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

• MakeRef

independent reliable secondary sources

• User:Citation bot/use

• {{findsources}}

Cite templates

<ref>{{cite book| last =  | first =  | authorlink =  | coauthors =  | title =  | publisher =  | year =  | location =  | page =  | url =  | doi =  | id =    | isbn = }}</ref>

<ref>{{cite news| last =  | first =  | coauthors =  | title =  | work =  | language =  | publisher =  | page =  | date =  | url =  | accessdate =  }}</ref>

<ref>{{cite journal|last =| first=| authorlink=| coauthors=|title=|journal=|volume=|issue=|page=|publisher=|location = | date = | url = | doi = | id = | accessdate = }}</ref>

<ref>{{cite web| last =  | first =  | authorlink =  | coauthors =  | title =  | work =  | publisher =  | date =  | url =  | format =  | doi =  | accessdate =  }}</ref>

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>

Different model

• 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.

More info. Cirt (talk)

More at Wikipedia:Harvard citation template examples.

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)

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)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Petrolsoft Corporation

I was wondering if you could look at this an offer an opinion. - Stillwaterising (talk) 16:15, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, would rather not. Perhaps I could close it at some point later. -- Cirt (talk) 17:27, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

I wonder if you could consider yourself truely neutral considering I'm a primary contributor? - Stillwaterising (talk) 13:01, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Nod, in that case, might be best to avoid participating, in either regard, especially since you asked me to, in a post to my talk page. -- Cirt (talk) 18:51, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for article protection

Thanks for this edit on Maria Anastacia Keogh[1]. Now I can sleep peacefully. Smile. Piano non troppo (talk) 09:54, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

You are most welcome. :) -- Cirt (talk) 04:15, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

DyK

{{trout}}

For letting File:Luna damas-romanas.jpg get on the main page for over an hour unprotected. β^_command 12:32, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

I thought a bot takes care of those tasks these days. -- Cirt (talk) 17:48, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

There was at one point but its been down for ages. β^_command 00:18, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Not worth a "trout", you could have just politely informed me of that fact. -- Cirt (talk) 04:14, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Help

About a week ago, you blocked IP 71.60.108.14 from vandalizing Days of our Lives related articles. Now he/she is back at it, adding ridiculous unsourced wrong speculation to many, for example Adrienne Johnson Kiriakis. Your assistance is again required to put a stop to this. Thank you very much. Rm994 (talk) 15:14, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Best to post it to WP:AIV. -- Cirt (talk) 04:14, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

When I did that, they told me it was a content dispute. I disagree. It's someone adding unsourced wrong information to many articles, as well violating the biographies of living persons policy. Thanks. Rm994 (talk) 04:27, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

In that case, try WP:ANI. -- Cirt (talk) 04:30, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Ok, thank you :) Rm994 (talk) 16:04, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

The Marriage Ref

You're welcome. The only hard part was to figure out where to say something, there was so much complaining all over the entire discussion page. There were any number of places where I could have pretty much said the same thing I did. Sergecross73 (talk) 16:09, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, that is understandable. -- Cirt (talk) 04:14, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Request

Hello Cirt. Can you userfy the deleted articles Dungeon Demo into User:White Shadows/Radiohead demos for me? I'm thinking about getting all of these deleted/redirected demos into one properly sourced article. Thanks!--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 18:50, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

The same goes with Shindig Demo and Woodworm Demo.--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 18:52, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

 Done. -- Cirt (talk) 19:01, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you ;)--White Shadows ^{you're breaking up} 19:12, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

You are welcome. -- Cirt (talk) 19:15, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Battlefield Earth screenwriter apologises

Well worth a read! [2] Let's figure out how to work it into our article... -- ChrisO (talk) 07:44, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Reactivate article on David C. Lewis (Spiritual Teacher)

I missed the discussion on deleting the article on David C. Lewis (Spiritual Teacher). I am requesting that this article be reactivated so I can improve its content and bring it up to standard regarding the requirements for notability. David C. Lewis has many accomplishments that were not sourced or even mentioned. I can rectify this shortcoming. --Ketuwatcher (talk) 13:16, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

I would suggest you work on a draft proposed version to argue for WP:NOTE, within a subpage of your userspace. -- Cirt (talk) 16:47, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

OK. Where can I find the text of the David C. Lewis article that was deleted? --Ketuwatcher (talk) 18:34, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

 Done, now at User:Ketuwatcher/David C. Lewis (Spiritual Teacher). -- Cirt (talk) 18:37, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Self-replicating machines

Thanks for putting a semi-protect on Self-replicating machine - that's a good call because the article keeps getting changed by socks of banned User:Fraberj. But were you aware that you protected it just a couple of minutes after one of those IP's reverted it back to the "bad" version of the content?

I know it's only semi-protected, so I could fix this myself - but I didn't want to do that if you had deliberately intended to choose that version.

I would recommend rolling back to the last version by Daedalus969.

