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A belated welcome!

Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Kirbanzo. I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:

Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes (~~~~); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post.

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page, consult Wikipedia:Questions, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there.

Again, welcome! TonyBallioni (talk) 19:57, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! Kirbanzo (talk) 20:04, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Regarding Dsted8019

They had already disclosed their paid editing status on their userpage. I reported them to AIV since they seem to be only posting promotional material for their company. EclipseDude (talk) 02:04, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Userpage appeared to be not created for me. Thanks for telling me. Kirbanzo (talk) 02:05, 21 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}}...

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
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.
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.
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 02:22, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

On Ttwqs985

Sorry you could tell me how to improve the article please I am new to this page and in truth I do not know how it works you could help me I would like to improve it I am the user Ttwqs985 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ttwqs985 (talk • contribs) 09:15, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Cripple Creek Virginia

Part of Wikipedias function is as a Gazetteer...That means the small areas, including Cripple Creek, Virginia are going to be all over the place....I see you dont know what notable happened there..ergo, your lack of knowledge means the article gets hauled to Afd..Let me help you. I recall that in 1776, it was no longer a part of Fincastle County. I also recall that a few of the men who fought in the early years of our Revolutionary War assisted French Traders and Native Americans in the area. Thats about all I can recall at this time. These curious factoids reside in Books......POSSIBLY here and there on the internet, BUT the good stuff, its in books. It has not been regurgitated on the web, so you can then come along and say, its not notable. AND WE ALL KNOW, that if you cant make it notable, NOBODY CAN..RIGHT? NO, your wrong. AND its not you to you to fulfill this encyclopedias function. YOU are NOT the sole source of what is and what is not notable. PLEASE consider that mighty articles grow from the tiniest of acorns called stubs... Coal town guy (talk) 00:35, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Transport puzzle

Per commentary on my user talk page, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Transport puzzle has been reopened and the article has been restored for the time being. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:06, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

@North America, thank you for the notice. I've changed my vote due to the arguments presented on said talk page. Kirbanzo (talk) 02:07, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

Just thought I'd say hi as a fellow teen on WP

Heya, I'm also a teen (age 15) on Wikipedia. Just saw your user page and thought I'd say hi since I thought I was alone as a high school editor on Wikipedia. I've made a ton of mistakes but gotten used to the site and have had my shares of ups and downs as well. I started editing here back in February 2017 and created my first article the week I joined (it's still up now at this link, surprisingly enough for a first time editor) which I made after seeing a ton of coverage on him in national news sources after the Trump travel ban was put in place. I'm mostly interested in geography and politics (even though I haven't taken Human Geo, Geography, Civics nor any Gov. course yet). So yeah that's about it. Redditaddict6 9 03:16, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for RPPing Marisol Alcantara

I had put it in at EW per your suggestion, without resolution. Might I ask you the favor of undoing IP's latest revert so I don't violate 3RR? Cheers, JesseRafe (talk) 21:54, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Done. You're welcome. Kirbanzo (talk) 21:59, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Declined CSD

Please note that I declined your speedy deletion nomination of User talk:Qayyum Ansari for two reasons; the first is that user talk pages are almost never deleted and the second is that editors are allowed to blank their talk pages (see WP:BLANKING). The CSD G6 criteria does not apply in this case.--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 22:17, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Alright, thanks for letting me know. I will keep that in mind. Kirbanzo (talk) 22:18, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Brahui People

Hello Kirbanzo, thanks for the message. Could you please indicate what exactly needs to be clarified i had thought i had addressed it in the comment box prior to publishing.

Thanks, ElderIron ElderIron (talk) 01:53, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Well, in addition with your other edits, you removed a disproportionate amount of content without explaining the removal in the edit summary. If you had given a valid reason, I could have let it slide as a valid deletion of content. Communication is important, hence why removing content without an edit summary is generally frowned upon. Kirbanzo (talk) 01:56, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Update on the "threats"

They were going to ban me. Nothing to harm me or IRL, to clear it up. Thank you. Beasting123 (talk) 22:58, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

No problem - just gotta take things seriously here. Kirbanzo (talk) 22:59, 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 06:53, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

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 post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. 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.

