Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Law enforcement

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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) 02:17, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Law enforcement

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Automated pseudo-portal, WP:REDUNDANTFORK of Outline of law enforcement.

This consists of multiple boxes, each with their article list built from one or more sections of the page Outline of law enforcement. Readers who want to view any of this set of articles can simply go directly to the Outline page. They don't need this processor intensive Lua wrapper of the outline, which displays only one link at a time. Even the preview function of the portal is redundant now that readers who are not logged in get a mouseover preview on any link.

This page has a long history. It was
 * speedy deleted in August 2007 per WP:P2 as an underpopulated portal
 * redirected in July 2008‎ to the article Law enforcement
 * redirected in November 2009‎  to Portal:Criminal justice
 * converted in 21 December 2018‎ to an automated pseudo-portal by @The Transhumanist

There is no substantive content worth keeping, so I propose that this portal page be deleted without prejudice to recreating a curated portal not based on a single page, in accordance with whatever criteria the community may have agreed at that time. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:46, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete given the years of failure to attract editors willing to build a proper portal on this topic, Delete with prejudice to recreation. Time has proven this topic is a portal failure. Legacypac (talk) 02:16, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete with a silver bullet - This is a zombie portal. No prejudice to a real curated portal not based on a single page, in accordance with future guidelines.  See Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics.  Robert McClenon (talk) 20:14, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Old portal,  8 subpages, created 2008-07-03 01:35:11 by User:RIL-sv. Zombie portal, indeed. Portal:Law enforcement. Pldx1 (talk) 15:58, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. I'm not aware of any consensus that outlines form an inadequate basis for a portal. I see no reason to automatically prefer an outline to a portal. In principle, it would make perfect sense to delete the outlines in favour of moving the content into the portal. Or just leave both versions where they are, as different ways of presenting an outline of the topic, depending on whether one prefers links or summaries+images (which might depend whether one is logged in or out). Espresso Addict (talk) 04:18, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep per Espresso Addict, above. GregJackP   Boomer!   14:36, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as an automated redundant fork. Again, no prejudice against thoughtful, non-automated recreation and curation.    SITH   (talk)   22:38, 27 April 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.