Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Budapest

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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. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:10, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Budapest


Mini-portal on the city of Budapest. Abandoned since 2006 with no list of topics and no rotation of content.

Created in July 2006‎ by, who last edited in 2008.

The list of subpages at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Budapest is short, and the content pages are massively outdated:
 * Portal:Budapest/Featured article. Same topic (BKV Zrt.) since 2006. Note this edit from 2018 on how the content fork was two years out of date then, and that this text may be out of date at many other places
 * Portal:Budapest/Featured picture. Same image (File:Budapest Parliament interior2 BÅn.JPG) since 2006
 * Portal:Budapest/Did you know. Same 4 items since 2008 . Per WP:DYK, "The DYK section showcases new or expanded articles that are selected through an informal review process. It is not a general trivia section" ... but this 11-year-old list loses the newness, so its only effect is as a trivia section, contrary to WP:TRIVIA.

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 150 consecutive updates.

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". In Jan–Feb 2019 it got only 7 pageviews per day, which is less than half the abysmal the median of 13 per day for all portals, but still only 0.18% of the 3,805 daily views of the head article Budapest. And it has consistently failed to attract 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 Budapest and its excellent navbox Template:Budapest.

Two newish features of the Wikimedia software means that the article and navbox offers all the functionality which portals like this set out to offer. Both features are available only to ordinary readers who are not logged in, but you can test them without logging out by right-clicking on a link, and the select "open in private window" (in Firefox) or "open in incognito window" (Chrome).
 * 1) mouseover: on any link, mouseover shows you the picture and the start of the lead.  So the preview-selected page-function of portals is redundant: something almost as good is available automatically on any navbox or other set of links.  Try it by right-clicking on this link to the article  Template:Budapest
 * 2) automatic imagery galleries: clicking on an image brings up an image gallery of all the images on that page. It's full-screen, so it's actually much better than  a click-for-next image gallery on a portal.   Try it by right-clicking on this link to the article Budapest.

Similar features have been available since 2015 to users of Wikipedia's Android app.

That sets a high bar for any would-be-portal-builder to vault if they try to satisfy the WP:PORTAL principle that "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". It would take a lot of work to make a portal which genuinely offers more than the head article Budapest with its navbox Budapest.

But maybe someone will find a way to make such a better portal, and a team of editors to maintain it ... 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) 07:13, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Concur with analysis by BHG. Portal has less than 0.2% of views of article, which might imply that creating a new portal may be a waste of human time.  Robert McClenon (talk) 12:32, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 11 subpages, created 2006-07-23 15:35:13 by User:Tylop~enwiki. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. Portal:Budapest. Pldx1 (talk) 14:11, 25 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.