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. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:22, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:East Midlands England[edit]

Static portal abandoned since 2007, aprt from minor updates in 2013.

Created[1] February 2007‎ by Ftmichael (talk · contribs).

It escaped the 2018–19 fad for conversion into automated and redundant fork of a navbox, but is way out-of-date. Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:East_Midlands_England shows:

Portal:East Midlands England/Selected article/1 is unchanged since 2013
Portal:East Midlands England/Selected article/2, Portal:East Midlands England/Selected article/3, Portal:East Midlands England/Selected article/4 and Portal:East Midlands England/Selected article/5 have all been empty since their creation in 2013
Portal:East Midlands England/Did you know is not a DYK at all. Since its creation in 2007 it has just been advert for WikiProject Derbyshire
Portal:East Midlands England/Selected picture has shown the same image since 2007[2]
Portal:East Midlands England/Topics just transcludes ((East Midlands))

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

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 updates, and it is time to stop wasting the time of readers by luring them to this abandoned draft.

This might in theory be a broad enough topic to 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". But in practice it has not attracted maintainers, and if anyone does want to build a genuinely useful portal they would do better to start afresh than try to resurrect this relic.

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) 03:00, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I'm unsure whether English regions are a good basis for a portal, as (other than Greater London, which would be redundant to Portal:London)) they're not really cohesive cultural reasons, more smaller areas grouped for statistical and limited government administrative purposes. It's not really surprising to me therefore that this failed to get off the ground. In this case I also agree that if someone does want to maintain a portal on this topic that this isn't going to be much help as a starting point. As a final, very minor, point I also think it's named wrongly - if Portal:East Midlands is regarded as requiring disambiguation (the main article is at East Midlands) it should be Portal:East Midlands, England or (my preference) Portal:East Midlands of England to match real world usage. Thryduulf (talk) 12:32, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, ONE article, ONE picture, created 2007-02-12 18:03:43 by User:Ftmichael. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. Portal:East Midlands England. Pldx1 (talk) 13:11, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I note that Thryduulf recommends deletion, and that is an additional reason beyond those given by BHG. Another abandoned portal, maybe a broad area, maybe not. Robert McClenon (talk) 15:14, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: currently fails POG scope and active maintenance requirement. SITH (talk) 11:08, 14 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.