Portal talk:Current events/Southeast Asia

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Hi. In following directions for starting new current events pages, as I understand them, the idea is to first "move" the current events for the past month to a new page and then remove the resulting redirect from the "old" page to start the "new" page. The idea being that any talk about that month's current events would be retained with its page. In the most recent case, June 2006 in Southeast Asia, I was coming across a double set of redirects. I've removed the redirects in hopes that was the right thing do to. - Wisekwai 12:49, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Current Events Move

If you all so desire, you can move Current events in Southeast Asia under the new current events portal (note that the Current events page is gone). Adopting the portal's layout is optional (although it would be nice if you did to some degree). Alternatively, you can just leave the page where it is (I don't think all of the current events pages will be moving into portal-space). joturner 04:27, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

  • I don't understand how the portals work. Looks like more maintenance, more hassle. Other than conformity and uniformity, what are the advantages of the portal layout? I want to hear more from other contributors on this, because I can't do this by myself. Wisekwai 07:56, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
    • Er...actually I almost completed the makeover before seeing this talk page. Was intending to come here to announce the change. :D Anyway how do you guys think of the new layout? There is still a "Highlights" section awaiting editing thou.--Huaiwei 15:38, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Portal Changes

I've made several changes to the portal page to make it more in line with Portal:Current events, in terms of maintenance. I also asked Lightdarkness to update LDBot to automatically create the date subpages (like with Portal:Current events). However, I'm trying to figure out where that whitespace at the top of the portal pages are. I just can't find it. -- tariqabjotu 15:22, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Kudos for the extensive help rendered! Still wondering how to get that portal box to appear correctly thou...(the one at the top of Portal:Southeast_Asia/News_Sidebar. Copied the codes wholesale from the Oceanian portal. ;) Anyway the whitespace refers to that band above the highlights section or something?--Huaiwei 15:32, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

oooo. sexy new page. __earth (Talk) 16:27, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Highlights

I propose that Highlights be changed to "In the news" and leave the month out of it. The archive pages could say Highlights in ... But right now the events under the heading Highlights in September actually happened in August, and this problem is going to happen every month. It won't be until we're well into a month that we actually start to see some highlights. -Wisekwai 16:34, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

There is an impending news event that should be highlighted soon - 2006 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group, although with the current issue of the the civil society protestors being refused entry might be highlight-worthy in itself. Elle vécut heureuse à jamais (Be eudaimonic!) 23:13, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
I would now propose that the name of this section be changed to "Headlines" to match the main current events page. - Wisekwai 01:16, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Outdated

As I noticed, the page is too outdated. Hey, we're in the forth of November and the page is one week behind!. Anyone, save this uber late-ness Mysiddiq 05:45, 4 November 2006 (UTC)


Before I discuss any other stuff I say that WORLD PEACE ROCKS AND BUSH SUCKS! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.2.241.211 (talk) 23:01, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Current events subportals MfD

A discussion about most of the Current events subportals has been opened at Miscellany for deletion. You are invited to participate in discussing the fate of these subportals. --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 14:32, 14 January 2008 (UTC)