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[edit] Portal:India

This is a self nom for the Indian Portal. The portal has gone through a peer review and suggestions and concerns raised during PR have now been incorporated. I feel it meets all the criteria to be deemed WP:FPORT. AreJay 19:56, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

  • Object:
    • No archives for "Did you know" and "News".
    • The picture archive is a mess of redlinks. Something to the effect of "No picture has been selected yet" should be given for each of them.
    • The topic box has a redundant edit link and a strangely placed list of car models.
    • What is the picture in the news section related to?
    • The entire selected article/picture process is misplaced, since it fails to use a subpage slash immediately after "Portal:India"; in other words, Portal:India Today's selected article/March 2006 is a subpage of Portal:India Today's selected article, which is a separate portal from Portal:India.
    • Finally, the material needs to be copyedited. The "Today's selected article" blurb for the Indian rebellion of 1857, for example, is filled with grammatical mistakes. Kirill Lokshin 20:17, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Comment: Contributors are working to address your objections. I don't see the "strangely placed list of car models"...where is it exactly? AreJay 23:56, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
It's been removed already. Kirill Lokshin 00:00, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment:
    • REALLY small text : P (I know you can enlarge it but still!)
    • Wikiprojects should either be moved from it's current position and/or merged with Related Portals or India Topics
    • Associated Wikimedia should be at the bottom
    • Did you know should have a question mark at the end
    • In News you've stacked the links, line them together with seperaters
    • What's the difference between Categories and India Topics?
A good start, but still a while to go, if these things got addressed (and maybe a colour change?) then it'd have my support : ) Highway 22:09, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Comment:
    1. Wikiprojects is unrelated to Related Portals or India Topics. Wikiprojects provides a platform for collaboration on various India related topics. It is more a platform than an actual topic.
    2. Can you clarify what you mean when you say "line them together with separators?"
    3. Categories are Wikipedia Categories dealing with India. India Topics contains a collection of India related sub-topics, organized by theme.
    4. As far as text, we designed the portal to appear presentable on a standard 800x600 resolution with browser text-size set to Medium. Perhaps, your text-size is set to small? I'm not saying it can't be changed if it is a definate issue, I'm only saying that I would rather leave it the way it is for now. If you feel this is an issue, we'll address it. AreJay 23:56, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
The text is TOO small for 1024x768 which is fast becoming the norm. OTH, london portal is perfect for 1024x768. Also, I changed resolution to 800x600 and london portal is still fine and I find portal India size to be still bit small (although much better than 1024x768). (Blacksun 00:37, 24 March 2006 (UTC)) Strong Support
Comment: Some work done to address above concerns:
1. Font size restored to normal
2. Associated Wikimedia moved to the bottom
3. "?" added at the end of Did you Know
AreJay 15:40, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Response to Kirill Lokshin's questions

  • Archive link for the Did you know? section has been added.
  • Archive for the news already exists. It is linked as More current events in the news section.
  • Car model link was removed.
  • We still have work to do on the Selected Picture and Selected Article sections.

- Ganeshk (talk) 00:02, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Very nice work. Kirill Lokshin 00:07, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Some more pictures has been added to Picture archive. This archive is for the whole year, so it appears like a mess of redlinks, but gradually by putting some more images, it does not look like so. It has already a backup of more than 20 days.
Selected articles/pictures do not have a subpage for Portal:India, but it does not mean the process is misplaced. Link on Portal:India to direct through WP:PINSA as well as WP:PINSP has been provided. Now, a well suited link also has been provided to go to Portal:India in reverse.
Yes, Portal:India Today's selected article/March 22, 2006 has some grammatical mistakes. But sometimes it could occur, I think all other articles have not such kind of mistakes.
All the contents are of high quality. If there is some need to work somewhere, suggestions are invited. Shyam (T/C) 13:29, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
I don't really agree on the selected articles issue. If it's part of the India portal, it should be done on a subpage; if it's a separate process, it should be in the Wikipedia: namespace. I'm pretty sure it's not a separate portal, in any case, so it's current placement is inappropriate. Kirill Lokshin 14:24, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
NOw Selected articles/pictures are the subpages of portal. If still there are some suggestions to make them improve, please suggest. Shyam (T/C) 09:29, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Comment: I have commented out the whole host of red links in the picture archive. Per your suggestion, I have also added a note at the bottom saying Nominees past the above week have not been added as yet. Does this and the above summary of the remediation effort sufficiently address your concerns? Thanks. AreJay 22:33, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Excellent work; this has my full support now. Kirill Lokshin 00:09, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Support Rama's Arrow 06:22, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Support Very impressive. Brisvegas 11:45, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Support =Nichalp «Talk»= 14:00, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong obvious support Shyam (T/C) 14:13, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Support Beautiful. -- Saravask 21:02, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong Support One of the contributors. :) - Ganeshk (talk) 21:05, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Support India-related topics really have a body of editors here on Wiki. Staxringold 03:48, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Support so long as red links are eliminated outside of Tasks you can do.The Related portals section seems to be substituting a See also section, which is not strictly correct - but this isn't a reason to oppose. Good work - this portal has long deserved a makeover.--cj | talk 10:32, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
Comment: red-links removed. Can you clarify your suggestion on the Related Links section? I'll be happy to address that as well. Thanks AreJay 14:44, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
I think, making a different template for requested articles can help in removing red links. I am not sure. If we display "Requested articles" only on the portal, it may help. Anybody can see these red links by clicking on the template. Shyam (T/C) 22:01, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Support It's great : P Highway 13:36, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Comment it looks really good,but with the influx of Country portals isn't it about time to have some more specific standards for them?Like how maps and the like are handled?--Technosphere83 22:49, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

  • Support Looks good, well-run and updated fairly quickly. Definite support. Nobleeagle (Talk) 07:39, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Support AreJay, Urshyam and others have worked hard and addressed all issues. Great job! deeptrivia (talk) 05:14, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Support Yup, also has additional features like WP:PINQ :p --Gurubrahma 17:04, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Support Would like to see something more "unique" from the portal though. GizzaChat © 08:23, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
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