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 without prejudice to recreation of a portal that does this subject justice. MER-C 19:11, 19 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Merseyside[edit]

Shell of a portal. Abandoned in 2014.

Created [1] in August 2007‎ by Caulde (talk · contribs) as redirect to Portal:North West England.

Actual portal-building begun[2] in December 2013‎ EP111 (talk · contribs).

Automated[3] in January 2019‎ by Dreamy Jazz (talk · contribs), drawing its selected articles list solely from the navbox ((Merseyside)), of which it became a redundant fork. (For a full explanation of why this type of portal is redundant, see the two mass deletions of similar portals: one, and two, where there was overwhelming consensus of a very high turnout to delete a total of 2,555 such portals).

Automation reverted[4] 12 May 2019 by BHG.

The result is pretty much useless. The only content is an excerpt of the lead of the head article Merseyside, and Portal:Merseyside/Recommended ... a list of recognised content which is unchanged[5] since the day of its creation in December 2013‎, and probably a long way out-of-date.

There is no list of key topics, no selected articles of any type.

Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this is massively less useful in every respect than even the poor C-class head article Merseyside and its navbox ((Merseyside)).

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) 17:13, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. I converted to a single page design to give it a topic list and remove the extremely old information from the portal. Looks like an incomplete portal anyway, seeing as Portal:Merseyside/Suggest was never created. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 ^{talk to me | my contributions} 17:18, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - This portal was created by a blocked sockpuppet. Subsequent maintenance has been what you would expect. Not really a broad area in the first place either. This portal has a list of articles to create, which are a reason to create articles, not for a portal. An editor who often defends portals has recommended deletion. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:02, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: not per the forking as that's been undone but per the scope and lack of maintenance. SITH (talk) 11:29, 14 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.