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 . — JJMC89 (T·C) 21:24, 14 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:New York roads[edit]

Portal:New York roads (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Abandoned portal that has seen no real work on it since 2012. The associated WikiProject died years ago and was redirected into WikiProject US Roads. The selected article has been dead for years [1] In the News is from 2016 (so not news). There are no subcategories lists because changes were made to the category structure of roads and no one is watching the portal to catch the effects. Portal:U.S. roads and other portals like Portal:Transportation cover the scope here so no value in keeping something that no one wants to maintain. Legacypac (talk) 00:31, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Mitchazenia: --Rschen7754 00:49, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment. Courtesy ping: portal created 2010-03-31T02:35:43Z by User:Juliancolton. Pldx1 (talk) 14:12, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak Delete as abandoned unless someone is willing to maintain this one. User:Juliancolton does still occasionally edit, but not very often. By the way, User:Pldx1, it is not necessary to courtesy-ping portal creators. Legacypac and the other editors who are nominating portals for deletion use Twinkle, and it normally does figure out correctly who was the creator of a portal. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:19, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment - IMO, old portals are to be treated specifically. That is the reason why I underline when and by whom they were created. Pldx1 (talk) 08:11, 9 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• If we could, I would like to allow for User:Mitchazenia to have the ability to respond, as another primary New York road editor. --Rschen7754 18:24, 9 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Comments there is a Portal on US Roads, but only one (that I've seen) other State level roads at Portal:Washington roads and I should probably have bundled that in. If this goes delete I'll nominate it for deletion as well. Legacypac (talk) 19:38, 9 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Why? There's nothing broken with it. Same with Portal:California roads. --Rschen7754 00:01, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • Also Portal:Maryland roads and Portal:Michigan highways. --Rschen7754 01:49, 11 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Let's be honest, portals are purposeless at this point. They made sense 10 years ago. They don't now. As the major contributor to this, I have no problem with it going away. Mitch32^{(Fame is a four letter word.)} 02:21, 11 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Yet another unused, broken portal left over from the heyday of portal creation.

WP:POG requires that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". The nominator has shown above that for seven years, this topic has not attracted enough maintainers even to keep it functioning, never mind keep it up to date.

It also fails "to attract large numbers of interested readers". See the daily average viewing viewing stats for the first three months of 2019. A mean of only 5 pages a day, but that is distorted by a spike: the median is 4 pageviews a day.

This topic clearly fails WP:POG as not broad enough to attract either readers or maintainers. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:13, 14 April 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.