Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Zimbabwe/archive1

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

[edit] Portal:Zimbabwe

I am nominating this portal to become a Featured Portal because I have done a lot of work on it and I think it now meets the criteria for a Feature Portal candidate and achieving this status may help attract more visitors to the page and make my edits worthwhile even more. Mangwanani 17:46, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Oppose for now, but may consider supporting given the following concerns are addressed:

  • For Selected Article, Picture and Biography, there needs to be either a "Random Rotation" or a "Nomination-Selection" process. For a young portal like this one, the latter may be more appropriate and easy to implement.
  • There should be more DYK entries (preferably with random rotation) complemented with a proper archive. "Read more" should not lead to recent additions to Wikipedia.

Arman (Talk) 09:58, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

We do have a nomination process but no one makes use of it and so I simply choose articles that have between start and FA status from the WPZW assessments. Also, if I could be told where to find new Zimbabwe related articles specifically to find DYK articles I would appreciate it. Mangwanani 16:31, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment - I agree with Armanaziz (talk ยท contribs) that randomization would help. Consider using {{Random portal component}}. Also, the Did you know and Related portals sections at the bottom are misaligned, and leave large space gaps in the portal. Cirt (talk) 01:28, 5 December 2007 (UTC).
  • Comment: I fixed the misalignment. Cheers, [sd] 01:34, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comments
  1. Related portals section should not have the portals, which do not exist, ie. BW, MZ. I believe, South Africa portal should be abbreviated as SA, rather ZA.
  2. Remove red links from Zimbabwe topics section.
  3. Do not use red links in the portal anywhere other than the To do list. Fix red links from Article, Picture, News sections and wherever applicable. Shyam (T/C) 13:49, 19 December 2007 (UTC)


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