Template talk:Portal/Archive 4

Portal:Ottoman Empire icon

 * 1) Portal:Ottoman Empire
 * File:Ottoman flag.svg

Please add File:Ottoman flag.svg as the portal icon image for Portal:Ottoman Empire. Thank you.GreyShark (dibra) 20:40, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done [ here]. Cheers,  Little Mountain  5  21:21, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Question about location
The documentation page says "Within articles, this template is meant to be placed at the bottom of the article in the See also section." If an article contains the portal template but not a See also section, should a See also section be created just for the portal template, or should the portal template be placed somewhere else? (e.g. References, External links). See Cefaly for an example. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 18:36, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I'd put it at the top of the external links section, like this. It's not necessary to add a see also section just for the portal template. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 01:44, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Location when there is no See also section?
For the first time in my experience, I've saw someone create a "See also" section solely to move the portals from the "External links" section.

While I don't pay much attention, it seems that adding portals to "External links" is common practice, even when there is a "See also" section. WP:ALSO says, "Portal and Wikipedia books links are usually placed in this section."

Seems that this template should have similar if not identical location information as Commons. Or maybe we add "Do not place this template in a section all by itself" and suggest adding it to "External" links or the bottom of the page when there is no "See also" section? --Ronz (talk) 18:01, 26 February 2014 (UTC)


 * I've added some instructions to the documentation to place it in the external links section if there is no see also section, or just to use good judgement if neither section exists. Feel free to tweak it. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 13:20, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --Ronz (talk) 18:19, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Image edit request on 4 March 2014
In the following line of Module:Portal/images/h:

could you please change "Seal of Himachal Pradesh.jpg" to "Kinnaur Kailash.jpg"? The local version, "Himachal Pradesh seal.svg", is a non-free image and the previous file was deleted from Wikimedia Commons on 4 March 2014 (per commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Seals of Himachal Pradesh). Thanks! -   t  u coxn \ talk 03:22, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Jackmcbarn (talk) 03:44, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Arunachal Pradesh
Hi! The portal for "Arunachal Pradesh" uses the image File:Seal of Arunachal Pradesh.jpg that was deleted 22 January 2012. It should be changed to the version on commons File:Arunachal Pradesh Seal.svg &mdash; Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 13:50, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Since File:Arunachal Pradesh Seal.svg is a non-free image, I suggest changing the image to File:Mountains of Arunachal Pradesh.jpg. -   t  u coxn \ talk 03:32, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Changed to File:Mountains of Arunachal Pradesh.jpg Jackmcbarn (talk) 03:43, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I just noticed that no such portal exists, and it doesn't appear it was deleted, either. Why does it have an entry at all? Jackmcbarn (talk) 03:49, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure, I just noticed the error (invalid file) and flagged it. Maybe the correct action would be to remove the entry completely? I'm not sure how you tell if any articles are referencing the portal template with this target specifically? KylieTastic (talk) 10:14, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
 * The image lists were created automatically from the subpages of Template:Portal/Images, now deleted. To get an entry on this list, all you had to do was to create a subpage with an image entry on it; there wasn't any checking that the portal pages existed. I probably would have done that when I compiled the list, but the old scheme was to have the first letter of the subpage name in uppercase and the following letters all lowercase, which means there has never been any reliable way to find whether a portal exists for a given image key. Humans can usually do it pretty easily, but it's very hard to write a script to work out what the correct capitalisation should be. In this case, the portal image subpage was created by Buaidh in August 2011, but it looks like there was never any portal for it. Going through Buaidh's deleted contribs I found a couple of other image entries without portals as well. It looks like they started creating images for geography portals, but stopped after they realised the sheer immensity of the task ahead. :) I've removed all the entries from the image lists. They can go back in if someone decides to create the portal. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 13:32, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Goa Portal
Hi, The file File:Seal of Goa.png used by the Goa portal was deleted from commons 2 March 2014. No really suitable images either on the main Goa article or on Portal:Goa itself. Suggest maybe File:..Goa Flag(INDIA).png, but its not cropped so not great i.e. . Cheers &mdash; KylieTastic (talk) 14:44, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done. I cropped that image to make File:Goa flag cropped.png and used that instead. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 13:49, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Image edit request on 6 March 2014
In the following line of Module:Portal/images/n:

