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The result of the discussion was merge to a separate tab under Portal:Current events as the portal is no longer being updated, but still contains useful content. However, it's not entirely clear to me what the destination for this content will be, and this merge, insofar as changing Portal:Current events, will need to be carried out by an adminstrator as it is currently under full protection. I, JethroBT ^{drop me a line} 20:45, 1 November 2013 (UTC) (non-admin closure)[reply]

Portal:Current events/Sports (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

This portal is now dead since June 2013; no attempt to revive has been done, and perhaps there'll be no such attempt in the near future. Might as well delete this now until the time someone is dedicated to maintain this. –HTD 15:24, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: The sidebar is currently being maintained, so I'm keeping that out of this discussion. Anyone can include it though... –HTD 15:26, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge everything from the sidebar onto the Portal:Current events/Sports page; something like Portal:Current events/Sports/Sandbox. The page becomes a structured list of links to Wikipedia articles about current and upcoming sports events. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:40, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep it's been dead less than a year, and the sidebar is maintained, so it's still working. Even if the sidebar was the only thing that was working for years on end, it's still serving its function because the sidebar is working, though it's a very poor presentation. -- 76.65.129.3 (talk) 06:20, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge into Portal:Current events. The sidebar is populated, and should be saved, but that doesn't make this a functional portal - it makes it a functional sidebar. A portal has multiple working parts, and Portal:Current events/Sports does not. Ideally, the sidebar could be reformatted to be a horizontal section on Portal:Current Events, as illustrated by John of Reading. Sven Manguard Wha? 20:31, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@Sven Manguard: I think there's too much material at Portal:Current events/Sports/Sandbox to be added comfortably to Portal:Current events itself. I'm envisaging a separate page accessed from the "Sports" link at the top of Portal:Current events. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:33, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, yes. It'd work as a tab. Plenty of portals use tabs (see Portal:Africa for example). The current setup, with the bar up top, isn't ideal IMO. Sven Manguard Wha? 06:03, 14 October 2013 (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.