Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Bengali language

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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 recreation of a portal that does this subject justice. MER-C 19:11, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Bengali language


Static, of-of-each portal abandoned since 2017, automated as a navbox-clone, now restored to manual format.

Created in August 2007‎ as a redirect to Portal:Bengal.

Actual portal page begun in August 2017 by.

In September 2018‎, it was converted by @The Transhumanist to an automated format, drawing its "selected articles" list solely from the navbox Bengali language, of which it was therefore a 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). Automation reverted by BHG on 12 May 2019.

The restored manual portal shows a very limited set of sub-pages. See Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Bengali language:
 * Portal:Bengali language/Selected article/1, topic unchanged since creation in 2017
 * Portal:Bengali language/Selected biography, topic unchanged since creation in 2017
 * Portal:Bengali language/Selected poem, topic unchanged since creation in 2017
 * Portal:Bengali language/Selected picture, image unchanged since creaion in 2017

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 20 consecutive updates.

In theory, this a broad topic. 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.

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 Bengali language and its navbox Bengali language.

It is time to stop wasting the time of readers by luring them to this abandoned draft, and time to abandon the fantasy 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 per Portal:Harz Mountains or the very different 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) 16:21, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - The usual comments apply. The choice is between an unmaintained manual portal that doesn't do anything and an automated portal, and automated portals don't do anything, or nothing.  If a maintainer comes along, Requests for Undeletion is thisaway.  Robert McClenon (talk) 19:47, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 11 subpages, created 2007-08-10 11:27:58 by User:Armanaziz. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. TTH was right to nuke this draft, even if the replacement method was wrong. Portal:Bengali language. Pldx1 (talk) 16:07, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete: there's no good version to revert to. An abandoned shell fails WP:PORTAL and an automated fork fails WP:REDUNDANTFORK.    SITH   (talk)   11:30, 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.