Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Haryana

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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) 02:22, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Haryana

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Mini-portal on the Indian state of Haryana, with very low readership. Abandoned since 2012 apart from the usual 2018 layout tweaking to the main page. Poor WP coverage of the topic area.

This portal was created on  24 June 2012‎ by, whose last edit to the portal was only 11 days later, on 5 July 2012. (see Vishal14k's portal-space contribs). Since late 2006, the lead of WP:POG has warned "Do not expect other editors to maintain a portal you create", but Vishal14k did not follow that guidance.

Whatever Vishal14k's reasons for abandoning their creation, portals need maintenance, and this one has not had any.

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Haryana shows a modest set of sub-pages: Selected biography/5 and /6 are both about the same living person (Arvind Kejriwal). Both have been edited to display a date of birth different from that in the article.
 * 6 selected articles. /Selected article/1, /2, /3, /4, /5, all unchanged since their 2012 creation by Vishal14k.  /Selected article/6 is unchanged apart from an image swap in 2012.
 * 6 selected biogs, all BLPs. Selected biography/1, /2, /3, /4, all unchanged since their 2012 creation by Vishal14k, apart from a bot removing an image from /3.
 * In the news, displaying two news stories from 2012, without noting that they are from 2012. Readers have to follow the links to learn that the "news" is 7 years old.

WP:POG requires that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". POG also guides that "the portal should be associated with a WikiProject (or have editors with sufficient interest) to help ensure a supply of new material for the portal and maintain the portal". This fails on at least three of the four counts:
 * 1)  Broad topic . No. Haryana is a newish state (created in 1966), but obviously the area's documented history long predates that.  However, Category:WikiProject Haryana articles  contains only 1089 articles, with only 3 GAs and no FAs. Only 41 articles are C-class or higher.
 * 2)  High readership .  No. The portal's January–June 2019 daily average of only 9 views per day is trivially low.
 * 3)  Lots of maintainers . No. The content has been abandoned since 2012.
 * 4)  WikiProject involvement . No. WP:WikiProject Haryana appears to be very active, but a search of its talk archives from "Portal:Haryana" brings up only Vishal14k's 2012 announcement of the portal's creation.

After 7 years of abandonment, it's time to just delete this portal. Given the scarcity of readers, the complete lack of interest from maintainers, and the lack of suitable content, I also oppose re-creation. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:32, 16 September 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:India), without creating duplicate entries. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 00:48, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as per analysis by BHG. Low readership at 9 daily pageviews, not enough articles (12), no maintenance on articles since 2013.  Re-creation does not seem useful.  Robert McClenon (talk) 02:05, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per the thorough and highly detailed investigation of the portal by the nominator,  Brown HairedGirl . Portals stand or fall on their merits in the now, not what could someday hypothetically happen with them, and this one falls flat. It's a pointless time suck that lures readers to an over seven-year-long abandoned micro-portal and damages Wikipedia's hard won reputation for quality. I oppose re-creation, as over seven long years of hard evidence shows Haryana is not a broad enough topic under WP:POG to attract readers or maintainers. This portal is a solution in search of a problem. Newshunter12 (talk) 06:48, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

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 * Delete this worthless junk portal.Catfurball (talk) 23:32, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. For the record, there are also only seven B-class articles at the moment. That's a pretty slim chance at reasonable recreation as well. ToThAc (talk) 16:20, 19 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.