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Until the featured portal process ceased in 2017, this page logged the result of discussions about removing featured status from a portal.
The result of this discussion is keep. OhanaUnitedTalk page 02:00, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
It seems that this portal fell into some kind of permanent hibernation shortly after receiving the promotion to featured portal status in 2008: The latest "news" are from January 2008 (e.g. Bobby Fischer's death in Reykjavík), and there wasn't much change in the other sections as well. For example, the selection of 13 pictures for the "Selected picture" section is from 2007 and was not changed or expanded since then. So, in my opinion, it doesn't fulfill Featured portal criteria (d) - it isn't well-maintained. It is a nice-looking portal for sure, but unless there are people willing to rejuvenate and maintain it, I do not think it deserves the "featured" status anymore. In fact, criteria (d) states "Featured portals that require maintenance and are not updated for three or more months are summarily demoted"... so is there even a discussion needed? The news section at least certainly would require maintenance and updates, but was ignored for years... But I would like to give the portal a chance. Maybe an option would be to re-design it in way that needs less maintenance, e.g. by removing the "news" section? Gestumblindi (talk) 14:12, 11 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The result of this discussion was Kept. OhanaUnitedTalk page 05:21, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
This is a Featured Portal delisting review. The purpose of this discussion is to determine whether or not the portal meets the Featured Portal criteria. If the determination is made that it does not meet those criteria by the end of the delisting review period (one month), it will have it's status as a Featured Portal revoked. Improvements can be made during this procedure, and indeed are encouraged, however because many improvements are promised but never delivered, a commitment to improve the portal in the future is not a valid rationale for keeping the portal at Featured status.
Rationale: I have nominated this for delisting because it has only one selected image, one selected list, eleven selected articles, and thirteen DYKs, all well below what I would expect to see for a portal with a scope of this size. Additionally, the DYK section appears to be static, meaning that only four of them are actually used. According to the count at WikiProject Cricket, there are 78 FA class cricket articles (most of which are biographies; there is likely not enough to split into selected articles and a separate selected biographies). There are dozens of Cricket-related Featured Lists, certainly enough to populate the section with 20 entries. I haven't done a count, because there's no real easy way to do one, but there has to be more than just 13 cricket DYKs to choose from. I'm not sure if there are 20 FP quality Cricket images, but between Commons' valued and FP pictures and this project's FPs, we should be able to field a decent selection. Simply put, this portal is underpopulated. As it is, it does not meet criteria 1(a) and 1(d). Sven Manguard Wha? 21:07, 4 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The result of this discussion was Keep. OhanaUnitedTalk page 18:15, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Fails 1(d) "well-maintained" and 1(a) "useful". Note that the Featured portal criteria say that portals that are not updated for three months are summarily delisted.
As relying on updates by portal maintainers, associated WikiProjects or passers-by clearly isn't working, the portal needs to be changed to one using random subpages, with a proper level of decent content for the article, biography and picture section. The DYK section needs to be expanded to use only hooks that have appeared on the main page through DYK, and lots of them, in random subpages. There is a working "biology news" section at Wikinews, so perhaps a news section ought to be added here. A lot of work is needed to bring this up to current standards. BencherliteTalk 11:05, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I note that the selected article, picture and biography have been updated today by MisterDub (talk · contribs); DYKs are still old. I don't know whether MisterDub intends to revamp the portal to move to random subpages, or to keep up with regular rotation of articles, so I will invite MisterDub to comment here. BencherliteTalk 18:55, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Any updates on how the above is moving along? -- Cirt (talk) 18:50, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Any further updates on status of this? -- Cirt (talk) 20:27, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
User:MisterDub made updates in April 2011. The only component that was not updated is the DYK section (which is not a big deal). It appears that the majority of the concerns have been appropriately addressed. Closing this as keep. OhanaUnitedTalk page 18:12, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
No consensus. Portal retains its featured status. OhanaUnitedTalk page 03:50, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The Cuba portal has not been maintained for a long time. The "In The News" section has had no direct new postings since March 2010, and the import from Wikinews have sporadic use, and nothing since 15 October 2010 which was an inconsequential post. Similarly with the "Selected Biography" and the "Quote of the Day" sections which are stale and repeating.
