Other neat portal ideas for longer term

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

Note to self - tools and templates

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independent reliable secondary sources

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

See models at The General in His Labyrinth and Mario Vargas Llosa.

More info.

More at Wikipedia:Harvard citation template examples.

And Template talk:Harvard citation no brackets.

GA Review tools

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  1. Wikipedia:Good article nominations/templates
  2. Template:GATable
  3. Template:GANOH
  4. Template:PGAN
  5. Template:FGAN
  6. If significant copyvio concerns --> Wikipedia:WikiProject Copyright Cleanup
  7. Neat stats at User:GA bot/Stats.
{{subst:GANOH
|well written = 
#Thank you very much for your efforts to contribute to Quality improvement on Wikipedia, it's really most appreciated !!!
#'''NOTE:''' Please respond, ''below'' entire review, and not interspersed throughout, thanks!
#'''Suggestion:''' This suggestion is '''optional''' only, but I ask you to please at least read over the ''[[Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations/Instructions#Reviewing|Good Article review instructions]]'', and '''''consider''''' reviewing two to three (2-3) [[Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations|GA candidates from good articles nominations]], for each one (1) that you nominate. Again, this is '''optional''' and a '''suggestion''' only, but please do familiarize yourself at least with how to review, and then think about it. This is a way to help out the Wikipedia community by reducing our GA Review [[WP:BACKLOGS]], and a form of ''[[paying it forward]]''. Thank you !
|accuracy = 
|thorough = 
|NPOV = 
|stability = 
|images =
|closing comments = '''NOTE:''' Please respond, ''below'' entire review, and not interspersed throughout, thanks!
}} ~~~~
===GA Review pending===

#Thank you very much for your efforts to contribute to Quality improvement on Wikipedia, it's really most appreciated !!!
#'''NOTE:''' Please respond, ''below'' entire review, and not interspersed throughout, thanks!
#'''Suggestion:''' This suggestion is '''optional''' only, but I ask you to please at least read over the ''[[Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations/Instructions#Reviewing|Good Article review instructions]]'', and '''''consider''''' reviewing two to three (2-3) [[Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations|GA candidates from good articles nominations]], for each one (1) that you nominate. Again, this is '''optional''' and a '''suggestion''' only, but please do familiarize yourself at least with how to review, and then think about it. This is a way to help out the Wikipedia community by reducing our GA Review [[WP:BACKLOGS]], and a form of ''[[paying it forward]]''. Thank you !

{{subst:GATable}}

'''NOTE:''' Please respond, ''below'' entire review, and not interspersed throughout, thanks! ~~~~

FA writing tips

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  1. User:Yannismarou/Ten rules to make an article FA
  2. User:Yomangan/A bastard's guide to writing a featured article
  3. Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Academy/Writing a featured article
  4. Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-02-18/Tutorial
  5. User:Dweller/Dweller, on Featured Article Candidates
  6. User:Giano/A fool's guide to writing a featured article
  7. User:Tony1/How to improve your writing
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  1. Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests
  2. User:Bencherlite/TFA_notepad#Going_just_by_the_numbers...
  3. User:Bencherlite/TFA notepad 2013
  4. Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/pending
  5. Dream by Gerda Arendt
  6. Wikipedia:WikiProject Quality Article Improvement/TFA
  7. Wikipedia:WikiProject_Quality_Article_Improvement#TFAR
  8. Wikipedia:Featured articles that haven't been on the Main Page
  9. Wikipedia:Featured articles that haven't been on the Main Page/Date connection
  10. Wikipedia:Today's featured article/emergency
  11. Wikipedia:Today's featured article/recent TFAs (WP:TFAREC)
  12. User:Dweller/Featured Articles that haven't been on Main Page

Signpost notes

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Draft page

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Draft page for outline and adding info. — Cirt (talk) 17:30, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Possible quality improvement project collaboration with Wehwalt. — Cirt (talk) 20:30, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Television series: List of awards and nominations received by - FL quality pages

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Note to self -- intersection of

yields:

  1. List of awards and nominations received by Arrested Development - promoted 11 September 2012.
  2. List of awards and nominations received by The Bill - promoted 8 November 2010.
  3. List of awards and nominations received by Carnivàle - promoted 1 November 2008.
  4. List of awards and nominations received by Lost - promoted 26 March 2008.
  5. List of accolades received by Miami Vice - promoted 11 August 2012.
  6. List of awards and nominations received by The Simpsons - promoted 26 October 2007.
  7. List of awards and nominations received by The Vampire Diaries - promoted 8 January 2013.

Lists to look at for future modeling and research. — Cirt (talk) 03:23, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Added promotion dates. — Cirt (talk) 04:59, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
Most recent promotion from above list is List of awards and nominations received by The Vampire Diaries - promoted 8 January 2013. — Cirt (talk) 05:02, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Having stumbled here from

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Cirt (talk) 19:57, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Research and resources help

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Quality improvement project notes

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Archiving web pages notes

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Note to self: essay to improve further

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  • User:Cirt/Gutting (might be a longer term project over time, received lots of good input so far)

Moving files to Commons

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Article history - copyediting

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DIFF. — Cirt (talk) 03:15, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Interesting essays

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