The Fish Portal was created and has been maintained since December 2006. It has had a portal peer review as well as personal reviews by several experienced portal editors mostly in December 2006 and January 2007. Their suggestions and concerns were addressed and the portal went though significant changes according to the reviews. Although back then some of the reviewers suggested this portal should be nominated for the featured status, I felt I wanted to wait for while to show that it's not going to end up being another dead portal. Now the portal fish is about 6 month old and has had consistent monthly updates and maintenance as well as a group of loyal readers who have been participating in the nomination and selection process of monthly contents for various sections of the portal. I think it is ready and I would like nominate it for consideration for the featured status.
Here are some facts about the fish portal:
- Four monthly sections of the portal (Selected article of the month, Selected fish of the month, Selected picture of the month, Selected quote of the month) have systematic nomination and selection process by the readers as can be seen here. As the portal is now 6 month old, each of these four sections has 6 items in the archives.
- "Selected fish of the month" is a fish article (species, genus, family, etc.) while "Selected article of the month" is any other article (fish in culture, fishing, fishkeeping, fish as food, etc.). This is also explained in the nomination page.
- The Fish Quiz, added to the portal in March, acts as a fun, interactive version of DYK and also helps generate new items for DYK. It's by far the most popular section of the portal and is currently hosting the third quiz tournament already.
- DYK is a bit unconventional in design that it has a small fish image for each DYK item, rather than having few, large selected images like most other portals. This is for two reasons: it fits aesthetically with the portal design and it helps as quick visual aids to readers so that they would have some ideas what kind of fish to the DYKs are talking about. However, if most reviewers would rather see the conventional fewer, larger images, I'm willing to change it accordingly.
- "Things you can do" is a template shared by both the portal and WP:FISH.
I'd appreciate it if you could spare your time to comment and vote on this nomination. Thank you a lot (and feel free to particate in the The Fish Quiz too if you'd like). --Melanochromis 22:33, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support as nominator. --Melanochromis 22:35, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Nice portal and the one I most oftenly frequent. --Jnpet 02:11, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support A very attractive portal that meets all the criteria. Hossen27 08:10, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Support, well done. -- Phoenix2 (talk, review) 18:19, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]