Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Indian wildlife

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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) 01:11, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Indian wildlife


Old-style manual portal with subpages. Just a skimpy static page, abandoned since 2009.

Created in April 2007‎ by, and AFAICs never automated.

The list of subpages at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Indian wildlife is thin:
 * Portal:Indian wildlife/Did you know had 4 items, with no additions since 2007
 * Portal:Indian wildlife/Selected articles has displayed the same article since its creation in 2007
 * Portal:Indian wildlife/Selected pictures has displayed the same article since its creation in 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 140 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, and in Jan–Feb 2019 got only 9 pageviews per day

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, or a detailed list of topics like Portal:Harz Mountains.

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) 19:36, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Yet another abandoned heritage portal without a maintainer to rotate the tigers, rhinoceroses, and Asian elephants. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:59, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination and my reasoning at Portal:Jodhpur, among others.   SITH   (talk)   12:17, 12 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 11 subpages, created 2007-04-16 12:13:32 by User:Sushant gupta. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. Portal:Indian wildlife. Pldx1 (talk) 17:31, 12 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.