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This page is where proposals may be made for the creation of new portals, or for the restructuring, merging or subdividing of existing portals.

Procedure

If you wish to propose a new portal, please follow the following procedure:

  1. List it at the top of the current month's section, under a header, like the ones shown (if any). Sign it with a datestamp (~~~~). To add a new portal proposal follow this edit link.
    • Please bear in mind that portals should be about broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers.
    • Do not propose a portal if you do not intend to create it and assist in its maintenance.
  2. Find a good number of articles, as many as you can, that could be showcased on the portal. Each of these articles should be:
    • of high quality, either a featured article, a good article or one which deals with its subject substantially or comprehensively;
    • describing a major topic or person notable within the portal topic area;
    • have no tags displayed denoting clean-up, copyright violation, controversy or similar;
    • not marked as a stub.
  3. After one week, if there is general approval or no objection, go ahead and create the new portal using the templates provided, following the format on Misplaced Pages:Portal#How to create a portal. List the new portal on the portal directory in an appropriate section.

. Good number means about 30 articles, though this figure may vary from case to case and is intended as a rough guide rather than a hard principle.

Archive

See Misplaced Pages:Portal/Proposals/Archive for old discussions.

Proposals

List proposed portals below, new proposals at the top:

June

Portal:China

Ideogram 13:01, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Taiwan

Ideogram 13:01, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Please note Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_arbitration#Portal:Taiwan. I have not yet looked closely at the arbcom case, so won't comment yet. -Kmf164 (talk contribs) 13:21, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Republic of China

Because of the political situation between The Republic of China on Taiwan and The People's Republic of China on the mainland, we feel it is best to have one pair of portals devoted to the History, Geography, and People (China, Taiwan) and one pair devoted to the Politics and Government (People's Republic of China, Republic of China). Note that we already have a Portal:Hong Kong. Ideogram 13:01, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Computer science

Ideogram 13:01, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Planning

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Architecture and has recently given birth to a snappily named, bouncing baby wikiproject called Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Urban studies and planning which will focus it's attentions on planning and urban design articles, mostly to be found in Category:Urban studies and planning. The subject requires a portal.--Mcginnly 08:47, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Support. There's plenty of material to justify a portal, and it would be a handy way of laying out the different approaches to planning issues. My only question is whether it's best called "Planning," "Urban planning," or "Urban studies and planning." I'm inclined towards the longer (more inclusive) name. --Singkong2005 09:33, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
Question. Please name some of the best articles for this topic, which could be showcased in the portal? Thanks. -Kmf164 (talk contribs) 13:27, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

I've mostly been contributing to the UK side of things and in all fairness one of the reasons for setting up the wikiproject and portal is to encourage interest, establish a community and improve pages; but I believe these pages to be ok-

etc.etc

Support, with a few more articles to mention: Urban planning, Jane Jacobs, Haussmann's renovation of Paris, Zoning. DVD+ R/W 18:54, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I don't think there is yet a critical mass of featured or good articles to support a portal, so I'll have to oppose, for now. City hall is still a stub, though with a nice gallery of pictures. I think a WikiProject is the way to go, to work on expanding coverage of the urban studies and planning topic. In fact, I may sign up for the WikiProject and help, as the topic relates to my interests. For now, I think that Urban studies and planning articles can be featured as part of Portal:Architecture and/or Portal:Geography. As well, the WikiProject can be advertised on both portals. In a few months, once the critical mass of good and featured articles is there, then I would support a portal. -Kmf164 (talk contribs) 18:58, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Portal: Martial Arts

69.224.182.96 01:22, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Dungeons & Dragons

There is a lot of stuff for this role-playing game. There could be a listing for the races, cities, worlds, monsters, anything! With news about the upcoming accessory books as well as lot of information about older versions.

(Label 23:52, 22 June 2006 (UTC))

Portal:Current events

(continued from Talk:Current events#Should Current events be in the portal namespace?)

This is a proposal to move Current events to the portal namespace, for reasons outlined in the earlier discussion linked above. As seen in Talk:Current events, the proposal has received across-the-board support so far, so it seems appropriate to turn it into a proposal.

