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Need a comment on a RfC, XfD, AN/I, RfA or any other discussion? Leave me a message, I'll me glad to come and check it out! L3X1 (distant write) 02:58, 14 April 2017 (UTC) You're probably here because I reverted your good faith edit. Proof of it being a GFE is that you here, so, welcome! L3X1 (talk) 03:26, 18 December 2016 (UTC) When addressing me on my talk page, I will reply to you on my talk page. If i come over to yours, I will add it to my watchlist. If you wish me to expedite a response, remember to {{u|L3X1}} (but without the nowiki part) at the beginning of your comment. Recently I enabled email, though I would prefer that discussions were carried out on wiki unless beans, regarding socks or other sensitive material. If you email me, I would also appreciate if you notified me on my TP as I may not be prompt about checking it.Please place new comments/sections at the bottom of this page. Please refrain from foul, crude, crass, or otherwise dirty-language on this page, or I will edit it. Thanks SueBot NG, CBNG's girlfriend (talk) 23:50, 30 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Don't see previous conversation? Check my archive for pre April 2017, April–November 2017, 11/2017 – 03/2018, and post March 2018.

Please comment on Talk:Elon Musk

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May 2018 at Women in Red

		Welcome to Women in Red's May 2018 worldwide online editathons. File:Soraya Aghaee4.jpg New: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/75\|"Women of the Sea"]] New: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/76\|"Villains"]] New: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/77\|"Women in Sports"]] New: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/78\|"Central Eastern European women"]] Continuing: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/00\|#1day1woman Global Initiative]]
		(To subscribe: Women in Red/English language mailing list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Rosiestep (talk) 23:11, 29 April 2018 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

List of YouTubers

There is another deletion discussion on List of YouTubers. If you would like to weigh in, you can do so by checking out the discussion here. Mr. C.C.^{Hey yo!}_{I didn't do it!} 05:37, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please comment on Talk:Donald Trump

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Bot, if you ping me to another RFC on that page I will have your roof rafters hung, your portrait drawn, and you will be quartered in the homes of Bostonians. Go bother rapunzel or something. L3X1 ◊distænt write◊ 16:15, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Chochopk • Coffee • Gryffindor • Jimp • Knowledge Seeker • Lankiveil • Peridon • Rjd0060

Guideline and policy news

The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news

AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee is seeking additional clerks to help with the arbitration process.

Obituaries

Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:05, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Dear L3X1,

Thank you for the thanks for my edit on Portal talk:Cars.

I'm glad you like portals.

You are cordially invited to join Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals, or at least visit, to check out the advancements we are making to portal design.

So far, we've made a couple new templates to make portals easier to build, easier to maintain, and more dynamic.

They are Template:Transclude lead excerpt and Template:Transclude random excerpt.

Come on by and see what we've been up to. And let us know what you think. — The Transhumanist 12:45, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please comment on Talk:Nicholas Hoult

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Please comment on Talk:Dawenkou culture

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WikiProject Portals Overview, May 04, 2018

Thank you for being a member of the Portals WikiProject, and thank you for all the work you have all been doing on the portal namespace. To see the activity, check out the watchlist.

This is our 3rd issue, see previous issues at the Newsletter archive.

Top priority: Main list of portals needs updating

The top, and one of the most visible parts, of the portal system is Portal:Contents/Portals, which is intended to list all (completed) portals on Wikipedia.

About half of the missing existing portals have been added since this WikiProject's reboot (April 17th). Thank you to RockMagnetist, TriNitrobrick, Polyamorph, PratyushSinha101, Ganesha811, Bermicourt, Javert2113, Noyster, Ɱ, Lepricavark, XOR'easter, and Emir of Wikipedia, for working on this.

We are half-way to completion with this. We need everyone to chip in until it is done. Instructions, and the list of missing entries are at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet.

I hope you'll join me there. ("Many hands make light work").

Thank you.

Membership

We're at 66 members, with more joining daily. We even have 6 WikiGnomes!

Special thanks

I have awarded Certes with a portals barnstar on his talk page for his work on the new excerpt templates that are revolutionizing the portal system (Template:Transclude lead excerpt & Template:Transclude random excerpt). If you'd like to show your appreciation, please feel free to stop by his talk page and add your signature to the barnstar itself.

Thank you Certes. You are enabling this WikiProject to get the right things done, fast.

By the way, the templates have already gone international. After being told about the templates, Mossab wrote:

Thanks You very much!. Those are fantastic and great templates! I transferred them to Arabic Wikipedia and they do a magic great job. I worked to improve portal anatomy here and i do every thing i can to improve it and i am very sad for the nomination for deletion of portals :(. I am glad to be member on WikiProject Portals and i added my name with pleasure. Kind regards

RFC

As you know, the (April 8th) proposal to delete all portals and the portal namespace inspired the reboot of this WikiProject. RfCs typically run for 30 days, which means there are 5 days left including today, before the RfC will be closed. The !votes are predominantly "oppose", but many editors have shared their disappointment with the portal system. We have our work cut out for us in correcting the problems of the portals to address their concerns. Complaints ranged from being out of date and lacking maintenance, to taking up the time of editors that they felt (due to low traffic) would be better spent improving articles.

Anti-WikiProject drama

This past week has been somewhat stressful for me, with more than a little conflict...

It culminated with my being reported at the Administrator's Noticeboard "for spamming and canvassing". This is the second time I've been reported there during the RfC; the first one was for posting notices of the deletion discussion (the RfC) at the top of all portal pages.

The accusations were 1) Posting notices of the deletion discussion (the RfC) at the top of all portal pages, 2) Adding an Article alerts section to the Portals WikiProject page, and 3) posting notices (invitations) about this WikiProject on user talk and portal talk pages.

