Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Electromagnetism

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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) 00:13, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Electromagnetism


Static portal abandoned since 2006.

Created in June 2006‎ by, but appears to have been built by. Both editors' latest contributions were in 2006.

After long neglect apart from formatting tweaks, the portal was converted in February 2019‎ by @The Transhumanist to an automated format which drew it "selected articles" list solely from the navbox Electromagnetism. That made it a redundant fork of the navbox. (For a full explanation of why this type of portal is redundant, see the two mass deletions of similar portals: one, and two, where there was overwhelming consensus of a very high turnout to delete a total of 2,555 such portals).

The automation was reverted on 12 May 2019 by BHG.

That leaves the portal as a 13-year-old static display. See the subpages at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Electromagnetism:
 * Portal:Electromagnetism/Electromagnetism news: only change since 2006 is removal of a bogus link
 * Portal:Electromagnetism/Featured article: same article since creation in 2006
 * Portal:Electromagnetism/Featured biography: same article since creation in 2006
 * Portal:Electromagnetism/Featured picture: no image at all since 2008

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 140 consecutive updates.

In theory, this a broad topic. But in practice, it has not so far met 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.

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 Electromagnetism and its comprehensive sidebar navbox Electromagnetism.

It is time to stop wasting the time of readers by luring them to this abandoned draft, and time to abandon the dream that this abandoned relic will some day magically attract magical editors who will want to resurrect it. 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, using one of several models available, e.g. Portal:Harz Mountains or the v difft 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) 19:55, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Comments:
 * User:BrownHairedGirl refers to this portal as a static display. A static display, in aviation, is an airplane that won't fly.  Airplanes that won't fly are at least interesting as museum pieces.
 * This portal has had multiple early editors, all of whom haven't edited in the 2010s. They may be interchangeable.  Maybe it doesn't matter.
 * Is this more comparable to Portal:Electricity, which is a subset of it, or to Portal:Gravity, which is also a fundamental force? Does it matter?  Robert McClenon (talk) 21:35, 12 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 16 subpages, created 2006-06-04 00:25:16 by User:Lyra asriel. Never went alive, despite the mesmerization attempt by TTH. Nothing to keep. Portal:Electromagnetism. Pldx1 (talk) 14:40, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom.   SITH   (talk)   11:25, 14 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. Per nom. Portal not touched for over a decade, carved out from the main article+navbox, which has itself been tagged for issues for over half a decade. Britishfinance (talk) 13:46, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment - This portal has 14 daily pageviews. The head article has 1487 daily pageviews.  Robert McClenon (talk) 03:45, 18 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.