Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Rhode Island

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 promoted by Cirt 03:03, 30 October 2009 [1].

Portal:Rhode Island

I've been working on this one on-and-off for months, and after a helpful peer review, I think it's ready to be featured. One editor at the PR suggested that I replace the selected quotes with selected biographies, and while I'm not entirely sure it's necessary, I'd be happy to implement this change if others agree. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:10, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why not just add Selected biographies, as well? Cirt (talk) 23:40, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mainly because as far as I can tell there simply aren't enough high-quality relevant biography articles. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:03, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm... Have you considered Gilbert Stuart and Roger Williams (theologian)? Neither is a featured article, but both look to be in pretty good shape. --Orlady (talk) 18:54, 11 September 2009 (UTC) Actually, Gilbert Stuart is a GA. The other is rated "start," but appears to be past that stage. --Orlady (talk) 19:34, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Query: Did you notify talk pages of relevant WikiProjects? Cirt (talk) 09:52, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done –Juliancolton | ^Talk 14:46, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I left a notice at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. states. Cirt (talk) 16:24, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support - Other than those minor discrepancies, it seems fine to me. The two portals above seemed not ready for !votes yet, but I guess this one is. ceranthor 00:07, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment, in IE8, the picture, ITN and categories boxes slide to the right but below the left hand boxes. –Moondyne 05:15, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, could you take a screenshot please? –Juliancolton | ^Talk 14:01, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for delay in replying. [www.filefactory.com/file/a0d5215/n/PortalRhode_Island_screenshot-0001_jpg]. Seems to be working OK on my home PC but not my work one. Work screen res is 1280x1024. –Moondyne 03:28, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Aha, I see. I think it should be fixed now. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 04:04, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nope. Unchanged (purged also). –Moondyne 04:42, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

How 'bout now? –Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:33, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

50% fixed it but the l&r boxes were butted up hard against each other.49% might be a compromise. See File:PortalRhodeIsland-FF3-49%.jpg and File:PortalRhodeIsland-IE8-49%.jpg. You can delete those 2 images when you've finished with them. If I look at another random portal, say Portal:Angola, the middle separator column width is almost identical in both IE and FF. –Moondyne 04:17, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, odd. I'll ask around to see if anybody knows an easy fix. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 14:17, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - "In the News" is kind of stale. Two items are over a year old. --Orlady (talk) 13:47, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Limited to the most recent two stories. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 23:28, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

King Solomon would be proud of that solution. --Orlady (talk) 23:33, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cirt was kind enough to write a new Wikinews article, so it's back up to 3. :) –Juliancolton | ^Talk 04:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

~~Comments/suggestions by Jh12~~

See if you can increase the number of Portal:Rhode Island/Selected quote to at least 10.
Not a deal breaker for me, but see if there are additional entries for Portal:Rhode Island/Did you know and Portal:Rhode Island/Selected panorama

Unfortunately, I believe I've exhausted all possible selections for these. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 03:32, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Add instructions on Portal:Rhode Island/Selected article and Portal:Rhode Island/Selected picture for how to add new selections like you have done at Portal:Rhode Island/Selected quote
Add links on Portal:Rhode Island/Selected panorama to allow access to edit individual entries from the archive like at Portal:Rhode Island/Selected picture.
Portal:Rhode Island/Selected panorama/5 and Portal:Rhode Island/Selected panorama/2 are missing credits. I think it would be better to credit Portal:Rhode Island/Selected panorama/4 to "Flickr user: boliyou" and Portal:Rhode Island/Selected panorama/8 to "Doug Kerr, Flickr user: dougtone"
Standardize the footers for Selected picture, Selected panorama, and Did you know? to those for Selected article and Selected quotes (i.e. add "Read more..." links and change "...Archive/Nominations" to "Archives")
Standardize box headers to be all italicized or not: Categories, Related WikiProjects, and Associated Wikimedia have italicized headers. --Jh12 (talk) 18:54, 4 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Update, I think all outstanding concerns have now been resolved. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 17:19, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

anything else? –Juliancolton | ^Talk 19:55, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support

Sorry, I guess I was waiting for slightly more content. But if it's not there it's not there, and really as long as you continue to maintain and add to the portal over time I have no problems adding my support. --Jh12 (talk) 10:08, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this page.