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Portal:Quebec City

Portal:Quebec City (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Abandoned portal, on Quebec City. Two boxes, one of articles, one for biogs, but each has only two items, and none has been updated since 2010. This is just a set of 4 old content forks

Created[1] in June 2010 by Mathieugp (talk · contribs).

Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Quebec City shows a modest set of sub-pages:

... but all are unchnaged since 2010. /Selected biography/2 still proclaims that 'Pauline Marois is leader of the PQ, a role she left in 2014.

WP:POG#How_often_to_update? says that unless automated, the content selection should be updated monthly, or preferably weekly. Even on a monthly cycle, this pseudo-portal has missed over 100 updates. That's the nearly-universal problem with these collections of content forked sub-pages: they have to be maintained, but rarely are.

Per WP:PORTAL, "Portals serve as enhanced 'Main Pages' for specific broad subjects". But this is massively less useful in every respect than the B-class head article Quebec City.

WP:POG guides that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". This one has not attracted maintainers for 9 nine years, and the city has a population of only 500,000 ... so I propose that this portal and its sub-pages be deleted, with prejudice against re-creation. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:47, 18 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete as BHG says. But does User:Mathieugp have any comments? Robert McClenon (talk) 23:59, 18 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question what does with prejudice against re-creation mean exactly? If in two, five or ten years from now, someone with time on their hands want to recreate the portal, enrich it, automate the rotation of contents, etc., what will happen? Will this hypothetical someone be in trouble? I do not have time to work on updating the portal right now, but I do not see why Quebec City should not have its portal like so many other North-American cities. I do not see that any city-portal is very active anyway if you remove bots from the equation. ;-) Mathieugp (talk) 14:36, 19 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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