Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Abu Dhabi (3rd nomination)

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 * 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:  delete. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 06:24, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Abu Dhabi

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Delete This city does not meet the breadth-of-subject-matter requirement of the WP:POG guideline, and can be more than adequately covered in Portal:United Arab Emirates. WikiProject Abu Dhabi is defunct. UnitedStatesian (talk) 23:19, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note to closing admin. I don't want in any way to prejudge the outcome ... but if you close this discussion as delete, please can you not remove the backlinks?  I have an AWB setup which allows me to easily replace them with links to the next most specific portal(s) (in this case Portal:United Arab Emirates), without creating duplicate entries. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 23:25, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per the nom. This portal has been abandoned for over eight years, save a little one off maintenance by a passing editor, and is 18 articles short of POG's minimum of 20. Since late 2006, the lead of WP:POG has said "Do not expect other editors to maintain a portal you create" ... and this one has not been maintained by Mar4d, who dumped it in Dec. 2010 less then 10 days after creation, when excluding one tiny category change edit a year in 2013 and 2015. It clearly fails WP:POG's requirement that portals should be about subjects broad enough to attract large numbers of readers and maintainers. This portal has had over eight years of no steady maintainers and it had a very low 12 views per day from January 1 to June 30 2019 (while the head article Abu Dhabi had 2,961 views per day in the same period).
 * POG also states portals should be associated with a wikiproject, but WikiProject Abu Dhabi is labeled defunct, the portal is not mentioned by name on the main page (excluding an automated MfD notice), and has never been mentioned on the talk page. Portals stand or fall on their merits in the now, not what could someday hypothetically happen with them, and this one falls flat. I oppose re-creation, as over eight years of hard evidence shows Abu Dhabi is not a broad enough topic to attract readers or maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 12:23, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

United Arab Emirates portals
Robert McClenon (talk) 12:55, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment - Neither Portal:Abu Dhabi nor Portal:United Arab Emirates has anything resembling a selection of articles.

Discussion of Abu Dhabi

 * Delete, as per analysis by User:Newshunter12. Too few articles, too little readership, too little maintenance.  There is no reason to expect that re-creation is feasible.  Robert McClenon (talk) 12:55, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete cities don't need portals period.Catfurball (talk) 23:14, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete, and oppose re-creation. Narrow topic + low readership + poor maintenance = clear fail of the WP:POG requirement that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers".
 * The defunct WikiProject means that the portal also fails another test set out in POG. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 12:01, 19 September 2019 (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.