User talk:Wumbolo

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IOI

I saw a notice that you had reverted my changes for the International Olympiad for Informatics page recently due to lack of a citation. There is no direct citation available for the change I made, but I am the leader of the USA team referenced by the prior text, and I was clarifying a statement that was written in a misleading way. The prior statement said "The US team leader decided not to travel to Iran". While technically correct, this is because one week before the event, the US team leader's visa had still been denied by Iran, so there was no feasible way to organize travel and the USA team therefore notified the Iranians that they would be unable to attend due to this reason. By saying simply that I decided not to travel to Iran, the information is presented as if there had been no interest in traveling to the IOI in Iran in the first place, which is misleading, as we had spent months working very hard to try and make sure we could make it to the event (and our Iranian counterparts had tried very hard to make this happen as well; I think they were just as frustrated by the visa issues). I changed the passage to say that we were unable to attend due to visa issues -- not wanting to go into substantially more detail due to USA/Iran politics being complicated, so a drawn-out discussion about a minor and potentially politically charged issue is not something that would be appropriate for a high-level page about the IOI. 71.14.107.110 (talk) 11:52, 12 April 2018 (UTC) Brian Dean, USA team leader

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March for our lives Portland

I was curious, do you see any reason why the Portland M4OL article should stay stand alone? It seems like the Albany one is going to get merged in with the patent article. Springee (talk) 22:19, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

@Springee: I don't know if the Portland one has continued coverage, but it does lack international references. wumbolo ^^^ 22:36, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Based on the references it doesn't. Also, what counts as continued coverage? We aren't one or two years out. The parent article has plenty of space for the content since perhaps 2/3rds of that article is an encyclopedicly questionable list of march locations. That information is already covered in a list article so it wouldn't be a loss to readers to simple go into that list article. I added a question about merging to the Portland article's talk page. I'll see what people say before progressing. Springee (talk) 22:45, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

• I've posted an AfD for the page. Here is the link [[1]]. Springee (talk) 01:59, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Blaire White

Hi! Just saw this edit over at Blaire White: [2] and wanted to clarify. Your edit summary says "citation equates feminists with sjw's, and antifeminism is already mentioned in the sentence earlier", but maybe we're not looking at the same source? I sourced this to the Newsweek article, which says "White has been able to win over right-leaning YouTube viewers by taking shots at the usual conservative targets: Feminists, "social justice warriors," the media and even other trans or gender-nonconforming people. Some of her videos include "There Are Only 2 Genders," "Fat Acceptance Is Stupid," "Special Snowflake Syndrome" and "World’s Youngest Trans Kid (WTF?)."" This lists social justice warriors separately from feminists, and doesn't mention the term elsewhere. GorillaWarfare (talk) 22:48, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

@GorillaWarfare: "Feminists, "social justice warriors,"" I understood that the source implied that White called feminists "social justice warriors" which seemed most likely to me. I reverted my edit now. wumbolo ^^^ 22:54, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Sounds good, thanks for double checking! It's definitely a little confusing with the lack of Oxford comma. GorillaWarfare (talk) 22:55, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

@GorillaWarfare: nah, that would be the logical quotemarks around "social justice warriors" and the trailing comma, not a lack of an Oxford comma, that has nothing to do with it. wumbolo ^^^ 23:05, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Arb GG or Arb MOS scope cover GENDERID?

@GorillaWarfare: Does the GamerGate Arb case or the Manual of Style Arb case cover issues related to MOS:GENDERID? I'm asking because, currently, articles on transgender people are under GG scope, according to their talk pages. I took a look at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/GamerGate and Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Article titles and capitalisation but am unsure. wumbolo ^^^ 12:25, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

In the Gamergate case, the ArbCom did authorize discretionary sanctions for "any gender-related dispute or controversy", if that's what you're asking. The case itself didn't involve much related to MOS:GENDERID specifically. I wasn't an arbitrator during the MoS case and I haven't read through the whole proceeding that closely, but none of the remedies specifically mention MOS:GENDERID. GorillaWarfare (talk) 17:58, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Parable of the Polygons

On 24 April 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Parable of the Polygons, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Parable of the Polygons (pictured), an interactive blog post based on game theory, shows that even a slight demand for diversity can reverse residential segregation? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Parable of the Polygons. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Parable of the Polygons), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:01, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Marlon Bundo

On 29 April 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Marlon Bundo, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a children's book illustrated by Gerald Kelley parodies another children's book written by Charlotte Pence about her pet rabbit Marlon Bundo (pictured) by portraying him as gay? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Marlon Bundo. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Marlon Bundo), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:02, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Charlotte Pence

On 29 April 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Charlotte Pence, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a children's book illustrated by Gerald Kelley parodies another children's book written by Charlotte Pence about her pet rabbit Marlon Bundo (pictured) by portraying him as gay? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Charlotte Pence. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Charlotte Pence), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:02, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Hah!

We did it! We got the bunny on the mainpage! Thanks for all your help. GMG^talk 13:08, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

@GreenMeansGo: You're welcome and thank YOU for your help! wumbolo ^^^ 13:10, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:R from dotless ISO 4

Template:R from dotless ISO 4 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 13:51, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update, 25 May 2018

We have grown to 79 members.

Please provide a warm welcome to our latest additions, Wpgbrown, Cactus.man, JLJ001, and Wumbolo.

A lot is going on, much of it on the WikiProject's talk page, so be sure to go there and join in on any of the many discussions taking place there.

Elsewhere around the portal project, or related to portals, the following is happening...

New news template ready for testing

Evad37 has created a new template, with supporting lua module, to handle news in portals...

{{Transclude selected current events}} is ready to be tested in some actual portals. Let Evad37 know if you need help with the search patterns.

Noyster commented that "This is the best portal innovation since sliced bread!"

See the relevant discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals#Alternative to Wikinews.

Thank you, Evad.

Coming soon: Automatic article alerts (but there is a glitch)

Our WikiProject is now subscribed to the bot that makes automatic article alerts, but the subpage where they are posted has not been added to our WikiProject page yet because of a weird problem...

Featured portal nominations from two years ago keep popping up on there.

Please check Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals/Article alerts to see if you can figure out how to fix this.

Once that is remedied, it will be posted on our WikiProject page.

Thank you.

Note that, this will only track base pages, because to track the rest, we'd have to create over 140,000 talk pages for the subpages, and that just isn't worthwhile (as we're trying to remove the subpages anyways). Therefore, any alerts for subpages will still need to be posted manually.

New portal, still needs work

• Portal:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, courtesy of Mozart834428196. See also, the discussion.

Drafting a new portals guideline

Your input/editing is welcome on the draft-in-progress of a new guideline for portals.

See or work on the draft at User:Cesdeva/sandbox11.

See also the discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines#RfC on new portal guidelines

RfC on new TOC layout for main portal list

There is a proposal to change the look of the table of contents at Portal:Contents/Portals.

See: Portal talk:Contents/Portals#RFC on layout update.

Deletion discussion survivors

Thank you to those who have participated in portal deletion discussions. There are still some editors out there who despise portals, and this comes across in their argumentation style. Wow. Such negativity. But, there is some good news...

• Portal:Quidditch survived its 2nd deletion nomination
• Portal:Prehistory of Antarctica did the same

Current deletion discussions are posted on our WikiProject page.

Portal space clean up

While portal detractors are trying to get rid of portals via MfD, we have deleted many of them via speedy deletion (per {{Db-p1}} or {{Db-p2}}). Essentially, they were bare skeletons, with maybe a little meat on them. The plus here is that speedy deletion is without prejudice to re-creating the portals. They can easily be restarted from scratch without getting approval, or be undeleted by request by someone willing to work on them. We have kept track of these, for when someone wants to rebuild them. They are listed at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet.

We are also removing subpages, the functions of which have been migrated to portal base pages. To see which ones have been removed, look for the redlinks in our watchlist.

There is also an MfD concerning some of these at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Redundant subpages of the Cornwall portal.

For subpages that need to be deleted, you can conveniently place this speedy deletion template at the top of each of them:

{{Db-g6|rationale=of subpage clean up – this subpage's function has been migrated to the portal base page and is no longer needed}}

Then an admin will come along and delete them.

Please help list the unlisted portals!

There are still 100 existing portals not yet presented on the main portal list at Portal:Contents/Portals. There were 400, so we've come a long way. Thank you! But we are not done yet...

Please list a couple of them. Every little bit helps. If each member of this project listed one more, it would almost all be done. Many hands make light work.

The list of missings, and instructions, are to be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet.

I hope to see you there!

Wrapping up

These developments make up just the tip of the iceberg. I'll have more to report in the next update, soon.    — The Transhumanist   00:37, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Whoa, I missed one...

There's an article about the Portals WikiProject in the new issue of Signpost:

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2018-05-24/WikiProject report

Enjoy.

P.S.: We now have 80 members. Evad37 just joined!    — The Transhumanist   01:40, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

New page reviewer granted

Hello Wumbolo. Your account has been added to the "New page reviewers" user group, allowing you to review new pages and mark them as patrolled, tag them for maintenance issues, or in some cases, tag them for deletion. The list of articles awaiting review is located at the New Pages Feed. New page reviewing is a vital function for policing the quality of the encylopedia; if you have not already done so, you must read the new tutorial at New Pages Review, the linked guides and essays, and fully understand the various deletion criteria. If you need more help or wish to discuss the process, please join or start a thread at page reviewer talk.

• URGENT: Please consider helping get the huge backlog down to a manageable number of pages as soon as possible.
• Be nice to new users - they are often not aware of doing anything wrong.
• You will frequently be asked by users to explain why their page is being deleted - be formal and polite in your approach to them too, even if they are not.
• Don't review a page if you are not sure what to do. Just leave it for another reviewer.
• Remember that quality is quintessential to good patrolling. Take your time to patrol each article, there is no rush. Use the message feature and offer basic advice.

The reviewer right does not change your status or how you can edit articles. If you no longer want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. In case of abuse or persistent inaccuracy of reviewing, the right can be revoked at any time by an administrator. Swarm ♠ 07:50, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

WikiGnome task...

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Add a missing Associated Wikimedia section

Even a single edit will help.

Thank you,    — The Transhumanist   21:31, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

WP:EXTRAORDINARY

Hi, trying to resolve your request for an additional source, and just wanted to check—is it the hundreds of thousands piece or the America piece that you're looking for additional cite(s) for? Or both? GorillaWarfare (talk) 22:15, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

@GorillaWarfare: the hundreds of thousands. wumbolo ^^^ 22:17, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #007, 31 May 2018

We have grown to 89 members.

This is the seventh issue of this newsletter. For previous issues, see our newsletter archive.

Welcome

A warm welcome to our nearly one dozen new members...

Our new members include:

• Evad37
• Checkingfax
• Grey Wanderer
• Voceditenore
• TestPAKISTAN
• Godsy
• Greatedits1
• Charlesdrakew
• Ww2censor
• Simon Burchell
• TheGridExe

Be sure to say "hi" and welcome them to the team.

The portal set has shrunk

There were 1515 portals, but now we have 1475, because we speedy deleted a bunch of incompleted portals that had been sitting around for ages, that were empty shells or had very little content. Because they were speedied, they can be rebuilt from scratch without acquiring approval from WP:DRV.

Maintenance runs on the portals set have begun

This is what we have been gearing up for: upgrading the portals en masse, using AWB.

More than half of the Associated Wikimedia sections have been converted to no longer use a subpage. This chore will probably be completed over the next week or two. Many thanks to the WikiGnome Squad, who have added an Associated Wikimedia section to the many geography-related portals that lacked one. The rest of the subjects await. :)

The next maintenance drive will be on the intro sections. Notices have gone out to the WikiProjects for which one or more portals fall within their subject scope. Once enough time has elapsed for them to respond (1 week), AWB processing of intro sections will begin.

Thank you, you

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your part in the RfC. I went back and reread much of it. I believe your enthusiasm played a major part in turning the tide on there. I'm proud of all of you.

Why reread that mess, you ask?

To harvest ideas, and to keep the problems that need to be fixed firmly in mind. But, also to keep in touch. See below...

Thank yous all around

I've contacted all of the other opposers of the RfC proposal to delete portals, to thank them for their support, and to assure them that their decision was not made in vain. I updated them on our activities, provided the link to the interviews about this project in the Signpost, pointed out our newsletter archive so they can keep up-to-date with what we are doing, and I invited them all to come and have a look-see at our operations (on our talk page).

Sockpuppet, and reverting his work

It so happened that one of our members was a sockpuppet: JLJ001. According to the admin who blocked him, he was a particularly tricky long term abuser. This is a weird situation, since the user was quite helpful. He will be missed.

This has been somewhat disruptive, because admins are doing routine deletions of the pages (portals, templates, etc.) he created, and reversion of his edits (I don't know if they will be reverting all of them). Please bear with them, as they are only doing what is best in the long run.

The following pages have been deleted by the admins so far, that I know of:

• Portal:Plymouth
• Portal:Bedfordshire
• Portal:Suffolk
• Portal:Norfolk
• User:JLJ001/tag
• Template:Non-standard portal flag
• Template:Portal flag

Automation so far, section by section...

• Intro – {{Transclude lead excerpt}}
• Selected article – {{Transclude random excerpt}}
• In the news – {{Transclude selected current events}}
• Associated Wikimedia – {{Wikimedia for portals|species=no|voy=no}}
• Categories – {{#tag:categorytree|{{PAGENAME}}}}

Automatic article alerts is up and running

Automatic article alerts are now featured on the project page.

Some super out-of-date entries kept showing up on there, so posting it on the Project page was delayed. Thanks to Evad37 and AfroThundr for providing solutions on this one. Evad37 adjusted the workflow settings per Wikipedia:Article alerts/Subscribing#Choosing workflows, to make sure only the appropriate page types show up. AfroThundr removed the tags from the old entries that caused them to keep showing up in the article alerts.

