Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Balochistan, Pakistan

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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) 01:12, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Balochistan, Pakistan


Static portal o the province of Balochistan in Pakistan. Abandoned since creation in 2011.

Created in August 2011‎ by, who has bee blocked since 2015 a sockpuppet. No maintainer since then.

It escaped the wave of conversion to navbox-forked automated redundnancy, but the list of sub-pages at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Balochistan, Pakistan shows that it has been abandoned:
 * Portal:Balochistan, Pakistan/Selected article/1, same topic (Mehrgarh) since 2011
 * Portal:Balochistan, Pakistan/Selected picture/1, same image sice 2012
 * Portal:Balochistan, Pakistan/Selected biography/1, same topic since creation in 2011
 * Portal:Balochistan, Pakistan/Did you know/1, same one item since 2011
 * Portal:Balochistan, Pakistan/Balochistan, Pakistan news/Wikinews, being auto-updated by bots (see page history)
 * Portal:Balochistan, Pakistan/In the news, same items as on creation in 2011, with only a formatting cahnge. Note that the date is displayed only "month dat" (e.g. October 8), without the year, so there is no indication that they are out-of-date

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 90 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 Balochistan, Pakistan and its navboxes Balochistan, Pakistan topics and Districts of Balochistan (Pakistan).

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 got only 7 pageviews per day

It is time to stop wasting the time of readers by luring them to this abandoned draft, and time to abandon the magical thinking 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 content-forked sub-pages, as has been done in v different ways with e.g. Portal:Harz Mountains 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) 17:13, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Yet another portal by a now-blocked sockmaster. Waiting for a portal maintainer is especially dangerous in this situation, because the portal maintainer might show up and be a suckpoppet.  Without prejudice to a real portal maintainer.  Robert McClenon (talk) 17:32, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per my comment at Portal:Education_in_Pakistan's MFD.   SITH   (talk)   11:01, 14 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.