Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Kolkata

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) 01:13, 19 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Kolkata[edit]

Old-style mini-portal with sub-pages, about the Indian city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). It was created in 2008 and has been abandoned since 2011/2013.

This portal was created[1] in 27 January 2009‎ by Amol.Gaitonde (talk · contribs), who created several other India-related portals. Amol.Gaitonde appears to be semi-retired, with only 7 edits since 2014.

Anyway, this portal never really got off the ground. Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Kolkata shows:

Portal:Kolkata/Did you know with 6 subpages, but 4 of the page are blank and there are only two items in total. The latest of them is Portal:Kolkata/Did you know/2, created in 2013
Portal:Kolkata/Selected articles/1, displaying the same topic since its creation in 2011[2]
Portal:Kolkata/Selected articles/2, displaying the same topic since 2011[3]
Portal:Kolkata/Topics is unchanged since its creation, and is just as transclusion of Template:Kolkata topics.

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 80 consecutive updates.

Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this is massively less useful in every respect than the featured-class head article Kolkata.

In theory, this large and historic city a broad topic. But 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, and in Jan–Feb 2019 got only 8 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) 23:08, 11 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - As specified. It is easy to assume that broad-topic portals will attract maintainers. However, a Bayesian approach to statistics indicates that this doesn't happen. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:22, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nomination, an abandoned, rarely-visited portal does not fulfil its stated purpose. SITH (talk) 12:13, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 27 subpages, created 2009-01-27 08:09:07 by User:Amol.Gaitonde. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. Portal:Kolkata. Pldx1 (talk) 17:28, 12 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.