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An editor has asked for a deletion review of List of stakes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 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. RobThomas15 ( talk) 13:20, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
Would you userfy Draft:Kissing Candice (band) to my userspace? The tv show of the same name clouds search results but I think the draft might be salvageable. — Godsy ( TALK CONT) 21:05, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
You missed Draft:OppzSec (Opposite Security Team) when you deleted the main draft. Just a FYI. Whispering( t) 19:58, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
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Happy 2019! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:15, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
Well, here's the first issue of the new year. Enjoy...
A hearty welcome to new arrivals to the portals department:
DannyS712 has created a user script prototype, User:DannyS712/Cat links, that can pull members from a category, a functionality we've been after since the project's revamp last Spring. Now, it's a matter of applying this technique to scripts that will place the items where needed, such as with a section starter script and/or portal builder script.
There have been some discussions at Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines.
DreamyJazz is working on a bot to place links to portals on root articles, category pages, and navigation footer templates.
Portal bugs are getting dealt with soon after they are reported.
Lots of wikignome activity (using Hotcat, etc.).
Keep up the good work. — The Transhumanist 09:34, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
Can you transfer the text and code of Steve Lee (artist) to my userspace? I want to work on the article -- Thats Just Great ( talk) 05:22, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I submitted an MfD for an IP user page and didn't respond in time before it was closed. I thought it would be better to discuss it here before considering a deletion review. Currently, the user page contains a suspected sock template that was posted some years ago for that IP and my previous username.
Regarding the MfD comments, as far as I can tell, there was no sock investigation, sock records, block log or other action besides the template posted on the IP user page. To provide some context, I believe the user page was originally created by another editor to post a sock template while we were discussing article content on the article talk page some years ago. That editor had an edit war with the IP editor at that article before our talk page discussion, and had started a new section about the edit disputes. I had jumped into the discussion after the IP editor had replied to the other editor. It seems the editor thought I was the same user as the IP, and after some contentious discussion, posted a suspected sock notice on the IP user page while not notifying me on my user talk page. It seems there was no follow up after the editor posted the sock template. Recently, I found the IP user page while preparing for a username move and requested a deletion shortly after the move. I do not edit from that IP and I believe the sock notice was added without good cause and unsubstantiated by the article's edit history. For privacy reasons, I submitted an MfD requesting that the IP user page to be blanked and deleted.
Would this be acceptable rationale for deleting the page? Thanks. 02:58, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
For a visually intensive portal, see Portal:Hummingbirds.
If you find any other portals that stand out, please send me the links so I can include them in the next issue. Thank you.
There are about 1100 portals left in the old style, with subpages and static excerpts. As those are very labor intensive to maintain (because their maintenance is manual), all those except the ones with active maintainers (about 100) are slated for upgrade = approximately 1000. We started with 1500, and so over a quarter of them have been processed so far. That's good, but at this rate, conversion will take another 3 years. So, some automation (AWB?) is in order. We just need to keep at it, and push down on the gas pedal a bit harder.
You can find the old-style portals with an insource search of "box portal skeleton".
Speaking of upgrades...
The following portals are listed in the header at the top of Wikipedia's Main Page, and get far more traffic than all other portals:
Of those, all but one have been revamped to an automated self-updating single-page design.
The remaining one, Portal:Mathematics has manual maintainers, and has been partially upgraded.
As these are our flagship fleet, they need to be kept in top-notch condition.
Check 'em out, and improve them if you can.
And be sure they are on your watchlist.
Keep 'em coming!
As you know, thousands of the new portals are orphans, that is, having no links to them from article space. For all practical purposes, that means they are not part of the encyclopedia yet, and readers will be unlikely to find them.
What is needed are links to these portals from the See also sections of the corresponding root articles.
Dreamy Jazz to the rescue...
Dreamy Jazz has created a bot to place the corresponding category link to the end of each portal (if it is missing), and place a link to each portal in the See also section of the corresponding root articles.
That bot, named User:Dreamy Jazz Bot, is currently in its trial period performing the above described edits!
To take a look at the edits it has made so far, see Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz_Bot.
It shouldn't be long before the bot is processing the entire set of new portals.
Good news indeed.
Way to go, Dreamy Jazz!
That's all I have to report this time around.
No doubt there will be more to tell soon.
Until then, — The Transhumanist 13:15, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello! Despite closing the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bangladeshi cricket team records as delete, the article hasn't been deleted. Jovanmilic97 ( talk) 13:27, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello RL0919 ! I saw on your profile that you are interested in theaters, writers and plays, so I thought that maybe you could help me by reviewing the article about Robin Hawdon? /info/en/?search=Draft:Robin_Hawdon
Thank you! NMGS19 ( talk) 20:09, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
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Here's a quicky status report:
But of course, there has been more going on than just that...
Dreamy Jazz Bot has been approved and is now up and running.
What it does is places missing links to orphaned portals. It places a link in the See also section of the corresponding root article, and it puts one at the top of the corresponding category page.
We have thousands of new portals that have yet to be added to the encyclopedia proper, just waiting to go live.
When they do go live, over the coming days or weeks, due to Dreamy Jazz Bot, it will be like an explosion of new portals on the scene. We should expect an increase in awareness and interest in the portals project. Perhaps even new participants.
Get ready...
Get set...
Go!
User:Emoteplump, a recent contributor to the portals project, was discovered to be a sockpuppet account of an indefinitely blocked user.
When that happens, admins endeavor to eradicate everything the editor contributed. This aftermath has left a wake of destruction throughout the portals department, again.
The following portals which have been speedy deleted, are in the process of being re-created. Please feel free to help to turn these blue again:
And the corresponding talk pages:
Until next time, — The Transhumanist 09:04, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Where we are at:
You 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 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/?title=User:Emoteplump&oldid=881568794#Additional_Portals_under_my_watch
We're at 5,705 portals and counting.
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.
There are 5 drives for portal development:
Let's take a closer look at these...
Portal 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.
The 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.
By 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:
Or "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.
See below...
