User talk:Daniel Case/Archive 22 10/4/2016-6/26/2019

Talk:Chandra Levy
After all that has happened, maybe we shall continue doing the case-by-case method. We gave our proposals our best shots, but they got shot down. By the way, I didn't want to notify you about the RM particularly because I'm an involved party of the ongoing ArbCom case (actually, I'm not the main subject of the case) and I shall tone down my notifications to the very minimal. Also, I had very patience and hopes that you would be there. Now that this is over, we shall use this article as precedent to how to treat every biography or articles about events related to just one person very carefully. --George Ho (talk) 01:30, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Ummm... I'm attempting a wikibreak here. Maybe you can do this without me. I have confidence that you can address the notability issue alone. Nevertheless, best recommended to construct RM procedures more often. Id est case by case. But I don't think WT:AT is a good place there to address concerns. The present title "Chandra Levy" is not considered against the naming policy despite content concerns. WT:DEATH is less populated; so is WT:WPBIO. What about Wikipedia talk:Notability (people), whose main project page WP:BIO1E redirects? That seems appropriate. Also, what about WP:VPP? --George Ho (talk) 03:05, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Welcome back
Mlpearc ( open channel ) 03:05, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Hmm? I have not been away. Daniel Case (talk) 03:10, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, welcome back equipped with a new axe :P Mlpearc  ( open channel ) 03:14, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

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Template:Did you know nominations/Rico Harris
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DYK for Rico Harris
Gatoclass (talk) 00:01, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Sun October 16: CommonsLab / Open House NY Photo Contest + Hackathon
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My block issue on Commons
Massage of PetarM,

Hi Daniel Case, my account on Commons is blocked by user INeverCry, also - importnant - my all texting is blocked neither i can see emails. And i need to step in contact with other Admin to check this case of "power abuse" which happaned. were erased by same Admin, of Ikan Kekek and King of Hearts, which i dont know what were. I would be glad if you could send this to any other admin on Commons (99of9 or (Admins list) ) to solve this issue, also i saw King of Hearts has Admin rights there.

I would also like if you could send all text to user Ikan Kekek and King of Hearts to ask what were their edits which were erased on that page.

(When copying text do from talk page so URLs wont be lost, if you cant do that let me know).

People can write me on my email petarmslo@gmail.com since i cant write on Commons.

regards, PetarM

--PetarM (talk) 07:50, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Re: List of people who disappeared mysteriously removals
Some of those have been uncited for months if not years. After not finding good sources (apart from murder porn-type sites), I gave up and stared removing them. I appreciate you adding some sources back in there, but you could agree that the article is a hot mess. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 22:58, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
 * To be fair, you had a point. It was just very late and I had something else in mind to be doing. Sorry. Daniel Case (talk) 00:50, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
 * We all get that way. I myself have edited far later than I should have (I was recently blocked for interacting with a particularly stubborn little fellow while I was editing too late and toor tired to have simply laughed at them and filed an RfC). I'm glad we talked, though. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 02:13, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Oversight
I accidentally edited while logged out. Can you oversight it so my IP doesn't show please? Felsic2 (talk) 15:09, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

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Asian 10,000 Challenge invite
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DYK for Disappearance of Joan Risch
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:36, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

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Re: Woodbridge photo
Looks good. There was more involved in this trip, right? We do need a better photo of Waldwick updated. Mine was in the pouring rain.

Also, at some point, I want to talk to you about potentially writing an Erie book. You're a much more gifted writer and I researcher. We both take photography and have options. I will talk about further details later. Mitch 32 (The ripest peach is highest on the tree.) 18:47, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Admin?
I recently noted this edit. It is ok to do so if the user is not really an administrator? Thank you. --Osplace 15:33, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Are you going to ask him to do so? --Osplace 15:47, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
 * What about all other user rights? I have checked, and it is weird, he seems just be a WP:EXTENDEDCONFIRMED user, but he claims a lot more, when verifying his suppose autopatrolled rights it appears tied to another user, User:Modernist, why? --Osplace 03:01, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Robert Donati
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Disappearance of Sky Metalwala
Hello! Your submission of Disappearance of Sky Metalwala at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 00:24, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Please take a look at my shortened version of your alt. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 18:42, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Pirelli Tower
I was stalking your Commons talk page and noticed that some of your recent photos of the Pirelli Tower were deleted. Could you upload your best one here on enwiki, to replace the current lead image (which is really ugly)? They're allowed under FoP-USonly: long story short, we follow only US law here, US law applies to foreign works by lex loci protectionis, so every building in the world can be uploaded as if it were in the US. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  ♠ 00:51, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Disappearance of Sky Metalwala
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

User impersonation
I found your name on List_of_administrators/Active. I hope this message is alright.

Yesterday someone made an account with a username virtually identical to mine and seems to be trying to impersonate me. They blanked my userpage (link) and my talk page (link) and redirected them to theirs. This other account is not mine. Could you look into this at your convenience?

Thank you, Chiafriend12 (talk) 16:09, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Chiafriend12 (talk) 12:27, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

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Disappearance of Joan Risch
Hi, I wouldn't say that the information that I moved was the summary of the whole article, just bits of information in the wrong places. I had to reformat the article, as it was poorly formatted. I have now split up the information and moved it to different parts of the article where it should be under Blood type and Possible later sightings. There is no need to remove material again, as the article was scrambled up and not formatted right to begin with. Also the information that I moved around gives different details then what is already listed.


 * (talk) 01:36, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

Incomplete DYK nomination
Daniel: Could you please help me complete the request below? I cannot understand what, where, and therefore how to complete whatever is incomplete in step 3 below. Gratefully - --Aboudaqn (talk) 01:46, 4 December 2016 (UTC)


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Requesting a third opinion
Seems that the "original research" tag is still in Murder of Sherri Rasmussen. Can you go to WP:3O for someone to volunteer? WP:NORN has become a dead-end or something. --George Ho (talk) 22:47, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
 * The image stays there. But I'll also request a third opinion on the lead image soon. --George Ho (talk) 23:20, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

Your request on the OR matter was declined. You might relist it if you want. I'm unsure what that person meant when he said "no thorough discussion (one-sided)". --George Ho (talk) 05:05, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Actually, I found possibly a back-and-forth, thorough discussion at WP:NORN. You can use this to re-request the 3rd opinion. But if that's not it, then I'll remove the tag. George Ho (talk) 06:02, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

File:Eric Garner police confrontation screenshot.PNG

 * File:Eric Garner police confrontation screenshot.jpg

I uploaded this image in response to the deletion nomination on the pre-death Garner image. If the image is shocking, at least I provided the link that you posted at FFD. Which time indicator is the least shocking but more understanding to the topic? --George Ho (talk) 00:12, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Talk:Murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward
The infobox image that I added is discussed. Also, the addition was reverted. Maybe you can help. --George Ho (talk) 12:04, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

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A discussion at biographies of living persons noticeboard
Hello, this is to let you know that I have mentioned your edits at Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard. MPS1992 (talk) 00:27, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
 * And you might want to undo your revert at he Metalwa article, and continue discussion. You've now been reverted by two different editors, using the SeeAlso MOS in the mistaken belief that it trumps BLP. Flip the script: if one editor was reverted by other editors pointing out legitimate problems, what would you advise them? Hint: its what you advised me, Daniel. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 06:21, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
 * The general rule is that you don't keep reverting back and forth while you're discussing ... it generally tends to show good faith. I am willing to discuss because I believe that policy, as it currently stands, supports that edit. We had a discussion where you raised the same issue (one I note you have completely left out of your account of the situation on BLPN) at WT:MOSLAYOUT. Consensus did not go with you there. You could have, as you said you would, bade your time and built support for a change in policy. Perhaps one is needed ... I don't know. But I do know you're doing this against the result of a community discussion that touched on this very issue. Even if policy is ultimately changed to reflect your concerns, that still looks bad. Daniel Case (talk) 06:35, 18 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Look man, I respect and like you, but you are handling this in the wrong way. You have two editors challenging your interpretation of the See Also MOS guideline, specifically where it applies to BLPa. No one is challenging SEEALSO in its current form; we are saying that the common sense and good judgment means it shouldn't be applied to BLPs.
 * That's why I haven't discussed he MOS discussion more, because it isn't on point for this problem. The current form of the guideline suggests common sense and good judgment guide the content within a See Also section. Not to belabor a point, but your intransigence to avoiding potentially damaging comparisons in BLP articles using a See also section isn't demonstrating good judgment, and common sense (and basic decency) doesn't take one family's tragedy and dilute it by a superficial comparison to someone else's tragedy. The mere comparison implies a connection that isn't there, and further punishes the parents of the missing child, which is pretty offensive


 * To refresh your memory, the main resistance to my proposed edit to SEEALSO was that:
 * a) it was a solution in search of a problem,
 * b) that it would create a massive amount of work to fix all of tharticles affected by a necessity of sourcing connections, and
 * c) that most editors should be trusted to use their common sense and good judgment to know when to apply the comparisons in See also sections.


 * . This recent matter illustrates that there is n fact a problem with how See Also is being applied, and that even an editor of your experience can sometimes suffer a lapse in approach to the application of See also section. And, to my mind, that's all this is - a lapse in how negatively such a comparison can be perceived. You say you don't see it, but if even one person does, isn't that one too many people? - Jack Sebastian (talk) 07:14, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
 * You had the chance to convince the people who could have most changed the section. They declined to do so. Your insistence that since you saw it as a connection it violated BLP (I added two words to make that less likely) rather reminds of how the Supreme Court had to rule that, in cases where speech acts might lead to disorderly conduct charges, the police officer making the charge could not be the one who claimed to have been annoyed or alarmed by the speech in question. Daniel Case (talk) 07:19, 18 December 2016 (UTC)


 * It's true, Daniel, that I couldn't convince people of the need for a rewording of SEEALSO. It is also true that I do not know American caselaw any more than I know Latin. You proposed solution was a unilateral half-measure, and didn't address the problem, which - coupled with your own statement about how edits should cease until discussion does - made a revert necessary.
 * The very comparison is the damage to the real life people who live the life depicted in these articles. Surely, you must see that. And even if you do not, if two very different editors can see it, then that's two readers too many. Since we both know that there aren't going to be any references that compare these two disappearances, I'd suggest - as someone once suggested to me - to let the matter go. See Also sections are always going to be second-guessed as to content, but there's a huge difference between comparing phasers and blasters in a fictional setting with comparing real-life tragedies whose lives could very easily be impacted by what we write. We need to be aware of internet's effect on people, and as we are often seen as authoritative, we need to be exceptionally careful with BLPs, not just from a legal standpoint, but from a moral one, as well. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 07:45, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Did that incident occur because of a Wikipedia article? Daniel Case (talk) 07:46, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Is that a loaded question? Of course, it came about because of several Wikipedia articles, not just BLPs, but articles where abuses occur in See also sections. Again, the current discussion is not about the validity of See Also sections en toto, but only for their very specific application on BLP articles. Stop looking for zebras. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 08:29, 18 December 2016 (UTC)


 * And while we're here, was it your intention to wipe out my post in the BLP noticeboard? Pretty uncool, man. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 10:17, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

December 2016
This message is to inform you of a discussion that concerns you at WP:AN. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 08:25, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

Also, at the WP:3RR noticeboard --Calton | Talk 08:51, 18 December 2016 (UTC)


 * You ARE aware that the 3RR is NOT an entitlement, correct, that it's a bright line for sanctioning edit-warriors? Please take more care in actually understanding the policies and alphabet soup you like to cut-and-paste. I mean, as an administrator, you're actually expected to understand the policies you're quoting. It's really not all that difficult. --Calton | Talk 13:54, 19 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry you feel the way you do about this situation.. Right. I notice that you're not actually sorry for creating the situation. So please spare me the unctuous non-apology apology. --Calton | Talk 13:56, 19 December 2016 (UTC)


 * No, I did not take 3RR as an entitlement to revert 3 times within 24 hours and then stop, primarily because I did not revert three times within a 24-hour period. I made two reverts on 14 December, and two more on 18 December... Huh, you make a claim in one sentence ("No, I did not take 3RR as an entitlement to revert") and immediately contradict it with the next. You edit-warred, and you consciously everted four times in a way to avoid 3RR, so yeah, you took 3 reverts as an entitlement.