The current events article attracts a built-in group of editors already, making maintainence challenges a non-issue. There are also plenty of showcase articles that fit the portal already.

I am working on a mockup. Because of the maturity of the existing Current events layout, changes are likely to be minimal, at least initially. An example of a minor change would be to turn the {{Current events articles}} at the bottom into a portal-specific {{browsebar}} at the top), though of course this is a topic that needs discussion as part of this proposal.

If accepted, the navigation link to current events present on every wikipedia page would be changed to link to the new current events portal.

In addition to any votes of support (or opposition), I am hoping commenters will identify any internal or visible changes to the current events article that you think are critical to the first version of such a portal. Thanks. Kayaker (talk · contribs) 22:23, 20 June 2006 (UTC).

The week is almost over. I'm concerned that this proposal needs a bit more scrutiny, so I'm thinking I should mention it at Misplaced Pages:Village pump (proposals). Meanwhile, I've created a mockup here which proposes only two changes:
  1. a {{browsebar}} for region and country-specific news portals is introduced at the top.
  2. the {{In the news}} template is incorporated immediately below the browsebar, prompted by the comment from Carcharoth.
Mockup-specific suggestions can be posted on the proposal's talk page. Thanks – Kayaker (talk · contribs) 09:20, 26 June 2006 (UTC).
New mock-up looks nice. How much support do you need for this to go ahead? Carcharoth 01:38, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Communism

I believe Communism is broad enough to have its own Portal. Along with that, several featured level and good communism-related articles exist in Misplaced Pages. Other political ideologies have their own Portal, so, I believe Communism can have its own. Afonso Silva 16:53, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

  • What are some of these "featured level and good" articles? Also, would you be maintaining the portal? Is there a WikiProject Communism, with people willing to help? -Kmf164 (talk | contribs) 19:07, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

After a quick search:

Obviiusly, there are lots and lots of other quality articles.

And where does it says that we need a Wikiproject? There's no Wikiproject Portugal and, currently, Portal:Portugal is listed in FPCAN, with support votes only, I'm the only maintainer. It's not that difficult changing content each two weeks or something. But surely, there will be some other editors willing to help. There are lots of communism related articles, and I have only written two or three. Afonso Silva 19:47, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

  • WikiProjects are one factor that I consider, as indication of active community support and involvement with a particular topic. I would prefer more than one maintainer (what if you go on holiday? the news becomes stale?) Though, with Communism, I don't see any need for a "news" feature. Given the good number of articles listed above, along with your track record with Portal:Portugal, I give you my support. -Kmf164 (talk | contribs) 20:14, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

I haven't contacted any other editors yet, but some will certainly show up and help. I don't believe that's a problem. Communism is a broad theme, much broader than other themes which have their own portal, such as Marvel or Industrial Design, for example. News, perhaps, wouldn't be much useful. Anyway, I'll try to do my best. Afonso Silva 20:32, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree that Communism is a broad enough topic. It also helps that Portal:Politics, short of any new objections, will become featured. With that, I support subportals of Politics, and have confidence that you will do fine. -Kmf164 (talk | contribs) 20:36, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Seeing how developed the subject is, I guess I'll throw my support. Bibliomaniac15 04:34, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Sega

I was wondering if someone could make a portal for Sega, they have lead the way with console technology even though most of us don't know about it. Im sure many gamers on wikipedia would gladly contribute. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elven6 (talk • contribs)

Portal:Ruslana

A portal about the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 , Ruslana. It will be created and maintened by the very newly formed Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Ruslana.

