Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Halo

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 OhanaUnited 05:04, 21 March 2016 (UTC) [1].

Portal:Halo

I am nominating this portal for featured portal status. Admittedly this is a comparatively small topic (less than 100 articles in the corresponding WP:HALO WikiProject), but this portal only showcases high-quality content (all articles displayed in the Selected article, DYK and Selected picture sections are of at least GA-class) and covers the basics well.

This portal includes:

• 14 selected articles, all FA-class, therefore the section is named "Featured article". If 14 articles is not enough, I can add a few GAs to this section to push the number of selected articles above 20.
• 27 Did You Know hooks, linking to 29 articles, consisting of 28 good articles and 1 featured list. These hooks are divided into 4 categories. One hook from each category is randomly selected to be displayed.
• 20 selected pictures, all with credits and captions. All bold links are to articles that are of GA-class or higher and are within the scope of the Halo WikiProject. I did not include any image I used for blurbs of selected articles.
• Related portals and appropriate WMF interwiki links. I have no idea why the template looks like that.

Since this is my first portal creation, please feel free to comment and suggest improvements. Thank you. sst✈^discuss 06:51, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Notified: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Halo, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Microsoft, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Novels. sst✈^discuss 07:09, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Comment by Rodw I know nothing of the content but on a first look at the layout, I note 3 links on two lines below Selected Picture. I had exactly the same issue on Portal:Bristol and User:John of Reading kindly resolved it through the use of {{Random portal component with nominate}} and special layout templates (which I didn't fully understand). It might be worth seeing if similar tweaks could be offered for this Portal.— Rod ^talk 19:50, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

I've removed the second line. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:01, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments. sst✈^discuss 09:39, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

@Rodw: & @John of Reading: Can you check if the improvements were made to your satisfaction? If yes, please indicate your support. If not, please explain why. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 19:55, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

The multiple links I mentioned were fixed by User:John of Reading ages ago. Taking another look at the portal:

• I am unsure about the use of a graphic for the word "HALO" in the title bar - does this meet the accessibility requirements for those using screen readers etc?
• Personally I would have the navboxes under "Topics" ie Halo series, 343 Industries & Bungie start in a collapsed state but I don't know if that is covered by the featured portal requirements.— Rod ^talk 20:07, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
• The layout of the bottom component "Wikimedia" sems strange on my screen with the links & graphics out of alignment (not sure why).— Rod ^talk 20:07, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

@Rodw: I've edited {{Wikimedia for portals}} to fix the alignment problem in the "Wikimedia" box. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:57, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

I have added alt text for the "HALO" logo in the title. sst✈^(conjugate) 15:38, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

I have set the navboxes to display in a collapsed state. sst✈^(conjugate) 15:39, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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