Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Binghamton, New York

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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) 21:11, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Binghamton, New York


47,000 person town. Portal created in less than a minute because it has a nav box. Pages in the nav box include topics outside the scope which leads to selected articles of wide geographic scope like Upstate New York, Southern Tier, and nearby towns Johnson City, New York and Port Dickinson, New York, and other inappropriate inclusions. Legacypac (talk) 22:23, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. An automated portal is only worth of an automated deletion. Pldx1 (talk) 23:04, 5 April 2019 (UTC) . Vmanjr volunteered to maintain it. Pldx1 (talk) 10:51, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. Binghamton is the principle city of a 250,000-resident metro area (191st in the US). Nearby towns fall into the metro area, and serve as suburbs to the city, so they are relevant to include in the portal (as most other portals for U.S. cities do). Yes, the portal is just an automated shell now, but it really needs curation and non-automated content more than anything.  I'm happy to volunteer to do that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vmanjr (talk • contribs) 01:03, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
 * We have yet to keep a city of this size and lots of cities have been nominated this year. See Miscellany_for_deletion/Portal_MFD_Results Legacypac (talk) 10:43, 6 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep – Since has generously volunteered to improve the portal, let's now allow them time to do so. North America1000 10:58, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep for now as maintained. — python coder (talk &#124; contribs) 22:07, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Despite the editor's kind offer to maintain this portal (thanks for that), there is no getting around the fact that, just like all the other small city portals, this does not meet the breadth-of-subject-area requirement of the WP:POG guideline. If I offered to maintain an article that violated the WP:N guideline, that would not have any impact on a delete result at AfD. UnitedStatesian (talk) 20:57, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is a very narrow topic, which clearly fails the WP:POG requirement "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers".  This is not even a level-5 vital article, i.e. it is not even one of the top 50,000 topics.
 * It clearly has not attract large numbers of interested readers: a daily average of only 2 pageviews in Jan-March 2019. That's barely above the background noise of webcrawlers and bots.
 * And since this drive-by creation of the portalspammer @The Transhumanist is based on the single Template:Binghamton, New York, it is simply a WP:CONTENTFORK. The navbox does a better job because it is transcluded onto nall the page sin its scope, where as the portal requires navigation to separate page.
 * We really should not be having individual discussions on this driveby spam. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:53, 12 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete, extremely narrow topic which does not meet the Portal guidelines. Does not provide any greater navigational utility to readers than the article and navbox. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 03:23, 14 April 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.