User talk:Venomous Sniper

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An invitation, for you...

You are cordially invited to join the WikiProject Portals.

We could sure use your help in making cool new portals.

And in finding the subjects that need portals.

To keep up to date with what is going on with portals, participants receive the project's newsletter on their talk pages.

To sign up, go here.

Hope to see you there.

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   13:06, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #024, 26 Dec 2018

Last issue, I mentioned there would be a flood, and so, here it is...

Portals status

We now have 4,620 portals.

And the race to pass 5,000 by year's end is on...

Can we make it?

The New Year, and the 5,001st portal, await.

( New portals are created with {{subst:Basic portal start page}} or {{subst:bpsp}} )

Evad is back!

After disappearing in mid-thread, Evad37 has returned from a longer than expected wikibreak.

Be sure to welcome him back.

Improved cropping is coming to Portal image banner

User:FR30799386 is working on making {{Portal image banner}} even better by enabling it to chop the top off an image as well as the bottom.

Many pictures aren't suitable for banners because they are too tall. Therefor, User:FR30799386 added cropping to this template, so that an editor could specify part of a picture to be used rather than the whole thing.

Upgrade of flagship portals is underway

Work has begun on upgrading Wikipedia's flagship portals (those listed at the top of the Main page).

So far, Portal:Geography, Portal:History, and Portal:Technology have been revamped. Of course, you are welcome to improve them further.

Work continues on the other five. Feel free to join in on the fun.

Spotting missing portals that are redirects

In place of many missing portals, there is a redirect that leads to "the next best topic", such as a parent topic.

Most of these were created before we had the tools to easily create portals (they used to take 6 hours or more to create, because it was all done manually). Rather than leave a portal link red, some editors thought it was best that those titles led somewhere.

The subjects that have sufficient coverage should have their own portals rather than a redirect to some other subject.

Unfortunately, being blue like all other live links, redirects are harder to spot than redlinks.

To spot redirects easily, you can make them all appear green.

Keep 'em coming!

And I'll see you next issue.

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   08:15, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

A page you started (Oh Yeon-seo filmography) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Oh Yeon-seo filmography.

I have just reviewed the page, as a part of our page curation process and note that:-

Thanks for helping with the NorthKoreaHater SPI BTW.

To reply, leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|Geartooth}}. And, don't forget to sign your reply with ~~~~ .

Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.

Geartooth ^{Friendship is Magic!} 08:57, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

@Geartooth: HAHA no problem!! ‑‑V.S.(C)(T) 09:13, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #025, 30 Dec 2018

We can now crop the tops of pics to make banners

Before, we could only cut off the bottom of pics.

User:FR30799386 has pulled it off, and made the upgrade to {{Portal image banner}}...

So, this:

Niagara falls, from the Canadian side

Becomes this:

Niagara falls, from the Canadian side

Here's the code for the above banner:

{{Portal image banner|File:American Falls from Canadian side in winter.jpg | [[Niagara falls]], from the Canadian side |maxheight=175px |overflow=Hidden|croptop=10}}

To see it employed in a portal, check out Portal:Niagara Falls.

About that end of the year goal...

We were racing against time to create 5,000 portals by the end of the year (just for the heck of it).

We made it. We've passed the 5,000 portals mark, with time to spare!

And the 5,000th portal is Portal:Major League Baseball, by Happypillsjr.

Congratulations!

What's next?

The 10,000th portal mark. But...

...there is plenty else to do in addition to building new portals:

1. The new portals need to be linked to from the encyclopedia.
2. On those portals about subjects that are not typically capitalized, the search parameters need to be refined/expanded, to maximize the chances of Did you know and In the news items being found and displayed.
3. A Recognized content section needs to be added to each portal that has a corresponding WikiProject.
4. Addition of a category on those portals that lack a subject category.
5. Implement the portal category system, adding the appropriate categories to each portal.
6. Upgrade, and complete (as per the tasks enumerated above), the old-style portals that are not regularly maintained, which have not been converted yet (about 1,100 of them).
7. Find and fix the remaining bugs in the underlying lua modules.
8. Build portal tools (scripts) to assist in the creation, development, and maintenance of portals.
9. Build a script to help build navbox footer templates, via the harvesting of categories, amongst other methods.
10. Update the portal building instructions.
11. Update the portal guideline.
12. Refine the programming of the portals to reduce their load time.
13. Design and develop the next generation of portals and portal components.

And whatever else you can dream up.

But most of all, have a...

Happy New Year!

Venomous Sniper, thank you for your contributions to the Portals Project, and have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year.

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   12:14, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

January 2019

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for running unapproved bot scripts.

Under the bot policy, all automated scripts must be approved by the Bot Approvals Group to ensure that they perform safe and useful functions without stressing system resources.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.   Swarm  {talk}  21:50, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Venomous Sniper (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

I am sorry for what I've done and those edits were done to make Wikipedia a better place with lesser programming errors. I promise that I will not have these kind of edits again. If this account really cannot be unblocked, do hope that I can have a fresh start as User:Streaky Porky Bacon. Thank you. ‑‑V.S.(C)(T) 14:26, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Decline reason:

I am declining your unblock request because it does not address the reason for your block, or because it is inadequate for other reasons. To be unblocked, you must convince the reviewing administrator(s) that

• the block is not necessary to prevent damage or disruption to Wikipedia, or
• the block is no longer necessary because you
  1. understand what you have been blocked for,
  2. will not continue to cause damage or disruption, and
  3. will make useful contributions instead.

Please read the guide to appealing blocks for more information. Yamla (talk) 14:32, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

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Note that you are not entitled to a fresh start until this account is unblocked. --Yamla (talk) 14:32, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

• This is now a CheckUser block.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:18, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

A page you started (Kino-Fot) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Kino-Fot.

I have just reviewed the page, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

The article should ideally include content about Kino-Fot's publication history and its legacy, as opposed to just three sections that describe the contents of three issues of the publication.

To reply, leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|Rosguill}}. And, don't forget to sign your reply with ~~~~ .

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_signed, Rosguill ^talk 22:14, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Portal:Airlines

Portal:Airlines, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Airlines and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Airlines during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Legacypac (talk) 03:59, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Portal:National anthems

Portal:National anthems, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:National anthems and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:National anthems during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Legacypac (talk) 04:00, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Portal:17th century

Portal:17th century, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:17th century and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:17th century during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Legacypac (talk) 04:02, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Portal:18th century

Portal:18th century, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:18th century and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:18th century during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Legacypac (talk) 04:03, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

File:Yoo Da-in 2016 photoshoot.jpg listed for discussion

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Category:Members of the Boston Club has been nominated for listification

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