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March for Our LiveWe were editing March for Our Lives at the same time. When I clicked Save, Wikipedia accepted my version, but it may have stomped on edits you had just made. It would be easier (for me, anyway) for you to make your edits again than for me to patch them in. Sorry for the inconvenience. —Anomalocaris (talk) 08:39, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Marlon Bundo's: A Day in the Life of the Vice President, A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
Hiral Tipirneni pageI BELIEVE THAT A MISTAKE WAS MADE IN YOUR CHOICE TO EDIT MY CONTRIBUTIONS REGARDING THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR TODAY'S SPECIAL CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION. SO THAT I MAY BE BETTER EQUIPPED IN THE FUTURE TO PROVIDE ACCURATE ADDITIONS, COULD YOU PLEASE CLARIFY, SPECIFICALLY AND PRECISELY, WHAT EXACT ERRORS WERE MADE BY MYSELF THAT HAD CAUSED YOU TO EXPUNGE THE INFORMATION THAT I CONTRIBUTED, FOR I AM CONFUSED? IF I AM NOT MISTAKEN, THE IMPORTANT INFORMATION THAT WAS INCLUDED WAS CITED BY REPUTABLE SOURCES (RANGING FROM LOCAL NEWS REPORTS (--TABLOID?!) TO OFFICIAL COURT DOCUMENTS)...SOME OF WHICH WERE LEFT ALONE WHEN CITED FOR OTHER LESS SENSITIVE/SUPERFICIAL INFORMATION IN THE ARTICLE. (SPECIFICALLY AS THESE RELATE TO THE FACTUAL AND PUBLICLY AVAILABLE ACCOUNTS AND RECORDS ASSOCIATED WITH MRS. TIPIRNENI'S MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LAWSUIT, IN ADDITION, TO THE QUESTIONS AND CRITICISM THAT SURROUND HER CHOICE OF PUBLIC IMAGE/ SELF-PORTRAYAL-- BOTH OF WHICH YOU FELT WERE NOT WELCOMED ADDITIONS TO MRS. TIPIRNENI'S PAGE. ADDITIONALLY, A CITED QUOTE FROM MRS. TIPIRNENI'S VERY OWN WEBSITE WAS DEEMED UNACCEPTABLE... PERHAPS THESE WERE REMOVED DUE TO A TECHNICAL ISSUE, OVERSIGHT OR MISSTEP ON MY PART, I DO NOT KNOW. I UNDERSTAND THAT MANY WISH TO REMOVE (EDIT OUT) FROM THE PUBLIC SPHERE (WIKI) SOME HARD FACTS (CRITICISM) THAT ARE INCONVENIENT TO ONE'S PERSONAL POLITICAL LEANINGS, BUT THAT ALONE IS NOT SUFFICIENT JUSTIFICATION TO SANITIZE AN ARTICLE...THE TIMING OF WHICH IS INTRIGING. I SINCERELY HOPE THAT YOU ARE NOT PLAYING PARTISAN POLITICS ON THIS ONE, COFFEE. THE CRITICISM THAT WAS INCLUDED WAS PUT THERE IN ORDER TO SHED SOME LIGHT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN-AS IT WERE, SO AS TO COMPLETE THE IMAGE OF A PUBLIC FIGURE...NOT TO TRY AND SABOTAGE THAT IMAGE. THE PAGE WAS/IS LACKING VITAL INFORMATION THAT AN ELECTORATE SHOULD HAVE FREE AND UNFETTERED (UNEDITED/CLEANSED) ACCESS TO, SO THAT A DECISION, EITHER TO SUPPORT OR OPPOSE, CAN BE MADE IN THE LIGHT OF THE TOTAL, AND NOT JUST THE SIDE/PORTION THAT IS DESIRED TO BE SEEN. I LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR RESPONSE. THANK YOU. Little embassy (talk) 22:44, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
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Incomplete DYK nomination
May 2018
May 2018 (2)Why the hell would you remove [2] context like Oliver Twist is by Dickens or Fagin is a character? Ribbet32 (talk) 02:16, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
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Portals WikiProject update #011, 10 July 2018We now have 97 participants. Be sure to welcome our newest members, BrantleyIzMe, Coffeeandcrumbs, and Nolan Perry, with warm regards. Work is proceeding apace. We have 2 major thrusts right now: converting the intro sections of portals, and building the components of the one-page automated model...
