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Levent added a Recognition section to the Ryan Adams article which in my opinion is over-referenced tripe. I do not intend to delete any of it (I know NOTHING about Adams), but thought you would be amused by part of Levent's edit explanation "Every single statement is well cited from reliable sources and is also checked by Nick Moyes who gave a green signal to add this." David notMD ( talk) 21:43, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
why do you need "ToMonitor" me, what have i done wrong JJBullet ( talk) 11:13, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
I just wanted to check in and see how you were doing. Are you feeling any better? Clovermoss ( talk) 01:20, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
I've asked a lot of questions at the adoption page recently. I'm just writing here because I am aware that it is a lot of questions and that I'm okay with waiting for answers. I've noticed that sometimes you answer all my questions in one big wall of text and if you don't always want to do that, I'm perfectly fine with recieving an answer or two and waiting for the others. I don't want to be overwhelming with all of my questions and I understand that you have a life and even other interests on Wikipedia. I've also noticed that your other adoptee has asked for your advice on his draft. I'm fine with waiting my turn if you want to take a look at that first. :) Clovermoss ( talk) 18:02, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
I can wait for the approval and process
This is its page
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kashmir_Observer.jpg source epaper.kashmirobserver.net
here i am adding some of the references for the page
Sajjad Haider is the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Kashmir Observer.
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Kashmir_Observer.htm
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I had my suspicions based on writing style and a lot of postings at Teahouse, but Levent H. recently posted a not-logged-in screed at Teahouse (deleted by another editor), revealing to be same person as previously blocked for sockpuppetry. David notMD ( talk) 14:38, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
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I saw your comment earlier about interest in a study what % of users at the Teahouse are blocked. Here's what I found in a very small sample size of the threads at archive 900. In these threads:
Some other interesting information:
In addition, Denkiden asked questions at the Teahouse that were archived without an answer. I'm also worried that they might not be here to build an encloypedia, since they are here to "raise awareness of memes" according to their userpage. Clovermoss ( talk) 16:48, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
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Hello, Thank you for your message; most of the articles I have created were done in the early years under another user name. It seems that the occasional article I create nowadays gets criticized, e.g, Diocese of Aude and Ninove Abbey which got reduced to drafts and were only revived later on.-- Johnsoniensis ( talk) 10:28, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Nick, how are you getting on?-- JJB ☎ 10:59, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
also thanks for the help, everything is going smoothly now, im taking it slow,-- JJB ☎ 14:11, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
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I noticed
here that you are the most active member of the Teahouse for the last 50,000 revisions with 1,781 edits.
Here are some other editors in the top 10:
Rank | Editor | Edits |
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1 | Nick Moyes | 1781 |
2 | 331dot | 1444 |
3 | David notMD | 1276 |
4 | David Biddulph | 1244 |
5 | Cullen328 | 1212 |
6 | ColinFine | 950 |
7 | DESiegel | 938 |
8 | GreenMeansGo | 801 |
9 | Jmcgnh | 764 |
10 | PrimeHunter | 690 |
Hope this was fun to have pointed out. Mstrojny ( talk) 11:35, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
You used the f word in gender bend
Hailyrulesamerica ( talk) 23:23, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
That’s descrimanation against trans Hailyrulesamerica ( talk) 23:24, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
Implementation of the new portal design has been culled back almost completely, and the cull is still ongoing. The cull has also affected portals that existed before the development of the automated design.
Some of the reasons for the purge are:
Most of the deletions have been made without prejudice to recreation of curated portals, so that approval does not need to be sought at Deletion Review in those cases.
In addition to new portals being deleted, most of the portals that were converted to an automated design have been reverted.
Which puts us back to portals with manually selected content, that need to be maintained by hand, for the most part, for the time being, and back facing some of the same problems we had when we were at this crossroads before:
These and other concepts require further discussion. See you at WT:POG.
However, after the purge/reversion is completed, some of the single-page portals might be left, due to having acceptable characteristics (their design varied some). If so, then those could possibly be used as a model to convert and/or build more, after the discussions on portal creation and design guidelines have reached a community consensus on what is and is not acceptable for a portal.
See you at WT:POG.
