Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Association football

The following is an archived discussion of a featured portal candidate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the portal's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured portal candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The portal was promoted by User:OhanaUnited 14:41, 8 October 2008 [1].

Portal:Association football

previous FPOC

I started editing this portal in December 2007 to re-inject some life and update it. It now uses randomised content and I used the tab format as on Portal:Religion to break the page up somewhat. There are 25 selected articles (all FA), 15 selected bios (all FA or GA) and 30 selected pictures. Other content includes a randomised selected association (to show FIFA, UEFA, CONCACAF etc), current tournaments (which is pre-filled until 2014), news from Wikinews via the bot and the DYK element automatically shows the last five football related hooks that appeared on Wikipedia's main page from the archive at WikiProject:Football.

Instructions on how to edit/add/nominate the portal and what each element does are documented at Portal:Association football/Instructions.

A request for this to be PPR'd sat for 5 months with no reply so I'm hoping that no responses there means that there are no major problems with this portal. Your comments are welcome. Nanonic (talk) 21:00, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: This actually looks pretty good. I will try to get to looking at it in more detail later. Cirt (talk) 12:43, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Suggestion (not mandatory though) How about selected stadium? And btw, Portal:Association football/Selected association/15 is empty. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 04:00, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's a good idea! I'll scrabble around and see how many I can get that are up to standard, but will hold off on adding it yet as it will need a lot of thought as to how to alter the layout. The empty Selected association entry is there purely to make it easy for whoever wants to add it, it isn't in the selection that displays on the Portal. Nanonic (talk) 22:33, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Cirt (talk) (addressed)

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Comments

Intro - "More about the game..." would look better simply as "More about Association football..." Cirt (talk) 04:42, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I've changed it to a basic "Read more" to avoid having too many uses of "Association football" in the opening section. Nanonic (talk) 22:33, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Portal:Association football/Projects and Things - first subsection, IMO looks awkward with the Association football projects blue box stuck in there like that. Cirt (talk) 04:42, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Working on it now, I'll see if I can either simply lose it and let the prose take over or display it icon form like Related portals. Nanonic (talk) 22:33, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Have changed it to non-tabular format. Nanonic (talk) 23:23, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
News and events - Would be better simply as News. Cirt (talk) 04:42, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Done. Nanonic (talk) 22:33, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Did you know - The preceding extracts from newly created articles were displayed on Wikipedia's Main Page on the date shown. - This bit is not really needed, and as it is self-referential should probably just be removed. Cirt (talk) 04:42, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I can remove this in a second, but I think it will raise the problem as to what the dates in parentheses mean. As the dates are added on the transcluded archive page, they can't be removed. Nanonic (talk) 22:33, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
In that case I would recommend removing all the dates from the transcluded archive page itself. After all, the dates are already present on the talkpages of those articles themselves. Cirt (talk) 22:39, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I've commented out the dates on the archive page and removed the text as suggested. Nanonic (talk) 22:55, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Brief in-the-news coverage of Association football is also available at Sports current events. - This is also not needed as it is a dup reference to a link provided below-left in the same box. Cirt (talk) 22:59, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Removed as suggested. Nanonic (talk) 23:23, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Related portals - Would look better with the text below each icon, instead of to the right. Cirt (talk) 04:42, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
With the text below each icon, the box will look fine at 800x600 and 1024x768, at higher resolutions - the grouping will be central to what is a very wide box. The text was placed to the right as a compromise between these res's - they fit perfectly at 800x600 and don't look as clumped together as the text under version does at other screen sizes. Nanonic (talk) 22:33, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Not a dealbreaker, just my opinion, but I still think it would look better with those text/captions below the icons. Portal:Sustainable development is a good example of this. Cirt (talk) 22:40, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Selected association - For uniformity with other selected subsections, suggest wikilinking the bolded article title in each blurb. Cirt (talk) 23:00, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Done for these and all the ones in Selected bio that I'd overlooked. Nanonic (talk) 23:23, 8 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support. My thanks to Nanonic (talk · contribs) for the quick responses to above comments. Cirt (talk) 01:39, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment

All look good. One thing, could few requested/missing articles be listed in the Tasks you can do section. Thanks, Shyam ^(T/C) 10:25, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've added a random element in Tasks you can do that calls Portal:Association football/Contribute/Requested articles to display five or six requested/wanted articles on page view. I'm unsure about whether to keep it or not though, as it is the only part of the portal that may need updating beyond the current yearly/seasonal maintenance to weed out those articles that have been created. Nanonic (talk) 13:38, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Looks good to me --Jh12 (talk) 18:36, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Promoted. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 14:41, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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