Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Bristol

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The portal was promoted by OhanaUnited at 19:43, 28 January 2016 (UTC) [1].[reply]

Portal:Bristol

Bristol is a large city in the south west of England. I have recently updated this portal to randomly display content (45 selected article, 20 selected picture, 18 selected biography), added the recognised content from WikiProject Bristol and automated the category display. User:John of Reading has been very helpful in customising the layout (particularly the options at the bottom of each section). I now feel it meets the featured portal criteria and would appreciate any comments.— Rod ^talk 18:21, 10 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved comments from Harrias

;Comments from Harrias

All 45 selected articles are of Good or Featured quality, though only 8 of the selected biographies. Oddly, a few of the selected articles are in fact biographies: is there any reason for them being in the article, rather than biography section?
- I have moved Blackbeard to biography (19). The only other one I can see is Murder of Joanna Yeates which is not really a biography it is an article about the murder investigation and its consequences. This leaves 2 copies of the info re Blackbeard. I tried to move Portal:Bristol/Selected article/45 to Portal:Bristol/Selected article/2 to fill the gap and stop the duplicate, however only an admin can do this as there is already an existing article - are you able to do this? If you can we will also need to change "Random portal component|max=45|header=Selected article| subpage=Selected article" to "Random portal component|max=44|header=Selected article| subpage=Selected article" in the main portal template to take account of there being one less article in this section.— Rod ^talk 17:01, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - Done and done. Harrias ^talk 17:09, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
There appears to be a link to a Portal:South West England which doesn't exist, which doesn't look great, and given its lack of existence, labelling it a "parent portal" seems odd.
- I've switched this to "Related Portals" & switched SW England -> Somerset.— Rod ^talk 13:51, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The images are all relevant, of decent quality, and reasonably striking, with the possible exceptions of #18 (the tomb isn't as striking in this image as it probably really is and should be, it blends in a bit too much) and #19 (the building is cropped a bit too heavily, and is not level.)
- Images 18 & 19 replaced.— Rod ^talk 17:19, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The vastly varying lengths of the blurbs can cause some quite extreme imbalances between the two columns: could the blurbs lengths be made a more consistent length?
- I have shortened some and lengthened others to try to resolve this, however the differences between the two columns do seem to vary slightly depending on screen resolution and size.— Rod ^talk 19:43, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - Yeah, there will always be some fluctuation; as long as generally they're pretty close it's no problem. Harrias ^talk 19:45, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    - It is affected by those which don't have photos, but some have been removed because "fair use" images can't be used in portals.— Rod ^talk 20:03, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The blurb for Jennison Myrie-Williams needs updating, as he is apparently now "attached" (which is pretty odd ambiguous wording anyway).
- Updated.— Rod ^talk 15:15, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The St Mary Redcliffe quotes need a closing speech mark. Harrias ^talk 13:26, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm not seeing this issue, although I have removed a stray apostrophe.— Rod ^talk 13:51, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - as "the fairest, goodliest, and most famous parish church in England. There is a speech mark at the start, but not the end. Harrias ^talk 13:58, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    - On my screen I see "the fairest, goodliest, and most famous parish church in England." with the closing speech mark.— Rod ^talk 15:15, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      - How odd. I've just edited the page to add one, does yours now show two? Harrias ^talk 15:17, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
        No. I'm looking at Portal:Bristol/Selected article/17 are you looking at a different sub page?— Rod ^talk 15:22, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
        Ha, yes, sorry! The Quotes bit at the bottom of the page: Portal:Bristol/Quotes. Harrias ^talk 15:23, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
        Thanks we were looking at different sections. I will try to get to the other issues identified above asap.— Rod ^talk 15:28, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I hope I have addressed the issues you raised. If you (or anyone else) have further comments I will try to address them.— Rod ^talk 19:43, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Rod, this looks like great work to me, but I hope you won't mind if I wait for another set of eyes before confirming my support, as I don't have much previous experience reviewing Portals. Harrias ^talk 18:20, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support, now that some other people have had a look too, I'm more than happy to support this. Harrias ^talk 15:46, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Have you posted neutrally worded notices to the talk pages of all WikiProjects that are relevant to this topic? — Cirt (talk) 23:18, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- I put Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Bristol#Portal:Bristol when I started cleaning it up, and will put another note up today. I am not aware of any other projects this would be relevant to.— Rod ^talk 07:04, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - Also relevant to: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK geography, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject England, and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cities, I found those from Talk:Bristol. — Cirt (talk) 09:46, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    - OK I have added a request for people to comment on those projects - I suppose because they weren't listed on the Portal talk page I didn't think to include them. I have combined it with a request about the Bristol article which is currently at FAC (see Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Bristol/archive2).— Rod ^talk 09:59, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      - You might try posting neutrally-worded-matter-of-fact-notices at article talk pages, as well, for instance, like Talk:Bristol, etc. Good luck, — Cirt (talk) 03:51, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
        Done.— Rod ^talk 07:01, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from SSTflyer (having arrived from my FPoC)

A few minor quibbles:

Double full stop here: Portal:Bristol/Selected biography/8
I am seeing a few examples of missing spaces after ellipses in some hooks in the DYK section: Portal:Bristol/Did you know

Support, anyway, since these issues are so trivial and only amount to typos. sst✈^discuss 17:05, 8 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks (and I've fixed the typos identified).— Rod ^talk 18:53, 8 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support from an IP - Good work Rodw, nice portal! 1.52.124.206 (talk) 11:18, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support, nice look-and-feel of the portal SuperHero ● 👊 ● ★ 09:23, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Closing as promoted. While there are concerns raised over some non-neutral notices posted on talk page, I believe these did not meet the threshold of canvassing and it did not appear to sway any votes in supporting of this nomination that would not otherwise. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 19:41, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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