Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Animal rights

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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. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:36, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Portal:Animal rights

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Neglected portal. Five selected articles, five selected bios and the lone DYK set were created in May 2012. Selected picture was stuck with an "inactive" template after automation, which lingered even after the portal was restored to its pre-automated form in May 2019.

One of the selected articles is B class and one is start class. Three of the bios are B class, one is C class and one is C or start class. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 02:07, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per the nom. This Bonsai portal has been abandoned for over seven years, and is 10 articles short of POG's minimum of 20. Since 2006, the lead of WP:POG has said "Do not expect other editors to maintain a portal you create" ... and this one has not been maintained by SlimVirgin, who last updated it in June 2012, less then a month after creating it, and while still active on Wikipedia, has only made two minor edits to portal space since. It clearly fails WP:POG's requirement that portals should be about subjects broad enough to attract large numbers of readers and maintainers. This abandoned portal has had over seven years of no maintainers and it had a very low 21 views per day from January 1 to June 30 2019 (while the head article Animal Rights had 688 views per day in the same period, which is not enough to sustain a portal). 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 seven years of hard evidence shows Animal Rights are not a broad enough topic to attract readers and maintainers. Newshunter12 (talk) 02:36, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as per User:Mark Schierbecker and User:Newshunter12 - Unmaintained portal with low readership. No maintenance since 2012, and only 9 articles.  Article 5 is a duplicate of article 1.   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, and including a maintenance plan (since lack of maintenance is a problem with most portals), can go to Deletion Review.  Robert McClenon (talk) 02:57, 5 September 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.