Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Tamil cinema

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) 03:59, 2 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Tamil cinema

(Time stamp for bot to properly relist.) Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 07:47, 27 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Abandoned non-portal about Tamil cinema.

Created[1] in April 2014‎ by Visnu92 (talk · contribs).

Nothing here except four boxes, listed listed at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Tamil cinema:

Portal:Tamil cinema/Intro, a content fork of the lead of the head article Tamil cinema
Portal:Tamil cinema/Selected Article/1, which has displayed the same topic (Baahubali 2: The Conclusion) since its creationj in Feb 2018[2]
Portal:Tamil cinema/Selected Biography/1, same topic (Vijay (Actor)) since creation in March 2018[3]
Portal:Tamil cinema/Featured content, a fake navbox. I have just moved it to Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Indian cinema task force/Tamil cinema recognised content, so that it will still be available if this portals deleted.
Also 3 "Film of the month" pages, all unused in the portal:
- Portal:Tamil cinema/Film of the month/1, same topic (Enthiran) since is creaion in 2014[4]
- Portal:Tamil cinema/Film of the month/8, was a a duplicate of /1, blanked within minutes of its creation in 2014[5]
Portal:Tamil cinema/Film of the month/10, was a a duplicate of /1, blanked within minutes of its creation in 2014[6]

WP:POG#How_often_to_update? says that unless automated, the content selection should be updated monthly, or preferably weekly. Even on a monthly cycle, this pseudo-portal has missed over 60 consecutive updates.

In theory, this may be a broad topic. But in practice, it has not met the WP:POG requirement that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". This has not attracted maintainers, and in Jan–Feb 2019 got only 8 pageviews per day

It is time to stop wasting the time of readers by luring them to this abandoned draft, and time to abandon the magical thinking that this abandoned relic will some day magically attract magical editors who will want to resurrect it. If any editor does want to build a real portal, they will be far better off without this relic and its ancient content-forked subpages; instead they should build a low-miantenance modern portal without content-forked sub-pages..

I don't know how broad a topic this is, 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) 02:53, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Another abandoned underutilized heritage portal. The portal has 8 daily pageviews. The head article has 984 daily pageviews. Is anyone, possibly a Tamil editor, actually planning to provide the effort required for it to be a miniature Main Page? Robert McClenon (talk) 09:02, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 07:47, 27 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Just Do It. Kailash29792 (talk) 08:24, 27 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 20:52, 27 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: abandoned portals serve no purpose. SITH (talk) 19:22, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 13 subpages, created 2014-04-23 14:43:39 by User:Visnu92. Never went alive. Nothing to keep. Portal:Tamil cinema. Pldx1 (talk) 20:58, 28 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.