We need everybody, except those building software components, to work on converting intros. If you have AWB, definitely use that. If not, then work on them manually. Even one a day, or as often as you can muster, will help a lot. There are only about 1,000 of them left to go, so if everyone chips in, it will go pretty quickly. Remember, there are 97 of us! The intros for most of the portals starting with A through F have already been converted to use the {{Transclude lead excerpt}} template. The standard wikicode for the automated intro that we want to put into place looks like this: {{/box-header|Introduction|noedit=yes|}}
{{Transclude lead excerpt | {{PAGENAME}} | paragraphs=1-2 | files=1}}
{{Box-footer|[[{{PAGENAME}}|Read more...]]}}That works for most portals, but not all. For some portals it requires some tweaking, and for others, we may have to use a different or more customized approach. Remember to visually inspect each portal you work on and make sure that it works before moving on to the next one. Be sure to skip user-maintained portals. They are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Portals#Specific_portal_maintainers.
I've started an AWB tips page, for those of you feeling a bit overwhelmed by that power user tool. Feel free to add to it and/or improve it.
We have some very talented Lua programmers, who are pushing the limits of what we can do in gathering data from Wikipedia's various namespaces and presenting it in portals. Due to their efforts, Lua is powering the selective transclusion core of our emerging automated portal design, in the form of selected article sections that rotate content, and slideshows. To go beyond Lua's limits, to take full advantage of Mediawiki's API, we are in the midst of adding another programming language to the resources we shall be making use of: JavaScript. The ways that JavaScript can help us edit portals to boost the power of our Lua solutions, are being explored, which will likely make the two languages synergistic if not symbiotic. Research is under way on how we can use JavaScript to make some of the portal semi-automated features fully automatically self-updating, in ways that Lua cannot. Like gathering random members from a category and inserting them into a portal's templates as parameters. Once the parameters are in place, Lua does the rest. If you would like to get involved with design efforts, or just keep up on them, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design.
Well, not at the present time, because building portals is quite time consuming. The good news is that we are working on a design that will be fully automated, or as close to that as we can get. And the new design is being implemented in the portal department's main portal creation template. This means, that not only will portals update themselves, their creation will be highly automated as well. That's the nature of templates. You put them in place, and they just... work. What I'm getting at here, is that it would be better to wait to build lots of new portals until after the new design is completed. Because with it, instead of taking hours to create a new portal, it will likely take minutes. That does not mean we should be idle in the meantime. The main reason most of us are here is because it became apparent that portals were largely unmaintained and had grown out-of-date. This had become so apparent that a proposal was made to delete all the portals and the portal namespace to boot. That makes our main objective in the short term to improve all the existing portals so that the community will want to keep them—forever. Building lots of new portals comes later. Let's fix up the ones we have first. ;) And on that note, I bid you adieu. Until next newsletter, see ya 'round the WikiProject. — The Transhumanist 12:29, 10 July 2018 (UTC) Precious (continued)
I decorated my talk, thank you for the inspiration. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:59, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
A year ago, you were recipient no. 1980 of Precious, a prize of QAI! - Moon, moon, moon, - excellent landing job! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:29, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
Your recent edits
Speedy deletion nomination of 2018 extreme weather events A tag has been placed on 2018 extreme weather events requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:
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Power tool timeI noticed that you are not registered to use WP:AWB (you definitely have the smarts for it). I've banged out a couple hundred thousand edits with it. Does wonders for the self-esteem. ;) If you look at my contribs, you will see that most of my work on portals is with this tool. Work on portals is highly repetitive, and we could really use another AWB user. Most of the rest of our AWB'ers seem somewhat reluctant to get their feet wet with it. Please take the plunge! Though it might be a good idea to create a user page before you request registration. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 09:19, 12 July 2018 (UTC) I understand your desire for a lead spot, but showing one woman at a demonstration that involved hundreds looks a little strange. Please keep nominating hooks with images and I'm sure you'll make the top spot soon. BTW I left a note on the talk page of the article saying that this protest should be added to Occupy ICE. Best, Yoninah (talk) 22:42, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
