "Broad" seems like a particularly unfortunate criterion to fail an article on because, especially with an eager contributor, it could be relatively straightforward to fix. As I said, I think that was a huge missed opportunity. Cheers — ImaginesTigers (talk) 07:41, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey ImaginesTigers, good to see you here. Thanks for the note, certainly gives me pause for thought and I'm glad I've got an opportunity to reflect on my approach. Would you be willing discuss further? Either here or over email if you'd prefer. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 08:14, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'll shoot you an email over — ImaginesTigers (talk) 08:15, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You're not going to lose me as a contributor. Both Stephen King and Wikipedia are important to me and I'd love to contribute to the It (character) article. I'm willing to see it through to GA no matter what it takes (especially since he? she? it? is my favorite horror character). And, after looking through some additional sources I had to agree that broadness was lacking in the sections that were mentioned. I am thinking about replacing the reception section with what's in my sandbox, both of you please feel free to take a look at it and let me know what you think. Gommeh 🎮 01:31, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Really glad to hear Gommeh. I think broadness is a good issue to have, as once material is integrated you're good to go. I want to skim Encountering Pennywise before I leave comments, but I think it already looks like it's better engaging with the literature. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 01:47, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Rollinginhisgrave, yes I'm from Piedmont but I don't actually live there, and neither in Italy unfortunately, so I do not have access to libraries for this topic. I visit Piedmont not regularly but at least every year, but when I'm there I'm always quite busy so I'm afraid I can't help you. But I do know wikipedians that live in Piedmont, I can ask them if they can help. :-) Let me know if you have other specific questions. Regards, Phyrexian ɸ 09:42, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Phyrexian: Ah, that is unfortunate. If you could ask them if they could help access any of those texts or portions that would be amazing. Thanks, Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 15:42, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I already asked and it seems there are some difficulties, due to the fact that the texts are not digitalized, so it would be complicated to share them. Also in this period of the year (July and August) most people in Italy are on vacation and leave their cities. I will let you know if I get some update, but to be honest I would'n expect much until Semptember. --Phyrexian ɸ 13:17, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No rush, if there's anything I can get at any time I'll be grateful for it. A lot of the English language sources about the history are directly contradicted by the Italian language sources, and I would like to get it right. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 16:52, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard regarding an issue which occurred during the GA review of It (character). The thread is Cinepunx. Thank you. Gommeh 🎮 15:49, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Gommeh, I've left a note. I'll get back to It (character) over the next day or two, after I wrap up some other work. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 16:05, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, I just copy-pasted my sandbox into the reception section by the way. Feel free to have a look. Gommeh 🎮 14:54, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/White chocolate. MisawaSakura (talk) 17:35, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note MisawaSakura, I believe Gog has been thinking along the same lines as you and has already scheduled it for August 23, 2025. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 20:56, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. But there is no scheduled notice for it on the talk page. It's sked for both Aug 23 and Sep 22. I'll let Wehwalt know. MisawaSakura (talk) 21:52, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As the reviewer for GA status, I am impressed with further development of the article, my congratulations! Szmenderowiecki (talk) 10:54, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, the article is written in British English, not American English; could you please take care of that? JacktheBrown (talk) 11:50, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Drive-by comment: I don't think that would be necessary per MOS:RETAIN. The userpage of the article's creator says they are British, and MOS:RETAIN says use the variety found in the first post-stub revision that introduced an identifiable variety [...] An article should not be edited or renamed simply to switch from one variety of English to another. Gommeh 🎮 14:52, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Gommeh for weighing in. Not sure about the particulars of this part of the MOS. Regardless, sorry Jack for introducing inconsistencies as I go, I usually clean these up and other MOS/formatting issues when I've finished adding content which I'm about halfway to at the moment. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 16:50, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You're very good at writing articles, you'll soon deserve a barnstar (it's still early). JacktheBrown (talk) 11:56, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, could you help me improve this not-so-good (to be very kind) article? JacktheBrown (talk) 19:33, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I can, although it may take me a while to get to as I've got other pages I'd like to address first. I've left a note on the talk page for now. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 00:36, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

