Portal talk:Ecology

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Portal milestones
Date	Process	Result
February 25, 2012	Featured portal candidate	Not promoted

Ecology

This page is within the scope of the WikiProject Ecology, an effort to create, expand, organize, and improve ecology-related articles.EcologyWikipedia:WikiProject EcologyTemplate:WikiProject EcologyEcology articles

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Dead portal

This portal seems dead, perhaps it should be market {{historical}}, or is it simply lacking participants?Smallman12q (talk) 22:05, 10 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's been improved a great deal now. Northamerica1000^(talk) 10:29, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for featured portal

Nominated today.Northamerica1000^(talk) 09:41, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nominating this portal for featured status, per Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria:

The shuffle option for the portal, per the "Show new selections" purge option on the page, has the following content options:

24 Selected articles
22 Selected pictures
15 Selected biographies
10 Did you know
75 Selected quotes
41 Selected publications

Additionally, the portal contains many useful links and is very user-friendly at this time. Disclosure: I've expanded this portal significantly. Northamerica1000^(talk) 10:55, 22 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sustainability, sustainable development, and engineering emerging technologies

Due to a potential appearance of conflict of interest concerns[1] I have started a Request for Comments on engineering sustainable development. Tim AFS (talk) 06:21, 4 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Portal updates

The following updates have been performed to the portal. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:10, 7 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Updated portal using Template:Transclude random excerpt, providing current, up-to-date information that is verbatim to article content. A consensus approving the usage of transclusion templates in portals was formed at this Village Pump discussion. Used some selections from Portal:Ecology/Selected biographies
Added more entries to the Selected biography section (diff, diff, diff).
Created a new Good article (GA) section, using four entries from Portal:Ecology/Selected article that are presently at GA-class level
Expanded the GA section with new entries (diff)
Added a new General images section, which displays images from various topically-related articles.

More portal updates performed, listed below. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:35, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Updated portal using Template:Transclude random excerpt, providing current, up-to-date information that is verbatim to article content. A consensus approving the usage of transclusion templates in portals was formed at this Village Pump discussion. Used selections from Portal:Ecology/Selected article.
Added two FA-class articles and one FL-class article. Formatted the header for this section per these additions, creating a new Recognized content section in place of the previous Good article section (diff). Both GA- and FA-class articles are now included in this section.
Added some B-class articles to the Selected article section, to diversify and round-out the portal and provide a more comprehensive topical overview (diff).