Portal talk:Current events/Sports
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[edit] Team order
How's the order? Home team last? Winning team first? What? --Howard the Duck 04:54, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Split the page!
When's someone going to move the March 2008 stuff into the archive?? — Dale Arnett (talk) 19:48, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
- I would've done it if I know how to. Who usually does that anyway? --Howard the Duck 04:25, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Time for a split...
Split time... — Dale Arnett (talk) 17:56, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Winning team first
Does anyone want to follow that convention? Why are European competitions seem to be excluded from this rule? --Howard the Duck 03:00, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
- European style is to always put the home team first. That's just how they do it. -- Mwalcoff (talk) 03:55, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
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- So if someone writes about a North American sport, the home team should be last too? This sorta like the WP:ENGVAR but the "winning team first" convention has always been applied to American sports here. --Howard the Duck 06:16, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
- As per the thread above, I always have used winner first, and that seems to be the norm here. Jmlk17 07:10, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
- Can't we have a unified convention? Like winning team comes first no matter what place on Earth they're playing? Except of course for draws. --Howard the Duck 09:35, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
- I don't see why we need one, to be honest. -- Mwalcoff (talk) 22:52, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
- There's been a de facto consensus that scores of North American sports are to be reported winner first, which is the standard in U.S. and Canadian sports media. Otherwise, it's home team first. — Dale Arnett (talk) 23:24, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
- I don't see why we need one, to be honest. -- Mwalcoff (talk) 22:52, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
- Can't we have a unified convention? Like winning team comes first no matter what place on Earth they're playing? Except of course for draws. --Howard the Duck 09:35, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
- As per the thread above, I always have used winner first, and that seems to be the norm here. Jmlk17 07:10, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
- So if someone writes about a North American sport, the home team should be last too? This sorta like the WP:ENGVAR but the "winning team first" convention has always been applied to American sports here. --Howard the Duck 06:16, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Layout and XHTML validation
Hullo. The use of {{Current events box}} inside a table made Opera (but not IE7 or Firefox) add 250 pixels of whitespace between the text and the tables (actually, I have no idea why it did this!), so I removed the wrapper table. The infobox class is aligned to the right by default anyway, and all the boxes stack up nicely in the browsers I've been able to test it on (the ones mentioned above, all on Windows). Please report any problems this might create in other browsers, but it really shouldn't.
Another layout question. This portal, as well as many of the other CE portals, has an empty div element above each date heading. Is that actually used for anything? If not, they should be removed, and if they are needed, their id attributes should be changed to something valid, i.e. something beginning with a letter. -- Jao (talk) 16:16, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
- Turns out the divs are used for linking from the calendar from Template:Current events box, so I'm raising the validation issue at the template's talk page. -- Jao (talk) 23:38, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
