The portal was promoted by OhanaUnited 03:42, 11 April 2011 [1].
With over 80% of all described animal species, there can be little doubt that this portal has broad enough scope. I took over its maintainance in earnest after it had lain dormant for years, and I now feel it is of comparable quality to other featured portals. The one weakness may be the relative lack of recognised content – with so many taxa to write about, there has been a tendency towards breadth over depth. Throughout my work on the portal, I have tried to maintain a balance between the different taxonomic groups; for instance, every set of DYKs so far has two facts about crustaceans, two on insects and two from the other groups (arachnids, myriapods and trilobites). The major parts of the portal are on automatic rotation, with the following numbers of items to choose from:
Of the remaining parts, I have updated the Tasks you can do to link to regularly updated pages to prevent stagnation, restricted the Related WikiProjects to those which are still active, and restricted the Associated Wikimedia to those which currently contain content on arthropods, including the Wikispecies link first. Overall, I believe it fulfils all the criteria for featured status, but I would welcome any suggestions for how it could be improved. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 18:23, 3 February 2011 (UTC) reply