 * I know you may have reasons for questioning the sincerity of my apology... It would be hard to question the sincerity of something that never happened, since there was no actual apology. Of course, you're not required to make an apology, but don't pretend you've done so.


 * In that vein, I guess I should also apologize: I'm sorry that you don't understand WP:BRD, WP:EDITWAR, and WP:BURDEN. I'm sorry that you fell back on empty wikilawyering rather than even attempt to explain why the addition you edit-warred to force in belongs. I'm sorry that you feel "I like it" is a substitute for reliable sources for claims -- in this, the (obviously) implied connection between the two unconnected cases. I'm sorry that an admin has trouble with those policies and guidelines an admin is supposed to know. Do you wish to question the sincerity of my apologies? Because I'm certainly being sincere here.


 * I do recall that at one time you were a very helpful editor... And I do recall that at one time you showed evidence of knowing what you were doing. Just a note, but trying to be clever in your personal attacks (WERE a helpful editor?) doesn't not make them irrelevant personal attacks.


 * Here's a tip: instead of deflection, irrelevancies, point-scoring, condescension, empty rules-lawyering, and treating Wikipedia like a personal battleground, perhaps you should focus on following the standard Wikipedia policies, rules, guidelines, and practices. You know, behave like an admin. --Calton | Talk 02:08, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Leggetts Creek
I am attempting to do a GA Review of Leggetts Creek but the nominator and article-creator has retired from WP. The article is in pretty darn good shape but there are some issues with the referencing - mostly refs going stale. I am reaching out to you as a member of the WikiProject Rivers in the hopes that maybe you or another active Project member could take on fixing the refs. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 07:16, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry, merry!
From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 14:29, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

Russian translation request
Hello, I saw your name here. I was wondering if you could help me with a little Russian translation. I have written the article Khabarovsk Airlines and used references in Russian only for basic information, as I'm using Google Translate. Translations of this source (scroll down to № 99) and this one claim that the airline is a "state unitary enterprise". Would you mind telling me exactly what these sources say with regards to this? Are they saying that the airline was set up by the Khabarovsk Krai government and is a state-owned airline? Thank you very much for your time. — Sunnya343&#9992; (háblame • my work) 06:25, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
Happy 2017 (see my talk)! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:42, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Two years now, and happy 2018! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:14, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

... and three! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:07, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

File:Eric Garner facebook.jpg
For notification, the File:Eric Garner facebook.jpg is deleted per FFD. This would set a precedent for other pages. --George Ho (talk) 11:16, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Murder of Pamela Werner
 Schwede 66  00:02, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

I have started the article
About the Disappearance of Kamiyah Mobley.--BabbaQ (talk) 22:38, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

Reducing the environmental impact of Wikipedia
Hi Daniel Case, thank you for supporting my project to reduce the environmental impact of Wikipedia! Can I ask you how you found the project page? Also, happy Wikipedia Day! Thanks, --Gnom (talk) 10:34, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Oh, and now I just saw your proposal for a lightning talk at today's Wikipedia Day meetup in NYC. Do you think it would be possible for you to mention my project in this talk? --Gnom (talk) 11:40, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for planning to mention my project in your lightning talk – I saw that some WMF people will attend the meetup so this is a great chance to raise the topic with them. If I can help you in any way, e.g. by preparing a couple of slides or hopping on a quick Skype call with you, just let me know. Greetings from Hamburg, Germany, --Gnom (talk) 12:29, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Daniel Case, how did it go? :-) Kind regards, --Gnom (talk) 13:47, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Photo of Michael Brown
What about File:Michael Brown Jr.jpg, used in shooting of Michael Brown? It was nominated for deletion but then kept as of now. --George Ho (talk) 04:56, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Actually, you do the honors and then use the "death of Eric Garner" precedent. Me... I'm a little worried about readers' understanding of events involving non-notable people. If more images of victims end up deleted, then I could find ones that I uploaded and then ask for speedy deletion. --George Ho (talk) 07:04, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

And you can do also the second nomination on the bio pic of Alan Kurdi if you want. I won't prevent you from doing that, okay? --George Ho (talk) 07:10, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Delete a page from Wikipedia
Hi Mr.CASE ...please delete this page (Kenza Morsli) because it contain little information and few resources .Thanks in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Boumediene15 (talk • contribs) 00:18, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

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Alex Gilbert on RU Wikipedia
Hello Daniel,

I am wondering if you can please have a look at the issue over at the Russian Wikipedia for Alex Gilbert. See I am unsure on why this notability issue has been going on for this long? Are the rules completely different? Thanks! --TheDomain (talk) 21:54, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

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Roadrunner?
Hi! I had occasion to warn 98.100.198.100, and I noticed the banner on their talk page. The link goes to the article about the bird, not to any user. I wonder if you meant to link to a user when you added the banner. I tried looking at the user named "Roadrunner", but couldn't tell anything. — Gorthian (talk) 23:04, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
 * "Roadrunner" in that case referred to what is now Spectrum Internet, the name of the ISP at that time, which now seems like a long time ago. Daniel Case (talk) 06:34, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * It was a long time ago! Thanks for updating it. — Gorthian (talk) 06:39, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

DYK Nomination/Biography
Hey Daniel! Thanks for the message and for starting the talk page. I'd been following the election rather closely and realized there probably wasn't a page for her yet so I wrote a bit while I had some time :P I think it'd be great to make the article a DYK nominee. I'm relatively new to all of this so if you have any thoughts/criticisms/suggestions, please feel free to let me know. I'll continue working on the bio (as you pointed out) and the page as a whole tomorrow. Socrates Burrito (talk) 09:10, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

I had been thinking something similar as I began working this morning. There was almost too much information at hand regarding the election itself that I felt as if I needed to leave some out or else let it overwhelm her personal article. What you suggested sounds great given I've added info to the election section already, left some out that I know I can go back to and still have more to find and include. So ya, I'll do it. Socrates Burrito (talk) 19:33, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

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Request for help
Please, I need help for a translation (from Russian), not from an article, but from a source.

I was working in the articles Mari native religion and pt:Religião tradicional mari (in Portuguese).

The phrase "There is a significant discrepancy between the pantheons of the Lowlands Mari, who worship roughly 140 gods, and Highlands Mari, who worship about 70 gods" has as source the book Religious Rites of the Cheremis. Because given an entire book as a reference, even more in a language and script that probably most readers don't understand, I was looking for a page and quote (my idea was to put a quote in the original and translated); I suspect that the reference is the first phrase of the last paragraph of the page 5 (note that the page 5 of the book is the 7th page in the website with the book), that seems to be ""Боговъ у луговыхъ черемисъ считается (съ матерями, пїамбарами, виднезями, праздничными и поминальными божествами) приблизительно около 140, у горныхъ 70"".

What I wanted were:

a) confirmation that the letters that are in the phrase are exactly that

b) a translation (to English) of the passage

Some difficulties:

- It is a document in Adobe Flash (than you can't do copy-paste, you have to look letter-to-letter in a copy of an old document and know how to identify the cyrilic letters)

- It is a document of 1887, before the ortographic reform of 1918, than I can't even use a machine translator. The result of the machine translation of that page is "Bogov in lugovyh cheremis considered (Sh mothers pїambarami, vidnezyami, festive and memorial deities) of about 140, at 70 gornyh"; however, if I exclude the "ъ" at the end of the words (I think that was the rule after 1918), and mechanically translated Богов у луговых черемиъ считается (с матерями, пїамбарами, виднезями, праздничными и поминальными божествами) приблизительно около 140, у горных 70, the result is "Gods in the meadow cheremi considered (with mothers pїambarami, vidnezyami, festive and memorial deities) of about 140, the mountain 70" (sounds better).

- I don't know almost nothing about russian languade or cyrilic script (because that, I tried the machine translation).

If you could help me, I appreciate a reply in my page in the portuguese Wikipedia.

Thanks in advice (and hoping that you could understand my not-much-good English)--MiguelMadeira (talk) 16:41, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Problem already solved; thanks--MiguelMadeira (talk) 17:42, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

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I just completed my translation of Musée Saint-Raymond and wonder if you would proofread it as I see you listed as a French-English translator and seem to be one of the few active editors from that page. My primary concern is the sense of the three quotes, whose text is linked in the notes section. Besides that and a general grammatical review, it could use some more sources and I have added some links on the talk page. Ping me if you have any questions. Thanks in advance. ww2censor (talk) 11:58, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, I recently found out that you are a Wikipedia administrator, which I did not know. I remember months ago I re-formatted a page that you created which I thought I did right, but you are an administrator so you probably know better than me. I have had some problems with edit disputes and formatting articles lately, perhaps you can help me with any future questions I have, I would really like that if you could. Davidgoodheart04:38, 13 April 2017 (UTC) Davidgoodheart (talk)

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Thank you for responding to my message and current problems that I am having
Hi, I will stick to two current issues at a time. The first being is about sources that I was using. For some reason ycdtotv.com was put on the spam list and I don't know why. I don't think it shouldn't have been and would like to see it removed from there. I need to use sources from that website for some Wikipedia articles that exist as well as one that I am currently making. If I can't be removed for some reason can I ever use it a sources for Wiki pages? The second is other sources that I have used and am currently using. On the Disappearance of Dorothy Forstein page that I created I was using websites that people though were not creditable but I think they are, so could you please check out the pages history and old sources and tell me if you think they are suitable to use. And some editor asked me not to use a YouTube video for an article (the page is wrestler Bambi Hall which I also created) and said is wasn't creditable, yet the video was an add from the wrestling company itself so it was creditable, as YouTube videos sometimes are reliable sources. Please let me know what you think. I will address my next issues in my next message to you. Davidgoodheart (talk) 01:31, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Measure S
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Perp Walk article
Thanks for the tip, i will keep that in mind. By the way I like the rephrase much better. Nusent (talk) 14:29, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

TFA
Thank you for your contributions to a piece of justice, Heffernan v. City of Paterson: "This article is about a recent US Supreme Court decision regarding First Amendment protections of public employees. The first amendment protects the rights of public employees, and the Court has previously held that being fired or demoted for political speech or political association is unconstitutional, but in this case, Heffernan was fired not for what he did but what his employer mistakenly thought he did. The Court had to answer whether public employees are protected when their employer bases their decision on factually incorrect information." --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:28, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

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DYK
Hi Daniel, I regret agreeing to go ahead with the DYK nom, for various reasons, mostly the difficulty of coming up with 200 characters that clearly explain what happened. I don't know whether I need to be consulted as the article's creator; I can't recall the DYK rules. But for whatever it's worth, my preference is not to nominate it for DYK. As for it being on the talk page, I removed it because in posting to the DYK page, I didn't realize I was also posting to talk. SarahSV (talk) 19:29, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

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quick question?
Do you know if Kylie Maybury's killer has to be sentenced according to 1984 sentencing guidelines, not 2017 ones? Paul Benjamin Austin (talk) 09:55, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Quickie admin favor
Can you please keep the recent version and delete only the older version at file File:Disinformation book.jpg that had the whitespace ?

Thank you! Sagecandor (talk) 16:42, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
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Can you help verify translations of articles from russian
Hello Daniel Case,

Would you be able to help evaluate the accuracy of translations of Wikipedia articles from russian to English Wikipedia?



This would involve evaluating a translated article on the English Wikipedia by comparing it to the original russian article, and marking it "Pass" or "Fail" based on whether the translation faithfully represents the original. Here's the reason for this request:

There are a number of articles on English Wikipedia that were created as machine translations from different languages including russian, using the Content Translation tool, sometimes by users with no knowledge of the source language. The config problem that allowed this to happen has since been fixed, but this has left us with a backlog of articles whose accuracy of translation is suspect or unknown, including some articles translated from russian. In many cases, other editors have come forward later to copyedit and fix any English grammar or style issues, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the translation is accurate, as factual errors from the original translation may remain. To put it another way: Good English is not the same as good translation.

