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However, right now, I need a break. Wikipedia is a terrible place to edit just now, and I shall now tell you about the incedent that led to this:
J. K. Rowling was designatedfeatured article but had degraded far below the typical editorial quality level of other featured articles. It somehow had retained its quality ranking, and the bizarre procedure for shepherding an article through afeatured article review is a big reason why.
Firstly, it became a featured article in 2007. Thefeatured version contains very little that remains in the article, and is substantially shorter. So there's a lot of material that has undergone minimal review, and the article grew bloated and unbalanced.
I think thefirst featured article review (in 2022, three years before 2025 featured article review that I organized) probably did this article the biggest disservice on this front. As an attempt to save it, a lot of content that people requested was added in a very short time. As a consequence, the articleas it stood at the end of the 2022 review is rather bloated, poorly structured, and the way it groups of the material feels fairly random. It has an astounding amount of literary analysis of the Harry Potter series, to the point of having multi-paragraph sections on style and allusions in the Harry Potter series, themes of the Harry Potter series (yes, that's a seperate multi-paragraph section), gender and social division in the Harry Potter series, religious reactions to the Harry Potter series, and a few more sections that are merelymostly about the Harry Potter series. Her biography feels bloated and indiscriminate in its selection of facts, though it's perhaps hard to explain that with examples: it's not that it's entirely bad to talk about her childhood neighbours named Potter, or to seemingly list all the jobs her parents had from the time they got together to when she was an adult, but it's not well-structured, it jumps around too much, and it rambles.
A personal pet peeve from the 2022 version is that it's prone to listing every book in a series and when it was published in prose, even if it doesn't have much to say about them, leading to "Harry Potter and the... was published in XXXX, after which Harry Potter and the... (etc.)", and ditto for the at-least-less-repetitively-titled Cormoran Strike series. One could more sensibly list them in a bibliography. In fact,it does list them in a bibliography.
The review also served to shut down discussion for years afterwards, since it was so big, complex, well-attended, and so on, and thus the fact that the Featured Article Review had happened was regularly used to shut down proposed edits to the article (a review of the archives ofTalk:J. K. Rowling between about 2023-24 will find it regularly cited for that purpose). In fact, in general, the article had developed one of the most toxic editing environments I've ever seen: A revision of a section thatbegan with a draft in April 2024 wouldn't be resolved untilthe end of June. And occupies three talk page archives, with a drafter working to incorporate commentary from others, and no-one else allowed to edit the proposed prose. This was immediately followed by burnout; the next talk page archive covers seven months, but does include the claim that"I don't think the version was ready to be installed, people lost patience when we were almost over the finish line (so we don't have a strong consensus version), but I was too busy to say so then ... [...] Slower and steadier was doing the job; I hope we can resume that mode of editing." It was then replaced a couple months later by a version with far less consensus which made sure every accusation that Rowling had denied included that denial, heavily prioritising Rowling's views, with the first and last paragraphs explicitly given to her opinions. That is not hyperbole: a series of hidden notes before each paragraph, which remain there as of time of writing, state the purpose of each paragraph: "Paragraph 1: Explain what she believes.", "Paragraph 2: Provide the historical background that brought this to public attention.", "Paragraph 3: Explain how people reacted to her view", "Paragraph 4: Provide her response". I don't think any section on any controversy ever could be neutral with that structure.
The talk page archives are full of people raising points, discussing them for a while, then giving up and disappearing from any further work on the article, after having been stonewalled by process long enough to get them to go away. This may well not have been intentional, but this was very much The Article that Almost No-one Could Edit nestled within The Enclyclopedia that Anyone Can Edit.
All the above would be enough to cause problems for any featured article, but we do need to discuss the elephant in the room: In the case of Rowling's article, there's the further challenge that in the last five or six years, she's become highly controversial forbeing a very notable opponent of transgender people. In the last year or so, this escalated further as she has funded organisations making lawsuits that stripped rights from people (For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers) and created funds specifically to help people start their own lawsuits against organisations that don't deny those people's rights (the J.K. Rowling Women's Fund). A change from being a non-controversial, beloved figure to a highly controversial figure is always going to pose challenges to an article.
Further, Rowling's public position on transgender rights changed gradually, which caused problems of its own for Wikipedia's editors and fact-checkers. One can readThe Week's article on her descent for a reasonably good summary of full context, and it's probably wise to avoid getting too deep into this here, but to pull two examples from that article, in 2020, shewrote she was a "supporter of trans people's right to live free of persecution" and that she "absolutely refute[d] the accusation that [she] hate[d] trans people or wish[ed] them ill", whereas in a2024 tweet she explicitly linked the mere recognition of the existence of transgender people to violence and crime, and claimed that recognising their existance was actively dangerous, writing that "In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls." and "The re-definition of 'woman' to include every man who declares himself one has already had serious consequences for women's and girls’ rights and safety in Scotland, with the strongest impact felt, as ever, by the most vulnerable, including female prisoners and rape survivors." and even "It is impossible to accurately describe or tackle the reality of violence and sexual violence committed against women and girls, or address the current assault on women’s and girls’ rights, unless we are allowed to call a man a man."
