The result of the discussion was: delete. ‑Scottywong | [confabulate] || 22:37, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
Abandoned, static mini-portal on Pomerania, a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea, now split beween Germany and Poland. Very low pageviews, very little content. Redundant to the B-class head article Pomerania, and its two excellent navboxes: Template:Pomeranian history and Template:Pomeranian geography.
Created [1] in July 2013 by Horst-schlaemma ( talk · contribs), but only as a three-line place-holder: "Let's start with copying the German Portal:Pommern here". That was Horst-schlaemma's last contribution to the portal.
The portal was actually built in July 2017 by Bermicourt ( talk · contribs), who has done a lot of work on German portals and has pioneered the "mega-navbox" style of portal. This uses extensive navbox-like lists of articles to provide direct access to lots of them, complete with the built-in previews available to non-logged-in readers on all en.wp pages. It's vastly more usable than the predominant but hideous one-subpage-at-a-time model. Sadly, readers seem no more interested in it than in the subpage portals, so in Jan–Jun 2019 this portal averaged only 6 views day, which is barely above background noise.
This structure doesn't have a farm of content-forked sub-pages, so Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Pomerania contains very few content pages, and they have all been abandoned since 2017:
And that's it. So this portal has been displaying the same content since it was built, even including the set of only two selected article content-forked into Portal:Pomerania/Selected Articles.
WP:POG requires that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". POG also guides that "the portal should be associated with a WikiProject (or have editors with sufficient interest) to help ensure a supply of new material for the portal and maintain the portal". This fails on all four counts:
The experience of 6 months of MFDs scrutinising many hundreds of portals has shown that many countries don't even make viable portals, and sub-national regions even more rarely. Despite en.wp's huge systemic bias towards American topics, even many states of the United States had portals which failed. This isn't even a sub-national region; it's a former sub-national region.
This portal was created in good faith, mimicking the German system of portals. But on en.wp it has failed. There is no active WikiProject to support it, and almost no interest in reading it. Readers would be massively better served by being directed to the B-class head article Pomerania. Time to just delete this portal. Since the problems are deep-seated and long-standing, I oppose re-creation. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 13:39, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
discussing the future of portals. It's having it's time wasted by a false binary proposition which Bermicourt tabled when he was in a sulk about his rant at another MFD being rebutted. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs)
Robert McClenon ( talk) 21:20, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
The result of the discussion was: delete. ‑Scottywong | [confabulate] || 22:37, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
Abandoned, static mini-portal on Pomerania, a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea, now split beween Germany and Poland. Very low pageviews, very little content. Redundant to the B-class head article Pomerania, and its two excellent navboxes: Template:Pomeranian history and Template:Pomeranian geography.
Created [1] in July 2013 by Horst-schlaemma ( talk · contribs), but only as a three-line place-holder: "Let's start with copying the German Portal:Pommern here". That was Horst-schlaemma's last contribution to the portal.
The portal was actually built in July 2017 by Bermicourt ( talk · contribs), who has done a lot of work on German portals and has pioneered the "mega-navbox" style of portal. This uses extensive navbox-like lists of articles to provide direct access to lots of them, complete with the built-in previews available to non-logged-in readers on all en.wp pages. It's vastly more usable than the predominant but hideous one-subpage-at-a-time model. Sadly, readers seem no more interested in it than in the subpage portals, so in Jan–Jun 2019 this portal averaged only 6 views day, which is barely above background noise.
This structure doesn't have a farm of content-forked sub-pages, so Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Pomerania contains very few content pages, and they have all been abandoned since 2017:
And that's it. So this portal has been displaying the same content since it was built, even including the set of only two selected article content-forked into Portal:Pomerania/Selected Articles.
WP:POG requires that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". POG also guides that "the portal should be associated with a WikiProject (or have editors with sufficient interest) to help ensure a supply of new material for the portal and maintain the portal". This fails on all four counts:
The experience of 6 months of MFDs scrutinising many hundreds of portals has shown that many countries don't even make viable portals, and sub-national regions even more rarely. Despite en.wp's huge systemic bias towards American topics, even many states of the United States had portals which failed. This isn't even a sub-national region; it's a former sub-national region.
This portal was created in good faith, mimicking the German system of portals. But on en.wp it has failed. There is no active WikiProject to support it, and almost no interest in reading it. Readers would be massively better served by being directed to the B-class head article Pomerania. Time to just delete this portal. Since the problems are deep-seated and long-standing, I oppose re-creation. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 13:39, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
discussing the future of portals. It's having it's time wasted by a false binary proposition which Bermicourt tabled when he was in a sulk about his rant at another MFD being rebutted. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs)
Robert McClenon ( talk) 21:20, 23 September 2019 (UTC)