A major theme in the deletion discussions was the need for portals to be curated, that is, each one having a dedicated maintainer.
There are currently around 100 curated portals. Based on the predominant reasoning at MfD, it seems likely that all the other portals may be subject to deletion.
See you at WT:POG.
An observation and argument that arose again and again during the WP:ENDPORTALS RfC and the ongoing deletion drive of {{ bpsp}} default portals, was that portals simply do not get much traffic. Typically, they get a tiny fraction of what the corresponding like-titled articles get.
And while this isn't generally considered a good rationale for creation or deletion of articles, portals are not articles, and portal critics insist that traffic is a key factor in the utility of portals.
The implication is that portals won't be seen much, so wouldn't it be better to develop pages that are?
And since such development isn't limited to editing, almost anything is possible. If we can't bring readers to portals, we could bring portal features, or even better features, to the readers (i.e., to articles)...
An approach that has received some brainstorming is "quantum portals", meaning portals generated on-the-fly and presented directly on the view screen without any saved portal pages. This could be done by script or as a MediaWiki program feature, but would initially be done by script. The main benefits of this is that it would be opt-in (only those who wanted it would install it), and the resultant generated pages wouldn't be saved, so that there wouldn't be anything to maintain except the script itself.
Another approach would be to focus on implementing specific features independently, and provide them somewhere highly visible in a non-portal presentation context (that is, on a page that wasn't a portal that has lots of traffic, i.e., articles). Such as inserted directly into an article's HTML, as a pop-up there, or as a temporary page. There are scripts that use these approaches (providing unrelated features), and so these approaches have been proven to be feasible.
What kind of features could this be done with?
The various components of the automated portal design are transcluded excerpts, news, did you know, image slideshows, excerpt slideshows, and so on.
Some of the features, such as navigation footers and links to sister projects are already included on article pages. And some already have interface counterparts (such as image slideshows). Some of the rest may be able to be integrated directly via script, but may need further development before they are perfected. Fortunately, scripts are used on an opt-in basis, and therefore wouldn't affect readers-in-general and editors-at-large during the development process (except for those who wanted to be beta testers and installed the scripts).
The development of such scripts falls under the scope of the Javascript-WikiProject/Userscript-department, and will likely be listed on Wikipedia:User scripts/List when completed enough for beta-testing. Be sure to watchlist that page.
Being curated. At least for the time being.
New encyclopedia program features will likely eventually render most portals obsolete. For example, the pop-up feature of MediaWiki provides much the same functionality as excerpts in portals already, and there is also a slideshow feature to view all the images on the current page (just click on any image, and that activates the slideshow). Future features could also overlap portal features, until there is nothing that portals provide that isn't provided elsewhere or as part of Wikipedia's interface.
But, that may be a ways off. Perhaps months or years. It depends on how rapidly programmers develop them.
The features of Wikipedia and its articles will continue to evolve, even if Portals go by the wayside. Most, if not all of portals' functionality, or functions very similar, will likely be made available in some form or other.
And who knows what else?
No worries.
Until next issue... — The Transhumanist 00:32, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nick. I see you've been keeping an eye on JJBullet. I think his editing on Jnr.void is innocent if misguided. I note that both boys are attached to the same trust, Novalis, which appears to cater for "the education of children, young people and adults, including those with emotional and behavioural difficulties". I suspect that having set up his page he is helping out a fellow resident. That brings me to the main point, in the infoboxes for both of them are full names and email addresses. This worries me, particularly in light of the description of Novalis. Should they be redacted? Regards, Martin of Sheffield ( talk) 11:08, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
@ Martin of Sheffield:I just saw your message, and thank you so much to both of you for helping me, if you want to help at all Martin then im more than happy, just because i relate to Nick a bit more doesnt mean i wont take on board what you are saying, best wishes, - JJBullet ( Talk) 10:39, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
It's been a while since we've actually talked with your vacation and all that, but I've been learning a lot of stuff on my own. Anyways, one of my drafts passed AFC and Katherine Hughes (activist) is now a live article! I've also done other stuff and picked up on a few things. Created a redirect (for Katherine Angelina Hughes), talked a bit on article talk pages (for example, Alexei Romanov, and I read and used some of WP:MOS (check out today's article for improvement for an example). I've been busy (and will remain so until the weekend) but I figured I should write an update of sorts. Clovermoss ( talk) 02:07, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hello, I found your listing on the adoption page and out of all the adopters, I was most interested in you. We share an interest in the sciences (particularly biology, it seems), and also to WP:WOMRED although that's something of a stretch goal. At the moment I have very little interest in administrative tasks and I am generally most interested in learning to be a more effective editor. NPP is also something I would love to work on in the future when I feel like I really have my editing skills together.
