Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Washington, D.C.

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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) 08:39, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Washington, D.C.


Selected article (singular, not plural) and image (singular) almost completely unchanged since 2006. Panorama added in May 2010. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 06:41, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per the nom. Barely developed portal abandoned for over a decade, save for tiny edits and one panorama added in 2010. 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 a decade of no maintainers and it had a very low 19 views per day from January 1 to June 30 2019 (despite the head article Washington, D.C., a Featured Article, having 8,429 views per day in the same period). 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 a decade of hard evidence shows Washington, D.C. is not a broad enough topic to attract readers or maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 07:13, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete, concurring with the analyses by User:Mark Schierbecker and User:Newshunter12. As noted, very little maintenance since 2006, and none since 2016.  Only ever one article at a time, with the article changed once.  Maybe this portal was overlooked by the portal advocates who favor regional portals because they didn't know whether this is a city, a territory, or a state.  Pageviews in January-February 2019 were 22 for the portal and 8738 for the head article, not very different from the six-month baseline.   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) 14:54, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Too narrow a topic to warrant a portal. SD0001 (talk) 15:07, 30 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), without creating duplicate entries. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 16:22, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator, NH12 and RMCcC, and oppose re-creation. This bonsai portal clearly fails the POG requirements for readers and maintainers.
 * The head article Washington, D.C. is an excellent featured-class page very: well-maintained, with copious links and images and sampling of sub-topics. That article does a vastly better job than the portal page of the core portal tasks of navigation and showcasing, and it's long past tine to stop luring readers to this abandoned-at-birth pseudo-portals. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 23:32, 1 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.