The result of the discussion was: delete. — JJMC89 ( T· C) 04:06, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
Abandoned 2010-era portal with an extensive picture gallery but abysmal content. Broad topic, poor portal.
This portal was created [1] in December 2010 Chnou ( talk · contribs), who last edited in 2016.
It has always been a manual portal using subpages, and was never subjected to the automated-fork-of-a-navbox mistreatment.
The list of subpages at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Brittany shows an impressive collection of 45 selected pictures, nearly added in 2013 by XIIIfromTOKYO ( talk · contribs).
However, it also shows:
And that's it. The result is barely more than a single-page leaflet, and what content it does have is content forks over 8 years old.
Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects", but this abandoned page is not enhanced. It's a pale shadow of the fine B-class head article Brittany, which actually offers a vastly better image gallery: the fine collection of images there is presented to ordinary readers (i.e. those not logged-in) as a click-for-next gallery, accessed simply by clicking on any image. So what might have been the portal's lone redeeming virtue is actually redundant.
Brittany is clearly a broad topic, so in theory it could pass the WP:POGrequirement that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers" ... if it does attract portal maintainers, which would be a turnaround.
But if editors do decide to build and maintain this portal they would do better to start afresh. The tools available to build portals have been greatly improved in the last few years, and this antique framework would not be a good starting-point.
So I propose that this portal and its subpages 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) 00:15, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
It is time to stop wasting the time of readers by luring them to this abandoned draft.
nothing good ever came of itwas the story of about half the total number of portals when WP:ENDPORTALS closed. That's why TTH set about automating them. Right diagnosis, wrong solution.
The result of the discussion was: delete. — JJMC89 ( T· C) 04:06, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
Abandoned 2010-era portal with an extensive picture gallery but abysmal content. Broad topic, poor portal.
This portal was created [1] in December 2010 Chnou ( talk · contribs), who last edited in 2016.
It has always been a manual portal using subpages, and was never subjected to the automated-fork-of-a-navbox mistreatment.
The list of subpages at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Brittany shows an impressive collection of 45 selected pictures, nearly added in 2013 by XIIIfromTOKYO ( talk · contribs).
However, it also shows:
And that's it. The result is barely more than a single-page leaflet, and what content it does have is content forks over 8 years old.
Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects", but this abandoned page is not enhanced. It's a pale shadow of the fine B-class head article Brittany, which actually offers a vastly better image gallery: the fine collection of images there is presented to ordinary readers (i.e. those not logged-in) as a click-for-next gallery, accessed simply by clicking on any image. So what might have been the portal's lone redeeming virtue is actually redundant.
Brittany is clearly a broad topic, so in theory it could pass the WP:POGrequirement that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers" ... if it does attract portal maintainers, which would be a turnaround.
But if editors do decide to build and maintain this portal they would do better to start afresh. The tools available to build portals have been greatly improved in the last few years, and this antique framework would not be a good starting-point.
So I propose that this portal and its subpages 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) 00:15, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
It is time to stop wasting the time of readers by luring them to this abandoned draft.
nothing good ever came of itwas the story of about half the total number of portals when WP:ENDPORTALS closed. That's why TTH set about automating them. Right diagnosis, wrong solution.