Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Percentages

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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) 23:58, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Percentages


A useless automated hodgepodge of topics, little of which has anything to do with math. Only 13 pages in Category:Percentages and some of those are miscatagorized. News is mostly election news. DYK is anything with % or percentage in the text. It's only good for a laugh at the automated output. Legacypac (talk) 23:48, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete, no clear focus to this one, pages have little to do with the ostensible subject. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 02:17, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - As TPH says, because of the frequency with which a percentage is quoted with the assumption that the reader understands it as a fraction, the examples shed no light on the subject. A useless exercise.  Robert McClenon (talk) 02:38, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - An automated portal, created 2019-01-04T07:07:18Z, only worth of an automated deletion. Pldx1 (talk) 07:31, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment - Did You Know there was an article about Baker's percentage... and that said article doesn't perceive that 1% of the mass of the floor is exactly the same as 1% of the total mass... unless your measures can detect the 1/10000... At 5%, this result into a 1/400 difference. Pldx1 (talk) 14:39, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment - From the portal itself, this great one: Did You Know that in the Battle of Kharistan in 737, the Umayyads caught the Turgesh khagan off guard with only a fraction of his army, and secured a victory that saved Arab rule in Central Asia ?  What a great illustration of the concept of fraction. Maqāla fi l-jabr wa l-muqābala would have said Omar Khayyam four centuries later. Pldx1 (talk) 20:37, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Meh. We need a speedy (or, at least, speedier) deletion criterion.  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 21:39, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * We voted one at WP:X3 but it was closed with a supervote. Any solution to that? Legacypac (talk) 22:10, 8 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete – 0% content, 100% bad idea to automate page creation. I got: Did you know... that up to 50% of a U.S. Federal Protective Forces detachment could be killed while defending a U.S. Department of Energy facility? Leviv&thinsp;ich 23:37, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Anti-corruption candidate Zuzana Čaputová of the Progressive Slovakia party wins the second round of Slovakia's presidential election, defeating the governing party candidate Maroš Šefčovič, 58 percent versus 42%. She will be the country's first female head of state. (BBC)" It was a runoff so the votes total 100% but how does this help us understand about the math? Legacypac (talk) 23:49, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Election "news" that is not news "31 March 2019 – 2019 Slovak presidential election
 * Delete Thanks to the folks who opposed the proposed speedy deletion criterion for wasting more people's time on these... Reywas92Talk 07:10, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Auto maintaining portal game - guess the portal before clicking the link DYK... that the slipper sea cucumber is avoided by most predatory fish, crabs, and gastropod molluscs, but is preyed on by starfish, especially the leather star? A star for you if you predict correctly. Legacypac (talk) 06:01, 11 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.