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Other neat portal ideas for longer term

• Longer term ideas to think about from other portals:

1. Events section, like: "On this day" e.g., Biography, Religion, United States; "Selected anniversaries" e.g., War; "Calendar" at Holidays. Interesting idea of "Month selected anniversaries", at Oregon.
2. Model intro with some rotating images, after Portal:Oregon, Portal:Indiana, Portal:Iceland/Intro and Portal:Philosophy of science/Intro.
3. Revamp DYK sections w/ free-use images, model after Portal:Criminal justice and Portal:Oregon.
4. Portal palettes at User:RichardF/Palettes/Portals. Comparable color schemes can be developed from the various hue lists at User:RichardF/Palettes. Also see Portal:Box-header.
5. If there are a lot of categories, then categories section to 2 columns, like in Portal:Indiana.

   Also take some time to check out style/formatting at Portal:Indiana Cirt (talk)

Note to self

• Template:Citation
• Template:Harvnb
• Example: <ref name="Castro3">{{Harvnb|Castro-Klarén|1990|p=3}}</ref>

See models at The General in His Labyrinth and Mario Vargas Llosa. Cirt (talk)

Different model is used at The Simpsons (season 3). Cirt (talk)

More info. Cirt (talk)

More at Misplaced Pages:Harvard citation template examples. Cirt (talk)

And Template talk:Harvard citation no brackets. Cirt (talk)

Dispatch

Cirt, Awadewit suggested that you might be interested in writing a Signpost Dispatch article on Featured portals (the only area of featured content we haven't covered). Sample previous articles are at {{FCDW}}. We've covered:

• Featured content overview
• Peer review
• Did you know
• Featured lists
• Good articles
• Featured sounds
• Featured topics
• Images
• TFA
• And Featured articles many times: Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/2008-07-21/Dispatches, Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/2008-04-07/Dispatches, Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/2008-10-13/Dispatches

None of them start out looking like that: if an editor initially just chunks in some text, many others chip in to tweak it up to Signpost standards. For example, someone wrote this, which Karanacs, Royalbroil and I turned into this, so if you just chunk in some text as a start, others can help finish it off. Another example, I put in this outline, and Karanacs brought it up to this. Other editors have written almost complete and clean Dispatches without much need for other editing. If you're interested, please weigh in and coordinate at WT:FCDW In case you're interested, you could just begin sandboxing something at WP:FCDW/Portals and pop over to WT:FCDW to leave a note when you're ready for others to help out. Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:26, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Will mull this over and most likely draft something up. Cirt (talk) 11:54, 18 November 2108 (UTC)

Thank you

Your really nice thanks, I enjoy reading your articles how can any one not Interested in cults and such not know you, You really are the king of Anonymous, you have really given so much to Misplaced Pages and so Much Knowledge, you are one of the reasons I found out about Scientology and one of the Major reasons my Senior Project was on Scientology and its misdoings. Your additions to Misplaced Pages are so great that if you decided to blank the front page several times people would say no that guys still cool because he addded 100 times what he deleted (although that might not be the best thing to do) Thanks Cirt you make Misplaced Pages Cool. --Zaharous (talk) 17:35, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for telling Me ill see If I can Comment soon Im a little preoccupied now That guy seriously is obsessed with what he is doing more than I have ever been in Scientology on Misplaced Pages, I have no Idea how to stop these people if you ban them they might just come back in another account. Have you ever wondered if these people such as COFS are doing stuff on Misplaced Pages just to tell their friends that Misplaced Pages is Bigoted and do not believe what they say about Xenu and Operation freakout. I dont Know, I do however think the evidence points to COFS being only a sock puppet along with others however thats just my Novice opinion thanks. --Zaharous (talk) 20:59, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

re: email

Roger that. ←Spidern→ 13:42, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

DYK update question

Hi Cirt. Just to get an easy start I added one DYK to complete Portal:Norway/DYK/43. I came up fine right there, but didn't show up over at Portal:Norway/DYK. How come? I feel kind of hesitant about continuing the updating as long as I don't know why the first attempt did not lead anywhere. Stranger still, when I hit "edit this page" at Portal:Norway/DYK, and then "Show preview" my update shows up just fine. Manxruler (talk) 00:02, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a million, I didn't know there was such a function. All's well now, I'll get on with updating the DYKs. Cheers. Manxruler (talk) 00:30, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

My pleasure, don't mention it. It's good fun. Seems like I've got the hang of it now. Manxruler (talk) 00:39, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Happy Thanksgiving!