  • Oppose. The topic is much too narrow. I don't see such a portal working, as the number of articles (yet alone featured articles) is much too small to keep the portal supplied with content. Instead, I encourage you to be involved with Portal:Eurovision and ensure it's kept updated. It needs the "selected artist" updated, among other updates. -Kmf164 (talk | contribs) 20:16, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Delete and oppose obviously not getting the attention it needs, plus it doesn't meet portal scope requirements as it covers one specific person. See its speedy delete page.Rlevse 20:33, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Kentucky

Portal:Kentucky will be created and maintained by the newly formed Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Kentucky and is being announced at Category_talk:Wikipedians_in_Kentucky and other places. CQ 11:11, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Comment:. Could the proposer indulge us of the possible articles (good, FAs?), that could be showcased on the portal. feydey 21:33, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Reply: Sure. An obvious featured article would be Louisville, Kentucky. A Selected biography might be Thomas D. Clark, the beloved Historian. An extensive collection of Kentucky's geographical features (such as the Cumberland Gap article) and rich History (such as the Battle of Blue Licks article) would be included. BTW Did you know that The Battle of Blue Licks, on August 19, 1782 was the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War? The field is ripe, I tell ya. -- CQ 23:59, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Oppose, only one FA, no good articles (GA) presented. Perhaps start with a Southern United States Portal? feydey 23:09, 17 June 2006 (UTC) Comment Where's it say FAs are required for a portal? Not a valid ground to me. Constructed Languages is an FP, yet I think there are no FAs in that area. Rlevse 23:16, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Comment: I was referring to Misplaced Pages:Portal/Proposals#Procedure point no. 2, the nominator did not convince me that there are enough good articles to support the Portal. Thanks, feydey 01:27, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Comment: Anyway, my reasoning probably doesn't really matter, since it seems that people will create the Portals despite opposition (like Portal:LGBT). feydey 01:41, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Reply: Well, your reasoning certainly matters, Feydey. The Portal namespace is already clogged with abandoned portals (like Portal:Florida). My focus and reasoning for going through the proper channels is to work toward fulfilling a comprehensive project/portal system as a logical subset of Portal:United States. I'm just trying to streamline the process a bit. Thanks for your comment. -- CQ 14:17, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Support, mainly because I don't think that permission should be required for obvious portal subjects (given all the other states' portals). Kentucky has a rich potential for articles, and a portal should drive more interest in Wikipedians working on Kentucky-related articles. Also, I know another good Kentucky-related article: History of Louisville, Kentucky--I'm sure we could locate or create others in short order. —  Stevie is the man!  18:36, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Field Hockey

A portal about field hockey. Not because there will necessarily be lots of viewers, but mainly to look at collaborating the current lists of articles about field hockey into something a little more structured. --Nunners 15:47, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I've had a rethink about how best to go about updating all the hockey pages, and indeed I've found some more entries on WP, that have started things off a bit more. I'm therefore suggesting a Project, rather than a Portal, but eventually a portal may come out of it? http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Field_Hockey - as part of the Wiki Project:Sports --Nunners 13:04, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Marvel

A portal all about Marvel. This is instead of the X-men portal. It will still contain information on the characters, the teams, the films, the comics, the games, the locations etc. but it will include information on other comics. Including characters like Wolverine (comics) and Magneto (comics), locations like Cerebro, and games like X2: Wolverine's Revenge.

Portal:Nintendo

Althouhg there is a portal for Nintendo as I am writing this, it was created out of process, as I can't find any discussion. The portal would be a partner to Wikiproject Nintendo in such a way that it would list the many articles under the scope of Nintendo. (see Category:Nintendo and the Article examples section at Wikiproject nintendo for examples).

Portal:LGBT

A portal to collect the various and varied LGBT-related articles, lists, directories, projects and collaborations (Examples: featured: AIDS, WP:Good Articles: Gay bathhouse, Same-sex marriage in Canada - Others: Same-sex marriage, Brokeback Mountain, Gay village, Timeline of LGBT history, and Polari) . The goal would be on highlighting the best quality articles and those that need work/cleanup to improve their quality up to WP:GA and WP:FA standards. This proposal includes possible redirects of Portal:Gay, Portal:Lesbian, Portal:Bisexual, Portal:Transgender and Portal:Homosexuality to the main Portal:LGBT centralized location. - Davodd 08:00, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

