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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.

Cirt (talk)

Re: Misplaced Pages:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/CloseAFD.js

Re your message: I imagine that it can be done, but I'm not the maintainer of the script. I would recommend that you talk to Johnleemk as he wrote the original script. I can probably make the changes, but it is often better to have the original author make changes than a third party and the original author will understand things better than I would. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 23:44, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Re your message: Sure, I can give it a try. It might be a few days until I can get it working. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 21:10, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Re your message: I was faster than I thought. =) You will need to add

importScript('User:Gogo Dodo/CloseAFD.js');

to your monobook.js replacing the import of the current script. The script should automatically figure out that you are not an admin and put in the non-admin closure as appropriate. It doesn't add it to the Talk pages for "no consensus" and "merge" since those should not be non-admin closures. In addition to the non-admin stuff, I cleaned up some of the code and now it does the proper thing should you cancel or not answer the prompts. Anyways, give it a try and see how it works for you. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 23:46, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Re your message: No problem. You should be able to try it out on any live AfD as it does not save automatically. I didn't want to alter the behavior of the script too much and surprise editors that are using it by automatically saving. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 00:04, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Re your messages: I added the links in. You'll need to reload the script to pick up the changes. I checked the procedures at WP:NAC and step 1's example shows "(non-admin closure)" in it. I also looked at a couple of live non-admin closed AfDs and they are all in the AfD itself. You're right about the oldafdfull. I fixed that. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 00:19, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Re your message: I'm glad that it works. I'll probably wait a day or so before replacing the live copy so you can test it a bit more and I can mull over the changes to make sure I didn't make any mistakes. I can't say I've watched that show. Obviously, I'm partial to a different cartoon. =) -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 00:36, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Have you had any issues with the script? I'd like to push the changes out and delete my fork. Though Mr.Z-man has come up with a script that pretty much supersedes any need for the update. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:02, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Re your message: I've updated the main copy. Once you change your monobook.js, I'll delete my forked copy. Mr.Z-man's script is fully automated, while this one is not. I believe it also does all of the Talk page notifications automatically instead of you having to track it down. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 07:19, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Re your message: Like I said, a day late and a dollar short. But, oh well. =) I don't think that replacing the script would be a good idea since they behave so radically different. Once Mr.Z-man finishes his script, I can make a note in the documentation that the old script is deprecated and recommend that the new one be used. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 16:01, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

List of new religious movements

Thank you for protecting this page, a wise move, especially to deal with the disruption coming from external sources. Cirt (talk) 20:54, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

You're right, however it's locked because of a blocked user who might be tempted to come back, rather than anything coming from enturblation.org. It seems that a lot of people have (proven!) claims that they've been subject to systemic abuse by Scientology, and I don't want an edit war starting. I feel this issue will become more of a battleground between those who have been abused and those who belong to the Church - tensions will run high, and I don't want them spilling over onto the article! Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 20:59, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for your support in my recent RfA, which was successful with 58 support, 4 oppose and 1 neutral. Kind regards. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 21:33, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations! Cirt (talk) 21:35, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Re: Guru of Sex

I've restored the film section in its entirety. It should not have been whittled away. I'll keep an eye open and see if it needs to be a matter of community discussion. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 22:57, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

We shall see about that. :) Hope all is well. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 23:02, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Note to self

• Template:Citation
• Template:Harvnb
• Example: <ref name="Castro3">{{Harvnb|Castro-Klarén|1990|p=3}}</ref>

See models at The General in His Labyrinth and Mario Vargas Llosa. Cirt (talk)

Category:Fictional works by L. Ron Hubbard

Could I convince you to replace this instead with Category:Works by L. Ron Hubbard? That's the form that all the other categories within Category:Works by author take, which are further subcategorized not by fiction or non-fiction but by the form of the work, such as novel, short story, essay, etc. Furthermore, "fictional work" sounds not like it's about works of fiction, but rather about fictional works depicted within real works of fiction. If you could create Category:Works by L. Ron Hubbard and then move all the articles over there, I could just delete Category:Fictional works by L. Ron Hubbard without the trouble of a CFD rename. Thanks! Postdlf (talk) 00:23, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

DYK!

On 3 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Help at Any Cost, 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.

Good job with a DYK and GAN at the same time! --I'm an Editorofthewiki 01:08, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! Cirt (talk) 01:09, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome

Hey, better hearing it from me now than in a GAR later! =D the_ed17 03:46, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

OK

No problem. I think we can just leave this as is now. I realize you weren't the only one talking, I just didn't see why any new discussion needed to be initiated in the first place. Marskell (talk) 10:15, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/WTPRN

Don't forget when you relist an AFD to remove the transclusion from the old AFD log and add it to the log on the day you relist it. Stifle (talk) 14:05, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Relisting AfDs

Hey Cirt,

I just fixed Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Shuǐshū, an article you relisted. Simply putting the relist template on the page isn't enough--you have to untransclude it from the former log and re-transclude it in the current log. You've done some others like this, too. I haven't fixed them yet--I need to go offline now--so I hope you'll check out your contribs & fix 'em up. It's a common mistake, so no worries. Thanks for helping out with the AfD backlogs. — Scientizzle 16:28, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

 Done. I think I have addressed them all, though it was very very very slow going loading and saving all of those very very large AfD pages for those different days. In the future it might be helpful to have a script, or better yet a bot, do that. Cirt (talk) 20:30, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for doing that. You're right--I didn't notice that Stifle had already brought up the same issue. I believe there is (was?) a bot in the works that would automatically relist, but I can't remember who was working on it and am unaware of its progress. The tedium of editing those log pages is why I try to do them in bunches. Cheers, — Scientizzle 21:48, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/C9orf3

Hi! I have reversed your non-admin closure of this AfD discussion - we've already had the drama of a deletion review request at Misplaced Pages:Deletion review/Log/2008 September 3 following the previous non-admin closure, which led to the AfD being reopened - I really think it's for the best to let it run it's full course to avoid any further protest. Don't worry, it's pretty clear the article will be kept. --Stormie (talk) 10:14, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for being cool about it, and yep, I figured you probably hadn't seen the previous back-and-forth at DRV. --Stormie (talk) 10:19, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Ignore my last edit

Started writing that before a meeting and it would look like someone's beat me to it. Dpmuk (talk) 10:52, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

No worries. Cirt (talk) 10:53, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

P. M. Pu

Hi, Thanks for your help. I wanted to add one comment but the AfD page was closed before I could. Anyway I added it at the collectonian's talk page. Katzmik (talk) 07:56, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Oregon Portal

Sorry I didn't get back sooner, but as you saw I upped the pic pages and then added one of the noms. I didn't add the other noms since they are my own pics, and I'd prefer some oversight/more than one person agrees they are good for inclusion. So, if have a chance, add or remove. Thanks. Aboutmovies (talk) 09:50, 5 September 2008 (UTC)