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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; "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: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)

GA Sweeps

Do you want to lend us a hand? We can definitely take more experienced reviewers onto the sweep team. OhanaUnited 04:53, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

I dunno, what would be involved, how many articles does each editor normally take on in a sweep? Probably I think I'll just stick to occasionally doing a few reviews directly from the WP:GAN page, but I'd like to know a bit more about the sweeps first. Cirt (talk) 05:29, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

You just pick a sub-category of GA and review it, so there's no set amount of articles per editor. It's totally voluntary and you can go at your own pace. Some people reviews fast, some (like me) tends to go slow. OhanaUnited 05:35, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh, but is there like a minimum or average number people review in a set period of time? How long do the GA Sweeps themselves last for? Cirt (talk) 05:36, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Nope, absolutely no set numbers. How long will the Sweeps last for? As long as it takes to sweep those 2808 articles. (We joke around and said it won't be done till 2010.) To be honest with you, this job will never be over. Since GAs get added everyday (at least more than the # being delisted), we're always playing a catch-up game. Up to today, we have 3,587 GAs. Subtract 2808 from 3587 leaves around 700 articles. That means even if we finish the sweeps today, we still have 700 articles that requires sweeping (and from the progress table, it does look like we're finishing this somewhere around 2009 or 2010). When we're finish sweeping in 2009 or 2010, we have to visit those 2808 articles again, in addition to those that aren't swept yet. You can see the complexity and the magnitude of this sweep. Right now I'm playing a time-game, waiting for more editors who are experienced reviewers to sign up as editor on Misplaced Pages, hop onboard and sweep GAs.

We definitely need more people along the way. So you may ask how come I don't open the sweep to everyone. As you know, anyone can review and classify an article as GA. A lot of these articles fall through the cracks and degraded over time but unnoticed for a few years. Only experienced reviews can join, ensuring that articles won't fall through the cracks again. When I invite you, I place my trust in you that you'll make sound judgements and positively affecting the community because this job could have collateral damage (e.g. affecting Misplaced Pages:Version 1.0 Editorial Team or upsetting users along the way because they think we're delist-happy editors). OhanaUnited 06:37, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Well thank you for considering me! But my only question that remains is: Doesn't the idea of the sweeps in some way detract from and/or slow down the amount of reviewing going on at the WP:GAN page itself? Cirt (talk) 06:40, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Since there's only 24 hours a day, it does pull some reviewers from GAN to Sweeps once in a while. I don't know about other reviewers, but I myself haven't done much GAN since summer. But hey, there's more people joining wikipedia everyday. So GAN reviewers quickly replenish (at least faster than sweeps) OhanaUnited

Okay, I'll help out a bit. Now what? Cirt (talk) 18:26, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

OhanaUnited (talk · contribs), I've given your offer a bit more thought, and much as I am very flattered that you'd put your trust in me to offer me this opportunity, I think I'm going to decline at the present time. I'd rather put my efforts into other areas, such as increasing the quality of articles' content, and getting portals to featured status, and other areas. I'll still pitch in when/where I can and do some GAN reviews though. I haven't ruled this out completely, but just not right now. Cirt (talk) 17:26, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I understand. OhanaUnited 18:10, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Disconnection

Thanks for comments on the Disconnection article. I have attempted to deal with the quotefarm issue. Have I done enough? What other copy editing issues are there? MartinPoulter (talk) 18:20, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for dropping by, I'll take another look and comment at the article talk page. Cirt (talk) 18:21, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

I honestly didn't know that barnstar even existed. I just hope I can measure up to it. John Carter (talk) 19:22, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Treehouse of Horror V PR

I've exspanded the lead as best I can. Buc (talk) 20:51, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

I'll respond at the PR. Cirt (talk) 22:17, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Shawn Lonsdale

Thanks, still trying to find some additional WP:RS/WP:V secondary sources, then I'll expand w/ those sources. Cirt (talk) 15:02, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

That's great. Let me know how I can help in anyway. It's important that that section gets on there K69 (talk) 09:17, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Okay. Cirt (talk) 12:28, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: Hurricane Neddy

Sorry, I missed your comment on my talk page (due to someone posting after you). Unfortunately, I'm a little busy with some of my hurricane articles, but I'll give you a few things that should be done to the article before you put it up for FAC.

• The couch gag summary is rather long. Seeing as none of them are complete sentences, there should be no periods (full-stops). Additionally, I just noticed that it was taken directly from SNPP.com. That should be re-written.
• The lede should be a bit longer – ideally two paragraphs. I don't think the name of the hurricane needs to be in the lede, but perhaps some more plot could be thrown in up there. Be sure that the writing is professional, and avoids any flowery language. Hurricane Barbara viciously strikes Springfield but, by pure chance, the house of Ned Flanders is the only one destroyed. viciously? Additionally, stating that Ned Flanders' house being the only one destroyed is a bit of Original research, I believe. Does anywhere in the episode state that specifically?
• The plot is rather long, and I would say in need of a re-write before taking it to FAC. In the second sentence, is it necessary to state that Homer poorly secured the family home? Personally, I would say something like, "...resulting in panicked citizens storming the Kwik-E-Mart and causing the Simpson family to take refuge in their basement." This eliminates the hole when the next sentence says, "and the family cautiously leaves the basement" without ever saying they were in the basement. "Meanwhile, next door Flanders" reads awkwardly, and it should either specify that it was Ned, or the Flanders family in general. "Distraught with annoyance, Flanders begins to believe that God is punishing him and, seeking answers, he goes to read the Bible in the church but receives a papercut." This sentence is a tad long. Additionally, Dictionary.com says that papercut is not a word, and needs to be written as paper cut.
• Quick question - was Jay Sherman really billed as a guest star? I find that perplexing, given that he only made a brief cameo in one scene.
• In the production section, I'm confused about the inclusion of the second paragraph (the stuff about "John Swartzwelder"), since that doesn't appear to have anything to do with production. I recommend moving that paragraph to the "cultural references" section.
• In the reception section, it'd be great to see some reviews.

Good luck with improving it further, and if you need any more comments, feel free to give me a post. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:22, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for these pointers! I'll get on this when I get a chance. Cirt (talk) 19:36, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

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re: The Last Temptation of Krust FAC

Hey there, I certainly would support again. I haven't quite gotten the gist of how the closures work yet (for example, I'm not sure how to request a "restart") but maybe it's matter of prodding the commenters a bit more. It also seems like it's difficult to get a lot of support for pop culture articles for some reason. --Laser brain (talk) 21:47, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I will notify you when the next FAC starts (only because you commented in the last one, and I'll also notify the 2 other editors that commented in the last one). Cirt (talk) 21:48, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Not a problem

I just got the mop tonight ... nice way to get my feet wet. Blueboy96 05:43, 2 March 2008 (UTC)