Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Sonic the Hedgehog

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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. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 20:39, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Sonic the Hedgehog


Narrow topic: Sonic the Hedgehog is just a single-video game franchise. The portal has been mostly abandoned since 2007, and is redundant to the head article with its Template:Sonic the Hedgehog.

Created in November 2006‎ by, whose last edit was in 2008. Unmaintained since then.

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Sonic the Hedgehog shows a modest set of sub-pages, with 6 selected characters and 7 selected articles. However, they were all created in 2007, and and represent only a tiny subset of the articles listed in Template:Sonic the Hedgehog.

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 Sonic the Hedgehog and its navbox. WP:POG requires that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers", but this has bot been maintained.

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:Sonic the Hedgehog, 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 Sonic the Hedgehog, 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 these 12-year-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) 20:18, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 31 subpages, created 2006-11-23 19:13:46 by User:DarknessLord. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. Portal:Sonic the Hedgehog. Pldx1 (talk) 09:51, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - - As per nominator. Portal has 6 daily pageviews as compared to 1840 for article.  Robert McClenon (talk) 14:25, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete: Wikia is the place to go for in-depth coverage of esoteric subjects. POG failure due to scope and PORTAL failure due to abandonment.    SITH   (talk)   11:42, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Redirect Portal:Sonic the Hedgehog to Portal:Video games, then Delete the subpages. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 17:40, 31 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.