If you can help out, that would be great. Here's a sample of the articles that need checking:
 * 1) Sergey_Musaelyan✅ Much of the history needs to be put in the past tense, although it is otherwise properly translated. Daniel Case (talk) 17:02, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
 * 2) Azov_History,_Archaeology_and_Paleontology_Museum-Reserve❌ A lot in the Russian article that's not in the English. Daniel Case (talk) 17:06, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
 * 3) GP-4u❌ Doesn't even seem to have been translated. Daniel Case (talk) 17:09, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
 * 4) Stroymontazh✅ Daniel Case (talk) 17:11, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
 * 5) Vysoky,_Khanty-Mansi_Autonomous_Okrug❌ The Russian article is a stub; ours doesn't even make that level. Daniel Case (talk) 17:15, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

All you have to do, is compare the English article to the russian article, and assess them "Pass" or "Fail" (the Pass and Fail templates may be useful here). (Naturally, if you feel like fixing an inaccurate translation and then assessing it, that's even better, but it isn't required.) Also please note that we are assessing accuracy not completeness, so if the English article is much shorter that is okay, as long as whatever has been translated so far is factually accurate. To see the full list of articles, please go to WP:CXT/PTR.

If you can help, please ping me here to let me know. You can add your pass/fails above, right next to each link, or you may indicate your results below. Thanks! Elinruby (talk) 07:39, 6 June 2017 (UTC) ✅ ✓ Pass ❌ ✗ Fa

Wikipedia:Translation/French/Translators
I'm trying to get three French sources translated to English for Beauty & the Beast (1982 video game) and I was wondering if you knew the best way to get that done. The sources are Telematch, page page 37 to page 38 of this, and this article. SL93 (talk) 21:56, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Murder of Dee Dee Blancharde
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File:Alan kurdi smiling playground.jpg at FFD
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DYK for Murder of Dee Dee Blancharde
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A problem with the Asha Degree article
Hey. You might want to take a look at the article's talk page. A point you inserted on the 26th Feb '16 included references to contents found in her bag that weren't backed up by the sources cited. Just thought I'd give you a heads up that I've taken that claim down until a proper source is found (which I've been told is unlikely, since this Wikipedia page and someone's personal blog are apparently the only places that make the claim about what was in the bag). Thought it was a case of vandalism until I tracked it down to the article's most prolific contributor. Sorry if the Talk entry was harsh!Jesuschristonacamel (talk) 03:49, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

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Thanks for the hint, I'll keep it in mind.  Y intan  20:47, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

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A Group of Items v. United States
Since you've written some of these articles about major in rem cases, I wondered if you might know the answer to my question.

Most of these cases are Seizing Jurisdiction v. A Bunch of Items Meeting a Certain Description, but I found a few in reverse, e.g. Quantity of Books v. Kansas and 62 Cases of Jam v. United States. Can you imagine where these names came from? The books weren't trying to seize Kansas, and the jam wasn't trying to seize the United States; I'm left wondering why they weren't Kansas v. Quantity of Books and United States v. 62 Cases of Jam. Nyttend (talk) 23:43, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Hm, okay, thank you. I've seen Person v. Entity (or Citizen v. Elected Official) before, but I figured they were always someone suing the entity or the official, e.g. the Baker v. Carr travesty.  Nyttend (talk) 03:32, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Saw Kill (Hudson River)
Hello! Your submission of Saw Kill (Hudson River) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 20:24, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
 * P.S. Gorgeous pictures! Yoninah (talk) 20:24, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

Query on reliability of a source
Hi. Since my question was unanswered twice in Reliable Source noticeboard, I think that it is appropriate to ask an admin. I am working on the Syed Shahabuddin article with the hope of promoting it to the GA status. In this article  I have used this Source as a reference. I am wondering whether it is a reliable source for sourcing details about Mr. Shahabuddin's political, diplomatic career and amongst others. The author of the text of the source is a former Indian Foreign Service Officer and appears to be his colleague. Please share your thoughts. Thanks. RRD (talk) 12:19, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Disappearance of Tiffany Daniels
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DYK for Saw Kill (Hudson River)
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DYK for Disappearance of Tiffany Daniels
Alex ShihTalk 00:03, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

Userspace and user talk space deletion
Hi! I recently had my username switched over which generated User and User Talk space redirect to my new account. However, someone created an account in that space, which is fine, but they still have my redirects. I asked the admin that migrated me to delete them but they aren't an EN sysop. Can you delete these two user pages to eliminate my redirects from their history and prevent anyone from mistaken me for them? It would be particularly useful since the only contribution they made was vandalism. :) --AP500 (talk)  03:20, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Articles that need sourcing
Hi, I see that you added a article to the List of people who disappeared mysteriously in the 1910 year section, which is what I am trying to do, that is add as many articles that exist, but aren't on the list right now. Also I see that you added a template above the Carlease Simms claiming it needs more sources, I tried to find sources to add to it, but I couldn't find any. I even bought a book called Among The Missing, but even that doesn't have all the info that I need. Aarni Neuvonen, Pavlos Kouroupis, Misha Kokaia and Karla Mayer are other articles that also need to have sourced added, but I can't find any. Someone told me that archive.org & archive-it.org are two good internet archive websites, as well as the wayback machine, but I don't really know how to use them. Would you know how to use these sites to add sources to these articles, so I can add them to the list? Davidgoodheart (talk) 05:46, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

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Re: Monida
Probably, but with a different angle.

Also, could you copyedit Allendale station (NJ Transit) for me? I'd appreciate it. Mitch 32 (The many fail: the one succeeds.) 05:36, 31 August 2017 (UTC)


 * No problem. I just wanted to get an alert to you. Mitch 32 (The many fail: the one succeeds.) 05:46, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Re Iva Honyestewa DYK
Thank you for the review of Template:Did you know nominations/Iva Honyestewa. I have reworked the citation to remove the 404 problem, but the original article has been taken down by the Arizona State Museum as news from an old event and is no longer available on the web. I hope that the changes I have made are enough to move forward. Thanks again. Skistud (talk) 15:21, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! I was able to find the reference on Wayback. https://web.archive.org/web/20150621031248/http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu:80/events/swiaf_juried_competition/2015/winner_details.php?awdno=21 As for the new comments, please see my response. I have no idea why the reviewer continues to insist that the article did not call the basket a pootsaya...When it clearly does. Also, I messed up the syntax on the citation of the DYK; no idea how to fix it. Skistud (talk) 02:40, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Is Template:Did you know nominations/Iva Honyestewa acceptable now? Thanks again! Skistud (talk) 13:20, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft - See also
Hi Daniel, my issues with the see also are two-pronged: The MOS for see also's seems to suggest it's best to "provide a brief annotation when a link's relevance is not immediately apparent" -the text appears to be much more lengthy than it needs to be. The biggest issue, however, that I have with these see also's (also the one for 1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery) is that it appears to violate No original research, as you are making these correlations between the two robberies without any citations or references. Just wanted to explain my actions so that they don't appear unjustified. Thanks, Garchy (talk) 19:37, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Hohokus-Nutley
Per our phone discussion, here is an article about the Nutley Velodrome and a map for the Hohokus Speedway. Mitch 32 (The many fail: the one succeeds.) 22:14, 1 September 2017 (UTC)


 * I have lots of newspapers on both. When you choose to do so, I can provide them. Mitch 32 (The many fail: the one succeeds.) 05:30, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

DYK for 2011 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts theft
Alex ShihTalk 00:03, 3 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Daniel, hi. The leading image in the above DYK target article is either mislabeled (as a Roman soldier, which it plainly isn't), or else is the wrong image. I suspect it's the latter. Thanks, Haploidavey (talk) 12:45, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Re: your reply at my talk. Yes, it's relatively recent (1st Century). It's an "archaizing-style" head, but not of a Roman soldier. It might well be intended as representation of an Achaemenid soldier - though I'm only guessing at that. I've left details and links on the target page for the DYK. Cheers! Haploidavey (talk) 18:23, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

Help!
Thank you very much for reviewing the DYK of the Alpine pika. On the Template_talk:Did_you_know page, if you click the "review or comment link" for the Alpine pika, it tries to create the page, so could it open the actually Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Alpine_pika page? I made a mistake while nominating it and created the template page with Template:Did_you_know_nominations/alpine_pika (notice the small "a"), so I page moved to Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Alpine_pika and requested a CSD for the former. Could you help me out on it? Thanks a ton! Adityavagarwal (talk) 21:24, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

DYK for 1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery
— Maile (talk) 00:03, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

Talk:Judy Smith homicide
Hi, I don't know if you've had a chance to see my note, but I would like to move the page to Death of Judy Smith. Is that ok with you? Yoninah (talk) 20:27, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Judy Smith homicide
Alex ShihTalk 00:03, 7 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Please see the comments on my edit to the article. I'm thinking you need to finely review the article for omissions, mistakes, and goofs. I read ref 6
 * There was another alleged Smith sighting, this one near Rittenhouse Square. That seems more promising to Jeffrey Smith, Judith's husband, whom Judith accompanied to Philadelphia on a business trip before disappearing.


 * Frank Lewis calls Ed Geigert, the local private eye working for Jeffrey Smith, to ask about the Society Hill Hotel sighting. Geigert tells Lewis that a guy named Victor Fiorello contacted Smith on Friday after seeing a woman looking remarkably like the picture of Judith Smith on the front of City Paper.


 * "It was about 5:55 a.m.," says Fiorello. "I was on my way to work at Blue Cross when I was coming out of the Wawa at 20th and Locust. What caught my attention was a fairly well-dressed, older white woman who was sitting outside a gourmet grocery store. It caught my attention because it was so early in the morning and you don't normally see that."


 * After realizing that he had seen her face before, in the newspaper, Fiorello says he called 911 from work.
 * and can't imagine what the corresponding paragraph in the article is trying to say. Please go back and verify that the refs say what the article text says.  Shenme (talk) 02:45, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

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Disappearance of Tammy Kingery
Regarding the hook fact, if the door was locked from the outside, then someone else had the keys to the house. Did the police ever investigate the family members? Did they exonerate the husband? Yoninah (talk) 16:06, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

BLPN Tammy Kingery
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DYK for Disappearance of Tammy Kingery
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DYK for Faith Hedgepeth homicide
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DYK help needed
Hey Daniel,

Despite having a few DYK's under my belt. They were from a few years ago and the procedures seem to have changed. Despite what appear to be clear instructions I feel certain I haven't done it right. Could you look at Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Tajama_Abraham and I tell me what I did wrong or help me clean it up?-- S Philbrick (Talk)  16:39, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
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Helicopter parent
I don't have access to all refs, but they were added with the content that was deleted here Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 04:20, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
 * OK, but that passage still needs to be reworded, at least by attributing the opinions stated, so they aren't in Wikipedia's voice. Daniel Case (talk) 05:57, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
 * How do I get myself involved in these sorts of things; I just clicked "unexplained removal" on Huggle... I'm not very good at copy/editing - it's best for my sanity if I keep it simple. I'll leave a note on the originator's talk page. Thanks Jim1138 (talk) 06:14, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Whitefoord
I added another suggestion.Zigzig20s (talk) 17:25, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

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DYK for Dardeen family homicides
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State abbreviations
Hi Daniel

I'm taking this advice from WP:MOS and restoring the full state name at Dardeen family homicides. I hope you're happy with it. Spicemix (talk) 21:48, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

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Translation Request
Hi, I was wondering if you could translate the following English Articles into Russian: Russian articles into English: Thanks! --PlanespotterA320 (talk) 16:47, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Nurkhon Yuldasheva to RU:Нурхон Йўлдошхўжаева
 * Tursunoy Saidazimova to RU:Турсуной Саидазимова
 * Hujum (era) to Худжум
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 * 1976 Anapa mid-air collision from RU:Столкновение над Анапой
 * Aeroflot Flight 25 from RU:Катастрофа Ил-18 под Казанью
 * Aeroflot Flight 4 from RU:Катастрофа Ту-104 под Хабаровском (1958)
 * Aeroflot Flight 20 from RU:Катастрофа Ил-18 в Алма-Ате (1965)
 * Aeroflot Flight 5484 from RU:Катастрофа Ту-124 под Кирсановом
 * Aeroflot Flight 6551 from RU:Катастрофа Ил-18 под Семипалатинском
 * Aeroflot Flight 245 from RU:Катастрофа Ил-18 под Миллеровом
 * Aeroflot Flight 2174 from RU:Катастрофа Ан-24 под Саратовом
 * Aeroflot Flight 13 from RU:Катастрофа Ан-24 под Баку

Copyedit request
Heya. I just wrote an absurd addition to Dunellen station if you want to copyedit it. Mitch 32 (The many fail: the one succeeds.) 04:51, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

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Murder of Michelle Garvey
Paul Benjamin Austin (talk) 15:27, 8 January 2018 (UTC) This report indicates that there were signs of sexual assault and although Michelle was clothed, she was missing things like her bra and her shoes.

