Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Hong Kong

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 promoted 19:18, 4 February 2008.

[edit] Portal:Hong Kong

Previous portal nomination

I have recently repaired this portal using the box skeleton. The news/photo section are regularly updated. I personally think that it is quite situable for nomination at the moment. Coloane (talk) 00:28, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Clerk note: The nominator, Coloane, has left Wikipedia (see his userpage) so anyone who wish to improve this portal can start right away. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 16:58, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

• Comment I request that other featured portal co-directors to allow me to be the person to close this nomination (after I reviewed it and gave enough time for improvement) since I grew up in Hong Kong for 12 years so I can vertify if the information, articles, DYKs, categories, and pictures are chosen wisely. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 03:49, 18 January 2008 (UTC):But what is your concrete reason for closing this nomination?? To live or grow up in HK for 12 years so that you can verify certain info seems not a rational reason. Coloane (talk) 05:00, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Though I respect OhanaUnited (talk · contribs)'s request and respect Ohana's judgment in any regard, I just want to point out that the decision to close/archive/promote/fail a nom is not based on the desire of the closing editor to verify anything individually, but on the capability of that editor to read the discussion and determine whether or not consensus has been reached to promote or fail. (I suppose, unless there is something glaringly wrong like usage of fair-use images instead of free-images, obvious copyvio images or something like that.) Cirt (talk) 05:05, 18 January 2008 (UTC).

The fact that Ohana has a bit more POV than the rest of the "closing cabal" here is a reason for him to review, not to close, this nomination. Dihydrogen Monoxide (party) 07:24, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Personal opinion aside, I don't think it's particularly fair to the nominator for the first comments here to be "debating" about who closes the nomination. It's also unfair that at least two of you have completely ignored Coloane who is, probably understandably, confused about what on earth "closing" is in this sense. Let's not forget that we all started somewhere, hey? Seaserpent⁸⁵ 11:22, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Nevermind what I said. Here's my comments.

• Use Image:Hong Kong Location.png instead of Image:LocationHongKong.png for better illustration. Y Done
• January's selected picture could have been something better. Yuen Long McDonald's have no importance other than the fact that it was a Wikimedia HK meeting location in August 2007. Y Done
• In the archived selected articles in 2006, August article contains fair-use image. Same applies to February 2007. N Not done
• This month's selected article could use a better image because the article is about Happy Valley Racecourse, not the fire that broke out in there. N Not done
• The portal needs selected biography, as there are many Chinese celebrity articles in english wikipedia. Y Done
• In archived selected picture in December 2006, author name is not given. N Not done

OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 17:58, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

I changed the image of HK location. Since I am not a Hongkonger, I don't know actually which picture or HK celebrity is more important than others. Would you please choose and fix them for me?? Coloane (talk) 15:25, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

I switched it to Joey Yung. Now you need to work on selected biographies. I understand that most biographies are very short or doesn't have images, but I can accept that. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 16:31, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

I just randomly picked up one guy, copied and pasted it over the category of "selected biography". If you want to change, please go ahead. Thanks! :) Coloane (talk) 17:40, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Y Done There should be a "read more" on selected article and selected bio so that others can read the full article instead of the summary. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 04:27, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Done, please check! Coloane (talk) 07:23, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Comment

• News section does not qualify mentioning days in brackets, as they are not frequent enough. If all of them come from the same week, then it is good way to mention days as well. Kindly also create an archive link.
• No need to use bold for (pictured) in DYK section.
• Avoid red links in the portal except requested articles, e.g. Yuet Keung Kan in selected biography. Archive link is also empty in the section.
• Kindly mention some requested articles, needing expansion articles in the Tasks you can do section.

--- Shyam ^(T/C) 06:10, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

OhanaUnited, please address these above comments as I have no idea how to properly approach. Coloane (talk) 06:49, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Please check and complete the items that I tagged with "not done" OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 04:46, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

I am not lazy but I really don't know how to do it. Can you give me a hand? Coloane (talk) 05:58, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

• Lately, an editor named HongQiGong keeps reverting the selected picture for Jan. 2008 believing that a McDonald in Hong Kong is notable. This McDonald is not notable in any way and I don't understand his rationale behind the reverts. (Seriously, would you put your local neighbourhood's McDonald as a selected picture?) Despite HongQiGong put the featured picture I placed in by Coloane's request [1] onto April's selection, it's apparent that through his reverts, HongQiGong expressed his views that he will not find another picture for January. Hence, this portal fails to establish criteria 3.1 where portal "showcases only high-quality content". I'll leave this nomination up for a few more days so that anyone can contest it before I archive it as failed nomination. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 01:38, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

After receiving a request to close this earlier this evening, I have read over this discussion and feel now I can determine consensus and proceed in the correct manner. There appears to have been a discussion earlier on in the nomination about who shall close the nomination, but that is of limited relevance now considering I am closing it, that meaning I will be choosing whether to promote or not, although in this case, I am choosing the former. Any points brought up by Shyam, although not addressed in majority, are apparently minor in their magnititude. I've been working with portals for quite a while now, and it is my understanding that the Hong Kong portal does reflect what is deemed their qualities. Alternatively, I respect Ohana's decision to remain uncertain in closing and DHMO's & Seaserpent's comment show this. Most comments have been addressed (those that are the most necessary in my opinion) and although there have been no actual supports as of now, I am deciding to promote this portal at 19:15, February 4, 2008 (GMT). Regards, Rudget. 19:16, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

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