Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Mathematics/Archive1
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[edit] Portal:Mathematics
- Useful: The portal provide a gateway to the 13,000+ mathematics articles within Wikipedia, and so clearly has sufficient breadth of the coverage. At the same time, the portal is carefully selective about what it displays, with links to the major areas of mathematics, key articles and categrories.
- Attractive: While this is the most subjective of the criteria, colours are coherent and complimentary, and do not detract from the content, with no formatting faults. Also, there is a useful sprinkling of images to break up what would otherwise be a rather text-heavy page.
- Ergonomical: It is easy to find what one is looking for, with material set out in a logical and effective manner.
- Well-maintained: the content is updated regularly, although the subject matter is such that frequent updates are not required.
- The manuel of style is followed, and images with no copyright issues are used for illustrative purposes when apropraite. It is not self-referential.
Tompw 20:46, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Object, as follows:
- The portal is not adequately maintained; the last significant rotation of content was more than two months ago.
- The picture shouldn't be labeled as "featured" if it's not actually a FP.
- {{portals}} needs to be included somewhere on the page.
The two latter issues are minor and easily fixed; but the lack of updates to the content isn't really acceptable for a featured portal. Kirill Lokshin 01:02, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
- Conditional Support - ticks all the boxes - very informative and excellent design / aesthetics. BUT requires regular, dedicated updates and maintenance. There is no point being "the gateway to 13,000 articles" if the "gateway" is closed and inactive. With so many articles available, there should be no excuses for "selected article" updates less than once a month. DJR (Talk) 19:10, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
