Wikipedia:Portal peer review

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Wikipedia's portal peer review process exposes portals to closer scrutiny from a broader group of editors, and is intended for high-quality portals that have already undergone extensive work, often as a way of preparing a featured portal candidate. This is not academic peer review by a group of experts in a particular subject, and portals that undergo this process should not be assumed to have greater authority than any other.

For feedback on portals that are less developed, use the portal's talk page first.

At present, there are 119 featured portals, of a total of 548 portals on Wikipedia.
Shortcut:
WP:PPREV

The path to a featured portal

  1. Start a new portal
  2. Develop the portal
  3. Check against the featured portal criteria
  4. Get creative feedback ←
  5. Featured portal candidates
  6. Featured portals

Nomination procedure

Anyone can request a portal peer review. The best way to get lots of reviews is to reply promptly and appreciatively on this page to any comments. If you post a request, please do not discourage reviewers by ignoring their efforts. To add a nomination:

  1. Place {{subst:PPR}} at the top of the portal's talk page, creating a portal peer review notice to notify other editors of the review.
  2. Within the notice, click "request has been made" to open a new discussion page.
  3. Place ===[[Portal:PORTAL NAME]]=== at the top, with the name of your portal in the link brackets, and then note the kind of comments/contributions you want, and/or the sections of the portal you think need reviewing. Sign with four tildes (~~~~) and save the new page.
  4. Edit this page here, pasting {{Wikipedia:Portal peer review/PORTAL NAME/archive1}} at the top of the list of nominees.
  5. Add the portal to the current requests list. You can add this list to your talk page using {{Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Requests‎}} You also can use {{FPcandidates}} to include featured portal candidates.
  1. Optional steps:
    1. Start a new section on the portal's talk page using ==Portal peer review==
    2. Paste {{Wikipedia:Portal peer review/PORTAL NAME}} into that section.
    3. Add {{todo}} at the top of the portal's talk page, then save the page.
    4. Edit and paste the following into the to do list. Summarize recommendations and replies as they occur:
[[Image:Evolution-tasks.png|left]] '''<big>Recommendations to improve page to featured portal status</big>'''
List includes recommendations with replies/status.
<br clear="both">

Your review may be more successful if you politely request feedback on the discussion pages of related articles, portals, and/or send messages to Wikipedians who have contributed to the same or a related field, including the list of portal peer review volunteers.

How to respond to a request

  • Review one of the portals listed below. If you think something is wrong—e.g., portal length, the introduction, poor grammar/spelling, missing topics—post a comment in the portal's section on this page.
  • Feel free to correct the portal yourself. Please consider noting your edits here to keep others informed about the portal's progress.

How to remove a request
You may remove to the current archive any

  • inactive listings or listings older than one month;
  • inappropriate or abandoned listings (where the nominator has not replied to comments);
  • portals that have become featured portal candidates.

After removing the listing, contributors should replace the {{portalpeerreview}} tag on the portal's talk page with {{oldportalpeerreview}}.

How to resubmit a request
If your request has been removed, please feel free to renominate it for portal peer review at a later time:

  1. Place {{subst:PPR}} at the top of the portal's talk page as described above
  2. Place {{Wikipedia:Portal peer review/PORTAL NAME/archiveN}} (where N is the review number) at the top of the list of nominees below.

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Contents


[edit] Requests

[edit] Portal:Hudson Valley

I just created this this morning and I designed it using the random selected article/picture/biography/other. It uses largely B-Class or higher articles. I'd like to know what it needs. Thanks, Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 01:27, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Ancient Near East

Hi, I'm looking for feedback on a new portal for the Ancient Near East. Any comments or suggestions would be welcome!

Categorystuff (talk) 17:57, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Maybe should we create specific portals about mesopotamia, phenicia, ancient Anatolia, etc… Therefore the Ancient Near East portal wouldn't be saturated by too large an amount of articles. Alexander Doria (talk) 13:50, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
There was so much interaction between all the groups in this area, that I think even if there were different portals for each geographic area, there would still be a need to have a central point to put it all together. IansAwesomePizza (talk) 00:40, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
But I don't want to dismantle the Ancient Near east portal. We should keep it as an introduction to the other portals. Besides even if there were a lot of interaction in this area, the hitites, the sumeriian, the phénicians and the Elamites were such different people, that they could claim for a portal each. Alexander Doria (talk) 09:47, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
I do agree, but I'll probably leave the other portals to other editors. One of the problems is that this area attracts so much Fringe and Nationalism that there are very few articles that can be used in the "selected articles" section. The editors who make nonsense of so many of these articles are very agressive, so that it is nearly impossible to make the articles presentable without getting burned by a cabal of extremists and/or entrenched wiki-lawyers. IansAwesomePizza (talk) 18:47, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Star Wars

Hello, I believe that this Portal could be worthy of the featured portal rank but there are still a few things that may need changing. In 2006, this portal was put up for featured portal but was rejected because it was too new. Two years later, I believe it has a chance ...

