Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Business and economics/archive1
I took over control of this portal just about a month ago. I changed basically all aspects of the page, and I have made several additions to the page, such as a new stock ticker (updated daily by me). I've checked over the portal guidelines, and this appears to be in compliance with all rules. --Nishkid64 00:07, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- Lots of things that need to be fixed:
- The introduction should actually talk about the topics, not be a list of categories.
- Archives for the selected article, picture, economy, quote, and news sections are needed.
- The selected picture needs an image credit of some sort, and shouldn't use thumbnail markup.
- The topics list seems pretty rudimentary for such a broad area.
- What do the EU and architecture portals have to do with this?
- The ticker should be centered in its box.
- A longer history of regular updates would be extremely helpful here. Kirill Lokshin 01:36, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- Object per Kirill Lokshin's list, and note that archives are a must. I kind of doubt the stock ticker idea, as it needs daily attention, it needs probably at least 2 people updating it. Looks like the first update by the nominator was in 13 September 2006, no consistent record yet. The DYK's last update is on 11 December 2005. "Things you can do" hasn't been cleaned up. feydey 09:14, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- Since I couldn't find some portal review section, I decided to try this out so I would know what to work on. Okay, I will try to fix up all that has been suggested. It's really hard for me to do the updating when I am the only one actually doing it. Also, Kirill, I don't think we should have an archive for quotes and news sections. News sections has a link to WikiNews, and I have seen that none of the other portals really have archive links for news sections. For quotes, there's really no need for an archive there. The related portals section is something I knew I had to fix up, because I didn't understand why this portal was in the related portals section for Portal:Architecture. But I think the EU portal is pretty relevant, since they do handle many of the economic issues of Europe. I just created the topics list, and that's just a prelim at the moment. I'll do the rest of the updates, and come back in a few months again for a re-evaluation. Thanks for all the suggestions so far. If anyone has more suggestions, either add them here, or message me on my talk page. --Nishkid64 15:01, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- If You only use news from Wikinews, then an archive for them isn't that important. The portal that I maintain, Portal:Literature, has archives for news and quotes. I suggest removing the EU portal link. Keep maintaining the portal for a few months (maybe someone else gets interested and helps out), do the improvements, and then come back. Best, feydey 15:34, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- Yeah, I have only been getting my news from WikiNews. I also plan on coming back ina few months and giving it another shot. --Nishkid64 19:36, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- Object I really do not like the background colour, as most browsers use blue for links, maybe a colour that is more pale. I also do not like the gold bar picture, it implies that economics is somehow only concerned with wealth and it's procurement. Petty issues I know but economics and economic controls can also be used to improve society and should not be so blatently about cash. I am a new user and would be willing to help maintain this page if you wish DougBrown 17:03, 20 October 2006 (UTC)