Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Chandigarh

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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) 01:08, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Chandigarh


Long-abandoned portal on the Indian city of Chandigarh.

Brief history:
 * 1) Created in February 2010 by, containing only
 * 2) Speedy-deleted on 23 March 2010 per WP:P1
 * 3) Re-created on 7 May 2011‎ by, who was community-banned on 8 June 2011 and remains blocked
 * 4) Converted on 8 November 2018 to  a fully-automated format which built its "selected articles" list solely from the navbox Template:City of Chandigarh. of which it was therefore a redundant for.   (For a full explanation of why this type  of portal is redundant, see the two mass deletions of similar portals: one, and two, where there was overwhelming consensus of a very high turnout to delete a total of 2,555 such portals).
 * 5) Reverted to non-automated format on 12 April 2019‎  by @Northamerica1000

So now it's back again as a manual portal built of subpages. See the list at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Chandigarh:
 * 6 selected picture pages, of which Portal:Chandigarh/Selected picture/6 is blank
 * 8 non-consecutively-numbered DYK pages
 * Portal:Chandigarh/Selected article contains only a redlink to Portal:Chandigarh/Selected article/1, which has never existed
 * No selected biographies

So as far as I can see, this portal has never showcased any articles of any type. It was simply an empty shell.

WP:POG says that unless automated, the content selection should be updated monthly, or preferably weekly. But in 8 years, this has never had anything to update.

In theory, this city of a million people could be be seen as broad topic; but it has a short history, having been built only in 1960. And in practice, it doesn't meet 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". This has not attracted maintainers, and in Jan–Feb 2019 got only 9 pageviews per day

It is time to stop wasting the time of readers by luring them to this abandoned draft, and time to abandon the magical thinking that this abandoned relic will some day magically attract magical editors who will want to resurrect it. If any editor does want to build a real portal, they will be far better off without this relic and its ancient content-forked subpages; instead they should build a modern portal without content-forked sub-pages, as has recently been done with Portal:Geophysics.

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) 17:21, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Eight years ago, the re-creator of this portal asked that it please not be deleted, but allowed to develop. Shortly thereafter, they were banned, and it hasn't developed.  This portal, like so many of those now being nominated, doesn't even navigate.  This is a city, not a state, and I don't see a city of a million as much of a broad area unless it is special; there are hundreds of cities of a million, on a planet of seven billion people who don't use this portal.  Robert McClenon (talk) 18:07, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per . Eight years is a fair amount of time to improve it.    SITH   (talk)   12:24, 12 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 25 subpages, created 2011-05-07 16:55:28 by User:Maheshkumaryadav. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. Portal:Chandigarh. Pldx1 (talk) 16:18, 13 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.