Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Swimming

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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) 23:28, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Swimming


Static micro-portal abandoned since 2006. No list of topics, no rotation of topics, just a few changes to some of the sub-pages.

Created in March 2006‎, whos elast edit was in 2010. 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:Swimming shows only a small set of sub-pages:
 * Portal:Swimming/Selected article. Same topic (International Swimming Federation) since 2007
 * Portal:Swimming/Selected athlete. One change of topic, in 2016, after same topic for 10 years
 * Portal:Swimming/Selected picture. Image changed only twice in 13 years: 2007 and 2012
 * Portal:Swimming/Swimming news. Updates in 2007, 2008, 2016, and 2017
 * Portal:Swimming/Quotes. Same quote since 2011, unsourced
 * Portal:Swimming/Featured material. Created in 2007. Only one update, in 2016
 * Portal:Swimming/Did you know. Same single item since 2006, which as far as I can see is nothing to do with WP:DYK. . 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 is just 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 well over 100 updates in all.

In theory, swimming is a broad topic. But in practice, it has not met 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". It has had only v occasional updates to only some pages, but has not been maintained.

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 swimming.

Maybe someone will find a way to make such a better portal, and a team of editors to maintain it ... 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) 17:16, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as per analysis by BHG. I think I will do some aquatic exercise rather than view the portal further.  Robert McClenon (talk) 21:48, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete: unmaintained, narrow in its selection, topic is wide enough in theory, so no prejudice as per usual.   SITH   (talk)   11:20, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment - Draft of a portal, 16 subpages, created 2006-03-24 05:11:18 by User:YellowMonkey, registered maintainerUser:Ask123. No baby, no bathwater, who is supposed to swim where ? Portal:Swimming. Pldx1 (talk) 13:11, 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.