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Contents
- 1 Re: Today's Featured Article
- 2 Portals tasks requests: presented in the newsletter below...
- 3 WikiCup 2018 November newsletter
- 4 Your GA nomination of Gordon Cooper
- 5 Disambiguation link notification for February 7
- 6 Albert Kesselring
- 7 The Bugle: Issue CLIV, February 2019
- 8 Tech News: 2019-07
- 9 Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #029, 13 Feb 2019
- 9.1 The Ref desks survived the proposal to shut them down
- 9.2 The cleanup after sockpuppet Emoteplump continues...
- 9.3 10,000 portals, here we come...
- 9.4 New portals since issue #28
- 9.5 What's next for portal pages?
- 9.6 New WikiProject for the post-saved-portal phase of operations...
- 9.7 Keep on keepin' on
- 10 Project E TFA
- 11 Tech News: 2019-08
- 12 DYK for John L. Whitehead Jr.
- 13 Disambiguation link notification for February 20
- 14 Apollo 15
- 15 Talk to us about talking
- 16 FACBot
- 17 Tech News: 2019-09
- 18 The Signpost: 28 February 2019
- 19 WikiCup 2019 March newsletter
- 20 Tech News: 2019-10
- 21 DYK for Gordon Cooper
- 22 The Bugle: Issue CLV, March 2019
- 23 Collins
- 24 Tech News: 2019-11
- 25 NPR Newsletter No.17
- 26 Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #030, 17 Mar 2019
- 27 Tech News: 2019-12
Re: Today's Featured Article
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Portals tasks requests: presented in the newsletter below...
WikiCup 2018 November newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is Courcelles (submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 147 GAs, 111 GARs, 9 DYKs, 4 FLs and 1 ITN. Our finalists were as follows:
Courcelles (submissions)
Kosack (submissions)
Kees08 (submissions)
SounderBruce (submissions)
Cas Liber (submissions)
Nova Crystallis (submissions)
Iazyges (submissions)
Ceranthor (submissions)
All those who reached the final win awards, and awards will also be going to the following participants:
Cas Liber (submissions) wins the FA prize, for three featured articles in round 2.
Courcelles (submissions) wins the GA prize, for 92 good articles in round 3.
Kosack (submissions) wins the FL prize, for five featured lists overall.
Cartoon network freak (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 30 articles in good topics overall.
Usernameunique (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 24 did you know articles in round 3.
Zanhe (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 17 in the news articles overall.
Aoba47 (submissions) wins the GAR prize, for 43 good article reviews in round 1.
Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!
Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition.
Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2019 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email) and Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email).
Your GA nomination of Gordon Cooper
The article Gordon Cooper you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Gordon Cooper 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 Balon Greyjoy -- Balon Greyjoy (talk) 11:01, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for February 7
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Albert Kesselring
Hi, I'm sharing my concerns about the exchange at Talk:Albert Kesselring#Feb 2019 edit. For example:
- "Tweaking the wording is not acceptable. The wording has been carefully reviewed..." & "Your proposed changes are rejected. Seek consensus for any changes you propose." -- article content does not need to be preemptively cleared with a page owner. Even FA articles are not set in stone, especially when the "careful review" took place 10 years ago.
- "We'll have another look"; "But we can source easily enough"; "the only source we can have..." -- "we" who?
- "a sensitive issue in your country"; "This is another part that could be sensitive in your country"; "Yet another issue that could be sensitive in your country." --My country? What does this even mean?
- "... reverted. This was because of multiple problems, including grammar, reference formatting and the use of an abbreviation that is not commonly known..." -- you well know these are not valid reasons to revert an addition, but thank you for getting "reference formatting corrected".
