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Contents 1 Dragon Ball portal 2 A list of portals 3 Related templates for portal creation 4 Items on portals

[edit] Dragon Ball portal

Can someone who is experienced with handling new portals take a gander at Portal:Dragon Ball? Firstly, I'm not sure how to format it correctly, that and those red links need fixing. I guess I'm too tired now to resume, but I'd greated appreciate if anyone can help me. Lord Sesshomaru

[edit] A list of portals

As part of some work I've been doing to clean up the Portal namespace, I've generated a nifty sortable list of all portals (including broken, incomplete, and redirected portals) at User:Zetawoof/PortalList. Zetawoof_(ζ) 04:53, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Related templates for portal creation

Hello all, I was working on the food and drink related portals and have come across or created several templates that are all used in creating portal pages. The thing is that while they are all related, they were never linked. So what I have done is link them all together under their "See also" sections. I have also improved the documentation a little because most info on usage was sparse at best.

These are them:

Main portal creation templates:

• {{Box portal skeleton}} - used to create portal main pages
• {{Random portal component}} - used on the portal main page to randomly displayed articles on portal sub-pages
• {{Numbered subpages}} - used to create article links on portal sub-pages

These templates are used to create the articles on the sub-pages:

• {{Selected article}}
• {{Selected biography}}
• {{Selected business}}
• {{Selected DYK}}
• {{Selected ingredient}}
• {{Selected quote}}
• {{Selected picture}}
• {{Selected product}}

--Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 00:35, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

And, while we're cleaning stuff up, what's the chances that we can move the portal layout templates (i.e. Portal:Boxheader) to template space? I'm not sure why they were ever put in the Portal namespace to start with... Zetawoof_(ζ) 02:53, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Done. I also made a simple list template to put on the see also pages so we will not have to change the see also section on dozens of pages every time another is added. {{Portal template list}} --Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 20:24, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

There are still a bunch of alternate layout templates:

• Portal:Box-header (with a ton of subpages)
• Portal:Box-footer (with a ton of subpages)
• {{Box-header1}}
• {{Box-header2}} (unused)
• {{Box-Header II}} (unused)
• {{Box-header-blank}} (unused outside Portal:Current events/India)
• {{Box-header-groovy}} (unused)
• {{Box-header-health}} (unused)
• {{Box-header-round}}
• {{Box-header-square}}
• {{Box-header-watch}}
• {{Box-footer2}} (unused)
• {{Box-header-plain}} (unused outside Portal:Contents)

Some of the unused formats can probably be deleted. Zetawoof_(ζ) 00:55, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Items on portals

For anyone who is interested, Derek Andrews has created Template:No selected item which can be used as a warning for selecting items such as selected article and selected picture not being displayed the next month. Simply south is this a buffet? 21:55, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

The template appears to have an error in it. --Jeremy (blah blah 01:24, 27 February 2009 (UTC)