User talk:Robertgombos/Archive 2

Whoa, I missed one...
There's an article about the Portals WikiProject in the new issue of Signpost:

Wikipedia Signpost/2018-05-24/WikiProject report

Enjoy.

P.S.: We now have 80 members. Evad37 just joined! &mdash; The Transhumanist  01:38, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * , well... I haven't got any notice during the survey, I am a little shocked. I am using the portals for the purpose they were created. The articles I've been improving came from portals where "needs improvement" and "article requests" lists were featured. It is logical to make use of portals for getting help, helping, staying informed, getting unbiased opinions, asking for a copyedit eventually if needed and a lot more. Just to illustrate, the med or art Portals are extremely important. A recent example: I want to improve Art (and I will) because I have about 50 books on the bookshelves of my library, provide citations to (some) of the cn-ed statements. I stated on Talk:Art "Maybe if more of us would address some issues we could make a GA nom again." Obviously, the Art Portal is useful because... how to put this... there are people interested in art!? It's useless to ask for help or an opinion from a random volunteer. You know what I mean? It's like wanting to buy shoes, close all the shops regardless of what they sale, then lurking here and there hoping you'll find a pair of sandals. Because the shoe shop was shut down. Plus, some Afds need attention from editors who know a bit about the topic: this is example on an Afd that could use attention from related portals (experts in software, computing, websites, darabases etc) is hidden under the rocks. So on the long run... hmmm. Cheers! :)  Robertgombos (talk) 06:47, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Good point about finding art enthusiasts at the art portal to edit art-related articles. That's something we just cannot do in an article in the main namespace. But, through portals, we can extend this service to many subjects. It is amazing to me that so many editors missed this valuable aspect of portals. Rather than try to nuke them, they should have treated them as bridges, and joined in building them. Hopefully, we can demonstrate the full potential of portals as navigation aids as well as bridges by which readers become editors. I'm glad you joined the project. Sincerely,  &mdash; The Transhumanist   07:39, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Exactly! Robertgombos (talk) 07:41, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Singapore Airlines destinations
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It's time: the Portals WikiProject AWBers are needed for a task...
I'm contacting you because you indicated on the Portals WikiProject's members list that you use AWB.

We are now working on a task that requires your help.

Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals.

Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  22:39, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Bitcoin
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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Hospitals
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Portals WikiProject update #007, 31 May 2018
We have grown to 89 members.

This is the seventh issue of this newsletter. For previous issues, see our newsletter archive.

Welcome
A warm welcome to our nearly one dozen new members...

Our new members include:
 * Evad37
 * Checkingfax
 * Grey Wanderer
 * Voceditenore
 * TestPAKISTAN
 * Godsy
 * Greatedits1
 * Charlesdrakew
 * Ww2censor
 * Simon Burchell
 * TheGridExe

Be sure to say "hi" and welcome them to the team.

The portal set has shrunk
There were 1515 portals, but now we have 1475, because we speedy deleted a bunch of incompleted portals that had been sitting around for ages, that were empty shells or had very little content. Because they were speedied, they can be rebuilt from scratch without acquiring approval from WP:DRV.

Maintenance runs on the portals set have begun
This is what we have been gearing up for: upgrading the portals en masse, using AWB.

More than half of the Associated Wikimedia sections have been converted to no longer use a subpage. This chore will probably be completed over the next week or two. Many thanks to the WikiGnome Squad, who have added an Associated Wikimedia section to the many geography-related portals that lacked one. The rest of the subjects await. :)

The next maintenance drive will be on the intro sections. Notices have gone out to the WikiProjects for which one or more portals fall within their subject scope. Once enough time has elapsed for them to respond (1 week), AWB processing of intro sections will begin.

Thank you, you
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your part in the RfC. I went back and reread much of it. I believe your enthusiasm played a major part in turning the tide on there. I'm proud of all of you.

Why reread that mess, you ask?

To harvest ideas, and to keep the problems that need to be fixed firmly in mind. But, also to keep in touch. See below...

