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sports

A lot of the sports portals aren't listed are "Recreation and sports" on this page. - Yellow Dingo (talk) 01:13, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Yellow Dingo: This list is restricted to portals that have passed a strict quality check, as described at the top of the page. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:16, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@John of Reading: Yeah I understand that; I guess I wasn't clear in what I meant. Some of the featured portals that are based on sport are listed on WP:FPO under Arts and culture (e.g. English football, Tennis, Ice hockey etc.). - Yellow Dingo (talk) 06:20, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Yellow Dingo: e section here without consensus or moving any of the other qualifying articles to the section. I think we should keep Portal:Contents/Portals and WP:FPO the same but I'm not sure whether we should go with OhanaUnited or with the pre-existing format. - Yellow Dingo (talk) 10:24, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Yellow Dingo: The subheadings at Portal:Contents/Portals would be very difficult to change, as there are a whole set of inter-related pages there - eg Portal:Contents/Culture and the arts, Portal:Contents/Categories -- John of Reading (talk) 10:31, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@John of Reading: Ok I would say we remove the "sports and recreation" sub heading at WP:FPO; put all the sport articles in their original grouping and put the Halo portal in "Arts and culture" (also where the sports will be). Do you agree? - Yellow Dingo (talk) 10:35, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Yellow Dingo: Yes, go ahead. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:41, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@John of Reading:

Done - Yellow Dingo (talk) 10:45, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Tagged as historical

FYI, I have just tagged the entire featured portal process as {{historical}}. We have now gone more than 12 months since the last featured portal nomination was closed and we are approaching the 2-year anniversary of the last time that a featured portal review was closed (and one FP review has been open for 23 months without movement). It is clear that the community has no interest in the concept of a featured portal, and in that case it makes no sense to keep open a disused process for awarding and removing stars for portals. Bencherlite ^Talk 13:13, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 138#RfC about marking the Featured portals process as .22historical.22 czar 00:02, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting that this proposal was implemented without discussion and the subsequent village pump discussion took place without notifying either the portals or the WikiProjects supporting them. The latest discussion to delete all portals was, like this one, initially well supported. Then when notices were place on portal and wikiproject pages, there was a major outcry and significant opposition. This will need to be revisited. As long as portals exist, we should encourage editors to strive to improve their quality, just as we do with articles and lists. Bermicourt (talk) 13:35, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed the RfC was poor and this really did not gain enough attention. This should really be undone.

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(talk) 17:42, 24 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I also find the addition of the historical template to be a bit problematic, as per notions above. As such and per the above sentiments, I have removed the historical template from the main page and this talk page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 23:38, 10 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal to move (change namespace)

Wikipedia:Featured portals was renamed to Portal:Featured portals (by User:Ruud Koot without an explanation) in 2007. That has left it inconsistent with Wikipedia:Featured articles, Wikipedia:Featured pictures etc (and the general philosophy that Wikipedia administration is in the Wikipedia namespace). I propose that Portal:Featured portals be moved back to Wikipedia:Featured portals. Any comments? DexDor^(talk) 21:46, 19 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Done. I had long thought the same thing but never done anything about it. As the whole process is dead now, I've done it while tidying up the paperwork. Bencherlite ^Talk 12:48, 25 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Village Pump proposal to delete all Portals

Editors might be interested to see a discussion concerning the proposed deletion of all Portals across Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#RfC:_Ending_the_system_of_portals Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 19:56, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]