Portal talk:The Simpsons/Archive 1

message: It surprises me that with the huge number of pages dedicated to this very show, its primary article, The Simpsons is not a FA. It was peer reviewed once (with only one [fixed] comment), and I'd like to see it be reviewed a second time. Anyone agreeing with me, please drop me a line on my talk page (as I won't be in that much), or on this page, or go ahead and re-nominate it. It seems well-written, with good rationale for everything, and I believe it's FA quality stuff. -Mysekurity  e-mail 03:44, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: What is FA? Soccer? Umm, yes!, the page isn't updating and I think that's a shame. NorwegianMarcus 08:08, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: PS! The norwegian portal is better. Seriously, update this portal, and make the colors red/yellow(blue) and have the logo there. NorwegianMarcus 13:58, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment 

message: The changes that I made to the sections linking to this portal are not appearing on the main page of the portal.  ⇒  JarlaxleArtemis 08:11, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page not updating 

message: Just wondering why only one ep from Season 7 lacks an entry. Perhaps acccidental deletion or something? Just asking after I referenced Troy Mcclure's DMC-12 on that car's entry....BabuBhatt 22:39, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Added to Portal:The Simpsons/Things you can do, feel free to do that in the future! —Fitch 01:36, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Remember to Be Bold Anonymous_anonymous_Have a Nice Day 19:57, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Fish Called Selma 

message: I just wanted to know why there is an absence of pictures in this portal. I thought maybe about fair use policy and whatnot, but Portal:Futurama has a bunch that are fair use. Is there a reason that there are no pictures in this portal? --WillMak050389 04:03, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: They are not allowed  per WP:FU. I have just removed the images from the Futurama portal. Kusma (討論) 15:37, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures 

message: I was looking at the Norwegian portal and I noticed that they have a quotes section and I was thinking that maybe we should do the same. Thoughts? -- Scorpion 19:00, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd have no objections. Gran2 19:11, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quotes 

message: I suggest someone fix up The Simpsons Episode: Trilogy of Error; similar to Homer's Phobia, as it is widely considered one of the best episodes on the series so far.  Taipan198 04:23, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Nobody is stopping you... It would be difficult to do so because there is currently little production info as the season 12 DVD set is at least a year away. -- Scorpion0422 04:38, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expansion on Trilogy of Error 

message: This portal is pretty comprehensive.  With a bit of work, I don't think it would take too long to get it up to WP:FPORTC, and pass through to be a WP:FPORT.  If it were up to me, I'd start by getting rid of the idea of having one article/bio/etc. be selected for a period of time, and instead have a bunch (10 or more) that are randomly filtered through, by using .  Portal:Sustainable development is a good example of this in action.  Cirt 18:40, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Self sustaining portals isn't among the FP criteria though. -- Scorpion0422 20:56, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps not, but it is easier to manage if everything is randomized.  Then all you have to do is add new material, which then subsequently also gets randomized.  It works for Portal:Sustainable development and other featured portals.  Let me know if you'd like to get this portal to featured status, I might have some time to help out.  Cirt 01:44, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

text: I think that randomized text is a good idea, which should be implemented. It will make the portal less static. --Maitch (talk) 13:14, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I am in the process of getting another Portal up to Featured Portal status, and I would like to do that here.  If there are no significant objections, I will start that by implementing some randomizing.  Cirt (talk) 19:16, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The road to featured portal status 

message: Note:  This portal navigation can be placed on articles, and is commonly placed in the See also section of an article on Wikipedia, using the following code:

This displays as:
The Simpsons portal
Cirt (talk).
:Most of the episode articles already have the portal, just not the image. -- Scorpion0422 19:17, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I know, I just put it here for posterity, in case anyone wanted it.  Alternatively, here is a different version:

This displays as:
The Simpsons portal
Cirt (talk) 19:19, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Placement on articles 

message: Added Featured content and Associated Wikimedia sections, modeled after Portal:North West England, among other portals.  Cirt (talk) 20:54, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added 

message: *I set up subpages to begin the Randomization process for Selected article, Selected episode, and Did you know....  As there is plenty of quality rated WP:FA and WP:GA content in this project, I don't think it's unreasonable to require that all Selected article and  Selected episode pieces showcase the project's best work, and all be FAs or GAs.  As for Did you know..., it looks like this project does not have many hooks/DYKs that have actually successfully been featured at T:DYK, so I made this requirement less stringent and simply stated that all "hooks" will require a sourced citation at the hook's subpage to back up the stated fact.  Of course, preference should be given to hooks that have already successfully appeared at T:DYK, and so if possible, we should get (10) hooks to go to T:DYK at some point, though this is not necessary because good sourcing on our own and short and sweet hooks would be fine, in the model of T:TDYK.
Cirt (talk) 00:26, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Set-up the Randomization 

message: I see the Links and News sections both have links to external sites in those sections.  I am not 100% sure, but I don't think this will go over too well at WP:FPORTC when the time is ready.  I think that, especially for the News section, we should rely on sister projects and the like, for example The Simpsons pages on Wikinews.  Cirt (talk) 00:39, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links in Portal? 