Thank yous all around
I've contacted all of the other opposers of the RfC proposal to delete portals, to thank them for their support, and to assure them that their decision was not made in vain. I updated them on our activities, provided the link to the interviews about this project in the Signpost, pointed out our newsletter archive so they can keep up-to-date with what we are doing, and I invited them all to come and have a look-see at our operations (on our talk page).
 * Glad I could help! Robertgombos (talk) 19:12, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Sockpuppet, and reverting his work
It so happened that one of our members was a sockpuppet: JLJ001. According to the admin who blocked him, he was a particularly tricky long term abuser. This is a weird situation, since the user was quite helpful. He will be missed.

This has been somewhat disruptive, because admins are doing routine deletions of the pages (portals, templates, etc.) he created, and reversion of his edits (I don't know if they will be reverting all of them). Please bear with them, as they are only doing what is best in the long run.

The following pages have been deleted by the admins so far, that I know of:
 * Portal:Plymouth
 * Portal:Bedfordshire
 * Portal:Suffolk
 * Portal:Norfolk
 * User:JLJ001/tag
 * Template:Non-standard portal flag
 * Template:Portal flag

Automation so far, section by section...

 * Intro – Transclude lead excerpt
 * Selected article – Transclude random excerpt
 * In the news – Transclude selected current events
 * Associated Wikimedia –
 * Categories –

Automatic article alerts is up and running
Automatic article alerts are now featured on the project page.

Some super out-of-date entries kept showing up on there, so posting it on the Project page was delayed. Thanks to Evad37 and AfroThundr for providing solutions on this one. Evad37 adjusted the workflow settings per Article alerts/Subscribing, to make sure only the appropriate page types show up. AfroThundr removed the tags from the old entries that caused them to keep showing up in the article alerts.

Other things that could use some automation
Noyster pointed out that it would be nice to automate the updating of the portals section at the Community bulletin board.

Another major component of the portal system is the main list of portals, at Portal:Contents/Portals. How would we go about automating the updating of that?

Please post your ideas on the WikiProject's talk page. Thank you.

Deletion discussion survivors
Keep in mind that we have already speedy deleted almost all of the nearly empty portals, which can be rebuilt without approval whenever it is convenient to do so. Other portals should be completed if at all possible rather than delete them through MfD (which requires approval from Deletion review to rebuild).


 * Portal:Juanes – see the discussion

(Current deletion discussions are posted on our WikiProject page).

Portals needing repair

 * Portal:Toys

Wrapping up
There's still more, but it will have to wait until next issue.

Until then, see ya around the project. &mdash; The Transhumanist  12:02, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Drop me a line when help is needed! Robertgombos (talk) 19:14, 31 May 2018 (UTC)


 * :) Okay, here ya go...

Please comment on Talk:Bust of Cristiano Ronaldo
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WikiProject Portals (eom)
, just ran a check through all portal talk pages, it seems now the portal talk tag is added to all of them. Also, found no talk pages including the talkheader tag. Robertgombos (talk) 11:02, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Did you check for all the aliases of talkheader? w umbolo   ^^^  11:23, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
 * , checking now. Robertgombos (talk) 11:57, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
 * , : I found a few aliases, I removed them all. Robertgombos (talk) 12:52, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Well done.  &mdash; The Transhumanist   07:41, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Songs
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 * ✅ Robertgombos (talk) 19:00, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Low-key photography
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Low-key photography you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:41, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
 * , waw, that's great! Thanks! Robertgombos (talk) 20:19, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Re: Recent edits to Conca d'Oro (Rome Metro)
I believe there was a misunderstanding regarding my (now reverted) edits to Conca d'Oro (Rome Metro). Specifically, they were reverted because I supposedly failed to cite them. However, any uncited information in my edits was already there when I made those edits: I was simply fixing grammar and changing "Atac di Roma" in the infobox to "ATAC SpA". Would it be okay for me to reinstate these edits, now that I have explained my reasoning behind them? 96.242.238.234 (talk) 21:18, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I've just reinstated your version. Since there are so many users who prefer to edit using their IP address it is best, in my opinion, to cite a reference to avoid this issue in the future. Cheers and happy editing! Robertgombos (talk) 21:38, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Do you live in California? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.211.228.76 (talk) 01:28, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
 * No, I never been in the U.S. Robertgombos (talk) 01:48, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)
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Your GA nomination of Low-key photography
The article Low-key photography you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Low-key photography for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:21, 6 June 2018 (UTC) Waw, thank you! My first GA article! Robertgombos (talk) 07:45, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Welcome to WP:STiki!
Note: Having a username change after you start using STiki will reset your classification count. Please let us know about such changes on the talk page page to avoid confusion in issuing milestone awards. You can also request for your previous STiki contributions to be reassigned to your new account name. , thanks, it's a wonderful and fast tool! Robertgombos (talk) 19:16, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update #008, 7 June 2018
The WikiProject now has 92 participants, including 16 admins.

