Portal talk:Countries

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Countries

This page is within the scope of WikiProject Countries, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of countries on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CountriesWikipedia:WikiProject CountriesTemplate:WikiProject Countriescountry articles

WikiProject Countries to-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Check out the article alerts; see if anything catches your fancy.
Cleanup : clean-up listing for Countries
Stubs : de-stub articles in Category:Stubs by region.
Other : add {{WPCountries}} to talk pages of related articles, and assess.

Geography

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WikiProject Geography To-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : See Requested articles/Social sciences/Geography, cities, regions and named places and Missing articles about Locations
Assess : Tag related article talk pages with {{WikiProject Geography}}. To help assess the quality and importance of geography articles, please see: Unassessed geography articles and Unknown-importance geography articles.
Cleanup : See Geography articles needing attention
Deletion sorting : Listed at Geographic related deletion discussions
Geographical coordinates : See Articles missing geocoordinate data by country
Infobox : See Geography articles needing infoboxes
Map : See Wikipedia requested maps
Notability : See Geography articles with topics of unclear notability
Photo : See Wikipedia requested photographs of places
Stubs : See Geography stubs

Portals

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Portal expanded

The portal has been expanded with the addition of new Good- and Featured article sections. The article selections listed below were added. If anyone is interested, please feel free to discuss these changes here. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:57, 21 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Good articles

1 Azerbaijan 2 Bahrain 3 China 4 Croatia 5 England 6 Hong Kong 7 Jordan 8 Madagascar Plan 9 Malawi 10 Malaysia 11 New Zealand 12 Philippines 13 Switzerland 14 Turkey 15 United States 16 Wales

Featured articles

1 Australia 2 Belarus 3 Bulgaria 4 Cameroon 5 Canada 6 Chad 7 Germany 8 India 9 Japan 10 Madagascar 11 Nauru 12 Rwanda

Additional articles for the portal can be considered from those available in the table listed below. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:42, 21 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Countries pages by quality
Quality
Quality	Total
FA	9
FL	8
GA	8
B	151
C	118
Start	77
Stub	31
List	751
Category	19,896
Disambig	5
File	10
Portal	37
Project	38
Template	647
NA	348
Assessed	22,134
Unassessed	22
Total	22,156

Hi @Northamerica1000: I liked the addition of the "Featured article" and "Good article" sections, but I didn't like the changes in the "Selected images" and "Selected article to understand countries" sections. I also didn't like the addition of borders and wikiproject's header. I'm looking for a cleaner, simpler line, for example: Portal: Computer programming that doesn't need purge tools.Guilherme Burn (talk) 11:49, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Guilherme Burn: I feel that the purge option added to the images and selected article sections encourages users to browse other articles. Since the trend is to update to direct transclusions, subpages where readers can check out all of the topics are becoming rarer and rarer. People may not always scroll back up to the main purge link below the intro, only view what's initially on the page, and then move on. Feel free to make any changes to the portal you feel would be beneficial. I would prefer for the purge options to remain, at the very least in the new GA and FA sections, but we can discuss more if you'd like. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:42, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Northamerica1000:I made some modifications, I liked the result. I thought it best for now to remove the selected images, this section does not seem to bring useful information to readers. I would like to hear @Waggers: opinion.Guilherme Burn (talk) 13:05, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Guilherme Burn, I agree "Countries" is a tricky topic to find sensible images for as it's so broad. The images I selected were mainly of maps or borders between countries, so relevant but not really illustrative of the topic itself. Waggers TALK 11:41, 1 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]