Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Television in the United States

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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. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 23:37, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Television in the United States


Six selected articles: five created in May 2011, one in January 2013.

Five bios created in February 2012. Never updated.


 * Errors


 * House's last season was in 2012. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 20:03, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per the nom. This portal has been abandoned for over seven years, save a one off addition in 2013. It clearly fails WP:POG's requirement that portals should be about subjects broad enough to attract large numbers of readers and maintainers. This portal has had over seven years of no maintainers and it had a low 43 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 over seven years of hard evidence shows Television in the United States is not a broad enough topic to attract readers and maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 02:49, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - I concur with the analysis by Mark S and NH12. Too few articles.  No maintenance in six years.  Head article had 517 page views daily in Jan-Feb 19 (while portal had 41), indicating head article doesn't have enough traffic for a portal.  Editors read about particular TV shows, not about TV in the United States.   There is no short-term reason to expect that a re-creation of this portal will address the problems.  Any proposed re-creation of this portal using a more modern design, and taking into account the failures of many portals, can go to Deletion Review.  Robert McClenon (talk) 01:04, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note to closing admin. I don't want in any way to prejudge the outcome ... but if you close this discussion 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(s) (in this case Portal:United States and Portal:Television), without creating duplicate entries. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 16:20, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator. Regardless of whether the topic is seen as broad enough, the problem remains that portals need maintainers  ... and for a decade, this portal has not been maintained. Unless there is a team of maintainers committed to keeping this portal in good shape for the long-term, it will simply rot again, and continue to lure readers a page which wastes their time and damages the hard-won reputation of Wikipedia.
 * I also oppose re-creation, for the reasons set out by NH12. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 17:39, 2 September 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.