Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Awake/archive1

Portal:Awake
I am requesting a peer review for this portal as I am interested in nominating it to become a Featured Portal. Thank you. TBrandley  &bull;&#32;  talk   &bull;&#32;contributions 08:07, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

I don't know the series at all, I'm afraid, so I approach the portal as an "outsider" (for better or worse!) Sounds a similar idea to the "Life on Mars" TV show, though! It's clearly a popular show with some people but not with the studio bosses. I think the real difficulty in getting this to be a featured portal is that there isn't enough material to work with in general, even apart from the fact that it's only got one selected article/episode at present. The only TV series featured portal is The Simpsons, which obviously has been running for many years and has many items at GA level or above. The criteria say that a featured portal "showcases only high-quality content that is preferably already featured." At the moment, the portal has 5 GAs spread between bios and episodes, and I don't think that's enough, alas.
 * Comments

So, what can I suggest after that gloomy opening?!
 * Perhaps, for now, merge the selected article and selected episode sections - with just 1 selected article at present, there isn't enough content to justify two sections.
 * In the Jason Isaacs blurb, avoid "recently" and there's no need for a comma in "NBC drama, Awake. The sentence about stage work is too long and complicated - rewrite it, perhaps?
 * If all that you can use for the selected picture is the title card which is used in the opening blurb of the portal, I wouldn't bother having that section
 * Nor would I bother have a weblinks section (per WP:LINKFARM) and I can't say I find the news section particularly useful, especially given the show's demise - what future news is there likely to be that worth's mentioning?
 * Again, 1 quote - is it worth it? There's no Wikiquote page for Awake either.
 * In the "main topics", Steve Harris is a dab link.

That's all that occurs to me for now. You have the makings of a nice little portal, though, and well done for your work so far - I think the trouble is that the show doesn't have the substance required for a featured portal rather than there being a flaw with your handiwork. Hope these comments help. BencherliteTalk 20:12, 14 June 2012 (UTC)