Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Failed log/January 2013

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Nominator closed this and will re-open when ready. Sven Manguard Wha? 16:15, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Judaism

Over the past few months the portal has gone through a lot of work, and recently had a peer review. The portal currently has 19 randomly chosen featured articles, a picture of the week, a section "Today in Jewish History", an In the News section, a DYK section, as well as all the standard components.

Note that this is a self-nomination (I redid almost everything in the past few months), and that I am currently a contestant in the WikiCup -- YPN YPN ✡ 00:26, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Since you reviewed my nomination, I feel it only fair to do the same to yours. Some concerns:

None of the quotes attribute their speakers/authors. It's really important that they do, as that serves both as attribution and citation for them.
There are no dates on the in the news section, which also seems a little dated (IIRC the circumcision thing happened months ago)
The "Today in Jewish History" section only has about a month's worth of dates in it. It dies off a few days from now. It's really better for a portal to not need daily maintenance after becoming an FP, so it's probably best to have that done before this closes.
Your "Did You Know?" is not organized into sets, but seems to be an 'add as they come in'. This means that if you happen to take a month off, the section goes blank. Consider doing 10 sets of 5 and Template:Random portal component. Nothing will stop you from swapping old ones out for new ones in that system, but that will allow there to always be something in the section.
I have no idea if your "Picture of the Week" section has 52 entries because I can't find the page where they're all shown. Featured Quote, Featured Article, Featured Picture, and Weekly Torah Portion all need a way to see all the entries, i.e. an archives page.
In the Weekly Torah Portion, please don't use red text on a blue background, it hurts the eyes.
The section is very long. I realize that there's a consensus for that on the talk page of the portal, and that not all passages are the same length, but a lot of them are long, some of them are very, very long. I think it makes everything else on the portal look smaller by being that large. Not sure what advice I have on that.
There are several mainstream translations of the Torah. It might be a good idea to indicate somewhere which one you copied the passage from.
The image at the bottom of the current passage throws off the centering of the links below it.

It looks like you put a lot of good work into this, my main concern is that it can withstand the test of time. Portals that aren't built to be self sustaining tend to break as soon as their maintainer moves on (see Portal:Literature for example), and I don't want that to happen. Cheers, Sven Manguard Wha? 17:43, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I accept your valid points. It will take quite some time (read: at least a month) to address them all, so I will close this nomination and reopen it when these issues are fixed. -- YPN YPN ✡ 02:20, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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