Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Country music

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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) 03:29, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Country music

 * Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:03, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:03, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

Micro-portal abandoned since 2010. Just a static display of outdated content forks of the leads of 4 articles.

Created] in 2010 by, who also created the sub-pages.

There is no selection of topics, and the list of sub-pages at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Country music just shows a static set of pages:


 * Portal:Country music/Selected album, same topic (Garth Brooks (album)) since the page was created in 2010
 * Portal:Country music/Selected article, same topic Bluegrass music since 2010
 * Portal:Country music/Selected picture, photo changed only once since 2010 (see history)
 * Portal:Country music/Selected song, same topic (Crazy (Willie Nelson song)) since the page was created in 2010

Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this is massively less useful in every respect than the head article Country music.

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 100 consecutive updates, and it is time to stop wasting the time of readers by luring them to this abandoned draft.

Yes, this is theory a broad topic. Wikipedia has extensive coverage of the artists, genres, albums, songs and awards. But WP:POG guides that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers", and this has not attracted maintainers. The creator @Moxy is not maintaining it.

So I propose that this portal and its sub-pages be deleted per WP:TNT, without prejudice to recreating a curated portal in accordance with whatever criteria the community may have agreed at that time. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:50, 17 May 2019 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete - As usual, the topic is popular, but not the portal. We are looking at 2,170 daily page views for the head article, and that doesn't count views made directly of articles about individual artists or groups, songs or albums, sub-genres, et cetera.  We are looking at 12 daily page views for the portal, and the reason that doesn't count the subportals is that there aren't any subportals.  The portal hasn't been maintained and so isn't providing a service to the readers, who are doing fine with articles, categories, links, and articles.  If someone wants to develop a portal as a hobby, they are welcome to do so, but it isn't something that the readers need as a service.  Robert McClenon (talk) 17:00, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:03, 25 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 13 subpages, created 2007-10-15 04:32:55 by User:Audacity. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. Portal:Country music. Pldx1 (talk) 09:38, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete: abandoned, does not fulfil purpose of mini Main Page per WP:PORTAL.   SITH   (talk)   11:39, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:TNT, textbook stillborn portal. I've been here since 2005 and maintenance of country music articles has been shockingly lacking the entire time. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 20:01, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete does not meet the breadth-of-subject-area requirement of the WP:POG guideline. UnitedStatesian (talk) 13:28, 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.