Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Dragonlance

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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 23:19, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Dragonlance


Delete. User:MJL re-redirected this abandoned portal to the tangentially related Portal:Dungeons & Dragons per WP:WOOD, but that sweeps under the rug any dealing with this portal's 102 thusly-unused subpages, so I reversed the re-redirection, and here we are. I believe this franchise (like all franchises) does not meet the breadth-of-subject-matter requirement of the WP:POG guideline. UnitedStatesian (talk) 18:49, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. I was more-so restoring the redirect created by . Tbh, WP:WOOD is just one of my favorite essays, so it doesn't take much for me to invoke it. Regardless, I wasn't aware it had that many subpages. &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 19:00, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete.. Narrow topic, fails the WP:POG requirement that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers".
 * @MJL, I strongly object to the use of WP:WOOD for this purpose. It's just an essay, and it's all about articles on topics which may become notable in the future.  It's wholly inappropriate to use it for portals.  Please revert any portals which you have redirected in this way. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 20:27, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
 * The only other portal I explicitly invoked it for was Portal:Munich which I then did an about-face on and nominated it for deletion. Portal:Racism is currently a redirect as well, but I gave a decently specific edit summary as to why that one was turned into one. No subpages and no edits since. It has a few mainspace links, but my belief was that a redirect is appropriate in this scenario. I'd be willing to revert if necessary, but no one has since asked me to do so. &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 20:46, 22 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - I concur with User:BrownHairedGirl in taking strong exception to the arbitrary misuse of redirect in this fashion, but this should be discussed somewhere else, maybe at User talk:MJL. This portal has 11 average daily pageviews, which is more than I would have expected, compared to 547 daily pageviews for the article.  I concur that this does not meet the breadth-of-subject-matter requirement, but breadth-of-subject-matter must be assessed a posteriori.  Efforts to determine a priori that a subject is a broad subject area are simply an excuse for creating portals that no one wants.  Robert McClenon (talk) 22:30, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per usual issues. I think MJL was acting in good faith in redirecting it, let's not assume the worst.    SITH   (talk)   11:35, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Abandoned portal, 102 subpages, created 2006-05-20 11:24:57 by User:Llull. Nothing to keep. Portal:Dragonlance. Pldx1 (talk) 13:54, 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.