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) 09:01, 9 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Ahmadiyya[edit]

Mini-poartls, abandoned since 2011. Redundant to head article Ahmadiyya, navbox Template:Ahmadiyya topics and sidebar Template:Ahmadiyya.

Created[1] in December 2010‎ by Peaceworld111 (talk · contribs), whos elast edit was in 2017, and whose last portalspace edit was in 2012. The lead of WP:POG has said since late 2006 "Do not create a portal if you do not intend to assist in its regular maintenance", but that has not happened here.

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Ahmadiyya shows a slim set of only eight content-linking sub-pages: 2 Selected Religious Figures, 4 Selected articles, and 2 Selected literatures. All are the same topics as when created by Peaceworld111 a decade ago.

Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this abandoned set of content forks of a mere 8 articles is massively less useful in every respect than the head article head article Ahmadiyya, navbox Template:Ahmadiyya topics and sidebar Template:Ahmadiyya.

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 either of these links to navbox Template:Ahmadiyya topics or sidebar Template:Ahmadiyya, 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 Ahmadiyya, 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.

Maybe someday someone will build and maintain a portal on this topic which actually adds value for readers. But if so, they will do better to start afresh, rather than building on these 12-year-old content forks.

So I propose that this portal and its sub-pages be deleted per WP:TNT, without prejudice to recreating a curated portal in accordance with whatever criteria the community may have agreed at that time. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:26, 2 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete concurring with analysis by BHG, and noting that portal has 12 daily pageviews, as contrasted with 2841 for article. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:40, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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.