Wikipedia talk:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Lighthouses

Backlink replacements
Pinging the MFD participants:

Ooops! In this discussion I forgot to do my usual note about the backlinks, so that I could set my bot (BHGbot 4) to replace them with links to portals which still exist. There are quite a lot of links: 1,709 from articles, and 17 from categories.

In this case the potential alternatives seem to me to be the six portals which were linked from Portal:Lighthouses/Related portals:
 * 1) Portal:Nautical
 * 2) Portal:Transport
 * 3) Portal:Infrastructure
 * 4) Portal:Engineering
 * 5) Portal:Technology
 * 6) Portal:Architecture

The obvious replacement would have been Portal:Nautical. However it is up for deletion at WP:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Nautical, and it is in such terrible state that I can't see any chance of it surviving.

I don't see any single standout choice among the other five portals. If I had to pick just one, I think that Portal:Infrastructure would be marginally the best fit, but I'd not be fussed much there was a preference for something else. The bot can handle any number of replacement portals, so if editors prefer to replace links to Portal:Lighthouses with links to all 6 portals listed above, that presents no technical problem. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 23:05, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Infrastructure. I can't think of any other topic area as straightforward as that one. ToThAc (talk) 23:08, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I think I agree with Infrastructure as well. – Levivich 23:28, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree with the two previous editors that Portal:Infrastructure is the best candidate. If it is nominated for deletion also, then and only then we can consider Portal:Engineering or Portal:Technology.  Robert McClenon (talk) 23:40, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Infrastructure Seems the most pertinent replacement. Newshunter12 (talk) 05:51, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I've nominated Portal:Infrastructure for deletion as well. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 09:35, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that note, @Mark Schierbecker. I don't want to prejudge the outcome of WP:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Infrastructure, because it isn't as completely abysmal as Portal:Nautical. So how about replacing links to Portal:Lighthouses with links to Portal:Infrastructure + Robert McClenon's suggestion of Portal:Engineering? that way if P:Infrastructure goes, there will still be some link to portal-space on those articles. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 11:29, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * That makes sense to me. – Levivich 17:18, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Discussion has stalled, so unless someone shouts STOP in the next few hours I will proceed later tonight with replacing the links to Portal:Lighthouses with links to Portal:Infrastructure + Portal:Engineering. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 18:36, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
 * That suggestion makes sense to me BHG, thanks. Britishfinance (talk) 18:43, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
 * No objections. Nemo 19:15, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

✅, in 1730 edits. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 06:23, 15 November 2019 (UTC)