Reviewing featured portals This page is for the review and improvement of featured portals that may no longer meet the featured portal criteria. Featured portals are held to the current standards regardless of when they were promoted. All registered users are welcome to contribute in the process. Featured portal review (FPR)
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Nominating a portal for Featured portal review (FPR) Nominators typically assist in the process of improvement; they may post only one nomination at a time, and they should avoid segmenting review pages. Three to six months is regarded as the minimum time between promotion and nomination here, unless there are extenuating circumstances such as a radical change in portal content or design.
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Featured portal reviews
Portal:Houston
This portal hasn't been updated since 2009, and doesn't select content randomly; in its current state it offers no content. --Gyrobo (talk) 15:44, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
- Notified WP:Houston / WP:Texas / WP:US (Gyrobo had already notified Postoak (talk · contribs), who nominated the portal for featured status and who was the last person to update it, at the time of launching this FPoR.)
This meets the criteria for speedy delisting and I will do so in 1 week unless efforts are started to rescue it.BencherliteTalk 10:41, 15 June 2011 (UTC)- Unfortunately I concur. I think there is plenty of content but it will take considerable time to rebuild the portal. My recommendation is that it be delisted, the problems fixed and then it can be resubmitted. --Kumioko (talk) 13:03, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
- Concur with Kumioko, it has seven redlinks since more than two years, rendering the "Featured" title meaningless. --Elekhh (talk) 07:36, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
- How can I rework it so it doesn't have to be maintained as much?
- One of the issues is that it has to be updated every month, while newer portals only have to have a certain amount of content "cycled"
- WhisperToMe (talk) 05:43, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
- Newer portals use {{random portal component}} and related templates to cycle through a series of sub-pages. So, for example, "my" portal P:ENGLAW has code like this:
{{Random portal component with nominate|max=29|header=Selected article|footer=More articles...| subpage=Selected article|seed=3}} {{Random portal component with nominate|max=13|header=Selected biography|footer=More biographies...| subpage=Selected biography|seed=5}} {{Random portal component with nominate|max=13|header=Selected case|footer=More cases...| subpage=Selected case|seed=11}} {{Random portal component with nominate|max=15|header=Selected picture|footer=More pictures...| subpage=Selected picture|seed=7}} {{Random portal component with nominate|max=15|header=Selected legislation|footer=More legislation...| subpage=Selected legislation|seed=13}} {{Random portal component with nominate|max=10|header=Did you know...|footer=More facts...|subpage=Did you know|seed=19}}
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- I'll convert the DYK section as an example for you to follow, if you're interested. BencherliteTalk 07:34, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
- Done. What that shows is that there's a lot of similarity between the groups of hooks used in the past, so some variety will be needed (including eliminating duplicates) and some new hooks found to make up the numbers. You can also automate updating of the featured/good content box by using User:JL-Bot/Project content. Hope this helps; let me know if you need more. BencherliteTalk 07:53, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you so much. Let me look at the portal and try to finish rewriting it... WhisperToMe (talk) 17:42, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
Update we are no longer in speedy delisting territory. WhisperToMe has almost finished rebuilding the portal using random components, and then it should be a relatively simple matter to make the last few tweaks to finish bringing it up to modern standards. BencherliteTalk 20:06, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
- Looks great, thanks for updating. The portal was created back in 2006 and I kept it updated as much as possible. I don't think the dynamic update was available back when the portal became featured, thanks for making these revisions. Postoak (talk) 18:22, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
The last thing we need to do is fill up the quotes section: Portal:Houston/Selected quote WhisperToMe (talk) 02:33, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
- I repeated the four quotes until they filled the quotes section. WhisperToMe (talk) 00:49, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
Portal:Weather
There hasn't been a selected picture since December 2009, same with a selected article and biography. It looks embarrassing on the right-hand side when it says "On this day", and there is nothing for February 4. It lists Hurricane Emily (1987) as an FAC, but it hasn't been there since August 2009. Finally, the recent and ongoing weather includes links to meteorology in 2008-2009. Clearly the portal hasn't been updated in ages. Therefore, I highly disagree with it being a featured portal. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 18:09, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
- Speedy delist: the criteria say "Featured portals that require maintenance and are not updated for three or more months are summarily demoted" and this is a clear-cut case. However, for some reason, neither of the current FPo Directors seem willing to enforce this, and perhaps the criteria need to be discussed - there's no point in having this threat if no-one enforces it. BencherliteTalk 11:06, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