Galobtter (pingó mió) 04:46, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

I'm aware of these rules, but thanks for the reminder. Kirbanzo (talk) 16:29, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Your message

Hi. I got your note about removing material. Was my edit summary about removing promotional material not helpful enough? I removed two bullets for items that only included primary references. I'm also curious -your edit summary says "restored upon fact checking" -what fact checking did you do? Do you have third party references for the removed material?69.21.84.93 (talk) 19:54, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Main problem was the fact you didn't explain how it was promotional. I would have left the edit alone if you provided evidence of how it was promotional, but you didn't, hence the revert. Also, the fact-checking turned out be a false positive - they are indeed primary.Kirbanzo (talk) 20:00, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

WP:BEFORE and Joseph Seipelt

I added some references to Joseph Seipelt. It's important to always do a WP:BEFORE check before you nominate an article for deletion. In this case, the article showed links to the corresponding articles in other languages (see French and German in the first column), so I was able to add some references to the English article from references that already appeared in the corresponding French and German articles. If you don't read French or German, you can get a good idea about an article in either language through Google Translate http://translate.google.com If you think that the current version of the article is okay, you could withdraw your nomination. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 02:18, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

My "disruptive editing"

This section has been blanked as a courtesy.

Prod?

I was dumbfounded by this PROD. Please I hope this is an outlier. In ictu oculi (talk) 10:16, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Outlier, I suppose. Kirbanzo (talk) 19:01, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi Kirbanzo!

Hi Kirbanzo, Thanks for your message. In follow up to your query, I can provide you with a link to a free online University verification service that can verify the information I have added to Santo's wiki page. Look forward to hearing from you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Editing101master (talk • contribs) 17:03, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Cite it when you reinstate your edit, as unsourced content on a BLP is frowned upon for obvious reasons. Kirbanzo (talk) 17:06, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. The citation link I have is a link to a university database, meaning that you would have to manually input Santo's date of birth and surname Cilauro to verify the information I have edited (which is correct). Do I just provide a link to the database and assume you or wikipedia will check it? Thanks for you reply. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Editing101master (talk • contribs) 17:16, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

I suppose you could do that. A general link is better than no link at all - but, if you can find some way to make it automatically go to the section where you got your information, it would be much more appreciated. Kirbanzo (talk) 17:19, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Gustaf_Ekström

Hi, the source is swedish language wiki [1] What shall I do to source it to interwiki? ^^^^

Re: Ortho-Diethynylbenzene dianion

My edits to this page were 100% constructive, and I'm baffled by the insistence on retaining a poorly-written page. I can see why the bot might have flagged it, but I'd expect an actual reader to find the edits very helpful. -J.P. Demers, Ph.D. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.255.91.2 (talk) 15:52, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

Johnny Cash

If you read the MOS, maybe you could tell the difference between constructive edits and vandalism. 76.189.141.88 (talk) 20:02, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

hi

how u doing cute boy

Sakoduroemolez (talk) 21:18, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

Byzantium

I see you still can't tell constructive editing. The blanked content you mentioned was already cited - overlinking. I see you're not a fan of proper grammar, either,76.189.141.88 (talk) 21:24, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

It was based on the fact you removed a "see also" link that was relevant to the article. Kirbanzo (talk) 21:25, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

It was relevant, BUT ALREADY LISTED - overlinking! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.129.196.175 (talk) 13:45, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #019, 22 Sept 2018

Portals progress report

Don't blink. You might miss something.

As of a few days ago, portals had doubled in about a month and a half.

Also, there were 98 incompleted portals in Category:Portals under construction. Now there are just 43.

The WikiProject page has been thoroughly revised

The goals, plans, and task sections have all been updated.

Orphaned portals need a home...

Many new portals are still orphans, and need links pointing to them:

A portal link at the bottom of corresponding navigation footer template. E.g., Template:Machines for Portal:Machines. See examples of a portals link at the bottom of Template:Robotics and Template:Forestry.
A {{Portal}} box in the See also section of the corresponding root article for each portal. If there is no See also section, create one and place the portal template in that. (Rather than placing them in an external links section -- they're not external links).
A {{Portal}} template placed at the top of the category page corresponding to each portal.

All new and revamped portals can be found at Category:Single-page portals.

Portal:Contents/Portals

This is the main list of portals.

Nearly 2,000 of the new portals need to be listed here.

They can be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet. Instructions are included there.

Customized Portal Rating system is now in place

Portals now have a new rating system of their own designed specifically to support portal evaluation! We were trying to use the standard assessment system for articles, but that doesn't fit portals very well.

