Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Portal Medicine

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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. RickK 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)