	A Century of Reviews
	Congratulations of on hitting your 100th GA review. Your dedication to quality has helped our readers find high quality material, while simultaneously supporting other editors. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 14:39, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I second. Congrats!! IAWW (talk) 15:09, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep it up! Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 15:12, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks everyone :) Much appreciated. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 23:20, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On 25 July 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Melanzane al cioccolato, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that some Italians eat eggplants with chocolate? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Melanzane al cioccolato. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Melanzane al cioccolato), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:03, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Bellissimo! What a beautiful article, thank you so much. No Swan So Fine (talk) 20:52, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your message No Swan So Fine, this one was a lot of fun to write. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 02:09, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You could come to Italy to taste some of our dishes. JacktheBrown (talk) 11:50, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'd love to. I'll see how desperate I get to access those texts for gianduja. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 12:08, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I saw that you expanded this article, so I uploaded a picture I took of a dubai chocolate ice cream commons:File:Dubai chocolate ice cream.jpg. I'm aware that there also other variations such as dubai chocolate pancakes, cakes, and drinks, so maybe you could include it in the article (if there are RS for this ofc). I know that Shake Shack is offering drinks. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 10:12, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thankyou so much, adding it now. I've been a little reluctant to work on Dubai chocolate as the sources aren't really there for a solid article, but I feel a certain obligation to add to it given it receives more views than every other chocolate page combined. How was the ice cream btw? Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 10:20, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah... it has 156k page views in the past month. I did not taste it sadly, my friend bought it so I ended up taking a picture of their ice cream. Maybe I'll try next time, who knows. The chocolate itself was tasty to me at least. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 10:29, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Glad to hear the chocolate was tasty, I haven't tried (and don't feel much of a need to). Off topic and on the subject of food photography, I did really wanted to host a Wikipedia bake-off to add quality food images and because it would be fun... but seems like there's a few reasons that's not a good idea. What do you think? You're more familiar than most with the state of Wikipedia's food media. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 10:49, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I would definitely participate in that! IAWW (talk) 11:56, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Amazing! I may message you on or off wiki to get your thoughts on such a thing could work if that's okay. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 12:14, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes for sure IAWW (talk) 12:19, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like a cool idea. I'd give it a try. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 12:21, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Rollinginhisgrave, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the autopatrolled user right to your account. This means that pages you create will automatically be marked as 'reviewed', and no longer appear in the new pages feed. Autopatrolled is assigned to prolific creators of articles, where those articles do not require further review, and may have been requested on your behalf by someone else. It doesn't affect how you edit; it is used only to manage the workload of new page patrollers.

Since the articles you create will no longer be systematically reviewed by other editors, it is important that you maintain the high standard you have achieved so far in all your future creations. Please also try to remember to add relevant WikiProject templates, stub tags, categories, and incoming links to them, if you aren't already in the habit; user scripts such as Rater and StubSorter can help with this. As you have already shown that you have a strong grasp of Wikipedia's core content policies, you might also consider volunteering to become a new page patroller yourself, helping to uphold the project's standards and encourage other good faith article writers.

Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! —Femke 🐦 (talk) 17:28, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm aware that you are working on multiple projects atm and I wish you luck on that. If you need my help, do not hesitate with contacting me. I'm also working on Nikolay Chernyshevsky atm in my sandbox but I'm unsure what I'll be tackling on next. If you're interested to cooperate, I have a list of articles at User:Vacant0/To do under "food and drinks" which one day I'd like to bring to GA status (and maybe even FA if the article really deserves it). Feel free to chose an article and then in the future we can both work on bringing it to GA status, if you're open to doing it, of course. Knowing you, you're probably going to chose something chocolate-related, haha. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 22:03, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Vacant, this is a really nice message to receive. I do keep committing to projects, for better or worse, but yeah, collaborating on something with you sounds great. I'll continue trying to wrap up my commitments and get to something. Banana bread looks interesting, as does apple cider. Hot chocolate is looking like it's going to be a huge pain to write, as at a minimum I believe an article on cacao beverages will be needed to keep the scope coherent. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 00:13, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Apple cider also looks like a good project to me! Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 12:24, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'll begin collecting sources in my sandbox User:Vacant0/sandbox6. Feel free to contribute there when you find free time. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 12:30, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey RIHG! You may recall reviewing The Snow Queen (Kernaghan novel) at GAN last year. I've just opened a peer review to prep it for FAC, and if you'd like to take a second look to make sure it's up to the higher standard, that would be great. I'm happy to trade you for a review if you've got any articles nominated at the moment. Hope you're keeping well! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 21:18, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As promised in the Amos Yee review, I would start my very first Good Article review. Since Ayane (Dead or Alive) already passed, I chose Miiverse as an alternative, as it fits within the topic of gaming. So far, things are going well, though I'm still looking for more secondary coverage on the topic. - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 00:23, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Looking good OpalYosutebito. Just on looking for sources, the reason we're doing this is make sure the article is broad in its coverage, which is far short of comprehensive. We're mainly trying to see if there's any big gaps, which should be apparent on a somewhat cursory look, or based on how other articles look (for instance if there's no history section and similar articles all do). When I'm looking, I do a very quick Google, then most of my search is Google Scholar, The Wikipedia Library, Google Books and perhaps archive.org. I may also ask an LLM to perform a search for high-quality sources, screening out the lower-quality items like DualShockers (which WP:VGRS is very against as a Valnet property) and the blog post from nintendoworldreport. If you want to leave suggestions on sources beyond what you believe would be a dealbreaker for passing the GACR, specify that they're not required to pass, or simply add them to a refideas template on talk.

