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 21:47, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Fruits[edit]

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

Scope of this portal is unclear. The article fruit is mostly about fruits in the botanical sense; the part of a plant that contains seeds. In everyday language, "fruits" (or culinary fruits) are those seed containing structures that are edible, fleshy, soft, and sweet. Different sections of the portal are using either the culinary or botanical definition.

Botanical sense:

• Introduction/main article
• Selected general articles (drawn from Template:Fruits)
• Subtopics (drawn from Template:Fruits)

Culinary sense:

• Banner image
• Selected images (drawn from fruit, but only one image is of a non-culinary fruit)
• Did you know (drawn from 10 keywords, including "fruit" and 9 of the more common culinary fruits in American supermarkets)
• Get involved (links to WikiProject Food and Drink, not WikiProject Plants)
• Related portals (all food related)

Portal is trying to cover two (related, but different) concepts at once. Plantdrew (talk) 20:10, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - This illustrates why portals should not be set up without careful consideration of the scope, function, and utility. This seems on its face like a good portal topic, but still has an ambiguous scope. Certainly it doesn't illustrate how we need to continue creating more portals arbitrarily. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:20, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: Most portals have a box like this

"Do you have a question about Fruits that you can't find the answer to? Consider asking it at the Wikipedia reference desk."

This goes against the widely held belief the ref desks are nearly useless and attract random poorly formed questions from people who would be better off asking Google, a topic specific forum or even just searching wikipedia itself. The many editors in favor of shuttering the ref desks should be against the mass creation of invitations to ask random questions posted in thousands of portals. Legacypac (talk) 21:52, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Plantdrew's nomination taught me more about fruit then the portal. Thanks Plantdrew. Legacypac (talk) 00:29, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, yet another demonstration why mechanically created portals are simply a bad idea. Delete them all. Fut.Perf. ☼ 07:31, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. — pythoncoder  (talk | contribs) 13:23, 1 March 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.