Portal talk:LGBT

Talk

This looks really good. I don't have any experience with portals and wonder where and how we should link up the LGBT notice board? Now that there is a Wikiproject, a notice board and a portal, there seems to be some overlap. -- Samuel Wantman 22:41, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• The portal is like a front page for readers who are interested in a LGBT encyclopedia. The Notice Board is for editors interested in all LGBT articles. The Project is for editors interested in making LGBT articles WP:FA quality. Davodd 23:43, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Yes, and along those lines, I have proposed moving the notice board to a subpage of Wikipedia:Wikiproject LGBT studies. Discussion is here. -- Samuel Wantman 01:39, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Portal tag code:

This code: {{Portal|LGBT|Gay flag.svg|50px}} will add the below portal box to an article:

Template for adding a new Portal section

{{/box-header|**ADD TITLE OF SECTION HERE**|{{FULLPAGENAME}}/**ADD TITLE OF SECTION HERE**|}}
{{{{FULLPAGENAME}}/???}}
{{/box-footer|}}

The above code may be cut-and-pasted to add new portal section to this portal or future sub-portals (in case L, G, B or T are full enough o be sub-portals). Davodd 23:59, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Dana International

A user several times reverted the article Dana International claiming that the singer is male because one cannnot change one's gender. I find the claim awkward as the singer is always refered to as a she. Can anyone have a look at the discussion on that talk page? What is the common practice around Wikipedia? gidonb 21:28, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Category:LGBT culture by country?

I noticed Category:LGBT culture in Canada listed in the LGBT Category side-bar. A quick look on Google shows Category:LGBT culture in Norway, Category:LGBT culture in the United Kingdom, and Category:LGBT culture in Scotland. Does anyone object to putting these into an over-category of Category:LGBT culture by country? Or should these be added to the sidebar as is? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 15:14, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

The execution photo is quite graphic and grim and has been up for quite a while now. Can it be changed, please? - GilliamJF 11:37, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Category:Transgender

I note that the entire Transgender spectrum has been omitted from this portal.

If I add the entire TG tree, it'll probably double the length of the categories box. It would also take some time to do!

I don't know if it's possible to effectively transclude the subcategories section of Category:LGBT into here but this would seem a better way of approaching this, as it would avoid the need to maintain a static list of sub-pages, which will inevitably end up taking large amounts of time to maintain or ending up uot of sync as the categories change. If it is possible, this would allow the hide/expand functionality to provide a more compact view.

Alternately, should we include only a link to Category:LGBT in the portal? --AliceJMarkham 03:12, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

I think the categories are needed there, and in any case, what to replace them with? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 17:47, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Change sidebar?

Do you think it would be easier, if not tidier, to change from categories to an extensive list of topics instead? The topics will never change, whereas the categories might. See Portal:Disasters for an example. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 19:07, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

I've been a bit bold and changed the Portal colour scheme. How does it sit with everyone else? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 19:28, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm partial to purple, so it sits fine by me. :-) Jeffpw 20:20, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Now THAT'S Purple! I LOVE it! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 01:09, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Question about my new function

As a new Portal maintainer, I wanted to know how much of the article needed to be put into the preview on the Portal page. I had only put the lead in, basing my decision on how the Today's Featured Article is done. I see that Dev changed it. I don't mind, and have no preference, but wanted to know if there was a guideline to follow. Jeffpw 21:42, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

So far as I know, there is no actual guideline, but the TFA usually has a massive lead section. Even then, though, it has to be adapted to stand as a mini-article in its own right. What I've done to both your and SatyrTN's articles is to expand it using info from the rest of the article so 1) it is a decent size, about three paragraphs, and 2) so that it contains a bit more information that LGBT readers would like to read, to find out more. It's difficult to explain, and I apologise for muscling in on your territory, as it were, but I'm sure you can see the improvement. Maybe some sort of portal guideline should be put on the guideline list? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 21:49, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Oh, no need to apologize, Dev. I thought my additions looked a bit anemic, but I was afraid to add more than just the lead. So now I know :-). And yes, some guidelines might be a good idea. Being bold is good, but being bold in a directed, thoughtful way is even better! (and I will never forgive Brangelina)Jeffpw 22:04, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

