Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:United Kingdom/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured portal candidate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the portal's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured portal candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The portal was not promoted by Cirt 15:51, 5 August 2010 [1].

Portal:United Kingdom[edit]

I feel the design and content of this portal are of good enough quality to warrant it a promotion to featured portal status. TheStig_t·c 12:16, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Support Everything seems fine. --Extra 999 (Contact ^me + _contribs) 03:12, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Crisp, clean layout, enviable amounts of strong content. I did wonder whether, given the strength of the content available, the portal was perhaps a bit bland and unimaginative, offering nothing as a gateway to the UK beyond the standard boxes, which only include featured content and therefore don't give much more of a flavour of the country beyond what could be obtained by browsing a list of featured articles/pictures. There's no section for panoramas, for example, probably because there's only one featured panorama. There's no quotations. There's no topics. There's no detailed map. See, for example, the London Portal, which has topics, quotations, a big clickable map, and an extra section on transport. The portal also seemed to tail off in the bottom half with a series of bitty boxes containing purely static content.

DYK has not been updated since January, and in any case 6 per month is a tiny fraction of the total available -- there must be one or two relevant hooks up there daily. It might be better to have a big rotating collection so that it doesn't need hand updating in future as often.

I have a few other minor nitpicks...

A lot of daughter WikiProjects seem to have been left off the list; the inclusion of Pratchett, when say, Cheshire, is missing seems a little odd to this Cestrian
There's no way of suggesting content, nor instructions for adding it. Even if you automatically add all featured content and limit the portal to featured content there should be instructions for adding new ones, in case the portal ceases to be maintained in future
The edit links look rather untidy inside the text boxes
Doctor Who missing eps has a missing picture
I was a bit surprised to find Battle of Passchendaele was a featured picture, given that it shows a place in Belgium, and doesn't seem to show any British troops. The Normany landings one showing US troops is also a little out of place
Why is the blurb format for Thomas More different from the other Featured Pictures?
You've got two very similar pictures of Tower Bridge and also of the Palace of Westminster
There's a redlink in Broadway Tower picture blurb

Hope this is helpful in improving the portal. Espresso Addict (talk) 04:53, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

These comments have been up here for a month. Is anyone working on these issues? -- Cirt (talk) 00:17, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I've had an extended period without internet access. I'm very grateful for the nomination and the helpful comments, but it will probably be a few weeks before I get to work on the portal again. If you want to close for now then feel free, and I can renominate when I've made some improvements. the wub "?!" 12:17, 17 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: No worries, it can wait a bit longer. :) Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 01:14, 18 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Revisiting query, any updates regarding above? -- Cirt (talk) 04:16, 27 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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