Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Central Asia

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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) 08:41, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Central Asia


Mini-portal on Central Asia, abandoned since 2014.

Created in December 2011‎ by, who last edited in 2018.

Contains just two boxes: "selected images" and "selected articles". The "selected images" are in fact the full set of images used in the head article Central Asia, so this is redundant, because for ordinary readers who are not logged in, automatic imagery galleries are built into every article. 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 the article Central Asia.

The selected articles are drawn from the list at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Central Asia. Five pages are listed, but three of them are (and always have been) blank: Portal:Central Asia/Selected article/3, /4 and [Portal:Central Asia/Selected article/5|/5]].

The two which have content are:
 * Portal:Central Asia/Selected article/1. Same topic since creation in 2014: Portal:Central Asia/Selected article/4.
 * Portal:Central Asia/Selected article/2. Same topic since creation in 2014: Demography of Central Asia.

This is all redundant to the head article, where those two topics are prominently listed in the TOC. There is no benefit in retaining these 5-year-old content forks.

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) 07:25, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as per analysis by BHG. Only 11 daily average pageviews for portal as opposed to 1886 daily average pageviews for article.  It should be noted that any future portal should avoid duplicating either the countries of Central Asia or Asia as a whole.  Robert McClenon (talk) 00:07, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 17 subpages, created 2011-12-13 07:43:32 by User:Jj98. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. Portal:Central Asia. Pldx1 (talk) 13:22, 26 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.