Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Tunisia

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) 08:42, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Tunisia[edit]

Three never-updated bios created in 2009 with user-hostile nominate page. Wikinews section only shows two articles that were deleted in 2009. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 21:02, 18 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nominator, and oppose re-creation.

I have checked and verified the nominator's assertion about the biogs. Portal:Tunisia/Selected biography/1, /2 and /3 have each had only trivial changes since 2009.
Portal:Tunisia/News transcludes Portal:Tunisia/News/Wikinews, which contains only two items, both added in 2009. Worse still, the date stamps show only month and day, so since it is labelled "news" the reader is misled into assuming that these are 2019 stories, not 2009.
Portal:Tunisia/Did you know was last updated in 2013, with the edit summary "corrected bogus statistic".[1]
That's because none of the items are anything to do with WP:DYK, so have never been through the WP:DYK verification and scrutiny process. The page is just a ten-year-old collection of unscrutinised trivia, contrary to WP:TRIVIA.

I also oppose recreation. We have a decade's evidence that editors don't want to maintain this one, and readers should not be lured away from the much-better-maintained B-class head article Tunisia to a portal which offers much less info, fewer pictures, and worse navigation. Like far too many other portals, this portal is a failed solution to a non-problem. . --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:50, 18 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per the nom and BrownHairedGirl This portal has been abandoned for over a decade. It clearly fails WP:POG's requirement that portals should be about subjects broad enough to attract large numbers of maintainers and readers. This portal has had over a decade of no maintainers and it had a very low 13 views per day From January 1 to June 30 2019 (despite the head article Tunisia having 3737 views per day in the same period). Portals stand or fall on their merits in the now, not what could someday hypothetically happen with them, and this one falls flat. I oppose re-creation, as over a decade of hard evidence shows Tunisia is not a broad enough topic to attract readers or maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 22:32, 18 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as per nominator, BHG, and NH12. Three articles do not justify a portal. Re-creation should be only via Deletion Review. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:53, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Note to closing admin. If you close this as delete, please can you not remove the backlinks? I have an AWB setup which allows me to easily replace them with links to the next most specific portal (in this case Portal:Africa), without creating duplicate entries. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:21, 25 August 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.