I know that this was an FA that you nominated and you are proud of the page as evidenced by your 2011 MILHIST Op-Ed. However, you seem to have assumed ownership of the page and are acting as a gatekeeper, shutting down or ignoring dissent. The examples of the condescension above are really offputting and can have a stifling effect. While this comment, in particular, comes uncomfortably close to war crimes apologia: The final figure was higher than most previous estimates, bur still only a fraction of the number of civilians killed by Allied bombing. Perhaps it's time for you to step back from the article and let other perspectives be heard. --K.e.coffman (talk) 01:18, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
- This actually comes from the report itself. It also appears in the German official history. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:29, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
- I would like to continue working on the article with a goal of improving due weight of certain aspects. My first attempt did not go so well; perhaps I was too bold with my changes by making them in one single edit. I can adjust this going forward. For example, I can implement the changes section-by-section and provide more specific edit summaries and / or more justification for the edits. For example, the 1954 source I referred to on the Talk page was "Smiling Al". Time. 19 April 1954. Retrieved 4 April 2009.; it is used to claim that the Kesselring's "memoirs formed a valuable resource...".
- My initial impression was that you felt that the current text was fine and any changes would be unwelcome. If this is the case, the other option is to ask for community input via FA reassessment. Not sure if your thinking on this matter has changed. I'd be happy to proceed with either option. --K.e.coffman (talk) 01:18, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
- Before archives began being declassified in the 1980s, memoirs of senior leaders were a major resource for historians for many years. Many sources consulted Kesselring's memoirs for the reasons for the invasion of the Soviet Union being delayed from May until June. They refuted the claim that the campaign in Greece was the cause. Today a better source might be the German official history on the Invasion of the Soviet Union; I haven't read that volume, so I don't know what it says. But in the context, a 1954 source is precisely what we need for how the book was received. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:29, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
- While I feel the current text is fine, changes should be considered. Community input via the FAR process would be good, but the article only gets about 200,000 page views per annum, so it is not a high traffic one, and I don't think very many editors would be much interested besides the two of us. Have you read through the memoirs and von Lingen's book? It is available in English now, so you don't have to read it in the original German. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:29, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
- Yes, I have Lingen's book and it has confirmed my impression that the article lacks neutrality in certain areas, through uncritical use of primary sources and a one-sided presentation. Some sources are dated; see WP:RS AGE, especially in regards to bias.
- It's a bit unclear to me what you feel should be done. There's seemingly support for both editing the article ("changes should be considered") and a FAR ("Community input via the FAR process would be good"). If you plan to continue reverting my changes wholesale, then I feel that FAR is the way to go. My preferred option would be to implement and work through the changes since the goal is not to have the article delisted but instead to improve it. Please let me know what you think. --K.e.coffman (talk) 04:59, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
- Do you have an opinion one way or the other? K.e.coffman (talk) 00:16, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CLIV, February 2019
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Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #029, 13 Feb 2019
Where we are at:
- Single-page portals: 4,704
- Total portals: 5,705
The Ref desks survived the proposal to shut them down
You might be familiar with the Ref desks, by their link on every new portal. They are a place you can go to ask volunteers almost any knowledge-related question, and have been a feature of Wikipedia since August of 2005 (or perhaps earlier). They were linked to from portals in an effort to improve their visibility, and to provide a bridge from the encyclopedia proper to project space (the Wikipedia community).
Well, somebody proposed that we get rid of them, and the community decided that that was not going to happen. Thank you for defending the Ref desks!
Here's a link to the dramatic discussion:
The cleanup after sockpuppet Emoteplump continues...
The wake of disruption left by Emoteplump and the admins who reverted many (but not all) of his/her edits is still undergoing cleanup. We could use all the help we can get on this task...
Almost all of the speedy deleted portals have been rebuilt from scratch.
For the portals he/she restarted (many of which were done mistakenly, overwriting restarts and further development that had already been done), and/or tagged as the maintainer, see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Emoteplump&oldid=881568794#Additional_Portals_under_my_watch
10,000 portals, here we come...
We're at 5,705 portals and counting.