  • For instance, a lot of the portal pages do not have the portal link. This includes even the main pages such as Star Wars: Episode I and Star Wars: Expanded Universe. It would be very helpful if people could fix these pages by adding the following template below infoboxes and the like: {{portal|Star Wars|Star Wars Logo.svg}} It should end up looking like this on the pages. (See below)
Star Wars Portal



If for any reason it does not, please feel free to contact me on my talk page.

  • The layout of the current portal page is good but at the moment does not contain any pictures. I am not very good at formatting (I'll admit) so if anyone else could help on that, that would be great.
  • Also, if anyone else could regularly update this site (more than it already is perhaps) that should also lead to a better portal page!
  • If there is anything else that you can think of that you think will improve the page please do not hesitate to either ask or just do it yourself!

Thanks, hopefully this should get moving on pretty well, pretty quickly, SkE (talk) 16:19, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Catholicism

I want to nominate this portal at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates but came here to know if I should make any improvements . Bewareofdog 05:04, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

There is a POV issue. I think at present this portal is about Roman Catholicism and should either rename to exclude Old Catholic churches etc or should include them. Although the Roman Catholic church defines Catholicism to mean those in communion with the pope this is not the exclusive use of the term in other parts of the church. This has been discussed at length in other places on WP. --BozMo talk 06:18, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
See for example all the "Affirming Catholicism" websites (try google) for Anglicans who use the term "Catholicism" self-referentially. --BozMo talk 06:27, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:British Army

Hi. I'm after possible improvements and ideas before I nominate this portal for featured status. Jhfireboy Talk 15:07, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hossen27

Very sound portal

Not much wrong here.

I made a few mostly minor changes to the layout and removed some redlinks.

just a few more things.

  • make all the images in the selected articles the same size (around 200px), just for consistency.
  • try to make the selected articles similar lengths, keeps the portal looking more uniform even though it automatically refreshes the content.
  • Its not a necessity (in my opinion) but adding the source of the selected photo is always a nice touch. see Portal:Military of Australia/Selected picture for examples.

Go ahead and put it up for feature review if you think its ready. They will find the other little things that need a change that I missed in my 10 minute check.

Well done Hossen27 (talk) 02:13, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kirill Lokshin

A very nice portal, as Hossen27 says. There are a few things that may need some fiddling, though:

  • The background color seems a bit dark for me; it's difficult to read the blue links on it, at least on my screen. You might consider using a lighter shade of khaki instead.
  • Selected pictures do, generally speaking, need sources.
  • The "Things you can do" box shouldn't contain anything that's already been done. Y Done
  • I'd avoid using thumbnail markup inside the boxes, for consistency; the captions can be positioned under the image via a table instead.
  • The main portal navbar ("Culture · Geography ...") appears twice; I'd suggest removing the one at the top, to avoid needing the horizontal line there. Y Done
  • A list of major topics would be good (and is likely to be requested during the featured portal review).

Keep up the good work! Kirill 02:56, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cam

Well, as mentioned by Kirill & Hossen27, really good portal. However, there are a few minor things that I think could use some improvement.

  • Kirill, you're not alone. it's difficult to see the blue links on my screen too (despite the fact that I have brightness turned to absolute max). Might I suggest a lighter colour.
  • The "Related portals" seems a bit out of place. I'd argue that it is taking the place of something more important, such as Featured Article or Featured Event or something along those lines (incidentally, I notice you don't have a "featured event", perhaps you should add that).
  • I think the whole page could benefit from a re-arranging of the boxes. Generally, Featured Article is the first one on the portal in most cases, rather than the featured picture.

Other than that, however, I think this thing's pretty much ready for Featured Portal nomination. Excellent work. Cheers! Cam (Chat) 04:11, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kyriakos

Good work so far. The portal is looking good, I just a few comments:

  • As mentiond above I would standardize the size of the images, I personally think that 150 px is a good size.
  • As stated by Kirill, a major topics section would be great as looking through several of the MILHIST Featured Portals they all have one.
  • You might like to get rid of the thumb on the images.
  • I would be good if you added images for every article when possible. In the selected units, Royal Horse Artillery and Scots Guards don't have images, when their symbols could possibly be used.