Other things that could use some automation

Noyster pointed out that it would be nice to automate the updating of the portals section at the Community bulletin board.

Another major component of the portal system is the main list of portals, at Portal:Contents/Portals. How would we go about automating the updating of that?

Please post your ideas on the WikiProject's talk page. Thank you.

Deletion discussion survivors

Keep in mind that we have already speedy deleted almost all of the nearly empty portals, which can be rebuilt without approval whenever it is convenient to do so. Other portals should be completed if at all possible rather than delete them through MfD (which requires approval from Deletion review to rebuild).

• Portal:Juanes – see the discussion

(Current deletion discussions are posted on our WikiProject page).

Portals needing repair

• Portal:Toys

Wrapping up

There's still more, but it will have to wait until next issue.

Until then, see ya around the project.    — The Transhumanist   12:04, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Article moved to draft space

Dear Wumbolo,

Greetings and congratulations on your New Page Reviewer status.

I am surprised by your decision to move the article on Ekhoni to draft space. I request you to reconsider the move. Here are my reasons.

• The article was assessed for Wikipedia:Film and found suitable for Start class.
• The film complies with GNG: one National Award and two other awards are proof enough
• There are enough references for a start-class article.

If you have specific doubts about any of the references, I will be glad to discuss them. Meanwhile I request you to restore the article, perhaps with a refimprove tag.

Thanks! Amuk (talk) 08:19, 1 June 2018 (UTC) Amuk (talk) 08:19, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

@Amuk: "Start" class and other classes are an assessment of an article's quality. Notability has nothing to do with quality, it is judged separately. The notability guideline we should look at here is WP:NFILM. The part about awards says: The film has received a major award for excellence in some aspect of filmmaking. The Indian National Film Awards barely qualify. The other awards are not so "major". Note that if a source fails some notability requirement, it is dismissed entirely. That's why only the National award contributes to notability (the other awards are not significant enough). Now, I would like a bit more, whether it is a reliable source discussing the film significantly, a full-length review by a nationally known critic, or any other aspect of WP:NFILM. Remember that awards have to be significant. Thanks, wumbolo ^^^ 12:30, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

• Thanks for the clarification. When you wrote:"does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published", it seemed to be a comment on the quality of the article. That's why I mentioned the assessment.

Now to the real issue. You feel the notability of the film is not established. I beg to differ. Some arguments:

• • The film did win a National Award.
  • A notable film personality, Aparna Sen, "cherishes" having worked in the film. This is one of the criteria mentioned in WP:NFILM.
  • Most importantly perhaps, the film introduced a collective protagonist, which, according to the cited scholarly source, changed the idea of the protagonist in cinema.

For these reasons, I request you to restore the article. I will continue to work on it to improve it, as I do with all articles I've created. Thanks!

Incidentally, I'd like to take you up on your remark that the Indian National Film Awards "barely qualify" as major awards, but we can keep that for another time. Cheers. Amuk (talk) 22:31, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

• @Amuk: thank you. Maybe some of it, like the protagonist bit, could be in the article lead. I will move it back to article space. wumbolo ^^^ 08:45, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
• Thanks! I'll work to improve the article. I really appreciate our civil and reasoned exchange. Amuk (talk) 16:47, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

Portal talk:Portals

Hi Wumbolo, Thanks for your request that I create the above talk page. I'm afraid that's rather redundant unfortunately. The page used to exist as the talk page of Portal :Portals which was moved to Portal:Contents/Portals on 6 December 2007 (creating a redirect). Portal talk:Portals, which was then orphaned, was itself moved to Portal talk:Contents/Portals also on 6 December 2007 (without creating a redirect), so it is pointless to now recreate it. I hope that makes sense. Cactus.man ✍ 17:59, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #008, 7 June 2018

The WikiProject now has 92 participants, including 16 admins.

Welcome

A warm welcome to the newest members of the team:

• Keith D
• RL0919

Be sure to say hi.

Congrats

Pbsouthwood has just gotten through the grueling RfA process to become a Wikipedia administrator. Be sure to congratulate him.

The reason he went for it was: "For some time I expect to be busy with subpage deletion for Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals as mentioned above. The amount of work is expected to keep me busy for some time. I am primarly a content creator and contributor to policy discussions, but would be willing to consider other admin work on request, providing that I feel that my involvement would be appropriate and not too far outside my comfort zone."

New feature: Picture slideshow

Picture slideshow

• 
  US Bank Tower
• 
  Sacramento Memorial Auditorium
• 
  Tower Bridge
• 
  Sacramento from near the Sacramento River
• 
  Capitol Mall, seen from the Capitol
• 
  Old Town Sacramento, the capital as it looked like in 19th century
• 
  Pocket Sacramento Canal
• 
  State Capitol Building

Evad37 has figured out a way to let the user flip through pictures without purging the page. Purging is awkward because there is an intermediary confirmation screen that you have to click on "yes". In the new picture slideshow section, all you have to do is click on the > to go to the next picture or < to instantly show the previous feature. The feature also shuffles the pictures when the page is initiated, so that they are shown in a different order each time the user visits the page (or purges it).

It is featured in Portal:Sacramento, California. Check it out to the right.

Keep in mind that the feature is a beta version. Please share your comments on how to refine this feature, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals#Refining the Picture slideshow.

The one-page portal has been achieved

We now have a one-page portal design. It isn't fully automated, nor is it even fully semi-automated, as there are still some manually filled-in areas. But it no longer requires any subpages in portal space, and that is a huge improvement. For example, Portal:Sacramento, California utilizes the one-page design concept. While is employs heavy use of templates, it does not have any subpages of its own.

I commend you for your teamwork

This is the most cooperative team I've ever seen. With a strong spirit of working together to get an important job done. Kudos to you.

In conclusion...

There's more. A lot more. But it will have to wait until next issue, but you don't have to wait. See what's going on at the WikiProject's talk page.    — The Transhumanist   02:13, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

• @The Transhumanist: you might want to use {{clear}} at the bottom of your message if it contains images etc. 😊 wumbolo ^^^ 20:49, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
  • Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   20:58, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

DRC

WP:DRC refers to users removing warnings from their own talk pages. Are you the same person who edits as Jane Chia? --bonadea contributions talk 20:37, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

@Bonadea: not editing as Jane Chia, but am the person who gave her the uw-delete and uw-test (diffs linked) warnings for the edit, for which she today got the uw-vandalism warning. You can argue that uw-delete and uw-test are not equal to uw-vandalism, but that is gaming the system. wumbolo ^^^ 20:46, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Removing comments

Regarding this revision of yours on User talk:Jane Chia, WP:DRC concerns comments on a user’s own talk page. That is not my talk page, and you are not me.

My warning was regarding other revisions, unrelated to the previous warning by Cabayi. See also WP:TPO, which concerns removing others’ comments. Interqwark ^{talk contribs} 23:44, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

@Interqwark: that's not what WP:DRC means, please read it. It concerns any comment left by other users. Moreover, Users who repeatedly restore the same comment to another user's talk page may be blocked for violating the three-revert rule or harassing another user, regardless of whether the talk page is for a registered editor or for an unregistered "anonymous" editor.

Your warning was regarding other revisions, but warnings are "stacked", so after giving a level-3 vandalism message for vandalizing a category, we would give a level-4 vandalism message for vandalizing an article. wumbolo ^^^ 09:38, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

It it what WP:DRC means. WP:DRC is about restoring comments that people remove from their own talk pages.

For instance, if I removed a comment that I or someone else posted on my own talk page, you wouldn’t be allowed to restore it, and if you repeatedly restored it, you could be blocked.

You repeatedly removed a comment that I posted, which doesn’t have anything to do with WP:DRC. Interqwark ^{talk contribs} 19:24, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

I removed your comment because it violated WP:DRC. It violated DRC because Jane Chia had already removed here warnings related to the edit you were warning her about. wumbolo ^^^ 20:46, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

AWB task requests, from the Portals WikiProject

1) Replace the intro box sections on portals with an upgrade. See details at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Tasks#AWB task: converting/upgrading intro sections.

2) Replace categories box sections on portals with an upgrade. See details at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Tasks#AWB task: Converting category sections.

Enjoy.    — The Transhumanist   08:09, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

WikiGnome task requests, from the Portals WikiProject

Here are some incremental tasks for you to consider. Do one, or many, as time allows. Every little bit helps...

Task #1

We're getting close to having the main portals list up-to-date, but we aren't quite there yet. There are about 75 portals not yet listed there.

Therefore the first task, of course, is to add as many of these as you can. They can be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet. Instructions are there.

Task #2

The second task on this wish list is to convert one selected picture section to a picture slideshow section. The template to use for this is {{Random slideshow}}. Here are some examples of portals with a picture slideshow section: Portal:Bangladesh, Portal:Sacramento, California, Portal:Algae, and Portal:Reference works.

Note that selected picture sections display pictures from subpages (one subpage per pic), and that each picture would need to be listed in the {{Random slideshow}} template.

Tip: Some portals have only a single picture covered in the selected picture section. Replacing their selected picture sections with a slideshow would be easiest. Eight or more pictures make a decent slide show. Search for pictures at Wikimedia Commons.

Have fun! Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   09:52, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello Wumbolo, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!

• As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
• Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar: . Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: , , , .
• Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

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Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 06:57, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #009, 15 June 2018

(Article slideshow prototype)
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  The cat (Felis catus), also referred to as domestic cat or house cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species of the family Felidae. Advances in archaeology and genetics have shown that the domestication of the cat occurred in the Near East around 7500 BC. It is commonly kept as a pet and farm cat, but also ranges freely as a feral cat avoiding human contact. Valued by humans for companionship and its ability to kill vermin, the cat's retractable claws are adapted to killing small prey like mice and rats. It has a strong, flexible body, quick reflexes, and sharp teeth, and its night vision and sense of smell are well developed. It is a social species, but a solitary hunter and a crepuscular predator. Cat communication includes vocalizations—including meowing, purring, trilling, hissing, growling, and grunting–as well as body language. It can hear sounds too faint or too high in frequency for human ears, such as those made by small mammals. It secretes and perceives pheromones.
  
  Female domestic cats can have kittens from spring to late autumn in temperate zones and throughout the year in equatorial regions, with litter sizes often ranging from two to five kittens. Domestic cats are bred and shown at events as registered pedigreed cats, a hobby known as cat fancy. Animal population control of cats may be achieved by spaying and neutering, but their proliferation and the abandonment of pets has resulted in large numbers of feral cats worldwide, contributing to the extinction of bird, mammal, and reptile species.
  
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  The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, close to Eohippus, into the large, single-toed animal of today. Humans began domesticating horses around 4000 BCE, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BCE. Horses in the subspecies caballus are domesticated, although some domesticated populations live in the wild as feral horses. These feral populations are not true wild horses, which are horses that never have been domesticated and historically linked to the megafauna category of species. There is an extensive, specialized vocabulary used to describe equine-related concepts, covering everything from anatomy to life stages, size, colors, markings, breeds, locomotion, and behavior.
  
  Horses are adapted to run, allowing them to quickly escape predators, and possess a good sense of balance and a strong fight-or-flight response. Related to this need to flee from predators in the wild is an unusual trait: horses are able to sleep both standing up and lying down, with younger horses tending to sleep significantly more than adults. Female horses, called mares, carry their young for approximately 11 months and a young horse, called a foal, can stand and run shortly following birth. Most domesticated horses begin training under a saddle or in a harness between the ages of two and four. They reach full adult development by age five, and have an average lifespan of between 25 and 30 years.
  
  Horse breeds are loosely divided into three categories based on general temperament: spirited "hot bloods" with speed and endurance; "cold bloods", such as draft horses and some ponies, suitable for slow, heavy work; and "warmbloods", developed from crosses between hot bloods and cold bloods, often focusing on creating breeds for specific riding purposes, particularly in Europe. There are more than 300 breeds of horse in the world today, developed for many different uses. (Full article...)
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  Mice are typically distinguished from rats by their size. Generally, when a muroid rodent is discovered, its common name includes the term mouse if it is smaller, or rat if it is larger. The common terms rat and mouse are not taxonomically specific. Typical mice are classified in the genus Mus, but the term mouse is not confined to members of Mus and can also apply to species from other genera such as the deer mouse (Peromyscus).
  
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  The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf. Also called the domestic dog, it was domesticated from an extinct population of wolves during the Late Pleistocene, over 14,000 years ago by hunter-gatherers, prior to the development of agriculture. The dog was the first species to be domesticated by humans. Experts estimate that due to their long association with humans, dogs have expanded to a large number of domestic individuals and gained the ability to thrive on a starch-rich diet that would be inadequate for other canids.
  
  The dog has been selectively bred over millennia for various behaviors, sensory capabilities, and physical attributes. Dog breeds vary widely in shape, size, and color. They have identical skeletal structures (with the exception of the tail and skull), powerful jaws that house around 42 teeth, and well-developed senses of smell, hearing and sight. They perform many roles for humans, such as hunting, herding, pulling loads, protection, assisting police and the military, companionship, therapy, and aiding disabled people. Communication in dogs include eye gaze, facial expression, vocalization, body posture (including movements of bodies and limbs), and gustatory communication (scents, pheromones, and taste). They mark their territories by urinating on them, which is more likely when entering a new environment. Over the millennia, dogs became uniquely adapted to human behavior, and the human–canine bond has been a topic of frequent study. This influence on human society has given them the sobriquet of "man's best friend".
  
  The dog is the most popular pet in the United States, present in 34–40% of households. In developed countries, around 20% of dogs are kept as pets, while 75% of the population in developing countries largely consists of feral and community dogs. As of 2020, the global dog population was estimated at 700 million to 1 billion. (Full article...)

Don't mind that box to the right. We'll be talking about that later, below.

Almost done...

With the portals upgrades?

No. :)

What is almost done is the updating of the main list of portals!

There are 23 portals left to be listed.

Kudos to the WikiGnome Squadron, for spearheading this.

