Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals

message: *Delete subpage Portal:Slovenia/New article announcements, which has not recieved special attention since 2012. — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  23:07, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have a link to that consensus?  My view is that it's legitimate to request assistance for technical changes, such as when replacing Portal:Foo/Articles/1 to /99 by a template in Portal:Foo which produces similar excerpts, but not as part of demolishing a portal (for example, after quietly replacing its main page by a redirect to a broader portal).  Certes (talk) 13:11, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't have the link, I can search for discussions, but this is unnecessary.  you are a witness, like me, of the thousands of excluded subpages that were restored. I think it is better not to repeat the same mistake again, or we exclude via MfD or leave them in limbo for a while.(Or we propose a new criterion for speed deletions)Guilherme Burn (talk) 14:01, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requests for Admin assistance 

message: is being tested.  It may be particularly useful for displaying a panorama at the top of a portal, where the source has the desired skyline in a narrow strip across a landscape image of conventional aspect ratio. Certes (talk) 12:23, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: It's largely ready to go, just be warned that if you're cropping large parts of an image, the viewer still has to load all the material cropped, so if you're zooming in too much, maybe make a crop instead. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.8% of all FPs. 10:44, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image cropping 

message: Do these help readers or lead them in the wrong direction for infomation? Moxy🍁 10:36, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I suspect they do neither, because there are few if any incoming links.  Portal:Boston redirected me to Portal:Massachusetts, which currently shows some content relevant to Boston along with some that isn't.  It's not clear why we might want redirects from Boston and not, say, Springfield: the criterion seems to be having had a portal in the past, but that's not relevant as the portal was deleted rather than merged.  I'm not sure there's a strong enough case to RfD them but I certainly wouldn't support creating any more. Certes (talk) 14:36, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do  we want random redirects of deleted portals? 

message: Wikipedia began 2001-15-01. When were each of the decadal portals started? (For that matter, only the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2010s icons are clickable.) The signal event of the 2020s as of this writing is the COVID-19 pandemic, the PHEIC of which was declared by the WHO 2020-01-30. If it's to become Climate change, I propose a mercury wet bulb thermometer at 35 ℃, the combination of humidity and temperature which marks the upper limit of human endurance. A melting globe is passé, but if it came to it we could combine it with the virus, half-and-half. Shall we get some preliminary work done...? kencf0618 (talk) 13:11, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: The decade portals were generally started in 2012–2013.  The  was created in 2012, deleted in 2019 and recreated in 2020.  That seems rather early, but the French version was created in 2009!  It's a bit early to say what the defining image of the 2020s will be, but most current issues such as climate change are ongoing rather than specific to the decade.  I would suggest something to do with COVID-19, but the obvious image is in use for its own . Certes (talk) 13:31, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point –wouldn't do to have portal conflict.  As for the  to my eye the Mollweide-like  gives us more room to work with, and  even more so. I shall noodle around in my sandbox. kencf0618 (talk) 03:52, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portal Icons; 2020s Proposal