Wikipedia:Featured portal review/Cuba

The following is an archived discussion of a featured portal review. Please do not modify it. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page or at Wikipedia talk:Featured article review. No further edits should be made to this page.

No consensus. Portal retains its featured status. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 03:50, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Portal:Cuba

The Cuba portal has not been maintained for a long time. The "In The News" section has had no direct new postings since March 2010, and the import from Wikinews have sporadic use, and nothing since 15 October 2010 which was an inconsequential post. Similarly with the "Selected Biography" and the "Quote of the Day" sections which are stale and repeating.

It does not seem to have support from their community. The Talk page states a concern that it would be listed at FPR. This dates from 8 May 2009 (1-1/2 year ago) and it states that it has not been taken care of for the previous 13 months.

It is not useful in its current state, being so out of date, and it is not maintained, therefore failing two of the most important featured portal criteria. I don't see any reason to retain its featured status when there are many other portals more deserving that do not have it. -- Alexf^(talk) 17:54, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Notified main contributors. -- Alexf^(talk) 18:03, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

• Keep. The portal uses randomly rotating content (9 articles, 23 pictures, 11 biographies, 100+ DYKs, and 1 quote for every day of the week). As I understand the conventions around here, that means that it counts as "well-maintained" for the purposes of WP:FPO?, because it does not need to be manually updated to present different selections to readers. As for the lack of news updates from Wikinews, well, that's unfortunate but the sad fact is that Wikinews is not a very active project at present and so it's not particularly surprising that no-one is writing lots of news stories about Cuba. I don't feel that the portal is out of date or not useful. If there is to be a new standard that Wikinews stories must be written regularly about the portal topic, then I think many portals would fail. If there is to be a new standard that randomly rotating content is no longer good enough, that would be a massive change to the system of featured portals and I shudder to think how few would be left. Bencherlite^Talk 13:07, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

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