Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Baseball

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The portal was promoted by Cirt 17:52, 23 October 2009 [1].

Portal:Baseball

In 2007 Djrobgordon got the ball rolling with a Portal Peer Review. Then in 2008 Borgarde did some nice fixing up. Finally, I've fixed up and expanded the various content areas (along with replacing the single-entry selected topic section with selected list). I now believe, with 16 articles, 20 21 bios, 19 21 pics, 10 20 lists, and 5 10 sets of 4-each DYKs (and all can grow) this Portal is featured quality. Notifying Wikiproject Baseball and the two previously mentioned users as soon as I post this. Staxringold _talk^contribs 01:34, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Query: Did you notify talk pages of relevant WikiProjects? Cirt (talk) 01:37, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. As I said in the nom. Staxringold _talk^contribs 01:38, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes but there might be other WikiProjects related as well, for example, Sports. Cirt (talk) 01:43, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'll go ahead and let em know. Staxringold _talk^contribs 01:47, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Great! :) Cirt (talk) 03:08, 17 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

10 lists is a bit on the short side. Have you tried to add good-quality B-class lists? OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 07:53, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

We have plenty more lists, just tell me how many you'd like. Staxringold _talk^contribs 08:39, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

20 sounds like a good number. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 02:42, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'll get right on that tommorrow. Staxringold _talk^contribs 02:45, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
All set, 20 lists up. Staxringold _talk^contribs 01:03, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The dates should be delinked in the selected articles' leads, as well as the articles themselves. Also, full date ranges (including lifetime dates) have spaces around the en dashes. Dabomb87 (talk) 00:03, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I left a message at WP:MLB to get some help with the de-linking/fixing. Staxringold _talk^contribs 01:03, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I was also surprised not to see Jackie Robinson as a selected biography; it's a GA (and is probably FA-quality), and is an icon in US baseball history. Dabomb87 (talk) 12:30, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Every GA/FA isn't listed. Staxringold _talk^contribs 16:16, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Added Jackie tho. Staxringold _talk^contribs 16:53, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looks great, but I did notice one issue. The "Selected list" section has an excellent rotation of pages, but it seems to overlap with "Selected article" in that it's just a paragraph of prose (ie. you can't really tell that it's a list). Does this make any sense? –Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:36, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. I just think this is the best formatting, since the lists themselves (for the most part) are far far far too large to reproduce. Like the Selected Articles the lead from the list is presented to draw people in to read, it's just the lists have lists to read and the articles articles. Staxringold _talk^contribs

Hmm, what about that? –Juliancolton | ^Talk 17:02, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You read my mind, I was thinking the same thing. Staxringold _talk^contribs 18:31, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cool. Just one more thing – some of the pictures have too much accompanying text. I think the captions should be around two sentences at the most. Thoughts? –Juliancolton | ^Talk 21:20, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps maybe just a really basic intro, like "Ty Cobb was an American baseball player who played center field for the Detroit Tigers from XXXX-YYYY", that kind of thing? In case it wasn't obvious I just snatched the leads from the related article. Gimme an idea/example (snip one down yourself) and I'll happily alter em up. Staxringold _talk^contribs 21:21, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that's basically what I was thinking. I'll just trim them myself and let you take a look to make sure I didn't mess up anything. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 01:24, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, done. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 01:27, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, sweet, you did all the snipping for me! Woot, looks fine here. Staxringold _talk^contribs 01:44, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 15:33, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kudos to Staxringold for the good work. Did a few restorations for this portal and was hoping to contribute enough to merit conomination, but he's an energetic fellow. Looks great. Durova³³³ 03:01, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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