Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Education in India

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. — JJMC89 (T·C) 01:11, 19 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Education in India[edit]

Abandoned non-portal which has never showcased any articles, whose navigation is simply a transclusion of the navbox Template:Education in India, and whose image gallery is simply a gallery of the images in the head article Education in India.

That gallery is has an extra layer of redundancy, because not only are all the images available in the head article, even the gallery feature is redundant: for ordinary readers who are not logged in, clinking on an image brings up an image gallery of all the images on that page. It's full-screen, so it's actually better than even a click-for-next image gallery on a portal. Similar features have been available since 2015 on the Wikipedia app for Android.

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Education in India shows only one content page:Portal:Education in India/Selected article, which was been empty[1] since its creation in June 2013‎ by @Northamerica1000.

This pseudo-portal was created[2] in August 2009‎ Amol.Gaitonde (talk · contribs), doubtless with very good intentions.

But WP:POG#How_often_to_update? 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 110 consecutive updates ... including the first, crucial, addition of any content at all.

In theory, this a broad topic. Even just in higher education, Category:Universities and colleges in India contains a huge number of universities.

But in practice, this 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, and in Jan–Feb 2019 got only 4 pageviews per day

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 per WP:TNT, without prejudice to recreating a curated portal in accordance with whatever criteria the community may have agreed at that time. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:38, 11 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - I will not repeat what I have already said, because I don't have a subst template for the purpose. I will repeat if required to do so. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:56, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nomination and my reasoning at Portal:Jodhpur, among others. SITH (talk) 12:18, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, providing ZERO articles, created 2009-08-01 11:36:35 by User:Amol.Gaitonde. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. Portal:Education in India. Pldx1 (talk) 17:39, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Wasting reader's time. --Muhandes (talk) 15:49, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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.