Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Failed log/January 2009

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The portal was not promoted by OhanaUnited 02:47, 22 January 2009 [1].

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Portal:Greater Manchester

Nomination This portal was built after the success of Portal:North West England and I believe this portal meets all the criteria and should be promoted. Thanks. ^┌_Joshii^┐_└^chat_┘ 20:55, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

• Good lord, it has been ages since I reviewed my last portal candidate. Here's something that needs to work on. Add the "Archive/Nomination" link so that people can choose to read all the selections at once instead of pressing the "show new selections" and hope there's something that they want to read. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 06:10, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Comments by Jh12

Following up on OhanaUnited's comments, there were a couple things that I think would be nice improvements for this portal:

• Definitely add the archive links as suggested above for Portal:Greater Manchester/Selected article, Portal:Greater Manchester/Selected biography, and Portal:Greater Manchester/Selected picture like you have done for the DYK section.
• As part of the previous, add a footer for Portal:Greater Manchester/Selected picture with Read more and Archive links like at Portal:Sustainable development/Selected picture
• Also on the archive pages, add instructions for how to add a new selection (Portal:Peru/Selected article, Portal:Criminal_justice/Selected_article)
• Consider having links for each subpage 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.
• Check to see that all of the selections under Portal:Greater Manchester/Selected article and Portal:Greater Manchester/Selected biography have in-text links for the article that are bold like at Portal:Theatre/Selected article
• Increase Portal:Greater Manchester/Selected biography to at least 10 selections

• This shouldn't be a problem at all, off the top of my head, there's Henry Taylor (swimmer) and Hugh Mason that are both of GA standard. Nev1 (talk) 01:50, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

• It doesn't have to be exact, but try to standardize all selections to a closer range of lengths. For example under Portal:Greater_Manchester/Selected_biography, the selection for Hannah Beswick/Manchester Mummy is about six lines while Oasis (band) is about twelve.
• Add image captions for all of the pictures under Intro, Selected article, Selected biography, and Selected picture
• Consider image mapping the icons under Related portals to the respective portals: see Portal:Schools/Related portals

Good luck, --Jh12 (talk) 21:45, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Comments from Espresso Addict A drive-by review from the Cheshire WikiProject. The basic structure is good, and I particularly like the maps. I agree with most of the above points -- the lack of archive links makes reviewing the content specifically almost impossible. Additionally:

• The latest news is from August last year
• The DYKs don't seem randomised
• The map in the introduction is lovely but needs an image caption

Hope these points are helpful in improving the portal. Espresso Addict (talk) 00:31, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

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