Portal talk:England

message: Why does the England portal state England is a nation and yet the article England does not? --Camaeron (talk) 19:31, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: England, a nation

message: I keep adding the England flag to the English Language page, but for some reason it keeps getting taken away! Why shouldn't the England flag be added to the page about the English language? Thank you! --Camaeron (talk) 14:47, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: England Flag being removed

message: ennerdale water IS home to 30,000 people daily. This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.229.174.34 (talk) 17:08, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "did you know" 

message: I proposed that the "Transport in" categories e.g. :Category:Transport in Kent should be placed within the relevant "Geography of" e.g. :Category:Geography of Kent. Any objection? Fayenatic london (talk) 12:13, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Transport in" and "Geography of" categories 

message: I think it would be a good idea to have a selected bio, I've seen it on a number of portals, and it might be a good idea to show off some promenant English people - it would obviously be as well as a selected bio and could be changed each month. The only problem is, we'll need one more thing to even the sections up, I'm currently thinking of what we could use. Ryan Postlethwaite 18:22, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Selected bio 

message: It might be a good idea to get a copy editor to look over upcoming articles before they appear. Several of the February set were riddled with typos or poor writing, which I've attempted to improve. Espresso Addict (talk) 15:36, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've just checked back and the Selected Quote is now a red link: Portal:England/Selected Quote/03 2008. Is anyone still maintaining this portal? I think it would be better to have static content than red links in a featured portal. Espresso Addict (talk) 00:43, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I created it - but the link was wrong. Fixed. Qst (talk) 01:09, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! Espresso Addict (talk) 01:15, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You're showing a complete set of red links at the moment! Looks like all the new articles have been created at the wrong title. Espresso Addict (talk) 00:40, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy editing 

message: The existing shortcut was changed in January to point to :Portal:Europe, has another shortcut been set up for this portal? Keith D (talk) 18:55, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't understand. Which shortcut are you referring too? P:ENG and P:ENGLAND both redirect to this portal, and I can't say I know of any other existing ones. Qst (talk) 19:13, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry for not specifying, I was talking of P:E on this page. Keith D (talk) 20:07, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Shortcut

message: Augustan literature has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. —Mattisse (Talk) 21:46, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Augustan literature]] 

message: I noticed this had not been updated for sometime; I added Portal:England/Selected Quotes/04 2009. I hope this is acceptable. A following quotation should be selected. Kbthompson (talk) 11:58, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Selected Quotes 

message: I'm English, live in England, blah blah blah...I've designed one or two Portals, by now, but I'd like the designers/Project members to consider re-evaluating having to update the boxes every month!? I've just logged on to see loads missing on this months Portal due to lack of content! Are you Guys serious? This is an unsustainable concept! Their are other ways. One could redesign the Portal and it's sub's to make life a lot easier. I'm more than happy to help - if the motive is there.
I may be a local but to take on the nations portal and ALL it's 50-ish sub-portals is a hell of a lot of work guys. I'm hard working, but I say it as I see it. Wiki User 68 (talk) 22:00, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Month/Year Portal articles et al 

message: Half of this portal is composed of red links, entire sections are broken. It should not be featured, I am afraid. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  23:24, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Featured??

message: The portal states: "England has been settled by humans of various cultures for over 29,000 years". This is misleading on two counts. It suggests that there is significance in a figure of 29,000 years, but England has been periodically occupied by various species of homo for over 800,000 years and by modern humans for over 40,000 years (see Prehistoric Britain). It also implies continuous occupation for the last 29,000 years, whereas there were certainly no people during the Last Glacial Maximum 20,000 years ago, and very probably none during the Younger Dryas, a cold period 12,000 years ago. I would suggest: "England has been periodically occupied by various species of human for over 800,000 years, but continuous occupation dates to the end of the last ice age around 11,000 years ago." Dudley Miles (talk) 14:44, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prehistoric occupation 

message: Hi, you may want to see the new portal I set up. Thanks, Matty.007 17:12, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Portal:Channel Islands]] 

message: 20th January 2015 is the 750th anniversary of the first English Parliament. The article De Montfort's Parliament is being improved and further contributions would be welcome and beneficial to work it towards GA. 
The BBC  are planning a "Democracy Day" of live events, discussions and debate, produced in partnership with the Speaker’s Office of the House of Commons, including broadcasts from inside Westminster. Whizz40 (talk) 06:15, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  750th anniversary of De Montfort's Parliament 

message: Hi, I've just created a portal for the Peak District which may be of interest here. Do feel free to enhance it with new or improved articles or by adding to the links. --Bermicourt (talk) 10:46, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Portal:Peak District]] 

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

message: Would it be worth adding Portal:English football as a related portal in the related portals section? Dunarc (talk) 22:46, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Related 

message: The portal has been expanded with the addition of new Featured article and Good article sections, as well as with more Selected article selections. If anyone is interested, please feel free to discuss these changes here. Additional articles for the portal can be considered from those available in the table listed below. North America1000 23:26, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portal expanded 

message: The following articles are presently being displayed in the portal using transclusion from articles. Consensus at VPP has approved using transclusion templates in portals, which provides users with up-to-date content that is verbatim to that in articles. North America1000 20:25, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Articles