Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Bucharest

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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. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 20:39, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Bucharest

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A non-portal abandoned for 14 years.

This portal was created in 2005 by, who last edited in 2013. It has only ever been a static display of one selected article, one unimpressive selected picture, and one set of DYKs (see Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Bucharest). All those three subpages remain unchanged since creation in 2005, apart from minor tweaks; as afar as I can see there has been no rotation of topics.

Bucharest is a European capital city with a 2011 population of 1.88 million and hundreds of years of history (it was destroyed multiple times, but was the seat of Vlad the Impaler). I have not assessed the extent of Wikipedia's coverage of the topic, but I assume that there would be more than enough material to create a good portal on this topic if anyone has the energy to create it and the commitment to maintain it. (Sadly, that commitment has been in short supply for too many portals).

However, the current page is not worth keeping. Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects" ... but this is just a severely degraded version of the B-class head article Bucharest, with its two well-developed navboxes.

So I propose that this portal and its sub-pages be deleted without prejudice to recreating a curated portal not based on a single navbox or other page, in accordance with whatever criteria the community may have agreed at that time. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:04, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete:
 * I am not sure whether capital cities of nations "deserve" portals, but portals are only in order if they are maintained.
 * This is another portal by a long-inactive editor.
 * As BHG states in the conditions. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:29, 1 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete this is a pretty useless portal without being completely redone. Only one selected article and image, and the image doesn't really have any sort of caption. The DYKs are pretty terrible. Palace of the Parliament in no way supports the claim that it's the world's second largest building and List of largest buildings makes it pretty clear it isn't by any measure. The GDP per capita figure is badly out of date (it's more than twice that now) and also isn't remotely interesting. Societatea de Transport București does not support the claim that it's the fourth largest system of its kind in Europe. As a capital city with plenty of history it may be possible to write a decent portal about it but that portal will have to do a better job than this.  Hut 8.5  21:29, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment - Portal has too many redlinks. Analysis by BHG is on the mark.  Robert McClenon (talk) 01:29, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is a shame, Bucharest as a capital with a long history is an obvious subject for a portal. I agree this is not worth keeping, though. Espresso Addict (talk) 16:30, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Old draft of a portal, 7 subpages, created 2005-08-18 08:49:29 by User:Ronline. No apparent maintainer. Portal:Bucharest. Pldx1 (talk) 20:52, 2 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.