Portal talk:Current events/May 2005

message: 09-Jan-2008: The edit-buttons might not work at each day (the highly complex, peculiar article format has been garbled). However, each day in May 2005 really is a WP article of the form:
:::* Article name: May_1,_2005
:::* Proposed name: Portal:Current events/2005_May_1
Refer to each day, using those article names. I didn't create this design, just trying to help others work with it. -Wikid77 (talk) 16:02, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: How to edit days

message: 09-Jan-2008: The format of this article had been a tall column wrapped as 8 words-per-line, but was changed at some point to wrap as 16 words-per-line (at 800x600 resolution screen size), reducing page length by 40% (making page seem half as long). -Wikid77 (talk) 16:02, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Format

message: == Style ==
A request: Please try to integrate the location or context into the entry. I'm seeing far too many "In X, this happened" entries, which makes the page a little ugly. Instead of saying, say, "In Somalia, at a stadium in Mogadishu" say "At a stadium in Mogadishu, Somalia". Also use the adjectives more; Togolese instead of "In Togo", etc. This is a personal gripe and if people counter me, I'll understand that, but I think most will agree with me. This is not a digest nor is it a news page. --Golbez 17:36, May 4, 2005 (UTC)
Other style bits I've noticed while going through April 2005:
# Always end your entries with a period.
# Never separate news sources with commas; the icon and parentheses are enough.
# "Police" is plural. --Golbez 19:24, May 4, 2005 (UTC)
== What the heck am I doing removing sources? ==
I was recently blasted for removing sources from [[April 2005] in an attempt to reduce the page size. Here's what happened on my talk page:
=== What the heck are you doing? ===
What the heck are you doing to April 2005 Trevor? Month pages always have links to stop people adding in phoney unsourced stories. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 02:31, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You certainly shouldn't start doing something like that without putting something up on the talk page first to see if anyone has any objections. Average Earthman 12:11, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Topics from 2005

message: I was recently blasted for removing sources from [[April 2005] in an attempt to reduce the page size. Here's what happened on my talk page:
=== What the heck are you doing? ===
What the heck are you doing to April 2005 Trevor? Month pages always have links to stop people adding in phoney unsourced stories. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 02:31, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You certainly shouldn't start doing something like that without putting something up on the talk page first to see if anyone has any objections. Average Earthman 12:11, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  What the heck am I doing removing sources? 

message: What the heck are you doing to April 2005 Trevor? Month pages always have links to stop people adding in phoney unsourced stories. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 02:31, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You certainly shouldn't start doing something like that without putting something up on the talk page first to see if anyone has any objections. Average Earthman 12:11, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  What the heck are you doing? 

message: Any topics below are after 2007. -Wikid77 (talk) 16:02, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Topics after 2007

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