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Hello, Northamerica1000.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Gym • Keyboard instrument Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 8 April 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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Portal:Today's article for improvement, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Today's article for improvement and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Today's article for improvement during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Legacypac (talk) 23:24, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
Is it okay if I make "Supreme faceplam of destiny" into a separate template? Woshiyiweizhongguoren (🇨🇳) 11:15, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
Portal:Cheese dishes, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cheese dishes and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Cheese dishes during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Legacypac (talk) 20:02, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
Portal:Mondelez International, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Mondelez International and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Mondelez International during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Legacypac (talk) 23:47, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
Portal:Kroger, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Kroger and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Kroger during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Legacypac (talk) 04:49, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
Portal:Albertsons, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Albertsons and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Albertsons during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Legacypac (talk) 05:35, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
Category:Formerly curated portals that are presently automated, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Legacypac (talk) 21:30, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
Appropriate to draw your attention to Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2019 April 3 as I've raised the WP:SOCKSTRIKE there which you performed. I wouldn't particularly expect you to both strike and speedy keep. I know we currently dispute about 168 hours but this has nothing to do with that .... you actually achieve so much throughput at AfD's its pretty amazing. But a courtesy seems appropriate.15:55, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
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I've been helping to solve problems by volunteering my time to restore older portals that have been automated back to their pre-automated versions. It is very time-consuming, laborious, can involve many steps, and requires a strong attention to detail. It also requires having a strong knowledge of how portals are designed, their layout, coding and wiki markup, portal templates, portal guidelines, etc., knowledge that many users may not necessarily possess. I'm not aware offhand of others who have taken up this task. It would be great if others who are competent in such matters would consider pitching-in. One person can only do so much. North America1000 16:30, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I find it interesting how agricultural production data for the same year (2016) from FAOSTAT changed from when I visited the site in August last year. For instance in List of countries by eggplant production, production values for many countries changed, some by a bit (e.g. 2,042 million tonnes to 2,043 for Serbia), and some by a lot (e.g. 47,843 to 25,844 for Saudi Arabia), while many did not change at all. Do you know why this is?
Also, do you suggest I update all 2016 data for all 'List of countries by xxx production' articles because of this change (if I haven't already), or just leave them the same as when I first added this data last year? JACKINTHEBOX • TALK 04:53, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi there. This is in reference to your re-listing of TCOLondon at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/TCOLondon for further discussion. I'm curious to know what your thoughts were on the re-list and whether or not, in your opinion, I need to defend the article further. With only myself and the nominator participating in the discussion, I understand why you might have made that choice, but it is kind of hard to tell which direction the debate is currently leaning and I would appreciate it if you could give your opinion on it. If this question/comment is inappropriate in any way please accept my apologies. I do not intend to create any trouble, I'm just trying to understand. Thanks and sorry to bother you. - PaulT+/C 18:59, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
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Hi. Can you help me delete the above link that currently redirects to Portal:Manila? Will be creating a separate one for the region as the scopes are very different. Thanks! I keep getting the message "the page has been marked for deletion under WP:G6" when i tried editing it to start the new region portal.--RioHondo (talk) 10:09, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
– Pinging RioHondo per the new post here. North America1000 18:29, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
Examples include Portal:Greater Los Angeles, Portal:San Francisco Bay Area, and Portal:Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, none of which have portals for the core cities in them. Pages within the scope of these metro areas have been or will be soon deleted. Legacypac (talk) 18:36, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
Portal:Kuala Lumpur, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Kuala Lumpur and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Kuala Lumpur during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:21, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
Portal:Positivism, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Positivism and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Positivism during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Legacypac (talk) 17:59, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
You may not know it, but you caused a strange kind of train wreck on the MFD main line. You inserted the name, enclosed in curly braces, of WikiProject:Nintendo. The curly braces functioned as magic words to transclude the table of contents of the project. I had to de-activate them with nowiki. I am sure that you had no idea that you were doing that. Please don't do that again. Don't insert a template name into an XFD. It does weird things. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:36, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
Portal:North Africa, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:North Africa and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:North Africa during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:22, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
Portal:Pigs, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Pigs (2nd nomination) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Pigs during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:32, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
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@Northamerica1000: Sorry for the unexplained absence. I was on a business trip in Montreal. I am back now. Thank you. AmericanAir88(talk) 02:03, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
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A strange and unfortunate vicious circle exists regarding Wikipedia's portals at this time. At MfD, it has become apparent that fully-automated portals are not desired by many, as demonstrated by the hundreds of delete !votes for them there and deletions that have been occurring. A serious problem is that literally thousands of older, non-automated portal subpages were tagged en masse with this notice as being qualifiable per WP:G6 housekeeping speedy deletion based upon the premise that the pages were outdated per the existence of the newer automated portals that were created, which are now being deleted. So now, both new and old are all tagged up for deletion or potential deletion.
