Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Maya civilization

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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 17:52, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Maya civilization


Automated, redundant fork of the head article Maya civilization. No manual version to revert to.

This portal was created in September 2018‎ by @The Transhumanist, as an automated portal.

It draws its "selected articles" list solely from the navbox Maya and the sidebar navbox Maya civilization. Both those navboxes are transcluded in the head article, so the portal adds nothing news. The despite the use of two navboxes rather than one, the redundancy is the same as at the two mass deletions of single-navbox-based portals: one, and two, where there was overwhelming consensus of a very high turnout to delete a total of 2,555 such portals.

Since those mass deletion discussions, I have spotted two newish features of Wikipedia which further emphasise the redundancy of this type of portal:
 * 1) mouseover: for ordinary readers who are not logged in, mouseover on any of the linked list items shows you the picture and the start of the lead.  So the preview-selected page-function of portals is redundant: something almost as good is available automatically on any navbox or other set of links
 * 2) automatic imagery galleries: for ordinary readers who are not logged in, clicking on an image brings up an image gallery of all the images on that page. It's full-screen, so it's actually much better than even a click-for-next image gallery on a portal.  This automated portal draws its image gallery solely from the head article Maya civilization, so try the image gallery by right-clicking on Maya civilization, and select "open in private window" or "open in incongnito window", and click on the image.  Then compare that full-screen slideshow with the tiny slideshow on Maya civilization, which draws its selection of images solely from Maya civilization.  It's the same slideshow, just better in the article.

Similar features have been available since 2015 to users of Wikipedia's Android app.

Maya civilization is a broad topic, so I propose that this portal be deleted per WP:TNT, without prejudice to recreating a curated portal in accordance with whatever criteria the community may have agreed at that time. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:57, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete:
 * This is a two-navbox automated portal, not much of an improvement over single-navbox portals.
 * Created by the portal platoon in the wave of reckless portal creation.
 * The portal has 7 daily pageviews. The head article has 4,068 daily pageviews, and there are other articles on the topic.
 * We need a list of portals that have been deleted without prejudice. Add this one to it.  Robert McClenon (talk) 14:34, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete:
 * This portal is a redundant fork of extant navboxes.
 * Portals require active maintenance to fulfil their purpose.
 *  SITH   (talk)   11:46, 17 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.