Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Failed log/February 2008

Portal:Spain

Hello, all. I've been working on this portal extensively throughout this last week or so, and I now believe it meets all the featured portal criteria. Rather than weekly/monthly updates to this portal, I've used the {{Random portal component}} so readers can see a selection of new content whenever is best for them, rather than having to wait for myself to update it. A directory of all subpages can be found here, should this be necessary. Qst 16:44, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support - Portal has no errors anywhere I can see, and looks like it can be kept up to standards. Qst did a good job.^Mitch32^contribs 16:50, 1 January 2008 (UTC) [reply]

Oppose from User:Feydey with multiple concerns. Almost all concerns now addressed. Added into drop-down box to prvent this page from becoming cluttered.

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Oppose for now, suggest naming "Directory" back to the standard "Archive". Selected picture credits need fixing (credit goes to the creator, not the uploader). Archived News --> Archive. Selected quotes need punctuation. "Selected quote" archives? Expand "Spain topics" (see f.ex. Portal:France/Content topics). Fix "Associated Wikimedia" links. Add more DYK's (>10?). Add instructions how to add new SA's, SP's, DYK's, SB's. ITN needs sources and a copyedit. The portal's layout is good. Put the link/pages from here to the portal's talk page. I'd nominate the portal again later when it has more content and a peer review. feydey (talk) 17:15, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Renaming directory back to archives: . This is because this Portal only uses the {{Random portal component}}, so the articles listed in the directory are not archives, as they will be shown all the time when a user clicks the show new selections button, so intentionally made a directory, rather than archives. Qst 17:31, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Archived news --> Archives: Done. Qst 17:32, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- In the news sourcing: Done. That was always existent, if you look at Portal:Spain/In the news, they are just wrapped in <noinclude> tags. Qst 17:35, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Punctuation on quotes: Done. Qst 17:36, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- In the news copyedit: , I don't see where it needs copyedit. Sourcing: see above. Qst 17:44, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Instructions for adding new selected articles and content: Done, created it a little while back, can be found at Portal:Spain/Suggest. Qst 17:45, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

All issues here have now been addressed, whether they have a {{done}} or not next to them, they are still done. Qst 19:23, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

When the nomination was temporarily withdrawn pending a large selection of issues to be addressed.

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Nomination temporarily withdrawn. The issues shouldn't take that long to fix up, so this will probably be back up and running shortly. Qst 17:30, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- All Featured portal nominees should display consistency, having 1 item in the news archive gives no indication how well this portal has been maintained and makes it harder to estimate how it will be maintained in the future. I still suggest withdrawal, going through peer review and then if it still looks FP-ish come back. Best, feydey (talk) 17:37, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - I'll do that, I'm already ½ way through the issues you said :) Qst 17:42, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Addressed issues raised by Chris.B

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Comment. Per feydey, suggest pulling this now and reposting it at Portal peer review. RichardF (talk) 17:25, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Portal:Spain/Things you can do has a couple of problems:
picture's → pictures
did you know's → Did you Knows?
"Help write new England-related articles"(!) → "Help write new Spain-related articles."

Just thought I would put that out. Chris.B (talk) 18:18, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Qst 19:28, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I am confused. Is this a 2nd part of the nomination or a new nomination (a resubmission)? If it's a resubmission, then please move the old discussion into archive. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 17:09, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Qst (talk) 18:46, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The portal was not promoted 00:24, 15 February 2008.