Could you please change "Seal of Nagaland.png" to "Hornbill festival of nagaland.jpg". The previous image was deleted from Commons on 6 March 2014 and File:Seasl of Nagaland.svg is un-free. On the other hand, it looks like the portal itself might have been deleted or was never created.... In this case, perhaps could work his magic on this list, like he did in Module:Portal/images/a, above. -   t  u coxn \ talk 21:58, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done. I've removed it. It was another one added by Buaidh in 2011. Looking at their deleted contribs more closely, it seems they went through a whole list of countries from A to Z and added portal images for them, over the course of a few weeks/months. Most of those are fine, but it looks like a few of them never had an associated portal page. It's not really practical to go through all of them to check which are still in the data modules and don't have a portal page. It would be better to check through all the portal images themselves, as we would have to check them anyway to see which portals images have been changed. But to do that, someone needs to make a list of all the portal image keys with correct capitalisation, and as there are over 1,500 of them it will be quite a slog. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 23:46, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Portal image keys to check
Inspired by Tucoxn's request above, I have compiled a list of portal images and aliases that need checking by humans. To make this list, I have gone all through the keys for the portal images, and checked them with three different capitalisations: all-caps, first letter capitalised, and first letter of each word capitalised. If a portal page didn't exist for any of those capitalisations, that key was added to the list. This has reduced the list of portals to check significantly, but it wasn't clever enough to detect portals like Portal:Bosnia and Herzegovina or portal redirects like Portal:A Series of Unfortunate Events, for instance. If any kind editors are willing to help go through this list, it would be much appreciated.

Instructions: — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 01:25, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
 * If there is a portal page or portal redirect at a different capitalisation, remove the entry from the list entirely.
 * If there isn't a portal page/redirect at a different capitalisation, please move the entry from the "Unchecked image keys" section to the "Image keys needing removal" section.
 * You don't need to include your signature.
 * If you're not sure about anything, please ask!
 * ✅!  Little Mountain  5  21:29, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Good job 👍 — Preceding unsigned comment added by KylieTastic (talk • contribs) 22:52, 7 March 2014‎ (UTC)
 * Yes, thank you very much for that. :) I've removed the image keys from the image submodules, so I think we are done here for now. If anyone spots any other suspect portal images, though, please drop a note in a new section below. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 13:45, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

This template is still used for wikiprojects that may not have a portal. I've re-added the Canadian ones, but I would guess that most of the ones you removed were there for a reason. 117Avenue (talk) 01:12, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Ah, now that's ugly. I had overlooked WPbox. I don't like the idea of mixing in WikiProjects with portals though - it seems a very messy way of doing things. How about making a special Lua module to get the images for WPBox? Any WikiProjects that don't have portals could have their images stored there, and if the module didn't find a match it could look for the portal image instead using Module:Portal. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 02:27, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I do like the idea of mixing them (though it should be documented somewhere clearly to avoid this happening again), for the sole reason that it avoids duplication, since a lot of these do seem like they'd be the same. Jackmcbarn (talk) 02:57, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Ok, how about plan b: store the portal page name or WikiProject page name in the module, as well as the image name. This would require reworking the portal module, but it would make it much easier to find deleted portals, etc. We've done most of the work of matching portal image keys to portals, so it wouldn't actually take that much effort to finish the job if we are smart about it. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 03:33, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Also, I've added some documentation about this to Module:Portal/images/doc. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 04:44, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Unchecked image keys
None.

