Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:College basketball (2nd nomination)

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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) 07:54, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

Portal:College basketball


Static micro-portal on a narrow topic. Created in 2006, abandoned since 2009.

Created in August 2006‎ by, who last edited in 2009.

The list of sub-pages at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:College basketball is tiny:
 * Portal:College basketball/Selected article. Same topic since creation in 2006
 * Portal:College basketball/Selected biography. Same topic since creation in 2006
 * Portal:College basketball/College basketball news, still dispalying "news" from 2007
 * Portal:College basketball/Did you know, still displaying the same 4 items as in 2009. Per WP:DYK, "The DYK section showcases new or expanded articles that are selected through an informal review process. It is not a general trivia section" ... but this 10-year-old list loses the newness, so its only effect is as a trivia section, contrary to WP:TRIVIA.

WP:POG says that unless automated, the content selection should be updated monthly, or preferably weekly. Even on a monthly cycle, this portal has missed over 150 consecutive updates.

WP:POG guides that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". This is about about a niche: the college subset of the amateur subset of the United States subset of the topic of basketball. Portal:Basketball is not well-maintained, so it's usurprising that this third-level subset attracted no maintainers since 2009, and get only 8 pageviews per day in Jan–Feb 2019.

I usually propose that abandoned portals be deleted per WP:TNT, without prejudice to re-creation. But given the low reader interst and this portal's long history of abandonment, I think it's better to just delete this portal and all its sub-pages. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:52, 5 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Note previous discussion. This portal was previously discussed in April at WP:Miscellany for deletion/Bottom Importance Portals, a group nomination which was judged to be a poor way to group a nomination and was withdrawn by the nominator. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 21:57, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete: An American sports fan will not say that college basketball is a narrow topic, and certainly not in March. Cricket is also a broad subject area for articles, just not in North America.  However, whether a topic is broad enough to attract large numbers of portal readers and portal maintainers is determined a posteriori.  The article is broad enough to attract 981 daily views, and that wasn't in March, and the teams attracted probably hundreds of thousands of pageviews (especially in March).  However, that isn't relevant to the portal, for which BHG's analysis is on the mark.  Robert McClenon (talk) 22:07, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Per nom. You would think that if a portal had a chance it would be this one – E.g. people in college (who can use WP) around a subject with many major fan-articles on WP (large articles on each team made by fans).  And yet, outside of a few house-keeping edits in 2018 from the TH, it has been a largely dead portal since the day it was created.  As with all portals, "dead portals" which are out-of-date cut-and-paste of main WP articles+navboxes, only make Wikipedia look dead; not a good outcome. Britishfinance (talk) 11:55, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Does not meet the breadth-of-subject area requirement of the WP:POG guideline. UnitedStatesian (talk) 20:33, 17 June 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.