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Brian Schweitzer
Hello DynamoJax, why was this wiki edited to such a large degree. I thought that only edits were to be made to give both sides if the issues were that controversial. Just take a look at Senator Conrad Burns, also the Governors own press secretary made edits (removals) to the same section that you did. Isn't wiki the place to let people review the facts to get informed? Help2008Montana (talk) 02:10, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

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See here, for some thoughts about supporting additional fields in infobox person. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ (talk) 22:46, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

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Invitation to WikiProject Portals
The Portals WikiProject has been rebooted and is going strong.

So far, we've created a template with supporting Lua module to transclude excerpts of the current version of an article, to use instead of copy and paste. Excerpts using the template never go stale or fork.

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.

On the WikiProject page, there's a watchlist of all the pages in the portal namespace, for viewing Related changes.

With more to come.

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

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.

See ya at the WikiProject!

Sincerely,    &mdash; The Transhumanist   02:30, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

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.

Our two main goals at this time are to automate portals (in terms of refreshing, rotating, and selecting content), and to develop a one-page model in order to make obsolete and eliminate most of the 150,000 subpages from the portal namespace by migrating their functions to the portal base pages, using technologies such as selective transclusion. Please feel free to join in on any of the many threads of development at the WikiProject's talk page, or just stop by to see how we are doing. If you have any questions about portals or portal development, that is the best place to ask them.

If you would like to keep abreast of developments on portals, keep in mind that the project's members receive updates on their talk pages. The updates are also posted here, for your convenience.

Again, we can't thank you enough for your support of portals, and we hope to make you proud of your decision. Sincerely,  &mdash; The Transhumanist   23:08, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

P.S.: if you reply to this message, please ping me. Thank you. -TT

Userspace drafts
Hello. While performing some routine cleanup, I came across User:JaxisMaximus/sandbox/2, where I can see that you drafted 3 articles before creating them in mainspace. Do you have any objections to me deleting that page, in order to remove the need for occasional future maintenance, and also to avoid keeping pages in userspace that look like articles for extended periods? While we are on the subject, I thought I would also ask about User:JaxisMaximus/sandbox (a 3-year-old draft for Dan McQueen) and User:JaxisMaximus/Sandbox (a 12-year-old draft for Is It A Good Idea to Microwave This?). Do you still intend to work on these drafts, or should they be deleted, too? -- Black Falcon (talk) 19:43, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Hello. I had completely forgotten about these article drafts. I would leave the Is it A good Idea to Microwave this draft for now, but delete the others. One draft has already since gone on to be a article anyway (2005 San Antonio election) and the other will likely never become an article as I don't have enough time or info to draft it (Dan McQueen). Thanks. JaxisMaximus (talk) 22:01, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for responding. I deleted User:JaxisMaximus/sandbox/2 and the Dan McQueen draft. The draft for Is It A Good Idea to Microwave This? is available at User:JaxisMaximus/sandbox. If you ever want the deleted drafts to be restored so that you can work on them, just ask me or another administrator. Take care, -- Black Falcon (talk) 22:04, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

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