Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Jodhpur

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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) 01:12, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Jodhpur


Abandoned old-style portal with subpages. Minimal content, and no updates since shortly after creation in 2016, when is creator stopped editing.

Unlike the slew of portals abandoned a decade ago, this one was created in October 2016‎ by, who last edited later in October 2016‎.

However, it contains a limited set of subpages, all abandoned since its creator's departure. See Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Jodhpur:
 * Portal:Jodhpur/Selected article/1, unchanged since its creation in 2016
 * Portal:Jodhpur/Selected article/2, unchanged since 2016
 * Portal:Jodhpur/Selected biography/1, unchanged since its creation in 2016
 * Portal:Jodhpur/Selected picture/1, unchanged since its creation in 2016
 * Portal:Jodhpur/Selected picture/2, unchanged since the day of its creation in 2016
 * Portal:Jodhpur/Did you know, which only a formatting change since the day of its creation in 2016

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 30 consecutive updates.

In theory, the city of Jodhpur is a broad topic; its population is ~1 million. But as is often the case with cities outside Europe and the anglosphere, 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 8 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 old content-forked subpages; instead they should build a modern portal without content-forked sub-pages, such as the topic list at Portal:Harz Mountains or something like 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) 20:13, 11 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - Sigh. Yet another Indian portal that was set up in enthusiasm and has languished without a maintainer.  Robert McClenon (talk) 01:01, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination and my comments on the others. It's a shame but at the end of the day, unless they're curated, Wikipedia isn't for fancily designed content forks with some pretty HTML and CSS, especially when they're rarely viewed in comparison to the head article.    SITH   (talk)   12:15, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 15 subpages, created 2016-10-12 20:40:04 by User:Avgr8. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. Portal:Jodhpur. Pldx1 (talk) 17:30, 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.