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You are invited to join the effort to revitalize and improve the Portal system...

The Portals WikiProject was rebooted on April 17th, and is going strong. Fifty-nine editors have joined so far, with more joining daily.

We're having a blast, and excitement is high...

Our goal is to update, upgrade, and maintain portals.

In addition to working directly on portals, we are developing tools to make portals more dynamic (self-updating), and to make building and maintaining portals easier. We've finished two tools so far, with more to come. They are Template:Transclude lead excerpt and Template:Transclude random excerpt.

Discussions are underway about how to further upgrade portals, and what the portals of the future will be.

There are plenty of tasks (including WikiGnome tasks too).

With more to come.

We may even surprise ourselves and exceed all expectations. Who knows what we will be able to accomplish in what may become the biggest Wikicollaboration in years.

See ya at the WikiProject!

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   23:48, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you very much

The RfC discussion to eliminate portals was closed May 12, with the statement "There exists a strong consensus against deleting or even deprecating portals at this time." This was made possible because you and others came to the rescue. Thank you for speaking up.

By the way, the current issue of the Signpost features an article with interviews about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

I'd also like to let you know that the Portals WikiProject is working hard to make sure your support of portals was not in vain. Toward that end, we have been working diligently to innovate portals, while building, updating, upgrading, and maintaining them. The project has grown to 80 members so far, and has become a beehive of activity.

Our two main goals at this time are to automate portals (in terms of refreshing, rotating, and selecting content), and to develop a one-page model in order to make obsolete and eliminate most of the 150,000 subpages from the portal namespace by migrating their functions to the portal base pages, using technologies such as selective transclusion. Please feel free to join in on any of the many threads of development at the WikiProject's talk page, or just stop by to see how we are doing. If you have any questions about portals or portal development, that is the best place to ask them.

If you would like to keep abreast of developments on portals, keep in mind that the project's members receive updates on their talk pages. The updates are also posted here, for your convenience.

Again, we can't thank you enough for your support of portals, and we hope to make you proud of your decision. Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   18:07, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

P.S.: if you reply to this message, please {{ping}} me. Thank you. -TT

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Speedy deletion nomination of Lava organization

Hello Épine,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Lava organization for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

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Meatsgains 02:33, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Friðarbogin

Hello Épine. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Friðarbogin, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: being the first organization of its kind indicates significance, plus LGBT rights in the Faroe Islands is a suitable merge target per WP:ATD-M. Thank you. SoWhy 07:38, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

@SoWhy: if this page can stay because of the reason you stated, so could have Lava organization before @RHaworth: teamed up with the person who nominated it for deletion to delete it. the article was nominated under A7 because the nominator thought sources were unreliable while under A7 it clearly states that the reliability of sources doesn’t mean the article qualify for deletion under that criterion. @RHaworth: has deleted the page even though there was an ongoing discussion on the talk page about why the page doesn’t qualify for deletion under the stated license (where you were evidently mentioned, but chose to ignore it). There is literally a warning on deletion tags when talk pages exist alerting admins not to delete without checking them first, but apperantly the admin who decided that the article was not enough to stay didn’t check it, and now I’m wondering if all the admins on the English Misplaced Pages are illiterate and cynical. --▸ ‎épine _talk♬ 01:45, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

If other administrators make mistakes, please take it up with them. However, your example is a poor one, as Lava organization contained no claims that the subject is significant in any way. For example while Friðarbogin was the first such organization in the country, Lava was the third. But being the first of its kind is a claim of significance. Being the Xth of its kind usually isn't. Kind of like being the first to climb Mount Everest made Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay notable. Instead of assuming any kind of conspiracy or bad faith against you, find reliable sources and recreate it. Regards SoWhy 07:14, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Lava organization

Hello Épine,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Lava organization for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

Meatsgains 17:41, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

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Wild Fire (band)

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The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Wild Fire (band) has been completed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 18:58, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

@Twofingered Typist: Thank you, but in the final paragraph of the article you write “On March 29, 2018, Wild Fire announced in a Facebook post about an upcoming acoustic record that Taylor Roberts would be leaving the band.” which, to be honest, doesn’t make much sense to me.--▸ ‎épine _talk♬ 08:02, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Villain (Wild Fire song) moved to draftspace

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An article you recently created, Villain (Wild Fire song), does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Misplaced Pages). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Misplaced Pages's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 18:38, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

@AngusWOOF: damn, you didn’t even give me a chance to breathe.--▸ ‎épine _talk♬ 18:39, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Can you add some suitable charts then for the song? Having it record a number of views/listens on streaming doesn't really help it along. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 18:41, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

@AngusWOOF: Media Base Rock Charts, it peaked there, but not sure about anywhere else right now. I’m searching the web though. What exactly can I do to bring it back? Will more sources help or is it because of something else that you moved it to draft?--▸ ‎épine _talk♬ 18:45, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

How about some Billboard charting? Also reception as a single by notable music websites? AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 18:46, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

@AngusWOOF: I don’t think it got so popular to find itself of Billboard charts, it’s not pop you know. The band is really new so it’s kinda hard to find more sources but I keep trying, I wish my access to internet wasn’t limited. Can you please help? :)--▸ ‎épine _talk♬ 18:49, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

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@AngusWOOF: delete the draft. I mixed it with the album article.--▸ ‎épine _talk♬ 08:05, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

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Dear all. Recently, FR30799386 (talk) was blocked for sock puppetry. Among their projects were a number of user scripts that they left behind. I (DannyS712) have copied the scripts, and have taken over maintaining them. You currently import one or more of FR30799386's scripts, and I thought that you might want to import a maintained version. Links to each script are provided below.

• User:DannyS712/communicator
• User:DannyS712/copyvio-check
• User:DannyS712/Undo
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If you have any questions, please reach out and talk to me. --DannyS712 (talk) 03:57, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

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