Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Palermo

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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 16:03, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Palermo


Automated clone portal, which is simply a wrapper around the relevant sections of the article Outline of Palermo.

Created in July 2018 by @The Transhumanist (TTH). There is no non-automated version to revert to.

Each box in the portal draws its article list solely from the relevant section of Outline of Palermo For example the box labelled "Selected arts articles" is built with this code:

Two newish features of the Wikimedia software means that the article and navboxes offers all the functionality which portals like this set out to offer. Both features are available only to ordinary readers who are not logged in, but you can test them without logging out by right-clicking on a link, and the select "open in private window" (in Firefox) or "open in incognito window" (Chrome).
 * 1) mouseover: on any link, mouseover 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.  Try it on e.g. Outline of Palermo
 * 2) automatic imagery galleries: 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  a click-for-next image gallery on a portal.   Try it by right-clicking on this link to the article Palermo.

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

This redundancy has been belatedly acknowledged by TTH, who wrote at the start of this month New encyclopedia program features will likely eventually render most portals obsolete. For example, the pop-up feature of MediaWiki provides much the same functionality as excerpts in portals already, and there is also a slideshow feature to view all the images on the current page (just click on any image, and that activates the slideshow).

So I propose that this portal and its sub-pages 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) 21:52, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - This portal averages 1 pageview per day. Concur with analysis by BHG.  Robert McClenon (talk) 03:54, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Redundant to the article and its links. Johnuniq (talk) 09:55, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Related discussion: WP:Miscellany for deletion/City portals cloned from outline pages. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 10:00, 22 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment. I just found this portion of WP:WPPORT's newsletters, and I figured I should share it.


 * In case anyone was curious how long it took to make these types of portals (or even why some were made). &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 18:07, 23 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - Automated portal,  0 subpages, created 2018-07-14 18:30:23 by User:TTH, useless navigation tool, redundant to the existing articles and navboxes, and of lower quality: Portal:Palermo. Pldx1 (talk) 15:05, 25 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.