Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Osaka

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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) 20:38, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Osaka


Abandoned micro-portal on the city of Osaka, Japan. No list of topics, no rotation of topics. Just a static display of 2 items.

Created in May 2006‎ by, who last edited in 2010.

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Osaka shows just a skinny set of sub-pages: Selected article/1, /Selected biography/1, /Selected picture/1, all unchanged since 2010. Portal:Osaka/DYK/1 has displayed the same 3 items since 2010. They do appear to be genuine DYKs items, but per WP:DYK, "The DYK section showcases new or expanded articles that are selected through an informal review process. It is not a general trivia section" ... and this 9-year-old list loses the newness, so its only effect is as a trivia section, contrary to WP:TRIVIA.

WP:POG says that unless automated, the content selection should be updated monthly, or preferably weekly. Even on a monthly cycle, this portal has missed over 100 consecutive updates.

WP:POG requires that portals be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". This one has not been maintained, and it doesn't attract readers: in Jan–Feb 2019 it got only 11 pageviews per day, less that even the abysmal median for all portals of 13 views per day, and only about 0.5% of the 2,008 daily pageviews for the head article Osaka.

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 Osaka.

Maybe a miracle will happen, and some team of editors will appear to build and maintain an Osaka portal which actually adds value for readers. 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. But since most city portals outside the USA are neglected, the chances of any replacement being maintained are slim ... so I won't oppose outright deletion. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 07:41, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete:
 * Portals require active maintenance to fulfil their purpose.
 * While this topic could be broad enough, its selection is not.
 *  SITH   (talk)   11:05, 24 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - As per analysis by BHG. As stated, city portals get less than 1% of the pageviews of the head article.  They are also often abandoned, as this one has been.  Robert McClenon (talk) 12:57, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 17 subpages, created 2006-05-06 07:34:35 by User:KGF~enwiki. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. Portal:Osaka. Pldx1 (talk) 10:32, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Redirect Portal:Osaka to Portal:Japan, Delete the rest of the pages. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 17:07, 31 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.