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It's over a year old.

You must have been looking at Portal:United States. Portals are deprecated because it was too much trouble to maintain them by hand and automating them would have been very difficult when there were more important things in need of automation.

I've blanked out the leads on that portal, fwiw.

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Does this not apply to everyone?