Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Gilgit-Baltistan

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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) 01:16, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Gilgit-Baltistan


Mini-portal on the Gilgit-Baltistan province of Pakistan. Abandoned since 2012.

Created in September 2012‎ by, whose last portalspace edit was in October 2012 and who was blocked in 2017 as a sockpuppet.

It avoided the rash of converting portals to automated forks of a navbox.

However, Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Gilgit-Baltistan a limited set of sub-pages:
 * Portal:Gilgit-Baltistan/Selected article/1, same article (Gilgit) as it displayed in 2012
 * Portal:Gilgit-Baltistan/Selected biography/1, topic changed twice in 7 years: July 2017‎ and July 2018 (see history)
 * Portal:Gilgit-Baltistan/In the news, bot-generated content since June 2018‎, currently blank
 * Portal:Gilgit-Baltistan/Did you know/1 displayed a single off-topic item from 2012–15 (the Kalasha people of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province).  Since 2015 it has been displaying a single unlinked entry
 * Portal:Gilgit-Baltistan/Districts, just a static list of districts

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 85 consecutive updates.

In theory, this a broad topic. But in practice, it has not 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 Gilgit-Baltistan and its navbox Gilgit-Baltistan topics.

It is time to stop wasting the time of readers by luring them to this abandoned draft, and time to abandon the magical thinking 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. Examples include Portal:Harz Mountains and 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) 20:31, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Another portal by a blocked sock. The usual comments apply.  Robert McClenon (talk) 23:01, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete:
 * WP:POG scope, potentially wide enough, isn't at the moment.
 * WP:PORTALs require automated or active maintenance, this has neither.
 * Therefore, delete with the usual caveat.   SITH   (talk)   10:59, 14 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.