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This is a collection on my thoughts regarding Wikipedia:Portals. For context, I have strong eventualist leanings.
- Portals do not need maintainers. The idea that we should require someone to be in charge of a page for it to exist is antithetical to WP:OWN.
- Evaluating whether a topic is "broad" is similar to evaluating whether a subject is notable. Breadth is not temporary and it is based upon the existence of suitable articles not whether they have been incorporated into the portal yet.