It does not seem to have support from their community. The Talk page states a concern that it would be listed at FPR. This dates from 8 May 2009 (1-1/2 year ago) and it states that it has not been taken care of for the previous 13 months.
It is not useful in its current state, being so out of date, and it is not maintained, therefore failing two of the most important featured portal criteria. I don't see any reason to retain its featured status when there are many other portals more deserving that do not have it. -- Alexf(talk) 17:54, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Notified main contributors. -- Alexf(talk) 18:03, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Not maintained. — Kpalion(talk) 13:21, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Kept. Cirt (talk) 21:46, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
This portal is kept. OhanaUnitedTalk page 01:12, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note. This nomination should be completed using the current Featured portal review two-stage process. RichardF (talk) 21:58, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Only 1 selected article, 1 selected recipe, 1 selected quote, 1 selected person, 1 selected picture, 1 selected ingredient. Also lacking captions on images, red links in topics and categories. Seaserpent85 11:22, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Restarting this discussion. This portal looks a lot better than when it was nominated for review in February. However, the selections of articles, recipes, quotes, ingredients, and pictures are still short of retaining its featured portal status. Portal:Food/Selected article/9 requires an image replacement, if not removing it. And news section requires an update.
WikiProject Food and drink has been notified for this review and hopefully, someone will come and improve this portal. If this portal does not get improved within 7 days, it will be sent to Featured portal removal candidates where members of the community will determine if it will retain its status. OhanaUnitedTalk page 04:58, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I replaced the problematic Selected Article with a new FA, so that's fixed. I'll see what I can do about fixing the news stuff. :) Hope this doesn't restart the discussion! haha Intothewoods29 (talk) 00:37, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The portal was kept OhanaUnitedTalk page 03:21, 20 April 2008 (UTC).[reply]
Note. This nomination was started as a Featured portal removal candidate. RichardF (talk) 21:53, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Portal fails criteria 3. It's been 4 months without a selected article, over half a year without a selected picture, no news update since June, no randomised content. Unless someone is willing to update and regularly maintain this, it really doesn't deserve featured status. Seaserpent85 22:51, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Kept OhanaUnitedTalk page 03:21, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The portal was kept 05:45, 6 May 2008 (UTC).
Note. This nomination should be completed using the current Featured portal review two-stage process. RichardF (talk) 21:59, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This article has not had any featured articles added for months, and the main page was last edited in September 2007. There has not been any significant update in months, minus "bot" edits, and other minor things. This is pretty inactive currently. Soxred93 | talk count bot 21:15, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This portal is kept. OhanaUnitedTalk page 01:13, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
If you give me the articles, I will maintain the portal. --Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 08:42, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I know about the templates, I created them... Bot would be good. --Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 20:16, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The result of this discussion was Keep. Mtmelendez (Talk|UB|Home) 04:24, 28 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Nominate: I can see a "red-link" for the selected article section. It's totally unexpected from a featured portal. Arman Aziz 04:52, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The result of this discussion was Keep. Portal already kept, procedural closing. - Mtmelendez (Talk|UB|Home) 04:28, 28 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This portal hasn't been maintained since January. The editor who was responsible for it has drastically dialed back his Wikipedia involvement. I've placed a notice on both the portal's talk page and the WikiProject talk page and no response has come in a week's time. I'm in no position to do anything with this portal, as I'm no expert on the subject and am already maintaining two portals that are featured portal candidates. Unless someone wants to step up, this portal needs to be defeatured, as its current state is somewhat embarassing. Planetneutral talk 02:37, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The result of this discussion was Keep. Portal already kept, procedural closing. - Mtmelendez (Talk|UB|Home) 04:28, 28 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Portal is not well maintained. Comparable to other featured portals it does not have news section and portal can have a news section. Portal is not well-maintained. Portal does not have selected picture type of section. Shyam (T/C) 21:42, 19 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
This is a Featured Portal delisting review. The purpose of this discussion is to determine whether or not the portal meets the Featured Portal criteria. If the determination is made that it does not meet those criteria by the end of the delisting review period (one month), it will have it's status as a Featured Portal revoked. Improvements can be made during this procedure, and indeed are encouraged, however because many improvements are promised but never delivered, a commitment to improve the portal in the future is not a valid rationale for keeping the portal at Featured status.
