Portal talk:Northern Ireland

message: I've made a right hash of this. Having a lot of trouble understanding how to limit the widths of different boxes. Help! Stu ’Bout ye! 14:37, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I fixed it up didn't I?  The closing div was left out after the picture (and pic comment).  The widths for either side or column of boxes seems to be 60% and 39%.. presumably the other 1% is for the gap in between. --Mal 17:35, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Selected article

message: Anyone know why the word edit on the top bar of the main portal box hangs halfway outside the title bar? --Mal 07:34, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've now fixed this problem. --Mal 07:40, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Edit' in main box 

message: Nice portal. Hopefully i'll contribute something when I can think of what to do! --al 22 March 2006
: Thanks Al. Check out the Northern Irish Wikipedians' notice board too if you've got the time. --Mal 07:41, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Nice

message: I think its time to change the featured bio. I've already changed the featured article from Van Morrison to Giant's Causeway.
Please list your nominations here, and vote for each one using the hash key and signature. Bear in mind though that any bio article nominated should be of reasonably good standard. --Mal 17:29, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As there were only two nominations, and no votes, I've decided to go with the nom that wasn't offered by me. I'm going to change this now. Cheers Martin. --Mal 08:25, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured bio candidates 

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thread_title:  Notice from the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals|Portals WikiProject]] 

message: This portal has been updated and expanded:
* Overhauled portal with modernized wiki markup using transclusion from articles to display content, which provides readers with current, up-to-date information.
* Article content from various portal subpages was moved into the Selected article section of the portal.
* New content was added to the portal.
* Additional updates, cleanup and layout changes have been performed.
* Additional articles for the portal can be considered from those available in the table listed below. North America1000 03:22, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portal updated 

message: The following is a list of articles presently being used in Portal:Northern Ireland. Article content is transcluded directly from articles using the  template. The use of transclusion provides WP:READERS with up-to-date, verbatim content to that which is in articles. This prevents content in the portal from becoming outdated, because when articles are updated, that same updated content is automatically presented in the portal. 
Articles were added relative to WP:POG, where it states, "For the Selected article, Selected biography or other Selected content items, find a good number of articles, as many as you can, that could be showcased on the portal" that are "of high quality, either a featured article, a good article or one which deals with its subject substantially or comprehensively" (Permanent link). While WP:POG is no longer a guideline page, many portals are still based upon it, and it is common sense to use high-quality, comprehensive articles in portals. 
Any comments regarding these article selections can be posted here, as can ideas for more articles to add to the portal, as well as potential notions of replacing some articles in this list with different entries if anyone feels this would be useful. North America1000 02:46, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article list