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1) I chose to have one image rather than a rotation because I wanted to make sure that I could represent as many sports in the lead image as possible. I purpose built that collage for the lead for this reason. I could build more collages of the same size, but I'm not sure if I could come up with four
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Selected anniversaries is incredibly difficult to populate. I don't have a book of dates to work with and surprisingly there aren't any really good websites to draw from. The only easy way to make it longer would be to include athlete birthdays, which I avoided because I don't think birthdays are as
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My selection methodology is heavily based off of "not too much of one sport, not too much of one country". While I could add more teams to the selected teams, for example, the overwhelming majority of the ones I haven't tapped yet are association football related, and I would rather not have it seem
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I'm really glad that you notices the diversity in region. I tried to pull as many countries and as many sports in as possible, and included women's sports when I could. The reason that it's slightly North
America heavy is that there is a disproportionate amount of FA/GA content from North American,
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recently, I think I'm a bit more experienced with the process. My sections are, while not 200 words a piece, shorter than last time, and I think all of the proportions are good. I know that this isn't going to happen, but if at all possible I'd like to be able to get any feedback ASAP, because I've
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The reason it's called sports is twofold: First, it's a holdover from when the portal was called Portal:Sports and Games (the two were split), and second, as an
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2) I originally had them in the columns, but the "Did you know..." section tended to come out longer than the "In this month" section, but not consistently enough that I could just add one more item to "In this month" and fix it. Sometimes it was several lines longer, sometimes just one. By doing
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It occurs to me that a parser function could very easily be designed for the DYK section, making the DYK subpages obsolete and meaning we could use the "From WP:DYK" section as the basis for the Portal's content. However, the DYK page as structured is packed with content and will certainly do the
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and onwards are not created. This isn't a problem (20 is probably enough), but 24–28 have had their pages created but no content added. The article overviews should either exist or not exist, in my view; it might confuse a contributor who tries to add some selected articles in the
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That's all very reasonable. Thanks very much for your prompt response, and again for your efforts in improving the portal. With your follow up, I cannot say I've found any way in which this portal falls short of the FPO requirements, so I am firmly in
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I don't like the idea of the parser function for DYK because I selected the entries for diversity of sport (it's how I could fit in
Lacrosse and some other sports with lower coverage levels) and also for length of prompt (for left column right column
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The faint sky-blue outer background colouring does not have a top-border (above the lead section), but there is a left- and right-border of a deeper blue. This makes the page look strange, at least to this reader, and probably needs to be
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of the content in this portal essentially from scratch, the entire portal is in
American English right now, so it might just be easier to modify the lead from Sport (Sports in North America) to Sports (Sport outside North
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Your selected articles are of good quality and the selection is properly balanced (not too many games from any one continent, although if pressed I'd say North
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Pictures have appropriate credits. All selections contain a good balance between the popular sports on different continents, making this Portal admirably pan-national.
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more of them, and I really don't want to have something that only represents one sport in that section. I will give this some thought over the next few days.
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because the previous format didn't really work, and it I was going to rebuild a major portal from scratch, it had better damned work.
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The portal is not self-referencial, has a very clear focus on
Knowledge content of all types, is attractive and useful. Great work!
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like it's just a portal for association football and baseball (which has a few untapped biographies and a few untapped pictures).
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Good enough for me. :) Categories still shows up in only one column in some browsers. That's why it's better to format it like at
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This Portal looks good, and Sven has clearly spent a lot of time on it. I have a few suggestions and comments:
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That's about all I can think of for now, but those improvements would really do nicely for this portal. —
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Please let me know your thoughts on these matters and whether or not you support this portal's promotion.
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