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. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 22:08, 9 May 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Portal:Daman and Diu[edit]

Abandoned non-portal on a narrow topic.

Daman and Diu is a union territory in India, i.e. not a state. Its area in only 112km², and its 2011 population only 243,000.

Category:Daman and Diu+allSubcats contains only 61 articles. 20 of those are tagged as stubs, and a further 19 are tagged on the talk page as stubs, leaving only 19 non-stubs. Only 5 are explicitly assessed as FA/GA/A/B/C-class. The head article itself Daman and Diu is assessed as start-class, though it's arguably a weak C-class. But there simply isn't enough material here to sustain a portal.

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Daman and Diu shows that the current portal has only one Selected article, one Selected biography, Selected picture. There is a refresh button, but no rotation becaus there nothing to rotate to. And that's all: no DYK, no news. Just a slim single-issue magazine.

The portal page and the three main subpages /Selected article/1, /Selected biography/1, and /Selected picture/1 were all created in 2009 when the main portal was was created, and have basically been abandoned since apart from minor formatting changes.

So the current abandoned portal is a waste of readers' time, and there's almost no scope for development. Just delete it. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:55, 2 May 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Delete - Union territories in India, like territories in the United States and Canada, are sometimes broad areas. This one is not inherently a broad area. Besides, it is an unmaintained portal by an inactive editor and is not in good condition. Delete without prejudice, but recognizing that in view of the small size of the territory, it is very unlikely to be a portal subject. Robert McClenon (talk) 14:11, 2 May 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Delete for now. In addition to the issues discussed by the nominator, the head article has an orange-level tag (though I'd agree C-class would be fair). No prejudice to recreation if/when the encyclopedia's coverage improves substantially. Espresso Addict (talk) 15:05, 2 May 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Delete - Abandoned draft of a portal, 12 subpages, created 2009-04-24 22:01:21 by User:Wiki User 68. Provides nothing. Portal:Daman and Diu. Pldx1 (talk) 09:47, 3 May 2019 (UTC)Reply[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.