Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Felix Mendelssohn

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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. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:53, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Felix Mendelssohn


If you are lucky you can see the same image on the top article, the featured article and the selected image - a 3 for 1 deal. Selected images of people without any obvious connection to the subject, and of course the lead image is repeated. Another image is of a contextless few notes of music. One selected article is on Moses Mendelssohn, who I eventually figured out is the subject's grandfather. Only one subcat. A single person portal with insufficient articles to support it. All truly related articles are about his compositions and are already linked from the subject's article. The correct way to deal with a composers body of work is via their article. Legacypac (talk) 02:33, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment. If you broaden this to the whole family one might make a sensible portal; they were an extremely talented family over at least five generations. I don't think the current version is much loss, though. Espresso Addict (talk) 04:35, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Another case where there is no need for a portal for one person. In the absence of a positive guideline, I also disagree with any suggestion of a portal for the Mendelssohn family.  Robert McClenon (talk) 01:12, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete no time to watch that --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:21, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Just pointless clutter, as editors have pointed out above. --Smerus (talk) 19:04, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Per Gerda and Smerus.Smeat75 (talk) 11:06, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Notice of this deletion was placed at WikiProject Opera, but our project neither created nor maintains this portal. In fact, I suspect that none of us were aware of its existence until the deletion notice arrived. The "Selected article" section simply rotates those listed in Template:Felix Mendelssohn, regardless of quality, and some are just stubs, undistinguished bare lists, or carrying maintenance tags. The "Selected picture" simply rotates all the images in the article Felix Mendelssohn, regardless of quality and devoid of context, e.g. File:JennyLind-photo.jpg with no explanation as to why she is relevant to Mendelssohn. Portals were originally meant to showcase the best that Wikipedia had to offer on major topics which are broad enough to have many sub-articles and categories and multiple GAs, FAs, and FPs available to fill the portal. That is not the case here. Even if it were converted to a manually maintained portal, that would not be the case, and I think I can safely say that no one at WikiProject Opera would be prepared to take it on. Voceditenore (talk) 12:07, 27 March 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.