Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Nishapur

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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. North America1000 00:22, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Nishapur

 * Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 07:51, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 07:51, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Another abandoned portal, on the Iranian city of Nishapur. Static page, with one selected one biog etc. Very few updates since created in 2011.

Created in April 2011‎ by, who has been indef-blocked for sockpuppetry since 2017.

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Nishapur shows a small set of sub-pages:
 * Portal:Nishapur/Selected biography.   Same topic (Tha'ālibī) since 2011
 * Portal:Nishapur/History. Same topic (Abarshahr) since 2011

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 90 updates.

Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this is massively less useful in every respect than the head article Nishapur. The article is a poor C-class, but still much better than the portal.

The city of Nishapur has a long history, dating back to the 3rd century, but Category:Nishapur shows that Wikipedia has little coverage of it. WP:POG requires that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers" ... and this has not attracted maintainers, and in Jan–Feb 2019 it got only  6  pageviews per day.

So I propose that this portal and its sub-pages be deleted, with prejudice against re-creating it. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:43, 18 May 2019 (UTC).  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete - Another portal by a blocked sockpuppet. I concur with BHG that this is not a broad subject area.  The head article has 204 daily page views, which is one of the lowest numbers we have seen for a head article.  No point in trying to develop a portal.  (My own opinion is that portals should reflect the enthusiasm of the portal maintainer more than the subject, but in this case the specific subject area won't support a portal even with an enthusiastic maintainer.)  Robert McClenon (talk) 00:21, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 07:51, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete: abandoned and of questionable scope.   SITH   (talk)   19:27, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal,  8 subpages, created 2011-04-15 13:39:19 by User:Chyah. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. Portal:Nishapur. Pldx1 (talk) 21:29, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:43, 29 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.