User talk:Robertgombos/Archive 1

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Jasmine Directory

 * When you requested a history merge Draft:Jasmine Directory to Jasmine Directory, Draft:Jasmine Directory had only one edit, and that edit was a redirect. There was nothing to history-merge with. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:17, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, ! Robertgombos (talk) 05:52, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

DMOZ: How to rescue dead URLs properly
To respond to your request for feedback on changing dead links to archive.org copies in the DMOZ article, yes, rescuing dead URLs is always a good idea and much appreciated. However, that's not the right way to do it. Rather than prepending "https://web.archive.org/web/*/" to the URLs, you should leave the original URL alone, and add the template parameters deadurl, archiveurl, and archivedate. Also, you should use a specific revision of the page from archive.org rather than pointing to the index of revisions. Unless the most recent version of the page doesn't contain the text the citation was referring to, it's generally best to go with the most recent copy archive.org saved, and the date it did so goes in the archivedate parameter (e.g. "2017-03-04" for the URL https://web.archive.org/web/20170304211520/http://www.dmoz.org/guidelines/meta/).

Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DMOZ&diff=791635197&oldid=791367474 for the format I used in correcting the URLs you changed. In this unusual case, since DMOZ has its own official archive of the last modified version of the site, http://dmoztools.net/, I decided to use that site for the archive links rather than using whatever the most recent copy on archive.org happened to be (and I got the 2017-03-17 archivedate from the top-level "Sorry we're closed" page on http://dmoz.org/).

P.S. I recently watched the '90s Internet education video archived as EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE: TROPICANA IS ON A BUDGET! on YouTube, and I found the bit starting at 1:27 ("...Actually, Pasquale, human-created directories are overtaking search engines in importance and popularity!") as hilariously anachronistic as it was sad. Therefore I'm very happy to learn of your still-active Jasmine Directory, which I had not previously heard of. --Dan Harkless (talk) 14:49, 21 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Hello, . Thank you for the feedback it will be useful. As for the quoted text, yeah, I'm a huge fan of "humans are better than computers" (at some things). Regarding http://dmoztools.net/, I don't think it's the official mirror, yet. On the editor's forum the more experienced programmers are still talking about various features. Anyway, I hope that at least a memory of what DMOZ was will be kept. Robertgombos (talk) 08:24, 23 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Actually, I said "official archive", not "official mirror". I called it that since it's linked to from the new homepage of dmoz.org, and presumably has the latest revision of the site, but yeah, I realize it's only a "semi-official archive".  Hopefully those talks will indeed result in a rebirth of the site, and hopefully the new incarnation will avoid the old problem of suggested links usually being ignored even if relevant (probably due to not enough link-reviewing manpower), while also not suffering from unfettered link-spam.


 * Maybe a good way to go would be to include unreviewed submitted links for each category at the bottom of each page, normally hidden, with appropriate text to click on to reveal them. Presumably a large portion of spammers would be dissuaded by their links normally being invisible, while people who were willing to wade through any spam to find any as yet unreviewed gems in the category would be able to do so.  Then admins could also be given the ability to ban particular domains while rejecting their initially submitted links (either globally, or for particular categories), and then the software would take care of automatically rejecting such links in the future.  For me, having those two features in place would go a long way towards making a link directory more relevant and useful.  --Dan Harkless (talk) 01:04, 22 July 2017 (UTC)


 * , I also made a few suggestions. One of the major issues among webmasters was that they never got any notification about regarding the status of their listing (if it was rejected, especially... because in my opinion many websites were close to meet the inclusion criteria but needed some work). I'd like that feature to be implemented. But I am absolutely positive that the coders will make their best. Robertgombos (talk) 08:24, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

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About expanding exhibition section
Hello Robert, how are you? Thank you for your quality contributions. I was wondering if you are familiar with this tool. For example, I ran a report of Won Ju Lim and it looks pretty fine. Ideally if you could provide a citation at the end of the parts that were highlighted, that would be appreciated. Regards, Alex ShihTalk 08:20, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Alex, I'm fine, thanks. Will do. Yeah, to those (almost inevitable) issues I was referring to.

