Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean

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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) 20:40, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean


Random regions of Quebec (not cities, but areas the province delivers services in that cover large rural areas and include cities) much like the US counties and Indian districts we already deleted. Too narrow a topic. We have Portal:Quebec and portals on the major cities already. As an alternative to deletion I tried redirecting but was quickly reverted by someone stalking my edits, so just delete. These are older, not WP:X3. For precedent see Miscellany for deletion/US County Portals which Deleted 64 similar portals and Miscellany for deletion/Districts of India Portals which Deleted 30 similar Portals. The Indian ones generally have much higher populations than any Quebec district has. Legacypac (talk) 04:35, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment. [Edit conflict; comment refers only to Portal:Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean] No strong opinion on this particular portal. However it should be mentioned that the nominator previously tried to redirect this to the article, with the summary "Article is better then this" but was reverted. This is not a fully automated portal from a template, but was created manually in 2010. That said, the current content is inadequate with only one selected article, one selected biography and one selected image (unless the auto-portal group have deleted the subpages), but there's several hundred articles in the category and its subcats that could be drawn from to improve it. Espresso Addict (talk) 04:54, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry I was still building the bundle. Legacypac (talk) 05:00, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * These are a bit larger than US counties, aren't they? Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean: 274,880 people & 98,710 sq km cf, say (a random pick), Imperial County, California: 174,528 & 11,610 sq km. (The comparison with the Indian districts is less useful, because the main problem there is underdeveloped content.) Espresso Addict (talk) 05:24, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't have time to look at them all in detail but Laurentides has a population of 589,400. Espresso Addict (talk) 05:32, 26 March 2019 (UTC)


 * I'm more familiar with Regional Districts in British Columbia, which these seem to be very similar too, but Quebec often does things a little different. Regional Districts (and Regions in Quebec it seems) are a geographic area that includes incorporated cities and unincorporated rural areas around them. 100% of the province falls within a region, while only more densely populated areas fall within a city or municipality. The nearest US equivilant is a typical US county. The first one includes the City of Saguenay population 143,692 and a WHOLE lot of rural area around it. Quebec, like most of Canada, has some vast areas with plenty of trees and bears and not much else. Some regions have much larger populations. In BC for example, Metro Vancouver Regional District inludes Vancouver, Richmond, Burnaby, Surrey, New Westminster, North Vancouver and more. Most of the top population municipalities fall into one regional district and the next few are in two adjoining regional districts. Legacypac (talk) 05:40, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

Compare to Laurentides which is a pretty short article that provides all the links to community pages and data you need. Legacypac (talk) 05:44, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I wonder if there might perhaps be more in French? There's a French version Portail:Laurentides which has some attractive images that could be used to enhance our one. Espresso Addict (talk) 06:27, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * The french article is somewhat longer but still largely lists of places in the region. Only has a single ref to a govt website. . So even if we beefed up the English page to match the French one, there is not enough scope here. Legacypac (talk) 08:32, 26 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete: not useful to readers beyond existing articles. --K.e.coffman (talk) 12:03, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - The subjects do appear to be the equivalent of US counties and Indian districts. They were not created during the splurge of portal creation, but earlier; however, it appears that the author who created the portals has not been active for more than one-and-one-half years, so that no one is maintaining the portals in any real way.  The usual arguments apply.  Robert McClenon (talk) 23:25, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. The regions of Quebec aren't a level at which portals are really all that badly needed — they make some sense for countries, states or provinces, but less so at a county or region level. Even though consensus didn't actually land on the side of completely blowing the whole portal system up when that was proposed for discussion last year, we did end up settling on a consensus to review the criteria for where they are or aren't needed, how well they do or don't need to be maintained, and on and so forth, and to get rid of some of the underperforming ones. Not everything or everyone who exists always needs a portal alongside their main article, and overly narrowcasted portals that aren't actually being maintained or used don't really need to stick around. Bearcat (talk) 22:32, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I've added one more region Bearcat found. The lists of portals are way out of date/inaccurate much like many of the portals. Legacypac (talk) 22:59, 1 April 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.