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About Portal:Ashura which you have marked for manual maintenance

Hello,

I have noticed that you marked the portal Ashura 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:

1. Update the date to December 2018 if you have and are continuing to maintain the portal.
2. 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:Ashura. If you have questions about this message please {{ping}} me about it. Thanks and happy editing, Dreamy Jazz 🎷 23:39, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Voting now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards

Voting for our annual Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards is open until 23:59 (GMT) on 30 December 2018. Why don't you vote for the editors who you believe have made a real difference to Misplaced Pages's coverage of military history in 2018? MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:17, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Portals update #024, 26 Dec 2018

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 Misplaced Pages's flagship portals (those listed at the top of the Main page).

So far, Portal:Geography, Portal:History, and Portal:Technology have been revamped. Of course, you are welcome to improve them further.

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.

To spot redirects easily, you can make them all appear green.

What's new in portal space?

Keep 'em coming!

And I'll see you next issue.

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   08:10, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Portals update #025, 30 Dec 2018

We can now crop the tops of pics to make banners

Before, we could only cut off the bottom of pics.

User:FR30799386 has pulled it off, and made the upgrade to {{Portal image banner}}...

So, this:

Becomes this:

Here's the code for the above banner:

{{Portal image banner|File:American Falls from Canadian side in winter.jpg | ], from the Canadian side |maxheight=175px |overflow=Hidden|croptop=10}}

To see it employed in a portal, check out Portal:Niagara Falls.

About that end of the year goal...

We were racing against time to create 5,000 portals by the end of the year (just for the heck of it).

We made it. We've passed the 5,000 portals mark, with time to spare!

And the 5,000th portal is Portal:Major League Baseball, by Happypillsjr.

Congratulations!

What's next?

The 10,000th portal mark. But...

...there is plenty else to do in addition to building new portals:

1. The new portals need to be linked to from the encyclopedia.
2. On those portals about subjects that are not typically capitalized, the search parameters need to be refined/expanded, to maximize the chances of Did you know and In the news items being found and displayed.
3. A Recognized content section needs to be added to each portal that has a corresponding WikiProject.
4. Addition of a category on those portals that lack a subject category.
5. Implement the portal category system, adding the appropriate categories to each portal.
6. Upgrade, and complete (as per the tasks enumerated above), the old-style portals that are not regularly maintained, which have not been converted yet (about 1,100 of them).
7. Find and fix the remaining bugs in the underlying lua modules.
8. Build portal tools (scripts) to assist in the creation, development, and maintenance of portals.
9. Build a script to help build navbox footer templates, via the harvesting of categories, amongst other methods.
10. Update the portal building instructions.
11. Update the portal guideline.
12. Refine the programming of the portals to reduce their load time.
13. Design and develop the next generation of portals and portal components.

And whatever else you can dream up.

But most of all, have a...

Mhhossein, thank you for your contributions to the Portals Project, and have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year.

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   12:05, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

Arun Luthra

You tagged Arun Luthra for copyvio-revdel; are you sure? The oldest web capture of http://sweetsoulsound.com/ at archive.org is dated 20 August 2013 while the alleged copyvio content exists on the Misplaced Pages article dating back to 2010. It is possible that sweetcoulsound is (an unattributed) mirror of the Misplaced Pages article not the other way round. Nthep (talk) 19:46, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

Nthep: Many thanks for the notice. I'll address it within some days. --Mhhossein 07:11, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup!

Hello and Happy New Year!

Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup, the competition begins today. If you have already joined, your submission page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and we will set up your submissions page. One important rule to remember is that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2019, and which you have nominated this year, is eligible for points in the competition, the judges will be checking! Any questions should be directed to one of the judges, or left on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will make it to round 2. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:14, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Death of Mohammad Habali

Hello! Your submission of Death of Mohammad Habali at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Joseph2302 (talk) 19:55, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Controversial page moves

Please read WP:RM and understand how to proceed with renaming pages into titles that may be considered controversial by others. The talk page discussion support the current article title without "alleged", please start an RM discussion if you still want to change it, do not make unilateral changes to the article. For now I have restored the previous title. thanks. --DBigXrayᗙ 12:35, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the note. However, please note that "controversial" shouldn't be mistaken for "I don't like it". My move was just in accordance with the sources. The current one is POVishly misleading! --Mhhossein 07:53, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Your move may be based on sources, but it is "potentially controversial" . And someone did oppose the move here, so it is considered controversial. so steps listed at WP:RM#CM has to be followed. The right process in this case would be to restore the article title back to the original title and then start an RM discussion. Accordingly I had restored the title back. I see that you have already started an RM discussion, based on my advice. That is a good thing. Lets see how the discussion goes. accordingly the page may be moved or kept at the present location. In future if you suspect someone can oppose your page move, it is always better to start an RM discussion and gain consensus or else it may be reverted back as undiscussed controversial page move after being reported to WP:RMT for a revert. thanks. --DBigXrayᗙ 00:38, 26 January 2019 (UTC)