Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Featured log/June 2008

The following is an archived discussion of a featured portal candidate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the portal's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured portal candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The portal was promoted by User:OhanaUnited 04:13, 27 June 2008 [1].

• Support as nominator- a very nice portal with clean layout. it is good in its coverage and is well structured. thank you, Sushant gupta (talk) 13:19, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
•  Done It's really neat. Is there archive/nominations for DYK? If yes, please provide a link to the box in the portal. I want to ask the selected picture #11, shouldn't that picture belongs to biology instead of earth sciences? OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 19:16, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • i have replaced the selected picture #11. i will soon meet the dyk section too. thanks, Sushant gupta (talk) 03:44, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • fine i have addressed both the things. thank you, Sushant gupta (talk) 12:04, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

•  Done The collapsible Featured content area makes no sense to a newbie...add relevant links (what's a featured article? etc.)

have a look at the portal:music. it is a featured portal. though it also shows recently featured article subsection. the fact is that there are many featured portals having these terms used. even many websites uses such terms like featured and it is already understood that what these terms actually means. thanks, Sushant gupta (talk) 12:40, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

•  Done I purged four times, and every time there was a fair bit of white space below the WikiProjects bit. Needs resorting

thats your screen resolution problem. i have an iMac (21 inches) and a PC (17 inches). the portal looks clean with properly placed sections. Sushant gupta (talk) 12:33, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

•  Done There are only two DYK options...I'd suggest you try something like the DYK rotation on P:AUSMUSIC...it's not really randomised at the moment.
•  Done I'd merge the categories and related topics areas as they seem a bit redundant at times...
•  Done Introduction's prose is not good...copyedit please.

dihydrogen monoxide (H₂O) 09:01, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

•  Done Comments. Nice-looking portal with good content. I'm confused by the current layout for "Related topics" and categories; I think the latter should state that it is linking to categories, not articles. Also it would be nice if the box behind the category listing were beige to match the "Related topics" boxes. The current format for "Quality content" seems hard to use; not only do readers have to know what the various classes of article mean, but they have to click through multiple times to get to the lists of categories, and then most are only linked to talk pages. It would be much easier to use if the articles were simply listed. The introductory section could do with some further copy editing; for example capitalisation is inconsistent in multiple places. It would be nice to have more than four selections of DYKs and thumbnail pictures here would also be a bonus. A couple of minor points... "Related Portals" should probably use lower case for consistency with other headings. The hyphen is not style for introduction of following sections (under WikiProjects & "Quality Content"). Hope this is helpful. Espresso Addict (talk) 16:11, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

i have addressed most of your comments, i will improve DYK section soon. Sushant gupta (talk) 06:11, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

•  Done Question and Comments. Support.

• Appearance is really nice. The title "The Earth Sciences Portal" is beautiful and a great idea. The white bordered tables (at least in my Firefox) help legibility and look good to boot.
• On what basis are articles included in "Quality content: Featured articles"? They seem to be geography articles.
• I removed two hyphens from Portal:Earth sciences/Wikiprojects to illustrate what an earlier commenter mentioned. They could be removed from headings throughout.

—SusanLesch (talk) 05:02, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for your comments. i do appreciate them. well geography is a field within Earth sciences. thats why i placed featured articles within that section. Sushant gupta (talk) 03:45, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your reply. I decide to support (changed above) because I like that title typography :-). Please check on those hyphens though, if you would. (Looking quickly I saw one in the featured content section.) Good luck. —SusanLesch (talk) 07:41, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

All the above stated issues have been addressed. Sushant gupta (talk) 05:30, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Support – succinct, clean lines, acceptable length of blurbs, good use of contrast and randomisation is a good technique to prevent staleness in portals. Good work indeed. Additionally, I appreciate all the comment above being addressed. Rudget (Help?) 11:21, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.

The following is an archived discussion of a featured portal candidate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the portal's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured portal candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The portal was promoted by User:OhanaUnited 04:15, 27 June 2008 [2].

After a complete overhaul of the format, automation of all the selected content, and hours of blood, sweat, and tears, WikiProject Meteorology humbly presents this lovely Portal for review by the community. -RunningOnBrains 07:01, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

• I'm confused by your automation of the selected content -- is it possible to get another random selection? Espresso Addict (talk) 16:18, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • The format we have now is that we have one article selected to be featured on the Portal each month. Maintaining it is currently a collaboration between me and another editor from WikiProject Meteorology, but we are hoping to bring in more editors from the project to help.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Runningonbrains (talk • contribs)

Support. Looks nice. I too am confused and wonder if the portal is random or static. But if you mean you are going to maintain it manually that is a valid approach. Congrats on your hard work. —SusanLesch (talk) 05:07, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment, it would be nice to see monthly updates (or the random portal component) used on Portal:Weather/Did you know to prevent it from becoming stale. Qst (talk) 16:31, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Currently DYK articles are added as new Weather-themed articles are added (see here and here). Did you mean we should bring in older articles as well, updating the DYK monthly? -RunningOnBrains 03:27, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment Support- introduction needs to be worked out. its too brief. Sushant gupta (talk) 02:27, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Will work on it. -RunningOnBrains 03:27, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Done although I think it still needs a little tweaking, will work on it in the next few days.-RunningOnBrains 03:24, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

thats great. thanks for making the required changes. Sushant gupta (talk) 12:57, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment The "Quality articles" box doesn't open correctly, it gets all messed up. Also, the selected biography has been the same for several months IIRC. Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 00:10, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • I've tried fixing the "Quality articles", it works correctly in Firefox, it only seems to get messed up in IE as far as I can see. Do you know where I can get help with that? -RunningOnBrains 03:24, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Additionally, the selected biography should update tomorrow (June 1st). -RunningOnBrains 03:26, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      • Ah, ok. The quality articles box still doesn't work for me, but I guess there's not much you can do about it. One more comment: I'd add one or two of the many tropical cyclone FAs to the quality article box. Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 20:00, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
        • Do you think? I've always been iffy about including TCs since they have a separate portal, but if you think there should be some I'm willing to add them.-— Preceding unsigned comment added by Runningonbrains (talk • contribs)
          • I don't think it's a big deal. Seems to meet the criteria. Support. Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 15:30, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment. If it is possible and within the scope, try add featured topics to Quality contents section. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 01:47, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Done -RunningOnBrains 04:40, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• I've abandoned those troublesome show/hide boxes. Everything should work smoothly now-RunningOnBrains 08:24, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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