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Hello - I'm already involved in an edit dispute on an article (and do not wish to get you involved in that), but I noticed that here you had reverted another person's change to the article. Since his change corrected mistakes and improved the article, I was wondering if you would explain why you reverted it (and since there was no explanation in the edit summary). Thanks in advance. __173.235.84.234 (talk) 19:38, 4 September 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-09-04T19:38:00.000Z","author":"173.235.84.234","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-173.235.84.234-2018-09-04T19:38:00.000Z-A_quick_question_...","replies":["c-L3X1-2018-09-05T00:29:00.000Z-173.235.84.234-2018-09-04T19:38:00.000Z"]}}-->
Hi, and sorry for the delay. I undid the edit for a couple main reasons: The additions to the | ShortSummary were unsourced (in the sense nothing was provided to allow me to double check the validity of the change), I also felt it was a little long. I now see that last part was in error, as Episodes 2, 15, and 16 have relatively lengthy summaries. I did not scroll down in the window to see the typo fix. I have undone this, thank you for bringing it to my attention. Thanks, L3X1◊distænt write◊00:29, 5 September 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-09-05T00:29:00.000Z","author":"L3X1","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-L3X1-2018-09-05T00:29:00.000Z-173.235.84.234-2018-09-04T19:38:00.000Z","replies":["c-173.235.84.234-2018-09-07T20:12:00.000Z-L3X1-2018-09-05T00:29:00.000Z"]}}-->
Thank you - it's good to know there are still editors on Wikipedia who are willing to discuss and collaborate on articles! __173.235.84.234 (talk) 20:12, 7 September 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-09-07T20:12:00.000Z","author":"173.235.84.234","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-173.235.84.234-2018-09-07T20:12:00.000Z-L3X1-2018-09-05T00:29:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->
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Hello L3X1, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.
Project news
The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.
As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.
Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.
List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing
Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget.
In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions.
MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues.
User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js(info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page)
User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js(info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50).
User:Primefac/revdel.js(info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you.
User:Evad37/rater.js(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).
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A {{Portal}} box in the See also section of the corresponding root article for each portal. If there is no See also section, create one and place the portal template in that. (Rather than placing them in an external links section -- they're not external links).
A {{Portal}} template placed at the top of the category page corresponding to each portal.
Portals now have a new rating system of their own designed specifically to support portal evaluation! We were trying to use the standard assessment system for articles, but that doesn't fit portals very well.
The new system can be found at the top of all portal talk pages, in the WikiProject portals box. Those with "???" ratings need to be assessed, which makes up most of the older portals.
Most of the new portals were started out with an initial "Low" level of importance when their talk pages were created. Those deserving higher importance should be promoted as you come across them.
Improving the new portals
The starting point for new portals included minimal parameters and content, in the form of default values in the template(s) used for their creation.
Embellishing embedded search strings
So, for the search strings in the "Did you know..." and "In the news" sections, this was the magic word {{PAGENAME}}, which represents the portal's name. Unfortunately, the resulting term is alway capitalized, which limits its effectiveness as a search string for anything but proper nouns. Results for those two sections can be improved, by replacing the "PAGENAME" magic word with multiple search strings, and search strings that begin with lower case letters. There is no inherent limit as to how many search parameters may be included. Lua search notation is used. The more general the subject, the more subtopic search terms you may want to include. For example, on Portal:Avengers (comics), {{PAGENAME}} turned up nothing. But, when more parameters were added, as in the wikicode below...
{{Transclude selected recent additions | {{PAGENAME}} | Iron Man | Spiderman | Antman | Hawkeye | The Hulk | Incredible Hulk | David Banner | Captain America | Scarlet Witch | Black Widow | Tony Stark | Nick Fury | Age of Ultron | Infinity War | months=36 | header={{Box-header colour|Did you know... }}|max=6}}
... that returned several results in the portal's DYK section.
Be sure you make the improvements to both the DYK section and the "In the news" section, as they both require the search strings.
