Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Chennai

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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) 01:05, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Chennai

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Neglected portal.
 * Fifteen selected articles; none are higher than B-class.
 * Creator stopped actively editing the portal nearly a month after its creation, with only one other edit close to April Fools' 2011. They have since had only extremely short bursts of activity since February 2014.
 * Pageviews in the first half of 2019 make up slightly less than .55% of the parent article's pageviews in the same period.

All violations of WP:POG. ToThAc (talk) 16:52, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete: Basically abandoned since 2011. Nemo 19:26, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - No maintenance since 2014. Only 21 pageviews daily in Jan19-Jun19.  Cities, even large cities, seldom can support portals.   There is no short-term reason to expect that a re-creation of this portal will address the problems.  Any proposed re-creation of this portal using a more modern design, and taking into account the failures of many portals, and including a maintenance plan (since lack of maintenance is a problem with most portals), can go to Deletion Review.  Robert McClenon (talk) 01:19, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per the nom. This portal has been abandoned for over eight years, save some one-off updates by passing editors, and is five articles short of POG's minimum of 20. Since late 2006, the lead of WP:POG has said "Do not expect other editors to maintain a portal you create" ... and this one has not been maintained by Amol.Gaitonde, who dumped it a month after creating it (save three stray edits, the last of which was in March 2011), and last edited Wikipedia in Sep. 2018. It clearly fails WP:POG's requirement that portals should be about subjects broad enough to attract large numbers of readers and maintainers. This portal has had over eight years of no steady maintainers and it had a very low 21 views per day from January 1 to June 30 2019 (while the head article Chennai had 3,820 views per day in the same period). This is a steady long-term decline from the 32 views per day it had from July 1 to Dec. 30 2015.
 * POG also states portals should be associated with a wikiproject, but WikiProject Chennai has been labeled inactive, the last editor to editor conversation was in August 2012, and the portal has never been mentioned on the talk page. Portals stand or fall on their merits in the now, not what could someday hypothetically happen with them, and this one falls flat. I oppose re-creation, as over eight years of hard evidence shows Chennai is not a broad enough topic to attract readers or maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 03:57, 6 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Note to closing admin. I don't want in any way to prejudge the outcome ... but if you close this discussion as delete, please can you not remove the backlinks?  I have an AWB setup which allows me to easily replace them with links to the next most specific portal(s) (in this case Portal:India), without creating duplicate entries. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 21:33, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete, and oppose re-creation. Low readership + poor maintenance = clear fail of 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".
 * POG also guides that "the portal should be associated with a WikiProject (or have editors with sufficient interest) to help ensure a supply of new material for the portal and maintain the portal". However, in this case WP::WikiProject Chennai is tagged as inactive, and the last actual discussion on its talk page (i.e. when one editor replie dto another) was in mid-2012 (see WT:WikiProject Chennai. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 05:05, 11 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete cities shouldn't have portals period.Catfurball (talk) 19:28, 11 September 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.