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:
...portals that exist only as a probability function (algorithm) until you collapse the wave form by observing through the portal button (run the script), and disappear again after use...
Introducing...
Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals (see it's talk page).
...'til next time, — The Transhumanist 10:26, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello RL0: please restore all the Portal subpages you deleted via WP:CSD G6. Since there are now assessments as to whether the single-page or multi-page versions are better for the encyclopedia, the only way these assessments can proceed is if the subpages are restored. Thanks in advance, UnitedStatesian ( talk) 18:15, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
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Previous issue:
This issue:
All 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)
This 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.
At 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.
See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Proposal 1: Interim Topic-Ban on New Portals.
Keep on keepin' on. — The Transhumanist 10:24, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
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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 01:25, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
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Good evening,
The page entitled 'The Decent Rogues' has recently been deleted for reasons I fully understand looking through some of the protocols. However, I was just writing on the off-chance to see if it could be reinstated, for now at least. Typically, and the irony of the timing hasn't escaped my attention, it's just been picked-up for its first professional London performance. Obviously anything to help maintain its awareness in the public eye would be splendid, of which Wikipedia is a fine example (and especially since new British music theatre is such a rare and difficult thing to protect!)
I'll leave it entirely to your discretion but it you're okay with that, I'll buy you a pint at its West End opening night!
Regards and thanks,
Jo sabine ( talk) 21:43, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for your helpful reply. I’ll wait to hear from User:Explicit and we’ll go from there.
Very best wishes. Jo sabine ( talk) 06:21, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi RL0919, thank you for your contributions to the List of political philosophers talk page. I think we may be in need of arbitration. I don't know the protocols for doing that, however. Would you be able to step in as a third party? I added authors to the page with references meeting the criteria that you proposed as modified by Snowded. You asked for one source connecting the author in question with political philosophy. For instance, you stated: "Fortunately, your latest effort should help progress things. For example, the existence of a book like Barrett's Persons and Liberal Democracy seems like a pretty good indication that John Paul II could be included here. I can't speak for everyone who watches this list, but my suggestion would be to pick one solid source for each entry and include that as a reference." Snowded followed up by saying everyone should have two sources. Fair enough. I took this to be a consensus criteria since the active contributors all said their bit without any objections.
I proceeded to add authors providing more than the required number of citations. Now, Snowded has deleted the added authors as well as the reference section, stating he doesn't want references on the main page, but only in the talk page. He has also continued to not provide any alternative criteria for inclusion despite me asking for one multiple times. Polsky215 ( talk) 13:06, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
Dear RL0919, following the feedback and advice on my first article, I have finalized a completely revised draft for Rice Powell in my sandbox. You can find it here for review. As you will see, I have added new reliable sources to establish better notability and meet all of Wikipedia's guidelines. Your feedback is much appreciated! Thank you. -- Stefanie at FMC CorpCom ( talk) 15:55, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
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Hi RL0919, I'm currently looking to create a draft for Catz 'n Dogz (I have been working on the article in my Sandbox). As a previous version of this Draft was deleted by yourself, I wanted to check with you why this draft was deleted and whether there is a reason for me not to publish it ? I have checked WP:NMUSIC and believe that the artists are notable as they have released on an important indie label and have been placed in rotation on a national radio station, but please advise if you believe otherwise. Here is the page for the deletion discussion: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Catz 'n Dogz. (For full disclosure, I have a COI with this act, therefore I will be disclosing this in the talk page and submitting the draft to Articles for Creation rather than publishing it directly) Littletishtash ( talk) 13:17, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
So atypical request, but I keep thinking about this. On the first of March, you deleted per
this MFD. I was a bright young wikipedian and couldn't articulate my points well, but I knew something wasn't right with that MFD. None of the delete arguments were founded in policy. Someone cited
WP:NOTWEBHOST and
WP:NOTFORUM, like huh? We have too many Wikiprojecte already
-- Is that really a good reason? The nom cited a 3 year old
MFD discussion where half the participants (who are also both now blocked btw) voted to keep and no deletion rationale was even provided. I don't see why that was a reason to delete either.
So I have to ask... why did you close the MFD as delete? What was your own rationale if you can remember?
This seriously has bothered me for months. Cheers, – MJL ‐Talk‐ ☖ 04:06, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Wikipedia:Assyrian-Syriac Wikipedia cooperation board. 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. Thank you for your advice! – MJL ‐Talk‐ ☖ 16:55, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
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Thanks for your friendly and helpful approach to my formatting screwup. I've tried to leave the thing less of a mess. Hope it worked! Socsciedits ( talk) 00:36, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
Could you please undelete Category:Assyrian-Syriac wikipedia cooperation board per the outcome of this DRV? schetm ( talk) 01:16, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
All comments addressed, with sincere thanks. An excellent set of comments. Cassianto Talk 21:10, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi RL0919. The article on Loubna Bouarfa has recently been deleted after a discussion on notability. Sources of higher notability have since been added to the article, with multiple sources stating the same facts. As this is article is on a member of the EU High Level Expert on AI, which is a relatively new position (since June 2018), but their contribution to the European and global artificial intelligence policies are growing in influence and notability. This is the link of the discussion, /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Loubna_Bouarfa . Please reconsider and advise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.17.166.110 ( talk) 10:25, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for the message, thanks for keeping an eye out! I'll try harder in the future to make constructive edits.
