Portal:Anarchism/Maintenance station

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Portal:Anarchism uses a series of templates for randomizing Did you know...? hooks, selected images, and selected quotes: Random portal component. To have an interesting fact, image, or quote pertaining to anarchism added to the portal, please follow the instructions below in each section, respectively. If you have any questions, leave a message at the portal talkpage or contact the Anarchism task force.

DYK...? hook nominations
To have an interesting fact pertaining to anarchism added to the portal, please follow the instructions below.

Instructions
Additional "Did you know" hooks can be nominated here; Portal:Anarchism hooks are loosely based on Did you know. Please observe the following guidelines:
 * Pick hooks in articles that are interesting and are related in some way to anarchism
 * Look for articles that are over 1,000 characters in size – stubs are not needed.
 * Free images are most welcome; image size is limited to 140x140px.
 * The "Did you know?" hook should be mentioned in the article.
 * Select articles that cite their sources, particularly the item mentioned.

Once 5 appropriate nominations are added, they can be moved to a new consecutively numbered subpage i.e. Portal:Anarchism/Did_you_know/11 (note: the main Portal's "max=" parameter must be updated to reflect the number of active subpages).

Taken from the main page
Add anarchism-related hooks that have been listed on Did you know here (these hooks have already been vetted for quality).
 * ... that when ill-health rendered George Orwell incapable of caring for his son Richard, the child was placed in the care of anarchist Lilian Wolfe at the Tolstoyan Whiteway Colony?
 * ... that after a failed jail escape, anarchist Harold Thompson had 31 years added to his life sentence?

DYK? nominations
Consider checking the nominations of other editors and marking them as approved if they meet the above guidelines. To make a nomination, simply list it below the line:


 * ...that Renewing the Anarchist Tradition is an annual conference of anarchist intellectuals established in 1997 that aims to support and nurture "a new generation of anti-authoritarian public intellectuals"? Skomorokh  20:46, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * ...that Really Really Free Markets arose in 2000s America out of a desire to counteract capitalism in a non-reactionary way using gift economics? Skomorokh  20:49, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * ...that the notion and practice of affinity groups were pioneered in 1960s New York City by "street gang with analysis" Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers? Skomorokh  23:34, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Selected image nominations
If you have a suggestion for other selected images for this portal, please nominate them here.

Instructions
Additional selected images can be nominated here. Please observe the following guidelines:
 * The nominations process is disregarded in favor of automatically including anarchism-related featured and valued pictures.
 * Nominated images must be free, and should preferably be
 * Of high quality (not blurred, grainy or discoloured)
 * Of high resolution (at least 300px on one side) though this is not essential
 * Interesting
 * Relevant to a specific existing article or topic concerning anarchism

Anarchism-related Featured and Valued Pictures
The following is a current listing of Featured and Valued Pictures, which may automatically be included as selected images. Please discuss associated captions for possible improvement before selecting: No current Featured or Valued pictures.

Selected Quote nominations
Quotes related to anarchism may be nominated here.

Instructions

 * All quotes must be cited to their original source.
 * If you have difficulty securing citation for well known quotes, you can also ask for help at Portal talk:Anarchism.

Nominations

 * There are currently no Selected Quote nominations.

Selected articles
Articles related to anarchism may be nominated here.

Instructions
Articles should ideally be of Featured or Good status and directly related to anarchism. Failing that, anarchism-related articles that have been assessed as C-class or higher are eligible as nominations. If no article of sufficient quality or relevance to anarchism can be found for a given month, the previous month's article can be repeated.

Article nominations

 * 1919 United States anarchist bombings
 * Cowley Club
 * Anarchist Studies
 * Argentine Regional Workers' Federation
 * Jaggi Singh
 * Rudolf Rocker
 * Voltairine de Cleyre

News workspace
This section is for maintaining the anarchism news module.

Instructions
News items should be added only if they directly relates to anarchism. Old news items should be moved to the archive. Some useful (but not necessarily reliable) sources for anarchist news include:
 * Infoshop news, from Infoshop.org
 * Anarchist News.org
 * A-infos.ca
 * Anarchy in the News.com

Anniversaries workspace

 * P:ANDATE is an automated scan of dates from articles in . By searching for a certain date on that page, one ought to be able to find a number of events to include as anniversaries in the portal.
 * The Daily Bleed Calendar is a useful resource for finding additional events. Note that the portal is for anniversaries directly related to anarchism only, whereas the Daily Bleed has a wider scope.

Instructions

 * Red links indicate days which remain without a single anniversary.
 * Portal anniversary should be used to format entries.
 * Entries should be no longer than a single sentence. In the event that an extra sentence is required for context, utilize a semi-column to connect each. Allow the subject article to provide details for the event. Entries for subjects which lack an article (red links) may provide increased details as an incentive to research and create articles for the subject, but must be properly cited.
 * Use only images made available through WikiCommons. Images should be no larger than 100x100px, unless a given image requires a larger size for increased clarity. Limit one image per date.
 * Anniversaries of birth dates for deceased individuals should indicate the date of death after the individual is named (e.g. "1886 –Elise Ottesen-Jensen (d. 1973) born.") As date of birth is indicated by entry date, a birth date is redundant.
 * Anniversaries of death dates for individuals should indicate the date of birth after the individual is named (e.g. "1881 – Louis Auguste Blanqui (b. 1805) dies.") As the date of death is indicated by the entry date, a death date is redundant.
 * There is no limit to the number of entries per date. Each entry is listed in chronological order from earliest at the top, to those most recent at the bottom. This creates a chronological list, with the intent to provide context in the unlikely event that related entries take place on the same date.