Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Community (2nd nomination)

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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) 23:03, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Community


Very old, abandoned non-portal.

The title caught my eye, because the "community" has become a devalued buzzword, which can refer everything and nothing, depending on how the mood takes you. (It's great word to have on your buzzword bingo chart)

This turns out to be about nothing. The intro is just a dicdef; the selected article is (yes, you guessed) Sense of community, the one pic is of Stonehenge (yes, really), and the quote is predictably from Wendell Berry. And that's it, apart from 3 DYKs.

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Community shows that there are no alternate pages; one of each is all you get. This is not a portal, just a skimpy one-page leaflet.

Curiously, this turns out to be the oldest portal I have encountered. It was created in July 2005 (apparently a few months before the portal namespace was up-and-running), by, who last edited in August 2005. The subpages appear to have all been created in 2006 by (last edit: 2017), and the only subpage edits since then have been vandalism reversion to Portal:Community/Did you know and Portal:Community/Selected picture. All that's happened since has been formatting edits to the main page.

So it's 13 years abandoned, and never even properly started. The C-class head article Community isn't great, and there's no navbox, but it's still was more use to readers than this non-portal, which somehow is wasting them the time of an above-average 14 readers per day (the median of the current total of 1395 portals is 12 pageviews per day).

Of course, the concept of community is a very important one in sociology. In the hands of a decent sociologist, this page could conceivably be a good portal, if the articles were in good shape, which they appear not to be. But in other hands, this could just become a dump for anything which namechecks the word community. I have a nightmare vision of someone filling it up with "Gated community", "S&M community", and "intelligence community" until someone makes the whole thing explode by adding "community chest" out of the board game Monopoly. More likely, it will just continue to rot.

So just delete it. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:05, 4 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. Looks to be static and abandoned. No prejudice to someone knowledgeable trying to create a real portal on this important topic, but agree with the nominator that it would be a difficult topic to carve out from eg Portal:Society. Noting a previous MfD back in 2006 which ended with no consensus: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Community. Espresso Addict (talk) 17:28, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment: Portal:Cricket actually the oldest,[1] set up in April 2005. UnitedStatesian (talk) 19:33, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - This should have been given a Certificate of Stillbirth in 2006. It is essentially impossible to define what the scope is, unless (as BHG implies), it has to do with the sociological concept; however, this stillborn portal appears to have always been about the concept of community as marketing buzzspeak.  (This is MFD.  Marketing buzzspeak is a reason for the deletion of drafts.  Just delete it.)  Robert McClenon (talk) 22:29, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 21 subpages, created 2005-07-05 06:33:45 by User:Quinobi. ONE article, ONE bio, ONE picture. Aka nothing to keep. Portal:Community. Pldx1 (talk) 10:49, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. — python coder (talk &#124; contribs) 20:56, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
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