Once it is fully updated, we need to keep it up to date. When you complete a portal, remember to add it to Portal:Contents/Portals.

Concerning portal upgrades, we are working on those section-by-section...

Associated Wikimedia section conversion task complete

The Associated Wikimedia sections of the entire set of portals have been upgraded. These are now handled on each portal base page (bypassing the previously used corresponding subpages), using the {{Wikimedia for portals}} template rather than reiterated copied/pasted code.

So, to be more accurate on reporting upgrade progress, that's one section down (for the whole set of portals), with (about) nine sections to go. (Skipping curated portals, regarding custom content sections, of course).

Further section conversions (using AWB)

Work is underway on converting Portals' introduction sections, and the categories sections.

If you would like to help, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Upgrade introduction sections and Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#AWB task: Convert category sections

Further section conversions (by hand)

Work has also started with converting selected picture sections to picture slideshow sections. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Install picture slideshows.

Quality rating system for portals under development

Currently, there is no quality rating for portals: in the Portals WikiProject box on each portals' talk page, it just says "Portal". But times are a changin'. Quality assessment is on the way, and you can help. See the discussion.

What's coming: excerpt slideshows

Evad37 has figured out a way to apply the picture slideshow feature to displaying article excerpts (now you can check out the provided box above). :) This allows us to bypass page purging to see the next selection, and you can even click through them rather quickly. Currently, the wikicode for doing this for article excerpts is a bit eye-boggling, and so we are looking into simplifying it. A streamlined version may be just around the corner.

Note that this is a prototype, not ready for widespread use. Click on the box in between the lesser than and greater than signs, to see what I mean. It was meant for pictures, and so the thumbnail feature doesn't apply to article prose very well. I've presented it even though it isn't ready, to show the direction portal development is heading. See the discussion.

Wow

I'm amazed at how rapidly portals are evolving. And we're still within a single generation of portal technological evolution. Imagine what they might be in 2 or 3 more generations of developments. Pretty soon, portals will be able to shake your hand. :)    — The Transhumanist   11:06, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

WikiGnome task request, from WikiProject Portals

Hi.

Portal:Tamil civilization could sure use a picture slideshow. See instructions at Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Install picture slideshows.

Please add as many pictures as you have time for. Even adding a single picture helps.

Thank you. Cheers,    — The Transhumanist   00:08, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

InfoWars as a conspiracy theory

I like your wording better, so I've left it alone. But I just wanted to drop a note that the original wording did not imply that InfoWars was a conspiracy theory. The lack of any punctuation such as a comma following the words "conspiracy theory" indicate that it is to be read along with the next clause "and fake news" as qualifiers of the actual description; "website".

But, as I said, the potential for confusion was stronger with the original wording, as I think is self-evident. I'm only mentioning this here because your userpage indicates that English is not your first language, and I thought it might be appreciated. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 16:52, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of SethBling

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article SethBling you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Epicgenius -- Epicgenius (talk) 19:01, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Topcoder Open AfD

While I understand your interpretation of the speedy keep criteria I object to your closure. There was an attempt to redirect and it was reverted (neither action by me) and so I brought it to a community place rather than spur any sort of edit war. I also did indicate that the topic itself is not notable having completed WP:BEFORE. I am attempting to honor alternatives to deletion by proposing the incorporation of content (as there is already a section about this at the destination article). Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 00:30, 22 June 2018 (UTC) @Barkeep49: you brought valid concerns, but merging should be discussed on the talk page, as AfD is called Articles for Deletion, and while redirecting can be discussed there, AfD is not for making redirects that must be left anyhow because of a merger. wumbolo ^^^ 00:35, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

I appreciate you saying that you brought valid concerns. So given that I'm curious how you interpret fails to advance any argument for deletion or redirection. I have made successful deletion arguments with far fewer than I advanced here and so I believe I did advance an argument for deletion. I'm not an expert on AfD closures so this is a genuine question as I attempt to improve my knowledge. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 01:15, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

@Barkeep49: I am no expert either; I just assumed the whole deletion rationale was actually just arguing for merging, since notability concerns are a valid reason for merging. Wouldn't hurt to ask an admin. wumbolo ^^^ 06:17, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

WT:WikiProject Fraternities and Sororities

What do you think about the wording now? -- Dolotta (talk) 18:57, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

@Dolotta: good, thank you. wumbolo ^^^ 19:01, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Your edits to List of YouTubers

Hi there. Just a headsup: I reverted you and made the edit myself to preserve edits in the meantime. For future reference, you can use the VisualEditor to manipulate and remove whole columns and rows of tables without having to edit the wikitext. Regards SoWhy 14:29, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

@SoWhy: but you removed a lot of other edits by reverting me. wumbolo ^^^ 16:01, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

How so? All I did was revert back to the revision before your edit. All edits up to that one were preserved. Regards SoWhy 16:40, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

@SoWhy: you effectively endorsed this edit which removed a bunch of edits. wumbolo ^^^ 17:29, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

I still don't follow. That edit is a month old. If you disagree with the entries added or removed, you can always challenge those individually (and by explicitly stating your reasons!) but your edit effectively undid all changes between May 26 and today when all there was consensus for was removing one column and not to remove the other entries added in the mean time or to undo the other changes. Regards SoWhy 17:48, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

@SoWhy: and your edit effectively removed all edits from May 9 to May 26. wumbolo ^^^ 17:51, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Ah, now I get what you mean. However, if one compares the revision you reverted to and my revision diff, we lost three entries and lost the arbitrary subdivision and gained two entries and a bunch of fixes as well as the removal of text that no longer belongs to the article. So it seems my edit was a bit better than reverting to Parkwell's and redoing it from there. That said, I'll check those three entries that were removed and re-add them if they were removed incorrectly. Thanks for pointing that out. Regards SoWhy 18:00, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Rescued two from the old revision. The third one was a redlink. As for the section headings, I don't think they are useful since there is a navbar on top and without the references editing the page is now easier again. Regards SoWhy 18:20, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #010, 30 June 2018

We've grown to 94 participants.

A warm welcome to dcljr and Kpgjhpjm.

Rating system for portals

We are in the process of developing a rating system specifically for portals, as the quality assessment scheme for articles does not apply to portals. It is coming along nicely. Your input would be very helpful. See the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/General#Proposed new quality class assessments.

Better than a barnstar

One of our participants got involved with this WikiProject through interest in how the new generation of portals would be handled in WP's MOS (Manual of Style). It didn't take long before he got sucked in deeper. This has given him an opportunity to look around, and so, he has made an assessment of this WikiProject's operations:

I'm quite frankly really impressed and inspired by what's happening here. If you'd asked me a year ago if I thought portals should just be scrapped as a failed, dragged-out experiment, I would have said "yes". This planning and the progress toward making it all practical is exemplary of the wiki spirit, in particular of a happy service-to-readers puppy properly wagging its technological and editorial tail instead of the other way around, and without "drama". It's also one of the few examples I've seen in a long time of a new wikiproject actually doing something useful and fomenting constructive activity (instead of acting as a barrier to participation, and a canvassing/ownership farm for PoV pushers). Kudos all around. — SMcCandlish

Congratulations, everyone. Keep up the great work.

Slideshow development

We've run into a glitch with slideshows: they don't work on mobile devices.

Initially, we will need to explore options that allow portals to have slideshows without adversely affecting mobile viewers. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design#Mobile view support.

Eventually, we may need another way to do slideshows. If we do go this route, and I don't see why we wouldn't, then (user configurable) automatic slideshows also become a possibility.

TemplateStyles RfC passed

Once implemented, this will allow editors to create and edit cascading style sheets for use with templates. This will expand what we can do with portals. For more detail, see mw:Extension:TemplateStyles and Wikipedia:TemplateStyles.

Automation effort

We've run into an obstacle using Lua-based selective transclusion: Lua is incapable (on Wikipedia) of reading in article names from categories. Because of this, we'll need to seek other approaches for fully automating the Selected article section. We are exploring sources other than categories, and other technologies besides Lua.

Speaking of using other sources, the template {{Transclude list item excerpt}} collects list items from a specified page, or from a section of that page, and transcludes the lead from a randomly selected link from that list. Courtesy of Certes. So, if you use this in a portal, and if the template specifies a page or section serviced by JL-Bot, you've now got yourself an automatically updated section in the portal. JL-Bot provides links to featured content and good articles, by subject.

What is "fully automated"? When you create a portal using a creation template, and the portal works thereafter without editor intervention, the portal is fully automated. That is, the portal is supported by features that fetch new content. If you have to add new article names every so often for it to display new content, then it is only semi-automated.

Currently, the Selected article section is semi-automated, because it requires that an editor supplies the names of the various articles for which excerpts are (automatically) displayed. For examples, look at the wikisource code of Portal:Reptiles, Portal:Ancient Tamil civilization, and Portal:Reference works.

So far, 3 sections are fully automatable: the introduction section, the categories section, and the Associated Wikimedia section.

Where is all this heading?

Henry.

Or some other name.

Eventually, the portal department will be a software program. And we won't have to do anything (unless we want to). Not even tell it what portals to create (unless we want to). It will just do it all (plus whatever else we want it to do). And we will of course give it good manners, and a name.

But, that is a few years off.

Until then, building portals is still (partially) up to us.    — The Transhumanist   13:34, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Drive Appreciation

		Special Edition New Page Patroller's Barnstar
		For completing over 100 reviews during the 2018 June Backlog Drive, please accept this Special Edition Barnstar. Thank you for helping out at New Page Patrol and keep up the good work. Cheers! — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 01:59, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Akhiljaxxn. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Vandana Menon, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

Akhiljaxxn (talk) 10:28, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Philip Delves Broughton

Thanks for reviewing the page. Philip Delves Broughton which parts do you think need more citations RonaldDuncan (talk) 12:03, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

@RonaldDuncan: The whole biography should be sourced (except the lead section, which should contain a minimal number of citations). In-line citations should be given at least once per paragraph, and should always be placed after quotes, statistics and contentious or controversial content. wumbolo ^^^ 13:22, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

@Wumbolo: Thanks, I have added Citations and removed the stub and citations templates RonaldDuncan (talk) 13:08, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Thanks for reviewing Kona Film Corporation, Wumbolo.

Unfortunately Domdeparis has just gone over this page again and unreviewed it. Their note is:

sorry but the sources are not strong enough to show this company meets WP:NCORP notably WP:CORPDEPTH

To reply, leave a comment on Domdeparis's talk page.

Dom from Paris (talk) 15:27, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Crisis actors?

What do you mean with the comment and edit summary here? -- BullRangifer (talk) PingMe 05:12, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

More info: Time’s crying girl photo controversy, explained. -- BullRangifer (talk) PingMe 05:20, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

@BullRangifer: Infowars, owned by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, singled out Time and CNN for using the “completely misleading” image to push “open border propaganda.” [3] wumbolo ^^^ 10:17, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

That is unsurprising, but InfoWars is not a RS. There were no "crisis actors", but a simple misunderstanding, for which a correction was issued. One could even argue that this was an exception that proves the rule, because in most of these situations, the child was indeed separated from the mother, usually without any method for reuniting them. There is also no attempt at "open borders", so that idea is itself a propaganda scare tactic from Jones and the right-wing. In spite of the misunderstanding, the cover still makes a powerful point about children being the victims of Trump's xenophobia. Stephen Miller was the architect of this horribly inhumane idea. I hope they are reunited with their parents or guardians soon. A sad situation. These children will be scarred for life and America's reputation is further damaged. -- BullRangifer (talk) PingMe 14:10, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

Stephen Miller is still there, unfortunately. Kim should've been a red flag (no pun intended) not a friend. wumbolo ^^^ 14:20, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

@BullRangifer: this is not an example of how ETPTR works. It's an example of the literal poster-child for separation-by-America NOT being separated by America. Rather the exact opposite, as the father says he did not consent to be separated from his daughter, and wants Yanla back with her 3 siblings in Honduras where he is a successful boating captain. ScratchMarshall (talk) 17:06, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

Change My Mind

Hey, I was thinking of merging this into the main article for Crowder. I do think that this is a bit premature to have as its own article, but I think that it would definitely do well as a subsection about Crowder's YT presence as a whole. What do you think? Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:32, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

@Shalor (Wiki Ed): you can vote "merge to Steven Crowder" in the AFD discussion. wumbolo ^^^ 14:39, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

• I try not to vote in class related AfDs, but I did make a post about my recommendation on the AfD page. It may be a little silly since I do try to do some cleanup on student articles, but I feel that the AfDs should be truly decided by someone uninvolved in scenarios like this, since I oversaw the students as part of my job. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:55, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

rename v split

I don't think there will be any success in renaming, there appears to be a group dedicated to brigading any vote to do so. I'm thinking a better approach may be simply, rather than moving to those names, to expand those redirects into distinct articles about the actual policy (neutrally worded, properly sourced) and then excise appropriate content from the so-called "separation policy" article to there. The distinct article about the actual policy will make it clearer why a future move about policy>effect is needed. So long as discussion of the zero-tolerance policy litters the discussion of migrant family separations it disguises the reasons why we should not title it policy. ScratchMarshall (talk) 17:03, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

@ScratchMarshall: things are constantly changing so I think we should wait until we know exactly when some specific policy started and when it ended. That way we can ensure that we don't have too many articles on short-term policies. wumbolo ^^^ 17:07, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

If we could find the technical name of whatever order was given (zero tolerance sounds like slang) and the date it was given, that could be a good basis for an article, agreed. Do you recall when reports started? ScratchMarshall (talk) 18:48, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

@ScratchMarshall: Zero tolerance is not slang, and it is the WP:COMMONNAME for the policy. wumbolo ^^^ 11:21, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

If ZT is not slang then we can find an official document with the words in it. It might be part of a longer official phrase. Whether it is an appreviation or a paraphrase, "zero tolerance policy" alone would be too vague for an official document, is my point. While I agree it is the common name for the policy, common names can definitely be slang shortenings of longer phrases. I'd like to know the earliest we can find this term used in association with these events and if it was part of a larger name. ScratchMarshall (talk) 18:27, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #011, 10 July 2018

We now have 97 participants.

