Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Disasters

Portal:Disasters[edit]

This is a portal I created a few months ago. Although, some may believe it hasn't been around for that long, I feel it still deserves the merit of being acknowledged as one of Wikipedia's finest portals. I assure you that since I am the portal's creator, and only manager, I will keep up with my duties of selecting articles, pictures, etc. for each month's rotation. I have already gone ahead and selected the rotation for the next few months. Nishkid 64 23:56, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support, looks good. Kirill Lokshin 00:00, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support, interesting, and it looks good. --Gphoto^talk 14:59, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support - interesting idea, and it's hard to argue with someone who plans ahead. Badbilltucker 21:18, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support as above Dinojerm 22:27, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support: Great work! Meets all requirements of a featured portal. sign here • HAPPY HOLIDAYS! — s d 3 1 4 1 5 21:49, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support - could you point me to a list of the rotation stuff and portal subpages, as I know my way around Category:Disasters quite well, and would like somewhere to layout the category scheme and fill it out a bit more and then feed that back into the Portal. Either on the portal talk page or my talk page would be fine. Carcharoth 20:58, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Objections:

Please expand Topics section. Major disasters like, Hurricane Katrina and more, need to be illustrated.
The portal seems to be very new one. I suspect the maintenance problem with the portal after being featured one. Is there any back-ups for selected articles/pictures? If yes, then please make proper archiving.
Lack of Anniversary section. The portal needs to have a monthly anniversary (atleast) for previous major disasters. Shyam ^(T/C) 06:01, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, some of these don't seem like particularly good ideas. The topics list should be a listing of core topics for the subject area, not a laundry list of major disasters themselves (and Katrina really isn't all that major when viewed from a global perspective, in any case). As for the anniversaries section, there's no requirement that any portal—featured or otherwise—have one. Kirill Lokshin 04:37, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest only one example. IMO, Hurricane Katrina was major but not globally. There are many major disaters, like 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, 1755 Lisbon earthquake, 1700 Cascadia earthquake, St. Lucia's flood, Fire of Moscow (1571) and many more. I do not seek any problem in listing major disaters in the relevant section Topics.

Yes, there is no comulsion of Anniversaries section for a portal to be featured. But this type of portal really needs of that section. Readers would be really interested to know the happenings of the major disasters in the particular session previously. Shyam ^(T/C) 07:26, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Shyam, I will add an Anniversary section as it does seem appropriate for this portal, but I will not add specific disasters to Topics. That's just making the portal biased, and we don't want that. Nishkid 64 22:21, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]