Rationale: Requesting summary delisting per requirement 1(d), which states "Featured portals that require maintenance and are not updated for three or more months are summarily demoted.". This portal requires manual maintenance and was last updated in 2007. Additionally, the quality of content is low, there are serious formatting issues, and all of the key sections are underpopulated (only seven articles, seven biographies, and a dozen images). Sven Manguard Wha? 05:00, 25 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Most sections of the portal do not appear to have been updated since 2011. Selected article and Selected picture are red links. There is only one image visible (under DYK). The New pages box is empty, except for a link to a bot-created list that has not updated since March 2011. News is automatically generated from WikiNews, but only the first item is reasonably current (December 2012). One of the categories is a red link. The lack of content in the Selected article and Selected picture boxes means that the columns do not balance. I left informal notifications at several related WikiProjects earlier in January, but have received no response.
I believe the portal thus fails under criteria 1b (aesthetically pleasing, no formatting issues, no red links), 1c (ergonomic), 1d (well-maintained), and 3 (images where appropriate). Espresso Addict (talk) 17:28, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Notified: Portal creator Prsephone1674, featured portal nominator Feyday, significant contributor KF, the main maintaining WikiProjects Books, Novels & Literature, as well as peripherally related sub-projects Poetry, Theatre, Children's Literature & Science Fiction. Espresso Addict (talk) 17:59, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Closed as delist: "Featured portals that require maintenance and are not updated for three or more months are summarily demoted" and we have many more than three months of redlinked sections here. BencherliteTalk 12:54, 3 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Previous review from 2009 is at Wikipedia:Featured portal review/Wine. This portal fails several criteria:
These are the very first observations, is likely there are more issues. --ELEKHHT 22:09, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Closed as Delisted. — Cirt (talk) 14:53, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
This portal fails multiple criteria
These are the most obvious issues, further scrutiny will probably reveal more. --ELEKHHT 09:14, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Closed as Delisted. — Cirt (talk) 14:53, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delist – per the criteria, "Featured portals that require maintenance and are not updated for three or more months are summarily demoted." BencherliteTalk 10:03, 11 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Fails 1d. JJ98 (Talk / Contribs) 09:33, 11 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The result of this discussion was delist because it failed criteria 1(d). OhanaUnitedTalk page 16:21, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
There hasn't been a selected picture since December 2009, same with a selected article and biography. It looks embarrassing on the right-hand side when it says "On this day", and there is nothing for February 4. It lists Hurricane Emily (1987) as an FAC, but it hasn't been there since August 2009. Finally, the recent and ongoing weather includes links to meteorology in 2008-2009. Clearly the portal hasn't been updated in ages. Therefore, I highly disagree with it being a featured portal. --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 18:09, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Is this still active? I'm not sure how long featured portal reviews are supposed to remain open, but this one's been open for over a year now... Ks0stm (T•C•G•E) 22:51, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
