Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Metro Detroit

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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. MER-C 16:27, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Metro Detroit


Abandoned portal on a narrow topic. WP:POG requires that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers." This portal has neither large numbers of readers and no maintainers. The portal has essentially been abandoned for nine years, aside for some one-off updating by different editors over the years. The creator left Wikipedia in 2014, but last edited the portal in 2012. The page view count is quite low. From January 1 - June 30 2019, there was an average of 20 views per day to the main page (while the head articles Detroit and Metro Detroit had 4,513 views |Metro_Detroit per day in the same period.)

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Metro Detroit shows of the 8 articles, six were last updated in 2010-11, one in 2012, and one in 2018. The one biography article is unchanged since creation in 2010, while its subject Anna Gordy Gaye died over 5 and 1/2 years ago in 2014. This is five and 1/2 years of misleading readers with critically inaccurate information on the only biography in the portal. All seven of the suburb articles date to 2010. There are only 3/4 the minimum number of articles under POG, which is 20. The small picture gallery was last touched at creation in 2010. The Things to Do section was last updated in 2013 by a passing editor. There is no DYK section and the news section takes you elsewhere.

WP:POG also guides that "the portal should be associated with a WikiProject (or have editors with sufficient interest) to help ensure a supply of new material for the portal and maintain the portal." However, while WikiProject Michigan is active, its involvement with this portal appears to have ended over nine years ago shortly after creation, and was closely related to their Detroit Taskforce, where the last actual conversation among editors where one responded to another was a November 2013 comment and a June 2014 response.

It's time to stop luring readers to this nine year long abandoned junk portal, which misleads them and fails WP:POG. It's time to just Delete it. Newshunter12 (talk) 06:50, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as per analysis by User:Newshunter12. Very little maintenance since 2012.   There is no short-term reason to expect that a re-creation of this portal will address the problems.  Any proposed re-creation of this portal using a more modern design, and taking into account the failures of many portals, can go to Deletion Review.  Robert McClenon (talk) 22:41, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator. For me, the starkest element of this portal's abandonment is Portal:Metro Detroit/Intro, which in its current version displays in para 2 the population data from the 2000 census.  The broad data from the 2010 United States Census was published in 2011, and showed a significant fall in the population of Metro Detroit.  Yet after 8 years, the portal is still displaying the outdated info in the lead, above the fold.
 * Luring readers to this abandoned junk does them a huge disservice, and damages the reputation of Wikipedia.
 * WP:POG requires that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". This has attracted only low numbers of readers, and no maintainers. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 02:50, 26 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Note to closing admin. I don't want in any way to prejudge the outcome ... but if you close this discussion as delete, please can you not remove the backlinks?  I have an AWB setup which allows me to easily replace them with links to the next most specific portal(s) (in this case Portal:Michigan), without creating duplicate entries. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 20:58, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Topic is too narrow to warrant a portal. SD0001 (talk) 15:10, 30 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.