Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Acipenseriformes (3rd nomination)

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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 19:08, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Acipenseriformes

Portal:Acipenseriformes (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Delete Trying a third time on this one-click created single-page portal: a single order of fishes, like all non-mammalian taxonomic orders, does not meet the breadth-of-subject-area requirements of the

• Delete - As general consensus is very much against automated portals, this one should go as well. Gazamp (talk) 17:07, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete:
  • • In this case, the real issue is not only with the portal but with the subject. The portal averaged 4 daily page views. The lead article averaged 43 daily page views. That's enough to justify the article. The recognition of the order as a taxon is enough to justify the article, without regard to page views. But a portal is supposed to function as an enhanced main page. The article isn't a main page. The article is a page.
    • We don't need an automated portal. We don't need a manual portal. We don't need a virtual portal. We need an article. We have an article.
    • With prejudice, which means pre-judgment, because we have judged that we don't need a portal. Robert McClenon (talk) 19:24, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Far too narrow a topic to satisfy the
  WP:POG
  requirement that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers".

However the nominator is wrong to say that this is a one-click created single-page portal. It actually uses an embedded list of pages, which is why it is categorised in Category:Automated portals with embedded list. I have not checked to see whether the list is curated, or whether it is simply an indiscriminate scoop of page titles as at so many recent MFDs, e.g. Electricity, Julius Caesar, Habitats, and Shipwrecks. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:30, 15 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: per
  scope issues. SITH (talk) 11:56, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply
  ]

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