User:Cirt/sandbox

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, 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
 * 1) Featured portal candidates/Main Page Featured Portal drive
 * 2) Portal:Freedom of speech

Note to self - tools and templates

 * Linking to a diff
 * User:MediaWiki message delivery
 * Article traffic statistics tool
 * MakeRef
 * Reflinks, or Reflinks or Reflinks
 * Citation tool for Google Books
 * Citation tool for DOIs
 * Tools, part 1: References, external links, categories and size
 * User:Edward/Find link

independent reliable secondary sources


 * User:Citation bot/use


 * findsources


 * Refs inside scroll box
 * Cite templates

The Simpsons (season 3) (reference template from WP:CIT)
 * Citation model
 * Body text in-cite
 * References section
 * REFERENCE

See models at The General in His Labyrinth and Mario Vargas Llosa.
 * Different model
 * Template:Citation
 * Template:Harvnb
 * Example:


 * More info.

More at 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

 * 1) Good article nominations/templates
 * 2) Template:GATable
 * 3) Template:GANOH
 * 4) Template:PGAN
 * 5) Template:FGAN
 * 6) If significant copyvio concerns --> WikiProject Copyright Cleanup
 * 7) Neat stats at User:GA bot/Stats.

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GA Review pending

 * 1) Thank you very much for your efforts to contribute to Quality improvement on Wikipedia, it's really most appreciated !!!
 * 2) NOTE: Please respond, below entire review, and not interspersed throughout, thanks!
 * 3) Suggestion: This suggestion is optional only, but I ask you to please at least read over the Good Article review instructions, and consider reviewing two to three (2-3) 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 !

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

FA writing tips

 * 1) User:Yannismarou/Ten rules to make an article FA
 * 2) User:Yomangan/A bastard's guide to writing a featured article
 * 3) WikiProject Military history/Academy/Writing a featured article
 * 4) 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

Helpful TFAR links

 * 1) Today's featured article/requests
 * 2) User:Bencherlite/TFA_notepad
 * 3) User:Bencherlite/TFA notepad 2013
 * 4) Today's featured article/requests/pending
 * 5) Dream by Gerda Arendt
 * 6) WikiProject Quality Article Improvement/TFA
 * 7) WikiProject_Quality_Article_Improvement
 * 8) Featured articles that haven't been on the Main Page
 * 9) Featured articles that haven't been on the Main Page/Date connection
 * 10) Today's featured article/emergency
 * 11) Today's featured article/recent TFAs (WP:TFAREC)
 * 12) User:Dweller/Featured Articles that haven't been on Main Page

Signpost notes

 * Wikipedia Signpost/2009-03-02/Dispatches - WP:Good topics
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2010-06-07/WikiProject report - WP:WikiProject Comedy
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2010-11-15/WikiProject report - WP:WikiProject Bacon
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2011-10-10/Featured content - Portal:Supreme Court of the United States
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2012-11-19/Featured content - WP:Featured picture
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2012-12-10/WikiProject report - WP:WikiProject Human rights
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2013-02-04/Featured content - WP:Featured portals
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2013-05-13/Featured content - Freedom for the Thought That We Hate
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2013-06-12/Featured content - Everything Tastes Better with Bacon
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2013-08-07/WikiProject report - WP:WikiProject Freedom of speech
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2013-12-04/Featured content - Fuck (film)
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2014-01-08/Featured content - Portal:Technology
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2014-02-19/Featured content - Portal:Star Trek and Portal:Freedom of speech
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2014-03-05/Featured content - Dan Savage bibliography
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2014-03-26/Featured content - Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties

Draft page
Draft page for outline and adding info. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 17:30, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
 * User:Cirt/485 U.S. 46 (1988)
 * Possible quality improvement project collaboration with . &mdash; 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
 * WP:FL with
 * Category:Lists of awards by television series

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. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 03:23, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Added promotion dates. &mdash; 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. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 05:02, 19 February 2014 (UTC)


 * List of awards and nominations received by Penn & Teller: Bullshit! = WP:FL model to work from in the future.

Having stumbled here from
&mdash; Cirt (talk) 19:57, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Got the idea originally from, "Having stumbled here from...", at diff.

Research and resources help

 * WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request
 * Reference desk
 * The Wikipedia Library --> The Wikipedia Library/Databases
 * The Wikipedia Library/OA
 * The Wikipedia Library/WikipeDPLA
 * WikiProject Open Access
 * Visiting Scholars
 * The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter

Quality improvement project notes

 * WikiProject Quality Article Improvement

Archiving web pages notes

 * Link_rot
 * Bot_requests/Archive_61
 * Citing_sources/Further_considerations
 * Helpful little guide and also Help:Using the Wayback Machine.
 * User:Dispenser/Checklinks

Note to self: essay to improve further

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

Moving files to Commons

 * Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons reviewed by Sfan00 IMG

Article history - copyediting
DIFF. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 03:15, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Interesting essays

 * Lunatic charlatans = fun read.