Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Left-wing populism

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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) 01:38, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Left-wing populism

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Issues: narrow topic, ill-defined scope and concept, converted to semi-automated, no good version to revert to.

This portal was old-style, but is currently uses a semi-automated format, i.e. it has an embedded list of articles rather than drawing from a list or navbox. The list of 17 topics is short, and ecletic. It's hard to see that it provides either an overview of the topic, or a selection of the best content:


 * 1) Bolivarian Revolution
 * 2) Hugo Chávez
 * 3) Chavismo
 * 4) Citizens' Alliance (Cyprus)
 * 5) Course of Freedom
 * 6) Rodrigo Duterte
 * 7) Free Alternative
 * 8) Kirchnerism
 * 9) Laocracy
 * 10) Andrzej Lepper
 * 11) Namibian Economic Freedom Fighters
 * 12) Narodniks
 * 13) People's Mujahedin of Iran
 * 14) Sandinista ideology
 * 15) Socialism in Hong Kong
 * 16) Socialist Revolutionary Party
 * 17) Todayhumor

More importantly, the head article Left-wing populism doesn't appear at all in the vital articles list of the top 50,000 topics, and it is a bit of a wreck. It's a labelled as start-class, but is more like a very long stub. The conceptual description of the topic is poor, and the justification for including the examples are frequently unreferenced. In other cases the example are referenced, but the sources use weaselly phrases which indicate tendentiousness, such as "has been described". The whole concept is criticised on the talk page at Talk:Left-wing populism.

The broader concept of Populism is much better defined, and the head article has copious scholarly sources. It's also a Level-4 Vital article, and Category:Populism has some more broad-concept articles

If someone wanted to make a portal in this area, the broader topic of Populism seems like a better choice, subject to my usual caveats about the community's ability to sustain decent portals on Level-4 topics.

So I say just delete it. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 00:55, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as subsumed within Portal:Populism, without prejudice to nominating the latter portal, and with prejudice to this one. What BHG says is correct.  Robert McClenon (talk) 02:01, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete based on the low quality of the head article. Legacypac (talk) 02:03, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Old portal, 13 subpages, created 2016-11-07 16:22:02 by User:Cambalachero. Ill-defined scope and concept. Portal:Left-wing populism. Pldx1 (talk) 15:59, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment from creator: There is no "Populism" portal, but there is Portal:Right-wing populism. At one point I asked about it somewhere (I forgot the place), if we should create a populism portal and merge both topics into it, or have the two wings as standalone portals. I would prefer the first option, but I was told to do the second one. So we discuss again merging both ones into a new populism portal? Cambalachero (talk) 23:58, 26 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.