Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Blueberries

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The result of the discussion was: delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 21:09, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Blueberries


Too narrow a scope. Only 22 pages in Category:Blueberries including this portal and Blueberry. Four pages on things made from blueberries and 16 species pages that show little differentiation between plants or the articles. Some are just stubs others start class with little room to expand. The article on Blueberry does the job of informing readers much better. Fails WP:POG as having too few articles and no scope to grow this. Legacypac (talk) 20:24, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Delete. 20 pages in the category after I did some cleanup. Blueberry is nominally about Vaccinium species in the section Cyanococcus (at least according to the lead and the taxobox). While Cyanoccocus does include all the "blueberry" species that are cultivated and/or sold commercially, there are other blue-fruited Vaccinium species, and there's nothing inherently wrong with calling them "blueberries"; we have articles for huckleberry and bilberry that also cover some other blue-fruited Vaccinium (without treating these terms as synonymous with a particular taxon). I'm not sure that we should be treating blueberry as synonymous with section Cyanococcus. Vaccinium would probably be a better scope for a portal and then we wouldn't have to worry about whether any particular species is a blueberry or a huckleberry or a bilberry. But I don't think we need a portal for Vaccinium either. Vaccinium berries aren't a particularly important food. Plantdrew (talk) 17:56, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Plantdrew. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:27, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * cross reference Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Blackberries Legacypac (talk) 23:32, 5 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.