Oxford to Cambridge Expressway
I don't understand why you've added a template about unclear citations. Almost every paragraph has a weblink to a proper source.Tomintoul (talk) 08:31, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Tomintoul just make this statement sourced: "Government claims the Oxford to Cambridge corridor is one of the most significant growth areas in the country. Local authorities within the corridor are planning for substantial job and housing growth to support the continued economic development of the region. However, there is currently poor east-west connectivity, resulting in Oxford and Cambridge having better connections to London than each other." I don't contest if is true or not, but it needs a source. Also, it would be cool if you could transform your citation in inline citations. Thanks. Robertgombos (talk) 08:36, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I modified the first reference.Tomintoul. Robertgombos (talk) 08:46, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, Robert please be careful about copy-vios. Winged Blades Godric 08:55, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Robert, thanks for your input. Please see if you can see why Winged Blades thinks there has been a copyright violation. Tomintoul (talk) 09:03, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Take a look at this - I think it's a good ideea to provide a citation at the end of the parts that were highlighted. Copyrighted material is not allowed.
 * If that 13% was the lone case--I would not have CSD-ed it! Actually, Erwig can-not pick pdf-s. Hence, it draws a blank! See this for the report. Winged Blades Godric 09:19, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Winged Blades, well, yeah! :)
 * There has been no copyright infringement. Most of the material is covered under the 'Open Government Licence'. Please refer to the notes on the relevant document which states: You may re-use this information (not including logos) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence.Tomintoul (talk) 09:37, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Also, I have reworded the section not covered by the open government licence. Please re-run your copy vio check and remove the tag. Thank you. Tomintoul (talk) 09:54, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Copyvio speedy delete
Hi, you've recently tagged a few articles for speedy delete with G12, but they don't seem to be copyright violations. E.g. Tara Cooper, and Iona Rozeal Brown - looking at the copyvios reports for them, they are both "unlikely" to be copyright violations, Tara Cooper is at 2.0%, and Iona Rozeal Brown is at 2.9%. I've left a note at Talk:Iona Rozeal Brown about this, but I just thought I'd ask you about this? Thanks. Seagull123 (talk) 19:13, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Sure thanks for bringing this up! We should talk about yesterday's reports. If you check the edits history Iona Rozeal Brown has a history of copyrighted material from various sources, and yesterday's copyvio check shows copyrighted content of (51.6%) both from The New York Times and Artspace.com. I removed the copyrighted material originated from Artspace.com, and that's why the new report showed 13.0%. Now, with the removal of NYTimes material as well, the article is down to 5.7%. I'll remove the G12 tag and will mark the article as a stub. ALso, I'll try to develop it (I have just checked and it has enough source coverage and I already added two sources to ref what's left). As for Tara Cooper this is the copyvio's yesterday report (92.2%). Now, in my opinion 92 percent is huge and yes, I considered it necessary to G12 it. I removed the copyrighted content right away and you should of check copyvio rep. for this id: 770374669. I'm going to remove the G12 tag from that article as well. G12 is a bit confusing at times. Thanks! Robert G. (talk) 20:19, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

Your new page reviews
Hello, I noticed that you had tagged Jio Pagla with a speedy deletion-test page tag (WP:G2) and Satya (Bhojpuri film 2017) with speedy deletion-no content and db-hoax tags ( WP:A3 and WP:G3). I think those are inappropriate. Please be more careful with your CSD tagging. Thanks, Mduvekot (talk) 18:56, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello, thanks for letting me know. The main contributor of Satya (Bhojpuri film 2017) already removed the speedy deletion tags. The speedy deletion tags were applied to the version I reviewed (795205149), although, it's hard to build notability on a single blogspot reference). About Jio Pagla I think it's a test page and if you consider, maybe the draftspace it's a better place for it.

2 queried pages

 * I have called AfD on these two pages: Articles for deletion/Jio Pagla and Articles for deletion/Satya (Bhojpuri film 2017). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:25, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you, ! Robert G. (talk) 09:40, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Prime Number Distribution Series
Please DO NOT delete Prime Number Distribution Series page until we fully implement it. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nuclearstrategy8 (talk • contribs) 13:51, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello, ! I moved your message over here. I do not have deletion rights, I've only nominated Prime Number Distribution Series for sd because it wasn't ready to be published in the article mainspace. I see that now it's in the draftspace, where you can develop it and feel free to publish it when it's ready. Good luck! Robert G. (talk) 14:30, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Jio Pagla
This page has AfD template and there is a discussion opened for it. There is no any reason, it stays unreviewed. Arthistorian1977 (talk) 15:40, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Got it, ! Thanks!

