Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Mandatory Palestine (2nd nomination)

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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) 00:43, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Mandatory Palestine


Repeatedly abandoned static portal.

History:
 * Created in 27 July 2013 by
 * Speedy deleted on 20 May 2018 per WP:P2, by Maile66, after being tagged by @The Transhumanist (TTH)
 * Re-created on 5 July 2018‎ by, following the disscussion at User talk:Maile66/Archive_8
 * Converted on 22 January 2019‎ to a fully-automated portal by TTH, drawing its article list solely from Template:Mandatory Palestine topics, of which it was therefore a redundant fork wgich is clearly deprecated. (For a full explanation of why this type  of portal is redundant, see the two mass deletions of similar portals: one, and two, where there was overwhelming consensus of a very high turnout to delete a total of 2,555 such portals).
 * Restored to the manual version with subpages by BHG on 10 May 2019‎

As it stands, this portal has a purge button, which is next to useless, because the only subpage type to have more than one option is the DYKs. See Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Mandatory Palestine:
 * Portal:Mandatory Palestine/DYK/1 and Portal:Mandatory Palestine/DYK/2 each of which has only one entry, and would better combined into a single page
 * Portal:Mandatory Palestine/Selected biography/1, unchanged since creation July 2018
 * Portal:Mandatory Palestine/Selected article/1, also unchanged since creation July 2018
 * Portal:Mandatory Palestine/Selected picture/1, also unchanged since creation July 2018

WP:POG says that unless automated, the content selection should be updated monthly, or preferably weekly. But this portal has never been updated or have rotation of content apart from when it was a deprecated navbox-clone.

Wikipedia has lots of coverage of Mandatory Palestine, so in theory this is a broad topic. But in practice, its 6 years of neglect shows that it has actually satisfied WP:POG the requirement that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". The maintainers have never appeared.

Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this one has never been enhanced; it's a just a pale shadow the head article Mandatory Palestine.

After 6 years of abandonment, it is time to stop wasting the time of readers by luring them to this abandoned draft. 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) 20:11, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete with the usual silver bullet for a zombie portal. I don't think that the particular topic, which covers the period from 1919 to 1948, is a self-contained topic for a portal, because it is part of a longer history that is part of the explanation of the present-day tragedy, but that can be discussed later.  Robert McClenon (talk) 22:39, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as an unnecessary fork of the head article and as, due to a lack of maintenance, failing the purpose of portals as described by the nominator.   SITH   (talk)   12:43, 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.