Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Right-wing populism

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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. MER-C 19:09, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Right-wing populism


Related discussions:
 * MFD:P:Left-wing populism,
 * MFD:P:Men's rights movement,
 * RFD:P:Guided Missiles of India
 * Undeletion:Portal subpages
 * AN/I:Broter

There are so many problems with this portal. It was primarily created and maintained by User:Broter (after remaking the portal in 2016) who is now under a community banned implemented by my adopter for pushing an Islamophobic POV. This is on top of TBAN from topics related to islam broadly construed.

Now having established that the primary maintainer will most likely never edit this portal again, I move onto the technical problems with it. Just last month, Portal:Right-wing populism/box-header was deleted per G8; and unlike previous requests for undeletion, no one seemed to notice this one? Whatever, my point is that it's pretty much broken now without a box header.

Then we get into the content, it's all semi-automated (yet still curated). I'm slightly impressed at this point considering how broken this thing is. Using Transclude random excerpt, the following pages are featured:

Articles: Biographies:
 * Freedom Party of Austria
 * Vlaams Belang
 * Sweden Democrats
 * Swiss People's Party
 * National Front (France)
 * Alternative for Germany
 * Nigel Farage
 * Jussi Halla-aho
 * Matteo Salvini
 * Heinz-Christian Strache
 * Marine Le Pen
 * Christoph Blocher
 * Siv Jensen
 * Pia Kjærsgaard
 * Magdi Allam
 * Viktor Orbán

That part isn't so poor, but it's the Topics section which gives me concerns. It lists all these parties with no context whatsoever. From factions of the GOP to Solidary Poland (sic), and from United Russia (factions) & Justice and Development Party to AFD, UKIP, Sweden Democrats, and New Zealand First; as well as Brazilian Labour Renewal Party to Libertarian, Direct, Democrat-- it's all there and without any context nor citations (because portals shouldn't need them).

Final points:

(1) Much like it's left-wing counterpart, the head article is start class and not even a level-four vital article (that'd be populism). (2) The portal lists WikiProject Politics as a maintainer of the portal, I assure you that none of us have none of us are interested in it. We have yet to even assess the head article as within our scope. (3)The redirects will most likely need to be deleted as well except for P:RIGHT which should go back to being a redirect to Portal:Conservatism (this change was never discussed).

(4) On top of all that, this portal is somehow both redundant to any potential Portal:Populism and Portal:Conservatism. There really isn't anything worth saving in this portal at all.

Therefore I simply say, just delete it. &#8211; MJL &thinsp;‐Talk‐☖ 17:02, 14 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Strong delete with fire and all other available means of destruction. Hopeless POV-magnet. Good catch, @MJL, and v well-researched nomination. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 18:01, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete:
 * This portal was mentioned in the ban discussion for User:Broter. Maybe it should have been deleted then, but it should be deleted now.
 * This portal had 38 daily page views, and the head article had 827 daily page views. That is a relatively high number of page views for the portal and a low number of page views for the article, which may be consistent with the controversial nature of the subject.
 * When Portal:Left-wing populism was deleted, I suggested a merge to Portal:Populism, which has never existed. (Oops.)
 * We can delete this one with fire, water, rubber bullets, and lead bullets if necessary. Save your silver bullets; we don't need them for this.  Robert McClenon (talk) 20:48, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Kill it with fire  per nom. — python coder (talk &#124; contribs) 02:00, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as a POV-magnet. Neither left-wing populism nor right-wing populism is a good candidate for a portal subject. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 01:44, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete: good catch, if portals are going to be a separate entity, it's no wonder that instead of POV-pushing on the article, which is bound to be detected, that the more intelligent of the POV-pushers will try to do the same with the portals.   SITH   (talk)   11:55, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
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