Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Barack Obama/archive2


 * 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 promoted by Cirt 18:54, 1 September 2010.

Portal:Barack Obama
From the first nom (failed) this spring, I've tried to perfect a few things and Sceptre has helped tidy it out a bit. Any more suggestions are welcome, but I think that this portal is ready to become featured.  — fetch ·  comms   01:17, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Support Well fetch, it seems we meet again. The only qualm I have is with this: who are they? I assume you mean Republicans? Res Mar 02:56, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * General opponents of the bill; should I add that in brackets? I think the quote choice is less a political statement than a humorous remark.  — fetch ·  comms   02:05, 4 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Very interesting choice of the portal. Could you include more selected articles? OhanaUnitedTalk page 03:40, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * It was suggested on the last FPOC run that the less directly related articles, which are people like Hilda Solis, Joe Biden, Sonia Sotomayor, etc. should not be included, so the portal focuses more on Obama and his family. Do you think that they could be added in anyway, or is this current way more appropriate?  — fetch ·  comms   02:00, 4 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Comments it's a clean layout, but I have to wonder one thing. Why are all of the headers in red? In the US, red=Republican and blue=Democrat. I agree that the less directly related articles shouldn't be included in the portal's contents. IMHO, it distracts from the core topic.  Imzadi  1979   →   02:30, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Interesting observation. I thought it looked a bit clearer than blue, which is the current border color, just based off the colors of the American flag. I've changed it around, though, to see how it looks.  — fetch ·  comms   03:22, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
 * And I kinda like it now.  — fetch ·  comms   03:25, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
 * It looks good. A couple other comments before I can support promotion of the portal. There aren't captions in the photos for the SAs. Can they be added? It was commented at the current FPOC for Portal:U.S. Roads that photos should have captions (which is part of the FPOC criteria) and requested that I add these "hover text" captions. The second thing, are there any photos that can be added to the DYK hooks? If so, that would be great.  Imzadi  1979   →   03:34, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll add the hover text (and alt text, while I'm at it), and look for DYK pics.  — fetch ·  comms   03:57, 7 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Support I'll assume good faith that fetchcomms will add DYK pictures where possible, and under that assumption, I can support promotion of this portal.  Imzadi  1979   →   15:14, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
 * for both the DYK images and the captions/alt text, and thanks!  — fetch ·  comms   21:45, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I use the portal once in a while and saw this, so I decided to drop by with a comment. Some of the portal's did you knows are interesting but some make no sense, for example "... that the grandfather of Barack Obama's Cabinet Secretary, Chris Lu (pictured), was attorney general for the Republic of China?" So what does his Chris Lu's grandfather have to do with Obama? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.199.171.167 (talk) 03:48, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, we discussed this earlier on IRC... I will find some more for these indirectly related ones just as the less related selected articles were removed.  — fetch ·  comms   21:53, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
 *  — fetch ·  comms   03:29, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment: I particularly like what Fetchcomms has done with this; I didn't notice this was here until someone pointed it out to me on IRC. I thought I'd do some work on it to get it through FPoC, but still: it's quite good work. Sceptre (talk) 19:43, 13 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Support Well done portal.  Diego Grez  what's up?  19:08, 21 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Three thoughts: (1) Consider using User:JL-Bot/Project content to generate the "Recognized content" box, as it's then automatic (provided the articles have the project tag...). (2) Does Barack Obama have to be wikilinked every time Barack Obama is mentioned in the Barack Obama portal, whether in a DYK about Barack Obama, a quote of or about Barack Obama, a photograph of Barack Obama, etc? Overload, surely? (3) In similar vein, you could pipe many of the article titles in the "topics" box to reduce the sea of blue and reduce repetition e.g. change this:

Presidency: Timeline of the Presidency of Barack Obama (2009) • Timeline of the Presidency of Barack Obama (2010) • First 100 days of Barack Obama's presidency • Foreign policy of the Barack Obama administration • Political positions of Barack Obama • Public image of Barack Obama • List of judicial appointments made by Barack Obama • Presidential transition of Barack Obama • Confirmations of Barack Obama's Cabinet • Barack Obama Supreme Court candidates • Barack Obama speech to joint session of Congress, 2009 • Inauguration of Barack Obama • List of unofficial events for the inauguration of Barack Obama • We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial

to this:

Presidency: Timeline (2009) • Timeline (2010) • First 100 days • Foreign policy • Political positions • Public image • Judicial appointments • Presidential transition • Cabinet confirmations • Supreme Court candidates • Speech to Congress (2009) • Inauguration • Unofficial inauguration events • We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial

...etc. Otherwise, looking good. BencherliteTalk 15:49, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll figure the bot out.
 * Good point, will remove it from the DYKs, quotes, pictures, and stuff
 * Interesting idea. I'll work on that.
 * Thanks for the comments!  — fetch ·  comms   02:31, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I set up the bot page, but it hasn't filled it yet, so waiting on that. Maybe I did it wrong (Portal:Barack Obama/Featured content is its temporary spot). Done removing overlinked words with the help of Chzz and AWB, and done with shortening up the topics list.  — fetch ·  comms   01:49, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Support, looks good. The bot runs once a week or so, and you just missed it, but it should be fine and it's then one less thing to worry about in updating the portal. BencherliteTalk 12:12, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
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