English Wikipedia @ Freddythechick:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:1910s

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. — JJMC89 (T·C) 00:20, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Portal:1910s

Automated pseudo-portal, merely a WP:REDUNDANTFORK of the head article 1910s.

This was initially an old-style manual portal, which was converted[1] to automate format by @The Transhumanist. The automated version draws its "selected articles" list solely from the article 1910. Here's the code {{Transclude list item excerpts as random slideshow | paragraphs=1-2 | files=1 | more= | 1910s | }}. The effect of this is that Module:Excerpt slideshow builds a list from the first link on any line beginning with "*" or "#", discards the stubs, and takes a random selection of articles to display as snippets.

This repackaging of the list does nothing to aid navigation. The last manual version[2] has two empty sections, so there is nothing to revert to.

Note that the other decade portals, for 1920s onwards (see Category:Decades portals) are all curated portals, built using subpages. I have not investigated their quality, but I have some doubts about what a portal built on a decade might do. To my mind, if it consists only of a selection of events, it is no more than a filtered category. To add value, I would want to see such a portal focusing on key events and on trends or major new developments, and it would be good to see the other manual versions reviewed against those criteria.

Meanwhile, I propose that this portal be deleted without prejudice to recreating a curated portal not based on a single page, in accordance with whatever criteria the community may have agreed at that time. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:20, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Why not deal with Portal:1920s, Portal:1930s up to current as a set(s) See beginning of Category:all portals Legacypac (talk) 21:50, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Legacypac, because ... read para 4 of the nomination. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:43, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
Delete. I see no reason why decades should not form portal topics, if carefully constructed; rather the opposite. It can be fascinating & educational to see what was happening across the world at a date; this kind of cross-slicing seems to me one of Wikipedia's strengths, and indeed a strength of encyclopedias in general (I used to own a big global history encyclopedia which did just that). This decade covers WWI, but that actually occupied rather little of the world. The existing portal, however, was still under construction with no selected articles at all when The Transhumanist took it on, so probably could be deleted without significant loss or prejudice to having another go at doing it properly. Espresso Addict (talk) 23:22, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
Delete - As per nomination. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:57, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
Delete - User:Legacypac - As User:BrownHairedGirl notes, she hasn't reviewed the other decades. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:57, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
Delete as the first of the decades to delete. These decade portals are even more of a random grab bag of random topics that may or may not define the era then their corresponding articles. Legacypac (talk) 18:13, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
Delete - Automated portal, 6 subpages, created 2018-05-18 12:24:47 by User:Ceasharks, useless navigation tool, redundant to the existing articles and navboxes, and of lower quality: Portal:1910s. Pldx1 (talk) 21:43, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
Delete: again, automated portalspam. Good decision to not bundle IMO. SITH (talk) 22:43, 27 April 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.