Portal talk:1990s

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Parser error

@Dreamy Jazz: The portal page is showing "{{Calendar/Sun1stMonthStartError: Invalid time." It looks like that is due to the {{calendar}} at the top of Portal:1990s/Selected anniversaries/June. Can you fix that? Johnuniq (talk) 03:37, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

I will have a look to see what I can do. Thanks for alerting me Dreamy Jazz (talk) 07:29, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

Seems to be because there are no annevesaries for June but a page has been created for it unlike for may and march. I will see what I can do. Dreamy Jazz (talk) 07:37, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

Done a temporary fix, will look into it further later Dreamy Jazz (talk) 08:09, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

I think that this portal uses each day as a differently selected anniversary at the moment. That, however, could be changed to be only for each month. At the moment I have left it for each day. Dreamy Jazz (talk) 15:30, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

Portal updates

@Northamerica1000: The edits you made to this portal last year look similar to your good changes to 1920s etc. but are marked with {{construction}}. Are they ready to reinstate (and add lists etc.) or should we leave this portal in its old state? Certes (talk) 10:38, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

@Certes: I have restored the portal improvements. See the diff, which provides my detailed rationale for the restoration. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:43, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

Articles

The following articles are presently being displayed in the portal using transclusion from articles. Consensus at VPP has approved using transclusion templates in portals, which provides users with up-to-date content that is verbatim to that in articles. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:45, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

Selected articles

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Selected biographies

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Notelist

@ActivelyDisinterested: Thank you for fixing a cite error. Can you remember what note was visible? I'm trying to track down the cause, to prevent similar errors from appearing in other portals. Certes (talk) 12:05, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

Hi Certes. It was due to the selected biography section, the Bill Clinton article (which was showing) has a note in regard to his name. Hope that helps. ActivelyDisinterested (talk) 12:09, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, that's very helpful. We've already identified other templates which produce useful text but optionally add a footnote; in Clinton's case it's {{Birth name}}. I'll see if we can suppress it in the module. Certes (talk) 12:14, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

 Fixed; both Template:Birth name and Module:Excerpt/portals required changes. Certes (talk) 12:34, 27 February 2022 (UTC)