Portal:Ice hockey

I've worked on this portal with User:Ryan Postlethwaite for the past two weeks and we think it meets the criteria. Big thanks to Ryan, he's helped me a lot with this, as this is my first major portal work. Thank you for your time, Maxim_(talk) 02:16, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support (although I've done work on this portal myself (as Maxim said)) - We've taken ideas off a number of different featured portals and I believe it meets the featured portal criteria. If there's any problems - let us know and we'll gladly fix them ASAP. Ryan Postlethwaite 02:23, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Insufficient content. Show at least six months of good selected content in waiting for a month or two and I would reconsider. RichardF (talk) 03:15, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- There was actually some good earlier selected content - the problem was, the formatting of the content was very different from the current portal and the archives would have looked fairly bad. It was a little inconsistent as well, so I cleared out the archives, and began them again from when Maxim started revamping the portal to bring it into line. Ryan Postlethwaite 03:54, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - Okay, that sounds like a good step. Now, the dated selections system needs to show a well-maintained reserve of items in each of the queues, so no one worries about them showing up as red links down the line. RichardF (talk) 04:00, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    - Yeah, that's a very valid comment - I would hope that between me and Maxim, we can keep it up. Ryan Postlethwaite 04:03, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      - Me too. That's why featured portal candidates need to demonstrate it's actually happening. :-) RichardF (talk) 04:06, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
        and we'll demonstrate it as well ;-) Thanks for your input. Ryan Postlethwaite 04:14, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I object to this. What's the point of updating a few months in advance. There's a Suggestions page for example - what's the use of it if everything's filled in. Let's say User X suggests Article Y. I'll have to say then, "Your Article has been scheduled to appear in four months. Adios!" Secondly, what demonstrates that I will abandon this portal once it's promoted (hopefully)? I've been an editor here for twelve months, and I'm certainly dedicated to this project, and I will most certainly not leave this portal up to dry. I put a lot of effort in to this, and there's no reason for me to abandon it. Also, see User:Maxim/Sandbox; it has some stuff that help me maintain the portal. I'm planning to make the March pages during the last week of February, probably. Maxim_(talk) 23:35, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- See Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria "3.4. Well-maintained. It is updated regularly to display different aspects of Wikipedia's content in an area." This portal doesn't demonstrate any track record or established mechanism for meeting this criterion. Promises aren't part of the deal. RichardF (talk) 00:57, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support: good, non c'è niente da dire :-) --jskellj - the nice devil 13:13, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Not promoted --Maxim_(talk) 21:19, 14 February 2008 (UTC) Well I obviously can't address the main concern, will this process run for six months? No thanks![reply]

All you have to do to address the main concern is add content. Using something like {{Random portal component}} would address the concern of "waiting" to see the content. Nothing is stopping you from meeting the criteria that you can't address, if you choose to do so. RichardF (talk) 22:39, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Maxim, calm down a little - we can just work on the portal together for a few months then concerns should be addressed. It's not a big deal and there's a very legitimate concern that was raised. It doesn't matter when this portal gets featured, just as long as we can maintain it to a high standard so it will in the future. Ryan Postlethwaite 23:17, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think I'm uncalm, and as it's not a big deal, well, there should be no problem in me pulling the nom, no? Maxim_(talk) 23:27, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No big deal at all, but you're the one kicking off :-S Ryan Postlethwaite 23:29, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The portal was not promoted 08:59, 25 February 2008.

Portal:Massachusetts

Self-nomination. I created the portal and have went through a portal peer review. After looking through some other states that are featured portals and improving mine, I think this portal is ready for a FP nom. STORMTRACKER 94 ^{Go Sox!} 19:01, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment You need to add archives for articles, bios, pictures, and cities.--Bedford 19:10, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done STORMTRACKER 94 ^{Go Sox!} 21:52, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Expand Topics setion. It gives me the feel of Categories section.
Mention some Requested articles in Things You Can Do section.
Selected Picture section image captions should have the source name.
Lack of archives in all the sections.
Seperate purge link is redundant of Show new selections.
Remove External Links section. --- Shyam ^(T/C) 12:57, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: I don't like the section external links, and the portal hasn't fundamental sections such attractions or selected quote. --jskellj - the nice devil 13:06, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- You love opposing nominations on minor details, don't you? OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 18:39, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support: A lot of sections are possible but each one adds to clutter. And I don't think any are required beyond those in the portal guidelines. I support this portal in any case. -Susanlesch (talk) 06:47, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Is it possible to have the "spotlight town" in randomized form? (Similiar to selected articles) OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 18:18, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I could if you want me to. STORMTRACKER 94 ^{Go Sox!} 21:53, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, then please change it. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 18:39, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Not promoted. While it may not warrant opposition in and of itself (though personally, I think it does), Brískelly's comments are inline with the FPo criteria, or at least, my interpretation of it. Furthermore, OhanaUnited's request has not been acted upon (as far as I can see); same applies to Shyam's comments. I encourage the nominators to work on these requests, and to be more responsive in future FPoC nominations. dihydrogen monoxide (H₂0) 08:57, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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