I have to bring this up because it is a problem for the article: The gradual increase in rhetoric means that sources were and are constantly going out of date, and that it's very easy to mislead if you don't make it very clear where in her journey someone stated support for her, or mix sources from very different eras. Most of the discussion on the talk page concentrates solely on this, and almost no attention was being paid to the rest of the article.
The one event that most epitomises editingJ. K. Rowling for me is the discussion ofa source formerly used in the article, commonly referred to as "Suissa and Sullivan" after the authors. It is, to anyone looking at all neutrally, a patently bad source. It meanders from point to point, cites random blogs, and presents some extremelyfringe viewpoints.
Worse, it didn't actually source the material it was meant to source. The only two quotes that mention Rowling in that entire article are the following:
The text this was meant to source? "As her views on the legal status of transgender people came under scrutiny, she received insults and threats."
You will notice that there is nothing in the entirety of Suissa and Sullivan - and you can easiy confirm that if you think I left something out - that refers to Rowling's views on the legal status of transgender people. There's nothing in it that discusses threats. There is a hyperbolic mention of insults - sourced to a random blog of a non-notable person,[1] with the hyperbole about "a tidal wave of requests" added by, you guessed it, Suissa and Sullivan.
In short, it's a bad paper, a bad source, doesn't even cover more than a word or two of the sentence it was meant to cite, and could be trivially replaced with a much better source. And yet...Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 440#Suissa and Sullivan has endless attempts to defend its usage by the Rowling talk page regulars.
Even what should have been simple discussions... weren't.
Also, you'd think after all that that the source wouldn't be in the article, wouldn't you? No. I checked while writing this, andit was back. It was used to source a list of laws that Rowling objected to. As I've quoted everything about Rowling from the entire article, you can patently see that the paper doesn't even mention it. The sourcing on the article is blatantly terrible, honestly, if anyone actually went in and checked all the sources, I'm pretty sure a lot of the article would need to be thrown out. How was this a featured article?
So far, we've discussed the 2022 Featured Article Review that led to the article becoming a bloated mess, and the two reviews that got rapidly shut down. There may have been other featured article reviews that were deleted:we know that at least one of them was nominated for speedy deletion after closure. Let's now move on to thelatest Featured Article Review, which I started in June 2025.
I'm not sure that any interactions about that article reflect well on anyone. It's not easy to have people calling for you to be sanctioned for simply having started a FAR. The number of personal attacks thrown against me were incredibly high, and while I tried to keep neutral, I think that literal years of frustration with this article and the editors thereof couldn't help to filter in sometimes. As such, I'm not going to name any names and haven't named any previously.
It started, within fifteen minutes of me posting the FAR, with someonestating false facts to accuse me of forum shopping. To cover what happened, I had opened aFringe Theories Noticeboard post, had quickly been told it would be better to open aWP:NPOVN post and a featured article review, and so deleted the Fringe Theories Noticeboard post and copied it over to NPOVN. The editor claimed that no responses had been made to the Fringe Theories Noticeboard post, and doubled down repeatedly when I linked her to the response I got and explained the true order of events. Further, the text of the post the Feattured Article Review was supposed to be a forum shop of formed a tiny part of the featured article review, since if I was going to open a featured article review I was determined to properly document it. But, since one of a few dozen complaints I had about the article had also been posted on another forum, and despite me being directed to raise it at Featured Article Review... forum shop.
As I hadn't even finished opening the Featured Article review at the time, this was rather a problem, especially as at least one other editor copied her accusation as a reason it should be speedy closed. In addition, three talk page regulars quickly called for it to be closed as out of procedure, since, while I had raised the quality of the writing on the talk page before, pointed out issues and had been ignored, and stated that the article's writing was terrible, the featured article review featured me doing a comprehensive and complete detailed breakdown of all the problems I saw with the article, and I hadn't explicitly raised every problem I listed in the Featured Article Review beforehand on the J. K. Rowling talk page.
This calling for featured article reviews to be closed as premature or out of procedure seems to have been the standard action of defenders of the article: It can be seen being used successfully atWikipedia:Featured_article_review/J._K._Rowling/archive2 andWikipedia:Featured_article_review/J._K._Rowling/archive3.
Luckily, before it could be closed, a wave of non-regulars came in and began calling for its immediate delisting as a featured article, which, I presume, led to this effort to deal with the article failing to reach featured status not being speedy closed like the previous.
However, none of this set a good standard for the rest of the featured article review. Defending myself against the forum shopping and other wild attacks was rather a problem given I was in the middle of setting up the featured article review page at the time. A few things that should have happened didn't because there was a host of people attacking me, like the talk page notifications about the review opening.
I think the wildest accusation was that I said that a previous featured article review had "added what appeards to be huge copy-pastes fromHarry Potter, ruining the article's focus." As it happened, those sections were written forJ. K. Rowling, and then copied over toHarry Potter. This isn't a substansive error: The point is that the article spent a huge amount of time talking about the Harry Potter series when there is a more appropriate article andsummary style is a requirement for featured articles.