Ron — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.47.147.112 ( talk) 01:00, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi, RL0919. You recently have deleted article on Pinky Campbell could you help me if I rewrite article properly or restore the previous article with proper sources, I don't know why this article was deleted as she was an actress worked a lot of famous movies till 2012 in India until she moved to the USA so I can find only sources which are from 2012 when media was talking about her during that period. Krohitk ( talk) 04:19, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello. You deleted the previous versions of the image and then renamed it. However, I just found out recently and would like the file to be reverted back to the US commercial cassette please. I would also like to upload the CD single cover to be uploaded as a newer file. I plan to use both the US tape and the UK CD covers concurrently. George Ho ( talk) 22:40, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
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I want to ask you to reconsider the delete decision based on a majority of editors who do not think the policy reason to delete was correct. In addition the editor on the AfD who was tendentious in pushing the theory that you accepted has been blocked as a sock. I would ask you if you could either extend the AfD or use the WP:CONSENSUS or WP:NOCONSENSUS policies to guide a decision. Lightburst ( talk) 11:49, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
While I appreciate everyone's enthusiasm for the subject matter, my user talk page is not the appropriate place to discuss it beyond my actions as the closing admin for the AfD. -- RL0919 ( talk) 07:22, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
User:RobThomas15 has asked for a deletion review of List of stakes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 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. — Cryptic 02:19, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I am new to Wikipedia and looking to be a regular contributor in whatever way possible. However, my timing was almost perfect. I recently went to add to the article on Jay Schneiderman and found that only recently it had been discussed and deleted here.
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Jay_Schneiderman
I have since familiarized myself with the Wikipedia guidelines on notability and more and I am confident that what I was planning to do will be sufficient for it to remain as a standalone article. I was planning to update the content with recent material of regional significance, as well as add a significant number of reliable, independent, and secondary sources. This would include the replacement for the primary source hyperlink that has since be deactivated and cited as evidence for the proposed deletion.
More specifically, material will be submitted that will easily demonstrate that the article subject is a "major local political figure who has received significant press coverage" and who "meets the general notability guidelines" of Wikipedia.
Gracias, Señor Omnisciente ( talk) 15:58, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
Yes, thank you. that would be most appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Señor Omnisciente ( talk • contribs) 19:20, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
Thank you very much. I will get to work on it.
Update as of 9/25/19: Good morning. I'm sorry to bug you again about this, but I wasn't sure who else to inquire with. I submitted changes and rewrote this article via the UserSpace Draft you prepared for me. (Thank you again). I submitted on September 5. I know you said it "may take a few weeks if there is a backlog," so it being right at 3 weeks I thought I would check in with someone, even though it is being reviewed by another admin. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Señor Omnisciente ( talk • contribs) 15:01, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
Thank you, btw. I realized I hadn't responded. This is very helpful. It's my first one so I'm eager is all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Señor Omnisciente ( talk • contribs) 14:27, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
Regarding your close of this as keep. As I stated in the AfD, all the sources found are passing mentions. I asked for people to identify which sources provide the in-depth coverage required by WP:GNG but no one did. Could you let me know which "specific sources were surfaced to establish notability"? I don't see how the keep arguments outweigh the delete ones here. Thanks. ---- Pontificalibus 09:11, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
Hint hint 👌 —— SerialNumber 54129 05:48, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
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Thanks for the correction. 75.191.40.148 ( talk) 19:14, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
Hey Much Love as a friend, How are U? They forgot to add to Winnie Harlow 's Wikipedia page on the television part, that Winnie Harlow appeared on The Kim Kardashian episode of Jimmy Fallon, where they play the phone game, I'm watching it now. TelleyTell ( talk) 04:10, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
Look at this diff [1]. You misinterpreted the last name Guarente as a typo of Guarantee. I already fixed but please be more careful next time. TarkusAB talk/ contrib 17:55, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
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Hardly a big deal, but since your JWB edit summary is popping up all over the place with your name on it ( here's one), maybe you'd like to fix the spelling. Thanks for updating the CS1/2 params. Mathglot ( talk) 05:12, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
There's Monkbot 16 going through those already. I suggest letting the bot handle those to reduce watchlist cluttering. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 06:16, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
Musicals and musical theatre actors get the Musical Theatre project banner, not the Theatre project banner. -- Ssilvers ( talk) 03:09, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Games_with_ray_tracing I'd like to have it restored so I can then do a full history export and then import it at at the list wikia as I have other list articles that have been deleted. [2] Dream Focus 15:42, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
In this edit to Korean War, you changed several instances of "KPA" to "kPa"-- the proper capitalization for Kilopascal. While the Korean People's Army did try to exert pressure on the South, I changed these all back to "KPA". Can you check if you have other edits like this? Thanks. -- A D Monroe III( talk) 15:16, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
Greetings!
After a successful first iteration of the “Months of African Cinema” last year, we are happy to announce that it will be happening again this year, starting from October 1! In the 2018 edition of the contest, about 600 Wikipedia articles were created in at least 8 languages. There were also contributions to Wikidata and Wikimedia commons, which brought the total number of wikimedia pages created during the contest to over 1,000.
The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which have been dedicated to creating and improving content that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. Join us in this global edit-a-thon, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section.
On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing participants in the following manner:
For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).-- Jamie Tubers ( talk) 00:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
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focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.
I was about to make this comment when I got the edit conflict message.
"*Maybe keep. His performances in works are reviewed in the press ( [3]), [4]) and even in this journal article: "Adapting Australian novels for the stage: La Boite Theatre's versions of Last Drinks, Perfect Skin, and Johnno.", Joanne Tompkins, Australian Literary Studies, April, 2008, Vol.23(3), p.305(13). He was the main subject of this article in The Queensland Times and this article in The Daily Examiner. From the resume it looks like he was a resident artist at the Queensland Theatre Company which is a professional Australian theatre. There productions are regularly reviewed in the press, so there is bound to be more coverage behind the paywalls of newspaper websites in Queensland. It's a borderline call. I could see people making arguments either way."
This needs more time. Thanks. 4meter4 ( talk) 01:19, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Conaghan. -- ST47 ( talk) 01:54, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
I was kind of surprised you relisted the AfD for single sentence Rogers Bank since it had been fully one week with no objections. Since this so clearly lacks notability, can I possibly convince you to please just proceed with the deletion? It's also, I believe, already mentioned in Rogers Communications, and it would be nice to have just a clean deletion. No one would have a problem with this. Thanks. -- Doug Mehus ( talk) 05:28, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
User:習振英 has asked for a deletion review of Rupert Dover. 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. — Cryptic 05:02, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
Since you closed the AFD for List of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition monsters earlier today, I am letting you know that it was already been renominated for deletion. BOZ ( talk) 18:28, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
abide by WP:NOQUORUM in your AfD closes. ∯WBG converse 16:00, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
If a nomination has received few or no comments from any editor with no one opposing deletion, and the article hasn't been declined for proposed deletion in the past, the closing administrator should treat the XfD nomination as an expired PROD. Generally, this will result in soft deletion.
