User talk:Favre1fan93

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This may change in the future, but for the foreseeable future I anticipate only being able to check in every now and then.

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Box office

Hi, I wanted to ask about the updated box office figures for Brand New Day. I would have updated the figures myself today, but I'm still learning what to add and how to do it, and I don't want to rush into it. My question is: given the new information released today, should we simply adjust the Sunday figures to reflect Monday's numbers, or should we add a separate explanation for the data of the earnings posted today? Thanks in advance—best regards. Marco camino 10 (talk) 21:31, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) The Sunday numbers were just estimates, so generally we just replace them with the actual numbers. - adamstom97 (talk) 22:16, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

Ghostarchive

Are you able to submit links for archival here? Lately I've not been able to as it keeps saying error 404. Also questioning Adamstom.97 as it might work in different countries. Kailash29792 (talk) 16:28, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

I've had issues with it lately. - adamstom97 (talk) 16:33, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

I don't use Ghostarchive too often myself (only when Wayback can't capture), but I haven't had too many issues. Is there a url from a site (not necessarily an article you've already archived) that was giving you trouble that I could check? - Favre1fan93 (talk) 18:08, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

Someone is still able to archive refs, but I have no idea how. Kailash29792 (talk) 23:34, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

@Kailash29792: I tried taking this tweet from that same user, and got an archive error. I did have to do a Captcha step before I got the error, which was new for me. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 19:09, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

MOS:DOMESTIC

When writing about box office, as MOS:DOMESTIC says, Avoid terminology such as "domestic" and "international", which is used by sites such as Box Office Mojo for box office figures from the United States and Canada, and elsewhere. TompaDompa (talk) 19:37, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

There isn't any issue with that. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 19:43, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

You added the text Brand New Day is the highest-grossing film of 2026 in international territories. to the Spider-Man: Brand New Day article with this edit. TompaDompa (talk) 19:48, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

Logically, in a paragraph where it is correctly established with Outside the United States and Canada, "international" fits because of the previous establishment. I'll adjust it to "other" to reflect the wording used at the start of the section. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 19:55, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

Your Swamp Thing deletion of the (line 1) year is wrong

Your reversion/deletion of the Swamp Thing year in intro is wrong.

Also you said, “year shouldn't be in the first sentence of the lead, covered later more appropriately” https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Swamp_Thing_(2019_TV_series)&diff=prev&oldid=1368203727

If you look at almost any series, movie, book, wiki article, it will have year in first or second line. Not the second paragraph. That’s because it’s crucial for a reader to have a clue what the thing is, possibly what century or decade, possibly which version/generation, especially when it’s part of a larger property and when there’s multiple other shows of the same thing, to place it within human history. It’s the single most universal bit in a lead assuming a person got the title correct (and assuming a person wants to understand the subject).

Currently, it’s not covered more appropriately later, because paragraph 2 isn’t early enough for it and the current one is half-irrelevant for a lead. The relevant bits being: A) year B) maybe one sentence about immediate cancellation, because there’s a later section C) the line about reception. If the cancellation and protest effort is important (not necessarily true) then a brief line should be moved to lead. But none of this means that the year should only be in paragraph 2 or that a narration of release of episodes should be in the lead. A cancellation story being in the lead is a bad reason for relegating the year only to paragraph 2.

So I’m curious:

1. If I posted a discussion for comment, do you think wikipedia consensus would agree with your deletion and your claim that year doesn’t belong in the first 1-2 lines? Given that that’s in 440,000,000 articles, for good reason?
2. Are you aware that there are 3 different Swamp Thing TV series?
3. If the original edit summary simply said “added year as basic immediate crucial info in first 1-2 lines” would you have agreed, since it wouldn’t have mentioned a hover-over/rendering/device issue?
4. Why would the text not be the place to address a problem of relevant info missing from the text when a person is seeing the first 1-2 lines?

RandomEditor6772314 (talk) 20:58, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

Every single CW superhero television series plus those from DC Universe do not have the year in the lead, so since they all follow that formatting, that should be retained for Swamp Thing as well. Your edit summary noted it was because of the pop up page previews, so if those need more disambiguation information shown on there, that's a WP:Page Previews problem, not an article problem. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 21:58, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

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