Many thanks to Evad37, Waggers, AfroThundr3007730, SMcCandlish, Tom, BrendonTheWizard, and Pbsouthwood for their work and input on this.

The new system can be found at the top of all portal talk pages, in the WikiProject portals box. Those with "???" ratings need to be assessed, which makes up most of the older portals.

Most of the new portals were started out with an initial "Low" level of importance when their talk pages were created. Those deserving higher importance should be promoted as you come across them.

Improving the new portals

The starting point for new portals included minimal parameters and content, in the form of default values in the template(s) used for their creation.

Embellishing embedded search strings

So, for the search strings in the "Did you know..." and "In the news" sections, this was the magic word {{PAGENAME}}, which represents the portal's name. Unfortunately, the resulting term is alway capitalized, which limits its effectiveness as a search string for anything but proper nouns. Results for those two sections can be improved, by replacing the "PAGENAME" magic word with multiple search strings, and search strings that begin with lower case letters. There is no inherent limit as to how many search parameters may be included. Lua search notation is used. The more general the subject, the more subtopic search terms you may want to include. For example, on Portal:Avengers (comics), {{PAGENAME}} turned up nothing. But, when more parameters were added, as in the wikicode below...

{{Transclude selected recent additions | {{PAGENAME}} | Iron Man | Spiderman | Antman | Hawkeye | The Hulk | Incredible Hulk | David Banner | Captain America | Scarlet Witch | Black Widow | Tony Stark | Nick Fury | Age of Ultron | Infinity War | months=36 | header={{Box-header colour|Did you know... }}|max=6}}

... that returned several results in the portal's DYK section.

Be sure you make the improvements to both the DYK section and the "In the news" section, as they both require the search strings.

Expanding the slideshow contents

The default starting selection for the image slideshow in most new portals is whatever images happen to be in the corresponding root article (via the PAGENAME magic word). You can improve image slideshows by adding more sourcepages and filenames as parameters in the "Selected images" section of portals.

See Template:Transclude files as random slideshow/doc for instructions.

More exciting things are to come...

Portals used to take about 6 hours or more to create. Now, for subjects that have particular navigation support, we've got that down to about one minute each, with even more content displayed than ever. True, that means the new portals pick you, rather than the other way around. Creating a specific portal that doesn't happen to have the requisite navigation support is still pretty time consuming. But, we are working on extending our reach beyond the low-hanging fruit.

And efforts are ongoing to keep shaving time off of the creation process. Eventually, we may get it down to seconds each.

In addition to improving automation, we're always looking for new features and improvements that we can add to portals, and there is plenty of potential to expand on the standard design so that new portals are even better right out of the starting gate. Additional designs are also possible.

On the horizon, there are many more portals waiting to be created. And we can expect to see at least a few more section types emerge. I never expected slideshows, for example, especially not for excerpts. Who knows where innovation will take us next?

Keep up the great work everyone.

Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 07:07, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Beatrice Mary Barth

Hi Kirbanzo, not sure whether you are keeping an eye on your AfD nomination. If not, please let me draw to your attention that I suggest that you withdraw this AfD. That's entirely up to you, of course. Schwede 66 22:22, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Done. It was an issue of there not being enough information to prove notability, so as soon as new citations proving notability were added, I know my deletion rationale was moot. Kirbanzo (talk) 23:33, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Cool. Not everybody is willing to readily concede when evidence to the contrary is being produced. So that bodes well for your desires to become an admin eventually. And by the way, many editors don't like that desire being advertised on a user's page; they believe that an editor will be asked by others when they appear ready whether they'd like to make themselves available for that role. I don't personally agree with that view but just saying. Schwede 66 04:45, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Hammerhead shark

This section has been blanked as a courtesy.

Orphan template

Hi, regarding this edit, do note that disambiguaiton pages and set indexes should often be orphaned and thus the {{Orphan}} template shouldn't be used on them (Wikipedia:Orphan#Criteria). Bennv3771 (talk) 01:44, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. Kirbanzo (talk) 02:04, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Qarib Qarib Single movie

Hi Kirbanzo. I added my own name in the movie, Gilles Chuyen, which can be crosschecked with director of the movie Tanuja Chandra Blueboy7 (talk) 21:36, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Welp, WP:COI applies now. Kirbanzo (talk) 21:37, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Your message to me

Hi,

I accidentally removed the false information about Billy Meier and the Swiss non-profit organization, FIGU.

