Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:African American

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 * 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. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 23:38, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal:African American


Neglected portal.

Eleven selected articles created in June 2010, all never updated, except Portal:African American/Selected article/1 was vandalized with the slur "NIGGERS HAVE NO RIGHTS", which stayed live until an IP reverted the edit over three weeks later.

Fourteen selected bios created in June 2010. Only updates since are:


 * An edit to the blurb for Langston Hughes added a day to Hughes' birthday. Not sure if that was in good faith, but the current Hughes article gives his birthday as the day before.


 * The blurb for prez Barack Obama was finally updated in May 2018 to reflect the end of his presidency (in January 2016). Mark Schierbecker (talk) 20:38, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per the nom. This portal has been abandoned for over nine years, save for a few untimely/dubious one-off updates over the years. It clearly fails WP:POG's requirement that portals should be about subjects broad enough to attract large numbers of readers and maintainers. This portal has had over nine years of no maintainers and it had a low 50 views per day from January 1 to June 30 2019. WP:DYK states: "The DYK section showcases new or expanded articles that are selected through an informal review process. It is not a general trivia section" ... but this nine-year-old set has nothing to do with new or expanded articles, so its only effect is as a WP:TRIVIA section. Portals stand or fall on their merits in the now, not what could someday hypothetically happen with them, and this one falls flat. I oppose re-creation, as over nine years of hard evidence shows African Americans are not a broad enough topic to attract readers and maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 03:39, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Mark S and NH12. Most of the 25 articles were created in 2010 and unchanged, although there have been a few drive-by updates in 2013, 2014, and 2018.  This is a well-viewed but poorly maintained portal.  50 daily pageviews is good, although not the 2787 daily views of the head article.  However, that means 50 views of old stuff.   There is no short-term reason to expect that a re-creation of this portal will address the problems.  Any proposed re-creation of this portal using a more modern design, and taking into account the failures of many portals, can go to Deletion Review.  Robert McClenon (talk) 14:20, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note to closing admin. I don't want in any way to prejudge the outcome ... but if you close this discussion as delete, please can you not remove the backlinks?  I have an AWB setup which allows me to easily replace them with links to the next most specific portal(s) (in this case Portal:United States), without creating duplicate entries. --  Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 16:19, 31 August 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.