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. Any "merging" can be made editorially by adding content where approriate. —
xaosfluxTalk 23:32, 7 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Way too narrow scope for these portals.
CoolSkittle (
talk) 03:53, 21 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep
Portal:Soft drinks – Meets
WP:POG, covers a broad subject area that includes global distribution and interest, and has plenty of potential for expansion, in part as per available content listed under
Category:Soft drinks.
Delete all too narrow a scope for portals. Would not attract either wide reader or editor involvement. These topics are better handled in articles. The readers overwealmingly prefer the articles.
Legacypac (
talk) 15:33, 21 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment - Redirects should be from article topics to article topics. The principle that redirects are cheap should not apply in portal space.
Robert McClenon (
talk) 18:53, 21 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete with water, whether pure or flavored.
Robert McClenon (
talk) 18:53, 21 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Agreed. Redirects in Portal space are clutter. Hard to manage them because they look like Duplicate portals on the lists. Unlike article redirects that are often used contextually in articles, portal redirects are almost never used for inbound internal links. Search does a much better job for a reader then for us to guess what a reader might type.
Legacypac (
talk) 19:32, 21 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Disagree. Redirects are functional to direct
WP:READERS to content they are looking for. Making navigation easier for Wikipedia's readers is quite appropriate at times. North America1000 23:32, 23 March 2019 (UTC)reply
That response does not address my point that redirects to portals are rarely used.
Legacypac (
talk) 00:32, 24 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Merge and redirect to a broader portal on drinking water or on water in general, though probably the former (as a human society topic it's distinct from things like "how much water is in astronomical objects?", etc.). The drinking water just being in bottles isn't a distinct enough topic for a portal. —
SMcCandlish☏¢ 😼 16:35, 23 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Merge and delete to
P:Drink, which is more than sufficient cover the subjects of beverages, also
P:Wine,
P:Beer. Some of the others created should also be merged together. Jeremy (
blah blah •
I did it!) 07:15, 28 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Look at the absurdly off topic DYK selections in the restarted
P:BeerLegacypac (
talk) 09:32, 28 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete – Too narrow of a scope. As for a redirect, I don't really understand the need (will people be searching for portal:bottled water?), but since I understand the unlinking has been a lot of work, perhaps it's just easier to turn it into a redirect. Levivich 05:06, 5 April 2019 (UTC)reply
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.
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. Any "merging" can be made editorially by adding content where approriate. —
xaosfluxTalk 23:32, 7 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Way too narrow scope for these portals.
CoolSkittle (
talk) 03:53, 21 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep
Portal:Soft drinks – Meets
WP:POG, covers a broad subject area that includes global distribution and interest, and has plenty of potential for expansion, in part as per available content listed under
Category:Soft drinks.
Delete all too narrow a scope for portals. Would not attract either wide reader or editor involvement. These topics are better handled in articles. The readers overwealmingly prefer the articles.
Legacypac (
talk) 15:33, 21 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment - Redirects should be from article topics to article topics. The principle that redirects are cheap should not apply in portal space.
Robert McClenon (
talk) 18:53, 21 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete with water, whether pure or flavored.
Robert McClenon (
talk) 18:53, 21 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Agreed. Redirects in Portal space are clutter. Hard to manage them because they look like Duplicate portals on the lists. Unlike article redirects that are often used contextually in articles, portal redirects are almost never used for inbound internal links. Search does a much better job for a reader then for us to guess what a reader might type.
Legacypac (
talk) 19:32, 21 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Disagree. Redirects are functional to direct
WP:READERS to content they are looking for. Making navigation easier for Wikipedia's readers is quite appropriate at times. North America1000 23:32, 23 March 2019 (UTC)reply
That response does not address my point that redirects to portals are rarely used.
Legacypac (
talk) 00:32, 24 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Merge and redirect to a broader portal on drinking water or on water in general, though probably the former (as a human society topic it's distinct from things like "how much water is in astronomical objects?", etc.). The drinking water just being in bottles isn't a distinct enough topic for a portal. —
SMcCandlish☏¢ 😼 16:35, 23 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Merge and delete to
P:Drink, which is more than sufficient cover the subjects of beverages, also
P:Wine,
P:Beer. Some of the others created should also be merged together. Jeremy (
blah blah •
I did it!) 07:15, 28 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Look at the absurdly off topic DYK selections in the restarted
P:BeerLegacypac (
talk) 09:32, 28 March 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete – Too narrow of a scope. As for a redirect, I don't really understand the need (will people be searching for portal:bottled water?), but since I understand the unlinking has been a lot of work, perhaps it's just easier to turn it into a redirect. Levivich 05:06, 5 April 2019 (UTC)reply
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.