Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Acadia
- 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) 04:06, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
Portal:Acadia[edit]
Abandoned mini-portal on the narrow topic of Acadia, a short-lived (1604–1713) French colony on the north-eastern seaboard of North America. It was part of the broader and longer-lived area of New France (1534–1763), for which we already have Portal:New France.
The portal was created on 18 September 2010 by Mathieugp (talk · contribs), whose last contribution to any portal was in November 2010,[1] and whose last contribution to this portal was two days after its creation. Since 2006, the lead of WP:POG has said "Do not expect other editors to maintain a portal you create", but that guidance has not been folowed here. I WP:AGF that Mathieugp was unaware of this guidance, but the reality is that a portal requires maintainers, and this portal has had only sporadic attention.
Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Acadia shows a modest set of sub-pages:
- 5 Selected articles. The first four were created in 2010, and Portal:Acadia/Selected article/5 was created in 2014. None has had any non-trivial edit since the year of creation
- 3 selected biogs. All were created in 2010 or 2011. The last non-trivial update to any of them was in 2012, to Portal:Acadia/Selected biography/1.
- Portal:Acadia/Did you know, unchanged since the edit which created it in 2010. Only one of the 4 items is even linked, that one (Mi'kmaq people) has never appeared at WP:DYK. It's a pure WP:TRIVIA farm, usurping the good name of the scrutinised process at WP:DYK, which showcases new content.
WP:POG requires that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". This one fails all three criteria:
- Narrow topic
- No maintainers
- Low readership. An average of only 15 pageviews per day in January–June 2019.
Given the long hsitory of low readership and no maintenance, I oppose re-creation. Just delete it, and keep it deleted. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:35, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per the thorough and highly detailed investigation of the portal by the nominator, BrownHairedGirl. Portals stand or fall on their merits in the now, not what could someday hypothetically happen with them, and this one falls flat. It's a useless time suck that lures readers to abandoned junk and is redundant with Portal:New France. I am strongly against allowing recreation, as a decade of hard evidence shows Acadia is not a broad enough topic under WP:POG to attract readers or maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 03:41, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
- Delete as per User:BrownHairedGirl and User:Newshunter12. However, Portal:New France is not much of an improvement, as the following table shows:
| Title | Portal Page Views | Article Page Views | Ratio | Percent | Comments | Articles | Notes | Baseline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acadia | 15 | 810 | 54.00 | 1.85% | Originator edits sporadically. No maintenance since 2012. | 8 | 17 daily pageviews in French. | Jan19-Jun19 |
| New France | 21 | 1080 | 51.43 | 1.94% | Originator inactive since 2016. Minimal maintenance since 2010. | 22 | Jan19-Jun19 | |
| History of Canada | 34 | 1123 | 33.03 | 3.03% | Only very minor maintenance since 2010. | 14 | Jan19-Jun19 | |
| France | 83 | 12266 | 147.78 | 0.68% | Originator edits sporadically. Last maintained in 2014. | 20 | Jan19-Jun19 |
None of the portals listed in the table are adequately maintained. The subject portal has the worst viewing rate. Any re-creation should only be via Deletion Review. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:21, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
- 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.