I feel like I should explain my contribs, as well. I have nearly 2,000 edits on paper, but that is a poor representation of what kind of work I have done and I feel like it overestimates me. My first major project on Wikipedia was to completely clear the backlog of over 800 unassessed articles at WP:Biology using Rater as noted on my userpage. If you have used Rater, you will know that it is super easy. I consider it valuable work and I learned some really useful skills from it, but they don't transfer as well to the work areas that I want to break into and unfortunately it sort of pads my edit count.
I am really interested in continuing this kind of work, though--maintaining projects via assessment, management of categories, (tasteful) tagging, and working through cleanup listing. At the same time, I have my own personal backlog of many articles I have come across during my assessment spree that need direct, dedicated work. I have become frustrated with my skills on multiple occasions, especially when I'm working with trickier aspects. Short-term goals would be learning more about formatting, infoboxes, useful templates/tags, and so on, while a good mid-term goal for me would be full proficiency in taking diverse articles (in my field) up to C quality, even from a stub. I'm not interested at this time in contributing to GA/FA-level articles--I feel that would be a waste of my time.
I went over your page on adoption and I want to assure you that I understand the basics of the concepts you listed. I can't say I have memorized them but I am aware of all those policies, I take them seriously, and I plan to review them regularly. In addition, I just completed WP:TWA last night. I left the badges on my page as proof but I'll be deleting them soon for cleanliness. I also glanced at how you made a separate page for User:Clovermoss, and should you decide to accept me I think that would be a good course of action for us as well.
Anyway, thank you for your time in reading this and your consideration. I hope you are not too busy because we seem to be a very good fit! Prometheus720 ( talk) 00:18, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
{{
Adoptee|Nick Moyes}}
to your user page, and I will probably do the same on mine and on my entry on the AAU project page.
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For your work in sorting out Pteroplax and working to resolve a conflict between two new well-intentioned users. Many helpers at Teahouse wouldn't have been so diligent in making sure neither new editor ended up deciding to quit editing. valereee ( talk) 15:27, 12 May 2019 (UTC) |
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I did a few tweaks regarding an opening sentence and added some "see also"s as Template:Wikipedia essays was linking towards a more recent archived copy rather than to WP:TWAS. - Knowledgekid87 ( talk) 23:40, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
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Hello Nick, I am a Nigerian based editor with a background in Media studies and Entrepreneurship. Got registered on Wiki in 2018. Still trying to find my way around really. Stumbled on your intro on WP:Adopt-a-user page and i am hooked.
I'd like to humbly request admission into your adoption program. I've got interests in in History, Photography and Biographies. I recently participated in 2 Wiki programs -WikiGap and Decolonize the internet, both aimed at bridging the gender gap on here.
