Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Christadelphian

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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. — xaosflux  Talk 16:03, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Christadelphian


Static mini-portal on the Christadelphians. Abandoned since 2008.

This is a very narrow topic. There are only about 50,000 Christadelphians worldwide.

Category:Christadelphianism and all its subcats contain only 49 unique articles in total, of which 18 and stubs and 22 are start-class. The leaves only 9 articles of C-class or higher, which is far too small a set for a portal.

The portal was created in April 2008‎, who appeasr to still edit occasionally. However Woofboy's last portalspace edits were in 2014.

The list of sub-pages at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Christadelphian shows a small, one-of-each set:
 * Portal:Christadelphian/Selected article, Portal:Christadelphian/Selected biography and Portal:Christadelphian/Selected picture all show the same topic as when Woofboy created them in 2008.
 * Portal:Christadelphian/Selected Quote was created by in 2015, whos has been site-banned since 2018.

Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this adds little value (if any) to the head article Christadelphians and its sdebar Template:Christadelphians.

Two newish features of the Wikimedia software means that the article and navboxes offers all the functionality which portals like this set out to offer. Both features are available only to ordinary readers who are not logged in, but you can test them without logging out by right-clicking on a link, and the select "open in private window" (in Firefox) or "open in incognito window" (Chrome).
 * 1) 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 on e.g. Template:Christadelphians.
 * 2) automatic imagery galleries: clicking on an image brings up an image gallery of all the images on that page. It's full-screen, so it's actually much better than  a click-for-next image gallery on a portal.   Try it by right-clicking on the article Christadelphians, or any of the othjer articles above.

Similar features have been available since 2015 to users of Wikipedia's Android app.

Given those technical developments and the extreme narrowness of the topic, it is very unlikely that any portal on this topic would add value for readers. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:43, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Concur with the analysis by BHG. This portal had an average of 6 daily pageviews.  Robert McClenon (talk) 03:57, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete not opposed to portals on large religious denominations, but this one is too small and the coverage on Wikipedia isn't sufficiently well developed.  Hut 8.5  06:57, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Redundant to the article and its links. Johnuniq (talk) 09:54, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 13 subpages, created 2008-04-03 19:16:20 by User:Woofboy. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. Portal:Christadelphian. Pldx1 (talk) 15:04, 25 May 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.