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I've been working on this portal for a few weeks now, and I believe it meets the Featured Portal Criteria (WP:WIAFPo). Let's see what the community thinks! For the record, it's based on Portal:Alternative music. Dihydrogen Monoxide (H2O) 00:00, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Oppose: It is a good start. But, for the following reasons I think the portal is still not ready to be featured as one of the best portals on wikipedia:
    • The portal is heavily tilted towards Rock and Pop. Very limited (if at all) information is available about other genres i.e. indegenous, country and jazz music. Also, other than the related articles on AC/DC and Bon Scott, the entire portal caters for recent trends in Australian music (90s or later).
      • I'm aware of this issue. However, as GA and up articles are displayed on the portal, I don't have huge amounts of control over what shows up there. I could go and get some other Australian music articles to GA, but it's unrealistic to expect someone to create a full perspective on the topic themselves - I'm just working with what I've got.
        • Please don't take this personally. No one is accusing you for not finding all the right components. The skeleton of the portal, which you have created, is perhaps good enough for featured status. But the fact of the matter is (which you also agreed), there is not enough good material on wikipedia at this point in time to have a balanced portal on such a narrow topic. The portal needs to be evaluated based on its usefulness and representativeness, not only on its looks. Hence this portal, unfortunately, doesn't seem to be ready for a featured status yet. Arman Aziz 05:50, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
          • I'm not taking it personally, no. It's just that with the backlog around here, I don't want to have to wait forever to get it featured if it meets the criteria. Speaking of which, there is no mention in the criteria of representativeness. Usefulness is there, yes, but as I said before I really can't control what articles appeared on the portal. I doubt we'd ever have many GAs on some of the Australian music topics - there just aren't editors interested in that area. So I do what I can, but sometimes we just can't live up to the criteria word for word. Dihydrogen Monoxide (H2O) 06:00, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Several selected images on the roster don't seem impressive from image quality perspective. (e.g. big day out 2006 crowd, Tim Rogers, TZU, The Go-betweens, Ben-Lee).
      • Some bad images have been removed/resized - there were issues with commons at some stage, I believe.
    • The news section could use an archive. It also should have a track record of good maintenance (for at least 3 months).
      • The news section has only been running for a short amount of time, but archives will be implemented as soon as is relevant.
    • A "Did you know.." section could add value to the portal.
      •   Done
    • The intro section of the portal seems casually written. It could be improved.
      •   Done
On the whole, the portal seems far away from a balanced representation of Australian Music.Arman Aziz 02:12, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Responded to comments. Dihydrogen Monoxide (H2O) 05:01, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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