Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Jordan

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: keep . ~ Amory (u • t • c) 11:27, 19 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Jordan

The country... yes there is enough scope here but maintenance is a BIG problem so it fails existing WP:POG:

There are big white empty boxes
There are chopped up images
An empty DYK box runs vertically down the right side
Featured articles include "this is a list of... "
The portal was restarted in Jan 2019 by TTH [1]
TTH added it to Category:Portals with errors in need of immediate attention and then wandered off to create hundreds more broken portals. No one has bothered to fix it since
DYK ... that Jordan Poole's game-winning buzzer beater three point shot in the 2018 NCAA Basketball Tournament was nearly identical to his shot in the 2017 Dick's National High School Championship Game?
DYK... that LaVar Ball claimed that he would have beaten Michael Jordan in one-on-one basketball?
DYK... that the fatal shooting of her son inspired Lucy McBath to advocate for gun control and ultimately run for the United States Congress?
No one cleaned up the many subpages after making automated junk out of it, and no one watching the portal has tried to fix it after automation.

If a country level portal is allowed to exist for almost 3 months with this many obvious errors, and even is tagged as having serious errors, then there is no one maintaining it. Similar to Portal:Aruba but somewhat worse. He also left Portal:Andorra and Portal:Sierra Leone and maybe other countries in a similar broken mess. Legacypac (talk) 20:56, 11 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - This is an abandoned heritage portal that was broken by the portal platoon. It is also ugly, too tall and skinny. It also has stupid DYKs that illustrate that robots should not play the DYK game. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:42, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I keep my opinion about country portals, I believe they automatically meets WP: POG. Like Portal:Aruba "This is a country portal, meets WP:POG. Can be easily expanded."Guilherme Burn (talk) 11:29, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Countries should almost always pass WP:POG. Deletion is not cleanup. SportingFlyer T·C 20:06, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Article had close to 173,000 readers in the last 30 days. Portal got 400 views and I bet they had a good laugh and clicked away. MfD is cleanup for this mess and reader rejection is a good reason to delete. Legacypac (talk) 20:11, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Just because this was vandalised in January does not mean it should be deleted. All but the smallest countries make good topics for portals. Espresso Addict (talk) 02:38, 13 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Suitable topic, bad implementation. Restore the manual version, which didn't have these problems. In particular, the old DYK section was actually a selection of relevant DYKs for Jordan. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 23:29, 13 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Some fixes have added "... that Savannah Jordan was the first soccer player in the history of the Southeastern Conference to be named SEC Offensive Player of the Year as a freshman?" Legacypac (talk) 00:40, 14 April 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.