Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:North Africa

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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:  Speedy delete as requested by Northamerica1000.  Hut 8.5  20:50, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Portal:North Africa

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Automated pseudo-portal, WP:REDUNDANTFORK of a navbox and of the head article.

The selected articles list is drawn solely from the navbox, which is transcluded in the head article North Africa. The article and the navbox are each much better navigational tools than this page, because they display all the links simultaneously, whereas the portal displays them only one-at-time. The preview function of the portal is only redundant, because for readers who are not logged in (i.e. the overwhelmng majority) mouseover on link shows the picture and the start of the lede. (For a full explanation of why this type of portal is redundant, see the two mass deletions of similar portals: one, and two, where there was overwhelming consensus of a very high turnout to delete a total of 2,555 such portals).

This portal page previously as automated spam created by. After Emoteplump was blocked as a sockpuppet, their page creations were mass-deleted on 3 February 2019. This page was then re-created two days later by the @Northamerica1000.

North Africa is obviously a major topic, so I propose that this page be deleted without prejudice to recreating a curated portal which is not a WP:REDUNDANTFORK, in accordance with whatever criteria the community may have agreed at that time. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:22, 25 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.