Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Portal (3rd nomination)

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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: keep . Consensus is that it's harmless, no apparent opposition to moving it to another namespace. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 23:04, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Portal[edit]

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There is a current RfC to eliminate all portals. Even most of the supporters of portal state they want reform and to prune the least useful portals. Portal:Portal is a collection of random things with some association to the word portal. It makes a poor navigation tool because it is by design not comprehensive, and there is no recognizable topic here. I see an article about a guy named Portal, stuff about sci fi, a photo of stonehenge. It's all over the place. This should be deleted and all links removed. Portal dab page is the correct way to provide our readers with links to get to the topic they are seeking. Yes it is tagged as humorous, but its not that funny. Legacypac (talk) 17:16, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Considure a Move to Wikipedia:Portal:Portals (satire). We don’t want anyone actually being confused, which is entirely foreseeable with the current location. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:57, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
While looking at portals this one jumped out as a really dumb idea for a portal. I actually was confused because I only spotted the little humor tag after I wrote up the nom. Legacypac (talk) 23:07, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
On further though, I thing the move is more than justified. Humour belongs in WP or user space, not Portal space. Humour is great, but it should not mislead at the title level. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:38, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I'll support a speedy move. Good solution, but stillnprefer delete. Legacypac (talk) 23:47, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep most of the nomination doesn't reflect the fact it's intended as satire and it was enough to make me smile. Hut 8.5 21:42, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
We don't allow jokes in reader facing pages. Legacypac (talk) 21:46, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I'm happy for it to be moved to some other namespace. Hut 8.5 21:49, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep or Move Good joke page, it would suck to have it be deleted. If it doesn't work in the Portal: section, at least move it somewhere else. Proposal: Wikipedia: Portal: Portal exoplanetaryscience (talk) 07:08, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep – Harmless humor page. Move it to Wikipedia namespace. North America1000 09:53, 19 April 2018 (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.


  • Post close, I boldly moved the page as I proposed, and G6 tagged the residual redirect. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:29, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • To fix, there are 15 erroneous incoming links from mainspace, and 7 from Portal space. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:31, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Didn't hear about this until I got 39 move notifications in five seconds (earlier redirect creator was informed instead), but the move to Wikipedia:Portal:Portal is fine with me. I doubt it caused more than momentary confusion, but the name is a minor part of the humour, and {{portal}} stopped linking to it by default in 2012 anyway. May gain irony if it ends up as one of the few remaining portals after the RfC. GreenReaper (talk) 01:39, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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