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West Kill
I just want to say you have done an amazing job on West Kill im glad that someone finished the article I created. If you ever need help with something I could help. Thanks Bacardi379 (talk) 20:19, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

River/tributary naming
Daniel, see Village pump (policy)/Archive 139. We revised the proposed convention. I'll move Saw Kill (Hudson River) accordingly, too. Dicklyon (talk) 04:51, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

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Sustainability session
Hey Dan,

For Sunday's presentation on the Sustainability Initiative, would you consider adding points related to my ideas here? Thanks, ɱ  (talk) · vbm  · coi) 15:47, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Joseph Maskell
I started it is their any improvements you could make? Also this man along with Edward Neil Magnus have been circumstantially linked to the death of Joyce Malecki and Grace Elizabeth Montanye source is there anything you can do regarding this it seems you and watcher are experts in this field. Valoem talk <b style="color: Green;">contrib</b> 00:22, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Disappearance of Danielle Stislicki
Curious to know what your opinion is there. <b style="color: DarkSlateGray;">Valoem</b> <b style="color: blue;">talk</b> <b style="color: Green;">contrib</b> 18:42, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

DYK for West Kill
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Your GA nomination of Murder of Sherri Rasmussen
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 * Thanks for doing this! I was afraid I'd have to wait a year the way things were going (to think that there was a time when five months backlogging at GAN seemed intolerable!). I will be making those changes within a couple of days, when I finish up another article I'm working on. Daniel Case (talk) 06:10, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, a five month backlog would seem perfectly fine now! However, things appear to be moving, for some reason; there were 614 unreviewed articles in early December, and only 459 now.  That's about a 25% drop in the backlog in just six weeks -- let's hope it continues. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 13:44, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah, between this and Death of Elisa Lam I owe a couple of reviews myself. Daniel Case (talk) 15:27, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

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When you add new NR listings
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 * OK, so that's how we're doing it. Thanks. I just haven't done this yet this year; I probably missed that discussion. Daniel Case (talk) 00:39, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
 * They started adding the prefixes at the beginning of last year. They're an indicator of the type of action being taken, and are documented at the top of the weekly lists (at least recently).  Magic ♪piano 00:52, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Oh, I remember that (I thought it had been at the beginning of 2016, but that seems so long ago now). What I'm saying I missed was the discussion where we decided to drop them. Daniel Case (talk) 01:03, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

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DYK for Disappearance of Gary Mathias
Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Wow! I updated the stats for the second day. Do you think it went viral on Redditt or something? Yoninah (talk) 21:15, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Pardon my French, but HOLY SHIT. That's a result.  Nice to have been a tiny little part of getting it onto the mainpage.  Well played.  The Rambling Man (talk) 21:21, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Despite all the gnashing of teeth, yes, thank you very much for your help., I have no idea how that scored such major hittage ... I will have to check the linkage, maybe Reddit had something to do with it, but maybe like the equally surprising success of Death of Nicole van den Hurk people just found the hook irresistible (Although I can see that more in that case (brother makes fake confession to murdering his sister so as to get her body exhumed for DNA testing? Wow!) than this one). Daniel Case (talk) 22:42, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

OK, this explains it ... someone put it up on Reddit as a TIL. Wow! Daniel Case (talk) 22:53, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Cool. Just goes to show what a cool hook can do. The Rambling Man (talk) 22:55, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Disappearance of Suzanne Lyall
Hello Daniel. You have previously been very generous with your "Thanks" messages, so I am sorry about my premature 'names' edit on this article you've just created. I should have realized that such an experienced editor had a reason for doing that. Best wishes. Blurryman (talk) 18:13, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Don't feel bad ... I might have done the same thing. Daniel Case (talk) 19:36, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

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Maybe slow your roll a bit
Your edits on the Disappearance of Gary Mathias article are not in keeping with the idea of collaborative editing, Daniel. When asked to use the discussion page to sort out a difference, it is not a directive to come to the talk page, say your piece and then go back and edit-war your version back in. It means to continue to discuss until the matter is resolved. You're an administrator: how many times, precisely, have you ever seen forcing your version into the articl work? I am suggesting that you continue to use the article discussion page until we resolve the issue. If that is going to mean widening the circle to get other opinions, then we can file a RfC. Don't squabble. It's beneath you. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 07:26, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I can get sort of cranky when I thought I was going to be able to go to bed, as I've said. Anyway ... I know you said you didn't want this to be about you, but—have you ever considered raising the issue on the talk page before making the edit? I generally try to; when you shoot first and discuss later you've already sent the metamessage that there's only one outcome you'll accept and that you've made up your mind. Even when you think you're absolutely 100% right (and I've been there too), it can save a lot of grief. For a recent example from my editing, see here. I was about to make the edit on the page, but then thought there might a good reason it was the way it was, and it turned out that I was right and it was better left alone. Daniel Case (talk) 07:54, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Sure, Daniel. I get that. I do self-police before making an edit, asking myself if a) it is actually worth the time I am going to have to spend on this and b) if it is being too nitpicky.
 * I pretty much follow BRD when it comes to these sorts of situations. One I put the edit in, I expect someone to explain why it isn't a good edit, either in a follow-up edit summary or (preferably) by initiating talk page discussion - especially when I suggest it.
 * I was pretty tired, too; I had finished a midnight feeding and was using Wikipedia to bore my mind back to sleep when I came across the article in question: List of Mysterious Vanishings is a favorite, because the sheer weight of links there is usually my Cure To Insomnia (that and Chemistry-related articles). Also, DavidGoodHeart does a pretty good job monitoring, so not a lot of bad entries go un-smited. Maybe neither of us should have posted. Cie la vie.
 * Long story short, maybe an RfC will benefit us. I do tend to be strict on See Also sections and, were Ranker not so problematic, the addition of a source would ended my concerns. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 13:24, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay in responding ... I've been busy the last couple of days, and a little embarrassed by this whole thing. I suppose if we want to leave the article the way it is, we can. But if we use any dispute-resolution procedures, I think 3O would be better, and probably limited to the wording of the original see-also. And it would be easier for me if maybe we waited till the week after next, as this coming week will be busy for me. Daniel Case (talk) 17:07, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Sure, I can wait; my little daredevil missionists (aka toddlers) always manage to keep me busy. Just ping me when you are available - Jack Sebastian (talk) 18:06, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

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Iveta Mukuchyan
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Valhalla
I know the article is written in American English. Just checking whether or not "busing" is the American spelling. It would be "bussing" in British English. Mjroots (talk) 11:45, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Album cover mistake (leaving this on a few admin's pages)
I uploaded a new version of the Twenty One Pilots album at File:Twenty_One_Pilots_album_cover.jpg, but the reference didn't get processed properly. Can you please edit it so it displays correctly? — Preceding unsigned comment added by NMGWP (talk • contribs) 04:30, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm assisting this editor on my user talk page now - you can consider this question resolved here :-)  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   05:03, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Gamaliel
I've slapped a uw-ew on Gamaliel's talk page re the removal of WP:DEATH from Talk:2018 Algerian Air Force Il-76 crash. Next step is banhammer. Mjroots (talk) 05:15, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Rhinebeck (village), New York
Hey, Daniel, it's been a while since we had contact for the last time. Lately I translated the above mentioned article into DE:WP (which itself closed a circle begun in June 2009) but I totally left out the history section which since 2015 has a label that sources are missing. And they are missing entirely.

Since I know you as a prolific writer of NRHP and/or NY articles I would like to commit you ;-) in improving this section so later I can take it for the German Wikipedia. I could in return help with some German language sources as for example this one, if necessary. My English is probably good enough for talk pages but not sufficiently for articles' prose itself. Regards, Matthiasb (talk) 19:00, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

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Vishnu B Das
You had blocked Vishnu B Das (talk · contribs) a few days back for uploading non-free images and adding OR. I think they are back with the same behaviour. &mdash;  LeoFrank  Talk 15:32, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

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Invitation to WikiProject Portals
The Portals WikiProject has been rebooted.

You are invited to join, and participate in the effort to revitalize and improve the Portal system and all the portals in it.

There are sections on the WikiProject page dedicated to tasks (including WikiGnome tasks too), and areas on the talk page for discussing the improvement and automation of the various features of portals.

Many complaints have been lodged in the RfC to delete all portals, pointing out their various problems. They say that many portals are not maintained, or have fallen out of date, are useless, etc. Many of the !votes indicate that the editors who posted them simply don't believe in the potential of portals anymore.

It's time to change all that. Let's give them reasons to believe in portals, by revitalizing them.

The best response to a deletion nomination is to fix the page that was nominated. The further underway the effort is to improve portals by the time the RfC has run its course, the more of the reasons against portals will no longer apply. RfCs typically run 30 days. There are 19 days left in this one. Let's see how many portals we can update and improve before the RfC is closed, and beyond.

A healthy WikiProject dedicated to supporting and maintaining portals may be the strongest argument of all not to delete.

We may even surprise ourselves and exceed all expectations. Who knows what we will be able to accomplish in what may become the biggest Wikicollaboration in years.

Let's do this.

See ya at the WikiProject!

Sincerely,   &mdash; The Transhumanist   10:19, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Waterloo (blog post)
Gatoclass (talk) 00:09, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject Portals 2
Dear Daniel,

There was confusion with the membership list design (edit conflict), and so it wasn't confirmed whether or not you wanted to receive project-wide updates on your talk page. If you do, then remove the two asterisks after your name in the member list at WP:WPPORT. Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:36, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update, April 22, 2018
Thank you for joining the Portals WikiProject.

Here's our first project-wide update. I hope you enjoy it...

Reboot
The WikiProject reboot has been a success: the new re-envisioned project is up and running, with new members, ongoing discussions about automation, design, and upkeep; maintained task queques; and updates to members, like this, the very first one!

The RfC
As you know, there's a proposal to delete all portals. It started out looking pretty dismal for portals, with primarily posts supporting their demise. It turned out that the proposer didn't post a deletion notice on the very pages being nominated for deletion (a requirement for all deletion discussions). Once that was done, a flood of opposition came in and has apparently turned the tide.

RfCs generally run for 30 days. It started April 8th, and so it has about 14 more days to run its course.

The more work we can do during that time on the portals, the stronger the reasons for keeping them will be. And the more prepared we will be for any MfDs that follow the closing of the RfC.

AWB?
You may be wondering why we asked for AWB experience in the member-sign-up list.

We are gearing up to do maintenance runs on the entire set of portals, and the more people we have who can use AWB, the better.

But we're not quite ready to start this yet.

