User talk:Cirt

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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

Citation model

The Simpsons (season 3)

Body text in-cite

<ref name="REFNAME">[[#LASTNAME|LASTNAME]], p. PAGENUMBER</ref>

References section

(reference template from WP:CIT)

*<cite id=LASTNAME>REFERENCE</cite>

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)

Razzies progress

• 15th Golden Raspberry Awards through 29th Golden Raspberry Awards = reformatting process done.
  • Note: Going to have to go back and model these after the modifications made subsequently to 29th Golden Raspberry Awards.
• 29th Golden Raspberry Awards - so far only one expanded with sourcing research. (WP:FL)
• Razzie Award for Worst New Star = reformatting process done, next to use Talk:Razzie Award for Worst Picture as model to reformat other pages in Category:Golden Raspberry Awards by category (with subsection breaks by decade)

Cirt (talk)

The Simpsons

Hey just wondering if you are still working on these? CTJF83Talk 05:42, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the update. See [1]. Cirt (talk) 17:27, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Aww, ok :( CTJF83Talk 17:31, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

From User talk:151.50.177.40

Thank you. Now I'm Andrea.Rho (talk) 10:52, 28 August 2009 (UTC) ! =) --

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Say Cirt I'm having a mini-issue with Ixag who is obsessed with some minor unreferenced material in the Creedence article, and keeps replacing my deletions. No biggie but I don't want to get flagged for edit-warring. Thanks! Jusdafax (talk) 19:50, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Warned user. Cirt (talk) 19:56, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! Jusdafax (talk) 20:44, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

No probs. Cirt (talk) 20:45, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Help regarding how to proceed with an article with multiple issues

Hi Cirt,

First of all, thank you for welcoming me when I joined earlier this month!

Can please give me some pointers about how to proceed with an article that has multiple issues? Specifically, So_Far_Gone_(Mixtape), which I noticed when patrolling recent changes. The main issues are:

• The largest section of prose in the article (first paragraph of the 'background' section) is directly lifted from the source (which is cited, FWIW), so I tagged thae article w/ some copyright problem tags.
• All three of the references are actually blogs, though it's not obvious without actually following the links and looking at the sources. Reference #2, which is the one that has a large passage directly lifed from it, probably is an acceptable source because it's a blog associated with a published magazine (Complex magazine); the other two references, as far as I can tell, are "true" blogs.
• The infobox lists many reviews, but no references to the actual reviews, and mostly has internal links to the Wikipedia pages on the periodicals that supposedly published the reviews.
• The article could possibly benefit from some level of protection. Reviewing the edit history, there are many IP edits, which obviously wouldn't be a problem in and of itself, but the majority of the edit summaries contain few or no informative comments about the edits. A fair number of edits have been reverted and undone, so it seems there could be an edit war going on.

There are a few less important issues (confusing use of "mixtape"; need for improvement of some of the writing; need for disambiguation from the album by the same name and same artist), but the above issues are really what I could use some guidance about.

If one or two of these issues existed in isolation, I'd know how to proceed, but there are so many issues happening here that I don't the best way to proceed.

Thank you, Hananekosan (talk) 00:26, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, Cirt, for the quick and helpful reply. I will see what I can do about these issues, one by one. Have a great weekend! Hananekosan (talk) 02:39, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk

Hey there, Cirt! I noticed that you claimed the article at WP:DOH/TOPIC; however, it hasn't been touched since February 2009...If you don't intend to work on it anytime soon, do you reckon I could work on it? I just rented out the Simpsons season 3 DVD with the commentary, and, if I don't finish the article within the week, I can't do the Production. If you will do the article, just tell me, and I won't bother you :P Thanks for your time. Cheers, I'^mperator 00:48, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Howsabout you start off working on the Production part of it, and we can go from there? Cirt (talk) 00:49, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Sure. I'll get working this instant :P Cheers, I'^mperator 00:52, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

[2] You want to help write the rest of the article now? I'll help :D Cheers, I'^mperator 02:05, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Okay I will get on research for the Reception section. Cirt (talk) 11:31, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Scientology

