User talk:JLJ001

Observation

I am not quite sure how you arrived at this conclusion if your first edit was on May 5, 2018. Best regards, — Godsy^(TALK_CONT) 17:49, 20 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sandbox

You are welcome to join me in this sandbox to dissect the current portal guidelines. I've made a start identifying issues with the current guidelines, but feel free to overwrite it and rearrange stuff. Then once that is ironed out we could draft a proposal for the amendments plus new additions. Just get stuck in if you are interested. There is a div at the top of the sandbox for declaring yourself in/out (working/not working) to avoid edit conflicts. Kind regards, Cesdeva ^(talk) 21:13, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

RfC is created now. I hope you don't mind, I imported your sig from the draft. Cheers, Cesdeva ^(talk) 12:11, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Portal subpage clean up

For subpages that need to be deleted, you can conveniently place this speedy deletion template at the top of each of them: {{Db-g6|rationale=of subpage clean up – this subpage's function has been migrated to the portal base page and is no longer needed}}. Then an admin will come along and delete them. — The Transhumanist 19:08, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Question about Selected Quotes

I used your approach of the Portal:Cornwall to make the Selected Quote sections of the Portals which I created without subpages. For example look at the Portal:Latter Day Saints. Now my question. Is the subpage called Portal:Latter Day Saints/Selected Quotes/Layout still needed with your approach? I used the subpages which use this layout for the Selected Quote sections without subpages.--Broter (talk) 09:52, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have now changed the template in the Portal:Latter Day Saints, in Portal:Right-wing populism and in Portal:Geert Wilders but I am to afraid to make a delete sentence on the old pages in the way it was shown to us because there is still this text ...Archive/Nominations, ...Archive/Nominations and ...Archive/Nominations which links to the old pages.--Broter (talk) 14:04, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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#Alternative to Wikinews.

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 Wikipedia: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 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#RFC on layout update.

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#These are not listed yet.

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 Wikipedia: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:

{{Db-g6|rationale=of subpage clean up – this subpage's function has been migrated to the portal base page and is no longer needed}}

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#These are not listed yet.

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. — The Transhumanist 00:32, 25 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Whoa, I missed one...

There's an article about the Portals WikiProject in the new issue of Signpost:

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2018-05-24/WikiProject report

Enjoy.

P.S.: We now have 80 members. Evad37 just joined! — The Transhumanist 01:37, 25 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

talk:Plymouth

Hi. You really need not take me too seriously on the above page. I have been an editor for over 8 years and have never read a rule. Actually I have no time for rules because if one were to follow all the rules people make up one would never get to do a thing. Ignore the rules - speak as you find - put the idea of a universal source of information foremost in your mind - then forget the rules . Mark^Dask 20:41, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

About adding pages to the deletion portal list (on my user page)

Thanks for helping to clean up the portal system! Just one thing, could you ensure that you do not tag the pages with {{Db-G6}} when you add them to the list, as per this discussion. Wpgbrown (talk) 13:11, 27 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Important information regarding automated editing

Howdy, You are not permitted to perform automated editing on any pages in this project. If you continue to perform automated editing, your account may be blocked indefinitely from editing. This is your final warning. Should you wish to legitimately perform automated edits, please consult our Bot Approval Group. Thanks, Nakon 02:44, 28 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nakon, I'd ping you on your talk but I'd like to keep this (somewhat) centralized. There is nothing wrong with making semi-automatic edits using AWB or JWB, provided they are not disruptive and are actually being verified before the page is saved (i.e. the conditions of MEATBOT are met). If you have evidence that JLJ001 is running JWB entirely automatically then we can have the "don't do it" warning. Primefac (talk) 13:47, 28 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That being said, JLJ001, it would be helpful if your JWB edits were tagged as such, similar to how AWB appends the (Using WP:AWB) notice. Primefac (talk) 14:06, 28 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Edit non-conflict

We just had the weirdest edit conflict/non conflict. We did exactly the same red link fix at exactly the same time. My edit got booted I guess. Cesdeva ^(talk) 14:52, 28 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]