Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Barack Obama/archive1


 * 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 15:56, 6 May 2010.

Portal:Barack Obama
I put this up for review more than a month ago with no response. I've tried to get it up to the standards, although this is admittedly a smallish topic. I hope to get some actual input here about its status and whether it should wait before reaching featured status.  fetch  comms  ☛ 16:05, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
 * The preloaded nomination template doesn't seem to exist either :P  fetch  comms  ☛ 16:07, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Just some general thoughts...
 * Comments from J Milburn
 * Some more selected articles would be nice... There must be more, surely?
 * I'd personally like to see some more images from before he was president, and perhaps more "related" images- pictures of family and the like. Non-photographs like maps showing election results would also be pretty cool. File:BarackObama-Basketball.JPEG is probably better than the current basketball picture. Some more iconic moments would be good- we got him winning the peace prize? That sort of thing may be better than the random "writing a note" type thing- they come across as a little fanboy/fangirlish, rather than encyclopedic.
 * We have at least one featured picture, if you want to add that to the recognised content section.
 * The news doesn't look to have been recently updated.
 * Timeline of the Presidency of Barack Obama, in the topics section, is a dablink.
 * The topics section could use some formatting- books in italics, songs/sayings in speech marks, that sort of thing.
 * Portal would be good to add to Template:Barack Obama
 * Not wild about the selected biography section... The articles on his family would make good selected articles, but I'm not sure the others have much of a place.
 * Perhaps a "selected quote" section? That seems very appropriate for a portal on a single person.

Generally looks good. Great topic for a featured portal. J Milburn (talk) 20:28, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Right now there are 8 bios and 4 articles, which is all the FA/GA listed in the project's scope right now; I could combine them to make one single featured content section, although I think I'll try to find any other possible FA/GA the project didn't include but still should be included if it's relevant, before combining them is necessary. I tried to pick out some images that show a more personal side of him—which I admit now does strikes me as rather fangirly. I'll look through some more media from Commons to add/replace. I forgot about featured images (I've never been able to find FPs very easily) so I'm going to include it in the section (although I did include it in the selected pictures). The news is updated by the Wikinews importer bot directly from wikinews:Category:Barack Obama, so I just have to wait for more big stories (or people categorizing). I'll fix the topics section things, have updated the template (as well as the project assessment template), and will see what quotes I can find. If I cut out the other biographies, I'll probably just have one main recognized content section, but then it might seem odd not to have as many higher quality articles (right now, only two are GAs), although I'm not sure whether this would be a good thing or not. Thanks for the prompt reply, and I'll try and make some improvements quickly too!  fetch  comms  ☛ 21:54, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I can't seem to find any other recognized content outside of the project. I've changed a few images, although the basketball one you suggested is a bit grainy. Would one of these suffice?  fetch  comms  ☛ 23:36, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
 * A selected quote section has been added, with nine selections currently. I can certainly add more, if needed.  fetch  comms  ☛ 23:21, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Changed image to this one.  fetch  comms  ☛ 19:35, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Selected images is looking a lot better, and I like the quotes section. Still not wild about the selected biography section- I'd be inclined to say that only the direct family belong in the portal so prominently, and so would stick with my call to merge the section with the selected article section. This portal is about a single person- having content about other people seems a little odd. It'd be like having a "selected religion" section in the Christianity portal. J Milburn (talk) 22:28, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

← OK, making some changes now.  fetch  comms  ☛ 21:45, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Have talk pages of relevant WikiProjects been notified? -- Cirt (talk) 16:23, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Query
 * I do believe so, although I left the messages some time ago (almost two months ago).  fetch  comms  ☛ 20:57, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
 * There are no comments in support of promoting this portal at this point in time, will likely close it in another week. -- Cirt (talk) 20:03, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
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