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)

I like the current color. AQu01rius (User • Talk) 04:02, 24 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)

[edit] Review

Our portal here is under review, due to the fact that this portal has not been updated. In order to try to save this from happening, or at least try, I will try do update everything. All selected articles could be chosen without much further talk. --Canadianshoper 04:57, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

This portal has been demoted from featured status.--Canadianshoper 03:03, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
At this moment I think it has very little to do with the fact that the portal, at present, is not featured status quality. The sections have been updated and there are no red links. User:Cyberjunkie (the admin responsible for featured portals) and I had a 'run in' over the Portal:Current events/Canada. It was a unanamous decision by the regular portal reviewers that it should be promoted but he refused to promote it over the fact that he thought it did not meet the criteria. Anyway, I put the Portal:Vancouver up for featured review when the content had not been updated in 2 months. The votes unanamously decided it should be demoted but he did not do anything for a month. The moment we update the content and I posted a message saying the review should be resubmitted as the past reviews were done on an empty portal, he demoted the portal. Not to sound arrogant but it is possible he's making his choices unaccomodating intentionally. Mkdwtalk 18:32, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
We had a "run in"? I certainly don't remember it as such. I'm afraid I find your comment both presumptuous and offensive, and not at all in line with assuming good faith. I sincerely hope that you reconsider it.
Perhaps they were presumptious, but looking back, I did list the portal over a month ago for featured review. The votes were in and perhaps you were inactive, but the moment I put a bit of effort restoring the portal, the very same day you demote it, and close the review. When I assume good faith, I also assume other things like that in demoting the portal, you had done so by judgement of the review which would detail reading it, including what I had written. I think any editor who has bit an ounce of effort into something to receive that response would be a fool to roll over, say it was the best of intentions, and move on. Good faith does end somewhere and you can understand how in my perspective that that end was not far away. I am glad that you have decided to re-open the portal's review. Mkdwtalk 07:47, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
The reason I demoted the portal only now was not because you had made a comment – for I had not noticed it – but because a series of other reviews were initiated which returned my attention to the page. Being relatively withdrawn from Wikipedia for the past few months, I had forgotten to return to the reviews page to close the Vancouver discussion. In my rush to close, I humbly concede, I overlooked your recent request that the reviewers reassess the portal, which they had unanimously decided to de-list. I will re-open the review discussion, so that your request may be attended to.--cj | talk 04:51, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Portal British Columbia

Portal British Columbia has been updated with rotational articles, images, what have you, and a robotic server delivering the news. Did you want the same done for this portal? It could be set up preserving the voting - suggestion status that this portal started with, but if the input becomes inactive for a short time, the portal still shows new fresh content on the main page, until more items are added. SriMesh | talk 21:09, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

I wouldn't worry about retaining the suggestion/voting feature. Just go ahead with the rotational system.--cj | talk 18:16, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] British Columbia Topics

  • The Portal:British Columbia is not under construction any more!!! The news is delivered via robot, and all box sections rotate content, so the portal is always fresh. Please add new GA or feature articles, images, biographies, any DYK, quotations, etc etc if you wish.
  • The Vancouver 2010 Winter Games is upcoming and news relating to the Games and venue sites... Vancouver Olympic Village and the Whistler Olympic and Paralympic Village can be now added to the above portals if wished.
  • Should there be a new rotating box section added to either BC AND / OR Vancouver portal in regards to the Olympics?
  • Please contribute to the above comments at Wikiproject BC.

[edit] Portal Help Me and Have a Question Query

  • Portal:Saskatchewan and Portal:Canada have new box sections with a help me section so new users know how to add content to a box template layout web page. Is this handy, or not? Should other portals have it or not?
  • Portal:Saskatchewan has experimented with a Have a Question section, but it has not been necessary. SriMesh | talk 21:44, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Maybe with the The Vancouver 2010 Winter Games a new Have a Question section may be of assistance on the WWW. But would it be for Vancouver or BC portal or both?SriMesh | talk 21:51, 13 January 2008 (UTC)