My first DYK reviewCan you help me through the etiquette considerations when reviewing a DYK hook? I am sure my first edit fixing spelling of Edinburgh was no problem. Would it also be OK to change it to include The Meadows without first consulting the nominator? The reason being NPOV and give the Scots equal billing.--- Coffeeandcrumbs 20:39, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
Women in RedHi there, Coffeeandcrumbs, and thanks for becoming a member of Women in Red. From your interesting article Women Disobey, it looks as if you are in the right place. As a relatively new editor, you might be interested in our Ten Simple Rules. Please let me know if ever you need any help or run into and difficulties. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 09:02, 22 July 2018 (UTC) Sơn Tinh (tropical storm) listed at Redirects for discussion An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Sơn Tinh (tropical storm). Since you had some involvement with the Sơn Tinh (tropical storm) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. B dash (talk) 02:17, 23 July 2018 (UTC) Edit conflictHello there, I'm coming from the article Corinne Gallant where we had an edit conflict. In the edit conflict editor it did not highlight all the minor changes that were done using the script that you used in your edit. I'd like to reinstate those changes so that the article conforms to the MOS. Would it be possible for you to run the script a second time, or barring that, pointing me in the direction needed to acquire said script? Best, Acebulf (talk) 23:27, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
Hi Coffeeandcrumbs. Are you sure "People named..." is a good idea? Wouldn't you end up with thousands of categories? Best, - Jarry1250 [Vacation needed] 21:53, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
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Thank youDear Coffeeandcrumbs, thank you very much for helping us improve the 2017–2018 Romanian protests article! :) Rotruthseeker (talk) 00:28, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
August 2018 at Women in Red
1962 Rangoon University protestsHello: The copy edit you requested of the article 1962 Rangoon University protests has been completed. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Best of luck with the GAN. Regards, Twofingered Typist (talk) 21:14, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
Flowers, music, balloon
Thank you for what you did for the balloon, image and moar ;) - take some flowers, it's my parents' wedding anniversary, and the bridal flowers were gladiolas from her parents' garden. I share them in loving memory, with a touch of art. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:02, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
Today, another image, balloon continued. Where in the Trump articles would the performance go? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:27, 2 August 2018 (UTC) Never mind, I placed her performance to Donald Trump in music, had to make a new section about Classical music ;) - I think the gladiolas match your signature well! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:00, 4 August 2018 (UTC) Deletion review for Chiyo MiyakoAn editor has asked for a deletion review of Chiyo Miyako. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Andrew D. (talk) 17:45, 6 August 2018 (UTC) 'is a book'. Perhaops if you were to read it,you could turn this Wikipedxa page into an article. It may have been written by a former President of the US, but that doesn't make it notable. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 22:23, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
Deletion review for Kane TanakaAn editor has asked for a deletion review of Kane Tanaka. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. 100.40.125.198 (talk) 16:48, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
2018 Asian GamesHi, where is the problem with "Marketing" section specifically? Hddty. (talk) 22:24, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
Portals WikiProject update #017, 22 Aug 2018This issue is about portal creation... Creating new portalsMyself and others have been testing and experimenting with the new components in upgrading existing portals and in building new portals. They have now been applied in hundreds of portals. The templates are ready for general use for portal creation. They are still a bit buggy, but the only way we are going to work the rest of the bugs out is by using them and reporting the bugs as we come across them. I look forward to seeing what new portals you create! Be sure to report bugs at WT:WPPORTD. The main portal creation template is {{box portal skeleton}}. Portal creation tipsAfter starting a portal using {{box portal skeleton}}...
