Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Percussion

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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) 08:59, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Percussion


Abandoned, static micro-portal. Redundant to the head article Percussion instrument and its navbox Template:Percussion instruments.

Created in February 2008‎ by, who last edited in 2011. The lead of WP:POG has said since late 2006 "Do not create a portal if you do not intend to assist in its regular maintenance", but that has not happened here.

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Percussion shows that there was an early attempt to create a selecetd article and selected picture for each month, but athat thsi was sustained for the five months of February to June 2008. Since then, the selected article has been a static dispaly of the contents of Portal:Percussion/Selected article, which has been unpdated only twice: in May 2009‎ and in September 2015‎.

WP:POG says that unless automated, the content selection should be updated monthly, or preferably weekly. Even on a monthly cycle, this portal has missed over 110 updates. There is nothing here worth keeping. The content of the sub-pages is all out-of-date.

For example, Portal:Percussion/Did you know contains only one item, added in 2015, after the previosus update in 2009. The linked article is clapping, but I can find no trace of that ever having bene listed at WP:DYK. Per WP:DYK, "The DYK section showcases new or expanded articles that are selected through an informal review process. It is not a general trivia section" ... but even if it was DYK-based, this 4-year-old entry loses the newness, so its only effect is as a trivia section, contrary to WP:TRIVIA.

Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this is massively less useful in every respect than the head article head article Percussion instrument and its navbox Template:Percussion instruments.

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 by right-clicking on this link to Template:Percussion instruments, open in a private/incognito tab, and mouseover any link.
 * 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 Percussion instrument, open in a private/incognito tab, and click on any image to start the slideshow

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

Maybe someday someone will build and maintain a portal which actually adds value for readers. But if so, they will do better to start afresh, rather than building on this slim set of old content forks.

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) 23:29, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete concurring with the analysis by BHG. Portal has 11 daily pageviews.  Article has 1087 daily pageviews.  Musical instruments are not broad topics in the sense of the portal guidelines.  Robert McClenon (talk) 00:38, 3 June 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.