I have this bright idea that recruiting more female editors will no doubt translate to an increase in content about women, hence in 2021, i am focused on recruiting more women into Wiki. Challenge is, there is still a lot i have got to learn, thus i need the help of an experienced editor. So please please Adopt me!!! I will be your best student yet! -- OtuNwachinemere ( talk) 15:10, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
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Hello, Nick Moyes. I am really interested in this article and was wondering if you could take a look at it. I added reliable references to help it get published, so it should be good. but if you have any pointer,s please leave them on my talk page WaussusBeaver. (Note: please don't give me any broad answers, as I need specific details, so highlight issues if there are any).17:39, 12 February 2021 (UTC)17:39, 12 February 2021 (UTC)17:39, 12 February 2021 (UTC)~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by WaussusBeaver ( talk • contribs) 17:41, 12 February 2021 (UTC)17:41, 12 February 2021 (UTC)~~
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Hello Nick, you wrote a wonderful response in the Teahouse to EpicCarnage12, who is a student in the information literacy course I am teaching this semester. Perhaps what he is learning in class and your enthusiasm and suggestions will encourage him to edit beyond the short span of the course. With best regards, and more soon, TrudiJ ( talk) 04:20, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
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Because I am not fully understanding any possible manufacturing technology i think it should be a article by a historian familiar but I want exeperts , no catch nothing I expect in return 3DPrintingTimPostma ( talk) 11:06, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
I would like to review the draft page if you see any mistakes I added References and stuff on there I think your going to like it. Demons24 ( talk) 00:42, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
No your alright in my books I hope it doesn’t get turned down Daniel Hand High School has been playing Hand Football also that’s why I put the links down there for Demons24 ( talk) 01:01, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
Thanks so much for the excellent definition of "extirpated", that you provided on Ddum5347's talkpage. [31] I had consulted three different sources, but none of them explained the "deliberate human action directed towards that species," connotation so clearly...two of the sources did not mention it at all.
The Wiktionary example: "The cougar was extirpated across nearly all of its eastern North American range in the two centuries after European colonization." implies that humans were responsible. But Local extinction only mentions natural disasters, etc. Should this article be updated to include human action as a cause of extirpation/local extinction? (I don't know where to find sources for this scientific definition.) At this point, neither Wiktionary or WP provide the reader with a good explanation of "extirpated", unless we link to your cmts on Ddum5347's talkpage!! Thanks for your consideration, hope you are well! Best, Tribe of Tiger Let's Purrfect! 22:14, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
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Levent added a Recognition section to the Ryan Adams article which in my opinion is over-referenced tripe. I do not intend to delete any of it (I know NOTHING about Adams), but thought you would be amused by part of Levent's edit explanation "Every single statement is well cited from reliable sources and is also checked by Nick Moyes who gave a green signal to add this." David notMD ( talk) 21:43, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
why do you need "ToMonitor" me, what have i done wrong JJBullet ( talk) 11:13, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
I just wanted to check in and see how you were doing. Are you feeling any better? Clovermoss ( talk) 01:20, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
I've asked a lot of questions at the adoption page recently. I'm just writing here because I am aware that it is a lot of questions and that I'm okay with waiting for answers. I've noticed that sometimes you answer all my questions in one big wall of text and if you don't always want to do that, I'm perfectly fine with recieving an answer or two and waiting for the others. I don't want to be overwhelming with all of my questions and I understand that you have a life and even other interests on Wikipedia. I've also noticed that your other adoptee has asked for your advice on his draft. I'm fine with waiting my turn if you want to take a look at that first. :) Clovermoss ( talk) 18:02, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
I can wait for the approval and process
This is its page
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kashmir_Observer.jpg source epaper.kashmirobserver.net
here i am adding some of the references for the page
Sajjad Haider is the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Kashmir Observer.
