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Portals WikiProject update #021, 24 Oct 2018

Portals have passed the 4,000 mark.

More new portals...

Here's a list of portals created since the last issue

List of new portals

Please inspect these portals, report problems or suggest improvements at WT:WPPORTD, or develop them further (see below). Thank you.

What's next?

There is still lots to do...

There are many subject gaps that need to be filled. This can be done by creating new portals, or by adding Selected article sections to existing portals. To create a new portal, simply place {{subst:Basic portal start page}} on an empty portal page, and click "Preview". If the portal is complete, click "Save". After you try it, come share your experience and excitement at WT:WPPORTD.

Each new portal is just a starting point. Each portal of the new design can be further developed by:

refining the search parameters to improve the results displayed in the Did you know and In the news sections.
adding more specific Selected articles sections, like Selected biographies.
inserting a Recognized content section.
adding more pictures to the image slideshow.
placing a panoramic picture at the top of the intro section (especially for geographic portals).

Besides the new portals, there are still about 1200 portals of the old design that need to be converted to the new design.

Many portals need to be de-orphaned, by placing links to them (in the See also section of the corresponding root articles, at the bottom of the corresponding navigation footer templates, and on the corresponding category pages).

Many of the new portals still need to be listed at Portal:Contents/Portals.

Bugs keep popping up in portals. These need to be tracked down and reported at WT:WPPORTD.

Tools are needed to make developing and maintaining portals quicker and easier.

Dreaming up new features and capabilities. Innovation needs to continue, to design the portal of tomorrow, and the portal development-maintenance-system of the future. Automation!

So, if you find yourself with a little (or a lot) of free time, pick an area (or more) above and...

...dive in! — The Transhumanist 07:04, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Capital i

It's a capital i, not an l. Confused me at first :). Adam9007 (talk) 21:06, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. Kirbanzo (talk) 21:07, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Please do not modify my comments

You modified my comments here to make it look like I declined an unblock request. I did not decline the unblock request, I was making a comment to the IP. I am involved with this situation from a non-admin point and it would be wrong for me to decline his unblock request. ~ GB fan 15:54, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Wasn't aware. Apologies. Kirbanzo (talk) 15:54, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Please do not motify William von Meister

Please do not motify my grandfather's page without letting me know, Thank you. Sabermoose (talk) 18:47, 29 October 2018 (EST)

You have a conflict of interest, and as such I feel that you requiring edits to be run by you is a serious violation of Wikipedia's neutrality policy. I'm going to ignore this as attempting to claim ownership. Kirbanzo (talk) 17:07, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Skylar Hoffman ex bass player for full of hell band

Hello I just recieved your message about adding a past member for the band Full Of Hell. What did I do wrong to add him? Thereaperwatches (talk) 00:16, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

@Thereaperwatches: You need to cite a reliable source. Kirbanzo (talk)

Recent Corrections

Hi there Kirbanzo! You had flagged an edit I made regarding the background provided for the Love & Hip Hop cast members. The information I added in was based upon the current season's season finale. In that episode, Paris Phillips opens up about one of her very good and close friends Riley Nacke, who is a social media mogul (which I'm a very big fan of myself). I'm unsure as to how I would cite that information since no online textual reference would be available. However, it does appear in one of the episodes - before the season reunion. The other change I made was grammatical - "for" to "from." Please let me know how I can appropriately make these changes. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rlynck2 (talk • contribs) 20:43, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

@Rlynick2: Sourcing was mainly the issue. You should cite a reliable source to verify that your claims are correct. Unsourced claims and information are generally removed. Kirbanzo (talk) 20:46, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

I have found a reliable source and cited it. Thank you!

Portals WikiProject update #022, 11 Nov 2018

Welcome AmericanAir88

Give a hearty welcome to AmericanAir88, who has adopted working on portals as one of his main purposes on Wikipedia. So far, he has created the following portals:

Way to go!

Where's Evad?

Evad disappeared from Wikipedia on October 18.

He has been, and will continue to be, sorely missed.

Hopefully, he is okay, on a Caribbean cruise or something.

