Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Mauritius/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 OhanaUnited 03:12, 5 August 2012.

Portal:Mauritius
I am submitting Portal:Mauritius for featured portal because I believe it meets the criteria. I put it up for peer review, but got no comments in over two weeks. -- BCS   (t &middot; &#32;c &middot; &#32;!) 02:06, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Comments:
 * 1) The Selected article section should have a link to the whole collection of selected articles piped as "More articles".
 * 2) The subpages for the Selected article should probably be called "Selected article" rather than "Featured article".
 * Does that really matter?
 * It would help for consistency.  Dough 48  72  21:48, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
 * But it doesn't affect the readers. -- BCS   (t &middot; &#32;c &middot; &#32;!) 02:06, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) The Selected picture and Did you know? section archive links should be piped to dispany "More pictures" or "More Facts"
 * 2) Is there any more In the news items that can be added? The only item there is from September 2005. If there is not enough news items, I would suggest removing the section.
 * ✅ Removed
 * 1) The captions for the Selected pictures should be centered.
 * 2) Are there any more Did you know? hooks that can be included? The same hooks show up every time I load the portal.
 * That is all there is.
 * I would suggest creating more hooks so that different hooks show up each time.  Dough 48  72  03:56, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Only hooks that have been on the main page can be used. The few you see there are the only ones about Mauritius that went on the main page. -- BCS   (t &middot; &#32;c &middot; &#32;!) 20:05, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Did you know? hooks for the portal don't necessarily have to be from the main page. P:USRD, which is a featured portal, has hooks that were not on the main page.  Dough 48  72  21:48, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
 * How many should it have? -- BCS   (t &middot; &#32;c &middot; &#32;!) 22:10, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
 * 5 times the amount currently would be sufficient so there can be five different sets randomly generated.  Dough 48  72  22:20, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) Subpages for Selected biography should be "Selected biography" for consistency and archive should be piped as "More biographies".
 * ✅Changed to more biographies
 * 1) I would suggest higher quality articles for the Selected biography. Two of the four articles are C-class, and one is Start-class with maintenance tags.
 * I included the most important people, not just the highest quality biographies.
 * Portal content is not just about showing the most important articles, its also about showing quality content. Any selected articles or biographies should be at least GA.  Dough 48  72  03:51, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
 * But then that leaves one. -- BCS   (t &middot; &#32;c &middot; &#32;!) 20:05, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
 * There's always room for improvement.  Dough 48  72  21:48, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
 * For now, there is only one. I thought one isn't enough? -- BCS   (t &middot; &#32;c &middot; &#32;!) 22:10, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
 * It isn't. I'm saying that the section needs to have multiple biographies that are quality articles to be viable.  Dough 48  72  22:20, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
 * So I have to get another article to GA? -- BCS   (t &middot; &#32;c &middot; &#32;!) 02:06, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I would highly suggest it if you want this to become a Featured Portal.  Dough 48  72  04:22, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) There is only one Selected panorama. Are there any more panoramas? If not, this section should be removed.
 * What? When I refresh, I don't see the same one...
 * Never mind.  Dough 48  72  03:51, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) Why does the "More..." link for the Selected panorama link to the Mauritius article.
 * 2) The spacing of the Related portals section looks off.  Dough  48  72  02:38, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ Fixed.
 * 1) Why does the "More..." link for the Selected panorama link to the Mauritius article.
 * 2) The spacing of the Related portals section looks off.  Dough  48  72  02:38, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ Fixed.
 * ✅ Fixed.


 * I did most of them. Read my above comments. I'll fix the rest tomorrow. -- BCS   (t &middot; &#32;c &middot; &#32;!) 02:28, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I was busy today, I'll do it tomorrow. -- BCS   (t &middot; &#32;c &middot; &#32;!) 02:06, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Finished. Anything else? -- BCS   (t &middot; &#32;c &middot; &#32;!) 02:15, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Those are all the concerns I have for now. Some still need to be addressed before I can support.  Dough 48  72  02:36, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Where in Featured portal criteria does it say you have to have more than one good article biography and five sets of DYKs? -- BCS   (t &middot; &#32;c &middot; &#32;!) 15:15, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Criteria 1a says that featured portals should display "high-quality content" and criteria 1d says that featured portals should be updated regularly and display different content.  Dough 48  72  23:47, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Well then I guess this is not passing because I can't get a biography to GA in a timely manner. -- BCS   (t &middot; &#32;c &middot; &#32;!) 00:34, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
 * If you are not willing to resolve my comments I will have to Oppose this nomination.  Dough 48  72  00:45, 29 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Oppose The featured portal criteria say that a featured portal "showcases only high-quality content that is preferably already featured." Portal guidelines, which are a very useful set of principles generally taken into account here, note at Portal/Guidelines that as a rough guide (though not a hard and fast rule), 20 articles ought to be included in "selected biography" sections and the like. Even allowing for 20 not being a hard and fast rule, this portal simply does not have enough articles included at this time (only 4 selected biographies, only 6 selected articles), and the biographies that it does include are not high-quality content (GA / FA).  BencherliteTalk 10:07, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.