Image keys needing removal

 * Portal:2010's
 * Portal:American samoa
 * Portal:Anguilla
 * Portal:Animation/canadian animation work group
 * Portal:Antigua and barbuda
 * Portal:Au
 * Portal:Australian
 * Portal:Awake
 * Portal:Baltic states
 * Portal:Bande dessinée
 * Portal:British indian ocean territory
 * Portal:Brunei
 * Portal:Burma (myanmar)
 * Portal:Calvinism/sandbox
 * Portal:Canada/kawartha lakes
 * Portal:Canadian communities
 * Portal:Canadian law
 * Portal:Canadian music
 * Portal:Canadian territories
 * Portal:Canon law
 * Portal:Carriacou and petite martinique
 * Portal:Chhattisgarh
 * Portal:Comoros
 * Portal:Cook islands
 * Portal:Courage
 * Portal:Dadra and nagar haveli
 * Portal:Degrassi
 * Portal:Denver
 * Portal:Dominica
 * Portal:East asia
 * Portal:Eastern europe
 * Portal:Edgar allan poe
 * Portal:Education in canada
 * Portal:Electoral districts in canada
 * Portal:Equatorial guinea
 * Portal:Espionage
 * Portal:Falkland islands
 * Portal:Federated states of micronesia
 * Portal:Fiji
 * Portal:Film/canadian cinema task force
 * Portal:First world war
 * Portal:Forums
 * Portal:French africa
 * Portal:Fujairah
 * Portal:Guam
 * Portal:Guernsey
 * Portal:Hebe camargo
 * Portal:Honduras
 * Portal:Horticulture
 * Portal:Imperial valley
 * Portal:Iraq war
 * Portal:Jammu and kashmir
 * Portal:Kuwait
 * Portal:Kyrgyzstan
 * Portal:Lacrosse
 * Portal:Lakshadweep
 * Portal:Lesotho
 * Portal:Lettuce
 * Portal:Library of congress
 * Portal:Madeira
 * Portal:Manipur
 * Portal:Marathahalli
 * Portal:Martinique
 * Portal:Meghalaya
 * Portal:Merge
 * Portal:Metropolitan manila
 * Portal:Monaco
 * Portal:Montserrat
 * Portal:Mozilla
 * Portal:Native american
 * Portal:Northern europe
 * Portal:Northern mariana islands
 * Portal:Old airport road, bangalore
 * Portal:Ontario regions
 * Portal:Ossetia
 * Portal:Outer ring road, bangalore
 * Portal:Prescott-russell
 * Portal:Quebec regions
 * Portal:Ras al-khaimah
 * Portal:Reggaetón
 * Portal:Saint pierre and miquelon
 * Portal:San marino
 * Portal:Saskatchewan communities & neighbourhoods
 * Portal:Southern europe
 * Portal:Speculativefiction
 * Portal:Suny
 * Portal:Superfund
 * Portal:Superleague formula
 * Portal:Test
 * Portal:Turks and caicos islands
 * Portal:Umm al-quwain
 * Portal:Volcanism of canada workgroup
 * Portal:Wikiafrica
 * Portal:World rally championship
 * Portal:Wrc

Images edit request
In the following line of Module:Portal/images/b: ["Bangladesh Premier League"] = "BPL.png", Could you please change "BPL.png" to "BPL.svg". (i uploaded a .svg version) --Aftab1995 (talk) 17:05, 11 March 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅ -- John of Reading (talk) 17:18, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Image edit request 13 March 2014 - portal:animals
Per discussion Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Animals and to resolve an issue with certain groups regarding pigs, please change the image of portal|animals from File:Sow with piglet.jpg to File:CygneVaires.jpg. An alternative is File:Caribou_from_Wagon_Trails.jpg. This is a likely temporary change to speedily resolve my / others concern with this issue. Thank you Jim1138 (talk) 07:25, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I've installed the caribou picture as my personal choice between the two; feel free to make a new request if the consensus is for one of the others. Wouldn't the swan be more appropriate for Portal:Birds? -- John of Reading (talk) 07:47, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Andhra Pradesh
Hi, the portal for Andhra Pradesh is using a deleted image file:Seal of Andhra Pradesh.svg deleted 26 February 2014. Effecting 100's of articles (just popped up on Category:Articles with missing files. Had a look, but no really obvious images to use in its place, but the missing image should be removed. KylieTastic (talk) 00:03, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅, image removed. If you can identify a suitable replacement, please let me know. — Huntster (t @ c) 01:00, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi, there is File:Andhraseal.png but I'm not sure if it is appropriate due to the warning that it may not be in the public domain outside India. KylieTastic (talk) 13:58, 1 March 2014 (UTC)


 * The following files/images may also be considered: (1) File:Charminar 1.jpg, (2) File:CharminarFront.JPG and (3) File:Charminar Hyd.jpg. --βα£α(ᶀᶅᶖᵵᵶ) 07:49, 13 March 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅ I've picked the third of these, as I like the yellow/blue contrast. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:08, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
 * --βα£α(ᶀᶅᶖᵵᵶ) 15:49, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Portal add request
Could someone add Portal:Trichy to the list. Image - File:Rock Fort Trichy.JPG. --βα£α(ᶀᶅᶖᵵᵶ) 20:51, 9 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Yes check.svg Done though not a very clear image at this size. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:22, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
 * . Will this image be fine enough to stay or another image to be suggested? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Balablitz (talk • contribs) 22:24, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I think it's good enough, but anyone is free to suggest another. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:01, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
 * How about these? (1) File:Tiruchiramalai1.jpg, (2) File:Trichy11.jpg, (3) File:Rockfort Temple & Kaveri bridge.jpg, (4) File:Rock fort 0123.jpg, (5) File:Rock fort 01234.jpg, (6) File:Path to upper temple.JPG and (7) File:Ucchi Pillayar Temple, Rockfort 2.jpg. --βα£α(ᶀᶅᶖᵵᵶ) 08:05, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Tiruchiramalai1.jpg these, I think the first one has the clearest shape when scaled to 32x28px (at right). -- John of Reading (talk) 09:00, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Fine. You may proceed with the best one. --βα£α(ᶀᶅᶖᵵᵶ) 09:04, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- John of Reading (talk) 09:20, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
 * --βα£α(ᶀᶅᶖᵵᵶ) 15:52, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

