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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)

WikiProject Films roll call and coordinator elections

It's that time of year again – we're wiping everyone's name off of the active members list and doing a project roll call. Your username is listed on the WikiProject Films participants list, but we are unsure as to which editors are still active on the project. If you still consider yourself an active WP:FILM editor, please add your name back to the Active Members list. You can also add your name to any of our many task forces!

Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 03:52, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Red Hot Chili Peppers Krusty.gif)

Thanks for uploading Image:Red Hot Chili Peppers Krusty.gif. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Misplaced Pages under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Misplaced Pages. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Misplaced Pages (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Misplaced Pages page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 05:11, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Tagged it with {{db-author}} to speed up the process, there are much better images in the article now. Cirt (talk) 07:39, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Films August 2008 Newsletter

The August 2008 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 22:45, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

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)

Mick Woodmansey

Returning to the subject of Mick Woodmansey (who everyone else knows as Woody Woodmansey, although his real name is Mick), the second External link given in his entry http://www.nndb.com/people/503/000091230/ states that his religion is Scientology. Is that, therefore, good enough to give him cats British & English Scientologists? Johnalexwood (talk) 00:33, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Re:Krusty Gets Kancelled

Yeah, I was originally going to wait until the weekend, but I noticed that WP:DOH is at 99 GAs right now, and that's my bid to get the 100th. However, Ctjf nominated When You Dish Upon a Star first, so it will likely become the 100th GA. BTW, could you take a look at Shii Ann Huang for me? An obviously biased person keeps adding unsourced facts to the page and criticizing me of being an unabashed fan of her (when in all honesty I had never heard of her before and when I read the page I found she lacked notability and nominated it for deletion). This user is willing to edit war (at one point violating 3RR) to keep his POV in the article and I was thinking full protection may be necessary. -- Scorpion 02:28, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Leo Ryan

Just to alert you to a statement I made on the Leo Ryan talk page about whether he was the first, and only, member in the Congress killed in the line of duty, whatever that's supposed to mean. I don't see what weight is to be given to Lantos when he speaks in defiance of fact. 71.136.180.66 (talk) 07:01, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Bugoy Bogayan

Hi. As a result of a recent AfD on this article, the decision was made to redirect, and you were responsible for performing this. Checking this morning, I noticed that one of the original article contributors had restored the article over the redirect without having made any substantial changes to the content. Personally, I'd regard this as not following WP guidelines - much the same as restoring an article deleted as a result of an AfD discussion. I've rolled back their edits on the article to your redirect, but would like an opinion as to whether I'm correct. There have been some....err..heated comments from the author(s) about my deletion proposal of this article (and several other related ones - Hansen Nichols, Miguel Mendoza (singer) etc.), so I don't want to be accused of being biased. I also think the author should be warned about this sort of action, but again think that if it came from me, even if worded carefully, it may be taken as a personal attack. I'd therefore appreciate any thoughts you may have about the appropriate course of action to take (if any). :-) CultureDrone (talk) 07:17, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Is there any WP guideline/policy that actually says that this sort of activity isn't appropriate ? I can't find anything lurking in the AfD guidelines. If I could actually point them to something that said either what they shouldn't do and/or what they should actually do, it would make a much better point. (Incidentally, I rolled back rather than undoing as they'd made three edits). CultureDrone (talk) 07:24, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

CloseAfD script

Hi, I'm glad you found it useful! Unfortunately I don't maintain the script anymore - I don't have much time for even editing these days. Sorry, but I hope you still get some use out of it! Johnleemk | Talk 07:41, 2 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)