Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Land of Oz

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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) 04:56, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Land of Oz


Another mini-portal that is abandoned and was always minimal. Portal:Land of Oz was created in 2005 by a sporadic editor and has had very little maintenance since then. Between 1 Jan 2019 and 30 Jun 2019, had an average of 1 daily pageview, or 131 total pageviews in six months, as contrasted with 313 daily pageviews. In the particular case of fantasy or invented worlds, I think that what the fans really want is an open forum for both discussion and fanfiction, which are fan participation activities. Wikipedia portals are not meant for fan participation, which would probably be called original research or something, because Wikipedia has an entirely different outlook. There was little maintenance between 2005 and 2011, and even less since 2019, but there is very little to maintain. By the most generous count there are 3 articles including the list of books (unless one wants to count all of the book articles also). This portal may have been created to serve a purpose, fan participation in worlds, for which Wikipedia isn't the right world. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:38, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per the nom. WP:POG states portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". This junk portal has been abandoned for a decade and can't even conjure one reader everyday. On average, it's .72 readers a day. Abandoned fan creations like this harm Wikipedia because they lure readers into derelict spaces that are not only time sucks, but reek of being a pseudo-fan site page, which is not at all what this encyclopedia is meant to be about. Newshunter12 (talk) 17:07, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete clearly a fan creation, not enough content to sustain a project. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 06:57, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment. OR was never meant to cover talkpages, let alone portals. I think it's a perfectly fine page, despite having the Ozian flag colors on the page.-- Auric   talk  00:02, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Too narrow a subject area per WP:POG; it is really functioning as an alternative navbox to the existing navbox in this subject area.  Poor viewership and abandonment by other editors underline its failure to function as a useful portal. Britishfinance (talk) 00:49, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Too narrow of a subject area. As it stands it mostly just gives an overview of the book series and that does not give enough material for an entire portal. I think it is rather unlikely to attract much attention from readers and editors. Only a few series with big fan bases and many spin-offs can pull that off. There appears to be recent editing and an active construction notice though. Questions for Did you plan to expand this portal? If yes, in what way? --Hecato (talk) 21:55, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
 * No, my only interest was to match the title of the Portal to the title of the lead article. UnitedStatesian (talk) 15:44, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you. --Hecato (talk) 15:51, 12 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete another worthless book portal, like I said once before books don't need a portal.Catfurball (talk) 19:28, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note redirects: Portal:Oz, Wikiportal/Oz. This will need to be checked when clearing backlinks. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 23:58, 14 August 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.