Otherwise, the portal looks very good. Kyriakos (talk) 07:25, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gaia Octavia Agrippa

Very good portal. Only one problem and that is with the colouring. It is not very easy to read the first section. Can i suggest that you use something other than blue on green as the background. Great content though. Gaia Octavia Agrippa T | C 20:33, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] BusterD

Some good work here. Building a new portal is a lonely task. Much of what I'll suggest is intended to invite the casual reader to participate. I personally think that there's way too much background color showing (Selected picture, for example), but that's an artistic choice, and not by any means a deal killer. There are several issues that will come up during any promotion process and must be resolved in some way, if my recent experience at P:ACW is indicative. I'll also suggest you look at Portal:Norway (a newly featured portal maintained by User:Cirt, a frequent FP commenter) for examples of what is expected in that process.

  • Current style is that instructions appear on each content page. See how I've adapted this for Portal:American Revolutionary War/Selected event (in Kirill's new portal effort).
  • A page layout is also a good idea (same examples), in order to make it very easy for a new portal contributor to make finished, correctly styled entries all by themselves.
  • A redundant link to each subsection entry (look at the page code for Portal:American Revolutionary War/Selected event to see what I mean) is another handy handle a new editor can use to see exactly where to click.
  • Your "Things to do" subsection references things to do on the portal itself, and strangely, that's not the task the section normally performs in a featured portal. Look at similarly intended (but very different from each other) subsections in Portal:Comedy and Portal:American Civil War. I'd use a {{todo}} template on subpages to tell the new editor what tasks need doing. On the main page subsection, I believe the accepted style should be pointing the editor toward helping content-area articles. If there was a British Army task force, you could simply transclude their to do list. Since you have a Britsh military history task force, you can pull from that. Keep the red-links to high-priority requests.
  • IMHO, you're going to need way more selected sub-articles and pictures. Six of each is a very small number. Size of each entry should be roughly similar; right now when one cycles the selection, page composition varies widely, when it should be fairly stable. Read current FP process to see what metrics are currently being applied to such issues. It's a good idea to start reading FP process anyway.
  • Maybe it's my browsers or platform, but the "Show new selections" link is partially hidden behind the two top subsection boxes.
  • Intro box needs a footer: (More about the British Army)

I suspect there's more to do, but since you need many more sub-articles and pictures, remind me to look again after you've built those quantities up a bit. BusterD (talk) 00:17, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

This looks better. I'm not sure what the ideal number of entries will be, but keep adding a few a week, and then you're ready. Expect some sharp critique at featured portal (you'll be busy for a week or two); the accepted practice is to self-nominate your own work, so you can choose your moment. Congratulations on important work done well. BusterD (talk) 23:58, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Ohio

I started this portal in late February and since then User:Spencer and I have really made something out of this, in my opinion. Just looking for general opinions of what could be made better? Thanks! §tepshep • ¡Talk to me! 03:06, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, from me too. User:Stepshep has done a great job and we've really added a lot of content. We just want to be nudged in the right direction if needed. SpencerT♦C 00:27, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

  • Looks not bad at all! However, with Firefox 2 on OS X the boxes line up...oddly. They have irregular vertical space between them, some nearly touch, others are quite far apart. This is probably because the main page seems to have a set of divs for each box, where you really only need three divs for the entire page: left column, right column, and the bottom full width. See Portal:Peer review (which, admittedly, has a few nested divs but is easy to make out). Msanford  T  03:11, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
    • Y Done Thanks for that, I was wondering what they were doing. §tepshep • ¡Talk to me! 05:33, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Sony PlayStation

Playstationdude (talk) 01:40, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

1. In the "Did you know..." ...that the PlayStation Portable Slim and Lite, at 189 grams, is 29 grams lighter than the Nintendo DS Lite? reads a little like an ad, but if it's, say, the lighest portable console, that would be noteworthy. Msanford (talk) 15:59, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

  • Finished

2. I would strongly suggest increasing the number of Selected articles (currently 8), pictures (currently 5) and, possibly most importantly for you, games (currently 5). If your idea is to get people to write more articles, then make that a big, bold item in the "Things you can do" section, usually in the format "Requested articles: game 1 game 2 game 3" as red links so people will click them and write an article. Make as many as you can think of! Msanford (talk) 15:59, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

  • Finished, but can always grow.

3. You may consider phasing in more standardized reference tags for your news items with a {{reflist}} at the bottom in a separate box. But that's just my personal preference because I'm a citation maniac. Msanford (talk) 15:59, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

  • I didn't know portals take refs. I've been taking them out when I use articles for the portal.
Everything should be referenced, always, everywhere. That's my take at least, others may have a different idea :) Msanford  T  16:10, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
I disagree. The ref links don't take you anywhere on the portal. I say leave them out. WEBURIEDOURSECRETSINTHEGARDEN tell me a joke... 22:37, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Aside from that, the portal is visually pleasing: you've used a great colour scheme which is directly realted to the content, and I like the related boxes at the bottom. Msanford (talk) 15:59, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Linguistics

I have updated the portal and made significant changes to it, adding much content on a timed rotation. More content will follow if the core concepts are proven by peer review (like featured phone, for example, which I really like).