  • Oppose I'd rather see an effort made to bring Portal:Sexuality up to standard before any subportals are created.--cj | talk 10:36, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose per above. Adambiswanger1 11:09, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Strongly Support not just because it is deserving on its own merits, and utterly unrelated to the Portal "Sexuality" in my humble opinion, but also for the entirely personal reason that I've become annoyed by a number of posters who have been inserting into various literary pages discussions about the preferences of the author or characters involved, whether such discussions are relevant or irrelevant and regardless of the level of support or merit to the claims, and who by making continual spurious claims belittle the real scholarship in the area, and I think this will be best dealt with by encouraging a portal that can help centralize such discussion and hold it to standards. Sam 13:22, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
    Although I'm not quite sure what you are refering to, I feel it pertinent to point out that portals do not serve as forums. Therefore, the creation of a Portal:LGBT would not "help centralize such discussion and hold it to standards". Also, I'd dispute that Portal:Sexuality is unrelated, especially when the nominator makes direct reference to topics descendant of it.--cj | talk 14:59, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Perhaps "utterly unrelated" was overstating and I should have said "only tangentially related." I read the LGBT purpose as relating to issues of sexual preference and gender, which are a couple of steps removed from the sexual behavior issues focused on by the sexuality portal. I don't think being gay is all about sex, in other words. On my own little issue, I think a portal bring together the good, the bad and the ugly with respect to topics involving LGBT issues, and bringing those together will, I hope, improve the weak stepchildren in the crowd. For an example of what I'm referencing as far as weak stepchildren, see the articles on Gilgamesh or on Ghazals. Sam 15:08, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose Agree with cj on this one. Rlevse 16:16, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose per cj. Johntex\ 07:16, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Support. Whilst it would be nice to see Portal:Sexuality up to scratch, I don't see that as precluding the creation of this portal. Steve block Talk 21:47, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Supporting Comment: I believe there is a mistaken assumption running through this discussion that a LGBT portal is a subportal of Portal:Sexuality - it isn't, although there is some overlap. Furthermore, forcing that status on it would be inaccurate and limiting - since it would prevent inclusion of non-sexuality articles such as LGBT political movements (LGBT history), LGBT linguistics (Polari, Gay slang), LGBT history (Stonewall riots), LGBT art (Rent)], LGBT biographies (Tammy Baldwin), and LGBT media (Boy Meets Boy), LOGO channel), LGBT impact on society (Domestic partnership, Civil union) etc. That said, the fact we have a Portal:Nintendo and a Portal:LOST with no (or little) opposition whereas Portal:LGBT is opposed only goes to show that the portal proposal process is broken, not that the viability of a portal on such a rich subject matter (LGBT studies is an accepted university subject of study) is undo-able. If that is the case, the rules for this particular "portal proposal" concept are broken in that they hamper the ability to use portals in their intended way. There are hundreds of LGBT-related articles scattered about Misplaced Pages in Entertainment, Sexuality, Politics, medical and other categories. This one subject area is a prime example the main reasons portals exist - to provide a one-stop-shop experience for easy reference for an interdisciplinary topic. Unless I am mistaken, the process of "applying" for the right to make a portal is so that unnecessary portals are not created - only to be deleted because they were ill-thought-out or patently unneeded i.e.: Portal:Butter or Portal:Halloween masks. The concept that one portal must wait until another, partially-related portal further develops is a classic example of instruction creep, which should be avoided in wiki projects. Because of this, although I agree with the intent of the portal proposal process, I am ignoring it (in re: Misplaced Pages:Ignore all rules) because it is hampering this project from being a better encyclopedia to users and researchers interested in LGBT studies. - Davodd 23:05, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Support. I was neutral until I read Davodd's comments. Now I have a clearer understanding of the benefits. CyntWorkStuff 23:17, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Guitar

Hi!

It’s one year that I write in wikipedia, mostly around classical music and classical guitar, as I am myself a professional concert guitarist. I almost never use a user name. I started to write a template for the articles about guitar to try to organize all those articles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/Template:Guitar

I think that it would also help to make a portal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/Portal:Guitar

Tommaso456