Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Montana

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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) 03:20, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Montana


This is an unmaintained and little-viewed portal on a state of the United States. The following is a listing of the least-viewed state portals:

A complete listing of state portals with metrics can be seen at WP:US State Portal Metrics. Portals that are not maintained are useless, and, if the information that is facing the reader becomes out-of-date, they are worse than useless, because anyone can edit an article, but heritage portals with subpages contain old copies of articles that require special knowledge to edit.

A state of the United States may be considered a priori to be a broad subject area, but this portal has been shown a posteriori not to be attracting readers or a portal maintainer. A portal is a miniature Main Page and requires a substantial investment in volunteer time.

This portal should be deleted without prejudice to re-creating a portal maintained by a volunteer who is willing to invest the time to support a miniature Main Page under the portal guidelines that are in effect at the time. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:06, 13 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - Little content. Few incoming links. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 05:46, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. This portal has been largely abandoned since it was created between 2007 and 2009 by . Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Montana shows only 12 selected topics (6 biogs and 6 articles), with no selected biogs or selected articles added since October 2007.
 * User:John Carter has been indef-blocked since February 2018, so won't be back to work on the portal. But in any case, John Carter hadn't edited the portal for over a decade before his block. I just checked his portalspace contribs, and his last edit to any part of this portal was this one on 3 November 2007.
 * The portal was created by, who has returned as . Wolfdog406 has made no portalspace edits, and Wolfdog1 only ever made 4 edits to the portal, all on 8 June 2007.
 * 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.
 * WP:POG requires that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". But in practice, this portal has not attracted maintainers. And as the nominator has noted, it has also not drawn the readers. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 19:17, 24 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.