To be able to use AWB on the portals, we first need to know what the end result needs to be. Like on the news sections, do we comment out the out-of-date ones, or do we place the code to activate the newsbot on those pages? That would require an assessment of WikiNews and its news generating performance (areas covered, volume in each area), etc.

You can help us figure this out at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals.

Another area we're gearing up for, to do passes with AWB, are upgrades to the intro sections of portals. Many of these have static (copied/pasted) excerpts that go stale over time.

We're trying to figure out how to make self-updating excerpts to replace the existing static excerpts that are on many portals, and once this is done, AWB will be used to place the new code. See the discussion on this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals.

"What can I do?"
There are 3 major areas of activity right now:

Update the main portal list at Portal:Contents/Portals
There are a few hundred existing portals that are missing from this list.

The list of missing entries, and instructions on what to do, can be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals.

We need everybody's help on this. It's a big chore for one persons. But, many hands make light work. Please help chip away at this chore as much as you can. A little each day, form all of us, will get this done pretty quick.

Familiarize yourself with the portal system
In addition to browsing the portals in the 2 lists mentioned in the section above, you should take a look at the portal name space itself and what is in it.

That can be done at WikiProject Portals.

Join in on the discussions
There are discussions on many aspects of the WikiProject's operations, with more to come.

Such as about the purposes and functions of portals, design discussions, and so on.

There's even a automated design discussion over at Village Pump Technical, on selective transclusion.

I hope to see you on the talk page.

What's coming?
In addition to the automation efforts mentioned above, we will be looking into how to automate the selection and display of alternating excerpts, and alternating pictures, for the various portal sections.

Watch for these discussions on the Wikiproject's talk page.

Summing up...
Get ready, get set, go! &mdash; The Transhumanist  22:54, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

P.S.: The main example given at the RfC of the problems of portals was Portal:Cricket. Therefore, it's the top priority portal to update. Please lend a hand. - TT

DYK nomination of Crowdless Game
Hello! Your submission of Crowdless Game at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 23:34, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Announcerless Game
Hi, glad you liked my suggestion for the page name of 2015 White Sox–Orioles crowdless game. Since you mentioned this page, I think you should change this page name the same way. Best, Yoninah (talk) 13:33, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
 * The difference here is that that game is a) over 35 years in the past and b) the only major sporting contest telecast anywhere, as far as I know, without any announcers. It also seems to be commonly referred to that way (although, after reviewing the usage elsewhere, I suppose I could lowercase the "g"). Daniel Case (talk) 14:54, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I did, however, lowercase the "g". Daniel Case (talk) 03:10, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject heads up, April 27, 2018
We now have 52 members, and more are joining daily.

New and easier way to handle excerpts
Attention portal maintainers!

There's a new template to improve existing and new portals, called Transclude lead excerpt.

It is a lot easier to use than copying and pasting text from articles, as it displays the paragraphs you specify automatically for you.

It makes excerpts so that they are always current and never go stale or fork.

It is more powerful than it looks, because it has the Lua Module:Excerpt supporting it.

Be careful, as it is alpha software. Please notify the WikiProject talkpage of any problems you come across.

To give you a sense of the reaction this template is generating, here is an excerpt of a discussion thread from the WikiProject's talk page:


 * This new template is fantastic. I've added it to the intro sections of the portals on Australian cities (eg P:PER) and it works brilliantly.  My compliments to its creators.  It can probably also be used in other sections of many portals (eg "Selected article" and "Selected biography"), and, for that reason, will probably make the task of maintaining portals a great deal easier. Bahnfrend (talk) 09:02, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for being so brave.  just got a lot simpler! Certes (talk) 10:43, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Kudos on a wonderful template.   &mdash; The Transhumanist   03:27, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
 * This is amazing stuff. I'm going to get to work on using it on the selected content at most of these portals very soon. <b style="color:#98F">W</b><b style="color:#97E">a</b><b style="color:#86D">g</b><b style="color:#75C">ge</b><b style="color:#83C">r</b><b  style="color:#728">s</b><small  style="color:#080">TALK  13:40, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

The RfC
I wrote a comment in the the April 26 section of the RfC explaining what we are up to. I liked the excerpt above so much, that I went back to my RfC posting, and inserted it.

Wish list
What's this? An old oil lamp. It's so dirty, I think I'll polish it...

*poof*

Whoa! Are you a WikiGenie? In that case, I get 3 wishes!

I wish...
 * 1) ...that Portal:Contents/Portals becomes up-to-date.   (The missing entries are listed on the talk page, with instructions).
 * 2) ...the WikiProject to have Article Alerts.   (WikiProject Portals templates have already been placed on all portal talk pages).
 * 3) ...that Portal:Cricket becomes a shining example of portal excellence.   (It was the main example of a crappy and unmaintained portal at the RfC).

Please make my wishes come true. See you around the portals! &mdash; The Transhumanist  08:02, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Halfway to Sanity
Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

DYK for 2015 White Sox–Orioles crowdless game
Gatoclass (talk) 12:02, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

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.

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.


 * WikiProject Portals
 * User:The Transhumanist (there's a fair amount of portal project traffic on my talk page these days)
 * WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 1
 * WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 2
 * WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 3
 * WikiProject Portal/List of all portals/Page 4
 * Wikipedia:Portal:Portal Example portal. And funny.
 * Portal:Contents/Portals
 * Portal:Contents/Portals/Culture and the arts
 * Portal:Contents/Portals/Geography and places
 * Portal:Contents/Portals/Health and fitness
 * Portal:Contents/Portals/History and events
 * Portal:Contents/Portals/Infobox
 * Portal:Contents/Portals/Intro
 * Portal:Contents/Portals/Mathematics and logic
 * Portal:Contents/Portals/Natural and physical sciences
 * Portal:Contents/Portals/People and self
 * Portal:Contents/Portals/Philosophy and thinking
 * Portal:Contents/Portals/Portal nav footer
 * Portal:Contents/Portals/Reference
 * Portal:Contents/Portals/Religion and belief systems
 * Portal:Contents/Portals/Society and social sciences
 * Portal:Contents/Portals/Technology and applied sciences
 * Portal:Contents/Portals/Topic

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,    &mdash; The Transhumanist   06:22, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Help us design granular blocks!
Hello :-) The Anti-Harassment Tools team at the Wikimedia Foundation will start building these granular blocking tools in a few weeks and we've asked WMF designer Alex Hollender to help us make some wireframes so the tools are intuitive to MediaWiki users.

We have a first draft of how we think this tool should work. You can read the full proposed implementation here but here are the significant parts:
 * Granular blocks (page, category, namespace, and file uploading) will be built on top of Special:Block. These blocks will function as if they were regular blocks and allow for the same options, but only take effect on specific pages.
 * We will add a new checkbox for "Block this user from the whole site" which will be checked by default. When it is unchecked the admin will be able to specify which pages, categories, and/or namespaces the user should be blocked from editing.
 * Granular blocks can be combined and/or overlap. (For example, a user could be simultaneously blocked from editing the articles Rain, Thunder, Lightning, and all pages inside the Category:Weather.)
 * Only one block is set at a time, to adjust what the user is blocked from the administrator would have to modify the existing block.
 * Block logs should display information about the granular block
 * When a blocked user attempts to edit an applicable page, they should see a block warning message which include information on their block (reason, expiration, what they are blocked from, etc.)
 * If a category is provided, the blocked user cannot edit either the category page itself and all pages within the category.
 * If the File: namespace is blocked, the user should not be allowed to upload files.

We like this direction because it builds on top of the existing block system, both a technical and usability wise. Before we get too far along with designs and development we'd like to hear from you about our prosposal:


 * 1) What do you think of the proposed implementation?
 * 2) We believe this should be an expansion of Special:Block, but it has been suggested that this be a new special page. What are your thoughts?
 * 3) Should uploading files be combined with a File namespace block, or as a separate option? (For example, if combined, when a user is blocked from the File namespace, they would neither be able to edit any existing pages in the File namespace nor upload new files.)
 * 4) Should there be a maximum number of things to be blocked from? Or should we leave it up to admin discretion?

We appreciate your feedback on this project's talk page or by email. For the Anti-Harassment Tools team, SPoore (WMF) (talk), Trust and Safety Specialist, Community health initiative (talk) 20:54, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

My poem is bad but my apology for the bad links is sincere!
Rosa Red Chateau01.jpg are red,

Good message links are blue,

My proofreading stinks,

So here's a good link for you SPoore (WMF), Trust &#38; Safety, Community health initiative (talk) 16:37, 10 May 2018 (UTC)]].

WikiProject Portals update, 11 May 2018
We've grown to 73 members, and morale is high. Thank you for joining. Here is some news, and some tasks...

The RfC will be closed soon...
2018-05-11: preparations are being made to close the RfC. See Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure.

When there, be sure to notice the consultation link.

We're trying to get a prototypical single-page portal developed in time to show the RfC closers before they make their final decision. You can help. It's Portal:Humanism. So far, we've applied selective transclusion (automation) to excerpts, and have made the following sections without subpages: intro, selected article, selected biography, categories, related portals, wikiprojects, things to do, and wikimedia. Eight down, 4 to go, plus 2 formatting subpages (not sure we can migrate those). Automating every section, would also be nice.

Main objectives
Our main objectives currently, are:


 * 1) Replace static excerpts with selective transclusions, so that the excerpts always stay fresh (that is, match the source content). We are now doing this on the portal base page as much as possible, to reduce the number of subpages that are needed. See #2...
 * 2) Migrate the functions of subpages to the portal base pages. There are around 150,000 subpages in portal space. We aim to make these obsolete by using templates and other calls from the portal base pages.
 * 3) Improve portal design to make portals self-update. Semi-dynamic sections update from a static list, as used in Transclude random excerpt. Fully-dynamic sections would update from a list maintained elsewhere on Wikipedia, like a category. We haven't found a way to do this yet, other than to create a bot (which we will probably need to do).

Maintenance pass #1: Upgrading the intro section
The intro section of many portals transcludes an "Intro" subpage that has an excerpt in it.

We're replacing that with a selective transclusion directly in the intro section, bypassing the subpage. Though, there's a little  more to it...

For instructions, see: WikiProject Portals.

Please skip Portal:American Civil War, as that is specifically being maintained by hand.

Maintenance pass #2: Obsoleting the Wikimedia subpages
One of the sections on many portals links to sister projects on the subject. This needlessly takes a subpage. The subpage can be made obsolete by using the template Wikimedia for portals directly on the portal base page.

This has been done for several hundred portals so far.

See WikiProject Portals for instructions.

Maintenance pass #3: calling the category tree from the portal base page
Certes figured out how...

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For more information, see the thread WikiProject Portals (it does now).

More to come...
In the meantime, see ya around the portals! &mdash; The Transhumanist  15:33, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

P.S.: Daniel, please update your listing at WikiProject Portals (remove or replace the double asterisks). Thank you. -TT

DYK for Disappearance of Brandon Swanson
Gatoclass (talk) 12:02, 14 May 2018 (UTC)


 * I think you should nominate this article fpor GA-status.BabbaQ (talk) 12:18, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Eventually I may. I have a long backlog of articles I'd like to nominate. Daniel Case (talk) 13:37, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

March 2018 NRHP Nominees
So the Old Hempstead Town Hall, and Sisters of St. Joseph Motherhouse (Brentwood, New York) (a.k.a. St. Joseph's Academy and Convent (Brentwood, New York)), didn't get their NRHP nominations, ehh. Oh, well. I'm still going to pursue those next time I go up to Long Island. -User:DanTD (talk) 21:11, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, not this time, anyway ... the board may have wanted to see more documentation or other improvements to the applications; they may well get listed on the State Register and sent to Washington at a later date. The Rushmore Memorial Library here in Orange County took three trips to the board before it got listed. Daniel Case (talk) 15:44, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, apparently they were added after I posted this message, because User:Magicpiano added them. -User:DanTD (talk) 15:49, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

Revert of Disappearance of Brandon Swanson
Thanks for swapping it back. When I first read the article, I misread the name in that paragraph as "Mary" instead of "Marty". Just after I did the edit, I went back to reread it and discovered that it would have been obvious.

