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1RR Violation

You violated the original author provision in ARBPIA with this revert. Kindly self revert.

Also note the lede is supposed to be a summary of the body. This claim is not in the body and nor is it clear where it is sourced from.Icewhiz (talk) 13:36, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Also this revert os a violation of ARBPIA 1RR original author clause, as well as being a BLP/BLPCRIME issue towards the BLP subkect of the article. Kindly self revert.Icewhiz (talk) 14:06, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for reminding me, but note that the "original author provision in ARBPIA" prohibits the users from reverting other's reverts. I did not revert your reverts, rather I reverted your edits. If you consider this and this as reverts, then you've already made 2 reverts, violating the remedy before me.

As for the edits; You need just to see the "Synopsis" section where the objected portion is explained using concrete sources such as NYTimes. Also NYTimes says that Bergman was accused of "aggravated espionage" by IDF, so there's not BLP/BLPCRIME issue and we can make proper attributions to stand on the safer side. For now, I revert the second edit. --Mhhossein 19:28, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Per wP:3RR (which 1rr modifies) "A series of consecutive saved revert edits by one user with no intervening edits by another user counts as one revert.". My two edits were consecutive, making them one revert.

Regarding BLPCRIME - this getting sourced (and not in a good manner - to a book review lacking context) does not fully alleviate BCRIME concerns. This is also an EXCEPTIONAL claim (particularly since no criminal investigation or trial was held for Bergman to the best of my knowledge - and the text alleges a very serious charge).

I strongly suggest you self revert which you originally authored an hour prior to my revert.(it is also not present in the body nor sourced - by the DS issue is here regardless - if you want this in, I suggest placing it sourced in the body first).Icewhiz (talk) 20:02, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

To show my good faith, I had made the self revert. However, per what you quoted above, my "two consecutive saved revert edits counted as one." Read the article carefully and you'll see what you're seeking for. Regards. --Mhhossein 09:58, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

April 2018 Milhist Backlog Drive

G'day all, please be advised that throughout April 2018 the Military history Wikiproject is running its annual backlog elimination drive. This will focus on several key areas:

• tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
• adding or improving listed resources on Milhist's task force pages
• updating the open tasks template on Milhist's task force pages
• creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various lists of missing articles.

As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.

The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the scope of military history will be considered eligible. This year, the Military history project would like to extend a specific welcome to members of Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Women in Red, and we would like to encourage all participants to consider working on helping to improve our coverage of women in the military. This is not the sole focus of the edit-a-thon, though, and there are aspects that hopefully will appeal to pretty much everyone.

The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 April and runs until 23:59 UTC on 30 April 2018. Those interested in participating can sign up here.

For the Milhist co-ordinators, AustralianRupert and MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:53, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

DYK Medal

		The 25 DYK Creation and Expansion Medal
		Congratulations and keep up the good work. :) Freikorp (talk) 19:47, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

Freikorp: Thank you so much. The award was energizing. --Mhhossein 21:30, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

Hello:

The copy edit that you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations has been completed.

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

Good luck with the DYK nomination.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 19:05, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Dear Twofingered Typist, I just saw your edits and it was perfect. Thanks for the good job and for your kind wish. --Mhhossein 19:14, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Invitation to WikiProject Portals

The Portals WikiProject has been rebooted.

You are invited to join, and participate in the effort to revitalize and improve the Portal system and all the portals in it.

There are sections on the WikiProject page dedicated to tasks (including WikiGnome tasks too), and areas on the talk page for discussing the improvement and automation of the various features of portals.

Many complaints have been lodged in the RfC to delete all portals, pointing out their various problems. They say that many portals are not maintained, or have fallen out of date, are useless, etc. Many of the !votes indicate that the editors who posted them simply don't believe in the potential of portals anymore.

It's time to change all that. Let's give them reasons to believe in portals, by revitalizing them.

The best response to a deletion nomination is to fix the page that was nominated. The further underway the effort is to improve portals by the time the RfC has run its course, the more of the reasons against portals will no longer apply. RfCs typically run 30 days. There are 19 days left in this one. Let's see how many portals we can update and improve before the RfC is closed, and beyond.

