Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Graffiti

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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) 00:33, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Graffiti


Abandoned non-portal.

This portal was created in 2007 with one selected article, one selected picture, a few quotes, some DYKs ... and that's it. Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Graffiti shows no alternative entries for any slot. And the selected article is Banksy, who is so well known that even mentioning of his name is a bit superfluous.

The creator seems to have retired in 2011, and nobody has to taken over the portal.

The topic is probably broad enough to sustain a portal. Category:Graffiti and unauthorised signage looks well-populated, and commons:Category:Graffiti looks like it as lots of images. There probably is a portal to be made on the topic if someone wants to create and maintain it ... bit this isn't it. Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects", but this doesn't enhance the head article Graffiti.

So I propose that this portal and its sub-pages be deleted per WP:TNT without prejudice to recreating a curated portal which is not a fork of another page, in accordance with whatever criteria the community may have agreed at that time. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:23, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Yet another abandoned heritage portal by an inactive editor. Might really be an interesting portal if the rotation of images was done cleverly.  WP:TNT, which is what BHG has said.  Robert McClenon (talk) 03:28, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Soft Delete the portal and its subpages – The framework is already in place. Allowing WP:REFUNDING would make it easier for an interested user to improve and expand the portal, rather than having to start from scratch. North America1000 11:11, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, @Northamerica1000. Soft Delete is fine by me.  Given the lack of content in the current portal and its odd formatting (e.g. where does that MOS:FONTSIZE-non-compliant that small font come from?), I think that a fresh start would probably be better, but if some editor wants to build a new portal and would like to see the old and make their own choice on whether to re-use anything, then I see no reason to stand in their way.
 * My only concern is that the current non-portal should not be left as a reader-facing page. If we have a draftify option, I'd be happy with that too. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 15:51, 5 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. It looks as if the creator wanted it to be featured but didn't listen to the advice they were given, and possibly abandoned it then. I think the subject might well be suitable for a portal, and could be broadened perhaps to include legal forms of street art. (We have deleted a street art portal, but that was a navbox-based one.) Not opposed to draftifying, as for example the header image is quite attractive. Espresso Addict (talk) 21:00, 5 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.