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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: Deleted 5 portals with creator consent Legacypac (talk) 02:56, 22 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Six single-navbox automated portals for musicians or bands[edit]

  1. Portal:Kerber (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
  2. Portal:Grazhdanskaya Oborona (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) — already at WP:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Grazhdanskaya Oborona
  3. Portal:Voivod (band) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
  4. Portal:Kate Ceberano (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
  5. Portal:Bijelo Dugme (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
  6. Portal:Hoodoo Gurus (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Every one of these six portals is based on a single navbox. That is, their list of selected articles (using {{Transclude list item excerpts as random slideshow}} or {{Transclude linked excerpts as random slideshow}}) is drawn solely from a single navbox. For example, Portal:Kerber is drawn solely from {{Kerber}}.

This makes each of these portals merely a WP:REDUNDANTFORK of the navbox, with much less utility than the navbox because:

  • the navbox displays a full list of the articles. The portal displays only one page at a time, out of a randomly selected subset of up to 50 articles.
  • the navbox should be present on every page in the set. The portal always requires navigation to a separate page.

The topic's main page works much better as a navigational hub, because it includes:

  • both the topic navbox and related navboxes
  • A full summary of the topic rather than an excerpt of the lede.

I propose deleting all these portals in one go because:

  1. Being each built on a single navbox, they add no navigational utility, and are an inferior WP:REDUNDANTFORK of another navigational tool
  2. Portals are not content; they are merely a means of navigating between content. So their mass deletion removes precisely zero encyclopedic content.
  3. The pages have no prior history. There is no non-automated version to revert to.

All these portals were created[1] by User:Heepman1997 between 1 January and 21 February 2019. They were not part of any bot-like process and I see no reason at all to doubt that they were created in good faith. However they all use the automated portal technology, and all were created with {{subst:Basic portal start page}}.

None of these single-band/single-musician topics are global superstar acts. None of these is broad enough to satisfy WP:POG's requirement that portals be about topics "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers", and many similar portals have been deleted in recent weeks. So I propose that all be deleted without qualification. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:33, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion (Six single-navbox automated portals for musicians or bands)[edit]
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  • Delete all January 2019 creations by the same user using the same portsl spamming tools as the others up for MFD. Legacypac (talk) 16:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - the portals were created after I saw other portals for bands and musicians on here. Heepman1997 (talk) 20:09, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete
- Automated portal, 0 subpages, created 2019-02-21 16:22:12 by User:Heepman1997, to be deleted: Portal:Kerber
- Automated portal, 0 subpages, created 2019-01-31 19:15:50 by User:Heepman1997, to be deleted: Portal:Voivod (band)
- Automated portal, 0 subpages, created 2019-01-29 16:42:47 by User:Heepman1997, to be deleted: Portal:Kate Ceberano
- Automated portal, 0 subpages, created 2019-01-16 08:49:03 by User:Heepman1997, to be deleted: Portal:Bijelo Dugme
- Automated portal, 0 subpages, created 2019-01-01 09:20:26 by User:Heepman1997, to be deleted: Portal:Hoodoo Gurus
Pldx1 (talk) 20:39, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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.


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