User talk:DexDor/Portals

Possible addition
Thanks for creating this essay. How about: -- John of Reading (talk) 14:14, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
 * ClueBot NG has not been trained to check edits to the Portal namespace, so vandalism has to be checked manually and lasts longer.
 * Thanks John. DexDor(talk) 17:16, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Inconsistent formats and some other comments
I never thought of inconsistent formats as a problem -- I always thought of this as a feature. With consensus on changing the formatting of the Main Page so difficult to achieve, portals can serve as places where users can experiment a bit. I like that de:Portal:Straßen and de:Portal:Medizin look very different, but they both seem to be active and useful. Of course content of portals and what type of things are included also varies widely; some are purely navigational, some are mini-main pages, some are a WikiProject's showcase. The low number of viewers probably says that portals don't work for readers, no matter how they are structured, but that doesn't mean they can't work for editors or WikiProjects. —Kusma (t·c) 21:02, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

None free images
Not allowed in portals, but used all the time, now being transluded in automatically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_content_criteria Point 9. Legacypac (talk) 13:42, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
 * , do you have any examples? I think the automatic transclusion templates are designed to not use (correctly tagged) non-free images, and haven't seen any non-free images automatically transcluded on portals anywhere. —Kusma (t·c) 13:53, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't work with images but I raised the issue at Miscellany_for_deletion Legacypac (talk) 15:42, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
 * All of the logos used in the airline portals are classified as "free" and on Commons. —Kusma (t·c) 16:03, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Move this content
, what do you think of moving this content to another space (eg Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals/Problems with Portals or Wikipedia:Portal/Guidelines/Problems with Portals)? To receive contributions from other users, a shortcut and to be quoted in MfDs.Guilherme Burn (talk) 19:49, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
 * No problem with me. User:BrownHairedGirl could expand it with some of her thoughts. Legacypac (talk) 19:53, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I'd prefer to either keep this essay in my userspace (for the moment) or to move it to Wikipedia: (e.g. Problems with portals) (e.g. like the categorization projectspace essays).  I've created shortcut WP:PWP. However, editors who broadly agree with my views (e.g. the 3 editors mentioned here) are welcome to improve the essay whilst it's in my userspace; in the unlikely event I don't agree I'll revert. If moved out of userspace the "I"s will need to change. I'll try to make some improvements to the essay over the next few days (including dealing with some points raised above). BHG's recent analysis at VPP summarises things well.  DexDor(talk) 21:06, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

note re article
thanks for writing this essay. lots of useful information here. I appreciate it. thanks. --Sm8900 (talk) 23:05, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Any suggestions for improvements are welcome. Did you notice the quote from yourself? DexDor(talk) 08:05, 12 February 2020 (UTC)