Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Government of the United States

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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. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:38, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Government of the United States


Laughably out of date portal. Current legislation, Pending cases, and Current Administration sections are presenting news from Obama's first term.


 * Thirteen selected articles:
 * Portal:Government of the United States/Selected article/1. Created in July 2008; never updated.
 * Portal:Government of the United States/Selected article/2. Created 2008, updated in September 2010.
 * Portal:Government of the United States/Selected article/3. Created July 2008; never updated.
 * Portal:Government of the United States/Selected article/4. Created 2008; updated September 2010.
 * Portal:Government of the United States/Selected article/5, created 2008; updated September 2010.
 * Portal:Government of the United States/Selected article/6, created July 2008.
 * Portal:Government of the United States/Selected article/7. Created September 2010; never updated.
 * Portal:Government of the United States/Selected article/8. Created September 2008; updated in February 2016 with new Speaker Paul Ryan; out of date since he was replaced by Nancy Pelosi in January 2019.
 * Portal:Government of the United States/Selected article/9. Created September 2010; never updated.
 * President of the United States, created September 2010; was mercifully updated with Trump's presidency in April 2017.
 * Portal:Government of the United States/Selected article/11. Created September 2010; never updated.
 * Portal:Government of the United States/Selected article/12. Created September 2010; never updated.
 * Portal:Government of the United States/Selected article/13. Created April 2011; never updated.

Also lol at this IP's edit summary. this edit Mark Schierbecker (talk) 07:43, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per the nom. This portal has been abandoned for over eight years, save for some one-off updates by passing editors. It clearly fails WP:POG's requirement that portals should be about subjects broad enough to attract large numbers of readers and maintainers. This portal has had over eight years of no steady maintainers and it had a low 59 views per day from January 1 to June 30 2019. The Current Administration, Current legislation, and Pending cases sections are all eight years out of date. The number of sub-pages is bulked up by six empty "tab" sub-pages. Portals stand or fall on their merits in the now, not what could someday hypothetically happen with them, and this one falls flat. I oppose re-creation, as over eight years of hard evidence shows the Government of the United States is not a broad enough topic to attract readers and maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 08:21, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete without prejudice to a better design that does not use subpages. This is a moderately well-viewed portal, but it is a portal that is clearly very obsolete and is displaying incorrect information to readers. The obsolescence of the subpages is an inherent flaw of the use of subpages.  An included page list would be a better design.  The advocates of portals do not appear to be interested in designing better portals.  The Transhumanist created far too many useless portals, but some of his designs were reasonable designs to solve the wrong problem.  The In The News is up-to-date, but that is because it is being retrieved by an article search.  This portal was tagged with the Portal Maintenance Status template as broken with a missing category tree for a year, which illustrates that the tagging of portals is unproductive.   Robert McClenon (talk) 01:56, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note to closing admin. I don't want in any way to prejudge the outcome ... but if you close this discussion as delete, please can you not remove the backlinks?  I have an AWB setup which allows me to easily replace them with links to the next most specific portal(s) (in this case Portal:United States and Portal:Politics), without creating duplicate entries. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 16:22, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator. Long-term abandonment is clear fail of POG.  I oppose re-creation, because it's very clear that this portal simply doesn't atarck the large numbers of maintainers required by POG. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 00:29, 2 September 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.