Thanks! WesT (talk) 21:38, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

Lewis Hamilton header
Just something probably worth discussing here about the header. When I rewrote the header over a year ago now, I opted, as per conseus on several high-profile/'good' rated articles (Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo etc.), to exclude citations as all the information was from the body of the article where it had citations. I personally think it keeps the article much tidier and reducing repetition of citations will prevent the page size from becoming too large (note recent problems with templates starting to break on Cristiano Ronaldo due to too many bytes). So, regarding the at the end of the first paragraph, I don't think it's necessary as the "Records" sub-sections includes references for the records highlighted in the header. Let me know your thoughts. Formulaonewiki (talk) 23:14, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time to give a thorough review and write-up. Just FYI, the majority of the 2017 season and the "Driving style" was written by myself when I was really cutting my teeth in more larger Wikipedia contributions -- good thing I didn't imitate the writing style left before me I guess. I should have some time this morning, and definitely over the week to add all necessary s, and I'll dedicate some time to fixing and condensing earlier sections to establish some sort of consistent style. Formulaonewiki (talk) 06:39, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Not a big deal, but...
...why'd you say that the edits of were okay? All of their 2008 edits are vandalism. Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 18:59, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
 * And have we ever blocked people over what they did ten years ago? Daniel Case (talk) 21:30, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

May 23: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Thank you very much
The RfC discussion to eliminate portals was closed May 12, with the statement "There exists a strong consensus against deleting or even deprecating portals at this time." This was made possible because you and others came to the rescue. Thank you for speaking up.

By the way, the current issue of the Signpost features an article with interviews about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

I'd also like to let you know that the Portals WikiProject is working hard to make sure your support of portals was not in vain. Toward that end, we have been working diligently to innovate portals, while building, updating, upgrading, and maintaining them. The project has grown to 80 members so far, and has become a beehive of activity.

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Thanks!
That's my first GA nomination (Lewis Hamilton, so thanks for the help reviewing and passing it! Formulaonewiki (talk) 09:07, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
 * You're welcome ... I must admit I learned some things from this, like how much offstage drama there is in F1 (I mean, not that there isn't drama in any motorsport series, but it just seemed like there was a lot more in Hamilton's career). Daniel Case (talk) 19:43, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

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greetings
Yes, when I was first on wikipedia when it all smelt like a primary school exercise - us-centric, trains, ships - hardly railway or maritime inclusive....and the globalise tag was more commonly found across the board to challenge the attempts at one size fits all....

I would have no problem if you simply identified in the title, lead sentence or lead paragraph that it is a us based cultural phenomenon (I hardly imagine that most details are relevant to india or china for instance)... you really deserve a prize walk across NY with somebody you admire... my recent walk from the meatpacking to fifth (I think it was) to get my lifetime visit to strand book store was singular, and alone - your considerate response requires something more substantive than my reply. JarrahTree 23:49, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

Actually reading your open and honest appraisal of your life experiences on your user page - I have a real thing about being on the hudson after doing amtrak between NY and montreal last year and toronto in 2009 - and even more so niagara region (complex personal background issues regarding my father living just west of toronto a very long time ago) and niagara iced wine... JarrahTree 00:04, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

Re: NY 22
Go ahead. I'm too depressed as it is. Mitch 32 (My ambition is to hit .400 and talk 1.000.) 02:01, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

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 * I'm very sorry to have bothered you; I have no idea why the nomination was showing up as unpromoted on my screen on the Approved page when it had already been promoted and is in the queue even as I type this now. This is the second time this evening I've not seen the latest version of a page, and in this case I was completely wrong about the status quo, so I think I'd better call it a night, and then force refresh everything in the morning when I next start any DYK work. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:00, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

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Thanks 4 the thanks
Any chance you could check out File:ISAAC COCKS HOUSE, CORNWALL, ORANGE COUNTY NY.jpg on Commons? Roy notes that the building pic doesn't match the description in our article (stone not wood), but does have something of an explanation. I noticed the difference myself before checking his description. The NY SHIPO files aren't my specialty, could you check if anything in them explains this? Any help appreciated. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 01:49, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

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Thank you for a good one! - Different topic: I expanded Bedford Village Historic District, and one of the older sources was found insecure. Any help welcome! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:18, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Lewis Hamilton FA potential
Hey! I've been slowly making improvements to Lewis Hamilton since it's successful nomination as a GA. I'm hoping to get it listed as a Featured Article, and just wanted some initial feedback from you (as your feedback was so helpful in the GA nomination) as to where it most needs improving before I nominate it. One of your key comments for the GA nomination was on the inconsistency of the writing style, which is something I'm keen to correct. I've written the entirety of the 2018 season report so far in what I think is an appropriate style and just wanted to check with you that it seems up to a high enough standard and apprpriate style before going back and rewriting other sections of the article in a similar manner. Many thanks. Formulaonewiki (talk) 23:09, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry it's been a while since I've been able to respond. I'll take a look. Daniel Case (talk) 01:46, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Prep 4
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 * I have no problems with that. Daniel Case (talk) 01:45, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Froffy Coffee
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 * That's OK, just seemed odd. We all have our moments! DuncanHill (talk) 02:23, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

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Assistance required in decreasing the protection level
Hi Daniel. I've been recently working on an article's draft, but when I attempted to create the page, I realized that an administrator has protected the page and the article cannot be created. I initially tried to contact him but it seems that he has not been active since a year ago. Since the policies ask users to either report such problems to an administrator or file a request here, I decided to ask for your help first. The link to the draft is already available above in case you decide to review it. Is it possible for you to remove the protection? Keivan.f Talk 07:17, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I just unprotected Sagopa Kajmer from recreation. Daniel Case (talk) 07:23, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

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Miranda article
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WikiProject Portals update #024, 26 Dec 2018
Last issue, I mentioned there would be a flood, and so, here it is...

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

Can we make it?

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Spotting missing portals that are redirects
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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.