A healthy WikiProject dedicated to supporting and maintaining portals may be the strongest argument of all not to delete.

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.

Let's do this.

See ya at the WikiProject!

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   10:22, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

The Transhumanist: Thanks for the invitation. Currently, I'm running at leas one portal and I think they'd better keep these informative areas. Having read through the RFC, I think there are major oppositions against the request. Anyway, I'm ready to help. --Mhhossein 12:33, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Yes, I believe that if the !votes keep coming in the way they have been, there is no danger of mass deletion. No new consensus has been formed in the RfC, but it is not over yet. I figured that getting the WikiProject up and running again could further help strengthen our already strong position in the RfC. And prevent future RfCs by improving the portals to up-to-date status.

Thank you for your offer to help. The first thing you can do is sign up as a volunteer, so I know who to send updates and task suggestions to. While you are there, take your time, and peruse the tasks on the Project page, and the threads on the talk page. The main theme is to upgrade, and automate whatever we can. For example, a selective transclusion template for use in intro sections could really help a lot, by allowing editors to specify an excerpt from an article. As transclusion always displays the current version from the article, the excerpts would never grow stale.

One thing I'd like everyone to chip in with is updating the main list of portals by adding the missing entries which are listed on its talk page (instructions are included there).

Well, this WikiProject looks like it will be a fun and interesting collaboration. I look forward to working with you.

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   13:01, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

The Transhumanist: Sorry for the delay, I registered my name. --Mhhossein 14:27, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   14:43, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject update, April 22, 2018

Thank you for joining the Portals WikiProject.

Here's our first project-wide update. I hope you enjoy it...

Reboot

The WikiProject reboot has been a success: the new re-envisioned project is up and running, with new members, ongoing discussions about automation, design, and upkeep; maintained task queques; and updates to members, like this, the very first one!

The RfC

As you know, there's a proposal to delete all portals. It started out looking pretty dismal for portals, with primarily posts supporting their demise. It turned out that the proposer didn't post a deletion notice on the very pages being nominated for deletion (a requirement for all deletion discussions). Once that was done, a flood of opposition came in and has apparently turned the tide.

RfCs generally run for 30 days. It started April 8th, and so it has about 14 more days to run its course.

The more work we can do during that time on the portals, the stronger the reasons for keeping them will be. And the more prepared we will be for any MfDs that follow the closing of the RfC.

AWB?

You may be wondering why we asked for AWB experience in the member-sign-up list.

We are gearing up to do maintenance runs on the entire set of portals, and the more people we have who can use AWB, the better.

But we're not quite ready to start this yet.

To be able to use AWB on the portals, we first need to know what the end result needs to be. Like on the news sections, do we comment out the out-of-date ones, or do we place the code to activate the newsbot on those pages? That would require an assessment of WikiNews and its news generating performance (areas covered, volume in each area), etc.

You can help us figure this out at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Portals#Discussions about news sections.

Another area we're gearing up for, to do passes with AWB, are upgrades to the intro sections of portals. Many of these have static (copied/pasted) excerpts that go stale over time.

We're trying to figure out how to make self-updating excerpts to replace the existing static excerpts that are on many portals, and once this is done, AWB will be used to place the new code. See the discussion on this at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Portals#Discussions about selective transclusion in intros.

"What can I do?"

There are 3 major areas of activity right now:

Update the main portal list at Portal:Contents/Portals

There are a few hundred existing portals that are missing from this list.

The list of missing entries, and instructions on what to do, can be found at Portal talk:Contents/Portals#These are not listed yet.

We need everybody's help on this. It's a big chore for one persons. But, many hands make light work. Please help chip away at this chore as much as you can. A little each day, form all of us, will get this done pretty quick.

Familiarize yourself with the portal system

In addition to browsing the portals in the 2 lists mentioned in the section above, you should take a look at the portal name space itself and what is in it.

That can be done at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Portals#Watchlist.

