Portal talk:Poetry/Archive 1

message: Nice start.  Might I suggest incorporating some non-Western poetic topics? Some good articles to look at include Du Fu, the Shahnama, and some of the pages relating to the Vedas and Vedic meter.  A corner focused on linguistic topics (e.g., tonal languages) would also be nice.  Sam 18:00, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: *I've fixed the box-header, so we get the titles in each box correctly now.  Stumps 12:56, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Poetry Portal changes

message: I'm not sure if the white text on a pale blue background for the box headers 'works' ... not quite enough contrast on my laptop's LCD at any rate.  Any suggestions?  I can play around with this a bit if you like. Stumps 13:01, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The color we choose needs to go with the blue links and the bluish/violet templates.  I'd avoid blue and use either a pure complementary color(perhaps a deep ochre). Sam 13:32, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you think we can do anything about the colors? Adambiswanger1 13:58, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've made the blue a little deeper which solves the problem on my LCD screen ... but I'm certainly not attached to any particular colour scheme. Perhaps someone with more of a sense for this stuff can have a think about it. Stumps 14:07, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colours 

message: Possibly we could add a 'news' section ... in some portals they tend to get out of date, but it's also a great incentive to add 'current' material.  Suggestions:
* Carol Ann Duffy has won the T. S. Eliot Prize
* Christopher Logue has won the Whitbread Prize
* Finnish poet Bo Carpelan has won the Finlandia Prize, thus becoming the first person to win the prize twice
* Romanian-born Canadian poet Irving Layton, close friend of Leonard Cohen died in Montreal on 4 January at the age of 92
* there is a campaign to save the London house where Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine lived, the actor Simon Callow is the spokesperson for the campaign
Any thoughts?Stumps 13:08, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd add Claudia Emerson for the Pulitzer.  It might be worth a box to focus just on contemporary poets and recent prizewinners. Sam 13:31, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok ... I've done it, and added a News / Events section into the portal.  let's try to keep it up to date ... (it's probably also an incentive to start adding poetry news into WikiNews! ... as if we didn'rt already have enough to do :) ...) Stumps 13:40, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok cool.  I have no problem with a news section, because, as you said, it adds more "modern" poetry to the page.  Even if the news becomes a month or two old, that's ok because no one expects poetry to be a hotbed of change. Adambiswanger1 13:58, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: News Section

message: I added a "language corner box, for articles focusing on how language is used, and shifted the categories box to the left and added the "lists of poets" boxes.  I also started cyclying through quotes and did you knows, subtracting one from the top and adding one to the bottom in each case.  Feel free to change, replace, whatever.  I also changed the color on the templates to match the blue on these headings - the contrast was bugging me.  Sam 11:54, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice changes.  Well done.  I'd been planning to update the colours on the templates for consistency, it had been bugging me too. Stumps 16:03, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well done. We have ourselves a portal  Adambiswanger1 18:44, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well done! You created a wonderful portal. If you would use a currentyear-currentweek system, maybe it could be a featured portal candidate too... NCurse work 19:58, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some changes 

message: I kicked in a new image to surpise everyone.  Do we want to get changes on a regular schedule, or are surprises more fun? Sam 00:30, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice image! I've been thinking of switching to the ARCHIVE/CURRENTMONTH approach, at least for the selected article ... that way we can work ahead, and get things ready for the first of each month ... however this requires 1) enough on going involvement to make sure we do have something ready for each 1st of the month, and 2) some sort of 'candidate' discussion for selected articles etc.  Anyone else have thoughts on this fairly broad topic? Stumps 07:26, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think fair use copyrighted images are not encouraged to be used on Portal name space (forbidden on main page), only to be used on respective articles. feydey 13:29, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like we need a new image - thanks for the heads up. On rotating, my suggestion would be that we set up a system where anyone with a desire to add something to the list can do so, and it will appear in turn unless there is an objection.  See how many we get and maybe we do monthly, maybe weekly, depending on interest.  We could set up a sub-page of this page for it, or just put it on this page. Sam 15:32, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hint: Portal:Literature has those set-up, go and copy... feydey 21:25, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Very nice - hung right off the portal template pages themselves.  That's great. Sam 21:36, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Sounds fine by me.  I assume this is the location of such a list? AdamBiswanger1 05:23, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes 

message: I'm just surfing around until my next taxi mom duty and I stumbled onto here thinking I'd share my fav poetic terms link-
http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary.html
Thanks
kayte
:Interesting...In the coming weeks if I see any that aren't included in Wikipedia I'll add them.  Maybe I'll add a few to the WikiProject. AdamBiswanger1 03:27, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  fav link 

message: Did we agree on weekly for just: Quotes, Poem, and Did You Know?  I can have a go at setting this up. Stumps 10:03, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've made these changes, and will add archive links to the portal boxes soon. Stumps 10:11, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Archive pages all in place, which will make it easier for us to 'work ahead'. Stumps 10:36, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Weekly

message: I suggest we use the talk page for each of the archives to discuss candidates.  For example, I've put a suggestion on :Portal talk:Poetry/Selected biography archive. Stumps 10:28, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Future candidates

message: I shifted some things around to relieve overcrowding, and made the boxes split 55/44 instead of 60/39.  I put the categories on the bottom.  If anyone doesn't like it, let me know, and I'll return it or make other changes.  Thanks, Sam 18:59, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relieving Crowding 

message: Almost all of those "Associated WikiMedia" icons on the bottom go nowhere (no Poetry on WikiNews etc.).  Can we just delete them or is it standard form to have them? Sam 20:58, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Associated WikiMedia 

message: Our quote for the first couple days of the week was a redlink; I put in a quote for this week and put the same one in for the next several weeks, just so it won't go red again.  If anyone has a chance to come up with some, we could use them.
Stumps, nice poem this week.  Sam 00:20, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll work on it.  Another question: Do you think it's appropriate to have snippits of poems in the quote section? perhaps something like "Arise my St. John! And leave all meaner things/ to low ambition and the pride of kings", then having a link saying something like "From Essay on Man by Alexander Pope.  Or should we just have quotes relating to poetry.  I think this greatly constrains us, though. AdamBiswanger1 23:45, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks - I see no reason not to be as free form as possible in the quotes.  A bit of humor, an odd thought, a little profundity - all should be welcome. Sam 00:44, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updating 

message: Could someone look at G. Onimira Farley and either expand on this person's notability or  the article? Thanks. -Harmil 02:02, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I AfD'd him, and it can be found here. Thanks for bringing it to our attention AdamBiswanger1 15:44, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  G. Onimira Farley