Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Music of Canada

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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. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 23:26, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Music of Canada


Old portal I created that is no longer maintained and with the fact most portals are not seen by the majority of readers really only need the main country one..that is being fixed for mobile views Moxy 🍁 20:29, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per the nom. This portal has been abandoned for over eight years and was never completed, which is why all its sub-pages are littered with red links to never added materials. It clearly fails WP:POG's requirement that portals should be about subjects broad enough to attract large numbers of maintainers and readers. This portal has had nearly a decade of no maintainers and it had a very low 16 views per day from January 1 to June 30 2019. Portals stand or fall on their merits in the now, not what could someday hypothetically happen with them, and this one falls flat. I oppose re-creation, as nearly a decade of hard evidence shows the music of Canada is not a broad enough topic to attract readers or maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 03:30, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
 * As mentioned a few times over the past months.....the red links in the sub pages are there to help facilitate further additions.... they are not in the rotation of the complete. .. yet abandoned portal.-- Moxy 🍁 03:37, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
 * The red links were added to be utilized, but they never were, which is worth mentioning. It shows the portal was never completed or reached its intended potential. A well-maintained or well-built portal would never need red-links sitting around its sub-pages for many years. Newshunter12 (talk) 05:32, 21 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete as per Moxy and NH12. Little maintenance since 2011 except tweaks.   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) 19:10, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note to closing admin. If you close this 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:Canada and Portal:Music), without creating duplicate entries. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 22:50, 25 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.