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) 03:55, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Thrissur[edit]

Narrow scope, built single off a single navbox.

The scope of this portal is the Indian city of Thrissur, with a population of 1.85 million. That not a tiny city, but it is only the 5th-biggest city in the Indian state of Kerala. It's only a Level-5 vital article, i.e. in the 10,001–50,000 range of priority topics.

Dozens of similar portals have shown that a single city of this size doesn't meet the WP:POG requirement that portals be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". Portals for cities of these size repeatedly lack both maintainer and readers: it has had only 89 total pageviews in the last 2 months, an average of 1.5/day. That's barely above background noise.

Another automated pseudo-portal whose list is built off a single navbox, in this case ((Thrissur)).

This page was missed in the mass nominations of automated portalspam because it had been redirected to the head article by @Legacypac. I have reverted that redirect, because a) Wikipedia:Cross-namespace redirects are nearly always controversial, and b) good-faith redirection of a type of page which is being hotly debated might be misunderstood as an attempt to evade or pre-empt consensus-forming discussions.

As with other single-navbox-based portals, the portal is just a WP:REDUNDANTFORK of the navbox. In every case, the navbox does a better job, because:

the navbox appears on every page in the set, whereas the portal (if linked) requires navigation to a separate page.
the navbox displays a full list of the articles, but the portal only shows them one at time

So it's best to just delete this pseudo-portal. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:36, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Vital Articles are a nonsensical list, but Vital Article level 5 is an indication of non-notability. I concur with BrownHairedGirl that this is a pseudo-portal, and that she is nominating a lot of pseudo-portals. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:24, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete but BHG can lay off the criticism of my good faith attempts to clean up portal space. Legacypac (talk) 21:11, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sigh. Read what i actually wrote. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:45, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Kindly refrain from suggesting I can't read. Legacypac (talk) 23:13, 18 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If you did actually read what I wrote, then kindly note that I explicitly acknowledged your good faith. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:41, 19 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Automated portal, 0 subpages, created 2019-02-11 13:23:43 by User:TTH, to be deleted: Portal:Thrissur. Pldx1 (talk) 09:37, 19 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Pldx1's analysis and the nomination regarding forking. SITH (talk) 12:29, 24 April 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.