Expanding the slideshow contents
The default starting selection for the image slideshow in most new portals is whatever images happen to be in the corresponding root article (via the PAGENAME magic word). You can improve image slideshows by adding more sourcepages and filenames as parameters in the "Selected images" section of portals.
Portals used to take about 6 hours or more to create. Now, for subjects that have particular navigation support, we've got that down to about one minute each, with even more content displayed than ever. True, that means the new portals pick you, rather than the other way around. Creating a specific portal that doesn't happen to have the requisite navigation support is still pretty time consuming. But, we are working on extending our reach beyond the low-hanging fruit.
And efforts are ongoing to keep shaving time off of the creation process. Eventually, we may get it down to seconds each.
In addition to improving automation, we're always looking for new features and improvements that we can add to portals, and there is plenty of potential to expand on the standard design so that new portals are even better right out of the starting gate. Additional designs are also possible.
On the horizon, there are many more portals waiting to be created. And we can expect to see at least a few more section types emerge. I never expected slideshows, for example, especially not for excerpts. Who knows where innovation will take us next?
Keep up the great work everyone.
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Please join us... We have four new topics for Women in Red's worldwide online editathons in October!
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There is an open request for comment on Meta regarding the creation a new user group for global edit filter management.
Technical news
Partial blocks should be available for testing in October on the Test Wikipedia and the Beta-Cluster. This new feature allows admins to block users from editing specific pages and in the near-future, namespaces and uploading files. You can expect more updates and an invitation to help with testing once it is available.
The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team is currently looking for input on how to measure the effectiveness of blocks. This is in particular related to how they will measure the success of the aforementioned partial blocks.
Because of a data centre test, you will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia projects for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.
Following a request for comment, the size of the Arbitration Committee will be decreased to 13 arbitrators, starting in 2019. Additionally, the minimum support percentage required to be appointed to a two-year term on ArbCom has been increased to 60%. ArbCom candidates who receive between 50% and 60% support will be appointed to one-year terms instead.
Nominations for the 2018 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission are being accepted until 12 October. These are the editors who help run the ArbCom election smoothly. If you are interested in volunteering for this role, please consider nominating yourself.
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There was also some discussion of creation criteria for portals. The result was that one of the participants in the discussion reverted the portal guidelines to the old version, which has the minimum number of articles for a portal included in there: "about 20 articles", a guideline that was in place since 2009.
Many of the portals that existed prior to April 2018 do not have that many (being limited to however many subpages the portal creator created), and therefore, these portals need to be upgraded to the new design (which automatically provides many articles for display). Using the new design, exceeding 20 articles for display is very easy.
Linking to the new portals
Efforts have been underway to place links to new portals (all 2200 of them created since April).
Link (portal button) from corresponding category pages. Done
Link from See also section on corresponding root articles. Partially implemented
Link from bottom of corresponding templates. Partially implemented
Your help is needed. It is easy to access the page mentioned in #1, #2, & #3 from the portals themselves.
AWBers could do these tasks even faster (that's how the category pages were done), except #4...
Item #4 above pretty much has to be done by hand. (If you can find a way to speed that up, I would be very impressed). The links needing placement can be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet. Instructions are included there.
The conversion effort: news sections
There are still around 1200 old-style portals that have only undergone partial conversion to the new design concepts, still relying on subpages with copied/pasted excerpts that have been going stale for years, out of date (manually posted) news entries, etc.
The section currently being tackled on these is news. You can help by deleting any news section on the old-style portals that has news entries that are years old (that is the dead giveaway to a manual news section). Be sure not to delete the news sections of portals that have up-to-date news, or active maintainers. For maintainers, look at the portal's categories, and/or check the participants list at WP:WPPORT.
Eventually, conditional news sections (that appear only when news items are available for display) will be added using AWB to all portals without a news section.
