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* ... that '''[[Sans (Undertale)|Sans]]'''((`s)) boss theme, "[[Megalovania]]", was played at the [[Vatican City|Vatican]] as part of a circus act during an audience with [[Pope Francis]]?
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Just to say I have created the portal; though this is my first time and have no idea on what I'm doing. I will need help to complete this portal. Just to say, please do not delete it, because it is not finished yet!. As I said, can someone please help me to complete this needed portal. Ross Rhodes (TC) Sign!22:16, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I'm in the process of putting together a list of articles which all the portals relevant to Christianity could use in selecting articles for their portal at User:John Carter/Christianity portals. As you can see, I'm still in the kind of early stages with it, but hope to be finished with it in a few days or so. Alphabetically and chronologically, Vatican City appears last, so it will probably be later in the week that I get to it, but I do hope to get there comparatively soon. Having said all that, however, I cannot see how, with the comparatively limited scope of the portal, and the fact that all of its content could already be fit into the Portal:Catholicism or Portal:Pope, this portal presents the pressing need for this portal its creator speaks about above is. Could someone explain to me what they see the need for this portal as being? Thank you. John Carter (talk) 20:36, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well every other country does have a portal; and I think we have enough articles on the subject to make it worth having one. Ross Rhodes (TC) Sign!09:59, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well, it isn't true that every country has portals, several still do not, and this includes several countries much larger than the Vatican. Also, there is the requirement of not only having enough articles, but having anyone who would actually use the portal as a portal. Given the rather limited scope of this subject, I have some doubts myself. In any event, I certainly do not see any need for having separate portals for the papacy and the Vatican. Personally, I think the best option would be to move the Pope portal to some other name, like Portal:Vatican or maybe Portal:Vatican City, and try to improve the single portal for the subject rather than having two. John Carter (talk) 13:29, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have proposed that the existing Portal:Pope be retitled Portal:Vatican. This is done with the intention of using the existing material of that portal as the basis for this portal, and to reduce the number of basically redundant portals, such as having separate portals for the papacy and the Vatican. Any interested parties should feel free to express their opinions there. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 13:26, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
If you think doing things that way will work then go ahead. We guest need to make it as good as possible and hopefully get it to featured status. Ross Rhodes (TC) Sign!13:48, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Why don't you instead of like having a subpage of this portal for the In the News section as Portal:Vatican City/News why not change it into WikiNews? To be able to use the WikiNews Importer to get News About the Vatican City which you can find out how to do it here.
I am currently trying to get together some lists of articles relevant to each Christianity-related portal which could be used, at least potentially, to help bring all the extant portals up to Featured Portal status. The current, admittedly incomplete, list of articles, images, etc., relevant to each portal can be found at User:John Carter/Christianity portals. I also think that, at least in theory, we would probably best use a single article only in a single portal, and that we probably have enough articles to do that, although there might be a few exceptions. I would welcome input from anyone on the associated talk page regarding which articles and other materials they would like to see associated with which portal(s), any suggestions for additional portals or changes to existing portals, etc. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 15:47, 29 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
How's this for a plan: choose the first "selected article" and post its name here, and I'll do the fiddly formatting. Then I'll post back here with a detailed description of what I did, so that you'll be able to add more selected articles and perhaps attempt another of the boxes yourself. But I'm away this weekend, so this won't happen immediately. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:17, 13 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I then saw that Portal:Vatican City/Selected article/1 already existed. I've left this alone, though it duplicates some of the material in the Introduction box. I suggest you overwrite this page with a new one.
I updated the main portal page so that the randomiser would pick from only two articles rather than 11. This means the "Selected article" box will no longer show a red link.
I've created the framework for some selected pictures and have done the first one. One gotcha is that I copied the layout from Portal:Society/Featured picture/Layout, and, although it says it has a "caption" parameter it doesn't actually get displayed. Instead, use the "text" parameter and grab a sentence or so from a relevant article. There's no need to find 25 pictures, I think. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:35, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Seconded. Maybe it should be called "Vatican" since "The Vatican" is sorta a catch-all term for the Holy See, both as a sovereign subject and as the See of Peter, and Vatican City State? Canon Law Junkie§§§ Talk05:57, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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