Portal talk:Ancient Germanic culture/Archive 1

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Did you know

On the "Did you know" section, isn't it true that the figure of Santa Claus is at the least a composite of the god you mentioned and St. Nicholas?

The phrase "the Rohirrim are clearly Anglo-Saxons" is pretty strongly POV; there are definite parallels but aren't the Anglo-Saxons" a specific people group and Tolkien said that the Rohirrim were meant to more vaguely resemble a Northern, possibly Norse culture? Edonovan 23:31, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

I agree -- the language of Tolkien's Rohirrim is based on Anglo-Saxon, but the culture is a lot closer to that of steppe pastoralists like the Ostrogoths or Sarmatians. Abou 02:15, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

the historic "kernel"? Clovis was a "climacteirc"? these words are............unusual. consider coming with more common phrases so more people can understand this - Bagel7

I am assuming that "climacteirc" is a typo of some kind. I don't recognize the word! Alex Jackl 23:54, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Markup changes

Does anyone have a screenshot of the older markup causing content to flow outside the div boundaries, or at least a description of a platform it happens on? I'm not sure why it would happen at all.

I'm going to go ahead and clean up some of the markup in a few stages over the next couple of days; if it breaks in anything, I'd appreciate an immediate heads-up. But this page currently (due to the extra tables) looks substantially different from most other portals and just generally sticks out a bit.

Also, if there aren't any objections it would probably be a good idea to split the different boxes off so the wikisource is less complicated. Portal:American football is an example of this. Aluvus 16:46, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

  • I should say, to move the markup for the boxes into their subpages so it is mostly out of the page wikisource. Aluvus 17:12, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Markup is cleaner and mostly done. The old problem of text overflowing the divs was almost certainly due to specifying the heights of the divs [1] Aluvus 19:14, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

New Wikiproject

For those who are interested, Wikipedia:WikiProject Norse history and culture has been formed. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 17:10, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Random article selector

I have added a random article selector. The code looks like this:

{{Random portal component|max=1|header=Selected article|footer=More articles...|subpage=Selected article}}

This will randomly select one article to be displayed on the main page from the n possible articles stored on the Portal:Ancient Germanic culture/Selected article list. The "max" attribute will determine the first n articles to choose from. This will allow anyone to add content and it will rotate automatically on each visit. Arundhati lejeune 22:22, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

FAR nomination

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Santa Clause Image

The image of Santa Clause Image:Santa.jpg needs to be replace. I doubt that this is the image that was original placed here. The current image usage is a copyright violation and does nothing to enhance this article. Dbiel (Talk) 03:01, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

'Look' of the Portal

Could anyone more knowledgeable in such matters explain where information can be found on adjusting things like background and border colors for the modules? (Forgive my surely improper use of the lingo for this particular context - in the php-world I would be indicating the CSS file. I really don't know how Wikipedia works in this regard.) If one compares this portal with that of Ancient Greece or Rome, this one is screaming "No one loves me!" :P Aryaman (☼) 20:35, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

OK. I did some research and found out how to do it myself. My changes are probably not to everyone's taste, but I was trying to maintain some kind of continuity with the old layout... Aryaman (☼) 17:40, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Archive This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.