Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Failed log/September 2009

The following is an archived discussion of a featured portal candidate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the portal's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured portal candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The portal was not promoted by Cirt 21:42, 5 September 2009 [1].

Portal:Primates

I think this portal is easy to maintain with easy input on selected items. Includes a news, species, article, topic, list, picture, and some other portal stuff that I threw in. It should run okay when we go on vacation, except the news section needs to be updated regularly. I have National Geographic as my home page, so I will add any news brought up on their site. Zoo Fari 20:19, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bubbles pointed to a disambig page. Gray Mouse Lemur has expression error. The GA and FA sign are distracting. Too few selected articles. Same goes to DYK, pictures, and species. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 05:12, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. Any formatting issues other than that? Zoo Fari 05:28, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, the layout looks very balanced. For the news, you can even automate that part. Take a look at Wikinews Importer Bot. Of course, if you want to add your own news, then bot may not be very helpful in this situation. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 05:34, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bleh, there's nothing about primates on Wikinews, and actually National Geographic is an awesome resource, so I'll be getting the news from their site. Disamb fixed and temporarily decreased max number for species. To be honest, I didn't want to nominate for FP yet, but this portal stayed in the peer review page for more than a week without input. So I was hoping I would get feedback by just going straight to FPC. Zoo Fari 05:37, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Checking against the featured portal criteria:

1a. Useful

Definitely an interesting and broad enough topic.

1b. Attractive

Nice colors.

1c. Ergonomic

There's consistent empty space below the news box. Can you play around with the layout a bit to avoide it? Perhaps you could arrange the categories in two columns (cf. Portal: Poland)? Also, unindent the bulleted hooks in DYK and left-align the text in Selected species.

1d. Well-maintained

So far, so good. Good use of Random portal component.

2. Adheres to portal standards.

See Wikipedia:Portal guidelines.

The first instance of the article title should link to the full article.
For selected content, find a good number of articles, as many as you can, that could be showcased on the portal; where "good number" is defined as "about 20". I would be willing to support even if there were as few as 10 items in each category, but only two selected articles is certainly below the mark.

3. Images

Good use of images, no licensing issues.

4. Not self-referential

5. Links to other Wikimedia projects

Overall:

Oppose. You have done a lot of good work so far, ZooFari. My main objection is the small number of selected articles, species and images. Please try to find some more, at the very least 10 in each category. If there are not enough quality articles or images to include, you may lower the standards and include B-class articles as well.

There are two more things I don't really like, but they're not against the guideline, so I'm not going to oppose because of them. I believe the news section should promote Wikipedia articles that have been recently updated in response to recent events (this is the purpose of the news section on Main Page) and not to promote external sites like Wikinews, let alone National Geographic. So my advise would be, use NG as a source to update the relevant articles first and then promote them on the portal. Similarly, the DYK section should promote new articles (again, that's the purpose of DYK on Main Page) and not just present random bits of trivia. These are just my personal thoughts about portals, but you may want to consider them. — Kpalion^(talk) 15:06, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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