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Kashmir_Observer.htm
REFERENCE LINKS
https://scroll.in/author/12581 https://www.exchange4media.com/industry-briefing-news/kashmir-observer-to-launch-business-supplement-47494.html https://rsf.org/en/news/discriminatory-use-official-advertising-kashmir https://indianexpress.com/article/india/kashmir-newspapers-publish-blank-front-pages-to-protest-govts-decision-to-stop-ads-to-two-dailies-5619019/ https://cpj.org/tags/kashmir-observer https://www.newslaundry.com/2016/07/11/kashmirunrest-the-difference-in-what-delhi-and-kashmiri-media-saw https://www.newslaundry.com/2018/06/19/kashmir-woke-up-to-blank-editorials-in-newspapers-today-in-memory-of-shujaatbukhari
I had my suspicions based on writing style and a lot of postings at Teahouse, but Levent H. recently posted a not-logged-in screed at Teahouse (deleted by another editor), revealing to be same person as previously blocked for sockpuppetry. David notMD ( talk) 14:38, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
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Please advise how I would add a citation or reference? There are various websites mainly reddit.com that have this text “ They were first spotted by David Oddie, boss of Wakefield based Ambergris Records in a Bradford club, who passed his enthusiasm onto Dead Good Records in Lincoln, famous for their Hicks From The Sticks compilation, who in turn approached Polygram, the newly formed amalgam of Polydor and Phonogram” Smithsonp ( talk) 18:41, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
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Hope you like this month's issue! If you'd like to discuss this issue, please go to this issue's talk page. Happy Reading! -- Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 03:06, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
I saw your comment earlier about interest in a study what % of users at the Teahouse are blocked. Here's what I found in a very small sample size of the threads at archive 900. In these threads:
Some other interesting information:
In addition, Denkiden asked questions at the Teahouse that were archived without an answer. I'm also worried that they might not be here to build an encloypedia, since they are here to "raise awareness of memes" according to their userpage. Clovermoss ( talk) 16:48, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
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Hello, Thank you for your message; most of the articles I have created were done in the early years under another user name. It seems that the occasional article I create nowadays gets criticized, e.g, Diocese of Aude and Ninove Abbey which got reduced to drafts and were only revived later on.-- Johnsoniensis ( talk) 10:28, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Nick, how are you getting on?-- JJB ☎ 10:59, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
also thanks for the help, everything is going smoothly now, im taking it slow,-- JJB ☎ 14:11, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
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I noticed
here that you are the most active member of the Teahouse for the last 50,000 revisions with 1,781 edits.
Here are some other editors in the top 10:
Rank | Editor | Edits |
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1 | Nick Moyes | 1781 |
2 | 331dot | 1444 |
3 | David notMD | 1276 |
4 | David Biddulph | 1244 |
5 | Cullen328 | 1212 |
6 | ColinFine | 950 |
7 | DESiegel | 938 |
8 | GreenMeansGo | 801 |
9 | Jmcgnh | 764 |
10 | PrimeHunter | 690 |
Hope this was fun to have pointed out. Mstrojny ( talk) 11:35, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
You used the f word in gender bend
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That’s descrimanation against trans Hailyrulesamerica ( talk) 23:24, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
Implementation of the new portal design has been culled back almost completely, and the cull is still ongoing. The cull has also affected portals that existed before the development of the automated design.
Some of the reasons for the purge are:
Most of the deletions have been made without prejudice to recreation of curated portals, so that approval does not need to be sought at Deletion Review in those cases.
In addition to new portals being deleted, most of the portals that were converted to an automated design have been reverted.
Which puts us back to portals with manually selected content, that need to be maintained by hand, for the most part, for the time being, and back facing some of the same problems we had when we were at this crossroads before:
These and other concepts require further discussion. See you at WT:POG.
However, after the purge/reversion is completed, some of the single-page portals might be left, due to having acceptable characteristics (their design varied some). If so, then those could possibly be used as a model to convert and/or build more, after the discussions on portal creation and design guidelines have reached a community consensus on what is and is not acceptable for a portal.
See you at WT:POG.
A major theme in the deletion discussions was the need for portals to be curated, that is, each one having a dedicated maintainer.
There are currently around 100 curated portals. Based on the predominant reasoning at MfD, it seems likely that all the other portals may be subject to deletion.
See you at WT:POG.
An observation and argument that arose again and again during the WP:ENDPORTALS RfC and the ongoing deletion drive of {{ bpsp}} default portals, was that portals simply do not get much traffic. Typically, they get a tiny fraction of what the corresponding like-titled articles get.
And while this isn't generally considered a good rationale for creation or deletion of articles, portals are not articles, and portal critics insist that traffic is a key factor in the utility of portals.
The implication is that portals won't be seen much, so wouldn't it be better to develop pages that are?
And since such development isn't limited to editing, almost anything is possible. If we can't bring readers to portals, we could bring portal features, or even better features, to the readers (i.e., to articles)...
An approach that has received some brainstorming is "quantum portals", meaning portals generated on-the-fly and presented directly on the view screen without any saved portal pages. This could be done by script or as a MediaWiki program feature, but would initially be done by script. The main benefits of this is that it would be opt-in (only those who wanted it would install it), and the resultant generated pages wouldn't be saved, so that there wouldn't be anything to maintain except the script itself.
