Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Madhya Pradesh

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) 01:07, 19 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Madhya Pradesh[edit]

Old style portal with subpages, but abandoned since 2009/10 with only one of each.

Created[1] in September 2009‎ by !dea4u (talk · contribs), who also created the subpages[2].

The list of subpages at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Madhya Pradesh shows:

Portal:Madhya Pradesh/Selected article, same topic since 2009[3]
Portal:Madhya Pradesh/Selected biography, same topic since 2010[4]
Portal:Madhya Pradesh/Madhya Pradesh news, currently showing news items only from 2009 and 2010
Portal:Madhya Pradesh/Selected picture, same picture as in 2010[5]
Portal:Madhya Pradesh/Did you know, now new items since 2009[6]

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 100 consecutive updates.

Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this decade-old relic is a massively degrade version of the head article Madhya Pradesh, with its navbox Template:State of Madhya Pradesh.

In theory, the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh is a broad topic; it has a population of 75 million people. 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; it has attracted only a decade of neglect.

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) 16:41, 11 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Not another portal about what should be a broad topic area but has no maintainers and requires that User:BrownHairedGirl perform the same incantation repeatedly. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:01, 11 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nominator. I'm beginning to thing a User:BrownHairedBot might be in order. SITH (talk) 12:26, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 17 subpages, created 2009-09-04 19:14:00 by User:!dea4u. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. Portal:Madhya Pradesh. Pldx1 (talk) 16:20, 13 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.