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Other neat portal ideas for longer term
- Longer term ideas to think about from other portals:
- 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.
- Model intro with some rotating images, after Portal:Oregon, Portal:Indiana, Portal:Iceland/Intro and Portal:Philosophy of science/Intro.
- Revamp DYK sections w/ free-use images, model after Portal:Criminal justice and Portal:Oregon.
- 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.
- 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="REFNAME">{{Harvnb|LAST|YEAR|p=PAGENUMBER}}</ref>
See models at The General in His Labyrinth and Mario Vargas Llosa. Cirt (talk)
More at Misplaced Pages:Harvard citation template examples. 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)
Thanks
Thanks for deleting my bio from Misplaced Pages; and I mean that sincerely. I agree that I am not in any way noteworthy enough to warrant my own wikipedia bio. Keep up the good work! Steve Dillard —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sladillard (talk • contribs)
MAOR KATZ
OHAI. UR USERPAGE IS BELOW THE MINIMUM KAT QUOTA. I SUGGEST ADDING THIS:
KTHX BYE. Ceiling Cat (talk) 02:26, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
- IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE "KTHX BAI". –Juliancolton 02:30, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
THANK YOU FOR THE PUPPY YOU LEFT ON MY TALK PAGE. HE WAS VERY TASTY. Ceiling Cat (talk) 18:31, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
- Julian, don't blame
RaulCeiling Cat for a mistake like that - it's not his fault that he is getting old... ;D Allanon 00:51, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Merry Christmas!
flaminglawyer is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Don't eat yellow snow!
Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:Flaming/MC2008}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
- Thank you! Cirt (talk) 04:56, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
- I Congratulate this day to you. Can you please clarify your idea here.--Seyyed(t-c) 06:00, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
- Can you please tell us other problems. God wiling I'll correct footnotes at the end.--Seyyed(t-c) 03:56, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
- I Congratulate this day to you. Can you please clarify your idea here.--Seyyed(t-c) 06:00, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Nice one....
...now I can't upload the proper version of "Josh on the range.JPG". What the hell were you playing at? CHEERS! Traumatised (talk) 11:58, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
- I am not sure I follow, I believe your "version" was actually vandalism. Cirt (talk) 12:07, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
- Eh? I was reverting the vandalism! Traumatised (talk) 12:09, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
- Oops! Must have been the cache :S Traumatised (talk) 12:12, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
- Eh? I was reverting the vandalism! Traumatised (talk) 12:09, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
User talk:123.2.123.220
Can you explain why you blocked this IP for abusing multiple accounts? Xclamation point 18:48, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Bête blanche
Hi. I just noticed we were both doing something about "Bête blanche" at the same time - you deleted the page and blocked the user, by coincidence I simultaneously protected it against recreation. Just raising this so to avoid any impression I was cutting across your handling of it. Sorry if it appeared that way. Euryalus (talk) 21:23, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
- No, that's, fine. Thank you. :) Cirt (talk) 21:26, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Carroll Pickett/GA1
Thank you for your comments on Talk:Carroll Pickett/GA1. I do not know if this article will ever make it back to GA nomination, primarily due to Google- and primary- sourcing issues and the fact that the only interesting parts of his life are related to his work in the prison system and as an anti-death-penalty advocate, but I do plan on improving the article where I can. Your comments on criticisms is well-taken, but in my research I didn't find much in the way of criticizing him per se. The fact of the matter is, he's notable but not famous. Outside a book and movie tour earlier this year, his recent national press has been in specialized publications, not mainstream media. If his level of notability means there is unlikely to be criticism and unlikely to be more than token mentions of his life prior to then, does that mean it's impossible to meet the good article criteria #3 and 4? Also, you don't like links to Google archives for paper-form publications. I don't understand why this is a problem. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 03:05, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
Article renaming vandalism
I noticed you cleared my complaint about the article renaming by User:Monarchians. Doesn't someone need to change all those names back? It's creating tons of double directs. He renamed one article Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, The Princess Royal of Thailand. It's no one's idea of good style to put the same title both before and after the name. Kauffner (talk) 06:50, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
Agudath Israel Etz Ahayem GAR
Thank you for your thorough and helpful GA review of Agudath Israel Etz Ahayem. Jayjg 02:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- No worries. Cirt (talk) 02:33, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Portal:Theatre selected article
Note that Augustan drama is no longer featured, so you may have to remove it from the selected article section. Dabomb87 (talk) 22:14, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Done. Thanks for the heads up. Cirt (talk) 00:27, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
- No problem. Thank you for all that you have done to keep the Featured Portal process alive. Dabomb87 (talk) 00:44, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
Re: User talk:Mk college marketing
Sounds good, thanks for letting me know. –Juliancolton 16:14, 22 December 2008 (UTC)