Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Royal male consorts in Portugal


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. JohnCD (talk) 21:56, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Royal male consorts in Portugal

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In a nutshell, the articles is useless.

Point 1: We already have a List of Portuguese consorts. The term "king consort" is utterly misleading, for it is supposed to be equivalent to queen consort and thus can't be used to refer to Ferdinand II of Portugal and Peter III of Portugal. A consort doesn't reign and doesn't have a monarchical ordinal. They did. Besides, the article is basically supposed to be a triple biography and we already have biographical articles about all men who can be considered consorts of Portuguese queens regnant. The article is a useless compliation of information already present in several other articles. We don't have articles specifically about husbands of queens regnant of other countries (because we don't need them).

Point 2: the grammar is so horrible that fixing it would be a lost cause. Surtsicna (talk) 19:44, 15 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep The term King consort is not utterly misleading. As this article explains, it is the title used when the couple produce an heir.  Per our editing policy, this article should not be deleted as AFD is not cleanup. Colonel Warden (talk) 08:53, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
 * No, it is not a title used for a man who produced an heir. It was never used by those men. The title is used mainly by the 19th century books. Besides, that's not even the main point of this AfD request! The article can't be cleaned up because it is unneccessary. We don't need it. Do we need articles such as Royal female consorts in Portugal, Daughters-in-law of Portuguese monarchs, Aunts of the French queens, etc? Of course not! We already have biographies of all husbands of Portuguese queens regnant and List of Portuguese consorts, making this article entirely pointless. Surtsicna (talk) 22:14, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Portugal-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:36, 16 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete per Surtsicna. This page is effectively 'the Queens Regnant of Portugal and their men', but such a page gives undue weight to the fact that the rulers happened to be female, and as a collection, it is WP:SYNTH. Agricolae (talk) 01:04, 18 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions.  —Agricolae (talk) 01:04, 18 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete. All the information that appears in this article can appear more usefully elsewhere. Srnec (talk) 03:02, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. While these guys may have derived their right to rule from their wives, they received ordinals and were kings in their own right, not just consorts.  David V Houston (talk) 00:49, 22 May 2010 (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 article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.