Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Germany

Portal:Germany

I hope this portal is more or less acceptable by now. It has had auto-updating high-quality content (the monthly Selected article is a FA, the Selected Picture a FP either here, on commons or on the German Wikipedia) since March and has a daily Anniversaries section with pictures. To encourage contribution, it has a section announcing the newest articles. The size of pictures and boxes has been chosen so the portal looks decent on resolutions between 800x600 and 1280x1024. I believe the portal meets the criteria, but would welcome any feedback and further improvements. Kusma (討論) 21:16, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As someone clearly biased, the only objection I can only find archives for two sections. Archives of the others (DYK, etc.) might be useful as well. I support it unless I am found to be less than objective and have to recuse myself. Badbilltucker 16:14, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The DYKs are currently archived on the talk page, but that's probably not such a good place, especially as there is no link from the main Portal page. I'll create a proper archive for this and the News section within the next 24 hours. The new articles are archived at Portal:Germany/New article announcements and its archive pages, but the link is not called "Archive" - should it be? Kusma (討論) 16:20, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have added archive links for DYK and News. Kusma (討論) 20:10, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support, now unqualified as opposed to earlier qualified support. Badbilltucker 20:36, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support, looks good. Kirill Lokshin 03:32, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support, nicely done. -G photo 13:59, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support this has been a great portal for a long while – I'm surprised it was brought here earlier. Admittedly, however, I'm not that supportive of new article sections on portals. Great work,--cj | talk 14:46, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Does the month have to appear in the box header? And isn't that an inconvienence to change all the time? Also isn't the DYK box for highlighting new articles? Why have both DYK and the new articles box? Joe I 21:03, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- The month name appears there to show that it changes monthly. Do you have a better formulation that shows this? The header changes automagically using the {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} magic word, so it is no inconvenience at all. The DYK box is used to highlight new articles from which an interesting fact can be extracted (the current selection is completely composed of entries that were on Template:Did you know on the Main Page), while the new articles box is used to show all articles that have recently been created, not all of which are eligible for the Main page DYK (for example, they are unreferenced) or do not seem to contain a sufficiently interesting fact. Kusma (討論) 21:13, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Good enough explanations although I disagree. Knowing how often the content is rotated wouldn't make a difference to me, if I knew what the month name meant. No solution, it's really no big deal. As for the DYK, this is Portal:Germany, not the main page why must you go by their criteria? Just having redundant boxes seems a waste, but really no biggie there either. The rest does look nice. :) Jo e I 19:07, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support :) Jo e I 19:07, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]