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Nomination of List of tallest buildings in Columbia, Missouri for deletion
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The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/List of tallest buildings in Columbia, Missouri until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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 * I’m making an effort to save the article if you have any input. Grey Wanderer (talk) 14:20, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

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Deletion of USMC Portal - notification
Hi Mark, I note that you nominated the USMC Portal for deletion. You notified User:Looper5920 of the nomination as a creator/substantial contributor. I would have appreciated a notice as well. I have substantially contributed to the portal and would have appreciated the notice. &mdash; ERcheck (talk) 04:14, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

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Destroyer of Worlds?
Are you planning to delete an entire continent of portals?

(I know.  Albania is in Europe.  Bhutan and Kyrgyzstan are in Asia. And the provinces of Canada are in North America...)  Robert McClenon (talk) 19:44, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm going to get travel banned from all these countries, aren't I? Mark Schierbecker (talk) 22:11, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I was originally referring to a continent. I haven't named it.  The French language is commonly used there as a result of colonialism.  Robert McClenon (talk) 00:26, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I think if you slay a country portal you get to be king of that nation. My empire is going to be lit. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 01:00, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I should have taken on Portal:Zimbabwe a few years ago when I might have been welcomed as a liberator from Robert Mugabe (but he is now under house arrest where he belongs). My empire includes more than 900 languages, some of which are not well documented, and many unique species of flora and fauna.  The day begins, as the world's day begins, when the sun rises at 150 W but on the west side of the date line, on Caroline Island and Kiritimati.  Maybe I should invite botanists to search the rain forests of New Guinea for unknown species of fungus that may contain new antibiotics.  Robert McClenon (talk) 23:31, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

so it goes
I have nothing to with mfd of portals, regardless. JarrahTree 02:23, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Backlog Banzai
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A favor
Hey MS: thanks for your portal improvement work, particularly the conversion away from subpage reliance. But could I ask a favor, that you not nominate all of the unused subpages for G6 speedy deletion? If there is a problem with the new structure, it will take a huge amount of extra work to roll back the portal to the old version if the subpages have been deleted. We had to go through this back in Feb./Mar., with thousands of subpage restorations required when the new structure turned out to have very serious issues. The unused subpages do no harm. Thanks in advance. UnitedStatesian (talk) 15:56, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I've been wondering about that possibility myself. Can you please link me to a discussion about the subpage restorations to help bring me up to speed? On the contrary I think these orphaned subpages do quite a lot of harm. Imagine, for example, you make a graphic on Commons to replace another and waste time making sure all of the old instances are replaced on subpages that are never used. Most subpages are also violating WP:COPYWITHIN, so better to just delete them. The sooner we are to finding a permanent single-page format that works (or settling with what we have), the better. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 17:27, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Here is one link: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Archive 10; see also related talkpage, village pump and admin. noticeboard (yes, believe it) discussions from around that time. I would also STRONGLY suggest erring on the side of over-transparency around what you are doing by notifying/involving WikiProject Portals and the corresponding subject-area wikiprojects.  There were a lot of hurt feelings last time around, and a repeat is likely to have disproportionately an even greater impact, IMO. And of course once we have broad agreement everything is working, we can move forward; my request is only one of timing, not that we permanently keep them around. UnitedStatesian (talk) 17:56, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Royal Navy
I expected this nomination, after its two sister services. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:58, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Most of the military-topic portals look like they could fall, with the exception of maybe a few recent-ish microportals that haven't disintegrated yet. Think WikiProject MilHist would even be happy to see those gone. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 04:15, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

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Busy
You were busy yesterday creating analysis work that will keep some of us busy for a while. :-\ Robert McClenon (talk) 13:05, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I think Portal:Bridges is probably going to be the only semi-contentious one. The rest are pretty straightforward. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 13:25, 1 September 2019 (UTC)


 * An interesting mix of the very abstract and the very material in topics.   Robert McClenon (talk) 18:52, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

AWB portal replacements
Hi Mark

I see that you have been using AWB to replace or remove deleted portals. This is good principle, but in practice the AWB settings you are using have not been sufficiently sophisticated:


 * 1) You have been replacing each portal with only one alternative, e.g. Portal:Government of the United States only to Portal:United States, without adding Portal:Politics.  You also haven't been removing any resulting duplicates, if the page is already in Portal:United States.
 * 2) Your replacements are not restricted to portal links, leading to errors such as this edit to Capital One Arena.

I have a set of very complex regexes which I have used to fix over a hundred thousand of these links without such errors. Please can you leave it to me to continue this?