Another approach would be to focus on implementing specific features independently, and provide them somewhere highly visible in a non-portal presentation context (that is, on a page that wasn't a portal that has lots of traffic, i.e., articles). Such as inserted directly into an article's HTML, as a pop-up there, or as a temporary page. There are scripts that use these approaches (providing unrelated features), and so these approaches have been proven to be feasible.
What kind of features could this be done with?
The various components of the automated portal design are transcluded excerpts, news, did you know, image slideshows, excerpt slideshows, and so on.
Some of the features, such as navigation footers and links to sister projects are already included on article pages. And some already have interface counterparts (such as image slideshows). Some of the rest may be able to be integrated directly via script, but may need further development before they are perfected. Fortunately, scripts are used on an opt-in basis, and therefore wouldn't affect readers-in-general and editors-at-large during the development process (except for those who wanted to be beta testers and installed the scripts).
The development of such scripts falls under the scope of the Javascript-WikiProject/Userscript-department, and will likely be listed on Wikipedia:User scripts/List when completed enough for beta-testing. Be sure to watchlist that page.
Being curated. At least for the time being.
New encyclopedia program features will likely eventually render most portals obsolete. For example, the pop-up feature of MediaWiki provides much the same functionality as excerpts in portals already, and there is also a slideshow feature to view all the images on the current page (just click on any image, and that activates the slideshow). Future features could also overlap portal features, until there is nothing that portals provide that isn't provided elsewhere or as part of Wikipedia's interface.
But, that may be a ways off. Perhaps months or years. It depends on how rapidly programmers develop them.
The features of Wikipedia and its articles will continue to evolve, even if Portals go by the wayside. Most, if not all of portals' functionality, or functions very similar, will likely be made available in some form or other.
And who knows what else?
No worries.
Until next issue... — The Transhumanist 00:32, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nick. I see you've been keeping an eye on JJBullet. I think his editing on Jnr.void is innocent if misguided. I note that both boys are attached to the same trust, Novalis, which appears to cater for "the education of children, young people and adults, including those with emotional and behavioural difficulties". I suspect that having set up his page he is helping out a fellow resident. That brings me to the main point, in the infoboxes for both of them are full names and email addresses. This worries me, particularly in light of the description of Novalis. Should they be redacted? Regards, Martin of Sheffield ( talk) 11:08, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
@ Martin of Sheffield:I just saw your message, and thank you so much to both of you for helping me, if you want to help at all Martin then im more than happy, just because i relate to Nick a bit more doesnt mean i wont take on board what you are saying, best wishes, - JJBullet ( Talk) 10:39, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
It's been a while since we've actually talked with your vacation and all that, but I've been learning a lot of stuff on my own. Anyways, one of my drafts passed AFC and Katherine Hughes (activist) is now a live article! I've also done other stuff and picked up on a few things. Created a redirect (for Katherine Angelina Hughes), talked a bit on article talk pages (for example, Alexei Romanov, and I read and used some of WP:MOS (check out today's article for improvement for an example). I've been busy (and will remain so until the weekend) but I figured I should write an update of sorts. Clovermoss ( talk) 02:07, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hello, I found your listing on the adoption page and out of all the adopters, I was most interested in you. We share an interest in the sciences (particularly biology, it seems), and also to WP:WOMRED although that's something of a stretch goal. At the moment I have very little interest in administrative tasks and I am generally most interested in learning to be a more effective editor. NPP is also something I would love to work on in the future when I feel like I really have my editing skills together.
I feel like I should explain my contribs, as well. I have nearly 2,000 edits on paper, but that is a poor representation of what kind of work I have done and I feel like it overestimates me. My first major project on Wikipedia was to completely clear the backlog of over 800 unassessed articles at WP:Biology using Rater as noted on my userpage. If you have used Rater, you will know that it is super easy. I consider it valuable work and I learned some really useful skills from it, but they don't transfer as well to the work areas that I want to break into and unfortunately it sort of pads my edit count.
