Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Taipei

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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) 20:49, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Taipei

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Another automated pseudo-portal, converted from a broken manual portal.

The current version derives from a "restart" of the portal in September 2018 by @The Transhumanist (TTH). It draws its "selected articles" list solely from the navbox Template:Districts of Taipei, making this portal simply a fork of that navbox, displaying a random subset of the navbox's linked pages in a bloated format. (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).

So far as I can determine, the manual version never worked, because it relied on subpages for content which were never created. Here the last version edited (in November 2017‎) by the creator, whose contribs list is only 30 edits long, and whose deleted contribs list contains only one draft-space page. So the subpages never existed.

In May 2018‎, TTH tagged the page for WP:P2 speedy deletion. That was declined because Category:Taipei has lots of content. Which is true, but also irrelevant because none of that content was displayed in the portal's sea of redlinks.

The last version before automation (dated 12 August 2018) was still a sea of redlinks.

There is nothing here to keep, so I propose that this pseudo-portal and its subpages be deleted without prejudice to recreating a curated portal not based on a single navbox, in accordance with whatever criteria the community may have agreed at that time. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 03:15, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nominator. Automated portal replacing broken manual portal that was not worth replacing.  Robert McClenon (talk) 06:48, 28 April 2019 (UTC)


 * No prejudice against re-creation of a non-automated, hand-made/curated portal for this topic. North America1000 07:04, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment. Just for the record, P2 was correctly declined (by ): Any portal based on a topic for which there is only a stub header article or fewer than three non-stub articles detailing subject matter that would be appropriate to present under the title of that portal. The speedy category doesn't refer to the pages displayed in the portal. (No opinion on the portal.) Espresso Addict (talk) 07:22, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I should have clarified that it was a correctly-declined speedy request, but that the category is irrelevant outside the speedy context. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 21:38, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, with Northamerica1000's proviso.   SITH   (talk)   11:28, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Old draft of a portal, 3 subpages, created 2017-11-22 09:41:48 by User:Jstncrdible. Then nuked by TTH into a poor fork of a novbox. No apparent maintainer. Portal:Taipei. Pldx1 (talk) 11:50, 3 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.