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: No consensus (non-admin closure) –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 18:54, 27 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Indian cuisine[edit]

Portal:Indian cuisine (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Portal:Korean cuisine (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Built totally off Template:Cuisine of India and Template:Korean cuisine. Adds nothing to the head article. Just a fork of the template. Not picked up in the bulk deletion noms for some reason but the same issues exactly as a whole series of Country Cuisine pages by TTH. Legacypac (talk) 10:40, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This fact can also be noted without even opening the edit window by observing that neither of them is in the tracking category Category:Automated portals with article list built solely from one template ... and Portal:Indian cuisine is Category:Automated portals with article list built solely from two templates.
The "selected articles" list for these two portals is as follows:
I think that it may be possible for each these portals to be made redundant by reorganising the use and/or structure of the navboxes. However, the nomination is reckless and ill-considered. I have already posted at User talk:Legacypac#Flooding_MFD asking them to stop flooding MFD with such a huge number of MFDs, and this completely false nomination is evidence that Legacypac is working too fast, with too little care.
Please withdraw this nomination. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:48, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No this is not the place to lambaste me for trying my best to explain which variation of bad idea was used to make these mass produced pages. It took me several hours to find, analyize and write up the'nominations here. We have at least a week, and often much longer due to backlogs, to work through each nomination. There is no panic to reverse the effort I expended to do these MFDs. What difference would it be if they were posted tomorrow or the next day?
We are dealing with thousands of error filled error generating pages and the effort to explain the problems on each far outweighs the time that went into creation.
For example, why are there two templates for Indian Cuisine and Cuisine of India? That makes no sense. You need to really look carefully at the code to pick that out.
Yes the Korean one is also calling on a list page but it is built on one template as I stated. Legacypac (talk) 12:08, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Sigh. @Legacypac, you're missing the point. Your nomination is based on two assertions:
  1. That each portal Adds nothing to the head article. This is not true. In both cases, the head article transcludes neither of the pages on which the portal is built.
  2. That each of these portals is a fork of the template. Again that is simply untrue. Each of these portals combines two separate lists.
I agree entirely that you need to really look carefully at the code. That is precisely my point: you were working with too much haste and too little care, so you wholly misread the nature of these portals.
Many hunrdeds of spam portals are being deleted through proper scrutiny. Over 1400 were deleted by consensus yesterday alone. There is absolutely no need to rush the process and make mistakes.
I assume that your error was made in good faith. So rather than complaining that the fatal flaw in your nomination has been identified, please demonstrate that good faith by having the good grace to simply acknowledge that you are a human who made a human error (as we all do from time to time), and that you got this one wrong ... and withdraw it. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:31, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

*Procedural Close - I am ready to accept the word of User:BrownHairedGirl that this nomination is flawed rather than trying to research it while the nomination is still in contention. I agree that these portals fail POG, and will note that the portal platoon only cares about POG when they can reasonably claim that it favors them. However, as long as there are valid concerns about the nomination, we have enough nominations for now and can wait on these. User:Legacypac - Do you really have to behave like the portal platoon in making a very large number of nominations rapidly and then arguing to bypass regular order? Robert McClenon (talk) 03:28, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Title Portal Page Views Article Page Views Ratio Notes Percent
Korean cuisine 5 771 154.2 0.65%
Indian cuisine 17 1,579 92.9 1.08%
In each case, the portal had approximately 1% of the viewers of the parent article, and neither portal had as many as 20 pageviews a day. If a portal is not attracting viewers, there is likewise no reason to think that it will attract portal maintainers. An unmaintained, purely automated portal provides no functionality that is not already present in the combination of two pages, either a template and a list article, or two duplicative templates. These portals should be deleted, without prejudice to the future creation of curated portals based on future portal guidelines, but metrics have shown that portals only rarely generate the demand that will justify the labor-intensive effort of maintaining miniature Main Pages. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:26, 22 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
How to apply
the side-assertion to this dish ?
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