Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Chicago

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[edit] Portal:Chicago

User:Cirt and I have continued the work of other wikipedians and cleaned up this page. He did most of the automated randomization (although I added the randomized quote section). We have had some debate on the talk page about the main image for the Portal introduction and the length of its text. I am willing to modify either of these, but like what I am presenting.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 21:58, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Comments
  1. I still think the Intro text is way way too big/long, I think RichardF (talk · contribs) had already brought this up as well. Cirt (talk) 22:20, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
    Houston, Texas is the fourth largest city in the country and Chicago, Illinois is third. I would expect Chicago would have just a little bit more to say than Houston and Portal:Chicago does not look that much longer than Portal:Houston.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 02:09, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
    Compared to other WP:FPORTs and per this comment from RichardF (talk · contribs). But hopefully others will comment on this as well. Personally I like the Randomized-Intro format used at WP:FPORTs like Portal:Oregon, Portal:Indiana, Portal:Iceland/Intro and Portal:Philosophy of science/Intro. Cirt (talk) 17:39, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
    I have shortened it even more, but I think our project is doing a little better than most on figuring out what things are important to it and thus may have more to say.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:44, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
    Still looks a bit long to me, and I still think all those images mashed together in the right corner looks unseemly. Cirt (talk) 13:19, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
  2. The multiple pictures at the Intro page (in my opinion but I would like to see what other WP:FPOC regulars think please) could be randomized and looks cluttered all bunched together like that in a box. Cirt (talk) 22:20, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
    I thought we settled that on the talk page. If we must make a change, my choice is visible there as well.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 02:00, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
    I stand by my opinion on this. Hopefully others will provide some feedback. Cirt (talk) 17:39, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
  3. Something is messed up with the overall width of the portal, it goes off my screen. Could be the Related portals section, which probably needs to be smaller, and in more rows. Cirt (talk) 22:20, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
    I added a third row.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 02:00, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
    Good - though I notice some images need to be addressed. Cirt (talk) 17:39, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
    What do you do for Portals with no representative image?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 04:32, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
    Surely there is a state flag or city flag or free use map or something that could be used. Cirt (talk) 13:20, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
  4. Selected quotes section is a bit large and unwieldy, try modeling after Portal:Criminal justice instead. Cirt (talk) 22:20, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
    That is an easy change to make, but right now the left right balance seems to be pretty good as it is with it on the right partition. If I removed it and put it at the bottom the right side would be a little short on my preferred screen resolution. What resolution are you using?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 02:03, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
    I meant more stylistically. Also, generally the selected quotes section is better off at the bottom at 100% spacing, so as to have less variability in each randomization. Cirt (talk) 17:39, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
    If we move quotes out to the bottom then we have to add Portal:Chicago/Selected list back in for left-right balance.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 05:25, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
    No, there are much easier ways to achieve balance, like simply moving a couple subsections around. But I will leave that decision up to you, personally I think the quote sections generally are better at the bottom, though not always. Cirt (talk) 13:21, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
  5. "Chicago has seen illegal corruption of Al Capone and the Cook County Democratic Organization run by Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley." did you intend to call the Mayor corrupt? It doesn't seem supported in his article. Rmhermen (talk) 22:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
    How is that?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 05:19, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Comments

Great work; the portal's very informative. A few comments —

  1. Right now, Related portals has this image twice.
    • I could actually use some advice on this because I want to use all city Portals, but two don't have appropriate images. Maybe I should just use USA and Illiois.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:23, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
  2. The box's headers aren't uniform throughout the portal. For example, Selected article and Topics are italicized, while Selected landmark and News are not.
  3. In Things you can do, I'd suggest commenting Peer Review out while there's nothing to do there. * '''[[Wikipedia:Peer review|Peer Review]]:''' → <!--* '''[[Wikipedia:Peer review|Peer Review]]:''' -->.
  4. The Selected landmarks box has both ...Archive/Nominations More... and Suggest • More landmarks... I would suggest deleted Suggest • More landmarks... and just using ...Archive/Nominations More... as the other Selected boxes do.
  5. The article names in selected articles 57 and 58 (e.g. Northern Illinois University shooting → Northern Illinois University shooting) need to be linked.
  6. Some of the Selected Biographies have dates of birth (and death), but most do not. Also, some had born while others have just b. Please make them uniform; the easiest way is to not have those dates for all the biographies.
  7. More Selected Quotes are needed — at least ten.
  8. Both the Quote and Selected landmark pages have Selected biographies list, which should be changed to Selected quotes list and Selected landmarks list, respectively.
  9. In the quotes, I think "-Mark Twain should be changed to something like " — Mark Twain. But maybe that's just my preference. :) On a side note, I like the panorama here! Best regards, [sd] 12:32, 6 June 2008 (UTC)