New portals since issue #28
- Portal:Abitibi-Témiscamingue
- Portal:Ahold Delhaize
- Portal:AKB48
- Portal:Åland Islands
- Portal:Alaska Airlines
- Portal:Albanian Civil War
- Portal:Albertsons
- Portal:Alevism
- Portal:All in the Family
- Portal:Alternative metal
- Portal:Ambient music
- Portal:Ancient Near East mythology
- Portal:Ancient Roman religion
- Portal:Andrew Cuomo
- Portal:Anti-consumerism
- Portal:Antimatter
- Portal:Arameans
- Portal:Arianism
- Portal:Australian Crawl
- Portal:Bali
- Portal:Banten
- Portal:Bengkulu
- Portal:Black Lives Matter
- Portal:Bluegrass music
- Portal:Bonnie Tyler
- Portal:Breakbeat
- Portal:Calypso music
- Portal:Cambridgeshire
- Portal:Camila Cabello
- Portal:Capcom
- Portal:Capsicum
- Portal:Celtic music
- Portal:Central American music
- Portal:Central Java
- Portal:Central Kalimantan
- Portal:Central Sulawesi
- Portal:Chanel
- Portal:Cinema of Australia
- Portal:Cognitive psychology
- Portal:Communication studies
- Portal:Conservatism in the United States
- Portal:Cortina d'Ampezzo
- Portal:Cross-Strait relations
- Portal:Cryptozoology
- Portal:Danish folk music
- Portal:Disco
- Portal:Dyslexia
- Portal:East Java
- Portal:East Kalimantan
- Portal:East Nusa Tenggara
- Portal:Easy listening
- Portal:Ed Sheeran
- Portal:Ehime
- Portal:Electricity
- Portal:Electronica
- Portal:Electronic rock
- Portal:English folk music
- Portal:Environmental technology
- Portal:Experimental music
- Portal:Extreme metal
- Portal:Fall Out Boy
- Portal:Finnish Defence Forces
- Portal:Finnish folk music
- Portal:Football in Croatia
- Portal:Football in Jordan
- Portal:Funk
- Portal:Gamelan
- Portal:General Mills
- Portal:Germanic languages
- Portal:German language
- Portal:Government of Canada
- Portal:Government of Hong Kong
- Portal:Government of Indonesia
- Portal:Government of Ireland
- Portal:Government of Malaysia
- Portal:Government of Russia
- Portal:Government of Singapore
- Portal:Government of Spain
- Portal:Government of Thailand
- Portal:Grapes
- Portal:Green Party of the United States
- Portal:Grinspoon
- Portal:Gwen Stefani
- Portal:Hardcore punk
- Portal:Hardcore techno
- Portal:Haskell (programming language)
- Portal:History of art
- Portal:History of North America
- Portal:History of Thailand
- Portal:Hollywood
- Portal:Hotels
- Portal:House music
- Portal:Hungarian folk music
- Portal:Hunters & Collectors
- Portal:Hydrogen
- Portal:Icelandic folk music
- Portal:Indigenous music of North America
- Portal:Insomniac Games
- Portal:International field hockey
- Portal:International trade
- Portal:Iranian music
- Portal:Islamophobia
- Portal:Jambi
- Portal:Jet engines
- Portal:Jordin Sparks
- Portal:Julius Caesar
- Portal:Kannur
- Portal:Kansas City Spurs
- Portal:Kelly Rowland
- Portal:Kirby
- Portal:Kraft Heinz
- Portal:Krasnoyarsk Krai
- Portal:Kroger
- Portal:Kuala Lumpur
- Portal:Lampung
- Portal:Larry Kramer
- Portal:LeBron James
- Portal:Lehigh Valley
- Portal:Leicestershire
- Portal:Liège
- Portal:Liguria
- Portal:Los Angeles Aztecs
- Portal:Los Angeles Wolves
- Portal:Macedonian language
- Portal:Magnetism
- Portal:Maithripala Sirisena
- Portal:Maluku (province)
- Portal:Mangoes
- Portal:Marco Pierre White
- Portal:McLaren
- Portal:Menstrual cycle
- Portal:Metalcore
- Portal:Miami FC
- Portal:Microblogging
- Portal:Microtonal music
- Portal:Midnight Oil
- Portal:Minnesota Kicks
- Portal:Mission: Impossible
- Portal:Modernism (music)
- Portal:Moheener Ghoraguli
- Portal:Mondelez International
- Portal:Music genres
- Portal:Music of Bangladesh
- Portal:Music of India
- Portal:Music of Italy
- Portal:Music of Japan
- Portal:Music of Korea
- Portal:Music of Latin America
- Portal:Music of Micronesia
- Portal:Music of North Africa
- Portal:Music of Pakistan
- Portal:Music of Serbia
- Portal:Music of the Philippines
- Portal:Music of the United States
- Portal:Mutations
- Portal:National Rugby League
- Portal:Neoclassicism (music)
- Portal:Netball
- Portal:New York City Fire Department
- Portal:Nick Jr.