The conversion continues

Portals of the old design, are slowly but surely being converted to the new single-page design.

One factor that has slowed things down is that for many sections, the section header call and section contents call are integrated into a template and buried in a lua module, locking them in on each portal. They have been that way for years.

This means that these sections can't be directly edited like the other sections on the same portal. So, search/replaces affect all the sections except those. So, upgrading headers on these portals, for example, misses the integrated sections and inadvertently results in 2 different header colors.

Before we can continue with the upgrade of these portals, the headers and section contents calls need to be restored to each portal, so that those can be edited in concert with the other sections on the portal, and worked on independently of each other.

This is underway, with a solution implemented on about 1/4 of the affected portals so far. Around 300 of them. The remaining 900 should be done within a couple weeks or so.

Going wide...

We now have banner-shaped pictures included in the introduction sections of 180 portals. The rarity of such pictures has made it difficult to find suitably narrow images for display across the tops of portals.

We have a solution for this, courtesy of FR30799386...

Most pictures are not banner-shaped. But, you can still use them as banners. Here's how:

{{Portal image banner|File:Blueberries .jpg |maxheight=120px |overflow=Hidden }}

Using both maxheight=120px and overflow=Hidden produces this:

Project's status

There are now 4,140 portals, with more being created almost daily. Prior to this project's reboot, portals were created at about the rate of 80 per year. Since April of this year, we've created about 2,600 new portals, or 32.5 years' worth at the old rate.

Of those new portals, about 3/4 of them need links leading to them. Almost all of them are linked to from the category system, but they still need links in article see also sections, at the bottom of navigation templates, and on the main portals list at Portal:Contents/Portals.

Of the 1500 portals created before the reboot, about 300 have been completely converted to the new design so far. About 1100 more have been partially converted, with intros, image slideshows, and associated wikimedia sections getting the most attention.

Discussion has resumed on the portal guidelines.

Until next issue...

See ya round the portal system! — The Transhumanist 11:43, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #023, 25 Nov 2018

There are now 4,180 portals.

Will we break 5,000 by the end of the year?

I know we can. But, that is up to you!

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

Happy Holidays

Hello everyone! Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice (if it's occurring in your area of the world), and thanks for your work in maintaining, improving, and expanding portals. Cheers, — The Transhumanist 06:51, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

Jingling along

The following portals have been created since the last issue:

Keep 'em coming!

By the way, the above list was generated using this Petscan query. It can be easily modified by changing the date. The data page (under the Output tab) also has options for receiving the data in CSV or tabbed format, which some operating systems automatically load into a spreadsheet program for ease of use, such as copying and pasting the desired column (like page names).

In closing

We'll keep it short this issue.

Expect a flood next time. Or the one after that.

Cheerio, — The Transhumanist 07:16, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Block templates

I've seen you place block templates on user talk pages a couple of times today. Please don't do this. There could be a very good reason why an admin or checkuser does not leave a block template; if you think it was an accidental oversight you can ask the admin on their talk page but please don't take it upon yourself to add one. Thank you, -- Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 23:10, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Alright. Just trying to make sure people are notified of why they suddenly can't edit. Kirbanzo (talk) 23:11, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you.-- Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 23:21, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Hello, I was correcting a biased entry that didn't state facts or was misinterpreting studies it cited

For an opinion that definitely wasn't neutral in addition to having several spelling mistakes. Please re-review the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.194.243.213 (talk) 19:38, 5 December 2018 (UTC) And also, the entry I edited was making extremely biased statements with a "citation needed" message before I edited it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.194.243.213 (talk) 19:44, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

Reiki

Kirbanzo,

Sorry about reverting your revert on the article about Reiki. Are you free to talk about this? I'm sure we can reach a consensus.