@ RL0919: There is a companion which contains these information and can be used for the article. Is it possible to restore it? I have the book, so I can help fixing the problems. Please forgive me if I used a wrong place to write it down. Regards, Bencemac ( talk) 18:07, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello! I was wondering if this strikes you as a correct WP:NAC? I've asked the closer to reverse it. ThatMontrealIP ( talk) 23:24, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi, this is my first time around the inner workings of Wikipedia so bare with me.
I'd like to ask that the article with the List of devices with video output over USB-C be restored. How should I go about doing that?
It was the only available list with that content online. And believe me I searched a lot for it. While most computers are easy enough to find out if they have alt-mode active over usb-c there was no other resource available with the smartphone section. Even if in the distant future the page becomes redundant, at the moment, it's a very niche function that very few devices have activated. It was important enough for me that I had it bookmarked (of course it's not something I check every-day) but it's quite important. Devices wikipedia page's rarely include that particular specification, even the manufacturer's pages many times don't mention it. Like the LG phones that got it from the latest major Android firmware update.
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You deleted "List of unused highways in Californa", why is this? This article is very informative. /info/en/?search=List_of_unused_highways_in_California — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:6C50:4E7F:C131:1482:86FD:26CA:C66B ( talk) 02:08, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
I know you're just following process but I find it sad that about ten people (judging by that delete history) who for the most part don't find such an uncontroversial matter to be interesting can completely obliterate the work of many, many more who do find it as such. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:6C50:4E7F:C131:1482:86FD:26CA:C66B ( talk) 05:17, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
It was not known to me that the article creator can vote on Afd, otherwise i did vote, I think you should give a relist of 7 days to make concensus, i also propose/request you to give me the article as draft if it will be deleted after relist of 7 days, so that I can rewrite the article changing the title as "Muhammad in the Hindu scriptures". Loves. Lazy-restless 05:32, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi. A heads-up that I've rolled back your conversion of content to a redirect; this piece was substantial enough that it needs to run through a standardized community deletion process (PROD or AfD) rather than being unilaterally put to the sword. I share your belief it is not gonna pass GNG, mind you; I only differ with the process used here. best, —tim //// Carrite ( talk) 19:51, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Rupert Dover. 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. SCP-2000 ( talk) 07:08, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
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Hi RL0919, this article has just been recreated at Besnik Sulaj after it was deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Besnik Sulaj. scope_creep Talk 13:58, 8 November 2019 (UTC) scope_creep Talk
Certainly didn't expect to see the list plopped in its entirety in the other article. Can I presume this was just for efficient resolution rather than something which should have any weight? Certainly when I said merge that's not what I meant. Pinging the other merge !votes: @ Squeamish Ossifrage, DarkGlow, and Ajf773:. My intention was for the notable examples (the actually notable ones rather than those in an article with "notable" in the title) to be included in the existing table, not to have two tables in the article... — Rhododendrites talk \\ 15:42, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
Hello RL, to clarify, is your no consensus closure with or without prejudice against speedy renomination? – Tera tix ₵ 05:12, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
Heya, sorry why did you delete the page that was written for our company Habito? It was just a basic page with a bit of company info and a description. Esavage123 ( talk) 16:00, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
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It seems like there's some overlap between the List of theater and entertainment venues in Washington, D.C. and the List of theaters in Washington, D.C. The former seems like it was intended as a list of venues whereas the latter contains (mostly) producing organizations. I'm not 100% sure what to do, but it seems like we ought to move the venues on the second list over to the first list, unless you think we should consolidate them both into a single list. -- GentlemanGhost (séance) 07:59, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
Hello RL0919. I am user vinlev
I am writing to ask if you are the editor that deleted my Firdaus Kharas page. I have done extensive editing on it during the past few days as per another editor's requests for more citations. Almost all have been viable and noteworthy citations from universities and major publications. So I am wondering what has gone wrong to make the Kharas entry deletable. Thank you for your attention. Vinlev — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vinlev ( talk • contribs) 19:27, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
I noticed that you recently closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Plasma weapon (2nd nomination) as redirect, but I feel that one point I raised in the discussion may have been overlooked by everyone (including during the closure). This article was not recreated in 2015; it was moved to this title after the original article at this title was deleted (and to my knowledge is still deleted – see the page history), so it is unsound to compare the two AfDs. Additionally, the nominator's rationale was not clear; concerns about WP:OR were valid, and I am not opposed specifically to creation of a redirect, but the original nomination read like WP:DINC. Could you please clarify here if this needs further attention, or consider reopening the AfD to hold a broader discussion? Thank you. ComplexRational ( talk) 15:58, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi. Would there be any way of retrieving the text of the defunct Jann of the Jungle articles, so that pertinent parts of it can be incorporated as a paragraph or so into Jungle Tales? Since Jungle Tales began as Jann of the Jungle, we need t least a sentence or two to describe the titular protagonist from when it was that series, as well as whatever background we had on its creation, as well as the GCD and related links. I'd hate to have to research/write all that from scratch. Thanks for any help. (I'm afraid I've been off Wikipedia for about 10 days.) -- Tenebrae ( talk) 17:52, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
Banbouk Music was deleted by you.Without any discussion or consensus. Please review your decision and restore my page. I want to improve it @ RLO917: Sourav tiwary ( talk) 12:18, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
Banbouk Music was deleted by you. It was nominated for deletion but there was no discussion or consensus. Please review your decision and restore my page. I want to improve it. @ RL0917: Sourav tiwary ( talk) 12:34, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
Thanks Sourav tiwary ( talk) 22:02, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, i noticed you closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Camp Interlaken with "delete" decision. Could you please provide a complete copy of the article with its edit history intact, to my userspace, i guess to User:Doncram/Camp Interlaken? I want to revisit this, in part due to existence of lots of sourcing available about it under "Camp Coniston" name, which I mentioned in the AFD but seems to have been ignored, in effect, by the way this AFD worked out. sincerely, -- Doncram ( talk) 13:29, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
You closed the MfD. Where has this been moved to? (I am also a little puzzled by the close, as it seemed to me that the nomination was based on ethnic considerations; I therefore intend to do all possible help in developing it into an article. ) DGG ( talk ) 20:31, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
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An editor has asked for a deletion review of List of stakes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 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. RobThomas15 ( talk) 13:20, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
Would you userfy Draft:Kissing Candice (band) to my userspace? The tv show of the same name clouds search results but I think the draft might be salvageable. — Godsy ( TALK CONT) 21:05, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
You missed Draft:OppzSec (Opposite Security Team) when you deleted the main draft. Just a FYI. Whispering( t) 19:58, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
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Happy 2019! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:15, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
Well, here's the first issue of the new year. Enjoy...
