Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Vajrayana Buddhism
- 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. MER-C 10:31, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
Portal:Vajrayana Buddhism
Abandoned portal with very low views, whose last significant modification was extensive rewriting 5 years ago by a warmongering sockpuppeteer. Redundant to the head article Vajrayana and the sidebar navbox Template:Vajrayana, and to Portal:Buddhism.
The portal was created[1] on 6 April 2008 by
Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Vajrayana_Buddhism shows a modest set of subpages, with five selected biographies, five selected articles, three selected concepts, three selected deities. However, closer examination shows that all but three of these sixteen pages is a content fork last heavily edited by a sockpuppeteer:
- talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), who has been indef-blocked since in June 2018 for what they themselves describe as
warmongering
.[3] - Portal:Vajrayana Buddhism/Selected article/1 and article/5 were wisely coverted[4] in July 2018 by @Auric to use {{Transclude lead excerpt}}, so that it is no longer a content fork. However, article/2, article/3 and article/4 were all extensively rewritten in 2014 by the
warmongering
sockpuppeter Aethelwolf Emsworth. - Portal:Vajrayana Buddhism/Selected concept/1 was created by Emishi, but extensively rewritten in 2014 by Aethelwolf Emsworth. Concept/2 and concept/3 are the sole work of Aethelwolf Emsworth.
- Portal:Vajrayana Buddhism/Selected deity/1, deity/2 and deity/3 were all created by by the
warmongering
sockpuppeter Aethelwolf Emsworth. The only one significantly edited since is deity/1, which Auric coverted[5] to use {{Transclude lead excerpt}}, so that it is no longer a content fork.
Per
Two newish features of the Wikimedia software means that the article and navboxes 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 by right-clicking on this link to Template:Vajrayana, open in a private/incognito tab, and mouseover any link.
- 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 this link to the article Vajrayana, open in a private/incognito tab, and click on any image to start the slideshow
Similar features have been available since 2015 to users of Wikipedia's Android app.
Those new technologies set a high bar for any portal which actually tries to add value for the reader. But this portal fails the basic requirements even of the guidelines written before the new technologies changed the game. Whatever potential value it might have had back in 2008, it is now a failed, sock-hacked solution to a non-problem. Time to delete it. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:02, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
- Delete as per analysis by BHG. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:27, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
- Comment - Sadly, Christianity and Buddhism are too often brought into discredit by badly behaved disciples unworthy of the great founders. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:27, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
- Delete this portal, I've never heard of this branch of Buddhism before. To me there is only one Buddhism religion.Catfurball (talk) 15:16, 15 July 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.