Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Association football variants

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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. MER-C 20:20, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Association football variants


Abandoned, broken portal on a narrow topic. Redundant to the List of types of football.

A newish feature of the Wikimedia software means that the list offers all the functionality which a narrow portal like this sets out to offer. It is available only to ordinary readers who are not logged in, but you can test it without logging out by right-clicking on a link, and the select "open in private window" (in Firefox) or "open in incognito window" (Chrome).
 * mouseover: on any link, mouseover shows you the picture and the start of the lead. So the preview-selected page-function of portals is redundant: something almost as good is available automatically on any navbox or other set of links.  Try it by right-clicking on this link to List of types of football, open in a private/incognito tab, and mouseover any link.

Given that functionality, it is completely perverse to send readers to a separate portal page to display a preview of just article at a time, with the option of purging the page to see another. The previews are already built-into the list, so the portal offers much less than the list.

Best to just delete this portal and all its sub-pages. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:20, 4 June 2019 (UTC) Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. GiantSnowman 08:56, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - This is a non-portal portal, as noted by BHG. It doesn't do anything that the list or the category doesn't do.  If another editor wants to develop a real portal about this mixed bag of topics, Deletion Review is to the left.  Robert McClenon (talk) 12:45, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, simply not needed. GiantSnowman 08:58, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete: if I see redlinked transclusions, it's clear it's been abandoned.   SITH   (talk)   15:54, 7 June 2019 (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.