Portal talk:Countries

Portal expanded

The portal has been expanded with the addition of new Good- and Featured article sections. The article selections listed below were added. If anyone is interested, please feel free to discuss these changes here. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:57, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Good articles

1 Azerbaijan 2 Bahrain 3 China 4 Croatia 5 England 6 Hong Kong 7 Jordan 8 Madagascar Plan 9 Malawi 10 Malaysia 11 New Zealand 12 Philippines 13 Switzerland 14 Turkey 15 United States 16 Wales

Featured articles

1 Australia 2 Belarus 3 Bulgaria 4 Cameroon 5 Canada 6 Chad 7 Germany 8 India 9 Japan 10 Madagascar 11 Nauru 12 Rwanda

• Additional articles for the portal can be considered from those available in the table listed below. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:42, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Countries pages by quality
Quality
	Total
FA	8
FL	8
GA	10
B	167
C	117
Start	126
Stub	34
List	704
Category	25,547
Disambig	6
File	11
Portal	39
Project	38
Template	698
NA	681
Assessed	28,194
Total	28,194

Hi @Northamerica1000: I liked the addition of the "Featured article" and "Good article" sections, but I didn't like the changes in the "Selected images" and "Selected article to understand countries" sections. I also didn't like the addition of borders and wikiproject's header. I'm looking for a cleaner, simpler line, for example: Portal: Computer programming that doesn't need purge tools.Guilherme Burn (talk) 11:49, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

@Guilherme Burn: I feel that the purge option added to the images and selected article sections encourages users to browse other articles. Since the trend is to update to direct transclusions, subpages where readers can check out all of the topics are becoming rarer and rarer. People may not always scroll back up to the main purge link below the intro, only view what's initially on the page, and then move on. Feel free to make any changes to the portal you feel would be beneficial. I would prefer for the purge options to remain, at the very least in the new GA and FA sections, but we can discuss more if you'd like. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:42, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

@Northamerica1000:I made some modifications, I liked the result. I thought it best for now to remove the selected images, this section does not seem to bring useful information to readers. I would like to hear @Waggers: opinion.Guilherme Burn (talk) 13:05, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Guilherme Burn, I agree "Countries" is a tricky topic to find sensible images for as it's so broad. The images I selected were mainly of maps or borders between countries, so relevant but not really illustrative of the topic itself. WaggersTALK 11:41, 1 October 2019 (UTC)