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Portal placement examples

To better understand the recommended placement of the portal templates, it is helpful to view examples.

	Preferred template to use	Comments
A Articles with "See also" section		Example uses "Portal" template; lines are right-justified. {{Portal|Biography|History|Italy}} Position – first line after See also section title.
B Articles with NO "See also" section; With "External links"		Example uses "portal bar" template; full-width line is centered. {{portal bar|Malta}} Position – After last line of External links section, in effect, the portal appears above article Navbox templates.
C Stub articles; NO "See also" NO "External links"	Biography portal  Science portal	First example: Uses "stack" template combined with "portal bar"; horizontal (partial) line is right-justified. {{stack | {{portal bar|Sports|Germany}} }} {{clear}} Second example: Uses "Portal-inline" lines; several left-justified lines. *{{Portal-inline|Biography}} *{{portal-inline|Science}} *{{Portal-inline|Time}} Position – immediately following article's content.

* Note: There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Layout, Placement of {{Portal bar}} section. Based on whatever the consensus, the above can be updated. — JoeHebda • (talk) 19:29, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

* Recommendation: For page Wikipedia:Portal, after section How to add portal links to articles, add above wikitable. It could be either a Level two section (==) or as a sub-section (===). — JoeHebda • (talk) 19:46, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

* Discussion: – Please post discussion/comments at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Layout, Placement of {{Portal bar}} section mentioned above. — JoeHebda • (talk) 20:05, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Another option, Subject bar template

Greetings, After much searching I finally located this template which I had only seen once or twice.

Template:Subject bar

Wondering if this Subject bar template would be a better alternative than these three?

• Template:Portal
• Template:portal bar
• Template:portal-inline

In the Subject bar documentation it explains placement & reason to use.

This navigational template is intended be placed at the end of an article, after the References or External links and before any navboxes and categories. It offers an variant to several floating box templates that link to books, portals, and Wikipedia's sister projects but also typically cause formatting issues because of their size and alignment.

For example:

{{Subject bar |portal1= Biography |portal2= Primates |portal3= Madagascar}}

Regards, — JoeHebda • (talk) 16:02, 25 June 2016 (UTC)