Be sure to welcome our newest members, BrantleyIzMe, Coffeeandcrumbs, and Nolan Perry, with warm regards.

Work is proceeding apace. We have 2 major thrusts right now: converting the intro sections of portals, and building the components of the one-page automated model...

Converting the intro sections

We need everybody, except those building software components, to work on converting intros. If you have AWB, definitely use that. If not, then work on them manually. Even one a day, or as often as you can muster, will help a lot. There are only about 1,000 of them left to go, so if everyone chips in, it will go pretty quickly. Remember, there are 97 of us!

The intros for most of the portals starting with A through F have already been converted to use the {{Transclude lead excerpt}} template.

The standard wikicode for the automated intro that we want to put into place looks like this:

{{/box-header|Introduction|noedit=yes|}}
{{Transclude lead excerpt | {{PAGENAME}} | paragraphs=1-2 | files=1}}
{{Box-footer|[[{{PAGENAME}}|Read more...]]}}

That works for most portals, but not all. For some portals it requires some tweaking, and for others, we may have to use a different or more customized approach. Remember to visually inspect each portal you work on and make sure that it works before moving on to the next one.

Be sure to skip user-maintained portals. They are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Portals#Specific_portal_maintainers.

AWB tips

I've started an AWB tips page, for those of you feeling a bit overwhelmed by that power user tool. Feel free to add to it and/or improve it.

Portal automation

We have some very talented Lua programmers, who are pushing the limits of what we can do in gathering data from Wikipedia's various namespaces and presenting it in portals. Due to their efforts, Lua is powering the selective transclusion core of our emerging automated portal design, in the form of selected article sections that rotate content, and slideshows.

To go beyond Lua's limits, to take full advantage of Mediawiki's API, we are in the midst of adding another programming language to the resources we shall be making use of: JavaScript. The ways that JavaScript can help us edit portals to boost the power of our Lua solutions, are being explored, which will likely make the two languages synergistic if not symbiotic. Research is under way on how we can use JavaScript to make some of the portal semi-automated features fully automatically self-updating, in ways that Lua cannot. Like gathering random members from a category and inserting them into a portal's templates as parameters. Once the parameters are in place, Lua does the rest.

If you would like to get involved with design efforts, or just keep up on them, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design.

When should we start building new portals?

Well, not at the present time, because building portals is quite time consuming. The good news is that we are working on a design that will be fully automated, or as close to that as we can get. And the new design is being implemented in the portal department's main portal creation template. This means, that not only will portals update themselves, their creation will be highly automated as well. That's the nature of templates. You put them in place, and they just... work.

What I'm getting at here, is that it would be better to wait to build lots of new portals until after the new design is completed. Because with it, instead of taking hours to create a new portal, it will likely take minutes.

That does not mean we should be idle in the meantime. The main reason most of us are here is because it became apparent that portals were largely unmaintained and had grown out-of-date. This had become so apparent that a proposal was made to delete all the portals and the portal namespace to boot. That makes our main objective in the short term to improve all the existing portals so that the community will want to keep them—forever.

Building lots of new portals comes later. Let's fix up the ones we have first. ;)

And on that note, I bid you adieu. Until next newsletter, see ya 'round the WikiProject.    — The Transhumanist   12:33, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

@The Transhumanist: why don't we wait with transcluding element-by-element until the portals are fully automated so they can be updated in one edit? wumbolo ^^^ 14:42, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Good question. For a number of reasons: 1) The community needs to see progress on the portals themselves on an ongoing basis, lest we have another RfC. 2) It benefits the readers now, instead of later. 3) It provides a testing ground for the new features, with the current set of portals as the test subjects. When the automated components are done, and well tested, there will likely be an explosion of new portals. They may grow to as many as 10,000 in the year following the completion of the new model. The more testing before the free-for-all begins, the better. 4) Each section upgrade is rather complex in its own right. I did the Associated Wikimedia sections, and that was a bitch, requiring many adjustments and several passes with AWB. Doing all the sections at once would be even more complex and prone to error. 5) It could be months before the full automated design is completed. I hope I've answered your question to your satisfaction.    — The Transhumanist   00:41, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #012, 15 July 2018

We have 97 participants.

Getting faster

Automation makes things go faster, even portal creation. One of the components Certes made was {{Transclude list item excerpt}}. I became curious about its possible applications.

So I worked out a portal design using it, the initial prototypes being Portal:Kyoto (without a "Selected pictures" section), and Portal:Dubai (with a "Selected pictures" section). Then I used Portal:Dubai as the basis for further portals of this type...

I was able to revamp Portal:Munich from start to finish in less than 22 minutes.

Portal:Dresden took about 19 minutes.

Portal:Athens took less than 17 minutes.

Did Portal:Florence in about 13 minutes.

Portal:Stockholm also in about 13.

Portal:Palermo approx. 12 minutes.

Why?

To see, and to show, what may become feasible via automation.

It now looks highly feasible that we could get portal construction time down to a few minutes, or maybe even down to a few seconds.

The singularity is just around the corner. :)

Slideshows

When using the {{Random slideshow}} template to display pictures, be sure to use the plural tense in the section title: "Selected pictures". That's because slideshows don't show up on many mobile devices. Instead the whole set of pictures is shown, hence the section title "Selected pictures", as it fits both situations.

In case you are curious, here is a list of the portals so far that have a slideshow:

• Algae
• Amphibians
• Anatomy
• Ancient Tamil civilization
• Athens
• Bangladesh.
• Berkshire
• Birds
• Buckinghamshire
• Cenozoic
• Dresden
• Dubai
• East Sussex
• Fish
• Florence
• Florida

• Genocide
• Gilgit-Baltistan
• H. P. Lovecraft
• Hampshire
• Human body
• Humanism
• Isle of Wight
• Kent
• London transport
• Mammals
• Milan
• Munich
• Oxfordshire
• Palermo
• Prague
• Reference works
• Reptiles

• Sacramento
• Saint Petersburg
• Salem
• Scottish Islands
• South East England
• Stockholm
• Surrey
• Sydney
• Tamil People
• Telephones (empty – please add some pictures)
• Turin
• Underwater diving
• Vienna
• West Sussex

Progress on intro conversions

The intros for most of the portals up through the letter "O" have been converted, using this wikicode:

{{/box-header|Introduction|noedit=yes|}}
{{Transclude lead excerpt | {{PAGENAME}} | paragraphs=1-2 | files=1}}
{{Box-footer|[[{{PAGENAME}}|Read more...]]}}

Where the pagename didn't match the article title for the subject, the title was typed in.

Most of the portals that do not contain {{/intro}} or {{{{FULLPGENAME}}/Intro}} have not yet been processed.

About a thousand portals use the method of selective transclusion for the intro section. That's about two-thirds. That means we have one-third of the way to go on the intro section conversions.

Much more to come...

So much has been happening with portals that I can't keep up with it. (That's good). Which means, more in the upcoming issue. Until then, see ya 'round the project. Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   08:47, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

WikiGnome task requests from the Portals WikiProject

Here are some relatively minor tasks that are fairly repetitive, just the way you like '7em...

Add missing completed portals to Portal:Contents/Portals

Here are some new portals:

• Portal:Saint Petersburg
• Portal:Athens
• Portal:Dresden
• Portal:Florence
• Portal:Kyoto
• Portal:Palermo
• Portal:Stockholm
• Portal:Turin

Add panoramas

Here's a fun one, that really brightens up a page...

Add a panoramic pic to the top of geographic portals, such as cities, states, provinces, countries, regions, and continents.

Do one, here or there, as you feel like it. Do as many as you like. Every little bit helps.

Please do not add pics over 2 megabytes in size, as they can cause the portal scripts to time out, causing empty sections, or sections with error messages. Watch out, because some of those pictures are huge, like 12 megabytes or more. Less than one megabyte is best, if you can manage it.

Pictures can be found at commons:. Search strings that work well with the city name to find these are "skyline" or "panorama".

Geographic portals are listed in the Geography section of Portal:Contents/Portals. City portals are shown in parentheses.

Here is an example of the main template used to place panoramic pics:

{{wide image|Prague Panorama - Oct 2010.jpg|750px|align=center|border=no}}

Which looks like this:

Here are some examples of city portals with panoramas or panoramic skylines in their intro sections:

• Portal:Munich
• Portal:Prague
• Portal:Vienna

Have fun.    — The Transhumanist   02:17, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

noinclude !!

If you still think that Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/It's Alive! (card game) should be deleted, for goodness sake, bracket the speedy tag with <noinclude></noinclude>. Horrible sense of déjà vu - see this (where I have explained the problem in case you also do not understand). — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 21:52, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

The nominator was disruptive but I'm not sure the nomination was made for disruptive purposes; I wasn't sure of its notability and if asked would have probably recommended it for AFD although with the additional references I now oppose deletion. I'm not certain that it's a valid speedy keep but I won't take it to deletion review. Peter James (talk) 22:29, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

@Peter James: I was closely following the speedy keep criteria so I more or less ignored your comment as you didn't explicitly recommend deletion or redirection. Sorry if it caused any confusion. wumbolo ^^^ 22:38, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Other AfD

@Peter James: you contested my speedy deletion nomination of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/It's Alive! (card game) while Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Onision was deleted by RHaworth. Can you elaborate why? wumbolo ^^^ 22:16, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

I've replied above about the card game. I suspected the Onision AFD was more of a case of WP:IDONTLIKEIT, so potentially a G3 deletion although I don't think G5 applies as the nominator was not blocked at the time. Peter James (talk) 22:29, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

@RHaworth: would you please undelete Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Onision as the nominator was not blocked at the time? (thus failing G5) wumbolo ^^^ 22:38, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Non-admin closure of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Annie LeBlanc (entertainer)

Hi there,

I noticed you non-admin-closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Annie LeBlanc (entertainer). I stand by my deletion !vote on the article's discussion, and I noticed that the consensus was relatively undecided (including nom, 4 for delete, 4 for keep). Could I inquire some additional information as to why you felt the result of the discussion was keep? --HunterM267 ^talk 23:21, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

@Hunterm267: sure. I felt that the keep voters provided counter-arguments to delete voters more often than the other way around, and there were no new arguments for a couple of days. You cited WP:TOOSOON, which is an essay, without further elaborating on it; I assume it is obvious that you meant that it was too soon for the subject to have an article, but I don't think it's as simple as that. I judged that the consensus was that the article passes WP:MUSICBIO as multiple users said that it passed it. And most importantly, the keep voters provided other arguments, aside from WP:MUSICBIO, which weren't really responded to. wumbolo ^^^ 23:33, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for taking the time to provide me your reasoning and for discussing with me. I don't wish to contest the closure, and I understand your reasoning for doing so. Cheers, HunterM267 ^talk 17:33, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

You're welcome. wumbolo ^^^ 19:13, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #013, 18 July 2018

I got overwhelmed IRL (in real life) during the production of issue #12. So, here is a catch-up issue, to help bring you (and me) up to speed on what is happening with portals...

By the way, we still have 97 participants. (Tell all your friends about this WikiProject, and have them join!)

Panoramas!

One cool feature of some of the geographical portals is a panoramic picture at the top of the intro section.

Check these out:

• Portal:Kyoto
• Portal:Miami
• Portal:Seattle
• Portal:Houston
• Portal:Tokyo
• Portal:New Orleans
• Portal:Brisbane
• Portal:Calgary
• Portal:Moscow

The Portals WikiGnome squadron is busy adding panoramas to geographical portals that don't yet have one. Feel free to join in on the fun. See task details at Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Add a panorama or skyline to a geographic portal.

Caveat: avoid super-huge pics, as they can cause portal scripts to time-out. Please try to keep picture size down below 2 megabytes. Thank you.

Auto-populated slideshows

Speaking of pictures...

We now have two slideshow templates. You may be familiar with {{Random slideshow}}, in which the editor types in (or copies/pastes) a list of pictures he or she wants it to display.

Well, now we have another template, courtesy of Evad37, which accepts one or more page names instead, and displays a random image off of the listed pages. So instead of listing dozens of files by hand, you can include a title or three to be scanned automatically. It even lets you specify particular sections.

The new slideshow template is {{Transclude files as random slideshow}}.

Here's a sample, that grabs images from a single page:

Selected motorcycle or motorcycling pictures

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  Logo of the British Motorcyclists Federation (BMF) (from Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling)
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  Honda CB750 inline four, the first to be called a 'superbike', and the archetypal Universal Japanese Motorcycle (from Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling)
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  Lucius Copeland 1894 (from Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling)
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  A 1969 Harley-Davidson chopper, a replica of the 'Captain America' bike from Easy Rider (from Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling)
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  FIM Motocross World Championship, taking place at Mallory Park, England (from Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling)
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  Joey Dunlop on his Honda RC30 ready for the Senior TT (from Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling)
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  A 1954 Triumph T110 (from Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling)
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  Brough Superior SS 100 1925 (from Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling)
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  2015 BMW R1200RT Sport Touring Motorcycle (from Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling)
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  Honda Super Cub, the archetypal underbone and the world's best-selling motor vehicle (from Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling)
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  BMW's first motorcycle, the 1923-1925 R32 (from Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling)
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  Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (left) holding the handlebars of his 500 cc single cylinder Norton motorcycle (from Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling)

New Template:Box-header colour

Speaking of new templates, here's another one!

Also from Evad37, we have a new component for starting section boxes, that is color configurable, and that bypasses the need for box-header subpages altogether. It is {{Box-header colour}}.

For color support, see Web colors.

For the discussion in which this was inspired, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Tasks#Colour combinations for accessibility.

(In case you didn't notice, the slideshow box above uses this new template).

BTW, don't forget to close your box with {{Box-footer}}.

Where are we on the redesign?

