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Featured portalThe New England Portal is a featured portal, which means it has been identified as one of the best portals on Wikipedia. If you see a way this portal can be updated or improved without compromising previous work, please feel free to contribute.
Portal milestones
DateProcessResult
August 1, 2012Peer reviewReviewed
October 13, 2012Featured portal candidatePromoted
Current status: Featured portal

Selected (Article/Picture/Bio)

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So I've made the "Selected" parts of the section link to a Maximum of 6, as opposed to the 5 it had been. How the random part works is that there will be a collection of all of the same number. To best represent all of New England, each State is going to have an "allotted number" for each Article/Bio/Picture which have been mixed up to make sure that someone viewing the Portal aren't given 3 pieces of information about Rhode Island and none about Vermont. Achowat (talk) 17:37, 20 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

For the time being, I simply put the highest Priority, highest quality page up for each (as decided by their WikiProjects) but there's no reason that needs to stay that way. Achowat (talk) 17:42, 20 July 2012 (UTC) So, I've realized that that system is probably not the best course of action, so I was bold and changed it. Because we're such a large and diverse portal (encompassing no fewer than 6 huge WikiProjects) what I've done instead just listing every FA that falls under those 6 WikiProjects. Any person becomes a Bio, any non-person an Article. Similiarly, and Featured Picture about New England (or a New Englander) will be listed under SPs, in an arbitrary order. Achowat (talk) 16:22, 25 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

List of FAs (to be made into SAs and SBs)

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Articles

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  1. Plymouth Colony checkY
  2. USS Constitution checkY
  3. 1991 Perfect Storm checkY
  4. 21st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry checkY
  5. 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry checkY
  6. Boston checkY
  7. Providence checkY
  8. Metacomet Ridge checkY
  9. 1689 Boston revolt checkY
  10. Godsmack checkY
  11. Humpback whale checkY
  12. Lockdown (2008) checkY
  13. Museum of Bad Art checkY
  14. Right whale checkY
  15. Summer of '42 checkY
  16. Tropical Storm Carrie (1972) checkY
  17. Dartmouth College checkY
  18. Capture of Fort Ticonderoga checkY
  19. USS Connecticut (BB-18) checkY
  20. USS Massachusetts (BB-2) checkY
  21. Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec checkY
  22. The Green (Dartmouth College) checkY
  23. Tuck School of Business checkY
  24. Steamtown, USA checkY
  25. Adiantum viridimontanum checkY
  26. Hurricane Gloria checkY
  27. 2004 World Series checkY

Bios

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  1. Miles Standish checkY
  2. Samuel Adams checkY
  3. Emily Dickinson checkY
  4. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. checkY
  5. Bette Davis checkY
  6. Black Francis checkY
  7. Calvin Coolidge checkY
  8. George Washington Dixon checkY
  9. John Mayer checkY
  10. Katharine HepburncheckY
  11. Thomas J. Hudner, Jr. checkY
  12. W. E. B. Du Bois checkY
  13. James G. Blaine checkY
  14. Ellis Paul checkY
  15. Nathaniel Parker Willis checkY
  16. Samantha Smith checkY
  17. Doc Adams checkY
  18. Chester A. Arthur checkY
  19. Bill Russell checkY
  20. Edgar Allen Poe checkY
  21. Art Ross checkY
  22. Tiny Thompson checkY

Pictures

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  1. File:King Kelly 0554fu.jpg checkY
  2. File:Boston Massacre high-res.jpg checkY
  3. File:Salem witch2.jpg checkY
  4. File:The Gerry-Mander Edit.png checkY
  5. File:Ticonderoga attack plan2.jpg
  6. File:Boston, 1775bsmall1.png checkY
  7. File:John F Kennedy Official Portrait.jpg checkY
  8. File:John Quincy Adams drawing2.jpg checkY
  9. File:Robert Kennedy CORE rally speech2.jpg checkY
  10. File:Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis2.jpg checkY
  11. File:Ernest-Borgnine 2004.JPEG checkY
  12. File:JohnShea.jpg checkY
  13. File:Edgar Allan Poe 2.jpg checkY
  14. File:Ambrose Burnside2.jpg checkY
  15. File:Charles P. Stone2b.jpg checkY
  16. File:JFK library Stitch Crop.jpg checkY
  17. File:Cat November 2010-1a.jpg - Official Cat of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts checkY
  18. File:Coast Garter Snake.jpg - Official Reptile of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts checkY
  19. File:Carpodacus purpureus CT3.jpg - Official Bird of the State of New Hampshire checkY
  20. File:Quartz var. Smokey from Morella, Victoria.jpg - Official Gem of the State of New Hampshire checkY

So that's what I came up with for all the Featured Content about New England. If anyone finds something else, just add it to these lists. Achowat (talk) 12:07, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Portal Peer Review

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The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.


With 20 Selected Bios, 20 Selected Pictures and 20 Selected Articles (With 8 more FAs to be made into SAs) Now a full compliment of 27 Selected Articles, I'm looking for some guidance before attempting to take this Portal to Featured status. Achowat (talk) 17:14, 1 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

DYKs

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So there's some work to be done searching WP:DYKA for articles about New England or New Englanders. There are about 10 from July 2012 and if we can just get, say 60 DYK hooks (ideally the 60 most recent) then we can set up a Random like we have for SAs, SBs, and SPs. Achowat (talk) 14:45, 2 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Notice from the Portals WikiProject

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