Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates

Featured Portals in Wikipedia A featured portal is a portal which is regarded by the community as being an example of Wikipedia's finest work. This page is where featured portal candidates are considered by the community against the featured portal criteria. Nominators are expected to make an effort to address objections. A portal should not be a featured portal candidate and at the same time be listed at portal peer review. Users are asked not to add a second nomination here until the first has gained support and concerns have been substantially addressed. Do not split a nomination page into subsections, which will cause problems in its archiving (if necessary, use bolded headings). Please respond positively to constructive criticism. For a nomination to be promoted to featured portal status, consensus must be reached that it meets the criteria. Consensus is built among the reviewers and nominators. If, after sufficient time, objections considered actionable have not been resolved or consensus for promotion has not been reached, a nomination will be removed from the list and archived. Consensus may be determined by any editor in good standing who is not materially involved in the portal's development or maintenance, or in any related WikiProjects. The process is overseen by the Featured Portal directors Cirt and OhanaUnited. A bot will update the portal talk page after the portal is promoted or the nomination archived; the delay in bot processing can range from minutes to several days, and the {{FPOC}} template should remain on the talk page until the bot updates {{ArticleHistory}}. If a nomination is archived, the nominator should take adequate time to work on resolving issues before re-nominating—typically at least a few weeks. At present, there are 170 featured portals, of a total of 1455 portals on Wikipedia. Purge page cache

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Nomination procedure Before nominating a portal for featured portal status on this page, compare it against the featured portal criteria and ensure that it meets all criteria before nominating. It is strongly recommended that you use the portal peer review process before nominating the portal. Peer reviews help to identify and fix basic improvement needs before they might be used as the basis for opposing a nomination. You may also wish to observe other featured portals in the same topic to get ideas on how to further improve your portal before nomination. Place {{FPOC}} on the talk page of the nominated portal, and click the "initiate nomination" link – This will allow you to initiate the nomination in the correct format. Note: If you are resubmitting the portal after a previously failed nomination, it is important that you follow the following instructions correctly: Use the move tab to rename the previous nomination to a new title: example: move Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Example to Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Example/Archive 1 Go back to the template you left on the talk page of the nominated portal, and replace the code {{FPOC}} with {{FPOC|Archive 1}}. Save the page and re-click the "initiate nomination" link to start the nomination again. These instructions do not work; They presume no redirect will be left behind - only a possibility for admins. Please update with correct instructions. Fill in the blanks of the page, including why you are nominating the portal and other necessary details about the portal that need to be covered. Click this link and place the following code {{Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Example}} (replacing Example with the name of your portal) directly under the header, and above all previous nominations. This will transclude the nomination subpage you created for your nominated portal to be seen on the main candidacy page. Be sure to include an edit summary that clearly states which portal you are nominating: e.g., nominating Portal:Example. Nominator is strongly encouraged to watchlist the nomination page. Nominator may wish to leave a neutrally worded notice at the talk pages of relevant WikiProjects. Supporting and objecting Please read nominated portals fully before deciding to support or oppose a nomination. To edit nominations in order to comment on them, you must click the "edit" link to the right of the portal nomination on which you wish to comment (not the overall page's "edit this page" link). If you approve of a portal, write '''Support''' followed by your reasons. If you oppose a nomination, write '''Object''' followed by the reason for your objection. Each objection must provide a specific rationale that can be addressed. If nothing can be done in principle to "fix" the source of the objection, the objection may be ignored. This includes objections to a portal's suitability for the Wikipedia. To withdraw an objection, strike it out (with <s>...</s>) rather than removing it. Any registered editor may express an opinion. "Supports" and "opposes" from IP editors will be crossed out, but their comments on portal content should be considered. To archive a nomination Any editor in good standing is welcome to analyse consensus in a nomination, and close it accordingly. There are featured portal directors who are trusted and willing to close difficult or contentious nominations in which they haven't expressed an opinion. If you would like to ask that a nomination be closed, have concerns over a closure, or seek clarification in any regard, please ask at the talk page. Remove the transcluded discussion from this page (click here). While removing it, mention the name of the portal in the edit summary. Transclude the nomination to the promoted or not promoted log, as appropriate. Update the Template:Featured portal log tallies by clicking here. If the article was not promoted, remove the {{FPOC}} template and update the {{article history}} template. If the article was listed at featured portals, it has been promoted and you can add the star to the portal, by adding {{featured portal}} to the bottom of the portal page. You will also need to upgrade Project assessments, close the FPOC, remove the {{FPOC}} template, and update ArticleHistory. For successful nominations: Add the portal to Portal:Featured portals, and remember to update the subtotal in the section heading. Add <sup>[[File:Cscr-featured.svg|11px]]</sup> to the portal's listing on Portal:Contents/Portals. Update Wikipedia:Goings-on by clicking here. Update Template:Announcements/New featured content by clicking here.

