Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Music of Canada/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 02:05, 29 May 2010.

Portal:Music of Canada
Just think its a good portal..never done a  Featured portal before only articles ..so lets see what you guys think!! Moxy (talk) 05:09, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Have talk pages of relevant WikiProjects been notified? -- Cirt (talk) 16:23, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Query
 * 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)
 * -- :( my poor little portal!! LOL ....Moxy (talk) 21:14, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Comment. It seems a shame that this portal gets closed with no attention from anyone, so I will add my thoughts, for what they're worth, despite the fact that I know nothing of Canadian music. I hope this is helpful in improving the portal! Espresso Addict (talk) 23:25, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The colour scheme is pleasing, and I particularly like the introduction with the clickable map. I don't know whether it's possible to make the regions clickable, rather than just the labels? It would make it easier to use.
 * The layout felt a bit messy or bitty, particularly the way the larger of the two boxes kept switching from left to right, and the fact that the box headers were not incorporated into the boxes.
 * I found the heavy red borders to the boxes a little distracting, particularly in association with the images in boxes. Also in the Topics box.
 * The picture in the Biography box seems a bit wide for the box width at my screen resolution.
 * I'd like a way to review all the featured content on a single archive page, rather than having to keep clicking show new selections. Also I think there should be a way for people to nominate new content.
 * Something seems awry with the randomisation -- I always got say 4 of 5 for both Biography & Article. I'm no expert with dynamic portals, but I think putting in different randomisation seeds might perhaps help?
 * Five Selected Articles & Biographies seems a little light. Most featured portals have a minimum of 10 of each, and many have far more. You seem to have 18 GAs & 4 FAs tagged for the project so there seems no problem in expanding. Also do you have any "Did you know" entries? It's a fun way of highlighting shorter articles.
 * Thank you for taking the time to write this ...all will be done!!..Moxy (talk) 02:17, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Update... pls take a look now!..Have change the coding... It now to allows people to suggest new content and link to archives as suggested above and all the other benefits with that come with the modern coding.. As for more content..we are currently talking about what should or should not be included in the portal...I will update here if this process is still open.  If not will renominated t the proper time.  Again thank you for all your suggestions ....Moxy (talk) 22:17, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * That looks greatly improved -- I hope you can add more content before the process gets closed. Espresso Addict (talk) 16:54, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Update again!!! Now has more content - with over 25 selections and i added a Did you know? section as recommended ... : ) ... Moxy (talk) 19:26, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

..Ok as per talk.... selections now at 40 ..plus DYK at 20..what else ?? ...Moxy (talk) 16:02, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Open for a significant amount of time with not a great deal of support, will likely close and archive after one more week. -- Cirt (talk) 15:05, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I think there's sufficient variable content now to Support. Kudos for your continued hard work on this, Moxy. Espresso Addict (talk) 22:24, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
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