The answer to this question is quite involved, and would fill this page to overflowing. Therefore, this subject, including a complete update on where we are at and where we are going with portal design, is covered at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design.

Where are we on portal conversion?

An AWB pass to convert intros on the portals has been completed. The pass couldn't convert them all (due to various formatting configurations, etc.).

All but about 170 portals now have introductions selectively transcluded on the base page. Not counting manually maintained portals, that leaves about 70 portals that either need their intros converted, or they need an intro.

Next, we'll be converting the categories sections!

What's the plan, man?

The course of action we have been taking goes something like this, with all steps being pursued simultaeneously...

1) Design a one-page automated portal model

2) Convert existing portals to that design (except those being manually maintained)

3) Remove subpages no longer needed

4) Develop further tools to empower editors working on portals

Later, when the tools are up to the task, filling in the gaps in coverage (with new portals) will also become practical.

Are we caught up yet?

Probably not.

Who knows what our programmers and editors have dreamed up while I was writing this.

See ya again soon,    — The Transhumanist   11:09, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of SethBling

The article SethBling you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:SethBling for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Epicgenius -- Epicgenius (talk) 20:21, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #014, 27 July 2018

Development of design continues, full speed ahead...

Excerpt slideshows are here!

Can you say "paradigm shift"?

Now, in addition to picture slideshows, we have slideshows that can display excerpts. Portals are not just for topic tasting anymore. Now they can be made useful for surveying Wikipedia's coverage of entire subjects. This gives a deeper meaning to their name. Hmmm. "Portals"... Doorways to knowledge.

Portal:Lithuania was redesigned using excerpt slideshows. Check it out.

For those of you who cannot wait to test out these new toys...

We have not one, but three excerpt slideshow components to pick from:

{{Transclude excerpts as random slideshow}}

For this one, you specify the page names where the excerpts are to be extracted from.

{{Transclude list item excerpts as random slideshow}}

This one accepts source pages from where the page names are gathered from list items. Then an excerpt from one of those pages is displayed. The selection of what is included in the slide show can be limited to a specific number from the collection (of the page names gathered), and that selection is renewed from scratch each time the page is purged.

For example, if you specify Template:World Heritage Sites in Spain as a source page, the slideshow will cycle through those sites. Now you don't have to type them in one-by-one. This greatly reduces portal creation time.

{{Transclude linked excerpts as random slideshow}}

Same as above, but gathers links instead of just linked list items.

Panoramic banners

{{Portal image banner}} displays a panoramic picture the width of the page, and adjusts its size, so it stays that way even if the user changes page view size. And it accepts multiple file names, so that the picture displayed randomizes between them each time the page is visited/purged.

Give resizing the page a try:

Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.

You can now balance section boxes

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Reptile types

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  Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus)

  
  Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. The term crocodile is sometimes used even more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes the alligators and caimans (family Alligatoridae), the gharial and false gharial (family Gavialidae) among other extinct taxa. (Full article...)
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  Aldabra giant tortoise
  (Aldabrachelys gigantea)

  
  Tortoises (/ˈtɔːrtəs.ɪz/ TOR-təs-iz) are reptiles of the family Testudinidae of the order Testudines (Latin for "tortoise"). Like other turtles, tortoises have a shell to protect from predation and other threats. The shell in tortoises is generally hard, and like other members of the suborder Cryptodira, they retract their necks and heads directly backward into the shell to protect them. (Full article...)
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  Male gharial

  
  The gharial (Gavialis gangeticus), also known as gavial or fish-eating crocodile, is a crocodilian in the family Gavialidae and among the longest of all living crocodilians. Mature females are 2.6 to 4.5 m (8 ft 6 in to 14 ft 9 in) long, and males 3 to 6 m (9 ft 10 in to 19 ft 8 in). Adult males have a distinct boss at the end of the snout, which resembles an earthenware pot known as a ghara, hence the name "gharial". The gharial is well adapted to catching fish because of its long, narrow snout and 110 sharp, interlocking teeth. (Full article...)
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  Yacare caiman, Caiman yacare

  
  A caiman (/ˈkeɪmən/ (also spelled cayman) from Taíno kaiman) is an alligatorid belonging to the subfamily Caimaninae, one of two primary lineages within the Alligatoridae family, the other being alligators. Caimans are native to Central and South America and inhabit marshes, swamps, lakes, and mangrove rivers. They have scaly skin and live a fairly nocturnal existence. They are relatively small-sized crocodilians with an average maximum weight of 6 to 40 kg (13 to 88 lb) depending on species, with the exception of the black caiman (Melanosuchus niger), which can grow more than 4 m (13 ft) in length and weigh in excess of 450 kg (1,000 Ib). The black caiman is the largest caiman species in the world and is found in the slow-moving rivers and lakes that surround the Amazon basin. The smallest species is the Cuvier's dwarf caiman (Paleosuchus palpebrosus), which grows to 1.2 to 1.5 m (3.9 to 4.9 ft) long. There are six different species of caiman found throughout the watery jungle habitats of Central and Southern America. The average length for most of the other caiman species is about 2 to 2.5 m (6.6 to 8.2 ft) long. (Full article...)
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  Northern tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus punctatus)

  
  The tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) is a species of reptile endemic to New Zealand. Despite its close resemblance to lizards, it is part of a distinct lineage, the order Rhynchocephalia. The name tuatara is derived from the Māori language and means "peaks on the back". (Full article...)
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  Clockwise from top left: veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus), rock monitor (Varanus albigularis), common blue-tongued skink (Tiliqua scincoides), Italian wall lizard (Podarcis sicula), giant leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus fimbriatus), and legless lizard (Anelytropsis papillosus)

  
  Lizard is the common name used for all squamate reptiles other than snakes (and to a lesser extent amphisbaenians), encompassing over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The grouping is paraphyletic as some lizards are more closely related to snakes than they are to other lizards. Lizards range in size from chameleons and geckos a few centimeters long to the 3-meter-long Komodo dragon. (Full article...)
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  Common box turtle

  
  Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines, characterized by a special shell developed mainly from their ribs. Modern turtles are divided into two major groups, the Pleurodira (side necked turtles) and Cryptodira (hidden necked turtles), which differ in the way the head retracts. There are 360 living and recently extinct species of turtles, including land-dwelling tortoises and freshwater terrapins. They are found on most continents, some islands and, in the case of sea turtles, much of the ocean. Like other amniotes (reptiles, birds, and mammals) they breathe air and do not lay eggs underwater, although many species live in or around water. (Full article...)
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  Blanus cinereus, Spain

  
  Amphisbaenia /æmfɪsˈbiːniə/ (called amphisbaenians or worm lizards) is a group of typically legless lizards, comprising over 200 extant species. Amphisbaenians are characterized by their long bodies, the reduction or loss of the limbs, and rudimentary eyes. As many species have a pink body and scales arranged in rings, they have a superficial resemblance to earthworms. While the genus Bipes retains forelimbs, all other genera are limbless. Phylogenetic studies suggest that they are nested within Lacertoidea, closely related to the lizard family Lacertidae. Amphisbaenians are widely distributed, occurring in North America, Europe, Africa, South America, Western Asia and the Caribbean. Most species are less than 6 inches (15 cm) long. (Full article...)
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  An American alligator (top) and a Chinese alligator

  
  An alligator, or colloquially gator, is a large reptile in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae of the order Crocodilia. The two extant species are the American alligator (A. mississippiensis) and the Chinese alligator (A. sinensis). Additionally, several extinct species of alligator are known from fossil remains. Alligators first appeared during the late Eocene epoch about 37 million years ago. (Full article...)
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  Corallus caninus

  
  Snakes are elongated, limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes (/sɜːrˈpɛntiːz/). Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads (cranial kinesis). To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have independently evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs at least twenty-five times via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. These resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, although this rule is not universal (see Amphisbaenia, Dibamidae, and Pygopodidae). (Full article...)

Amphibian types

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  Various types of frog

  
  A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek ἀνούρα, literally 'without tail'). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" Triadobatrachus is known from the Early Triassic of Madagascar (250 million years ago), but molecular clock dating suggests their split from other amphibians may extend further back to the Permian, 265 million years ago. Frogs are widely distributed, ranging from the tropics to subarctic regions, but the greatest concentration of species diversity is in tropical rainforest. Frogs account for around 88% of extant amphibian species. They are also one of the five most diverse vertebrate orders. Warty frog species tend to be called toads, but the distinction between frogs and toads is informal, not from taxonomy or evolutionary history.
  
  An adult frog has a stout body, protruding eyes, anteriorly-attached tongue, limbs folded underneath, and no tail (the tail of tailed frogs is an extension of the male cloaca). Frogs have glandular skin, with secretions ranging from distasteful to toxic. Their skin varies in colour from well-camouflaged dappled brown, grey and green to vivid patterns of bright red or yellow and black to show toxicity and ward off predators. Adult frogs live in fresh water and on dry land; some species are adapted for living underground or in trees.
  
  Frogs typically lay their eggs in the water. The eggs hatch into aquatic larvae called tadpoles that have tails and internal gills. They have highly specialised rasping mouth parts suitable for herbivorous, omnivorous or planktivorous diets. The life cycle is completed when they metamorphose into adults. A few species deposit eggs on land or bypass the tadpole stage. Adult frogs generally have a carnivorous diet consisting of small invertebrates, but omnivorous species exist and a few feed on plant matter. Frog skin has a rich microbiome which is important to their health. Frogs are extremely efficient at converting what they eat into body mass. They are an important food source for predators and part of the food web dynamics of many of the world's ecosystems. The skin is semi-permeable, making them susceptible to dehydration, so they either live in moist places or have special adaptations to deal with dry habitats. Frogs produce a wide range of vocalisations, particularly in their breeding season, and exhibit many different kinds of complex behaviors to attract mates, to fend off predators and to generally survive. (Full article...)
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  Spotted salamander, Ambystoma maculatum

  
  Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by their lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults. All ten extant salamander families are grouped together under the order Urodela from the group Caudata. Urodela is a scientific Latin term based on the Ancient Greek οὐρά δήλη: ourà dēlē "conspicuous tail". Caudata is the Latin for "tailed ones", from cauda: "tail".
  
  Salamander diversity is highest in eastern North America, especially in the Appalachian Mountains; most species are found in the Holarctic realm, with some species present in the Neotropical realm. Salamanders never have more than four toes on their front legs and five on their rear legs, but some species have fewer digits and others lack hind limbs. Their permeable skin usually makes them reliant on habitats in or near water or other cool, damp places. Some salamander species are fully aquatic throughout their lives, some take to the water intermittently, and others are entirely terrestrial as adults.
  
  This group of amphibians is capable of regenerating lost limbs as well as other damaged parts of their bodies. Researchers hope to reverse engineer the regenerative processes for potential human medical applications, such as brain and spinal cord injury treatment or preventing harmful scarring during heart surgery recovery. The remarkable ability of salamanders to regenerate is not just limited to limbs but extends to vital organs such as the heart, jaw, and parts of the spinal cord, showing their uniqueness compared to different types of vertebrates. ⁤⁤This ability is most remarkable for occurring without any type of scarring. ⁤⁤This has made salamanders an invaluable model organism in scientific research aimed at understanding and achieving regenerative processes for medical advancements in human and animal biology. (Full article...)
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  European fire-bellied toad (Bombina bombina), a member of the family Bombinatoridae

  
  Toad is a common name for certain frogs, especially of the family Bufonidae, that are characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and large bumps covering the parotoid glands.
  
  A distinction between frogs and toads is made in scientific taxonomy (see below). In popular culture (folk taxonomy), toads are associated with drier, rougher skin and more terrestrial habitats. (Full article...)
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  Oscaecilia ochrocephala (Caeciliidae)

  
  Caecilians (/sɪˈsɪliən/; New Latin for 'blind ones') are a group of limbless, vermiform (worm-shaped) or serpentine (snake-shaped) amphibians with small or sometimes nonexistent eyes. They mostly live hidden in soil or in streambeds, and this cryptic lifestyle renders caecilians among the least familiar amphibians. Modern caecilians live in the tropics of South and Central America, Africa, and southern Asia. Caecilians feed on small subterranean creatures such as earthworms. The body is cylindrical and often darkly coloured, and the skull is bullet-shaped and strongly built. Caecilian heads have several unique adaptations, including fused cranial and jaw bones, a two-part system of jaw muscles, and a chemosensory tentacle in front of the eye. The skin is slimy and bears ringlike markings or grooves and may contain scales.
  
  Modern caecilians are a clade, the order Gymnophiona /ˌdʒɪmnəˈfaɪənə/ (or Apoda /ˈæpədə/), one of the three living amphibian groups alongside Anura (frogs) and Urodela (salamanders). Gymnophiona is a crown group, encompassing all modern caecilians and all descendants of their last common ancestor. There are more than 220 living species of caecilian classified in 10 families. Gymnophionomorpha is a recently coined name for the corresponding total group which includes Gymnophiona as well as a few extinct stem-group caecilians (extinct amphibians whose closest living relatives are caecilians but are not descended from any caecilian). Some palaeontologists have used the name Gymnophiona for the total group and the old name Apoda for the crown group'. However, Apoda has other even older uses, including as the name of a genus of Butterfly making its use potentially confusing and best avoided. 'Gymnophiona' derives from the Greek words γυμνος / gymnos (Ancient Greek for 'naked') and οφις / ophis (Ancient Greek for 'snake'), as the caecilians were originally thought to be related to snakes and to lack scales.
  
  The study of caecilian evolution is complicated by their poor fossil record and specialized anatomy. Genetic evidence and some anatomical details (such as pedicellate teeth) support the idea that frogs, salamanders, and caecilians (collectively known as lissamphibians) are each others' closest relatives. Frogs and salamanders show many similarities to dissorophoids, a group of extinct amphibians in the order Temnospondyli. Caecilians are more controversial; many studies extend dissorophoid ancestry to caecilians. Some studies have instead argued that caecilians descend from extinct lepospondyl or stereospondyl amphibians, contradicting evidence for lissamphibian monophyly (common ancestry). Rare fossils of early gymnophionans such as Eocaecilia and Funcusvermis have helped to test the various conflicting hypotheses for the relationships between caecilians and other living and extinct amphibians. ('Full article...)

