Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Aruba

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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) 00:40, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Aruba


Yes this is a country portal, but ... after being abandoned from 2012 -2018 with only minimal content, the autoportal team turned it into a very poor version of the article Aruba. The selected article is fixed, just names the currency. There are some bios like some singer who lives in the US but was born in Aruba, and none of the bios are really relevent to someone interested in the county. Then there is the urging to join the stillborn Wikiproject and a second link to the Wikiproject. All the images can be viewed at Aruba without refreshing. Useless links to Wikimedia. At least they left off the part about asking all your Aruba questions at the ref desk. This adds zero value to the reader experience. With the only two editors who have worked on this in many years being TTH (who does not maintain his creations) and Dreamy Jazz who has retired, there simply is no maintenance plan at all. No one maintained or expanded this even though it was an embarrassingly sorry page for years before so why would we think anyone would make this into something useful in the future? TNT and redlink it in case someone wants to build something useful someday. Legacypac (talk) 09:04, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment  - Courtesy ping: portal created 2011-02-22T14:15:27Z by User:Straatmeester: Portal:Aruba. Pldx1 (talk) 10:25, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep - This is a country portal, meets WP:POG. Can be easily expanded.Guilherme Burn (talk) 12:23, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Maybe but WP:TNT and WP:REDLINK applies. Very hard to expand this format of portal and there was minimal interest in the portal prior to the new crew getting ahold of it. Legacypac (talk) 17:10, 10 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete It is not clear that every country meets WP:POG's breadth-of-subject-matter requirement; I note that there are only 36 countires listed at WP:VA. On top of that, this one adds nothing to the project, and obviously also fails WP:POG's multiple maintainers requirement.  UnitedStatesian (talk) 20:08, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - As Legacypac says, this heritage portal, whose originator has been banned, has been dumbed down by the portal platoon. We don't have an urgent need for 200 portals for 200 countries that would warrant leaving unmaintained portals gathering dust.  Robert McClenon (talk) 02:36, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Aruba is a rock star awesome place. I suspect the people are all at the beach instead of worrying about a Wikipedia portal. Maybe I should be looking for cheap tickets there right now. Their huge passport stamp says "One Happy Island" and oh that it is. Legacypac (talk) 02:40, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete-- Aruba might be a country or might not be, depending on one's mileage but it obviously does not merit a portal; given the scantiness of linked information, which are of a minimally decent quality. &#x222F; WBG converse 17:51, 11 April 2019 (UTC)


 * See also nominations of Portal:Andorra and Portal:Jordan. Legacypac (talk) 21:40, 11 April 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.