Valle Caudina
Hi Robertgombos, i decided to create Valle Caudina because I live in Valle Caudina. I saw that some pages in english, which talk about Italy place, there was Valle Caudina write in red because before this page didn't exist. So there isn't any reason to add references, even because there is the Valle Caudina italian page. Anyway if you want some references you can search in this website (online newspaper) ilcaudino.it and usertv.it bye see you soon --Punzogabriele (talk) 15:39, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Fixed some typos, more improvements might be needed. Thanks! Robert G. (talk) 17:39, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Adding url
Hi. On August 4 you left this remark on my talk page: "Please place the appropiate url= in your citations" - Your remark concerned this page: Jerzy Luczak-Szewczyk. I thought it was customary to reply on the same page as the remark is done, so on August 6 I wrote this answer on my talk page: "I'm not sure I understand your remark right. Could you please explain which citations you think need URLs? If your remark concerns the notes referring to newspaper articles I can inform you that all of them are taken from the original printed newspapers (= the published paper versions), not from digitally published newspapers. Please excuse me, but as I am a new user I need a clearer explanation of your remark."

As you haven't answered me back I have inserted this copy of my reply here on your talk page. I would appreciate if you could confirm that you have read it and give me an answer to these questions: Do you mean all of the notes, or do you mean those referring to newspapers, or only the quotations in notes 14, 15 and 19? Are you satisfied with the information about where I found the newspaper articles? Best regards Antecknaren (talk) 11:24, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

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Telephilia
Took your IndieWire suggestion. Thanks Espngeek (talk)Espngeek
 * You're welcome, Espngeek! Robert G. (talk) 03:28, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

Review of Gokhale Method
Hello, thanks for reviewing the page. Do you think you could also assess its quality on the talk page? I'd appreciate that.--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 12:39, 27 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Farang Rak Tham, done.


 * Start quality, ?--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 21:06, 27 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Farang Rak Tham, please feel free to use the community-driven article assessment process at Article_assessment, you can have there a second opinion from health/alternative medicine experts. Robert G. (talk) 23:32, 27 August 2017 (UTC)


 * You mean, ask for assessment on a sleepy hollow wikiproject? Mm. What were your considerations when you assessed start?--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 08:16, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

A page you started (Georg Herold) has been reviewed!
Thanks for creating Georg Herold, Robertgombos!

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Mduvekot (talk) 18:33, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Mduvekot, I thank you! ;)

Regarding proposed deletion of Ben Wu
Thank you for the notice that the article would be deleted, as well as for reviewing the page. I wouldn't have noticed otherwise. I've added a few references to the article, is it enough to warrant the deletion message from getting taken down? Mentaikoz (talk) 07:41, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello Mentaikoz! It's very good that you listed a few references. On Wikipedia every statement you make (especially about a living person) should be referenced by at least an independent reliable source (Facebook, Instagram are not considered reliable sources).

