Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ayyavazhi

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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. — xaosflux  Talk 17:50, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Ayyavazhi


Static mini-portal on the Indian religious belief of Ayyavazhi, abandoned since 2006.

Created in March 2006‎ by, whose last portalspace edit was in October 2009.

In September 2018‎, it was converted by @The Transhumanist to a fully-automated portal. I reverted that automation on 15 May 2019.

That leaves the portal simply as a static display of 3 subtopics and one picture. Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Ayyavazhi shows:
 * Portal:Ayyavazhi/Featured scripture, unchanged since 2006
 * Portal:Ayyavazhi/Featured picture, changed in 2014
 * Portal:Ayyavazhi/Latest articles, unchanged since 2008
 * Portal:Ayyavazhi/Selected Pathi, same topic as in 2006

WP:POG says that unless automated, the content selection should be updated monthly, or preferably weekly. Even on a monthly cycle, this pseudo-portal has missed over 150 consecutive updates.

Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this is massively less useful in every respect than the head article Ayyavazhi.

This may be a broad topic in theory. But in practice, it doesn't meet 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". This has not attracted maintainers, and in Jan–Feb 2019 got only 10 pageviews per day

It is time to stop wasting the time of readers by luring them to this abandoned draft, and time to abandon fantasy that leaving it abandoned has anyything other than a remote chance of attracting editors who will want to resurrect it. If any editor does want to build a real portal, they will be far better off without this relic and its ancient content-forked subpages; instead they should build a modern portal without content-forked sub-pages, per e.g. Portal:Mecklenburg-Vorpommern or Portal:Geophysics.

So I propose that this portal and its sub-pages be deleted per WP:TNT, without prejudice to recreating a curated portal in accordance with whatever criteria the community may have agreed at that time. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:32, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - It appears that the sorceress is using a slightly different but again standard version of her incantation. This is a case where the subject area itself isn't attracting large numbers of interested readers.  There are 10 daily pageviews for the portal, and 121 daily pageviews for the article.  What that means is that we need an article on the subject.  We have an article.  We don't need a portal.  Robert McClenon (talk) 18:25, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete:
 * This portal does not have the active maintenance required for portals.
 * Its breadth, in its current state, is questionable.
 *  SITH   (talk)   11:43, 17 May 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.