Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Technology

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 OhanaUnited 18:15, 23 December 2013‎ [1].

Portal:Technology

Participation Guide
Support
Cirt - Support as co-nominator
Neutral/No vote
Sven Manguard - Neutral as co-nominator
Juliancolton - Commented
Chiswick Chap - Commented
Oppose
none

Co-nomination. (This is a co-nomination with Sven Manguard.) The last submission as part of my initiative, the Main Page Featured Portal drive -- to get all those portals already linked from the top right of the Main Page to featured quality. I believe the portal meets the standards for Featured Portal status. Thank you for your time, — Cirt (talk) 01:55, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Notified: User talk:Cirt, User talk:Sven Manguard, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Metalworking, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Telecommunications, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject History of Science, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Energy, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Electronics, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computer science, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computing, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Technology, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Architecture, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Woodworking — Cirt (talk) 02:00, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

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• Support, as co-nominator. Additionally I'll say Sven Manguard has been of tremendous help here. Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 02:01, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
• Neutral - Considering that FPOCs rarely get more than a half dozen people weighing in, I'm going to remain officially neutral. Ultimately this is Cirt's baby: I did the selected pictures section, some of the anniversaries, and gave it a few tweaks in other areas, but the bulk of the work is Cirt's. Mad props to him for leading the charge to get all of the Main Page linked portals to FPO (well, once this one passes). Let us know if you spot anything that needs tweaking. Like articles, there's always room for improvement. Sven Manguard Wha? 02:43, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks again for your assistance, — Cirt (talk) 04:01, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

• Comment - looks solid overall. I'll just say that I like to see the purge link displayed a bit more predominantly and described a bit more simply (I think I used to do "Refresh selections" instead of "Purge server cache"). Just something to think about, since it's a pretty important part of a randomized portal layout. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 04:43, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Done. Thanks, Juliancolton, this is helpful, I modified the portal accordingly, and you're right, it looks a bit better. Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 04:47, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Heh, oops... I was looking at the wrong portal when I made that comment. I still like the changes you made, though. I'll take a closer look (at the right page this time!) in due time. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:50, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Okay, sounds good, — Cirt (talk) 01:00, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

• Comment - well, it looks wonderful. On Firefox, the Telecommunication label in the 'Related portals' section strays over the text of the next icon, not sure if anything can be done about this. The prominence given to the Canon camera brand as the selected picture is a little startling - looking through the archive, nothing else looks so much like an advertisement, so I guess it's a temporary shock - it's the only case which displays the brand name so startlingly. Perhaps a side or top view would have been more neutral. I fixed a typo in the second section heading of the selected pictures list. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:30, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi there, Chiswick Chap, thanks for your comments!

1. Done. I've trimmed out the Canon camera photo.
2. Done. As for the Related portals, I changed it to "Telecom" for the name of the portal, and requested at Template_talk:Portal#Telecom for them to add the image icon for that link.

Thanks again for your participation, — Cirt (talk) 20:02, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Close as promoted. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 18:15, 23 December 2013‎ (UTC)

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