The result of the discussion was: delete . — JJMC89 ( T· C) 01:02, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
Another portal which readers simply don't want.
Ahmedabad has a population of about 6 million, That makes it the fifth most populous city in India, and one of the world's fifty most-populous urban areas. So in theory it is possible to argue that it fits the WP:POG criterion of "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". Tho please note that a set of topics to a depth which includes all top-50 cities would probably have several thousand members. In the big scheme of human knowledge, a city of 6 million people is just one of many topics of equal significance. Ahmedabad is a Level 4 vital article, which means that it is ranked somewhere between 1,001 and 10,000 in the list of priority topics. Recent discussions suggest that there is unlikely to be a community consensus to permit portals for topics at VA4 and lower.
But in practice it doesn't attract viewers. Just look at the pageview figures, and compare them with the head article
Jan–Mar 2018 | Jan–Mar 2019 | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Total | Daily avg | Total | Daily avg | |
Ahmedabad | 153,564 | 1,706 | 140,426 | 1,560 |
Portal:Ahmedabad | 931 | 10 | 770 | 9 |
Portal:Ahmedabad as % of Ahmedabad | 0.61% | 0.55% |
To put it another way, the head article got 165 times the pageviews of the portal in 2018, and 151 times more in 2019.
This is not because of lack of publicity. Portal:Ahmedabad is linked to from precisely 100 articles, and from 13 portals. But despite the links, readers simply do not want it.
The portal was created in 2012, and converted to the automated format in Sept 2018 [1]. Today it has been coverted [2] back to the pre-automated version by @ Northamerica1000 (NA1K). But NA1K is busy reverting lots of portals to their pre-automated format (see WT:WikiProject Portals#Portal_restoration_to_pre-automated_versions), and here is no reason to expect that they will single-handedly have the energy to maintain all the portals which rotted from neglect in the years before the failed automation experiment.
It is not hard to see why portals such as this are so little used.
It's time to stop luring editors into fettling a type of page whose heyday was over before Wikipedia was even created. Most of these portals are simply redundant forks of the head article, which offer much less navigational utility than the head article. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 21:33, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
The result of the discussion was: delete . — JJMC89 ( T· C) 01:02, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
Another portal which readers simply don't want.
Ahmedabad has a population of about 6 million, That makes it the fifth most populous city in India, and one of the world's fifty most-populous urban areas. So in theory it is possible to argue that it fits the WP:POG criterion of "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". Tho please note that a set of topics to a depth which includes all top-50 cities would probably have several thousand members. In the big scheme of human knowledge, a city of 6 million people is just one of many topics of equal significance. Ahmedabad is a Level 4 vital article, which means that it is ranked somewhere between 1,001 and 10,000 in the list of priority topics. Recent discussions suggest that there is unlikely to be a community consensus to permit portals for topics at VA4 and lower.
But in practice it doesn't attract viewers. Just look at the pageview figures, and compare them with the head article
Jan–Mar 2018 | Jan–Mar 2019 | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Total | Daily avg | Total | Daily avg | |
Ahmedabad | 153,564 | 1,706 | 140,426 | 1,560 |
Portal:Ahmedabad | 931 | 10 | 770 | 9 |
Portal:Ahmedabad as % of Ahmedabad | 0.61% | 0.55% |
To put it another way, the head article got 165 times the pageviews of the portal in 2018, and 151 times more in 2019.
This is not because of lack of publicity. Portal:Ahmedabad is linked to from precisely 100 articles, and from 13 portals. But despite the links, readers simply do not want it.
The portal was created in 2012, and converted to the automated format in Sept 2018 [1]. Today it has been coverted [2] back to the pre-automated version by @ Northamerica1000 (NA1K). But NA1K is busy reverting lots of portals to their pre-automated format (see WT:WikiProject Portals#Portal_restoration_to_pre-automated_versions), and here is no reason to expect that they will single-handedly have the energy to maintain all the portals which rotted from neglect in the years before the failed automation experiment.
It is not hard to see why portals such as this are so little used.
It's time to stop luring editors into fettling a type of page whose heyday was over before Wikipedia was even created. Most of these portals are simply redundant forks of the head article, which offer much less navigational utility than the head article. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 21:33, 12 April 2019 (UTC)