A hearty welcome to new arrivals to the portals department:
DannyS712 has created a user script prototype, User:DannyS712/Cat links, that can pull members from a category, a functionality we've been after since the project's revamp last Spring. Now, it's a matter of applying this technique to scripts that will place the items where needed, such as with a section starter script and/or portal builder script.
There have been some discussions at Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines.
DreamyJazz is working on a bot to place links to portals on root articles, category pages, and navigation footer templates.
Portal bugs are getting dealt with soon after they are reported.
Lots of wikignome activity (using Hotcat, etc.).
Keep up the good work. — The Transhumanist 09:34, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
Can you transfer the text and code of Steve Lee (artist) to my userspace? I want to work on the article -- Thats Just Great ( talk) 05:22, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I submitted an MfD for an IP user page and didn't respond in time before it was closed. I thought it would be better to discuss it here before considering a deletion review. Currently, the user page contains a suspected sock template that was posted some years ago for that IP and my previous username.
Regarding the MfD comments, as far as I can tell, there was no sock investigation, sock records, block log or other action besides the template posted on the IP user page. To provide some context, I believe the user page was originally created by another editor to post a sock template while we were discussing article content on the article talk page some years ago. That editor had an edit war with the IP editor at that article before our talk page discussion, and had started a new section about the edit disputes. I had jumped into the discussion after the IP editor had replied to the other editor. It seems the editor thought I was the same user as the IP, and after some contentious discussion, posted a suspected sock notice on the IP user page while not notifying me on my user talk page. It seems there was no follow up after the editor posted the sock template. Recently, I found the IP user page while preparing for a username move and requested a deletion shortly after the move. I do not edit from that IP and I believe the sock notice was added without good cause and unsubstantiated by the article's edit history. For privacy reasons, I submitted an MfD requesting that the IP user page to be blanked and deleted.
Would this be acceptable rationale for deleting the page? Thanks. 02:58, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
For a visually intensive portal, see Portal:Hummingbirds.
If you find any other portals that stand out, please send me the links so I can include them in the next issue. Thank you.
There are about 1100 portals left in the old style, with subpages and static excerpts. As those are very labor intensive to maintain (because their maintenance is manual), all those except the ones with active maintainers (about 100) are slated for upgrade = approximately 1000. We started with 1500, and so over a quarter of them have been processed so far. That's good, but at this rate, conversion will take another 3 years. So, some automation (AWB?) is in order. We just need to keep at it, and push down on the gas pedal a bit harder.
You can find the old-style portals with an insource search of "box portal skeleton".
Speaking of upgrades...
The following portals are listed in the header at the top of Wikipedia's Main Page, and get far more traffic than all other portals:
Of those, all but one have been revamped to an automated self-updating single-page design.
The remaining one, Portal:Mathematics has manual maintainers, and has been partially upgraded.
As these are our flagship fleet, they need to be kept in top-notch condition.
Check 'em out, and improve them if you can.
And be sure they are on your watchlist.
Keep 'em coming!
As you know, thousands of the new portals are orphans, that is, having no links to them from article space. For all practical purposes, that means they are not part of the encyclopedia yet, and readers will be unlikely to find them.
What is needed are links to these portals from the See also sections of the corresponding root articles.
Dreamy Jazz to the rescue...
Dreamy Jazz has created a bot to place the corresponding category link to the end of each portal (if it is missing), and place a link to each portal in the See also section of the corresponding root articles.
That bot, named User:Dreamy Jazz Bot, is currently in its trial period performing the above described edits!
To take a look at the edits it has made so far, see Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz_Bot.
It shouldn't be long before the bot is processing the entire set of new portals.
Good news indeed.
Way to go, Dreamy Jazz!
That's all I have to report this time around.
No doubt there will be more to tell soon.
Until then, — The Transhumanist 13:15, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello! Despite closing the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bangladeshi cricket team records as delete, the article hasn't been deleted. Jovanmilic97 ( talk) 13:27, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello RL0919 ! I saw on your profile that you are interested in theaters, writers and plays, so I thought that maybe you could help me by reviewing the article about Robin Hawdon? /info/en/?search=Draft:Robin_Hawdon
Thank you! NMGS19 ( talk) 20:09, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
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Here's a quicky status report:
But of course, there has been more going on than just that...
Dreamy Jazz Bot has been approved and is now up and running.
What it does is places missing links to orphaned portals. It places a link in the See also section of the corresponding root article, and it puts one at the top of the corresponding category page.
We have thousands of new portals that have yet to be added to the encyclopedia proper, just waiting to go live.
When they do go live, over the coming days or weeks, due to Dreamy Jazz Bot, it will be like an explosion of new portals on the scene. We should expect an increase in awareness and interest in the portals project. Perhaps even new participants.
Get ready...
Get set...
Go!
User:Emoteplump, a recent contributor to the portals project, was discovered to be a sockpuppet account of an indefinitely blocked user.
When that happens, admins endeavor to eradicate everything the editor contributed. This aftermath has left a wake of destruction throughout the portals department, again.
