Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Tamil Wikinews 2
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This is a proposal for closing and/or deleting a wiki hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. It is subject to the current closing projects policy.
The proposal for closing n:ta: is rejected and the project will be kept open.
- A Language Committee member provided the following comment: "Speedy" closure, as this request will not result in a closure of the wiki. Type 1 does not apply here, as there is no "absence of content since the wiki's creation". If someone (former contributors?) wants to, they are free to put up an "inactivity notice" in the style of the "soft closures" of other Wikinews subdomains. --MF-W 20:21, 22 August 2024 (UTC)
- Type: 1 (routine proposal)
- Proposed outcome: closure
- Proposed action regarding the content: move to Incubator
- Notice on the project: n:ta:விக்கிசெய்தி:ஆலமரத்தடி#m:Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Tamil_Wikinews_2
- Informed Group(s):
Dead project, no activities, stale news, absence of fresh content. A history of no sustainable user community. --ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ (talk) 06:13, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
- I agree. There are no active users there and it does not appear to be. Kitabc12345 (talk) 00:33, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
- This project has almost three thousand published articles, and in a random observation of 40-50 articles, it appears that most of the pages have sufficient news content. While it is true that there is little activity, I would suggest a soft closure if the community prefers it, rather than a full closure. Asked42 (talk) 12:40, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
- Indeed, there are several Wikinewses being soft-closed, not a good reason for re-Incubating but more like for temporarily archiving the project. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 04:46, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
- Oppose closing as has many acceptable articles Atlantic306 (talk) 19:12, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
- Support--Fenikals (talk) 14:56, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
- Support (regretfully). I looked at the Main Page and almost all of the featured news articles were from 2018 or earlier! It's failed in its purpose if its main page features news 6+ years out of date. --SHB2000 (t • c) 01:20, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- Support Dead site (whereas Wikinews needs to be especially alive), creating makework for others. * Pppery * it has begun 18:40, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
- Support: No new content since 2018 (and only one from that year!!), barely any activity. ToadetteEdit (talk) 19:34, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
- I want to say that after viewing n:ta:Special:PendingChanges, the oldest rev awaiting review dates back to 3852 days (!!). Clearly doesn't have an established community. ToadetteEdit (talk) 19:40, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
- Support hard close or soft close – The wiki has become nearly a ghost town, and leaving it open would leave room for spammers and copyright infringers. —George Ho (talk) 17:32, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
- Support --Sriveenkat (talk) 13:31, 21 June 2024 (UTC)