Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Córdoba, Argentina

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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. MER-C 17:37, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Córdoba, Argentina


Static mini-portal on the city of Córdoba, Argentina. Abandoned since 2012, apart from the usual formatting changes to the main page in 2018. No list of tpics, no rotation of content, no slideshow of topics, just the same static page for 7 years.

Created in October 2012‎ by.

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Córdoba, Argentina has a modest set of sub-pages:
 * Portal:Córdoba, Argentina/Did you know lists five subpages. /2 – /5 are redlinks, and Portal:Córdoba, Argentina/Did you know/1 has contained the same one item since it was the page was created in 2012. . 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 7-year-old list loses the newness, so its only effect is as a trivia section, contrary to WP:TRIVIA.
 * Portal:Córdoba, Argentina/News is unchanged since creation in October 2012, with the same news item since 2012.
 * Portal:Córdoba, Argentina/Selected article/1. Same topic (Córdoba Cabildo) with only formatting changes since creation in 2012
 * Portal:Córdoba, Argentina/Selected article/2. Same topic (Córdoba Metro) with only formatting changes since creation in 2012
 * Portal:Córdoba, Argentina/Selected article/3. Same topic (Club Atlético Belgrano) with only formatting changes since creation in 2012
 * Portal:Córdoba, Argentina/Selected biography/1. Same topic (Luis Juez), unchanged since creation in 2012
 * Portal:Córdoba, Argentina/Selected biography/2. Same topic (Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera) since creation in 2012

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 65 consecutive updates.

In theory, Córdoba, Argentina could be seen as a broad topic. However it has only about 1.3 million inhabitants, and is not a national capital. So 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". It has consistently failed to attract maintainers, and since Argentina is not an English-speaking country, it is unlikely to.

I usually recommend deletion without prejudice to recreating a curated portal, to leave open the possibility that someone will find a way to make such a better portal and will find a team of editors to maintain it. But in a case like this, I think it is much more likely that any re-creation will be maintained only so long as its creator maintains it. So in this case, best to just delete it. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:44, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - The concept of a "broad subject area" is being repeated over and over by supporters of portals as if that were all that the portal guidelines say. No.  They say that portals should be about broad subject areas that will attract large numbers of viewers and portal maintainers.  Cities, regardless of their size, do not attract large numbers of readers of the portal and do not attract portal maintainers.  This portal has had 6 daily pageviews.  This portal is not needed and is not likely to be needed.  As BHG said at another portal recently, if this portal is deleted and another portal maintainer wants to come along, Deletion Review is thataway.  Godot might be waiting there.  Robert McClenon (talk) 04:02, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Does not meet the breadth-of-subject-area requirement of the WP:POG guideline. UnitedStatesian (talk) 14:07, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 20 subpages, created 2012-10-11 01:12:42 by User:Cambalachero. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. Portal:Córdoba, Argentina. Pldx1 (talk) 14:37, 29 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.