Portal talk:Dogs

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Recommendations to improve page to featured portal status

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  • Rotate articles and pictures on monthly/fortnightly basis.
    • No change. Because the Selected article, Selected picture and Selected breed all use a randomized presentation design, item rotation is automatic and all items always are in play. Consequently, rotation timetables are not necessary. Readers also can refresh the items displayed by clicking the Show another article, picture, breed link below the introduction. The redundant link at the bottom of the page was removed. A randomized version for DYK is in the works.
  • Add archives for articles, pictures, breeds and DYK.
    • Done. Added "Archive/Nominations" link to all recommended management pages.
  • Add links for additional recommended articles, pictures, breeds and DYK.
    • Done. Added "Archive/Nominations" link to all recommended management pages.
  • Have [edit] point directly to specific item.
    • Done. Edit links for rotated content modified to go directly to subpage.
  • Move purge link to affected sections area.
    • Done. Moved to background above Selected article section.
  • Add Related portals section.
    • Done. Added section with Science, Biology, Cats.
  • Have multiple maintainers of portal.
  • Reduce picture size and/or move picture for 800X600 displays.
    • Done. Moved Selected picture to wider column.
  • Add {{Tasks}} template.
    • Done. Example requests, stubs, and key tasks from project included.
  • Add DYK nomination criteria.

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[edit] Featured portal tips

Please add any tips here on how this page can be improved to Featured portal status. Thanks. Rfrisbietalk 18:19, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Note: Related comments at Portal talk:Cats also apply here. Rfrisbietalk 03:33, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

A few suggestions:

  • Selected picture should be resized, or placed in left-hand column if you don't want to resize. On my computer with Firefox, it looks really distorted and extends way out of the box parameters.
  • Things you can do-Make a template for that and follow a format similarly to to Template:Bizetasks.
  • You should also have a link for other users to make suggestions for future featured articles. Also required is an archive for DYK, featured picture, featured article, and featured breed.
  • I don't know if the purge button is really necessary. It's just my opinion, but it just appears redundant since there already is a purge at the bottom of the portal.

Overall, it looks great so far. =) A few minor tweaks and it can make it to FP. Nishkid64 21:49, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Selected breed format

I've noticed that on subpage 21 and after the "read more" link floats in the image unless the image is resized. Any way to fix that? Also, what about dropping "the (breed) is a breed of dog" part. Because of the context it seems kind of redundant to me. --Pharaoh Hound (talk) 20:20, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

  • Oops, forget that thing about the floating text, I was looking at it on the subpage rather than on the main portal page. --Pharaoh Hound (talk) 20:22, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Okay, one fix down. ;-) I also like the idea of trimming the wording. Rfrisbietalk 20:34, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DYK criteria

One of the members of WikiProject Dogs has expressed interest in what the criteria for DYK inclusion are, and I can't find any specific info on the nominations page. It might be useful to define what the criteria for inclusion are there. Thanks. Badbilltucker 17:27, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Done. Rfrisbietalk 22:47, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Selected breed criteria

Since there's no defined criteria for selected breeds, I though I would suggest two:

  • No stubs
  • Good photo (which I would define as being similar to this: undistracting background, the dog "pops" nicely out of the photo and is the centre of attention)

Unfortunately, the "no stubs" requirement would disqualify the mini australian shepherd, but I'm sure it will be easy to find a replacement breed. --Pharaoh Hound (talk) 12:35, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

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