Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Roads/archive1

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Portal:Roads[edit]

Would like to know what changes should be made to approach feature status with this portal. If other portals could be used as a reference when discussing improvements that would be appreciated also to give a base for how to implement the change. It has both featured images, and articles and rotating content for these and the DYK aspect Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 20:33, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looks nice. The content seems to be 95% US centric, could use some balance for a portal named "The World Roads Portal". What's with the two "Did you know" boxes? And it's usually "Did you know..." since it is followed by "...that". There's no need for "More information" links in DYK's. Get rid of the "References and notes" box (see Portal:India for a good News box). See Portal:Wine for a good "Things to do" box. Also all FP's have a "Topics" box. The selected pictures could be bigger. Why are some box titles in italics and others not? Only 2 items in ITN, a FP needs consistency and 2 items per year is low. ITN needs an archive. Change "Wikimedia" to "Associated Wikimedia". Best, feydey (talk) 18:49, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your comments, I have been working on them. got the Did you know boxes and Did you know More informationitem all fixed. Got rid of the section box about references. Made a new things to do box as well as made a new topics template for the topics box. Made selected pictures bigger. Made all box titles italics, I didn't notice that difference, thank you. Now I am working on ITN, trying to make a news importer robot page. Changed wikimedia to associated wikimedia. So almost all done. Added more non U.S. articles and more non U.S. images/panoramas. This one I didn't try to focus on U.S. articles, but they are the busiest road WP at the moment, but they also already have their own portal, but as this is a world road portal, left some U.S. FA and DYK on this world portal. I have put out requests for more items from world wide sources. Kind Regards.SriMesh | talk 04:28, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Have made a robotic news intake for the portal now, should I remove the manually submission page for news articles? At the moment both are there.SriMesh | talk 22:23, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As the U.S. has their own road portal should I remove all U.S. content here, or leave it?SriMesh | talk 22:32, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe remove some US content and keep only the featured stuff? I'll take another look in a couple of days to see how it has gone. feydey (talk) 22:08, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The "Topics" box should not be hidden. feydey (talk) 09:43, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No need to remove all US contents, but keep in mind that Wikipedia is not US-centric and portals are particularly entry points for people so it should have roads from places all over the road. I want to see more roads in Asia and Africa. Silk Road, even though it is only B-class, is important enough that it should be included. Since road articles are easy to find, I have higher expectations for this portal than many others due to its relative simplicity. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 04:49, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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