Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Santana

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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: keep and restore the non-automated version. (non-admin closure) DannyS712 (talk) 00:12, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Santana


This is a Special type of portal - a DAB that lacks the links to the dab topics. A "rebooted" portal that for the main "article" only says "Santana may refer to:" This is a joke - clearly the team that redid the portal in December has no problem making a useless page. The origional creator is not watching or maintaining this (abandoned it) because anyone that looks at the first line knows this is broken. If this is intended to be about a band, they only have the predictable subcats and the band is not a wide enough topic to support a portal. Legacypac (talk) 20:32, 29 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep – I have reverted the automated version of the portal, which had errors, to the stable, curated version of the portal (diff). As such, almost all of the concerns in the nomination for deletion have been addressed. That said, the portal would benefit from improvements, such as expansion from articles listed at Template:Santana. North America1000 08:05, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Incredibly obvious errors should not have been created and ignored until brought for deletion discussion. Fixing them now is disruptive and covering the evidence. The portal has been messed up, looking like this since July 2018, and has been edited blindly without catching the obvious that it is about a dab since then several times. Delete anyway.  Legacypac (talk) 14:53, 31 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Weak Delete - This portal has a long history of maintenance before the portal group came and broke it, and some of the editors who contributed to it are still editing. About ten years ago there was a web site called The Useless Pages that provided links to stupid web sites for amusement of humans who were bored browsing the web.  This illustrates that a page that was always marginal can easily be made into a useless page.  I would be neutral on this if there weren't already so many useless portals and useless reasons for portals.  Robert McClenon (talk) 14:58, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Let's see if any of those editors show up here because they are watching the portal. No one noticed it was busted for 8 months. Legacypac (talk) 15:17, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Regarding "This illustrates that a page that was always marginal can easily be made into a useless page" – under this rationale, any page on Wikipedia would qualify for deletion if someone simply blanked it, because blanking makes it useless. See also: WP:USELESS. North America1000 09:30, 1 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep This is a copy-and-paste keep vote due to the large number of nominations stating I have reviewed the portal and believe it passes WP:POG. SportingFlyer  T · C  19:31, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Weak keep non-automated version of the portal – I would have !voted to delete the automated version, but the original portal is hand-curated and good quality. As far as a portal topic, I think Santana is on the same level as Portal:Beatles and Portal:Led Zeppelin in terms of being a very long-lasting, wide-reaching band that has generated a ton (100+ I believe) of notable articles (past band members, albums, songs, etc.) to where a portal presentation might make sense. "Weak" keep because I'm not sold on the idea of portals overall, but if there are to be band portals, this should be one of them. Leviv&thinsp;ich 23:59, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. Non-automated version is much better and this portal has more than enough articles. — python coder (talk &#124; contribs) 19:55, 8 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.