Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Poetry

I created this portal nearly 3 months ago, and since that time it has run flawlessly. About a month ago it underwent an aesthetic facelift. Knowing that I wanted to nominate it for featured status, I enlisted the advice of Ambuj.Saxena and Kirill Lokshin to give me advice as to how to improve it. I abided by their advice, made the proper corrections, and I believe that the portal is now nearly flawless; and more importantly, it is a great showcase of Wikipedia's poetry related articles, and it conveys information well. AdamBiswanger1 22:30, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I switched out the image with the one for the following month; I will track down an image for that month later. I don't the point to retaining a less than full quality image. 38.112.153.190 23:55, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
a) The selected picture is not centre aligned and appears to have some sort of column issue with the link to the archives; and
b) Entries into the "news" box should be dated in order to see how recent the news is.
On the whole, however, it's looking good. DJR (T) 15:18, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The first of your concerns has been delt with by Sam. As for the second one, I'm not sure if this is practical/possible, and I'm not sure that I would see it as constituting grounds enough for objection. AdamBiswanger1R.I.P. Steve Irwin 02:36, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the prompt response. Have a look at featured portals such as Portal:Australia, Portal:India or Portal:Medicine (or pretty much any featured portal with a "news" section) to see what I mean. In order for something to be qualified as "news", it must be dated in order to appreciate how "new" it is. It's not very hard to do at all (as shown by lots of portals with news sections), but I feel it is crucial that a featured portal using a "news" box must uphold this principle. DJR (T) 08:37, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'll look into it, but also keep in mind that poetry is not the hottest of subjects, and its very difficult to find any news. So, just how old it is is sort of something I'd like to hide, or at least minimize. AdamBiswanger1R.I.P. Steve Irwin 11:51, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I've added dates and weeded out things dated prior to Jan, 2006, but more poetry news is needed. Sam 23:51, 2 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
What Adam hasn't fixed, I have. Thanks. Sam 23:32, 2 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

FIX THE OCTOBER MATERIAL, much is missing. Rlevse 11:43, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Should be fixed now. Sam 23:32, 2 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]