The following portals which have been speedy deleted, are in the process of being re-created. Please feel free to help to turn these blue again:
And the corresponding talk pages:
Until next time, — The Transhumanist 09:04, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Where we are at:
You 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 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/?title=User:Emoteplump&oldid=881568794#Additional_Portals_under_my_watch
We're at 5,705 portals and counting.
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.
There are 5 drives for portal development:
Let's take a closer look at these...
Portal 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.
The 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.
By 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:
Or "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.
See below...
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:
...portals that exist only as a probability function (algorithm) until you collapse the wave form by observing through the portal button (run the script), and disappear again after use...
Introducing...
Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals (see it's talk page).
...'til next time, — The Transhumanist 10:26, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello RL0: please restore all the Portal subpages you deleted via WP:CSD G6. Since there are now assessments as to whether the single-page or multi-page versions are better for the encyclopedia, the only way these assessments can proceed is if the subpages are restored. Thanks in advance, UnitedStatesian ( talk) 18:15, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
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Previous issue:
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All 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)
This 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.
At 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.
See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Proposal 1: Interim Topic-Ban on New Portals.
Keep on keepin' on. — The Transhumanist 10:24, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
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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 01:25, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
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Good evening,
The page entitled 'The Decent Rogues' has recently been deleted for reasons I fully understand looking through some of the protocols. However, I was just writing on the off-chance to see if it could be reinstated, for now at least. Typically, and the irony of the timing hasn't escaped my attention, it's just been picked-up for its first professional London performance. Obviously anything to help maintain its awareness in the public eye would be splendid, of which Wikipedia is a fine example (and especially since new British music theatre is such a rare and difficult thing to protect!)
I'll leave it entirely to your discretion but it you're okay with that, I'll buy you a pint at its West End opening night!
Regards and thanks,
Jo sabine ( talk) 21:43, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for your helpful reply. I’ll wait to hear from User:Explicit and we’ll go from there.
Very best wishes. Jo sabine ( talk) 06:21, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi RL0919, thank you for your contributions to the List of political philosophers talk page. I think we may be in need of arbitration. I don't know the protocols for doing that, however. Would you be able to step in as a third party? I added authors to the page with references meeting the criteria that you proposed as modified by Snowded. You asked for one source connecting the author in question with political philosophy. For instance, you stated: "Fortunately, your latest effort should help progress things. For example, the existence of a book like Barrett's Persons and Liberal Democracy seems like a pretty good indication that John Paul II could be included here. I can't speak for everyone who watches this list, but my suggestion would be to pick one solid source for each entry and include that as a reference." Snowded followed up by saying everyone should have two sources. Fair enough. I took this to be a consensus criteria since the active contributors all said their bit without any objections.
I proceeded to add authors providing more than the required number of citations. Now, Snowded has deleted the added authors as well as the reference section, stating he doesn't want references on the main page, but only in the talk page. He has also continued to not provide any alternative criteria for inclusion despite me asking for one multiple times. Polsky215 ( talk) 13:06, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
Dear RL0919, following the feedback and advice on my first article, I have finalized a completely revised draft for Rice Powell in my sandbox. You can find it here for review. As you will see, I have added new reliable sources to establish better notability and meet all of Wikipedia's guidelines. Your feedback is much appreciated! Thank you. -- Stefanie at FMC CorpCom ( talk) 15:55, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
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Hi RL0919, I'm currently looking to create a draft for Catz 'n Dogz (I have been working on the article in my Sandbox). As a previous version of this Draft was deleted by yourself, I wanted to check with you why this draft was deleted and whether there is a reason for me not to publish it ? I have checked WP:NMUSIC and believe that the artists are notable as they have released on an important indie label and have been placed in rotation on a national radio station, but please advise if you believe otherwise. Here is the page for the deletion discussion: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Catz 'n Dogz. (For full disclosure, I have a COI with this act, therefore I will be disclosing this in the talk page and submitting the draft to Articles for Creation rather than publishing it directly) Littletishtash ( talk) 13:17, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
So atypical request, but I keep thinking about this. On the first of March, you deleted per
this MFD. I was a bright young wikipedian and couldn't articulate my points well, but I knew something wasn't right with that MFD. None of the delete arguments were founded in policy. Someone cited
WP:NOTWEBHOST and
WP:NOTFORUM, like huh? We have too many Wikiprojecte already
-- Is that really a good reason? The nom cited a 3 year old
MFD discussion where half the participants (who are also both now blocked btw) voted to keep and no deletion rationale was even provided. I don't see why that was a reason to delete either.
So I have to ask... why did you close the MFD as delete? What was your own rationale if you can remember?
This seriously has bothered me for months. Cheers, – MJL ‐Talk‐ ☖ 04:06, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
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Thanks for your friendly and helpful approach to my formatting screwup. I've tried to leave the thing less of a mess. Hope it worked! Socsciedits ( talk) 00:36, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
Could you please undelete Category:Assyrian-Syriac wikipedia cooperation board per the outcome of this DRV? schetm ( talk) 01:16, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
All comments addressed, with sincere thanks. An excellent set of comments. Cassianto Talk 21:10, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi RL0919. The article on Loubna Bouarfa has recently been deleted after a discussion on notability. Sources of higher notability have since been added to the article, with multiple sources stating the same facts. As this is article is on a member of the EU High Level Expert on AI, which is a relatively new position (since June 2018), but their contribution to the European and global artificial intelligence policies are growing in influence and notability. This is the link of the discussion, /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Loubna_Bouarfa . Please reconsider and advise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.17.166.110 ( talk) 10:25, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for the message, thanks for keeping an eye out! I'll try harder in the future to make constructive edits.
