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[edit] World War II

Any and all comments welcome, I am attempting to bring this up to featured status (and have already recieved cosiderable help from Hossen27 and Scott M gall). I'll do my best to respond in a timely fashion. Carom 19:56, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Hello, Carom!
Section of portal Notes
Introduction Needs to be expanded.
Featured article
Selected picture I suggest aligning the captions to the left.
Should there be a space after "Credit:"?
Selected anniversaries The pages for the other months' anniversaries need to be created.
The pages for all the days in March have been created except for March 10 (link).
Did you know... It's good that you're randomizing DYK's.
Selected biography Instead of the "Read more..." link, the person's name should be linked at the beginning, like you do in the featured article.
Von Manstein's name isn't in bold here.
Selected equipment As said above, instead of the "Read more..." link, the equipment's name should be linked at the beginning, like you do in the featured article.
Quotes "More Quotes..." should be "More quotes..."
Instead of "Quotes," the header should be "Selected quote."
Topics Looks good. =)
Featured content Wow.
Things you can do
Categories An alternative is to have a category tree (example).
Related portals I don't think the font size has to be smaller.
Associated Wikimedia
Overall You may consider adding a border around the portal as in World War I Portal.
Some quick comments off the top of my head. Good work! — S.D. 23:56, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
OK, thianks for your input. I have started implementing some of your suggestions, hopefully I will be able to finish next week. Carom 19:48, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Hey, few more: Intro - please expand, there is much to say. Add a map, such as Image:Second world war europe animation small.gif or similar

  • Pics - credit should appear directly under the photo, then the description. Description should hold atleast one link to an article.
  • Articles - Try standardizing the pic sizes.
  • Quotes - would suggest using {{cquote}}, and add a suggest section
  • Featured content - Would suggest adding one more column to cut the length a bit
  • Cats - You can make the cat tree multi columned as well, shouldn't take up to much space and show the whole structure. <div style="-moz-column-count:2; column-count:2;"> <categorytree>Category:World War II</categorytree> </div>
  • Portals - add atleast Portal:World War I if not Portal:Communism, Portal:Fascism, Portal:Nazism(not up to shape), Portal:History, Portal:Weapons of mass destruction as well.
  • Missing wikiprojects - I realize they're in the things to do box, but not clearly labeled if they're not to have a box of their own.
  • Anniversaries - Why is March 17th blank? If there are none, please add a note saying to the extent , if you know of any ann. on this date please add them here.

And, you're off! Hehe :) Joe I 05:31, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

OK, thanks for you suggestions - I have started to implement them. A couple of queries: as far as the photo credits go, there doesn't seem to be any consensus on where they should appear - see Portal:War, for example. And as far as WikiProjects go, I'm not entirely sure what you're asking/suggesting - can you clarify please? Carom 19:52, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Most featured now use the credit directly under the photo, rational is that you give credit for the photo rather than the description. Projects, since you mainly only have one it could stay as is(heading for the things you can do), tho a separate[[ box would be nice. Portal:Military of the United States/WikiProjects, Portal:American Civil War/WikiProjects, Portal:Cold War/WikiProjects. Joe I 20:40, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
For March 17, there is:
which happened at the same time as WWII. — S.D. 13:00, 17 March 2007 (UTC)