The result of the discussion was: delete. ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 04:52, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
Static micro-portal abandoned since 2008. Redundant to the head article Folklore with its navbox Template:Folklore genres.
Created in May 2006 Ihcoyc ( talk · contribs). This was three months before the lead of WP:POG first warned [1] that "Do not create a portal if you do not intend to assist in its regular maintenance." ... and this one has not been maintained. Ihcoyc's last portalspace edit was in March 2008. [2] WP:NOTCOMPULSORY, so an editor is entitled to move on to other interests, but the community has to decide what to do with the abandoned portal.
Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Folklore shows a tiny set of sub-pages:
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 portal has missed over 130 consecutive updates.
WP:POG requires that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". But in practice, this portal has had zero maintenance for over a decade, and it has also been shunned by readers: in January–June 2019, the portal got only 13 page views per day, while the head article folklore got 1,127 daily views.
Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this is massively less useful in every respect than the head article folklore and its sidebar navbox Template:Folklore genres, and its several embedded lists.
Two newish features of the Wikimedia software means that the article and navbox offer all the functionality which portals like this set out to offer. Both features are available only to ordinary readers who are not logged in, but you can test them without logging out by right-clicking on a link, and the select "open in private window" (in Firefox) or "open in incognito window" (Chrome).
Similar features have been available since 2015 to users of Wikipedia's Android app.
Those new technologies set a high bar for any portal which actually tries to add value for the reader. But this portal fails the basic requirements even of the guidelines written before the new technologies changed the game. Time to just delete it. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 13:19, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
The result of the discussion was: delete. ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 04:52, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
Static micro-portal abandoned since 2008. Redundant to the head article Folklore with its navbox Template:Folklore genres.
Created in May 2006 Ihcoyc ( talk · contribs). This was three months before the lead of WP:POG first warned [1] that "Do not create a portal if you do not intend to assist in its regular maintenance." ... and this one has not been maintained. Ihcoyc's last portalspace edit was in March 2008. [2] WP:NOTCOMPULSORY, so an editor is entitled to move on to other interests, but the community has to decide what to do with the abandoned portal.
Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Folklore shows a tiny set of sub-pages:
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 portal has missed over 130 consecutive updates.
WP:POG requires that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". But in practice, this portal has had zero maintenance for over a decade, and it has also been shunned by readers: in January–June 2019, the portal got only 13 page views per day, while the head article folklore got 1,127 daily views.
Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this is massively less useful in every respect than the head article folklore and its sidebar navbox Template:Folklore genres, and its several embedded lists.
Two newish features of the Wikimedia software means that the article and navbox offer all the functionality which portals like this set out to offer. Both features are available only to ordinary readers who are not logged in, but you can test them without logging out by right-clicking on a link, and the select "open in private window" (in Firefox) or "open in incognito window" (Chrome).
Similar features have been available since 2015 to users of Wikipedia's Android app.
Those new technologies set a high bar for any portal which actually tries to add value for the reader. But this portal fails the basic requirements even of the guidelines written before the new technologies changed the game. Time to just delete it. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 13:19, 10 July 2019 (UTC)