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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)

Leo Ryan

Let's keep both cites, can't hurt to have 2 cites at the end of a sentence. Also, please don't undo my formatting change - I have worked on standardizing/collapsing the "reiterman" cites so they do not appear numerous times in the References section, and I will eventually be redoing that with {{citation}}/{{harvnb}} - see The General in His Labyrinth for an example of how that will look in the end. Cirt (talk) 21:40, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

The problem with that is that, for the moment, we've lost all of the Reiterman individual page numbers that I've cited for each event, aggregated them into one vague cited Raven ref and are just citing that ref.Mosedschurte (talk) 21:46, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Also, the Singer cite was wrong. The Cessna attack didn't happen first. The Otter attack happened, then the Cessna attack. That's per Vern Gosney now on three different TV documentaries. So I just grabbed the Raven "concurrently" language and dumped the incorrect Singer cite.Mosedschurte (talk) 21:48, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Centaurtopia (not yet deleted)

Greetings! As you were the closing admin for Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Centaurtopia, I thought that I would point out that the article has not yet been deleted, despite the result of the discussion. Thanks. --Craw-daddy | T | 13:15, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Portal peer review

Hey there Cirt, I've noticed you are one of the most active editors at WP:PPREV so I would like to ask you if you could review this portal if you have any spare time. Cheers a lot. Sunderland06 (talk) 21:56, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Okay I will try to take a look when I get a chance. Cirt (talk) 22:07, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

DYK for The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology

On 23 November, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

BorgQueen (talk · contribs)

DYK for The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives

On 23 November, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

BorgQueen (talk · contribs)

Overdue

		King of Pop Award — For getting an article within the scope of the Michael Jackson WikiProject to GA
		A little overdue, the Jackson Wikiproject thanks you for getting The Wiz (film) to GA class. Well done. — Realist 00:21, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Cirt (talk) 00:38, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Slipknot FTC discussion

Since you opposed the Slipknot featured topic nomination, would you mind joining in the discussion at Talk:Slipknot_(band)#Merging_Slipknot_Demo_and_Welcome_to_Our_Neighborhood_into_Slipknot_.28band.29? Gary King (talk) 03:52, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Slipknot_(band)#Merging_Slipknot_Demo_and_Welcome_to_Our_Neighborhood_into_Slipknot_.28band.29 Gary King (talk) 19:44, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Hm, could you explain your oppose to the Slipknot GTC, and do you have a response to this? Gary King (talk) 19:54, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

The discussion there was already closed, by Arctic.gnome (talk · contribs). Cirt (talk) 19:57, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

I mean, please explain how we can resolve the issue. I asked him to close the GTC while I work with those who opposed the nomination so that the topic has a chance of passing the next time it is nominated. Gary King (talk) 19:59, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

I am not sure. Perhaps ask some of the other opposers their thoughts. Cirt (talk) 20:02, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Okay; I already asked him earlier—there's only one other opposer, the same one that you agreed with. Gary King (talk) 20:07, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Anyways, I brought this up because your position seems to have changed afterward; I assume that you are now fine with the two articles as permanently peer reviewed articles in a future topic nomination. Gary King (talk) 20:08, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

I am not sure, I would have to reevaluate at that point in time. Cirt (talk) 20:11, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Even if the exact same nomination was re-submitted? Gary King (talk) 20:12, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes. Cirt (talk) 20:13, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

But you agree that it is acceptable to have two permanently peer reviewed articles in the topic, per your response on Talk:Slipknot (band)? Gary King (talk) 20:18, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

That those articles exist? Yes. That the topic itself should be a featured topic is another matter entirely. Cirt (talk) 20:20, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

This discussion went on longer than it should have because I assumed that you meant from your original message that you were fine with two articles that could never become good articles and still be a part of a topic. Your most recent message has clarified this point, thanks. Gary King (talk) 20:28, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Purge tab Gadget

I noticed your addition of a purge tab Gadget; if you wrote it or understand JavaScript, I thought it might be interesting to compare my personal version of the code, which I think offers a few advantages, such as adding the "selected" class when wgAction is "purge". The code follows.

addOnloadHook(function() {
  if (wgCanonicalNamespace != 'Special')
    {
addPortletLink('p-cactions', wgServer + wgScript + '?title=' + wgPageName + '&action=purge', 'purge', 'ca-purge', 'Purge the server cache of this page', null, (document.getElementById('ca-watch') ? document.getElementById('ca-watch') : document.getElementById('ca-unwatch')));
//and apply the "selected" class, so that one can confirm that the page has been purged.
    if (wgAction == "purge") {document.getElementById('ca-purge').className='selected';}
    }
});

I'm not an expert at JavaScript, so I'd appreciate review, but this might be worthwhile to implement, in whole or in part. {{Nihiltres|talk|log}} 17:10, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

I grabbed it from Meta. Cirt (talk) 17:11, 25 November 2008 (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)

Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming

Just so you know, I plan on listening to the commentary for the episode this weekend so I can beef up Sideshow Bob (which is heading towards FAC soon). If you like, I can make some notes for you as well. -- Scorpion 17:55, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Comet Hale-Bopp

Since you commented on Misplaced Pages:Featured article review/Comet Hale-Bopp almost a month ago, could you read it through again to see whether there are still additional facts needing citation. There is still one {{fact}} remaining and I have some concerns about the legacy section, but other than that I'm more or less finished. Random astronomer (talk) 20:30, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

RfA thanks

		The RfA Barnstar
		Cirt, I would like to thank you for your participation in my recent Request for Adminship, which passed with 112 supports, 4 opposes and 5 neutrals. A special mention goes out to Stwalkerster and Pedro for nominating me, thanks a lot for having trust in me! In response to the neutrals, I will try to double check articles that have been tagged for speedy deletion before I CSD them and will start off slowly with the drama boards of ANI and AN to ensure that I get used to them. In response to the oppose !votes on my RfA, I will check that any images I use meet the non-free content criteria and will attempt to handle any disputes or queries as well as I can. If you need my help at all, feel free to simply ask at my talk page and I'll see if I can help. Once again, thank you for your participation, and have a great day! :) The Helpful One 22:27, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

design by neurolysis | to add this barnstar to your awards page, simply copy and paste {{subst:User:Neurolysis/THOBS}} and remove this bottom text | if you don't like thankspam, please accept my sincere apologies

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/List of ships

In view of the fact that the article changed markedly from the original article I proposed for deletion I believe that your closing rationale requires more than "the result was delete". Please would you revisit your closure and extend your rationale. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 07:04, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

The restoration probably makes the most sense. It may still come out as "delete", which is fine if it does. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 07:13, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Re:List of Congressional Gold Medal recipients

I'm actually not sure, I think the images are formatted so that it is impossible to put them side by side. Besiedes, it would create a lot of empty space (whitespace) in the rest of the rows. I think the best option would be to either stick with three or preferably, just pick one image. Or, if you don't mind sacrificing sortability, you could give each individual winner their own row (see List of Nobel Laureates in Chemistry for an example). -- Scorpion 12:17, 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)

RFAR

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