Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Bengali literature

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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) 00:26, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Bengali literature


Abandoned old-style manual non-portal.

This portal was created in 2017, and insofar as it exists, it all works. However, as can be seen at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Bengali literature, it's simply a static display of one Selected article, one Selected biography, one Selected picture and one Selected poem.

That's not a portal. It's just a single issue of a skimpy magazine.

Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". In this case, the head article Bengali literature with its collection of navboxes, is much more enhanced than the portal.

Bengal has a long literary history dating from the medieval era in this prospering society; at its peak, the GDP of the Bengal Subah exceeded the GDP of the whole of Western Europe. Bengali society was devastated in the colonial era, being reduced from early 18th-century riches so great that the first English colonists were were awe-struck, to famines and decline. Colonisation devastated the economy and society of Bengal, but a literary revival began in the 19th century, producing many great writers including Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

So I have no doubt at all that this a broad topic which could in theory satisfy the WP:POG guidance that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". However, in practice this portal has not attracted maintainers in the last two years, and is almost unviewed: its Jan–Feb 2019 5 pageviews/day is less than half the 12 views per day median of all portals.

I therefore propose that this portal and its subpages be deleted per WP:TNT without prejudice to recreating a curated portal which is not a fork of some other page, in accordance with whatever criteria the community may have agreed at that time. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:16, 6 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. This does appear to be a static selection. No prejudice to creating a proper portal, as this is clearly a suitable topic. Espresso Addict (talk) 16:06, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - As EA and BHG agree, without prejudice. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:49, 6 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 13 subpages, created 2017-08-05 07:50:32 by User:Arka.tukai. Below the minimal existence level as a navigation tool. Portal:Bengali literature. Pldx1 (talk) 11:47, 7 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.