Welcome
A warm welcome to the newest members of the team:
 * Keith D
 * RL0919

Be sure to say hi.

Congrats
Pbsouthwood has just gotten through the grueling RfA process to become a Wikipedia administrator. Be sure to congratulate him.

The reason he went for it was: "For some time I expect to be busy with subpage deletion for Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals as mentioned above. The amount of work is expected to keep me busy for some time. I am primarly a content creator and contributor to policy discussions, but would be willing to consider other admin work on request, providing that I feel that my involvement would be appropriate and not too far outside my comfort zone."

New feature: Picture slideshow
Evad37 has figured out a way to let the user flip through pictures without purging the page. Purging is awkward because there is an intermediary confirmation screen that you have to click on "yes". In the new picture slideshow section, all you have to do is click on the  to go to the next picture or   to instantly show the previous feature. The feature also shuffles the pictures when the page is initiated, so that they are shown in a different order each time the user visits the page (or purges it).

It is featured in Portal:Sacramento, California. Check it out to the right.

Keep in mind that the feature is a beta version. Please share your comments on how to refine this feature, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals.

The one-page portal has been achieved
We now have a one-page portal design. It isn't fully automated, nor is it even fully semi-automated, as there are still some manually filled-in areas. But it no longer requires any subpages in portal space, and that is a huge improvement. For example, Portal:Sacramento, California utilizes the one-page design concept. While is employs heavy use of templates, it does not have any subpages of its own.

I commend you for your teamwork
This is the most cooperative team I've ever seen. With a strong spirit of working together to get an important job done. Kudos to you.

In conclusion...
There's more. A lot more. But it will have to wait until next issue, but you don't have to wait. See what's going on at the WikiProject's talk page. &mdash; The Transhumanist  02:10, 7 June 2018 (UTC)


 * , any mannual or AWB work is needed to update the portals where there are more than one picture so the sliding functionality to work? Robertgombos (talk) 02:40, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * We're currently discussing how to improve it on the talk page. Let's refine it before going to full implementation. Feel free to test it on some portals. We need feedback.  &mdash; The Transhumanist   03:02, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Art
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Art you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of JohnWickTwo -- JohnWickTwo (talk) 21:00, 10 June 2018 (UTC) Thanks {u|JohnWickTwo}. I basically fixed all the highlighted errors when it failed the last nomination, a few yeards ago. It's a huge topic and it has each day several thousand views, so it worth looking at at, IMO. Robertgombos (talk) 23:13, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:White Helmets (Syrian Civil War)
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Please comment on Talk:Pointless
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AWB task requests, from the Portals WikiProject
1) Replace the intro box sections on portals with an upgrade. See details at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Tasks.

2) Replace categories box sections on portals with an upgrade. See details at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Tasks.

Enjoy. &mdash; The Transhumanist  08:08, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

Recent edit to Ichabod Crane (colonel)
Kindly do not revert this edit again. Look at the picture of his grave stone, linked below. The text must match what it says on the grave stone, or the text is wrong. There is no subjectivity in reporting what the grave stone says. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ichabod_Crane.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.151.55.222 (talk) 22:31, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Goliath
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NPP Backlog Elimination Drive
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive! Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. —  Insertcleverphrasehere (or here)  06:57, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
 * As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
 * Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar: NPPbarnstar SE.png. Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: RR3217-0014 100 rubles USSR 1989 Gold avers.png, Swiss-Commemorative-Coin-1991-CHF-250-reverse.png, Coin of Kazakhstan 500Thinker averse.png, US-$1000-SC-1878-FR-346a-PROOF.jpg.
 * Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.