I just wanted to wish those Wikipedians who have been nice enough to give me a barnstar or smile at me, supportive enough to agree with me, etc., a Happy Thanksgiving! Sincerely, --Happy Thanksgiving! Sincerely, A Nobody 02:49, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/GC Tooth Mousse

Could you please reconsider your closure of this AfD. I think it is pretty clear that the subject of the article is notable and as only four editors (including nom) participated in the AfD (two of them before my keep !vote which I think cited enough coverage to justify an article), and the only editor to vote !delete after my comment did not address either the study or the other magazine article that I cited but had not yet added to the article. I suggest that you re-list so a fully educated consensus can form. Icewedge (talk) 02:51, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Deletion review/Log/2008 November 27#GC Tooth Mousse. Icewedge (talk) 18:22, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Suspicion

Cirt, I suspect a user to be a sock of a bunch of users/socks you previously blocked. He or she has very similar intrests to User:Last king of Frisia and User:-The Bold Guy- (not just Pier Gerlofs Donia, but the creation of improbable and numerous redirects to it, including an interest in Hans Boskamp, posting to Jimbo's page, making similar statements on their user page , and an interest in Touch the Clouds (edited by Mrlob, the bold guy, and this new editor). This new account wsa created ten days after the previous accounts were blocked. He is also editing unconstructively (in part), adding his name to a number of articles and creating a redirect from his name in main space to his user page. Redirecting Maphia Italya to Touch the Clouds is pure vandalism as well. IS this sufficient to block him, do you prefer a checkuser, or am I imagining things? Fram (talk) 11:50, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

I have now added this to Misplaced Pages:Requests for checkuser/Case/Kermanshahi, which was not yet archived. Fram (talk) 08:23, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

RFAR

--Qwerty612 (talk) 07:55, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

CESNUR RS/N discussion

You may be interested in the debate which is currently taking place here. ←Spidern→ 13:47, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Maschetti

Hi. You closed this AfD as "delete" and zapped Maschetti, but the nomination included two linked hoax articles, Maschetti T and Maschetti TM, which are still lurking around. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 18:17, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Xenu

As said i will change the vote after all issues are sorted, most are which are posted a month ago - 27 October--Redtigerxyz 16:17, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

Hi Cirt: Would you be interested in reviewing (at GA), copyediting, or simply commenting on the article I wrote recently about Nicholas Carr's cover story "Is Google Making Us Stupid?". I would appreciate it.Manhattan Samurai (talk) 19:28, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Best to utilize the WP:GAN process, and/or WP:PR. Cirt (talk) 04:41, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Okay. I'll ask you again when I'm in peer review, which will hopefully be later on this week.Manhattan Samurai (talk) 19:04, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

In appreciation of your fine work

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		In appreciation to your successful efforts in improving the content and character of Misplaced Pages. Keep up the excellent work! Ecoleetage (talk) 22:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much! Cirt (talk) 04:41, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

FPO

A few weeks ago you asked about the bot doing FP candidates again. Given the volume at FPoC, is automation really helpful? Gimmetrow 01:53, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Well, if you really think so, I could try again, maybe starting in January. I have not written any code for FPo review, so that won't be part of the script. Shouldn't be a big problem though - there are what, two former featured portals? Gimmetrow 03:59, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Ping?

Just wanted to mention that I've considerably revised the Scientology beliefs and practices article, which is in dire need of some secondary sources, if you ever get the chance. ←Spidern→ 04:36, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

I will take a look. Cirt (talk) 04:41, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Move Article

Good Morning cirt can you move a deleted article Matt Windman to my sub-page. I would like to take another crack at this one, with a rewrite and more references. Thanks - ShoesssS 12:31, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

 Done. Cirt (talk) 17:51, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Scientology and sex

Would you like to have a go at pruning the primary-source content from the article, or would you rather I had a go at it? Cheers, Jayen466 13:53, 1 December 2008 (UTC)