Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Children's literature

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 OhanaUnited 15:41, 5 February 2014 (UTC) [1].

Portal:Children's literature

Participation Guide
Support
Cirt - Support as co-nominator
Lotje - Support
Neutral/No vote
Sven Manguard - Commented
Oppose
none

Co-nomination. (This is a co-nomination with Wadewitz.) We worked on the portal together as a joint quality improvement collaboration effort. Thank you for your time, — Cirt (talk) 17:16, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

Notified: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Oz, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Redwall, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Novels/Lemony Snicket task force, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Inheritance Cycle, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Novels/Harry Potter task force, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Fablehaven, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Children's literature, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Discworld, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Artemis Fowl, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Novels, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Books, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Literature, User talk:Cirt, User talk:Wadewitz, User talk:Sven Manguard, Portal talk:Children's literature.

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• Support, as co-nominator. I did the formatting and setup, and Wadewitz helped out greatly with filling out the portal with appropriate selections -- not to mention contributing lots of great quality content. I wish she could see it today. — Cirt (talk) 17:16, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
• Support, dedicated to User:Wadewitz. Lotje (talk) 09:31, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Review by Sven Manguard

I appreciate that this is dedicated to a deceased Wikipedian, but I am still going to do a proper review:

• Selected biographies:
  • Why are there only 12? Is that all the FA/GA class ones we have?
  • Some of them are significantly longer than others. I'm not saying that they all have to be the same size down to the line, but we shouldn't have a few that are half the size of all the others.
• Selected articles:
  • See point two in selected biographies, above.
• Selected pictures:
  • If you're going to have selected pictures on the large side column, you should be able to free up additional size for horizontally aligned images without having to worry about it going out of the box. Please make the horizontally aligned images larger.
  • Image 21 has nothing to do with children's literature, nor does it link to anything related to children's literature. Image 17 has been put up for deletion on Commons. Please replace 17 and either replace or scrap 21.
  • See the selected pictures section of Portal:Literature, there may be some additional Featured Pictures class images there you can use. Alternatively, File:The Velveteen Rabbit pg 1.jpg is nice looking even at small sizes.
• Delink all of the dates (month and year) in Portal:Children's literature/Selected anniversaries please.
• Selected quote:
  • I would remove the images from the Selected quote section, as they cause messy formatting issues. Look at the Three Blind Mice and The Tyger entries, for example.
  • Why is the author bolded, rather than the work? In Portal:Literature, I used a different formatting that left neither bold, which I feel may be ideal, and also linked to the Wikisource of the work, rather than all to their literature page.

This will be passable eventually, but still needs work. Sven Manguard Wha? 14:27, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Okay, thank you, Sven Manguard, I shall get on addressing above. — Cirt (talk) 00:21, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Sven Manguard, to my pleasant surprise it looks like a lot of the above has already been helpfully addressed by Lotje before I could even get to it myself! :) Perhaps you could have another look? — Cirt (talk) 16:24, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

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