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I respectfully disagree with BD2412 about changing our deletions of portals to upmerges. They caution against deleting content outright, but portals should not provide unique content. Portals provide arbitrarily selected content that often becomes outdated. There is no need to preserve and build up portals that have what BHG properly calls a Rube Goldberg machine structure. Adding more arbitrarily selected portions of articles to an existing arbitrary selection of portions of articles just increases the Rube Goldberg factor. It will not make the higher-level portals sustainable. The specific choice of articles for portals is often arbitrary, and upmerging them would only increase the arbitrariness of the content of the upward portal. The proposed upmerging of portals should not be confused with the upward redirection of backlinks by BHG.