Wikipedia:Featured portal review/Portugal

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Portal:Portugal[edit]

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. Bencherlite ^Talk 17:26, 29 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Notifications: original nominator Mário (talk · contribs) has not edited since Nov 2009, so no message left; messages left with WikiProject Portugal and WikiProject Europe (WikiProject Portuguese geography and WikiProject Porto are both marked as inactive) and with the listed maintainers Husond (talk · contribs), Joaopais (talk · contribs) (1 edit this month, otherwise nothing since 2009, so virtually inactive), and PedroPVZ (talk · contribs). Bencherlite ^Talk 17:43, 29 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently, the Selected article, Selected biography, Selected place and Selected picture has not been updated. This should have been updated with the random portal component template.
The Portugal-related featured content has not been not been updated, because several articles, list and pictures have been demoted to Featured content status like History of Portugal (1777–1834), 1755 Lisbon earthquake, List of municipalities of Portugal, List of Portuguese monarchs and File:WInd Rose Aguiar.png. JJ98 (Talk) 17:21, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The portal doesn't use random subpages, so I don't understand your first point.
As for the second, there are no rules that says that only featured material can be used (whether in fixed subpages or in random subpages), or that material can only be used once in fixed subpages. Two of the articles in Category:FA-Class Portugal articles have not been used, it seems. There are also eight articles in Category:GA-Class Portugal articles that could be considered. Bencherlite ^Talk 10:42, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Been open about two weeks with no responses to address concerns. I notified Mário (talk · contribs). Will probably wait at least another week or so before checking back at this one. -- Cirt (talk) 13:24, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Mário still has not edited in 2010. Time to close? Bencherlite ^Talk 16:04, 3 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delist. 1d issues still exist on this portal. No one hasn't maintained or addressed those issues recently. JJ98 (Talk) 04:19, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delisted. -- Cirt (talk) 17:50, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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