Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Mizoram

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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) 01:07, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Mizoram


Long-abandoned manual portal with subpages.

It was created in April 2011 as a skeleton, then after no further edits it was speedy-deleted 2 months later as a skeleton.

It was re-created in May 2012‎ by, who also created some subpages.

However, Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Mizoram shows that nothing much has happened since:
 * Portal:Mizoram/Selected biography shows the same topic as in 2012
 * redirects to Portal:Mizoram/SC Summary/SA Serchhip. This is not currently used in the portal, and I haven't found whether it was ever used
 * The portal currently uses Portal:Mizoram/Selected article/17, which has has no change of topic since 2012
 * Portal:Mizoram/Selected picture is unchnaged since 2012
 * Portal:Mizoram/Did you know contains 4 items, with only tweaks since 2012

In September 2018‎ @The Transhumanist converted it to automated format which drew its "selected articles" list solely from the navbox Template:Mizoram, making the portal a reundant fork of the navbox. (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). So on 11 May BHG reverted to the last non-automated version.

WP:POG says that unless automated, the content selection should be updated monthly, or preferably weekly. Even on a monthly cycle, this pseudo-portal has missed over 75 consecutive updates.

In theory, this a broad topic. Mizoram is a state of India, with a population of about 1 million; it's the 2nd-least populous Indian state. But in practice, it doesn't meet the WP:POG requirement that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". This has not attracted maintainers, and in Jan–Feb 2019 got only 6 pageviews per day

It is time to stop wasting the time of readers by luring them to this abandoned draft, and time to abandon the magical thinking that this abandoned relic will some day magically attract magical editors who will want to resurrect it. If any editor does want to build a real portal, they will be far better off without this relic and its ancient content-forked subpages; instead they should build a modern portal without content-forked sub-pages, as has recently been done with Portal:Geophysics.

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) 15:40, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - This isn't exactly a zombie portal. This portal was in utero for a long time after being incorrectly declared stillborn after false labor and was then born, but, after a strange birth, has failed to thrive.  A silver bullet may be in order anyway.  Robert McClenon (talk) 17:58, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete without prejudice to curated reconstruction.   SITH   (talk)   12:27, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and above. Largely unsupported and adds little to the main article+navbox, which should be the focus of our editing in this niche topic. Britishfinance (talk) 13:08, 17 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.