Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates
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Featured Portals in Wikipedia A featured portal is a portal which is regarded by the community as being an example of Wikipedia's finest work. This page is where featured portal candidates are considered by the community against the featured portal criteria. Nominators are expected to make an effort to address objections. A portal should not be a featured portal candidate and at the same time be listed at portal peer review. Users are asked not to add a second nomination here until the first has gained support and concerns have been substantially addressed. Do not split a nomination page into subsections, which will cause problems in its archiving (if necessary, use bolded headings). Please respond positively to constructive criticism. For a nomination to be promoted to featured portal status, consensus must be reached that it meets the criteria. Consensus is built among the reviewers and nominators. If, after sufficient time, objections considered actionable have not been resolved or consensus for promotion has not been reached, a nomination will be removed from the list and archived. Consensus may be determined by any editor in good standing who is not materially involved in the portal's development or maintenance, or in any related WikiProjects. The process is overseen by the Featured Portal directors Cirt and OhanaUnited. A bot will update the portal talk page after the portal is promoted or the nomination archived; the delay in bot processing can range from minutes to several days, and the {{FPOC}} template should remain on the talk page until the bot updates {{ArticleHistory}}. If a nomination is archived, the nominator should take adequate time to work on resolving issues before re-nominating—typically at least a few weeks. At present, there are 173 featured portals, of a total of 1490 portals on Wikipedia. |
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Nomination procedure
Supporting and objecting Please read nominated portals fully before deciding to support or oppose a nomination.
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Nominations[edit]
Portal:Linguistics[edit]
Worked to bring the portal back to an acceptable status and it seems to fit the featured portal standards. The topic is broad as it covers an entire academic field that has a large amount of quality content. I have queued content for the next three months and will continue to add more as time goes on. Wugapodes (talk) 04:20, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
- Comments by Dharmadhyaksha
- There are many pages related to this portal that are not categorized under Category:Linguistics portal; such as Portal:Linguistics/Featured phone/January 2016, Portal:Linguistics/Featured article/January 2016 and tons of others. Such uncategorized pages are difficult to track.
- How many featured article, featured phones and sets of DYKs are included in the portal? The numbers might help reviewers in gauging.
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- The features are manually selected and included rather than being chosen from a list. Features are currently queued for three months. The Linguistics WikiProject lists 42 articles at or above GA quality and 258 at B class. Wugapodes (talk) 16:43, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
- Are all featured articles actually featured? Means how many of those are FAs, GAs or what classes are they?
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- I have changed the wording from "featured" to "selected" as not all articles selected are "featured articles". Selected articles are required to be at least B-class to ensure quality but also allow a larger pool of content for nominators to choose from. Preference is given to articles GA and above. The phones are selected without regard to quality of the article as it is the phone that is being selected rather than the article. Wugapodes (talk) 16:43, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
§§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {Talk / Edits} 06:56, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
- @Wugapodes: The "will continue to add more as time goes on" approach doesn't seem to work. There is just a redlink in the selected article box for May (as was for April). It would be better if there were some (at least 30) pages, which would appear randomly on the page. Armbrust The Homunculus 14:08, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
- Oppose the nomination has stalled, clearly, but in any event there is insufficient content: just 2 DYK rotations, and commented-out sections for featured biography and picture (also for news, but that's not an issue these days). That leaves the page looking very unbalanced between left and right. BencherliteTalk (using his alt account Bencherheavy) 12:11, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
- Oppose per Bencherlite/heavy. — Yellow Dingo (talk) 10:25, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
Portal:Europe[edit]
This portal meets all the criteria for featured status. All information listed on its main page are featured and the best content related to Europe on Wikipedia. --HombreHistorico (talk) 16:09, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
- Oppose far too little quality content to represent an entire continent. The portal represents "Europe" through a mere 10 biographies, for instance, one of which is Kierkegaard which was delisted from FA status over 6 years ago. So the claim that "all information listed on its main page are featured" is false. I found and removed 2 non-free images as well before giving up. Needs more work and more content. BencherliteTalk 20:17, 28 November 2016 (UTC)