Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Gibraltar

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Portal:Gibraltar

Self-nomination I have being working on this portal for some time now. It is about Gibraltar, a tiny overseas territory of the United Kingdom. The portal recently underwent a peer review where a number of issues were put forward and addressed accordingly. It's exhaustive, ergonomic, and meets the criteria in my opinion, I hope you agree. Thanks, Chris.B (talk) 21:28, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

• Comment: Looks great! A few more suggestions:

  ¤ Wouldn't the Spain Portal also be a related portal?

  ¤ When WikiProject Spain was added to Talk:Gibraltar, edit-wars and debates went on for months and a handful of users were blocked, so I don't think it's a very good idea unless consensus proves otherwise. :) Chris.B (talk) 12:03, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

  Thanks for pointing that out. Still, in my opinion, since Spain is mentioned so many times in the introduction, the Spain Portal should be a related portal simply because it relates a lot to Gibraltar. [sd] 14:03, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

  ¤ Two more quotes would be nice.

  ¤ Done. Chris.B (talk) 12:03, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

  ¤ Did you know... → « Did you know... »

  ¤ Done. Chris.B (talk) 12:03, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

  ¤ In the news section, Archive · Wikinews → Archive · More news... (following the Did you know... box).

  ¤ Done. Chris.B (talk) 12:03, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

  ¤ In my opinion, the topics box would go better like this, with the width being 100%. Regards, [sd] 22:28, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

  ¤ Done, although I've had to split the categories into two columns to compensate for extra space at the bottom. Chris.B (talk) 12:35, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

  Thanks! This would be another way to format the box. [sd] 14:03, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

  I think that's actually more effective. Thanks for all your suggestions! Chris.B (talk) 14:42, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Comment

1. Stats: 10 Selected articles, 10 Selected pictures, 11 Selected biographies, 8 Selected quotes. Very nice. Could use at least 2 more Selected quotes.

• Done. Chris.B (talk) 12:03, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

1. Good use of {{Random portal component}}.
2. Did you know... -- Could be easily randomized as well, would greatly reduce updating workload and help to make sure the portal doesn't get stale.

• As soon as we have some more Gibraltar-related DYKs I'll implement randomization. It will certainly reduce workload. Chris.B (talk) 14:42, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

1. Recent news -- Must be manually updated. RichardF (talk · contribs) is working on some way to use the DynamicPageList code from Wikinews in order to automatically transclude entries cross-Wikiprojects, and that would help with this. Alternatively, a bot might be able to to it.

• Sounds like a great idea. Chris.B (talk) 14:42, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

1. Topics and Categories sections could use a creative icon in the upper right hand corner, just would be a little added nicety.

• Done. Chris.B (talk) 13:22, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Cirt (talk) 00:04, 2 January 2008 (UTC).

Thanks! Chris.B (talk) 14:42, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

• Support. Very well done. Cirt (talk) 01:01, 3 January 2008 (UTC).
• Support: Good job! [sd] 12:31, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support - great looking portal. Good job! Rt. 00:07, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Closed by Rudget (talk · contribs) at 17:50, 9 January 2008 (UTC) - 1 week, 3 supports, no opposes, all concerns addressed (apart from that of Spain being included in the related portal section, which can be added at a later date) Rudget. 17:50, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

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