Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Mass surveillance

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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. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:07, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Mass surveillance


Micro-portal abandoned since 2014.

Created in January 2014‎ 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, because HectorMoffet was indef-blocked 3 weeks later and the block has not been lifted.

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Mass surveillance shows a modest set of sub-pages which is smaller than it appears:
 * Portal:Mass surveillance/Selected article/2. Portal:Mass surveillance/Selected article/3, Portal:Mass surveillance/Selected article/4 and Portal:Mass surveillance/Selected article/5 are all identical.
 * Portal:Mass surveillance/Selected biography/5 is empty

That just leaves a static dispaly of one article, one biog, and one programme. WP:POG recomends aminimum of 20 articles for each heading, but this has one of each.

Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this is no enhancement of the head article Mass surveillance. It's just an abandoned draft, so I propose that we just delete it. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 06:36, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - I concur with the analysis by BHG, who refers to this portal as a static display. A static display is an airplane that won't fly, either as a museum piece, or a trophy, or for some other reason. An airplane that won't fly cannot be used for surveillance.  Robert McClenon (talk) 04:28, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 19  subpages, created 2014-01-25 21:25:32 by User:HectorMoffet. Never went alive. Nothing to keep (empty subpages). Portal:Mass surveillance. Pldx1 (talk) 12:54, 4 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.