I have not checked how many of your AWB edits have produced these unintended ill-effects. It seems to me that rather than checking each one individually, it would be easier to use rollback on all of them. Please will you do that? -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 16:35, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm not surprised I made a mistake on Capital One Arena. That was my last edit before I became too tired to go on last night. I've been removing redundant United States links where possible. Some slip through. Some pages fit OK into the United States bucket, but not the politics bucket. I don't think every one-term mayor of random midwestern towns belong with either Politics or United States. I'm not so sure every government agency belongs in Politics either. I've also been adding some Law portals, like here. I will be checking my edits last night individually. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 19:26, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Mark, if you're going to do this, then you need a better regex. Otherwise the errors are inevitable, because there's too much to check.
 * As to don't think every one-term mayor of random midwestern towns belong with either Politics or United States ... this isn't categorisation. It's linking.  --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 19:40, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

NYC
I have just deleted several Portal:New York City/Selected biography/x pages with your claim "portal no longer relies on subpages". But there is now a red link on portal:New York City asking for one of these pages. Please resolve the situation. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 07:41, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ Thanks. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 08:10, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I think it is still busted: all of the other portal content (categories, news, wikiprojects, etc.) has disappeared. UnitedStatesian (talk) 18:17, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Now those sections are all back, but we are getting big Lua errors, "The time allocated for running scripts has expired." It's deja vu all over again.  UnitedStatesian (talk) 04:55, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I purged the server cache. Looks good from my end again. Try now? Mark Schierbecker (talk) 06:46, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
 * It does, but can we be certain the Lua errors are not going to recur? UnitedStatesian (talk) 07:26, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Maybe surmountable. I'd like to poke at these a bit more to see what breaks them. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 03:15, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I think that testing should be done in a sandbox, and in the meantime the portal rolled back to the version that does not break. I will request the subpages be restored to allow the rollback.  UnitedStatesian (talk) 15:32, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

Poor job Mark
I'm notifying you that I think you did poor job in not notifying me (the only recent editor) about the cycling portal MfD. BaldBoris 16:35, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

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 * Learn to count. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 00:56, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

Template on wrong page
Hey MS, the copywithin template should not be placed on a portal mainpage, since it does not contain any copied text, only transclusions. I have removed it from the mainpage; please feel free instead to attach it to any portal subpages where you believe it is warranted. Thanks, UnitedStatesian (talk) 05:23, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
 * User:UnitedStatesian this seems pedantic. Would you also insist that only be applied to portal subpages? Mark Schierbecker (talk) 22:02, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Not pedantic at all: the copywithin template refers specifically to a page's edit history, which of course in the case of portal mainpages cannot be fixed to solve the problem. Update, on the other hand, could be repaired in a variety of ways. I would also encourage you to follow Sofixit as a far superior alternative to doling out tags onto pages. UnitedStatesian (talk) 00:25, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

Twinkle Question
Did you get a notice that the deletion discussion for Portal:National Basketball Association had been tagged for speedy deletion as G6? If not, you should have, because I did that when I bundled the two basketball nominations. Oh well. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:19, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I didn't get one. I contested the nomination. It could be redirected, but the edit history needs to stay. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 04:25, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

A bowl of strawberries for you!

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Hello Mark, Argument to put in Edward Snowden
Hello Mark, this is Pieter Felix Smit from Amsterdam Netherlands. Good stuff you do! I hope its not too much work to protect this page against vandalism.

I propose to still put Edward Snowden in the Roswell UFO incident page for two reasons:

1: Snowdon is the first one (as far as I am aware) who, with full clearence into the most top secret files, spent many nightshift hours searching through all the USA's confidential government papers to find anything related to aliens. So his research would also have covered any Rosswell stuff. I think the fact he found nothing is highly relevant for anyone reading the Roswell page.

2: Conspiracy believers are more likely to believe Snowdon, then they would believe regular scientist.

As this article is likely to be seen often by Roswell believers, it would become more persuasive for them?Pieter Felix Smit (talk) 12:01, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello, User:Pieter Felix Smit.


 * I haven't seen sources make the connection to Roswell. Wikipedia requires other gatekeepers to make value judgements about relevancy, but does not give its editors the same privilege. To make the connection for them would be original research. In any case, Snowden may be overstating the thoroughness of his search. there are many ways to conceal something (e.g. code words) from someone who does not know precisely what to search for.


 * Regarding persuasivity. I try not to think of Wikipedia as activism. Wikipedia is not for righting great wrongs. History takes


 * Another issue with your addition is that you cited a YouTube clip from The Joe Rogan Experience, a WP:Primary source. A secondary source would be more appropriate, and would provide more context.