I've found some sort of guidelines on the FP pages, but also some weird thing about articles which seems kinda worrying, so I've asked Kirill Lokshin for advice. I'll let you know once I've worked out what's going on. And I will never forgive Evilston. :) Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 22:36, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

I was going for shorter (two paragraphs), though like Dev, I picked out material I thought would interest LGBT readers. I see y'alls point, though, that three paragraphs might be better. I will (probably) never care about either one! :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 01:12, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

OK, I went and checked out this Portal thing, and it looks like we need to keep archives of articles and pictures we've rotated. We need to maintain, say, an archived list of the past thirty items we've displayed. I think that's how it works, anyway. Someone else might want to go check. I'll go set one up now for pictures. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 23:19, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Where would this archive be located? Coincidentally, I was just looking at the Portal article, and when I checked the history page of the portal, my change wasn't listed there. Where would that be? There has to be some record of the change somewhere, in a place so anal retentive with such an eye for detail as Wikipedia. Jeffpw 23:23, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

The archives are located at "Portal:LGBT/Previous whatever". I've created archives for both the quotes and pictures. The reason your edit hasn't shown up on the portal is because the portal only hosts transcluded pages. What you've done is edited the transcluded pages, so your edits will show up in those histories, not on the portal page itself. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 23:51, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Have you just created it? Because I looked in Portal:LGBT/Previous article, and came up blank. I am changing the article again tomorrow, and don't want anything to get lost, since I know the archive is necessary to bring the Portal to featured status. Jeffpw 23:58, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I haven't created an archive for articles, I've created archives for the pictures and quotes, which I've linked to from the main page. You can see them there. I didn't create Portal:LGBT/Previous articles because articles is your job, and I don't want to tread on your toes. I'm trying to hold myself back and let other people do stuff in the project. :) Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 00:04, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

gotchya. I'll use your example for the article archive, starting tomorrow. Jeffpw 00:06, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Portal guidelines.

Just as a reminder to everyone, the Portal is to showcase our best work. When selecting items for the portal, please ensure they are high-quality. See Wikipedia:Portal/Guidelines for more on Portals. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 23:54, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Though the guidelines don't mention it (that I saw), images with WP:FU tags may not be used. They are deleted by a user from both portals as well as the Featured Article Request pages. Just an FYI. Jeffpw 00:01, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

I figured, they don't let you use FU images anywhere other than the article itself. I learnt that when I tried to add FU images to stub blurbs. I made sure all the pictures I've been using all come from the Commons anyway, so I didn't have to worry about that. :D Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 00:07, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Looks good!

I just wanted to complement y'all who've been working on updating the portal. It looks good! Aleta 21:24, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Category section.

I just overhauled the categories list, trying to keep it to the broadest categories only two subcategories deep. This is also to help make room for a section on LGBT topics. I hope this is OK with everyone. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 13:12, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Article section

Looking at the portal page, it looks like its main focus is on the term "LGBT", rather than on LGBT issues. Seems off-balance. Dfeuer 08:01, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

• I haven't a clue what this means. Could you elaborate? Jeffpw 16:52, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

I think I understand, Jeffpw. If you look at the top section, the section titled, "The LGBT Portal", of the portal page, it explains the term LGBT and gives a brief history of the terms used for LGBT people. It looks as if the protal is about the *words* rather than topics/issues dealing with LGBT people. It is rather misleading. The rest of the page, however, is indicative of the range of topics covered by the portal. Aleta 19:42, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, I only added stuff that I found in the article. Anyone is welcome to change it if they like to better reflect LGBT issues. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 20:22, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

I added a little welcome paragraph for new users, explaining what the Portal is. Hope it's ok, and feel free to polish it if you feel it's too rough. Jeffpw 21:39, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to reply so late... I was going to suggest replacing some of the info from LGBT with info from Queer studies, Queer theory, LGBT social movements, Homosexuality, Bisexuality, and Transgender, but I fear that list is a bit on the long side, and still leaves many things out (AIDS, Intersexuality, LGBT rights opposition, et alia). I wonder if it might be more useful to simply cut out all but the first paragraph, and then try to give some kind of structured index to LGBT-related articles, probably including brief descriptions of each. Dfeuer 02:30, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Quick Look

Hey, I only had time to give the main page a quick look, but here are a few things:

• The flag in the intro doesn't need a frame and such.
• The intro seems alittle long, try trimmin just a bit. Trimmed. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 07:20, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
• Photos in selected article doesn't need frame such as well.
• The way the cats box is set up, seems like <categorytree> would work better.
• The biographies seem a bit long.
• The news section needs an archive if it was found outside the wikis.
• Lists box doesn't need "List of".
• And you need a {{browsebar}} on the bottom.
• If there is only gonna be one quote in the box at a time, it should be "Quote" not "Quotes".
• And a related portals box is missing. Not sure which one's you can add, but should find atleast a few.