-Aaron

184.155.86.34 (talk) 00:12, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Andronovo culture

Hi, I removed a source from the Andronovo culture and you undid that. I can explain why I removed the source. If you go to the removed source you can see that the samples they tested where from the Ukraine not Siberia, and circa 5000 years ago ( which is before the Andronovo culture existed). The source is not about the Andronovo culture. I'm new to wikipedia so I apologize if the reason for the changes weren't clear. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mithmacar2 (talk • contribs) 21:40, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

You need to explain that in the edit summary next time. Kirbanzo (talk) 21:49, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
Sorry, I thought I did that. I guess I wrote it in the wrong place, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mithmacar2 (talk • contribs) 22:16, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Cosmetic changes, again

Just a reminder: with these edits, you replaced some spaces in other people's comments. I'm guessing you're using the Visual Editor? I don't know a lot about how these changes might creep into your edits; I suggest you ask somewhere like WP:Village pump (technical). isaacl (talk) 23:17, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I'll open up a discussion. Kirbanzo (talk) 14:33, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

@Isaacl: Turns out it's wikiED: WP:WIKEDNBSP. Kirbanzo (talk) 14:57, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your followup. Note the guidance to replace the non-breaking space character with visible markup is part of the manual of style, and holds for mainspace articles, since editors may need to edit the text and realize a non-breaking space character is there. The guidance is not applicable for talk pages, where editing the comments of others is generally not done. I appreciate your co-operation. isaacl (talk) 17:15, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

I'll make sure to edit it out if I do catch it doing that again. Kirbanzo (talk) 17:18, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
- Was just amending my previous statement to say in some cases it isn't a big deal to have a few extraneous replacements, but in other cases like the first one I raised it's cumbersome. Thank you! isaacl (talk) 17:21, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

No problem. Kirbanzo (talk) 17:24, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

You removed an entry I made from Grumpy Old Men

I added two people who played the baby in the movie Grumpy Old Men. This was an uncredited role for twins who lived in southern MN where the movie was shot. One of them is my sister-in-law. Please allow this entry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sullivanevan (talk • contribs) 15:08, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

@Sullivanevan: That suggests you have a conflict of interest. Per our policy, I can't do that. Kirbanzo (talk) 15:11, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

I cannot figure out how to reply to that.

A conflict of interest? That's absurd, who else would know about except people who are close to her? We are talking about a baby in a 25-year-old movie here...not rewriting history.

The policy is laid out. Kirbanzo (talk) 15:17, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Such absurdity. I don't even care at this point but your reasoning is just plain stupid. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sullivanevan (talk • contribs) 15:24, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

I told you, the policy is laid out. Make an edit request on the article's talk page with a reliable source. Kirbanzo (talk) 15:25, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #025, 30 Dec 2018

We can now crop the tops of pics to make banners

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

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

So, this:

Niagara falls, from the Canadian side

Becomes this:

Niagara falls, from the Canadian side

Here's the code for the above banner:

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

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

About that end of the year goal...

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

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

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

Congratulations!

What's next?

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

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

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

And whatever else you can dream up.

But most of all, have a...

Happy New Year!

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

Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 12:05, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

removed false info from mashgiach page

i removed the info of the 2 organizations because it was false. The term Mashgiach is to ensure Kasharuth, that the food is Halachiky Kosher according to the Orthodox understanding of the laws of the Bible. These organizations may monitor the social correctness or that the food is healthy but that does not make them a Mashgiach organizaion and therefore does not belong on the Mashgiach page. Please revert my removal, thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.24.207.252 (talk) 17:55, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

needs to be updated

Damien Linson Former Professional Football Player, Baltimore Ravens , German Football League Bowl Champions Kiel Baltic Hurricanes 2010

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/players/playerpage/1226247/damien-linson

https://247sports.com/Player/Damien-Linson-49259/

https://www.thewashingtondailynews.com/2010/07/25/linson-staring-overseesformer-plymouth-standout-playing-football-in-germany/

http://www.espn.com/nfl/jogador/bio/_/id/10886/damien-linson

https://www.baltic-hurricanes.de/newsdetail/wohnen-wie-die-hurricanes-part-2.html

This guy should have been up here. He played collegiate football at central michigan university, baltimore Ravens followed and Kiel Baltic Hurricanes. I was a Bowl Champion in Europe, all documented. Stop deleting — Preceding unsigned comment added by Whitecityplymouth (talk • contribs) 05:04, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