This has been running for 16 months; the length of time that this has been running is a disgrace to the Featured Portals structure and the FPo Directors should be ashamed of themselves for letting this drag on as long as it has. If it meets the current standards, close it as "retain status"; if it doesn't, close it as "delist". Personally I'd suggest using ((#ifexist)) (and a comment like "X June: no notable weather events recorded") to get rid of the odd day that doesn't have a entry and fix it that way; if that's fixed, then I'd say retain but if it's not fixed within the next 7 days I'd say delist. BencherliteTalk 16:18, 12 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The result of this discussion was delist. Here is my rationale. It failed to meet 1(a) and 1(d) of the criteria. The subject of this portal is substantial enough to provide large selections of high-quality pieces to the portal (as shown by a long list in the "Recommended articles" section). Yet in each component of the portal (DYK, biographies, pictures & articles), the number of pages showcased is much less than desired. On top of that, during a quick spot check, I observed that quite a number of article selections showcased aren't of high quality (good or featured articles). Also, the portal seems to have stopped updating since June 2011. Photos did not provide linked credits so it also failed to meet criteria #3. Hence my decision is to remove/delist this portal of its featured status. OhanaUnitedTalk page 00:36, 1 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
This portal hasn't been updated since 2009, and doesn't select content randomly; in its current state it offers no content. --Gyrobo (talk) 15:44, 10 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
((Random portal component with nominate|max=29|header=Selected article|footer=More articles...| subpage=Selected article|seed=3)) ((Random portal component with nominate|max=13|header=Selected biography|footer=More biographies...| subpage=Selected biography|seed=5)) ((Random portal component with nominate|max=13|header=Selected case|footer=More cases...| subpage=Selected case|seed=11)) ((Random portal component with nominate|max=15|header=Selected picture|footer=More pictures...| subpage=Selected picture|seed=7)) ((Random portal component with nominate|max=15|header=Selected legislation|footer=More legislation...| subpage=Selected legislation|seed=13)) ((Random portal component with nominate|max=10|header=Did you know...|footer=More facts...|subpage=Did you know|seed=19))
Update we are no longer in speedy delisting territory. WhisperToMe has almost finished rebuilding the portal using random components, and then it should be a relatively simple matter to make the last few tweaks to finish bringing it up to modern standards. BencherliteTalk 20:06, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The last thing we need to do is fill up the quotes section: Portal:Houston/Selected quote WhisperToMe (talk) 02:33, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
As I said at user talk:Cirt some days ago after he asked me what my views now were, "Well, it would be nice to have more than 4 quotes but that's hardly a deal-breaker. Close it as a "retain status", I suggest." Hopefully someone will do the honours sometime soon... BencherliteTalk 11:01, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The result of this discussion was delist. OhanaUnitedTalk page 03:08, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Fails 1(b) "attractive" and 1(d) "well-maintained".
The very low number of views (below 500 in December 2010) suggest limited usefulness. --Elekhh (talk) 02:09, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
This portal was promoted in July 2006, and was abandoned just a few months later, to all intents and purposes. As a result, it spectacularly fails the Featured portal criteria in relation to frequency of updating, which notes that portals which are not updated for 3 months will be summarily demoted. The portal uses a system of manual updating, rather than randomised content.
The "selected article/biography/place" were last changed in Sept 2006; "DYK" in Dec 2007; "picture" in Feb 2009; "quote" Feb 2009; the news dates from Feb 2007 (!); the list of new articles stops in Dec 2007. There is also a "requested article" section: but the requested article was created as long ago as June 2007!