New image database proposal
At the moment, it is difficult to maintain the list of portal images. It is not easy to find which portal image corresponds to which portal, as the capitalisation of the portal page is not recorded, and the portal images are also used to provide images to WikiProjects using WikiProject box. This makes it difficult to fix the image lists after portals have been moved or deleted, for example. The module name of "Module:Portal/images/x" is also misleading, as it doesn't factor in the existence of the WikiProject images. To fix these problems, I think we should create a new set of image lists, perhaps Module:Image database and submodules. This would house portal images, WikiProject images, and potentially other images if the need arose. Every entry would also record the corresponding portal or WikiProject page to make writing maintenance scripts easier. Do others think that this would be a good idea? — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 00:54, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Testing images and link=
1) How does one test an image with template:portal? 2) Can a cropped image be used with Portal, but link to an uncropped version? Similar to link= with an article image. Thanks Jim1138 (talk) 19:36, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
 * There's no way to test images with portal directly, although you can see how the image would look by using the code . I should probably add a way to preview portal images to Module:Portal, though. Number two can't be done, as portal images that are CC-BY-SA need to link their file description pages so that they don't infringe the terms of their licence. This doesn't apply to public domain images, but most portal images are CC-BY-SA, so it would be easier to just link all of them. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 23:54, 13 March 2014 (UTC)


 * I'd welcome some kind of demo template to use in discussions of this page. Something like the example at the right... -- John of Reading (talk) 05:23, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Image edit request (13 March 2014)
Please change the 2010s portal image to File:IPhone 5.svg as it is an SVG. Thanks! Illegitimate Barrister (talk) 18:39, 13 March 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅ -- John of Reading (talk) 19:50, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks a bunch! [:-)] Illegitimate Barrister (talk) 05:42, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 21 March 2014
Update google logo with File:Logo Google 2013 Official.svg.--Wikiuser13 (talk &#124; contribs) 18:00, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Wikiuser13 (talk &#124; contribs) 18:00, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting question.svg Question: Which portal? Jackmcbarn (talk) 02:45, 22 March 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅ after taking a wild guess at the name of the portal :-) John of Reading (talk) 09:28, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 24 March 2014
I have created the portal Portal:Soap operas and telenovelas. I would like to add File:Drama-icon.svg for links in pages. I know that the comedy and tragedy masks are usually associated to theatre, but it's still an image that may give the idea at icon size. In any case, it's not the one used by Portal:Theatre, which uses File:P culture.svg

Cambalachero (talk) 02:06, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done. I've also created a couple of aliases, "Soap operas" and "Telenovelas". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr. Stradivarius (talk • contribs) 03:07, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Image edit request on 22 March 2014
Per the discussion at Talk:Arab–Israeli_conflict, please replace the image at "arab–israeli conflict" portal with File:Israel-Palestine peace.svg

Many thanks, Oncenawhile (talk) 21:29, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Oncenawhile (talk) 21:29, 22 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template. That talk discussion never seems like it reached a consensus (and even if it did, it didn't get consensus on a replacement image). Also, a symbol of peace doesn't really seem appropriate for a conflict portal. Jackmcbarn (talk) 01:07, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
 * OK, but there is clear consensus to remove the image, so please could you remove it and we will start a discussion re what to replace it with. Oncenawhile (talk) 08:09, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't see any consensus at all. If you still think there is, reopen this and I'll let someone else look at it. Jackmcbarn (talk) 20:40, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Two new portals need images
There are two new portals that need images:
 * Portal:Sabah - File:Flag of Sabah.svg
 * Portal:Sarawak - File:Flag of Sarawak.svg

Thanks! ;) <span style="font-size:1.0em; font-family:Calibri (Body),serif; font-style:bold;">&mdash; "ʀᴜ" ɴᴏᴛ ʀᴜssɪᴀɴᴡʜᴜᴛ? 12:20, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 12:57, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Image edit request on 5 April 2014
at the Latino/hispanic american portal, 	["latino and hispanic american"] = "Hispanic Flag.png", can we replace the image with File:Flag of the Hispanicity.svg, from the Commons? its still not that accurate an image, but at least its drawing from the right data

Mercurywoodrose (talk) 21:00, 5 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Yes check.svg Done. In the course of answering this, I found out that there was also an entry for this portal under "hispanic and latino americans". So I've made "latino and hispanic american" an alias for that, and updated the image. I added examples to this thread as well. — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 00:28, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 9 April 2014
Please add,  on Module:Portal/images/c.

