Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Archive/January 2009

This archive contains the peer review requests that are older than one month, have received no response in the last two weeks, are not signed, have become featured portal candidates, or did not follow the "How to use this page" principles in some way. If one of your requests has been moved here by mistake, please accept our apologies and copy it back to the main peer review page with your signature (~~~~).

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Portal:Islam[edit]

I think this portal has reached Featured portal criteria, but I want to check it before nominating there.Seyyed(t-c) 15:35, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm relatively new to portals but here's what stood out to me.

The lead paragraph has an awful lot of parenthesis, which I think breaks the flow.
Does the Selected Picture have to be in a thumb format? Personally, I think it's distracting in this case.
Same thing with the reference. If some one wants to check references, they can click the article link.

Everything else looks fine to me. Just make sure everything is updated regularly. I hope this helps some. (Guyinblack25 ^talk 22:16, 28 August 2008 (UTC))[reply]

I would recommend use of some other colors besides green and black. Maybe a turquoise green-white-black combination would be better. Also there is a gap in the page (at least in my browser), below Selected location which needs to be filled. Readjust it or add another section. Finally, why does selected picture not have a picture in it?--Shahab (talk) 04:11, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good points raised by Shahab. You also need a link to show previous selections of the portal. I also noticed that this portal did not undergo any major updates for a few months. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 18:20, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reformatting in progress

Doing some reformatting and work on this portal. Should be done soon, will update when done. Cirt (talk) 17:40, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the reformatting is done, now just to fill in the reformatted subsections with more selections of randomized content (will stick to WP:FA and WP:GA only). Should be done with that soon. Cirt (talk) 17:57, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Missing

Just noticed this portal is missing a Related portals section. I will get on that. Cirt (talk) 17:44, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, did that. Cirt (talk) 17:57, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done

Okay I'm pretty much done with the reformatting work, and ready to proceed to WP:FPOC - thoughts? Cirt (talk) 18:40, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In this month

On second thought, might want to work on incorporating an In this month section, modeled after Portal:Norway/Selected anniversaries - could glean information from helpful pages such as Timeline of Muslim history. I will get to work on that. Cirt (talk) 18:49, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, now this is also completed, with four entries per month (rotates based on current month automatically at the main portal page). Cirt (talk) 13:02, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Portal:The Beatles[edit]

This portal (along with most of the related WikiProject) fell into inactivity a while ago. I have been attempting to get it going again, with a redesign and the addition of some new features. I would now like some advice on how to improve it to featured status. Dendodge Talk^Contribs 12:48, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't like the blue borders. How do they describe The Beatles? I've seen them before on other layouts, like a main page proposal, and I didn't like it then, either. Too bright for my taste; the page looks like it has more whitespace because of it. Gary King (talk) 20:42, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Portal:Brazil[edit]

I've overhauled the design of the Brazilian portal using the random portal component, it has 20 selected articles, 17 selected pictures, 16 sets of 3 DYKs (48 in total), 20 selected biographies, in the news component, 17 selected quotes, and 10 panaromas along with categories, related wikiprojects, quality content, things you can do, topics, related portals and associated wikimedia sections. I would like some comments on how to bring this portal to featured status. Thanks. Sunderland06 (talk) 16:19, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is my first time at portal peer review, so forgive me if my review is useless, but here goes:

Featured portal criteria checklist:

It is:
1. a) Useful - Yes, this is definitely useful for somebody attempting to find their way around Brazil-related content. All the articles it features are at B-class or higher. Y
2. b) Attractive - On my screen the yellow is really bright, and the white text is hard to read on top of it. N - I've changed the gold to green of the Brazil flag which makes it clearer, also the white font goes much better with it.
3. c) Ergonomic - Overall, yes, but I suggest adding purge links to every randomised segment.
4. d) Well-maintained - It is, but make sure it stays that way - update it regularly! Y
It adheres to the standards in the Manual of Style and the relevant WikiProject guidelines; this includes conventions on naming, spelling, and style (see Portal and Portal guidelines). Y
It has images where appropriate, with concise captions, linked credits, and acceptable copyright status (see Wikipedia:Non-free content). Y
It is not self-referential: it does not speak of itself beyond (if at all) a welcome note. Aspects of portals that encourage contribution may be self-referential. Y
It should include links to other Wikimedia Foundation projects when applicable. For all portals which have their central focus subject as a specific group of lifeforms, excluding humans, there should be a link to the Wikispecies project. Y

To summarise: Change either the header bar or header text colours and add more purge links. Dendodge Talk^Contribs 21:03, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers for the review Dendodge, I'll have a look at the colour when I get time. Sunderland06 (talk) 15:52, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by Jh12

This portal is looking really great! This is just a suggestion, but have you thought about having links for the subpages on the archive page? I believe everything to do that is already in place. For example, see Portal:Criminal_justice/Selected_article. I think it makes it easier to edit the entry you're looking for. At Portal:Schools/Selected article, I added extra links as well for future use. - Done - I've done that for all the different sections, article, biography etc.
It doesn't have to be exact, but another suggestion would be to standardize entries to a range of lengths. Under Portal:Brazil/Selected_article/Archives on my screen, Amazon River has 6 lines of text while Portuguese Empire has more than 11 . Done - I think the length are at a decent length, although not all are perfect, they're pretty close.
Finally, I standardized Portal:Brazil/Intro to the intro for Portal:Peru. Please revert the change if you don't like it. The alignment of text was off for me, with the first paragraph at the bottom of the intro --Jh12 (talk) 21:20, 20 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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