- Have talk pages of users and relevant WikiProjects been notified? -- Cirt (talk) 15:15, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
- I wasn't sure who else to comment but the Meteorology WikiProject. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 15:18, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
- Hey, since nobody seems to be wanting to fix it up, could I have a bit of time to get it cleaned up and back up to FPO standards? Reaper Eternal (talk) 01:37, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
- Delist. It seems User:Runningonbrains who was maintaining this portal has gone inactive. I set the featured article, picture, and biography on a permanent selection so there won't be embarrassing red links. It's still a great portal, but until someone else adopts and cares for it again it'll have to be delisted and sit and collect dust. -- Ϫ 04:05, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
- Delist - I'm really not interested in upkeeping this portal. (BTW, OlEnglish, I disabled the biography because I wasn't sure how to lock it and I didn't want to either leave a bunch of redlinks or write the biographies.) Reaper Eternal (talk) 19:48, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
- I'M BACK BABY Still going to be quite inactive, but I plan on being around to at least update this every once in a while. I am also going to work on just setting the selected articles and pictures to cycle randomly, so that if I miss a month or two of updates they don't show up as red links. Is this acceptable? Sorry I haven't been around, grad school's a bitch :) -RunningOnBrains(talk) 10:00, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
- That's fine with me. I say all portals should automatically cycle random content. That way none of them will need to be delisted. -- Ϫ 08:31, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
- All reorganization should be done now. Let me know if you see any red links; I may have messed up some of the indexing. -RunningOnBrains(talk) 07:38, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
- I'm seeing a red link for Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 21 under "This week in weather history..." OhanaUnitedTalk page 15:43, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
- A few more red links: Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 4, Portal:Weather/On this day list/March 24, Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 17, Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 26, Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 14, Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 27, Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 18, Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 6, Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 10, Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 13, Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 18, and Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 23. I noticed that a lot of the current entries are US-centric (e.g. February, March, May, June) so I would request (not a demand though) if you can find some non-US stories and fill up the red links above. OhanaUnitedTalk page 03:01, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
- I've been trying overtime to find events notable enough to have articles on all those days, but I have been unable to as of now. The main problem with making this non-US-centric is that A) Most events which occur in non-English-speaking countries will not have articles due to a dearth of sources, B) of the English-speaking countries, the US has by far the largest area of significant population, and thus human impact from weather disasters, C) The US Government is by far the most open and well-documented about its weather disasters, and D) the US has the worst weather in the world[citation needed]. All these factors add up to there being a large majority of weather-related articles on Wikipedia on US events, and I want each "On this day" item to point to an article. I'd love to get some help on finding events; User:Runningonbrains/Portal needed dates is where I've been keeping track. -RunningOnBrains(talk) 03:15, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
- A few more red links: Portal:Weather/On this day list/February 4, Portal:Weather/On this day list/March 24, Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 17, Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 26, Portal:Weather/On this day list/June 14, Portal:Weather/On this day list/July 27, Portal:Weather/On this day list/November 18, Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 6, Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 10, Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 13, Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 18, and Portal:Weather/On this day list/December 23. I noticed that a lot of the current entries are US-centric (e.g. February, March, May, June) so I would request (not a demand though) if you can find some non-US stories and fill up the red links above. OhanaUnitedTalk page 03:01, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
- I'm seeing a red link for Portal:Weather/On this day list/May 21 under "This week in weather history..." OhanaUnitedTalk page 15:43, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
- All reorganization should be done now. Let me know if you see any red links; I may have messed up some of the indexing. -RunningOnBrains(talk) 07:38, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
- That's fine with me. I say all portals should automatically cycle random content. That way none of them will need to be delisted. -- Ϫ 08:31, 4 May 2011 (UTC)