Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:North Pole

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 both. MER-C 21:48, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:North Pole

A redundent portal that only really repeats the beginning of our North Pole article. There are a few other things though that are not very useful. For example it says "(subject to the caveats explained below)" but cuts off the page before we learn about the caveats. It includes the lovely fact "... that Gustave Lambert was killed in the Siege of Paris before he could set sail for the North Pole?" which is really silly because Paris is no where near the North Pole. There is no Wikiproject for the North Pole to support this portal which is redundant to Portal:Arctic. It suggests asking the Ref Desk for info you can't find (because the portal contains little info?) even though acting as a human search engine is not the role of the ref desks. Finally and perhaps most important there is nothing at all about Santa Claus which is why kids will search for this, so really... what is the point? Legacypac (talk) 03:07, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Unhelpful and redundant to Portal:Arctic. Johnuniq (talk) 03:45, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - This appears to be another empty category. We don't need empty categories. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:16, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Is the category empty because of a singularity? This is technical sarcasm because a pole in a coordinate system really is a geometric singularity. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:16, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I am involved in the project to retain the portals, which is why I recreated the North Pole portal; it was previously deleted by a systematic process which deletes items which were created by sock puppets. There is a way to add selected articles to the portals, so I will have to enquire about adding Santa Claus. But you know what, when I page through the selected articles, the topics don't have the same feel as Santa Claus, so I am questioning whether the Santa Claus suggestion is appropriate. It's interesting how this is working out. --Ancheta Wis (talk | contribs) 05:05, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Ancheta Wis: It seems to be working out really well...for those editors wanting to get rid of portals. ——SerialNumber54129 19:10, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - It occurs to me that the portals resemble Santa Claus in one respect. They are mythical bringers of goodies. In the case of Santa Claus, it is the bringer of the goodies who is mythical. In the case of the portals, it is the goodies that are mythical; the portals are real unless they are deleted. Robert McClenon (talk) 08:39, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I've added South Pole for balance we already have Portal:Antarctica Did not see it before because the master list I was working from is not up to date. Legacypac (talk) 18:52, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete What the actual —— is the difference between this and Portal:Arctic, per Johnuniq? "Remove the pudding" ——SerialNumber54129 19:58, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, although it is useful as an example of why using transclusion of the lead section of an article to create a teaser for a portal is not a good idea. —Kusma (t·c) 15:43, 5 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.