Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Coimbatore

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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. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 20:38, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Coimbatore

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Abandoned mini-portal on the Indian city of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, the 16th largest city in India, with a population of 1.6 million.

It was created in November 2012‎ with one selected article, and one selected picture. As can be seen at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Coimbatore, it now also has 8 selected biographies, all created in 2017. However two of them — biog #4 and biog #5 — are based on articles which were untagged stubs. The two articles are Adam Sinclair and C. T. Rajakantham, which both fail WP:DYKCHECK, so I have now tagged them as stubs. They should be removed, leaving a total of only 7 selected articles and biogs.

Meanwhile, the GA-class head article Coimbatore and its navbox Template:Coimbatore provide a vastly better showcase and navigational hub for the city.

I have not checked the quantity or quality of articles on Coimbatore, but I assume that there are enough to allow a decent portal to be built if editors have both the energy to build it and the ongoing commitment to sustain it. The evidence of the past 7 years is that in this case they haven't. Coimbatore is a Level-4 vital article, i.e. it is in the 1,001–10,000 range of priority topics. Given the very poor shape of many higher-priority portals and the poor development of this portal over the last 7 years, there is no reason to expect an influx of editors to curate and maintain it ... and readers are very badly served by being lured to abandoned mini-portals which so clearly fail the WP:PORTAL basic principle that "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects".

So I propose that this portal and its sub-pages be deleted without prejudice to recreating a curated portal not based on a single navbox, in accordance with whatever criteria the community may have agreed at that time. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:15, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - I will comment here that the comment is frequently made about a portal to the effect that a topic such as a large city deserves portal as a broad area. No topic deserves a portal unless a portal-maintainer thinks that the topic deserves portal maintenance.  I also think that the Vital Articles list is nonsense.  I also note BHG's comments on the past seven years.  This portal was not stillborn but has failure to thrive.  It can be deleted.  Robert McClenon (talk) 17:26, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * There are currently 8 bios. I'm not sure that DYK check gives an absolute stub vs start distinction; I've heard it argued that everything that passes is definitely start but not the converse. The portal was being updated in August 2017, and I note both creator and 2017 updater are still active. I'm leaning delete, but willing to reconsider if anyone comes forward to claim it. No prejudice to recreation. Espresso Addict (talk) 16:25, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Old portal, 17 subpages, created 2012-11-28 20:56:47 by User:Deadrat. No apparent maintainer. The usual case of an empty not-a-portal, not POG compliant.  Portal:Coimbatore. Pldx1 (talk) 07:10, 3 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.