News items (and even the news sections themselves) are automatically generated for portals that were created using the Basic portal start page. On those portals, there is a hidden comment at the top of the page (that you can see in the edit window), that says this:
<!-- This portal was created using subst:Basic portal start page -->
Design development
Presently, we are in the process of implementing the new design features, creating new portals with them, and installing them in existing portals.
But, what about development of new new design features?
A resource that has been elusive so far will be obtained eventually: categories. That is, the ability to pull category member links to populate a page.
Rather than populate portals directly with such links, it may be more beneficial to the encyclopedia to utilize them in navigation footers, because portals already have the ability to generate themselves based on those.
So, this would create a cascade effect: auto-gathering entries from categories, would enable the construction of new navigation footers, that would in turn support the development of new portals.
The cascade effect would also be felt by existing portals, as existing navigation footers could be expanded using the category harvesting methods, which would in turn expand the coverage of portals that access those navigation footers.
You can help by providing leads about any potential category harvesting methods. Please report anything you know about harvesting categories at WT:WPPORTD. Thank you.
Looking into the future: the quantum portal?
One idea that has been floating around is the concept of a pageless portal. That is, a portal that isn't stored anywhere, instead being generated when you click on a menu item or button.
Many of the new portals were generated by a single click, and then saved via a second click.
Therefore, it seems likely that the portals of the future will employ the one-click concept.
Because of the need for customization by users, this concept would need to be augmented with a way to integrate user contributions. This could be done in at least two ways: posting an existing portal, autogenerating one from scratch if such does not yet exist, or have a special data page for user contributions that is folded into the auto-generated portal.
How soon? That is up to you. All that is needed are persons to implement it.
Until next time...
Keep up the good work on portals. They are improving daily. Thank you. — The Transhumanist04:23, 12 October 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-10-12T04:23:00.000Z","author":"The Transhumanist","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-The_Transhumanist-2018-10-12T04:23:00.000Z-Until_next_time...","replies":[]}}-->
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Three new topics forWiR'sonline editathons in November, two of them supporting other initiatives
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Heads up that Herbert E. Meyer which you marked as no action needed at CopyPatrol was actually a lightly changed speaker's biography and has since been deleted as a COPYVIO. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 13:32, 16 October 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-10-16T13:32:00.000Z","author":"Barkeep49","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Barkeep49-2018-10-16T13:32:00.000Z-Herbert_E._Meyer","replies":["c-L3X1-2018-10-17T02:03:00.000Z-Barkeep49-2018-10-16T13:32:00.000Z"]}}-->
Thanks Barkeep49. I don't recall looking at this one today so I guess I hit the wrong button on the wrong item in the CP queue. Thanks, L3X1◊distænt write◊02:03, 17 October 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-10-17T02:03:00.000Z","author":"L3X1","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-L3X1-2018-10-17T02:03:00.000Z-Barkeep49-2018-10-16T13:32:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->
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Backlog
As of 21 October 2018[update], there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.
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A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
Administrators and bureaucrats can no longer unblock themselves unless they placed the block initially. This change has been implemented globally. See also this ongoing village pump discussion (permalink).
To complement the aforementioned change, blocked administrators will soon have the ability to block the administrator that placed their block to mitigate the possibility of a compromised administrator account blocking all other active administrators.
In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (Raymond Arritt) passed away on 14 November 2018. Boris joined Wikipedia as Raymond arritt on 8 May 2006 and was an administrator from 30 July 2007 to 2 June 2008.
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I’ll miss your advice, Boris. Thanks, L3X1◊distænt write◊04:38, 3 December 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-12-03T04:38:00.000Z","author":"L3X1","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-L3X1-2018-12-03T04:38:00.000Z-MediaWiki_message_delivery-2018-12-03T03:36:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->
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Hello L3X1,
Reviewer of the Year
This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.
Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001reviews), Semmendinger (8,440reviews), PRehse (8,092reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016reviews), and Elmidae (3,615reviews). Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only sevenmonths, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.
The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.
Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019
At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals. See the results.
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About Portal:Cars which you have marked for manual maintenance
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Hello,
I have noticed that you marked the portal Cars for manual maintenance in June 2018, but this notice has not been updated in 6 months. This notice needs to be kept up to date to reflect the current status of the portal in December 2018. You can:
Update the date to December 2018 if you have and are continuing to maintain the portal.
Remove yourself as a manual maintainer, which will allow for automatic maintenance.
If you don't respond by updating the date in the notice in 2 weeks, then your name will be removed from the notice and the portal marked for automatic maintenance.
Thanks for your dedication to Portal:Cars. If you have questions about this message please {{ping}} me about it. Thanks and happy editing, Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me | my contributions23:55, 13 December 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-12-13T23:55:00.000Z","author":"Dreamy Jazz","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Dreamy_Jazz-2018-12-13T23:55:00.000Z-About_Portal:Cars_which_you_have_marked_for_manual_maintenance","replies":["c-L3X1-2018-12-15T00:25:00.000Z-Dreamy_Jazz-2018-12-13T23:55:00.000Z"]}}-->
Dreamy Jazz Thanks for message! Unfortunately I cannot remember how (nor seem to find) to update the date to 2018. Could you please tell me how to do this? Thanks, L3X1◊distænt write◊00:25, 15 December 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-12-15T00:25:00.000Z","author":"L3X1","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-L3X1-2018-12-15T00:25:00.000Z-Dreamy_Jazz-2018-12-13T23:55:00.000Z","replies":["c-Dreamy_Jazz-2018-12-15T12:21:00.000Z-L3X1-2018-12-15T00:25:00.000Z"]}}-->
L3X1 Hello. If you edit the page using source editor, at the top of the edit box the template {{Portal maintenance status}} should be present. One of the parameters in this template should be the |date= parameter. This currently says "June 2018", but needs to be changed to say "December 2018". Thanks for your continued efforts from me and all the WikiProjectDreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me | my contributions12:21, 15 December 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-12-15T12:21:00.000Z","author":"Dreamy Jazz","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Dreamy_Jazz-2018-12-15T12:21:00.000Z-L3X1-2018-12-15T00:25:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->
I hope you know I'm doing my best to salvage the arrest story. It's just not going so well. EEng22:17, 19 December 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-12-19T22:17:00.000Z","author":"EEng","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-EEng-2018-12-19T22:17:00.000Z-West","replies":["c-L3X1-2018-12-20T14:35:00.000Z-EEng-2018-12-19T22:17:00.000Z"],"displayName":"E"}}-->
Thank you so much for working on this, I've never had this much trouble trying to find sources (mostly because what I do IRL has plenty of fresh sources). I was checking on Franklin Pierce's arrest story, and for something so interesting it is proving difficult to get information on that, too. Thanks, L3X1◊distænt write◊14:35, 20 December 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-12-20T14:35:00.000Z","author":"L3X1","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-L3X1-2018-12-20T14:35:00.000Z-EEng-2018-12-19T22:17:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->
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January 2019, Volume 5, Issue 1, Numbers 104-108
Happy New Year from Women in Red! Please join us for these virtual editathons.
Best wishes for this holiday season! Thank you for your Wiki contributions in 2018. May 2019 be prosperous and joyful. --K.e.coffman (talk) 23:37, 21 December 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-12-21T23:37:00.000Z","author":"K.e.coffman","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-K.e.coffman-2018-12-21T23:37:00.000Z-Happy_Holidays","replies":[]}}-->
Noël ~ καλά Χριστούγεννα ~ З Калядамі ~ חנוכה שמח ~ Gott nytt år!
