On 9/20/05, Worldtraveller <wikipedia(a)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