Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:French Americans

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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. ‑Scottywong | express _ 05:47, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

Portal:French Americans


Unmaintained portal. Two selected articles and two bios that have not been substantially edited since 2010. Creator has been largely inactive since 2017. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 05:21, 23 July 2019 (UTC) Robert McClenon (talk) 00:35, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete – I concur with the analysis by User:Mark Schierbecker:
 * The portal has 6 average daily pageviews in January and February 2019 (using a short baseline because the portal was renamed in April), as opposed to 216 average daily pageviews for the article.
 * The portal uses the heritage model with copied subpages, which is a failed experiment that has been shown consistently to present obsolete information to the reader that even a reasonably competent editor may not know how to update.
 * The originator created this portal and has edited sporadically since then without maintaining the portal. Creating a portal is fun.  Maintaining a portal is work.  There is no obligation to edit regularly or to maintain a portal, but there is no obligation for the Wikipedia community to maintain unused portals.
 * The portal has only four articles, and they have not been updated since 2010.
 * If editors wish to enhance the encyclopedia with regard to this topic, they would be better off simply to add links to articles, such as identifying individuals as French Americans.
 * If a future editor wants to re-create a portal on this topic, either with a failed design or with a modern design, they know where Deletion Review is.
 * Delete This portal's subject does not meet the breadth-of subject-area requirements of the WP:POG guideline.  UnitedStatesian (talk) 03:22, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator. Yet another abandoned mini-portal with abysmal page views.
 * 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 fails on both counts. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 00:42, 27 July 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.