Concern was expressed back in 2007 that the portal had stagnated, but nothing came of it. It is far short of modern standards. BencherliteTalk 17:26, 29 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delisted. -- Cirt (talk) 17:50, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I am nominating this atricle because of it failing criteria 3d (well-maintained). The portal's sections (Selected article, Selected picture, Selected economy, Did you know... and Selected quote) are shown not created. GamerPro64 (talk) 18:42, 8 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delisted. -- Cirt (talk) 21:09, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Notified - WikiProject Space, WikiProject Astronomy, Shrewpelt
Reason: Failure of 1d (Well-maintained). GamerPro64 (talk) 01:24, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
More notifications could be given, User talk:Python eggs, WikiProject Science, etc. -- Cirt (talk) 01:00, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Removed. -- Cirt (talk) 21:03, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Fails 1(d) ("Well maintained"). The "Selected article", "Selected picture" and "Selected anniversary" sections have all been redlinks since August 2008, so well over a year; DYKs have not been added to since 2006 when the portal was nominated. Left messages with WikiProject Disaster management and Nishkid64 (FPC nominator) 10 days ago, but no response or action visible. Have left messages about this FPR with both. BencherliteTalk 14:04, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Still the same problems, 2 1/2 months after nomination at FPR, and 19 months after the redlinks started to appear. Whatever happened to "Featured portals that require maintenance and are not updated for three or more months are summarily demoted" in the Featured portal criteria? BencherliteTalk 08:59, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: Left a query for Carcharoth (talk · contribs) and Ceranthor (talk · contribs) to ask if they intend to work on this portal. -- Cirt (talk) 00:03, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Update: Posted notices for J Milburn (talk · contribs) and Yomangan (talk · contribs). (Both were listed as previously being involved with the portal, at Wikipedia:Portal/Directory) Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 00:21, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Removed. Cirt (talk) 17:51, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Does not meet the criteria 1.(d) Well-maintained. Is inactive since 2008.
Result was removed. Cirt (talk) 14:42, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Reason: not maintained --Jack Pinchwife (talk) 22:14, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Nominating for review per 1(b) and 1(d). Not maintained; entire categories entirely redlinked: Selected article, Selected quote, Did you know..., Selected biography, and Selected picture. It's a shame to put this up for delisting, especially since I've done a fair amount of work that could help fill in those gaps: FP,[1][2][3] DYK,[4][5] GA.[6] But these additions by themselves can't fill the gap of entirely absent sections, and project participants have never responded to my notices at their talk page. This simply isn't featured-level material. DurovaCharge! 01:05, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Close as Delisted. Cirt (talk) 04:03, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The result of this discussion was Summarily demoted.
Portal was summarily demoted from featured status after 3 months of no updates to rotatable sections, as is dictated by Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria. This resulted from a lack of a maintainer.--cj | talk 20:43, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The result of this discussion was Remove/De-list. Portal already de-listed, procedural closing. - Mtmelendez (Talk|UB|Home) 04:27, 28 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
As the nominator of this portal's successful featured status I find it even more difficult to fill out this candidate entry but I feel I cannot ignore what is so. This portal is no longer maintained nor as adequate content to be a featured portal at this time. I would say it fails almost every criteria point. Mkdwtalk 11:50, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
These discussions had not been closed before the featured portal process ceased.
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.
The definition of a featured portal, cut and pasted from the Portal:Featured portals page is "... portals that are regarded as being particularly useful, attractive, and well-maintained.". The Fish portal is useful and attractive, but unfortunately is not well-maintained; no significant maintenance has been performed on the portal since 2008. I posted a message on the portal's talk page on March 25 and did receive one response, but the page does not meet featured portal standards simply because it lacks somebody to volunteer to step up and maintain it. Until then, the portal will continue to be useful and attractive, just not a featured portal. Neil916 (Talk) 06:51, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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.
As with a significant fraction of Featured Portals, this one has problems with being Well-maintained. It is not "updated regularly to display different aspects of Wikipedia's content in an area", and since it contains time-sensitive sections, it probably qualifies for summary demotion under "Featured portals that require maintenance and are not updated for three or more months are summarily demoted".
It would be possible to "fix" this portal, e.g., by removing outdated material. However, given the finite time available to the very few experienced editors in this area, and the low number of page views (and therefore the low benefit to readers), I don't believe that we should realistically expect the long-term situation to change. If those volunteers haven't found it worth their while to maintain the featured articles section for the last seven or eight years(!), then it is highly unrealistic to expect them to do this at least four times a year from here out. It's probably better to remove the FP status and let the portal evolve outside of the FPC. (I left a note at WikiProject Comedy.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:09, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]