Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Yoruba people

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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) 07:48, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Yoruba people


Static mini-portal about the Yoruba people, abandoned since 2008.

Created in August 2008‎ by who last edited in May 2018.

The list of subpages at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Yoruba people is slim, and the key subpages have already been moved by @UnitedStatesian to the Nigeria partal:
 * moved to Portal:Nigeria/Selected article/4. Same topic (Oyo Empire) since 2008.
 * moved to Portal:Nigeria/Selected biography/7. Same topic (Fela Anikulapo Kuti) since 2008.
 * Portal:Yoruba people/Selected picture/1. Same image  (File:IbejiTwins.jpg) since 2008.
 * Portal:Yoruba people/Did you know, unfixed since it was hijacked in 2008 with a few POV paragraphs about how wonderful Yoruba people are.

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 130 consecutive updates.

Category:Yoruba people looks a bit slim to consider it a broad topic. That's probably because of Wikipedia's systemic bias against African topics, but whatver the cause, the articles are not threre. And in practice, it doesn't meet 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 Yoruba people and its navbox Yoruba topics.

It is time to stop wasting the time of readers by luring them to this abandoned draft, and time to abandon the magical thinking 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, as has recently been done with Portal:Geophysics.

So I propose that this portal and its sub-pages be deleted, with prejudice against re-creation. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:07, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as failing the breadth-of-subject-area requirement of the WP:POG guideline. Both this one and Portal:Igbo people should be covered at Portal:Nigeria, provided that one survives deletion.  UnitedStatesian (talk) 22:13, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - A portal is a miniature Main Page, and is labor-intensive. Is someone willing to invest time to maintain the portal?  Silence implies non-assent.  Robert McClenon (talk) 02:31, 20 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.