Thanks for looking into this sorry mess. SteveBaker (talk) 13:32, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

You can fix it. -- Cirt (talk) 16:47, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hello, I was wandering if you could help me This user has gone through all of Mariah Carey's articles and inflating all the sales to unrealistic levels, it's annoying having to go through and deflate them after, I've left around 10 warnings, can you issue a block please, thanks. Jayy008 (talk) 16:28, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Please, use WP:AIV for this. -- Cirt (talk) 16:48, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip! can you tell me why it's "red" when it's reported and says (page does not exsist) is that something I've done? Because all of them are the same Jayy008 (talk) 16:59, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Done it, thanks in advance. Jayy008 (talk) 17:07, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Free Speech, "The People’s Darling Privilege"

On March 29, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Free Speech, "The People’s Darling Privilege", which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 22:46, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

The Kate Kennedy Club

Dear Cirt, I write with reference to your recent deletion of the article on The Kate Kennedy Club. This is an article that I would greatly like to see restored in the light of the significance of The Kate Kennedy Club and its activities. The Kate Kennedy Club is renowned as one of the most exclusive gentlemen's clubs in the world, and is referenced in several published books, many other Wikipedia articles, and many articles that have featured in national press. One only has to type the club's name into Google to see its significance in Scotland as a steward of one of the UK's greatest processions, its worldwide reputation as a gentlemen's club, and it's reputation as one of the most active student club's in St Andrews. The Kate Kennedy Club exists to preserve the Kate Kennedy Procession which dates back to the 15th century. This Procession remains a key feature of the calendar of both the town and University of St Andrews as a result of the Kate Kennedy Club. Furthermore, the club remains committed to its three aims, and is one of the most active clubs at the University of St Andrews. This is highlighted by the many events that the club organises for the benefit of the St Andrews student population including the two biggest balls in the country. Furthermore, the club is renowned as for its charitable works, giving away approximately £15,000 to charity every year, Finally, The Kate Kennedy Club is renowned as one of the most exclusive gentlemen's clubs in the world (according to wikipedia, among other sources!). Numerous other gentlemen's clubs and societies have articles devoted to them on Wikipedia - eg. the Pitt Club, The 16' Club, the The Strafford Club etc. I see this as a positive thing in the light of the interest they attract, but so many of these club's have considerably less history and are also considerably less active than The Kate Kennedy Club. All of this goes to show that The Kate Kennedy club is more than significant enough and attracts enough interest to merit its restoration on Wikipedia. Many more secondary sources can be added to the article to add to its credibility and further verify it, and I do hope that this can be done after its restoration. I look forward to discussing this issue with you further, and seeing the articles restoration soon. Sincerely. Rdg22 (talk) 23:56, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

I would suggest you work on a proposed draft version, within a subpage of your userspace. -- Cirt (talk) 15:55, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Family Guy Terminator Parody

Hi,

I'm not sure how to cite the omission but it's definitely not in the UK boxset. Perhaps you could buy a copy and check for yourself? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Riksweeney (talk • contribs) 07:10, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

That would be WP:OR. -- Cirt (talk) 15:55, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

OTRS-related help

While deleting images in the subcategories of Category:Wikipedia files with unknown copyright status, I encountered File:JimWilliamsAuthor.jpg, which has a tag saying that OTRS received a permission email that was insufficient. Is it proper to delete images with insufficient OTRS emails without first recording the OTRS ticket number? I've never encountered this situation before, so I'm sorry to have to ask what might be a simple question. Nyttend (talk) 13:41, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Lost Star Productions

I ran across this today and it looks like it is supposed to be deleted after an AFD... maybe got moved? LilHelpa (talk) 13:54, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

 Done, thanks. -- Cirt (talk) 15:54, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

100,000 milestone

Here is a cheer to you Cirt, you have reached your 100k edit milestone! (*gasp* OMG!! 100 thousand?? 0_0) Congrats in making it so far and thanks for your time and valuable contributions! Best regards, —Terrence and Phillip 14:52, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, -- Cirt (talk) 15:55, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for the speedy block of that user. Also, is there a Wikiproject for movies? I was thinking like with songs, there could be a chronology on films for the lead actor. Jayy008 (talk) 17:31, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

A query

Hardly would have considered that "Disruptive". I mean uh, the list DOES contain primarily the names of Celebrities, so why must that be disruptive to you? Tolas of Brand (talk) 19:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Human subject research legislation in the United States

You may find my newest DYK of interest. Any comments much appreciated! --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 16:33, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Actress Maria Anastacia Keogh

Uploaded image from Imdb Can we upload direct from imdb ? http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3460263/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by DramaIreland (talk • contribs) 18:28, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Congrats!

Congrats! — Hunter Kahn 14:07, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

2 IP vandalizing pages

Hello Cirt. Thank you for semi-protecting the page Black January due to excessive vandalism by 76.191.230.178 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) who also went on rampage on related pages April 9 tragedy and Jeltoqsan pushing pro-Soviet POV and removing sourced data. Whenever, he's not editing and leaves off, an IP user 207.151.38.178 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) picks up on the same pages, pushing the same information. Both have had numerous warnings not to vandalize Wikipedia pages but these individuals keep on doing that. Could you please look into that? Tuscumbia (talk) 15:09, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for The Road to Total Freedom

On April 2, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Road to Total Freedom, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 06:02, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Talk:Blown for Good/GA1

Please see and respond to the notes on the article's review. Nice work.Cptnono (talk) 04:07, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Thomas M. Ashe

Why did you delete this page???? I want a full explanation.