Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Television in Canada

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. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 04:56, 5 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Television in Canada

Old partially finished portal with only 8 articles in rotation Moxy 🍁 22:57, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - As noted by nominator, only 8 articles, mostly unchanged since 2013 except for one drive-by edit in 2016. Portal has 11 pageviews daily in Jan-Jun 19. Head article has only 113 daily pageviews, which is not enough interest to support a portal. (Viewers don't want to read about television in Canada. They want to read about specific Canadian TV shows.) Also the head article has been tagged for multiple issues since 2010 (again not supporting a portal). There is no short-term reason to expect that a re-creation of this portal will address the problems. Any proposed re-creation of this portal using a more modern design, and taking into account the failures of many portals, can go to Deletion Review. Robert McClenon (talk) 00:08, 29 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per the nom and Robert McClenon. This portal has been abandoned for over six years, save for some one off updates by passing editors. Since 2006, the lead of WP:POG has said "Do not expect other editors to maintain a portal you create" ... and this one has not been maintained by Jj98, who last updated it in March 2013 and has since retired. It clearly fails WP:POG's requirement that portals should be about subjects broad enough to attract large numbers of readers and maintainers. This decrepit portal has had over six years of no steady maintainers and it had a very low 11 views per day from January 1 to June 30 2019. Portals stand or fall on their merits in the now, not what could someday hypothetically happen with them, and this one falls flat. I oppose re-creation, as nearly eight years of hard evidence shows Television in Canada is not a broad enough topic to attract readers or maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 06:05, 29 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Topic is too narrow to warrant a portal. SD0001 (talk) 15:20, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Note to closing admin. I don't want in any way to prejudge the outcome ... but if you close this discussion as delete, please can you not remove the backlinks? I have an AWB setup which allows me to easily replace them with links to the next most specific portal(s) (in this case Portal:Canada and Portal:Television), without creating duplicate entries. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:07, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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