Need a laugh?Check out the Did you know? section on Portal:Determinism. — The Transhumanist 02:21, 22 August 2018 (UTC) September 2018 at Women in Red
Mirka Mora in the newsThank you for changing back to 'media' (much appreciated!) and for the heads-up re the WP:ITNC#RD: Mirka Mora nomination. Tomorrow morning I will try at least to get a list of her exhibitions up asap and delve through newspaper & magazine articles for reviews to ensure there is more focus on Mirka's career...perhaps her very colourful character has unfortunately blinkered the editors of this bio from concentrating on what she did? And yes there is a concern that she is eclipsed here by her ex-husband Georges, for whom I had started a separate article some time back, so he doesn't need much space here. Best, Jamesmcardle(talk) 11:55, 28 August 2018 (UTC) October 2018 at Women in Red
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--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 18:40, 14 October 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging Nomination of Women Disobey for deletion A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Women Disobey is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted. The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Women Disobey until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. wumbolo ^^^ 10:39, 23 October 2018 (UTC) Portals WikiProject update #021, 24 Oct 2018Portals have passed the 4,000 mark. More new portals...Here's a list of portals created since the last issue Please inspect these portals, report problems or suggest improvements at WT:WPPORTD, or develop them further (see below). Thank you. What's next?There is still lots to do... There are many subject gaps that need to be filled. This can be done by creating new portals, or by adding Selected article sections to existing portals. To create a new portal, simply place Each new portal is just a starting point. Each portal of the new design can be further developed by:
Besides the new portals, there are still about 1200 portals of the old design that need to be converted to the new design. Many portals need to be de-orphaned, by placing links to them (in the See also section of the corresponding root articles, at the bottom of the corresponding navigation footer templates, and on the corresponding category pages). Many of the new portals still need to be listed at Portal:Contents/Portals. Bugs keep popping up in portals. These need to be tracked down and reported at WT:WPPORTD. Tools are needed to make developing and maintaining portals quicker and easier. Dreaming up new features and capabilities. Innovation needs to continue, to design the portal of tomorrow, and the portal development-maintenance-system of the future. Automation! So, if you find yourself with a little (or a lot) of free time, pick an area (or more) above and... ...dive in! — The Transhumanist 07:05, 25 October 2018 (UTC) Incomplete DYK nomination
ArbCom 2018 election voter message Hello, Coffeeandcrumbs. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC) ArbCom 2018 election voter messageHello, Coffeeandcrumbs. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC) Could you ...declare if you have a conflict of interest at Creative Planning? There have been some obviously paid edits by others at that page re: the fine CP paid. I will revert your last 2 edits. Smallbones(smalltalk) 01:40, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #023, 25 Nov 2018There are now 4,180 portals. Will we break 5,000 by the end of the year? I know we can. But, that is up to you! ( New portals are created with Happy Holidays.jpg) .jpg)   Hello everyone! Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice (if it's occurring in your area of the world), and thanks for your work in maintaining, improving, and expanding portals. Cheers, — The Transhumanist 06:51, 26 November 2018 (UTC) ,_cropped.jpg)
Jingling alongThe following portals have been created since the last issue:
Keep 'em coming! By the way, the above list was generated using this Petscan query. It can be easily modified by changing the date. The data page (under the Output tab) also has options for receiving the data in CSV or tabbed format, which some operating systems automatically load into a spreadsheet program for ease of use, such as copying and pasting the desired column (like page names). In closingWe'll keep it short this issue. Expect a flood next time. Or the one after that. Cheerio, — The Transhumanist 07:04, 26 November 2018 (UTC) December 2018 at Women in Red
Speedy deletion declined: KomojuHello Coffeeandcrumbs. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Komoju, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: see previous decline. Do not retag. If you doubt the subject's notability, consider merging to the company per WP:ATD or take to WP:AFD. Thank you. SoWhy 08:24, 28 November 2018 (UTC) Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #024, 26 Dec 2018Last issue, I mentioned there would be a flood, and so, here it is... Portals statusWe now have 4,620 portals. And the race to pass 5,000 by year's end is on... Can we make it? The New Year, and the 5,001st portal, await. ( New portals are created with Evad is back!After disappearing in mid-thread, Evad37 has returned from a longer than expected wikibreak. Be sure to welcome him back. Improved cropping is coming to Portal image bannerUser:FR30799386 is working on making {{Portal image banner}} even better by enabling