We are a small Wikipedia community, struggling to make things work out of Goa (India). To my dismay, some editor has gone ahead in deleting the Goa Portal which we have set up for long (on grounds that it has not been updated). We were in fact trying to update it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Goa/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Goa/Things_you_can_do
Instead, would it not be better to help us to keep this portal going and build it? Rather disappointed. FN
On Tue, 21 May 2019 at 18:13, Frederick Noronha fredericknoronha@gmail.com wrote:
We are a small Wikipedia community, struggling to make things work out of Goa (India). To my dismay, some editor has gone ahead in deleting the Goa Portal which we have set up for long (on grounds that it has not been updated).
This was not "some editor", but a community decision, based on the discussion at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Portal:Goa
You can ask for a review of that decision, if certain criteria are met, by following the procedure at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review
But really, what is the argument for keeping a portal? How many of our readers visit them?
We got hardly any time to dispute this decision, and began working on the portal, when it was deleted! It becomes very difficult for a small community to fire-fight on such issues, specially when the decisions are taken in such haste. It took years to build this up; if the argument is "how many of our readers visit them?" then much of the Wikipedia needs to be deleted, and only a few pages pertaining to New York, London or some big cities elsewhere in the planet retained. Does anyone consider how much work goes into creating such portals in the first place? We need more of a level playing ground, if the Wikipedia is to really claim to reflect the diversity of human knowledge. FN
On Tue, 21 May 2019 at 23:29, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On Tue, 21 May 2019 at 18:13, Frederick Noronha fredericknoronha@gmail.com wrote:
We are a small Wikipedia community, struggling to make things work out of Goa (India). To my dismay, some editor has gone ahead in deleting the Goa Portal which we have set up for long (on grounds that it has not been updated).
This was not "some editor", but a community decision, based on the discussion at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Portal:Goa
You can ask for a review of that decision, if certain criteria are met, by following the procedure at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review
But really, what is the argument for keeping a portal? How many of our readers visit them?
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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Hi Frederick,
I am not familiar with this portal, but I sympathize regarding its loss. There is good news that the portal was deleted "without prejudice", so a new Goa portal may be created in the future. If you would like to create an updated version of the portal then I suggest that you request that an administrator create a copy of the deleted portal in your user space. You can work on it there, and when you are ready you can request that the updated version replace the deleted version.
I hope that this is helpful.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Tue, May 21, 2019, 11:15 Frederick Noronha fredericknoronha@gmail.com wrote:
We got hardly any time to dispute this decision, and began working on the portal, when it was deleted! It becomes very difficult for a small community to fire-fight on such issues, specially when the decisions are taken in such haste. It took years to build this up; if the argument is "how many of our readers visit them?" then much of the Wikipedia needs to be deleted, and only a few pages pertaining to New York, London or some big cities elsewhere in the planet retained. Does anyone consider how much work goes into creating such portals in the first place? We need more of a level playing ground, if the Wikipedia is to really claim to reflect the diversity of human knowledge. FN
On Tue, 21 May 2019 at 23:29, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On Tue, 21 May 2019 at 18:13, Frederick Noronha fredericknoronha@gmail.com wrote:
We are a small Wikipedia community, struggling to make things work out
of
Goa (India). To my dismay, some editor has gone ahead in deleting the
Goa
Portal which we have set up for long (on grounds that it has not been updated).
This was not "some editor", but a community decision, based on the discussion at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Portal:Goa
You can ask for a review of that decision, if certain criteria are met, by following the procedure at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review
But really, what is the argument for keeping a portal? How many of our readers visit them?
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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