Join in on the discussions

There are discussions on many aspects of the WikiProject's operations, with more to come.

Such as about the purposes and functions of portals, design discussions, and so on.

There's even a automated design discussion over at Village Pump Technical, on selective transclusion.

I hope to see you on the talk page.

What's coming?

In addition to the automation efforts mentioned above, we will be looking into how to automate the selection and display of alternating excerpts, and alternating pictures, for the various portal sections.

Watch for these discussions on the Wikiproject's talk page.

Summing up...

Get ready, get set, go!    — The Transhumanist   14:43, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

i commend

your recent edits, but pls read FYI: my postings here. You cannot cite RT and refer to the broadcast of 18 April as it is factually incorrect: the report was not by RT, but by the Rossiya-24 channel.Axxxion (talk) 20:06, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

The original video can also be watched here: you can hear Arabic there, if you are an Arab-speaker.Axxxion (talk) 20:12, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Rise and Kill First

On 24 April 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rise and Kill First, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that according to Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman, Israel has carried out at least 2,700 assassination operations in the 70 years since its founding? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Rise and Kill First), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Portals WikiProject heads up, April 27, 2018

We now have 52 members, and more are joining daily.

New and easier way to handle excerpts

Attention portal maintainers!

There's a new template to improve existing and new portals, called {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.

It is a lot easier to use than copying and pasting text from articles, as it displays the paragraphs you specify automatically for you.

It makes excerpts so that they are always current and never go stale or fork.

It is more powerful than it looks, because it has the Lua Module:Excerpt supporting it.

Be careful, as it is alpha software. Please notify the WikiProject talkpage of any problems you come across.

To give you a sense of the reaction this template is generating, here is an excerpt of a discussion thread from the WikiProject's talk page:

• This new template is fantastic. I've added it to the intro sections of the portals on Australian cities (eg P:PER) and it works brilliantly. My compliments to its creators. It can probably also be used in other sections of many portals (eg "Selected article" and "Selected biography"), and, for that reason, will probably make the task of maintaining portals a great deal easier. Bahnfrend (talk) 09:02, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

  Thank you for being so brave. Portal:Adelaide/Intro just got a lot simpler! Certes (talk) 10:43, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Kudos on a wonderful template.    — The Transhumanist   03:27, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

This is amazing stuff. I'm going to get to work on using it on the selected content at most of these portals very soon. WaggersTALK 13:40, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

The RfC

I wrote a comment in the the April 26 section of the RfC explaining what we are up to. I liked the excerpt above so much, that I went back to my RfC posting, and inserted it.

Please add Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Portals to your watchlist

Wish list

What's this? An old oil lamp. It's so dirty, I think I'll polish it...

*poof*

Whoa! Are you a WikiGenie? In that case, I get 3 wishes!

I wish...

1. ...that Portal:Contents/Portals becomes up-to-date.   (The missing entries are listed on the talk page, with instructions).
2. ...the WikiProject to have Article Alerts.   ({{WikiProject Portals}} templates have already been placed on all portal talk pages).
3. ...that Portal:Cricket becomes a shining example of portal excellence.   (It was the main example of a crappy and unmaintained portal at the RfC).

Please make my wishes come true. See you around the portals!    — The Transhumanist   08:02, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 May newsletter

The second round of the 2018 WikiCup has now finished. Most contestants who advanced to the next round scored upwards of 100 points, but two with just 10 points managed to scrape through into round 3. Our top scorers in the last round were:

• Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with three featured articles
• Iazyges, with nine good articles and lots of bonus points
• Yashthepunisher, a first time contestant, with two featured lists
• SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with seventeen good topic articles
• Usernameunique, a first time contestant, with fourteen DYKs
• Muboshgu, a seasoned competitor, with three ITNs and
• Courcelles, another first time contestant, with twenty-seven GARs

So far contestants have achieved twelve featured articles between them and a splendid 124 good articles. Commendably, 326 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2018 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met; most of the GARs are fine, but a few have been a bit skimpy.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:10, 1 May 2018 (UTC)