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Reptile types

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  Aldabra giant tortoise
  (Aldabrachelys gigantea)

  
  Tortoises (/ˈtɔːrtəs.ɪz/ TOR-təs-iz) are reptiles of the family Testudinidae of the order Testudines (Latin for "tortoise"). Like other turtles, tortoises have a shell to protect from predation and other threats. The shell in tortoises is generally hard, and like other members of the suborder Cryptodira, they retract their necks and heads directly backward into the shell to protect them. (Full article...)
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  An American alligator (top) and a Chinese alligator

  
  An alligator, or colloquially gator, is a large reptile in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae of the order Crocodilia. The two extant species are the American alligator (A. mississippiensis) and the Chinese alligator (A. sinensis). Additionally, several extinct species of alligator are known from fossil remains. Alligators first appeared during the late Eocene epoch about 37 million years ago. (Full article...)
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  Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus)

  
  Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. The term crocodile is sometimes used even more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes the alligators and caimans (family Alligatoridae), the gharial and false gharial (family Gavialidae) among other extinct taxa. (Full article...)
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  Clockwise from top left: veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus), rock monitor (Varanus albigularis), common blue-tongued skink (Tiliqua scincoides), Italian wall lizard (Podarcis sicula), giant leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus fimbriatus), and legless lizard (Anelytropsis papillosus)

  
  Lizard is the common name used for all squamate reptiles other than snakes (and to a lesser extent amphisbaenians), encompassing over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The grouping is paraphyletic as some lizards are more closely related to snakes than they are to other lizards. Lizards range in size from chameleons and geckos a few centimeters long to the 3-meter-long Komodo dragon. (Full article...)
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  Northern tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus punctatus)

  
  The tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) is a species of reptile endemic to New Zealand. Despite its close resemblance to lizards, it is part of a distinct lineage, the order Rhynchocephalia. The name tuatara is derived from the Māori language and means "peaks on the back". (Full article...)
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  Blanus cinereus, Spain

  
  Amphisbaenia /æmfɪsˈbiːniə/ (called amphisbaenians or worm lizards) is a group of typically legless lizards, comprising over 200 extant species. Amphisbaenians are characterized by their long bodies, the reduction or loss of the limbs, and rudimentary eyes. As many species have a pink body and scales arranged in rings, they have a superficial resemblance to earthworms. While the genus Bipes retains forelimbs, all other genera are limbless. Phylogenetic studies suggest that they are nested within Lacertoidea, closely related to the lizard family Lacertidae. Amphisbaenians are widely distributed, occurring in North America, Europe, Africa, South America, Western Asia and the Caribbean. Most species are less than 6 inches (15 cm) long. (Full article...)
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  Male gharial

  
  The gharial (Gavialis gangeticus), also known as gavial or fish-eating crocodile, is a crocodilian in the family Gavialidae and among the longest of all living crocodilians. Mature females are 2.6 to 4.5 m (8 ft 6 in to 14 ft 9 in) long, and males 3 to 6 m (9 ft 10 in to 19 ft 8 in). Adult males have a distinct boss at the end of the snout, which resembles an earthenware pot known as a ghara, hence the name "gharial". The gharial is well adapted to catching fish because of its long, narrow snout and 110 sharp, interlocking teeth. (Full article...)
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  Corallus caninus

  
  Snakes are elongated, limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes (/sɜːrˈpɛntiːz/). Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads (cranial kinesis). To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have independently evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs at least twenty-five times via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. These resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, although this rule is not universal (see Amphisbaenia, Dibamidae, and Pygopodidae). (Full article...)
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  Yacare caiman, Caiman yacare

  
  A caiman (/ˈkeɪmən/ (also spelled cayman) from Taíno kaiman) is an alligatorid belonging to the subfamily Caimaninae, one of two primary lineages within the Alligatoridae family, the other being alligators. Caimans are native to Central and South America and inhabit marshes, swamps, lakes, and mangrove rivers. They have scaly skin and live a fairly nocturnal existence. They are relatively small-sized crocodilians with an average maximum weight of 6 to 40 kg (13 to 88 lb) depending on species, with the exception of the black caiman (Melanosuchus niger), which can grow more than 4 m (13 ft) in length and weigh in excess of 450 kg (1,000 Ib). The black caiman is the largest caiman species in the world and is found in the slow-moving rivers and lakes that surround the Amazon basin. The smallest species is the Cuvier's dwarf caiman (Paleosuchus palpebrosus), which grows to 1.2 to 1.5 m (3.9 to 4.9 ft) long. There are six different species of caiman found throughout the watery jungle habitats of Central and Southern America. The average length for most of the other caiman species is about 2 to 2.5 m (6.6 to 8.2 ft) long. (Full article...)
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  Common box turtle

  
  Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines, characterized by a special shell developed mainly from their ribs. Modern turtles are divided into two major groups, the Pleurodira (side necked turtles) and Cryptodira (hidden necked turtles), which differ in the way the head retracts. There are 360 living and recently extinct species of turtles, including land-dwelling tortoises and freshwater terrapins. They are found on most continents, some islands and, in the case of sea turtles, much of the ocean. Like other amniotes (reptiles, birds, and mammals) they breathe air and do not lay eggs underwater, although many species live in or around water. (Full article...)

Amphibian types

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  Various types of frog

  
  A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek ἀνούρα, literally 'without tail'). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" Triadobatrachus is known from the Early Triassic of Madagascar (250 million years ago), but molecular clock dating suggests their split from other amphibians may extend further back to the Permian, 265 million years ago. Frogs are widely distributed, ranging from the tropics to subarctic regions, but the greatest concentration of species diversity is in tropical rainforest. Frogs account for around 88% of extant amphibian species. They are also one of the five most diverse vertebrate orders. Warty frog species tend to be called toads, but the distinction between frogs and toads is informal, not from taxonomy or evolutionary history.
  
  An adult frog has a stout body, protruding eyes, anteriorly-attached tongue, limbs folded underneath, and no tail (the tail of tailed frogs is an extension of the male cloaca). Frogs have glandular skin, with secretions ranging from distasteful to toxic. Their skin varies in colour from well-camouflaged dappled brown, grey and green to vivid patterns of bright red or yellow and black to show toxicity and ward off predators. Adult frogs live in fresh water and on dry land; some species are adapted for living underground or in trees.
  
  Frogs typically lay their eggs in the water. The eggs hatch into aquatic larvae called tadpoles that have tails and internal gills. They have highly specialised rasping mouth parts suitable for herbivorous, omnivorous or planktivorous diets. The life cycle is completed when they metamorphose into adults. A few species deposit eggs on land or bypass the tadpole stage. Adult frogs generally have a carnivorous diet consisting of small invertebrates, but omnivorous species exist and a few feed on plant matter. Frog skin has a rich microbiome which is important to their health. Frogs are extremely efficient at converting what they eat into body mass. They are an important food source for predators and part of the food web dynamics of many of the world's ecosystems. The skin is semi-permeable, making them susceptible to dehydration, so they either live in moist places or have special adaptations to deal with dry habitats. Frogs produce a wide range of vocalisations, particularly in their breeding season, and exhibit many different kinds of complex behaviors to attract mates, to fend off predators and to generally survive. (Full article...)
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  European fire-bellied toad (Bombina bombina), a member of the family Bombinatoridae

  
  Toad is a common name for certain frogs, especially of the family Bufonidae, that are characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and large bumps covering the parotoid glands.
  
  A distinction between frogs and toads is made in scientific taxonomy (see below). In popular culture (folk taxonomy), toads are associated with drier, rougher skin and more terrestrial habitats. (Full article...)
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  Spotted salamander, Ambystoma maculatum

  
  Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by their lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults. All ten extant salamander families are grouped together under the order Urodela from the group Caudata. Urodela is a scientific Latin term based on the Ancient Greek οὐρά δήλη: ourà dēlē "conspicuous tail". Caudata is the Latin for "tailed ones", from cauda: "tail".
  
  Salamander diversity is highest in eastern North America, especially in the Appalachian Mountains; most species are found in the Holarctic realm, with some species present in the Neotropical realm. Salamanders never have more than four toes on their front legs and five on their rear legs, but some species have fewer digits and others lack hind limbs. Their permeable skin usually makes them reliant on habitats in or near water or other cool, damp places. Some salamander species are fully aquatic throughout their lives, some take to the water intermittently, and others are entirely terrestrial as adults.
  
  This group of amphibians is capable of regenerating lost limbs as well as other damaged parts of their bodies. Researchers hope to reverse engineer the regenerative processes for potential human medical applications, such as brain and spinal cord injury treatment or preventing harmful scarring during heart surgery recovery. The remarkable ability of salamanders to regenerate is not just limited to limbs but extends to vital organs such as the heart, jaw, and parts of the spinal cord, showing their uniqueness compared to different types of vertebrates. ⁤⁤This ability is most remarkable for occurring without any type of scarring. ⁤⁤This has made salamanders an invaluable model organism in scientific research aimed at understanding and achieving regenerative processes for medical advancements in human and animal biology. (Full article...)
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  Oscaecilia ochrocephala (Caeciliidae)

  
  Caecilians (/sɪˈsɪliən/; New Latin for 'blind ones') are a group of limbless, vermiform (worm-shaped) or serpentine (snake-shaped) amphibians with small or sometimes nonexistent eyes. They mostly live hidden in soil or in streambeds, and this cryptic lifestyle renders caecilians among the least familiar amphibians. Modern caecilians live in the tropics of South and Central America, Africa, and southern Asia. Caecilians feed on small subterranean creatures such as earthworms. The body is cylindrical and often darkly coloured, and the skull is bullet-shaped and strongly built. Caecilian heads have several unique adaptations, including fused cranial and jaw bones, a two-part system of jaw muscles, and a chemosensory tentacle in front of the eye. The skin is slimy and bears ringlike markings or grooves and may contain scales.
  
  Modern caecilians are a clade, the order Gymnophiona /ˌdʒɪmnəˈfaɪənə/ (or Apoda /ˈæpədə/), one of the three living amphibian groups alongside Anura (frogs) and Urodela (salamanders). Gymnophiona is a crown group, encompassing all modern caecilians and all descendants of their last common ancestor. There are more than 220 living species of caecilian classified in 10 families. Gymnophionomorpha is a recently coined name for the corresponding total group which includes Gymnophiona as well as a few extinct stem-group caecilians (extinct amphibians whose closest living relatives are caecilians but are not descended from any caecilian). Some palaeontologists have used the name Gymnophiona for the total group and the old name Apoda for the crown group'. However, Apoda has other even older uses, including as the name of a genus of Butterfly making its use potentially confusing and best avoided. 'Gymnophiona' derives from the Greek words γυμνος / gymnos (Ancient Greek for 'naked') and οφις / ophis (Ancient Greek for 'snake'), as the caecilians were originally thought to be related to snakes and to lack scales.
  
  The study of caecilian evolution is complicated by their poor fossil record and specialized anatomy. Genetic evidence and some anatomical details (such as pedicellate teeth) support the idea that frogs, salamanders, and caecilians (collectively known as lissamphibians) are each others' closest relatives. Frogs and salamanders show many similarities to dissorophoids, a group of extinct amphibians in the order Temnospondyli. Caecilians are more controversial; many studies extend dissorophoid ancestry to caecilians. Some studies have instead argued that caecilians descend from extinct lepospondyl or stereospondyl amphibians, contradicting evidence for lissamphibian monophyly (common ancestry). Rare fossils of early gymnophionans such as Eocaecilia and Funcusvermis have helped to test the various conflicting hypotheses for the relationships between caecilians and other living and extinct amphibians. ('Full article...)

Notice how the box bottoms line up. That readjusts even if you click the slideshow buttons.

The template used for this is {{Flex columns}}.

By the way, when you include more than one box in a column, any left over whitespace in that column is divided between them.

Box-header colour

You may have noticed the new {{Box-header colour}} template used above. It lets you pick the color locally (right on the same page). Before, this was handled on a subpage somewhere.

Testing, testing

Now that we have lots of toys to play with for making cool portals...

Don't forget, that the majority of views of Wikipedia these days are from mobile devices. We need to make certain that portals display well on those. So, remember to check your work on portals in mobile view mode...

To see a portal in mobile view mode, insert a ".m" into a portal's url, after "en", like this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Reptile

If you discover problems in a portal you can't fix, report them on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design.

Until next time...

Have fun.    — The Transhumanist   01:01, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. ()

Hello Wumbolo, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

New technology, new rules

• New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
• Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
• Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.

Editathons

• Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

The Signpost

• The next issue of the monthly magazine will be out soon. The newspaper is an excellent way to stay up to date with news and new developments between our newsletters. If you have special messages to be published, or if you would like to submit an article (one about NPR perhaps?), don't hesitate to contact the editorial team here.

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Portals WikiProject update #015, 31 July 2018

Now that we have lots of toys to play with, it's play time!

Here are some fun activities to use our new toys on...

Fun activity #1: put the improved panorama template to use

Would you like to travel around the world? Well, this may be the next best thing...

Here's another fun toy to play with: {{Portal image banner}}

To see what it looks like, check out the panoramas at the tops of the following portals:

• Portal:India
• Portal:Melbourne
• Portal:Perth
• Portal:Monaco
• Portal:South Sudan
• Portal:Thiruvananthapuram
• Portal:Lithuania
• Portal:Brisbane
• Portal:Abu Dhabi
• Portal:Athens
• Portal:Barcelona
• Portal:Calgary
• Portal:Dhaka
• Portal:Dresden
• Portal:Edinburgh
• Portal:Florence
• Portal:Houston
• Portal:Miami
• Portal:Milan
• Portal:Moscow
• Portal:Munich
• Portal:Seattle
• Portal:Stockholm
• Portal:Turin
• Portal:Bermuda

The task: There are many geography portals that lack panoramas. Please add some. Please keep the file size down below 2 megabytes, and keep in mind that you may find quality banners at commons: at less than 200K (.2 megabytes). Good search terms to include with the place name are "banner", "cityscape", "skyline", "panorama", "landscape", etc.

