Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Featured log/August 2008

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 Giggy 09:51, 1 August 2008 [1].

Portal:Mars

This portal had been inactive when I came across it. I've used stuff from Portal:Solar system (featured) and Portal:Amphibians and Reptiles to make this portal what it is. The portal updates every month with new stuff, and I have selected articles and pictures up until December! I had a peer review for this portal a few months ago, so now I'm trying to get it to the next stage. I will do my best to fix the portal on your suggestions. Thanks! Shrewpelt (talk) 20:56, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Too many problems with this portal, has this been through portal peer review and those suggestions been acted upon; as suggested before you nominate a portal for featured status? Rudget (Help?) 15:24, 11 June 2008 (UTC) Neutral. Rudget (logs) 09:18, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes, I have taken the portal through peer review here. What problems do you see in this portal? Shrewpelt (talk) 16:55, 11 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - I'm on IE7, so I don't know if some of these problems will show up on other applications:
  - The Selected Picture sub-section seems to be causing a lot of problems: nearly everything has been biased to the right, the picture pixelation means there are big gaps in the caption and some necessary sections like "WikiProjects" have been put to the bottom with no formatting.
- For other changes: there needs to be more sections moved to the left and the picture pixelation of "Valles Marineris" scaled down. I would suggest you to evaluate other featured portals (like the Welsh Portal) before making any changes. I feel that the portal peer review was not comprehensive enough. Others have the right to disagre, though. Rudget (Help?) 15:04, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - Does it look better now? Shrewpelt (talk) 22:34, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    - Comment. I'm only for a short time now, I'll comment further regarding the changes soon. Rudget (logs) 11:05, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      - Is there a reason you say you are neutral? Is there anything you think I can improve in this portal? Thanks, Shrewpelt (talk) 13:47, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
        Its no problem. The concers I had were allayed be a re-reflection if you like of what the portal contained. I'll consider promoting this in a short while. Rud get 17:46, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
        Ah, thanks for clearing that up for me. Shrewpelt (talk) 19:51, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comments from Maxim
- For selected articles, please pick an a pretty decent article; I suggest nothing lower than B-Class. I have problems with these current and upcoming selected articles:
  - Eberswalde (crater)—short, needs expansion
  - Mars surface color—same concerns as Eberswalde
    - Done Shrewpelt (talk) 22:29, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Add a category system: just add categorytree>Mars</categorytree> in a new box. Take a look at how it is done in Portal:Ice hockey.
  - Done Also moved it to a different place, tell me if it dosn't work on any web browsers... Shrewpelt (talk) 22:29, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- For the selected anniversaries, indicate the month name. Having just numbers confused me at first, a bit.
  - Done Shrewpelt (talk) 22:29, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- For the October 2008 selected picture, please shorten the description.
  - Done Shrewpelt (talk) 22:29, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Overall, this a nicely done portal. Maxim_(talk) 00:30, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support—Maxim_(talk) 17:48, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment ot sure if its just me, but if you look at the categories, it says Mars stubs as a category. Any explaination? TALKIN PIE EATER REVIEW ME 01:27, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It was a problem with Wikipedia:WikiProject Mars/to do, which I've now fixed. naerii 13:12, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

K, since that's fixed now, Support - Meets all criterion. TALKIN PIE EATER REVIEW ME 16:09, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Promoted. —Giggy 09:51, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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