User talk:PersistantCorvid

Puerto Rico Crash
Hello, you made some excellent edits to the 1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash page, those edits were reverted by an admin without any real reason. I just want to give you a heads up. 2601:647:5A00:A4A0:4DB5:CD63:24C6:1B8E (talk) 01:39, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up, they undid a lot of editors' contributions without a word in the talk page.Persistent Corvid (talk) 04:25, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

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 They say that many portals are not maintained, or have fallen out of date, are useless, etc.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   10:24, 21 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   10:54, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

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

Bad news, bird!
Wikipedia now strongly recommends users mean "persistent COVID" when trying to seek your wisdom. InedibleHulk (talk) 23:41, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Lol, that can't be good. Luckily, it's not likely to be communicable to birds.Persistent Corvid (talk) 03:41, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
 * And a lot fewer of you guys are getting sucked into jet engines lately, must be nice! InedibleHulk (talk) 06:46, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
 * It certainly is easier on the feathers. Do inedible hulks have anything to worry about during the domiciled lock-in? Persistent Corvid (talk) 21:29, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Not exactly. Been a recluse for a decade, only traveling or exchanging droplets when essential. But an antisocial lifestyle depends on society for juxtaposition, so a part of me is wary of that tangent universe collapsing. That said, I started worrying this way after 9/11, so it's a dull numb ache by now. Way more tolerable than the fresh gnawing it probably still is for many former "outsiders". If any lurk here and are freaking out, trust me! Life goes on. InedibleHulk (talk) 21:48, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
 * That seems adequate, but it sounds like you could use some croissants or something, however. Persistent Corvid (talk) 23:52, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Croissants are more a Good Friday bread; I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a blueberry chocolate eclair today (today being Sunday, UTC be damned). One infected me with salmonella once, but I was only mostly dead for three days, so can't stay mad at dessert. What do crows hunt for Easter? InedibleHulk (talk) 00:48, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Spaceflight newsletter notification
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The Magpie Salute
Just thought you should know this exists. Maybe you already know, maybe it's no big deal, maybe you forgot you used to like/dislike it. How was I supposed to know? I wasn't, that's how! But there it is, take it or leave it, knowledge is power and it could be worth something some day. InedibleHulk (talk) 10:42, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that, I can't say that I didn't know at some point. Because if I knew it and then forgotten it, I wouldn't know that I knew it...but now I do.Persistent Corvid (talk) 00:01, 16 January 2021 (UTC)