Aftab1995 (talk) 15:06, 9 April 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅ (though the table actually needed "chittagong" in lowercase) -- John of Reading (talk) 15:40, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Image edit request on 16 April 2014
Please replace ‎ in the Kingdom of France Portal to. The old file depicts is a historically inaccurate depiction of the flag.

Sodacan (talk) 02:04, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 06:13, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

How much faster
Is the lua nested switch than the previous version? All the best, Rich Farmbrough, 21:47, 17 April 2014 (UTC).

Template-protected edit request on 19 April 2014
Please replace the line ["india"] = "Flag of India.svg", with ["india"] = "Flag of India.svg|border", if this method of adding a border to a flag image without one works in Modules/Lua/etc. If not, please advise how; I didn't spot anything via here.

Sardanaphalus (talk) 07:09, 19 April 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅ The correct syntax is "|border" - there are some other examples scattered through Module:Portal/images/i. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:00, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Understood. Thank you. Sardanaphalus (talk) 18:52, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

Image edit request on 22 April 2014
Please replace File:Pavillon LouisXIV.svg‎ in the New France Portal to File:Royal Standard of King Louis XIV.svg. The old file depicts is a historically incorrect depiction of the flag. Sodacan (talk) 05:44, 22 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Yes check.svg Done. Also, Sodacan, you can escape file links by using the colon trick if you need to. I've done so in your request above. Best — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 07:40, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks! and I will use the colon trick from now on, Sodacan (talk) 08:44, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Image edit request on 23 April 2014
A new portal needs an icon
 * Portal:Mexico City - File:Torre Latinoamericana.png

Thanks, Oglesruins (talk) 22:44, 23 April 2014 (UTC)


 * sorry, we can't accept fair use images for portals - see the last paragraph of Template:Portal. — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 04:15, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 29 April 2014
I would like to have the old jpg earth flag File:Earth flag PD.jpg replaced as the Portal:Ecology}Ecology portal image with the new File:Earth Day Flag.png, which was made in the illustration graphics lab to replace the old jpg with a superior format.

Thanks!

Sn1pe! (talk)(edits) 22:57, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done. Cheers, <b style="font-variant:small-caps;"> Little Mountain  5 </b> 01:17, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

Image edit request on 15 May 2014
Please can this portal have File:Flag of Sark.svg as its small image? Thanks,

Mat ty. 007 17:50, 15 May 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅ -- John of Reading (talk) 18:59, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Mat  ty  .  007  19:08, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Limiting vertical height
I didn't see an easy method in the documentation for limiting the vertical height of a portal box. I'm thinking of, which messes up the vertical height in the example at WPVG. czar ♔  18:27, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

I propose adding a param to limit the height of the portal image as described in Template_talk:WPBannerMeta. This would allow users of the WPBannerMeta template to uniformly set the height of their portals. Thoughts or objections? czar ♔  17:17, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Request about "Portal:Extinct and endangered species"
Could someone do what is necessary so that the link to "Portal:Extinct and endangered species" show the same image as the link to "Portal:Extinction"? Thank you in advance! Coreyemotela (talk) 14:35, 1 June 2014 (UTC).


 * ✅ -- John of Reading (talk) 14:45, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Coreyemotela (talk) 17:01, 1 June 2014 (UTC).

Image for Portal:Dhaka
Portal:Dhaka does not have an image, so I propose this image for it. Thank you. Tauhid (talk) 06:37, 14 June 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅ though not a very clear image when scaled to this size. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:26, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Ok then, change into this image. Tauhid (talk) 05:52, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ That's much clearer. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:52, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 17 June 2014
Please change image for module portal ["globalization"] to "WikiProject_Globalization_Logo.svg" Meclee (talk) 17:10, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Meclee (talk) 17:10, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template. I'm guessing the is a discussion on this topic that achieved consensus at WT:WikiProject Globalization?  Could you give a permalink to it please? — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (e • t • c) 17:27, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
 * All you needed to do was look at the contribs of to see what they'd been doing immediately before raising this edit request; it's at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Globalization, so Yes check.svg Done -- Red rose64 (talk) 19:33, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks ... I was being lazy and the default sig doesn't have a contribs link. So, I figured that they could just link the discussion and save me some time having to hunt it down. — &#123;&#123;U&#124;Technical 13&#125;&#125; (e • t • c) 20:07, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
 * → "" is your friend. Enable that, hover over the link to a User or User talk: page, and you get a contribs link and more. It doesn't coexist with Hovercards, apparently. -- Red rose64 (talk) 20:15, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Apologies for not knowing the protocol. Thank you for the edit. Meclee (talk) 11:53, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Image edit discussion/request for April 23 2014


which is better for Portal:Anime and manga — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cronos Dage (talk • contribs) 22:23, 23 April 2014 (UTC)