None of which fall under the Wikipedia definitions of spamming or canvassing.

Thank you, Lionelt and Lepricavark, for coming to my rescue. I don't know how the discussion would have turned out if you had not spoken up.

The discussion was closed as "no action necessary".

After that, the person responsible posted their thoughts to my talk page. Here they are, with my response:

Congratulations, it appears your relentless targeted advertising of the RFC, your beating the RFC Supporters with a stick by posting countless times there, your dishonest insistence that Current Events was on the chopping block, and your obstruction of clean up efforts at MfD are paying dividends. Have fun playing with Portal space where no one will read your work. I'm sure someone will eventually clean up the mess when your interest wanes. Cheers. Legacypac

Thank you. I accept your congratulations on behalf of Wikiproject Portals and the portal-loving community – it was a team effort. In addition, I'd like to clarify some things about your claims above...

Each page nominated for deletion must have a notice at the top of its page, per the deletion guideline. Not to have one there, would be unfair to those who use such pages, and would constitute a secret deletion tribunal. We don't do things that way on Wikipedia.
As new facts became available (e.g., a motivated and thriving WikiProject to support the portals, new building blocks, etc.), it was appropriate to post the developments to the RfC, to support informed decision making.
Proposals are literal, not figurative. The proposal specified "all portals". All means all.
The fact is, the rebooted WikiProject is cleaning up the mess, rather rapidly. By updating and upgrading the portals, rather than getting rid of them.
I think I'll be hanging around for awhile, but the project is more than likely to achieve critical mass and may outlive us all, due in part to the development of tools to assist editors in building, upgrading, and maintaining portals that are fully dynamic and self-updating.

Portals are more fun to work with than ever. Thank you for your role in making this happen. You made us try even harder, and inspired us to pull together as a team. You'll have a warm place in our hearts, forever. The Transhumanist

Automatically refreshed excerpts

The main advancement we've made so far is applying selective transclusion Transclusion is template technology, showing a page on another page. Selective transclusion shows only part of that page. We use it to show excerpts that always match the source. The two templates we have so far, are Template:Transclude lead excerpt and Template:Transclude random excerpt.

Obsoleting subpages

Excerpts are migrating toward the base page of each portal, and where this is done, a subpage is no longer needed.

Template:Transclude lead excerpt will be able to be used to put the intro excerpt directly on the portal page, rather than on an intro subpage, once we adapt a portal design to accommodate this.

Template:Transclude random excerpt is currently being used on 1st-level subpages, and eliminates the need for 2nd-level subpages. (Many portals have 2 levels of subpages).

There are about 1500 portals, but there are around 148,000 subpages in portal space. Further discussions are needed to develop designs and components that do not require them.

It is my hope that the portal of the future will be a single page, or close to it, pulling in excerpts from specified dynamic sources (like category pages), filtered by ratings. This would obviate the need for subpages at all (except for maybe the header and footer subpages, which store a portal's settings). A more likely near-term solution would be subpages with a list maintained by a bot, or editors using semi-automatic tools.

New portals

Since the reboot, a new portal has been created:

Portal:Limited recognition

Please watchlist these pages

Some central pages in the portal system. The more eyes on them, the better.

Wrapping up...

There's more in the works, like a rating system, further redesigns, etc. Keep an eye on the discussions on the project's talk page. They should start showing up there soon.

Hope to see you there. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 06:22, 4 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please comment on Talk:Nextdoor

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Please comment on Talk:Dana Loesch

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Not again the Hypn0toad04:23, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Loves Food

Hello! After the successful pilot program by Wikimedia India in 2015, Wiki Loves Food (WLF) is happening again in 2018 and this year, it's going International. To make this event a grand success, your direction is key. Please sign up here as a volunteer to bring all the world's food to Wikimedia. Danidamiobi (talk) 22:23, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Film

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In for a penny...?

Hi L3X1,

Thank you for voting/commenting on the RfC at Nextdoor. Since you already dipped your toe into the water, I thought perhaps you might be willing to wade in a bit further. Aside from the RfC to delete the founder traffic accident section, I have done a complete redraft of this weak article.

There are hundreds of sources to choose from including multiple in-depth profiles from some of the bigs, like The New York Times, Wired, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed News, PBS News Hours, NPR and Newsweek. I should be able to get this article up to a "B" and then a "GA" given the depth of sourcing.

You may recall that I'm experienced as a Wikipedia editor, but I'm also paid consultant to Nextdoor. So all my work needs to be well scrutinized prior to publication as per WP: COI. I make a point of playing by the rules. My proposal for the redraft is here: Talk:Nextdoor#Request_for_Review

IMHO, it's pretty obvious that my draft is a substantial improvement to what's there now, although it can always get better, and both at this stage, and when it's finally live, I will seek plenty of peer review to try to get it to GA.

I say "wade in" because it would be very helpful if you could opine in the discussion as to whether you believe the draft is indeed a step up (or not) and what you'd change. I looked through the history of the article and one editor has been deleting content and reliable sourcing for about 4 years now, which is partially why this article is in sad shape. The editor has emerged again in the discussion to oppose changes to the article, so some sort of consensus needs to be reached, I think. Perhaps you might offer your two cents? I have approached everyone appearing on the Talk page with a similar request.

Another experienced editor has already weighed in to support the redraft.

If you had time to dive in and actually go through the draft with an eye toward overseeing the publication after I've made any changes requested, that would be even better.

Thanks,

Ed BC1278 (talk) 19:13, 7 May 2018 (UTC)BC1278[reply]