Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Portal Medicine

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Delete

Someone is trying to start off Portals on en.wikipedia, and this page is a half-translated effort from the German wikipedia that has no merits. Portals are typically a community effort, and this has not been floated with anyone concerned.

Delete. JFW | T@lk 00:21, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
DELETE: Oh, heck no! No, no, no, no. Wikipedia is not Yahoo. (We all know that organization is a problem. We all know that the lack of hierarchies is troubling sometimes. We all know that the project has grown agglutinatively. We almost all know that portals are icky death by exsanguination, I hope.) Geogre 00:51, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Delete. - UtherSRG 00:56, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Delete. Postdlf 03:12, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
delete, delete, delete, delete. Rick K 04:52, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)
Call me ignorant, but I don't get it. Makes no sense to me it all. In general I try to avoid judging things I don't understand, but the entire point of an encyclopedia is to explain things. Miserable failure there. Delete. -R. fiend 06:03, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Most of it being in German probably has a lot to do with your lack of comprehension. Unless you know German, in which case I don't have an explanation. -- Cyrius|✎ 06:37, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I'll try to explain, as I'm on de.wikipedia (neither did I create Portal Medicine nor can I speak for anyone on de.wikipedia excepct myself):

The de.Portal pages tend to be closely related to Project pages in the Wikipedia namespace. The consistency between all these is limited, but for large number of, these Portal/Project hybrids work like topic specific versions of New Articles, Missing Articles, Articles needing cleanup, Excellent Articles.
Putting the Portal side of this in the main namespace, and promoting it as an entry point for the topic, is a mixed successs. But the german equivalent of Browse Wikipedia by topic was worse.

Pjacobi 11:12, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

DELETE This is the English language version of Wikipedia. It is not supposed to be a free screw-around area for someone trying to learn how to translate a page from German to English. Its not supposed to be a ODP-style search directory either.--Cynical 13:34, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Delete muchly but assume good faith. The contributor has started to translate it, and probably means to go on, and surely may have meant well. Bishonen 17:11, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Delete. Useless in wiki.en. Bîbî. Denni ☯ 01:28, 2004 Aug 18 (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 article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.