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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 redirect‎ to Online video platform. The IP votes are discounted due to their lack of policy weight. (non-admin closure) Dclemens1971 (talk) 22:00, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Video portal

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Low-quality duplicate of Online video platform with only 1 blog source. yutsi (talk) 22:49, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: No consensus yet.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 21:38, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • It began as a Spanish article, untranslated, that undoubtedly the same person added to the Spanish Wikipedia at the same time. (The Spanish Wikipedia has largely not noticed es:Portal de videos, it seems. This article actually began its life at Portales de video.) It was then translated into English, to reveal that it was actually supposed to be titled online video, the heading and the text of the Spanish explicitly saying video en línea. Ironically, we had had online video for 2 years at that point. (It redirecting to video clip, which was where short-form content was at the time.) But this foreign language duplicate was renamed to a name not in the text instead of being handled as a duplicate of the name that was in the text.

    It remained about the subject of online video, with a single jammed-in sentence that tried to make it about something else, for 15 years until the sockpuppetteer EnjoyBrowser557 (talk · contribs) expanded it based upon an advertisement.

    There really isn't anything useful here. The foreign language duplicate article is woefully outdated (future expectations of Adobe Flash Player!) and useless now, 17 years later, and should not have been dealt with like this in the first place. And the sockpuppetteer's contributions are clearly in bad faith. I have my suspicions based on contributions histories, about the IP address contributions to this discussion, as well.

    Some quick research indicates that the world stopped calling YouTube et al. "video portals" in the 2010s. Since the English Wikipedia now calls them online video platforms, that seems like the best redirect to take readers to what this older name was talking about at the time.

    Uncle G (talk) 03:06, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Redirect as per above; nothing useful here. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 11:13, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Redirect per above. It had its chance. Tepkunset (talk) 17:15, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep Just expand the article. And please use the Google search, when in doubt. 2600:1700:78EA:450:60D1:C49:6E4E:86C9 (talk) 03:21, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Redirect. It has been here for 17 years and only 1 source. Reads like a promotion too. Only IPs seem to want to keep this article. Ramos1990 (talk)
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