Wikipedia:Featured portal review

Reviewing featured portals

This page is for the review and improvement of featured portals that may no longer meet the featured portal criteria. FPs are held to the current standards regardless of when they were promoted.

There are two stages in the process, to which all users are welcome to contribute.

Featured portal review (FPR)

• In this step, possible improvements are discussed without declarations of "keep" or "remove". The aim is to improve portals rather than to demote them. Nominators must specify the featured portal criteria that are at issue and should propose remedies. The ideal review would address the issues raised and close with no change in status.
• Reviews can improve portals in various ways: Portals may need updating, formatting, and general copyediting. More complex issues, such as a failure to meet current standards of being useful, attractive, ergonomic and well-maintained, may also be addressed.
• One of the featured portal co-directors, Dihydrogen Monoxide, OhanaUnited and Rudget, or other experienced and respected portal editors, determine either that there is consensus to close during this first stage, or that there is insufficient consensus to do so and, thus, that the nomination should be moved to the second stage.

Featured portal removal candidate (FPRC)

• A portal is never listed as a removal candidate without first undergoing a review. In this second stage, participants may declare "keep" or "remove", supported by substantive comments, and further time is provided to overcome deficiencies.
• Reviewers who declare "remove" should be prepared to return toward the end of the process to strike out their objections if they have been addressed.
• One of the featured portal co-directors or other experienced and respected portal editor determines whether there is consensus for a change in the status of a nomination, and closes the listing accordingly.

Each stage typically lasts two to three weeks, or longer where changes are ongoing and it seems useful to continue the process. Nominations are moved from the review period to the removal list, unless it is very clear that editors feel the portal is within criteria. Given that extensions are always granted on request, as long as the portal is receiving attention, editors should not be alarmed by a portal moving from review to the removal candidates' list.

Older reviews are stored in the archive.

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Featured content:

• Featured articles
• Featured pictures
• Featured lists
• Featured portals
• Featured topics
• Featured sounds

Featured portal tools:

• Featured portal criteria
• Portal peer review
• Featured portal candidates
• Featured portal log
• Featured portal review
• Former featured portals

Contents:

• Featured portal reviews
• Featured portal removal candidates

Nominating a portal for FPR

Nominators typically assist in the process of improvement; they may post only one nomination at a time, and they should avoid segmenting review pages. Three to six months is regarded as the minimum time between promotion and nomination here, unless there are extenuating circumstances such as a radical change in portal content or design.

1. Place {{FPR}} at the top of the talk page of the nominated portal. Write "FPR listing" in the edit summary box. Click on "Save page".

   Note: if a portal has already been through the FPR/C process, use the Move button to rename the previous nomination to an archive. For example, Wikipedia:Featured portal review/Portal:Solar System → Wikipedia:Featured portal review/Portal:Solar System/archive1

2. From there, click on the "add a comment" link.
3. Place ===[[name of nominated portal]]=== at the top of the subpage.
4. Below this title, write your reason(s) for nominating the portal, specifying the FP criterion/criteria that are at issue. Click on "Save page".
5. Click here, and place your nomination at the top of the list of nominated portals, {{Wikipedia:Featured portal review/name of nominated portal}}, filling in the exact name of the nominated portal. Click on "Save page".
6. Notify relevant parties by adding {{subst:FPRMessage|Portalname}} to relevant talk pages (insert the portal name). Relevant talk pages include the main contributors to the portal (identifiable through the portal stats script), the editor who originally nominated the portal for Featured Portal status (identifiable through the Featured Portal Candidate link), and any relevant WikiProjects (identifiable through the talk page banners, but there may be other Projects that should be notified). Leave a message at the top of the FPR indicating notifications completed.

Contributing to the discussions

• The process always begins at the Featured portal review (FPR) stage described above.
  • The nominator lists editors and groups notified, for example, :''Notified <main contributors, FP nominator, relevant WikiProjects>.''
  • Without declarations of "keep" or "remove," discussions focus on how to improve the portal so that it meets the stated featured portal criteria at issue.
  • The ideal resolution of a featured portal review is to close the discussion at this stage without a change in status.
• When there is insufficient consensus to close the discussion at the first stage, the nomination moves on to the Featured portal removal candidate (FPRC) stage described above.
  • The closer of the first stage should cite the specific Featured portal criteria concerns that prompted the nomination for removal.
    • best work (1), content (2), useful (3.1), attractive (3.2), ergonomic (3.3), well-maintained (3.4), style (4), images (5), self-referential (6).
    • Use a format such as: :''Suggested FA criteria concerns are <applicable criteria>.''
  • If you approve of a portal's current featured status, write '''Keep''' followed by your reasons.
  • If you oppose a portal's current featured status, write '''Remove''' followed by the reason for your objection. Each objection must provide a specific rationale that can be addressed. If nothing can be done in principle to "fix" the source of the objection, the objection may be ignored. This includes objections to a portal's suitability for the Wikipedia.
    • To withdraw an objection, strike it out (with <s>...</s>) rather than removing it.

Closing and archiving a nomination

1. Close the discussion by editing the transcluded discussion and adding the {{subst:FPR top}} and {{subst:FPR bottom}}, noting the result of the discussion.
2. Remove the transcluded discussion from this page. While removing it, mention the name of the portal in the edit summary with the result of the discussion.
3. Transclude the discussion into this page's archive of Featured portal reviews.
4. If the result of the discussion was removed:
   1. change {{featuredportal}} to {{formerFP}}.
   2. remove entry from Wikipedia:Featured portals.
   3. remove entry from Wikipedia:Featured content/Portals.
   4. add a notice to Wikipedia:Goings-on.
   5. remove {{FA}} to the appropriate entry at Wikipedia:Portal/Directory.
   6. remove the {{Featured portal}} to the portal page, just above any interwiki entries.
   7. remove [[Category:Wikipedia featured portals]]

For more information on past discussions, please see the archive.