message: Spacing issues will even out if we can get every single "blurb" piece from the Selected article and Selected episode sections to have the exact same number of lines.  This doesn't have to be 10 lines, but probably should be somewhere around there.  Cirt (talk) 11:41, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: "I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything!" -- Bart Simpson. In other words, spacing isn't that big of an issue, as long as it isn't extreme. ;-) RichardF (talk) 12:18, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, thanks.  Cirt (talk) 12:21, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spacing issues 

message: I may have said this earlier, but just to reiterate: I think that since The Simpsons WikiProject has a good amount of Feature quality and Good quality content, we should only use Feature or Good quality stuff in the Selected article and Selected episode sections.  Cirt (talk) 15:14, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feature and Good quality content 

message: I have been looking over at Wikimedia Commons on The Simpsons and it looks like there are some nice free-use images to choose from.  If we can pick out at least (10) varied free-use images from Wikimedia Commons, we could have a nice Selected picture section in the portal, that would also be randomized.  Cirt (talk) 00:28, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Selected picture section? 

message: I added a Main Topics section, which is required as per Wikipedia:Portal guidelines.  It is arranged in alphabetical order, with entries culled from the WP:FA article The Simpsons.  Cirt (talk) 15:54, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main Topics 

message: After multiple comments from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject The Simpsons, I added a randomized section with one quote from a character in an episode of The Simpsons.  Some points on that section as it stands so far:
#There are 19 quotes so far, one from each season.
#No characters are repeated.
#Quotes are attributed to the character and the episode.
Cirt (talk) 02:43, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks good, but I think we should have more than one quote per character. Where do the quotes come from, pulled from wikiquote or taken from a specific page? Also where can I nominate a quote? --Simpsons fan 66 06:20, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: can u give us more details Cirt? Like can i add it to my user page, which is what i first wanted, and how do we add/edit, etc these quotes? Ctjf83 talk 08:33, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, the quotes came from Wikiquote.  See Portal:The Simpsons/Character quote, Nominations section.  I'm not saying that quotes can't be more than one quote per character, but that is how I started off the first batch, for some variance in display (one quote per season, one per character.)  Let me know which quotes you want to add from what episode, and I'll do my best to address it.  Cirt (talk) 08:58, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

text:  I'm gonna be a pain...at the top, can you make it so it says "Random Simpsons Quote" so on my user page ppl know what it is...like it does on my random LGBT quote on my page Ctjf83 talk 09:54, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd rather not.  Some people might not want that, they may wish to have the option of having a plain quote with no other code transcluded with it, so they can format/modify headings around it how they wish.  Just add the heading yourself directly above the code.  Cirt (talk) 09:55, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good call, I love my new quote box and I can't wait for more quotes! Excellent job Cirt! --Simpsons fan 66 10:54, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks!  Cirt (talk) 11:06, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Character quote section 

message: *This portal has had a Portal peer review, which has since been archived.  Please see Wikipedia:Portal peer review/The Simpsons for more information.  Cirt (talk) 17:56, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portal peer review 

message: I have an issue with many articles about specific Simpsons episodes.  Is this the right place to talk about it?
My issue is that many articles contain unreferenced "Cultural references" sections.  There are so many articles that it would take forever to tag them with {citation needed} or even delete the unreferenced information.  What's the best way to go about fixing this? • Supāsaru 16:40, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Cultural references" sections 

message: Somebody really needs to change the upcoming episode I mean The Debarted is over now. Now it has to be changed to Dial 'N' for Nerder. Dr. Ralph Wiggum (talk) 22:44, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Usually  or  gets on that, you might want to message one of them.  Cirt (talk) 22:47, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll get it. -- 23:05, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

text: Update: I commented out this subsection, until it gets updated. Cirt (talk) 14:44, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Upcoming Episode 

message: *Someone please explain how this is any different from a trivia section. Anthony Rupert (talk) 05:27, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cultural references 

message: Most recent news in this subsection is from December 8, 2008. Could use an update. Cirt (talk) 14:45, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I commented out this subsection, until it gets updated. Cirt (talk) 07:42, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Portal:The Simpsons/The Simpsons news]] 

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message: If Mr Burns is included in the main topics should other important characters like Krusty and Ned Flanders not also be? Dunarc (talk) 19:19, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main topics