I was attempting to post this:

"The Swiss, non-profit organization, FIGU, was falsely listed as a "cult". This is not only defamatory but inaccurate. Anyone disagreeing should present evidence that: they were solicited to join, give or donate money to, visited by alleged members for the aforesaid purposes, given unasked for brochures, etc.; also show that there is a leader who must be believed, obeyed, followed uncritically, etc."

I will be glad to further refute the inaccurate, defamatory information against him, which should certainly result in the removal of the false claim of a cult. I (Michael Horn) have almost 40 years of experience in researching the Billy Meier information, which I represent in the US and English-speaking world.

And, since Meier and his information is attacked by parties with their own, unpleasant agendas, I'll assume that Wikipedia would prefer to act responsibly, not contribute to defamation,MichaelHorn812 (talk) 19:16, 3 October 2018 (UTC) and be willing to discuss ANY of the elements pertaining to this information, etc., should they feel contrary to what I have stated.

MichaelHorn812 (talk) 19:16, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Reliable Source for Young Sheldon's Age Progression

You wanted it. You've got it. https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=young-sheldon-2017&episode=s02e02 2601:646:C401:B93D:DC0C:262B:9A5D:96AE (talk) 23:04, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Reinstate your edit with the citation and we're good. Kirbanzo (talk) 23:05, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
- Thank God this source is trusted.2601:646:C401:B93D:DC0C:262B:9A5D:96AE (talk) 23:07, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

It's trustworthy as it's an actual script for the show. Not saying the site itself is trustworthy in it's entirety, just that the fact there's evidence to support it being an official script. Kirbanzo (talk) 23:09, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Cosmetic changes

With these edits (and possibly others), you replaced some spaces in other people's comments with   This has made it harder to read the diffs as a lot of non-relevant changes show up. In future, can you avoid making this type of change? Thanks! isaacl (talk) 04:05, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

I don't actually edit that in, it seems to happen automatically - just edit it out if it becomes an issue. Kirbanzo (talk) 04:09, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
- I understand that something in your editing process is causing this to happen. Nonetheless, the onus is on you to not alter other people's comments, and to avoid making extraneous changes that make it harder for people to view changes. Your co-operation is appreciated. isaacl (talk) 04:14, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

I'll try my best to prevent the alterations. Kirbanzo (talk) 04:17, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Lots of good work from you today, much appreciated. Ifnord (talk) 18:11, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Ifnord: This is actually my first barnstar. Thank you very much! Kirbanzo (talk) 18:12, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Deletion review for Eric Ding

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Eric Ding. 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. – FenixFeather ^{(talk)(Contribs)} 20:38, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Alison Moyet

Why are you calling my edits to this article "vandalism" when the edit you keep reverting to is a clear misrepresentation of the letter she signed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.145.211.32 (talk) 19:33, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Please review my merger

Dear Kirbanzo,

After receiving consensus among interested prior editors I completed the merger. Since I am a nooby to editing wikipedia, please review my changes.

Thank you for your time, 24.21.215.155 (talk) 22:39, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #020, 12 Oct 2018

Whew, a lot has been happening.

A bit of defending of the portals has been needed. But, most activity recently has been directed upon maintenance and development of existing portals.

The majority of portals now use the new design, about 2400 of them, leaving around 1200 portals that still employ the old style.

Newest portals

Please inspect these portals, and report problems or suggest improvements at WT:WPPORTD. Thank you.

MfDs

Since the last issue of this newsletter, Nineteen portals were nominated for deletion. All posted by the same person.

Two portals were deleted.

One resolved as "no consensus".

Sixteen resolved as "keep".

Links to the archived discussions are provided below:

Many thanks to those who participated in the discussions.

To watch for future MfD's, keep in mind that the Portals WikiProject is supported by automatic alerts. You can see them at: Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals#Article alerts: portals for deletion at MfD

Creation criteria

There was also some discussion of creation criteria for portals. The result was that one of the participants in the discussion reverted the portal guidelines to the old version, which has the minimum number of articles for a portal included in there: "about 20 articles", a guideline that was in place since 2009.

Many of the portals that existed prior to April 2018 do not have that many (being limited to however many subpages the portal creator created), and therefore, these portals need to be upgraded to the new design (which automatically provides many articles for display). Using the new design, exceeding 20 articles for display is very easy.

