Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Commonwealth Games

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellany 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 debate was Keep (No Consensus) ~ Anthøny 10:05, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Commonwealth Games

Completely unmaintained portal about a rather narrow topic. I can't find an edit since August 2006. It's technically not speedyable because there are 3+ articles about this topic, but nothing substantive now exists in the portal nor are there enough articles to have a good rotation of quality articles/media.--B 06:54, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

• Delete I think it was created in 2006 during the Commonwealth Games of that year. It has not been edited since then. It does not serve a larger purpose. Shalom ^Hello 01:31, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. This may be inactive now, but activity could increase. There are 28 sub-categories in Category:Commonwealth Games and therefore quite a large number of articles. The Portal provides an introduction to those articles. A Portal does not have to be very active if it already does that job. --Bduke 07:24, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
  • If someone wants to maintain the portal, I'm all for it, but portal space is pseudo-encyclopedic space and needs to be presentable. Any un-presentable portal either needs to be immediately made presentable or deleted. --B 16:56, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

    Comment, I don't think you can say "make it presentable or delete it". By stating that if it was presentable, it would be acceptable, that is an admission that it's notable enough to be here in the first place. Someone should take the time to improve it, rather then deleting it, even though it's not their cup of tea. MrPrada 07:29, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

    • Well, it is rather out of date, but it is still presentable. It will wake up when the next Games come along. I'll keep an eye on it for vandalism. Maybe folks in the US do not realise how important these Games are in the Commonwealth. --Bduke 23:04, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
      • It really isn't presentable as is, though. The intro is two sentences. The selected article is two sentences. It really needs more to be presentable ... something like Portal:Creationism or Portal:Humor at a minimum. Wikipedia:Portal/Guidelines gives a minimum list of required and recommended features. It at least needs to have an intro and a selected article of reasonable length, as well as category/wikiproject listings. I've given it a little color so it looks more like a portal and less like a user page ... but if it is going to stay in portal space, it needs some actual content. --B 00:43, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
• Easy Keep. Portal:New York and New York city are poorly maintained, and that is something I hope to change. Given time I think that some editor will come along and do the same for this poor forgotten portal. MrPrada 07:29, 1 August 2007 (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.