Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Indian independence movement

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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) 02:04, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Indian independence movement


Old-style manual portal with just one selected article.

This portal was created in December 2006, and doesn't seem have developed at all since then. Its sub-pages (see Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Indian Independence Movement) are:
 * one selected article: Gandhi. Who is probably the one member of the movement everyone has heard of, so adds nothing
 * one DYK page, with 4 entries
 * one Topics page, which looks like a copy of Template:Indian Independence Movement as it was on 29 December 2006, when the portal was created
 * one Selected picture: Gandhi again, with Jinnah

Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this one is not enhanced; It's just an outdated one intro to the topic, with neither depth nor breadth. The head article Indian Independence Movement and the navbox Template:Indian Independence Movement provide vastly better navigation, better topic sampling, and lots more pictures.

I am pretty sure that the scope of the topic is plenty broad enough to support a very fine portal, if some editor wants to build and maintain it. (After 12 years of neglect, I wouldn't bet on that, but there can be surprises).

But this portal as it stands is fails the basic criteria for a portal. So I propose that this portal and its sub-pages be deleted without prejudice to recreating a curated portal which is not a fork of some other page, in accordance with whatever criteria the community may have agreed at that time. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 03:22, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Another heritage portal by a now-inactive editor, and with a limited scope, no maintenance, no added value. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:44, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 14 subpages, created 2006-12-29 05:50:07 by User:Sushant gupta. Nothing to be kept while waiting for some  team who would do the job.. Portal:Indian independence movement. Pldx1 (talk) 10:20, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment. This is very odd. There's some beautiful boilerplate about how they are going to select articles ... and no articles. The creator of all the boilerplate is still active, unlike the portal creator, perhaps they would like to comment. Espresso Addict (talk) 15:02, 7 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.