@Whitecityplymouth: You referrring to yourself as the subject of the article means you have a conflict of interest, which means you should not be editing articles that you may be unduly influenced by real life connections. Our policy on COI editors means your edits cannot be reinstated; consider adding an edit request disclosing a COI on the article talk page. Kirbanzo (talk) 23:44, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

OW on 2601:204:C201:C1E0:486:F262:586B:118D

I noticed you deleted a lot of stuff with this edit, to replace with a {{ow}}. I'm not sure it's appropriate - it would be for an IPv4 address, where the address gets recycled. But this type of IPv6 address is a specific computer, with MAC address F2:62:58:6B:11:8D, not just a location. So all those edits are certainly done from the same computer, and given the pattern, almost certainly the same problem individual.

Something to keep in mind for future IP talk pages, there's a huge distinction between significance of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Regards, Tarl N. (discuss) 07:32, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know of this. I'll keep this in mind. Kirbanzo (talk) 01:47, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi

Hi there, Apologies there. Was just a typo code mistake. Best regards to you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1017:B405:6E9B:700E:3E26:2BE:A123 (talk) 00:36, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

Perfectly fine - just make sure to proofread any markup you use. Kirbanzo (talk) 00:39, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

Sure! Thanks and best regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1017:B405:6E9B:700E:3E26:2BE:A123 (talk) 00:43, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

Oregon Military Museum

I was wondering why you changed my edits for the Oregon Military Museum, I don't understand why you think I might have a conflict of interest. This museum is now NOT named after any one person. This is by order of the Adjutant General of the Oregon Military Department, he is the top military person in the state of Oregon and the museum belongs to the Oregon Military Department. I gave you three people who will confirm this information. I hope you verify this information before you continue to support a site with really wrong information.

