Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Bisexuality

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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) 01:08, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Bisexuality

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Automated pseudo-portal based on two navboxes: and  (which redirects to.

There is about a 50% overlap between the two navboxes, but for some reason the second navbox was not transcluded on the head article Bisexuality. I have added it, so the head article is now a much better navigation hub than the portal page, which is just a WP:REDUNDANTFORK.

Please note that as well as displaying all the links all of the time (instead of the portal's display of a random subset one at a time), the navbox also replicate the snippet preview function on mouseover.

This is hidden from editors who use WP:POPUPS to provide an editing/analysis menu for links, but the logged-out view can be seen by using your web browser's "open in private window" function to view it. What you'll see then is that mouseover on any of the linked list items shows you the picture and the start of the lede.

This gives a navbox (or any cluster of links, such as a list) much the same functionality as the so-called "portal" view, but without all the overhead of a "portal". I have tested this in Opera, Firefox, Google Chrome, and MS Edge; it works on all of them.

So, far from adding something new, the so-called "portal" is just a clumsy way of doing what the Wikimedia software already does by default. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:46, 20 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Now taking bisexual erasure to a new level.-- Auric   talk  00:22, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
 * For goodness sake, @Auric.  Apart from the outrageous ABF, the point is that this pseudo-portal is a useless WP:REDUNDANTFORK.  The navboxes and the head article are better for navigation.
 * Readers know that, which is why in Jan–Feb 2019 the pseudo-portal got only 7 pageviews per day, compared with 2,801 pageviews per day for the head article bisexuality.
 * Anyone who actually wanted bisexual erasure would leave this pointless page in place. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 01:16, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
 * It's absurd to believe that BrownHairedGirl is trying to erase all the two-thousand-odd portal topics that she has brought to MfD recently. Espresso Addict (talk) 01:30, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Indeed, @Espresso Addict. Anyone who tried to erase any topic by deleting a mutant fork with pageviews a mere fraction of a percent of the head article's pageviews would be wasting their time. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 02:00, 21 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete adds nothing to the main article. Some people can't understand very funny jokes. Legacypac (talk) 05:17, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Agreed. WP:TNT. -- Auric   talk  09:58, 21 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete  - Automated portal,  0 subpages, created 2018-08-14 12:11:47 by User:TTH, useless navigation tool, redundant to the existing articles and navboxes, and of lower quality: Portal:Bisexuality. Pldx1 (talk) 15:33, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete This portal is little more than spam. &#8213; Susmuffin Talk 20:11, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Automated portals are useless. I will note that extremely dry humor about sensitive topics (and if you haven't seen that humor about sexuality is sensitive, you haven't been paying attention to Wikipedia) is easy to misunderstand.  But deletion of a portal, which does not delete the articles, is not a mater for humor but for common sense.  Robert McClenon (talk) 00:25, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete: I strongly disagree with BrownHairedGirl's attempt at erasing marginalised communities.   The rationale is correct, the content is merely derived from extant navbox templates, making the portal an uncurated redundant fork, so I am afraid I have no option but to !vote delete.    SITH   (talk)   13:18, 24 April 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.