On 9/20/05, Worldtraveller wikipedia@world-traveller.org wrote:
Somewhat related to this, I have to say I question the value of quite a few of the portals that have been created. I imagined that portals were supposed to be pretty high level and aimed at general readers, but a lot now seem to be aimed mainly at fans of games and TV programs, or are so narrow that I can't see what a portal provides that an article doesn't. Examples of the former are portals for Doctor Who, Final Fantasy, James Bond, Oz, Stargate, the Simpsons and Warcraft, while for the latter there's Ancient Germanic culture, Eastern Christianity, Scientific Method, Utah and Bucharest.
Personally I think portals as fan areas such as the ones above are a bad idea. Just wondered what anyone else though?
True. We should have portals for television shows, video game and culture, instead of the portals you mentioned. That's what WikiProjects were made for. Maybe we should have such portals moved to a subpage of their respective projects?
--Mgm