Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Knitting
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result of the discussion was: Delete. — xaosflux Talk 16:08, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
Portal:Knitting[edit]
Delete Abandoned mini-portal (3 articles, 4 pictures) on a subject that falls far short of the WP:POG guideline's breadth-of-subject-matter requirements. UnitedStatesian (talk) 17:51, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete with prejudice with needles - This portal, with 7 average daily pageviews, is by an editor who has been inactive since 2018. The head article has 678 daily pageviews. Robert McClenon (talk) 19:05, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete Redundant to the article and its links. Johnuniq (talk) 10:01, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. This mini-portal falls far short of the principle of WP:PORTAL that "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this is massively less useful in every respect than the head article Knitting and its navbox Template:Knitting.
- Two newish features of the Wikimedia software means that the article and navboxes offers all the functionality which portals like this set out to offer. Both features are available only to ordinary readers who are not logged in, but you can test them without logging out by right-clicking on a link, and the select "open in private window" (in Firefox) or "open in incognito window" (Chrome).
- mouseover: on any link, mouseover shows you the picture and the start of the lead. So the preview-selected page-function of portals is redundant: something almost as good is available automatically on any navbox or other set of links. Try it by right-clicking on this link to Template:Knitting.
- automatic imagery galleries: clicking on an image brings up an image gallery of all the images on that page. It's full-screen, so it's actually much better than a click-for-next image gallery on a portal. Try it by right-clicking on this link to the article Knitting.
- Similar features have been available since 2015 to users of Wikipedia's Android app.
- Wikipedia's core functionality has evolved a long way since this portal was created in 2007. An abandoned 12-year-old portal like this comes nowhere remotely near adding enough value for readers to justify its existence. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:23, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 43 subpages, created 2007-09-08 06:59:24 by User:Seb26. Never went alive. Nothing to keep (check Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Knitting/; many are empty!). Portal:Knitting. Pldx1 (talk) 15:22, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.