Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Crimea

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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. — xaosflux  Talk 17:49, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Crimea


Static mini-portal about Crimea. Created in 2007 and largely abandoned since 2009.

Automated by @The Transhumanist in February 2019‎. Automation reversed in April 2019.

The list of sub-pages at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Crimea shows that most of them are unchanged:
 * Portal:Crimea/Selected article, same topic (Yalta) since 2007
 * Portal:Crimea/Selected picture, same pic since 2008
 * Portal:Crimea/Crimea news, as of the current version (last edit 2018) still displaying news from 2014
 * Portal:Crimea/Did you know, only tweaks since 2007
 * Portal:Crimea/Crimea topics, only tweaks since 2007

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 130 consecutive updates.

In theory, this might be broad topic. But in practice, it has never 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". This has not attracted maintainers, and in Jan–Feb 2019 got only 9 pageviews per day

It is time to stop wasting the time of readers by luring them to this abandoned page. 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 Crimea and it navbox Crimea topics

This abandoned relic is unlikely to suddenly attract the maintainers which it has lacked for 12 years. If any editor does want to build a real portal, they will be far better off without this relic and its ancient content-forked subpages; instead they should build a modern portal without content-forked sub-pages, per e.g. Portal:Mecklenburg-Vorpommern or Portal:Geophysics.

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) 17:08, 15 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete While it only took me a single edit to fix the News section, I still think this sub-national geographic division does not meet the WP:POG guideline's breadth-of-subject-area requirement, and the existing articles and navigation tools do a perfectly fine job of covering every aspect of this subject and navigating among them. UnitedStatesian (talk) 17:15, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - The head article had 2600 daily pageviews, as opposed to the 9 daily pageviews for the portal. The subject area is a present-day battleground, and we can expect battleground editing.  We don't normally need portals in areas that have to be covered by ArbCom discretionary sanctions due to battleground editing.  Robert McClenon (talk) 18:41, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete: abandoned and its purpose is better served by the existing article and navbox infrastructure.   SITH   (talk)   11:42, 17 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.