Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Chechnya

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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 17:35, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Chechnya


Static micro-portal on Chechnya. Narrow topic, abandoned since 2007.

Created in April 2007‎ by, who last edited in 2015.

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Chechnya shows only 4 sub-pages, of which:
 * Portal:Chechnya/Featured article. Same article (Chechen language) since the page was created in 2007.
 * Portal:Chechnya/Featured picture. Same image since 2011.  Note image was renamed in 2016, but it's the same picture.
 * Portal:Chechnya/Chechen articles is a list of topics, and it has been edited about a dozen times over the years. I wondered if might form that basis of a navbox Chechyna, but it looks ill-maintained and has 3 redlinks, so it would be better to start afresh.

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 140 consecutive updates.

In theory, the Chechnya could be seen as a broad topic. However it has a population of only about 1.3 million, and 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 10 pageviews per day, which is less than the abysmal the median of 13 per day for all portals, but still only 0.33% of the 3,014 daily views of the head article. And it has consistently failed to attract any maintainers.

But maybe someone will find a way to make such a better portal, but since this is a small, non-English-speaking area, it is much less likely that they will find a team of editors to maintain it. So I think it's best to just delete this portal, with prejudice against creation. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:05, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - In addition to the analysis provided by BHG, the history of this portal shows that it has been a history of battleground editing over a region that has been a battleground. Any portal maintainer is likely to be either pro-Chechnyan or pro-Russian, and either is likely to be a magnet for sanctions.  Delete it.  Robert McClenon (talk) 04:10, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal,  4 subpages, created 2007-04-08 04:47:55 by User:Girdi. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. Portal:Chechnya. Pldx1 (talk) 14:36, 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.