Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Nova Scotia

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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. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 15:01, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Nova Scotia


Old abandoned portal with minimal views and no maintainer that has not been updated since 2010 Moxy 🍁 00:26, 15 August 2019 (UTC) The five DYK items listed at Portal:Nova Scotia/Did you know? are all unchanged since their creation in 2010 (part one trivial edit). None of them has any connection to WP:DYK, which says "The DYK section showcases new or expanded articles that are selected through an informal review process. It is not a general trivia section" ... but this list is not of new/expanded scrutinised hooks. These are fake DYKs, just an outdated WP:TRIVIA section.
 * Delete This portal has been abandoned for over seven years and was never completed, which is why most of 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 over seven years of no maintainers and it had a very low 14 views per day in June and July 2019 (despite the head article Nova Scotia having 2630 views per day in the same period). Portals stand or fall on their merits in the now, not what could someday hypothetically happen with them, and this one falls flat. I am strongly against allowing recreation, as over seven years of hard evidence shows Nova Scotia is not a broad enough topic to attract readers or maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 04:21, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete concurring with nomination and with analysis by User:Newshunter12. Portal has 13 articles, which are not being maintained.  (Guideline says 20 is minimum.)  Any request to re-create any provincial portals deleted for multiple reasons using a newer design should go to Deletion Review.  Robert McClenon (talk) 01:10, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete this portal isn't needed.Catfurball (talk) 16:22, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator and per @Newshunter12 + @Robert McClenon.
 * 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 fails on each of the three counts:
 * Broad topic . Nova Scotia had a 2016 population of only ~920,000. The experience of data examined at many dozens of MFDs on geographical portals is that regions or cities with population under a million rarely achieve high levels or readership or maintainers, and that several million is needed to get a decent chance of viability.
 * High readership . The portal's January–June 2019 daily average of only 12 views per day is trivially low.
 * Lots of of maintainers . The 7 selected articles and 7 selected biogs are all content forks, and all of them are unchanged since a commendable bout of maintenance in 2012 by @Hantsheroes.
 * This is yet another a long-abandoned micro-portal. It should have been deleted long ago.
 * I also oppose recreation. We have a decade's evidence that editors don't want to maintain this one. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 00:11, 20 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.