Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Spanish Empire

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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. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 01:21, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Spanish Empire


Fully-automated pseudo-portal, with no previous manual version.

It draws its "selected articles" list solely from the navbox Template:Spanish Empire, of which it is therefore a just a bloated redundant fork. (For a full explanation of why this type of portal is redundant, see the two mass deletions of similar portals: one, and two, where there was overwhelming consensus of a very high turnout to delete a total of 2,555 such portals).

This page was originally created by me as a redirect to Portal:Spain. In hindsight, that was a bad redirect, because Portal:Spain contains so little about the former empire.

In September 2018, it was converted to automated format by @The Transhumanist.

On 6 May 2019, it was redirected by @UnitedStatesian again to Portal:Spain. That was a wise decision, because a redirect is better than the deprecated automated pseudo-portal ... but given the lack of relevant content at the target I had chosen, it would be better to delete.

This is obviously a broad topic. The Spanish Empire was one of the largest in human history, spanning several hundred years.

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. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:18, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete with a silver bullet. This is a zombie portal, created by a good-faith error by a sorceress, that has now been converted into a golem by another sorceror.  Robert McClenon (talk) 23:35, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete: obviously could pass WP:POG, but without active maintenance and effort in the building process, all you have left is the assertion the Spanish Empire is notable. Which is why we have Spanish Empire.  Portals require more than their head article.    SITH   (talk)   11:46, 14 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.