Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:New York

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 19:35, April 26 2008.

[edit] Portal:New York

I've been working steadily on this portal for a few weeks now, and finished it off earlier today. All articles and biographies used by this portal are of B-class or higher. Anyways, the portal currently has 20 selected articles, 17 selected biographies, 16 selected pictures, 21 selected quotes, 10 selected panoramic images and 10 did you know entries, each one displaying three facts at a time and a 'selected anniversaries' section, automatically updated for each month using {{Currentmonth}}. Much of this portal is based off Portal:Norway, which recently passed featured portal candidates. The news section is updated by Wikinews Importer Bot; thats all there is to say, really. Qst (talk) 19:50, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

• Support. Meticulous work, very comprehensive portal - nicely done. Cirt (talk) 19:54, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
• Comment. Attractive functional layout, with lots of good content. A map somewhere in the introduction would be useful, and some of the Selected biographies lack images. Other than that, I have only a few extremely minor nitpicks. There are several redlinks in the selected article blurbs, and a few could also do with very minor copy edits. (I'd do it myself but there's no easy edit link in the list of articles.) Topics has centred dots separating some items and commas separating others -- should be standardised, as should whether the colon is bolded or not. I'd probably move "Things you can do" down to closer to the end, and I'm not sure why one of the bullet points has bold text, while the others don't. The "Featured and good content" headers should probably either use "content" or "articles", not both. Prospect Park Selected panorama had an external link in the description. That's all I could see! Espresso Addict (talk) 20:14, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Okay, I'll give the articles a light copyedit soon. As for a couple of the selected biographies not having images, well that is because they don't have free images available. I looked on Flickr to see if I could suitable images to accompany these articles, but I couldn't find anything which met the requirement for uploading on Commons. So, to keep the selected biography number at a decent level, I had to leave a couple without a free image, but I'm sure you can understand this. Other than that, I think that is everything! :) Qst (talk) 20:27, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Right, I've copyedited a couple of the selected articles. If there are others you would like me to do, leave a note, and I'll see what I can do. Otherwise, that is all your issues addressed. Qst (talk) 20:44, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Gosh, that's quick! The only other thing I mentioned was the possibility of a map, somewhere in the introduction. Espresso Addict (talk) 20:47, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

There we go. Qst (talk) 20:57, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Cheers. I've done some minor copy edits to the Selected Articles & Biographies blurbs. There are a few that seemed to me to need a more expert eye -- I'll note them on the Portal talk page, to avoid cluttering this discussion with content issues. Espresso Addict (talk) 21:53, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

• Comments Need Wikibooks and Wikiversity link at the bottom of the page. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 20:45, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Thanks for your comment, but I've intentionally left these out. This is because in last FPOC, it seems consensus was in favour of only linking to the sister projects that actually have a page on the portal subject. I'm open to discussion on this matter, but it was my belief that this is how consensus seems to go now. Qst (talk) 20:54, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
    • Err, wrong archive link. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 02:44, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
      • Fixed. Qst (talk) 13:03, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
        • True... but you never know when those uncreated pages will be created. And no one is going to revisit it each month to check if they are created. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 20:51, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
          • Okay, swapped it to {{WikimediaForPortals}}; done. Qst (talk) 21:02, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
• Support The portal looks cool. Sushant gupta (talk) 12:18, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Comment- Please exchange the position of selected quote and featured and good articles section. rest the whole portal looks nice. thanks, Sushant gupta (talk) 10:18, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

• • I've moved the featured and good content box to the full width boxes of the portal, but I've left the selected quote box at the bottom, as some of them are quite long, and it would disrupt the balance between the boxes on the left and right. Qst (talk) 20:17, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

• The "read more" link of the selected quotes section points to the main page of Wikiquote. Please link it to somewhere more appropriate (ie. a New York category there, or something like that). dihydrogen monoxide (H₂O) 00:06, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
• Also, the Douglas Adams quote here appeared in one of his books (I think it was So Long and Thanks for all the Fish, but I'm not sure) - it seems you're citing on that page where the quote comes from - please try and do it in all cases. dihydrogen monoxide (H₂O) 00:07, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Okay dokey, I've adjusted the "Read more..." link to point to New York on Wikiquote, as that was my source along with an external website. As for the detail of where the quotes originate from, I've removed that parameter from Portal:New York/Selected quote/Layout after our IRC chat. If there is anything else I can do for you, leave me a note, but otherwise, thats everything. :-) Qst (talk) 10:36, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
• Support Seems comprehensive, useful, ergonomic.--Dwaipayan (talk) 19:31, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
• Support. Nice job. Two little things: you could deepen the header box blue because white on light blue is ultra low contrast and a little hard on people with less than perfect vision. Also the map of New York in the intro is very faint on my screen. I wonder if the commons has a brighter/darker map. Otherwise clean and easy to follow. -Susanlesch (talk) 03:28, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Promoted --Greman Knight. 18:35, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

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