User talk:Mrphilip

Welcome!
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-- 21:44, Wednesday, April 25, 2018 (UTC)

Hello, from the Portals WikiProject...
You are invited to join the effort to revitalize and improve the Portal system...

The Portals WikiProject was rebooted on April 17th, and is going strong. Fifty-nine editors have joined so far, with more joining daily.

We're having a blast, and excitement is high...

Our goal is to update, upgrade, and maintain portals.

In addition to working directly on portals, we are developing tools to make portals more dynamic (self-updating), and to make building and maintaining portals easier. We've finished two tools so far, with more to come. They are Template:Transclude lead excerpt and Template:Transclude random excerpt.

Discussions are underway about how to further upgrade portals, and what the portals of the future will be.

There are plenty of tasks (including WikiGnome tasks too).

With more to come.

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   23:34, 1 May 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   18:21, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

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

What has been happening with portals...
Since May, the number of portals has more than doubled. There are over 1500 new portals. (Previously, it took 13 years to create that many).

We have developed a single-page paradigm, in which almost all new portals take up one page each, rather than dozens of subpages like they used to, while still presenting more content than than the old designs. This saves a great deal of time in portal construction. My average construction time for portals has dropped from about 6 hours to around 3 minutes each.

This was made possible by templates with underlying lua modules that pull excerpts and images from articles, and then display them in the sections of a portal.

A major innovation of portals is the application of slideshows (on desktop and laptop computers), for both images and textual excerpts, fed automatically, so editors don't even have to add items to the entry queue, unless they want to. Here are some examples:


 * Portal:Don Quixote
 * Portal:Egyptian pyramids
 * Portal:Los Angeles
 * Portal:Mars
 * Portal:Monaco
 * Portal:Penguins
 * more...

Portals are automatically updated, in that they show the latest version of material from the articles they excerpt it from. The same with pagenames pulled from sourcepages. As sourcepages are developed, the selection displayed on the portals that use them progresses along with them.

Other improved features include conditional news, "did you know", and WikiProject sections that only appear if they have content to display. For example, when a news item is reported on a subject in Wikipedia's current events department, the subject's portal automatically generates a news section presenting the news item.

And portals are still evolving. For a couple prototypes of what they are heading toward, see Portal:Continents and  Portal:New York City.

I hope you liked this update, and that you enjoy using portals as much as we have been enjoying redesigning them.

Sincerely,  &mdash; The Transhumanist   08:23, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office


Hello, Mrphilip. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, Draft:Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office.

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 06:03, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office (March 16)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted because it included copyrighted content, which is not permitted on Wikipedia.

You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work.


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 SITH   (talk)   16:10, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. -- I posted in the thread you started Legacypac (talk) 05:26, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

March 2019
Thank you for your contributions. It seems that you may have added public domain content to one or more Wikipedia articles, such as National Institutes of Health. You are welcome to import appropriate public domain content to articles, but in order to meet the Wikipedia guideline on plagiarism, such content must be fully attributed. This requires not only acknowledging the source, but acknowledging that the source is copied. There are several methods to do this described at Plagiarism, including the usage of an attribution template. Please make sure that any public domain content you have already imported is fully attributed. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:03, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

WikiWednesday Salon & Skillshare format survey
Wikimedia New York City Team 15:38, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Oversight for redundancy and research gaps


Hello, Mrphilip. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Oversight for redundancy and research gaps".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the, , or  code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia!  CASSIOPEIA(talk) 16:53, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

==Thank you for this reminder. Others had suggested the topic was not crucial but I think it is worth my time. No need to undelete edits, new information from citations requires overhaul. Stay tuned. Mrphilip (talk) 12:14, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

DS alert
QuackGuru ( talk ) 13:21, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

July 2020
Hello, I'm OXYLYPSE. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Khaldoon Al Mubarak have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse. Thanks. OXYLYPSE (talk) 08:12, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Mark Wahlberg. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. - Arjayay (talk) 08:46, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

BLP warning and discretionary sanctions alert
You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy by inserting unsourced or poorly sourced defamatory or otherwise controversial content into an article or any other Wikipedia page. El_C 09:04, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

El_C 09:04, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Final warning
Yesterday you edited the biography of a living person to call her a "bastard" based on the circumstances of her birth. You also gratuitously inserted the name of this same person in a photo caption about birth out of wedlock in a patently inappropriate way. Your previous edit before that was to insert the words "delivered direct from a fat cow on" before the date of birth in the lead sentence of another BLP. Your previous edits before that were to insert the words "Birthed from cow" in the infobox of still another BLP. Both of these were blatant vandalism as well as BLP violations. Your other recent edits have included proposing to add two deceased people to LGBT categories based on no sources at all, as well as irrelevant insertions about homosexuality in the haemophilia article.

Please consider this a final warning that if we see any more edits like this, you will be blocked indefinitely and/or prohibited from editing BLPs. Newyorkbrad (talk) 20:30, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

United Nations LGBTI Core Group moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, United Nations LGBTI Core Group, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of " " before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. John B123 (talk) 09:46, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Queering Wikipedia 2021 User Group Working Days: May 14–16
The Wikimedia LGBTQ+ User Group is holding online working days in May. As a member of WikiProject LGBT studies, editing on LGBTQ+ issues or if you identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community, come help us set goals, develop our organisation and structures, consider how to respond to issues faced by Queer editors, and plan for the next 12 months.

We will be meeting online for 3 half-days, 14–16 May at 1400–1730 UTC. While our working language is English, we are looking to accommodate users who would prefer to participate in other languages, including translation facilities.

More information, and registration details, at QW2021 .--Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group 02:54, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:United Nations LGBTI Core Group
Hello, Mrphilip. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:United Nations LGBTI Core Group, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Draft space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for article space.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion under CSD G13. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it. You may request userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available here.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 10:02, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

May 2021
Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions did not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use your sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 03:17, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:United Nations LGBTI Core Group


Hello, Mrphilip. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "United Nations LGBTI Core Group".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the, , or  code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Celestina007 (talk) 10:24, 29 May 2021 (UTC)