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Recommendations to improve page to featured portal status
List includes recommendations with replies/status.
— Tabs - Rename "Main Kent Portal" to "Main Page" or "Main Portal Page", and Cats and topics, I see no featured content on that page, so I would remove that from the tab.
— Intro - I like the map, but it seems alittle big, maybe doing as alot of geography portals, putting the flag and coat of arms above or below, such as
Portal:Australia, but do keep your map, it's nice except fix the redirects and disambig links.
— Articles - Link the bolded article titles for easy access, such as on the
main page.
— Archives - Use some system where the actual summary(as it appears on the main portal page) shows. There are a number of ways to do this.
— News - Link the date, add a more... link to news source, and add an archive.
— Bio - Same as articles about the archive. Pics to large for 800x600.
— Pics - Center description, same about the archive as bios and articles. Pics to large for 800x600.
— DYK - Why is there an anniversary in there? Either remove it or start an on this day type box.
— The County - Is this box supposed to have rotated content, or is that the only fact about the county?
— History - Either integrate this into cats and topics, or add a tidbit, such as the county box.
— Related portals - Pics could be a bit smaller.
— Wikimedia - Should be on the front page.
— Main Topics - Either unlink the red links, or make em go somewhere. If there are any lists, add them.
— Things you can do tab - Remove the table of contents. The whole page should be under portal namespace instead of wikiproject.
— Would suggest removing the participants, that can be found on the project page.
— Pending tasks should be merged into things you can do below it.
— Things you can do should have aleast a few things in it.
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This page was nominated for
deletion on 3 December 2013. The result of the discussion was no consensus.
Ok, I've done a load of stuff. Lists (damn, they weren't fun to do), more 'did you knows' with common formatting, some what you can do bits. A featured article which I'm afraid I'm biased on as I did much of the work on it, I wanted it to be somewhere like Maidstone but that article is a mess, one of those vote things like the biography would be cool. Also various other little fixes. Sorry if my own biases have shown through but I haven't worked on many of the other Kent articles and so don't know them so well, I'll learn 'em though :) Thought I should also point out
Portal:South East England. Hope this portal wont overlap too much. Ok, I'll come back and do more later.
KevinCarmody02:40, 31 January 2007 (UTC)reply
We now have a picture of the week (Weeks start Mondays), and I have set up enough to take us into the first week of Feb. Next question is how do we update.
I have set up a talk page
Portal talk:Kent/Pictures which acts as a nomination page and a record of previous weeks. I do not see the need to have a general vote, just a rule that two editors need to agree on the validity of the picture.
If someone joins in, then I will do the same with the selected article and biography. I am open to any comments people wish to make.
MortimerCat01:25, 8 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Have a look at the
Portal:World War I section for the random article selection, it chooses from 10 subjects each time the screen is purged/loaded. i can create the pages and set up the code if required, does any one fancy writing the ten small sections inc photos etc
- Olive Oil -ŢάĽɮ -
08:58, 18 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Just looking at the template, it doesn't have to be ten, you just set the parameter to how many articles you have prepared. That makes it much easier to handle the future nominations. I am happy to start making some pages, if you set it up. You can include the pictures too. It would be handy if you used the existing picture of the week directories, and I will fill in the missing ones at the beginning.
MortimerCat10:35, 18 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Created, currently using only the one page (change the code for any new articles), copied the Ramsgate article to
Portal:Kent/Featured article/1,
I have set up random biographies, plus I have added instructions to the nomination and index pages. It would be nice if I could get a few nominations for articles and biographies, just to start of with a reasonable selection.
MortimerCat01:36, 20 February 2007 (UTC)reply
I have removed a few thumbs, and reduced the picture size in the featured article. I will go through them methodically later, checking the pictures too.
MortimerCat18:17, 20 February 2007 (UTC)reply
I have changed all the live random pictures to match our standard. So if any appear that look odd, missing credits etc. please edit them. Just to warn you, do not change the max= parameter for the moment, there are some incomplete pictures still. However, I should get these finished tonight.
MortimerCat08:21, 22 February 2007 (UTC)reply
Tabs - Rename "Main Kent Portal" to "Main Page" or "Main Portal Page", and Cats and topics, I see no featured content on that page, so I would remove that from the tab.
Intro - I like the map, but it seems alittle big, maybe doing as alot of geography portals, putting the flag and coat of arms above or below, such as
Portal:Australia, but do keep your map, it's nice except fix the redirects and disambig links.
Articles - Link the bolded article titles for easy access, such as on the
main page.
Archives - Use some system where the actual summary(as it appears on the main portal page) shows. There are a number of ways to do this.
News - Link the date, add a more... link to news source, and add an archive.
Bio - Same as articles about the archive. Pics to large for 800x600.
Pics - Center description, same about the archive as bios and articles. Pics to large for 800x600.
DYK - Why is there an anniversary in there? Either remove it or start an on this day type box.
The County - Is this box supposed to have rotated content, or is that the only fact about the county?
History - Either integrate this into cats and topics, or add a tidbit, such as the county box.
Related portals - Pics could be a bit smaller.
Wikimedia - Should be on the front page.
Main Topics - Either unlink the red links, or make em go somewhere. If there are any lists, add them.
Things you can do tab - Remove the table of contents. The whole page should be under portal namespace instead of wikiproject.
Would suggest removing the participants, that can be found on the project page.
Pending tasks should be merged into things you can do below it.
Things you can do should have aleast a few things in it.
It is against Wiki policy to use Fair Use images on Portal pages, see
WP:FUC#9. Basically, these means we have to remove all the pictures from the random biographies. I think is best if we do it, and add a bit more text at the same time. If we don't, someone else will come along and just zap the picture, which happened on some other Portals I am involved with.
Oh well! Someone came along and replaced our biography pictures with a "Fair use policy" picture. I went through the biographies and tidied up. This is why our biographies have no pictures now.
MortimerCat19:58, 6 June 2007 (UTC)reply
Would anyone object if I gave the portal a little spruce up to bring it more inline with the other portals. I think it looks a bit weary and dated. I was thinking red and white. Or perhaps someone has some other ideas. Thanks
Chelb (
talk)
20:31, 5 September 2015 (UTC)reply
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