 * what are the filenames of the two portal images you have used in that picture? — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 04:13, 24 April 2014 (UTC)


 * File:Wikipe-tan_face.svg / File:Anime_eye.svg --Cronos Dage (talk) 21:31, 26 April 2014 (UTC)


 * I recommend you ask this question at WikiProject Anime and manga, and make sure you include the filenames. They will probably be more interested in that discussion than editors here. Most editors that watch this talk page are technical types, and don't have a particular interest in the anime/manga subject area. Also, you need to update the image licence page to add the filenames of the images you used to make it, otherwise technically it is a copyright violation. The CC-BY-SA licence requires that you provide attribution for the images you used, but at the moment the file you uploaded does not provide attribution. Linking to the filename is standard practice for providing attribution on Wikipedia. Best — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 05:03, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
 * (Also, you can stop the files from displaying in wikilinks by adding a colon in front of the filename, like this: File:Wikipe-tan face.svg and File:Anime eye.svg.) — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 05:05, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Yup, I know. All was intentional with no intent to change it --Cronos Dage (talk) 23:57, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

Remove image for Portal:Arab-Israeli conflict
Please could the image for the Arab-Israeli conflict be removed. A post requesting comment at Portal talk:Arab–Israeli conflict has been unanswered for 10 days. The portal is "inactive" insofar as there have been no meaningful edits for more than three years.

This request is on the back of discussion at Talk:Arab–Israeli conflict where it was decided to remove the same image from the main article. The image was removed from the main article three months ago and such removal has not been disputed. Oncenawhile (talk) 22:22, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ For next time, you'll probably get a quicker response if you use one of the edit request templates. I only just noticed that this request was here. — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 02:20, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

Edit protected request for Portal "Commonwealth Games"
On the following line in Module:Portal/images/c could you please change the image to File:The Hydro - May 2012.JPG. The image "The Bar.png" was deleted from Commons on 1 April 2014 by commons:User:Jdforrester. Also, the link on Template:Portal/doc/all should go to Portal:Commonwealth Games, not Portal:Commonwealth games portal. Thanks! -  t u coxn \talk 07:25, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ in part. The blurb at the top of Template:Portal/doc/all says that red links are expected there; I don't think there's an easy fix. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:39, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ in part. The blurb at the top of Template:Portal/doc/all says that red links are expected there; I don't think there's an easy fix. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:39, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

2 portals have missing images
Hi, I noticed some portals have missing/deleted images


 * Faisalabad portal - File:Faisalabad Montage.jpg was deleted 24 March 2014 - suggest File:Flag of Punjab.svg taken from Faisalabad


 * Jharkhand portal - File:Seal of Jharkhand.png was deleted 15 June 2014 - suggest remove as can't see obvious alternative

Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 12:57, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅. I wonder if the module could be improved so that it checks whether images exist instead of producing a redlink like 32x28px and uses the default image instead. (?) &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:27, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
 * It should be possible. detects duff images and puts the stub template into . It still redlinks the image though. -- Red rose64 (talk) 16:10, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Yep, that's possible and I can't see it causing any problems. I'll put it on my to-do list. — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 16:18, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
 * If I recall correctly, we avoided using ifexist (regarded as an expensive function) on every call of asbox to improve performance. The existence check only happens on the template page. Don't know if we need to worry about this though. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:25, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Image edit request on 10 July 2014
File:Tom Sawyer 1876 frontispiece.jpg as the image for the Children's literature portal (see ).

