Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:University of Hull

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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) 04:06, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Portal:University of Hull


Insufficiant scope with only about 15 pages within Category:University of Hull. The list of subtopics is misleading because it actually has a number of piped links to the main university page (both campuses are piped as is the business school) and a one residence hall page covers many of the links. I don't consider people associated with the university to be within the scope, as it is a tracking category but none of those bios are about the university. A mass created nav box based portal a minute special. Legacypac (talk) 16:50, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - mass created portal with too narrow scope to justify a portal. Meszzy2  (talk) 21:35, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - An automated portal, created 2018-09-07T20:26:17Z, only worth of an automated deletion. Pldx1 (talk) 07:31, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Scope is far too narrow.  Note that while there are about 15 pages in scope, several of them are only stubs (e.g. Ferens Chair in Philosophy, Thwaite Hall, Brynmor Jones Library) and hence will not be displayed in the portal's selected article list.
 * This is simply drive-by spam created by the prolific (and now topic-banned) portalspammer @The Transhumanist simply by entering {{subst:quick portal}} and saving. Junk like this should be eligible for speedy-deletion.
 * Note that this deletion should not be taken in any way as a comment on the nature or standing of the university. The problem is simply that this portal as currently constructed is far too narrow, and merely replicates in a more bulky format the navbox Template:University of Hull.  This the portals merely a fork of the navbox, with much less utility than the navbox because:


 * the navbox displays a full list of the articles, but the portal displays only one page at a time.
 * the navbox should be present on every page in the set. The portal always requires navigation to a separate page.
 * The topic's main page works much better as a navigational hub, because it includes:
 * both the topic navbox and any related navboxes
 * A full summary of the topic rather than an excerpt of the lede.
 * Wikipedia simply does not have extensive coverage of every single university. Portals exist to provide navigation across broad scope topics, and only in very rare cases is there enough coverage to require a portal. Narrow-topic, automated spam portals such a this are simply a waste of readers' time. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:34, 10 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - We don't need a portal for every university. This one was created like so many others just to create portals.  Robert McClenon (talk) 16:01, 13 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.