Ron — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.47.147.112 ( talk) 01:00, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi, RL0919. You recently have deleted article on Pinky Campbell could you help me if I rewrite article properly or restore the previous article with proper sources, I don't know why this article was deleted as she was an actress worked a lot of famous movies till 2012 in India until she moved to the USA so I can find only sources which are from 2012 when media was talking about her during that period. Krohitk ( talk) 04:19, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello. You deleted the previous versions of the image and then renamed it. However, I just found out recently and would like the file to be reverted back to the US commercial cassette please. I would also like to upload the CD single cover to be uploaded as a newer file. I plan to use both the US tape and the UK CD covers concurrently. George Ho ( talk) 22:40, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
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I want to ask you to reconsider the delete decision based on a majority of editors who do not think the policy reason to delete was correct. In addition the editor on the AfD who was tendentious in pushing the theory that you accepted has been blocked as a sock. I would ask you if you could either extend the AfD or use the WP:CONSENSUS or WP:NOCONSENSUS policies to guide a decision. Lightburst ( talk) 11:49, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
While I appreciate everyone's enthusiasm for the subject matter, my user talk page is not the appropriate place to discuss it beyond my actions as the closing admin for the AfD. -- RL0919 ( talk) 07:22, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
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Hello, I am new to Wikipedia and looking to be a regular contributor in whatever way possible. However, my timing was almost perfect. I recently went to add to the article on Jay Schneiderman and found that only recently it had been discussed and deleted here.
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Jay_Schneiderman
I have since familiarized myself with the Wikipedia guidelines on notability and more and I am confident that what I was planning to do will be sufficient for it to remain as a standalone article. I was planning to update the content with recent material of regional significance, as well as add a significant number of reliable, independent, and secondary sources. This would include the replacement for the primary source hyperlink that has since be deactivated and cited as evidence for the proposed deletion.
More specifically, material will be submitted that will easily demonstrate that the article subject is a "major local political figure who has received significant press coverage" and who "meets the general notability guidelines" of Wikipedia.
Gracias, Señor Omnisciente ( talk) 15:58, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
Yes, thank you. that would be most appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Señor Omnisciente ( talk • contribs) 19:20, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
Thank you very much. I will get to work on it.
Update as of 9/25/19: Good morning. I'm sorry to bug you again about this, but I wasn't sure who else to inquire with. I submitted changes and rewrote this article via the UserSpace Draft you prepared for me. (Thank you again). I submitted on September 5. I know you said it "may take a few weeks if there is a backlog," so it being right at 3 weeks I thought I would check in with someone, even though it is being reviewed by another admin. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Señor Omnisciente ( talk • contribs) 15:01, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
Thank you, btw. I realized I hadn't responded. This is very helpful. It's my first one so I'm eager is all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Señor Omnisciente ( talk • contribs) 14:27, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
Regarding your close of this as keep. As I stated in the AfD, all the sources found are passing mentions. I asked for people to identify which sources provide the in-depth coverage required by WP:GNG but no one did. Could you let me know which "specific sources were surfaced to establish notability"? I don't see how the keep arguments outweigh the delete ones here. Thanks. ---- Pontificalibus 09:11, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
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Thanks for the correction. 75.191.40.148 ( talk) 19:14, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
Hey Much Love as a friend, How are U? They forgot to add to Winnie Harlow 's Wikipedia page on the television part, that Winnie Harlow appeared on The Kim Kardashian episode of Jimmy Fallon, where they play the phone game, I'm watching it now. TelleyTell ( talk) 04:10, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
Look at this diff [1]. You misinterpreted the last name Guarente as a typo of Guarantee. I already fixed but please be more careful next time. TarkusAB talk/ contrib 17:55, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
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Hardly a big deal, but since your JWB edit summary is popping up all over the place with your name on it ( here's one), maybe you'd like to fix the spelling. Thanks for updating the CS1/2 params. Mathglot ( talk) 05:12, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
There's Monkbot 16 going through those already. I suggest letting the bot handle those to reduce watchlist cluttering. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 06:16, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
Musicals and musical theatre actors get the Musical Theatre project banner, not the Theatre project banner. -- Ssilvers ( talk) 03:09, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Games_with_ray_tracing I'd like to have it restored so I can then do a full history export and then import it at at the list wikia as I have other list articles that have been deleted. [2] Dream Focus 15:42, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
In this edit to Korean War, you changed several instances of "KPA" to "kPa"-- the proper capitalization for Kilopascal. While the Korean People's Army did try to exert pressure on the South, I changed these all back to "KPA". Can you check if you have other edits like this? Thanks. -- A D Monroe III( talk) 15:16, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
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I was about to make this comment when I got the edit conflict message.
"*Maybe keep. His performances in works are reviewed in the press ( [3]), [4]) and even in this journal article: "Adapting Australian novels for the stage: La Boite Theatre's versions of Last Drinks, Perfect Skin, and Johnno.", Joanne Tompkins, Australian Literary Studies, April, 2008, Vol.23(3), p.305(13). He was the main subject of this article in The Queensland Times and this article in The Daily Examiner. From the resume it looks like he was a resident artist at the Queensland Theatre Company which is a professional Australian theatre. There productions are regularly reviewed in the press, so there is bound to be more coverage behind the paywalls of newspaper websites in Queensland. It's a borderline call. I could see people making arguments either way."
This needs more time. Thanks. 4meter4 ( talk) 01:19, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
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I was kind of surprised you relisted the AfD for single sentence Rogers Bank since it had been fully one week with no objections. Since this so clearly lacks notability, can I possibly convince you to please just proceed with the deletion? It's also, I believe, already mentioned in Rogers Communications, and it would be nice to have just a clean deletion. No one would have a problem with this. Thanks. -- Doug Mehus ( talk) 05:28, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
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Since you closed the AFD for List of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition monsters earlier today, I am letting you know that it was already been renominated for deletion. BOZ ( talk) 18:28, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
abide by WP:NOQUORUM in your AfD closes. ∯WBG converse 16:00, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
If a nomination has received few or no comments from any editor with no one opposing deletion, and the article hasn't been declined for proposed deletion in the past, the closing administrator should treat the XfD nomination as an expired PROD. Generally, this will result in soft deletion.
