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Sports and Games

Definitely needs it's own section. I've just tried to find Gliding by coming down from the top and its impossible. If you work back from Gliding you get to Category:Air Sports and Category:Sports_by_type and Category:Sports, but nowhere near a portal. The whole structure of portals appears to be isolated from categories. --Impeachable (talk) 09:11, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Messianic Judaism

There is already a link to messianic judaism in the Christianity section. Why is there also one in the Judaism section directly under it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.222.219.78 (talk) 23:27, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

I removed the duplicate from the Christianity section (hopefully that was the correct choice :) -- Quiddity (talk) 20:06, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Portal: Renewable energies

Hi, I'm new to Misplaced Pages, don't shoot the noob ;)

The Renewable energies portal is listed in the page and indeed has a page but the links inside this page send back to a page saying that there is no such portal. Same if you try to embed the portal icon in an article. I don't get it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gregory Dziedzic (talk • contribs) 22:16, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

• I'm not sure what was the problem but seems to be working now. --Elekhh (talk) 06:00, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

The Maclean Brothers

The MacLean Brothers are a rising Canadian rock quartet formed in 2008 by Paul, Travis, and David MacLean (sons of the late, popular musical comedy duo MacLean & MacLean) with singer/songwriter Michael Vermeylen.

The band is currently based out of Winnipeg, Canada, where they have earned the reputation of packing clubs to capacity.

In March/April 2010 the band embarked on their first Asian tour performing in Japan and South Korea where they were featured in a full photo shoot spread for the Korean pop culture magazine “Groove Korea”.

In January 2010, Michael Vermeylen, the group’s frontman, recorded a music video for Kab TV entitled Brand New World which is now in regular rotation on Channel 66 in Israel.

The band has shared the stage with Guess Who frontman, Burton Cummings, who is slated to collaborate with the group’s three brothers in an upcoming musical project entitled “M3C”.

The MacLean Brothers are currently working on an EP produced by Chris Burke-Gaffney of The Pumps and CBG Artist development (whose former clients include multi-platinum artist Chantal Kreviazuk and Mcmaster & James) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.77.234.214 (talk) 04:01, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Introduction is too far down the page; portals as a better alternative to "random article"

I think the introduction to portals should come first on the page, instead of starting with a slightly off-putting list of links that takes up half the page.

Also, that introduction as it stands does not mention an exciting new use case of portals, more important than serving as an introduction and editing help: They can act much like the "random article" button, but with more control about the topic covered. The "random article" link seems to be surprisingly popular among readers of WP who are just bored, so pointing them to portals as a better alternative might make sense.

To back up my point, I'm quoting from a blog that shows the problem with lacking awareness of portals:

It was my intention to base my posts off of the first random article generated by Misplaced Pages. But some of them are maybe a little too random. To demonstrate, I am going to write down the subjects of the next ten articles I find:

(...)

None of those subjects really stood out to me as something I would like to dedicate a post to. Perhaps I'll record things that I'm interested in and would like to research anyway. I imagine much of it will be nutrition/health related...

So the above guy obviously did not find the Health and fitness portal! I don't know if the usability study has looked at awareness of portals among readers, but I think they are missed easily because the links are in the header ("Welcome the Misplaced Pages") where most people probably ignore them.

Perhaps the main page needs a "Still bored?" link after the dynamic content boxes with added suggestions such as portals. --Morn (talk) 13:03, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

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