Wikipedia:Portal peer review/North West England/archive1

Portal:North West England
I've been updating the portal for about 5 months now, but no-one else seems to want to edit it. I would like to get it upto FP standard, but I don't think it will occur without this. Any comments would be appreciated. Rudget Contributions 17:01, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

It looks okay, needs more work though. I'll make a few comments:
 * Spebi
 * The top welcome notice doesn't really need to be there, consider removing it.
 * The introduction box is crowded, try filling it with text from the North West England article rather than a heap of images. You might consider putting its emblem (the rose, perhaps? excuse my naivety), a flag and the England map into a table (see Portal:Australia/Intro for an example).
 * Photo credits aren't usually given for the accompanying image in the Selected article part, and " " code right above the article text shouldn't be there. When you start to select more articles for Selected article, you'll need to move them into a subpage, (e.g. ).
 * In other portals, the "Categories" box is intended for actual categories; replace that box subpage with to generate a tree of all North West England-categories.
 * With the "Did you know" section, the accompanying image is generally related to one of the "Did you know"s in the box, rather than a random image.
 * The "WikiProjects" box, there is "WikiProject UK geography", and "Chesire project" and "Great Manchester project"; format them all as "WikiProject " or " project". This goes for some of the other sections in the portal (e.g. "North West England lists").
 * Does "Dialect" really deserve its own box? Only one dialect is spoken in that area (according to the existing box) so I fail to see how it fits in. Try moving the dialect to a DYK, or something similar.
 * You have quite a featured pictures... why not select one for Selected picture (if you haven't already) if you run out of ideas.

Hope this has helped. Not having someone to work with can sometimes be a disadvantage, because there isn't someone there to check out the sanity of your edits ;) Try looking at some of the other England-related portals, or for that matter, any other featured portal for ideas to what you can do to the portal if you're stuck. ~  Sebi   [talk] 10:43, 19 October 2007 (UTC)