 * It's an interesting bit of trivia that might belong on UFO conspiracy theory. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 07:05, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Armoured fighting vehicles of Bosnia and Herzegovina


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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Military vehicles of Bosnia and Herzegovina


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Look, maybe find something else to do until you're able to conduct yourself with due moderation. You are starting to skirt the line. El_C 02:21, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
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 * Okay... Anyway, you are of course free to advance that position, but again, dispassionately rather than with the gods and whatnot. And maybe focus your efforts on the ANI thread rather than on that user talk page. A lot more folks will see your comments there. Just sayin'. El_C 02:31, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

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 * I wouldn't have reverted if I wasn't 100 percent sure the talk page would resolve to include police criticism in the lede! Schierbecker (talk) 02:13, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Respectfully, that's not how it works around here. If there was 100% support, there wouldn't have been 2 editors who removed the content. Again, don't edit war. Iamreallygoodatcheckers (talk) 02:14, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
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"M2020 tank"
"M2020 tank" is not "neutral disambugation". It is commonly named "M2020" not "M2020 tank" so it's missleading. I also know the real name of the tank remains unknown. Eurohunter (talk) 10:18, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
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Your GA nomination of M8 Armored Gun System
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AH6
Nothing wrong with the disambiguation page you created on AH6. But... that created trouble on Template:Expressway 1 (South Korea) and I am unable to solve. Is it possible that you correct the two links to AH6 in that template? Thanks in advance. The Banner <i style="color:maroon">talk</i> 19:54, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

I saw that and I was also perplexed. I'll take another look tonight. Schierbecker (talk) 20:25, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I have no idea how you have fixed this, but it is. Thank you. The Banner  <i style="color:maroon">talk</i> 09:05, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
 * User:The Banner. I was stumped, so I asked for outside help. A kind editor from WP:HWY fixed it for me. Schierbecker (talk) 09:22, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I just took another look and they have replaced the road-template. It is gone and that matters. The Banner  <i style="color:maroon">talk</i> 10:08, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Highways. They left an explanation here. Schierbecker (talk) 10:14, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022
Hello ,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000 at the end of May.
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Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

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NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!
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Your GA nomination of M8 Armored Gun System
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DYK for M8 Armored Gun System
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New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022
Hello ,

After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators and, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.
 * Backlog status

Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.


 * Coordination: and  have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out.  will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.


 * Open letter to the WMF: The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.


 * TIP - Reviewing by subject: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages by their most familiar subjects can do so from the regularly updated sorted topic list.


 * New reviewers: The NPP School is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read tutorial exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page here.


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NPP message
Hi ,

For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated.
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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations opening soon
Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are opening in a few hours (00:01 UTC on 1 September). A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:51, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 August 2022
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Board of Trustees election
Thank you for supporting the NPP initiative to improve WMF support of the Page Curation tools. Another way you can help is by voting in the Board of Trustees election. The next Board composition might be giving attention to software development. The election closes on 6 September at 23:59 UTC. View candidate statement videos and Vote Here. <b style="color:#034503">MB</b> 04:04, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Bradley Fighting Vehicle
Hi Schierbecker. You've recently added the short form ref Zaloga 1995 to the Bradley Fighting Vehicle article, but no cite exists in the article to define what that means. Could you add the require cite, or let me know what work this refers to? -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 13:54, 7 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Note that if the content is referenced, I'll revert it. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 15:45, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

I fixed it. Schierbecker (talk) 15:52, 8 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Sorry going error blind, I do apologise. The article was still in the list of articles with errors because of a different reference. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 15:57, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election voting opening soon!
Voting for the upcoming project coordinator election opens in a few hours (00:01 UTC on 15 September) and will last through 23:59 on 28 September. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. Voting is conducted using simple approval voting and questions for the candidates are welcome. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:26, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Correction to previous election announcement
Just a quick correction to the prior message about the 2022 MILHIST coordinator election! I didn't proofread the message well enough and left out a link to the election page itself in this message. The voting will occur here; sorry about the need for a second message and the inadvertent omission from the prior one. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:41, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Armoured fighting vehicles of South Vietnam


A tag has been placed on Category:Armoured fighting vehicles of South Vietnam indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 01:09, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Military vehicles of South Vietnam


A tag has been placed on Category:Military vehicles of South Vietnam indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 18:49, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

September 2022
Hello, I'm Mr.weedle. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Mobile Protected Firepower, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Mr.weedle (talk) 05:06, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
 * User:Mr.weedle. Statements repeated in the lede are not required to be cited per MOS:LEADCITE. Schierbecker (talk) 05:15, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Correct - my bad, Huggle can sometimes make this very difficult to discern. Apologies for the mistake! Mr.weedle (talk) 05:17, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
 * No problem. Thanks for looking out. Schierbecker (talk) 05:26, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive
(t &#183; c)  buidhe  21:17, 23 September 2022 (UTC)