Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Reference works

 __NOINDEX__
 * 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. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:43, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Reference works


Driveby junk created by @The Transhumanist (TTH) early in his automated portal creation, about a month before he began his mass spamming out of automated pseudo-portals "just for the heck of it".

I don't know whether this one was created "just for the heck of it", but it's abysmal.

This one draws its selects its "Selected type of reference work" from an embedded list of 14 items, of which 3 are: Magazine, Newsgroup, Newspaper. TTH evidently doesn't understand (or doesn't care about) the difference between a reference work (as explained on the face of the portal), and a work may be cited as a source in some situations. If the problem is unclear, then just remember:
 * Playboy is a magazine
 * The Sunday Sport is a newspaper
 * alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork is a newsgroup about a character in The Muppets

So I propose that this portal 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, but someone who both knows something about reference works and cares at least a little about the quality of the portal. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 01:29, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - An average of 10 daily pageviews, which is probably too many. But there are times when Playboy may reasonably be cited, including in the BLP of a model, and a tabloid may reasonably be cited in an article about a libel suit resulting from defamation by the tabloid.  And spam was reported to NANAS.  Robert McClenon (talk) 04:27, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Automated portal,  0 subpages, created 2018-06-10 19:06:18 by User:TTH, useless navigation tool, redundant to the existing articles and navboxes, and of lower quality: Portal:Reference works. Pldx1 (talk) 13:38, 26 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.