Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Gibraltar/archive1

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[edit] Portal:Gibraltar

Any comments and/or suggestions intended to provide useful information for future decisions and development would be appreciated. Thanks, Chris.B (talk) 15:29, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

  • First of all... It's looking great Chris! It might be a good idea to change the colours to help separate the different sections better (maybe white text on a red background, as most other country portals use their flag colours). The topics section could also be updated to reflect that of the current {{Gibraltar topics}} template. --Gibmetal 77talk 01:11, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Good idea. Done. Chris.B (talk) 11:00, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
  • A few comments:
    • First are the symbols in the header boxes. With the italicized titles, the last letter and >> kinda blend together, try a space between them.
    • The images in the intro have alittle room to be a bit bigger.
    • With the randomized selected content a "Show new selections" button should be used.
    • I would suggest removing (2006 constitutional referendum) from topics, as it juts outside of the box, and that is the only year listed.
    • Topics - is there some order precedence? There should be one, either alpha or chronoligical or something.
    • News- Headlines should be linked to the news story either on wikinews(preferable) or an outside news agency.
    • Cats- the "More at Category:Gibraltar" is redundant to the first entry of the category tree.
    • Quotes- I prefer a template such as {{cquote}} for consistancy. It has parameters for who said it, when and where. But you seem to have things set up well.
    • Portals- the spacing seems to be off, with the EU portal left of center.
    • The things you can do box can be cut off a bit to give the wikiprojects box alittle more room.
  • These are mostly small things and the portal looks fairly good. Joe I 09:53, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Mostly done. Many thanks, your comments are most appreciated. Chris.B (talk) 21:27, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
  • A few suggestions —
  • Topics:
  • The History section should be left aligned like the other sections.
  • In my opinion, the topics section would look better not in the columns.
  • Biography:
  • At least three more biographies would be nice.
  • In all the biographies, the paragraphs with only one sentence should be merged with the other paragraphs.
  • News:
  • Gibraltar news → Recent news (example of this)
  • The hyphens, December 29 - , should be changed to en dashes, December 29 – . Alternative, a colon format, December 29: , can be used.
  • (archive...) → Archive, per the Did you know section.
  • DYK: I don't think the second question mark image isn needed.
  • Quotes: Here, the double-dash, --, should be replaced with an en dash, –.
  • To do: More tasks should be added. Good work so far! [sd] 21:28, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Done. Many thanks! Chris.B (talk) 20:49, 1 January 2008 (UTC)