Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Shinto
- 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. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:42, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
Portal:Shinto
Static portal about the Shinto religion. Abandoned since 2005, apart from changes by a sockpuppet in 2014.
Created[1] in December 2005 by LatinoMuslim (talk · contribs), who last edited in early 2018.
It escaped the 2018 rush to automation. But the list of subpages at
)- Portal:Shinto/Featured article. Same topic (Kami) since 2014.[3]
- Portal:Shinto/Featured person. Same topic (Hirata Atsutane) since 2014[4]
- Portal:Shinto/Featured picture. Same image (File:Red Fuji southern wind clear morning.jpg) since 2010[5]
- Portal:Shinto/Featured scripture. Same topic (Kojiki) since 2014.[6]
- WP:TRIVIA.
In theory, this a broad topic. But in practice, it has not met the
Per
Two newish features of the Wikimedia software means that the article and navbox offers all the functionality which portals like this set out to offer. Both features are available only to ordinary readers who are not logged in, but you can test them without logging out by right-clicking on a link, and the select "open in private window" (in Firefox) or "open in incognito window" (Chrome).
- mouseover: on any link, mouseover 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. Try it on e.g. Template:Shinto
- automatic imagery galleries: clicking on an image brings up an image gallery of all the images on that page. It's full-screen, so it's actually much better than a click-for-next image gallery on a portal. Try it by right-clicking on the article Shinto.
Similar features have been available since 2015 to users of Wikipedia's Android app.
That sets a high bar for any would-be-portal-builder to vault if they try to satisfy the
But maybe someone will find a way to make such a better portal, and a team of editors to maintain it ... so I propose that this portal and its sub-pages be deleted per
- Delete - As per the analysis and metrics provided by BHG. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:43, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 18 subpages, created 2005-12-04 05:35:58 by User:LatinoMuslim. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. Portal:Shinto. Pldx1 (talk) 13:23, 26 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.