Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Weimar Republic

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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) 07:03, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Weimar Republic

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Delete 15-year period in a single country's history falls far, far, short of the breadth-of-subject-matter requirement of the WP:POG guideline; in this case the subject can be more than adequately covered in Portal:Germany. UnitedStatesian (talk) 05:38, 6 September 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:Germany), without creating duplicate entries. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 21:28, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as per UnitedStatesian. I have compared the metrics for Portal:Weimar Republic with Portal:Germany, which is one of our best portals (although even it is prone to subpage rot, which could be remedied by converting the article subpages to a list, as is already done with the German food).  Portal:Weimar Republic has 8 daily pageviews, which is not much better than noise.   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, and including a maintenance plan (since lack of maintenance is a problem with most portals), can go to Deletion Review.  Robert McClenon (talk) 02:03, 8 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete per the nom and Robert M. This portal has been abandoned for nearly two years, and is seven articles short of POG's minimum of 20. Since late 2006, the lead of WP:POG has said "Do not expect other editors to maintain a portal you create" ... and this one has not been maintained by Niet-0-leuk, who last updated it in Sep. 2017 and last edited Wikipedia in April 2018. 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 nearly two years of no maintainers and it had an abysmal 8 views per day from January 1 to June 30 2019 (while the head article Weimar Republic had 2,875 views per day in the same period).
 * POG also states portals should be associated with a wikiproject, but while WikiProject Germany is active, this portal has never been mentioned on the talk page, is not listed at all the main page, and has no link to the project on its own main or talk pages. 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 nearly two years of hard evidence shows the Weimar Republic is not a broad enough topic to attract readers or maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 04:36, 8 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete this worthless junk portal forever.Catfurball (talk) 19:40, 11 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.