Portal talk:Vancouver
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[edit] Template Removal
The Portal Template will be removed completely in place of a more visually creative format. Mkdwtalk 10:16, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Colour Scheme
The City of Vancouver webiste: [1] uses a colour scheme of many shades of blue. As you scroll through the various categories: Arts, Parks, Education, etc those colours of blue change per page. The current series of blue on the page are not what I intend to use, but they are the temporary colours replacing the green default until we can find those colours accurately. Mkdwtalk 10:16, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] My deleted work
Recently, I created a selected article page. An administrator, deleted it, claiming "author request", and someone else made a similar process. I'm somewhat offended by this. I feel like my contributions don't matter when stuff like this happens. -- Selmo (talk) 02:33, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Automation
As a request of our Featured Review we have been given the challenge to make this portal as automated as possible. The quotation section automatically rotates, as does the Showcase Article, Picture, and Biography sections per month. It would be great if we could get more automation in the archiving sections. I know AQu01rius has been working on this and is looking for a bot. Mkdwtalk 01:47, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
- I haven't done so for a long time, but I could write a bot in perl. -- Selmo (talk) 04:28, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Promotion of Portal:Vancouver
I noticed Portal:Vancouver has been promoted by nominator without dealing and satisfying all issues. I would request the promoter as well as nominator, i.e. Selmo, to de-promote the portal and make subsequent reverting. This is very serious issue of making promotion by a nominator or an involved party. Else I would have to nominate the portal for depromoting, even it does not suit the criteria for de-promotion. So this would be appericiable step for avoiding any edit-wars Shyam (T/C) 07:14, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
- Although he should not have promoted it himself, he was right about the portal needing to be promoted as the review had not been added and the votes were greatly in favour of promotion. Langara College 21:51, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] More Sections
I noticed that there have been sections on other portals on places about births and deaths, transportation and music, art and culture. They could be here as well. Canadianshoper 02:23, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
- I was thinking about it also, but I wasn't too sure if there was enough information to support a section. We may even struggle to find notable Vancouverites let alone have the information to maintain a regular calendary about such information, but if someone is willing to try, I'd be willing to help out the formatting. Mkdwtalk 08:14, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Featured Status
On January 8, 2007 the Portal:Vancouver became a featured article after a 10 - 1 vote for support. You can see the findings of the review here. Langara College 21:53, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject Vancouver
If you're interested in helping out with other Vancouver-related content, please visit the WikiProject Vancouver. Mkdwtalk 06:22, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Vancouver Canucks
Why is Todd Bertuzzi shown in the selected article area of this portal. He isn't on the team anymore! Shouldn't we just use the logo for an image. Canadianshoper 01:53, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
- I had the logo on there but it had to be changed due to Free Use licensing. If you can find an image in the Creative Commons that is more suitable that would be ideal, especially since Todd Bertuzzi is not a player for the Canucks anymore. Also his leaving was largely due to his suspension. Mkdwtalk 06:22, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
- I have replaced it with Image:MNasland.jpg Mkdwtalk 09:44, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm happy with that! Canadianshoper 00:42, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] News
How important should news be before I add it to the news section? Canadianshoper 22:18, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
- Something relevent to the city that people might find interesting. Articles about pop culture usually are excluded. Mkdwtalk 08:12, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the explanation! Canadianshoper 17:06, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Yikes
I tried adding the science world photo as the featured one for april (kind of unilateral I guess, but there was no dissent to it, and there was no photo at all). Either my computer, my incompetence, or technical problems on Wikipedia, are giving me a hard time. If someone with more savvy than I could shrink it down to a reasonable size, I'd appreciate it. bobanny 04:39, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
- That's better. bobanny 19:35, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
