Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Opera/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 06:37, 9 February 2009.

Portal:Opera
I nominated Portal:Opera on behalf of WikiProject Opera members. I have done all the required procedures to nominate our portal. I like to know what next to be done and how the reviewing process is. I have just added some comments in Portal peer review. Feel free to give your opinion about our portal because we do not discuss about it in there. As I mentioned in the Portal peer review, the selection of the articles, pictures, audios etc, being done in monthly basis in our project talkpage, here is one of the example, WikiProject Opera February ~ March 2009 discussion. We updated our portal regularly. We hope we have fulfilled criteria in Featured portal criteria. Please let me know what else to do to make it qualified to become Featured Portal.- Jay (talk) 12:49, 30 January 2009 (UTC) This portal still has an ongoing portal peer review, at Portal peer review/Opera/archive2. One of these two discussions should be closed before the other can proceed further. Cirt (talk) 19:44, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment
 * I've closed the peer review and put it in the archive at Portal peer review/Archive/February 2009 acording to the How to remove a request instructions on the Portal peer review page. The page linked above (Portal peer review/Opera/archive2) is still around, though, and I can't work out how to get rid of it short of blanking it. --GuillaumeTell 18:16, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * It should have been transcluded, not copied over. Fixed. Cirt (talk) 04:18, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

It is good idea but give me some time because it requires some changes in the main format and different pages for each sub articles, basically it is like revamping the existing format. I have tried it before for Portal:Classical music but it didnt work well. I will try again when I have the time - Jay (talk) 12:51, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - It appears that nothing in the portal is either randomized or automated - that everything must then be updated manually. This tends to lead towards stagnation. It would be best to set up a system of automated rotation. Some good examples of Featured Portals to use as models include Portal:Florida, Portal:Spain, Portal:Indiana, and Portal:Iceland. Cirt (talk) 04:26, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * If the WikiProject members are not opposed to this sort of reformatting, I could help to set it up. Cirt (talk) 08:38, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Of course you can help. Just let me know when you plan to start and when youre done. We update the info in there from time to time (especially DYK and News sections), by telling us it would avoid overlapping - Jay (talk) 17:30, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I have begun work on setting up the portal for randomization - but I think it'd be best to close this featured portal discussion for now, and renominate after all the formatting is done and the WikiProject has had a chance to take a look at the format for the new setup. Agreed? Cirt (talk) 04:41, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree about closing this for now, and also that in general randomization would probably be a good thing, with a few caveats. Cirt, I hope you can join us for disussions at the opera project, at least to explain how randomization works. For one thing, we sometimes have a theme for a portal for a particular period, e.g. when we did Puccini's 150th anniversary. We also base our collaborative work each month preparing articles for the next portal. And I must say, the current small and very dreary picture of the Azerbaijan State Opera is hardly inviting to people visiting the portal (and perhaps the entire subject) for the first time. What happened to the beautiful photos of La Scala and the Sydney Opera house? Does eveything need to be ramdomized? Best, Voceditenore (talk) 05:33, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay as we seem to be in agreement - I will close this discussion for now, and explain the reformatting process to the WikiProject. Cirt (talk) 06:36, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.