Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Government of Pakistan

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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) 01:09, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Government of Pakistan


Abandoned manual portal.

Created in October 2007‎ by.

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Government of Pakistan shows a v limited set of subpages.

Portal:Government of Pakistan/Selected articles has had no topic change since June 2012, when the toipic was set as Nawaz Sharif. It still asserts that Sharif is Prime Minister, which in Sharif's case is very very wrong.

The only other content page is Portal:Government of Pakistan/Selected articles/October, 2007, which is about Prime Minister of Pakistan. AFAICS, it hasn't been displayed since Oct 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 80 consecutive updates.

In theory, this a broad topic. But in practice, it doesn't meet 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.

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, as has recently been done with 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) 17:47, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - The most interesting thing about this portal is the editing history of its creator. One edit, creating this portal.  User:BrownHairedGirl has performed her incantation.  Is someone else going to come and perform the counter-spell to call spirits from the vasty deep to maintain this portal?  Go and look up the reply to that line.  Robert McClenon (talk) 18:11, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?   SITH   (talk)   12:23, 12 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep per my counter-spell above.  SITH   (talk)   12:23, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination.   SITH   (talk)   12:23, 12 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment - Will the portal maintainer come, as a spirit from the vasty deep, when the tag is used to request a maintainer? Robert McClenon (talk) 14:59, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment - Portal created 2007-10-13 04:25:21 by User:Nomi887. A comment by the declared maintainer User:Pakieditor would be useful.  Portal:Government of Pakistan. Pldx1 (talk) 18:20, 12 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment Well if this portal's topic is broad, then you may delete it, but I would prefer to wait for consensus from more admins. Pakieditor (talk) 07:02, 14 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. Never supported, and therefore no future in WP. In addition, the main article is not a great one, and if we have any editing resources/time in this area, it should be focused on the main article.  I also think portals on governments are more prone to being FORK'ed, which makes abandoned ones on controversial governments particularly onerous. Britishfinance (talk) 13:13, 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.