User talk:Cyclonenim/Archives/2007/December

Selected article of Medicine Portal
Hello! Thank you for your nomination of renal cell carcinoma. It's very hard to find articles good enough to be selected for the medicine portal. That's why I reverted your edit in Portal:Medicine/Selected article/49, 2007‎ and will include that article in the next free week (the 1st week of 2008). I hope you don't mind. Thank you for your appreciation! NCurse work 13:30, 8 December 2007 (UTC)


 * You're really welcome! Please let me know if you find more medical articles of good quality. After more than a year, it's very hard for me to find relevant ones. NCurse work 18:17, 8 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your suggestion: cholangiocarcinoma is going to be the first new selected article in 2008: see Portal:Medicine/Selected_article/1, 2008. You are most welcome to suggest more articles or indeed to become a co-maintainer of the portal! --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:57, 30 December 2007 (UTC)


 * No, it's a "just be bold, go ahead and improve it" role. Since it became featured, maintaining is mostly about selecting new content for the different boxes. Anybody who knows the basics of the automated update system used is welcome to join the team. Just let me know which parts you want to help out on: selected article, image, news, quotes, ..., ask if you need explanations on how to do it, and we'll teach you. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:34, 30 December 2007 (UTC)


 * That's allright, you can suggest content and we can worry about layout and automation tricks. It's not difficult though: if you look at Portal:Medicine/Selected article/49, 2007 and Portal:Medicine/Selected_article/1, 2008, you can see how there is an automatic system that displays the selected article that is located on a subpage called Selected_article/CURRENT-WEEK, CURRENT-YEAR. But I realize these things take experience to master, so you can just make suggestions for now if you want.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 00:09, 31 December 2007 (UTC)


 * You'd have to check in a diary or calendar which week of the year it is (let's say, week 13) and then create Portal:Medicine/Selected article/13, 2008. On the Monday at 00:01 am, the page is displayed on the portal. Make sure you always copy the layout features from the previous articles (those  tags you see when editing), so you're best to base a new entry on the previous one.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 00:39, 31 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, others will correct any mistakes, so you needn't worry too much about that. Also, there aren't enough featured articles being promoted to supply the portal, and so we pick Good articles, or articles that could be Good articles (with good referencing and some sense of WP:MEDMOS).--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 00:59, 31 December 2007 (UTC)