Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Cheshire/archive1

Portal:Cheshire

The Cheshire Portal was created by Ddstretch and has been maintained & expanded by me on behalf of the small but active Cheshire WikiProject. With 22 selected articles, 15 biographies, 26 pictures, 11 lists, 132 DYKs, 13 quotations, customised news & a monthly anniversaries section, it's among the best developed of several portals for English counties, none of which has yet achieved featured portal status. After many months of work, I now feel it's approaching the standard of a featured portal, and would be grateful for advice about how it might be further developed to reach that standard. Many thanks in advance for your help! Espresso Addict (talk) 15:39, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments / questions from Bencherlite

Generally it looks excellent both in terms of content and layout. Checking page histories, I'm delighted to see new content being added frequently in addition to the use of a random display of material, so it's clearly being frequently maintained. I'm struggling to find things to nitpick, even!

Out of interest, how many GAs / FAs / FLs in the selections?
The news items are full sentences, so should have full stops. There are a few "in this month" items that are full sentences and perhaps ought to be changed into non-sentences for consistency with the majority which aren't full sentences - e.g. "The first trains crossed Dutton Viaduct" --> "Trains first cross Dutton Viaduct", otherwise you ought to have some items with full stops and some without, which would look odd.
My English teacher would have rapped my knuckles for saying "more quotes" instead of "more quotations"! Also, perhaps a bit too much bold text in the sources for the quotations?
The associated Wikimedia would look better centered rather than left-aligned.
The selected biographies have a few photos that aren't of the people concerned e.g. Adrian Boult; it might be an example to work something into the blurb and say (concert hall pictured) otherwise it's a little odd.
Can you get the top of the text of the selected article / biography / DYK / list to line up with the top of the photos? On the main page it's done using something like <div style="float:left;margin-right:0.9em">[[Image:filename|100px|hover text]]</div>

Can't think of much else to say at the moment - well done for your hard work, and that of the Cheshire Project! Bencherlite ^Talk 16:26, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for this helpful & astonishingly speedy review, Bencherlite! I'll try to deal with all your comments this evening. To answer your question on the ratings of selected content:

Articles: 1 FA, 1 A, 19 GA, 1B

Biographies: 5 FA, 6GA, 4B

Lists: 8 FL, 5 B equivalent (a couple of the FLs are doubled up)

I'm just a little confused on one point: the associated Wikimedia look to me to be centred at the moment (in Firefox), and the alignment statement is "center", though as I had to hack around the code to eliminate the inappropriate links, it's possible I've managed to make it browser specific somehow. Ah, yes, I see that IE 6 is placing them left aligned -- can anyone see how I've managed to break the code? Cheers, Espresso Addict (talk) 17:27, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again for the very helpful review, Bencherlite. I've implemented everything you suggested and the portal definitely looks tidier now. Espresso Addict (talk) 14:18, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Any objections to archiving this now? Bencherlite ^Talk 15:41, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fine by me -- it doesn't look like anyone else has any comments. Espresso Addict (talk) 09:13, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]