Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Color

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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. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 07:52, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Color


Mini-portal abandoned since creation in 2009. It offers no added value to readers.

Created in July 2009 by, whose last edit was in 2011.

There is no selection of topics, and the list of sub-pages at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Color shows few pages:


 * Portal:Color/Selected biography is just a redlink
 * Portal:Color/Selected article has been restructured by moving its content to a subpage, but it still displays the same topic (Rainbow) as it did when it was created.  See 2009 version and current version

Since this edit in August 2018 by @The Transhumanist (TTH), the image slideshow is drawn solely from the head article color. That is a redundant feature, per explanation below.

Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this is massively less useful in every respect than the head article Color and its navbox Color topics.

Two newish features of the Wikimedia software means that the head article offers most of 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 incongnito 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 head article Color and on Color topics.
 * 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 even a click-for-next image gallery on a portal.   Try it on Color.

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

WP:POG says that unless automated, the content selection should be updated monthly, or preferably weekly. Even on a monthly cycle, this pseudo-portal has missed over 120 consecutive updates, and it is time to stop wasting the time of readers by luring them to this abandoned draft.

Yes, this is in theory a broad topic. Wikipedia has extensive coverage of topics related to color, but this portal does nothing to help readers sample or navigate it. But WP:POG guides that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers", and this has not attracted maintainers.

So I propose that this portal and its sub-pages be deleted per WP:TNT, without prejudice to recreating a curated portal in accordance with whatever criteria the community may have agreed at that time. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:15, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - This portal has 32 daily pageviews, which is more than most, but hardly means that a portal maintainer who won't show up is desperately needed. The head article has 2603 daily pageviews.  Delete this portal without prejudice to someone in the future taking on a new Portal:Color as a miniature Main Page.  Robert McClenon (talk) 14:48, 19 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete without prejudice to someone in the future taking on a new Portal:Color as a miniature Main Page. Thanks go to for posting a notice at WikiProject Color. While the broken newish features above are unconvincing as a portal replacement, the nom is correct that at present the portal is moribund and does not add much beyond the Color article. In principle there is no reason not to have a Portal for color; an editor would be most welcome to add value using a more manual, bespoke approach. But in the meantime, deletion is fine. --  23:56, 26 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.