The result of the discussion was: delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk, contributions) 08:09, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
Abandoned, static micro-portal on a narrow topic. Redundant to the head article Monty Python and its comprehensive navbox Template:Monty Python.
Created [1] in April 2008 by Zaui ( talk · contribs). The lead of WP:POG has said since late 2006 "Do not create a portal if you do not intend to assist in its regular maintenance", but that has not happened here. After creating the portal in April and May 2008, Zaui's only further edit to this poartal was to add a category in August 2009 [2]
Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Monty Python appears to show a modestly useful set of sub-pages, but appearances are deceptive:
Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this apart from quotes which change if the page is purged, this is just a static page showing a preview of one cast member and one skit. The head article Monty Python and its comprehensive navbox Template:Monty Python do far more.
Two newish features of the Wikimedia software means that the article and navboxes offers 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.
WP:POG requires that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". Buth this has attracted no maintainers since 2008, and nor has it attarcted readers. In Jan–Feb 2019, the portal got an average of only 6 pageviews per day, which less than half the median for all portals of 15 views/day, and only 0.13% of the 4,464 daily views of the head article.
Maybe someday someone will build and maintain a Monty Python portal which actually adds value for readers. But the new technologies which make every link a preview means that the navbox does most of what a portal like thsi tres to do, so the bar for doing better is high. If someone does try that ambitious task, they will do better to start afresh, rather than building on these 11-year-old content forks. And in the meantime, it's not fair to lure readers to waste their time on this abandoned relic.
So I propose that this portal and its sub-pages 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) 05:49, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
The result of the discussion was: delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk, contributions) 08:09, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
Abandoned, static micro-portal on a narrow topic. Redundant to the head article Monty Python and its comprehensive navbox Template:Monty Python.
Created [1] in April 2008 by Zaui ( talk · contribs). The lead of WP:POG has said since late 2006 "Do not create a portal if you do not intend to assist in its regular maintenance", but that has not happened here. After creating the portal in April and May 2008, Zaui's only further edit to this poartal was to add a category in August 2009 [2]
Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Monty Python appears to show a modestly useful set of sub-pages, but appearances are deceptive:
Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this apart from quotes which change if the page is purged, this is just a static page showing a preview of one cast member and one skit. The head article Monty Python and its comprehensive navbox Template:Monty Python do far more.
Two newish features of the Wikimedia software means that the article and navboxes offers 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.
WP:POG requires that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". Buth this has attracted no maintainers since 2008, and nor has it attarcted readers. In Jan–Feb 2019, the portal got an average of only 6 pageviews per day, which less than half the median for all portals of 15 views/day, and only 0.13% of the 4,464 daily views of the head article.
Maybe someday someone will build and maintain a Monty Python portal which actually adds value for readers. But the new technologies which make every link a preview means that the navbox does most of what a portal like thsi tres to do, so the bar for doing better is high. If someone does try that ambitious task, they will do better to start afresh, rather than building on these 11-year-old content forks. And in the meantime, it's not fair to lure readers to waste their time on this abandoned relic.
So I propose that this portal and its sub-pages 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) 05:49, 3 June 2019 (UTC)