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) 02:43, 14 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Tamil Eelam[edit]

Last brought for deletion discussion in 2015 @Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Tamil Eelam this abandoned page is very outdated and not supported. A bunch of generic edits by the portals crew has not addressed the fundamental issue this is an outdated static mirror POV page about a separatist group that has not been finished since 2012. The news section includes 404 errors and links [1] to 2012 news. The keep arguments from 2015 no longer hold water because no one fixed the page even though it lives in Category:Portals under construction Legacypac (talk) 01:20, 5 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I've cleaned up and updated the portal, but there hasn't been much in the news since 2012. The WikiProject of the same name is currently inactive. --Auric talk 13:34, 5 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry but clean up only when it hits MFD does not show this will be maintained. This is the second MFD even and its been in the under construction category for years. Legacypac (talk) 15:52, 5 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - A portal on a controversial topic that resulted in a war but is not being maintained is a terrible idea. Delete. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:18, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - The tragedy of Sri Lanka is not so much that it was colonized by Great Britain, but that, when it was colonized, it was made into a crown colony rather than a princely state in Imperial India. As a result, when India was decolonized, it became a nation rather than a state, so that the Indian Army was not available to suppress the civil war. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:18, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. This topic deserves a portal, and should not sink with the TTH overflow. After the required cleaning, we will have a better perspective about this specific one. Pldx1 (talk) 10:42, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, per RMC. Unmaintained controversial topic portals are a recipe for disaster. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:29, 13 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Unmaintained and controversial per the above, but also too narrow a topic, and almost unused.

WP:POG requires that portals be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers", but this isn't even a level-5 vital article (top 50,000 subject areas).

It's also unused by readers. See the pageviews for Jan–Mar 2019:

Portal:Tamil Eelam: 117 total, i.e. 1.3 per day
Tamil Eelam: 21,533 total, i.e. 239/day

So the portal gets only 0.54% of the pageviews of the head article. Yet again, the evidence is clear: readers find that the head article is a good enough navigational hub. They don't need a portal. -BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 09:47, 13 April 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.