Oregon Military Museum 503-683-5359 Oregon Department of Military (Salem) Inspector General 503-584-3980

```` — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oremilhistory (talk • contribs) 03:38, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

Oregon Military Museum

As further information concerning the veracity of my information, just look on oregonmilitarymuseum.org, the official website, and you will see that there is no naming for an individual. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oremilhistory (talk • contribs) 04:23, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

I still do not have an answer to why you removed my edit for the Oregon Military Museum. I explained to you that I did not have an association with TH museum nor was I advertising anything. I explained to you the difference between the Wikipedia page and the Museum's web site. I gave you the phone numbers of 3 people who confirmed the information to me. So, what is the problem here.Oremilhistory (talk) 23:07, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

I have not been able to get an explanation about why you removed my changes. I will give it a little more time for you to digest my explanation and then nvestigate the information discrepancies ( which I investigated and gave you my results) between the Oregon military Museum website and the Wikipedia website. I will be gone and upon return if I do not have a response I will go to an administrator. I acknowledge your personal mission but you do state that you are new and could make mistakes. This might be one that needs your arrention.

Oremilhistory (talk) 22:00, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Self-trout: ~~My userpage still says that I'm new? Well, that's a fix to make.~~

Anyway, the reason I wasn't giving a response was because I thought the situation would resolve itself since you've stated that you have good faith. Sorry if my silence gave the wrong impression. Kirbanzo (talk) 01:19, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Sorry, wrong person

Sorry I think you have the wrong person because I didn't change anything in this Debbie Allen Wikipedia. I was certainly on this cite but I never edited anything and if I did it was most likely on accident. Sorry for the inconvenience. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8807:B400:CFA0:D579:A041:7313:2022 (talk) 01:00, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #029, 13 Feb 2019

Where we are at:

Single-page portals: 4,704

Total portals: 5,705

The Ref desks survived the proposal to shut them down

You might be familiar with the Ref desks, by their link on every new portal. They are a place you can go to ask volunteers almost any knowledge-related question, and have been a feature of Wikipedia since August of 2005 (or perhaps earlier). They were linked to from portals in an effort to improve their visibility, and to provide a bridge from the encyclopedia proper to project space (the Wikipedia community).

Well, somebody proposed that we get rid of them, and the community decided that that was not going to happen. Thank you for defending the Ref desks!

Here's a link to the dramatic discussion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Indefinitely_semiprotecting_the_refdesk#Proposal_II:_Shut_down_the_Ref_Desks

The cleanup after sockpuppet Emoteplump continues...

The wake of disruption left by Emoteplump and the admins who reverted many (but not all) of his/her edits is still undergoing cleanup. We could use all the help we can get on this task...

Almost all of the speedy deleted portals have been rebuilt from scratch.

For the portals he/she restarted (many of which were done mistakenly, overwriting restarts and further development that had already been done), and/or tagged as the maintainer, see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Emoteplump&oldid=881568794#Additional_Portals_under_my_watch

10,000 portals, here we come...

We're at 5,705 portals and counting.

New portals since issue #28

Prior to 2018, for the previous 14 years, portal creation was at about 80 portals per year on average. We did over 3 times that in just the past 9 days. At this rate, we'll hit the 10,000 portal mark in 5 months. But, I'm sure we can do it sooner than that.

What's next for portal pages?

There are 5 drives for portal development:

Create new portals
Expand existing portals, such as with new sections like Recognized content
Convert or restart old-style portals into automated single-page portals
Link to new portals from the encyclopedia
Pageless portals

Let's take a closer look at these...

1: Creating new portals

Portal creation, for subjects that happen to have the necessary support structures already in place, is down to about a minute per portal. The creation part, which is automated, takes about 10 seconds. The other 50 seconds is taken up by manual activities, such as finding candidate subjects, inspecting generated portals, and selecting the portal creation template to be used according to the resources available. Tools are under development to automate these activities as much as possible, to pare portal creation time down even more. Ten seconds each is the goal.

Eventually, we are going to run out of navigation templates to base portals off of. Though there are still thousands to go. But, when they do run out, we'll need an easy way to create more. A nav footer creation script.

Meanwhile, other resources are being explored and developed, such as categories, and methods to harvest the links they contain.

2: Expanding existing portals

The portal collection is growing, not only by the addition of new portals, but by further developing the ones we already have, by...

Improving and/or adding search parameters to better power the Did you know and In the news sections.
Adding more selected content sections, like Selected biographies.
Adding and maintaining Recognized content sections, via JL-Bot.
Adding pictures to the image slideshow.
Adding panoramic pics.
Categorizing portals.

More features will be added as we dream them up and design them. So, don't be shy, make a wish.

