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. ‑Scottywong | [speak] || 03:49, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Human rights[edit]

Stillborn portal. Seven selected articles created in 2010, and one created in 2012. Six bios created in 2010 and never updated. Accordingly, the entry for Aung San Suu Kyi still says she's under house arrest. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 04:41, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – Not !voting at this time, but for the WP:READERS, I have updated the entry for Aung San Suu Kyi using a transclusion, to present up-to-date content (diff). North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:25, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per the nom. This portal has been abandoned for over nine years, save for a one-off addition in 2012. It clearly fails WP:POG's requirement that portals should be about subjects broad enough to attract large numbers of maintainers and readers. That a biography for the famed Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi sat unchanged for over nine years even as her life and country changed enormously says it all about this junk portal. This portal has had over nine years of no steady maintainers and it had only 61 views per day from January 1 to June 30 2019 (while the head article Human Rights had 3553 views per day in the same period). 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 a decade of hard evidence shows Human Rights are not a broad enough topic to attract readers and maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 17:23, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – This is a poorly maintained but well-viewed (more than 50 daily pageviews) portal. Any proposal to delete this portal should focus on whether it is doing any actual harm, such as presenting incorrect information to the reader. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:12, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Question - Is User:Northamerica1000 waving a dead rat? Robert McClenon (talk) 20:12, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Portals should be about broad subject areas that will attract large numbers of readers and portal maintainers. That is a three-part test. However, we have seen that arguing a priori that a subject area is broad does not necessarily result in broad portal coverage. This portal has 13 articles (less than 20) via content-forked subpages. Is there a plan to re-architect the portal and to expand its coverage? Robert McClenon (talk) 19:21, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete without prejudice to a newer design that does not use subpages that become obsolete. Inadequate coverage and inadequate maintenance, resulting in long periods when incorrect information was presented. A portal with a newer design that does not use subpages should be accepted, at least for trial. Robert McClenon (talk) 15:46, 24 August 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.