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.
Delete per the nom. This portal has been abandoned for over seven years, save a one off addition in 2013. It clearly fails
WP:POG's requirement that portals should be about subjects broad enough to attract large numbers of readers and maintainers. This portal has had over seven years of no maintainers and it had a low 43 views
per day from January 1 to June 30 2019. Portals stand or fall on their merits in the now, not what could someday hypothetically happen with them, and this one falls flat. I oppose re-creation, as over seven years of hard evidence shows Television in the United States is not a broad enough topic to attract readers and maintainers.
Newshunter12 (
talk)
02:49, 27 August 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete - I concur with the analysis by Mark S and NH12. Too few articles. No maintenance in six years. Head article had 517 page views daily in Jan-Feb 19 (while portal had 41), indicating head article doesn't have enough traffic for a portal. Editors read about particular TV shows, not about TV in the United States. There is no short-term reason to expect that a re-creation of this portal will address the problems. Any proposed re-creation of this portal using a more modern design, and taking into account the failures of many portals, can go to
Deletion Review.
Robert McClenon (
talk)
01:04, 28 August 2019 (UTC)reply
Note to closing admin. I don't want in any way to prejudge the outcome ... but if you close this discussion as delete, please can you not remove the backlinks? I have an AWB setup which allows me to easily replace them with links to the next most specific portal(s) (in this case
Portal:United States and
Portal:Television), without creating duplicate entries. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
contribs)
16:20, 31 August 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete per nominator. Regardless of whether the topic is seen as broad enough, the problem remains that portals need maintainers ... and for a decade, this portal has not been maintained. Unless there is a team of maintainers committed to keeping this portal in good shape for the long-term, it will simply rot again, and continue to lure readers a page which wastes their time and damages the hard-won reputation of Wikipedia.
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.
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.
Delete per the nom. This portal has been abandoned for over seven years, save a one off addition in 2013. It clearly fails
WP:POG's requirement that portals should be about subjects broad enough to attract large numbers of readers and maintainers. This portal has had over seven years of no maintainers and it had a low 43 views
per day from January 1 to June 30 2019. Portals stand or fall on their merits in the now, not what could someday hypothetically happen with them, and this one falls flat. I oppose re-creation, as over seven years of hard evidence shows Television in the United States is not a broad enough topic to attract readers and maintainers.
Newshunter12 (
talk)
02:49, 27 August 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete - I concur with the analysis by Mark S and NH12. Too few articles. No maintenance in six years. Head article had 517 page views daily in Jan-Feb 19 (while portal had 41), indicating head article doesn't have enough traffic for a portal. Editors read about particular TV shows, not about TV in the United States. There is no short-term reason to expect that a re-creation of this portal will address the problems. Any proposed re-creation of this portal using a more modern design, and taking into account the failures of many portals, can go to
Deletion Review.
Robert McClenon (
talk)
01:04, 28 August 2019 (UTC)reply
Note to closing admin. I don't want in any way to prejudge the outcome ... but if you close this discussion as delete, please can you not remove the backlinks? I have an AWB setup which allows me to easily replace them with links to the next most specific portal(s) (in this case
Portal:United States and
Portal:Television), without creating duplicate entries. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
contribs)
16:20, 31 August 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete per nominator. Regardless of whether the topic is seen as broad enough, the problem remains that portals need maintainers ... and for a decade, this portal has not been maintained. Unless there is a team of maintainers committed to keeping this portal in good shape for the long-term, it will simply rot again, and continue to lure readers a page which wastes their time and damages the hard-won reputation of Wikipedia.
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.