- 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. — xaosflux Talk 17:40, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
Portal:Ellen DeGeneres
Single person portal with only 16 articles in it's scope which fails WP:POG. The 16 include at least one list and pages on the subject's mother, brother and romantic partner who are independently notable. Portal allows you to see her head shot twice on the same page. This adds no functionality not available on the main article, a good chunk of which is repeated in the portal minus the references required for a BLP. Legacypac ( talk) 23:05, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
- Comment – In the 2014 discussion at Wikipedia talk:Portal/Guidelines/Archive 7 § References in portals, users were against references being existent in portals. As such, a lack of sources in this present portal does not qualify deletion. North America 1000 08:57, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- Interesting discussion among a very small group of portal enthusiast editors who could not solve a bunch of redlinks in portals so they tossed references out. No mention of BLPs there so they did not even think of that angle or consider general Wikipedia policy of V. They just found a fast way to solve the ugliness. That does not bind us now. BLPs should have Refs and be Verifiable right on the page. That is Wikipedia policy.
Legacypac (
talk) 09:07, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- I'm not sure there's consensus for any requirement for in situ sources in BLPs in portals. The main page is heavily patrolled yet lacks sources for its BLP content, deferring to the underlying articles. Portals should not include negative material on living people.
Espresso Addict (
talk) 13:07, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- In terms of editor patrol, portals are the exact opposite of the mainpage. Anything linked from the mainpage is extensively reviewed first many things including proper sourcing. Yes, some see portals as a mainpage like thing for a topic, but the scrutiny is very different. Legacypac ( talk) 21:33, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- I'm not sure there's consensus for any requirement for in situ sources in BLPs in portals. The main page is heavily patrolled yet lacks sources for its BLP content, deferring to the underlying articles. Portals should not include negative material on living people.
Espresso Addict (
talk) 13:07, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- Interesting discussion among a very small group of portal enthusiast editors who could not solve a bunch of redlinks in portals so they tossed references out. No mention of BLPs there so they did not even think of that angle or consider general Wikipedia policy of V. They just found a fast way to solve the ugliness. That does not bind us now. BLPs should have Refs and be Verifiable right on the page. That is Wikipedia policy.
Legacypac (
talk) 09:07, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - Again, a single-person portal has too narrow a focus, and too few articles, and was part of a wave of reckless portal creation by the portal task force. Robert McClenon ( talk) 23:20, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. <20 articles. — pythoncoder ( talk | contribs) 22:33, 6 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.