I am really interested in continuing this kind of work, though--maintaining projects via assessment, management of categories, (tasteful) tagging, and working through cleanup listing. At the same time, I have my own personal backlog of many articles I have come across during my assessment spree that need direct, dedicated work. I have become frustrated with my skills on multiple occasions, especially when I'm working with trickier aspects. Short-term goals would be learning more about formatting, infoboxes, useful templates/tags, and so on, while a good mid-term goal for me would be full proficiency in taking diverse articles (in my field) up to C quality, even from a stub. I'm not interested at this time in contributing to GA/FA-level articles--I feel that would be a waste of my time.
I went over your page on adoption and I want to assure you that I understand the basics of the concepts you listed. I can't say I have memorized them but I am aware of all those policies, I take them seriously, and I plan to review them regularly. In addition, I just completed WP:TWA last night. I left the badges on my page as proof but I'll be deleting them soon for cleanliness. I also glanced at how you made a separate page for User:Clovermoss, and should you decide to accept me I think that would be a good course of action for us as well.
Anyway, thank you for your time in reading this and your consideration. I hope you are not too busy because we seem to be a very good fit! Prometheus720 ( talk) 00:18, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
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I did a few tweaks regarding an opening sentence and added some "see also"s as Template:Wikipedia essays was linking towards a more recent archived copy rather than to WP:TWAS. - Knowledgekid87 ( talk) 23:40, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
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Hello Nick, I am a Nigerian based editor with a background in Media studies and Entrepreneurship. Got registered on Wiki in 2018. Still trying to find my way around really. Stumbled on your intro on WP:Adopt-a-user page and i am hooked.
I'd like to humbly request admission into your adoption program. I've got interests in in History, Photography and Biographies. I recently participated in 2 Wiki programs -WikiGap and Decolonize the internet, both aimed at bridging the gender gap on here.
I have this bright idea that recruiting more female editors will no doubt translate to an increase in content about women, hence in 2021, i am focused on recruiting more women into Wiki. Challenge is, there is still a lot i have got to learn, thus i need the help of an experienced editor. So please please Adopt me!!! I will be your best student yet! -- OtuNwachinemere ( talk) 15:10, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
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Hello, Nick Moyes. I am really interested in this article and was wondering if you could take a look at it. I added reliable references to help it get published, so it should be good. but if you have any pointer,s please leave them on my talk page WaussusBeaver. (Note: please don't give me any broad answers, as I need specific details, so highlight issues if there are any).17:39, 12 February 2021 (UTC)17:39, 12 February 2021 (UTC)17:39, 12 February 2021 (UTC)~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by WaussusBeaver ( talk • contribs) 17:41, 12 February 2021 (UTC)17:41, 12 February 2021 (UTC)~~
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Hello Nick, you wrote a wonderful response in the Teahouse to EpicCarnage12, who is a student in the information literacy course I am teaching this semester. Perhaps what he is learning in class and your enthusiasm and suggestions will encourage him to edit beyond the short span of the course. With best regards, and more soon, TrudiJ ( talk) 04:20, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
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Because I am not fully understanding any possible manufacturing technology i think it should be a article by a historian familiar but I want exeperts , no catch nothing I expect in return 3DPrintingTimPostma ( talk) 11:06, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
I would like to review the draft page if you see any mistakes I added References and stuff on there I think your going to like it. Demons24 ( talk) 00:42, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
No your alright in my books I hope it doesn’t get turned down Daniel Hand High School has been playing Hand Football also that’s why I put the links down there for Demons24 ( talk) 01:01, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
Thanks so much for the excellent definition of "extirpated", that you provided on Ddum5347's talkpage. [31] I had consulted three different sources, but none of them explained the "deliberate human action directed towards that species," connotation so clearly...two of the sources did not mention it at all.
The Wiktionary example: "The cougar was extirpated across nearly all of its eastern North American range in the two centuries after European colonization." implies that humans were responsible. But Local extinction only mentions natural disasters, etc. Should this article be updated to include human action as a cause of extirpation/local extinction? (I don't know where to find sources for this scientific definition.) At this point, neither Wiktionary or WP provide the reader with a good explanation of "extirpated", unless we link to your cmts on Ddum5347's talkpage!! Thanks for your consideration, hope you are well! Best, Tribe of Tiger Let's Purrfect! 22:14, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
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