Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Romanian football

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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) 16:17, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Romanian football


Abandoned portal with a big farm of massively-outdated content forks, mostly on BLPs.

It was created in January 2009‎ by, who also created most of the sub-pages. The lead of WP:POG has said since late 2006 "Do not create a portal if you do not intend to assist in its regular maintenance", but that has not happened here. Bine Mai's last eedit to wp was in February 2018, but their last edit to this portal was in December 2010. Since Bine Mai moved on, the portal has been abandoned aprt from formatting tweaks.

The list of sub-pages at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Romanian football is quite big, but problematic.
 * Portal:Romanian football/Selected biography, with 17 sub-pages
 * Portal:Romanian football/Selected foreign players, with 33 sub-pages
 * Portal:Romanian football/Selected article, with 10 sub-pages
 * Portal:Romanian football/Liga I round, with 24 sub-pages

Portal:Romanian football/Liga I round was an attempt to track each stage of the league, but that was abandoned within months of the portal's creation. Those pages are not used in the portal.

The selected articles are mostly about clubs, and the excerpts are more ten years out of date. Even worse, the overwhelming majority of the 50 pages on players are about BLPs, and they to are all ten years out of date. e.g.:
 * Portal:Romanian football/Selected biography/13 is about Cristian Chivu, and says that "He is the captain of the Romanian national team and currently plays for Internazionale of the Italian Serie A". Actually, he left the captaincy in 2010, and retired from playing in 2014.
 * Portal:Romanian football/Selected foreign players/29 is about Pablo Brandán, who it says "is currently under contract with Romanian team Steaua Bucureşti". He actually left Steaua Bucureşti in 2012.

The result is that there is nothing here worth keeping. If anyone want to revive this portal, they would have to replace the whole lot.

I usually propose that abandoned portals be deleted per WP:TNT, without prejudice to re-creation. But given this portal's long history of abandonment, and the fact that it seems only to have ever been the playthng of one editor, I think it's better to just delete this portal and all their sub-pages. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:47, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - I concur with the recommendation by BHG that this portal be deleted because it contains obsolete information due to its lack of a maintainer. However, the pageview metrics are "interesting".  One could argue truthfully but misleadingly that the portal has 43% as many views as the head article Football in Romania.  That is true, but the portal has only 6 daily pageviews.  The head article has 14 daily pageviews, when most head articles have 500 and 10,000.  An editor who is interesting in the topic would be better off to work on improving the viewing of the head article than on developing a new portal.  Robert McClenon (talk) 20:00, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Abandoned portal, 143 subpages, created 2009-01-12 18:50:25 by User:Bine Mai. Nothing to keep: expired snippets. Main cause: a too narrow topic. Portal:Romanian football. Pldx1 (talk) 14:04, 7 June 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.