Related task: There are also lots of geography portals that have panoramas used as gaudy banners (with print or icons splattered across them) or that display them in some random location on the page. In many cases, those pages would be improved by displaying the panorama as a clean picture at the top of the intro section, like on the examples above. This works best with banner-like panoramas. Please fix such pages when you come across them, if you believe it would improve the look of the page.

Taller images might be better suited displayed further down the page, or in the "Selected images" section.

Note that {{Portal image banner}} supports multiple images, and displays one at random upon the first visit, and each time the page is purged.

Fun activity #2: install "Selected images" sections

That is, image slideshows!

Over 200 have been installed so far. Just 1200 to go. (Be sure not to install them on portals with active maintainers, unless they want you to).

The title "Selected images" reflects the fact that not all images on Wikipedia are pictures, and encompasses maps, graphs, diagrams, sketches, paintings, pictures, and so on.

The toys we have to work with for this are:

{{Random slideshow}}

and

{{Transclude files as random slideshow}}

The task: Using one of the above templates directly on a portal's base page, replace static "Selected picture" sections, with a section like one of these:

Selected images

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  Koi are ornamental domesticated varieties of the common carp Cyprinus carpio, originated from China and widely spread in Japan. They are very closely related to goldfish. The word "koi" comes from Japanese meaning "carp".
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  The red lionfish (Pterois volitans) is a venomous coral reef fish from the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. The red lionfish is also found off the east coast of the United States, and was likely first introduced off the Florida coast in the early to mid 1990s.
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  A discus (Symphysodon discus) is guarding its eggs. As for most cichlids, brood care is highly developed with both the parents caring for the young. Additionally, adult discus produce a secretion through their skin, off which the larvae live during their first few days.
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  Salmon fry hatching (Salmo salar) - the larva has grown around the remains of the yolk - visible are the arteries spinning around the yolk and little oildrops, also the gut, the spine, the main caudal blood vessel, the bladder and the arcs of the gills.

Selected images

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  Antarctic beech old growth in Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia (from Old-growth forest)
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  A Russian firefighter extinguishing a wildfire (from Wildfire)
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  First-growth or virgin forest near Mount Rainier, 1914 (from Old-growth forest)
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  Globosa, a cultivar of Pinus sylvestris, a northern European species, in the North American Red Butte Garden (from Conifer)
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  2003 Canberra bushfires, visible from Parliament House (from Wildfire)
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  Old-growth red cedar stump near Port Renfrew, British Columbia (from Old-growth forest)
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  Old-growth forest in the Opal Creek Wilderness, a wilderness area located in the Willamette National Forest in the U.S. state of Oregon, on the border of Mount Hood National Forest. It has the largest uncut watershed in Oregon. (from Old-growth forest)
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  The 2020 Córdoba wildfires imaged by NASA's FIRMS (from Wildfire)
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  The narrow conical shape of northern conifers, and their downward-drooping limbs, help them shed snow. (from Conifer)
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  Smoke from the 2020 California wildfires settles over San Francisco (from Wildfire)
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  Forest fires visible from a distance in Dajti National Park, Tirana, Albania (from Wildfire)
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  Tāne Mahuta, the biggest kauri (Agathis australis) tree alive, in the Waipoua Forest of the Northland Region of New Zealand. (from Conifer)
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  Redwood tree in northern California redwood forest: According to the National Park Service, "96 percent of the original old-growth coast redwoods have been logged." (from Old-growth forest)
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  Wildland firefighter working a brush fire in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, US (from Wildfire)
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  Fungus Climacocystis borealis on a tree stump in the Białowieża Forest, one of the last largely intact primeval forests in Central Europe (from Old-growth forest)
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  Pinaceae: needle-like leaves and vegetative buds of Coast Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii) (from Conifer)
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  A coniferous forest pictured in the coat of arms of the Kainuu region in Finland (from Conifer)
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  Elk Bath, an award-winning photograph of elk avoiding a wildfire in Montana (from Wildfire)
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  A surface fire in the western desert of Utah, United States (from Wildfire)
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  Charred shrubland in suburban Sydney (2019–20 Australian bushfires). (from Wildfire)
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  Cupressaceae: scale leaves of Lawson's cypress (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana); scale in mm (from Conifer)
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  Animation of diaphragmatic breathing with the diaphragm shown in green (from Wildfire)
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  Pinaceae: unopened female cones of subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) (from Conifer)
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  Araucariaceae: awl-like leaves of Cook pine (Araucaria columnaris) (from Conifer)
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  The northern spotted owl primarily inhabits old-growth forests in the northern part of its range (Canada to southern Oregon) and landscapes with a mix of old and younger forest types in the southern part of its range (the Klamath region and California). (from Old-growth forest)
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  A prescribed burn in a Pinus nigra stand in Portugal (from Wildfire)
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  Dry Mountain Fire Lookout in the Ochoco National Forest, Oregon, US circa 1930 (from Wildfire)
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  Fire Propagation Model (from Wildfire)
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  Wildfire smoke in atmosphere off the U.S. West Coast in 2020 (from Wildfire)
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  Sediment off the Yucatán Peninsula (from Wildfire)
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  Aerial view of deliberate wildfires on the Khun Tan Range, Thailand. These fires are lit by local farmers every year to promote the growth of a certain mushroom. (from Wildfire)
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  Wildfire near Yosemite National Park, United States, in 2013. The Rim Fire burned more than 250,000 acres (1,000 km²) of forest. (from Wildfire)
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  Phylogeny of the Pinophyta based on cladistic analysis of molecular data. (from Conifer)
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  A Monterey pine forest in Sydney, Australia (from Conifer)
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  Mist condensing over rainforest in Danum Valley Conservation Area, Malaysia (from Old-growth forest)
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  Global fires during the year 2008 for the months of August (top image) and February (bottom image), as detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite. (from Wildfire)
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  National map of groundwater and soil moisture in the United States. It shows the very low soil moisture associated with the 2011 fire season in Texas. (from Wildfire)
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  Ecological succession after a wildfire in a boreal pine forest next to Hara Bog, Lahemaa National Park, Estonia. The pictures were taken one and two years after the fire. (from Wildfire)
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  Avatar Grove near Port Renfrew, British Columbia: Giant Douglas firs (left) and red cedars (right) fill the grove. (from Old-growth forest)
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  Old-growth European beech forest in Biogradska Gora National Park, Montenegro (from Old-growth forest)
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  Downed wood replenishes topsoil as it decays. (from Old-growth forest)
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  In Abies grandis (grand fir), and many other species with spirally arranged leaves, leaf bases are twisted to flatten their arrangement and maximize light capture. (from Conifer)
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  Cool temperate rainforest in Tasmania, Australia (from Old-growth forest)
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  Charred landscape following a crown fire in the North Cascades, United States (from Wildfire)
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  A thin transverse section showing the internal structure of conifer wood (from Conifer)
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  Lightning-sparked wildfires are frequent occurrences during the dry summer season in Nevada. (from Wildfire)
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  A dirt road acted as a fire barrier in South Africa. The effects of the barrier can clearly be seen on the unburnt (left) and burnt (right) sides of the road. (from Wildfire)
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  Virgin forest about 2,500 m (8,200 ft) above sea level in Shennongjia Forestry District, Hubei, China (from Old-growth forest)
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  Eucalyptus regnans forest in Tasmania, Australia (from Old-growth forest)
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  Wildfire burning in the Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, United States, in 2020. The Mangum Fire burned more than 70,000 acres (280 km²) of forest. (from Wildfire)
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  A wildfire in Venezuela during a drought (from Wildfire)

The one on the left uses {{Random slideshow}} (which accepts file names), and the one on the right uses {{Transclude files as random slideshow}} (which accepts source pages from which the filenames are gathered).

The above section formatting is used on many of the pages you will come across, but not all. In those cases, use whatever section formatting matches the rest of the page.

Note that you may come across "Selected picture" sections done with {{Random portal component}} templates. That template call is the entire section. Replace it with a section that matches the other sections on the page, and put the new slideshow inside that.

For example, in Portal:California, this code:

{{Random portal component|max=21|seed=27|header=Selected picture|subpage=Selected picture}}

was replaced with this code:

{{/box-header|Selected images|noedit=yes}}
{{Transclude files as random slideshow
| {{PAGENAME}}
| Culture of {{PAGENAME}}
}}
{{Box-footer}}

And the new section blended right in with the formatting of the rest of the page. Note the use of the {{PAGENAME}} magic word. Plain article titles also work. Don't feel limited to one or two page names. But be sure to test each slideshow before installing the next one. (Or if you prefer, in batches - just don't leave them hanging). Report technical problems at the Portal design talk page.

Fun activity #3: upgrade "Selected article" sections

These sections, where unmaintained, have gone stale. That's because 1) the excerpts are static, having been manually copied and pasted, and 2) because they lack automatic addition of new entries.

They can be upgraded with:

{{Transclude random excerpt}}

or

{{Transclude list item excerpt}}

or

{{Transclude linked excerpt}}

All three of these will provide excerpts that won't go stale. The latter two can provide excerpt collections that won't go stale, by providing new entries over time. The key is to select source pages or source sections that are frequently updated, such as root article sections, mainstream lists, or navigation templates.

Where will this put us?

When the above tasks are completed for the entire collection of portals (except the ones with specific maintainers), we'll be more than half-way done with the portal system upgrade.

Keep up the great work.    — The Transhumanist   19:19, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Sarah Jeong DR

Hello, I have brought the unfruitful Sarah Jeong discussion to dispute resolution and am notifying you because you have commented on the Talk page since August 3. You can find a link here: Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Talk:Sarah_Jeong. All the best, Ikjbagl (talk) 12:06, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Discretionary sanctions alert

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have recently shown interest in living or recently deceased people, and edits relating to the subject (living or recently deceased) of such biographical articles. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect: any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or any page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

The next time you violate the edit-restriction at Sarah Jeong you will be blocked and/or topic banned. You can appeal the editing restriction I implemented at WP:AN, but you cannot simply flout it. Abecedare (talk) 20:59, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Deletion review for Sarah Jeong

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Sarah Jeong. 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. — Newslinger talk 13:03, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

I've backed out your obvious WP:BADNAC. Please don't do that again. It just creates a lot of work for other volunteers (i.e. me) cleaning up. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:08, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

I had no interest in keeping or deleting the article, but I did discuss a small aspect of the subject on the talk page. Sorry for the mess, although my close was correct. wumbolo ^^^ 14:13, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

@RoySmith: thanks for wasting everybody's time by relisting the AfD, which was closed as keep less than six hours after you had relisted it. wumbolo ^^^ 12:34, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

Notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:56, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

@Robert McClenon: "an outside-coordinated campaign"? "incompetence"? "jerk"? "troll"?! Seriously? While you are uninvolved, WP:BOOMERANG can apply to you, since you're now casting WP:ASPERSIONs and issuing personal attacks. And then you propose banning me. I am willing to have a productive discussion, but your casting of aspersions, and personal attacks aren't helping you make your case against me. wumbolo ^^^ 21:25, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

• Try something close to this again, and you'll be facing a block or topic ban. Abecedare (talk) 00:39, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

  @Abecedare: sorry, I will be using more civil language from now on. There are borderline "exclamation" words but I'm not sure which are appropriate. wumbolo ^^^ 00:49, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

Your language was not the reason for the revert. The reason was the source and esp. the headline.

Fwiw, the article itself is a somewhat slanted but comprehensive documentation of the events. Not surprising given that the author was an established wikipedia editor (I didn't realize he was no longer around and missed out on the events that led to the departure). Abecedare (talk) 00:56, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

@Abecedare: and the Daily Caller's headline is OK?! It's also linked in the template. wumbolo ^^^ 01:07, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

If I were dictator of wikipedia, I would just remove the self-indulgent press-coverage template from such pages. As for the linked Daily Caller pieces, I hadn't seen them earlier and they are not ideal either, but at least their headlines apply the adjective to the tweets and not the person. Not that that should be thought as a game-able loophole by any of the editors on the page! :) Abecedare (talk) 01:17, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

• Regarding this removal: it would be best if you leave general administering of the page to the several admins who are keeping an eye on it; the last time you tried to help by NAC closing the first AFD it only created more drama. And do not warn other users of blocks under my (or, any other admin's) name. Abecedare (talk) 16:00, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

  OK, but what created drama at the AfD was probably relisting it. wumbolo ^^^ 16:04, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of SethBling

Hello! Your submission of SethBling at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 21:45, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

Hi (over here) from Wookian

Just noticed that you left a note for me on GorillaWarfare's Talk Page, and I thought I would drop by and say hello:

@Wookian: sorry if I'm intruding, but I want to say that no one said that "not all Muslims" is a good excuse. And have you read the #NotAllMen article? wumbolo ^^^ 07:25, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Certainly not intruding. :) I did skim the article, and am not sure what you mean. Since I have recently been topic blocked, and I'm not entirely familiar with how censorship on Wikipedia works, it's not clear to me whether my participation in a discussion on a Talk page is allowed to encompass a certain NYT editorial board member's writings on a certain social networking site, so out of caution I'm hoping to keep any discussion open ended / more general. Thanks! Wookian (talk) 21:04, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

@Wookian: Hello. Your topic ban should explain well enough what it encompasses. You can always consult with the banning admin. With regards to the "not all X" card, I find people using it as being dismissive towards the problems, instead of helping. If people help the situation, it surely gets better for everyone. Well the NotAllMen article explains what men do if a significant number of them assault women. In my opinion, instead of being defensive of one's group's members' behavior, one should be as transparent as possible with motives. For example, men should make women feel less uncomfortable (without manipulating them), and Muslim immigrants should apply legally, and if they have a clean criminal record, they will have ought to be accepted. Do we agree that isolating "bad" people from other members of a group improves the public perception of the group? (there is much more confidence in an arbitrary "good" member, even though there might be slightly less members) wumbolo ^^^ 22:42, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

I think I agree with you about "isolating bad people from other members of a group." In general, I believe in not ascribing negative characterizations to people groups that are not inherently associated with those negative characterizations. For the sake of providing examples both ways, it's perfectly fine to accuse the KKK of racism because that's their thing, it's what they do. However, it's not OK to make any kind of slur against "people who happen to have the particular skin tone of #RRGGBB," because such people's skin tone is not intrinsically connected to any wrongdoing on their part, as individuals. Wookian (talk) 22:59, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #016, 15 Aug 2018

Future portal tool

Discussions are underway on the design of a portal tool (user script) that will hopefully have features for modifying portals at the click of a menu item, to make editing them easier. It might do things like change the color for you, add to a selection, add a new section, move a section, and so on.

