Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:LGBT/Selected biography/25

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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 03:27, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Portal:LGBT/Selected biography/25


Portalspace bio sketch, created as a content fork in an attempt to bypass a content dispute about whether the proper sourcing was available to describe the article subject as gay in the mainspace WP:BLP -- and the creator has since attempted to redirect nearly all of the inbound mainspace links so that they pointed to this page instead of the real article, which is a doubly inappropriate use for this kind of page. I'm not thrilled with the BLP issue in the original article either, but this is not an acceptable way to sidestep it — WP:BLP applies in all namespaces, so if there's a BLP issue around the subject's sexuality in mainspace then that same issue applies to this page too. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 02:30, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete for bad behavior. Legacypac (talk) 02:32, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. BLP issues aren't just supposed to wait out the rest of the week. Now it's just a portal that isn't a real, necessary portal. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 03:27, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete He is gay. The problem arose because he requests that his sexuality be separated from his work as a writer/director. I suspect the Portal/Bio was intended to serve as a repository for any gay news, news which he didn't want on the BLP. I was going to add info about his admiration for the gay director Marlon Riggs and his considering a documentary on gay poet Essex Hemphill, but he requested I not include it. I notice that it was in the portal, so it is hardly a secret. A shame it's not on his BLP, because it is elsewhere on the net. -- collier09 (talk)
 * Delete Delete or close and archive all of Portal space, with very few exceptions. It is a failed concept, full of problems, unmaintained for years.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:25, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Main Page now has external link to his own article, discussing aging as a gay man. Now has various lgbt categories -- writers, screenwriters, etc. So LGBT listings for 'what links here' now are valid. This lgbt portal bio page no longer necessary. my error using it to validate his homosexuality. Main page now does that.-- chrish65 (talk)


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