Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Failed log/March 2008

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The following is an archived discussion of a featured portal candidate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the portal's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured portal candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The portal was not promoted 04:20, 28 March 2008.

[edit] Portal:Mexico

Currently this portal has 10 selected articles all are good articles or higher. 10 selected biographies,and 11 selected pictures.Bewareofdog 02:55, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

  • Support. Beautiful intro graphic, and nice, interesting symbols section. The float CSS needs a tweak, maybe for smaller font sizes (for some reason, the left column can appear centered and above the other in Firefox Mac). Presents lots of information for visitors. Well done. -Susanlesch (talk) 06:14, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment I removed a photo from the intro and solved the column issue.--CPacker (talk) 07:21, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Comments
  • Add few more sensible lines in the Intro section.Y Done
  • Need some work on Associated Wikimedia section. Kindly redirect the links to the appropriate page or search page.
  • Remove Flag flying days in Mexico from the Selected article list. It does not qualify to be a selected article.Y Done
  • I am quite misguided with the News archive. 2008 section also contains 2007 news. What is that for?.Y Done - Shyam (T/C) 10:55, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Kindly do not remove older archives from news archive. Please keep them as well. Shyam (T/C) 06:50, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Fixed Bewareofdog 00:07, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
  • My comments:
    • The #'s for biographies and articles are on the low side.
    • Some selected pictures' caption did not bold the main subject.
    • A large empty space on the right column.
    • Instead of saying "More...", be more specific like "More selected biographies"

OhanaUnitedTalk page 03:17, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Closed as not promoted by OhanaUnited. There are many concerns regarding this portal (such as typos, alignment, # of articles) which requires extensive maintenance before it will reach featured status. OhanaUnitedTalk page 04:19, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
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The portal was not promoted 01:54, 31 March 2008.

[edit] Portal:World War II

Respectfully submitted for your consideration. Based on Portal:World War I. I will attempt to address any comments or suggestions in a timely fashion. Carom (talk) 17:58, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

  • Support on condition that the header "Topics" be tweaked so as to put the entrance of Italy in line with the others. TomStar81 (Talk) 23:59, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
    • I'm not entirely sure why that's transcluding the way it is - it doesn't look like that on the subpage, or on the page for {{World War II}}. I've poked around a bit, and can't seem to find a way to fix it. Carom (talk) 00:02, 3 March 2008 (UTC) Nevermind, I seem to have been able to fix it - hopefully I haven't broken anything in the process. Carom (talk) 00:14, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
Comments
  • I've tried to address this, let me know if you think it still needs some work. Carom (talk) 01:33, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Sorry for late response. Need similiar work on Equipment section. Thanks, Shyam (T/C) 05:38, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Featured article: Either must have all of them as featured articles. Former ones won't do. Or, change the name as Selected article. As, there are many articles in Featured content section, you may broaden your featured articles list, followed by removing other then featured ones.
Done. Carom (talk) 13:52, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
Good work, You may add link for Hovhannes Bagramyan in Featured article. Better to keep bold only the article's link and unbold others, like Battle of the Bloody Ridge, Battle of Raiders Ridge, and Battle of the Ridge etc. Shyam (T/C) 09:55, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Done. Carom (talk) 01:50, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Associated Wikimedia: Use search page for Wikibooks and Wikisource. - Shyam (T/C) 08:02, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
Done. Carom (talk) 14:33, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Witold Pilecki's featured article section contains fair-use images. Also, 10 images, biographies, articles, and equipments don't impress me. They are on the low side. OhanaUnitedTalk page 13:58, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
  • I don't understand your first point. If Pilecki's article contains fair-use images, that's not a problem for the portal. They're not being used on portal sub-pages, as far as I can tell, and linking to an article that contains fair-use images is not, insofar as I am aware, problematic in any way. With regards to your second point, it's a fair comment, but it's one I'm not entirely sure I have time to remedy at the moment. If you think it's worth opposing over, you may as well oppose, as I can't promise that I will be able to address it in a timely fashion. Carom (talk) 16:08, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
  • I am talking about the portal's selected article, why would I want to talk about the article itself? OhanaUnitedTalk page 19:52, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
  • I'm thoroughly confused - Witold Pilecki is not a selected article on this portal. I really don't understand what problem you are trying to describe. Carom (talk) 23:29, 13 March 2008 (UTC) Ah, I see. The subpages after 10 had been removed from rotation (notice how they aren't listed on the "More featured articles" page) - either I forgot to change the coding on the portal, or it was changed back at some point. At any rate, those subpages (including Pilecki) will no longer rotate into the portal. Carom (talk) 23:39, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Support. One thing, could the top of the page have the same portal index as other portals? Culture, Geography, etc. -Susanlesch (talk) 03:14, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
Well, the other featured military portals (e.g. Portal:War) use the military browsebar at the top, and the standard portal index at the bottom, so I've simply followed that convention. There was some discussion of this, I think...let me see if I can find a link. Carom (talk) 03:25, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
Here's the discussion I was thinking of, although it's perhaps not as germane as I had thought. Carom (talk) 03:27, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
OK, now I see that comes from featured military portals (possibly weird maybe, like an infinitely expanding list, but I see what you mean). Thank you for the link. -Susanlesch (talk) 05:54, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
  • No red links other than requests should be found on featured portals. OhanaUnitedTalk page 17:28, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
  • The red links in the "Topics' section are a result of transcluding {{World War II}} - it seems a little excessive to remove this useful and simple way of keeping this section up-to-date and consistent with other uses of the template simply for the sake of removing two red links. Carom (talk) 17:36, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Support, amongst the best. MrPrada (talk) 04:57, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Closed as no consensus by OhanaUnited. The community is divided between whether it should be promoted or needs more work, particularly satisfying Featured portal criteria 2 and 3.2. OhanaUnitedTalk page 01:54, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Portal:James Bond

Self nomination. I've been working on this portal for some time Ultra! 21:43, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

  • Oppose. You should add more selected articles, pictures, etc. At the moment you have one of each. Sorry. WEBURIEDOURSECRETSINTHEGARDEN tell me a joke... 23:42, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
    • Y Done Updated. Ultra! 16:49, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Support. Good work. I may be in the minority to think random is optional. Gorgeous blues by the way. -Susanlesch (talk) 03:32, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Oppose - there isn't much consistency, the portal renders a little badly on IE, formatting is also a problem. Not yet ready for FPO status, but could be there with some adjustments. Rudget. 15:24, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Oppose Need more articles (yes, even more), pictures and biographies. OhanaUnitedTalk page 17:24, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
    • Y Done Ultra! 18:11, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
      • Are you? I have added more articles to a random generator - the tally is now 15. I still think this FPOC should be withdrawn before we similarly fix the pictures section and cleanup the main portal page. Sorry. WEBURIEDOURSECRETSINTHEGARDEN tell me a joke... 23:14, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
        • Y Done Ultra! 15:15, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
  • I'm not going to support as it would be very biased, but I've removed my oppose. WEBURIEDOURSECRETSINTHEGARDEN tell me a joke... 10:38, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
Closed as no consensus by Dihydrogen Monoxide.There isn't really a consensus to promote at this time, and it's probably best for the portal's sake to give it some more time to improve. --dihydrogen monoxide (H2O) 10:33, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
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