3: Converting old portals

By far the hardest and most time-consuming task we have been working on is updating the old portals, the very reason we revamped this WikiProject in the first place.

There are two approaches here:

A) Restart a portal from scratch, using our automated tools. For basic no-frills portals, that works find. But, for more elaborate portals, as that tends to lose content and features, the following approach is being tried...

B) Upgrade a portal section by section, so little to nothing is lost in the process.

4: Linking to new portals

Or "portal deorphanization"...

Dreamy Jazz Bot is purring along.

And a tool in the form of a script is under development for linking to portals at the time they are created, or shortly thereafter.

5...

See below...

New WikiProject for the post-saved-portal phase of operations...

Saved portals, are portals with a saved page.

What is the next stage in the evolutionary progression?

Quantum portals.

What are quantum portals?

Portals that come into existence when you click on the portal button, and which disappear when you leave the page.

Or, as Pbsouthwood put it:

...portals that exist only as a probability function (algorithm) until you collapse the wave form by observing through the portal button (run the script), and disappear again after use...

Introducing...

Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals (see it's talk page).

Keep on keepin' on

...'til next time, — The Transhumanist 10:22, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Trout Valley Formation Edits

Hi there -

        Not sure why you deleted my edits to the Trout Valley Formation entry.  You said I hadn't provided documentation, but I did - a state web site and two published papers (one of which I co-authored).  There's a bunch of stuff in the entry on this topic that is antiquated and beyond dated - and there is NO warning that the unit occurs entirely within the confines of a state park, and that collecting of fossils is strictly prohibited.
        For some reason, Wikipedia won't let me log in - although I preserved my login password and it auto-enters.  Even after hitting your "recaptcha" squiggly code a dozen times, I kept getting rejected.
      - R. E. Nelson, Dept. of Geology, Colby College, Maine  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:6000:9FC0:E:442C:3A19:CB69:3C06 (talk) 01:43, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

If you're unable to log in, chances are that there's an error message on the login screen that explains what the problem is. Pay attention to it, as it may solve your problem. Anyway, the paper you co-authored could be considered a violation of our policy on conflicts of interest if you add it yourself. The other sources are fine - keep them. Apologies for the inconvenience. Kirbanzo (talk) 01:49, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Your signature

Hi, your signature, as used here and here, contains a newline immediately after color: which is causing it to be invisible in my browser. Please remove that newline. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 09:40, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Huh, that's not supposed to happen. I'll add a nonbreaking space to it. Kirbanzo ^{(userpage - talk - contribs)} 14:55, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
That won't work, a nbsp is invalid within a CSS declaration. The hash character should be immediately after the colon, or there may be a normal space between them. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:00, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Self-trout - Going to swap from using the subst: of the color template to just plain CSS code as that seems to be the problem. Kirbanzo ^{(userpage - talk - contribs)} 02:25, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Would you mind increasing the contrast of your username in your signature as I'm finding very difficult to read (and I don't normally have a problem with this) - your signature has a contrast ratio of 1.4:1 (according to [1]), WP:SIGNATURE recommends at least 4.5:1. Thanks. Thryduulf (talk) 21:38, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Here's the closest I could get without color alteration being too drastic: AAA aaa. Kirbanzo ^{(userpage - talk - contribs)} 00:43, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

The collection of portals has shrunk

All Portals closed at WP:MfD during 2019

Grouped Nominations total 127 Portals:

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/US County Portals Deleted 64 portals
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Districts of India Portals Deleted 30 Portals
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portals for Portland, Oregon neighborhoods Deleted 23 Portals
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Allen Park, Michigan Deleted 6 Portals
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cryptocurrency Deleted 2 Portals
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:North Pole Deleted 2 Portals

Individual Nominations:

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Circles Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Fruits Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:E (mathematical constant) Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Burger King Deleted
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Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:You Am I Deleted
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Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Lents, Portland, Oregon Deleted P2
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ankaran Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Jiu-jitsu Deleted G8
Portal:University of Nebraska Speedy Deleted P1/A10 exactly the same as Portal:University of Nebraska–Lincoln also created by the TTH

Related WikiProject:

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals Demoted

(Attribution: Copied from Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Portal MfD Results)

