Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Telangana

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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 without prejudice to recreation of a portal that does this subject justice. MER-C 19:11, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Telangana


Static portal with no topic list or slideshow or rotation of content, abandoned since 2014.

Created in June 2014‎ by. As far as I can see, never automated.

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Telangana shows a limited set of sub-pages:
 * Portal:Telangana/Selected article, same topic (Charminar) since creation in October 2014
 * Portal:Telangana/Selected article/7,Portal:Telangana/Selected article/8 & Portal:Telangana/Selected article/9 are all just forks of the above, all about Charminar
 * Portal:Telangana/Selected biography, unedited since its creation in October 2014
 * Portal:Telangana/Spotlight City, unedited since its creation in October 2014
 * Portal:Telangana/Did you know, only one formatting edit since its creation in October 2014
 * Portal:Telangana/Featured picture, unedited since its creation in October 2014

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 over 50 consecutive updates.

In theory, the Indian state of Telangana 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". This has not attracted maintainers.

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 Telangana.

It is time to stop wasting the time of readers by luring them to this abandoned draft, and time to abandon the fantasy that this abandoned relic will some day magically attract magical editors who will want to resurrect it. If any editor does want to build a real portal, they will be far better off without this relic and its ancient content-forked subpages; instead they should build a modern portal without content-forked sub-pages, such as Portal:Harz Mountains or the v difft Portal:Geophysics.

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) 16:49, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Another portal that doesn't do anything. Not being maintained.  Robert McClenon (talk) 19:58, 12 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 17 subpages, created 2014-06-07 19:44:54 by User:Hariehkr. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. Portal:Telangana. Pldx1 (talk) 16:02, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete:
 * Potentially broad scope but it has never been demonstrated per WP:POG
 * Lack of maintenance per WP:PORTALs means this fails its purpose
 *  SITH   (talk)   11:30, 14 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.