[WikiEN-l] Topic warriors

Tue Sep 20 11:40:07 UTC 2005

On 9/20/05, Worldtraveller <wikipedia at world-traveller.org> wrote:
> Somewhat related to this, I have to say I question the value of quite a
> few of the portals that have been created.  I imagined that portals were
> supposed to be pretty high level and aimed at general readers, but a lot
> now seem to be aimed mainly at fans of games and TV programs, or are so
> narrow that I can't see what a portal provides that an article doesn't.
> Examples of the former are portals for Doctor Who, Final Fantasy, James
> Bond, Oz, Stargate, the Simpsons and Warcraft, while for the latter
> there's Ancient Germanic culture, Eastern Christianity, Scientific Method,
> Utah and Bucharest.
> 
> Personally I think portals as fan areas such as the ones above are a bad
> idea.  Just wondered what anyone else though?
> 
True. We should have portals for television shows, video game and
culture, instead of the portals you mentioned. That's what
WikiProjects were made for. Maybe we should have such portals moved to
a subpage of their respective projects?

--Mgm