Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Coatbridge

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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) 23:02, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Coatbridge


Abandoned-for-a-decade manual portal on a narrow topic, converted by a sockpuppet to a redundant automated format.

The town of Coatbridge is a modest-sized town in Lanarkshire, Scotland, with a 2001 census population of only 41,170.

It therefore fails 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 January 2019, this portal got only 2 pageviews per day, which is barely (if at all) above the background noise of bots, webcrawlers and editors. And as shown below, the only maintainer in ten years has been a sockpuppet.

The portal was created in 2009 as a manual portal by, who made 296 edits in 2009 and none before or since. The subpages at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Coatbridge remained untouched apart from minor changes until 2 February 2019‎, when it was converted to an automated format based on the navbox Template:Coatbridge by, who soon thereafter blocked as a sockpuppet. The reliance on a single navbox makes it simply a redundant fork of that navbox. (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).

So I say just delete it. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:33, 4 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment. I think this (before automation) was a relatively good attempt at a portal on a narrow topic; I like the very narrow RH column idea and its mini-selected neighbourhood and I'd like to extract the layout code for future reference. Stats: 5 articles, 5 bios, 4 selected neighbourhoods, 6 pictures and at least one DYK set. Otoh, abandoned and in need of expansion to meet the current minimum of 20 text subboxes; pinging  who maintains the Scotland portal for an opinion. For the record, this is the kind of portal I was thinking might have benefited from the two-stage process I floated. Espresso Addict (talk) 13:40, 4 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - Thanks for the notification . I've had a look at the pre-automated portal, which is pretty thin on linked content. Unfortunately I think a medium sized (for Scotland) town is just too limited a subject for any sort of decent coverage that can't be accessed from checking out the main Article. So, unfortunately, I see very little prospect of this ever becoming a decent Portal in the future hence my !vote. - Cactus.man   &#9997;  15:53, 4 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - TTH-like portal build atop an old portal, 39 subpages, created 2009-02-22 00:33:17 by User:Jayhoolihan. Snippets from before 2010. No apparent maintainer. Too narrow topic. Portal:Coatbridge. Pldx1 (talk) 18:20, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - This one is even worse than most. This was an abandoned heritage portal by an inactive editor on a town, not a broad subject, and has since been automated by a blocked sockpuppet.  Save your silver bullets; this isn't a zombie, just a beast.  A good bolt from a crossbow or shaft from a longbow will do.  Robert McClenon (talk) 22:22, 4 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.