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) 21:12, 2 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Delaware[edit]

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

This US state portal was created in 2007 by two Wikipedia editors, one of whom is now banned, and User:Elpiseos has been inactive since 2013. This is a heritage-style portal with subpages, which require maintenance, but it has not been maintained. Inspection shows that the Selected Article, Selected Biography, and Selected Picture were selected in 2007. There have been minor tweaks, such as the addition of approximately 86 (less than 365) daily history files, but the In The News events are all from the previous decade. Some American editors will say that every US state is a broad subject area and should have a portal, but a portal should have a portal maintainer, and unmaintained portals are litter by the side of the information superhighway. Some editors say that the lack of a portal maintainer should be dealt with by normal editing and tagging. The portal has an average of 12 daily pageviews, as opposed to 2483 for the article. I tagged the portal on 15 May. No one has answered.

Perhaps the advocates of portals will try to call portal maintainers from the vasty deep like spirits by Glendower. As Hotspur replies, will one come? Will he ride heroically back from Philadelphia with Caesar Rodney? Will she swim ashore from the vasty deep in Rehoboth Beach? Will he arrive by a more modern means such as F-16 at Dover AFB? Will it arise like a Frankenstein monster from the laboratories of DuPont in Wilmington? Robert McClenon (talk) 20:37, 26 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Analysis of Delaware and Other States[edit]

The following table provides daily pageview statistics for US states and other subnational units. This includes all of the subnational units that have been nominated for deletion, and some US states that have been included for comparison. All of the states included for comparison are relatively small states.

Subnational entities never have more than approximately 1% of the pageviews of the head article, and never have as many as 40 daily pageviews. (They never have more than 20, but that may change if the table is expanded.)

Further Discussion of Delaware[edit]

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• Delete - I recommend that this MFD be left open for at least three weeks (but MFDs are often open that long anyway) to see if a portal maintainer will volunteer. If none is found, I recommend that it be Deleted without prejudice to a new portal with whatever portal design is appropriate under whatever portal guidelines are in order. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:37, 26 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • I don't see any reason to keep the MFD open for longer than the usual 7 days. If that is insufficient to attract even a single promise of maintenance, then there is clearly insufficient interest to keep the portal maintained in future. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 07:14, 29 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment – Regarding page views, there are less than 250 links to the portal in article namespace. More visible links to the portal on article pages equates to higher page views, and a lesser amount of visible links equates to lesser views. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:15, 26 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment - Perhaps I don't understand. Are those links from article space to portal space, or from portal space to article space? Why should articles link to portal space? And what conclusion can be drawn, or what should be done? Robert McClenon (talk) 02:58, 27 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 20:49, 27 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nominator. Yet another abandoned portal. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 07:11, 29 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - Abandoned portal, 123 subpages, created 2007-08-24 01:00:34 by User:John Carter. Nothing to keep (expired snippets).

-fact1: This geographical Wikipedia:WikiProject Delaware is believed to be inactive. (Tag placed 2017-09-03)

-fact2: Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. (born 20 November 1942) is an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. He is a member of the Democratic Party and the incumbent Vice President of the United States.

-exercise: build a conspiracy theory that encompasses and explains fact1+fact2. Moreover, experimenting in as many parallel worlds as needed, determine the law that correlates the number ${\displaystyle 250\,x}$ of links to this portal with the average number ${\displaystyle 12\,y}$ of views per day .

Portal:Delaware. Pldx1 (talk) 14:25, 29 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.