Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Badminton

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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, without prejudice to a portal that does this subject justice. MER-C 19:05, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Badminton


Mini-portal abandoned since 2010. Just a skimpy static page.

Created in February 2010‎ by, who last edited in 2011. No sign of nay maintainer since then.

It was converted in September 2018‎ by @The Transhumanist to an automated format drawing its "selected articles" list solely from the navbox International badminton, of which it therefore became just a bloated and redundant fork. (For a full explanation of why this type of portal is redundant, see the two mass deletions of similar portals: one, and two, where there was overwhelming consensus of a very high turnout to delete a total of 2,555 such portals). The use of International badminton also narrowed the scope, excluding the national and sub-national levels of the sport.

That automation was reverted on 14 May 2019‎ by BHG.

The resulting current version is just a skimpy static page. There is no list of topics, just one selected article and one selected biog. The list of sub-pages at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Badminton is short:
 * Portal:Badminton/Featured article, same topic (Thomas Cup) since 2010
 * No other general articles
 * Portal:Badminton/Selected biography, same topic (Lee Chong Wei) since the page was created in 2010
 * No other biographies
 * Portal:Badminton/Selected picture, same image (File:Badminton competition.jpg) same image since August 2010
 * No other pictures

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 100 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 B-class head article Badminton

In theory, this a broad topic. But in practice, it has not met 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 this portal got only 17 pageviews per day, compared with 5,793 daily pageviews for the head article Badminton.

It is time to stop wasting the time of readers by luring them to this abandoned draft, and time to abandon the hop that this abandoned relic will some day magically attract magical 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 the high-maintenance, content-forked sub-pages. Examples of the various styles include Portal:Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and 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) 12:07, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - The choices are between: the heritage portal that has been abandoned since 2011 and rescued, or the automated portal, which is an inherent non-entity, and besides excluded the national and lower levels of play; or a totally new portal; or the head article without the portal. We can see that the ratio of users of the head article to users of the portal is greater than 300:1, so it probably isn't urgent to get a new portal.  However, this portal can be disposed of.  Robert McClenon (talk) 19:12, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete: abandoned, unused, potentially of wide enough scope, so delete without prejudice.   SITH   (talk)   11:58, 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.