Portal talk:Louisville

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Contents 1 Subpages 2 Improvement 3 Nomination for next selected biography 4 Disappearing sections 5 Congrats from the other end of the Oregon Trail!

[edit] Subpages

• Portal:Louisville/Intro
• Portal:Louisville/Selected article
• Portal:Louisville/Selected picture
• Portal:Louisville/Selected biography
• Portal:Louisville/Louisville_news
• Portal:Louisville/Categories
• Portal:Louisville/Did you know
• Portal:Louisville/Quotes
• Portal:Louisville/Sister_cities
• Portal:Louisville/Sunnyside
• Portal:Louisville/Louisville_topics
• Portal:Louisville/Things you can do
• Portal:Louisville/WikiProjects
• Portal:Louisville/box-header
• Portal:Louisville/box-footer

[edit] Improvement

Any thoughts on improving this? I made the headline color red and white to go well with the University of Louisville.--Bedford 05:23, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

At a glance, the issues I see are a couple cases of image overflow, and the Louisville template's bar colors doesn't match the portal's red and white. Otherwise, this is an excellent beginning for the portal! Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 14:47, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Is it possible to change the template's colors?--Bedford 15:02, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

It's trivial to change the background color of the top and bottom bars to red. The trick is figuring out how to re-color the links so that people can read them over the red background. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 15:37, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Honestly, though, because this is the *Louisville* portal and not the *University of Louisville* portal, the color scheme should probably be the blue and gold colors from the city seal. Just my $0.02 --Carl ^{(talk|contribs)} 04:08, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I think you're right. We should match the city seal for sure. There's too many people out there confusing the city with the university and we shouldn't help them maintain that confusion. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 04:16, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

I have never seen anyone confuse one with the other> Can you show me where it took place?--Bedford 08:42, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

It's just a lifetime of observations of people's discussions. A lot of people talk sports, and when they say Louisville, and mean U of L. The bottom line is there is no reason for us to use U of L colors on a City of Louisville portal. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 14:46, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

But the red and white is striking, and I don't remember pther plortals using that scheme. Why base on colors of a seal that some image-nazi won't even let us use?--Bedford 16:20, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

You know I concur about the "image-nazi" part. :) And this is certainly not a big issue in an otherwise excellent endeavor on your part. But alas, blue and gold are indeed the city's colors. I'm not going to make a federal case out of this. If you really want to keep the red and white, I'm not going to use any of my wikitime to fight it. No big deal. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 16:33, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

It's more than just the seal. I use the seal as the most visible evidence of the colors. Just as we use "red, white and blue" to represent the USA. The blue/gold scheme is used throughout Metro's website, it's used in the paint scheme for LMPD marked vehicles, etc. Greater Louisville, Inc. (aka the Chamber of Commerce) also uses the scheme for their website and materials. --Carl ^{(talk|contribs)} 18:37, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

And because I can, I did change the color scheme. I changed the header to the gold color Stevie used in the WP boxes and the text to black (so that the wikilinks are a different color). Besides, (and in a rare case [for me] of POV-pushing), what if I thought the color scheme should be scarlet and silver to represent Bellarmine University, because it is (after all) a better and more distinguished school than U of L? Or Sullivan? Or Spalding? or any one of the several universities in the area? --Carl ^{(talk|contribs)} 18:48, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

MAN, that new scheme looks UGLY. It clashes horribly.--Bedford 22:17, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Well, red isn't a city color, and it doesn't look good with gold fonts anyway. Perhaps change the background red to the city blue? Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 22:29, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

I tweaked your colors somewhat. Your color scheme was based on the logo I did for the project. I went to Metro's website and grabbed the blue and gold used by the city. rv if you think it's a problem --Carl ^{(talk|contribs)} 22:13, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

The blue background is fine, but it's hard to read text with that shade of orange/gold over the blue. We may need to use yellow just so we can read it. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 23:00, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nomination for next selected biography

How about Muhammad Ali? It's been at B level for a long while, and it's pretty extensive. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 03:55, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

At the special talk page just for bios, I listed Ali on the shortlist, so he's very likely the next one.--Bedford 04:13, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

OK, just found it. At some point, we may want to consider having an archive/nominations page that is linked from the Selected boxes, like in Portal:Indiana. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 04:40, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm already planning on doing archives. I just haven't added them because we don't have any old ones.--Bedford 04:43, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Disappearing sections

I was wondering why the news and web resources sections have been removed. They seem like good ones to keep. Our portal also seems to be missing sections that other city portals have (see Portal:Philadelphia for an example). Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 14:47, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

• See Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Louisville/archive1 for explanations.--Bedford (talk) 22:50, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
  • OK, fair enough. I'm happy to see all your enhancements to this, and getting this portal featured will be yet another good thing for Louisville. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 18:22, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Congrats from the other end of the Oregon Trail!

I was just poking around the Lewis & Clark article, and saw you guys recently got this article to Featured. I looked around a bit, it's very nice! Didn't realize KFC's name had caused such a stir. I might steal a couple of your ideas for Portal:Oregon. Anyway, keep up the great work! -Pete (talk) 01:00, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the compliments. Portal:Kentucky is also featured, so you might like looking at it too.--Bedford 01:16, 8 March 2008 (UTC)