Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Cheshire


 * 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 15:28, 30 January 2013.

Portal:Cheshire
The Cheshire Portal was created by Ddstretch and has been maintained & expanded by me on behalf of Cheshire WikiProject. It is low maintenance with a fully automated rotating content system. The portal underwent a very helpful peer review in 2010 by Bencherlite and a featured review that year, and I believe only failed at that time because I was on an extended wikibreak and unable to attend to the relatively minor concerns raised. The stats are:


 * 32 selected articles (all FA/GA);
 * 23 biographies (mostly FA/GA, with a few B class for balanced coverage);
 * 34 32 pictures;
 * 14 lists (the majority featured);
 * 180 172 DYKs (almost all from the main page);
 * 16 14 quotations;
 * 167 164 calendar items.

All suggestions from the two reviews have been incorporated, and I believe the portal meets all the criteria for featured portal status. Espresso Addict (talk) 19:44, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I have notified WP Cheshire, the parent WP England and the UK Wikipedians' noticeboard. As WP England is not very active, I have also notified the most relevant subprojects: Derbyshire, Greater Manchester, Yorkshire, Merseyside, Lancashire and Cumbria, Shropshire and West Midlands. Espresso Addict (talk) 21:43, 18 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Support as I did before. Some dablinks fixed but otherwise nothing that I could find to impede promotion. Well done and welcome back. BencherliteTalk 20:12, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * That was quick! Thank you for all your assistance in getting it up to the standard. Espresso Addict (talk) 21:43, 18 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Just one question: How do you intend on keeping the "Newest articles" section current? Portals are built nowadays to be pretty maintenance free, and this seems like a pretty high maintenance item.  S ven M anguard   Wha?  17:46, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * It's actually not very much work, as new articles from the Cheshire project are already tracked at the project page. It might be possible to adapt the relevant project section so that the information is transcluded directly from there, but at the moment I'd prefer to do it by hand, as it enables customisation of the length of time the new articles are featured there, as well as giving a bit of flexibility in the column lengths. Unfortunately the bot-created list generates far too many false positives to be useful. Espresso Addict (talk) 00:47, 3 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Before I support this, please more fully populate the "Associated Wikimedia" section. Portal:Massachusetts/Associated Wikimedia has some of the other projects that you should consider including. I would think Wikivoyage and (ugh) Wikinews are a must, at the very least.  S ven M anguard   Wha?  20:48, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I have added Wikivoyage. Before I nominated the portal, I pruned the Associated Wikimedia to remove those with little or no Cheshire content. Unfortunately, few of the sister sites except Commons have very much that's related to the county Cheshire; many of the hits are spurious. I'm chary of replacing Wikinews, as it never had more than extremely occasional coverage and, as far as I can tell, has only had two peripherally Cheshire-related items since 2009 (for some reason the dates displayed in the search are incorrect). Espresso Addict (talk) 13:04, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
 * You have my support now.  S ven M anguard   Wha?  01:05, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

PROMOTED by Cirt
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.