Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Football

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: keep . (non-admin closure) Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 04:40, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Football

We don't have disambiguation pages for portals: instead, we should ensure that each article contains links to the portal most relevant to it : Noyster (talk), 16:39, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete this is not a portal it's a DAB. Legacypac (talk) 16:42, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
keep, anyone who knows we have portals will expect we have one about something as major as the game they call "football" and may look for Portal:Football by entering that into the search bar. Only trouble is, couple of very different games are all called "football", so we need a dab portal. Please demonstrate harm done by keeping this page. —Kusma (t·c) 19:35, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep it's harmless--John123521 (Talk-Contib.) 01:15, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Dab pages are not restricted to the article namespace and in this case disambiguation is obviously needed. Of course, if the linked portals do one day end up getting decommissioned and deleted, then this page will no longer be needed and it can then be speedied. – Uanfala (talk) 09:37, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Evidently I disagree with having this page, because as long as there appears to be a portal at Portal:Football editors will make links to it, meaning readers don't get taken straight to the portal they wanted. But if it must stay, at least let it be put into {{Portal bar}} format: Noyster (talk), 09:48, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep seems very helpful as a directory.--Paul McDonald (talk) 22:16, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Useful disambiguation. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 22:42, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It is regrettable that, whilst a RfC to delete all portals is ongoing, some individual portals are also being proposed for deletion. I would have preferred that to have waited a few weeks. That said, this page clearly provides a useful service in clarifying which portal to direct a user to. Quite how that is best done is another issue, but the nominator appears to have suggested one alternative. Nick Moyes (talk) 07:27, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It is also regretable then that while there is a large RFC with over a hundred people wanting to delete all portals and many more saying we should remove the worst ones that a handful of editors are trying to prevent deletion of the worst ones. Legacypac (talk) 16:42, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please... no more personal comments.--Paul McDonald (talk) 20:51, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep It seems to be a reasonable example of a DAB. Icarosaurvus (talk) 21:10, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Should be orphaned at least. All those links need to direct to the correct portal not a disambiguation page. Celia Homeford (talk) 14:57, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment this discussion and the others like it seem to me to be violating the policy WP:FORUMSHOP, which states "Raising essentially the same issue on multiple noticeboards and talk pages, or to multiple administrators, or any of these repetitively, is unhelpful to finding and achieving consensus." This discussion should be closed per policy and if necessary re-opened at a later date when Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/RfC: Ending the system of portals has concluded. (I have repeated this comment on the other similar discussions)--Paul McDonald (talk) 16:51, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I once bumped into this portal while searching for the football portal. The page then helped me to get to Portal:Association football, the page I was looking for. I belive I am not the only one to be guided by the page. It can work perfectly as a dab.Pratyush (talk) 03:06, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep as per Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/RfC: Ending the system of portals. –Davey2010^Talk 22:19, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely try to orphan the page - better to direct readers to the correct topic. An dry to set it up as a DAB where a bot objects to any new links. Legacypac (talk) 09:02, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I don't see any compelling reason why we can't have a DAB portal of this nature to enable readers to find the more specific portals related to the broad topic. Lepricavark (talk) 19:46, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 04:37, 1 May 2018 (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.