I know the category list is a bit long and bloated, but that's managed by WikiProject Linguistics and I don't want to make sweeping changes to their categorization system for the sake of the portal.

Your comments are much appreciated, thank you in advance! -Msanford (talk) 00:32, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Association football

I started editing this portal in December to re-inject some life and update it. It now uses randomised content and I used the tab format as on Portal:Religion to break the page up somewhat. There are 25 selected articles (all FA), 15 selected bios (all FA or GA) and 30 selected pictures. Other content includes a randomised selected association (to show FIFA, UEFA, CONCACAF etc), current tournaments (which is pre-filled until 2014), news from Wikinews via the bot and the DYK element automatically shows the last five football related hooks that appeared on Wikipedia's main page from the archive at WikiProject:Football.

Instructions on how to edit/add/nominate the portal and what each element does are documented at Portal:Association football/Instructions.

I'm looking to put this forward for Featured Portal at some point and would love it if I could get input on the layout, prose (as I've been staring at this for two months now so there must be some obvious things I haven't done) and what else I can do to bump this up for a possible FPC. All comments welcome. Nanonic (talk) 09:44, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Saskatchewan

Content is randomized, and I would greatly appreciate feedback on the portal. Thanks for your time! Happy editing,SriMesh | talk 22:09, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Comments

All the portals mentioned below to use as models/examples are currently Featured Portals:

  1. Y DoneConsider randomized images in the Intro, model Portal:Iceland. Cirt (talk) 23:42, 22 January 2008 (UTC)SriMesh | talk 00:50, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
  2. Y DoneNo need for the references in selections at Portal:Saskatchewan/Selected article. Cirt (talk) 23:42, 22 January 2008 (UTC)SriMesh | talk 01:14, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
  3. Y DoneYou are using 2 different footer models, the "Selected picture" says "suggest", and the "Selected article" says "Archive/Nominations". Cirt (talk) 23:42, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
  4. Y DoneThe "Did you know" section could be standardized (as mentioned above, so could lots of sections) and a good model to go with for that is the Featured Portal Portal:New South Wales - which has sets of three hooks per subpage, with a free-use image used for every set. Cirt (talk) 23:42, 22 January 2008 (UTC)SriMesh | talk 04:26, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
  5. Y DoneCategories could have a nice little icon/image somewhere in that section, see Portal:Sustainable development. Cirt (talk) 23:42, 22 January 2008 (UTC)SriMesh | talk 04:26, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
  6. Y DoneCould add a Featured content section, the Featured Portal Portal:North West England is a good example of this. Cirt (talk) 23:42, 22 January 2008 (UTC)SriMesh | talk 04:26, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
  7. Y Done'Have a Question? Ask here!' and Help - I want to add to the SK portal are both a bit too self-referential. Consider moving these to some sort of header on the portal talk page or WikiProject page instead, for those looking for help/ways to contribute - because Things you can do is usually the section for that in Featured Portals. Cirt (talk) 23:42, 22 January 2008 (UTC)SriMesh | talk 04:26, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
  8. Y Done'Selected biography' is currently using both footer systems, "...Archive/Nominations", and "Suggest • More Biographies...". Pick one and go with it for all footers in the portal. Cirt (talk) 23:42, 22 January 2008 (UTC)SriMesh | talk 04:26, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
  9. Y Done'Selected Quotes' section could be reformatted, a good model is Portal:Religion. Cirt (talk) 23:42, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Hope that helps. Cirt (talk) 23:43, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, will get on the improvements over the next two daysSriMesh | talk 04:52, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
Started changes, will have to skip a day and get back again. Thank you very much!SriMesh | talk 04:26, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
completed all the tasks for the portal aforementioned. Thank you very much for your time. Would it be ready for submission for Feature Portal?SriMesh | talk 04:22, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

The image in the intro makes the horizontal bar appear - you may want to resize/remove it. WEBURIEDOURSECRETSINTHEGARDEN it seems the winds have stopped... 23:46, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

  1. Y Done Re-sized image. I have a wide screen monitor, does the bar appear nowSriMesh | talk 17:38, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Nope, just right. WEBURIEDOURSECRETSINTHEGARDEN that one guy who buried stuff 22:25, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Have addressed these concerns. Does a portal need 10 articles at feature or good article status in each section to be eligible for feature status? Is Portal Saskatchewan ready for review for feature? SriMesh | talk 00:21, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
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