Nominations

Portal:Halo

I am nominating this portal for featured portal status. Admittedly this is a comparatively small topic (less than 100 articles in the corresponding WP:HALO WikiProject), but this portal only showcases high-quality content (all articles displayed in the Selected article, DYK and Selected picture sections are of at least GA-class) and covers the basics well.

This portal includes:

• 14 selected articles, all FA-class, therefore the section is named "Featured article". If 14 articles is not enough, I can add a few GAs to this section to push the number of selected articles above 20.
• 27 Did You Know hooks, linking to 29 articles, consisting of 28 good articles and 1 featured list. These hooks are divided into 4 categories. One hook from each category is randomly selected to be displayed.
• 20 selected pictures, all with credits and captions. All bold links are to articles that are of GA-class or higher and are within the scope of the Halo WikiProject. I did not include any image I used for blurbs of selected articles.
• Related portals and appropriate WMF interwiki links. I have no idea why the template looks like that.

Since this is my first portal creation, please feel free to comment and suggest improvements. Thank you. sst✈^discuss 06:51, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Notified: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Halo, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Microsoft, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Novels. sst✈^discuss 07:09, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Comment by Rodw I know nothing of the content but on a first look at the layout, I note 3 links on two lines below Selected Picture. I had exactly the same issue on Portal:Bristol and User:John of Reading kindly resolved it through the use of {{Random portal component with nominate}} and special layout templates (which I didn't fully understand). It might be worth seeing if similar tweaks could be offered for this Portal.— Rod ^talk 19:50, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

I've removed the second line. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:01, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments. sst✈^discuss 09:39, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Portal:Bristol

Bristol is a large city in the south west of England. I have recently updated this portal to randomly display content (45 selected article, 20 selected picture, 18 selected biography), added the recognised content from WikiProject Bristol and automated the category display. User:John of Reading has been very helpful in customising the layout (particularly the options at the bottom of each section). I now feel it meets the featured portal criteria and would appreciate any comments.— Rod ^talk 18:21, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Rod, this looks like great work to me, but I hope you won't mind if I wait for another set of eyes before confirming my support, as I don't have much previous experience reviewing Portals. Harrias ^talk 18:20, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

• Comment: Have you posted neutrally worded notices to the talk pages of all WikiProjects that are relevant to this topic? — Cirt (talk) 23:18, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
  • I put Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Bristol#Portal:Bristol when I started cleaning it up, and will put another note up today. I am not aware of any other projects this would be relevant to.— Rod ^talk 07:04, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
    • Also relevant to: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK geography, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject England, and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cities, I found those from Talk:Bristol. — Cirt (talk) 09:46, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
      • OK I have added a request for people to comment on those projects - I suppose because they weren't listed on the Portal talk page I didn't think to include them. I have combined it with a request about the Bristol article which is currently at FAC (see Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Bristol/archive2).— Rod ^talk 09:59, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
        • You might try posting neutrally-worded-matter-of-fact-notices at article talk pages, as well, for instance, like Talk:Bristol, etc. Good luck, — Cirt (talk) 03:51, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
          • Done.— Rod ^talk 07:01, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Comments from SSTflyer (having arrived from my FPoC)

A few minor quibbles:

• Double full stop here: Portal:Bristol/Selected biography/8
• I am seeing a few examples of missing spaces after ellipses in some hooks in the DYK section: Portal:Bristol/Did you know

Support, anyway, since these issues are so trivial and only amount to typos. sst✈^discuss 17:05, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks (and I've fixed the typos identified).— Rod ^talk 18:53, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

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