Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/8 more single-page-copy portals

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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: delete. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 04:37, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

8 more single-page-copy portals

 * Removed: Portal:Ghost (Swedish band) -- already being discussed at WP:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ghost (Swedish band)
 * Removed: Portal:Ghost (Swedish band) -- already being discussed at WP:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ghost (Swedish band)
 * Removed: Portal:Ghost (Swedish band) -- already being discussed at WP:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ghost (Swedish band)
 * Removed: Portal:Ghost (Swedish band) -- already being discussed at WP:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ghost (Swedish band)
 * Removed: Portal:Ghost (Swedish band) -- already being discussed at WP:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ghost (Swedish band)
 * Removed: Portal:Ghost (Swedish band) -- already being discussed at WP:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ghost (Swedish band)
 * Removed: Portal:Ghost (Swedish band) -- already being discussed at WP:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ghost (Swedish band)
 * Removed: Portal:Ghost (Swedish band) -- already being discussed at WP:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ghost (Swedish band)

Each of these 7 automated portals draws its "selected article" list from links on a single page. That means that they are no more than a variant of that page.

In all the other single-page fork portals I have seen, the "selected article" list is draw from a navbox template. However, this set is unusual because two of the templates use the head article as the source for the links. Either way, these portals are redundant to the head article.

All these portals were created by User:Auric between November 2018 and 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, having been created with {{subst:Basic portal start page}} ... so they add nothing beyond the head article.

Note that one of the seven had previously existed as an old-style manual portal, but was deleted twice because if its poor quality. None of the other seven has any history prior to being created by User:Auric.

Some of these portals cover narrow topics which should never have a portal. Others cover broad topics which might be capable of supporting a thoughtfully-designed and properly-curated portal which used a selected article list extending way beyond the navbox. So, I propose that these pages be deleted without prejudice to recreating a curated portal not based on a single navbox or article, in accordance with whatever criteria the community may have agreed at that time. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:30, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Portals Hunting and Curling were created because of the large number of incoming links already in articles. Template:Hunting doesn't currently exist and Template:Curling is a redirect.-- Auric   talk  23:51, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
 * The solutiom to a bunch of red incoming links is remove the links from whatever nave box someone added them too, not build a junk portal. Legacypac (talk) 01:01, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Duly noted.-- Auric   talk  18:12, 16 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete all I checked each page and they add nothing that is not in the article. Clicking Random article in the sidebar would be as effective as some of the "selected general articles". Johnuniq (talk) 00:04, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Please explain how one can go to a page, click Random article and get a related page. I'm pretty sure that isn't possible. I tried that for this page and none of the random articles were even lightly related to portals or MfD.-- Auric   talk  23:41, 21 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete all Maybe that is how Portal:Supermarket was built because it had a truly random list of featured articles. Automated junk. Legacypac (talk) 01:01, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete All 8, with thanks to User:BrownHairedGirl. Automated portals in general are the wrong solution in search of a problem to be the wrong solution for.  See anyway BHG's cogent reasoning as to why portals in general are not needed when there is good navigation.  Robert McClenon (talk) 03:06, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete all - These portals provide no additional navigational functionality over the main article, defeating the purpose of a portal. Meszzy2  (talk) 06:29, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete 
 * - Automated portal,  0 subpages, created 2019-02-04 12:36:39 by User:Auric, to be deleted: Portal:S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * - Automated portal,  0 subpages, created 2019-02-21 22:37:50 by User:Auric, to be deleted: Portal:Hunting
 * - Automated portal,  0 subpages, created 2019-02-21 22:07:45 by User:Auric, to be deleted: Portal:Shannara
 * - Automated portal,  0 subpages, created 2019-02-21 20:44:04 by User:Auric, to be deleted: Portal:Curling
 * - Automated portal,  0 subpages, created 2019-01-28 13:30:42 by User:Auric, to be deleted: Portal:M. R. James
 * Pldx1 (talk) 15:17, 16 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment 
 * - Maintained,  0 subpages, -- created 2018-11-12 21:30:44 by User:Auric, maintained by User:Auric : Portal:Stan Lee
 * - Maintained,  0 subpages, -- created 2019-01-26 14:53:03 by User:Auric, maintained by User:Auric : Portal:Podcasting
 * Pldx1 (talk) 15:17, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
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