Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Presidency of the United States


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellany 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 debate was Merge, noting pages, due to the complex nature of the Portal, those involved with Portal:Government_of_the_United_States will need to migrate this. In the interim, a soft redirect has been placed. — xaosflux  Talk  04:43, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Portal:Presidency of the United States
This portal has something of a bizarre history. It was created after a portal proposal discussion prompted a change of focus to the entire executive branch, but then the creator decided it would overlap too much with the US gov't portal and sacked the idea. He evidently changed his mind, because a few weeks later he created this portal, but even with the focus limited to Presidents, it still overlaps significantly with the gov't portal. This is somewhat inevitable when so much of the government is in the executive branch. However, the Presidency is more limited, and indeed the subject area of this portal is quite small.

The other problem, however, is that this portal is not maintained. It's creator and primary maintainer, Rama's Arrow did a great job in creating it and is a fabulous article writer, but has sadly left Wikipedia. Nothing much has changed since the portal was created, including the news from 13 months ago. One possibility is to merge it into the gov't portal if anyone sees content worth keeping. As of now, I favor deletion, or at least delinking the material and tagging it with historical tags or somesuch and a link to this AFD. Though I didn't tag the subpages, I'm including them in this nomination. Chaser - T 06:04, 19 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Merge into a new section on the Gov't Portal. It looks nice, but as mentioned, it's incredibly out of date. Most of the information is redundant to that found in President of the United States. While that is presumably the purpose of a portal, to showcase summarized information, the portal is perhaps a little too specific in this case, and an example of over-categorization. Merge what's useful, and delete the rest. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 16:48, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately the GFDL doesn't let us merge and delete, but we can merge and redirect, clearing incoming links to this portal. I think that is consistent with what you suggest above.--Chaser - T 17:13, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * That'll work. If it's possible to isolate who contributed the information that is kept, that contributor can be credited in an edit summary for compliance. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 17:30, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Admins can merge edit histories to maintain attribution. — xaosflux  Talk  04:16, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I thought we only did that to fix copy-paste page moves and like cases.--Chaser - T 04:59, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect per above. It's got useful information, it's just too much overlap. Ne ra n e i   (talk) 21:54, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Listing extended to further consensus, considered closing as merge but need more of a proposal on how to actually merge this (where will it go on the other portal). If the editors to this point think this should be better handled through talk pages and  that may be the way to go. —  xaosflux  Talk  16:42, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - Hasnt it got (as such) a limited future? Onnaghartl ! co 14:14, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge with the US gouv't portal whatever is good, and delete the rest. Chris DHDR 19:44, 31 August 2007 (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.