Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Romani people

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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. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 03:49, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Romani people

 * Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:04, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:04, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Static portal created in 2007. Some changes in 2013, but abandoned since then.

Created in June 2007‎ by, and didn't touch this portal after the day it was created., and last edited in 2013.


 * Portal:Romani people/Selected article, same topic (Erromintxela language) since creation in 2013
 * Portal:Romani people/Selected biography, same topic (Ian Hancock) since creation in 2007
 * Portal:Romani people/Romani people topics, just a transclusion of Romani diaspora
 * Portal:Romani people/Did you know, same topics since creation in 2007. 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" ... but this 12-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 pseudo-portal has missed over 140 consecutive updates.

In theory, this a broad topic. But in practice, it doesn't meet the WP:POG requirement that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". This has not attracted maintainers, and in Jan–Feb 2019 got only 9 pageviews per day

It is time to stop wasting the time of readers by luring them to this abandoned draft, and time to abandon the magical thinking that this abandoned relic will some day magically attract magical editors who will want to resurrect it. If any editor does want to build a real portal, they will be far better off without this relic and its ancient content-forked subpages; instead they should build a modern portal without content-forked sub-pages, as has recently been done with Portal:Geophysics.

I am unsure how boroad thsi topic is, 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. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 07:36, 20 May 2019 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete - Yet another abandoned heritage portal. Portal has 9 average daily pageviews, compared with 6077 average daily pageviews for head article.  My own opinion is that, in addition to not being maintained, the portal does not provide an adequate introduction to the complex and often tragic history of these people.  In any case, it is not being maintained, and would require a miniature Main Page to satisfy the objectives for portals.  Robert McClenon (talk) 15:09, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:04, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 11 subpages, created 2007-06-21 14:29:55 by User:Ronline. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. Portal:Romani people. Pldx1 (talk) 12:32, 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.