Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:FIRST

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellany 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 debate was Delete, including subpages. ^demon^{[omg plz]} 21:37, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:FIRST

This is a defunct portal page. It was originally created in 2006 by one user, and has had a total of three edits. The entire content consists of boxes with broken links and the text of FIRST transcluded into a box. Despite the "DO NOT DELETE" message, it is apparent that this portal is no longer actively maintained or edited. The community of FIRST itself has the FIRSTwiki, linked to from the FIRST article (inter-wiki links are also possible). This page is not necessary, inactive, and has never had any real content. Mazin07^C₪_T 23:53, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

• Delete, no indication that it has the needed content, maintainer(s) etc. feydey 01:26, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, since it appears as though this group is trying to use the portal namespace as a web host. While this portal was not made in bad faith, I doubt that the subject is notable enough to be a substantial and encyclopedic portal. Gracenotes^T § 02:52, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
  • I have no doubt that it was made in good faith. But I do doubt that they were trying to use it as a web host. It's not so much the group that's trying to do this, but one guy that attempted to build community. The group itself is a huge non-profit; Autodesk does their website. They wouldn't bother doing anything on Wikipedia. Mazin07^C₪_T 20:12, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Seems like a spam portal, very few edits and because its inactive.Tellyaddict 09:16, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. Inactive/defunct. Vassyana 14:32, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Per above. --James, La gloria è a dio 19:42, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
• comment as to the webhost and spam concerns, as well as notability, it's an international competition, with its own web-page and sponsored by many fortune-500 companies (in my time in FIRST we squared off against teams from NASA, Delphi, GM and Motorola, off the top of my head). That doesn't prove that this needs to exist, however, but I think the non-notability and webspace arguments are a little off-base. Wintermut3 23:21, 31 March 2007 (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 page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.