WikiProject Quantum portals

This was a spin-off from WikiProject Portals, for the purpose of developing zero-page portals (portals generated on-the-screen at the push of a button, with no stored pages).

It has been merged back into WikiProject Portals. In the MfD the vote was "demote". See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals.

Hiatus on mass creation of Portals

At WP:VPR, mass creation of Portals using semi-automated tools has been put on hold until clearer community consensus is established.

See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Hiatus on mass creation of Portals.

The Transhumanist banned from creating new portals for 3 months

See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Proposal 1: Interim Topic-Ban on New Portals.

Until next issue...

Keep on keepin' on. — The Transhumanist 19:06, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

Red Curtain Trilogy

Please don't patronise me. Take a look at the sources. The description of a "trilogy" is purely a marketing tool. No actual independent reliable sources exist that describe these films as a trilogy independent of the director's own interpretation. No need for consensus. Only need for independent sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7F:4839:D600:30F4:182B:D996:F701 (talk • contribs)

There are sources that are independent from my check of the reference list (CNN, Metacritic, and Rotten Tomatoes specifically), and this article can still exist even if it's not a trilogy. I'd personally edit it to be referenced as a boxed set. However, that does not warrant redirecting if independent sources on the subject exist - if you really think this article is problematic, make a WP:AfD nomination. Kirbanzo ^{(userpage - talk - contribs)} 22:06, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
- - Wow. Great research. Did you actually bother to read those references? They all refer to the individual films. Not a single reference actually establishes the "trilogy" as an entity in its own right. Where are your sources for that? 2A02:C7F:4839:D600:30F4:182B:D996:F701 (talk) 22:11, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
    - I guess using templates to hand out "internet bans" makes you feel important? Rather than taking the simple option and trying to make yourself feel empowered, try actually evaluating the situation and assessing whether the sources establish notability. There is currently nothing there that demonstrates that these 3 films are actually a trilogy outside of some weird marketing tool that has wrapped them up together for a quick buck. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7F:4839:D600:30F4:182B:D996:F701 (talk) 22:18, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
      - Not an attack in any sense. Care to actually respond to the points I raised? 2A02:C7F:4839:D600:30F4:182B:D996:F701 (talk) 22:22, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
Hilarious. "I've tried discussing on my talk page User talk:Kirbanzo#Red Curtain Trilogy but they refuse to acknowledge my points." You have not attempted to engage in discussion at all. I seem to be the only one actually commenting on your talk page. You just jump to the "wiki naughty boy template". Explain to me how this page is actually worthy of an article? Where are the independent sources that establish this as a bone fide trilogy? 2A02:C7F:4839:D600:30F4:182B:D996:F701 (talk) 22:31, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Personal attacks are what you just did - commenting on a contributor instead of content. I was going to respond to that claim by saying that nowhere in that article or in the sources is it referred to as a true trilogy, but it seems that's moot if you're not going to try and be civil. Kirbanzo ^{(userpage - talk - contribs)} 22:37, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

- I did not make a personal attack. I asked you a question. I am being perfectly civil. If it is not a "true" trilogy, then it does not need an article. No independent source refers to these films as a trilogy outside of referring to a DVD release. If you want to keep this civil, stop patronising me by slapping silly templates on everything and actually engage in an adult discussion about this. 2A02:C7F:4839:D600:30F4:182B:D996:F701 (talk) 22:42, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
- Edit. You should note, another editor undid my reversion of your deletion of my "personal attack", and immediately reinstated it. Clearly they had no issue. 2A02:C7F:4839:D600:30F4:182B:D996:F701 (talk) 22:43, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

A google scholar search finds a number of sources that refer to and/or examine Baz Luhrmann's Red Curtain Trilogy. Schazjmd (talk) 22:48, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for this, Schazjmd. Kirbanzo ^{(userpage - talk - contribs)} 22:52, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

@2A02:C7F:4839:D600:30F4:182B:D996:F701 and 2A02:C7F:4839:D600:30F4:182B:D996:F701: Review these, if you please. Kirbanzo ^{(userpage - talk - contribs)} 22:54, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

- In answer to point 2, no, that would simply be a question. Not an attack. In answer to point 1, I will evaluate later, but on first look, no, there don't seem to be any meaningful references to the trilogy there. You can't just google something and look at the results page, you actually need to read those references to establish reliability and notability. 2A02:C7F:4839:D600:30F4:182B:D996:F701 (talk) 23:01, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

I just offered some avenues to explore, if either of you are interested in digging into them. I don't have an opinion either way. Schazjmd (talk) 23:12, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Just because it's a question doesn't exonerate it from being a personal attack. I've seen several bad-faith questions in my career as a vandal buster here - "I guess using templates to hand out "internet bans" makes you feel important?" certainly seems to be one.