it to chop the top off an image as well as the bottom. Many pictures aren't suitable for banners because they are too tall. Therefor, User:FR30799386 added cropping to this template, so that an editor could specify part of a picture to be used rather than the whole thing. Upgrade of flagship portals is underwayWork has begun on upgrading Wikipedia's flagship portals (those listed at the top of the Main page). So far, Portal:Geography, Portal:History, and Portal:Technology have been revamped. Of course, you are welcome to improve them further. Work continues on the other five. Feel free to join in on the fun. Spotting missing portals that are redirectsIn place of many missing portals, there is a redirect that leads to "the next best topic", such as a parent topic. Most of these were created before we had the tools to easily create portals (they used to take 6 hours or more to create, because it was all done manually). Rather than leave a portal link red, some editors thought it was best that those titles led somewhere. The subjects that have sufficient coverage should have their own portals rather than a redirect to some other subject. Unfortunately, being blue like all other live links, redirects are harder to spot than redlinks. To spot redirects easily, you can make them all appear green. What's new in portal space?Keep 'em coming!And I'll see you next issue. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 08:12, 26 December 2018 (UTC) Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #025, 30 Dec 2018We can now crop the tops of pics to make bannersBefore, we could only cut off the bottom of pics. User:FR30799386 has pulled it off, and made the upgrade to {{Portal image banner}}... So, this:  Niagara falls, from the Canadian side
Becomes this: Niagara falls, from the Canadian side
Here's the code for the above banner:
To see it employed in a portal, check out Portal:Niagara Falls. About that end of the year goal...We were racing against time to create 5,000 portals by the end of the year (just for the heck of it). We made it. We've passed the 5,000 portals mark, with time to spare! And the 5,000th portal is Portal:Major League Baseball, by Happypillsjr. Congratulations! What's next?The 10,000th portal mark. But... ...there is plenty else to do in addition to building new portals:
And whatever else you can dream up. But most of all, have a...   Thank you everyone, for your contributions to the Portals Project, and have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year! Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 11:00, 30 December 2018 (UTC) Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #029, 13 Feb 2019Where we are at:
The Ref desks survived the proposal to shut them downYou might be familiar with the Ref desks, by their link on every new portal. They are a place you can go to ask volunteers almost any knowledge-related question, and have been a feature of Wikipedia since August of 2005 (or perhaps earlier). They were linked to from portals in an effort to improve their visibility, and to provide a bridge from the encyclopedia proper to project space (the Wikipedia community). Well, somebody proposed that we get rid of them, and the community decided that that was not going to happen. Thank you for defending the Ref desks! Here's a link to the dramatic discussion: The cleanup after sockpuppet Emoteplump continues...The wake of disruption left by Emoteplump and the admins who reverted many (but not all) of his/her edits is still undergoing cleanup. We could use all the help we can get on this task... Almost all of the speedy deleted portals have been rebuilt from scratch. For the portals he/she restarted (many of which were done mistakenly, overwriting restarts and further development that had already been done), and/or tagged as the maintainer, see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Emoteplump&oldid=881568794#Additional_Portals_under_my_watch 10,000 portals, here we come...We're at 5,705 portals and counting. New portals since issue #28
Prior to 2018, for the previous 14 years, portal creation was at about 80 portals per year on average. We did over 3 times that in just the past 9 days. At this rate, we'll hit the 10,000 portal mark in 5 months. But, I'm sure we can do it sooner than that. What's next for portal pages?There are 5 drives for portal development:
Let's take a closer look at these... 1: Creating new portalsPortal creation, for subjects that happen to have the necessary support structures already in place, is down to about a minute per portal. The creation part, which is automated, takes about 10 seconds. The other 50 seconds is taken up by manual activities, such as finding candidate subjects, inspecting generated portals, and selecting the portal creation template to be used according to the resources available. Tools are under development to automate these activities as much as possible, to pare portal creation time down even more. Ten seconds each is the goal. Eventually, we are going to run out of navigation templates to base portals off of. Though there are still thousands to go. But, when they do run out, we'll need an easy way to create more. A nav footer creation script. Meanwhile, other resources are being explored and developed, such as categories, and methods to harvest the links they contain. 2: Expanding existing portalsThe portal collection is growing, not only by the addition of new portals, but by further developing the ones we already have, by...
