Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Agropedia




 * 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. @harej 14:40, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Portal:Agropedia
This portal was created in October 2005 and has been utterly neglected ever since. The Did you know section has had a single update of a single hook, and the other five hooks have been there for the entire four years. Since it was merged from Portal:Agronomy in May 2006, the showcase article has been rotated once, in March 2008. The showcase picture has never been rotated. All recent edits are drive-by minor fixes.

As I understand it, the Portals are pointless if they aren't kept fresh. Portals that just sit there and moulder are worse than useless, because they present a stale, out-of-date and potentially misleading access point to our readers.

I don't know what the standard procedure is for stale portals—whether they get deleted or blanked or redirected or marked historical. But surely something has to be done here. --Hesperian 00:42, 15 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep I don't know either what the standard procedure is, if any. Or if there is even a single precedent. But I don't think deleting it helps the encyclopedia. What harm is there to just let it sit? I disagree that portals are pointless unless kept fresh. They are meant for readers and any reader first coming upon this page wouldn't know that it hasn't been updated in a while. It's not like Portal: Current events which obviously needs continual updating. I don't see anything out-of-date here except for maybe the Topic News section. Deleting this portal would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. -- &oelig; &trade; 03:33, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep per OE.--Patton123 (talk) 20:09, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep but I don't like the name. Agropedia implies that it's some kind of project in its own right.  Suggest moving over redirect to Portal:Agriculture. Gigs (talk) 17:21, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep but move per User:Gigs. bd2412  T 00:01, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep and Move  I have saved the page! (all the while thinking that this was an old discussion) It is active again. Lets move it to Portal:Agriculture. Is there a way to move its subpages with it in one operation? Arlen22 17:55, 17 September 2009 (UTC)


 *  Do Not Move (Move after all Arlen22 23:23, 19 September 2009 (UTC)) Actually, it is about Agronomy and Agriculture. Hence the name. Arlen22 17:57, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for updating the portal, but I still think it should be moved. Gigs (talk) 23:40, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Admins can move all subpages in one operation. Cenarium (talk) 20:48, 18 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment The name is a huge WP:OR (Agro-pedia), it should be renamed as soon as possible ; for example to Portal:Agriculture and Agronomy (as fr: does) if it's on those two subjects. Cenarium (talk) 20:47, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Move to Portal:Agriculture and Agronomy Arlen22 23:22, 19 September 2009 (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.