Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Sri Lanka Railways

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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) 10:54, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Sri Lanka Railways


Abandoned mini-portal. Redundant to the navbox Template:Rail transport in Sri Lanka.

Created in December 2012‎ by, whose last portal-space edit was in November 2013. The lead of WP:POG says "Portals which require manual updating are at a greater risk of nomination for deletion if they are not kept up to date. Do not expect other editors to maintain a portal you create" ... and this one has not been maintained.

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Sri Lanka Railways shows a modest list of sub-pages:
 * Portal:Sri Lanka Railways/Did you know, a list of unsourced factoids which does not appear to have ben derived from WP:DYK, and aprt from copy-editing si the same as in 2012
 * Portal:Sri Lanka Railways/Selected article/1, which is about Rail transport in Sri Lanka. That's redundant, because that article is linked from the top section of the portal.
 * Portal:Sri Lanka Railways/Selected article/2, about Northern line (Sri Lanka). Also redundant, because it's included in Template:Rail transport in Sri Lanka.
 * Portal:Sri Lanka Railways/Selected article/3, about Sri Lanka Railways S12. The only non-redundant item of te set of 3, but topic unchanged since 2012.

Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this is massively less useful in every respect than the head article Rail transport in Sri Lanka and its navbox Template:Rail transport in Sri Lanka.

WP:POG guides that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". This one has clearly not been maintained.

Two newish features of the Wikimedia software means that the article and navboxes offers all the functionality which portals like this set out to offer. Both features are available only to ordinary readers who are not logged in, but you can test them without logging out by right-clicking on a link, and the select "open in private window" (in Firefox) or "open in incognito window" (Chrome).
 * 1) mouseover: on any link, mouseover shows you the picture and the start of the lead.  So the preview-selected page-function of portals is redundant: something almost as good is available automatically on any navbox or other set of links.  Try it by right-clicking on this link to Template:Rail transport in Sri Lanka
 * 2) automatic imagery galleries: clicking on an image brings up an image gallery of all the images on that page. It's full-screen, so it's actually much better than  a click-for-next image gallery on a portal.   Try it by right-clicking on this link to the article Rail transport in Sri Lanka.

Similar features have been available since 2015 to users of Wikipedia's Android app.

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) 09:01, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete: abandoned portals serve no purpose. Usual issues and provisos apply.    SITH   (talk)   11:23, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Concur with analysis by BHG. Yet another non-maintained portal.  Creating portals, whether with subpages or robotically, is easy and fun compare to maintaining them.  Portal has 7 average daily pageviews.  Robert McClenon (talk) 15:20, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - as bad as the previous. Pldx1 (talk) 13:17, 25 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.