And to answer it - I'm not doing it for personal reasons, I'm doing it as there's a general consensus to warn people when we revert them, or when their conduct rails against Wikipedia's policies. And the "internet ban" thing isn't exactly factual - admins only block people, bans are an entirely different matter. Kirbanzo ^{(userpage - talk - contribs)} 23:10, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Don't be so presumptuous. You have been here a little over a year. Referring to yourself as having a "career" as a "vandal buster" seems to me to be in rather bad faith also - you presume I am a vandal, but that is clearly not the case. I am not merely deleting things for fun. I explained my reasoning but you continued to revert me and then report me instead of assessing the valid point I raised. Take a look at those references, nothing establishes notability for this article. The individual films are notable, yes, but the trilogy does not even exist outside of a DVD release. 2A02:C7F:4839:D600:30F4:182B:D996:F701 (talk) 23:18, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
as for the "internet ban" thing, that was intended to be humorous to lighten the mood. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7F:4839:D600:30F4:182B:D996:F701 (talk) 23:22, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
I never said you were a vandal, and 'career' is a hyperbole. And humor has no place in a serious discussion. I admit that I'm not the most experienced person out there.

At this point I'm going to start ignoring this and just move on. I'll let a Wikipedia admin decide what should be done about this. Kirbanzo ^{(userpage - talk - contribs)} 23:30, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Your sig

Hi - I just saw your signature on a user's talk page when I went to give them a warning. I'm sorry if this comes across as slightly dickish, but I wonder if you'd consider changing the colour slightly - it's almost invisible against the white background on my screen. Per WP:SIGAPP, our signatures are supposed to be easy to read for people with visual disabilities; I've got pretty-near perfect vision, and I struggle with it! Cheers GirthSummit _(blether) 18:07, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

Alright, I'll try to slightly darken it. Kirbanzo^{(userpage - talk - contribs)} 18:08, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

You guys are persistent

Are you guys looking at what is actually being published or NO. Damien Linson was a member or the Baltimore Ravens(NFL) and 2010 (GFL Champions) Kiel Baltic Hurricanes. Select a search engine and do your research, facts are facts. However to consistently delete facts when there are notable people who have done less, seems a little off. To the editors its 2019, based off of the criteria it should actually be a few more names on the list. As long as you guys delete, the information will be resubmitted because they are facts. National Football League and German Football League are both professional leagues. Editors please put your personal issues aside, just do your research and thank you. If you have an issue with the editor, feel free to make changes yourself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Whitecityplymouth (talk • contribs) 18:16, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Kirbanzo - FYI that @Whitecityplymouth: started a similar thread at the Teahouse related to this, and I was corrected for thinking the same as you. Wikipedia:Teahouse#You_guys_are_persistent. TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 19:07, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

@Timtempleton: Thanks for the heads up, I'll respond there. Kirbanzo ^{(userpage - talk - contribs)} 21:48, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Decided to close the thing and issue a warning based on what I saw. I haven't been involved with this user for a while now (was hoping a WP:RBI would have happened if he kept it up) so I'm technically impartial enough? Feel free to undo the close if you disagree. Kirbanzo ^{(userpage - talk - contribs)} 22:06, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

@Kirbanzo: I didn't want to reply on Teahouse because the thread was closed, but Damien Linson isn't a college player now, he did sign with the Baltimore Ravens but was cut before playing in any regular season games. Then ~~Now~~ he playsed for the German Football League. (I just saw that GFL was in 2010, he graduated college in 2006). I've no clue if that's sufficient for football notability, just wanted to clear up the misconception that Linson's still in college. Schazjmd (talk) 22:24, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Well then. Since WP:GRIDIRON isn't met though (hasn't played in an actual NFL football game), there's stil nothing to suggest he's notable enough to be mentioned. Kirbanzo ^{(userpage - talk - contribs)} 22:29, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Are you a bot

are you a bot Oofric Stormbloke (talk) 22:43, 14 March 2019 (UTC) ?

No. Kirbanzo ^{(userpage - talk - contribs)} 22:46, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #030, 17 Mar 2019

Previous issue:

Single-page portals: 4,704

Total portals: 5,705

This issue:

Single-page portals: 4,562

Total portals: 5,578

Voynich Manuscript

Please put back the edits. the text has been deciphered. all of the changed you made are wrong. Read the source that I cited for my change. thanks.

We don't say that unless there is a general consensus in the linguistics community that the decipher was correct. Kirbanzo ^{(userpage - talk - contribs)} 18:14, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

Jivamukti Yoga / edits reverted

Dear Kirbanzo - you reverted changes yesterday on the Jivamukti Yoga page which were made in order to correct inaccurate and biased information. As the text is currently written it is not an accurate portrayal of the issue, which was resolved. This must be modified, because it does not represent a neutral point of view on the issue, and is slander against Jivamukti Yoga. Satchidekambhrama (talk) 18:08, 22 May 2019 (UTC)