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
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Procedural comment I earlier declined a speedy request on this; see
Portal talk:Sims for the reasons. Abstaining from this MFD as I don't know enough to say whether this portal will be viable. –
iridescent16:17, 12 June 2008 (UTC)reply
Speedy Keep - too soon for the MfD to happen. The portal was only started on 1st June and is still {{underconstruction}} from what I can see. I would suggest polite enquiries at
WT:SIMS would be the first approach before placing the portal for MfD. Of course, if nothing has changed after a month and you've made best efforts to contact the project without success, feel free to relist. GazimoffWriteRead20:00, 12 June 2008 (UTC)reply
Delete. Regardless of how new the portal is, I don't think a portal should be created about this subject for a long while. According to the statistics at
Wikipedia:Wikiroject Sims, there are 47 total articles for this topic. There is not a single article above B-class. According to the
guidelines for portals, a portal should be build around topics with significant status (good, A-class, or featured articles). I say delete this and focus on building the articles up first. When 3, 4, 5 articles reach good or featured status, then build a portal.
Metros (
talk)
22:28, 12 June 2008 (UTC)reply
*Speedy keep. June first is when this was created so this MfD is way too soon. 47 articles and a project is enough to justify a portal. Give this time to grow. — MaggotSyn02:00, 13 June 2008 (UTC)reply
Comment. I'd like to add that this should also be placed back into the under construction category once this is closed. — MaggotSyn02:04, 13 June 2008 (UTC)reply
Comment - I'm not going to !vote as I made it, but can I say that I am still building it - I currently have
GCSE exams, and so am very busy to do anything on wiki. Thanks, BG7even09:58, 13 June 2008 (UTC)reply
Keep It may take a while to create a portal, this one has just been recently created. I agree that the Sim articles need to be improved as a priority, and I'd say that a portal is a luxury. But in the same time, it's not that difficult to make a decent portal even with a few good articles (with random portal components and so on). Of course, if it's in the same state in a few months from here, it should be brought back here. Cenarium(talk)14:08, 13 June 2008 (UTC)reply
Comment - Note - this portal was created first. The other also has formatting issues. Also, "The Sims" has a small scope (only
The Sims 1,
2,
3 and the expansion packs, whereas the other can have anything Simsish. - BG7even14:00, 14 June 2008 (UTC)reply
Actually, the first portal was created April 6th, and you saw fit to request a
non-controversial deletion without obtaining consensus from the Sims WikiProject. Frankly, I'm seeing a lot of
ownership issues here, and I think you really ought to work with the Sims WikiProject rather than unilaterally. Redirect, and if you think the original portal which you managed to have speedied should widen its scope, then obtain consensus for that. It's already nearly complete and this portal is nothing but an empty husk.
xenocidic (
talk)
14:17, 14 June 2008 (UTC)reply
I'd possibly recommend a
WP:POSTPONE or No Consensus close on this one while the Sims wikiproject works out what they want to do with these two portals, before raising another MfD or possibly a speedy G6 (as long as agreement is demonstrated by
WP:SIMS).GazimoffWriteRead10:40, 15 June 2008 (UTC)reply
Redirect The Sims is a fairly popular video game(I believe), so a portal for the Sims has a chance to be successful. However, since we already have an established portal for this game, we should re-direct this one to
Portal:The Sims. Its redundant to keep to portals with the same exact purpose.--
SJP (
talk)
22:23, 15 June 2008 (UTC)reply
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