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, 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)

6. Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Main Page Featured Portal drive
7. Portal:Freedom of speech

Note to self - tools and templates

• MakeRef
• Reflinks
• Citation tool for Google Books
• Citation tool for DOIs
• Tools, part 1: References, external links, categories and size
• User:Edward/Find link

independent reliable secondary sources

• User:Citation bot/use

• {{findsources}}

Refs inside scroll box

<div class="reflist4" style="height: 200px; overflow: auto; padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #ababab">{{reflist|2}}</div>

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)

Free Speech for Me — But Not for Thee

• Free Speech for Me — But Not for Thee, by Nat Hentoff. Interesting reading. — Cirt (talk) 21:01, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Response

Thank you very much for your clarification. Pendright (talk) 01:25, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Erm, about what, where? — Cirt (talk) 14:27, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Houston portal review

I think all of the issues raised about the portal have been addressed successfully, so I don't think there's anything else that needs to be done WhisperToMe (talk) 07:06, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Wikiversity's ANI?

Do you know where I would go on Wikiversity to address this personal attack? Silverseren^C 21:43, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Does that not count as a personal attack over there then? Silverseren^C 22:23, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Never mind, I read their civility policy. Seems like, yes, it was a personal attack, but that they don't have any avenues of response like ANI for any level of attacks like that and they only advise ignoring it. Seems like the policy is an attempt to ignore the "bad things" that people do and pretend that there's no bad stuff at all. I would have expected Wikiversity to have a more adult response than that, but I suppose ignoring it is for the best.

Would I be within my rights over there to remove the links he gave? All I linked to was a general forum discussion with no attempt to specifically state who the user was, while those links he gave, on the other hand, are specifically about me in other forums. Silverseren^C 23:56, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

It's alright, someone else already removed the comment in question. Silverseren^C 05:28, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Permission to contribute towards a Featured List drive

I'm requesting permission from the Arbitration Committee to contribute towards a Featured List drive on the page I'd created, Dan Savage bibliography (originally modeled after the WP:FL page, George Orwell bibliography).

Request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Amendment#Request_to_amend_prior_case:_Cirt_and_Jayen466. — Cirt (talk) 06:49, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi Cirt, no worries about the support. Of course I'd be happy to act in any capacity (specifically mentor if you require) in order to help you get the best of your list. The Rambling Man (talk) 07:21, 13 April 2012 (UTC)