If you'd like to be involved and suggest features for the tool, please join us at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design#What would you want a portal tool to be able to do?.

Progress report: upgrade of portals

As new portal components are built by our Lua gurus, those components are being used to upgrade portals. Each component automates a section of a portal in a particular way.

The sections that are mostly upgraded so far are the Intro, and the Associated Wikimedia section.

The sections currently undergoing upgrade are: Selected image, Categories, and the Intro.

The Intro? Isn't that done already?

Yes, and no.

The upgrade of the excerpt in intros is mostly complete (there are about 70 non-standard portals that still need it).

Now we are doing another upgrade of intros in the form of adding a panoramic picture at the top of the intro, on portals for which such a picture is available on Commons:. Dozens of panoramas have been added so far, and they are really starting to affect the look of portals — the portals that have them look really good.

Regions are the most likely subjects to have panoramas, but a surprising number of other subjects have banner-shaped pictures too. Some examples of non-geographic portals that they have been added to are:

• Portal:Underwater diving
• Portal:Sharks
• Portal:Reptiles
• Portal:Meat
• Portal:Cheese
• Portal:Cereals
• Portal:Tea
• Portal:Milk
• Portal:Wheat
• Portal:Rice
• Portal:Clothing

Speaking of pictures, several hundred Selected image sections have been upgraded to include image slideshows.

Progress report: design

The push for automation continues, with new components under continuous testing in the field. As problems are spotted, they are reported to our programmers, who have done a fantastic job of keeping up with bug reports and fixing the relevant Lua modules fast. I am highly impressed.

Construction time on new portals is now down to as little as a minute or less. Though not in general. If you are lucky enough to spot portals that fit the profile of the new tools (their strengths), then a portal can be complete almost as soon as it is created, with the added time it takes to find and add a panorama. Source page titles are not generally standardized, and so it source pages in many cases must be entered manually. Where source page titles follow a standard naming convention, portal creation for those subjects goes quickly.

So, we still have some hurdles, but the outlook on portals is very good. New features, and many improvements to features are on the horizon. I'll be sure to report them when they become available.

What will the portal of the future look like? That is up to you!

See you on the project's talk pages.

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   21:11, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

DYK for SethBling

On 20 August 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article SethBling, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that minutes after a world record was set for Super Mario World, SethBling completed a faster run, validating a technique used previously only on an emulator? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/SethBling. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, SethBling), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

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Being granted reviewer rights neither grants you status nor changes how you can edit articles. If you do not want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time.

See also:

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Swarm ♠ 03:51, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #017, 22 Aug 2018

This issue is about portal creation...

Creating new portals

Myself and others have been testing and experimenting with the new components in upgrading existing portals and in building new portals. They have now been applied in hundreds of portals.

The templates are ready for general use for portal creation.

They are still a bit buggy, but the only way we are going to work the rest of the bugs out is by using them and reporting the bugs as we come across them.

I look forward to seeing what new portals you create!

Be sure to report bugs at WT:WPPORTD.

The main portal creation template is {{box portal skeleton}}.

Portal creation tips

After starting a portal using {{box portal skeleton}}...

1. Placing a panorama (banner picture) at the top of the intro section is a nice touch, and really makes a portal look good. {{box portal skeleton}} doesn't automatically insert panoramas. So, you will need to do that by hand. They can be found at Commons:. For some examples, check out Portal:Sharks, Portal:Cheese, and Portal:Florence
2. The search term provided in the Did you know? and In the news sections is very basic and rarely matches anything. It is best to replace that term with multiple search arguments, if possible (separate each argument with a pipe character). For example, in Portal:Capital punishment, see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Capital_punishment&diff=855255361&oldid=855137403 Searches in templates use Lua search notation.
3. Check the In the news and Did you know? sections for mismatches. That is, sometimes entries come up that shouldn't be displayed. If there are any, refine the search strings further, so they don't return such results.
4. Finish each portal you've created before creating a new one. We don't want unfinished portals sitting around.

Need a laugh?

Check out the Did you know? section on Portal:Determinism.    — The Transhumanist   02:00, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

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Template:Did you know nominations/Charlottesville car attack

Hello, and thanks for contributing to DYK. Your nomination has been marked for closure by another user as there area issues with the hooks you have proposed and you have been unable so far to come up with new ones. Please suggest new hooks on the nomination page promptly, otherwise the nomination will be closed. Thank you. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 07:24, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5: you can close the nomination. A question: can it be reopened after the article is brought to GA status? wumbolo ^^^ 07:48, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Disputed non-free use rationale for File:Disloyal man with his girlfriend looking at another girl.jpg

Thank you for uploading File:Disloyal man with his girlfriend looking at another girl.jpg. However, there is a concern that the rationale provided for using this file on Wikipedia may not meet the criteria required by Wikipedia:Non-free content. This can be corrected by going to the file description page and adding or clarifying the reason why the file qualifies under this policy. Adding and completing one of the templates available from Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your file is in compliance with Wikipedia policy. Please be aware that a non-free use rationale is not the same as an image copyright tag; descriptions for files used under the non-free content policy require both a copyright tag and a non-free use rationale.

If it is determined that the file does not qualify under the non-free content policy, it might be deleted by an administrator seven days after the file was tagged in accordance with section F7 of the criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions, please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 22:21, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Relisting

Hi. You relisted Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas More, Lord High Chancellor of England, although since sources were added it seems to have had a "snow" reaction and one struck delete. Please have another look at the comments, and maybe consider reversing your relisting in favor of a 'Keep'. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:58, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

@Randy Kryn: AFAIK relists can't and don't have to be reversed. If there are no further comments, I will close it within 24 hours. wumbolo ^^^ 15:39, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

A page you started (The Order of Time (album)) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating The Order of Time (album), Wumbolo!

Wikipedia editor Doomsdayer520 just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

Thanks for your new article on Valerie June's "The Order of Time".

To reply, leave a comment on Doomsdayer520's talk page.

Learn more about page curation.

---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 18:15, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

IP talk page

Done. That IP.is probably going to be globally blocked. Doug Weller talk 20:26, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

@Doug Weller: 213.205.241.1 also needs to be blocked. immediately. wumbolo ^^^ 20:48, 27 August 2018 (UTC) all already done

That one was globally blocked after you posted. Doug Weller talk 09:51, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Tana Mongeau

Thank you for contacting me, page protection has been removed from this article per your request. Please let me know if you encounter any issues. Regards, Yamaguchi先生 (talk) 20:02, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

Attn: WikiGnomes

WikiProject Portals has a fun task for you...

There are lots of new portals.

Many.

Not a few.

Hundreds.

So, it's time for another round of "These are not listed yet".

Instructions and a list of the portals that have not been listed yet are included at that link.

List as many as you have time for, and pick away at the list at your leisure. Every single entry helps.

This is an especially fun task, because you get to browse the new portals while you are working on it.

Curious?

Dive right in. ;)

And of course...

...have fun!    — The Transhumanist   22:49, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pacific Coast Association of Magicians

Hi! You've closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pacific Coast Association of Magicians without any discussion of how you believe that the association meets our notability guidelines for organisations, or why (since it obviously doesn't) those guidelines should be ignored in this case. Would you perhaps undo your close and leave it to someone with a better understanding of those matters to close the discussion? Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:43, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

@Justlettersandnumbers: Sorry, I misread your comments at the AfD. I thought it was uncontroversial. Thanks for bringing this to my attention; I will undo the closure and leave it to someone else to close or relist. wumbolo ^^^ 10:48, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Youth League U15

Can you please help me to get back the contents of my article Youth League U15 Please sir Abhishe78 (talk) 09:24, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

@Abhishe78: I don't think Sandstein would be willing to do that. And if Sandstein doesn't, it's better that you stop going around asking everyone. wumbolo ^^^ 09:38, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

September 2018

Your recent editing history at White genocide conspiracy theory shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Bradv 17:59, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

@Bradv: you're edit warring in contradiction to two policies: WP:NOCON and WP:BLP. It would be best if you self reverted. wumbolo ^^^ 18:03, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

How can you possibly claim to have consensus for your wholesale removal of content and references from the article? And exactly which part of that 9k deletion is a BLP violation? Bring it up on the talk page. Bradv 18:09, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

I didn't claim to have consensus. But you didn't read WP:NOCON. wumbolo ^^^ 18:38, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

And exactly which part of that 9k deletion is a BLP violation? the part where you restore BLP content sourced to unreliable or poorly reliable sources. wumbolo ^^^ 18:39, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

If there's a BLP violation in there I'll be happy to help you remove it. Please be specific. Bradv 18:47, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

@Bradv: All of it is a BLP violation. BLP content can't be sourced to unreliable sources and opinion pieces. Even if the sources are attributed, the inclusion of the content is still not warranted. wumbolo ^^^ 18:51, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

The whole article? Bradv 18:54, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

The whole content I removed, except if covered by something else in my edit summary. But nearly all of the content I removed. wumbolo ^^^ 18:57, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

As I said, I'll happily help you correct any blp issues on that page, as would many other editors, but it would be helpful if you gave specific information. I've already made two corrections based on poor sourcing (Berg and Whitaker), but I really don't see any other major problems. Perhaps you don't want my help — that's fine too. Bradv 19:05, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #018, 04 Sept 2018

Bug hunt!

As you know, portals are now supported by a number of new templates, which are in turn supported by some new Lua modules.

Those templates and modules are being put to the test, in the new portals that have been created since this WikiProject rebooted, plus a number of existing portals that have been revamped.

The new portals, and revamped ones, can be found at Category:Single-page portals.

Please browse the new portals at your leisure, and report any and all problems that you spot. Post bug and other portal problem reports at WT:WPPORTD. Please report bugs, quirks, awkward aspects, or anything weird or off that you notice. Compliments and suggestions are also welcome. :)

When you report a bug, please indicate the portal's name, the section that the problem appeared in, and the name of the article appearing (first) in the section with the problem. Most problems will likely be encountered in the Selected general articles" section, due to quirks in a displayed article's wikicode that the lua modules don't handle yet. Your help in spotting those is of utmost value. Thank you.

Don't delete portal subpages just yet

For portals that have been converted to the single-page design, we are not deleting their subpages at this time, because we are working on ways to harvest the data from those pages. For example, the Selected picture subpages include filenames and captions that would be valuable for the image slideshows. Please don't delete portal subpages, for now. They'll be slated for d-batch speedy deletion after harvesting. Thank you.

Development notes

We are currently testing a feature added to {{Transclude files as random slideshow}} that allows it to accept both sourcepages and filenames. Courtesy of Evad37. This will pave the way for harvesting files and their captions from portal subpages, for use in image slideshows.

We need your help

The bulk of the work is being done by a handful of editors. But we can't do it all. We need help with spotting bugs, refining the search parameters in new/revamped portals (in the "Did you know..." and "In the news" sections), adding images to slideshows for a broader selection (they default to showing the images on the root article page but are capable of showing so much more), adding panoramic pictures at the top of the intro section of region portals (cities, counties, states, provinces, countries, continents, and other regions), to name but a few task types.

It is rewarding to be a part of the growing portal phenomenon. And you get to see its expansion and refinement up close.

Feel free to join in on the fun. ;)

Thank you,    — The Transhumanist   06:58, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Talk:Killing of Mollie Tibbetts

Please be cognizant of the page size for Talk:Killing of Mollie Tibbetts/Archive 1 when archiving discussions. The page size was over 100 kB. Thanks ;) --Jax 0677 (talk) 14:39, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

September 2018

Hello. It appears your talk page is becoming quite lengthy and is in need of archiving. According to Wikipedia's user talk page guidelines; "Large talk pages become difficult to read, strain the limits of older browsers, and load slowly over slow internet connections. As a rule of thumb, archive closed discussions when a talk page exceeds 75 KB or has multiple resolved or stale discussions." - this talk page is 150.5 KB. See Help:Archiving a talk page for instructions on how to manually archive your talk page, or to arrange for automatic archiving using a bot. If you have any questions, place a {{help me}} notice on your talk page, or go to the help desk. Thank you. --Jax 0677 (talk) 14:40, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Please do not edit the name of files in articles as you did to High Heel Drag Queen Race, it breaks the link to the file. I have corrected the mistake. In the future, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the article will look like without actually saving it.

The "Show preview" button is right next to the "Publish changes" button and below the edit summary field.

It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask on my talk page, or to post at the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 23:13, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Misrepresenting sources

You have on multiple occasions cited sources on talk pages which purportedly support something, which it then turns out that the sources do not at all in any way do whatsoever[4]. This is highly disruptive and you should stop doing it. I've seen you do it previously in discussions on the RS noticeboard about the Daily Wire's RS status, Trump administration family separation policy and South African farm attacks, for example. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 16:16, 8 September 2018 (UTC)