Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Sports in 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) 08:42, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Sports in Canada


Seventeen never-updated entries including all of selected Articles, Organizations and Events. Of the Bios before the April/June merge with Portal:National Basketball League of Canada and Portal:National Basketball League of Canada, all except #2 were never updated after 2010 creation. That was updated in 2012.

Post April 2019 merge: Bio sequencing got really messed up after the botched merges, which I am working on cleaning up.
 * Bios numbers 6 and 7 were created in May 2015, never updated. After the NBL merge the layout template was deleted, so both entries are currently broken.
 * Number 8 was created in 2007 and updated about three times, last in April 2019


 * Note that there is a redirect from Portal:Sport in Canada. The backlinks will need attention if portal is deleted. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 21:43, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete This portal has been abandoned for over nine years (save for some sporadic additions over the years) and was never completed, which is why all it's 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 nine years of no steady maintainers and it had a very low 8 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 sports in Canada is not a broad enough topic to attract readers or maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 23:02, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete, and oppose re-creation.
 * 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 fails on all three counts:


 * 1) Narrow topic . We could have a theoretical debate about whether or not this topic is broad, with answers depending mostly on how we frame the question.  But we don't need a theoretical debate, because we have the evidence of the past 9 years:
 * 2) Low readership .  The portals daily average of only |Portal:Sport_in_Canada 12 views day in Jan–Jun 2019 is trivially low.
 * 3) Lack of maintainers . This portal has been almost completely abandoned, so it falls far short of the "large numbers" of maintainers required by WP:POG.
 * Given that evidence of failure, some extraordinary evidence of change would be required to justify any re-creation. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 00:35, 19 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete as per Mark S, NH12,and BHG. BHG's pageview rate of 12 reflects views also of the redirect Portal:Sport in Canada; there has been a lot of recent tweaking of the portal to try to improve it, which doesn't really address the problem that the head article has 290 daily pageviews.  People evidently don't view Sports in Canada; they read about ice hockey and Canadian football and what North Americans call soccer.  Any re-creation can go to Deletion Review.  Robert McClenon (talk) 20:53, 19 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:Sports and Portal:Canada), without creating duplicate entries. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 21:22, 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.