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.

The result of the discussion was: delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:23, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Karnataka[edit]

Portal:Karnataka (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

13-year-old abandoned portal with an over-ambitious structure.

Created[1] in September 2006‎ by Sarvagnya (talk · contribs), who last edited in 2009.

It was overlooked in the rush to turn old portals into automated navbox clones which were just a bloated and redundant fork of the navbox.

It is a static page, because as Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Karnataka shows, it was designed to be updated monthly, but the updates happened two or three times in 2006, and then stopped.

Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this is a massively less useful page than the featured-class head article Karnataka and its 3 navboxes {{Karnataka topics}}, {{Hindu temples in Karnataka}} and {{Archaeological sites and Monuments in Karnataka}}.

In theory, this Indian state of over 60 million people is inherently a broad topic. But WP:POG guides that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers", and in practice this has not had builders, let alone maintainers. If any editor wants to build a portal on this topic which actually adds value for readers, they would do much better to start afresh and build a new, low-maintenance portal. Examples of how this can be done can be seen at at the very different Portal:Harz Mountains and Portal:Geophysics. And meanwhile, the current page is just a waste of readers' time.

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) 02:00, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 31 subpages, created 2006-09-07 05:32:30 by User:Sarvagnya. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. "Selected article" is not plural for a reason. Portal:Karnataka. Pldx1 (talk) 13:20, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - As BHG and Pldx1 say. Another abandoned portal on an Indian state. Add this one to the list. No need to wait for the phase of the moon. Robert McClenon (talk) 15:02, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:POG scope and WP:PORTALs active maintenance requirement. SITH (talk) 11:11, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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.