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 * 47) Portal:Asanas
 * 48) Portal:Association of Southeast Asian Nations
 * 49) Portal:AstraZeneca
 * 50) Portal:Asturias
 * 51) Portal:Asus
 * 52) Portal:Atoms
 * 53) Portal:Automation
 * 54) Portal:Aylesbury
 * 55) Portal:Aztecs
 * 56) Portal:Bags
 * 57) Portal:Banks
 * 58) Portal:Basalt
 * 59) Portal:Batgirl
 * 60) Portal:Bats
 * 61) Portal:Bay Area Rapid Transit
 * 62) Portal:Beijing Subway
 * 63) Portal:Belo Horizonte
 * 64) Portal:Ben Affleck
 * 65) Portal:Binondo
 * 66) Portal:Biodiversity of Colombia
 * 67) Portal:Biomes
 * 68) Portal:Blue Origin
 * 69) Portal:Board games
 * 70) Portal:Boca Raton, Florida
 * 71) Portal:Bruno Mars
 * 72) Portal:Budapest Metro
 * 73) Portal:Buffalo, New York
 * 74) Portal:Bullying
 * 75) Portal:Busan Metro
 * 76) Portal:Buteoninae
 * 77) Portal:C++
 * 78) Portal:Cairo Metro
 * 79) Portal:Canadian art
 * 80) Portal:Character encoding
 * 81) Portal:Character encodings
 * 82) Portal:Charity
 * 83) Portal:Chemical engineering
 * 84) Portal:Chemical synthesis
 * 85) Portal:Chickenpox
 * 86) Portal:Chili peppers
 * 87) Portal:Chongqing Rail Transit
 * 88) Portal:Climate
 * 89) Portal:Communication
 * 90) Portal:Community of Madrid
 * 91) Portal:Computer files
 * 92) Portal:Concurrent computing
 * 93) Portal:Conservation biology
 * 94) Portal:Containers
 * 95) Portal:Contract bridge
 * 96) Portal:Convicts in Australia
 * 97) Portal:Copenhagen Metro
 * 98) Portal:Crochet
 * 99) Portal:Cucurbita
 * 100) Portal:Culture of Albania
 * 101) Portal:Culture of Argentina
 * 102) Portal:Culture of Armenia
 * 103) Portal:Culture of Assam
 * 104) Portal:Culture of Australia
 * 105) Portal:Culture of Austria
 * 106) Portal:Culture of Azerbaijan
 * 107) Portal:Culture of Bahrain
 * 108) Portal:Culture of Bangladesh
 * 109) Portal:Culture of Belarus
 * 110) Portal:Culture of Belgium
 * 111) Portal:Culture of Belize
 * 112) Portal:Culture of Bengal
 * 113) Portal:Culture of Cornwall
 * 114) Portal:Culture of Djibouti
 * 115) Portal:Culture of England
 * 116) Portal:Culture of Kerala
 * 117) Portal:Culture of Somalia
 * 118) Portal:Culture of West Bengal
 * 119) Portal:Curitiba
 * 120) Portal:Databases
 * 121) Portal:Data mining
 * 122) Portal:Data storage
 * 123) Portal:Deforestation and desertification
 * 124) Portal:Delta Air Lines
 * 125) Portal:Demi Lovato
 * 126) Portal:Demography
 * 127) Portal:Desalination
 * 128) Portal:Development of the human body
 * 129) Portal:Disease
 * 130) Portal:Disney Princess
 * 131) Portal:Dmitri Mendeleev
 * 132) Portal:Dublin
 * 133) Portal:DVD
 * 134) Portal:Eating
 * 135) Portal:Electronic components
 * 136) Portal:Elizabeth Cady Stanton
 * 137) Portal:Elizabeth I of England
 * 138) Portal:Ellie Goulding
 * 139) Portal:Embedded systems
 * 140) Portal:Embroidery
 * 141) Portal:Emmeline Pankhurst
 * 142) Portal:Emmy Awards
 * 143) Portal:Enugu
 * 144) Portal:Euro
 * 145) Portal:Eurostar
 * 146) Portal:Even-toed ungulates
 * 147) Portal:Executables
 * 148) Portal:Experimental aircraft
 * 149) Portal:Falkland Islands
 * 150) Portal:Fibers
 * 151) Portal:File sharing
 * 152) Portal:File systems
 * 153) Portal:Frankfurt
 * 154) Portal:Gaels
 * 155) Portal:Galicia (Spain)
 * 156) Portal:Gardens
 * 157) Portal:Gemstones
 * 158) Portal:Geotechnical engineering
 * 159) Portal:Geothermal power
 * 160) Portal:Glass
 * 161) Portal:Glass production
 * 162) Portal:GLONASS
 * 163) Portal:Guangzhou Metro
 * 164) Portal:Habitats
 * 165) Portal:Hall of Fame for Great Americans
 * 166) Portal:Helicopters
 * 167) Portal:Helmets
 * 168) Portal:Helsinki
 * 169) Portal:Hilary Duff
 * 170) Portal:Hiroshima
 * 171) Portal:History of computing
 * 172) Portal:Honey bees
 * 173) Portal:Honolulu County, Hawaii
 * 174) Portal:Hubble Space Telescope
 * 175) Portal:Hummingbirds
 * 176) Portal:HVAC
 * 177) Portal:Hymenoptera
 * 178) Portal:Intermodal containers
 * 179) Portal:International Council for Science
 * 180) Portal:International Space Station
 * 181) Portal:Interstate Highway System
 * 182) Portal:IOS
 * 183) Portal:IPv6
 * 184) Portal:Ithaca, New York
 * 185) Portal:James Webb Space Telescope
 * 186) Portal:Jammu and Kashmir
 * 187) Portal:JavaScript
 * 188) Portal:Jay-Z
 * 189) Portal:John Major
 * 190) Portal:Kabul
 * 191) Portal:KFC
 * 192) Portal:Khuzestan Province
 * 193) Portal:Launch vehicles
 * 194) Portal:Laundry
 * 195) Portal:Lenovo
 * 196) Portal:Leo Tolstoy
 * 197) Portal:Library classification systems
 * 198) Portal:Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II
 * 199) Portal:Longevity
 * 200) Portal:Los Angeles International Airport
 * 201) Portal:Love
 * 202) Portal:Lyra (constellation)
 * 203) Portal:MacOS
 * 204) Portal:Macroeconomics
 * 205) Portal:Madrid
 * 206) Portal:Mail
 * 207) Portal:Malaria
 * 208) Portal:Malware
 * 209) Portal:Manhattan Project
 * 210) Portal:Mao Zedong
 * 211) Portal:Marrakesh
 * 212) Portal:Mathematics and art
 * 213) Portal:Mattel
 * 214) Portal:Mayotte
 * 215) Portal:Media culture
 * 216) Portal:Media manipulation
 * 217) Portal:Medications
 * 218) Portal:Men
 * 219) Portal:Metalworking
 * 220) Portal:Metropolitan Transportation Authority
 * 221) Portal:Michael Faraday
 * 222) Portal:Microeconomics
 * 223) Portal:Milan Metro
 * 224) Portal:Military aircraft
 * 225) Portal:Military deception
 * 226) Portal:Mixed reality
 * 227) Portal:Modern history
 * 228) Portal:Mood disorders
 * 229) Portal:Morpeth, Northumberland
 * 230) Portal:Moscow Metro
 * 231) Portal:MPEG
 * 232) Portal:MTR
 * 233) Portal:Multihulls
 * 234) Portal:Museums
 * 235) Portal:Music of Scotland
 * 236) Portal:NASA
 * 237) Portal:National anthems
 * 238) Portal:Natural language processing
 * 239) Portal:Neoplasms
 * 240) Portal:New Delhi
 * 241) Portal:Northern Cyprus
 * 242) Portal:Nuclear weapons
 * 243) Portal:Nuts
 * 244) Portal:Odd-toed ungulates
 * 245) Portal:Ores
 * 246) Portal:Organ transplantation
 * 247) Portal:Orthoptera
 * 248) Portal:Oslo
 * 249) Portal:Palmyra
 * 250) Portal:Pan-Africanism
 * 251) Portal:Panasonic
 * 252) Portal:Parrots
 * 253) Portal:Parties
 * 254) Portal:Peanuts
 * 255) Portal:Peanuts (comic strip)
 * 256) Portal:Perl
 * 257) Portal:Permaculture
 * 258) Portal:Pesticides
 * 259) Portal:Physical fitness
 * 260) Portal:Physiology
 * 261) Portal:Plant nutrition
 * 262) Portal:Porcelain
 * 263) Portal:Ports and harbors
 * 264) Portal:Pre-Columbian era
 * 265) Portal:Prehistoric Scotland
 * 266) Portal:Private transport
 * 267) Portal:Programming languages
 * 268) Portal:Programming paradigms
 * 269) Portal:Prostitution
 * 270) Portal:Protests
 * 271) Portal:Psychological manipulation
 * 272) Portal:P. T. Barnum
 * 273) Portal:Public housing in the United Kingdom
 * 274) Portal:Public transport in Helsinki
 * 275) Portal:Public transport in Istanbul
 * 276) Portal:Pueblos
 * 277) Portal:Pune
 * 278) Portal:Quilting
 * 279) Portal:Racing
 * 280) Portal:Radiation
 * 281) Portal:RAID
 * 282) Portal:Rail transport in Argentina
 * 283) Portal:Rail transport in Finland
 * 284) Portal:Rail transport in Germany
 * 285) Portal:Rail transport in Israel
 * 286) Portal:Rail transport in Malaysia
 * 287) Portal:Rail transport in Norway
 * 288) Portal:Rail transport in Singapore
 * 289) Portal:Rail transport in Spain
 * 290) Portal:Rail transport in Sri Lanka
 * 291) Portal:Rail transport in Thailand
 * 292) Portal:Rail transport in the United Arab Emirates
 * 293) Portal:Realism (arts)
 * 294) Portal:Recycling
 * 295) Portal:Religion in China
 * 296) Portal:Religion in Egypt
 * 297) Portal:Religion in Iran
 * 298) Portal:Religion in Israel
 * 299) Portal:Religion in Mexico
 * 300) Portal:Religion in Mozambique
 * 301) Portal:Religion in Myanmar
 * 302) Portal:Religion in Norway
 * 303) Portal:Religion in Pakistan
 * 304) Portal:Religion in Poland
 * 305) Portal:Religion in Portugal
 * 306) Portal:Religion in Romania
 * 307) Portal:Religion in Scotland
 * 308) Portal:Religion in South Africa
 * 309) Portal:Religion in Sweden
 * 310) Portal:Religion in Thailand
 * 311) Portal:Religion in Turkey
 * 312) Portal:Religion in Zimbabwe
 * 313) Portal:Republic of Artsakh
 * 314) Portal:Revolutions
 * 315) Portal:Reykjavík
 * 316) Portal:Rhythm
 * 317) Portal:Rocket engines
 * 318) Portal:Rodenticides
 * 319) Portal:Roofs
 * 320) Portal:Roscosmos
 * 321) Portal:Roses
 * 322) Portal:Rowing
 * 323) Portal:RuPaul
 * 324) Portal:Saint Helena
 * 325) Portal:Sales
 * 326) Portal:San Juan, Puerto Rico
 * 327) Portal:San Marino
 * 328) Portal:São Paulo
 * 329) Portal:Scottish art
 * 330) Portal:Scottish clans
 * 331) Portal:Sex work
 * 332) Portal:Shinkansen
 * 333) Portal:Shipbuilding
 * 334) Portal:Silk
 * 335) Portal:Simple living
 * 336) Portal:SkyTrain (Vancouver)
 * 337) Portal:South Ossetia
 * 338) Portal:Space Shuttles
 * 339) Portal:SpaceX
 * 340) Portal:Spike Lee
 * 341) Portal:SQL
 * 342) Portal:Starbucks
 * 343) Portal:Statue of Liberty
 * 344) Portal:Stem cells
 * 345) Portal:Stonehenge
 * 346) Portal:Street newspapers
 * 347) Portal:Stuttgart
 * 348) Portal:Submarines
 * 349) Portal:Suffragettes
 * 350) Portal:Susan B. Anthony
 * 351) Portal:Systems
 * 352) Portal:Tallinn
 * 353) Portal:Tashkent
 * 354) Portal:Telephony
 * 355) Portal:Tents
 * 356) Portal:Tigers
 * 357) Portal:Tobacco
 * 358) Portal:Tomatoes
 * 359) Portal:Toronto Transit Commission
 * 360) Portal:Tortoises
 * 361) Portal:Transnistria
 * 362) Portal:Transport in Afghanistan
 * 363) Portal:Transport in Barcelona
 * 364) Portal:Transport in Belgium
 * 365) Portal:Transport in Bristol
 * 366) Portal:Transport in Bucharest
 * 367) Portal:Transport in Buckinghamshire
 * 368) Portal:Transport in Cardiff
 * 369) Portal:Transport in Chennai
 * 370) Portal:Transport in China
 * 371) Portal:Transport in Edinburgh
 * 372) Portal:Transport in Glasgow
 * 373) Portal:Transport in Guyana
 * 374) Portal:Transport in Hong Kong
 * 375) Portal:Transport in India
 * 376) Portal:Transport in Ireland
 * 377) Portal:Transport in Israel
 * 378) Portal:Transport in Kiev
 * 379) Portal:Transport in London
 * 380) Portal:Transport in Somerset
 * 381) Portal:Transport in Tamil Nadu
 * 382) Portal:Transport in Tiruchirappalli
 * 383) Portal:Transport in Vietnam
 * 384) Portal:Transport in Warsaw
 * 385) Portal:Tuberculosis
 * 386) Portal:Twitter
 * 387) Portal:Umayyad Caliphate
 * 388) Portal:United States Armed Forces
 * 389) Portal:United States Congress
 * 390) Portal:USB
 * 391) Portal:Valencian Community
 * 392) Portal:Vijayawada
 * 393) Portal:Voting
 * 394) Portal:Washington Metro
 * 395) Portal:Waterfalls
 * 396) Portal:Weapons
 * 397) Portal:Weaving
 * 398) Portal:Web browsers
 * 399) Portal:Websites
 * 400) Portal:Wendy's
 * 401) Portal:Women's prisons in the United States
 * 402) Portal:Woodworking
 * 403) Portal:World Chess Championships
 * 404) Portal:Yangtze

Keep 'em coming!
And I'll see you next issue.

Sincerely,  &mdash; The Transhumanist   08:07, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

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:

Becomes this:

Here's the code for the above banner:

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

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

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

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

Congratulations!

What's next?
The 10,000th portal mark. But...

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


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

And whatever else you can dream up.

But most of all, have a...

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

Sincerely,  &mdash; The Transhumanist   11:53, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

Happy new year
Happy new year Daniel, and all thew best in 2019! Davidgoodheart (talk) 00:59, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

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DYK for Murder of Jane Britton
– Ianblair23 (talk) 00:01, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Map in NY lake articles
I added that map because besides showing the park, it shows the major rivers and lakes in the state so i figured it would work. although a better map would be better which im going to reccomend for someone who knows how to make maps to add: catskill park and other major rivers and lakes such as the great sacandaga lake, schoharie creek or east branch delaware river (for example) to the map. Would you be able to assist me in making that request? If so i can make a list of all the major rivers or lakes that should be added. Thanks Bacardi379 (talk) 04:03, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

Murder of Anne and Mae Rubenstein, February 13, 1965
Howdy Daniel.

Here are numerous articles about the murders of Anne and Mae Rubenstein on February 13, 1965. You can do some other research and I can get you to archives you may not be able to. I can fill in some details for you. Also, this piece on Channel 4 will help. Mitch 32 (My ambition is to hit .400 and talk 1.000.) 23:52, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

You realize
That it is also not necessary to “un-alphabetize” categories as well, right? I only did it while adding a category. Rikster2 (talk) 03:06, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Per MOS:CATORDER: "Normally the most essential, significant categories appear first." All you wanted to do was add a category; you would have saved yourself some work. Daniel Case (talk) 03:11, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
 * So you can say for sure that the categories are in importance order as is, eh? LOL. You’re really just enforcing your preference, but OK. Have a good day, man. Rikster2 (talk) 03:26, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
 * You were enforcing yours. I can't remember, but I think that page used to say something to the effect that it was usually best to leave an article's categories in the order they had been placed; accordingly I did not de-alphabetize categories that I came upon alphabetized if I was adding a category or two to an article that was already in a few. Until a few years ago this seems to have been a projectwide custom (one that the widespread deployment of HotCat further encouraged). If there are people who feel that should change, that we should as a rule alphabetize categories, then they should propose it as such rather than just going ahead and doing it. Daniel Case (talk) 03:35, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I think everyone would agree that the most important category on that article is “American film studio executives,” which was the first category in both instances, since it’s the claim to notability and the hatnote on the article. I have often seen the “people from” category moved to the top as most important, but you didn’t do that. So, yes, I think you’re just reflexively pushing back against aplhabetization of categories. But it’s OK, it’s less of an issue for me than for you, obviously, since you actually undid an edit that added information to enforce your world view. I actually was adding a category and just alphabetized along the way. Ther is no guideline against alphabetizing categories. Have a great weekend! Rikster2 (talk) 03:47, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
 * from the guideline you quoted (you cut this off) - “ Eponymous categories should appear first. Beyond that, the order in which categories are placed on a page is not governed by any single rule ” Rikster2 (talk) 03:50, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
 * "I think everyone would agree that the most important category on that article is 'American film studio executives,'". Perhaps in retrospect. However, I started the article in response to the stories about his disappearance. Before then nothing he did as a a studio executive got him any notice, and I wasn't sure about whether the basketball was really a claim (although the ensuing DYK hook did come out of that). The bulk of coverage of his life is, alas, concentrated on his disappearance, death and the ensuing murder trial, so I'm still OK with the missing-person cats coming first after the YOB and YOD cats. I think that when people use the categories to search for other articles, they would expect to see the first one after YOB/YOD to be (in the case of a biography) what the person is most famous for. And a lot more people would know Smith as a crime victim than anything else, unfortunately. I personally feel the geographic categories should accordingly come last, as that includes people the subject often only has that in common with. "you actually undid an edit that added information": Well, then I added the category you had added back in. However, after considering that I have nominated that category and all the other ones like it for deletion per WP:PERFCAT (we don't have categories for the players in each Super Bowl, or each World Series, do we? ... so why have one for the players who played in each Final Four?) But that's another discussion. "Ther is no guideline against alphabetizing categories." And just as easily there's no guideline that says you have to, either. You could have accomplished your goal just by adding that category ... sorting all the cats was a lot of needless extra work. Daniel Case (talk) 07:38, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Wow, nominating the categories for deletion, eh? You sure are a vindictive guy. While you review your policy, one I recommend you take in is WP:OWN, which you seem to be having trouble with on the Gavin Smith article you created. Have a great day! Rikster2 (talk) 13:58, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Perhaps you could have thought to seek consensus on the article talk page before alphabetizing? That would have been the best way to do this, since policy mandates neither choice. Daniel Case (talk) 15:30, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject Portals update #026, 20 Jan 2019
Well, here's the first issue of the new year. Enjoy...

