Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Tasmania/archive1

The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a featured portal candidate that was not promoted. Please do not modify it.

Nominator withdrew nomination - See bottom. Rt. 20:46, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Tasmania

Myself, DarkFalls, Daniel and Riana have been working on this portal for the past few days, working hard to bring it up to featured criteria standards. We believe that it does now meet the the criteria appropriately. The portal is well-maintained, its News section is regularly updated and all the Selected content is of a high standard. I put forward Portal:Tasmania for consideration. All suggestions are welcome :) Spebi 00:56, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

• Support as co-nominator/co-author. Daniel 01:00, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
• Comment: As requested, a few suggestions :) —

• Articles: In this selected article, Bernard Comrie, Stephen Matthews, and Maria Polinsky. The Atlas of Languages. New York: Facts on File. Page 116. should be removed.

• Y Done. Spebi 03:07, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

• Pictures: A couple more selected pictures would be good.

• I'll go digging soon for some more. Spebi 03:07, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

• Y Done. See /9 and /10. Spebi 04:07, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

• Portals:

• I like the template!

• I like it too :) Spebi 03:07, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

• I don't think Main Australian Portal... is needed since Visit Australia Portal is already there. Happy editing! — [sd] 02:52, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

• Y Done. Thanks for the helpful suggestions :) Spebi 03:07, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

• Comment: The claim of the news section being "regularly updated" is a little premature. The news section has only been active for a few days at best. I feel a Portal requires a history of being useful and well maintained before being considered for Featured Status, not just because it looks nice, which it does. Let's hope this team of Portal builders can keep the new Australian Portals at a standard which is beyond the efforts of the past. Will support in a month or two if the trend continues. -- Longhair\^talk 04:34, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment - I agree with Longhair. The portal doesn't yet have a long enough history and so the claim that it is well maintained is a little premature. I'm becoming rather dismayed by this rather rapid succession of Australian portals being put up here at FPOC, don't get me wrong, they are very good, but at the moment it feels like they are being nominated, promoted and then left, Bulgaria for example. I'll support next time it comes around, when it looks like it has been given due care and attention. Rt. 17:36, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Most of the stuff in this portal uses a randomization format so the only real thing we need to update here is the News part. I think Daniel is making a template, similar to {{DYK-Refresh}}, to make sure we don't neglect the updating... Spebi is making a template. --D_arkF_alls ^talk 00:41, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
      • I've tested it and it doesn't exactly do what I want it to do... I'll attempt at the DYK-Refresh-style template later. Spebi 03:58, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
• Support: Thanks, Spebi, for quick response to my suggestions! Oh, and you might want to remove the portal from the Portals under construction category. Cheers, [sd] 17:07, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

  Y Done. Spebi 03:58, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Comments

1. Did this portal go through WP:PPREV, or come straight to WP:FPORTC ?
   • Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Tasmania — [sd] 12:34, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
     • I guess that's a no. On an individual basis, this is not necessarily a bad thing, I've just been seeing more and more portals lately that have not gone through WP:PPREV, showing up at WP:FPORTC... Cirt (talk) 14:11, 30 December 2007 (UTC).
2. Could use more "Did you know" entries.
3. Missing: Related portals section.
   • The section's right here. Cheers, [sd] 12:34, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
     • Ah, quite right, my mistake. And a very creatively well-done section at that. Cirt (talk) 14:11, 30 December 2007 (UTC).
4. Are the In the news entries sourced to something, or is this all WP:OR on the part of the portal maintainers?

   Y Done --D_arkF_alls ^talk 01:12, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

   I'm sorry, but how is this one "done" ? Still looks like it's all unsourced WP:OR to me... Cirt (talk) 07:33, 31 December 2007 (UTC).

   Not everything that isn't immediately sourced is original research. The news article that backs up the claims made in the News section is sourced, although to see the source the page must be viewed directly at Portal:Tasmania/News. Spebi 07:37, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

   Thanks for pointing that out, didn't notice the info in the <noinclude></noinclude. This one's Y Done for me. Cirt (talk) 13:15, 31 December 2007 (UTC).

5. Missing: Could use a Selected biography section, though not required.

Cirt (talk) 09:00, 30 December 2007 (UTC).

• Comment Fix Wikimedia box links. feydey (talk) 15:29, 1 January 2008 (UTC) Also "Things You Can Do" needs cleanup and checking. feydey (talk) 15:33, 1 January 2008 (UTC). Add more "Did You Know?"'s. feydey (talk) 15:35, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
• Question. How many Featured articles/pictures or Good articles the portal has? feydey (talk) 15:40, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

• Nomination withdrawed. We've come to an agreement that this portal needs more work than we thought it did initially, so withdrawing is the best option. Thanks for your comments, I'll be sure to implement them soon. Spebi 20:33, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

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