Portal talk:Geology

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Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   14:54, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

Why delete?

Why has the portal been cleared?--Yasnodark (talk) 13:42, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

@Yasnodark: Some editors consider many portals to be "junk" and are systematically nominating them for deletion, or simply replacing them with redirects to related portals with a broader scope. There are long and sometimes heated discussions on this matter in WT:WikiProject Portals and several other forums. Certes (talk) 14:02, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

Certes! But this contradicts the decision of a large-scale discussion here, has now been closed (as of 23:43, 12 May 2018), They made an absolutely unequivocal decision to save the portals. An absolutely unequivocal decision was made to save the portals, more than 300 users voted. And most opposed the removal of portals.--Yasnodark (talk) 14:11, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Mass-created portals based on a single navbox for the bigger picture. --woodensuperman 14:44, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

As stated in the MfD, the basic argument is that the portal is redundant because the reader can get a similar effect by opening up articles listed in {{Geology}} and {{Geologic Principles}} and searching through recent DYK and ITN pages. Other reasons for deletion include the creator's identity (though a formal ad hominem rationale did not gain consensus) and several arguments generic to all portals such as being a navigation aid rather than content. Certes (talk) 15:15, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Mass-created portals based on a single navbox was closed as "The result of the discussion was: delete. No prejudice against creating properly curated portals." So, there was no prejudice against the creation of a new portal that is not based solely upon a single navigational box. At that deletion discussion, the premise was based upon portals that were "based on a single navbox". At the time, a user developed a copy-paste template that would instantly create a portal from one nav box. Wikipedia users disagreed with that, and so this and many other portals that were created as such were deleted. This portal was not created as such, and so, is allowed to exist, per the "no prejudice against creating properly curated portals" clause. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:51, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Something is wrong with the scripts, "expired"

Hi! I wasn't sure who to ping about this, but this portal appears to have some errors with the scripts, I'm seeing several large, red texts which say "The time allocated for running scripts has expired." Ds-sg (talk) 22:43, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

@Ds-sg: Thanks for the warning. The errors have gone away at the moment, but the portal takes 9.843 seconds to render and the messages will reappear if it takes over 10 seconds, which seems likely at busy times. Terrickisaiah555 or Northamerica1000, can you think of anything slow that we can cut out without losing too much content? Current timings are 3.931 s Transclude_files_as_random_slideshow, 2.737 s Transclude_linked_excerpts_as_random_slideshow, 1.967 s Transclude_selected_recent_additions, 1.208 s other stuff. Certes (talk) 01:06, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

I removed the random geology pics, which brought the geologists up to the top. Hopefully this will speed it up a bit and help get some of the bios on the geologists improved as well. Terrickisaiah555 ^[T]/_[C] 04:49, 28 August 2022 (UTC)