Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Malacca

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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) 04:08, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Malacca

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Abandoned non-portal on a marginal topic.

This portal about the Malaysian state of Malacca was created in early 2009, and has been abandoned since 2013. Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Malacca shows that there is only ONE selected article, plus two selected panoramas and three selected pictures. the last article/panorama/picture page to be created was Portal:Malacca/Selected picture/3, in 2013. Since then some of the subpages have had formatting tweaks, but that's it.

There is also a news section, but it's spewing out junk. The first three links it showed me just now are:
 * Turkey's President Erdogan proposes converting Hagia Sophia Museum to mosque -- the mosque is in Istnabul, Turkey
 * Fire kills nine, injures dozens in Chittagong, Bangladesh slum
 * Francis D'Souza, former Deputy Chief Minister of Goa, dies aged 64

No Malacca connection to any of those 3 stories. For the other 7 stories, I looked at the headlines, but I see no Malacca connection.

The head article Malacca is way better that this portal: far more links than the one article here, far more pictures, good navigation from the navbox Template:Melaka. Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". This is one is much degraded version of the head article.

Malacca is only a Level-5 Vital article, i.e. in the 10,001–50,000 range of priority topics. Given the very poor shape of many higher-priority portals and the neglect of this portal over the last year, there is no reason to expect an influx of editors to curate and maintain it.

This abandoned page is just a waste of readers' time. Just delete it. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:49, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - I am sure that BHG, by non-portal, really means non-portal portal. In the 1980s the United States really had financial institutions known as non-bank banks.  Other than that, I concur with the analysis.  Robert McClenon (talk) 03:14, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Seems a potentially viable topic, but I'm coming to the view that if a portal is abandoned for years with only a handful of subboxes and far from meeting the portal project's long-established minimum of 20 articles, it should just be deleted without fuss. Here we have one article and five images. The news looks to be coming from Wikinews Asia. Espresso Addict (talk) 07:47, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Old not-a-portal, 15 subpages, created 2012-10-01 06:36:22 by User:Rachitrali. Making place for a decent portal... if anyone cares to create it. Portal:Malacca. Pldx1 (talk) 10:51, 1 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.