Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Madurai

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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) 03:47, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Madurai

 * -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 20:42, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 20:42, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Delete small city, few articles, daily visitors also very limited. Reza (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:14, 29 May 2019‎ (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: The portal was tagged on 29 May, and this discussion page was created, but the discussion page was never transcluded at WP:MFD. I have now added it to MFD, and tagged it as a relisting to ensure that the bots let it run for 7 days.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 20:42, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator.
 * Created in February 2011‎ by . The lead of WP:POG has said since late 2006 "Do not create a portal if you do not intend to assist in its regular maintenance", but that has not happened here. எஸ்ஸார்'s last edit to this portal was in August 2011‎.
 * Only 2 live selected article. Portal:Madurai/Selected article/3 awaits translation, and Portal:Madurai/Selected article/4 is blank.WP:POG requires that portals have "a bare minimum of 20 non-list, in topic articles". But after eight years, this has only 2 articles, a mere tenth of the bare minimum.
 * WP:POG requires that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". But this has not attracted maintainers in the last 8 years, and it has attracted only 6 pageviews per day in Jan–Feb 2019. That's less than half the abysmal median for all portals of 15 views/day and a risible 0.7% of the 868 daily views of the head article Madurai.
 * In any case, two newish features of the Wikimedia software means that the article and navboxes offers all the functionality which portals like this set out to offer. Both features are available only to ordinary readers who are not logged in, but you can test them without logging out by right-clicking on a link, and the select "open in private window" (in Firefox) or "open in incognito window" (Chrome).
 * mouseover: on any link, mouseover shows you the picture and the start of the lead. So the preview-selected page-function of portals is redundant: something almost as good is available automatically on any navbox or other set of links.  Try it by right-clicking on this link to Template:Madurai, open in a private/incognito tab, and mouseover any link.
 * automatic imagery galleries: clicking on an image brings up an image gallery of all the images on that page. It's full-screen, so it's actually much better than  a click-for-next image gallery on a portal.   Try it by right-clicking on this link to the article Madurai, open in a private/incognito tab, and click on any image to start the slideshow
 * Similar features have been available since 2015 to users of Wikipedia's Android app.
 * These new features set the bar very high for any portal which actually tries to uphold the core principle of WP:PORTAL: that "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". This abandoned micro-portal is just a first draft of an outdated model of portal, and it comes nowhere near satisfying that principle. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 22:34, 4 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - I concur with the analysis by BHG. The portal originator edits sporadically, every few months, but, as BHG notes, has not maintained the portal, and the portal has only 6 average daily pageviews.  Robert McClenon (talk) 22:49, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete – In the absence of criteria WP: POG for cities and the exclusion of the parent portal Portal:Cities I understand that a portal about only one city is not a broad topic.Guilherme Burn (talk) 13:08, 6 June 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.