- Portal:Nobility
- Portal:Nordic countries
- Portal:North Africa
- Portal:North Kalimantan
- Portal:North Maluku
- Portal:North Pole
- Portal:North Queensland
- Portal:North Sulawesi
- Portal:North Sumatra
- Portal:Norwegian folk music
- Portal:Papua (province)
- Portal:Peaches
- Portal:Politics of Abkhazia
- Portal:Politics of Afghanistan
- Portal:Politics of Albania
- Portal:Politics of Algeria
- Portal:Politics of Andorra
- Portal:Politics of Angola
- Portal:Politics of Antigua and Barbuda
- Portal:Politics of Argentina
- Portal:Politics of Artsakh
- Portal:Politics of Bahrain
- Portal:Politics of Bangladesh
- Portal:Politics of Bavaria
- Portal:Politics of Belarus
- Portal:Politics of Belgium
- Portal:Politics of Belize
- Portal:Politics of Benin
- Portal:Politics of Bhutan
- Portal:Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Portal:Politics of Botswana
- Portal:Politics of Brazil
- Portal:Politics of Brunei
- Portal:Politics of Bulgaria
- Portal:Politics of Burkina Faso
- Portal:Politics of Burundi
- Portal:Politics of Cambodia
- Portal:Politics of Cameroon
- Portal:Politics of China
- Portal:Politics of São Tomé and Príncipe
- Portal:Politics of South Sudan
- Portal:Politics of Sudan
- Portal:Politics of Tanzania
- Portal:Politics of the Republic of the Congo
- Portal:Politics of Togo
- Portal:Politics of Tunisia
- Portal:Politics of Uganda
- Portal:Pop rock
- Portal:Rap rock
- Portal:Ras Al Khaimah
- Portal:Riau
- Portal:Riau Islands
- Portal:Ricky Martin
- Portal:Royal Canadian Air Force
- Portal:Rutland
- Portal:Saxophones
- Portal:Semiotics
- Portal:Ska
- Portal:Soca music
- Portal:Soul music
- Portal:Sound sculptures
- Portal:Southeast Sulawesi
- Portal:South Kalimantan
- Portal:South Sulawesi
- Portal:South Sumatra
- Portal:Space: 1999
- Portal:Special Region of Yogyakarta
- Portal:Swedish folk music
- Portal:Tamil language
- Portal:Techno
- Portal:Terry Brooks
- Portal:The Living End
- Portal:Thrissur
- Portal:Trance music
- Portal:Tyrant flycatchers
- Portal:Veterinary medicine
- Portal:Wayanad
- Portal:Welsh folk music
- Portal:West Champaran district
- Portal:Western dress codes
- Portal:West Flanders
- Portal:West Java
- Portal:West Kalimantan
- Portal:West Nusa Tenggara
- Portal:West Papua (province)
- Portal:West Sulawesi
- Portal:West Sumatra
- Portal:Wildlife of India
- Portal:Wildlife of Nepal
- Portal:Windows 10
- Portal:Winter War
- Portal:Woodpeckers
- Portal:Worcestershire
- Portal:World economy
- Portal:World Ocean
- Portal:World Rally Championship
- Portal:World views
- Portal:XTC
- Portal:Yahoo!
