Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Roads 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. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:39, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Roads of Canada


Six of the seven selected articles were created in 2010 and never updated. The seventh was created in March 2014 and never updated.
 * Note - that there is a redirect from Portal:Canada Roads. The backlinks will need attention if portal is deleted. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 22:56, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per the nom. This portal has been abandoned for over eight years (save one small update in 2014) 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 eight years of no steady maintainers and it had an abysmal 3 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 roads of Canada is not a broad enough topic to attract readers or maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 00:19, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom by Mark S and analysis by NH12. Only 7 articles that have not been updated.  The portal has only 3 daily pageviews, but the head article has only 23 pageviews, indicating that the topic is not broad enough to support a portal.  (Users don't want to read about roads in Canada.  They want to read about specific roads in Canada.)  Any re-creation can be via Deletion Review.  Robert McClenon (talk) 02:12, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator and per @Newshunter12 +@Robert McClenon. This is yet another a long-abandoned mini-portal, whose selected articles consist of only outdated content forks. It should have been deleted long ago.
 * 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 has attracted only trivially small numbers of readers, and no maintainers.
 * I also oppose recreation. We have a decade's evidence that editors don't want to maintain this one. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 15:16, 20 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete this portal totally worthless, there should only be one road portal.Catfurball (talk) 00:06, 23 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 (in this case Portal:Roads and Portal:Canada), without creating duplicate entries. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 22:09, 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.