User talk:Cirt

AFD/T • T-7 • 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)

Note to self - Court cases

• Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
• Brandenburg v. Ohio
• Cohen v. California
• Cox v. Louisiana
• New York Times Co. v. United States
• Gitlow v. New York
• Edwards v. South Carolina
• Hustler Magazine v. Falwell
• Jacobellis v. Ohio
• Jenkins v. Georgia
• Joseph Burstyn, Inc v. Wilson

---

• Gideon's Trumpet
• Guilty by Suspicion

Cirt (talk)

Four award

You may be eligible for this new award.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:27, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

You have high standards and contribute very effectively on the editorial side. I appreciate your work. Keep it up.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 16:25, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

I see you are nominating people. Are you just looking for one for each person or do they only have one. I think you are suppose to ask for one award for each eligible article that you create.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 16:07, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Advice requested

I noticed while watching recent changes that a user refactored a post left on the AN/I board. I was on my way there to let someone know and saw that you had already reverted the edit. I also read your edit summary. Is this a fairly safe rule to go by? I am asking because I see it frequently on the recent changes and I usually revert when it's as overt as the example referenced here. Any pointers you can offer would help. Reply here or my page. Thanks. Tiderolls 12:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Bale Out Review

It'll probably be a few more days. Remind me again on Friday if you don't hear from me? Sorry for the delay.. Scartol • Tok 14:54, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Four Award

		Four Award
		Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work all through on Getting It: The psychology of est.

♠TomasBat 20:17, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

talk page protection

No need for this, [[1]], he was already reblocked with no talk page, [2]--Jac16888^Talk 15:45, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

HTML help

Hi, Cirt. The banner for the WP:MUSICALS project has a problem. On some articles, it displays the project's to-do list, which should be condensed with a hide/show button. See, for example, Talk:Hair (musical) - the banner takes up a huge amount of space. Unfortunately, the guy who used to help with HTML at the musicals project has not been active on WP for over a year. Can you compress the to-do list? Thanks for any assistance! BTW, I am sending H.M.S. Pinafore for peer review and after I give it a couple of weeks, I'll go forward with the FAC. Best regards, -- Ssilvers (talk) 16:28, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Oops! So sorry. To paraphrase a former President, my brain misunderestimated the issue. -- Ssilvers (talk) 16:35, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Re:Portal updates

Hey, good point that you contacted me. On my talk, Lvklock left me some more road images along with St. Joseph's Church in Camillus NY. The church pics can go on the Joseph M. Champlin article. Anyway, I'll see.Mitchazenia :  Chat  Trained for the pen 19:12, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

User:Yashveer r

I looked at all his edits and found a few that weren't reverted. Now everything he touched has been cleaned up. But why did you block him for only 24 hours? He is certain to start up his mischief as soon as the block expires. 67.79.157.50 (talk) 13:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

67.79.157.50 was right. As soon as the block expired, Yashveer r was at it again and vandalized 22 articles. They have been reverted but surely he will continue. For some bizarre reason he keeps listing filming locations under studio in the infobox among his other changes. Since he refuses to respond to messages he obviously intends to keep doing this. He should be blocked indefinitely. 209.247.22.166 (talk) 13:44, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Please Y'self

• Please note article recreated. Thanks--Paste _{Let’s have a chat.} 16:04, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

It is nominated for deletion again at [3]. LargoLarry (talk) 19:15, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Looks like result was Speedy delete. Cirt (talk) 01:38, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Damien (South Park)

Hey Cirt. Right now, the FAC for Damien (South Park) seems to be hung up solely on the image rationales for the infobox image and the Omen comparison image. If the Omen picture has to go, I can live with that, but I can't see justifying cutting the infobox image. I'd appreciate it if you could go to the FAC to voice your support if you think the images work, or to provide me with some feedback on how they can be fixed if they aren't. (Of everyone who has criticized so far, nobody has provided any helpful feedback yet). It's over here: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Damien (South Park)/archive1. Thanks! — Hunter Kahn _(contribs) 21:54, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Re: 1985 Rajneeshee assassination plot RfC

Hi, Cirt. I saw your note about this on the WikiProject Crime talk page. Before I decide whether to make a comment, I'd like more information about the dispute. It appears the initial discussion occurred on April 16. The talk page includes no other discussions between then and April 23, when the RfC was posted. Have the involved editors sought other forms of dispute resolution? Thanks, momoricks (make my day) 04:41, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Sure thing, I'm almost always happy to provide my two cents. :) I checked out more of the disruption history for the article and added it to my watchlist. Best regards, momoricks (make my day) 06:42, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Seahouses Festival

Hello - regarding the Seahouses Festival article - I understand that this page should contain factual verifiable information and that is what I am endeavouring to do. I do not want it to sound like a promo for this particular event but it is necessary that it should contain legitimate verifiable facts about the festival, as a useful addition to the 'festivals' subject area in general. I will present the information without hyperbole or unsubstantiated embellishment. The information on this page will hopefully feed into other subject areas which deal with Northumbrian culture. I would be grateful if you would not delete the page so hastily. Coverage in independent sources is available and can be added to the article. Seahousesfestival (talk) 14:33, 23 April 2009 (UTC)