More features will be added as we dream them up and design them. So, don't be shy, make a wish. 3: Converting old portalsBy far the hardest and most time-consuming task we have been working on is updating the old portals, the very reason we revamped this WikiProject in the first place. There are two approaches here:
4: Linking to new portalsOr "portal deorphanization"... Dreamy Jazz Bot is purring along. And a tool in the form of a script is under development for linking to portals at the time they are created, or shortly thereafter. 5...See below... New WikiProject for the post-saved-portal phase of operations...Saved portals, are portals with a saved page. What is the next stage in the evolutionary progression? Quantum portals. What are quantum portals? Portals that come into existence when you click on the portal button, and which disappear when you leave the page. Or, as Pbsouthwood put it:
Introducing... Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals (see it's talk page). Keep on keepin' on...'til next time, — The Transhumanist 09:19, 14 February 2019 (UTC) Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #030, 17 Mar 2019Previous issue:
This issue:
The collection of portals has shrunkAll Portals closed at WP:MfD during 2019 Grouped Nominations total 127 Portals:
Individual Nominations:
Related WikiProject: (Attribution: Copied from Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Portal MfD Results) WikiProject Quantum portalsThis was a spin-off from WikiProject Portals, for the purpose of developing zero-page portals (portals generated on-the-screen at the push of a button, with no stored pages). It has been merged back into WikiProject Portals. In the MfD the vote was "demote". See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals. Hiatus on mass creation of PortalsAt WP:VPR, mass creation of Portals using semi-automated tools has been put on hold until clearer community consensus is established. See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Hiatus on mass creation of Portals. The Transhumanist banned from creating new portals for 3 monthsSee Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Proposal 1: Interim Topic-Ban on New Portals. Until next issue...Keep on keepin' on. — The Transhumanist 02:57, 17 March 2019 (UTC) So what are we doing about Wally Schirra?Should I promote the DYK hook on October 3? Or are you going to move the hook to a dedicated page for July 2019, similar to the April Fools Day page? Yoninah (talk) 18:36, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
January 2019 at Women in Red
RefsFor my eyes, to have reference in the texts is tough to read in edit mode. Why change? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:25, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
Also: why change to "interlanguage link multi" when there's no "multi", - misleading and also hard to read. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 2 minutes ago
Hi, I see we're working in tandem, searching for sources. Nowhere have I found that he wrote for Davar as a young man. The biographies being written after his death are quoting from the Wikipedia article, and The New Yorker article from 2004 doesn't say anything about him writing for Davar before he published his first short story collection. In fact, he wrote political essays for Davar which he collected into a book later in life. Here's another fact-filled source: [6]. Best, Yoninah (talk) 23:17, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Chi Chi DeVayne On 21 August 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Chi Chi DeVayne, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. — Amakuru (talk) 12:43, 21 August 2020 (UTC) Feedback request: All RFCs request for comment Your feedback is requested at Talk:Criticism of Hinduism on a "All RFCs" request for comment. Thank you for helping out! Message delivered to you with love by Yapperbot :) | Is this wrong? Contact my bot operator. | Sent at 07:31, 1 September 2020 (UTC) Picture of the dayOn September 7th, the Tauride Palace is due to be POTD, at Template:POTD/2020-09-07. In fact there are two photographs of the palace, as you can see here. I think it would be good to have both for POTD rather than them appearing separately on different days. What do you think? If you approve the idea, can you organise it? I will rewrite the caption to suit. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:00, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
WikiCup 2020 September newsletterThe fourth round of the competition has finished, with 865 points being required to qualify for the final round, nearly twice as many points as last year. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with 598 and 605 points being eliminated, and all but two of the contestants who reached the final round having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were
Between them, contestants achieved 14 featured articles, 14 featured lists, 2 featured pictures, 87 good articles, 90 DYK entries, 75 ITN entries, 95 featured article candidate reviews and 81 good article reviews. Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:51, 1 September 2020 (UTC) September
I like today's Main page, with the TFA (thank you for help with the blurb!) on the anniversary day (of both dedication and our concert), a DYK, and a great photographer who didn't make it soon enough, Jürgen Schadeberg, - more on my talk, mostly about the tribute to Brian who shared his sources. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:52, 1 September 2020 (UTC) NYP as source and moreBy chance I read the ref you gave on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Buidhe that is https://www.cjr.org/first_person/new-york-post-reporting-lessons.php -> "S.I. COLLEGE BOOTS ITS PERVY PUPIL". Eye opening. It will also affect how I deal with BLP here on Wiki. Zezen (talk) 05:20, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
So true. But then: POV is what makes us tick (And I am guilty as charged, having edited NAMBLA recently). Think of WP vs Nupedia case. Bows Zezen (talk) 11:43, 4 September 2020 (UTC) RMFWIW, I think you could have just moved Shooting of > Killing of rather than opening a formal discussion. I suspect Drmies was just in a hurry when they created it, and I don't see that there's been a previous attempt to move that was reverted. —valereee (talk) 13:34, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
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