Instead, use Google to find article, news, books that "backup" what you write in the article. If you can't find any reference for a statement. For example, in your article appears "...is a Taiwanese singer, actor and television host." OK. I don't contest that Ben Wu is a Taiwanese singer, actor and television host but I can't either believe it just because there is nothing to backup the statement. If one source that you already mentioned contains this information as well (e.g. Ben Wu is a Taiwanese singer, actor and television host), place the same reference to the end of your first statement as well. Give your original reference a name (e.g.   ) than you can cite the same reference in another context as well if supports it using  . I placed the {citation needed} tag at the end of the statements that should be referenced. I found a reference for the first statement, and cited the same resource to some of the movies you mentioned. I do not understand Chinese, so try to find some more references and if you encounter any problems let me know. Good luck! Robert G. (talk) 08:28, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the well thought out answer and edits! Mentaikoz (talk) 08:35, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Mentaikoz, you're most welcome! Robert G. (talk) 08:44, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Rob Wilkinson
Hi Robert, thank you for reviewing Rob Wilkinson article. CASSIOPEIA (talk) 01:33, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello CASSIOPEIA, it was my pleasure seeing how much work and effort you put into creating those articles. All articles have enough references from my point of view. Good job and good luck! Robert G. (talk) 03:59, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Stub sorting
Please don't use the Stub tag if you can find a more specific stub tag; stub sort whenever you are able. To do otherwise will backlog Category:Stubs. Thank you. (I realize some people aren't able to stub sort very well due to issues surrounding memory or feeling overwhelmed by the unfortunately long list of stub types; sorry if you're one of them). -- I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding to your message (talk to me) (My edits) @  03:55, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello, ! Waw, nice signature! Yesterday was indeed a "today-I'll-patroll-all-day". :) I recall I had a cell membrane co-receptor stub and there isn't a specific stub for this, so I ended up using cell-biology-stub. Thanks for the tip, will do my best! Robert G. (talk) 04:05, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * Thanks, Alex Shih! Robert G. (talk) 08:13, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

2009 Nicholls State Colonels football team
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I have unreviewed a page you curated
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"hi the subject of this article does not meet WP:NHOOPS."

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Domdeparis (talk) 12:27, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated
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"seems to fail WP:NHOOPS and WP:GNG"

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Domdeparis (talk) 12:51, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated
Thanks for reviewing Aurimas Majauskas, Robertgombos.

Unfortunately Domdeparis has just gone over this page again and unreviewed it. Their note is:

"fails WP:NHOOPS and WP:GNG"

To reply, leave a comment on Domdeparis's talk page.

Domdeparis (talk) 12:38, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi there I saw that you unreviewed this page but without removing the notability tag. I could understand you unreviewing it because you disagree with me that he is notable, if that is the case then you should remove the tag. Domdeparis (talk) 12:58, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Domdeparis, I was just double checking some pages that I reviewed a few hour ago to see if they fail WP:NHOOPS. I suppose most unreviewed basketball related bios will fail WP:NHOOPS (the vast majority are stubs). Cheers. Robert G. (talk) 13:18, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
 * hi A stub article will not necessarily fail NHOOPS (or other subject specific criteria) so long as there is a mention that he played in one of the criteria validating leagues. There are a load of pro players that do not play in one of those leagues though. But if there are very few references but a mention of playing in a team that is part of the league I tag it as needing more refs but I don't tag as not meeting NSPORTS (because even if they do they also have to meet GNG). The creator of this article has created dozens of pages that fail WP:NHOOPS so I was trawling through them to tag as not meeting notability criteria hence my multiple unreviewing notification!! Cheers. Domdeparis (talk) 13:30, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Domdeparis, yup, I saw. :) Have a nice day! Robert G. (talk) 13:33, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

Mary Spargo
Thank you for your kind words. I agree that the second article that mentions "Mary Spargo" is for another person: I cannot imagine an American of her background and age (born in the early 1900s) getting involved with television in the UK in the 1980s! Cheers --Aboudaqn (talk) 22:19, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Aboudaqn, cheers! Robert G. (talk) 22:24, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies. A further discussion is currently taking  place at: Can a subject specific guideline invalidate the General Notability Guideline?

Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled
 * While patrolling articles, if you find an editor that is particularly competent at creating quality new articles, and that user has created more than 25 articles (rather than stubs), consider nominating them for the 'Autopatrolled' user right HERE.

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Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. SmartSE (talk) 14:40, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

Teahouse talkback: you've got messages!

