Wikipedia:Community Portal/Redesign/Draft1b

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This Wikipedia page is currently inactive and is kept primarily for historical interest. If you want to revive discussion regarding the subject, you should ask for broader input, for instance at the village pump.
This is a redesign of the current Community Portal. It is expected to be ready to replace the current one by the end of this month.
Nothing above this line will eventually make it onto the redesign.

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11 December 2006Episode 9

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New board members Oscar, Mindspillage and Jan Bart; Stable versions; Google Earth; NYC meetup; Cultural moment via Wikisource

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  • The Physics article has been undergoing an (arduous) review. Editors involved in the process now have (after much discussion) three lead section proposals. A request for votes from the wikipedia community is now required to gain a broader base of opinion on what the lead section of the Physics article should be. Voting page and lead proposal links are located here, votes and comments welcomed.
  • The Graphics Lab has just been set up. Based on its successful French counterpart, the Graphics Lab is a place for users propose images for clean-up and request the creation of SVG maps and diagrams. Everything is in place now, but there is an urgent need of users who can clean up photos, create SVG diagrams and maps!
  • A proposal for a new policy designed to replace the current vandalism warning policy has been started by Azer Red.

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Lee Arthur Smith (born December 4, 1957 in Shreveport, Louisiana) was a pitcher in Major Leagues. Smith played for eight teams in both the NL and AL in his 18-year career, beginning with the Cubs in 1980. Smith led the league in saves four times during his career and by the time of his retirement in 1997 (with the Expos), he was the all-time leader with 478 saves. Smith used his fastball and size (he stood 6'6") to intimidate batters during the late innings of the game and became one of the premier closers of the 1980's and early 1990's.

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"Death is the end of life"(Srikanth Kadiyala). Death, the full cessation of vital functions in a biological organism. It is generally considered a permanent state in the field of biology, and all living things eventually die, whether through natural causes such as disease, or unnatural ones such as accident.

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