Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Failed log/September 2007
This is the top-level portal for several sports-related portals. When I noticed it a month ago, it was rather unmantained. I have set up monthly article rotations and weekly pictures. There is a random "did you know" rotation. I took a look at the featured portal standards and I believe that this one meets all of them. --B 02:37, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
- Comments: The portal certainly has potentials. However, the box headers and footers may not be working properly (in IE). The main body of the boxes (between header and footer) are not showing the left and right borders. Arman Aziz 00:26, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
I just finished making a lot of updates to the portal and was thinking it was nearing Featured status. Arundhati lejeune 14:14, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
- The portal is absolutely beautiful, but there are a few things that need to be fixed. (1) I removed a non-free logo from the intro. Non-free images can only be used in article space. You may want to give all of your subpages a once over to make sure that the problem doesn't exist anywhere else. (2) The edit links on subpages like Portal:Louisiana/Selected picture aren't useful. If you put each selected item into its own box, then they can be edited more easily. (3) Some of the captions on selected photos aren't right - for example, Portal:Louisiana/Selected picture/3 credits the Library of Congress - the LOC is the source, not the author. Also, they are inconsistent. Some like Portal:Louisiana/Selected picture/5 are not wikified at all. Some bold the subject. (4) The lead image is really bad. You probably should use either a blank map, a flag, or a representative photo (something from New Orleans, the state capitol building, etc) --B 02:51, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
- Oppose I'd like to see it go through Portal peer review before nominating for FP. Also see comment above. feydey 18:14, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
- Comment The news stories need dates, sources, and an archive. Also, I'd recommend adding a few articles that need to be created in the to-do list. Teemu08 20:31, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
- Comment Biographies need the birth and death (if applicable) date of the subject OhanaUnitedTalk page 21:26, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
This relatively new portal is about Gibraltar, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. It seems all-inclusive and wide-ranging to me, covering the Gibraltar-related topics. Suggestions are more than welcome. -- Chris B • talk • contribs 20:12, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
- Oppose: A very good start but still too young. This portal does not seem to be rich enough to go anywhere close to featured status as of now. Please consider the following, then take the portal through a peer review cycle, incorporate all suggestions from peer review and then nominate it for featured status:
- There needs to be archives for most of the sections.
- It is not clear how the selections are going to be updated. If there are enogh materials to rotate through each section, please establish random rotation. If not, please consider using a "nomination and selection" process.
- The format and color scheme of the portal is really nice. But for the best portal colors should not only be pleasing, they should also be meaningful. Usually for country portals it is preferred that the colors from its flag / COA are used to decorate the portal. This portal should use the brownish color from the flag of Gibraltar. Arman Aziz 02:16, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
-- Withdrawn by nominator. Per suggestion above. -- Chris B • talk • contribs 09:51, 10 September 2007 (UTC)