Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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) 00:48, 9 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Lancaster, Pennsylvania

This one was sad to nominate because I can see at one point someone put a lot of work into it at one time. However, its creator KnoxSGT has not edited here since 2007.
I made it look nice again, but I have no intentions of maintaining this portal of [what I presume to be] KnoxSGT's hometown. I, therefore, propose that this portal and is sub-pages be deleted without prejudice to recreating a curated portal, etc., etc. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 21:58, 1 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment to clarify, I don't think this meets WP:POG's breath-of-scope requirement. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 22:00, 1 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - The selected article is The Hershey Company, but Hershey isn't in Lancaster County. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:21, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - Milton Hershey actually started his first candy company in Lancaster before moving to its present location in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Scanlan (talk) 01:31, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Yet another abandoned portal that wasn't going to meet breadth-of-scope anyway. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:21, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete unless a maintainer/expander comes forward. Not a very wide topic area, but Wikipedia's coverage is relatively rich: Category:Lancaster, Pennsylvania. However there only looks to have been one selected article and one bio, plus 6 pictures and a handful of DYKs. The head article has an orange-level tag in one section (though it might be overkill). Espresso Addict (talk) 16:15, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Old portal, 23 subpages, created 2006-12-29 21:30:59 by User:KnoxSGT. Abandoned draft, nothing to save here. Portal:Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Pldx1 (talk) 08:01, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - There's mo doubt it needs an update, but it seems like a decent resource. I know I'm in the minority, but with an update it has definite potential. Scanlan (talk) 01:31, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Scanlan: are you planning on updating it? That is all I ask. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 02:43, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Hi :@MJL: - Actually, now that you mention it, I will update it, if that's still OK. As you mentioned above, someone put ALOT of work into this and I'd hate to see it lost. I can fix the link rot, swap out some of the older articles, etc. (Nice add with the Fasnacht (doughnut) by the way). I honestly had no idea Portals were even a thing on Wikipedia. It may take a couple days, (I haven't been on Wikipedia in 3 or 4 days), but it will be done. Thanks MJL! Scanlan (talk) 04:13, 7 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  @Scanlan: just a word of caution that Portal:Pennsylvania is in just-as-bad-if-not-worse shape. It might be worth salvaging what remains of this portal and moving the contents to there. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 04:25, 7 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, with prejudice against re-creation. Lancaster, Pennsylvania is a small city, with a population of only 59,000. In most of Europe, that would classed as a large town, not a city. This is a narrow topic, and while it may be copiously documented, it fails the WP:POG criterion that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". Iy got only 11 pageviews per day in Jan–Feb 2019, and it clearly has not attracted maintainers over the last decade.

Ten years after creation, the state of the portal is abysmal. Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Lancaster,_Pennsylvania shows:

One selected article: The Hershey Company, founded in Lancaster, but which spent only ten years there before leaving over 110 years ago, and has been located 30 miles away ever since
One selected biography: Charles Demuth, who did at least spend all his life in Lancaster
Portal:Lancaster, Pennsylvania/Lancaster, Pennsylvania news, with two items, with both external links, which state no year, but the latest was added in 2015
Portal:Lancaster, Pennsylvania/Did you know with 6 entries, but some of which seem dubious. e.g. The first item is that "With 165 surveillance cameras, Lancaster is the most heavily watched city in the United States." That was added in 2009[1], and may or may not be true now ... but the word "Lancaster" has never been used in the linked article Closed-circuit television (see WikiBlame

So there is nothing here to keep, or even draftify. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:45, 7 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.