@ RL0919: There is a companion which contains these information and can be used for the article. Is it possible to restore it? I have the book, so I can help fixing the problems. Please forgive me if I used a wrong place to write it down. Regards, Bencemac ( talk) 18:07, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello! I was wondering if this strikes you as a correct WP:NAC? I've asked the closer to reverse it. ThatMontrealIP ( talk) 23:24, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi, this is my first time around the inner workings of Wikipedia so bare with me.
I'd like to ask that the article with the List of devices with video output over USB-C be restored. How should I go about doing that?
It was the only available list with that content online. And believe me I searched a lot for it. While most computers are easy enough to find out if they have alt-mode active over usb-c there was no other resource available with the smartphone section. Even if in the distant future the page becomes redundant, at the moment, it's a very niche function that very few devices have activated. It was important enough for me that I had it bookmarked (of course it's not something I check every-day) but it's quite important. Devices wikipedia page's rarely include that particular specification, even the manufacturer's pages many times don't mention it. Like the LG phones that got it from the latest major Android firmware update.
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You deleted "List of unused highways in Californa", why is this? This article is very informative. /info/en/?search=List_of_unused_highways_in_California — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:6C50:4E7F:C131:1482:86FD:26CA:C66B ( talk) 02:08, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
I know you're just following process but I find it sad that about ten people (judging by that delete history) who for the most part don't find such an uncontroversial matter to be interesting can completely obliterate the work of many, many more who do find it as such. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:6C50:4E7F:C131:1482:86FD:26CA:C66B ( talk) 05:17, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
It was not known to me that the article creator can vote on Afd, otherwise i did vote, I think you should give a relist of 7 days to make concensus, i also propose/request you to give me the article as draft if it will be deleted after relist of 7 days, so that I can rewrite the article changing the title as "Muhammad in the Hindu scriptures". Loves. Lazy-restless 05:32, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi. A heads-up that I've rolled back your conversion of content to a redirect; this piece was substantial enough that it needs to run through a standardized community deletion process (PROD or AfD) rather than being unilaterally put to the sword. I share your belief it is not gonna pass GNG, mind you; I only differ with the process used here. best, —tim //// Carrite ( talk) 19:51, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
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Hi RL0919, this article has just been recreated at Besnik Sulaj after it was deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Besnik Sulaj. scope_creep Talk 13:58, 8 November 2019 (UTC) scope_creep Talk
Certainly didn't expect to see the list plopped in its entirety in the other article. Can I presume this was just for efficient resolution rather than something which should have any weight? Certainly when I said merge that's not what I meant. Pinging the other merge !votes: @ Squeamish Ossifrage, DarkGlow, and Ajf773:. My intention was for the notable examples (the actually notable ones rather than those in an article with "notable" in the title) to be included in the existing table, not to have two tables in the article... — Rhododendrites talk \\ 15:42, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
Hello RL, to clarify, is your no consensus closure with or without prejudice against speedy renomination? – Tera tix ₵ 05:12, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
Heya, sorry why did you delete the page that was written for our company Habito? It was just a basic page with a bit of company info and a description. Esavage123 ( talk) 16:00, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
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It seems like there's some overlap between the List of theater and entertainment venues in Washington, D.C. and the List of theaters in Washington, D.C. The former seems like it was intended as a list of venues whereas the latter contains (mostly) producing organizations. I'm not 100% sure what to do, but it seems like we ought to move the venues on the second list over to the first list, unless you think we should consolidate them both into a single list. -- GentlemanGhost (séance) 07:59, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
Hello RL0919. I am user vinlev
I am writing to ask if you are the editor that deleted my Firdaus Kharas page. I have done extensive editing on it during the past few days as per another editor's requests for more citations. Almost all have been viable and noteworthy citations from universities and major publications. So I am wondering what has gone wrong to make the Kharas entry deletable. Thank you for your attention. Vinlev — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vinlev ( talk • contribs) 19:27, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
I noticed that you recently closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Plasma weapon (2nd nomination) as redirect, but I feel that one point I raised in the discussion may have been overlooked by everyone (including during the closure). This article was not recreated in 2015; it was moved to this title after the original article at this title was deleted (and to my knowledge is still deleted – see the page history), so it is unsound to compare the two AfDs. Additionally, the nominator's rationale was not clear; concerns about WP:OR were valid, and I am not opposed specifically to creation of a redirect, but the original nomination read like WP:DINC. Could you please clarify here if this needs further attention, or consider reopening the AfD to hold a broader discussion? Thank you. ComplexRational ( talk) 15:58, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi. Would there be any way of retrieving the text of the defunct Jann of the Jungle articles, so that pertinent parts of it can be incorporated as a paragraph or so into Jungle Tales? Since Jungle Tales began as Jann of the Jungle, we need t least a sentence or two to describe the titular protagonist from when it was that series, as well as whatever background we had on its creation, as well as the GCD and related links. I'd hate to have to research/write all that from scratch. Thanks for any help. (I'm afraid I've been off Wikipedia for about 10 days.) -- Tenebrae ( talk) 17:52, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
Banbouk Music was deleted by you.Without any discussion or consensus. Please review your decision and restore my page. I want to improve it @ RLO917: Sourav tiwary ( talk) 12:18, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
Banbouk Music was deleted by you. It was nominated for deletion but there was no discussion or consensus. Please review your decision and restore my page. I want to improve it. @ RL0917: Sourav tiwary ( talk) 12:34, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
Thanks Sourav tiwary ( talk) 22:02, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, i noticed you closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Camp Interlaken with "delete" decision. Could you please provide a complete copy of the article with its edit history intact, to my userspace, i guess to User:Doncram/Camp Interlaken? I want to revisit this, in part due to existence of lots of sourcing available about it under "Camp Coniston" name, which I mentioned in the AFD but seems to have been ignored, in effect, by the way this AFD worked out. sincerely, -- Doncram ( talk) 13:29, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
You closed the MfD. Where has this been moved to? (I am also a little puzzled by the close, as it seemed to me that the nomination was based on ethnic considerations; I therefore intend to do all possible help in developing it into an article. ) DGG ( talk ) 20:31, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
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