Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Featured log/June 2011

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 Cirt 07:54, 21 June 2011 [1].

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Portal:Hudson Valley

This portal was last nominated almost three years ago. Since then, the articles under WP:HUDSON's purview have improved considerably, in both number and quality. The stats for the portal are currently:

• 46 selected articles (35 are GA or better)
• 90 sets of DYKs (3 per set, all hooks have appeared on the main page, though some have been slightly copyedited)
• 15 selected biographies (6 are GA or better)
• 69 selected pictures
• 21 selected panoramas

--Gyrobo (talk) 00:32, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

• I'm going to shamlessly co-nom as Gyrobo personally suggested. I created the foundation of the portal years ago, and gradually several people have been improving it and its related content, so I think it's finally ready. Juliancolton (talk) 20:02, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
• Easy Support JC started this portal, bringing the Hudson Valley's presence on WP up and Gyrobo brought it to the level it is today, which is outstanding. upstateNYer 22:10, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
• Very Weak Support An image passes the box, that is removing some of the experience of the portal. ~~EBE123~~ ^talk_Contribs 22:52, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

• The selected panoramas are scaled to a 1000px width. This will cause overflow on lower resolutions, but reducing the horizontal size to compensate would make it difficult to see the images. Sorry about that, but I don't know how to scale to fill the available width, or if it's possible. Thank you for your support. --Gyrobo (talk) 22:59, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

• I reduced the panorama width to 800px, are you seeing an improvement? --Gyrobo (talk) 23:05, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

• Support - I don't see a pressing problem with it. It's honestly quite good, and from where I stand, the panorama looks quite nice. I would suggest possibly moving it up. I can see that'll take some organizing effort, yet it'll pay off to have it located neatly along with the other features. Anyway, I support this with almost no hesitation. Great job! --Another Type of Zombie ^talk 14:13, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

• I moved the panoramas, quality content, and topics, so that the panoramas are farther up. --Gyrobo (talk) 16:51, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

• Layout makes way more sense now :D. Again, great job! Another Type of Zombie ^talk 17:12, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

• Also, I've centered the caption of the panorama. It kinda draws more attention to the left of the image when reading. If you disagree, feel free to revert it. Otherwise, hope I helped. Another Type of Zombie ^talk 17:14, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

• I've only done one so far, here. Check it out and tell me what you think. Another Type of Zombie ^talk 17:18, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

• I made the change at Portal:Hudson Valley/Selected panorama/Layout thumb, and it does look a lot better. --Gyrobo (talk) 18:06, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

• Glad to help :D. Another Type of Zombie ^talk 18:10, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

• I also updated Portal:Hudson Valley/Selected picture/Layout thumb so that the selected pictures would also have centered captions. --Gyrobo (talk) 18:16, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

• Comment: Three (3) supports, no opposes, no significant outstanding objections, if there are no other comments in opposition to promotion, this portal will likely be closed as featured after a short time to allow for further feedback. I will try to remember to come back and revisit this one soon. ;) Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 19:20, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

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