Other that that, I didn't see much else out of place. I'll be able to look into further in a couple of days. Glad to see this portal is getting so much attention. Joe I 04:11, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

• I've created and added a related portals box. Also added a {{browsebar}} to the bottom. WJBscribe 17:41, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Ticked items sorted. WjBscribe 14:26, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Want to run something by y'all

5 days ago, I made SS marriage in Spain our Portal featured article. I was wondering if anybody minded if I left it up another week, as it just attained featured status. My plan was to then change to The Well of loneliness the following week, and the article about the Imperial Courts after that (that will give me time to format the refs on that article). Thoughts? Objections? Praise? Jeffpw 20:47, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

You couldn't have found a better way to get my attention than that summary! And I don't mind at all with that plan :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 21:27, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, Satyr. Just trying to plan ahead. We have an embarrassment of riches to choose from at the moment. I'm really proud of how our Wikiproject has developed in the last couple of months. Jeffpw 21:50, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, you wouldn't think we were almost dead in the water three months ago, would you? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 21:58, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Great. :) Might I suggest (if it's not too much of a bother) that the lead that is currently at the portal be updated to the final FA version in that case? If it's not too much work! :) Cheers Raystorm 17:02, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Over-infoboxification

A creeping issue on Wikipedia is evident in the Freedom to Marry article and the Lambda Legal article - over-infoboxification. On these articles 2e have an LGBT portal box, an LGBT Rights box, and an LGBT Queer studies box. Why do we need three boxes for what arguably is the same topic? I think these should be combined into one box - many of the same topics are covered in the latter two boxes. These boxes are vying for space on relatively short articles, displacing images of the subjects/concepts, and, generally, junk up the page. One infoxbox is not so bad - but three? --DavidShankBone 18:15, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

What has this to do with our portal? You might want to leave a message here instead. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 18:22, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Image:World homosexuality laws.png

I like this map a lot, and think it might be good to make a permanent part of the portal. Perhaps it could go above Categories and under Quotes, or to the left of Quotes (if we make Quotes a half-size column). Just a thought. Koweja 02:36, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

the map is good but has one mistake: in Austria is until now no civil union or domestic partnership in austrian law. 212.95.99.29 14:40, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Various edits

I'm updating the various components of the portal (some of which haven't been touched since February), and playing around with some minor structural changes while I'm at it. The page is sufficiently neglected that I'm just being bold and bypassing discussing these -- but this is my first time working with portals, so I'm learning as I go. Fireplace 01:21, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

One question I will throw out... does anyone object to a Selected Article/Bio/Picture system that picks a random item from a list, rather than leaving a single article to sit and get stale for 14 days before updating it? Fireplace 01:25, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Summary of changes I've made: Added new selected article, bio, and picture; added "Suggest" links for new selected content; rewrote intro. Thoughts for later: randomizing selected content, merging the categories/lists/topics windows into a single section (current version is cluttered generally doesn't give a clear picture of the layout of the pages within the scope of the project), expanding the "Things you can do" section into something meaningful; removing the "Web resources" section (seems ridiculously arbitrary, and not something anyone is likely to use anyways). Fireplace 02:20, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, people's accounts are active and I've heard no objections, so I'll just get cracking. Fireplace 14:11, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I've hit everything I mentioned above and more. Basically, to update the portal with new selected content, you just add an extra page copying the formatting of the others, and increment the templates on the portal page so that it knows it can grab an extra article. Alternatively, list the content (article/bio/picture) at Portal:LGBT/Nominate and I'll do it for you. Fireplace 17:26, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Missing Article

• searching for an article over Robert A. J. Gagnon, can someone write it ?212.95.99.29 14:42, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Gift

Gift from Poland :-) Grzegorz Wysocki 19:49, 23 May 2007 (UTC)