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) 01:14, 19 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Tamil Nadu (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Abandoned mini-portal on the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

Created[1] in March 2006‎ Saravan p (talk · contribs), who has made no portal-space edits since later in 2006[2]

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Tamil Nadu shows a minimal set of sub-pages:

• Portal:Tamil Nadu/Featured, showing the same article since 2006[3]
• Portal:Tamil Nadu/News, still dispalyong articles from before July 2008[4]
• Portal:Tamil Nadu/Did you know 1, same items as 2008[5]
• Portal:Tamil Nadu/Did you know 2, one item, unchanged since creation in 2011[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 130 consecutive updates.

In theory, Tamil Nadu is a broad topic. 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, and in Jan–Feb 2019 got only 14 pageviews per day ... whereas the head article Tamil Nadu got 4,314 views per day.

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 sub-pages; instead they should build a modern portal without content-forked sub-pages, as has recently been done with Portal:Geophysics, or create a portal with a richly-curated list of topics such as Portal:Harz Mountains.

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) 00:43, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete for now, but willing to consider changing it to a Weak Delete if User:Saravan p has something to say. This is an ancient portal that has never had any real maintenance. Robert McClenon (talk) 06:18, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per:
  1. Failure to garner active maintenance, thus failing the purpose of a portal.
  2. Redundancy as evidenced by page views.
  3. Unnecessary forking.

SITH (talk) 12:12, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, ONE of each model, created 2006-03-29 16:45:41 by User:Saravan p. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. Portal:Tamil Nadu. Pldx1 (talk) 17:25, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Well-intentioned (originally) but not maintained; many of its articles I've seen need enough work as it is. Miniapolis 23:14, 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.