Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Curaçao

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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) 05:04, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Curaçao


Abandoned micro-portal on a narrow topic.

Created on 1 December 2018‎‎ by, replacing a redirect which I created in January 2017‎‎. The lead of WP:POG has said since late 2006 "Do not create a portal if you do not intend to assist in its regular maintenance", but that has not happened here: the last edit by Boxingx2 to this portal was on 1 December 2018, the day the portal was created.

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Curaçao shows a slim set of sub-pages:
 * 1 selected article
 * 4 selected biogs

And that's it. 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 Curaçao and its navbox Template:Curaçao topics. There is no list of topics or anything else to add value.

WP:POG recomends that portals have a "a bare minimum of 20 non-list, in topic articles.". This manages only a quarter of that bare minimum.

Two newish features of the Wikimedia software means that the article and navboxes offers all the functionality which portals like this set out to offer. Both features are available only to ordinary readers who are not logged in, but you can test them without logging out by right-clicking on a link, and the select "open in private window" (in Firefox) or "open in incognito window" (Chrome).
 * 1) mouseover: on any link, mouseover shows you the picture and the start of the lead.  So the preview-selected page-function of portals is redundant: something almost as good is available automatically on any navbox or other set of links.  Try it by right-clicking on this link to Template:International volleyball, open in a private/incognito tab, and mouseover any link.
 * 2) automatic imagery galleries: clicking on an image brings up an image gallery of all the images on that page. It's full-screen, so it's actually much better than  a click-for-next image gallery on a portal.   Try it by right-clicking on this link to the article Volleyball, open in a private/incognito tab, and click on any image to start the slideshow

Similar features have been available since 2015 to users of Wikipedia's Android app.

Maybe someday someone might build and maintain a portal which actually adds value for readers. However WP:POG requires 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 nor has it attracted viewers: in Jan–Feb 2019, this portal got an average of only 2 pagwviewes per day, whereas the head article Curaçao got 3,943 — 2000 times more.

And this is a narrow topic. Curaçao is not a sovereign country, just a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of only 160,000 ... which is less than than that of the city portals recently deleted at MFD:Smaller city portals.

I usually propose that abandoned portals be deleted per WP:TNT, without prejudice to recreating a curated portal ... but in this case, the narrowness of the topic leads me to say just delete this portal and its sub-pages. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:22, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - The figure of 2 pageviews per average day speaks for itself. The analysis by BHG also speaks for itself.  Robert McClenon (talk) 01:20, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal,  8  subpages, created above a redirect 2017-01-24 15:16:55 by User:BrownHairedGirl. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. Portal:Curaçao. Pldx1 (talk) 11:18, 4 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.