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Contents 1 Featured Articles 2 Ooh 3 Welsh Wikipaedians' Notice Board 4 Flags 4.1 Politics of Wales Table needed 4.2 Welsh Movies 4.3 Seeking approval

[edit] Featured Articles

1. Merthyr Tydfil is very good.

[edit] Ooh

A Wales portal? Great. Was anyone thinking of announcing it anywhere? At all? :) I found it by accident. Is it also time for a Wales discussion board on the lines of the Wikipedia talk:UK Wikipedians' notice board one which already exists for the UK as a whole? There must be (almost) enough people editing in the general area now to make it worth thinking about. Telsa 22:12, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I agree. Shout it from the rooftops. Please insert the following code into as many Wales categories as you can manage (and certainly all the main cats):

• {{portalpar|Wales}}

which then produces the pretty:

Wales Portal

I put it on quite a lot of Wales cats myself when it was still a red link (I am the proud initiator, and point of contact for, Portal:Scotland). It should also be on the main page of the relevant article being "portalised", in this case Wales: I'll nip over there and put it on now.

On the topic of notice boards, I am also the initiator of the Scottish Wikipedians' notice board. Feel free to nick our template if you like, and visit some other notice boards for ideas too: some are hives of activity, some are dead as dodos. I note that some of our subpages are edited far more often than the main page. Good luck.

(Listen, while I'm over here, can I just say that I have become increasingly concerned by the persistent POV vandalism over at Plaid Cymru and Welsh nationalism articles (even the title of that last one is strongly POV, let alone the content). Whatever one's views on those topics, Wikipedia cannot allow articles to be totally hijacked by political opponents. If the vandalism continues I am going to seek advice at a high level.)--Mais oui! 22:55, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I just found the portal by accident - great! I would agree with Telsa's suggestion of a Wales discussion board, though I've no idea how to go about setting one up. Rhion 12:53, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Regional notice boards.--cj | talk 13:24, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

You simply find an existing notice board that you like, and then just cut and paste the template into the blank page at red link: Wikipedia:Welsh Wikipedians' notice board. Then you fiddle about changing "Finnish" (or whatever) to "Welsh" etc, and probably adding or deleting relevant/irrelevant sections.

For the Scottish one I wholesale nicked the design of the Norwegian one, who in turn had nicked the design of the ground-breaking Swedish one. Funnily enough, the Swedish one is no longer as good as it used to be.

Of course, you could hardly do better than to nick the Scottish one... :) --Mais oui! 13:59, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welsh Wikipaedians' Notice Board

Following Telsa's suggestion and Mais oui!'s instructions above, I've set up something simple to see what sort of response we get. Please sign up, let as many users as you can know about it and feel free to make any changes. Shortcut WP:WWNB. Rhion 19:25, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Flags

Does anybody else think we should also have the Flag of Saint David (left) on the portal aswell? -Aled D 22:09, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Politics of Wales Table needed

For the articles Politics in Wales, National Assembly for Wales, Welsh Assembly Government etc.. we will need a "Politics and Government of Wales" table for each, possibly the same table for each. Similar tables like this are featured on the Scottish and United Kingdom political articles.

Amlder20 22:09, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welsh Movies

Is there a list of Welsh movies? Meaning movies with Welsh content from language, subject matter, and maybe other movies shot in Wales? If not, this would be a great list to place on the main page possibly. I love this portal! Drachenfyre 09:41, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Seeking approval

I have created a new Politics of Wales Template on my Userpage that I would think needs approval of Welsh Wikipedians. Please leave me a message of approval on my user talk page. Amlder20 14:41, 21 February 2007 (UTC)