Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Paleozoic/archive1

Portal:Paleozoic
I would like to nominate this for a featured portal and am requesting general feedback. Abyssal (talk) 18:00, 10 September 2013 (UTC)


 * I like your colour scheme, it's very soothing. A few quick thoughts...
 * You need to add titles to all the boxes. I don't know why they aren't showing based on the code you've used. Can someone more technical here help?
 * Featured portals usually have several types of selected content. It would be best to split up the current single box into say articles and biographies, or any division that makes sense for the content. Featured portals tend to highlight a minimum of around 35 articles.
 * The blurbs need to be broadly the same length; these vary a lot. I've found rewriting them from the leads is invariably helpful.
 * I find DYKs more interesting in balanced sets of 4 or 5 with an image per set, as on the main page.
 * All the topic boxes at the bottom need amalgamating into one. If you browse existing featured portals you'll find lots of styles for the topic box that you can adapt.
 * You need to distinguish between your Featured/Good content box and your topic boxes -- this might be clearer with titles and once the topic boxes are all amalgamated.
 * All the red links in the selected pictures need delinking (or articles creating).
 * Hope this is helpful as you continue to develop the portal! Espresso Addict (talk) 13:07, 18 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your work on this; it looks great! Some minor points:
 * The intro box's title wasn't showing cause the title was being passed as an unnamed parameter but the template wanted a  parameter. I've fixed it ([//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Paleozoic&diff=578165027&oldid=570827788 diff]).
 * If I remember, I'll look into the other templates' headers when I get a chance. If I forget, let me know.
 * Maybe move the tasks you can do up a bit: they're currently under all the topic boxes&mdash;most readers might not go that far. (This is my opinion; I'm a very new-editor-outreachy person.)
 * I agree with Espresso Addict; I would find the topic boxes nicer as one box.
 * Again I agree with Espresso Addict on the DYKs, I prefer sets with 4 or 5.
 * (It would be nice if there was some kind of script that could randomly pick a few different ones and put them together. I'll have a look into that; might have to go lua.)
 * Really picky now:
 * In some of the selected articles there are missing spaces before the "see more" link. I fixed this in one of them.
 * Picky to the state of galactic destruction:
 * In think it would look nicer if the credit links in the selected pictures were piped to hide the  bit (I did this on one of them, see [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Paleozoic/Selected_picture/1&diff=578166893&oldid=570832396 diff])

Anyway sorry for the extreme picky-ness and well done for making it look so good! I hope to see it as featured soon! Rain City 471  (whack!) 21:24, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

PS I'm pretty new to portals, so sorry for any errors and so on. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RainCity471 (talk • contribs)


 * Comment: Have you notified talk pages of relevant WikiProjects with a neutrally worded notice and link to this discussion? &mdash; Cirt (talk) 17:08, 13 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Hey everyone, sorry for the wait. Thanks for all the great suggestions! I've implemented them and want to know what you guys think about the portal. How you like it now? Abyssal (talk) 16:46, 21 January 2014 (UTC)