- Portal:Yoruba people
- Portal:You Am I
- Portal:Young Wizards
- Portal:Yugoslavs
Prior to 2018, for the previous 14 years, portal creation was at about 80 portals per year on average. We did over 3 times that in just the past 9 days. At this rate, we'll hit the 10,000 portal mark in 5 months. But, I'm sure we can do it sooner than that.
What's next for portal pages?
There are 5 drives for portal development:
- Create new portals
- Expand existing portals, such as with new sections like Recognized content
- Convert or restart old-style portals into automated single-page portals
- Link to new portals from the encyclopedia
- Pageless portals
Let's take a closer look at these...
1: Creating new portals
Portal creation, for subjects that happen to have the necessary support structures already in place, is down to about a minute per portal. The creation part, which is automated, takes about 10 seconds. The other 50 seconds is taken up by manual activities, such as finding candidate subjects, inspecting generated portals, and selecting the portal creation template to be used according to the resources available. Tools are under development to automate these activities as much as possible, to pare portal creation time down even more. Ten seconds each is the goal.
Eventually, we are going to run out of navigation templates to base portals off of. Though there are still thousands to go. But, when they do run out, we'll need an easy way to create more. A nav footer creation script.
Meanwhile, other resources are being explored and developed, such as categories, and methods to harvest the links they contain.
2: Expanding existing portals
The portal collection is growing, not only by the addition of new portals, but by further developing the ones we already have, by...
- Improving and/or adding search parameters to better power the Did you know and In the news sections.
- Adding more selected content sections, like Selected biographies.
- Adding and maintaining Recognized content sections, via JL-Bot.
- Adding pictures to the image slideshow.
- Adding panoramic pics.
- Categorizing portals.
More features will be added as we dream them up and design them. So, don't be shy, make a wish.
3: Converting old portals
By far the hardest and most time-consuming task we have been working on is updating the old portals, the very reason we revamped this WikiProject in the first place.
There are two approaches here:
- A) Restart a portal from scratch, using our automated tools. For basic no-frills portals, that works find. But, for more elaborate portals, as that tends to lose content and features, the following approach is being tried...
- B) Upgrade a portal section by section, so little to nothing is lost in the process.
4: Linking to new portals
Or "portal deorphanization"...
Dreamy Jazz Bot is purring along.
And a tool in the form of a script is under development for linking to portals at the time they are created, or shortly thereafter.
5...
See below...
New WikiProject for the post-saved-portal phase of operations...
Saved portals, are portals with a saved page.
What is the next stage in the evolutionary progression?
Quantum portals.
What are quantum portals?
Portals that come into existence when you click on the portal button, and which disappear when you leave the page.
Or, as Pbsouthwood put it:
...portals that exist only as a probability function (algorithm) until you collapse the wave form by observing through the portal button (run the script), and disappear again after use...
Introducing...
Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals (see it's talk page).
Keep on keepin' on
...'til next time, — The Transhumanist 10:22, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
Project E TFA
Hi, this is to let you know that the above article will appear as Today's Featured Article on March 25, 2019. The blurb to be used can be found here. You are free to edit the blurb, and may want to watchlist that page, as well as WP:ERRORS in case there are queries about it on the day it runs, as well as the previous day. If you have questions or concerns, feel free to post on my talk. Thanks for building quality content!--Wehwalt (talk) 18:14, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
- I have trimmed the blurb down to ~1,000 characters. Warning: Project E weapons were phased out under a treaty the US and UK have now decided to break. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:36, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
Tech News: 2019-08
23:13, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
DYK for John L. Whitehead Jr.