Sardanaphalus (talk) 18:59, 10 July 2014 (UTC)


 * This must be something caused by the code inside Portal category, as the image displays correctly when using . -- John of Reading (talk) 20:21, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
 * (More) Seems to be fixed after [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Portal_category&diff=616431973&oldid=616345304 this edit] to Portal category. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:42, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm puzzled by your use of  at the start of this thread. Did you use a script? If so, perhaps it's buggy? -- Red rose64 (talk) 23:15, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
 * It looks like the problem was a bad link on Module:Portal/images/doc, which I've now fixed. Jackmcbarn (talk) 23:40, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, it was generated when I used the "make a protected edit request..." link offered in Template:Portal/doc. As of this message, the edit template-protected that has now appeared above has no, but, as John of Reading's nifty Portal category edit seems to've made the difference, should this now be yes ...? Sardanaphalus (talk) 00:07, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
 * That's usually how it works :) &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:57, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

"Portal Hellenismos" to "Portal Hellenism"
I have changed the portal's name to the English standard, please modify this template to reflect the change.--Karl&#39;s Wagon (talk) 11:29, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 12:05, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you.--Karl&#39;s Wagon (talk) 13:10, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid I've reverted this change, as the portal move was reverted. — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 00:49, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

Tamil people
Hi! The image used on 'Tamil people' is no longer vaild.
 * File:Tamil-flag.gif redirects to File:Tamil-flag of World Tamil Confederation.gif that was deleted from commons 16:30, 23 July 2014.
 * Looking at the portal and topic, I can see no obvious image to use instead so suggest just removing for now.

Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 10:00, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- John of Reading (talk) 10:55, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

Images should be tagged as metadata
The images shown in the portal template aren't exactly "content" (e.g., something worth adding WP:ALTTEXT for). They're mostly decorative. They should probably be marked as. WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:27, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Image edit request on 5 August 2014
JPG File:Food Bank Icon.jpg replaceable by SVG File:Food Bank icon.svg → User: Perhelion <small style="white-space:nowrap"> 22:56, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ –  Paine Ellsworth   <b style="font-size:x-small; color:blue;">C LIMAX !</b> 03:22, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 9 August 2014
I'd like to add Flag_of_Kyrgyzstan.svg to be used on the portal link for Portal:Kyrgyzstan. No clue how to do that... I think this is the right place to make that request.

Pmelton87 (talk) 03:56, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done. Yep, this is the right place - done. — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 04:07, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 13 August 2014 — add column breaks
I'd like to see a new parameter, allowing a long series of portals to be broken into two or more columns, perhaps using syntax such as "columns=2", "columns=3", etc. This would improve page layouts in some articles. See, for example, Ed Nelson, which has a long string of 12 portals, creating an absurdly large vertical blank space to the left of the box. — QuicksilverT @ 14:17, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

— QuicksilverT @ 14:17, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: It's not necessary when alternatives exist already. -- Red rose64 (talk) 16:30, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Python
Hi, The Python portal logo File:Python-logo-notext.svg had been deleted as of 25 August 2014 per deletion request - As all have been removed no obvious replacement, so I guess remove for now. Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 09:14, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- John of Reading (talk) 09:47, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Vertical spacing
For you information: Template talk:Portal bar.

Leonng Arhyos Hrspino (talk) 11:20, 31 August 2014 (UTC).

Image for Portal:French politics
Portal:French politics and Portal:Politics of France have no image, so I propose this image for it. Thank you. Leonng Arhyos Hrspino (talk) 13:37, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- John of Reading (talk) 16:41, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Image for Portal:Arab–Israeli conflict
The Portal:Arab–Israeli conflict does not have an image, so I propose this image for it. Thank you. Leonng Arhyos Hrspino (talk) 11:25, 31 August 2014 (UTC).
 * I think this image is not clear enough to be used with the portal template. At right is the image scaled to 32x28px, the size the template uses. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:45, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your message. Would this image or that one be suitable? Leonng Arhyos Hrspino (talk) 13:46, 31 August 2014 (UTC).


 * I think the second image is clearer at this size. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:47, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree with you and think we could define the second one as the picture for portal bars. Thanks for your help. Leonng Arhyos Hrspino (talk) 06:36, 1 September 2014 (UTC).
 * ✅ -- John of Reading (talk) 06:58, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Image for Portal:Topology
The Portal:Topology has no image in portal bars, I therefore suggest to use File:Klein bottle translucent.png. Thanks for your help. 128.178.197.53 (talk) 15:33, 2 September 2014 (UTC).
 * ✅ &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:52, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 5 September 2014
can you change Hinduism portal image to File:AUM symbol, the primary (highest) name of the God as per the Vedas.svg because it is right form of writing Om in orginal Devnagari script according to Hinduism.

psingh 08:17, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:03, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Madhya Pradesh
The image for the 'Madhya Pradesh' portal has been deleted 15 September 2014 - File:Seal of Madhya Pradesh.png as per Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Seals of Madhya Pradesh

Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 19:14, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Removed it (I hope correctly). SiBr4 (talk) 19:20, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Image for Portal:Opera
In order to have a better image for the Portal:Opera, I suggest this image. Giovanni Eteronni (talk) 20:04, 1 September 2014 (UTC).
 * I suspect you don't want to replace any image on Portal:Opera but the image used in : Operalogo.svg. IMO the image you suggest lacks entirely the current logo's recognisability. Nothing ought to be changed until discussed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera. Michael Bednarek (talk) 05:31, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Giovanni, assuming you are referring to the actual portal instead of the portal template, note that the lead images are in rotation and change each time the page is refreshed. The current list of images in rotation is at Portal:Opera/Intro/Image. If you are referring to its use in, the image you suggest is very inappropriate as it is virtually unrecognizable when rendered in a small template like that, e.g. Milano - Il progetto del Piermarini per il teatro alla Scala - 1779.jpg. It is also out of sync with Opera's sister portals, all of which use bold graphics (easily recognizable at small size) for their portal templates:
 * P culture.svg (Theatre)
 * MTLogo2.png (Musical Theatre)
 * 'A' (PSF).png (Classical Music)
 * Nuvola apps package graphics.png (Arts)
 * Voceditenore (talk) 08:01, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Agreed, particularly for the Opera Portal graphic. But: the image is larger when it appears as an anchor to the left of the "This article falls within the scope of Wikipedia Opera..." notice on article talk pages.  It remains too indistinct at small size for the suggested replacement in the Opera Portal link included in that banner, but must the two images match?  Would substituting the proposed one for the "anchor" be practical in the larger size and desirable to vary the banner's appearance?  I have no opinion on the matter--other than that I have my doubts this game is worth the candle--but thought I'd throw it out for discussion. Drhoehl (talk) 19:47, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
 * The Red Paris Opera icon replaced the SIdney Opera House by a very narrow vote quite a while ago. The latter was instantly identifiable at very small size, however, which I can't say for either of the other two candidates. Sparafucil (talk) 22:44, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

Image edit request on 7 October 2014
I'd like to try out File:Clock of Briarcliff Manor (2).tiff to be used on the portal link for Portal:Briarcliff Manor, New York. Thank you.

ɱ   (talk)  00:57, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm not convinced - when the Portal template displays it at 32x28px the clock is invisible. Perhaps crop it tightly and give it a plain blue background? -- John of Reading (talk) 06:10, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
 * That's odd, I didn't see this on my watchlist or as a notification, so I'm only reading this because I thought to check back anyway. To reply: the clock is somewhat visible, and I suppose I could do some photo manipulation to make it more visible, but perhaps File:BriarcliffOutlook4-crop.jpg would be even better?-- ɱ    (talk)  04:50, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ The high contrast of that image works well. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:45, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 4 November 2014
Please replace

["animal rights"] = "Paw (Animal Rights symbol).png"

With

["animal rights"] = "Paw (Animal Rights symbol).svg"

Many thanks. --64.9.157.38 (talk) 20:38, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

64.9.157.38 (talk) 20:38, 4 November 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅ -- John of Reading (talk) 21:04, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Many thanks. --64.9.157.38 (talk) 21:49, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 6 November 2014
In Module:Portal/images/s, please replace to

(Same image different format)

Jayarathina (talk) 07:05, 6 November 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅ -- John of Reading (talk) 07:26, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 24 October 2014
Please replace Spaccato vulcano.png by SVG version : Structure volcano virgin.svg

Medium69 (talk) 00:26, 24 October 2014 (UTC)


 * ✅ -- John of Reading (talk) 06:34, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 * It seems that the above SVG was just the original PNG in an SVG wrapper, which after being told then became a 1.55Mb monstrosity of an autotraced svg with much lower quality than the original png. There is however a new 25k totally vector version: File:Spaccato vulcano.svg. If you deem it to be superior or more functional then please can you replace the above file with this one? Many thanks. --207.207.22.215 (talk) 19:21, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
 * OK, ✅ -- John of Reading (talk) 22:08, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

.attr('valign', 'middle')
results in ;   is obsolete HTML. This should be replaced with the CSS. --  Gadget850talk 07:54, 14 November 2014 (UTC)


 * [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Module:Portal&diff=633788382&oldid=583050061 Done] -- WOSlinker (talk) 09:33, 14 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks! --  Gadget850talk 14:29, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 16 November 2014
Please replace the line

["bangladesh"] = "Flag of Bangladesh.svg", with

["bangladesh"] = "Flag of Bangladesh.svg|border",

Aftab1995 (talk) 14:56, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ Added borders to all flags in the list of "B" portal images. SiBr4 (talk) 15:14, 16 November 2014 (UTC)