Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:History of computing

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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 01:21, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

Portal:History of computing


Pointless. The only actual navigational aid is a category tree of Category:History of computing, and that is handled better by simply going directly to Category:History of computing. There might in theory be scope for a genuinely useful portal on this topic, with a properly-curated set of articles ... but this page is not it, and there is nothing worth keeping. So WP:TNT it; anyone building a genuine portal at a later date will do better to start from scratch rather than try to build on 's drive-by-creation. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 05:15, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
 * But BHG this portal has the all important link to the Ref Desk where you can ask random questions and random people can do Google searches for you. However this Portal is so sloppy mass produced the ref desk link is generic not Reference desk/Computing, so Delete as junk that was mass created by a script with no thought or common sense. Legacypac (talk) 05:25, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment - A retired information technology engineer and intellectual historian will review this one within 12 hours. Robert McClenon (talk) 14:53, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - If I were asked to give a new reader an introduction to the history of computing, I wouldn't send them here. This only illustrates that any subject is capable of having a useless portal.  Robert McClenon (talk) 14:44, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fram (talk) 13:12, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. Appears to be a broad enough topic of general encyclopedic interest and with more than enough pertinent articles. That the page needs to be worked up into a better portal and less of a category-tree presentation is not a rationale for deletion, per WP:AADD.  At worst, this should be upmerged and redirected to Portal:Computing.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  18:00, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Portal:computing (or Portal:Information technology). Too narrow under WP:POG. —  python coder    (talk &#124; contribs) 22:45, 23 March 2019 (UTC)


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