Linking to the new portals

Efforts have been underway to place links to new portals (all 2200 of them created since April).

Link (portal button) from corresponding category pages. Done
Link from See also section on corresponding root articles. Partially implemented
Link from bottom of corresponding templates. Partially implemented
Link for each portal on Portal:Contents/Portals. Partially implemented

Your help is needed. It is easy to access the page mentioned in #1, #2, & #3 from the portals themselves.

AWBers could do these tasks even faster (that's how the category pages were done), except #4...

Item #4 above pretty much has to be done by hand. (If you can find a way to speed that up, I would be very impressed). The links needing placement can be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet. Instructions are included there.

The conversion effort: news sections

There are still around 1200 old-style portals that have only undergone partial conversion to the new design concepts, still relying on subpages with copied/pasted excerpts that have been going stale for years, out of date (manually posted) news entries, etc.

The section currently being tackled on these is news. You can help by deleting any news section on the old-style portals that has news entries that are years old (that is the dead giveaway to a manual news section). Be sure not to delete the news sections of portals that have up-to-date news, or active maintainers. For maintainers, look at the portal's categories, and/or check the participants list at WP:WPPORT.

Eventually, conditional news sections (that appear only when news items are available for display) will be added using AWB to all portals without a news section.

News items (and even the news sections themselves) are automatically generated for portals that were created using the Basic portal start page. On those portals, there is a hidden comment at the top of the page (that you can see in the edit window), that says this:

Design development

Presently, we are in the process of implementing the new design features, creating new portals with them, and installing them in existing portals.

But, what about development of new new design features?

We have a wish department.

Post your wishes at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Design#Discussions about possible cool new features, and they might come true. Many have already, and for many of those, this is where they were posted.

Cascade effect

A resource that has been elusive so far will be obtained eventually: categories. That is, the ability to pull category member links to populate a page.

Rather than populate portals directly with such links, it may be more beneficial to the encyclopedia to utilize them in navigation footers, because portals already have the ability to generate themselves based on those.

So, this would create a cascade effect: auto-gathering entries from categories, would enable the construction of new navigation footers, that would in turn support the development of new portals.

The cascade effect would also be felt by existing portals, as existing navigation footers could be expanded using the category harvesting methods, which would in turn expand the coverage of portals that access those navigation footers.

You can help by providing leads about any potential category harvesting methods. Please report anything you know about harvesting categories at WT:WPPORTD. Thank you.

Looking into the future: the quantum portal?

One idea that has been floating around is the concept of a pageless portal. That is, a portal that isn't stored anywhere, instead being generated when you click on a menu item or button.

Many of the new portals were generated by a single click, and then saved via a second click.

Therefore, it seems likely that the portals of the future will employ the one-click concept.

Because of the need for customization by users, this concept would need to be augmented with a way to integrate user contributions. This could be done in at least two ways: posting an existing portal, autogenerating one from scratch if such does not yet exist, or have a special data page for user contributions that is folded into the auto-generated portal.

How soon? That is up to you. All that is needed are persons to implement it.

Until next time...

Keep up the good work on portals. They are improving daily. Thank you. — The Transhumanist 04:22, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Clerking AIV

I understand that you're trying to be helpful, but could you please stop attempting to clerk AIV? This type of clerking of admin boards such as AIV and UAA comes up again and again and editors are asked to stop doing so as it's not helpful as intended. Any admin still needs to review the reports, and editors who can't act on them who pipe in to add their comments are no help to the reviewing admins regardless of the nature of the intent. It just adds more verbiage and clutter to the report. I'm sure there are plenty of other places that can use your enthusiastic assistance? -- Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 21:40, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Alright, I wont add in the templates anymore. Kirbanzo (talk) 21:52, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you! Your efforts are appreciated, but it makes it harder to review the reports and causes confusion as to what's been acted on and what's outstanding.-- Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 22:04, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Fair enough. I'll save doing that for when people judge me worthy of adminship, as it should be. Kirbanzo (talk) 16:36, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #024, 26 Dec 2018

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

Portals status

We now have 4,620 portals.

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

Can we make it?

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

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

Evad is back!

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

Be sure to welcome him back.

Improved cropping is coming to Portal image banner

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

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

Upgrade of flagship portals is underway

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

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

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

Spotting missing portals that are redirects

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

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

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

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

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

What's new in portal space?