The response? "'It added what appeards to be huge copy-pastes from Harry Potter' can be viewed as an allegation that [names redacted]: (who did most of that writing) breachedWP:CWW, or I did when copying text developed on talk in to the article (my high content contribs are because I did most of theWP:CWW from talk to the article, even when I didn't write the text, and I'm fairly sure I never breached attribution). This is a very serious charge, implicating specific editors. Please provide evidence via diffs for this copy-paste on talk so content can be attributed correctly via CWW templates."
Now, you're not actually allowed to vote during this phase of the review, not even for it to be moved to the voting phase. It's meant to be a freeform discussion. I'm not sure how helpful this is, as you are, apparently, allowed to vote for it to be speedy closed immediately, and especially given how long this phase lasts.
But, let's carry on. A month and a half later, and we enter the Featured Article Removal Candidate phase, where voting is allowed to begin, but will be (and was) stopped if any rescue effort begins. On the personal side, I badly injured myself around then, falling between a train and the platform, which forced me to have to abandon a proposed rewrite I had agreed to do as a show of good faith. That I had made this offer got brought up repeatedly, forcing me to say increasingly forcefully that the rewrite was off the table. Before then, I had set out an outline for it, but, while I was healing, some proposals for a complete structural rearrangement of the article from start to finish had started, so there didn't seem much point actually doing it.
The rest of the Featured Article Removal Candidacy basically amounts to that proposed rewrite, some work on it being done, the person spearheading it burning out, someone saying they were going to take over, no real progress happening for weeks, endless extentions being given, and it finally being delisted after a process that took from 4 June to 14 October, with me being expected to be there the whole time shepherding it.
Whle my experience with a single article isn't necessarily a condemnation of the whole procedure, My first impression of Featured Article Reviews is quite bad, and I really hope that it's normally this easy to protect a bad featured article. It's astounding just how many personal attacks on me were allowed to stand without redaction; at worst, being moved to the talk page. Add to this the shutting down of the previous two featured article reviews, and the results of the 2022 one, and I do wonder whether the procedure is really fit for purpose. In theory, giving every chance to save a featured article sounds like a good idea. Is it really a good idea to give months for people to try to save it then, with no further announcements, allow the few people still following the Featured Article Review to decide whether it has been sufficiently fixed? In the 2022 review, the votes to closethe first featured article review were eight keeps in a period of three days, four months after the review had opened. Is three days really enough without new, widespread announcements to bring fresh eyes? Because, if it's not clear, there's a procedure for making announcements when a Featured Article Review is opened, but not at any other point (I don't think any happened when the 2022 review when to the removal candidate phase, at least. I could be wrong here.)
The problems with the downplaying of Rowling's anti-trans views formed the subject ofa 2024 attempt at starting a Featured Article Review, also by me; and onefrom earlier in 2025. Both were rapidly shut down. The reason for closing those - that there wasn't enough talk page discussion in advance of them being raised - is a strange claim for an article whose talk page consists of people raising those very issues over and over. From what I can tell, this stems from the rule of three weeks of warning being given to work on issues before a review being interpreted as if the exact text of the future Featured Article Review needs to be on the talk page. How does that work? In simple cases, three weeks of work might fix the problem or show that no-one is editing the page. This article has had a substantial amount of editing which removed a lot of specific examples without ever actually improving the article substantially; as such, it would be almost impossible to open a review under that interpretation of the rule, but the article would never reach the minimum standards.[2]
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These 2 restorations from the first 2 months of 2024 make up 0.023% of all featured pictures on English Wikipedia. My goal for the year is 1%, which currently requires 86.19 restorations. I am currently falling behind this goal, with a projected 0.192% (16.6) for the year. (Everything in this paragraph is automatically updated.)
These 40 restorations make up 0.464% of all featured pictures on English Wikipedia.
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45.Keir HardieThese 57.5 restorations from 2023 make up 0.667% of all featured pictures on English Wikipedia.
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57.Lord DunsanyThese 77 restorations from 2022 make up 0.893% of all featured pictures on English Wikipedia.
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Good restorations, but not good enough source material. Check later, but...
2021... was not a good year for many reasons, chief amongst them the fact that the pandemic, meant to end by Christmas 2020... failed to do so. But at least I managed a single featured picture before it all fell apart.
These 52.5 restorations from 2020 make up 0.609% of all featured pictures on English Wikipedia.
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52.La boheme, Act IIThese 98.5 restorations from 2019 make up 1.143% of all featured pictures on English Wikipedia.
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These 8 restorations from the last two months of 2018 make up 0.093% of all featured pictures on English Wikipedia. 2018 concluded a long Wikibreak, with me only rejoining in late November, so this isn't too bad numberwise. And, hey, wrote the music to anopera as well.
2017 had a long wikibreak in it, that I never really left for long....
These 71.5 restorations from 2016 make up 0.841% of all featured pictures on English Wikipedia.
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A project, in the wake of the 2016 American election, to restore one progressive activist's photograph from at least each state of the continental United States (I have some doubts about how readily accessible images will be for Hawaii and Alaska).
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