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Portal:Star Wars[edit]

Nomination-This portal exemplifies featured portal standards. The portal shows off the best Star Wars articles. The selected articles can even be voted for at Portal:Star Wars/Vote. The portal looks nice and is very easy to edit. There is constantly new information being added to the portal and the Star Wars WikiProject makes sure there are always things to help out with. The portal is even widly seen[1]. I can see no reason that this can't be a featured portal. Jedi6-(need help?) 10:30, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Object:
    • Why are there double edit links on the introduction?
    • The selected picture should really have some more text; at the very least, a photo credit is obligatory.
    • The same for the selected list; alternately, you could just remove that box.
    • While the portal was created some time ago, it's only been really operational since February 20, which is too short of a period to evaluate how well-maintained it will be. Adding automatically rotating content would help with this.
    • The concentric boxes for the topic list are somewhat crude, in my opinion; there's a lot of unneeded whitespace with the current setup.
    • The WikiSource and WikiBooks links point to non-existent pages
    • The images in the related portals box aren't spaced evenly, for some reason.
Needs some major work before it can be featured, in my opinion. —Kirill Lokshin 17:09, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
How is this. Also in response to your rotating content statement, we have a Portal:Star Wars/Vote section for people to nominate articles to be selected for the portal. I added a cycle in case nothing is chosen though at Portal:Star Wars/Vote#No nominations. Jedi6-(need help?) 21:47, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Much better. I'm still somewhat ambivalent about the lack of automatically queued content—what happens if you decide to go on WikiBreak for a week?—but I have no real objection so long as the portal is actively maintained. —Kirill Lokshin 17:45, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
You don't have to worry about me going on a wikibreak, even if I do there is an entire Star Wars WikiProject to update it. Jedi6-(need help?) 20:08, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Answer to the rotation; every week information is rotated. This is even more supported by the recent weekly quiz addition. — Deckiller 21:40, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Neutral: A slightly above average portal, few minor quibbles of my own:
    • The voting for winning picture/list/pic seems like a slight overkill
    • The news section seems really weak
    • The section that comes up at first is good, but it tends just to die towards the end, the "related categories" doesn't seem to be of any use, and it mess with your layout Highway 16:46, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I added to the news section and made the left and right sections of the portal to even up. As for your comment on the voting page it is more of a way to find and nominate articles for the portal than anything else. I created it based off of the collaboration of the week and the featured article nomination page. Jedi6-(need help?) 21:14, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support: I like it a bit better now, personally I wouldn't think that you would need 2 sets of episode links, and the red links are slightly destructive to the tone you've set. Good work otherwise Highway 22:05, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Red links are generally bad for portals except when they are used to encourage contribution like I have it. Jedi6-(need help?) 22:26, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. An exciting and well-maintained portal - well done! Brisvegas 12:29, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support solid; I'll make a few tweaks if I see it fit. — Deckiller 21:15, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support, looks great, but the little green text is a bit out of place in the color scheme of the rest of the portal... perhaps changing it to a shade of blue? Titoxd(?!? - help us) 05:28, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Is gold better? Jedi6-(need help?) 06:29, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support: Love the layout. Deiaemeth 06:23, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Oppose I love the trivia thing, really cool. I would, however like to see a Featured Picture or something because it would add a little more "spark". You do that, you have my vote. American Patriot 1776 01:03, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • Eh, we had that, but it got removed because of Fair Use issues. — Deckiller 01:19, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Griz 02:34, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Object This portal just doesn't compare with the best. It is particularly dull in both appearance and content; the colours invoke a graveyard, and useful content is sparce. The arrangement is also peculiar and positions secondary aspects (Things you can do) above those primary. There are no images in sight, and the introduction is brief (though acceptable). The individual boxes aren't creatively formated as in other portals, and the Weekly Quiz must go (it's self-referential). Overall, it needs more work.--cj | talk 08:15, 18 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps a better place might be WP:FU. In this state, the portal can't be promoted. Still, I had other concerns aside from images.--cj | talk 09:47, 18 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose As much as I love Star Wars, the related portals section isn't related at all. The reated protals should be Portal:Stargate and Portal:Star Trek. If the related portals section is fixed i will resupport. Tobyk777 00:24, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Object Voting is not the purpose of a portal and is self-referential. Also, the related portals are not related. Rlevse 14:25, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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