Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:West Virginia
- 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) 05:13, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
This is an unmaintained and little-viewed portal on a state of the United States. The following is a listing of the least-viewed state portals:
| Title | Portal Page Views | Article Page Views | Comments | Ratio | Percent | Articles | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 8 | 1869 | Originator inactive since 2011. Not mained since 2007. | 233.63 | 0.43% | 12 | Deleted. |
| New Hampshire | 8 | 2394 | No maintenance since 2008. Two articles. Two biographies. | 299.25 | 0.33% | 4 | Deleted. |
| South Dakota | 8 | 1726 | No maintenance since 2010. | 215.75 | 0.46% | 6 | |
| Montana | 9 | 3786 | Originator inactive since 2010. Last maintenance in 2008. | 420.67 | 0.24% | 12 | |
| Idaho | 9 | 2377 | Originator inactive since 2011. Two biographies. Two articles. Last maintained in 2008. | 264.11 | 0.38% | 4 | Deleted. |
| Maine | 10 | 2999 | 299.90 | 0.33% | Deleted. | ||
| West Virginia | 10 | 2644 | Originator inactive since 2011. No maintenance since 2011. | 264.40 | 0.38% | ||
| Vermont | 10 | 2081 | 208.10 | 0.48% | |||
| Nebraska | 10 | 2929 | Originator inactive since 2012. No maintenance since 2010. | 292.90 | 0.34% | 2 | |
| Wyoming | 11 | 3713 | Editor edits sporadically. News is obsolete. | 337.55 | 0.30% | ||
| Iowa | 11 | 2516 | No maintenance since 2011. | 228.73 | 0.44% | 15 | |
| South Carolina | 12 | 2409 | Originator inactive since 2013. Last maintenance 2009. | 200.75 | 0.50% | 4 | |
| Delaware | 12 | 2483 | Originator banned. Selected pages same as in 2007. | 206.92 | 0.48% | Deleted. | |
| Rhode Island | 12 | 2760 | 230.00 | 0.43% | |||
A complete listing of state portals with metrics can be seen at WP:US State Portal Metrics. Portals that are not maintained are useless, and, if the information that is facing the reader becomes out-of-date, they are worse than useless, because anyone can edit an article, but heritage portals with subpages contain old copies of articles that require special knowledge to edit.
A state of the United States may be considered a priori to be a broad subject area, but this portal has been shown a posteriori not to be attracting readers or a portal maintainer. A portal is a miniature Main Page and requires a substantial investment in volunteer time.
This portal should be deleted without prejudice to re-creating a portal maintained by a volunteer who is willing to invest the time to support a miniature Main Page under the portal guidelines that are in effect at the time. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:01, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. WP:POG requires that portals should be about "broad subject areas, which are likely to attract large numbers of interested readers and portal maintainers". But in practice, this portal has not attracted either readers or maintainers. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:32, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
- Weak Delete This one at least has some content, but it's likely to go out of date without an enthusiastic maintainer. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 06:02, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
- 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.