User talk:Cirt

AFD/T • T-5 • AFDO • AIV • RFUB • UAA • RFPP • PER • CSD • AB • FAR • FAC urgents • TFAR • Google Search Requests for adminship and bureaucratship update No current discussions. Recent RfAs, recent RfBs: (successful, unsuccessful)

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="REFNAME">{{Harvnb|LAST|YEAR|p=PAGENUMBER}}</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 Wikipedia: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: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-07-21/Dispatches, Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-04-07/Dispatches, Wikipedia:Wikipedia 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)

Sideshow Bob

Hi Cirt, if you have the time, would you mind taking a look at the Sideshow Bob page (which is a FAC)? You were recomended on the talk page as a copyeditor. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 21:33, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Okay I will take a look at it. Cirt (talk) 04:42, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Great, thank you. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 16:18, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: Heads up

Hmm, I didn't know Qst gone on holiday. Let's temporary take his name off for now, and reinstate it when he requests for it again. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 02:45, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Just to let you know, he can be reinstated without going through community again because he didn't lose it as a result of loss of trust. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 05:56, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Done. Now should we start working on the Wikipedia:Featured portal review backlog? (P.S. Off to bed) OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 06:00, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

We could make the "notification of WikiProject" an requirement as part of the nomination process. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 15:27, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure if we're on the same page. I am referring to the process of removing featured portals (FPRC), not the featured portal review (FPR). I just don't like the two-stage process because it's bureaucratic and effectively making people voting keep or remove twice. We will never get the number of the nominations nor the traffic of FAR. So while we try to implement a similar scheme as the FAR but we have to accommodate and change it that is suitable for us. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 15:38, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Opinion requested

Regarding: this edit. Pdfpdf (talk) 12:03, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

I think I'll stick with my initial choice. Cirt (talk) 14:47, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Holiday Parade

In October you deleted the Wikipedia article Holiday Parade. I have new information that will pass WP:MUSIC. Please let me know how we can proceed.--Baselineace (talk) 04:15, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Protecting images on the main page

There is no need to protect local images used on the main page as the cascading protection will get it. Just FYI. - Rjd0060 (talk) 16:35, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Can't hurt to be extra cautious. Cirt (talk) 17:19, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

I suppose not. It's just effectively pointless. shrugs - Rjd0060 (talk) 17:20, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

See the instructions at the top, while editing T:DYK... Cirt (talk) 17:23, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Sunday Magazine Editors Association

On January 24, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Sunday Magazine Editors Association, 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.

Dravecky (talk) 18:10, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Citizen's Briefing Book

On January 27, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Citizen's Briefing Book, 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.

Dravecky (talk) 10:25, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Dropa

Whether fact or fiction, Wikipedia contains information in both genres. The article may have been subjective and suggested that the account was a fact but what was the basis of the deletion discussion? Other articles of the same content are being deleted by you. Why are they being deleted? Thank you.

-Rosetta