Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Napoleonic Wars


 * 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 OhanaUnited 22:08, 14 November 2011.

Napoleonic Wars

 * Nominated by


 * New portal: nominating it for FPR.
 * Includes:
 * Automated rotating selected battle and biography and picture.
 * Currently 7 in each; daily rotation.
 * Each links to parent or relevant article.
 * Wikified and not too lengthy.
 * Intro box picture is auto-rotational - 60 pics; 1 per minute.
 * Automated random selected picture, GAs and DYKs.
 * Wikimedia links.
 * Categories tree.
 * Related Projects and Portals.
 * Related topics.
 * Reading material.
 * Related project FA/FL and A-class list.
 * History military browsebar at top, subjects browsebar at bottom.
 * Sub-pages are formatted for "see more" links to display neatly.
 * Colourful and some images used to make it presentable.
 * Icons used to make links clear as to wiki relevance.
 * Thanks,  Ma &reg;&copy; usBr iti sh &#91;Chat &bull; RFF] 02:10, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Few short things, in depth later:

That about it..... for now. Buggie111 (talk) 02:45, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Check for spelling
 * If any Featured Pics are available that fit the portal pics guidelines (no fair-use images) than replace normal selected pic with them
 * I'd suggest selected Naval/Land battle instead of the current layout, maybe "Other selected article" or "Selected weapon, ship etc."
 * Remove selected GA's section and add into Quality content list.
 * Consider DYK's in quality content, I'll provide a link that can help.


 * There are no typos, afaik, Firefox has a built-in spell checker, which I use (plus I didn't type anything, it's mostly copy/paste).
 * All the "selected pics" and portraits are old, painters died 70+ years, so are out of copyright. Most of the random intro box pics are old too.
 * There are only 2 or 3 notable naval battles in the entire Napoleonic War - it's isn't worth having a separate box for so few, there would be nothing to rotate. Few of the naval action articles on Wiki have decent leads to use other than major ones.
 * There are 113 GAs in the Napoleonic Era task force, and listing them all would be clutter. Random selection uses less space. If people want a full list of GAs there's a link for them to do so, in a table set-up especially. Plus each GA has its own page, which the random element selects from, and took a very long time to set up. I don't fancy nominating 113 pages for deletion, which would take hours, again.
 * DYKs always have their own box on any portal.. not sure what "quality content" means, but the random method used is standard practice.
 * Cheers,  Ma &reg;&copy; usBr iti sh &#91;Chat &bull; RFF] 03:02, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I mean with the FA's and A"s, but now that you mention, that would just be more clutter. Buggie111 (talk) 03:29, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I already tried it – 113 items takes up a lot of room and doesn't really contribute anything. Moving forward, do you have any comments relative to the Featured portal criteria? Thanks,  Ma &reg;&copy; usBr iti sh &#91;Chat &bull; RFF] 03:52, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
 * All met, Support. Buggie111 (talk) 18:26, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me. SupportIntothatdarkness (talk) 15:03, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Nicely done and quite useful. Support. Richard Harvey (talk) 13:25, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

I don't understand what you mean by "Automated rotating selected battle and biography" and anything related to automated rotation in general. It does not appear to auto-rotate when I view it. OhanaUnitedTalk page 03:11, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
 * There are 7 of each - they rotate daily - every 24 hours presents a new one. Wiki doesn't appear to have a nocache - for some boxes you need to purge to see new content. Picture has 1 per min, GA/DYK per reload.  Ma &reg;&copy; usBr iti sh &#91;Chat &bull; RFF] 08:35, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
 * When you mean "Intro box picture is auto-rotational - 60 pics; 1 per minute", did you mean the picture on the right (beneath the flag of France)? I tried Firefox 3.6 and 8.0. Both didn't demonstrate the auto-rotation once per minute. OhanaUnitedTalk page 12:53, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes. As I said, wiki still caches portals so you need to "purge" every minute - reloading doesn't seem to work. Technical issue, beyond my hands afaik - all portals seem to be the same. I thought there was a __NOCACHE__ magic word. I was mistaken.  Ma &reg;&copy; usBr iti sh &#91;Chat &bull; RFF] 13:52, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
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