Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Featured log/June 2011

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 Cirt 07:54, 21 June 2011 [1].

Portal:Hudson Valley[edit]

This portal was last nominated almost three years ago. Since then, the articles under WP:HUDSON's purview have improved considerably, in both number and quality. The stats for the portal are currently:

46 selected articles (35 are GA or better)
90 sets of DYKs (3 per set, all hooks have appeared on the main page, though some have been slightly copyedited)
15 selected biographies (6 are GA or better)
69 selected pictures
21 selected panoramas

--Gyrobo (talk) 00:32, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to shamlessly co-nom as Gyrobo personally suggested. I created the foundation of the portal years ago, and gradually several people have been improving it and its related content, so I think it's finally ready. Juliancolton (talk) 20:02, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Easy Support JC started this portal, bringing the Hudson Valley's presence on WP up and Gyrobo brought it to the level it is today, which is outstanding. upstate NYer 22:10, 3 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Very Weak Support An image passes the box, that is removing some of the experience of the portal. ~~EBE123~~ ^talk_Contribs 22:52, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The selected panoramas are scaled to a 1000px width. This will cause overflow on lower resolutions, but reducing the horizontal size to compensate would make it difficult to see the images. Sorry about that, but I don't know how to scale to fill the available width, or if it's possible. Thank you for your support. --Gyrobo (talk) 22:59, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I reduced the panorama width to 800px, are you seeing an improvement? --Gyrobo (talk) 23:05, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support - I don't see a pressing problem with it. It's honestly quite good, and from where I stand, the panorama looks quite nice. I would suggest possibly moving it up. I can see that'll take some organizing effort, yet it'll pay off to have it located neatly along with the other features. Anyway, I support this with almost no hesitation. Great job! --Another Type of Zombie ^talk 14:13, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I moved the panoramas, quality content, and topics, so that the panoramas are farther up. --Gyrobo (talk) 16:51, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Layout makes way more sense now :D. Again, great job! Another Type of Zombie ^talk 17:12, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I've centered the caption of the panorama. It kinda draws more attention to the left of the image when reading. If you disagree, feel free to revert it. Otherwise, hope I helped. Another Type of Zombie ^talk 17:14, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've only done one so far, here. Check it out and tell me what you think. Another Type of Zombie ^talk 17:18, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I made the change at Portal:Hudson Valley/Selected panorama/Layout thumb, and it does look a lot better. --Gyrobo (talk) 18:06, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Glad to help :D. Another Type of Zombie ^talk 18:10, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I also updated Portal:Hudson Valley/Selected picture/Layout thumb so that the selected pictures would also have centered captions. --Gyrobo (talk) 18:16, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Three (3) supports, no opposes, no significant outstanding objections, if there are no other comments in opposition to promotion, this portal will likely be closed as featured after a short time to allow for further feedback. I will try to remember to come back and revisit this one soon. ;) Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 19:20, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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