As some more feedback, if your comment is about correcting a typo or something that will take longer to type out as an issue than to correct, just fix it. This applies to things like at 10:00 pm on PST → at 10:00 pm PST or Youtube → YouTube. I was also recently reminded that duplicate links are allowed under the GACR, so if you want to highlight them, be explicit that you are doing so as a suggestion. These types of things took me quite a few reviews to come to, and your review on the whole is excellent, and you should be proud. My philosophy with GA reviews is to try to make them as short as possible, not raising things unless I would be unwilling to pass with a comment outstanding, which may seem at odds with how Amos is progressing, but I'm sure you can imagine how it would be going if I weren't. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 01:11, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. Thanks for the advice! For reference, I use archive.org almost primarily for archiving dead sources, not for finding new ones - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 01:20, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think using archive.org to find sources is less common. To do so, navigate from Texts > All Texts. Search text contents rather than metadata. I also meant (but forgot) to add that when searching for sources, I will try to zoom out. So in this case, I will look for a book on the Wii, or an Encyclopedia of Nintendo and see if it covers the subject. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 01:30, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't know you could search in text! That's so useful! IAWW (talk) 08:29, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The review went really well! I'm getting back to heavily editing the Amos Yee article again, despite being a bit busy in real life tomorrow... - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 03:09, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've been having allergies today. I will definitely get back to work tomorrow. I've noticed that I take a longer time with GAs if the material is more disturbing (such as the Terry A. Davis article) - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 01:20, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you intend on finding sources on news websites, I suggest using the list I created at User:Vacant0/Sources#Search (under Video games). For Nintendo-related articles, you should particularly check out Famitsu, Automaton, Nintendo Life, and Nintendo World Report. Other sites can also help you out. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 12:09, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! The Miiverse review is almost done, by the way. - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 20:35, 17 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sdkb has given you a slice of white chocolate cake! White chocolate cakes promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a slice of white chocolate cake, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Nice work on today's VA-5 TFA! Bon appétit! Sdkb talk 21:50, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there, just wanted to check in on your progress. Gommeh 📖/🎮 15:46, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Gommeh. No progress to report, sorry. This is my top priority on wiki, but my editing has been quite impacted by off wiki matters. If I don't manage to get to editing and wrapping this up within the next few days (by Sunday?), I may have to look at what alternatives I can offer you. I'll avoid that if I can. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 00:22, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, thanks for the update. I've re-nominated it for GA btw, I felt like I had addressed the concerns that were raised enough to at least warrant another nomination. Let me know if you find anything important! Gommeh 📖/🎮 00:26, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good choice. Sorry again for this trouble. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 00:28, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No apology necessary. :) Gommeh 📖/🎮 00:32, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On 27 August 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Chocolate industry, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that, before air conditioning, a company in the U.S. chocolate industry made confections at night to sell the next morning? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Chocolate industry. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Chocolate industry), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:02, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Just got back from a break. I barely edited between late August and today because of some real life stuff. But now that's settled down. I also noticed that you took a break. What are you up to lately? I need to check from where I left off and continue from there. There's a lot to do. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 16:53, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, glad to see you're back. My break has also been thanks to real life, the impacts of which look like will continue for a while. I might shoot you an email to hear what you've been up to if you're up to it. I wanted to tell you btw, that I realised in our cider project that I was collecting sources on hard cider. Maybe we could pivot, I don't really care as much about pressed apple juice. Rollinginhisgrave (talk | contributions) 17:11, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah go for it. I'll tackle apple cider alone. Maybe we could work on Chocolate brownie or Chocolate chip cookie? Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 17:18, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Rollinginhisgrave. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Chocolate in Japan".

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