Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Mathematics

Portal:Mathematics

This portal satisfies the criteria. It exemplifies WP's best work; showcases the best of Wikipedia's mathematical content; is useful, attractive, ergonomic, and well-maintained; adheres to the manual of style; has useful images; and is not self-referential.

The problems cited in the last nomination have since been addressed.

Tompw 16:10, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

• Support Looks good to me. --Gphoto^talk 17:15, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
• Support Very nicely put together. -- DarknessLord
• Support - can't find anything wrong :) riana_dzasta 09:47, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Just thought I'd add, brilliant work with 'Topics in Mathematics'. Kudos to whoever designed it - you must have spent so much time on it! riana_dzasta 07:58, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
• Support, nothing wrong here.__Seadog ^♪ 02:34, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
• Support - supported it last time - now it's even better. DJR (T) 02:38, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Support per all above. No faults. s d 3 1 4 1 5 talk • contribs 19:58, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• Support - seems to meet all the criteria. Badbilltucker 22:36, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
• Object, a number of issues that still need to be fixed:
  • The picture needs an explicit image credit.
  • Thumbnail formatting (in the "Article of the Week") causes formatting faults with the background color, and should be removed.
  • The [edit] links on the rotating content should go directly to the content, not to a subpage that transcludes it. In other words, rather than including Portal:Mathematics/Featured article in the portal and only having the rotation code in it, bring the rotation out to the portal itself.
  • The formatting of the picture subpage is utterly bizarre; it's labeled as the "Article of the Week", and the edit links take one there. Kirill Lokshin 01:11, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

  OK, in order...

  • I'm sorry, I don't quite understand what you mean by "image credit". I can't see anythign that might be called an image credit on Portal:Biography (the first featured portal I could lay my hands on), neither does Portal:Food (the first on the list of featured portals). I also wasn't aware this was a requirement.
  • Sorry, no can do. If the image is to have captions (as Wikipedia:What is a featured portal? point 5 requires) then it must be of type "frame" or "thumb". If it is to be any size other than the uploaded size, then it must be thumb. (See Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax#Type).
  • Fixed
  • What "picture subpage"????? I honestly have no idea what you mean... please give links. If you mean the "picture of the month", the edit link on that goes to the correct place.

  Tompw 22:42, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

  Ok, let's see

  • I'm not sure about those particular portals—they were promoted some time ago—but all the recent ones have picture credits. For an example, see the picture section on the Main Page.
  • Captions aren't required for all images; but, if we want them here: it's trivial to add captions without using thumbnail markup; see, for example, Portal:War/Intro.
  • The subpage in question is Portal:Mathematics/Featured picture; the box there is set up incorrectly.

  Kirill Lokshin 23:23, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

  Right,

  • OK, done.
  • Done. (I think this is *really* inelegant way of doing things, but that's MediaWiki's fault, not yours).
  • Ahh... the <noinclude> stuff... Anyway, done.

  Tompw 12:18, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

  Nice work on the first two, but the noinclude stuff on the subpage seems to still point to the wrong place. Kirill Lokshin 14:10, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

  Done. :-) Tompw 15:12, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

  Ok, support from me now. Kirill Lokshin 16:21, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

• Support looks fine, no complaints. feydey 20:47, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• Support. Very nice. "Topics in mathematics" hits the spot! :-) Rfrisbie^talk 03:53, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
• Support. A well-organized portal. I agree about the topics section, very original. Michaelas10 (Talk) 17:26, 7 December 2006 (UTC)