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Apollo 15
Would you have time to do a FAC review? Much obliged.--Wehwalt (talk) 19:12, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
Talk to us about talking
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FACBot
Hi Hawkeye, I think your bot went a bit doolally earlier - it started removing FAC notices from nominated talk pages, stating "Removing unfinished candidacy from talk page". It looks like it's done that to a stack of pages, all of which seem OK to me. Cheers. - SchroCat (talk) 00:42, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
Tech News: 2019-09
21:16, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 February 2019
- From the editors: Help wanted (still)
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WikiCup 2019 March newsletter
And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2. With 56 contestants qualifying, each group in Round 2 contains seven contestants, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for Round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining contestants.
Our top scorers in Round 1 were:
L293D, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with ten good articles on submarines for a total of 357 points.
Adam Cuerden, a WikiCup veteran, came next with 274 points, mostly from eight featured pictures, restorations of artwork.
MPJ-DK, a wrestling enthusiast, was in third place with 263 points, garnered from a featured list, five good articles, two DYKs and four GARs.
Usernameunique came next at 243, with a featured article and a good article, both on ancient helmets.
Squeamish Ossifrage was in joint fifth place with 224 points, mostly garnered from bringing the 1937 Fox vault fire to featured article status.
Ed! was also on 224, with an amazing number of good article reviews (56 actually).
These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews on 143 good articles, one hundred more than the number of good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Well done all!
Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.
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Tech News: 2019-10
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DYK for Gordon Cooper
— Amakuru (talk) 12:01, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CLV, March 2019
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What would you like to do with Collins? Ask for an exemption on the two weeks, or just wait it out? Kees08 (Talk) 18:37, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
Tech News: 2019-11
19:29, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.17
Hello Hawkeye7,
- News
- The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the {{rough translation}} tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.
- Discussions of interest
- Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
- {{db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 (Discussion)
- A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
- There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.
- Reminders
- NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.
- NPP Tools Report
- Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
- copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
- The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.
Six Month Queue Data: Today – Low – 2393 High – 4828
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Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #030, 17 Mar 2019
Previous issue:
- Single-page portals: 4,704
- Total portals: 5,705
This issue:
- Single-page portals: 4,562
- Total portals: 5,578
The collection of portals has shrunk
All Portals closed at WP:MfD during 2019
Grouped Nominations total 127 Portals:
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/US County Portals Deleted 64 portals
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Districts of India Portals Deleted 30 Portals
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portals for Portland, Oregon neighborhoods Deleted 23 Portals
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Allen Park, Michigan Deleted 6 Portals
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cryptocurrency Deleted 2 Portals
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:North Pole Deleted 2 Portals
Individual Nominations:
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Circles Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Fruits Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:E (mathematical constant) Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Burger King Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cotingas Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Prostitution in Canada Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Agoura Hills, California Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Urinary system Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:You Am I Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cannabis (2nd nomination) Reverted to non-Automated version
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Intermodal containers Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Adventure travel Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Adam Ant Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Benito Juárez, Mexico City Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Spaghetti Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Wikiatlas Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Greek alphabet Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Accounting Deleted G7
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Lents, Portland, Oregon Deleted P2
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ankaran Deleted
- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Jiu-jitsu Deleted G8
- Portal:University of Nebraska Speedy Deleted P1/A10 exactly the same as Portal:University of Nebraska–Lincoln also created by the TTH
Related WikiProject:
(Attribution: Copied from Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Portal MfD Results)
WikiProject Quantum portals
This was a spin-off from WikiProject Portals, for the purpose of developing zero-page portals (portals generated on-the-screen at the push of a button, with no stored pages).
It has been merged back into WikiProject Portals. In the MfD the vote was "demote". See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals.
Hiatus on mass creation of Portals
At WP:VPR, mass creation of Portals using semi-automated tools has been put on hold until clearer community consensus is established.
See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Hiatus on mass creation of Portals.
The Transhumanist banned from creating new portals for 3 months
See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Proposal 1: Interim Topic-Ban on New Portals.
Until next issue...
Keep on keepin' on. — The Transhumanist 10:15, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
Tech News: 2019-12
19:43, 18 March 2019 (UTC)