Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:T.I.

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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. — xaosflux  Talk 03:39, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Portal:T.I.


A perfect example of these so-called "self-maintaining" portals, as claimed in other MfDs and at the Arbcom Case request. Luckily only 81 people (at most) in the last 90 days were confronted with the "did you know that none of these entries has anything to do with T.I" section. Yes, this can be fixed (well, by nuking the section), but it just shows that no one cared about this when creating the portal, no one cared about this enough to either discuss it at the talk page or attempt to correct it, and no one of the people so interested in keeping all but the very worst portals has apparently made any effort to proactively look for and correct suh problems, even though the portals is 3 months old (similar ones are months older still), and the discussion about the major problems with many of these recent portals is more than 1 month old by now, and has cost countless hours.

Is any "reader" really served by this portal? Or is keeping portals like this one just a political/philosophical stance that everything that gets created and isn't extremely terrible needs to be kept, even if it serves no actual purpose (and contains no content whatsoever)? Fram (talk) 13:05, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - As Fram says, there appears to be a philosophical stance that anything that gets created should be kept. This resembles my C: drive, but my C: drive faces no one but me.  Robert McClenon (talk) 14:49, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:MEATBOT creation by another acct that should not be using the same script as the main offender. Meets several of the 50 Reasons to Delete a Portal. Obvious the creator did not read the portal they made because:


 * 1) ... that Jimmy Wales wants WikiTRIBUNE to counter fake news?
 * 2) ... that Michael Frenzel, the former CEO of European tourism group TUI, escaped from East Germany with his father when he was nine years old?
 * 3) ... that the Ferrari 330 TRI/LM, the last front engined racecar to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans, was driven regularly in New York City after the end of its racing career?
 * 4) ... that the species description for the mite Afropolonia tgifi was likely only approved because the journal's editors were unfamiliar with the expression "TGIF" ("Thank God It's Friday")?

I'm just surprised the auto harvesting did not pickup more unrelated content. Anyone can find problems like this with the random portal link. It took me two clicks to find the same DYK problem at Portal:Roses Legacypac (talk) 15:26, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) ... that the 1959 West German film Roses for the Prosecutor was one of the rare post-war German films that openly discussed the Nazi justice system?
 * 2) ... that during the Wars of the Roses, the son of William Bonville was killed at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460, and Bonville himself was executed a few months later after the Second Battle of St Albans?
 * Delete, although it is a great example for the lack of attention that went into the mass portal creation. —Kusma (t·c) 21:09, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Creator seems to have been too busy living their life to properly set up and maintain this portal. — python coder (talk &#124; contribs) 22:36, 6 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.