Here are the new portals since the last issue:

Keep 'em coming!

And I'll see you next issue.

Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 08:09, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Spontaneous Combustion

Hi Kirbanzo, it seems you have mistakenly flagged my correct edits as vandalism. Please visit the the relevant talk page and correct your mistake. Btw I did justify the relatively minor edit the first time I made it, so it's odd it would be presumed to be vandalism without whoever flagged it as such at least taking the trouble to consider my assertion. Ventifact (talk) 00:19, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

See my reply on said talk page. Kirbanzo ^{(userpage - talk - contribs)} 02:36, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2019).

Administrator changes

Evad37

There'sNoTime

Alex Shih • Brian • Mushroom • Nakon • Oscarthecat • PeruvianLlama • Ragib • Reaper Eternal • Rossami • Tom

Interface administrator changes

Evad37 • Galobtter

Ritchie333

CheckUser changes

There'sNoTime

Keegan • Ks0stm

Oversight changes

There'sNoTime

Ks0stm • Sphilbrick

Guideline and policy news

The RfC on administrator activity requirements failed to reach consensus for any proposal.
Following discussions at the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and Wikipedia talk:Administrators, an earlier change to the restoration of adminship policy was reverted. If requested, bureaucrats will not restore administrator permissions removed due to inactivity if there have been five years without a logged administrator action; this "five year rule" does not apply to permissions removed voluntarily.

Technical news

A new tool is available to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.

Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee announced two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g., WP:COIN or WP:SPI).
- paid-en-wpwikipedia.org has been set up to receive private evidence related to abusive paid editing.
- checkuser-en-wpwikipedia.org has been set up to receive private requests for CheckUser. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to this address instead of the functionaries-en list.

Miscellaneous

Following the 2019 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Base, Einsbor, Jon Kolbert, Schniggendiller, and Wim b.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:13, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Hey, no problem

I'm mostly concerned with the question of Stallman as member of fandom; you're mostly concerned with the question of "rms" or "RMS". It's just they were in the same thread. Glad to work with you; I suggest you grill the trout on a cedar plank and season with lemon and roast red peppers. --Orange Mike | Talk 01:48, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

Laicization

Please see Talk:Paul Shanley. Please use accurate terminology when speaking of a legal case within the Catholic Church. Nobody who is Catholic speaks of "defrocking" because it's a term made up by Protestants to describe a completely different process. 2600:8800:1880:FC:5604:A6FF:FE38:4B26 (talk) 21:26, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

See talk page. Kirbanzo ^{(userpage - talk - contribs)} 21:26, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

Wiki virgin

So, a funny thing. My 1st attempt at editing Wikipedia was today 3/30/19. I noticed my hometown had an offensive entry (in my opinion) that I wanted deleted. I also wanted to add a short version of how the town was named according to the celebrated and very historically accurate sesquicentennial celebratory book created through countless hours of research. This simple addition (about 11 words) to our towns wikihistory added a small amount of charm to a otherwise bland (in my opinion) depiction of someone’s recollection. The quote was exact (hence the quotes). Although I am brand new and still learning apparently I needed to source my information properly, which I did not do. Maybe (since you are apparently an expert level wiki editor) you could assist me in how to contribute formally. I find it quite interesting that you deleted my entry. According to your bio you are 17 and live in Colorado. Well I am 39 and live in Farmer City. I’m sure you’ll understand the importance of sharing your yeoman level skill with such a shameful editor. Perhaps one day I too can spitefully reverse, correct, and edit whomever and whatever topic I choose but for now I need a mentor. Can you be mine Yeoman? EastatDawn (talk) 04:49, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

Administrator changes

Reaper Eternal • ThaddeusB

Bogdangiusca • Christopher Parham • Necrothesp • Schneelocke • Siroxo • Sarah

Mentifisto → Lofty abyss

Interface administrator changes

Mr. Stradivarius

Bureaucrat changes

DeltaQuad

Kingturtle

Technical news

In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link.
The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Please see meta:Community health initiative/User reporting system consultation 2019 to provide your input on this idea.

Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee clarified that the General 1RR prohibition for Palestine-Israel articles may only be enforced on pages with the {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} edit notice.

Miscellaneous

Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:57, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Hi there!

Hi Kirbanzo, please join the discussion here to resolved this moustache issue. 124.176.145.159 (talk) 01:10, 9 April 2019 (UTC)