Thank you, K.e.coffman, and the same to you and yours! :) Thanks, L3X1◊distænt write◊23:46, 21 December 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-12-21T23:46:00.000Z","author":"L3X1","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-L3X1-2018-12-21T23:46:00.000Z-Happy_Holidays","replies":[]}}-->
Hello L3X1, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019. Happy editing, Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me | my contributions21:30, 23 December 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-12-23T21:30:00.000Z","author":"Dreamy Jazz","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Dreamy_Jazz-2018-12-23T21:30:00.000Z-Happy_holidays!","replies":[]}}-->
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I've done an extensive review of book sources (about 70, no kidding) with no luck. However, I'm making some private inquiries which might turn something up even now, but I can't know how long before I'll get an answer. In the meantime I've created Template:Did_you_know_nominations/William_H._West_(policeman) to get in under the 7-day deadline, but I hope you understand that if we don't find something establishing this as more than a fun legend it won't make a good DYK and we should withdraw it. EEng22:38, 23 December 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-12-23T22:38:00.000Z","author":"EEng","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-EEng-2018-12-23T22:38:00.000Z-Still_on_the_trail","replies":["c-L3X1-2018-12-23T23:34:00.000Z-EEng-2018-12-23T22:38:00.000Z"],"displayName":"E"}}-->
70 in one week, wow! I understand if we don't get a good source the DYK will fall through, but thanks again for your time, EEng. Thanks, L3X1◊distænt write◊23:34, 23 December 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-12-23T23:34:00.000Z","author":"L3X1","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-L3X1-2018-12-23T23:34:00.000Z-EEng-2018-12-23T22:38:00.000Z","replies":["c-EEng-2018-12-24T00:02:00.000Z-L3X1-2018-12-23T23:34:00.000Z"]}}-->
Well, I didn't read them cover to cover. For the record, I checked about two dozen hagiographies of Grant, dating 1870 to 1900, giving plenty of uplifting examples of the man's humility and honesty and so on, but nothing along the lines of this story, and this suggest strongly that this was not a story known at the time. Also negative were checks of the index (searching arrest, carriage, horse, riding, police, and West), and skims of the chapters on Grant's time in the White House, in about fifty other works including a dozen modern biographies. Like I said, I've made some inquiries but I'm not hopeful. I'll let you know. EEng00:02, 24 December 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-12-24T00:02:00.000Z","author":"EEng","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-EEng-2018-12-24T00:02:00.000Z-L3X1-2018-12-23T23:34:00.000Z","replies":[],"displayName":"E"}}-->
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Last issue, I mentioned there would be a flood, and so, here it is...
Portals status
We now have 4,620 portals.
And the race to pass 5,000 by year's end is on...
Can we make it?
The New Year, and the 5,001st portal, await.
( New portals are created with {{subst:Basic portal start page}} or
{{subst:bpsp}} )
Evad is back!
After disappearing in mid-thread, Evad37 has returned from a longer than expected wikibreak.
Be sure to welcome him back.
Improved cropping is coming to Portal image banner
User:FR30799386 is working on making {{Portal image banner}} even better by enabling it to chop the top off an image as well as the bottom.
Many pictures aren't suitable for banners because they are too tall. Therefor, User:FR30799386 added cropping to this template, so that an editor could specify part of a picture to be used rather than the whole thing.
Upgrade of flagship portals is underway
Work has begun on upgrading Wikipedia's flagship portals (those listed at the top of the Main page).
Work continues on the other five. Feel free to join in on the fun.
Spotting missing portals that are redirects
In place of many missing portals, there is a redirect that leads to "the next best topic", such as a parent topic.
Most of these were created before we had the tools to easily create portals (they used to take 6 hours or more to create, because it was all done manually). Rather than leave a portal link red, some editors thought it was best that those titles led somewhere.
The subjects that have sufficient coverage should have their own portals rather than a redirect to some other subject.
Unfortunately, being blue like all other live links, redirects are harder to spot than redlinks.
Sincerely, — The Transhumanist08:09, 26 December 2018 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2018-12-26T08:09:00.000Z","author":"The Transhumanist","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-The_Transhumanist-2018-12-26T08:09:00.000Z-Keep_'em_coming!","replies":[]}}-->