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Wikipedia's portal peer review process exposes portals to closer scrutiny from a broader group of editors, and is intended for high-quality portals that have already undergone extensive work, often as a way of preparing a featured portal candidate. This is not academic peer review by a group of experts in a particular subject, and portals that undergo this process should not be assumed to have greater authority than any other.

For feedback on portals that are less developed, use the portal's talk page first.

At present, there are 137 featured portals, of a total of 580 portals on Wikipedia.
Shortcut:
WP:PPREV

The path to a featured portal

  1. Start a new portal
  2. Develop the portal
  3. Check against the featured portal criteria
  4. Get creative feedback ←
  5. Featured portal candidates
  6. Featured portals

Nomination procedure

Anyone can request a portal peer review. The best way to get lots of reviews is to reply promptly and appreciatively on this page to any comments. If you post a request, please do not discourage reviewers by ignoring their efforts. To add a nomination:

  1. Place {{subst:PPR}} at the top of the portal's talk page, creating a portal peer review notice to notify other editors of the review.
  2. Within the notice, click "request has been made" to open a new discussion page.
  3. Place ===[[Portal:PORTAL NAME]]=== at the top, with the name of your portal in the link brackets, and then note the kind of comments/contributions you want, and/or the sections of the portal you think need reviewing. Sign with four tildes (~~~~) and save the new page.
  4. Edit this page here, pasting {{Wikipedia:Portal peer review/PORTAL NAME/archive1}} at the top of the list of nominees.
  5. Add the portal to the current requests list. You can add this list to your talk page using {{Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Requests‎}} You also can use {{FPcandidates}} to include featured portal candidates.
  1. Optional steps:
    1. Start a new section on the portal's talk page using ==Portal peer review==
    2. Paste {{Wikipedia:Portal peer review/PORTAL NAME}} into that section.
    3. Add {{todo}} at the top of the portal's talk page, then save the page.
    4. Edit and paste the following into the to do list. Summarize recommendations and replies as they occur:
[[Image:Evolution-tasks.png|left]] '''<big>Recommendations to improve page to featured portal status</big>'''
List includes recommendations with replies/status.
<br clear="both">

Your review may be more successful if you politely request feedback on the discussion pages of related articles, portals, and/or send messages to Wikipedians who have contributed to the same or a related field, including the list of portal peer review volunteers.

How to respond to a request

  • Review one of the portals listed below. If you think something is wrong—e.g., portal length, the introduction, poor grammar/spelling, missing topics—post a comment in the portal's section on this page.
  • Feel free to correct the portal yourself. Please consider noting your edits here to keep others informed about the portal's progress.

How to remove a request
You may remove to the current archive any

  • inactive listings or listings older than one month;
  • inappropriate or abandoned listings (where the nominator has not replied to comments);
  • portals that have become featured portal candidates.

After removing the listing, contributors should replace the {{portalpeerreview}} tag on the portal's talk page with {{oldportalpeerreview}}.

How to resubmit a request
If your request has been removed, please feel free to renominate it for portal peer review at a later time:

  1. Place {{subst:PPR}} at the top of the portal's talk page as described above
  2. Place {{Wikipedia:Portal peer review/PORTAL NAME/archiveN}} (where N is the review number) at the top of the list of nominees below.

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Contents


[edit] Requests

[edit] Portal:National Register of Historic Places

I believe the portal is ready for Featured status, but would appreciate feedback. Any improvement, alteration or enhancement suggestions would be most welcome. Thanks. Ebyabe (talk) 17:31, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

  • There seems to be a persistent block of whitespace below the biography box. Could this be re-ordered somehow? Cheers, –Juliancolton | Talk 22:08, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
    • Hm, possibly. Adding something would be nice, but can't think what else could go in the spot. Not sure if moving things would help; it may only rearrange where the whitespace is. We'll try some stuff and see. Thanks! --Ebyabe (talk) 22:28, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
    • Did the best I could. The elements in the left column (article, picture, biography) are not each of uniform size, and since they change randomly, sometimes there'll be whitespace. At least it's not quite so egregious now. --Ebyabe (talk) 00:54, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

comments by doncram:

  • The featured picture of the Union Stock Yards is not a picture of an NRHP-listed place. Only the gateway to the former stockyard is NRHP-listed, and I believe that the gateway is not included in the pic. If it is in the background somewhere, the caption should describe where it is; otherwise i think the pic should not be used.
  • I am not really enamored of the leading pic of a generic NRHP historic plaque. I would not want to add to the incorrect idea some might have that all NRHP-listed places have that plaque. I concede that using that plaque photo, which seems non-specific to any one NRHP place, serves a certain role like an NRHP logo, in its location near the top of the portal. Is there any other logo that could serve the same role? I think the overall NPS logo would not be appropriate though.
  • As a reviewer, I am hampered by a mental block that i have in not understanding what a portal is supposed to do, so I don't really have a clear perspective on what the leading little article should accomplish. But, I would estimate that the first mini-article there needs copy-editing. Should it be defining what the sport of NRHPing is? Or what wikipedia's role with respect to historic sites in the U.S. is, like how many sites already have been photographed? If the mini-article is to describe what is the NRHP program of the U.S., then, out of the first two paragraphs, I would prefer for the first sentence of the second paragraph to lead the mini-article.
  • The following passage in the 2nd paragraph seems incorrect or inconsistent: "Some states, however, might have state or local laws that become effective when a place is listed on the National Register. In contrast, a local historic district often has enabling ordinances at the municipal level that restrict certain kinds of changes to properties and thereby encourages those changes that are sensitive to the historic character of an area." What is the contrast that is alluded to? Local zoning ordinances sometimes specifically key on whether a place is in some local register and also on whether it is NRHP-listed, and they can specify the same or different types of reviews for any changes to properties of the two types. I think the restrictions on NRHP-listed properties would pretty much amount to being "enabling ordinances at the municipal level", so I don't understand what is the contrast. It is hard to characterise all possible types of local zoning laws here, of course.

Hope these brief thoughts are helpful. doncram (talk) 21:27, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Free software

Hi all. I've been working on Portal:Free software (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs), sporadically, for some time now, with Featured portal status as the ultimate aim. I solicit input with a view to filing a FPO nomination after all issues have been resolved. What issues, if any, would result in a nomination failing if it was filed with the portal as it currently stands?

Thanks for all input, —AGK 12:28, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Hey, just took a quick skim over it. The page format looks good, very well structured. The OS section looks a little disorganised to me. And maybe try another color. Everyone is using blue. Uniqueness counts if your going for featured.Drew Smith What I've done 14:18, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your input, Drew; I'll take steps to implement your suggestions. AGK 16:07, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Aquarium Fish

DrewSmith 12:30, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Needs a lot of work. No topics, archives -- suggest looking at the FP criteria and current featured portals. feydey (talk) 16:10, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Agreed. First, and very important if you want to aim for featured portals, you need to have a selection of articles. Having a selected section for each month just don't cut it anymore because people neglect and discontinue the maintenance soon after the portal is promoted. Also, aim for high-quality articles/pictures. A good indicate for articles would be GA/FA while the indicator for pictures are FP/valued images/valued pictures. OhanaUnitedTalk page 15:24, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Very good advice. I'm not really aiming for FP though. I'm mostly trying to promote the assoiciated wikiproject. And as long as there is one other active member I will continue to update the portal regardless of it's standing. I was hoping to get some advice on whether or not it was structurally sound, appealing o they eye, etc. Thank you for taking a look though.Drew Smith 19:58, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Industrial music

Basically, I need creative feedback. It is ready to be a featured portal candidate? Cannibaloki 19:23, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Comments

Take a look at other Featured Portals as models.

  1. Intro could use a picture or better yet a rotating picture format, like at Portal:Iceland
  2. Selected articles could use pictures. Try modeling after Portal:Comedy
  3. Selected pictures should have roll-over captions and are also missing credits, see Portal:Sustainable development
  4. Missing - Selected biography section, see Portal:Indiana
  5. Missing - News (Portal:Education), Did you know (Portal:Norway), In this month (Portal:Oregon)

These improvements will help get you started on things to work on. Cirt (talk) 13:46, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Roads

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)

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

[edit] Portal:Beer

I have just completely revamped this portal and would like any input. I hope to bring it to FP status in March or April.

Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 15:31, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

It would be good if the news section was updated more recently than about fifteen months ago. Gentgeen (talk) 20:59, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Drink

This is a companion portal to the food portal and is now complete. It covers the areas of drink that are not only covered by the topic specific Wine and Beer portals and their respective WikiProjects, but includes the other drink related subjects covered by the Soft Drinks WikiProject, Spirits WikiProject, Mixed Drinks WikiProject and the Coffee and Tea Taskforce. I have configured with the random portal component so that it is dynamic, populated it with at least ten examples from all of the drink related projects and am updating them monthly. I am hoping to take this to FP status my April or May and would like some input to see if there is anything else needed before its nomination.

Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 15:22, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Classical music

I'm hoping to take this to P:FP soon, and I'd like a thorough peer review to ensure its pass. Thanks! :) —La Pianista (T•C) 04:36, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

  • This should probably have a sound section: We do have quite a lot.
    • Will add when the February selections come out. Is this good enough? —La Pianista (T•C) 22:11, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
  • The Did you know sections contains facts not referenced by the articles linked, e.g, no description of The Deliverance of Theseus appears... anywhere, that I can find. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 11:46, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
    • Removed that one, and will see what else I can do. Thanks, SH. :) —La Pianista (T•C) 22:11, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
  • I would suggest you create your own bespoke "Associated Wikimedia" box and get rid of {{WikimediaForPortals}} as the only links that currently work from that are Commons and Wiktionary. At least with a bespoke box you can specify targets individually. You could also set the images in selected articles to not use the thumb parameter but just stand alone if you so wish. Nanonic (talk) 17:27, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
    • Done I think. —La Pianista (T•C) 18:39, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
It's better not to use the thumbnail marking for pictures, see Portal:Fish for presenting Selected pictures. feydey (talk) 19:19, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Comments by Jh12
  • I'm going to judge this portal against many of the featured portals I've looked over, Wikipedia:Portal guidelines, and Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria. I'll try to start with the biggest suggestions first:
  • I highly recommend converting from selections by year/month to randomized selections: see Portal:Islam, Portal:Criminal justice, Portal:Sustainable development, and Portal:Japan. All of these portals are easier to maintain and they allow a reader access to all of the content that has ever been available on the portal instead of just static selections for one month. All of these portals also use a layout system for their randomized selections, with instructions on how to add a new selection. (Portal:Criminal justice/Selected article) Per Wikipedia:Portal guidelines; I don't think thumbnail formatting should be used in any of the selections for article, biography, and picture; instead, see the layout system used by Portal:Criminal justice/Selected picture.
  • So I would recommend getting the layout system in place in the selection subpages, editing the main portal page to use {{Random portal component}}, and adding a big Show new selections button like the portals I've listed to check that everything works. For this portal, you should have at least 10 randomized selections each for Selected article, Selected picture, Selected biography, Selected sound, Selected Quotes (Portal:Oregon), and Did you know... (Portal:Islam). Also note that after that is done selections should be changed to be of similar size: under Portal:Classical music/Selected biography/Archive, the selection for Schoenberg is much larger than the one for Beethoven
  • Selected picture needs credits like at Portal:Schools
  • The portal needs a Topics section per Wikipedia:Portal_guidelines#Required
  • Having a Project introduction box seems a little too self-referential for me. I think you should add a Things you can do box instead like at Portal:Sustainable development or Portal:Peru. Most of the featured portals I've seen separate Portals and Project more clearly so you may wish to change this box to a separate Wikiprojects box and remove them from Related portals like at Portal:Criminal justice or make it look like Portal:United Nations
  • I recommend having a featured content section like at Portal:Islam
  • I think selected article, biography, and picture should all have in-text bold links to that particular article like Portal:Oregon and Portal:Islam
    • Done.
  • Add a {{browsebar}} to the top of the portal like at Portal:Criminal justice or Portal:The Beatles
  • For additional content, you could also add a Selected anniversaries selection like at Portal:Oregon or Portal:Schools
  • It may take awhile to get all this stuff done, but it could lead to a much more polished portal and a smoother featured review. In my opinion, the primary issue is getting at least ten randomized selections for all of the important boxes and ensuring their selection quality (i.e. only GA or FA articles for Selected article like at Portal:Criminal justice/Selected article Best of luck! --Jh12 (talk) 17:00, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
    • Comment – Jh12 has many good comments that will take some time to implement. Usually, since the listing has been inactive for 1 month and 11 days, it would have been archived. However, from her talk page, La Pianista will not have Internet access possibly until June 14. [sd] 21:30, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
  • What with with the likes of Stravinsky, Debussy... in the Notable composer list... while REALLY notable ones aren't in the list ?! Pardon my rudness, but I just went to modify the list. If you guys are okay with... I could have removed Chopin in the list in the same move as well. YES, he is an important pianist composer, I didn't say less. But What about Beethoven then? He WAS the GENIUS PIANIST COMPOSER. So, Chopin does not deserve to be in the list. Sorry, again, for the highlight.Reiko-chin—"I wish I was an artist to be able to be an anarchist and live like a millionnaire..." (talk) 08:43, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
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