The G6 tagging jeopardizes the reversion of the disliked automated portals to previous, curated/manually created versions, because then users have the extra steps figuring out which pages were deleted, denoting it, requesting WP:REFUNDs for the deleted pages, waiting for the undeletion to occur, and then going back to the portal to make sure it works out and/or make corrections. It's a real time sink. The G6 notices also lack any <noinclude> markup, so when restoring a portal back to a non-automated state, the notice appears throughout the portal, even on the box-header and box-footer areas. Removing the notices is time-consuming, and some users may not understand how to access the transcluded subpages to remove the notices.
There seems to be some sort of bandwagon effect occurring, and some have become so excited about getting portal pages deleted, wherever they may be, that they may not be thinking matters through or performing research first. So, now hundreds of automated portals have been nominated for deletion, and meantime, thousands of portal subpages are marked for potential speedy deletion, which hinders the preservation of thousands and thousands of hours of editors' work in portal namespace. It's literally ass-backward. It goes to show that when overly an WP:EAGER, rampant desire for deletion on Wikipedia occurs, it can lead to real problems.
There are way too many discussions on too many various pages occurring about portals simultaneously, to the point that it's highly disorganized and nobody is in touch with what others are doing or discussing. Said discussions should all occur in one area, such as the Village Pump. North America1000 00:54, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
As a food editor, you'll be interested in today's FA. There's an issue about her recipe for Christmas pudding which I've raised at WP:ERRORS. As an admin, you may be able to help out. Andrew D. (talk) 16:30, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
WP:AFD/USA reads 'This is a high level category for deletion sorting. Whenever possible, it is recommended for deletion discussions to be added to more specific categories, such as a state and/or relevant subject area.' If a AFD is already in some state deletion sorting, it does not go here too....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 12:53, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
Here's the cats for Teten: [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American venture capitalists]] [[Category:Yale University alumni]] [[Category:Harvard Business School alumni]] [[Category:Date of birth missing (living people)]] [[Category:Place of birth missing (living people)]] [[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]
Here's the cats for Lasica: [[Category:American male journalists]] [[Category:American journalists]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American bloggers]] [[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]] [[Category:Rutgers University alumni]] [[Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers]] [[Category:American male bloggers]]
Not a U.S. state in sight. I performed simple deletion sorting per the cats and because not much is in the articles about the subjets' whereabouts in life. I have no problem with others refining the deletion sorting. So, there you have it; not pretending to be anything, no bs here. I will admit that I took the initiative to perform deletion sorting, in hopes to support increased participation at AfD. North America1000 13:32, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
Nb. See also: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Deletion sorting#Actors living in the US. North America1000 21:25, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I would like this deleted page moved into my user space. Thanks. Onetwothreeip (talk) 05:38, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
"split National Alliance (Australia) and move much of the content there", at the most, I would perform a very selective merge, but would not use content sourced to Amazon.com. Furthermore, any unsourced content should not be merged. If anything, small snippets of the article could be merged.
@StAnselm and Onetwothreeip: My view is, rather than intermingling content about the Australian National Alliance in the National Alliance (Australia) (NA) article, why not just create a new article for the Australian National Alliance (ANA), where parts of the userfied content could then potentially be used? I noticed that StAnselm started a new discussion about ANA content being omitted from the NA article at Talk:National Alliance (Australia), but as of this post, there has been no subsequent discourse about the matter there. From the very recent edit warring that occurred at the NA article, there is presently no consensus for the new content to be placed in the NA article.
I've went ahead and userfied the Frank Salter article to User:Onetwothreeip/Frank Salter, but I don't want this simple userfication to be misunderstood or misinterpreted in any manner as some sort of endorsement from me for the content to then therefore be re-added to the NA article. Simply put, I am against the content being re-added to the NA article without a consensus to do so first being established at this time, such as on the talk page (see WP:BRD). North America1000 20:54, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
Something in your !vote about this portal listing featured content breaks the section numbering sequence in the table of contents of MFD. My efforts to fix it failed, and I gave up. Robert McClenon (talk) 13:47, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Jackson Pollock (longevity claimant) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jackson Pollock (longevity claimant) 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.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 18:19, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
Hey NA1k, just to let you know I was going to revert Legacypac's move of Portal:Miami since he did it without the subpages; I also think there's a good argument to leave it at Portal:Miami since that probably draws more initial traffic. Didn't want you to be surprised if you saw my CSD G6 of it. Since the move only requires one page I don't think admin. assistance is required here. UnitedStatesian (talk) 14:49, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hello, Northamerica1000.
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This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:57, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
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Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.
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