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		The Deletion to Quality Award
		For your contributions to bring .mf (prior candidate for deletion at: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/.mf) to Good Article status, I hereby present you The Deletion to Quality Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! JustARandomSquid (talk) 03:26, 23 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for your contributions to Pula (motto). Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing as a live article at this time because it has no sources. I have converted it to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 05:50, 29 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Your good article nomination of the article Flag of Botswana is under review. See the review page for more information. This may take up to 7 days; feel free to contact the reviewer with any questions you might have. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of HaphazardBinBag -- HaphazardBinBag (talk) 11:23, 29 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

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Heya, could you be a bit more specific? What pages should be updated, exactly? I'm interested in making Wikipedia icons and templates more consistent. FaviFake (talk) 16:12, 8 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

@FaviFake: The colors of the FAC/FLC and FFAC/FFLC icons have different colors than the FA/FL star (a bit lighter). I recently got the FFL star changed to the FFA star (the previous FFL star was different color, and the X was literally two lines drawn on top of each other, but they weren't perpendicular or the same in length) — splains (💬/📝) 01:52, 9 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Again, you described the problem, but not your proposed solution. I don't know what to do with this information... what pages or files do you want to change? Where exactly do the old icons appear and how do you want them to be updated or changed? Thanks in advance! FaviFake (talk) 09:04, 9 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

FaviFake: Template:Icon, WP:FAC, WP:FLC, Template:FAC, Template:FLC and Template:Article history. If you compare those stars (FFAC, FAC) with the regular FA star, you'll notice the colors are different. The version I attached in the village pump thread has the same colors as the regular FA star. — splains (💬/📝) 14:00, 9 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

So do you want those pages and templates' source codes to be updated with the new file names, or do you want the old files on WP:COMMONS to be overwritten with your new version? I can do both, and only the former involves updating pages on enwiki.

Also, when you refer to a FFAC do you mean WP:FFA? I couldn't understand what a FFAC is.

What are the names of the old files? FaviFake (talk) 14:09, 9 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Articles with the FFAC icon include Talk:United States, Talk:Juventus FC, Talk:Lionel Messi, and Talk:History of Scotland. splains (💬/📝) 14:59, 9 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

You have not responded to any of my three questions. Would you like me to clarify them? FaviFake (talk) 15:01, 9 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

New file names pls. The old ones should be kept for archive. An FFAC is the icon for a former featured article candidate. Talk:United States does not feature it. My bad. splains (💬/📝) 15:03, 9 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! That's two out of three though. What are the names of the old files that need to be replaced with the new files? FaviFake (talk) 15:06, 9 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

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