 * Thanks a ton, ! Robertgombos (talk) 09:20, 19 May 2018 (UTC)


 * :), Cheers!.  CASSIOPEIA(talk) 09:26, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks!
Hi Robertgombos! Thank you for for reviewing the pages for Heather Heywood, Eilidh Watt, Agnes Kelly Robertson and the Aberdeen Artists Society, which were all created during a recent training session for librarians on editing wikipedia. It will be a great boost to everyone who worked on those pages. Delphine Dallison (talk) 18:52, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
 * , you're welcome! Indeed, Wikipedia is a great place to improve and/or create entries you love. It was nice noticing your effort towards creating the above mentined Articles. Remember, Wikipedia is an open space, however, there are some rules that need to be followed otherwise it would be a chaos. As a personal advice, always seek for the most reliable references and try to sumarize their content by using the most neutral tone. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to visit the Teahouse and feel free to ask anything related to editing. In a matter of minutes someone will be there to help you. Subsequently, you may drop me a line as well. Happy editing! Robertgombos (talk) 19:57, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

Miami
Buna! Vroiam doar sa-ti multumesc pentru mesaj! Ma bucur sa vad ca mai sunt si alti romani pe aici... Pe Wikipedia, eu ma ocup foarte mult cu muzica romaneasca si am si promovat multe articole la stadii de GA sau FL, si am vazut ca si tu contribui la cateva pagini legate de Romania. Felicitari si tie si o zi buna! Cartoon network freak (talk) 21:33, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
 * , cu drag! Cautasem cu NPP Browser caci eram curios despre topic-uri relevante tarii noastre... sau ma rog, a cui o fi caci... "orice" editor ii face placere sa descopere lucruri admirabile. Eu merg mai mult pe arta si medicina, biologie dar nu editez foarte des ca nu prea am luxul timpului. Toate cele bune! Robertgombos (talk) 21:46, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Da, functioneaza! Cartoon network freak (talk) 06:54, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Donald Trump
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Your email to me
Hi. I prefer to keep Wikipedia business on Wikipedia, not in email. I replied in the related discussion. ~Anachronist (talk) 21:50, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Email
Thank you for your email. However, unless confidentiality is needed, I prefer to interact with fellow editors right here on Wikipedia. Cullen328  Let's discuss it  16:31, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I might ping you from time to time! Robertgombos (talk) 16:47, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

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Teahouse followup: Messages of Hope & Support draft
Hi Robert - thanks very much for your response to my Teahouse question about my first article (Teahouse/Questions/Archive 768). I'm not sure I fully understand your suggestion about adopting the most neutral point of view though, so I wonder if you'll be able to clarify? In my article, I said "Prompted by the observation that there were few opportunities for Rwandans to share positive stories of survival and healing" to show that this was the original inspiration for the initiative. Then, the original source I cite says "each video featured a Rwandan genocide survivor speaking about their positive stories of survival and growth following the 1994 genocide" - and this is what actually happened. I don't think these two excerpts are incompatible, but do you think I need to provide further clarification in my article? Thanks, Girish.l (talk) 02:46, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
 * It is always nice to ask for help, ! It's very good you removed the Youtube and Vimeo references because they are not reliable sources, indeed. I'd change "Prompted by the observation that there were few opportunities for Rwandans to share positive stories of survival and healing" with "Prompted by the observation that there were few opportunities for Rwandans to share [videos containing] positive stories of survival and healing". The idea was the original source was mentioning the stories being shared by video. And it's probably better to include that, because "sharing positive stories" without mentioning how, may lead a reader the stories were shared during a conference, or anything else. Generally, the more specific the better. I see that you already mentioned "sharing positive stories of hope and recovery in the form of video messages recorded by everyday Rwandan genocide survivors". That's great! Robertgombos (talk) 11:07, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks Robert, I really appreciate the follow up. Great for a newbie like me to be able to get these types of suggestions from you and other experienced editors. Girish.l (talk) 02:44, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Trust me, I know the feeling! If unsure, always ask. Is the fastest way of becomming better and better! Robertgombos (talk) 05:49, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:
 * WP:ACREQ has been implemented. The flow at the feed has dropped back to the levels during the trial. However, the backlog is on the rise again so please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day; a backlog approaching 5,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Deletion tags
 * Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders. They require your further verification.

Backlog drive:
 * A backlog drive will take place from 10 through 20 June. Check out our talk page at WT:NPR for more details. NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

Editathons
 * There will be a large increase in the number of editathons in June. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

Paid editing - new policy
 * Now that ACTRIAL is ACREQ, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. There is a new global WMF policy that requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines
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Portals WikiProject update, 25 May 2018
We have grown to 79 members.

Please provide a warm welcome to our latest additions, Wpgbrown, Cactus.man, JLJ001, and Wumbolo.

