Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Vermont/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 00:04, 13 April 2008.

Portal:Vermont
Nominating Portal:Vermont. I have done extensive work on this portal over the last few months. This has gotten a portal peer review, see Portal peer review/Vermont/archive1. I believe that it fits the criteria. It fits number 1, as much as possible. Number 2 and 3a are a little less so, but they still should make it in. The rest fit fine. It has randomizing selected biography/article sections (used to be one), randomizing selected pictures, a DYK section, news section, and more. Looking at other featured US states portals, I believe that it fits in with them. I hope that this can become a featured portal, and if not, any feedback here would be a great help! Also, I am not using the preloader due to it not working.  Soxred93 | talk bot 21:51, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. A few comments, mainly minor issues which should be readily fixable. The bright yellow background detracts from the content, at least on my monitor. Capitalisation in the headers is a bit variable. The DYKs don't seem to be randomised -- are you planning to update them manually? The selected biography uses "(more)" to direct readers to the actual article, while the selected article lacks this link. I noticed a redlink in the selected article summary whilst hitting update, I think it was in the blurb for Ben & Jerry's. "On this day" has no events for 2 April; it might be better to use "In this week", or similar, if there aren't at least one or two events entered for every day of the year. I don't know whether putting portal maintainers on the main portal page is appropriate; certainly it seems to include a lot of white space, and might seem more appropriate on the talk page. Also I wasn't sure about the "To Do list" format; it seemed more appropriate for a wikiproject than something aimed at casual readers, and the pastel blue headers clash strongly with the yellow on my monitor. Hope these comments are helpful; I'm not particularly familiar with the featured portals on US states, so some of these things might be to fit in with them. Espresso Addict (talk) 03:54, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Color scheme changed. Header capitalization standardized. DYK's update manually. Selected articles now use (more). Redlink fixed. Others shall be updated later. On this day changed to On this week. I have seen other featured portals with the maintainers section. The To Do list is the one used by the WikiProject, using the standard NavBox collapsable div's. Thank you for your comments.  Soxred93 | talk bot 15:43, 3 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Oppose until at least all the above can be fixed, the topic and related portals section can be brought in line with other FPOs and the events in history section can be scrapped. Rudget  ( review ) 12:26, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose Per RudgetCPacker (talk) 18:42, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. Would it be possible to give the default font size to the titles of the drop down sections of the To Do section? They look kind of squished compared to navboxes readers will encounter elsewhere. -Susanlesch (talk) 21:03, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅  Soxred93 | talk bot 02:23, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

dihydrogen monoxide (H2O) 00:03, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
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