User:Cirt/sandbox

Other neat portal ideas for longer term

Longer term ideas to think about from other portals:

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.
Model intro with some rotating images, after Portal:Oregon, Portal:Indiana, Portal:Iceland/Intro and Portal:Philosophy of science/Intro.
Revamp DYK sections w/ free-use images, model after Portal:Criminal justice and Portal:Oregon.
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.
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
Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Main Page Featured Portal drive
Portal:Freedom of speech

Note to self - tools and templates

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.

More at Wikipedia:Harvard citation template examples.

And Template talk:Harvard citation no brackets.

Notes and Footnotes example, from First Amendment to the United States Constitution

Template:Columns-list
On using "via" field in citations = WP:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT

GA Review tools

Wikipedia:Good article nominations/templates
Template:GATable
Template:GANOH
Template:PGAN
Template:FGAN
If significant copyvio concerns --> Wikipedia:WikiProject Copyright Cleanup
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

Helpful TFAR links

Signpost notes

Draft page

User:Cirt/485 U.S. 46 (1988)

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

Note to self -- intersection of

yields:

List of awards and nominations received by Arrested Development - promoted 11 September 2012.
List of awards and nominations received by The Bill - promoted 8 November 2010.
List of awards and nominations received by Carnivàle - promoted 1 November 2008.
List of awards and nominations received by Lost - promoted 26 March 2008.
List of accolades received by Miami Vice - promoted 11 August 2012.
List of awards and nominations received by The Simpsons - promoted 26 October 2007.
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)