A lot is going on, much of it on the WikiProject's talk page, so be sure to go there and join in on any of the many discussions taking place there.

Elsewhere around the portal project, or related to portals, the following is happening...

New news template ready for testing
Evad37 has created a new template, with supporting lua module, to handle news in portals...

Transclude selected current events is ready to be tested in some actual portals. Let Evad37 know if you need help with the search patterns.

Noyster commented that "This is the best portal innovation since sliced bread!"

See the relevant discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals.

Thank you, Evad.

Coming soon: Automatic article alerts (but there is a glitch)
Our WikiProject is now subscribed to the bot that makes automatic article alerts, but the subpage where they are posted has not been added to our WikiProject page yet because of a weird problem...

Featured portal nominations from two years ago keep popping up on there.

Please check WikiProject Portals/Article alerts to see if you can figure out how to fix this.

Once that is remedied, it will be posted on our WikiProject page.

Thank you.

Note that, this will only track base pages, because to track the rest, we'd have to create over 140,000 talk pages for the subpages, and that just isn't worthwhile (as we're trying to remove the subpages anyways). Therefore, any alerts for subpages will still need to be posted manually.

New portal, still needs work

 * Portal:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, courtesy of Mozart834428196. See also, the discussion.

Drafting a new portals guideline
Your input/editing is welcome on the draft-in-progress of a new guideline for portals.

See or work on the draft at User:Cesdeva/sandbox11.

See also the discussion at: Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines

RfC on new TOC layout for main portal list
There is a proposal to change the look of the table of contents at Portal:Contents/Portals.

See: Portal talk:Contents/Portals.

Deletion discussion survivors
Thank you to those who have participated in portal deletion discussions. There are still some editors out there who despise portals, and this comes across in their argumentation style. Wow. Such negativity. But, there is some good news...


 * Portal:Quidditch survived its 2nd deletion nomination
 * Portal:Prehistory of Antarctica did the same

Current deletion discussions are posted on our WikiProject page.

Portal space clean up
While portal detractors are trying to get rid of portals via MfD, we have deleted many of them via speedy deletion (per Db-p1 or Db-p2). Essentially, they were bare skeletons, with maybe a little meat on them. The plus here is that speedy deletion is without prejudice to re-creating the portals. They can easily be restarted from scratch without getting approval, or be undeleted by request by someone willing to work on them. We have kept track of these, for when someone wants to rebuild them. They are listed at Portal talk:Contents/Portals.

We are also removing subpages, the functions of which have been migrated to portal base pages. To see which ones have been removed, look for the redlinks in our watchlist.

There is also an MfD concerning some of these at Miscellany for deletion/Redundant subpages of the Cornwall portal.

For subpages that need to be deleted, you can conveniently place this speedy deletion template at the top of each of them:

Then an admin will come along and delete them.

Please help list the unlisted portals!
There are still 100 existing portals not yet presented on the main portal list at Portal:Contents/Portals. There were 400, so we've come a long way. Thank you! But we are not done yet...

Please list a couple of them. Every little bit helps. If each member of this project listed one more, it would almost all be done. Many hands make light work.

The list of missings, and instructions, are to be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals.

I hope to see you there!

Wrapping up
These developments make up just the tip of the iceberg. I'll have more to report in the next update, soon. &mdash; The Transhumanist  00:32, 25 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi  please feel free to add to to the project's active lists, I think I can help on many aspects as well as with common portal related topics/issues/Afd debades etc. It's a small cummunity and I suppose help is appreciated. Thanks! Robertgombos (talk) 00:56, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Hey. You said "add to to the project's active lists". I'm not sure what you were trying to say. Add what to what lists?
 * Portals get deleted at WP:MfD. Be sure to keep an eye on WikiProject Portals, where they are reported.
 * Right now, we especially need help at Portal talk:Contents/Portals.
 * And we could sure use your input on the threads posted at WT:WPPORT. There are so many, I haven't even gotten through all of them yet!
 * Thank you for joining, and I look forward to working with you. By the way, do you have any ideas on some topics that could use a portal? What subjects would you like to see portals on?   &mdash; The Transhumanist   01:06, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

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