Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Submarine/archive1

Portal:Submarine
I am requesting this portal for peer review so I can receive comments about the structure, images, selection, content and colors, which are based loosely on Portal:World War II prior to FPC. WikiCopter (radio • sorties • images • lost • defense • attack) 21:33, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Firstly, I think this is a portal with an interesting subject field (worldwide topic, plenty of possibilities for displaying high-quality content) and you've made a good start. A few comments, questions and suggestions. That's all for now. Hope this helps. BencherliteTalk 13:36, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Comments from Bencherlite
 * Firstly, I notice you've not used random subpages for the section. Is it your plan, therefore, to update the portal with new selections?  If so, how often?  I ask this because most, if not all, of the most recently promoted featured portals use random subpages rather than reliance on manual updating, and Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:London Transport/archive1 is an example of an FPoC failing on that basis, even when supported by an active WikiProject.
 * Operation Nautilus is supporting, and for now I plan to manually update, at least until prior to the FPoC.
 * "Good article" isn't a standard section title: "Selected article" would be more usual (or "Featured article" if all the chosen articles are of Featured quality, but that's not the case here)
 * Incidentally, if you're looking for GA and above candidates for inclusion, CatScan is very helpful e.g. this GA search.
 * Will use catscan, thanks for the tip.
 * I think that having a "more good articles" link that goes straight to WP:Good articles isn't very helpful to readers of the portal. Even Good articles/History would be better.
 * The news section: the current story has been deleted on Wikinews, which means your link goes nowhere... it's also a bit long in comparison to other portal news sections, and unless there are lots of news stories about submarines, a long story that goes stale will make the portal look out of date more quickly than a short summary of one or more stories. I wonder, instead, whether a better format would be one of the following:
 * Portal:U.S. Roads/U.S. Roads news (a featured portal), with short new items and references (references shown on the main portal page, at the bottom);
 * Portal:University of Oxford (not featured, but I'm quite proud of my work on it!), which has a combination of Wikinews and other items (with references shown on the portal subpage, but not the main page). This leads me onto my next point...
 * ✅ to US Roads news
 * Searching Wikinews, I see that there are plenty of stories about submarines (accidents, diplomatic incidents, purchases etc) and I would have thought that a Wikinews category for submarines would be a viable option (said he, wearing his occasional Wikinews hat). Shall I see what I can do for you on Wikinews? You could then use the Wikinews importer bot for some or all of your stories.
 * Sure, I used a search for the Sub news, but only did the ones from October this year.
 * Your links for "current events" and "Wikinews" are the same, and both are broken... the syntax for links to the English-language Wikinews is just Name of article, or a simple to link to the main page (n:).  If you get a submarine category, of course, then you can have a link there instead of the "current events" link.
 * "Selected stub" isn't a section I've seen elsewhere on featured portals - can you point me to any? You ought to link to the article, otherwise no-one can easily visit it to expand it!
 * Linked, and I guess I'm going to make it a part of a Featured Portal, unless somebody objects to it.
 * Changed to Selected biography. WikiCopter (radio • sorties • images • lost • defense • attack) 02:41, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Are there enough decent biographies of submariners or others associated with submarines to have a "selected biography" section?
 * Search starting. WikiCopter (radio • sorties • images • lost • defense • attack) 00:06, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅, see above. WikiCopter (radio • sorties • images • lost • defense • attack) 02:41, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * You need to add the portal to some categories: one (or more) for portals, and also to Category:Submarines.
 * ✅ WikiCopter (radio • sorties • images • lost • defense • attack) 02:41, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅, see above. WikiCopter (radio • sorties • images • lost • defense • attack) 02:41, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * You need to add the portal to some categories: one (or more) for portals, and also to Category:Submarines.
 * ✅ WikiCopter (radio • sorties • images • lost • defense • attack) 02:41, 5 November 2010 (UTC)