Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:North West England

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[edit] Portal:North West England

Hello. I've never been at FPO before, and I've read the comments at the top of the page, but I'm still quite in the dark about what actually is a featured portal. Nevertheless, I am self-nominating a portal, the one about North West England, for further comment. I've carried out all the steps necessary at the peer review which is archived here. I've followed all the steps and have done some more. Hopefully it'll meet the critera that has been layed out on here, all of which I've complied with. Thank you in advance. All comments will be taken constuctively. Rudget.talk 18:19, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

For first timers, you did a great job in creating and updating this portal. I already did some minor adjustments. I would like to suggest that you should put more selected biographies, pictures, and articles. Try to aim for 10 or above in each of those sections that I mentioned. You seem to be lucky to have Spebi to review the portal, cause Sebi knows a lot of portals. With that much said, if you can made those improvements mentioned, I'll support this nomination. OhanaUnitedTalk page 21:40, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
Doing... - Rudget.talk 16:11, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
Y Done - Rudget.talk 17:25, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
Uh oh, I found a fair-use image (Image:Fifabox.jpg). Please remove ALL fair-use image that are used in the portal. OhanaUnitedTalk page 20:16, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
Silly me. Y Rudget.talk 20:59, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
Done Rudget talk 15:10, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
I'll now Support. I will wait for another week, if no one else opposes, then I will promote it. OhanaUnitedTalk page 19:32, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Support - A very nice looking portal with a great support network behind it! └and-rew┘┌talk┐ 21:48, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment- Down below the portal two templates are just dumped which seems to detoriate the flow of the portal. kindly place these templates under appropriate sections within portal subsections. also change the section name from Features to Featured content (it would sound better). rest i appreciate your efforts in constructing this portal. thanks, Sushant gupta (talk) 11:30, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
Done Rudget talk 14:54, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment: You've a great job. A few suggestions —
  • In the introduction box, More about the North West ... → More about North West England... (without the space between England and ...).Y Done
  • Some box headers are italicized and some are not (for example, the featured content and categories boxes). I would suggest choosing one or the other.Y Done
i have italicized the headers. Sushant gupta (talk) 15:22, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Could you lessen the space between Change selections and the boxes below it? Y Done
  • Did you know that... → Did you know... since the that is repeated in the questions below (for example, Did you know that... and ...that Manchester is the UK's fastest economically growing city?)? Y Done
  • Could you change Suggest a Did You Know? → Suggest and move it to the right (like the selected content boxes)? Y Done
  • You might consider adding photo credits to each selected picture (see Chemistry portal). Y Done
  • Some boxes use : - (such as the news box), but the topics box uses just a : ; I think the portal should use either : - or : . Y Done
Cheers, [sd] 12:45, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
I added credits before, but was asked to remove them. :S — Rudget contributions 16:22, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
Just one more suggestion — instead of having WikiProject:, Main page, Discussion, Participants, Assessment, and Templates links in the lists box, you could make a new WikiProjects box (see the West Bengal portal for an example). Only links to the WikiProject's main page are needed. Also, other than the Greater Manchester WikiProject, the UK Geography, England, and Cheshire WikiProjects also apply to North West England (see its talk page). I've also made a few edits, but other than that, the portal looks good. Regards, [sd] 12:12, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Y Done — Rudget contributions 15:42, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Support; thanks for keeping up with all my suggestions! Great work — [sd] 23:10, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Support -- The Featured content box upper right is a nice touch. Cirt (talk) 01:22, 5 December 2007 (UTC).
  • Support Great work and improvements. A very professional-looking portal. -- Chris.B | talk 16:35, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
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