Wikipedia talk:Featured portal candidates

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Review and renovation volunteers (willing to help make improvements) OhanaUnited (talk · contribs) - Contact me through my talk page. Sven Manguard (talk · contribs) - Leave me a talk page message. Active review volunteers (for peer review and featured portal candidates) AGK (talk · contribs) - Willing to help when needed. Please ask on my talk page. Bencherlite (talk · contribs) - Will have a go Espresso Addict (talk · contribs) - Geography, biomedicine, literature, classical music or similar John Carter (talk · contribs) - probably require notification of discussion Nishkid64 (talk · contribs) - I <3 portals! Resident Mario (talk · contribs) - if you bother to bother me, but I will probably want something in return. Sven Manguard (talk · contribs) - Seriously, ask me. Doesn't matter what it's on. This list was last changed on 05 November 2013.

Instructions do not work

The instructions for re-nominating a portal do not work, and cannot be made to work as written unless you are an admin.

Even if you are an admin, {{FPOC|Archive 1}} does nothing that is not done by {{FPOC}}. The code for Template:FPOC does not make use of any parameters.

Further, Template:FPOC attempts to show some editing instructions. These are supposed to be found at Wikipedia:Featured_portal_candidates/Editintro - which you will notice is a redlink. However, given it also tries to preload a template for the nomination from Wikipedia:Featured_portal_candidates/Preload, another redlink, it doesn't matter as much as it might.

Frankly, I'm at a loss to figure out how the instructions ever worked in the first place, and can only presume regulars are working off some mutually-developed conventions. In short, the instructions - and likely Template:FPOC - need a complete overhaul. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 14:31, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

How can we fix it, Adam Cuerden ? Should we ask for admin help here? — Cirt (talk) 15:52, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Honestly, it can't work as written, so our best choice is probably to give the option to make a page along the lines of Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Foo/2. Using #titleparts it's trivial to extract the needed information from that. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 16:19, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

I think an easier solution may be to borrow some of the coding from FAC. Namely, the first nomination should be at /Archive 1, the second at /Archive 2, etc, and the templates involved can be recoded to look for, or create, the highest number necessary. That's how FAC does it and it works well. Imzadi 1979 → 18:18, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

I agree with this suggestion by Imzadi1979, above. Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 13:10, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Adam Cuerden and Imzadi1979, can you help us modify the instructions to make this work per the suggestion of Imzadi1979 ? — Cirt (talk) 13:51, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

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