Cirt, in keeping with your administratorial tasks I noticed that you keep removing edits on a Scientology topic that call into question the validity of arguments and statements made on the behalf of scientology. In keeping with your impartiality in never using your authority to gain an advantage in a dispute in which you as an administrator are involved, I wonder if you remove the edits out of your love for this insidious money making cult? (Scientology) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gold333 (talk • contribs)

If you are referring to your disruption at the article Dianetics, I made it clear to you at your talk page that I removed your edits because you inserted wholly unsourced information, multiple times. Cirt (talk) 05:38, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Did You Know question

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Thanks, Cirt (talk) 05:10, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

"Recent Death" templates

I'm reverting a number of your additions of "recent death" templates as they're not appropriate. Bobby Robson's death was on 31st July, not, according to the {{Recent death}} template "recent" (the template documentation states "It is intended for appear for a few days only my emphasis, and is subject to removal if it still appears seven days after its posting."). The death of Robin Cook some four years ago is certainly not "recent". I may remove the template from other articles as well. Regards, Tonywalton ^Talk 22:17, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

The Robin Cook was an oversight, my mistake. Feel free to remove those that you feel are past the need for the template. There was, however, no need for the bolded emphasis in your posting. Cheers, Cirt (talk) 22:25, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

I find emphasis tends to counteract TLDR ⚔ Cheers, Tonywalton ^Talk 22:27, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

I would have understood your post just as well without the bolding, and it would have come across in a much more polite, kind and warm demeanor without it. Something for you to keep in mind for next time. Cheers, Cirt (talk) 22:29, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Dully noted. Tonywalton ^Talk 22:30, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Cirt (talk) 22:31, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Protection of "current" templates

I noticed that you fully protected a few current event templates. I don't really see how they can be considered to be "highly visible templates", tho, since they're usually used on less than a handful articles at times. I don't see how protection is necessary in that case. --Conti|✉ 16:17, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

The articles that the templates are used on are most often highly trafficked during that time period. Cirt (talk) 04:28, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

I highly doubt that. That may be true for articles that use Template:Current, but not for those templates that you protected. Noel Gallagher, LCROSS or Kokang people are most certainly not one of our most highly trafficked pages. Not to mention that these templates have existed for years without ever having been vandalized. --Conti|✉ 08:16, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

If the issue is raised at WP:RFPP, I'll defer to review of another administrator there. If they wish to keep the protection, fine, or if they wish to change it, I won't object. Cirt (talk) 08:23, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Alright, I've filed a request there. --Conti|✉ 09:06, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

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Thanks, Cirt (talk) 05:10, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

One of your actions is under discussion at WP:ANI

Please see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:dreamshit blocked for username violation - review please for details. Regards SoWhy 11:11, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Commented: [3]. Cirt (talk) 13:08, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

DYK for List of UFO religions

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Looking for insight

Was the block of this ip a mistake? I'm not seeing a point, so I figure I must be missing something. If I didn't ask, I'd just miss a learning opportunity. Thanks. -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 23:50, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

My mistake, unblocked. Thank you for pointing that out. Cirt (talk) 23:52, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rick Levine

Ciao, Cirt. Any objections if I restored Rick Levine and redirected it to The Cluetrain Manifesto? It's a plausible redirect term, and the history might be useful elsewhere or in future. Regards,  Skomorokh  11:08, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

I'd rather not. The AfD was relatively recent. Cirt (talk) 12:58, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Bill Dawes

Hello!

Would you mind restoring this article to my userspace, please? This actor easily passes WP:ENTERTAINER but the article lacked proper sourcing. It would make it much easier for me to tweak the existing info and source it properly rather than to re-write from scratch.

Thanks! Big Bird (talk • contribs) 13:41, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

 Done, see User:Big Bird/Bill Dawes. Cirt (talk) 18:01, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

BeyondRelations

User is requesting unblock, a chance to change username and promising to edit in a non-promotional area of interest. Any comments? Daniel Case (talk) 14:24, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

"Diego Lucio Rapoport"

I have not been around since this article been marked for deletion and I have just started to develop and improve the article. What is this timing of yours to delete, now! --Webmaster6 (talk) 19:03, 2 September 2009 (UTC)