- 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The result of the discussion was: withdrawn I had missed that this is already being discussed at WP:Miscellany for deletion/Mixed bag of group portals. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 19:30, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Another automated pseudo-portal, with no curated version. It is forked off a single navbox ( Template:Lenovo), of which it is therefore just a bloated and redundant fork. (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).
This portal was omitted from the mass nominations only because it was not created by @ The Transhumanist. I am sure that the creator of this one, @ BrandonXLF, made it in good faith, but there is now a clear community consensus not keep this sort of navbox fork.
Note also that the two main features of this type of portal are page preview and an image gallery. However, two newish features of Wikipedia render these features redundant:
- mouseover: for ordinary readers who are not logged in, mouseover on any of the linked list items shows you the picture and the start of the lead. So the preview-selected page-function of portals is redundant: something almost as good is available automatically on any navbox or other set of links
- automatic imagery galleries: for ordinary readers who are not logged in, clinking on an image brings up an image gallery of all the images on that page. It's full-screen, so it's actually better than even a click-for-next image gallery on a portal
That's for desktop readers. Similar functionality has been part of the Android app for Wikipedia since 2015.
Recent MFD discussions have shown a clear trend to delete even curate portals of single companies, except possibly in some exceptionally prominent cases. So I say delete, with prejudice against re-creation. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 17:39, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
- Comment There is already an MfD open for this company portal. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 17:46, 10 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.
- 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: withdrawn I had missed that this is already being discussed at WP:Miscellany for deletion/Mixed bag of group portals. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 19:30, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Another automated pseudo-portal, with no curated version. It is forked off a single navbox ( Template:Lenovo), of which it is therefore just a bloated and redundant fork. (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).
This portal was omitted from the mass nominations only because it was not created by @ The Transhumanist. I am sure that the creator of this one, @ BrandonXLF, made it in good faith, but there is now a clear community consensus not keep this sort of navbox fork.
Note also that the two main features of this type of portal are page preview and an image gallery. However, two newish features of Wikipedia render these features redundant:
- mouseover: for ordinary readers who are not logged in, mouseover on any of the linked list items shows you the picture and the start of the lead. So the preview-selected page-function of portals is redundant: something almost as good is available automatically on any navbox or other set of links
- automatic imagery galleries: for ordinary readers who are not logged in, clinking on an image brings up an image gallery of all the images on that page. It's full-screen, so it's actually better than even a click-for-next image gallery on a portal
That's for desktop readers. Similar functionality has been part of the Android app for Wikipedia since 2015.
Recent MFD discussions have shown a clear trend to delete even curate portals of single companies, except possibly in some exceptionally prominent cases. So I say delete, with prejudice against re-creation. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 17:39, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
- Comment There is already an MfD open for this company portal. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 17:46, 10 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.