New participants
A hearty welcome to new arrivals to the portals department:
 * Emoteplump
 * Pakieditor
 * CASSIOPEIA
 * Venomous Sniper
 * DannyS712

Harvesting categories tool prototype
DannyS712 has created a user script prototype, User:DannyS712/Cat links, that can pull members from a category, a functionality we've been after since the project's revamp last Spring. Now, it's a matter of applying this technique to scripts that will place the items where needed, such as in a section starter script and/or portal builder script.

New portals since last issue

 * 1) Academic publishing
 * 2) Accounting
 * 3) Adam and Eve
 * 4) African Great Lakes
 * 5) Al Green
 * 6) Alternative views
 * 7) America's Next Top Model
 * 8) Andaman and Nicobar Islands
 * 9) Angles
 * 10) Applied mathematics
 * 11) Arabic
 * 12) Areas of mathematics
 * 13) Atlanta metropolitan area
 * 14) Atlantic Ocean
 * 15) Big Bash League
 * 16) Bijelo Dugme
 * 17) Bill Cosby
 * 18) Boats
 * 19) Bombardier Aerospace
 * 20) Bruce Willis
 * 21) Canadian law
 * 22) Cannons
 * 23) Caribbean American
 * 24) Chinese American
 * 25) Chinese Canadians
 * 26) Chinese gardens
 * 27) Chris Brown
 * 28) City
 * 29) Common law
 * 30) Criminal law
 * 31) Czechoslovakia
 * 32) Data
 * 33) Data warehouses
 * 34) DC Comics
 * 35) Deities
 * 36) DeKalb County
 * 37) Destiny's Child
 * 38) Differential equations
 * 39) Discrete geometry
 * 40) East Asia
 * 41) Economy of China
 * 42) Economy of India
 * 43) Economy of Malaysia
 * 44) Economy of the United Kingdom
 * 45) Ellen DeGeneres
 * 46) Email clients
 * 47) E
 * 48) Equations
 * 49) European Americans
 * 50) Filipino Americans
 * 51) Football in Algeria
 * 52) Fox Corporation
 * 53) Fractions and ratios
 * 54) Functional analysis
 * 55) Game theory
 * 56) Girlguiding
 * 57) Gloucestershire
 * 58) Grazhdanskaya Oborona
 * 59) Greek diaspora
 * 60) Habsburg Monarchy
 * 61) Hilbert's problems
 * 62) Hoodoo Gurus
 * 63) Hyundai Motor Company
 * 64) Iggy Azalea
 * 65) Indian Ocean
 * 66) Infinity
 * 67) Information theory
 * 68) Integrals
 * 69) Irish diaspora
 * 70) Irrational numbers
 * 71) Italian diaspora
 * 72) Japanese diaspora
 * 73) J. Cole
 * 74) Jennifer Lopez
 * 75) Jessica Lange
 * 76) John Fogerty
 * 77) Kehlani
 * 78) Kiev
 * 79) K. Michelle
 * 80) Knot theory
 * 81) Kool & the Gang
 * 82) Lakes in China
 * 83) Lake Van
 * 84) Leonardo DiCaprio
 * 85) Limerick
 * 86) Literary composition
 * 87) Long Island Rail Road
 * 88) Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
 * 89) Lukas Graham
 * 90) Mathematical optimization
 * 91) Matt Damon
 * 92) Merchant ships
 * 93) Metallic means
 * 94) Metro-North Railroad
 * 95) Microsoft Windows
 * 96) Military of India
 * 97) Miss America
 * 98) Modulation
 * 99) Moon landing
 * 100) Mozilla
 * 101) Music of Ireland
 * 102) Narratives
 * 103) Nashville
 * 104) Nassau County
 * 105) Norfolk
 * 106) Nottinghamshire
 * 107) One Life to Live
 * 108) Overseas Chinese
 * 109) Percentages
 * 110) Probability distributions
 * 111) Public Broadcasting Service
 * 112) Quezon City
 * 113) Raven-Symoné
 * 114) R. Kelly
 * 115) Rodeo
 * 116) RuneScape
 * 117) Sarah Silverman
 * 118) Saturn rockets
 * 119) Science and technology
 * 120) Sesame Street
 * 121) Seth MacFarlane
 * 122) Ships
 * 123) Shipwrecks
 * 124) Shropshire
 * 125) Spaceports
 * 126) Space suits
 * 127) Spanish diaspora
 * 128) Steam locomotives
 * 129) Suffolk
 * 130) Suzuki
 * 131) Tanks
 * 132) Tensors
 * 133) The CW
 * 134) Thomas Aquinas
 * 135) T.I.
 * 136) TISM
 * 137) Tom Cruise
 * 138) Toni Braxton
 * 139) Toyota
 * 140) Transportation in the Philippines
 * 141) True Blood
 * 142) Violin
 * 143) Virgin Group
 * 144) Vladimir Putin
 * 145) Volkswagen
 * 146) Volume
 * 147) Warner Bros.
 * 148) Warships
 * 149) Warwickshire
 * 150) Washington D.C.
 * 151) [[Portal:Watercraft|
 * 152) Web syndication
 * 153) Wikis
 * 154) Witchcraft
 * 155) Women's sports
 * 156) World of Warcraft

What else is going on
There have been some discussions at Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines.

DreamyJazz is working on a bot to place links to portals on root articles, category pages, and navigation footer templates.

Portal bugs are getting dealt with soon after they are reported.

Lots of wikignome activity (using Hotcat, etc.).

Keep up the good work. &mdash; The Transhumanist  08:13, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

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Getting back to you
Hey, Dan. It's Ted again. I just wanted to check in and see if you got my message. I moved the conversation about my name to my own talk page because it looked more satisfactory and I just expected the notifications would still be coming onto your end. Here's my message from my talk page:

"Is there a way that you could initiate it and also have me get the notifications too? If not I'm willing to do it on my own. Ted (talk) 07:50, 6 February 2019 (UTC)"

Thanks!

Unsolved murder?
Hi, should Nancy Benoit who is claimed to have been killed by Chris Benoit be on the List of unsolved deaths? Remember that he was never charged as he committed suicide, since you claimed that O.J. Simpson was found not guilty of killing Nicole Brown Simpson so should be treated the same way? Davidgoodheart (talk) 03:36, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Les Choristes
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

DYK for SurfSafe
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:28, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Grand Central edit
The purchase is mentioned extra extensively here: History_of_Grand_Central_Terminal. Okay if I revert (some of?) your edit on the main article? ɱ (talk)

Feb 27 WikiWednesday Salon + Mar 2 MoMA Art+Feminism and beyond
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DYK for Paul Bateson
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 12:02, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Possible death date for Paul Bateson
I read the article on Paul Bateson and saw that you were the main contributor. I found on the Social Security Death Index (through Ancestry.com) that there is a Paul F. Bateson, born 24 Aug 1940, Social Security card issued in Pennsyvania, who died 15 Sep 2012. I have no proof that this is the same Paul Bateson but I think it is a good possibility. EricWR (talk) 15:41, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I saw you posted on the article talk page as well. Maybe we can find a way to work this into a note. Daniel Case (talk) 09:11, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

"Sex and Candy"
Hi Daniel, I know that you are interested in music; would you like to review the article for the 1990s rock hit "Sex and Candy" for GA? Thanks!MagicatthemovieS (talk) 23:03, 6 March 2019 (UTC)MagicatthemovieS
 * OK, I'll take a look. I don't usually do this on request but I do have two song articles in the GA queue so maybe this will speed things up. Daniel Case (talk) 06:40, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi
I don't understand what there is left to do regarding "Sex and Candy." MagicatthemovieS (talk) 16:09, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I've been a little busy with another article I just started and it's the weekend and I have my mother coming over for a belated birthday celebration. As I just noted, it turns out that yes, the song did make it to number 2 on the Canadian chart. Once we've gone back to having that in the intro, I'll pass it. Daniel Case (talk) 16:17, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
 * The issue has been resolved.MagicatthemovieS (talk) 17:32, 16 March 2019 (UTC)MagicatthemovieS
 * Thanks so much for reviewing the article? Do you plan on nominating the article for DYK?MagicatthemovieS (talk) 19:27, 17 March 2019 (UTC)MagicatthemovieS
 * A little bit later today ... I have to make an appearance at the local Irish pub Daniel Case (talk) 20:19, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

WikiTalk
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A barnstar for you!
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Article Titled Guinea Town New York
Daniel was have "met" a few times given shared interest in Hudson Valley history. While you did not contribute to the article Guinea Town, New York I would appreciate your advice. I posted on its talk page as I believe that's where discussion should happen. There are very obviously two different "Guinea Towns" being referenced in one article, one on Long Island and one in Dutchess County, threaded throughout without awareness or acknowledgement. I have a growing amount of information on the latter. I am not familiar with the former. I flagged the two major contributors on their talk pages, I am not aware of any response. Do you think I should separate the two towns in the one article? Create another article for one of them? Its kind of a 50/50 split on content but I'd like to clarify and build content on Dutchess County topic but some "major surgery" appears necessary. Thank you. WindingRoad (talk) 19:07, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Talkback
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Old Setauket 3 Village HD and Bethel Christian
Sorry to be the fly in this discussion, the blacks and indians of Setauket never attended church at the white only Presbyterian church, which is in the original historic district that comprised the Old Setauket Historic District. The Bethel Christian HD was the late addition to recognize the remnants of the indigenous community not recognized by the three-village historic district, and should retain that separate character. Please read the article, many of the events of the region remain the same, but Bethel is a different HD than the Old Setauket HD.CaptJayRuffins (talk) 12:54, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

West Kill
All the good work you did on west kill, i see its still a start class. Do you think its good enough now to be a featured article? Thanks 420Traveler (talk) 21:17, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

That sounds like a great idea what you said you were going to add to the article, I would also be interested in helping you get pictures, and go hiking with you if youd like. Thanks for the response, 420Traveler (talk) 04:32, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

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DYK for Baseball Rule
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You've got mail
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DYK for Sex and Candy
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Hi
If you find time for it, please take a look at the article about Kaj Linna. Quite interesting crime case. I have nominated it for DYK and can include you if you wish after completed edits. Cheers.--BabbaQ (talk) 11:18, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Ted Sampley
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Removal of bio tags
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Airport destinations
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Usgs graph
When you have some free time can you make a graph like this: for Canajoharie Creek. It would go great with the article. Thanks 420Traveler (talk) 20:28, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

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I got the alert that you'd reverted my edit on the Air Rage article. I looked at some of the news reports about it and saw that it was indeed the one person who wasn't allowed to sit with Love. Thanks for fixing it.

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