Wikipedia:Portal peer review/American Civil War/archive1

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[edit] Portal:American Civil War

This portal was constructed last year, and after a lengthy wikibreak on the part of this editor was finally automated in August. The portal is now fully automatic with the exception of the "featured article" box; I haven't figured out "CURRENTQUARTER" variable. I may make that a monthly queue item now that the number of ACW FA's has increased and the rate of new content-area FAs has increased significantly. The portal draws content heavily on the article ratings listed in the American Civil War Task Force, and utilizes the TF's announcement template and a custom ACW Menu template as "What you can do" and "ACW Topics" list respectfully. The only red links are those contained in the "Requested articles" section of the "What you can do" section. I'd love a tiny bit of help with the colors in the ACW Menu template to get the header and left side bar colors exactly right. I also have squeezed the "Did you know" section down in size a bit to compensate for the average length of the "This week..." section. Would love to see some more editors on the page and queue. BusterD 23:52, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

I changed the colors, see if You like. In "Did you know..." start the lines with "...that". feydey 07:26, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

That looks nice and thanks. I like the portal colors exactly the way they were, but the {{American Civil War menu}} suffered when we switched the underlying template to the Mil Hist one. On that menu, ideally the header should match the surrounding light gray space (now blue space) and the left hand subhead bar should be identical to the Union subsubheads. BusterD 11:30, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

I switched it back; we played with colors quite a bit, and box header is where we want it. BusterD 12:31, 8 October 2007 (UTC)