Portal talk:Utah

Archive 1: September 2005-October 2006

Featured portals

Portal:Texas is the first state featured portal, so I'm slowly working on getting the Utah one up to similar quality by working on several things:

• Using Template:Random portal component to have rotating content for the selected picture. This is already done, though more images can be added, as long as they are good quality or unique in some way.
• Using Template:Random portal component to have rotating content for the selected article. I have started to populate the article page, and will add more to balance the large amount of geology- and nature-related articles (that happened to be featured).

• update: This is up and going - more articles can be added. — Zaui (talk) 04:53, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

• Texas has sections for biographies and cities. I'm not sure we have enough good Utah city articles to justify having a separate section - I'll have to take a look. I haven't started to look into a biography section yet either.

• update: Biography section is up and running. — Zaui (talk) 04:53, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

• update: I don't think a separate cities section is viable - any decent city articles can be used as a selected article. — Zaui (talk) 23:22, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

• Trimming the government and attraction sections from the portal. These subjects are better handled elsewhere - probably just need some links to pertinent articles.

• update: These are trimmed now - added some attractions to Template:Utah and made Government of Utah from the government section. — Zaui (talk) 23:22, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

• If anyone knows of a way to have the anniversaries automatically update, I think that would be a neat feature.
• Adding a List of Utah... section

• update: This is completed. — Zaui (talk) 20:58, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Other suggestions are welcome. — Zaui (talk) 17:29, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

I plan to add a rotating Did you know... section also. — Zaui (talk) 20:58, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

• update:Got this started, need to add more. — Zaui (talk) 23:22, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Notes on subjects

Possible subjects to add:

Selected article

If not enough for an article, use for a DYK or Selected picture.

• 2002 Winter Olympics — Added — Zaui (talk) 20:59, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
• Rainbow Bridge National Monument
• Colorado river — Added — Zaui (talk) 20:59, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
• Glen Canyon or Lake Powell — Added — Zaui (talk) 22:12, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
• Any notable mountains
• Bear River Massacre

Selected biography

• James Duane Doty
• Jedediah Smith
• Butch Cassidy — Added — Zaui (talk) 23:17, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
• Thomas L. Kane already there — Zaui (talk) 23:24, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Philo Farnsworth
• John Moses Browning
• The Osmonds
• Roseanne
• Brandon Flowers — Added — Zaui (talk) 18:37, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
• Jake Garn — Added — Zaui (talk) 18:37, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
• Kim Peek — Added — Zaui (talk) 18:37, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
• Loretta Young — Added — Zaui (talk) 18:37, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
• Merlin Olsen
• Parley P. Pratt
• David M. Kennedy
• Wallace Stegner
• [Wayne Owens]]

DYK

Short bios removed from Selected biographies - possible DYK candidates:

• David Neeleman
• Cael Sanderson added to DYK — Zaui (talk) 20:58, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
• Brent Scowcroft added to DYK — Zaui (talk) 20:58, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
• James H. Clark added to DYK — Zaui (talk) 20:58, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
• Alan Ashton
• Henry Eyring added to DYK — Zaui (talk) 20:58, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
• Paul D. Boyer added to DYK — Zaui (talk) 20:58, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
• John Warnock added to DYK — Zaui (talk) 20:58, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Panoramic images

The panoramic images "kill" the columns display. They need to be reduced to stay where they are or put them in a 100% width section somewhere. :-) Rfrisbie^talk 19:18, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

This should be fixed now, but I can't check since I couldn't reproduce the problem with my browser - I sized them down to 450px. — Zaui (talk) 18:00, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

They have to be no wider than 300px at 800X600 display size for the column widths you have chosen. I made the changes. This really isn't a browser issue, it's a pixel width for low resolution displays issue. I would think your computer has a "display" control panel somewhere to set different screen resolutions. Rfrisbie^talk 18:48, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

OK, I understand the issue now. Thanks for the fix. — Zaui (talk) 20:08, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Featured portal candidate issues

Just to keep me organized...

• trim low-quality Selected biographies — Zaui (talk) 17:41, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
• add Topic section — Zaui (talk) 20:09, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
• move purge link higher up the page thanks to User:Rfrisbie for doing this! — Zaui (talk) 17:53, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
• scroll-over captions for Selected articles and biographies images

Finished articles, working on biographies. — Zaui (talk) 23:43, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Finished. — Zaui (talk) 06:50, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

• add more DYK items — Zaui (talk) 21:00, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
• re-size images to have more consistant column length This is better now. — Zaui (talk) 06:50, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

— Zaui (talk) 16:57, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

some more...

• re-work 'things to do' section - more explicit headers (link to istructions?) - bigger?
• expand topics section
• Wiki-quote for Utah - selected quote section for portal?

— Zaui (talk) 17:37, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Lists section format

It seems the lists section wording is a bit redundant. References to the title (e.g., "List" and "Utah") usually are omitted. The items also are not in a consistent order, e.g., alphabetical. I made some proposed changes for your consideration. Rfrisbie^talk 21:18, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Agree with you - I've added your version to the portal. — Zaui (talk) 22:42, 4 January 2007 (UTC)